46: Chapter 46, A Light Kiss to Shen Wanbing, has been upgraded!

"Find a shelter." Chen Chen issued the command.

Shen Wanbing immediately focused her mind.

She pressed her finger against the concentration ice heart necklace on her collarbone and closed her eyes. Her God-tier Radar talent pushed its power to the maximum.

Information streams reorganized crazily in her mind.

"Five kilometers to the front right." She reported the coordinates, her speech extremely rapid. "There is a giant structure. It's not man-made; it's the skeleton of an ancient creature. The bone density is extremely high, and the internal space is large enough to accommodate the RV, capable of completely blocking the storm."

Chen Chen turned the steering wheel to the right.

The RV sped through the sky full of blood rain.

Five kilometers passed in the blink of an eye.

In the center of the storm, a suffocatingly massive hill of white bones rose from the ground.

It was the remains of an unknown giant beast. Even just the exposed ribs were each over twenty meters high and as thick as bridge piers.

The ribs were crisscrossed, forming a natural domed air-raid shelter.

The thirteen-and-a-half-ton mobile fortress plunged into the depths of the skeleton.

The skeleton overhead blocked the pouring blood rain, and the sound of corrosion was isolated outside.

Engine off.

Chen Chen took the mental shielding device out of his storage backpack.

The amethyst's faint light lit up, and an invisible force field expanded, completely cutting off the sanity erosion from outside.

Only the slight hum of the life-support system remained in the vehicle.

Shen Wanbing released her hand from the necklace.

The high-power operation of the radar made her complexion turn pale, and a layer of fine sweat seeped from her forehead.

She was just about to adjust the seat back to rest.

Chen Chen suddenly unbuckled his seatbelt and turned around.

He leaned over and pressed towards her directly.

His left hand pressed onto the co-pilot's control panel, while his right hand braced against the back of Shen Wanbing's seat.

This posture locked the billionaire CEO firmly between the man's broad chest and the seat.

There was nowhere to retreat.

"You overexerted yourself." Chen Chen stared into her eyes. His gaze was extremely aggressive.

"I'm fine. The necklace can restore it."

Shen Wanbing's back was pressed tightly against the leather seat, her breathing skipping a beat.

At such a close distance.

The intense male pheromones on Chen Chen, mixed with the slight scent of gunpowder from killing monsters earlier, crashed down upon her.

This was an extremely dangerous, yet extremely mesmerizing aura.

Shen Wanbing's thick iceberg disguise showed a fatal crack in this instant.

She was a businesswoman.

Businesspeople value equivalent exchange.

In these four days, Chen Chen had given her absolute protection, clean food, and this priceless mental power recovery necklace around her neck.

This was the principal.

What could she use to repay him?

The intelligence support from her Radar talent?

After this man displayed the mystery and strength to crush monsters, she knew clearly that her value was not irreplaceable.

Her most valuable bargaining chip was only herself.

What was more fatal was that she discovered she didn't resist it.

She was even... secretly looking forward to it.

In the Shen consortium, she was the high-and-mighty queen, having to remain clear-headed at all times to calculate every competitor.

That feeling of being high up and lonely, the tension, had suppressed her for six whole years.

But in this man's car.

She didn't need to make decisions, didn't need to weigh pros and cons.

The temptation of shedding all burdens and submitting to an absolute powerhouse was unexpectedly irresistible to her.

Chen Chen's gaze moved down, landing on her tightly bitten lower lip.

"Check your mental state."

His excuse was perfunctory to the extreme.

Shen Wanbing did not dodge.

Looking at this face so close at hand.

Her eyelashes trembled violently twice.

Subsequently, this unreachable high-mountain flower of the Jiangcheng business world slowly closed her eyes.

Her chin lifted slightly.

She took the initiative to meet Chen Chen's lips.

The iceberg melted, and the magma underneath was terrifyingly hot.

Chen Chen used one hand to cup the back of her head, deepening the kiss.

His other hand slid down, wrapping around her slender waist, lifting her entire body from the seat and pressing her tightly against himself.

Outside the carriage, the bloody storm raged crazily, lashing against the white bones of the ancient giant beast.

Inside the carriage, the temperature was a constant twenty-four degrees.

In the back row, Shen Wanxing saw this scene, her cheeks turning bright red; she immediately turned around and covered her ears with her hands.

Jiang Yanxue leaned against the armor wall, curled her lip, and pulled a military green blanket over her head, choosing not to see it.

A full five minutes passed.

Shen Wanbing leaned against Chen Chen's shoulder, panting.

Her high-end professional suit was in disarray, the tear in the collar was even larger, and an alluring flush appeared on her snow-white skin.

The coldness in her eyes had vanished, leaving only a pool of spring water.

The system prompt exploded in Chen Chen's mind right on time.

[Ding! Detected a major breakthrough in the relationship with a confidante!]

[Shen Wanbing's bond progress has broken through to Lv.4 (Current progress 12%)!]

[Confidante exclusive entry evolved!]

[[Daily Supply Blind Box] has advanced to [Silver-grade · Supply Crate]!]

[Evolution effect: Guaranteed to produce Silver-grade or higher survival items, rare blueprints, or high-tier special materials daily. The output ignores the current area level restrictions.]

Chen Chen looked at the golden text jumping on his retina.

Ignores area level restrictions.

This meant that even if he stayed in a Level 1 hunting ground, he could potentially open top-tier resources from a Level 3 or even Level 4 hunting ground.

This investment paid off handsomely.

He lowered his head, looking at Shen Wanbing in his arms, who was still catching her breath.

His thumb wiped away the moisture from the corner of her mouth.

"Keep the necklace on." Chen Chen's voice sounded exceptionally deep in the warm air.

"The road ahead still depends on you to guide."

Shen Wanbing didn't look up, only burying her face in the crook of his neck and letting out a very soft "Mm."

Completely won over.

...

The bloody storm raged crazily outside the white bones of the ancient giant beast.

The dark red corrosive rainwater pounded against the skeleton, making a "hissing" sound.

But by the time this noise reached the interior of the Lv.10 mobile heavy-duty RV, only an extremely slight white noise remained.

Chen Chen released his hand.

Shen Wanbing slumped back into the leather passenger seat.

She gasped for air, her stunning 36E curves heaving violently.

The collar of her high-end professional suit was completely ruined, and conspicuous red marks were printed on her snow-white skin.

She didn't look up at Chen Chen, just kept her head down, her fingers frantically trying to gather the torn fabric together.

"We'll camp here tonight."

Chen Chen calmed his heart and turned around, pressing the button on the control panel.

The amethyst's faint light of the mental shielding device lit up, and an invisible force field expanded, completely stabilizing the space under this bone dome.

Sitting in the driver's seat, Chen Chen opened the regional chat channel.

More than half a day had passed since the Polar Night ended. Of the original one million people in District 069, the number of survivors was now stuck at just over seven hundred and ten thousand.

The rate of death had slowed, but the resentment and despair in the channel were skyrocketing exponentially.

A large number of fast-moving players had already followed the exhaust of the first echelon and rushed out of the boundaries of the novice area.

The exits of different routes dumped these survivors into completely different meat grinders.

"Help! What kind of place is this! The grass on the ground is grown from iron wire, and the tree trunks are all rusted gears! My car had only driven two kilometers in when a ten-meter-long mechanical centipede cut the chassis!"

"To the person above, that's the Mechanical Graveyard! Don't drive forward; the monsters there are all mutated from inorganic matter, their physical defense is ridiculously high, and bullets don't even leave a dent!"

"The Mechanical Graveyard is nothing! The path I entered is called the Foggy Swamp! One breath of the green mist and my sanity drops by five points! The bugs crawling out of the water have human faces and can mimic my wife's voice to call my name! I'm going crazy!"

"Is there anyone in the Flesh Wasteland? The ground is soft and seeping blood. I just saw a mountain of flesh eating its own kind, it's so disgusting, I even threw up yesterday's leftovers."

Chen Chen quickly scanned through these messages, his brain rapidly building a sandbox model of the Level 1 map.

It was worth noting that based on the current feedback, there were at least three Level 1 maps: Mechanical Graveyard, Foggy Swamp, and Flesh Wasteland.

Each map's disaster attributes were completely different.

The Mechanical Graveyard focused on high physical defense and inorganic pollution; the Foggy Swamp was a disaster zone for mental toxins;

And the Flesh Wasteland he was currently in was extreme flesh-and-blood distortion and corrosion.

Risks and rewards are always equal.

Although the Flesh Wasteland was disgusting, the [High-tier Distortion Cartilage] dropped by the monsters here was exactly the most scarce core material for the current A-grade RV external armor blueprint.

Chen Chen closed the channel, very satisfied with his choice.