62: If you want my 'treatment'... please me.

That hidden compartment was located in a crevice on the inner side of the taillight. If he hadn't scanned the vehicle's structure with [Eyes of the Sacred Sun] earlier, an ordinary person would never have noticed the faint traces of it being tampered with.

Applying force with two fingers, there was a crisp "crack," and the red plastic light cover shattered.

Su Chen pulled out a crumpled, torn page from a notebook.

Without even glancing at it, he casually tossed it to Lin Mengyao, who was standing nearby wiping her crossbow bolts.

"Read it."

Lin Mengyao took the note. Her cold voice echoed within the climate-controlled roof enclosure, yet it sent a bone-chilling shiver through everyone.

"...License plate Jiang A-66888, thirty-one survivors currently on board."

"One male, suspected to have awakened a Strength-type ability, threat level: medium; thirty top-tier young females, including two campus belle-level and one teacher..."

"If your fleet can provide two boxes of antibiotics and five hundred liters of fuel, I will open the lower cargo hold door at midnight tonight for an internal strike... Signed: Chen Wei."

Dead silence.

The few girls who had originally felt a trace of sympathy for Chen Wei and thought Su Chen was being too harsh now had pale faces, as if they had been violently slapped.

"It's not like that! That was... that was a tactic of expediency!"

Nailed to the floor, Chen Wei ignored the sharp pain in her ankle and began screaming frantically, her blood-stained hands scratching wildly at the deck.

"I did it for everyone! Su Chen wants to hog all the supplies! He treats us like playthings! I just wanted to find a way out for my sisters... Although that 'Vulture Fleet' has a bad reputation, they have guns, they have medicine..."

"Since you think the air outside is sweeter, then don't waste my air conditioning fees."

The playful smirk on the corner of Su Chen's mouth vanished completely, replaced by a heart-stopping indifference.

Due to the coverage of the Microclimate system, the roof was already an absolute safe zone.

But with a thought from Su Chen, the pale gold light membrane surrounding Chen Wei's body popped like a bubble and instantly dissipated.

Although the residual acid rain from outside had stopped, the high concentration of corrosive mist in the air remained.

*Sizzle—*

It sounded like pork belly hitting a hot pan.

Losing the protection of the Sacred Sun's aura, Chen Wei's exposed skin immediately began to redden, blister, and then fester.

"Aaaah!! My face! My face!"

Chen Wei rolled on the ground in agony, her hands covering her face as yellowish-brown pus and blood seeped through her fingers.

That heart-piercing burning sensation was a hundred times more terrifying than the puncture wound in her ankle.

The other two girls who usually followed behind Chen Wei were now paralyzed on the ground with fear, a dark wet stain spreading across their crotches.

"Su... God Su! It has nothing to do with us! Chen Wei forced us!"

Su Chen ignored these two fair-weather followers, his gaze scanning the crowd nonchalantly.

At that moment, a petite girl emerged from the crowd.

It was the girl named Chen Jie.

This girl usually didn't speak much, appearing like a 'transparent' person in the class.

But now, her eyes shimmered with a light that was almost fanatical.

She rushed to Su Chen in a few steps and actually fell to her knees with a thud, her forehead slamming hard against the deck.

"Master, keeping this kind of filth is a waste of air. The clothes on them are still good; don't let them be ruined by the acid mist."

Interesting.

This level of awareness was much higher than those so-called "goddesses" who were still standing there in a daze.

Su Chen nodded slightly: "Granted."

Having received approval, Chen Jie sprang up from the ground as if she had received an imperial decree.

She rushed over to Chen Wei and the two followers, beginning to strip their clothes off with violent movements.

"Don't... Chen Jie, you're crazy! We're classmates!"

"Shut up! Don't you know the consequences of betraying the Master?"

Chen Jie acted with extreme ruthlessness, even carrying a hint of vengeful pleasure.

It turned out that back in reality, Chen Jie had often been bullied by Chen Wei and her group.

In less than half a minute, Chen Wei and the other two were stripped stark naked.

Like three pale maggots, they shivered on this warm, spring-like roof terrace.

The clothes that originally belonged to them were respectfully folded by Chen Jie and placed at Su Chen's feet.

Su Chen kicked Chen Wei toward the trapdoor entrance leading to the lower level, like kicking away a bag of trash.

"From today on, the roof is divided into the Core Zone and the Exile Zone."

He looked around, his voice not loud, but carrying an unquestionable iron law.

"If you want to live in this climate-controlled greenhouse, want to eat hot meals, and want my 'treatment,' then trade for it with contribution points—collect supplies, kill monsters, or... please me."

Under his gaze, many girls subconsciously pressed their legs together.

But the fear in their eyes was gradually being replaced by something called "ambition."

"As for these three pieces of trash, they are demoted to lower-level laborers. They will only have expired compressed biscuit crumbs and filtered rainwater every day."

"Chen Jie, you are in charge of supervision. If they dare to steal even a single bite, chop off their hands."

"Yes! I swear my life's loyalty to God Su!"

Chen Jie's face flushed with excitement, as if she had been given some sacred mission.

A mutiny was thus forcibly crushed by the twin hammers of violence and self-interest.

Just as Su Chen was preparing to return to the driver's seat to see how Qin Ya was recovering, a glaring red exclamation mark suddenly popped up on his retina.

[Warning! High-energy reaction detected three kilometers ahead!]

[Type: Mixed Zombie Tide / Mutated Aquatic Species]

[Quantity: 1000+]

[High-Risk Alert: Radar center has captured a 'Humanoid' biological magnetic field. Energy level determination: Tier 3!]

Tier 3?

Su Chen's pupils contracted slightly.

At this stage, ordinary zombies weren't even Tier 1, and that Water Fiend from earlier was only Tier 2. How could a Tier 3 monster pop up in this ghostly place?

And it was humanoid?

He strode to the front of the vehicle, grabbed the high-powered binoculars produced during a previous 'intimate contact,' and looked into the distance through the wiper marks on the bulletproof glass.

At the end of the pitch-black curtain of rain was the entrance to a collapsed cross-river bridge.

Upon that ruin of broken steel and concrete, a cluster of eerie purple aurora could be vaguely seen slowly condensing, like the breathing pore of some giant beast.