Actually, at this moment, Lucas was looking at the huge shadow in the river and thinking about how to kill it and collect its body as material.

Not just the largest one, but also the smaller ones.

From the situation earlier, most of these infected catfish were of the yellow-level infection.

In the previous apocalyptic world, Lucas had hardly heard any information about the infected organisms in the water. No matter how powerful the evolved individuals were, they were unwilling to provoke the infected organisms in the water.

One reason was their large size, and the other was that the water was their natural habitat, making it difficult for evolved individuals to release their abilities when submerged.

It was uncertain whether the infected organisms in the water had crystal cores, but Lucas was more inclined to believe they did.

The counterattack of the giant infected catfish finally made Lucas pay a price.

Under the control of the system, the bus took less than ten seconds to rush across the suspension bridge, but the price was a 30% loss in the overall performance of the bus.

According to the current situation, it would require at least a yellow-level blank blueprint and a complete yellow-level insect carapace to repair it.

After crossing the bridge, the bus came to a stop. Lucas was still concerned about the damage to the bus when he heard a rumbling sound behind him.

The bridge pier of the suspension bridge had been knocked down by the giant infected catfish, and with a thunderous noise, the entire bridge collapsed.

Watching this scene, Lucas instantly broke into a cold sweat.

Afterward, he discovered a serious problem.

With the bridge gone, it meant that Lucas would have to take a longer route to return to Blue Lake.

Lucas checked the map and found that the closest bridge across the river would require him to travel over a hundred kilometers, and that was just the straight-line distance. In reality, he would have to take a detour of nearly three hundred kilometers.

"FUCK!"

Lucas couldn't help but curse out loud.

After crossing the bridge, at this moment, Lucas didn't feel like leaving immediately.

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His previous idea of retrieving the infected catfish corpses from the river suddenly became a necessary task.

Lucas didn't want to miss out on such an opportunity.

With the thought in mind, Lucas drove the bus to a safe location and tried to get as close to the riverbank as possible, in case there were yellow-level infected organisms or insects appearing.

Without a doubt, the explosion and collapse of the suspension bridge would surely attract the attention of those creatures.

At this moment, the infected catfish was the one Lucas wanted to kill the most.

The bus's silent function was turned off, and all the windows were opened. Instantly, booming music filled the air.

Three hand grenades were quickly thrown into the river by Lucas as well.

Lucas believed that this would attract the attention of the giant infected catfish and make it come towards him.

As long as the infected catfish came, the avenger's machine gun was ready to greet it!

The loud music and the explosions of the grenades quickly took effect. Through the drone's lens, a huge shadow in the water, accompanied by several smaller shadows, swiftly approached the shore where Lucas was.

Not only that, but there was also danger on the shore. Some insects and zombies of unknown levels appeared not far from the bus.

Lucas was well aware of the surrounding situation and immediately adjusted the angle of the avenger's machine gun without hesitation, pressing the switch.

In the deafening sound, a few bursts of fire were shot. Within five seconds, the insects and zombies approaching from the shore were torn apart.

At this moment, Lucas didn't have time to see how many insects and zombies were killed.

After all, he started to worry about the amount of ammunition he was using again.

Changing the direction, the sound of the avenger's machine gun firing rang out once more.

This time, the fire dragon was aimed at the water.

When Lucas killed the approaching insects, the giant infected catfish was already very close to the shore, only about twenty or thirty meters away from the bus.

Fortunately, the shore where Lucas was situated was about twenty meters higher than the river surface, and he didn't believe the catfish could jump that high.

In other words, as long as the avenger's machine gun could harm the giant infected catfish, it would be a one-sided massacre at this point.

It turned out that the giant catfish did not exceed the yellow-level rank.

Splashes of water, blood splattering.

All one thousand yellow-level bullets hit the head of the giant infected catfish.

The avenger's machine gun was powerful, and the bullets pierced through the catfish's skin, mercilessly entering its brain with each shot.

The one thousand yellow-level bullets were quickly depleted, and Lucas indulged himself this time.

Today's harvest was already quite good considering the current situation. Not to mention the ones in the river, those on the shore alone could probably be exchanged for several yellow-level capsules.

The giant catfish was dead beyond doubt, flopping on the water's surface along with its minions.

Lucas had the mute girl control the machine gun for security while he turned on all the lights on the bus. Then, holding the drone control panel, he got off the bus and went to the shore to figure out how to retrieve the giant infected catfish from the river.

There was a height difference of twenty meters, and the shore was about twenty meters away from the catfish corpse.

Using the drone, Lucas had already observed the size of the giant infected catfish's body.

Without exaggeration, this creature's size was about three times that of the bus.

Lucas was a bit puzzled.

With such a size, it was only at the yellow-level rank.

Were all the infected organisms in the water developed like this?

Considering the fact that evolved individuals in the previous world were unwilling to provoke the infected organisms in the water, Lucas felt like he understood but also felt like he didn't.

But whether he understood or not was not important. What mattered was how to retrieve this thing.

Lucas carefully examined the surrounding terrain and realized that he couldn't do it with his own body alone. He needed tools to have a chance of pulling it up.

The appropriate tool now was to use a rope.

At this height, even finding a crane wouldn't work.

To obtain a rope, he naturally had to make one, and he also needed to make a large hook that could pierce into the giant infected catfish's body.

In other words, this hook needed to have a yellow-level quality.

Lucas looked at the dead insects covering the ground and quickly went over to clean them up.

Two yellow-level insects and five red-level insects, not a bad harvest.

Lucas immediately used the intact yellow-level insect carapace as material to repair the bus.

With the remaining two yellow-level insect cores and one yellow-level blank blueprint, along with the one yellow-level blank blueprint Lucas had saved, he temporarily had two yellow-level capsules, two yellow-level blank blueprints, and one complete yellow-level insect carapace.

Without hesitation, Lucas took a yellow-level blank blueprint and started drawing the hook.

Lucas felt like it was a good deal. This hook might come in handy in the future.