Upon hearing the request from the escaped prisoners to open the door, Lucas didn't want to let them in.

At this moment, possibly noticing the flames from the previous explosion caused by the escapees, Henry personally arrived with a pair of soldiers.

Seven or eight military vehicles surrounded the escapees directly.

Over twenty well-trained soldiers quickly got off the vehicles, their guns pointed at the escapees.

Henry clarified the situation and gestured towards the leader of the escapees.

"You come with us, don't disturb the gentleman."

Surprisingly, after Henry spoke, the escapees didn't move, seemingly unafraid of them.

"We are not on the same side, and we don't trust you either."

The leader of the escapees spoke calmly.

Lucas, hearing his words from inside the bus, felt that this guy was either fearless or had some kind of trump card.

In this situation, Henry could give the order for the soldiers to shoot at any moment.

"No need to bother with them."

Seeing the standoff between the two sides, Lucas opened the bus door and stepped off the bus.

"Henry, how long do you estimate it will take to reach Phoenix Mountain?"

Lucas didn't like these people surrounding the bus and intended to send them away.

"Under normal circumstances, it would take about half a day to walk from here to Phoenix Mountain."

"But now, it's hard to say. I estimate it will take around two days to get there."

"However, whether we can reach Phoenix Mountain or not is uncertain if we encounter a situation like before."

Henry answered Lucas's question without making any big claims, expressing his genuine thoughts.

Lucas nodded without saying anything, released his drone into the air, and returned to the bus.

Henry warned the group of escapees once again before leading the convoy back to the rest of the people.

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Lucas pondered whether or not to open the yellow capsule, and Henry's vehicle returned once again.

This time, Lucas saw a boy sitting beside Henry, and the infected dog was following behind the car.

"Sir!"

After getting off the car, Henry stood by the bus and called out to Lucas.

Lucas already had an idea of what was going on.

He got off the bus and looked at Henry and the boy not far behind him, furrowing his brow.

"Sir, it's not good to have this dog with us. Everyone is afraid of it..."

Henry didn't finish his sentence, but Lucas understood what he meant.

If it were his past self, he would also be afraid of this infected dog.

Lucas didn't make an immediate decision but instead waved to the escaped prisoners behind the bus.

The leader of the escapees, accompanied by two henchmen, quickly approached Lucas and addressed him as "sir."

Unbeknownst to Lucas, the escapees weren't particularly afraid of him. They had noticed the supplies piled up in the bus when Lucas opened the door, which sparked their interest.

In the past couple of days since the apocalypse, this group of escapees had followed behind Henry and the others to avoid casualties. However, the food they had found temporarily wouldn't last long.

They didn't dare to go find more food now.

There were a total of nine escapees, with a minivan and an off-road vehicle, carrying four guns and several dozen bullets they had picked up.

When they saw the abundance of food in the bus, they had the idea to take it for themselves, even considering robbing the bus.

Although Lucas had easily knocked out one of them with a punch before, the escapees believed it was due to their own carelessness.

So what if he could knock someone out with a punch? Could his fist withstand bullets?

The escapees only abandoned this idea when Henry arrived.

Now they had to rely on the military for safety, and the fact that the military officer respected the person driving the bus would definitely dispel any previous thoughts.

The leader of the escapees quickly came up with the idea of seeking refuge with Lucas in exchange for food.

In the leader's understanding, the person driving the bus would definitely not refuse to have a few more bodyguards.

The reason the escapees thought this way was because they had been far away from Lucas when he slaughtered the insects and zombies, so they had no idea what had happened.

Otherwise, even if they had ten times the courage, they wouldn't dare to have any ideas about Lucas.

"Protect this child until we reach Phoenix Mountain."

Lucas said to the leader of the escapees, then turned and went back into the bus. He brought down three boxes of instant noodles and two buckets of water.

"This is your reward."

"If anything happens to this child, all of you will die!"

Lucas finished speaking to the leader of the escapees, then looked at Henry.

"Make the crowd move faster and get out of Seaside City as soon as possible."

After speaking, Lucas glanced at the infected dog in the distance and sighed.

"Stupid dog, it's like I owe you a lot."

He muttered in his heart and closed the bus door again.

Henry quickly explained the situation regarding the infected dog and the boy to the leader of the escapees before hurrying to urge the crowd to move faster.

"Boss, are we going to listen to him just for a few boxes of instant noodles?"

"I saw that he had a lot of canned meat in his car earlier. Why didn't you ask him for some?"

Not far from the bus, an escapee made an international gesture towards the bus, then turned to complain to the leader of the escapees, giving a fierce glare at the boy standing beside him.

The boy seemed very scared, and his hand trembled as he touched the infected dog's head.

"Be careful and don't let that man see."

"If he tells that officer something bad about us, those soldiers might get into conflict with us for his sake."

"Moreover, I feel that the person driving the bus is not simple. It's better for us not to provoke him."

As the leader of the escapees looked at the bus, he suddenly realized something.

At that moment, just as the leader of the escapees was about to say something, a figure climbed onto the roof of the bus and quickly descended back into the bus.

Boom!

A sound that resembled a gunshot or an explosion came from afar.

After the sound echoed, three military vehicles appeared, dragging a creature and throwing it in front of the bus.

Once the three military vehicles left, the escapees ran up to the bus.

On the ground before them lay a decapitated creature.

Where the creature's head should have been was now a bloody hole, surrounded by torn flesh and green blood mixed with slime, appearing both terrifying and disgusting.

At this moment, the escapees realized what Lucas had done when he climbed onto the roof of the bus earlier.

They were no strangers to the creatures.

The military couldn't harm these creatures without using high-explosive bombs, yet the person driving the bus had blown off its head with a single shot.

The bus door suddenly opened, and Lucas got off the bus with a saw made from a creature's leg and went straight to the creature's corpse to extract its core, not even sparing a glance at the escapees.