“Install the autopilot module,” Lin Wanwan whispered internally.
As soon as the words left her lips, the autopilot module transformed into a streak of light and drifted toward the steering wheel.
A few minutes later, a gentle female voice came from the dashboard:
“Autopilot module installed. Master, would you like to enable it now?”
Lin Wanwan glanced at the dashboard and saw that the fuel tank was nearly empty. She first poured twenty liters of gasoline into the tank before speaking up.
“Enable the autopilot function.”
“Understood, Master. Autopilot mode enabled. Current speed: 20 km/h.”
*Twenty kilometers per hour?* That was decent enough. The main point was that she didn’t have to drive herself anymore, which was fantastic. Plus, she could continue opening boxes.
She finally reached her hand out toward the last remaining box. She really wanted to see what kind of treasure was inside this box her sister claimed would yield good things.
“Load the Multiplier System and open the Level 2 treasure chest in front of me.”
“Host, the Multiplier System has finished loading. Please wait a moment.”
A few seconds later, the system’s voice rang out again:
“Congratulations, Host. Today’s treasure chest yields a 47-fold multiplier. You may open the chest now.”
*Only forty-seven times?*
Hearing the system prompt, Lin Wanwan felt a trace of regret. Why couldn’t it be a hundred times? The system was truly too stingy.
She reached out and opened the box.
The brightness of a single orb of light might not be much, and three orbs were tolerable, but when dozens or even a hundred light orbs gathered right before her eyes, the radiance completely illuminated the interior of the car.
Beside her, Lin Duoduo, who was munching on raw lettuce leaves, instinctively squinted her eyes.
“Sister, look quickly! What’s inside? Why is it so bright?”
Hearing her younger sister, Lin Wanwan smiled.
Forty-seven times the supplies?
Once her eyes adapted to the brightness, she looked intently at the box. There were definitely more than forty-seven orbs of light inside, which meant this treasure chest contained at least two distinct types of items.
She observed them carefully.
The light orbs carried two types of patterns: one represented food, while the other represented miscellaneous items.
Two types of items?
Not bad at all.
Lin Wanwan first reached out and grabbed an orb representing food.
The orb shattered, and a large tin can dropped right onto Lin Wanwan’s hand.
Taken off guard, the sudden weight caused her hand to sink. She had to exert a bit of strength to steady her grip.
A canned good?
A canned good this big?
Lin Wanwan examined the can in her hand carefully.
A normal canned good was usually only seven or eight centimeters in diameter and about the same in height.
However, the can in her hand was over ten centimeters wide and nearly twenty centimeters tall.
Printed on it were several large characters: *Xinjiang Big Plate Chicken*.
A can of Xinjiang Big Plate Chicken?
Seeing the label, Lin Wanwan felt her mind go blank. She had taken her sister out to eat Xinjiang Big Plate Chicken before, but since when did it come in a tin can?
She checked the weight—it was a full 1.6 kilograms, over three pounds.
Over three pounds! That was the weight of an entire chicken. A single can would be enough to feed her and her sister for an entire day.
Now she had forty-seven cans of Xinjiang Big Plate Chicken. She and her sister were going to eat until they threw up.
A sweet dilemma.
Beside her, the little girl’s eyes lit up as she saw the can in Lin Wanwan’s hands.
She couldn’t read all the characters on the label, but she could clearly understand the picture printed on the tin.
“Sister, what kind of canned food is this?”
Hearing her sister drooling, Lin Wanwan patted her head gently and passed the can over.
“You little glutton, this is a can of Xinjiang Big Plate Chicken. There’s a whole chicken inside.”
“Big Plate Chicken? Is it the Xinjiang food you took me to eat during New Year’s?”
“Mhm.” Lin Wanwan nodded.
“That was so delicious! Sister, when can we eat it?”
“You little greedy cat, we have to save these. Today, we’ll eat the giant hamburger first. Once that’s gone, we’ll eat this. Canned goods have a long shelf life, so we can store them for a while.”
Hearing Lin Wanwan say they couldn’t eat it yet, Duoduo felt a bit disappointed. However, she was no longer a two- or three-year-old child. Having ridden in the car with her sister all day, she naturally understood that their current environment was no longer a place where she could act willfully.
She shook her head.
“Sister, I was wrong. We can’t waste food right now. Put it away and store it nicely; we’ll eat it when we really need to.”
Hearing her sister’s sensible words, tears almost welled up in Lin Wanwan’s eyes again.
Her sister had truly grown up.
On an impulse, she really wanted to open a can for her sister right then and there. But after thinking it through, it was only the first day of the Highway Survival. She didn’t know how many difficulties lay ahead, so she steeled her heart and took the can back.
Lin Duoduo showed no reluctance whatsoever.
After storing the can away, Lin Wanwan counted the light orbs in the box. There were forty-six food orbs remaining.
The count was precise.
She then picked up a light orb representing miscellaneous items.
This time, she didn’t open the orb in her hands, opting to place it on the floor instead.
As the light orb dissipated, a large black object appeared before the two of them.
Lin Duoduo looked at the black lump of iron with confusion; she didn’t recognize it.
Lin Wanwan, however, was quite a bit older. Although she had never used one herself, she had seen them in short video clips.
The item before them was actually a black wood-burning stove—the kind that could burn wood or coal for warmth.
*Is this the useful thing my sister talked about?*
Lin Wanwan pondered for a moment. The first natural disaster was supposed to be a severe blizzard.
When the blizzard arrived, the temperature across the entire Highway Survival world would plummet instantly to over twenty degrees below zero.
Countless people wouldn’t even survive the first disaster, freezing to death where they stood.
Right now, she had forty-seven wood stoves in her possession. What an immense fortune this was!
If she used these wood stoves to trade for supplies when the disaster hit, just how much could she get in return?
Just thinking briefly about it made Lin Wanwan feel short of breath from excitement.
In this survival world, being one step ahead meant staying ahead, while falling one step behind meant falling behind at every turn.
As long as she seized this opportunity, she could secure the best possible starting advantage and ensure a better life for herself and her sister.
No wonder her sister had said the items from this Level 2 chest would be more useful to her than those from a Level 3 chest.
The autopilot feature was indeed a god-tier asset—at least in the early stages. Even if she had spares of that, she definitely wouldn’t trade it away. But these wood stoves didn’t carry such risks.
Lin Wanwan pulled a bottle of ordinary mineral water from the box, opened it, and took a heavy gulp to calm herself down.
Compared to her previous attempt at Highway Survival, this was the absolute best start she could have asked for. She needed to cool her head and figure out her next move.
She refrained from opening the rest of the light orbs. If she opened them all, the interior of the car wouldn’t be able to hold everything.
She closed the lid of the box. Because there were still unopened light orbs inside, the chest did not disappear.
Now, it was time for her to check the chat channel for news.