3: Chapter 3: God-level talent, physical limits surpassed, the two sisters awaken their talents!

The RV rolled over a protruding piece of rubble on the road, causing the vehicle to jolt.

Chen Chen threw those words to the back row and said no more, steadying the steering wheel with one hand.

One minute.

[Newbie Adaptation Period Over! Regional Chat Channel, Friend Channel, and Trading Hall have officially opened!]

[Current survivors in Newbie Area 069: 1,000,000/1,000,000]

The inorganic electronic prompts broadcasted indiscriminately.

Chen Chen tapped the newly appeared channel icon in the bottom right corner of his retina.

The style of the World Channel had completely gone off the rails, with messages scrolling at extreme speeds.

When humans face extreme panic, the instinct of the keyboard warrior becomes their only outlet.

"Someone save me! What exactly happened? I was driving my Maybach on the Second Ring elevated road, and in the blink of an eye, I'm holding a set of reins! It's a real horse! This beast won't move an inch if I don't feed it grass, and it won't let me ride it! Where am I supposed to get grass for it?"

A flurry of replies followed.

"Brother, count your blessings. I'm worth a billion, and I started with a pedal tricycle! Half the chain is missing! That black mist behind me is running faster than Usain Bolt; my legs are pedaling so hard they're smoking, and I'm only ten meters away from the mist!"

"Hahaha, I got lucky! I was assigned a Wuling Hongguang with a full tank! The God of Mount Akina returns to the scene!"

"Wuling Hongguang is nothing! I got a heavy armored off-road vehicle! Bulletproof glass, and the front even has a spiked ramming horn. I'd dare to plow right through if zombies showed up!"

Amidst this stream of information woven from panic and boasting, a few bolded messages with flashing effects were particularly eye-catching.

"Help! I'm a counselor at Jiangcheng Third University. An entire busload of female college students I was leading has been teleported here! The bus is almost out of gas. Someone save us! As long as you can take a few students away, you can name your price!"

Immediately following was another one.

"We're in an RV! There's an abandoned gas station not far ahead. All the members of the Starlight Girls' Group are in the vehicle—twelve girls, and we don't even have a bottle of water left. We beg for a big brother to come and protect us!"

The direction of the channel shifted.

"College girls? All dance and art students with long legs? Send your coordinates! I'm driving my hand-tractor over to save you right now!"

"A girl group is top-tier too. An apocalypse paired with a girl group—isn't that imperial treatment?"

"Stop dreaming, you guys upstairs. You can't even support yourself with that junk car, and you want to support a girl group? My Land Rover has a big cabin. Girl group, send your location, I'll take the whole lot!"

Chen Chen withdrew his gaze, his fingers tapping on the plastic steering wheel.

Social resources that were high and mighty in times of peace were the first to become commodities for sale in such an extreme environment.

Without the ability to protect oneself, no matter how many people there were, they were nothing more than a buffet for the Aberrant monsters outside.

Looking through the rearview mirror, Chen Chen glanced at the back of the cabin.

Shen Wanbing and Shen Wanxing were using the dim light coming through the window to flip through the Survival Rules Manual.

The system records clearly stated in black and white that all humans on Blue Star had been forcibly pulled into this death rally.

There was no way back, and no rescue.

Shen Wanbing closed the manual.

This woman, who had managed a hundred-billion-dollar business empire for years, had a brain that processed much faster than an ordinary person's.

She had figured out the current dead end.

Players who were not assigned an initial vehicle by the system were just waiting to die if they stayed put.

The black mist behind them would devour all living things.

The only shelter for the two sisters now was this dilapidated Type C RV beneath them.

And the control was entirely in the hands of the man in the driver's seat.

To survive, they had to depend on him.

Shen Wanbing's gaze dropped, looking at the black professional suit on her chest.

Two buttons at the collar had popped open, the fabric stretched to its limit, leaving a large patch of snowy-white skin completely exposed.

A blanket was draped over her waist; Chen Chen must have covered her with it.

A man in his prime, in an apocalypse without legal constraints, had kept two defenseless, stunning beauties.

What was he after?

Shen Wanbing was well aware of the capital her body possessed.

Lust at first sight.

That would be perfectly normal.

Shen Wanbing tightened the old blanket.

But he hadn't taken advantage of their unconsciousness to force himself on them, which suggested this man valued equal exchange and had a mature logic to his actions.

He had desires, but he could communicate and exercise restraint.

He was a reliable partner for cooperation.

One might even say he was the only life-saving straw they could grasp at the moment.

Shen Wanxing had not yet recovered from the shock of the chat channel.

As a greenhouse flower who lived year-round under the spotlights, her understanding of the phrase "collapse of rules" was still shallow.

She shrank behind her sister, her beautiful eyes fixed on the back of Chen Chen's head, her fingertips tightly picking at the sequins on her dress.

"Do you see clearly now?"

Chen Chen didn't look back, his voice as flat as a straight line. "Those two groups out there—one is using forty schoolgirls as bargaining chips, and the other is treating a girl group as merchandise. On this highway, nothing can provide you shelter except the sheet metal of this vehicle."

Shen Wanbing took a deep breath, trying to suppress the dryness in her throat.

"I understand. What do you want from us? Or rather, what do we need to do to earn our place on this vehicle?"

Chen Chen was just about to speak.

[Ding! All vehicles have been assigned, and initial attributes have finished loading.]

[Now beginning the awakening of unique exclusive talents!]

[Talent grades are divided into: F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS (God-Grade).]

[Awakening...]

Chen Chen only felt a sudden chill surge up his spine, followed by a scalding burning sensation spreading from his heart to his four limbs and entire body.

This feeling wasn't painful; instead, it was like parched, cracked earth finally receiving a rainstorm.

The footsteps that were slightly unsteady due to his recent recovery instantly became solid, and his muscles frantically reorganized and compressed at this moment.

[Awakening Successful!]

[Host has obtained God-Grade (SSS) Talent: Physical Overlimit (Unique Growth Type)!]

[Attribute Bonus: Host's Constitution upper limit is forcibly raised to the human limit. Additionally, every day at 0:00 AM, Constitution attribute is fixed +10, Agility attribute is fixed +5. No upper limit, no bottlenecks.]

[Current personal panel has been refreshed.]

Chen Chen glanced at the light screen.

[Name: Chen Chen]

[Constitution: 30 (Ordinary adult male is 10)]

[Agility: 10]

[Perception: 10]

[Spirit: 10]

[...]

30 points of Constitution.

Chen Chen gripped the steering wheel tightly.

He could feel the subcutaneous fat vanishing, replaced by tough muscle fibers.

This wasn't just an increase in strength; it was an all-around leap in endurance, self-healing ability, and even defensive power.

If a zombie rushed in now, Chen Chen felt he could crush its skull with one hand.

"Sister... I think I'm seeing hallucinations." Shen Wanxing's trembling voice came from behind.

Chen Chen glanced at the back row through the rearview mirror.

The two sisters' faces were pale, their eyes filled with undisguised shock.

"Tell me, what did you two awaken?"

Shen Wanbing was the first to break free from the panic. She stared at the windshield ahead, a golden light occasionally flashing deep in her pupils.

"I can see some prompts," Shen Wanbing said in a very low voice.

"Just now, I looked at the Gobi desert to the front-right, and a red exclamation mark popped up there. The prompt said: buried under the sand three kilometers away is a rusty iron box containing a 10L bucket of fuel. However, two low-level Aberrants are crouching next to the box; it's recommended not to approach easily."

God-grade information prompts.

Chen Chen calculated rapidly in his mind.

This woman's passive talent, combined with the 'Resource Blind Box' from the Beauty tag, made her a living humanoid radar plus an automatic teller machine.

"And you?" Chen Chen turned to Shen Wanxing.

Shen Wanxing bit her lower lip, her voice as faint as a mosquito's buzz. "I awakened a talent called 'Lucky Critical.' The grade is also God-Grade. The system explained that when I open any treasure chest or obtain loot that can trigger a critical hit, there's an 80% chance to trigger double rewards, a 50% chance to trigger triple rewards, a 20% chance to trigger five times the rewards, and a 10% chance to trigger ten times the rewards..."

"And a 1% chance to trigger a reward quality upgrade..."

A brief dead silence fell over the cabin.

The two Shen sisters.

One could provide precise directions, avoid traps in advance, and lock onto high-level resources.

The other could maximize resources, directly multiplying yields by ten or even upgrading their quality.

Paired with his powerful body and 'Monster Blind Spot'...

He was carrying two living Bodhisattvas in his vehicle.

While others were struggling to survive in the apocalyptic wilderness, he was bringing his family along to farm resources with cheats.

Just three minutes ago, he was still complaining about these two wasting food; now, he felt like setting up a shrine for them and lighting three sticks of incense every day on schedule.