Inside the armored vehicle!
Watching the horde of zombies finally disappear from their view, Liu Yuqing and Zhao Zhirou let out a long sigh of relief.
For the two women, such a scene was still quite thrilling.
"Jarvis, plan a new route and report the duration."
"Okay, sir!"
Jarvis responded and paused for a second, "Sir, the route has been planned, the required time is six hours."
"Six hours?" Ray raised an eyebrow, "Isn't there a closer route?"
"Yes, sir, there are two routes that can cut the time in half, taking only three hours to reach Donghai City, but they require passing through six zombie congregation areas."
"Then forget it, let's stick with the six-hour route!"
With the route set, the armored vehicle continued on its way!
Liu Yuqing kept an eye on the road conditions, while Zhao Zhirou took the opportunity to open her notebook and, through Jarvis, began to learn about the situation in various parts of the country, as well as the current situation in Donghai City.
Previously, they had only paid attention to a series of events that happened last night and hadn't had time to check the current situation.
Now that they finally had some free time, they could take the opportunity to gather more information.
After all, the more they knew, the smaller the risk of encountering unexpected dangers.
Cities in Li Country are categorized into five levels based on population, land area, industrial development, and per capita GDP, ranging from first to fifth level cities.
In terms of the number of cities, there are over thirty first-level cities, more than seventy second-level cities, and countless cities of the third level and below.
Shangbin City is one of the third-level cities.
After the turmoil of last night, cities with lower levels of technology, such as third-level cities and below, had almost all fallen and become a paradise for zombies.
As a result, Zhao Zhirou discovered through Jarvis that in these cities, there were at least a thousand evolved zombies!
And this was during the day, when most zombies were hiding in the shadows!
To think of what it would be like at night... was simply unimaginable!
In second-level cities, the number of evolved zombies was almost ten times that of the lower-level cities.
However, because the city areas were vast and the zombies were scattered throughout, they did not converge in one place, so they could not pose too great a threat in the short term.
Additionally, in these second-level cities, the number of survivors who had managed to establish survival bases was much higher compared to those in third-level cities and below.
Some cities even lucked out through last night's turmoil without experiencing a major zombie outbreak!
The entire city's survivors, all under the jurisdiction of the local cultural and military departments, united to form a complete base city.
Moreover, these survivors methodically constructed a high wall on the city's outskirts to block zombie invasions!
Although it might take a long time to fully establish and shape, this undoubtedly put them ahead of the vast majority of cities.
Zhao Zhirou promptly recorded these cities and made a simple tally.
After the tally, there were a total of ten such cities, nine of which were second-level cities, and one was a first-level city.
Perhaps due to the overwhelming population and area of first-level cities, of the more than thirty first-level cities, only one fortuitously survived the turmoil.
Lastly, Zhao Zhirou paid special attention to the situation in Donghai City.
Evolved zombies and zombified animals were also numerous, to the extent that it was quite unsettling.
On the human side, the city center is currently occupied by the cultural and military departments, which have successfully repelled the zombie attacks and established a survival base.
Almost all other areas have fallen, with only a small number of survivors living on, forming their own factions, scattered throughout the city, occupying places relatively suitable for survival.
Through observation, Zhao Zhirou found that most of these factions were far from the city, establishing survival bases in the outskirts of Donghai City.
Moreover, she noticed that at least more than ten factions were taking advantage of the noon when the sun was at its strongest and most zombies were hiding in the shadows, driving around scavenging for supplies.
This situation seemed somewhat disadvantageous to Ray and his group.
After all, this meant that the supplies they could scavenge would be significantly reduced, and there was even the risk of attracting the attention of other survivor groups and potentially being ambushed.
But in fact, the opposite was true; this situation was advantageous for them!
If they couldn't scavenge supplies, they could just directly seek out those survivor teams.
Worried about being ambushed?
Ray had no concerns about this at all, given the armored vehicle's defense was no joke!
He even wished others would come looking for trouble!
...
Driving was undoubtedly monotonous.
While Zhao Zhirou was catching up on the current situation in the country, Ray drove for a while before hands-free, handing over the driving to Jarvis.
"Let's see what we've got this time!"
After handing over the driving, Ray, sitting in the driver's seat, turned his attention to the system and opened the reward log.
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the [First Kill of a Zombified Animal] achievement task! Reward: [Primary Strength Enhancer] three bottles!"
"Ding! You have successfully killed a zombie tiger with an anti-material sniper rifle, reward points +150!"
"Ding! You have successfully killed a zombie lion with an anti-material sniper rifle, reward points +150!"
"Ding! Your teammate has successfully killed a zombie gorilla for you with a sniper rifle, reward points +150!"
"Ding! You have successfully killed an evolved zombie with an anti-material sniper rifle, reward points +100!"
"Ding! Your teammate has successfully killed an evolved zombie for you with a sniper rifle, reward points +100!"
"Ding! Your teammate uses a sniper rifle..."
...
"Primary Strength Enhancers! And three bottles at that!"
Ray looked at the first system reward message in surprise, having completed another first kill achievement by chance!
And he was rewarded with three enhancers at once!
Additionally, the system also awarded him points for zombies killed by teammates!
This was an unexpected joy...
In the end, a total of over two thousand points were earned!
"What a bountiful harvest!"
Ray exclaimed, without any hesitation, he immediately took out a bottle of [Primary Strength Enhancer] and drank it.
Compared to the first enhancement, the pain of this enhancement felt significantly less and was also very brief.
"Whew..."
As the pain throughout his body vanished, a sense of strength, as if inexhaustible, surged instantly, making Ray feel relieved.
He then checked the system panel again.
Name: Ray
Strength: 40+10 (Normal human 10)
Stamina: 42 (Normal human 10)
Endurance: 22 (Normal human 10)
Neural Reaction: 37 (Normal human 10)
"Huh? How come? Only a 10-point increase this time?"
Ray's eyes widened in surprise, thinking he had seen it wrong, and immediately inquired with the system about what happened.
"Ding, [Primary Strength Enhancer] will produce resistance with each use, and the effect will significantly diminish with repeated use."
Ray's mouth twitched, "Why didn't you say that earlier?"
Using that potion just now was practically a waste!
But the system isn't intelligent, and it completely ignored his complaint.
Ray could only let it go.
Looking at the remaining two bottles, he had no intention of drinking them anymore, who knows if it would add just 5 points, or not add any at all?
That would be a real waste!
"Let's save these two for them!"
Glancing at the two women who had already fallen asleep due to the car's bumps, Ray decided to keep the potions for them.
After all, the two women had become part of the team, and their increased strength would be beneficial to him as well.
Especially since the system also indicated that teammates killing zombies would also reward points, there was even less need to say anything more.