That night, everyone temporarily stayed at the service area to rest. Another heavy rainstorm came, but by daybreak, the rain had stopped.

The night was relatively peaceful.

This was the advantage of the service area - in the middle of nowhere, on a newly opened route that few people knew about, there weren't many zombies scratching at the doors in the middle of the night.

Xu Duoduo emerged from her blanket with messy hair. Qin Luo was next to her, and Chen Xiaofei was a bit further away.

Bai Shu and Wang Weihu had taken the second half of the night watch. They were now over there helping the survivors pack up. After seeing the apocalypse survival manual last night, no one wanted to stay behind, especially since mutant creatures were even scarier than zombies.

Xu Duoduo blinked her eyes. The soft blanket felt so comfortable that she kept touching it. Suddenly, her hand slipped and touched Qin Luo's thigh next to her, waking him up.

They stared at each other wide-eyed.

Was it too late to say she didn't do it on purpose?

Xu Duoduo immediately tried to pull her hand back, but Qin Luo caught it and gave her palm a squeeze before letting go.

"Well, well, taking advantage of me first thing in the morning?" His voice was husky from just waking up, tickling her ears and making the little zombie feel strangely embarrassed.

Then the little zombie tried to hide, covering Qin Luo's head with her blanket, attempting to "destroy the evidence". If she couldn't see him, it wouldn't be awkward.

Xu Duoduo got up, performing a disappearing act on the spot. She actually intended to go outside to see what Bai Shu and Wang Weihu were doing.

Behind her came Qin Luo's muffled laughter, making the little zombie turn back annoyed to look. He didn't even bother pulling the blanket down, just rolled over to continue sleeping.

Hmph!

Bad guy!

Xu Duoduo knew they loved to tease her, finding amusement in this zombie.

Treating her like a child.

Although her brain was sometimes slow when thinking, she wasn't a little fool, just slow to react. She turned and headed towards the parking lot outside.

Bai Shu and Wang Weihu were helping Zhao Gang repair a car. They had chosen the newest bus and had the survivors clean the inside with rags and buckets of water. The three of them were modifying the bus a bit.

Liu Chunhui was in the kitchen with her daughter, cooking the remaining food to take with them. All the flour had been kneaded into steamed buns - she had been up all night doing this.

Xu Duoduo watched them modify the vehicle for a while from outside. The service area had a repair shop with all the tools, and they were busy working early in the morning.

The little zombie stood on the wet ground, thinking for a moment. She looked around the parking lot and began collecting clean vehicles, not picky about what kind. As long as there were no zombie corpses inside, she collected them all, feeling they might be useful.

Because she was selective in her collection, the others working at the repair shop didn't notice the gradual disappearance of some vehicles.

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Only Bai Shu, seeing the little zombie wandering around by herself, nearly screamed in fright. He looked around and realized Qin Luo really wasn't watching her, not worried that some mutant creature might swallow this little thing in one bite.

"Little Squad Leader, don't wander off! Even though the zombies have been cleared out and we're in the middle of nowhere, you still need to be careful of mutant animals!"

Bai Shu walked over and realized Xu Duoduo was collecting cars. He was shocked again, "Wait, just how big is your space?"

Xu Duoduo had already moved from collecting small cars to the truck area. In the blink of an eye, she collected another large truck. Hearing the noise, she turned to look.

Seeing it was Bai Shu, she lowered her head to type on her tablet and held it up: [I'm fine, can do myself, you busy, later, I go back.]

Xu Duoduo was so focused on hoarding things that she couldn't spare attention for speaking, only able to type as briefly as possible, somehow giving off a cool vibe.

Bai Shu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "No way, if something happens to you later, our team's food storage will be in danger. You keep collecting, I'll go find Qin Luo."

Xu Duoduo wanted to say no, but Bai Shu had already pressed the contact button to call Qin Luo, "Are you going to manage your first love or not? If she gets carried off by a mutant creature later, I'm not taking responsibility. I'm still working on the car over there."

Sigh.

The little zombie sighed.

Xu Duoduo couldn't be bothered anymore. She turned back and collected all the large vehicles in the parking lot that caught her eye, feeling they could be valuable as scrap metal to sell at the base later.

The apocalypse survival manual did say that all resources are important in the apocalypse.

It's just that in the early stages, the priority is still on rescuing people and securing food and medicine. Other resources can't be focused on yet and are only collected as they go along.

Some things are too big to take away, so they just dismantle and take the important parts.

Just as Xu Duoduo finished collecting here, Qin Luo came over. This tall guy with his long legs only needed a few steps to reach her. He immediately picked her up, "Finished collecting? Save some space for other things."

Qin Luo scooped her up and tucked her under his arm as easily as picking up a small toy, "If there's a chance, other teams will come to collect the vehicles here. Our targets are food, weapons, and medicine, okay baby?"

He said they were going back, "Don't stray too far from your teammates. You're getting bolder, wandering off by yourself. I thought you were with Bai Shu and Wang Weihu."

Xu Duoduo looked back at the parking lot. If she hadn't already collected everything she wanted, she might have struggled a bit. But her current combat ability was no match for Qin Luo, so she simply gave up, letting him carry her back inside.

Qin Luo carried her inside and put her down. Chen Xiaofei had also woken up, squinting his eyes with messy bed hair sticking up everywhere. Seeing Xu Duoduo, he called out fawningly, "Little Squad Leader, where did you go so early? I'm hungry!"

Liu Chunhui happened to be bringing out several large bowls of handmade noodles. Hearing this, she asked, "Who's hungry? I have noodles here, hand-pulled this morning. They're delicious and chewy!"

The other survivors looked used to this, apparently accustomed to waiting for food.

Hearing there were hand-pulled noodles, Chen Xiaofei stopped asking Xu Duoduo for food and turned to ask Liu Chunhui for noodles instead, "Auntie, I want a bowl!"

The water here hadn't been contaminated yet, they were using well water.

Just that the water usage was limited.

Qin Luo instructed Liu Chunhui, "Before we leave later, try to bring as much water as possible."

They couldn't guarantee clean water sources on the road ahead, and water was essential.

Liu Chunhui nodded, saying gratefully, "Thank you for reminding me. I still have a lot of noodles, I cooked a big pot. If it's not enough, there's more."

Over there, Yang Cong was complaining, "Aunt Liu, today's noodles are too soft and mushy."

Before Qin Luo could speak, Chen Xiaofei scolded first, "You're complaining when you have food to eat? Later I'll let you chew on some grass roots, see if you still whine then!"

"Have they been like this the whole time? You two shouldn't be too soft-hearted, spoiling them like this," Qin Luo frowned, glancing at the group of people.

Most were young people, especially Yang Cong and his group - two male followers and three girls, six in total, not doing any work at all.

Qin Luo thought Liu Chunhui and her husband were just being kind, but Liu Chunhui smiled awkwardly, "They gave us quite a bit of money, so my husband and I thought we'd try to earn a bit more..."