Taking another look at the scene, Lucas felt a little relieved.

Although there were still plenty of bugs and zombies coming from the direction of the town, they were being led by a group of soldiers towards the bus.

The protected civilians stayed quietly by the side of the road, not even daring to move.

It seemed that the bugs and zombies hadn't noticed them.

"Good luck," Lucas sighed as he watched the scene.

Previously, most of the zombies in the town had been taken out by infected crows, which prevented them from coming to the area where the civilians were. Otherwise, it would have been difficult for the civilians to escape the zombie and bug tide.

The zombies and bugs were mostly emerging from the forest.

The sound of the artillery barrage had indeed attracted their attention and drawn them here.

At this moment, Lucas shared the same idea as the soldiers protecting the crowd. They aimed to set up the battlefield around the bus and artillery vehicles.

"You all quickly get back to your vehicles. Deal with the bugs and zombies in the distance, I'll handle the ones nearby!" Lucas shouted at the soldiers gathered together, raising his sniper rifle.

Boom!

The bug that had initially jumped onto the military vehicle instantly had its head blown off.

There were still ninety-one bullets left.

Lucas wasn't sure if these bullets would be enough.

Visibly, there were at least a hundred bugs, possibly even hundreds of them.

But he didn't have any other means of attack at the moment.

For him, escaping would be easy, but the mission was still there, not to mention he hadn't had a chance to understand the situation of those people.

Lucas had to make decisions step by step at this moment.

He would fight once and only retreat when it became impossible.

Of course, Lucas would definitely not fight to the death.

Even if the mission failed, he would leave when there was no other choice.

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When he wanted to leave, it wouldn't be difficult to activate the bus's air barrier and escape.

Boom, boom, boom.

In one breath, Lucas killed seven or eight bugs that were approaching the rows of artillery vehicles.

At this moment, the mute girl got off the bus.

After getting off, the mute girl picked up a few submachine guns and slung them on her back, with several grenades hanging from her waist.

Lucas instructed the mute girl to focus on killing zombies.

When it came to dealing with bugs, the mute girl no longer had the advantage of her physical abilities, and Lucas wouldn't let her take risks.

The sound of artillery fire erupted, and sparks blossomed among the bug swarm and zombie horde that were charging from a distance.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Missiles soared into the sky.

As for the zombies, heavy weapons still had some killing power against the red bugs.

In the explosions, the movement speed of the bug swarm slowed down.

As for the zombies, although some of them had evolved features, overall, they still belonged to the fearless state, advancing without feeling pain.

At this moment, a part of the soldiers who were escorting the civilians also retreated near the bus.

Lucas immediately had them operate flamethrowers.

Because the mute girl had been killing too fast, besides the people operating the artillery vehicles, she had practically killed everyone else, which meant there were still many weapons left unused.

Such as shoulder-mounted rocket launchers, small mortars, and flamethrowers.

As soon as this group of soldiers arrived, Lucas had them responsible for blocking the zombies and bugs nearby.

Two groups of soldiers, one responsible for the distant area, and the other responsible for the nearby area. The effect immediately became evident.

The mute girl would charge at any zombies that the soldiers hadn't dealt with yet, slashing at them wildly.

The current situation appeared to be that the soldiers were responsible for blocking the zombies and bugs.

Lucas and the mute girl were filling in the gaps and also serving as protectors for the soldiers.

They didn't allow any bugs or zombies that tried to approach the soldiers to get close.

The battle quickly reached a stalemate.

However, as time passed, Lucas's sniper rifle ammunition started to dwindle, while the number of bugs in the drone footage didn't seem to decrease much.

"Aren't there any other military forces nearby?"

"Why does it feel like all the bugs outside the coastal city are gathering here?"

The never-ending swarm of bugs started to irritate Lucas.

He had two options now.

He could either run away immediately or get off the bus and scavenge some bug corpses to exchange for blueprints to make more bullets. He could also try to obtain powerful weapons or martial techniques like the Flame Fist by exchanging capsules.

After giving it some thought, Lucas decided to take a risk.

But he didn't choose to leave the bus; instead, he drove the bus directly to the first bug he had killed.

Only then did Lucas see that the torn-apart person was the commander of this military unit.

Matteo's body was intact except for his head.

Seeing his gruesome condition, Lucas's anger towards him and Henry dissipated instantly.

Bang!

The wheels of the bus avoided Matteo's head and directly rammed into the other parked vehicles nearby.

Lucas quickly got off the bus and started using a saw made from bug legs to extract the bug nucleus.

There were four bugs that Lucas had killed.

Fortunately, no one paid attention to what he was doing at this moment, and Lucas's actions were swift and clean.

As he was digging out the second bug nucleus, the system's voice rang out.

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining a metal shield."

"Congratulations to the host for an increase in body skin strength. Skin hardness +10."

"What the hell!" Lucas was disappointed. At this moment, what use was a shield?

Could the shield be harder than the exterior of a bus?

Lucas didn't even bother to read the description; he continued his actions without stopping and dug out the second bug nucleus.

He rubbed his hands in the pile of grass on the ground a few times, activated the system panel, and quickly drew sniper rifle bullets on the red blueprint.

While drawing the bullets, he opened the second capsule.

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining a crossbow."

"Congratulations to the host for an increase in body skin strength. Skin hardness +10."

"A crossbow?" Lucas exclaimed, "FUCK..."

It was another useless item, and Lucas didn't know what to say.

Where did that considerate system from before go?

Didn't it understand his thoughts back then?

The only thing that satisfied Lucas out of the two red capsules was the increase in skin hardness.

Lucas used his fingernail to scratch his arm.

His own perception was similar to before, but the marks left by his fingernail on his skin were barely visible.

He quickly checked his body data on the panel.

Skin hardness 33 (out of the ordinary range).

Lucas instantly understood that although the skin value seemed low, it appeared to be different from the other attributes of his body.

For example, the strength attribute. A value of 33 was less than the normal level for an adult, but when it came to the skin, it was already inhuman.

In that case, the skin should be one of the most fragile tissues of the human body?

Lucas didn't have time to ponder the role of the skin on the human body. He began digging out the third bug nucleus.