NOVEL WEB Chapter 33
Chapter 33: If I Harvest Them in One Go, I’ll Hit the Jackpot …
“Hold this for me!” Sitting back in the car and fastening his seatbelt, Jiang Cheng didn’t put the heavy-duty nail gun back into the bag but handed it to Liu Yuqing.
“It’s so heavy!” As Liu Yuqing took the nail gun from Jiang Cheng, she almost couldn’t hold on to it. She didn’t expect this nail gun to not only resemble a sniper rifle in appearance but also in weight!
When she was in school, she had visited a shooting range and handled real guns before. However, because the bullets were expensive and the recoil was too strong, she gave up after firing only a few shots.
Now, holding this nail gun, she instantly felt how different it was.
“Stop daydreaming. Keep watching the surroundings for me.”
“Oh, okay!”
Liu Yuqing snapped back to reality, quickly cradled the nail gun in her arms, and started scanning the surroundings, reporting the situation as it developed.
Meanwhile, the zombies they had previously shaken off had caught up and gathered together, forming a horde of nearly two thousand!
Among them, the two mutated zombies were at the forefront!
The one with mutated legs, moving much faster than ordinary zombies, was the closest, less than fifty meters away!
Jiang Cheng glanced at the zombie through the rearview mirror, then turned his gaze to the overturned oil tanker at the end of the road after making another right turn. He silently calculated the optimal timing in his mind.
“The distance is fine. I just need to lead the zombies near the tanker and then use the heavy-duty nail gun to blow it up!”
His goal was simple: to use the oil tanker to eliminate these zombies and harvest a bunch of points!
Initially, he hadn’t planned to do this, as it would have been difficult for him alone to attract so many zombies at once.
But after consuming the [Primary Neural Reflex Enhancer], which boosted his reflexes and perception, he noticed the survivors’ desperation around him and the overturned oil tanker on the street.
Suddenly, he came up with a plan that could not only resolve the trouble caused by those survivors but also allow him to harvest a wave of points!
And now, the plan was going smoothly, completely under his control!
Thirty seconds later …
Vroom—
Jiang Cheng, driving the armored vehicle with the pedal to the metal, turned the steering wheel and re-entered the main road where the oil tanker was located.
“About a dozen zombies on the left street, more than twenty on the right street, and nearly two thousand behind us …” As they reached the T-junction, Liu Yuqing quickly reported.
The left street led out of the area and towards their next destination, the Hilton Hotel. The right street led back to the supermarket.
Skrrrt—
As the tires screeched against the pavement, smoke billowing, the armored vehicle made a sharp turn, skidding past the overturned oil tanker a dozen meters ahead and turning onto the left street.
However, after driving only twenty meters and approaching the next intersection, the car suddenly slowed down. In response to Liu Yuqing’s confused gaze, Jiang Cheng reached up and pressed his Bluetooth earpiece.
“Jarvis, take control of the armored vehicle. Turn left at the next intersection.”
With that, he unbuckled his seatbelt again, took back the heavy-duty nail gun from Liu Yuqing, opened the sunroof, and once again half-emerged from the vehicle.
Setting up the nail gun, Jiang Cheng looked through the scope towards the street behind them.
Roar …
Groan …
Howl …
At this point, the two mutated zombies had already crossed the T-junction and were closing in again, with the two thousand zombies behind them gradually coming into view.
The sound of their collective roars reverberated like a beastly army marching through.
“If I harvest them all in one go, I’ll hit the jackpot …”
Jiang Cheng muttered, silently calculating the time. They were about three seconds away from turning into the next street.
He had to ensure that the oil tanker exploded at the exact moment the armored vehicle turned into the next street, using the nearby office and residential buildings to shield them from the explosion’s force, intense heat, and the resulting shockwave!
Otherwise, even if the armored vehicle could withstand the blast, it wouldn’t withstand the heat! They might end up cooked inside the vehicle!
He mentally counted the seconds, his hand firmly aiming the nail gun at the oil tanker. The distance to the tanker was still under eighty meters, well within the heavy-duty nail gun’s range, capable of piercing an eight-millimeter steel plate!
At that moment, time seemed to slow down!
Two seconds later …
Groan …
Howl …
A large number of zombies had already gathered at the overturned tanker, driven by their beastly instincts to chase Jiang Cheng, unaware of the imminent danger.
“It’s time!!”
Jiang Cheng’s dark eyes suddenly sharpened.
Bang, bang, bang—
Three consecutive shots rang out as three steel nails cut through the air, piercing through two zombies before accurately hitting the oil tanker.
Sizzle—
A spark flashed, and the three steel nails embedded themselves into the tanker, igniting it.
Boom—
The next second, the entire tanker exploded, sending a massive fireball and a mushroom cloud rising into the sky.
All the parked cars and nearby zombies were instantly consumed by the fiery explosion. But it wasn’t over! An oil tanker explosion was terrifying!
The shockwave and fireball, carrying destructive force, rapidly expanded outward, engulfing the nearest office and residential buildings.
Boom, boom, Boom—
Glass shattered, walls cracked, and buildings swayed, on the verge of collapsing.
Fortunately, Jiang Cheng was well-prepared. After firing the last three steel nails in the heavy-duty nail gun, he didn’t even look back, quickly retracting the gun and closing the sunroof.
Skrrrt—
Meanwhile, under Jarvis’s control, the armored vehicle executed a sharp drift, turning left onto the adjacent street, positioning itself behind an office building.
Just then, the shockwave from the tanker explosion reached them, causing the ground to shake. Fortunately, the building absorbed most of the impact, minimizing the effect on them.
Even so, the armored vehicle was still pushed several meters by the residual shockwave, almost flipping over.
The massive fireball brushed past them, engulfing the office building and burning the side facing the tanker into a charred husk.