After mentioning only wanting to survive, Li Chenzhou didn't continue, and Gray Bear didn't ask because he knew what Li Chenzhou wanted to say.

Duan Lei also returned, carrying a full backpack on his back, filled with food and water. As for anything else, Duan Lei didn't bother collecting it.

While gathering food, Duan Lei also received some unfriendly glances, but the pistol at his waist ultimately allowed him to return safely without any trouble.

Duan Lei deliberately exposed the gun. Although with his current combat power, he could defeat most people even without a gun, it would still avoid unnecessary complications.

Opening the back door of Li Chenzhou's car, Duan Lei stuffed the backpack inside, then looked around.

Because someone had taken the lead, more and more survivors were leaving their hiding places and rushing towards Wu Village, as it was the only direction out of the city. The other directions led deeper into the urban area.

Even without experiencing the apocalypse, these survivors knew that they absolutely couldn't venture deeper into the city. Within their sight, they could see zombies roaming the streets. Only the road to Wu Village was completely free of zombies.

The emergence of the survivors made the surroundings noisy. Scrambling, fighting, shouts for missing people, and loud curses filled the area with a hint of activity.

But watching the noisy survivors, Gray Bear shook his head and smiled wryly. These guys... instead of taking advantage of the current safety to quickly grab some food and leave, weren't they afraid of attracting zombies?

However, Gray Bear didn't remind them, because he knew that even if he did, it probably wouldn't do much good. His words wouldn't be as effective as the appearance of a single zombie.

And from deep within the alley, a shrill scream finally came. Judging by the fear and despair in the scream, it wasn't from a human fight. It was likely that someone had accidentally been discovered by a zombie, or that there were zombies nearby, but the survivors inside, seeing the people here escaping, wanted to take a risk themselves, only to be caught by the zombies.

Li Chenzhou had indeed cleared out the zombies in the vicinity, but only in the immediate area. Further away, there were still many zombies. Moreover, even within this cleared area, there were definitely still zombies alive, but for various reasons, they hadn't appeared earlier.

And now, with these survivors scavenging everywhere, fighting and cursing each other, it was entirely expected that they would attract more zombies or release trapped ones.

Although the scream was heard, not many people paid attention to it. People were still scrambling in the shops along the road, with the sounds of overturned counters and shattering glass ringing out continuously.

However, among them, there were also many smart people who had already left the urban area and were on the road to Wu Village, some even riding electric bikes and bicycles.

"Let's go, slowly forward. Xiao Lei, you drive! Gray Bear, you drive the car behind!"

Li Chenzhou looked at the alley where the screams came from, then sensed his mental strength. He found that he could release a one-second War Fog (战争迷雾). He jumped out of the car, reached out, took out the battle blade he had used before, and handed it to Gray Bear, asking:

"Can you use it?"

"Yes!"

Gray Bear took the battle blade, nodded, and walked towards Duan Lei's car.

Duan Lei directly opened the door and got into the driver's seat. Li Chenzhou entered the back seat, leaned out of the sunroof, and prepared to shoot with his pistol.

"Bang! Bang bang!"

Soon, as the vehicle moved forward, the gun in Li Chenzhou's hand finally roared. Originally, Li Chenzhou wanted Duan Lei to do the shooting. As his follower, Duan Lei would earn him kill points, and it would also give Duan Lei some practice with firearms.

But the problem was, Duan Lei didn't have a Killing Space (杀戮空间). Unlike Li Chenzhou, with just a thought, bullets could automatically be filled into the chamber, giving him infinite firepower. So, he had to put that idea on hold for now.

"Puff puff puff!"

With Li Chenzhou's marksmanship, of course, every shot hit its target. Moreover, while killing zombies, the gunshots also attracted zombies from the shadows. Soon, zombies constantly appeared and rushed up.

Duan Lei immediately stopped the car, but he wasn't nervous. He just quietly watched the hideous zombies and looked in the rearview mirror at the survivors in the blocks behind.

At this moment, Duan Lei felt quite fortunate that the apocalypse had only just begun, and he could already calmly face zombies, and had even killed so many.

He knew very well that all of this stemmed from the man who was constantly shooting zombies with his gun. If he hadn't rushed into his small shop that day, Duan Lei wouldn't even be able to face zombies calmly, and surviving at all would have been a matter of luck.

Moreover, even if he could survive, he would probably be like those people behind him, desperately grabbing for meager food and water with immense fear and confusion, and then trying to escape...

No! He wouldn't even be able to escape. If he hadn't met老大 (Lǎodà, boss), his leg wouldn't have recovered. He would most likely be hiding in the small room on the second floor, waiting for death in despair, and he would also be a burden to his sister.

"Gray Bear! You've got the luck! The opportunity is right in front of you! Whether you can seize it... depends on you!"

Reaching out and tapping his leg, Duan Lei suddenly looked at Gray Bear in the car behind in the rearview mirror and murmured. He could also sense that Li Chenzhou intended to recruit Gray Bear.

But he also knew that Li Chenzhou would definitely not force Gray Bear. So, whether Gray Bear could join the team depended on his own choice, and also... on what the situation was like at the Qin Ting Hotel now.

Duan Lei knew that since Li Chenzhou said he was going to the Qin Ting Hotel, he definitely would. And for them now, it really wasn't that difficult.

Duan Lei was certainly quite satisfied with his and his sister's current situation, but he also knew that in addition to luck, it also had a lot to do with him.

Meeting Li Chenzhou was his luck and opportunity, and he seized it, not wasting the chance. If there had only been Duan Xue in the shop that day, Duan Lei was sure that Li Chenzhou wouldn't have taken Duan Xue with him, and would most likely have left her there.

So, his current strength was inseparable from his choices. Gray Bear now had the same opportunity, and whether he could seize it depended on that guy's choice.

At this moment, Gray Bear had also stopped the car, staring blankly at Li Chenzhou, feeling that this guy seemed to be getting more and more mysterious.

How old was he? How could his marksmanship be so good? Better than some elite soldiers, and most importantly, how many shots had this guy fired? He hadn't seen him change a single bullet. This was clearly a scene that only appeared in ridiculous dramas...