Sequence Highway Survival: I Upgrade Supplies in the Apocalypse

The convoy wound out of the base like a long dragon, vehicles departing one after another.

Auntie Zhao and other captains like her were left behind.

Pathfinders had no real combat ability. Although many pathfinders had hidden tricks or Wonders stashed away, they were not suited to take the field in the Return to the City Plan.

If a pathfinder joined this kind of battle, they would slow everyone down far more than they would help.

Every pathfinder was invaluable and should not be risked in operations like this.

Why could ordinary people go while pathfinders could not?

The reason was simple. A single ordinary death was acceptable to a convoy.

But if a pathfinder died,

that convoy was basically ruined.

With Chu Che absent, Chen Ye served as the convoy's temporary captain this time.

Previously, Chu Che had already handed over the area Fair Convoy was responsible for to Chen Ye.

And Chen Ye also had a map of Xi City in his hands.

Xi City was divided into four districts: Xi District, Green Mountain District, High-tech District, and the Old District.

Green Mountain District covered the city's terrain of hills and ridges. From there one could overlook the entire Sunset Avenue and the whole coastline of Xi City. At dusk every day, you could see the vast Orange Sea.

But Green Mountain District was not coastal — Xi District separated it from the sea.

The High-tech District was Xi City's new area, full of industrial parks and factory buildings.

The Old District had many aged buildings and food streets. Many tourists used to come here to check in for local delicacies.

Xi District, however, was the reason Xi City had become famous online.

Here you could see the most beautiful Orange Sea up close, and one of the Sunset Avenues ran straight from the city center to the ocean.

Standing at almost any point on Sunset Avenue was a perfect spot for internet fame.

The human bustle of Sunset Avenue set against the sea made especially striking photos.

At dusk the whole avenue turned golden, merging into the sea on the same canvas.

Those photos could easily score thousands of likes online.

Add a few shapely legs and you could hit ten thousand likes without breaking a sweat.

What Sunset Avenue had been called before no one knew.

Because Fair Convoy was relatively powerful, this once-bustling avenue and some nearby areas were assigned to Fair Convoy's responsibility.

A thoroughfare that had been wildly popular before the apocalypse would have been a must-visit for everyone in the old days.

But now… such an avenue was an absolute nightmare.

No one knew how many Anomalies lurked here.

Chu Che had resisted this decision as well.

But in the end there was no result.

After re-drawing the assignments, Fair Convoy still ended up responsible for Sunset Avenue.

Chu Che half-suspected that that old man Hou Junji had meddled behind the scenes.

When Chu Che went to look at the zones Silent Council was responsible for, he went silent.

Silent Council had many people, but they were mainly assigned the entire Green Mountain District.

The whole thing…

That decision shut up those who had been complaining about Silent Council.

What comforted Chu Che a bit was the Shepherd Convoy’s presence.

Also because of Jiang Rou.

The Shepherd Convoy was assigned to nearby Qixia Avenue.

That was another internet-famous avenue, slightly less popular online than Sunset Avenue before the apocalypse.

Xi District lay within grasp. As acting captain, Chen Ye felt he had to make everyone fully understand his spirit and will.

He picked up the radio…

"Zzz…"

"Ahem… everyone, you must know the area we’re responsible for!"

"Chu Che isn’t here this time, so I am the captain!"

"Captain Chu told me yesterday to bring you all out — and that means bringing every single one of you back!"

Chu Che had indeed said those words.

Last night on New Year's Eve, after explaining Fair Convoy's assigned area, Chu Che earnestly told Chen Ye that.

Although Fair Convoy had a fair number of Superhumans, even one random death would wound them badly.

To Chu Che, the convoy had no extras among its Superhumans.

"Therefore, we fight if we can. If we can’t, we run!"

"Remember, there are thirty-two convoys participating this time. We are not the protagonists, remember, we are not the protagonists!"

"No individual heroics!"

"We don’t have to be the best at fighting, but we must strive to be the best at running."

"Next to us is Qixia Avenue, which the Shepherd Convoy is responsible for. Let’s try to lure the monsters toward them~"

"Our Fair Convoy has only one Sequence 4, but the Shepherd Convoy has two Sequence 4s~"

"Got it?"

Everyone in the Fair Convoy channel was silent.

The pink-haired girl covered her forehead, "I knew it would be like this…"

Gong Yong: "This… this isn’t right? I heard Captain Chu say before, whatever we clear becomes our territory, so…"

Xu Lina didn’t think too deeply. She agreed with Chen Ye’s words.

Iron Lion didn’t overthink it either. Chen Ye was captain, so he would follow Yezi.

"Hey hey hey… did you all hear that?"

Chen Ye’s voice came through the radio again.

This time Dantai Bie’s voice quickly sounded over the channel.

"Captain Chen, this… isn’t right. If that’s the case, if we take Xi City, won’t Sunset Avenue become someone else’s?"

"Captain Chen, it’s your first time as captain, maybe you’re not used to it. How about I take this captain role?"

"What do you all think? Let’s vote. Whoever gets the most votes becomes captain!"

"Let me state in advance, if I’m captain I’ll take point, doing my duty…"

Barely out of the base, and Dantai Bie was already trying to start a mutiny.

"Shut up!"

Chen Ye cut off Dantai Bie’s "inaugural speech" without ceremony.

"Dantai Bie, you’d better behave and not be impulsive!"

"You only have one life. If you die, your vehicle becomes someone else’s, your wife… ahem… you probably aren’t married yet…"

"We won’t engage if we don’t have to!"

"Sunset Avenue covers a big area; the number of Anomalies will exceed our imagination!"

"Also, internal intel says the city center of Xi has several very troublesome Anomalies!"

"So this time, everyone — I mean everyone — do not scatter! Do not split up!"

"Remember… do not split up!"

In truth, Chen Ye wanted everyone to stay together at the base. That was the safest.

But clearly others would not simply obey him.

"Hey, are you all listening? Sun Xixi!"

The pink-haired girl’s voice sounded drained, "Listening!"

"Ding Dong!"

"Mm!"

"Gong Yong!"

"Got it…"

"Xu Lina"

"Heard!"

Chen Ye called roll one by one, and everyone replied listlessly.

They were all young. At the start of the Return to the City Plan, each of them harbored some secretly grand fantasy of mowing down enemies and shocking everyone.

Which youth did not dream of flowers and applause?

But Chen Ye’s decision essentially told them to act cowardly.

Even knowing it was right, their spirits were a little low.

Because Chen Hao was not part of Fair Convoy, his area wasn’t here. He was acting with the Great Shun Dynasty convoy.

If Chen Hao had been here, he would have argued with Chen Ye for sure.

After all, Chen Ye’s words conflicted with Chen Hao’s beliefs.

"Damn, Chen Ye, you are shameless!"

"Good thing I was eavesdropping on your channel, otherwise you would’ve screwed us over!"

"They say good people don’t live long; disasters live a thousand years, so it goes…"

"Heaven’s blind…"

A somewhat familiar voice suddenly came over the radio.

It was Boss Ma from the Shepherd Convoy.

Boss Ma, the centaur, was a notable figure in the base, especially since people rarely saw such obvious external mutation.

Many saw his centaur form for the first time.

Because the two convoys’ areas were close, as other convoys headed to their zones,

the Shepherd Convoy and Fair Convoy took the same road.

When Boss Ma learned Chen Ye was acting captain this time, he felt uneasy.

So he had been secretly listening to Chen Ye’s channel.

Hearing Chen Ye suggest funneling Anomalies toward the Shepherd Convoy, Boss Ma thought Chen Ye was not acting like a decent person.

Upon hearing Chen Ye’s scheme,

Zhan Lei hid in his hoodie and snickered, seeming to say, "Come on, mutual harm then."

As for Jiang Rou,

the woman’s red backless bodycon dress had become red armor; her long black hair was tied high in a ponytail.

Her gaze was disdainful, her demeanor proud.

She dismissed Chen Ye’s words as mere hot air.

Only Boss Ma was furious.

Because the acting captain this time was supposed to be Boss Ma himself.

For Boss Ma’s shouting, Chen Ye simply sneered, then shut off the radio.

So what if Boss Ma had heard?

The convoy kept driving along Xi City’s coastal avenue.

Xi City’s outline was already visible.

Buildings along the roadside grew more numerous.

Occasionally there were well-decorated guesthouses and villas.

But with years of neglect, many had fallen into ruin.

Sometimes on the balconies of villas and guesthouses you could see two pale or pitch-black silhouettes standing there, watching the passing convoy with a creepy atmosphere.

Clearly, those were Xi City’s Anomalies.

Those Anomalies were not in the areas assigned to Fair Convoy or Shepherd Convoy.

So the convoy did not stop.

At that moment,

"Vzz…"

A violent energy fluctuation tore through the air.

They saw a faint cyan column of energy shoot straight up.

"Vzz… vzz vzz…"

Before Chen Ye’s group could react, a second and then a third energy column rose.

Thirteen columns in total enveloped Xi City outright.

The thirteen columns connected with one another, forming a mysterious frequency.

They also activated some kind of energy in the air, causing it to fluctuate with that frequency.

"This is…"

"A formation master, Cha Wu… what a powerful method!"

Voices on the radio exclaimed.

Chu Che had mentioned that Silent Council had invited Cha Wu. It was clear this formation was Cha Wu’s handiwork.

Passing through the formation, the convoy distinctly felt itself bathed by a strange energy.

Finally, when the convoy reached Sunset Avenue,

what met their eyes was a picture-perfect scenic avenue, yet utterly dilapidated and eerie.

Before anyone could properly take in this once-infamous internet-famous avenue, they saw a red banner hung high on one of the nearby hotels.

Big characters on the banner read: "There Are Living People Here!"