[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-sequence-highway-survival-i-upgrade-supplies-in-":3,"chapter-sequence-highway-survival-i-upgrade-supplies-in--sequence-highway-survival-i-upgrade-supplies-in--chapter-453":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Sequence Highway Survival: I Upgrade Supplies in the Apocalypse",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},560741,811,"Chapter 454: How to Stay Alive","sequence-highway-survival-i-upgrade-supplies-in--chapter-453",453,"\u003Cp>The Monster Pickup Truck's onboard electronic control system had reached the point where it had to be upgraded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant the vehicle's lighting system flashed on earlier, the reaction from those Anomalies made it clear that the lights affected them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps the emergence of Eternal Night had caused these Anomalies to appear in large numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light exerted a certain suppressive effect on them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, the truck's power had been exhausted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had not known before that light affected the Anomalies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that this weakness was known, of course it should be exploited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they wanted to fully charge the vehicle and increase their chances of surviving the third Anomaly Tide, they needed to act.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were currently two plans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second: upgrade the solar charging system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Start with the first plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Get the car started and use it to charge the vehicle battery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if they did that, another problem would arise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There wasn't much gasoline left in the tank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if they traded that gasoline for electricity, it probably wouldn't buy much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, that fuel had to be preserved for the upcoming migration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If, later on, Chen Ye and the others—if they could leave this Sea of Trees—and had no fuel, that would be a huge problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Old Schemer Chu Che probably had some stockpiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that's a different matter; distant water cannot put out a nearby fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, that did not mean there was no solution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ye turned his gaze to the ordinary people who were working.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Monster Pickup Truck had another ability, an ability that had triggered passively a few times, but he had never used it actively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Lina had already started organizing the civilians to sweep all the leaf litter around the camp clean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because supplies had been replenished, and according to convoy rules, whatever supplies someone received belonged to that person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, many ordinary survivors had received extra goods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So happy smiles beamed from everyone’s faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching those happy smiles...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ye slowly looked away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ye was a complicated man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was neither a pure good nor a pure evil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, when there had been infighting in the vehicle, Chen Ye had mercilessly shoved the troublemakers into the leaf litter, not even bothering to ask who had started it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his view, there had been three people at the door, any of whom could have been responsible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without asking, he shoved all three down into the leaf litter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had his reasons for doing so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, to intimidate others who might get ideas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, to test the reaction of the newly minted Superhuman Xu Lina.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, seeing the leaf litter layer seemed not to be dangerous, he had even let others go down there for experiments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Chen Ye's mind, those actions were unavoidable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone had to take these risks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If ordinary people wouldn't do it, should a Superhuman go?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could always find a suitable justification for what he did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the justification was a bit strained, a bit brutal, or unreasonable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was still a reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To Tang Le Le, Chen Ye had once been a bad man because he had taken her Ideal Grain Seeds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, Chen Ye had given her a Wonder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he became the best person in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And to the pregnant woman left in Divine Elephant Village, Chen Ye was also a good person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without him, she and the child in her belly would have died long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to many others, Chen Ye was an utter villain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like Mo Huairen at the beginning, later Wu Jianshan, and many more...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To his convoy teammates, Chen Ye was considered not bad, a fairly reliable companion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now Chen Ye wished, more than anything, that a truly monstrous, everyone-hates-him villain would suddenly appear...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the Monster Pickup Truck could swallow that person up without him having to bear any psychological burden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ye let out a faint sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following Chu Che and Chen Hao, his moral standards were rapidly improving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enough, the first plan was set aside for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps that method was useless for someone like him who had not yet fully rotten to the core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He really couldn't bring himself to do that without any legitimate reason...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now for the second plan: the possibility of upgrading the solar charging system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given the Eternal Night situation, there was only a little daylight at noon each day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Getting the solar panels to an ideal charging state under these conditions would be difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But having the System made it not completely impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, Chen Ye currently had enough Slaughter Points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those last few minutes of frenzied killing at the end of the second Anomaly Tide had replenished some of his Slaughter Points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he chose the second plan, Chen Ye mentally summarized the points that needed to be accomplished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second plan, point one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First repair the solar charging panel on top of the vehicle's hood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The solar panel had been smashed earlier and had not been repaired until now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had not been able to use it before, so it had been postponed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second plan, point two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daylight now was dim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was not completely dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they wanted charging under such conditions, they first had to improve the solar panel's efficiency under low-light conditions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just this alone would likely cost a fair amount of Slaughter Points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second plan, point three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If merely upgrading the solar panel's low-light conversion efficiency wasn’t enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently the Monster Pickup Truck's solar panels were only the portion on the hood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That surface area was still too small; even if conversion efficiency improved, it would still be insufficient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had to increase the area of the solar panels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, the roof of the cargo bed offered a large area to use, even more than twice the size of the hood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, expanding the solar panel area was urgent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second plan, point four.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the issue of the vehicle battery's storage capacity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, the Monster Pickup Truck combined with the battery from the former chopped pepper fish head, plus the early two-kilowatt outdoor charging station they had swapped in, only amounted to around twelve kilowatt-hours of capacity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few minutes ago, they had drained the remaining four or five kilowatt-hours completely in just minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that rate, twelve kilowatt-hours would only last about the same length of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At most, not more than ten minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one knew what the next Anomaly Tide would be like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So no preparation could be considered excessive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Che had written in the captain's notebook a first entry about the Anomalies that fully explained their characteristics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically, the third Anomaly Tide would definitely be worse than the first and second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To survive the third Anomaly Tide, they needed to use everything available.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if light did not deliver lethal damage to the Anomalies, it was still worth upgrading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, the Monster Pickup Truck needed repair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the second Anomaly Tide had not breached the vehicle's interior, it had inflicted considerable damage to the chassis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Urgent repairs were required to restore the truck's previous rigidity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ye's mind kept weighing pros and cons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He calculated how, with the Slaughter Points he had and the limited time, he could guarantee survival.\u003C\u002Fp>",1214,"2026-05-30T15:16:55.252Z","2026-06-01T04:31:34.172Z",1,"novelbin.me","2b8bfac4c117c38918c200013edc93352b04fbd9247ebb660eb9f73cc9f5920d","sequence-highway-survival-i-upgrade-supplies-in--chapter-454","sequence-highway-survival-i-upgrade-supplies-in--chapter-452",465,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsequence-highway-survival-i-upgrade-supplies-in--cover.jpg"]