More than an hour had passed, and the group of people in the supermarket finally came out.

Lucas estimated that their hiding place should be nearby, as they wouldn't venture too far on foot to search for supplies.

These dozen or so people were cautious when they emerged, sending a few individuals ahead to scout the path.

Through the scope of his sniper rifle, Lucas noticed that they had wrapped something around their feet, either cloth or cotton, probably to avoid making noise and attracting zombies while walking.

This action made Lucas sigh, as he imagined that he would have looked the same if he didn't have the system during this apocalypse.

Looking at those people, Lucas felt a bit sorry for them.

Perhaps the four or five individuals scouting ahead were timid, as they had reached the mouth of the alley where the three insects were hiding, but they didn't even use flashlights to observe the alley's movements.

They probably used walkie-talkies to inform the others carrying supplies to follow them.

The group had passed through the alley, and inexplicably, Lucas suddenly felt that the three insects should start moving now.

Sure enough, after Lucas had this intuition, the three insects actually moved.

At this point, the group had already distanced themselves from the alley by over a hundred meters.

The images in the scope and the drone became increasingly eerie.

Lucas felt that the bloody massacre was about to begin when the three insects left the alley. However, instead of attacking the people directly, they slowly followed behind them.

"They're tracking their lair?"

Seeing the insects' behavior, the idea suddenly came to Lucas's mind.

The insects were tracking those people to find their hiding place and then wipe them out!

"Have insects become this intelligent?"

Lucas exclaimed, feeling a chill run down his spine.

It had only been half a month since the apocalypse began, and the intelligence of the insects had already developed to this extent. In the previous apocalypse, at this stage, the insects were still mindless creatures without any signs of intelligence.

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"Let's go, mute girl. We'll follow them."

Lucas tapped the mute girl next to him with his hand and stood up, holding a heavy knife.

Of course, he wasn't going to save those people.

Lucas wanted to know if the insects' plan was the same as his own.

If the insects were really this clever, Lucas needed to make some plans as soon as possible.

Apart from anything else, he had to ensure that his strength could keep up with the evolution speed of the insects or infected beings.

He wanted to go up and take a look to gather more information.

Swiftly descending from the building, Lucas got into the bus and started it silently without turning on the headlights. He followed at a distance of about four to five hundred meters from the insects.

At this distance, the insects should be able to spot the bus, but they didn't seem interested and remained motionless.

Lucas naturally wasn't afraid of these few insects.

He could draw his gun and kill them at any time.

The drone's footage mainly focused on the group of survivors at this time.

They were already far from the supermarket where they had searched for supplies, and Lucas estimated that they were approaching their hiding place.

In the drone footage, several dozen survivors suddenly appeared on the street not far from the group, seemingly there to meet up with them.

At the same time, Lucas also saw dozens of insects in the alleys of the nearby streets.

Indeed, these people must have been targeted by the insects long ago, even when they went to the supermarket.

Lucas felt that these insects were even more cunning than himself.

The bus quickly turned around and headed back.

Confirmed in his thoughts, Lucas had no intention of joining in the chaos.

There were too many insects, and they kept appearing continuously.

Even if Lucas had the ability to deal with them, he wouldn't intervene.

These insects were different from a few days ago; they were evolving and gaining intelligence.

He could handle dozens of them, but he wouldn't dare to face hundreds.

As he turned the bus around, Lucas felt a pang of regret. There were so many yellow capsules, but unfortunately, he couldn't get his hands on them!

Of course, Lucas wasn't actually leaving; he just didn't want to get caught up in the insects' battle.

With so many insects appearing at once, it was bound to be a massacre.

Lucas drove back for at least two kilometers before parking the bus on the side of a crossroad. His attention shifted to the control panel of the drone.

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"When I went to the supermarket today, I encountered a few strange individuals. They were armed with military weapons, and one person even had a portable flamethrower."

"I invited them to join us, but they refused without even asking any questions."

"Oh, and they came to the supermarket in a vehicle, and the exterior of the vehicle looked similar to the exoskeletons of those six-legged monsters."

"But they didn't seem like soldiers to me."

"Do you think they could be a group of survivors, possibly even more numerous than us?"

"And there was one person who came in later, seemed like their leader. He mentioned feeling danger, and then they quickly left."

"But when we came out, we didn't encounter any danger, even on the way back."

"However, there were indeed many dead zombies and large insects near the entrance of the supermarket and on several nearby streets."

The survivors who came out of the supermarket were chatting while walking.

"Many dead zombies?"

The question came from a person wearing tattered military attire, likely a soldier.

He didn't seem interested in Lucas' group's description but was intrigued by the zombies they had killed.

"Nothing strange happened when you returned?"

The soldier spoke while carefully scanning the surroundings with a flashlight.

"No, we didn't even see a single undead."

The soldier listened to their description, feeling somewhat uneasy. He shone the flashlight in the darkness but didn't notice anything abnormal.

"Everyone, move faster and quickly bring the things inside."

"Fatty, go tell the leader to send more people to keep watch, preferably send several teams to the nearby streets."

As the soldier spoke, he pulled back the bolt of his gun.

He had a bad feeling at this moment, with his heart pounding inexplicably fast.

The area was too quiet, not even the unpleasant low growls of the undead could be heard.

It was extremely abnormal!

The soldier had a keen sense of danger and urged the people who were moving the supplies to act faster.

Just then, in the darkness, the distinctive screams of the insects resounded.

It wasn't just one insect screaming; it was an endless chorus of countless screams.