"Don't shoot!"

The old man was afraid of causing misunderstandings and immediately shouted.

In that moment when the flashlight shone on them, Lucas was already prepared to act, his hand holding the recurve knife tightly.

He couldn't help but feel a bit impulsive to test whether his current body could withstand bullets.

After the old man finished speaking, the people surrounded them, at least a dozen in number.

"Mr. Mayor! You're still alive?"

Someone among them recognized the old man and approached him, carefully examining him.

"So, you've all moved to the arsenal. That's good."

The old man was very happy that after all these years, there were still people who remembered him.

The old man chatted with them for a while, and the group headed towards the abandoned arsenal.

On the way, Lucas walked at the back. He had a feeling that the person who used the single soldier rocket to kill the insects might be among these people, possibly even among the ones in front of him.

"I have a question. The factory is in the town, and was it your group that used rockets to kill the insects?"

Lucas couldn't help but ask.

"It was me!"

Just as Lucas finished speaking, he heard a voice in his ear.

Lucas was startled and quickly turned to look, but he saw nothing.

The trees in the darkness rustled as the wind blew, and the strange sound instantly made Lucas's hair stand on end.

Was it a ghost?

However, the present Lucas wouldn't be scared by this. He immediately stopped in his tracks.

"Hahaha, don't be nervous!"

The voice sounded again in Lucas's ear, and then, a person suddenly appeared about a meter away from Lucas.

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The person's appearance was eerie, appearing out of nowhere without any trace of where they came from.

"Invisibility ability!"

I saw your battle, and you are very strong.

"I assume you also have some strange abilities?"

"My name is Richard Gehring. You came from the outside, do you have more information about these abilities? Is there more information out there?"

Lucas finally got a clear look at him.

He was a man in military uniform without an armband, carrying a single soldier rocket launcher on his back, looking to be around thirty years old.

"I'm not too sure about how we obtained these abilities. I guess it's a means of survival that this post-apocalyptic world has given us humans."

"I'm Lucas."

Lucas half-truthfully introduced himself to this person named Gehring.

Lucas couldn't reveal too much about evolved humans, lest he couldn't come up with a convincing story.

"Well, let's communicate more in the future. We'll meet another brother soon, who, like us, has gained some abilities."

Gehring said to Lucas and made a welcoming gesture.

The two followed the crowd and continued walking while chatting.

The abandoned arsenal is where Gehring and someone named Reed are evolved humans.

Gehring's ability is invisibility, while Reed has awakened the power to control lightning.

The appearance of these two evolved humans surprises Lucas, not because they became evolved humans, but because of their awakened abilities.

Invisibility and lightning control are both relatively rare.

Lucas knows that in the post-apocalyptic world, the abilities awakened by evolved humans are classified.

The lowest level includes enhancements to physical strength, power, and speed.

The second level involves control over natural elements, and Reed belongs to this category with his powerful ability.

The third level consists of special abilities, and the range of these unique powers varies greatly, making them difficult to predict. Gehring falls into this category.

For example, some evolved humans can materialize a gun or a knife, and Lucas has even seen one who can materialize a car.

Of course, that car could truly manifest and be easily retracted, which was much more convenient than the bus Lucas received from the system. This made Lucas think about adding a retractable feature to the bus so he could take it with him.

Lucas has heard of many powerful evolvers, such as those who can control insects and infected beings, or those who can materialize metal fortresses.

Especially the metal fortress evolvers, the city they reside in is directly manifested by them.

Although that city is the smallest in the world, it is also the safest shelter city.

However, that city is on the other side of Blue Star, and Lucas has never actually seen it.

There are also legendary space evolvers.

Legend has it that Blue Star has more shelter cities than the known ones, and they all exist within the space created by an evolver. The number of people inside these cities exceeds the total number of people in the known shelter cities.

This evolver and the space they created are like a utopian world in the post-apocalyptic era, but it's truly like a legend. Nobody knows where it is or who the evolver with spatial abilities is.

Lucas has also wondered if his system is his own ability.

The abandoned arsenal in this small town was built several decades ago and was sealed off with a wall after it was abandoned.

When the apocalypse arrived, the elderly in the town immediately thought of this place. After losing many people along the way, more than a thousand people eventually settled here.

The residents of the small town knew each other well because many of them came from families involved in agriculture, and each family thought of the agricultural processing factories in town before evacuating.

Together, they brought out a considerable amount of food from the processing factories.

During the first month of the apocalypse, these thousand-plus people didn't go hungry. After all, the food they brought from the factories was enough for three to five thousand people for a month.

At that time, neither Gehring nor Reed had evolved yet. Several thousand people managed to reach this place after losing more than half of their group.

The layout of the arsenal was quickly understood by these people, and they even found several tunnels leading to the town inside the arsenal.

Lucas couldn't find Gehring, who used rocket launchers, because Gehring had gone directly into one of the tunnels.

Cobra's family was fortunate—his parents and his brother's family were all still alive.

The old man had a long conversation with these people, even discussing whether Lucas should go and bring the people from Blue Sky Lake over.

Lucas listened quietly without speaking up. It was impossible for him to risk bringing all the people from Blue Sky Lake over. Moreover, at this stage, more than a thousand people were too many and would bring various unknown risks. Lucas would definitely not live with them.

Of course, if they came on their own, Lucas had no objections.

At this moment, Lucas was focused on Gehring and Reed.

The most important thing was figuring out how to bring these two people back to Blue Sky Lake.

There was still one evolved human left to find, as the mission stated. Lucas thought that this remaining evolved human might be near the granary.

Visiting the granary was a definite plan, but Lucas currently had no idea how to deal with these two evolved humans.