The convoy kept moving forward.

No one knew how long they had been driving.

But during the journey,

Chen Ye noticed the survivors on Bus Number Six and Bus Number Seven starting to cover all the windows with paper.

Some used children's homework notebooks, others used magazine pages, and there were even pages torn from novels.

These things were actually quite precious in the apocalypse.

After all, no one would grab stuff like that when scavenging for supplies!

Therefore, if anyone had a novel or a magazine, it would usually be passed around and read by everyone during the long rides.

If someone damaged it, they would probably face a wave of complaints, and those with hot tempers might even start a fight.

Before the apocalypse, many people hadn't touched a book in years.

Now, these things had become the most valuable treasures.

At this very moment, these people were tearing those book pages into sheets without hesitation and fixing them to the car windows using various methods.

In some spots where there weren't enough pages,

some people took out their own clothes to firmly block the windows.

If clothes weren't enough either, others used whatever they could find to cover them.

The originally bright, transparent windows turned into barriers rejecting the darkness in a very short time.

Though crude.

After blocking out that vague, subtle feeling of being watched in the dark night, everyone felt much better.

Chen Ye didn't comment on this.

If there really were Anomalies, these makeshift barriers would be absolutely useless.

The convoy drove on.

It kept driving...

No one knew where they would camp today.

No one could know when they would stop.

Chen Ye kept looking at the wristwatch on his hand.

It was already 5 PM.

But judging by the sky, one could easily believe it was midnight.

Chen Ye had originally planned to decide on the Monster Pickup Truck's upgrade path.

But after some thought, he decided to first sound out Chu Che later to see if he had actually discovered anything.

If he could confirm a good upgrade direction, it would probably be ten thousand times better than upgrading randomly.

Following the Blood Path's guidance, the convoy arrived at a sea of trees.

A sea of trees, as the name suggests, is an ocean of trees.

All around were towering trees whose crowns you had to look up to see.

The smallest tree among them required at least two people with arms outstretched to encircle its trunk.

Driving through it, the convoy felt like they had entered a kingdom of giants.

Standing among these colossal trees, humans felt like pitiful little ants.

These giant trees weren't just one or two.

It was an entire sea of them.

In the darkness far away, they could still make out the silhouettes of those black trees standing tall, like rows of giants.

As the convoy entered this sea of trees, they could hear the tires crushing leaves with a rustling sound. People inside the vehicles could clearly feel the tires sinking into what seemed like thick layers of cotton.

Only through the headlights did everyone realize the peculiarity of this sea of trees.

Perhaps because no living creatures had set foot here for a long time,

the fallen leaves in this forest had accumulated tremendously.

At least half a meter deep.

Chen Ye quickly raised the vehicle's body height. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

The recently upgraded body-lift function unexpectedly came in handy here.

He could have used the method from back in Rong City.

But that method also consumed Supernatural Power.

Right now, every bit of Supernatural Power needed to be conserved, as something bad could happen at any moment.

Surprisingly, Chu Che's and the Pink-haired Girl's vehicles also had this body-lift function.

Seeing those two vehicles also raise their chassis,

Chen Ye was momentarily at a loss for words.

Chu Che's vehicle was practically like it was specially developed and modified for the apocalypse.

He had spent so many Slaughter Points, and his vehicle could barely compare to his.

But no matter what, the Monster Pickup Truck was a Wonder, which was something Chu Che and Sun Xixi couldn't match.

The few vehicles behind followed in the tracks of their three lead vehicles.

But the ground clearance of these four vehicles wasn't as high.

Therefore, they often had to stop and clear the piled-up leaves from their front ends after not driving very far.

Finally...

Squad Leader Chu's weak voice finally came through the radio.

"Stop!~~"

Those two simple words instantly made the survivors in the convoy heave a huge sigh of relief.

The convoy slowly decelerated and came to a quiet stop beneath a giant tree whose trunk probably couldn't be encircled even by a dozen people.

Faint, rustling whispers came from within the convoy.

You could hear the convoy members all sounding like they had just escaped a great ordeal.

The door of Bus Number Six slowly opened.

A middle-aged man stretched and got off the bus.

Today's migration was the longest in recent days.

Because they couldn't get off the vehicles, many people had long been feeling pent-up.

Even though none of the vehicles were fully occupied now,

the prolonged sitting and confinement still made people feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Ah~~~"

The middle-aged man stretched, stepping onto the ground covered in rotting leaves.

But his foot suddenly sank, and he plunged headlong into the pile of leaves with a thud.

The people behind him laughed.

"Brother Dao, I just told you to be careful..."

A young man, grinning cheekily, seemed about to step into the leaf layer to pull this "Brother Dao" out.

But when the young man cautiously tested his way into the leaf layer,

his foot also sank, and he too tumbled in headlong.

It was like losing his balance and falling into a swimming pool.

"Hahaha... Little Li, you were just mocking Brother Dao, and now you're the same, hahaha..."

At that moment, Chen Hao, his face dark, grabbed the arm of a third man who wanted to go rescue them.

"Something's wrong, you... wait a... moment..."

Chen Hao stood by the vehicle door, his face so dark it seemed like water could drip from it.

His stammering tone sounded tense to the others.

It was normally very hard to see such an expression on the face of the usually easygoing Chen Hao.

Everyone now sensed something was wrong.

Someone tentatively called out: "Brother Dao, Little Li, stop playing around..."

No response...

Someone grew anxious: "Brother Dao, Little Li... are you still there? Say something..."

Still no response...

The leaf layer was as if nothing had happened.

The two living, breathing men had vanished without a trace.

As if they had never existed in this world.

"Get back... get back, everyone... get back..."

Chen Hao's face was dark.

The survivors looked around at the surrounding rings of leaf layers in terror, their eyes unable to hide the panic.

Two familiar faces were gone forever.

They didn't even have time to hold a funeral for them.

"I'm sorry, I didn't stop them!"

Doctor Luo was filled with self-blame.

Chu Che, Squad Leader Chu, had clearly said earlier that no one was to get off without permission.

But just now, he thought it was like usual when they reached a campsite.

If Chen Hao hadn't noticed something was wrong, probably more than two people would have died.

"Tell everyone to stay in the vehicles, don't get off!"

"Everyone... don't get off the vehicles!"

Xue Nan stood on the roof of the off-road vehicle with a loudspeaker: "Everyone, do not get off the vehicles!"

Xue Nan repeated the words "do not get off the vehicles" over and over again.