Of course, if Shen Muyu heard Li Qian's inner thoughts, he would definitely laugh dismissively.
You think you can just crush the weak and cling to the strong? There's no such thing as a free lunch.
After Li Qian finished speaking, he patted Zhou Quan, signaling him to go out from behind the pillar, which could be considered a form of surrender.
"We're here!" Li Qian and Liu Zhu raised their hands as they moved, which amused Shen Muyu.
"Don't come any closer, go to the back. We've prepared special seats for you." Shen Muyu pointed to the back of the car.
"You're letting us sit in this?" Li Qian was stunned when he saw what was hanging on the back of the car.
When Shen Muyu was communicating with them, he asked Zhan Yi to hang an iron cage on the back of the car. It was one of those transport vehicles that were used to confine animals, which had been driven out of the box earlier. It was quite large and had many wheels underneath.
"It's good that we have a seat, and this thing is pretty safe. It's better than running around barefoot." Shen Muyu glanced at the three of them.
"This is too small. There's barely enough room to stand inside," Zhou Quan said indignantly.
"I can just take him away. I'll give you one minute. You should know what the consequences will be if you don't go in." Shen Muyu's patience had run out, and he was too lazy to say another word to them.
"Let's go up," Li Qian said helplessly, feeling his crystal core still under control.
"Here, take this." Shen Muyu pulled down the window a little and tossed Li Qian a walkie-talkie, so they could contact each other later.
After Li Qian reached out and grabbed it, Zhou Quan carried him to the back of the car.
The cage is surrounded by relatively fine iron posts, and underneath is an iron plate.
The height was enough for them to stand inside, but sitting down would be a bit cramped and too close to the edges, which wouldn't be safe. So the three of them chose to stand directly in the middle.
"We're done." After Liu Zhu hung the door up, Li Qian said into the walkie-talkie.
Upon hearing this, Shen Muyu instructed Xiao A to start the car and drive directly outside.
The villa behind had already been almost completely looted by the three men; Shen Muyu had already snapped up all the appliances and other items, so he didn't waste any more time.
"Turn left, there's a small road ahead, drive in." Li Qian gave directions as soon as they arrived at the villa entrance.
Shen Muyu didn't suspect too much, after all, their lives were now tied to Shen Muyu's, and giving them wrong directions wouldn't do them any good.
More importantly, even a fool could tell if you really went inside.
"I see a lot of cars parked in the neighborhood, why are they targeting mine?" Having finally managed to get in touch with a few people from the local world, Shen Muyu naturally couldn't let go of the opportunity to gather information.
"Because those are all trams…" Li Qian replied with some doubt. Why ask such a simple question? Even if it's a test, there's no need to ask such a silly question.
"Train?" Shen Muyu was taken aback.
"Yeah, but where did you get this gasoline-powered car? Weren't they all banned before? And where did you get the gasoline? That's a strategic resource." Li Qian looked at the car in front of him with envy and subtly probed Shen Muyu's resources.
Things like fuel are subject to purchase restrictions, and he only managed to find a few dozen liters after searching through all the villas behind the house.
They did find a nitro-powered car, but it was a collection item left over from before the destruction of the car, and it was damaged in countless places. The three of them spent many days trying to fix it but still couldn't.
But they didn't dare to actually walk to the base; the three of them wouldn't even be enough to feed a horde of zombies.
After hearing Li Qian's words, Shen Muyu checked everything. It seemed that not only the electronic products, but even the electric vehicles were all disabled. Could it be that a large-scale magnetic storm had occurred?
Tsk tsk, life is really tough for people in this world.
"How long has the apocalypse been going on?" Shen Muyu stopped dwelling on the car issue and changed the subject.
"Less than a month, I guess." Li Qian swallowed his doubts and answered directly. Maybe this person was a wild man living deep in the mountains before. Let's ask.
"It's 17 days!" Zhou Quan, standing next to him, added through the walkie-talkie. Every day of these arduous and extraordinary days is worth remembering.
"Did it break out this morning?" Shen Muyu suddenly remembered her earlier guess.
"Yeah, around 5 or 6 in the morning." Zhou Quan was on the night shift that day, so he knew the details better.
He usually has a bit of a reversed day-night cycle, so he was quite energetic at the time, but after the sun turned red, he suddenly collapsed and didn't wake up.
"Tell me about that base you mentioned. How did you know it existed?" Shen Muyu asked directly.
A base? Did we mention a base to you? Li Qian thought with a face full of question marks, feeling more confused than he had in the past ten days.
"A few dozen kilometers further out of the mountain city, there's an officially established base to house survivors. There seems to be another base recruiting people there too, but it's probably self-organized," Li Qian said obediently, though he didn't understand.
"As for how we knew, the signal wasn't actually cut off at the beginning. For the first dozen or so hours after the apocalypse, we could still receive some information, like radios, as official organizations were constantly broadcasting the locations of bases."
"But because awakening my superpower took too much time, by the time I woke up, the car was completely totaled. By the way, the car was totaled before the information was cut off."
As Li Qian recalled, he said that he was in a daze from the fever when he awakened his superpowers, so his memory of it wasn't very clear.