Ray bought a Mercedes G-Class.
It wasn't cheap—over 200 thousand dollars—but that wasn't the real expense. He hired specialists to modify it, spending another half a million.
The windows had to be replaced with bulletproof glass, and the tires had to be swapped out as well. In short, the vehicle needed to withstand hailstone impacts, because Ray planned to go out during the early stage of the apocalypse.
It would be dangerous, but he was still planning on going out for energy.
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