With the SUVs leading the way, the convoy began to accelerate and head towards the outskirts of the city.

Because the infected people in the vicinity were cleared out last night, we traveled several kilometers without encountering any obstacles.

Along the way, you can see many mutated earthworms burrowing out of the road, but when vehicles drive by, they flatten the mutated earthworms.

Those mutated earthworms posed no threat to the convoy whatsoever.

They didn't encounter infected people until the convoy left the county.

"Awoooooo..."

Infected individuals, who were far from the road, heard the noise and rushed towards it, howling.

Some infected people tripped over things because they were running too fast, and lay on the ground struggling to reach forward, as if trying to grab something.

Some infected individuals were tripped and rolled a considerable distance away.

Most of the infected people were chasing the convoy with their hands raised and yelling, as if they wanted to choke someone.

However, these infected people are different from zombies. After chasing for thousands of meters, they stopped one by one to catch their breath, lingered in place for a while, and then wandered back again.

They seem to feel a strong sense of belonging to their original resting place.

Only a small percentage of infected individuals collapsed directly on the road and went into hibernation on the spot.

The convoy continued its journey, passing over the broken bridge and crushing countless mutated earthworms along the way, moving unimpeded all the way to the outskirts of the city.

However, once you get to the outskirts, the mutated earthworms gradually decrease in number, but you can start to see wild cats and mice from time to time.

The rats were almost all the size of kittens, much larger than before the apocalypse, but because they were not infected, they did not lose their minds and attack the convoy. Instead, they quickly fled the road.

Yang Shen sat in the passenger seat of the SUV, occasionally releasing his mental energy to scan the situation behind him.

His mental power can now cover a radius of more than 30 meters, allowing him to know the situation of the car behind him.

"Splash..."

The SUV suddenly shook, and a crash and a thud were heard inside the vehicle.

"It's the bottled water in the back seat and those rings that Brother Yang made," Mao Ya, who was driving, quickly explained.

"Hmm." Yang Shen nodded slightly. His mental power had already scanned the box of mineral water and a lot of compressed dry food behind him, as well as more than a hundred ordinary crab shell rings that had not been selected. The duck had taken them all.

Suddenly, Mao Ya's hand on the steering wheel trembled, and he looked ahead in shock.

Yang Shen followed the duck's gaze and saw a flock of birds rising from the woods in the suburbs and circling in the sky.

Even from a distance, those birds looked huge; one can only imagine how big they were up close.

"Drive carefully!"

"Yes, yes." Mao Ya quickly calmed herself down and focused on driving: "Brother Yang, do you think those birds will attack us?"

"jacket--"

As soon as the duck finished speaking, the flock of large birds seemed to have finally spotted the convoy. They immediately let out loud cries and flew towards them like dark clouds.

"Brother Yang and the others are here..." Mao Ya said nervously. Looking at those big birds now, each one was more than a meter wide when it spread its wings, and the largest was even close to three meters.

The number of those large birds was at least fifty.

"Drive carefully!" Yang Shen shouted, while extending his right hand, which was holding a steel needle pistol, out of the car and pulling the trigger.

"Put-put-putt, whoosh whoosh whoosh—"

Instantly, dense streams of red light burst forth, shooting towards a large flock of birds hundreds of meters away in the sky.

The steel needle pistol, which was originally only level three and could blow the infected person's head off with a single shot, now had such a dense streak of bullets that it instantly tore the fastest-flying bird to shreds.

Yang Shen adjusted his gun and continued shooting at the other large birds.

The dense stream of red light, like a storm of bullets, tore many large birds to shreds.

Under the astonished gaze of the duck, the flock of large birds was wiped out before they even got close, blown to pieces in mid-air, turning into countless corpses and black feathers that fell from the sky.

"Plop..."

Mao Ya couldn't help but swallow hard, glancing cautiously at the pistol that could shoot out dense streams of light.

That must be Brother Yang's new weapon, right?

Such a small handgun has such great power, even more so than an assault rifle, right?

"Drive carefully!" Yang Shen reminded him for the third time.

Mao Ya immediately felt the temperature inside the car drop, and quickly focused on driving.

"Don't panic no matter what happens next, I'm here for you. Don't stop the car, I'll catch up!"

After Yang Shen finished speaking, he suddenly opened the car door and jumped out.

The car was traveling at a considerable speed, but Yang Shen didn't even flinch after landing; he rushed directly toward the large bird carcasses that had fallen from the sky.

Seeing this, the duck took a deep breath and focused on driving.

The people in the convoy behind also saw the flock of large birds. They were initially worried, but when they saw that the birds were blasted apart by a dense barrage of light before they even got close, they all felt relieved.

"Don't worry, everyone. With Brother Yang here, we'll be fine," a middle-aged man said loudly.

At that moment, red dots appeared on the windshields of the first few cars; those were drops of blood falling from the sky.

...

Yang Shen strode several meters at a time, crossing the road and quickly arriving at the spot where he had shot and killed the large birds. At that moment, the remains of the birds had just fallen to the ground.

He released his mental energy to scan all the bird corpses, searching for energy cores.

He originally thought that since those birds were so big, they must all be evolved.

However, in the end, he only found five white, translucent crystal nuclei the size of rice grains.

Other bird carcasses with wingspans less than two meters did not contain crystal nuclei.

"Is it because it's just begun its evolution and hasn't yet formed a crystal core?"

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