Ye Fan didn't really like these survivors.
The first time they went upstairs, Brother Zhao and his people were already lying in ambush. But these survivors, under the pressure of the other side's tyranny, didn't dare to speak up.
If even one person had said something, Wang Hu and Qian Xiaobing might not have gotten injured.
Still, Ye Fan could understand to some extent.
Facing a life threat, you can't expect these survivors to perform heroic feats.
But Ye Fan still didn't like them. He wouldn't kill indiscriminately, but he wouldn't bother with these annoying people either.
He simply didn't deal with them at all, picked up his stuff, and ran.
Actually, there was a lot of food in that supermarket that Ye Fan wanted to bring out, but he had to give up the idea for now due to the lack of suitable vehicles.
All the way back upstairs, Ye Fan placed the supply crate on the ground.
A square wooden box, to others, it would seem like an empty box with nothing inside.
But as a special Red Alert Unit, the secrets inside were not something ordinary people could detect.
However, Ye Fan didn't open the box immediately but looked towards Xu Haoran and Xiaotian.
Regarding the star promotion of Red Alert Soldiers, Ye Fan could see a progress bar above their heads after he was promoted to squad leader, visible only to him.
Xu Haoran was created with 500 Gold; for his first star promotion, he needed to kill units worth 1500 Gold.
A single zombie is worth only ten Gold, and he hadn't killed even one. It seemed like star promotion would take a long time, but Ye Fan saw his progress bar move.
It advanced about a tenth, which is a progress of 150 Gold.
"Xu Haoran, what's going on with your progress?"
"Report, sir. I killed three people, each ordinary person is worth fifty Gold, equivalent to half a Conscript, so I earned 150 Gold in progress."
"Oh! Even non-zombies have value."
Ye Fan made a new discovery. The value of one person is equal to five times that of an ordinary zombie.
Nonetheless, Ye Fan still didn't intend to go on a killing spree. Killing might be justified, but only for bad people.
Having checked Xu Haoran's upgrade progress, he found Xiaotian's progress was faster, already over half.
But since Xiaotian couldn't speak, Nana explained to Ye Fan.
"Sir, the value of that mutant dog is 500 Gold, so Xiaotian's star promotion progress is faster."
Ye Fan nodded. He originally thought more advanced soldiers had a harder time with star promotion, but it seemed not too difficult if done the right way.
His eyes fell back onto the supply crate: "Can I open the box now?"
"Yes, sir. When you think of opening it, it can automatically open."
"Open!"
Ye Fan silently said in his heart, and the wooden box disappeared.
"What's going on? Is it an empty box?"
Ye Fan was a bit worried. In games, supply crates could often be empty. Had he worked so hard only to get an empty one?
"Sir, in the real world, supply crates are never empty."
"That's good, so what did I get? I haven't seen it yet?"
"Congratulations, sir. You've acquired an armed mining vehicle. Since it can't be stored indoors, the truck has been placed downstairs."
"What? An armed mining vehicle!"
Ye Fan was taken aback.
If he remembered correctly, the Qin and Han States' mining vehicle wasn't this type; it was a Chrono Miner.
In the entire game, mining vehicles are divided into two types: Chrono and Armed.
The Chrono Miner's characteristic is its fast movement; after collecting gold or gem minerals, it can instantly return to the mining site to unload the ores.
This saves transportation time but has a downside — no weaponry.
When encountering the opponent's armed mining vehicle, it's easy to be blasted by the opponent's mounted machine gun.
The Armed Mining Vehicle, on the other hand, is the Rakshasa Army's mining equipment. It moves slightly slower, but it has advantages like thick armor comparable to tanks and being equipped with a mounted machine gun.
This vehicle is difficult for a single soldier to contend with and can even overwhelm single infantry units.
"Nana, the Armed Mining Vehicle isn't one of our nation's combat units, is it?"
"That's correct, sir. In our production sequence, we can only construct domestic combat units, but there is an exception — the supply crate acquisition."
"The contents of a supply crate appear randomly, meaning special units from all over the world might appear in the supply crate. So, if you want to obtain foreign combat units, sir, please collect more supply crates."
Ye Fan understood immediately. Right, in the game, supply crates also randomly give items; this hasn't changed.
But the problem is, having just one mining vehicle isn't practically useful because, primarily, Ye Fan doesn't know where valuable mineral veins are.
Even if he finds a mineral vein and collects ore, there is no mining site to smelt the ore into Money.
So doesn't this mining vehicle lose its greatest purpose?
With doubts, Ye Fan decided to go downstairs to take a look.
Downstairs, not only was his Tiger there, but now there was an additional armed mining vehicle to inspect carefully.
Looking back at the Red Alert Soldiers staying indoors, Ye Fan realized that his number of Red Alert Soldiers had unknowingly reached eleven, plus a military dog.
Including himself, it's twelve people and a dog.
"Everyone, follow me downstairs and take a look. I think it's about time for us to leave too."
Initially, Ye Fan planned to have a squad and leave here once promoted to squad leader, which now seems about right.
Everyone followed Ye Fan and went downstairs together.
Downstairs, the first thing Ye Fan saw was his Tiger.
It was Ye Fan's first time seeing a real Tiger jeep, and moreover, a military one.
All green, with two front wheels and four rear wheels.
The tire height was nearly a meter, and the chassis was at least forty centimeters off the ground.
There was a driver's seat in the front, a co-driver's seat, a long bench in the middle, and then two rows of vertical benches on the sides at the back.
Each long bench could seat three people, with a total capacity of eleven personnel.
The roof hatch opened significantly wide, with space for mounting a machine gun, although currently, it wasn't equipped.
The front also had a circle of crash-preventing steel beams, not only for protection but also for smashing zombies.
The largest Jeep he had seen before was a Hummer, but it was noticeably smaller than the Tiger.
"Not bad, this is my vehicle now."
Ye Fan nodded in satisfaction, looking around for the mining vehicle's whereabouts.
"Sir, it's parked on the side of the building, as the system scan shows it's out of others' sight there."
Every Red Alert Unit appears in a safe location, at least not visible to others.
Ye Fan immediately led the group over and was stunned when he saw the mining vehicle.
The Tiger, about two meters high, was already a huge vehicle, but compared to this mining vehicle, it looked like a toy.
With a height over three meters, the vehicle looked like a small building.
The cab area was entirely black, including the glass, so you couldn't see inside from outside.
The back was a huge dark yellow cargo compartment for carrying ores.
At a rough glance, this compartment was nearly four meters wide and over six meters long, at least twenty to thirty square meters, almost as big as his rental apartment.
The vehicle didn't have tires, only two long metal tracks.
Much like tank tracks, these ensure traversal over complex terrains like mining areas with ease.
Those aspects were nothing; the most important part was the cab.
A metal scoop, over three meters both in length and width, like a huge bulldozer blade, housed massive spinning metal blades inside for crushing ores within the mine.
On top, there was a protruding part, which Nana explained contained an anti-aircraft machine gun when the cover was opened.
This gun wasn't domestically produced, but from the Rakshasa Army, capable of hitting any target within 2000 meters, whether air or ground.
The gun came preloaded with 2000 rounds of machine gun ammo and three armor-piercing incendiary shells, reloading every 24 hours.
If the gun wasn't needed, it could be stored within the vehicle.
Weighing 35 tons, its top speed was 90 kilometers per hour, not too slow.
The only downside was its high fuel consumption. Its massive body and armor made it a fuel guzzler, needing 500 liters of diesel to fill its tank, more than double a regular large trailer's capacity.
Ye Fan stood there dumbstruck, looking at this colossal vehicle over eight meters long and more than three meters wide.
It looked like a toy in the game, but in reality, it was terrifyingly imposing.
If one had to define it, it was a combination of a giant shovel loader and a heavy-duty tracked truck.
Of course, an armed version.
"If it weren't for this apocalypse, I definitely wouldn't be able to afford this fuel guzzler."
Suddenly, Ye Fan realized this vehicle had come just at the right time.
With streets congested and vehicles hard to move, this vehicle was perfect for clearing roadblocks to drive out of the city.
The movable giant Metal Shovel could push aside or even crush any vehicles in the way.
He had been thinking about how to get home, and now finally, the time was ripe.