Previously appraising that red leather had cost 100 Slaughter Points.
For this willow branch, Chen Ye had already ntally prepared himself to spend another 100 Slaughter Points.
Though his heart was bleeding inside, Chen Ye still decided to proceed with the appraisal.
However, when the System showed it only required ten Slaughter Points, Chen Ye felt both disappointed and relieved.
The disappointnt ca from thinking sothing appraised for just ten points couldn't possibly be anything good.
The relief was because he'd only spent ten Slaughter Points.
The System quickly provided the answer.
[Item Na: Willow Branch of the Binding Resentnt Willow.]
[Type: Wonder Material, can be used to create Wonders.]
[Origin: This object is a willow branch cut from the Binding Resentnt Willow by an unknown nobody. The Binding Resentnt Willow has many such branches.]
[Evaluation: This object belongs to rare wonder materials, ordinary wonder material.]
So the great willow in Longevity Village was called the Binding Resentnt Willow.
The na was actually quite fitting.
Those corpse puppets hanging beneath the great willow were essentially resentful spirits.
Wait a minute!
What does it an by "unknown nobody"?
Could the System actually mock people?
When appraising the Flayed Ghost's Scalp before, the System had even provided an evaluation saying it could create Wonders within the top two thousand numbered ones.
But this ti, the System didn't give any such hint at all.
It seed the Willow Branch of the Binding Resentnt Willow was considerably inferior to the Flayed Ghost's Scalp.
Still, Chen Ye carefully stored away the Willow Branch of the Binding Resentnt Willow in the darkness.
Currently, the System still had an upgrade task in progress. He could only proceed with the next task after the System upgrade was complete.
The System could only handle one upgrade task at a ti; it couldn't conduct two upgrade tasks simultaneously.
On the other hand, tasks like appraisals or Q&A tasks—
those that the System could imdiately respond to—usually didn't occupy the System's upgrade slot.
If he wanted to upgrade the Wonder, he'd have to wait until after seven o'clock tomorrow morning.
Lighting a cigarette, the faint fla illuminated a small patch of light inside the vehicle canopy. The white pupil of his mutated left eye flickered faintly in the darkness.
Chen Ye's thoughts rapidly scattered.
One mont he thought about the ti before the apocalypse.
Before the apocalypse, Chen Ye had just been an ordinary person.
Going to work every day, coming ho, killing ti watching short videos when he had nothing to do...
The next mont he thought about the present.
Like this convoy, for instance.
The convoy's Captain Chu was a young man who appeared quite refined, but was actually stingy at heart, secretly drinking tea without wanting to share.
He was even a pervert who enjoyed using the Eavesdropping Radio to listen in on others' privacy.
Occasionally, he'd even get exposed by the Eavesdropping Radio and suffer social death.
Then there was that alcoholic high school student, the pink-haired long-legged beauty.
He hadn't realized before how alcohol-dependent this woman was. These past few days since she got her hands on liquor, she'd been drunk all the ti.
And then there was Iron Lion with his dual personality—usually just a simple, honest fellow, but becoming incredibly violent during fights, like a completely different person.
The scheming bitch Xu Lina, this woman overflowing with feminine charm—she definitely had her own little sches for getting close to him.
The overly righteous university student Xiao Fu—this guy looked like he wouldn't last long.
The self-righteous Zhou Xiaoxiao, and the mature, intellectual big celebrity Zhou Lan.
And then there was himself, the chain-smoker...
This convoy was really quite interesting, everyone had their own distinct personality.
The vision in his left eye was getting worse and worse; perhaps one day he'd go completely blind.
Having the Upgrade System, it should be possible to cure it, right?
As he thought and thought...
Chen Ye only felt his thoughts growing more and more muddled, his eyelids heavier and heavier...
Ti passed quickly.
Almost the instant the upgrade completed, Chen Ye opened his eyes.
He had been looking forward to this apocalyptic pickup truck for a long ti.
He had long been fed up with that tricycle.
If he could have gotten his hands on a four-wheeled car, Chen Ye would never have ridden a tricycle through the apocalypse.
Just lying inside the vehicle compartnt, Chen Ye sensed sothing different.
It wasn't that the vehicle had beco taller.
But rather, it had beco lower.
As if the vehicle had been placed directly on the ground.
Climbing out of the compartnt, the low temperatures from last night seed not to have existed at all.
A golden sun had replaced that eerie blood moon.
The morning sunlight each day also dispelled so of the apocalypse's gloom.
It seed that aside from Chu Che, everyone else in the convoy occasionally experienced this apocalypse illusion.
What Chen Ye saw before him now was a majestic and domineering apocalyptic pickup truck.
Even without wheels, it still displayed this vehicle's imposing presence.
At the ti, to save Slaughter Points, Chen Ye hadn't asked the System to help install the wheels.
Every little bit saved counted.
The chopped pepper fish head had a very short front end, almost like a minivan.
But now the front end was quite long.
Just like those popular rugged off-road vehicles on the market.
When designing this apocalyptic pickup truck, Chen Ye had designed a front engine compartnt.
The window sections had also been enlarged, sothing Chen Ye had deliberately done during the design phase.
The previously pieced-together vehicle canopy now seamlessly connected with the front section, looking completely harmonious.
Originally, to have sleeping space, Chen Ye had designed the tricycle's cargo bed very long, at least two and a half ters.
The chopped pepper fish head originally had a three-ter length. With the extended front engine compartnt, the entire vehicle now asured over four ters visually.
Plus the two-and-a-half-ter cargo bed.
The entire vehicle's length appeared to be six and a half ters.
Already longer than typical large off-road vehicles by a section.
Such a vehicle might be difficult to drive in the city.
But in this apocalyptic setting, it was perfectly suitable.
Chen Ye was quite stingy when spending Slaughter Points.
But once a task was confird, the System would complete it conscientiously.
Only the paint job looked sowhat ragged in places, with so spots revealing the original material beneath.
This was also a result of saving Slaughter Points.
Anyway, this was the apocalypse; even if the paint was ragged, it wouldn't affect survival.
This kind of vehicle better suited the apocalyptic backdrop.
Chen Ye couldn't be more satisfied with the apocalyptic pickup truck before him.
At least he wouldn't have to be the straggler anymore.
Next ca installing the four all-terrain tires.
These tires were taken from that previous Wrangler. One tire had been punctured, but after the upgrade, the System had repaired that tire too.
Chen Ye took the jack from the cargo bed and started installing the tires.
The jack lifted the vehicle into a slanted position, and Chen Ye simply hoisted the tires up to install them.
For his enhanced body, though not as exaggerated as Iron Lion's strength,
completing this work wasn't difficult.
Moreover, because the design was extrely minimalist, this vehicle—which didn't even have an engine installed yet—wasn't very heavy.
Just as he aligned the wheel hub and raised his hand, he saw a face that could shift between anger and delight standing beside him.
This face seed to have so light makeup applied, and she was wearing clean long sleeves, looking much better than last night when she'd been wrapped up like a zongzi.
This woman was none other than
the convoy's number one heartthrob, Xu Lina.
Xu Lina held a hexagonal socket in her hand, her voice sowhat hesitant as she said:
"Chen Ye, I... I saw you were overwheld..."
Chen Ye didn't wait for the woman to finish, taking the hexagonal socket from her and starting to install the screws.
What this woman was scheming, Chen Ye could naturally guess sowhat.
But if she thought she could beco his female lead, she was dreaming.
This was the apocalypse, and Chen Ye had no intention of dragging around dead weight during the end tis.
Even if this dead weight was extrely good-looking, Chen Ye wouldn't change his mind.
If danger arose, Chen Ye wouldn't mind using this pretty face as a sacrificial pawn once.
Xu Lina had no idea what Chen Ye was thinking, and she even felt sowhat happy that Chen Ye hadn't chased her away.
Only this hint of happiness was buried very deep within her.
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