"Xiao Lei! Tell everyone to keep the noise down!"

Duan Lei was directing the survivors to gather supplies and allocate vehicles when he suddenly heard Li Chenzhou's voice behind him. He quickly turned around, and seeing Li Chenzhou's somewhat grave expression, his heart sank.

"What's wrong, Boss!"

"There's a pet market across the road!"

Li Chenzhou said.

"Huh?"

Gray Bear, who was nearby, shuddered when he heard Li Chenzhou's words.

"You mean... there are mutated beasts?"

The shadow that the little hamster had cast on Gray Bear was considerable. That was just a little hamster, but now it was a pet market. How many hamsters would that be???

"Although I didn't see it, I'm sure of it!"

Li Chenzhou nodded.

"Boss! I just asked the survivors in this residential area, and some of them also keep cats and dogs. Why haven't we found any mutated beasts here?"

Seeing Li Chenzhou's affirmative tone, Duan Lei suddenly asked.

"Because it takes a certain amount of time to absorb the Hell Strands!"

Li Chenzhou said.

"Generally speaking, it takes animals about several dozen hours to completely absorb the Hell Strands in their bodies and become true mutated beasts! So, the number of mutated beasts in the first three days won't be high!"

"Then... why did that hamster absorb it so quickly? Was it because it was small and absorbed less Hell Strands?"

Gray Bear couldn't forget the little hamster.

"The time is about the same, regardless of size!"

Li Chenzhou shook his head and said.

"But... if that hamster was in a nest of hamsters when the apocalypse happened, then it could greatly speed up its absorption by eating its own kind. Also - eating humans and zombies has the same effect!"

"So... that's why you said there must be mutated beasts here?"

Duan Lei suddenly understood.

If mutated beasts only absorb the Hell Strands in their own bodies to strengthen themselves, it takes about three days. But if they can eat other creatures that also contain Hell Strands, they can shorten this time.

Then... the animals in the pet market would certainly not lack food, including the pet merchants who sold them.

"That's right! So leave as soon as possible! Tell everyone to stop collecting supplies and go to the next residential area. I've already cleared it out, but there should still be some in the stairwells!"

Li Chenzhou nodded.

"Xiao Lei, you organize people here to get there as soon as possible. Gray Bear and I will go there!"

"Okay!"

Duan Lei agreed immediately, while Li Chenzhou took Gray Bear directly to the previous residential area.

At that time, Li Chenzhou was prepared to clear out the concentrated zombies himself, and let Duan Lei take the survivors to deal with the scattered ones, so the speed would be much faster, and it wouldn't reduce the number of kill points by much.

But now, he wanted to leave here as soon as possible, the farther away from that damn pet market the better, so it was better to start cleaning up with Gray Bear first.

Duan Lei also immediately began to gather the survivors, telling everyone to leave immediately and abandon the search.

Although there were still a lot of rice and flour in the homes of the residential area, after Duan Lei spoke, no one dared to stay any longer, because they were afraid that Duan Lei would leave with the team and leave them here.

"Do you know the pet market across the street? What do they sell there?"

When the survivors walked out of the various stairwells one after another, preparing to leave, Duan Lei grabbed a person and asked.

"Oh! You mean Chengfeng Flower and Bird Market?"

The man was obviously very familiar with the pet market across from his home and immediately replied.

"There's a lot of stuff there. It's one of the best flower and bird markets in our city! There are all kinds of strange things in there, and even crocodiles, said to be kept as pets. I don't know who's so sick to keep a guy that might eat you as a pet!"

"Crocodiles?"

Hearing this, Duan Lei's face turned green. Although he didn't have as much fear of mutated beasts as Gray Bear, he had personally witnessed the terrifying speed of mutated beasts after all.

A hamster almost killed Gray Bear, what if it was a crocodile...

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Everyone get in the car. Remember, don't make any loud noises. There are very powerful mutated beasts hiding in the pet market across the street. If they find us, we'll all die here."

Duan Lei waved his hand, telling everyone to leave as soon as possible.

"What are mutated beasts?"

The surrounding survivors were stunned and felt uneasy, because before, when facing zombies, the young man with the gun in his hand had always been very relaxed, so they asked.

"They're animals that have turned into zombies, like crocodiles, spiders, etc. Do you want to stay here and see what they look like and how they eat people?"

Duan Lei replied, then ran outside!

"Damn! Let's go!"

Hearing Duan Lei's words, everyone's faces changed drastically. Mutated crocodiles... don't even think about it, they must be more terrifying than zombies, so they immediately seized the time to stuff the resources in their hands into the car and drove out of the residential area one after another.

Now there were already more than twenty cars in their team, not counting the cars of the survivors in this residential area, but most of the cars didn't drive in, but waited on the side of the road outside, so it was busy but not chaotic.

Of course, the fact that these survivors could do this was also related to the fact that Duan Lei had killed another person in this residential area. In short, now all the survivors knew that in front of this seventeen- or eighteen-year-old young man, you only had two choices: either obey obediently, or leave by yourself!

If you don't choose either and want to be unreasonable, this young man won't repeatedly warn you many times like the previous police officers, and then catch you, he will directly raise his hand and use a bullet as his answer...

"Sister! We'll continue forward to ensure the safety ahead!"

Duan Lei went to the armored vehicle, first said something to Duan Xue, then turned around and said to the two strong men following him.

"Brother Kong, Brother Wang, you take people to the next residential area. My boss is clearing zombies there. You are responsible for rescuing people. Remember, just rescue people and leave as soon as possible. I'll go ahead and clear zombies. You guys hurry over when you're done!"

These two were Duan Lei's chosen assistants, one named Wang Yuanqiang and one named Kong Xiang. According to Luo Hong's method, Duan Lei asked them to lead the combat team and the rescue team respectively. At least for now, it seemed pretty good!

"Understood!"

The two nodded together, then called their people and rushed to the next residential area.

"Everyone else, follow me, don't honk your horns, don't fall behind, and keep up!"

Watching the two lead people away, Duan Lei turned around and said to the convoy behind him, then jumped on the armored vehicle, sat by the sunroof, Duan Xue stepped on the accelerator, and the armored vehicle began to drive forward...