An unreadable emotion flashed across Su Han’s eyes.
His long fingers were slender and well—defined. The hand gripping the steering wheel tightened slightly, his knuckles turning pale.
His emotions were unusually complicated.
Because his psychic ability had already detected two faint psychic fields inside Wen Lan’s body.
The next song that played was an upbeat, energetic track.
The two babies in Wen Lan’s womb clearly didn’t like it.
The stream of energy flowing back to her stopped instantly.
She coughed lightly.
“Could we change the song?”
“Hm? What’s wrong? Isn’t this your favorite song? It should help keep us awake.”
Wen Che looked at her in confusion.
Wen Lan didn’t know how to explain it.
She liked the song.
The babies didn’t.
Without saying a word, Su Han reached over and pressed the controls, switching to a slower, more soothing melody.
Sure enough, as soon as the music changed, the babies began feeding energy back into her body again.
The amount wasn’t much, but a steady stream was better than nothing.
Jiangyang City was still over two hundred kilometers away.
Wen Che had already traveled dozens of extra kilometers while searching for Wen Lan, and now they could only continue along the provincial highway.
Although taking the provincial roads was slower and more troublesome, they could at least replenish supplies along the way.
The convoy gradually came to a stop.
Zhang Ye rode his motorcycle over to Su Han.
“Captain, several cargo trucks have crashed ahead. We’ll have to move them before we can get through.”
Following his gaze, Wen Lan saw two overturned logistics trucks blocking the road.
Countless delivery packages had spilled across the ground.
Ji Feng, the strength—type ability user, was the first to get out of the vehicle.
Soon after, Wang Hui, Song Wen, Su Han, and the others climbed out to help.
Wen Lan was about to get out as well.
“Lan, stay in the car. You don’t have a combat ability. You’ll get hurt.”
Wen Che stopped her and locked the car door.
The nearby zombies were quickly eliminated.
Everyone immediately began cutting open the zombie corpses.
However, the energy pearls were only found in either the brain or the chest.
Many zombies had nothing at all.
The search was incredibly inefficient.
Finding a single pearl often meant practically dissecting the entire corpse.
Even so, no one was willing to give up the chance of obtaining one.
“Wen Che, let your sister come help us detect which zombies have energy pearls.”
“Exactly. This is way too slow.”
Wang Hui frowned.
Everyone else was outside fighting zombies.
Meanwhile, Wen Lan was comfortably hiding in the car?
Ignoring Wang Hui, Wen Che looked instead at Su Han.
“The surrounding area has already been cleared.”
After Su Han spoke, that meant there were no threats within a five—hundred—meter radius.
Only then did Wen Che unlock the car.
“Brother, I can do it. Let me help!”
In truth, she had already killed zombies before.
She wasn’t nearly as fragile as everyone assumed.
Still, her brother’s protectiveness warmed her heart.
With Wen Lan’s help, the group quickly located every zombie containing an energy pearl.
Since she had contributed, one of the pearls was given to her as payment.
“These are delivery packages.”
“Let’s open some and see if there’s anything useful.”
“We’re running low on food and water.”
Zhang Ye gestured toward the scattered parcels.
The overturned trucks were logistics vehicles, and the road was covered with deliveries.
Everyone hurried to open the boxes.
Wang Hui opened one and found a bra.
Unfortunately, it was far too large.
Ever since evolving, she no longer needed to wear one anyway.
For some reason, she looked up at Wen Lan.
Even beneath her loose clothing, Wen Lan’s figure was impossible to hide.
Wen Che knew about Wen Lan’s spatial storage.
But since his sister wasn’t ready to tell anyone else, he kept quiet.
No matter what happened, it was always wise to keep a trump card hidden.
Right now, that little space was where she planned to stockpile supplies for her babies.
Wen Lan deliberately moved away from her brother before opening more packages.
She still hadn’t figured out how to tell him she was pregnant.
Most of the parcels she opened contained clothing, which she ignored.
Meanwhile, Wen Che focused entirely on finding food.
Water wasn’t a concern.
As a water ability user, he could always provide it.
Whenever Wen Lan found baby bottles, diapers, or other infant supplies, she quietly slipped them into her spatial storage while no one was looking.
The entire process took only an instant.
No one noticed.
Although Su Han’s eyes weren’t on her, his psychic awareness remained focused on Wen Lan the entire time.
One package contained a book titled Principles of Quantum Mechanics.
It caught her attention immediately.
She tried reading a few lines aloud.
To her surprise, the babies seemed to enjoy it very much.
If music could make them return energy to her…
Perhaps reading could too.
She placed the book into her backpack instead of storing it in her space.
She planned to read to them whenever she had the chance.
Keeping it in her backpack was much more convenient.
“It’s time.”
“We’re moving.”
Su Han checked the time before speaking in his usual calm tone.
“Yes, Captain.”
Although everyone wanted to continue opening packages and gathering supplies, they obeyed.
They couldn’t afford any more delays.
Wen Che’s backpack was now packed entirely with food.
As they continued along the provincial highway, they passed supermarkets and gas stations.
Most had already been looted.
Doors and windows had been smashed open by force.
Not only that, but the surrounding vegetation had withered.
The ground was cracked and dry.
Whenever the wind blew, dust filled the air.
This time, Wen Che took over driving while Su Han sat in the passenger seat.
Zhang Ye also switched places with Ji Feng.
Aside from whoever was driving, everyone else spent the journey absorbing energy pearls.
“This stuff is amazing.”
“It’s just a shame we can only absorb one a day.”
Zhang Ye grinned.
Every absorbed pearl made his ability stronger.
“There aren’t many red energy pearls, though.”
Transparent pearls were the most common.
Unfortunately, he couldn’t absorb them.
They traveled another fifty kilometers.
Under normal circumstances, it would have taken just over half an hour.
Instead, it took them four full hours.
Traveling at night was far too dangerous.
As evening approached, they stopped at a gas station beside the provincial road to refuel and spend the night.
Zhang Ye was responsible for starting the campfire.
Su Han led Ji Feng and Song Wen to clear out every zombie nearby.
Night fell.
The surroundings became eerily quiet.
Everyone gathered around the fire.
“At this rate, we probably won’t reach Jiangyang City until the day after tomorrow.”
Song Wen estimated the travel time.
“That batch of equipment is extremely important.”
“It’s agricultural cultivation equipment.”
“We have to bring it back to the safe zone as quickly as possible.”
“There are too many mouths waiting to be fed.”
Ordinary farmland had become increasingly difficult to cultivate.
Specialized cultivation equipment was now essential.
“That’s right.”
“I can already feel the life force of nearby plants fading.”
Song Wen possessed a plant ability.
He could control plants to attack, and after absorbing energy pearls, he could even accelerate plant growth for short periods.
But without a continuous supply of energy…
The plants would still wither.
“There are more and more people arriving at the safe zone.”
Su Han had already received orders from headquarters.
They were to retrieve the agricultural equipment as quickly as possible.
“Get some rest.”
“We leave at four o’clock tomorrow morning.”
“Yes, Captain.”
It was still early, and Wen Lan couldn’t sleep.
She quietly took out the book she had found earlier, slipped into a corner, and began reading aloud.
As she read, she could clearly sense the babies generating energy.
Not only that…
Only two energy pearls remained inside her spatial storage.
Unlike everyone else, who could absorb only specific colors, her babies absorbed every energy pearl she placed inside, regardless of color.
Her spatial storage expanded once again.
Darkness settled fully by eight o’clock.
The team took turns standing watch.
During their free time that night—
Zhang Ye practiced controlling his fireballs.
Ji Feng did push—ups, counting aloud.
Judging by his voice, he had already reached eight hundred and fifty—six.
Song Wen found a withered vine and repeatedly tried using his plant ability to revive it.
Su Han sat quietly with his eyes closed, steadily nurturing and recovering his psychic power.
Wen Che trained his ability to condense water into ice.
Wang Hui took out a pouch of silver acupuncture needles from her backpack and began treating her legs.
As a speed—type ability user, the effects of the energy pearls didn’t seem particularly obvious for her.
Perhaps because ultimate speed also depended on strengthening her own body.
Everyone was busy.
Everyone was working hard to become stronger.
Everyone…
Except Wen Lan.
She sat beside the campfire…
Reading a book?