The grizzly bear's words silenced all the survivors. They looked at each other, a sense of shame washing over them.

If those three crocodiles hadn't appeared, perhaps the grizzly bear's words wouldn't have affected them so deeply. Although they had killed quite a few zombies, they had done so with such ease that the survivors hadn't really felt anything.

However, almost everyone had witnessed the great battle between Li Chenzhou and the grizzly bear against the crocodiles. Ignoring the fact that the grizzly bear had been directly hit by the crocodile's tail, which was powerful enough to flip a car, the sight of Li Chenzhou fighting the crocodile with a long staff had made their hearts leap into their throats.

Although Li Chenzhou hadn't been hit once, it had looked incredibly dangerous. He had narrowly avoided each attack. One slip-up, and Li Chenzhou's fate would likely have been even worse than the grizzly bear's, after all, the grizzly bear was just struggling to survive, while the crocodile hadn't even been trying that hard when fighting Li Chenzhou.

Therefore, in the eyes of the survivors, Li Chenzhou was risking his life, and so was the grizzly bear. As for Duan Lei, who had been "petrified," everyone subconsciously ignored him.

That was why the grizzly bear's words now made the survivors feel even more ashamed. He could have left the city directly, but to save them, he had risked his life to come down and slaughter zombies, even fighting the crocodiles.

Moreover, everything he had done was to save them time, so they could leave this treacherous city before nightfall.

They had done so much, and not only had we failed to thank them, but we even thought they were cruel. This...

At that moment, many survivors felt ungrateful, repaying kindness with hatred, worse than animals, deserving of death… well, maybe not death. No matter how the world changed, it was always better to be alive.

"Saying all this is just to let you know that our goal is to take as many people out of the city as possible when we leave. That's all!"

The grizzly bear looked across the road:

"You can consider yourselves lucky, because we chose this side. As for the people over there… Alright! Hurry up and get ready, we still have to move forward, and we need to continue rescuing people along the way. Everyone remember, we must be quick. The rules are still the same, we don't have time to explain. Either accept our conditions, or leave on your own. It's that simple!"

"Understood!"

In an instant, everyone roared in agreement, startling Duan Lei, who was fighting in the distance. He kept looking over, wondering why these guys were suddenly so excited, shouting so loudly. Weren't they afraid of attracting zombies?

At this time, Li Chenzhou had already arrived at the hypermarket and cleared out quite a few zombies from the perimeter. Because the main goal this time was to get vehicles, Li Chenzhou didn't use a pistol, but instead smashed his way through with a staff.

The survivors following Li Chenzhou watched in amazement. Damn, the way this guy uses his staff... put a skirt on him and he'd be the Monkey King.

"Someone, drive this truck away and take it to the residential area behind us. Load up the crocodile corpses, we're having a feast tonight!"

Seeing that the surrounding zombies were mostly cleared out, Li Chenzhou first went to the large truck, jumped into the cab, pulled out his dagger, and killed the zombie inside. Then he threw it out of the truck, saw that the keys were still in the ignition, and spoke to the others.

Afterward, Li Chenzhou led the others, including himself, and retrieved eight vehicles from the hypermarket's parking lot. They were all the hypermarket's shuttle buses. Now, not only did everyone have a seat, but there was also plenty of space to store supplies.

The convoy of eight buses returned to the group in a mighty formation, greatly exciting the survivors. Wang Yuanqiang even had a flash of inspiration, suggesting that Li Chenzhou put all three crocodile corpses on the buses. With the buses being over ten meters long, it would be easy to put a crocodile on the roof, freeing up the box truck!

Li Chenzhou readily agreed, even transferring the crocodile from the armored vehicle to the bus.

At this time, Duan Lei had also cleared out the zombies he had attracted earlier, adding nearly two hundred more slaughter points for Li Chenzhou. However, as soon as he returned, he immediately reached out to Li Chenzhou for bullets. He had used up all the dozens of bullets he had brought with him, and had to call for the grizzly bear to come over with a gun for support, installing a silencer on the rifle to deal with the zombies.

In addition, after killing those zombies, their team unexpectedly gained more than thirty new survivors, further expanding the group. Moreover, after hearing Duan Lei's rules, none of these survivors objected. They all obediently accepted and did whatever they were told, as long as they were taken out of this dangerous city.

Seeing these people's attitude, and looking at the more than one hundred people in his original team, Duan Lei finally understood why Luo Hong had gathered a team so easily.

Luo Hong was definitely not as decisive as Duan Lei, and probably wouldn't even kill to establish authority. So, normally speaking, his team should be more difficult to manage than Duan Lei's.

But the problem was that Luo Hong's team had been formed in the shopping mall, and after leaving the mall, other survivors had joined in small numbers. When facing Luo Hong's team, these people had no room to bargain—just like the thirty-odd people who had joined recently.

Because Li Chenzhou's team already had more than a hundred people, the thirty newcomers were concerned with whether they would be allowed to join, rather than what restrictions they would face.

Earlier, when they had taken in the survivors from the first residential area, there were only Li Chenzhou, Duan Lei, the grizzly bear, and Duan Xue, while there were dozens of survivors. Therefore, they naturally had no scruples.

It's like you joining a large company with your team, you will definitely comply with the company's various rules and regulations. But if you join a small company that doesn't even have as many people as your team, then you will definitely have the confidence to negotiate, and may even ask for some company shares.

Understanding this was a great help to Duan Lei in managing the subsequent team, and made him even more confident!

"Alright! Let's move out. First, we'll clean up the hypermarket, and then we'll prepare to leave the city. As for saving survivors, we'll save as many as we can if we have time, otherwise we'll wait until tomorrow!"

Finally, after reorganizing the team and concentrating the elderly and weak in the buses, Duan Lei finally waved his hand, and the entire team moved slowly in order, heading towards the hypermarket. As for Li Chenzhou?

As soon as he brought the bus back and transferred the crocodile corpses, he had already left alone to clear out the zombies in the hypermarket...