In the dark world, the Blue Sky Lake region, once a tourist attraction before the apocalypse, has lost its former liveliness and become quiet and eerie.

The bus was parked silently in the tree-lined area by the lake outside the resort, with the bridge to the island in the lake that Cobras mentioned not far ahead.

At this moment, several places on the island in the lake were illuminated.

The mute woman sat on the roof of the bus keeping watch, while Lucas and a few others sat on the ground, looking at the control panel of the drone.

"There seem to be quite a few people on this island. Looks like there are over a hundred," Lucas said as he looked at the screen on the control panel, his brow slightly furrowed.

It took a whole week to travel the over 300 kilometers from the coastal city. If it weren't for the bus's ability to travel off-road, it would have taken at least half a month to get here with a regular vehicle.

And that's excluding the time it would take to deal with zombies and insects along the way.

Throughout the journey, Lucas had been avoiding the main roads, finding routes far from towns and only taking down five insects and a few hundred zombies.

Lucas' guess was correct. Outside the city, the insects and zombies had not yet started evolving, making them easy to deal with.

However, when the group arrived at the Blue Sky Lake resort, they discovered that the island in the lake, which Cobras had mentioned, had already been occupied by a group of survivors.

Lucas decided to assess the situation first, so instead of driving the bus across the bridge, he stopped at the lakeside.

It had been over twenty days since the apocalypse began, and the orderly society had already collapsed. The surviving humans were no longer the same as before, and various ugly aspects of human nature were slowly being exposed.

Lucas wasn't inclined to interact with strangers at this point.

After surveying the area with the drone, Lucas was relatively satisfied with the place, especially the island in the lake, which was indeed suitable for long-term living.

Including the resort they were currently in, there wasn't a single living zombie. Judging from the abundance of dead zombies, the group on the island must have cleared them out from the vicinity.

The only thing that puzzled Lucas was the absence of any insects in such a large area.

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It was a place without mushrooms!

Initially, when Lucas saw people on the island, he intended to find another place to settle. However, upon realizing that there wasn't a single mushroom in the entire Blue Sky Lake area, Lucas changed his mind.

This should be one of the few places in the apocalypse that hadn't been visited by the catastrophic meteor shower.

"Sir, there are still many vacant villas in the community on the island in the lake. More than a hundred people can't possibly occupy all of them," Cobras said.

"Moreover, the villas are standalone buildings built against the mountainside, so there won't be any interference between them. The few of us can occupy one villa."

"Should I go and negotiate with them? We are all in a difficult situation, and they shouldn't have any objections," Cobras offered his opinion when he saw Lucas furrowing his brow, unable to determine his thoughts.

"Aren't you afraid they'll kill you?" Lucas asked, looking up at Cobras.

At this moment, Lucas deliberately turned on the headlights of the bus, so it was highly likely that the people on the other side had noticed their presence on the bridge.

Through the drone, Lucas had already noticed that many of the people gathered in the square on the island were carrying guns, not handguns, but weapons like submachine guns and automatic rifles.

Based on their attire, Lucas couldn't discern their identities.

Lucas intentionally turned on the lights to attract the attention of those people and initiate contact.

He wasn't comfortable driving the bus directly across the bridge.

After all, the bridge was the only way, and if there were any dangerous situations, such as the bridge being blown up, Lucas would be at a disadvantage.

Cobras didn't answer Lucas' question because he had already seen three vehicles coming from the other side of the bridge.

Lucas glanced at the approaching vehicles and returned to the bus.

"Cobras, if they don't have any ill intentions, you and Anna can go over with the others first."

"But if they try anything, I'll kill them."

After saying this, Lucas closed the door, and at that moment, the mute woman's figure flickered and disappeared on the roof of the bus, with no one knowing where she had hidden.

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Jeffrey Dahmer was delighted today because finally someone had arrived nearby.

Especially when he saw through the night vision telescope that they had come in a bus, he became even more excited.

A bus could hold a lot of things.

You can imagine, not only were there more people to kill this time, but they could also obtain a lot of supplies.

Jeffrey Dahmer was originally the captain of the security team at Blue Sky Lake Resort.

But this security team captain was not an ordinary person.

Only a few people knew that the secret boss behind the development of Blue Sky Lake was the biggest drug lord in the area.

While Blue Sky Lake appeared to be a tourist attraction, it was actually the headquarters of this criminal organization.

After more than a decade of operation, a private armed force had long been established here.

Under the island in the lake of Blue Sky Lake, a hidden underground warehouse had been dug out, used to store drugs and serve as a very discreet refuge.

Whenever an important figure in the criminal group was wanted, they would come here to lay low.

When the apocalypse arrived, this place was not visited by the catastrophic meteor shower, and none of the so-called security team members were infected.

After Jeffrey Dahmer understood the situation outside when the nearby zombies appeared, he took over everything in Blue Sky Lake and became the boss himself.

Jeffrey Dahmer was well aware that under these circumstances, his boss couldn't possibly return to Blue Sky Lake from out of town; he might already be dead.

With his boss's long-standing suppression, the evil within Jeffrey Dahmer was quickly unleashed.

Lucas and the others were unaware that within a radius of 40 to 50 kilometers around Blue Sky Lake, Jeffrey Dahmer and his men had already looted all the towns and villages, moving any available supplies to the island in the lake.

Moreover, the survivors who were still alive in these towns were treated as zombies by Jeffrey Dahmer and disposed of.

The ruthlessness of Jeffrey Dahmer's methods would probably shock Lucas if he found out.

The three off-road vehicles quickly crossed the bridge.

The vehicle Jeffrey Dahmer was in stopped next to Cobras and the others, while the other two vehicles blocked the front and rear of the bus.

Cobras had just squeezed out a smile and was about to walk to the front of the car to greet them when Jeffrey Dahmer got out of the car and walked in front of Anna, reaching directly towards her chest.

"Beautiful lady, do you need some help?"

As he reached out his hand, Jeffrey Dahmer emitted a frivolous voice.

However, his outstretched hand came up empty.

When Anna saw Jeffrey Dahmer's hand reaching over, she gently stepped back, evading his hand directly.

Clap--

Just at that moment, the headlights of the bus suddenly turned on.