The convoy continued driving forward. In the pitch-black night, the headlights resembled fireflies, filling people with both hope and despair.

This small convoy, under the faint sky light, drove resolutely toward the endless darkness in the distance.

Finally, someone couldn't hold it in and burst into loud, wailing sobs.

Not everyone had seen their own relatives or friends among those people just now.

But for those who did see, it was no less than suffering a mental shock.

No one knew what those people just now actually were.

But for those who saw them, they looked exactly like the person from their memories.

Without exception, the most important people in their memories were no longer in this world.

Many people thought they would never see them again in this lifetime.

But no one expected that they would one day stand before them again.

In the apocalypse, everyone lives in this chaotic, evil world, carrying wounds for all.

"They" had no dissonance with the person from one's memory.

They even considered one's well-being just like before.

When the first person started crying, a second soon followed...

The mood of the others was also very low.

In the apocalypse, many people's fates were similar, so they could understand these emotional changes very well.

Inside Bus Number Seven, if Xu Lina hadn't acted decisively and resolutely kicked several people over.

Bus Number Seven would have likely fallen long ago.

Some riots had also occurred earlier inside Bus Number Six.

Doctor Luo and his wife simply couldn't suppress it.

If Chen Hao hadn't been recuperating on this bus.

Who knows what would have happened if those Anomalies had gotten on Bus Number Six.

Then there was Iron Lion's school bus, which also experienced some minor disturbances.

Iron Lion wasn't very smart, but he stubbornly refused to let anyone get off.

So, he managed to prevent anyone from opening the door.

As for Chu Che, Chen Ye, Sun Xixi, and Ding Dong...

They were no longer the rookies they were back at the beginning of the apocalypse.

Their resistance to Anomalies had long since improved significantly.

Although the people they transformed into looked exactly like those in their memories.

They still managed to maintain their rationality.

"Squad Leader Chu, do you know what these things actually are?"

Chu Che had read the most captain's notebooks, so his knowledge within the convoy was also the most extensive.

Chu Che pondered for a moment before his voice finally came through the radio.

"There are quite a few Anomalies with transformation abilities, but the kind we encountered today, I haven't seen before..."

"If it were a different place, we probably wouldn't be able to discern their authenticity at all."

What Chu Che said was indeed true.

If it were a suitable location, seeing those people would likely lead to hugging each other and weeping.

It was precisely because it was such a desolate wilderness that everyone maintained some vigilance.

"These kinds of Anomalies can extract our memories!"

"They generate their targets based on our memories."

"The closer these Anomalies get to us, the more memory information they can extract!"

"Then, based on the most deeply impressed points in our memories, they play the role of the person we hope to see..."

Sure enough, it was exactly as he had thought.

Chen Ye raised an eyebrow.

"Squad Leader Chu, will we encounter Anomalies again next?"

The voice coming through the radio belonged to the Pink-haired Girl, tinged with some worry.

"Yes, we will encounter them again!"

"Can't we avoid them?"

"We can't avoid them. On other routes, there are even more Anomalies!"

Chen Ye fell silent.

This situation was a first-time encounter.

Before, no matter how many Anomalies there were.

There was always a sliver of hope for survival.

But now...

According to Chu Che's explanation, the convoy had entered an entire area completely filled with Anomalies.

Even a Pathfinder couldn't avoid all the Anomalies.

"Notify everyone, from now on, all convoy members should try not to get out of the vehicles. Until we find a suitable destination, no one is to get out without permission."

Chu Che was also getting somewhat anxious.

Within his sensing range, there was almost no place that didn't have Anomalies.

These Anomalies didn't know where they came from, nor where they were going.

For a Pathfinder like him, this was also a first-time encounter.

Right after he finished saying they couldn't stop.

Suddenly, they saw Squad Leader Chu Che's vehicle come to a halt.

Before Chen Ye could ask what was happening.

They saw Chu Che get out of the car barefoot.

The guy lay on the ground, reached out, grabbed some soil, and stuffed it into his mouth.

As if tasting some rare delicacy.

You have to understand, Squad Leader Chu hadn't done this for a long time.

After all, eating dirt wasn't exactly a good thing.

Seeing this, Chen Ye also stopped the car, opened the door, and came to Chu Che's side.

Looking at Chu Che's tightly furrowed brow.

"How is it?"

Chen Ye asked.

Chu Che shook his head.

Chen Ye's heart also sank slightly.

After thinking for a moment, Chu Che stood up, pulled out a shiny little dagger from his chest.

This little dagger was something Chen Ye had never seen before.

He didn't know if this guy stole it from Oasis.

He saw Chu Che use this shiny little dagger to cut his palm.

"Trembling, I offer my blood here! Heaven and earth are torn asunder, all phenomena run mad!..."

The familiar incantation sounded.

This was the "Blood Path" ability of the Pathfinder Sequence 3.

Chen Ye stepped back slightly to avoid disturbing Chu Che.

"Pray for a sliver of heavenly light to shine upon this—Blood Path, Return to Fate!"

"—Covenant Formed!"

Chu Che's voice carried a mysterious aura, as if it had seeped into this Dimensional Space from thousands of years ago.

Just after Chu Che finished chanting this incantation.

A blood-red path appeared before everyone.

Chu Che's body swayed slightly.

Using the "Blood Path" ability twice in quick succession was enough to put significant pressure on Chu Che.

"Go!"

Chu Che said, his voice extremely weak.

Xiao Fu had already gotten out of the car and helped Chu Che back into the vehicle.

The convoy set off again, moving much faster than before.

Everyone knew they couldn't waste Squad Leader Chu's efforts.

The survivors who had been crying earlier now suppressed their emotions and sat quietly in the vehicles.

Their eyes vigilantly watched their surroundings.

That feeling of always being watched from the darkness still hadn't disappeared.

Some people, under too much psychological pressure, even pulled their clothes over their heads, refusing to look at the pitch-black night scenery outside the windows.

Right at this moment, Chen Ye received the system notification that the upgrade was complete.

However, Chen Ye at this moment also had no time to check the system's upgrade completion status.

He only felt that the previously somewhat wobbly and twisted vehicle body, at the moment the upgrade completed, clearly improved its shaking significantly.

This path chosen by the convoy wasn't a road at all, just some wilderness overgrown with weeds.

Or perhaps, on this entirely new continent, there were no roads in the true sense.

The convoy was either traversing forests or speeding across grasslands.

Driving before had been somewhat inconvenient.

Sitting in the car, one could clearly feel that due to the tire upgrade, the entire Monster Pickup Truck's grip had improved significantly.

The convoy's speed wasn't slow, and the few large buses behind had already jolted the survivors into blurry afterimages.

Sometimes, due to inertia, the vehicles even performed a few drifts.

If this were before the apocalypse, it could be considered dangerous driving.

After using the "Blood Path" ability, Chu Che seemed somewhat listless and weak.

Chen Ye held the steering wheel with one hand and flicked the cigarette from the corner of his mouth out the window with the other.

As for whether it was uncivilized or not, damn it, it's the apocalypse, who cares about civility anymore.

It would be best if this cigarette butt could start a big fire.

Burn all those messy things to death.

Chen Ye began to seize the time to consider the next step for upgrading the Monster Pickup Truck.

Originally, he planned to upgrade the vehicle glass or the rigidity of the vehicle body.

Now it seems, this upgrade direction might need to shift slightly.