Chen Ye looked around and found only Xu Lina's vehicle.

Neither Chu Che's nor Sun Xixi's vehicles were in sight.

Chen Ye noticed that the glowing characters not far away seemed to have new content.

Just as he was about to go take a look, a piercing scream tore through the night air.

"Ahhhh~~~"

The shrill scream echoed across the night sky.

This scream was saturated with immense terror.

Chen Ye and Xu Lina were startled.

They turned their heads simultaneously to look.

"Sister Lina, Mr. Chen, Jiang Hui... Jiang Hui fell down..."

Everyone who heard these words was shocked.

They saw several panicked people standing at the door of that beat-up, rundown bus.

Some were still frozen in the act of reaching out, now just standing there dumbfounded.

Chen Ye gave them a cold glance.

He didn't care about ordinary people, but he also didn't think these people would die for no reason.

Everyone knew this place was problematic.

No one would be stupid enough to jump into the leaf litter layer.

Everyone must have developed considerable wariness towards the leaf litter layer.

Those who had survived this long were no idiots.

Someone must be up to no good.

Chen Ye had also heard about some of the dramatic, backstabbing plots within the convoy.

He just hadn't expected to see it happen right before his eyes.

"Hmph!"

Chen Ye snorted coldly. With Chu Che absent, he was the convoy's acting captain for now.

Even if he was just the acting captain, he was still the captain.

These people dared to play tricks right in front of him.

They simply didn't know how to write the word 'death'!!!

Moreover, without that chatterbox Chu Che buzzing in his ear...

He lightly raised a hand.

A wisp of smoke instantly drilled into the bus.

The smoke transformed into a giant hand, directly pushing everyone standing near the door position into the leaf litter layer.

There were three people standing at the door.

Lu Duoduo was one of them.

Previously, after Li Daba and his men died.

Lu Duoduo and Jiang Hui had become the deputies of this bus.

One could say they were below Xu Lina, but above the several dozen others.

In the future, they would be the ones calling the shots on this bus.

She believed Xu Lina, now a superhuman, probably wouldn't bother much with the messy affairs inside the bus.

Look at the other superhumans in the convoy.

They also didn't meddle in the convoy's internal matters.

Sometimes, even when such matters were brought right before them.

They would at most just have Supervisor Xue handle it.

Just moments ago, Jiang Hui was standing at the door, craning his neck to look at something in the darkness.

But because the sky was too dark, he couldn't see clearly.

So, with one hand gripping the door frame, he leaned his body out to look into the distance.

Seeing Jiang Hui in such a dangerous position, a thought sprouted in Lu Duoduo's mind.

If Jiang Hui died, wouldn't Bus Number Seven be hers to command in the future?

This thought spread through Lu Duoduo's heart like wildfire.

She glanced left and right, noticing there were quite a few people around.

Xu Lina was talking with Mr. Chen at that moment.

They probably wouldn't notice me.

Besides, Mr. Chen is famously indifferent. He definitely wouldn't care about such a small matter...

Then Lu Duoduo reached out her hand.

However, what Lu Duoduo never dreamed of was this:

Chen Ye was famously indifferent.

He couldn't even be bothered to investigate who did it.

He directly pushed her and the other two people outside the bus door.

"Ahhhh~~~"

Lu Duoduo's scream was laced with boundless regret.

This man... is simply too ruthless!

How could he do this...

Lu Duoduo fell into the leaf litter layer, panicking like a drowning person, struggling desperately to climb back onto the bus.

Just as she was struggling to climb back, a large hand firmly grabbed her ankle. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

"Lu Duoduo, you're vicious enough!"

That familiar, icy voice instantly made Lu Duoduo's body feel as if it had plunged into an ice cellar.

This is...

Jiang Hui...

He's not dead!

Chen Ye's judgmental style, acting without even asking questions, caused Xu Lina's pupils to contract slightly.

However, a glimmer of light soon flashed in her eyes.

A voice arose in her heart: This is Mr. Chen!!!!! Right, this is exactly how he is!!!

A feeling of exhilaration rose in her heart!

Chen Ye ignored Xu Lina's little thoughts, just staring intently with burning eyes at the several people fighting in the leaf litter layer.

A strange light flickered in his eyes.

"They... aren't dead!"

Chen Ye's sudden voice snapped Xu Lina back to reality.

"Mr. Chen..."

Xu Lina wanted to say something.

Chen Ye raised a hand, the smoke transforming into a large hand that grabbed a person who couldn't react in time. Amidst this person's screams of terror.

He threw the person into the leaf litter layer.

The person screamed in horror, flailing wildly, trying to rush back.

"I... I'm fine! I'm fine..."

The person flailed a couple of times, discovering they could still stand perfectly well, their nostrils filled with the smell of rotting leaves.

Chen Ye's eyes flickered incessantly...

His gaze fixed dead on the people still fighting.

That woman seemed to be surrounded by four men, getting pummeled.

Tsk tsk...

A flash passed through Chen Ye's eyes as he turned to look at the others still on the bus.

"Mr. Chen... Please don't, I'll get down myself!"

A man speaking with a thick Beijing accent raised his hand and jumped off the bus...

One, two, three...

After everyone had gotten off the bus.

Chen Ye stroked his chin, lost in thought.

Then he turned to look at Xu Lina.

Xu Lina now also understood what was going on, but when Chen Ye looked at her.

Xu Lina felt extremely uneasy.

She pointed at herself in disbelief...

"Me..."

Xu Lina understood what Chen Ye meant. He wanted her to go down and test it.

The people before were all ordinary.

But she was a superhuman.

What if...

This excessively cautious man... He wanted to use her as an experiment!

How truly detestable...

Detestable...

But for some reason, a thread of that exhilarating feeling actually sprouted in Xu Lina's heart.

It was like...

Mmm...

Only when Xu Lina also remained unharmed.

Did Chen Ye finally believe the rule of the leaf litter layer devouring people had disappeared.

Chen Ye had a suspicion. Perhaps every time they experienced an Anomaly Tide, the rules here would undergo some small changes.

For example, after the first Anomaly Tide, the leaf litter layer had already stopped devouring people.

It was just that he hadn't known back then.

After the second Anomaly Tide, Xu Lina's convoy had appeared.

Following this pattern.

Perhaps they only needed to experience one or two more Anomaly Tides to gather everyone from the convoy and leave this damned place.

"Mr. Chen... I... we..."

Chen Ye waved his hand dismissively, directly descending from the platform simulated by smoke.

When his feet touched the ground again, this feeling of solidity gave Chen Ye a rare sense of security.

At that moment, Chen Ye noticed there seemed to be something at his feet.

He raised a hand, using smoke to grab it.

It turned out to be a rice cooker.

Not a Wonder, just the simplest rice cooker.

The kind every household used before the apocalypse.

"Oh my god, there's more here... This is... this is City Bumpkin braised eggs! And chicken legs..."

A man whose features were indistinguishable held up a bag of braised eggs and chicken legs, shouting and screaming wildly.

He looked like a beggar who had finally received alms from a kind soul.

"Holy crap, I found dried noodles!"

A middle-aged woman held up a pack of dried noodles, going crazy.

"Wuwuwu... Bread, bread, and chocolate..."

A young girl held the bread and chocolate in her hands, breaking down in tears, her voice filled with desolation.

Tears carved two white trails down her grimy face...

"These are White Rabbit milk candies, my heavens!"

For a moment, quite a few people around were finding harvests within the leaf litter layer.

Everyone who found something acted like a madman who had lost their mind.

Shouting and screaming, dancing wildly in the leaf litter layer.

The blood vessel behind Xu Lina's head lightly hooked something, actually retrieving a set of clothes from the leaf litter layer.

Although it wasn't food, having any harvest was good.

Chen Ye looked around. Apart from this rice cooker, there was actually nothing else.

Damn it...