Chapter 287 Ranked Third on Highways!

Just after Chen Yu finished making his wish, Zhang Wanyue had already picked up the cake knife and cut every slice into even sizes.

Chen Yu leaned back against the chair, watching everyone.

But in reality, he was checking everyone's level.

That's right, everyone leveled up by one:

red luan No. 1, Deng Yuxin (Subconscious Safety Entrustment / physiological connection), lv21

red luan No. 2, Wang Mengmeng (Domestication Connection / physiological connection), lv18

red luan No. 3, Yang Kexin (Value Contract / physiological connection), lv19

red luan No. 4, Zhang Wanyue (Trust Consensus / physiological connection), lv24

red luan No. 5, Li Mengyao (asymmetric attachment / physiological connection), lv26

red luan No. 6, Shen Qingci (physiological connection / Subconscious Safety Entrustment), lv21

red luan No. 7, Lin Yue (Twisted Love), lv?

red luan No. 8, Qiao Xi (physiological connection), lv13

red luan No. 9, Lu Xiaoyu (Belonging Anchor), lv12

red luan No. 10, Liu Manqing (physiological connection), lv14

red luan No. 11, Song Xingmian (Touched Response), lv6

After the Wuyin Island and the aunt incident, Li Mengyao's level had actually surpassed the others.

On the Vehicle, the only one who hadn't become a red luan yet was Zuo Shi.

This girl with the villain face and the [Information Capture] Talent had clearly volunteered many times and expressed her loyalty many times, but there was simply no prompt.

Chen Yu felt it was necessary to take the direct, simple path.

After all, there are some paths that can lead directly to the heart.

Just as everyone was eating cake and chatting noisily, Zhou Zhenguo's private message arrived—

[Zhou Zhenguo: Chen Yu, thank you for completing this mission. Han Cheng is dead, the Dark Agent mission has been successfully completed. This merit cannot be publicly recorded, but it truly exists.]

[Chen Yu: It wasn't just Han Cheng; I almost died too.]

[Zhou Zhenguo: I know better than anyone how strong Han Cheng is. His Blood Blade is among the top tier even among SSS-grade items, and the stacking of resentment has no upper limit...]

[Zhou Zhenguo: Sending you to kill him was a nine-deaths-and-one-life situation from the start; I have never sugarcoated this matter. I know exactly how much you sacrificed.]

[Chen Yu: Han Cheng was possessed by a Calamity, you should know that, right?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: A Calamity?]

[Chen Yu: Don't play dumb.]

[Zhou Zhenguo: ...I swear on my military service record, I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about...]

[Zhou Zhenguo: What is a Calamity?]

[Chen Yu: I cannot define a Calamity, but Han Cheng's blade was chosen by the Calamity to serve as a vessel. In short, he almost killed me, and I lost over a hundred items because of it.]

[Zhou Zhenguo: Han Cheng's blade... chosen as a vessel?]

[Chen Yu: That's right, after Han Cheng died, he was possessed by the Calamity, and I consumed over a hundred items.]

[Zhou Zhenguo: I didn't expect something like this to happen.]

[Chen Yu: Over a hundred items.]

[Zhou Zhenguo: ...]

[Ding!]

[Received trade request]

[Vehicle: thunder heavy truck (car owner: Zhou Zhenguo) has initiated a trade with you]

[Traded items: golden body card × 10, phantom card × 5, military medical kit × 100, special compressed energy bars × 100, battery packs × 100, field tents × 10...]

[Message: This is the highest specification trade possible within the authority of the thunder heavy truck.]

[Required items: None]

Chen Yu looked at the dense list of Military District supplies.

Indeed, most of them were extremely scarce; if he wanted to sell them, he could easily do so, and for a good price.

But Chen Yu pondered for a moment,

[Chen Yu: I need bullets for semi-automatic pistols, submachine guns, and shotguns. The more, the better.]

[Zhou Zhenguo: ?]

[Chen Yu: Is there a problem?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: Bullets are scarce in the apocalypse; I cannot guarantee I can supply you with too many.]

[Chen Yu: I don't need too many.]

[Zhou Zhenguo: I will do my best. Find some time to send me pictures of the firearms, and I'll arrange it.]

[Chen Yu: OK, no problem.]

[Chen Yu: By the way, how are you handling Lu Heng's identity?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: How did you handle it?]

[Chen Yu: He died in the second stage of the Global Slaughterhouse, while covering the rear. You can ask Chen Muqing for the specific details.]

[Zhou Zhenguo: Good.]

In just a few seconds, Chen Yu's personal backpack was packed to the brim again...

This is hardly highway survival.

Aside from lacking electronic devices, Chen Yu was living even more comfortably now than before the apocalypse.

"Come to think of it... that guy Captain Zhou Ting always used to carry a tablet."

"That tablet seemed to be his Talent?"

"If I take his tablet, I wonder if I can play games on it?"

Chen Yu pondered idly...

Opposite the small dining table, Wang Mengmeng took too big a bite and choked, unable to speak, so she hurriedly reached into the Public Backpack for water.

Suddenly, she frowned, her cheeks still puffed out, and then exclaimed: "Wait, today's construction materials have been distributed!"

Chen Yu: "..."

Li Mengyao sighed: "So what? They're distributed every day, aren't they?"

"No, no, no!"

Wang Mengmeng forced the cake down and asked confusedly: "But how... there are two thousand units of Wood added?! Isn't it usually one thousand units of construction materials?"

Li Mengyao was stunned: "How do you know it's two thousand?"

Wang Mengmeng was speechless: "Duh! I just used Wood to trade for colored paper yesterday!"

Chen Yu's mouth twitched: "You used Wood to trade for colored paper???"

Wang Mengmeng coughed, her face turning red: "Wood is a hard currency, easy to trade... and besides, it's for Brother Yu's birthday~~"

"It's not just Wood."

Shen Qingci suddenly interjected: "There are also three more Low-grade Energy Cores than usual..."

Zhang Wanyue shook her head: "Don't guess, the answer is very simple."

"What?"

Wang Mengmeng looked at the Class Monitor.

Zhang Wanyue continued: "Because we are no longer tenth. The highway ranking 4th-10th place receives 1000 units of random construction materials, while 1st-3rd place gets 2000 units..."

"And the Low-grade Energy Cores that Senior Sister mentioned just confirm this. The 1st-3rd places receive 10 Energy Cores daily, which is indeed 3 more than usual."

Wang Mengmeng's eyes widened: "Damn, Class Monitor, you even memorized these! You just rattle them off!"

Zhang Wanyue put her hand to her forehead: "Uh, right..."

Just after she finished speaking, everyone almost simultaneously put down their cake plates.

Light screens visible only to themselves unfolded, and the highway ranking list spread out from top to bottom.

The Vehicle names, number of people, car owners, and affiliated organizations of the top ten appeared line by line.

"We're really not tenth anymore! Third?!? How did we become third!"

"Wait, am I seeing things!"

"You're not seeing things! From tenth to third! We jumped seven spots!"

"We haven't even hit a station in the last few days! We were just driving, and then we became third? The change is so huge in just one day!"

The women chattered noisily, all with expressions of disbelief!

Zhang Wanyue suddenly spoke up: "It's not just that; there's another very important reward for the top three. Everyone can open your personal panels~"