Professor Tang drew Xu Yishen a road map to the highway. After the gas station, Xu Yishen really saw the entrance of the ring highway, and he drove the car onto the highway. The road signs on the highway were very clear, and at every fork in the road, there was an arrow to City F. Xu Yishen was an experienced driver, so if he followed the road signs, he would not have to worry about going the wrong way.
Zhuo Feng, who was sitting in the front row of the bus, looked out the window and wondered, “The mutants have taken over the whole city, didn’t any of the citizens run out? Why can’t we see a single car on the road?”
Xu Yishen said, “The population of this city is at least a million, so it’s impossible to destroy it in a few days, right?”
Yue Xingwen looked out the window thoughtfully as it grew dark. The entire city plunged into darkness, not even a hint of light from the streetlights could be seen. Xu Yishen turned on the lights to illuminate the car, and in the darkness, he did not dare to drive too fast, keeping the speed at around 70 km/h.
Time passed minute by minute, and the students in the car did not make a sound, silently staring out the dark window, as if something would suddenly attack them in the darkness. Everyone was on guard, and did not dare to relax at all.
However, nothing happened.
The bus drove smoothly on the highway for more than half an hour.
Professor Tang’s stomach suddenly rumbled as he coughed lightly and said, “Do you have anything to eat? I haven’t eaten for three days.” He hid in an iron box on the rooftop of the building, surviving for three days on a few bottles of milk, and at this point, his stomach was so empty that he could barely hold it together.
Yue Xingwen turned back and said, “We are still within the boundaries of City C, this is the stronghold of the mutants, we can’t relax, let’s eat together after we leave City C. Professor Tang, why don’t you drink some water first and eat some peanuts and red dates to pad your stomach?” He took a bottle of mineral water out of the box and handed it to the other man, then rummaged through his bag and grabbed a handful of peanuts and handed them over.
Professor Tang: “…”
What about fleeing for your life and bringing a bunch of peanuts and red dates and sesame seeds and green beans? This group was so creative. The corner of Professor Tang’s mouth twitched as he took the mineral water and a handful of peanuts and chewed them in silence.
The car was speeding along on the highway and Xin Yan was really not good at cooking. They did not find any easy to carry food like biscuits or chocolate at the supermarket, and there was nothing Yue Xingwen could do about it, he looked around at his teammates, “Are you guys hungry? Anyone want some peanuts?”
Ke Shaobin raised his hand and said, “I want it.” No one else was hungry, after all, they had eaten breakfast before coming to the examination room, and shook their heads to say they did not want to eat.
Ke Shaobin found that, apart from Professor Tang who had not eaten for three days and was starving, he was the only one to raise his hand for food, and his ears could not help but redden slightly as he added in a whisper, “Just give me a few to try.”
Yue Xingwen laughed and said, “Don’t be polite, we just took enough, you can eat as much as you want.” He stuffed a large handful of peanuts for Ke Shaobin and asked, “Do you want melon seeds?”
Everyone: “…”
What about running for their life? What were peanuts and melon seeds?
Ke Shaobin coughed, took the melon seeds handed over by Yue Xingwen, and lowered his head to silently crack the melon seeds.
The only sounds in the quiet bus were Professor Tang eating peanuts and Ke Shaobin cracking melon seeds. The sound lasted for a few seconds before Xin Yan finally couldn’t help himself and said faintly, “Find a safe place later and I’ll cook you guys some more porridge. Burning a distillation flask with a spirit lamp with gasoline next to it can be dangerous in case the vehicle bumps and causes a fire.”
Yue Xingwen said, “En, let’s leave City C first.”
Everyone was chatting, and Xu Yishen suddenly stepped on the brakes!
The sudden braking made everyone’s bodies rush forward uncontrollably, and everyone hurriedly grabbed the seats to stabilize their bodies. Ke Shaobin almost fell on his head and spilled the melon seeds in his hand on the floor, he hurriedly sat up and asked nervously, “What’s going on?”
Xu Yishen frowned and said, “The toll booth up ahead, there’s a traffic jam.”
Yue Xingwen quickly walked near the driver’s seat and looked ahead, only to see a long line of dense private cards on the highway, blocking the entire road. Most of the cars had their lights on, and there was a deafening honking sound from ahead.
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The shrill sound of the horn made everyone frown.
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This section of the road was exactly a bend, and looking out of the window, the congested traffic was like a golden chain, with long lines of cars that could not be seen to end. There was no telling how long they had been stuck here.
Yue Xingwen asked Jiang Pingce with his eyes if he wanted to get out of the bus. Jiang Pingce nodded and Yue Xingwen turned around and said, “Everyone wait in the bus, I’ll go down with Pingce to take a look.” The two got out of the bus together and walked more than ten meters forward.
Many drivers in the traffic jam looked terrified and locked their doors, and many of them went out of their cars to chat with the people around them. Yue Xingwen heard someone next to him cursing in a low voice, “Fuck, this has been stuck for hours, what the hell is going on in front of us, is there anyone to take care of it?!”
“I don’t know, is it a serial car accident?”
“What should we do if this path doesn’t work? Do you want to go back and find another way?”
“You are crazy! Go back and be caught by those monsters for experiments?”
Experimenting? Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, and the two quickly stepped forward. Yue Xignwen looked at a middle-aged driver who stood beside the car and asked, “Uncle, what does it mean to do experiments? Has anyone been taken for experimentation?”
The middle-aged man with stubble on his face exhaled a smoke ring irritably and said, “Don’t you know yet? The city is in total chaos! Some strange black-clad people suddenly appeared in the streets, grabbing people on sight, and they had guns in their hands!”
A young man in sportswear next to him said, “I’ve also heard that those people in black will first ask if you want to volunteer to go with them to do experiments, and those who are unwilling will be killed directly!”
The curly-haired woman clenched her fists tightly, her voice shaking, “At first, we thought that the special police were on a mission, but as a result, a child turned and fled, and was actually shot in the head by them… It-it’s so terrible!”
The man said with a calm face, “How can they force people to do experiments like this, and kill them if they don’t agree! We couldn’t stay here anymore, so we wanted to go to our relatives’ house in City G to escape for a while.”
Jiang Pingce said in a low voice, “When did they go to the street to arrest people?”
The woman said, “Just, just yesterday.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Have you been stuck on the road all day?”
The middle-aged man with stubble put out his cigarette and annoyingly dropped it on the ground, crushing it with his leather shoe, and said, “Yesterday, those people in black only appeared near the Research Institute in the western district of the city and killed many people. After seeing the news on the Internet, I hurriedly packed my luggage, ran out at noon today, and ended up stuck on the highway.”
The young man said, “We just got out this afternoon too!”
The woman looked around anxiously and said, “If we keep on like this, what if those guys catch up with us?”
Panic spread quickly through the crowd, and there was a loud cry of collapse ahead, mixed with roars and cursing, especially the vehicles caught in the middle, unable to get through, and unable to retreat, simply waiting for death.
A few moments later, suddenly a group of people ran screaming as if they were being chased by wolves in reverse from the front. The convoy drivers who were blocking the road saw this scene and rolled down their windows and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Among the crowds, someone shouted in a hoarse voice, “There are monsters ahead, monsters!”
“Run quickly ah!”
Hearing this sentence, some people immediately locked the door in panic, and some drivers simply abandoned the car and ran away.
The entire highway instantly became a mess, and not far away, a woman’s high heels broke as she fled and accidentally fell to the ground, letting out a mournful scream as the crowd coming behind her stepped right on top of her.
The cries of children, the shouts of the elderly and the honking of vehicles were deafeningly intermingled. The crowd came like a tidal wave from the distance, Jiang Pingce’s face changed and he hurriedly grabbed Yue Xingwen’s wrist, “Go!”
Before Yue Xingwen had time to reach, Jiang Pingce suddenly opened up the coordinate system with his right hand and took Yue Xingwen directly up high into the sky. Both of them flew all the way to near the toll station after a long parabolic motion.
Looking down from the sky, Yue Xingwen finally saw what was happening in front of him——
Several large trucks were parked at the toll booth at the exit of the City C’s highway, and some people in black, armed with submachine guns, were guarding the booth, questioning passing vehicles one by one. An icy voice came from below, “Are you willing to be a volunteer?”
If they were willing, they would be escorted with their hand and foot tied to the carriage of the truck. If they were not willing, they would be executed on the spot.
The reason why the crowd suddenly rushed backwards was because several people looked for an opportunity to resist when they were escorted, and as a result, the escort violently bit off their necks!
Those people’s teeth were sharper than wild animals, and the few who had their necks bitten fell in a pool of blood in horror, and those who saw this scene immediately abandoned the car and fled!
The speed of everyone running wildly could not compare to the bullets behind them.
The people in black immediately launched a shot at the fleeing crowd, and the ‘bang’ gunshot sounded in the night sky——
People fell one after another, and there was blood everywhere! In the blink of an eye, the entire highway was stained red with blood, and it was amazing how small and almost defenseless ordinary humans were in the face of organized, armed mutants.
Yue Xingwen looked at this hellish scene, and his face was extremely ugly.
Jiang Pingce said, “There are too many people in black, we must move immediately.”
The team of mutants swept forward with their submachine guns. Their bus was at the far end, but they could not sit still and wait for death. Yue Xingwen gritted his teeth and said, “Let’s go!”
Both of them returned to the bus. Lin Manluo greeted them nervously, “How is it? I heard gunshots outside!”
Yue Xingwen said, “The mutants blocked the toll booth in advance, and the citizens who wanted to escape the city were all blocked here. They were holding guns and asking one by one whether they wanted to be volunteers. If you are willing, they’ll put you in a large truck and take you away. If you’re unwilling, they will shoot you on the spot!”
Hearing Yue Xignwen’s short description, the students in the bus gasped.
Xu Yishen calmed down and asked, “Volunteers? Those who are willing to volunteer, equivalent to being forced to join a team of mutants, will be pulled for research and genetically modified?”
Zhuo Feng’s face was solemn and said, “Won’t this make the mutant team more and more powerful?”
Jiang Pingce said, “If you want to live, you must join the mutant camp, or you will be executed immediately. All those bodies we saw in the square today would have been humans who resisted and were shot or killed on sight…”
Those who resisted did not end well. However, who would know, after joining the mutant camp, what research would be taken for?
In the eyes of those mutants with enhanced physical strength, speed, endurance, all the other aspects. Ordinary humans were nothing more than lab rats, without human rights or freedom, ready to be executed with a shot of potion.
Liu Zhaoqing clenched his fist tightly and said, “This situation is truly the end of the world! Is there still a turnaround for humanity?”
Yue Xingwen suddenly looked at Professor Tang who was sitting in the back row, “I remember Professor Tang saying that among the information you carry, there are weaknesses of the mutants, that’s why the mutants are desperate to find you? Since they are all products of genetic modification, the information in Professor Tang’s hands should have a complete genetic sequence, which can solve the problem of mutant people from the root, right?”
Ke Shaobin quickly understood and drew an analogy, “If mutants are a genetic program, then, in Professor Tang’s hands, does he hold their source code? With the source code, we can figure out the best way to attack the mutants and destroy these programs!”
Professor Tang nodded with a serious expression, “Your understanding is correct. This information is extremely valuable, so even if I die, I won’t give it to anyone, and I must take it to the Genetic Research Center.”
Yue Xingwen took a deep breath and said, “Don’t worry, we’ll protect you!”
Today, the highway was completely blocked, and the congestion exceeded 3 kilometers, so they could not go directly.
Xu Yishen said, “This highway won’t work, behind us is the mutant stronghold, we can’t go back. Think about a way, is there another way?”
Jiang Pingce said calmly, “Give up the highway and take the provincial road.”
Xu Yishen looked back at him, “Do you know the way?”
Jiang Pingce said, “I have been observing just now. Under the highway, there is also a parallel path marked with provincial highway 106, the direction is facing north, which should be the passage out of the province. The mutant blocked the toll booths on the highway, but the outside of the highway should be open for now. We can turn off the lights, hurry up to bypass this section of the road.”
Professor Tang’s face changed slightly and said, “But if we take the provincial road, we’ll have to turn back first, go out of the highway exit just now and then walk several kilometers in the city…”
Yue Xingwen said, “Don’t worry, we have a way.”
He looked at Jiang Pingce, who immediately nodded, stretched out his right hand, drew the xyz coordinate system, set the entire bus as a coordinate, and wrote out a line of equations quickly.
Jiang Pingce said in a deep voice, “Everyone sit tight!”
Everyone grabbed the seat armrests, and the whole bus instantly floated into the air, flying straight down the highway towards the side——
Professor Tang squeezed his eyes shut, thinking that the bus would be destroyed and he would be killed at this time!
However, after the huge bus flew out of the highway, it did not crash and get destroyed, but landed firmly on another side road a hundred meters away from the highway.
Professor Tang was terrified, “This…”
Yue Xingwen said, “Just pretend we have a special capability that allows us to fly.”
Jiang Pingce stepped forward and said, “Senior brother Xu, turn off the headlights, the lights will attract the attention of the mutants.”
It was dark all around this road, and as they went forward with the lights on, in a grand manner, the team of mutants on the highway not far away would have seen the lights and surely spotted them and immediately caught up with them.
Xu Yishen turned off the lights and said, “Driving in the dark will be dangerous, let Ke Shaobin come over!”
Ke Shaobin walked quickly to the driver’s seat, summoned his robot and said, “I’ll have Xiao Tu radar detect, and it can alert us if there’s an obstacle ahead.”
Xiao Tu turned on the radar monitoring function, showing the scanned path on the screen.
Xu Yishen slowed down the speed, followed the path displayed by Xiao Tu to drive forward in the dark.
From time to time, heart-rending screams and cries came from the highway in the distance.
Inside the bus, everyone did not speak, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.
Yue Xingwen frowned tightly. For them, this was just an exam, but for the humans in this examination room everyone was facing the life and death of the entire species.
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