Chapter 217: The Road to the Nature Reserve

Based on this reasoning, Joo Joowon chose the direction of the nature reserve. If it came down to which area could provide the most experience, then there was no doubt that the resource rich nature reserve would firmly occupy the top spot.

Moreover, there should still be some mutated beasts that had survived inside the nature reserve despite being surrounded and attacked by zombies.

Joo Joowon did not know whether the meat of these beasts would contain poison or not, but even if it did, it would undoubtedly be less poisonous than zombie meat.

Perhaps eating enough of it might even help increase his level?

Joo Joowon still did not know exactly how mutated beasts leveled up. If they did not gain levels through experience points, then they must simply rely on energy. Compared to ordinary food, mutated beasts would certainly contain a considerable amount of energy.

This could be seen from the fact that the cactus had chosen to take root in the body of the mutated rat instead of choosing the soil. In this way, even if Byeol and Hwi did not eat the bodies of the mutated beasts, they would not go to waste. At the very least, they could still be used as flower fertilizer.

In short, as long as safety was not being considered, everything would naturally revolve around leveling up as the top priority. Because of this, the direction of the nature reserve was naturally more suitable.

The nature reserve did not allow tourists to enter, so the traffic in this area was relatively light. It was considered one of the quieter areas around Sabi City. Even so, successfully driving the wheel loader all the way there was by no means an easy journey.

The noise produced by the wheel loader after it started made Byeol keep his ears pressed down. The zombies attracted by the sounds coming from the wheel loader seemed endless. If the wheel loader had not been moving at a fairly decent speed, it would have inevitably been blocked and unable to make any progress.

Even so, the large mass of zombies densely following behind the wheel loader looked extremely frightening. However, Joo Joowon did not clear them out in advance this time, to avoid making the group grow even larger.

At the moment, these zombies were not important. He was more worried about encountering an elite monster or a boss along the way and being surrounded by them. Therefore, he did not intend to waste his mental power on ordinary monsters for now, simply allowing them to chase after him.

Under these circumstances, the commotion naturally became quite loud. Some survivors were alerted by the noise and cautiously looked outside through their windows to investigate what was happening that could make the zombies howl one after another.

After all, apart from the very first day when the apocalypse had descended, the zombies had actually been quite quiet during the following days.

When they could not see any living people, they would not casually start howling. The entire world had fallen into an indescribable silence.

After all, the players were not idiots. It had already been several days since the apocalypse began, so there was no way they would still shout loudly and foolishly court death whenever they saw zombies outside.

Everyone was desperately trying to minimize their presence. When they cautiously poked their heads out to look, they immediately saw the wheel loader charging recklessly ahead without any restraint, along with the large number of zombies trailing behind it.

They could not help but widen their eyes in shock.

"Holy crap! That’s awesome!"

There was no doubt that such a scene was shocking. A wheel loader standing three or four meters tall could charge through the streets with tremendous force, and no ordinary car could possibly stand against it.

Even when several cars had crashed into one another and become tangled together, the wheel loader could still force its way straight through the middle. Not only would the wheel loader remain completely fine, but the cars surrounding it would instead be flipped over one after another.

During this process, it was not as though no zombies had tried to jump onto the wheel loader. They were afraid of such a massive machine, knowing that a single crushing impact could easily grind them to death. However, no matter how fast such a huge machine could move, it could not be fast enough to make them completely retreat. After all, they were not incapable of dodging.

They also understood very clearly that their only opponent was Joo Joowon sitting inside the driver’s cab. As long as they could jump inside, how could a single human possibly be their opponent?

This kind of thinking was extremely common among high level zombies. When killing ordinary people, they really were no different from chopping vegetables. They had hardly ever encountered anyone truly difficult to deal with.

The few zombies that had encountered such tough opponents had already been completely killed. How could they possibly have had the chance to send word back and warn the others?

However, Joo Joowon’s wheel loader was moving very quickly. He did not care about damaging the vehicle at all. Scraping against things, collisions, and other kinds of damage did not matter to him. After all, he had never intended to use the wheel loader for a long time.

As long as it could carry him to his destination before being completely wrecked, that was enough.

At such a reckless speed, even when zombies tried to jump onto the vehicle, they would often lose their grip and fall back down. Not to mention that Joo Joowon was not completely ignoring the zombies outside either.

Whenever one of them really managed to climb up, he would immediately take action and throw it back down.

Joo Joowon understood that at a time like this, the most important thing to avoid was letting the engine stall and stopping the vehicle.

Once he stopped, getting the wheel loader started again would be much more difficult than it had been earlier.