After exercising and eating the lovingly prepared breakfast from Weiyi, Shen Muyu returned to her car.
She had a feeling that the organizers would pull some tricks during the last thousand kilometers, so it was better to keep an eye on things herself.
Along the way, Xiao A drove methodically, following the route given by the brick.
Aside from the resource boxes that were clearly visible, they didn't search carefully. Even when they encountered scattered zombies, they would simply speed through them.
Today's focus is on reaching the destination; the scattered crystal cores are no longer within their consideration.
There were no problems all morning, and most of the road was on the highway, so we drove more than 500 kilometers in just five hours.
During one stretch of extremely smooth and wide highway, the car almost flew off its feet. Shen Muyu, sitting in the driver's seat, silently gripped the handle above, while Zhan Yi, in the back, also tightly held onto his own rope.
"Isn't Xiao A a former active race car driver in Bayinbuluke?" Shen Muyu thought to himself, swallowing hard.
At this speed, eating in the car was definitely out of the question, so Shen Muyu had no choice but to set up a table behind the door of the dimensional space and quickly finish her meal. If anything happened in the car, she could simply push the door open and go back inside.
Fortunately, nothing went wrong during the meal, and lunch went smoothly.
"Ha..." Shen Muyu covered her mouth and yawned widely. It's easy to feel sleepy after a big lunch, and now she's come across a pebbly path.
The bumpy ride made Shen Muyu feel carsick, but luckily she had motion sickness medicine. After taking it, she felt less dizzy, but she was incredibly sleepy! The drowsiness was impossible to stop.
"Master, you should rest. Little A will carefully observe the surrounding situation," Little A said after Shen Muyu yawned again.
"Then I'll take a short nap. Wake me up in half an hour." Hearing this, Shen Muyu's head, which had been somewhat dazed, turned for a moment. Without refusing, she left a sentence and leaned back in her seat, falling asleep.
I haven't experienced this way of sleeping in a long time, and I didn't expect her to sleep so soundly.
However, her dream was only half-fulfilled when an emergency stop nearly threw Shen Muyu onto the steering wheel. The seatbelt also constricted her stomach, almost causing her to vomit after just having lunch.
"Master, a group of creatures is charging towards us." As soon as Xiao A finished speaking, Shen Muyu saw the yellow sand being trampled in front of him.
This place may have been a grassland before, but now the grass has obviously withered away, exposing the land beneath, with yellow sand spreading everywhere you go.
The gravel road the car was on was somewhat better, but the creatures ahead were clearly not going to follow the rules.
"Wow! So many cows!" Shen Muyu extended his mental energy and saw a herd of mutated cows charging towards him through the swirling yellow sand.
The cows were all skin and bones, which made their two sharp horns on their heads stand out even more. I reckon a single ram would leave two holes in them.
After putting down Zhan Yi, Shen Muyu climbed onto the control tower, while Xiao A drove the car to the back.
There must be at least several dozen mutated cows here. A head-on confrontation would be certain death. Moreover, these cows only have eyes for Shen Muyu and completely ignore Zhan Yi who is charging towards them.
"Fire, little A," Shen Muyu said, holding the laser weapon.
She had just tried it; none of these mutated cows had crystal cores, but their speed and strength had improved significantly, so she guessed that all the extra points had been put into their bodies.
Especially those sharp corners, Zhan Yi just tried to cut them off and couldn't at all; the enhanced laser sword could only leave a small dent on them.
Fortunately, his bones weren't that hard, and with a little effort, Zhan Yi could still cut off the bull's head, though it was rather inefficient.
It was only because the mutated bulls ignored it that it was able to survive; otherwise, given Zhan Yi's aggressive approach of charging directly into the herd, he probably would have been gored to death by one of the bulls.
Bang!
A shell landed in the middle of the cattle herd. Zhan had already run away after receiving the news, so only the cattle were injured.
The shells weren't very effective; only three or four cows lost their fighting ability, while the rest only paused briefly before charging forward again.
However, Shen Muyu's attack followed immediately. Taking advantage of the few seconds they paused, he shot out a laser beam, which pierced through the hard bull's skull.
This happened several times, and the original herd of cattle dwindled to just a few heads, but they still relentlessly charged at the vehicle, without slowing down much.
"What deep-seated hatred could they possibly have?" Shen Muyu complained as he fired laser beams, and in no time, he and Zhan Yi had finished off the remaining cows.
"Alright, Xiao A, let's continue towards our destination," Shen Muyu said after Zhan Yi got into the car.
Before that, she also took some time to change a tire on her car. After all, driving on gravel roads in this hot weather is really too hard on tires, and if she didn't change it, she might get a tire blowout soon.
"Yes, Master." Little A drove forward steadily again.
Zhan Yi had been fighting and collecting the remains of mutated bulls along the way, so there was nothing blocking his path on the way back.