I lay low and gave up, but my servants were caught in a cycle of life and death.

"Boss, there's a gas station up ahead. Want to check it out?"

Lu Yan opened his eyes when he heard the noise, and his stomach started to rumble. Several hours had passed since he left the apartment. Although he had eaten some bread and snacks along the way, they were not very filling, and he still needed to eat rice.

"Then let's go ahead and rest for a bit."

Lu Yan lowered the car window and saw the zombies and traffic jam outside, and couldn't help but sigh.

While the Maybach is comfortable, lying down for too long can be tiring.

I really want to stand up and stretch.

I absolutely have to get the RV today!

"Old Black, how much longer until we get to the car market?"

"Reporting to Master, based on Xiao Li's clearing speed, it is estimated that it will still take another 8 hours."

So long?!

Lu Yan's face darkened!

If I go to other places in the future, and all I see along the way are wrecked cars and roaming zombies, when will I ever get to the airport and have Old Black swallow the plane?

It seems that one Xiao Li isn't enough; we need to enlighten a few more zombies.

Moreover, you have to act quickly. Once the zombies level up and develop their own brains and intelligence, he won't be able to enlighten them anymore.

Lu Yan calmed his mind and examined his special ability. In his sea of ​​consciousness, the experience bar, representing levels 2 to 3, was indeed much fuller than before, but it was still quite a long way from being full.

Roughly estimated, even if he did nothing but absorb the information, he would still have to stay up all night until tomorrow.

Absorbing crystal nuclei overnight?

impossible!

I can't take any more strain right now!

I can enlighten all things, endowing them with intelligence and evolutionary paths. So, could I enlighten a puppet, bind it to myself, and share its upgrade path with me, allowing it to absorb crystal cores and upgrade on my behalf?

Lu Yan tapped his fingers on the armrest, his mind racing.

The more I thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. Finally, I clasped my hands together and decided to give it a try!

The ultimate meaning of lying flat is to always have the right and freedom to refuse to do anything.

If you don't get rid of the task of absorbing crystal cores, you'll still be forced to absorb them, which would make you a different kind of wage earner, not someone who just lies down and does nothing!

"Boss, we've arrived at the gas station, and it's all cleared."

Lu Yan snapped out of his daze and turned to look out the window. He saw that the gas station convenience store was closed, and the zombies and vehicles outside had been cleared away.

Lu Yan pushed open the car door, got out, and stretched.

I lay in the car for hours, and my bones were numb.

A loud crash.

Lu Yan's heart skipped a beat. He looked toward the source of the sound and saw that the kitchen knife had chopped down the iron door of the convenience store in two strokes, and screams immediately erupted from inside.

"Master, there are people inside."

"Little Knife, come back!"

The cleaver, which was about to fly into the convenience store, flew back to Lu Yan's side, its head drooping. Lu Yan put his hands on his hips and reprimanded, "Without my order, you are not allowed to attack any people or animals other than zombies or zombie beasts!"

He didn't want to become a wanted villain, as that would hinder his plan to live a peaceful life!

The cleaver clicked and clattered. "Oh."

At this moment, a tall, strong man rushed out wielding a steel rod, followed by seven or eight young men carrying various weapons.

The man at the front was about to swing his stick when he suddenly froze.

His eyes swept over the empty gas station, over the Maybach, over Xiao Li in front of the Maybach, over Lu Yan and his sister Lin Ruojin, and over the kitchen knife floating beside Lu Yan.

Where are the zombies?

That's all?

No, there's one more!

But this one seems different!

Before he could react, the young man behind him pointed a steel rod at Lu Yan, his tone unfriendly, "The supplies inside are only enough for us to eat. Go somewhere else!"

Lu Yan was too lazy to argue with them. "We have our own food. We're just tired from the journey and wanted to rest here."

The young man couldn't help but shout angrily, "Who would believe that?! Why did you have to break down our door just to rest?!"

The cleaver went berserk; the little figure on its blade stood with its hands on its hips, seething with rage. "Hey, how dare you speak to my master like that!"

Everyone shrank back in fright—

The kitchen knife spoke!

A kitchen knife can talk!

No! It's suspended in mid-air; it can even fly!

Lu Yan's face showed displeasure. "It's normal for me to break down the door and search for supplies when I didn't know there were people inside."

They were just working at the gas station; the convenience store didn't belong to them. In this apocalypse, strength speaks volumes. If they didn't want to become monsters, they could have easily suppressed them with force and started looting.

The young man glanced tremblingly at the kitchen knife, then quickly looked away, muttering under his breath, "But you chopped down our door! With zombies all over the street, what are we supposed to do?!"

The others remained silent, not daring to utter a sound.

However, they had similar ideas.

"I'll chop down your doors if I want, who cares what you do with them!"

Lu Yan stared at the arrogant kitchen knife, rubbing his forehead in exasperation. "So what do you want?"

Everyone was stumped by Lu Yan's question.

That strange kitchen knife looks menacing. What can they do to Lu Yan?

The young man was about to speak again when he was stopped by the leader.

In just a few moments, he had already made the corresponding analysis in his mind:

The ground was clean, devoid of any corpses (no signs of combat).

That eerie, floating kitchen knife (is it some kind of supernatural force?)

A rational zombie (!)

The young man and the two young children behind him (this young man actually had the ability to protect the weak).

These details flashed through his mind like lightning—this man before him possessed power far beyond imagination, yet he was able to travel with two young children, which meant he was not entirely devoid of humanity and was definitely not a thug!

His Adam's apple bobbed, and his attitude was respectful. "I'm sorry. We've been trapped here since the first day of the apocalypse. For the past four days, with zombies outside and worries about our families, my colleagues and I have been a bit emotionally unstable."

"Brother, you're really something, managing to get all the way here and even clear out the zombies at the gas station. Can we go home with you, or maybe to the armed forces or the fire station?"

Lu Yan raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised.

The other party's reaction jumped abruptly from angry questioning to requesting to follow, which was quite a dramatic turn of events.

His hostility subsided somewhat, but his eyes remained cold. "I have no obligation to take you home or anywhere else."

Everyone froze, and the leading youth was about to plead again when Lu Yan continued.

"My destination today is the car city. If it's on your way, you can come along."

The stiff expressions on everyone's faces eased, and they exchanged glances, whispering among themselves, "Automobile City? My home is in a large mansion near Automobile City. Boss, I'll go with him!"

"Even if you manage to get back to the neighborhood, who knows how many zombies are still there? Are you sure you can make it home alive?"

"I remember there's a military base on Qingfeng Mountain, further north from the car city. Let's go there!"

"That's right! Aside from holidays, there aren't many people on Qingfeng Mountain. And since the apocalypse happened late at night, there definitely aren't many zombies there! Even if there were, the military would probably have wiped them out!"

"Yes! We'll go to Qingfeng Mountain to ask the government for help! The government will definitely organize a rescue and build a safe base! Then we'll follow the government's rescue vehicle home to pick up our families!"

"But if I go back then, my parents will probably be dead!"

……

With his superpower level raised to level 2, Lu Yan's five senses were extremely sharp. No matter how low they spoke, he heard every single word.

Are there troops stationed at Qingfeng Mountain behind the car city?

If we could go there and let that black guy swallow an armored vehicle...

Forget it.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Old Hei swallowed someone's armored vehicle, so he's determined to do their work.

He'll do it secretly, and then go to other countries to do it.

With Xiao Dao, Xiao Li, and Lao Hei, there's nowhere in the world he can't go.

Having freedom is more important than anything else.