Apocalypse: Modifying Everything, Building an Iron Fortress - Chapter 5

Chapter 5: This World Is Truly Insane …

“Certainly, sir. The route has been mapped out for you!”

Jarvis responded, and the navigation route was displayed on the car’s dashboard system.

Vroom—

Jiang Cheng glanced at it, then turned the steering wheel and drove the armored vehicle out of the congested lane, following the route Jarvis had planned for him.

As he drove along, Jiang Cheng could clearly see that the city had completely descended into chaos!

Looking around, besides the zombies wandering everywhere and feasting on their victims, there were also survivors frantically running for their lives!

Cars lay overturned and piled up on the roads, and many had crashed into storefronts along the streets or into gardens and fences! Some people, with no way out, jumped from high buildings, choosing to commit suicide.

Others pushed their companions towards the zombies to buy themselves a chance to escape. Even more frightening, some had completely lost their sanity, picking up guns dropped by police officers and shooting not at the zombies but at other human survivors, committing unimaginable acts of brutal slaughter.

These were things that they wouldn’t have dared to do even if you gave them ten times the courage before the apocalypse erupted!

Desperate cries, ferocious roars, burning flames, and billowing smoke … It was all worse than any so-called apocalypse movie! This was the true end of the world!

“This world is truly insane …” Jiang Cheng took all this in, but his expression didn’t change much. He felt sympathy, but that was all.

In the apocalypse, such scenes would only become more frequent, more common. If he didn’t learn to adapt now, it wouldn’t be long before he became just like those people.

Vroom, vroom—

The engine roared as Jiang Cheng pressed the accelerator harder. The armored vehicle, like a wild beast rampaging through the city, smashed through every obstacle in its path, quickly leaving the area behind.

Along the way, in addition to the ordinary people fleeing, there were also helicopters carrying wealthy people out of the city, and many armed helicopters heading to provide support in various places.

As for fighter jets, there were some, but they were few. However, whenever they appeared, they were always accompanied by deafening explosions!

Ding! “You have successfully killed a zombie using the LV1 Armored Vehicle! Reward: 1 point!”

Ding! “You have successfully killed a zombie using the LV1 Armored Vehicle! Reward: 1 point!”

Ding! “You have successfully killed a zombie using the LV1 Armored Vehicle! Reward: 1 point!”

Ding! “Congratulations, Host, on achieving the ‘Fifty Kills’ milestone! Reward: 10 free attribute points!”

At this time, Jiang Cheng, who was focused on driving, didn’t notice that a series of system notifications were filling up his reward log.

…

“By the way, Jarvis, how did you know earlier that my fuel tank didn’t have enough gas to get me to my destination?”

After leaving the city center and entering a street with relatively lighter traffic, Jiang Cheng breathed a small sigh of relief and suddenly thought of a question, which he asked Jarvis.

“After you started the vehicle earlier, the program immediately connected with the onboard equipment through the mobile network and obtained the fuel level information.”

Jarvis’s voice responded, but this time it didn’t come from the phone but from the car’s speakers.

“So that’s how it is.” Jiang Cheng understood.

“Sir, the road ahead is blocked. I suggest you turn right at the next intersection!”

Jarvis, who had been monitoring the road conditions in real-time, noticed that the originally planned route was now completely blocked by vehicles fleeing the city, so he immediately changed the route and alerted Jiang Cheng.

“Alright, got it!”

Jiang Cheng glanced at the display on the dashboard and nodded.

When he reached the next intersection, he turned the steering wheel and changed his route.

This kind of situation happened several more times on the way, causing what should have been a trip of less than half an hour to the gas station to take nearly an hour before he finally arrived.

Beep, beep—

After arriving at the gas station, Jiang Cheng didn’t immediately drive in. Instead, he honked the horn and stayed on the road for a while.

He wasn’t doing this to court death! On the contrary, he was doing it for his own safety!

Although this gas station wasn’t near any densely populated areas, the road in front of it was still clogged with vehicles. Who knew how many zombies were lurking nearby?

If he got out of the car and suddenly dozens of zombies appeared, that would be a real nightmare.

Hiss, hiss …

Roar … Roar …

Ugh … Ugh …

After a few seconds!

More than sixty zombies, attracted by the armored vehicle’s horn, came rushing over. These zombies were a mix of men and women, all covered in tattered clothes and fresh blood, their faces twisted and terrifying.

“There must be more than this …”

Seeing these zombies roaring and pouncing on the armored vehicle, Jiang Cheng muttered, then started driving in circles around the gas station while continuing to honk the horn.

After another two minutes, he attracted more than sixty more zombies.

And then another minute!

“That should be all of them!”

After confirming that there were no more zombies, Jiang Cheng turned the steering wheel.

Screech—

The tires screeched against the pavement, emitting white smoke as Jiang Cheng floored the accelerator, driving around the horde of zombies. Although there were a lot of zombies, they were no match for the armored vehicle, which was a beast that had rammed through more than a dozen cars without slowing down.

Splatter, splatter, splatter—

Blood sprayed everywhere as zombie after zombie was crushed under the wheels, turned into a mess of blood and flesh.

Ten minutes later!

After crushing the last zombie into pulp …

Screech!

Jiang Cheng braked, drove the armored vehicle into the gas station, and after parking the car and turning off the engine, he picked up a fuel pump from the ground.

“The fuel pump is just lying on the ground like this … It seems that when the zombie outbreak happened, there weren’t many cars at this gas station, and it looks like they all fled in a hurry.”

He looked around, spotting a gas station attendant who had already turned into a zombie and had been crushed to death earlier. Jiang Cheng walked over and found an employee card in the attendant’s chest pocket.

“Good thing I found this. Otherwise, getting gas out would’ve been tricky!”

Jiang Cheng smiled, walked back to the car, inserted the employee card, and started refueling.

At that moment, Jarvis’s voice suddenly came from inside the car, “Sir, actually, you don’t need an employee card. The Jarvis program can also hack the system, obtain permissions, and start the refueling process!”

“Why didn’t you say that earlier?”

Jiang Cheng rolled his eyes, ignoring Jarvis. He then turned around, took a large wrench from the car’s trunk, locked the car doors, and looked towards the pitch-black convenience store at the gas station.

“It’s time to look for some food and water!”