Watch closely, I will only demonstrate this once.

After finishing his pleasant thoughts, Liu Yang got up, washed up, and prepared to begin today's operation.

Today's mission was to gather more food.

The potatoes collected from the supermarket had basically all been handed over to Scar Rat for distribution.

Currently, what remained in Liu Yang's dark space were other foodstuffs such as rice and sweet potatoes.

Although there was still a lot left, Liu Yang was a man with a deep sense of crisis.

He believed that the number of people in his survivor base would only increase in the future, and no amount of food would ever be truly enough.

Moreover, before the agricultural planting system was fully established, the food source needed by the survivors still relied on scavenging.

As for crops, even if they were planted right now, it would take several months before they could be harvested.

Therefore, these few months had to be sustained by relying on existing supplies.

Once the crops planted by the survivors entered the right track in the later stages, there would be no need to go out scavenging for food.

Because 20% of the profits earned by the survivors had to be turned in; the more survivors there were, the wealthier Liu Yang would become!

By that time, all he needed to do was to build the survivor base better and attract more survivors to seek refuge under him.

...

The major supermarkets within a radius of five kilometers had already been thoroughly looted by Liu Yang last time.

Liu Yang decided to expand the radius to twenty kilometers.

He would clear out all supermarkets, grocery stores, and convenience stores within a twenty-kilometer range.

At the same time, Liu Yang remembered that there was a wholesale market fifteen kilometers away.

In the past, when he was poor, he used to go hunting for bargains at the wholesale market to save money.

That wholesale market traded in all kinds of goods.

Aside from daily necessities, there were staple foods such as rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, and wheat flour. There were also various seasonings like cooking oil, salt, and monosodium glutamate.

There was even cat food, dog food, and chicken feed.

Liu Yang decided to clean the place out entirely today as well.

As for the situation back at his residential compound, Liu Yang no longer had to worry at all. Not only was the gate guarded by a Level 2 zombie under his control, but he could also share its vision at any time to check on the front gate.

Originally, he had controlled two Level 2 zombies; now, one was placed at this residential compound, and the other was stationed at the survivor base on Scar Rat's side. This way, he could keep abreast of the situation in both places at any moment.

Furthermore, there was the esper White Fox in the villa.

White Fox's superpower was infinite healing.

Even among espers, it was a relatively powerful ability.

The so-called abilities awakened by espers were not all combat-oriented.

Very few people were able to awaken combat abilities.

For instance, Yellow Dog and Scar Rat—the powers they awakened were practically useless.

One enhanced the nose, while the other enhanced tunneling capabilities.

Their basic attributes were merely double those of an ordinary person, and their abilities were basically useless in actual combat, making them no different from cannon fodder.

Therefore, it was probably not that easy to encounter an esper stronger than White Fox.

With her holding down the fort in the villa area, basically no one would dare to provoke them.

Thus, Liu Yang directly set off.

Although his target was the wholesale market a dozen kilometers away, he did not let go of the small grocery stores, mini-supermarkets, and convenience stores he encountered along the way. After all, even mosquito legs were meat, and even a tiny convenience store contained plenty of drinks, snacks, cigarettes, alcohol, and other items.

Anyway, Liu Yang's dark space was huge right now.

Useful or useless, anything could be stuffed inside.

Moreover, when retrieving items, he didn't need to search for them one by one; whatever he wanted to take out, with just a thought in his mind, the objects inside would drop out by themselves.

Hence, Liu Yang never checked whether an item was currently useful when collecting things. As long as it might come in handy later on, he took it all.

Just as Liu Yang was gathering supplies at a convenience store ten kilometers away from the villa area, he suddenly heard a noise coming from outside. Looking out through the window, he spotted three burly men carrying backpacks sneaking over.

Those three robust men were tall and sturdy, walking with steady and swift steps. At a glance, one could tell they had undergone rigorous training, reaching at least the level of retired special forces soldiers.

Liu Yang instantly became alert.

Soon, the three men dispatched a few blocking zombies along the way and entered the convenience store.

As soon as they stepped inside, the three burly men were instantly dumbfounded.

Because the convenience store was already completely empty.

Everything had vanished.

The only addition was a young man dressed entirely in black.

Their gazes instantly locked onto Liu Yang.

The leader among the robust men spoke with ill intent, "Kid, what did you do? Did you take everything in here?! Quick, tell us where you hid the goods! Hand them over, and I'll spare your life!"

They concluded that it was Liu Yang who had emptied out this place.

However, seeing that Liu Yang possessed a pitch-black katana, they did not dare to act rashly.

If they could force Liu Yang to submit through threats, they preferred not to resort to violence.

After all, although the opponent looked young, he exuded a strange aura that evoked a sense of dread.

Especially that pair of cold eyes.

It possessed a depth that seemingly shouldn't belong to someone of his age.

Hearing the burly man's words, Liu Yang simply smiled. "Do you know what happened to the last person who threatened me like that?"

Just as Liu Yang finished speaking, that indifferent smile still lingered on his face.

"Bang!"

A crisp sound echoed.

The head of the leading burly man exploded instantly.

A cloud of bloody mist burst across the ground.

The other two men standing beside him were scared out of their wits on the spot.

"Boss! Boss! Why did your head just blow up?!"

"What the hell? What is going on here? His head just exploded out of nowhere?! Who... who the hell are you! What did you do?!"

Fear filled the eyes of the two men as they looked at Liu Yang.

Never in their wildest dreams could they have imagined that Liu Yang had blown their boss's head off with just a single glance!

Liu Yang smiled and said, "Well then, watch carefully, I'll do it again."

"Bang!"

Another burly man's head exploded as he collapsed to the ground.

"Ah...?"

"Ahhhhh!!!"

"Big brother, I was wrong! Spare my life! Please spare my life!" The last remaining burly man collapsed to his knees instantly, completely breaking down.

In his eyes, Liu Yang was simply terrifyingly powerful, like the Grim Reaper himself, capable of making someone's head explode with just a look!

His crotch was already soaked through.

He had literally been scared to the point of pissing himself!

Liu Yang said with a cold sneer,

"Didn't you guys just say you wanted me to take you to where the food is hidden?

You assumed I hid the food, which means you must have food reserves yourselves, and that's why you thought I was like you—expecting me to take you to your hidden food stash. Otherwise, you two would have shared the exact same end as them."

"Y-Yes, yes, yes! Big brother, I'll take you there right now!" The burly man said, trying to crawl up from the ground, but his legs felt as soft as noodles and refused to stand straight no matter what.

Liu Yang kicked him squarely in the backside.

Only then did the burly man shudder violently and manage to stand up.

He led Liu Yang toward their sanctuary.

Following closely behind, Liu Yang arrived at a luxurious villa before long.

He hadn't expected these burly men to actually know how to enjoy themselves.

They had picked out a villa far more luxurious than Liu Yang's own, surpassing it by a considerable margin!

Clearly, the property prices in this villa district must have been much higher than the one Liu Yang lived in.

The people who used to live here were definitely mega-wealthy tycoons.

It was just a pity that these tycoons were either dead or had turned into zombies by now.