The imposing eight-wheeled truck hauling a container came to a stop ahead, with a modified Hummer parked beside it.
Both exuded a mechanical beauty and an overbearing presence.
Steel bars, freshly welded on and still covered in black weld marks, reinforced the windows of both vehicles, turning them into two fortresses.
Surrounding the two modified vehicles was a ring of highway guardrails used to divide traffic lanes. The guardrails had clearly been welded shut and fixed firmly into the ground.
With the two modified vehicles bracing them from behind, even a horde of Dead Bodies would likely find it difficult to push them over and get inside. The people within could use this as cover, stand atop the vehicles with long-handled weapons, and stab the Dead Bodies below to death.
And if anything went wrong inside, they could simply drive through the guardrails and escape.
Twenty or thirty Dead Bodies lay scattered on the ground outside the guardrails. Their blood had already congealed, making for a rather disgusting sight, while the air was thick with the faint stench of blood and decay.
They had probably been nearby Dead Bodies drawn over by the noise of the modified vehicles and the installation of the guardrails. Most had suffered fatal penetrating wounds to the head, and many of the tiny bloody holes appeared to have been caused by something fired into them.
After the bus arrived and stopped nearby, Xu Yue took one look and roughly guessed that they were homemade crossbows or some similar ranged weapon.
With the Intruders' hands-on abilities and all the tools they had bought in bulk, making crossbows would not have been much of a problem.
Having fled all the way until now, they had come to understand clearly that in this environment, silent crossbows were far