When escaping from Rong City Second Elementary School, Iron Lion's vehicle had the most people.

Everyone in the convoy knew this big fool had a kind heart and the best attitude towards ordinary people.

The chance of surviving by following him was the greatest.

Following Chen Ye, on the other hand, offered almost no possibility of survival.

Anyone who wasn't a fool knew which choice to make.

Iron Lion also lived up to the hopes of the many survivors. After escaping the Second Elementary School, this fool never got back in the vehicle.

Because there were simply too many survivors on the vehicle.

So many that this big fool couldn't even get on.

So, Iron Lion simply decided not to get in the vehicle. With his physical constitution, even running alongside the vehicle for ten days and ten nights wasn't a problem.

Right after leaving the Second Elementary School, the vehicle was targeted by countless Anomalies.

Iron Lion, with his fists alone, carved a bloody path through the endless horde of Crawlers. Only two survivors were dragged out of the vehicle by the Crawlers.

This mortality rate would probably make Chen Ye ashamed.

Iron Lion's two heads weren't just for show either. Any Crawler trying to launch a sneak attack was ultimately pulverized by Iron Fists.

Two heads, two pairs of eyes, allowed for round-the-clock surveillance of all directions.

A successful sneak attack was almost impossible.

Of course, Iron Lion wasn't completely unscathed.

His arms, legs, back, even his head bore wounds of varying severity.

Blood would flow from the wounds only to freeze into icicles.

Fortunately, none were life-threatening.

Wounds of this degree would probably cost an ordinary person half their life.

But for Iron Lion, it was as if he didn't feel them at all.

The Titan Sequence 2, Two-Headed Giant, followed a path of pure, overwhelming force to defeat ten skills. Therefore, aside from enhanced physical constitution, its abilities were pitifully few.

Only the Flesh and Blood Armament was barely usable.

Thus, as a Sequence 2, Iron Lion's physical strength and speed had received massive enhancements, not to mention.

Even the defensive power of his skin had received a shocking boost.

Ordinary attacks were basically useless against him.

Those Crawlers pouncing and biting his arm were like trying to bite a piece of steel, only leaving shallow tooth marks.

This was also why he was completely fine after being buried by Crawlers earlier.

And later, he could protect the school bus full of survivors and fight his way out from among the Crawlers.

As for the wounds on his body, most were left by other Anomalies mixed in among the Crawlers. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

The only thing worth celebrating was that after breaking out of the Second Elementary School's vicinity, the number of Anomalies noticeably decreased.

The strongest few Anomalies in the Rong City district were all besieging the Death God at the time, so they paid no attention to Iron Lion and the others at all.

This also increased their chances of escape by a tiny bit.

But the situation that followed wasn't ideal.

Without a pathfinder, surviving in the apocalypse was undoubtedly a very difficult task.

The school bus loaded with survivors swayed and rattled as it charged through the apocalypse.

Iron Lion's hands transformed into oversized snow shovels, clearing a path in front of the school bus.

The fearsome Flesh and Blood Armament was used by Iron Lion to shovel snow.

He single-handedly shoveled a drivable snow path through the over sixty-centimeter-high snow accumulation.

Iron Lion was like a robot that never rested, his shovels constantly swinging. The snow in front of the vehicle flew up like heavenly maidens scattering flowers, dispersing into white mist in the air.

Some survivors wanted to get off and help Iron Lion, but their combined work efficiency couldn't match even one-tenth of this muscular demon man's.

Slowly, the vehicle drove out of the Rong City area. The heavy snow actually began to lessen, and the ground's snow accumulation rapidly thinned.

The temperature was also rising, which thrilled the survivors.

After all, no one wanted to live in extremely cold weather for too long.

Under Iron Lion's protection.

This group of survivors genuinely enjoyed half a day of comfort.

After leaving the heavy snow zone, Iron Lion found an abandoned farmhouse resort.

He let the survivors rest properly for half a day.

Iron Lion then left one of the stones Chu Che had given him when they parted as a marker.

The huge Glowing Characters made Iron Lion feel a bit dizzy.

This big fool was starting to miss Chen Ye, Chu Che, Sun Xixi, and Ding Dong.

If he saw Chen Ye again, the first thing Iron Lion wanted to do was apologize to him.

Back when Wu Jianshan targeted Chen Ye, he thought Wu Jianshan was his Second Uncle, so his brain kind of short-circuited, and he didn't stand by Chen Ye's side immediately.

Iron Lion wanted to apologize to Chen Ye.

As long as Chen Ye wasn't angry, Iron Lion felt he could do anything.

Iron Lion never doubted that Chen Ye and Chu Che wouldn't come looking for him.

It was only a matter of time.

He was their teammate!

Just like he would never abandon them.

If Chen Ye knew Iron Lion's thoughts, he'd definitely mock him for getting dumber.

If what happened next hadn't occurred, Iron Lion might have waited at this farmhouse resort for Chen Ye and Chu Che to find him.

But what happened next was truly chilling.

While taking a headcount, Old Li discovered they were actually missing a survivor.

This instantly put Iron Lion on high alert.

After a brief inquiry, he learned that a survivor had seen a small hot spring pool at this resort and decided to go take a bath.

Old Li had repeatedly emphasized that everyone must report any other activities to him.

But this survivor had only told a friend and sneaked off.

It was only after half an hour with no return that the friend panicked.

By the time Iron Lion led the survivors to that hot spring pool, they saw the survivor sitting in the pool, giggling, having aged by at least fifty years.

You have to understand, this survivor was originally a girl around twenty years old.

Now she had become an old woman in her seventies or eighties.

The old woman waved at Iron Lion, greeting him with a bizarre smile on her face: "Come on, come join the hot spring! It's so comfortable!"

"Old Li, take everyone and leave, now!"

Old Li turned and left without hesitation.

The school bus departed in haste.

Leaving only Iron Lion to fight the old woman.

No one knew where this old woman came from, or why that twenty-year-old girl had turned into this.

For this battle, Iron Lion directly activated his transformation ability, smashing that farmhouse resort with the hot spring pool to pieces.

When Iron Lion found the school bus again, both his arms hung limply at his sides.

Fortunately, the Titan Sequence's physical constitution and recovery were astonishing.

Even with such severe injuries, after two hours, Iron Lion's arms had mostly recovered.

Soon, Iron Lion received a report from Old Li.

Someone among the survivors was actually pregnant.

Hearing this news, Iron Lion was completely stunned.

This was the apocalypse.

A pessimistic, despairing, withering apocalypse.

A child was about to be born into this soil of despair.

Hearing this news, Iron Lion wasn't ecstatic—it wasn't his child, after all.

But he still felt some comfort in his heart.

Yet he also felt somewhat pessimistic.

Even he understood now that this child's timing was terrible. It was very likely this child wouldn't even make it into this world.

Next, the convoy encountered another Anomaly with an indistinct form.

This time, Iron Lion lost his left arm.

The convoy lost three survivors.

For this, Iron Lion blamed himself deeply.

The second time, a man standing under a streetlamp on a rural path lured away three survivors.

Mad Lion lost half his head before breaking free from this Anomaly's strange influence.

Mad Lion, missing half his head, looked terrifyingly ferocious, scaring many survivors to tears.

The third time...

Because there were too many survivors on the school bus, it attracted many Anomalies.

Every time, Iron Lion wanted to protect everyone, but he simply couldn't.

After losing over a dozen survivors, the convoy entered the fog.

When the first person coughed, a doctor surnamed Luo, out of caution, suggested everyone wear masks.

Doctor Luo, the one who helped Chen Ye transplant the Blood Eye.

Chu Che had prepared some supplies for each vehicle, and masks were among them.

From their previous interaction, this Doctor Luo also knew Iron Lion was a good person. Last time, Chen Ye had Iron Lion restrain his wife as a hostage, but throughout the process, Iron Lion didn't do anything excessive.

Therefore, Doctor Luo considered Iron Lion a very good person.

When escaping, Doctor Luo brought his wife onto Iron Lion's vehicle.

Aside from two survivors whose symptoms were similar to Xiao Wang's, dying along the way.

The other survivors all managed to survive.

The pitiful visibility within the thick fog made all the survivors somewhat uneasy.

And now, Iron Lion realized he might be facing the most severe crisis he had ever encountered.

The Anomaly before him was something he had never faced before.

Each Anomaly possessed incomprehensibly powerful strength.

Even if he faced any one of them alone, he didn't have much confidence.

But right now, there was a whole group of them.

These entities had vague, wavering humanoid outlines, seemingly composed of condensed, lingering gray-white thick fog.

Their body boundaries constantly merged and separated with the surrounding fog, lacking clear edges.

Their heads had no distinct facial features, only a denser, thicker, constantly churning mass of fog that occasionally split open into a silent, screaming "mouth" fissure.

Or a few hollow, flickering emerald green or dark red "eyes" would surface.

Their movements were stiff, as if walking the boundary between reality and illusion.

And he himself, missing one arm and half his head.

Even Mad Lion had fallen into slumber.

Iron Lion told Old Li to take the other survivors and leave.

The vehicle had just started moving into the fog when Iron Lion realized the pregnant woman hadn't gotten on.

Now, Iron Lion stood shielding the pregnant woman, a bitter taste in his mouth.

Those vague, indistinct humanoid Anomalies slowly closed in around them.

But just then, a familiar voice rang in Iron Lion's ear: "Holy shit, you big fool, have you completely lost your damn mind?"