Chapter 34: Integrated Water Purifier
“Adrenaline goes without saying, it’s for hanging on to life, and finally, this is a little thing I made myself.”
Su Huan picked up a cylindrical object and bit it in his mouth, mumbling, “Don’t expect this thing to save your life. When it really comes down to the critical moment, just like this, bite it in your mouth, then press it once.”
“Didi”
The sound rang out.
Yu Jing’s complexion changed slightly.
Su Huan took it out from his mouth and threw it out through the window.
A muffled “bang” sounded.
He spread his hands and smiled at the few people, “Guaranteed to make you go painlessly.”
“But after all, it’s hand-crafted, may not be that stable. If you’re unlucky and it blows you half to death, pay more attention in your next life.”
Everyone was used to Su Huan’s attitude of jesting with life and death.
But it was still a bit hard to bear.
After explaining, seeing that everyone had no objection, Su Huan waved his hand.
“Depart.”
The front and rear car doors opened, and Wang He led the group to quickly follow Su Huan.
As the first outing after the apocalypse, Su Huan still maintained twelve levels of vigilance, without using any lighting equipment, completely relying on his rich experience in surviving to move through the suburbs.
Liang Kuan carried the sniper crossbow guarding the left and right, while Yu Yue carefully followed beside Su Huan.
They had to stop from time to time to listen for a while.
“Pay attention to following the places I’ve walked through, don’t step on those weeds.”
Su Huan, standing in front, reminded in a low voice.
Yu Yue nodded, then tugged at the hem of Su Huan’s clothes and pointed to the front left, saying, “There’s breathing sound over there.”
Su Huan’s pupils suddenly sharpened, he loaded the gun, then gave an order to Liang Kuan behind him.
The latter cautiously advanced, and soon there came the click of pulling the trigger.
Su Huan followed up and saw it was a Terror Claw Cat with only half its body left, its lower body missing, already critically wounded and dying, then Liang Kuan finished it off with a crossbow bolt.
This cat was the same as the Blood Hound, both Tier 1 Mutated Beasts, emaciated and hairless all over, with only its four claws evolved to be terrifyingly formidable, like sickles.
After passing through this wilderness, everyone stepped onto the cement ground, which was much cleaner here.
Cars were pushed to both sides, with a large number of zombies lying collapsed on the ground.
Terrifying claw marks on the streetlights, missing parts at the corner of the wall, dark red bloodstains on the ground…
Traces of fighting were everywhere.
Fortunately, it was too dark, and the workers behind couldn’t see clearly, so they didn’t have to endure this trepidation.
The group walked smoothly to the water plant, without much trouble.
Looking at the wall in front of him, Su Huan turned sideways to ask Yu Yue, “Listen and see what’s inside?”
Yu Yue’s eyes slightly lost focus, immersing in her hearing. After Su Huan’s previous comfort, she was no longer so fearful of these sounds.
A moment later, she replied, “About sixty or more sound sources, mostly concentrated inside the building. There’s splashing water sound in the water tower, and friction sound in the guard room on the left hand side after entering the door.”
Su Huan couldn’t help but grin. In his previous life, he didn’t have fixed teammates.
Having a perception-type evolver could avoid a lot of danger.
Instead of entering directly through the main gate, they circled around and found a huge breach on the side, as if it had been hit by a truck, with the cement ground full of wet water stains.
Stepping on it made a crackling sound.
The group quickly advanced into the water plant interior.
“Something is swimming over, front right, ten meters!”
Yu Yue’s complexion turned pale, with a slight tremor in her voice.
“Mm.”
Su Huan calmly responded, paused for two seconds, and a compressed cold blue electric arc appeared at his feet, using the ground’s water flow to flash directly toward the direction Yu Yue indicated.
In the flash of electric light, everyone also saw that thing clearly.
About one meter in diameter, over half a meter tall, holding two large pliers, charging sideways at the group, extremely fast.
It was shockingly a River Crab.
But no matter how fast, it couldn’t match Su Huan’s high-voltage electricity, and in an instant, it was paralyzed by the voltage and flipped over.
20% energy output, plus energy compression, was basically an instant kill.
Su Huan still wasn’t reassured and followed up with three high-temperature projectiles.
He stopped only after smelling a fresh fragrant aroma.
The battle of an energizer was just this simple and unadorned: overwhelm you with massive energy, and if it wasn’t enough, just add more.
Before everyone could react, the River Crab was already taken out, and they continued forward.
After that, things became much easier. With Yu Yue present, they avoided what they could, and when they couldn’t, Su Huan would go up for a quick river fresh cook-off, at flying speed.
Then in the courtyard, they found a red forklift and crane, all there.
They groped in the dark for twenty minutes and finally found the position of the small integrated water purifier.
Su Huan took a deep breath, suppressing the joy in his heart, and pointed at the water purifier, “Wang He, dismantle it for me within twenty minutes, and I’ll give you a permanent train ticket. From then on, for every day your construction team is on the train, I’ll provide you with purified water.”
The man beside flashed a hint of difficulty in his eyes, “Boss Su, dismantling is fine, but it’s not easy to transport.”
Su Huan’s tone turned cold and stern, “There’s a car in the courtyard. No matter what method you use, get the thing back for me.”
Wang He gritted his teeth and agreed, leading twenty workers to start working.
Liang Kuan strode over and said in a low voice, “Found quite a bit of diesel and gasoline in the house next door.”
Su Huan’s eyes lit up. Currently, the armored train’s main power and energy still came from diesel.
His ability only served as an auxiliary drive.
To truly drive the train, he at least needed to become a Tier 1 Profession ‘Energy Storage Core’.
“Let’s go, we’ll haul it all back. Yu Yue, follow us!”
After saying that, Su Huan walked to the next door.
Pushing open the door, sure enough, there were over a dozen oil drums placed in the room.
The two divided the work: Liang Kuan dragged out the oil drums, and Su Huan went to get the car.
Ordinary cars unlike trains had many restrictions, but he could bypass the key ignition step, directly powering the entire car’s circuit to start and ignite.
Soon he drove up a pickup truck.
Yu Yue stood guard nearby, and the two quickly loaded up.
Su Huan had evolved once, with high basic quality in his body, while Liang Kuan was all brawn and no loss of strength, even a bit stronger than him.
55-gallon oil drums, that’s 58×88, and the two loaded eight.
They could fit a few more, but the car couldn’t pull them.
For safety, they left the rest.
After busying for over twenty minutes, Wang He reported good news: the water purifier was dismantled.
Using the forklift plus two cars to drag it along simultaneously.
Seeing the main goal achieved, Su Huan no longer got greedy, didn’t even search the remaining supplies, and directly led the people out in a grand manner.
During this, they attracted two more mutated beasts, but both were aquatic and completely countered by him.
Su Huan even had the workers load that River Crab onto the car.
The group came cautiously, but ran flying fast.
Except for those who had to drive, the rest including Su Huan jogged behind the cars.
The forklift had to stop from time to time to clear obstructing miscellaneous items.
