The lightning fell in an instant, and the scene was truly terrifying!

"This is the full power of Reed..."

In that moment, Lucas felt a bit dazed, realizing that he had underestimated the evolvers in the post-apocalyptic world.

After the lightning appeared, illuminating the entire world, Lucas flew the drones to a farther location from the town square to prevent them from being affected. The massive, tentacled shadow on the square became even more indistinct.

Lucas knew that all he had to do now was wait for Reed's lightning attack to stop before making his move.

Regardless of the situation, Lucas would detonate the suicide drones on that massive shadow without hesitation.

Since he had taken action, he had to give it his all.

The thunderous sound of dense lightning was deafening, striking various objects upon landing and sparking countless flames.

The flammable objects in the town quickly caught fire, transforming the sparks into a towering inferno.

Strange and eerie sounds reached Lucas's ears one after another, whether they were the sounds of beetles or powerful infected creatures.

"Reed, it's almost time!"

Lucas shouted loudly into the radio, repeating it several times, and began controlling the drones to slowly approach the town square.

At this moment, the lightning controlled by Reed gradually weakened, indicating that it couldn't be sustained for much longer.

Lucas wasn't sure about the power of the suicide drones. In theory, things made from yellow-grade materials shouldn't fall short at this stage.

Over a minute passed, and just as Lucas's ears were ringing from the thunder, the last lightning disappeared from the sky.

"Reed, take cover quickly!"

He shouted into the radio and controlled the suicide drones to move towards the town square at the fastest speed.

The cameras were locked onto the massive figure, ready for the suicide attack.

Reed's lightning might not have harmed the beetles, but the things on the square were definitely safe.

By now, the central area of the entire town was engulfed in a massive fire, and waves of intense heat surged towards the outskirts. Lucas could feel himself being scorched.

A minute later, the suicide drones accelerated one last time, descending rapidly from the sky and crashing into the colossal shadow.

It was at this moment that Lucas finally saw the appearance of the infected creature.

It resembled a snake, with part of its body coiled up and more than a dozen heads.

But those heads seemed to lack eyes, noses, and other features, except for a large mouth.

In just a few seconds, Lucas saw one of the heads spew out a beetle from its mouth.

The beetle was immediately thrown into the nearby flames, but it quickly flew out and crawled to an area without fire, where it roared at the giant monster.

"What on earth is this thing?"

Amidst Lucas's confusion, the suicide drones collided with the infected creature.

Boom!

When the suicide drones collided with the infected creature, the screen on the control panel went completely black.

A sound louder than the previous lightning resonated.

The building beneath Lucas collapsed abruptly. His feet slipped, and his entire body fell, plummeting at high speed.

"Such immense power?!"

In that moment, Lucas felt as if the whole town was collapsing.

With only a bright light before his eyes, he instantly lost his vision.

In reality, given Lucas's current physical condition, it was practically impossible for him to be injured from such a fall. But he forgot that he was no longer an ordinary person...

Realizing that he was about to hit the ground, Lucas became frightened and wanted to shout.

Slap!

In his temporary blindness, Lucas felt that he hadn't fallen to the ground but had been caught by a pair of hands.

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Those hands were soft...

And the body holding him was also soft...

"A woman?"

After ten seconds, when Lucas's vision recovered, he found himself being held horizontally by someone.

That person was none other than the mute girl.

Lucas raised his head and saw the mute girl looking at him with dull eyes.

"Hey!"

Forcing a smile, Lucas felt a bit awkward, not knowing what to say.

Acting as if everything was fine, Lucas immediately climbed out of the mute girl's embrace and pressed a few buttons on his watch, summoning the bus parked outside the town to quickly approach his location.

The fiery glow from the explosion of the drones still lingered in the sky.

Lucas underestimated the bomb's power from the suicide drones. If he had known, he wouldn't have let them explode so close to him.

Over a minute later, the bus appeared in front of Lucas, speeding toward him, ramming through obstacles along the way.

Together with the mute girl, Lucas boarded the bus and set the route. His attention was now solely focused on the Avenger Gatling Cannon.

The bus's force field was activated, making it nearly impenetrable.

When the first beetle appeared in front of the bus, the Avenger Gatling Cannon on the roofcontinuously fired, turning the beetle into a pile of mush.

Boom boom boom--

Three shots, and the first beetle was completely destroyed.

At this moment, Lucas was actually very nervous!

If that huge infected creature activated its abilities and paralyzed the bus, turning him into a walking corpse, he couldn't imagine the consequences.

Time was running out, and he had to reach it before the huge infected creature regained consciousness from the explosion of the suicide unmanned aerial vehicle.

After all, the suicide drone was only at the yellow level, and although the explosion seemed exaggerated, Lucas didn't believe that a weapon of yellow level could kill the huge infected creature.

Perhaps the recurve knife on his back was Lucas's final trump card.

Boom boom boom--

Lucas showed no restraint as he unleashed the bullets from the Avenger cannon, showering the beetles as if they were worthless.

Wherever the bus went, flesh and blood scattered around.

Lucas glanced at the navigation system, and the straight-line distance to the location of the huge infected creature was only fifty meters.

Fortunately, Lucas was lucky. The area around the bus was engulfed in flames, conveniently blocking the view of the huge infected creature; otherwise, he would have been discovered long ago.

Three minutes later, Lucas could already see the massive body of the infected creature.

Occupying two-thirds of the entire square, its size made Lucas feel as if he was facing a small mountain peak.

Indeed, whether it was Reed's lightning or the suicide drones, they didn't cause any harm to the huge infected creature.

Of course, it wasn't a complete failure. One of the heads of the giant serpent-like monster had been blown off!

The coiled body of the massive infected creature finally noticed the bus, and several heads roared angrily towards it.

If Lucas hadn't isolated the external sounds in the bus, he would have been overwhelmed by the deafening roars.

Boom boom boom--

The muzzle of the Avenger cannon was aimed at the huge infected creature, and the bullets formed a continuous line of fire.

This was also the first time Lucas used the Avenger cannon's rapid-fire mode. Judging by the remaining bullets, it would only last for about twenty seconds.

While Lucas strafed the huge infected creature, the surrounding beetles surged towards the bus like a tide but were blocked outside by an air barrier.

Although the air barrier couldn't repel the yellow-level beetles, they couldn't break through it for the time being.

Apart from the fact that it consumed a considerable amount of fuel, the air barrier was actually quite effective.

Click click--

The bullets from the Avenger cannon were finally depleted.

The body of the huge infected creature in front of the bus was riddled with bullet holes, and blood flowed out.

Lucas examined them closely and noticed that the bullet holes were not deep. The massive infected creature had yet to suffer any substantial damage.

Jamming grenades!

Without hesitation, Lucas pressed the jamming grenade switch.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh--

In the blink of an eye, dozens of small missiles with long smoke trails shot out from the square metal box on the roof of the bus, heading towards the body of the huge infected creature.

Naturally, Lucas didn't believe that the jamming grenades would harm the huge infected creature; instead, he was buying himself some time.

Immediately after firing the jamming grenades, Lucas climbed onto the roof of the bus.

The mute girl also followed, unable to be driven away no matter what.

Glancing at the mute girl, Lucas felt helpless. The entrance setting for this beautiful female robot was to protect him.

Under this premise, she would make her own choices.

Buzz—

As Lucas saw himself about to fall onto the enormous infected body, he suddenly heard a strange sound, as if it was ringing inside his head.

In an instant, Lucas felt his vision blur and his body lost awareness...

"Oh no!"

Lucas didn't even have time to think about what was happening before he lost all sensation.

"Huh!"

Just before completely losing consciousness, Lucas first heard a soft voice, and then, from the corner of his eye, he saw a figure "flying" past him, taking away the recurve knife he had in his hand.

Darkness descended, and Lucas's body fell heavily to the ground, but he had no reaction whatsoever. He lay facedown on the ground, looking no different from a lifeless body.

Lucas saw the person who "flew," and at this moment, who else could it be besides the mute girl!

When Lucas shouted for the mute girl to jump off the car earlier, she did indeed jump off, but in the direction of the enormous infected body.

Because she was behind Lucas, her jump was slightly slower than his.

It was precisely because of this slight delay that as Lucas lost consciousness due to the infected body's supernatural ability and plummeted downward, the mute girl, who had just jumped into the air, happened to throw away the dual knives in her hands, snatch the recurve knife from Lucas, and land on the enormous infected body.

Her graceful body bounced several times upon landing on the enormous infected body, and in the blink of an eye, she leaped onto the largest head.

The recurve knife was raised high and struck down fiercely, piercing into the head.

Raised again, and struck!

Several consecutive cycles.

A mighty roar echoed between heaven and earth!

Blood sprayed out like a fountain from the knife wounds on the head, dyeing the mute girl red.

The entire body of the enormous infected being violently writhed, and all the other heads opened their mouths and fiercely bit at the mute girl.

The chaotic and disordered biting made it a bit difficult for the mute girl to dodge. Although she wasn't bitten by the large mouths of those heads, she was hit hard several times.

It should be noted that the mute girl's current physical strength was only at the red level, and being struck by the orange-level enormous infected being's head caused her to immediately spit out some transparent liquid from her mouth, and one of her shoulders also collapsed slightly.

Finally, she was horizontally struck by another head and sent flying backward. The mute girl's body was thrown out and fell from the air.

The mute girl crashed heavily onto the ground, her back sinking in a bit, and she made a faint sound from her mouth, once again spitting out a mouthful of transparent liquid.

At this moment, the mute girl noticed that Lucas was lying less than ten meters away from her. She stared at him with dull eyes for three to five seconds, then propped herself up with one hand, her shoulder slumped, and her body moving in a very uncoordinated manner as she ran towards Lucas...

The huge infected body continued to frenzy as its important heads were under attack.

The dozen or so heads stopped attacking the mute girl and began howling at the sky.

The mute girl ran to Lucas's side, intending to lift him up again, just like before.

But as soon as she reached out, her body made crackling sounds, and her expression became even more blank.

Her hand had just touched Lucas when her entire body suddenly froze, like a statue, kneeling beside Lucas with one foot, maintaining the motion of trying to lift him up.

At this moment, the card specifically used to communicate with the mute girl, which was on Lucas's chest, emitted a flash of light and lost its luster.

Time seemed to come to a standstill, and everything seemed to be over.

The current situation looked eerie—Lucas and the mute girl appeared to be no different from being dead.

Only the bus was still running, like a bulldozer, pushing against the body of the huge infected being, but lacking the strength to make any significant movement as the massive body remained almost immobile.

In fact, after the important heads of the huge infected body were attacked, the control of Lucas through that supernatural power had already disappeared. Lucas was just temporarily unconscious.

Lucas was having a strange dream, with a simple content.

The mute girl was becoming more and more like a person, still being clingy.

They bickered every day, and at the slightest disagreement, she would hang onto him like a koala, and no matter how much he tried, he couldn't get rid of her.

Buzz—

At this moment, Lucas, in his dream, was still annoyed, trying to pull the mute girl off him. In the gaps between the raging fire around them, countless beetles swarmed in. When they saw Lucas and the mute girl, the wings on their backs began to vibrate frantically, emitting strange sounds.

However, due to the continued frenzy of the huge infected body, these beetles temporarily didn't dare to approach.

Time passed slowly, and the huge infected body finally stopped howling at the sky.

Unexpectedly, all those dozen heads suddenly went limp.

Thud—

Because their bodies had gone soft, all the heads instantly fell to the ground.

Coincidentally, a few heads directly pressed down on Lucas and the mute girl.

The huge infected body had actually died like this, indirectly protecting Lucas and the mute girl from being devoured by the beetles.

After the death of the huge infected body, the beetles scattered in all directions and quickly disappeared within the small town.