When the convoy finally started moving forward, all the survivors breathed a sigh of relief. They were finally far away from the Chengfeng Flower and Bird Market. From where they had been, they could clearly see the market, even the chaotic aftermath and shocking bloodstains left by the previous battle.

In this world, everyone knew what the smell of blood would attract. Fortunately, no mutated beasts reappeared in the market before they left.

When the convoy arrived at the mall, the square in front was already quite quiet, with zombie corpses scattered everywhere, all thanks to Li Chenzhou.

The Shenxing Team (Swift Action Team), which had been assigned earlier, immediately dispersed and headed towards the scattered vehicles. Duan Lei had come up with the name Shenxing Team; it was essentially a team made up entirely of drivers. They were responsible for collecting vehicles and extracting fuel from those that couldn't be driven.

The Battle Team was also much better equipped. They all held shields in their left hands and melee weapons in their right. It might sound like ancient shield-bearers, but their shields were a motley assortment: bucket lids, car hoods, and some even held lush tree branches.

This was all Li Chenzhou's suggestion, especially for those with the lush branches. These branches could effectively block zombies, not causing them any damage, but at least ensuring that they wouldn't be grabbed while providing their companions with an opportunity to kill the zombies!

In reality, the Battle Team hadn't experienced many battles so far. They mostly dealt with a few stray zombies, usually facing only one at a time, rarely even two.

After all, zombies were kill points, and these survivors weren't Li Chenzhou's followers, so he couldn't get kill points for the zombies they killed.

However, one encouraging piece of news for Li Chenzhou was that his rank had finally been promoted from Private to Corporal, increasing the maximum number of followers by one, to six!

Li Chenzhou had been wondering how the military rank was raised. The first time, he went from Recruit to Private because he used the evolution potion, transforming from an ordinary person into an Awakened. So, Li Chenzhou thought that this military rank would increase with his level.

Moreover, that military rank promotion didn't change anything for him. Not only did his attributes not move, but his skills didn't increase, and even the follower limit remained at five.

Later, Li Chenzhou used the evolution potion again and became a Level 2 Awakened, but his military rank didn't budge; it was still Private. This made Li Chenzhou a little depressed, and the Kill System didn't come with instructions, so he had no way of knowing the specific method for military rank promotion.

Although this time the military rank was upgraded after personally killing a mutated crocodile, Li Chenzhou was still unable to determine whether killing sufficiently powerful mutated creatures was necessary for military rank promotion, or whether killing a sufficient number of mutated creatures would raise his rank.

Moreover, the first time the military rank was raised because of leveling up, and the second time it was raised by killing monsters, so Li Chenzhou couldn't be sure whether the next military rank promotion would change to another method, such as killing a bear or something.

(Grizzly bear: …Are you sure it's a bear?)

Therefore, he simply stopped thinking about it and threw the military rank to the back of his mind. His current goal was to gather 50,000 kill points as soon as possible and get the Space War Chariot.

At that time, they could be said to be truly safe, and because of the Space War Chariot's spatial characteristics, they wouldn't even need to find a place to live. They could live directly in the chariot, and there would be enough space to store the collected supplies.

At that time, his "mobile vending cart," or rather, "Sunshine Breakfast," could officially open for business.

So, Li Chenzhou was currently fighting in the mall. In fact, along the way, he already felt a little tired. After all, he hadn't rested much since rushing out of the leopard zombie horde, and he had also fought a great battle with the crocodile.

When he fought the crocodile alone, trying to buy time until the Fatal Raid cooldown ended, although he wasn't hit by the crocodile even once, it was the result of his complete concentration and focus, which consumed a lot of stamina.

However, the struggles of the previous life's apocalypse made Li Chenzhou know that he did have an advantage now, but this apocalypse was also different from the previous life, so he had to seize this early period, desperately kill zombies, and complete the early accumulation to increase his capital for survival.

As for the Devourer… screw him, let's talk about being able to live until that time! Anyway, as long as he improves his strength and becomes strong enough, then whether it's the Devourer or the Vomiter, he'll turn them into the dead!

"Pu pu bang! Pu pu bang! Pu pu bang bang pu pu bang!"

On the first floor of the mall, Li Chenzhou struggled to fight in the encirclement of fifty or sixty zombies, his body charging left and right, erratic, and from time to time he would suddenly raise his hand and summon a pistol, killing the zombies that pounced in front of him.

At this time, Li Chenzhou's combat analysis had become 9%. After so many battles, and even using a long stick to entangle with the crocodile for so long, the analysis had only increased by one percent, which made Li Chenzhou feel quite depressed.

Moreover, this percentage number didn't have decimal places, such as 9.1415926 or something, it directly jumped from the integer position, so Li Chenzhou didn't know how far he was from the next increase.

There must be survivors in this mall, and it seems that many of them are quite clever. Because Li Chenzhou used firearms, almost all the zombies in the mall surged towards Li Chenzhou. Some survivors who were originally blocked in the store by zombies began to sneak out quietly, carefully walked towards the door, and then rushed out quickly!

Because someone took the lead, more and more survivors began to come out of their hiding places, taking advantage of the zombies' attention being completely attracted by the zombies, and quickly ran out of the mall.

Li Chenzhou didn't have any dissatisfaction with these people. It wasn't like they begged him to come. He came here to kill zombies, and then he had to collect resources, while the survivors had to escape. It could be said that everyone was getting what they needed.

With Li Chenzhou's killing, the number of zombies also began to decrease. However, because the commotion below was too loud, even the zombies upstairs gathered downward, and he didn't know why they could find the fire escape.

Seeing that the number of zombies began to increase again, Li Chenzhou killed even more happily. Although he was trapped in a zombie horde, these were just ordinary zombies without a zombie king commanding them. If he couldn't even solve this small scene, what would he use to deal with the leopards in the future?

"Shh! Shh!"

While frantically killing, Li Chenzhou suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the side. He turned his head to look, but it was a person in a glass exhibition hall next to him, using curtains to block himself, revealing a hand waving at Li Chenzhou...