Guns are guns, and bullets are bullets.

Lucas didn't expect the system to be so meticulous in its distribution.

"It seems that I've gathered quite a few materials myself, and the system also wants a share."

While inwardly complaining, Lucas used the insect armor to exchange for another red blank blueprint.

The bullets were quickly drawn.

The base material was the one hundred rounds of ammunition, and the added material was still the forelimb exoskeleton of the red insects.

A sniper rifle was created, costing Lucas two and a half red insect carapaces.

Click to materialize.

In this way, Lucas successfully obtained the sniper rifle along with one hundred rounds of ammunition.

Motorcycle, drone, sniper rifle.

Lucas felt that for now, he didn't need to engage in close combat with insects and zombies. His safety had been greatly enhanced.

【Mission: Safely escort the front group to Phoenix Mountain. Rewards will be distributed based on completion, with a guaranteed reward of one red capsule upon completion.】

【The host can use yellow capsules and yellow blank blueprints to enhance their strength and successfully complete the mission.】

The system suddenly issued a task without any warning.

Lucas's intuition told him that this task was not simple.

It wasn't about the reward, but rather the fact that the system actively asked Lucas to spend something of yellow rank.

Lucas didn't think the system was trying to tempt him into consumption; it was more likely that the difficulty of this task was significant.

Moreover, this task didn't give Lucas the option to accept or decline it.

In other words, the system's requirement for this task was mandatory.

Yellow-ranked items!

For Lucas at this moment, they were his last resort.

It probably wouldn't be easy to harvest as many insect cores and carapaces all at once like this time.

Even if he obtains something as powerful as Flame Fist, Lucas wouldn't easily put himself in danger like before.

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In the past, few evolved humans rushed into hordes of insects and zombies.

Whether to use them or not, Lucas really had to think about it.

After all, this kind of blind-box-like method, although Lucas didn't believe he had to pray to the gods before opening, he at least wanted to go with his gut feeling.

Thud—

Just as Lucas hesitated, there was a sudden loud noise on the vehicle, as if something had hit it.

"Boss, the glass of this vehicle is so tough, it didn't even shatter."

Before Lucas could figure out what was happening, he heard voices coming from the back of the bus.

Unfortunately, the bus was filled with items, and Lucas couldn't see clearly from the front, so he listened carefully to what they were saying.

"Keep hitting, but don't make too much noise. We'll attract the monsters and everyone will die."

"Boss, nothing will happen."

"This area has been cleared by the military, it's safe."

"What do you know!"

"Who's the boss, you or me?"

"The boss is being cautious!"

"This bus is sealed so tightly, there must be something inside!"

...

Listening quietly for half a minute, Lucas knew who was outside the vehicle.

It was a group of escaped prisoners from the seaside city prison who had been following Henry's military team. Somehow, they had managed to survive during this apocalyptic period.

Thud—

Thud— thud—

The prison escapees were using something to repeatedly hit the bus.

With each strike, it hit dozens of times.

Although Lucas knew the bus wouldn't be damaged, he was still a bit annoyed and prepared to take action to deal with them.

"Everyone, quickly spread out and get down!"

Just as Lucas was about to get off the bus, he suddenly heard the big brother outside shout.

"What's this?"

Boom—

After a loud noise, the bus shook, and Lucas saw the flames outside the window.

They're blowing up the bus!

That thought immediately crossed Lucas's mind.

He couldn't tolerate this!

The bus doors opened instantly!

The group of escaped prisoners hadn't reacted yet when they saw a figure swiftly moving among them in the darkness on the bus, leaving behind a cry of agony wherever it went.

At this moment, with Lucas's immense physical strength, dealing with a group of ordinary escapees was no different from killing chickens.

He didn't even need weapons, just a punch to the abdomen, clean and efficient, leaving the escapees lying on the ground, clutching their bodies and coughing up blood.

Lucas didn't go for lethal strikes, avoiding hitting their heads or any life-threatening areas.

"Get out of here immediately!"

Lucas said coldly, then opened the door and returned to the bus.

The cries of agony outside the vehicle continued for several minutes before they stopped.

Without caring whether those people had left or not, Lucas opened the blueprint of the bus at this moment.

The actions of those escapees reminded Lucas.

He still had several insect cores and carapaces, so he might as well use them to upgrade the bus.

Although he could exchange them for more red capsules and red blank blueprints, the bus was Lucas's only mobile safe haven, and its importance to him was self-evident.

Keeping one insect core and two insect carapaces as a last resort, Lucas exchanged the rest with the system.

After the gray "+" symbol on the bus blueprint refreshed, it turned green.

"+" symbol [Vehicle Body Strength]

"+" symbol [Kitchen Space*]

"+" symbol [Bedroom Space*]

"+" symbol [Healing Chamber*]

...

Lucas looked through these "+" symbols one by one.

In the end, Lucas upgraded two options this time.

The vehicle body strength was increased by five times, directly surpassing the range of the first level and reaching the second level bus body strength.

After the upgrade, the attacks of the red insects couldn't inflict much damage on the bus anymore.

To upgrade the bus to the second level as a whole, the power system had to be upgraded to the second level as well.

So even though the bus body strength reached the second level, it still remained at the first level with a red "+" symbol.

After increasing the body strength by five times, Lucas realized that he didn't have enough materials to upgrade the options with asterisks.

Those options with asterisks were related to legendary spatial technology, and Lucas didn't understand why they appeared on the blueprint of a first-level bus.

Lucas chose to double the energy consumption device of the bus.

[First-level Bus+]

The overall vehicle body strength has reached the second level (increased by 1000%, with red insect carapaces as the main material), engine efficiency doubled, energy consumption reduced by 600%, equipped with a silent system (upgradable).

At first glance, the refreshed data on the bus didn't seem to have changed much.

But Lucas knew very well that with the reinforced body strength and using the carapace of the first red insect he killed as the body material, the bus's body strength was actually stronger than the data provided by the system.

Lucas was satisfied.

From now on, until higher-level insects and infected creatures appeared, Lucas would just stay inside the bus, as there weren't many things that could pose a threat to him.

Lighting a cigarette, Lucas was about to take a satisfying puff when he saw the escaped prisoners outside knocking on the bus door.

"Sir, please open the door! I'd like to have a chat with you."

The person knocking on the door said as he knocked.

Lucas was taken aback.

Why are these escapees looking for me?