Chapter 87: A New Way of Moving Also Seems Pretty Good

Forget team wars; even in a war between nations, he would still stand at the very top.

As soon as nine o’clock arrived, the regional channel unlocked.

With a flash atop Lin Mu’s house, a flagpole appeared overhead.

It was not his own property, but an item added by the system.

And Lin Mu was still unaware of any of it.

At that moment, he was staring blankly at the regional channel.

China Region — 88.42 million

Huh?

China Region?

A national region?

Lin Mu had thought this time would be a merger of several zones, never imagining it would be merged by country instead.

Could the so-called team war actually be a national war?

If so, then he would have absolutely no psychological burden at all.

He had not had much burden before, of course, but now he had even less.

He did not hurry to look at the chat box. Instead, he opened the global channel: 450 million people.

In other words, the people of China accounted for nearly one fifth.

China: Unknown — “Hahaha, we actually make up one fifth. You guys are really not much.”

China: Unknown — “Sakura, don’t let me run into you, or I’ll cut down your flag and wipe out your whole family.”

Sakura: Unknown — “Take a look at the convoy rankings. Your China only has so many people, a bunch of trash!”

“...”

National flag?

Lin Mu frowned.

He opened the convoy information. On the shelter’s floor plan, there really was an extra symbol on the roof of his house.

So that must be the national flag.

Was victory determined by blowing up the other side, or did tearing down the flag count as a win?

Lin Mu thought about it and decided to ask the panel.

Defeating the opponent or dismantling the flag both count as victory.

Lin Mu stroked his chin. If tearing down the flag also counted, then the other convoys would probably leave behind a few vehicles and use them to launch a direct assault on the opponent’s shelter.

But against something like his own heavy machine-gun position, they would reap no benefit.

And if it came down to tearing down the flag...

Lin Mu thought of his forty-meter sword.

Ahem, the sword with the forty-meter extension rod.

Tearing down the flag should be pretty easy.

“Report to the captain, the ground has started moving. What should we do?”

What did that mean?

Lin Mu hurriedly looked at the monitor.

The entire road was like a conveyor belt, pushing the whole area containing the shelter forward.

The speed was not very fast, probably only around ten kilometers per hour.

“Do nothing. Just watch the surroundings carefully and report any resource crates you find.”

“Yes!”

Right, he had still not said anything about the resource crates!

Lin Mu looked at the monitor, uncertain for a moment how those resource crates would appear.

He opened the regional channel and glanced at the chat.

“Now that the divisions are by country, aside from some weak nations, there should be a little over a hundred regions, more or less.”

“No, I think it should still be over two hundred regions. The weakness of those small countries refers to military weakness, but that is not what’s being compared in the early stages here.”

“Anyway, everyone we run into now will be foreigners, so it does not matter.”

“Anyone who has not joined a convoy yet, hurry up and join!”

“...”

Fine, he should never have held any expectations in the first place. Not a single useful piece of information there.

Lin Mu could only lean back helplessly in his chair and watch the shelter move slowly forward.

That speed could not be controlled; all he could do was watch it move.

An hour later, an intersection appeared ahead, and the shelter stopped there.

There were roads extending in all four directions.

“Report! Resource crates have appeared in the sky, but they are landing a little far away.”

Hearing this, Lin Mu hurriedly controlled the camera to scan the surroundings.

Sure enough, crates of different colors had appeared in the sky.

Their falling points were roughly fifty meters away.

In other convoys, the likely move would be to send out a few vehicles to retrieve them.

But how could he possibly use such a primitive method?

If the distance was not enough, then he would just extend it further.

Although the surrounding area looked utterly safe.

Lin Mu believed this whole field of grass was definitely dangerous.

Otherwise...

What kind of proper place would let weeds grow three meters tall?

“Everyone stay put. Wait in place.”

After thinking it over, Lin Mu opened the workbench and made a batch of cameras.

“Take these and install them on your roofs to monitor the nearby area. Shu Yi, you’re inside, so you’ll be responsible for checking the global and regional channels. Record anything useful when you see it.”

Shu Yi froze at the words.

She could not help glancing at the empty chair beside her.

Ah...

Still impossible to forget.

“Received.”

“Jiang Ying, you’re in charge of watching the trading hall. If you see a suitable blueprint, tell me.”

“Yes.”

“Little Fatty, you...”

After assigning the work, he only needed to wait for reports.

Lin Mu strengthened the harvester to a length of one hundred meters and waited for the resource crates in the sky to fall.

He wondered what resources would appear this time.

The yellow talisman paper and cinnabar from before had seemed completely useless to him.

Aside from being usable in poisonous mist, they were of no use at this stage.

In a team war, everyone was human. What was the point of using talismans?

As for the next batch, Lin Mu already had a guess. He just did not know what exactly they would provide.

Suspended missiles? Ship-mounted cannons? Or perhaps something else related to sea and air warfare.

A resource crate dropped to the ground, and the parachute attached to it vanished.

Under everyone’s gaze, Lin Mu extended the harvester and reached a point more than sixty meters away.

He then opened the crate with effortless ease.

Back in the earlier fog, those who came later did not know how Lin Mu had been opening the crates.

Now they knew.

The question that had puzzled them was finally answered.

Why did their “captain” keep obtaining so many crates and still remain perfectly fine?

How could anything happen?

When a person was standing that far away, how could anything happen?

Congratulations on opening a bronze resource crate. You obtained 80 packs of 500 grams of beef, 400 bottles of mineral water, and 1,200 universal rifle rounds.

Congratulations on opening a bronze resource crate. You obtained 400 universal shotgun rounds, 200 copper ingots, and 1,200 universal rifle rounds.

“...”

The resources in the crates along this street contained all kinds of things.

But the indispensable item was ammunition.

It could be said that as long as it was a crate, whether gold or wooden, ammunition was guaranteed to be inside.

Bullets had become the essential item this time.

Lin Mu was speechless. Wasn’t this the kind of thing one was supposed to make oneself? Could there really still be people without bullets?

Still, thinking about it, it made sense. He himself had not obtained many bullet blueprints either.

Maybe they could still be found very early on, but not anymore.

He had no use for so many bullets. Better to sell them.

But before selling them, he still needed to understand the market.

He picked up the walkie-talkie. “Jiang Ying, check the bullet trading situation in the trading hall.”

“Shu Yi, look at the chat channel and see what kinds of weapons everyone has. Also inquire around in the regional channel. The rest of you help out by posing as buyers in the regional channel.”