Professor Tang’s heart was uneasy, gently clenching his fists at his side.
He had just asked Jiang Pingce to drive north, trying to guide them to take that route through Qingshui Town and then to the Huahai City next door. He had grown up in the Huahai City as a child and was very familiar with the roads throughout the city, so when the time came, he would find a chance to escape, hide, and then find a way to get to the Genetic Research Center in City F on his own. Then, he would be out of the grasp of this group.
However, Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce were not fooled?!
In the middle of the night, these two people were very clear-headed and drove less than a kilometer before they suddenly turned around and drove in the direction of Heihe Town, which was the complete opposite.
Seeing that the bus was back at the fork in the road, Professor Tang pretended to be awakened, looked around, and warned in a low voice, “Are you going the wrong way? Isn’t it heading north?”
Yue Xingwen came to his side and patiently explained, “Don’t worry Professor Tang, we have just carefully observed that although the direction of that road in Qingshui Town is due north at the intersection. After circling around, the direction should be facing west. However, the road in Heihe Town looks wrong, but after going around in a circle, it will be heading north.”
Professor Tang looked surprised and asked, “Is that the case? Thanks to your attentiveness.”
Yue Xingwen smiled and thought: You can just pretend.
Professor Tang’s acting skills were pretty good, and he said it with an innocent expression, “It’s hard work for you guys.” He paused and pretended to ask casually, “Is escorting me this time the task given to you by Director Chen?”
Yue Xingwen: “…”
Yue Xingwen did not know the name of the director of the Genetic Research Center, maybe there was no ‘Director Chen’ at all. If he answered incorrectly, Professor Tang would definitely doubt their identity even more.
Yue Xingwen thought for a moment and said in a different way, “I don’t know the director of the Genetic Research Center, we only follow the orders of our direct supervisor. The members of our C-183 action team all have special abilities, which rarely appear in normal times, and only accept assignments to perform special tasks in a critical time.”
Professor Tang: “…” Was there an elite team among mutants?
Knowing that he would not believe it easily, Yue Xingwen rubbed his temples helplessly and said, “It’s true that some of our abilities are not easy to explain, but we are still very different from mutants. You see, we have all the physical qualities of a normal human being, and we don’t behave strangely like some animals, do we? Some of those mutants have long tongues and sharp teeth, fused with the genes of various animals, but we don’t.”
Professor Tang thought in silence, but you guys are the strangest group of people I’ve ever met.
After a moment of explaining to him, Yue Xingwen simply left him alone and said, “You can sleep first. Don’t worry, we’ll get you safely to the Genetic Research Center.”
Professor Tang nodded and closed his eyes to sleep.
Yue Xingwen returned near the driver’s seat and whispered to Jiang Pingce, “This Professor Tang is not convinced, he has never dispelled his suspicion of us, and may find a way to escape, which is the difficulty of the additional question.”
Jiang Pingce suggested and replied, “If it doesn’t work, let senior sister Lin tie him up with vines.”
Yue Xingwen nodded and replied, “En. If he acts rashly, we can only tie him up.”
Jiang Pingce drove into the Heihe Town. After passing several kilometers of circular road, they really detoured to another relatively remote mountain road. The road sign said ‘Provincial Road 167’, and the direction was due north.
Yue Xingwen looked at the North Star in the sky and said, “This time the direction is right.”
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Thanks to them keeping an eye out, otherwise they would have been fooled by Professor Tang.
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Lin Manluo said, “It’s already 4:30, you guys go to sleep for a few hours.”
Yue Xingwen lowered his voice and said, “Professor Tang has always suspected that we are a team of mutants. He just says ‘believe’ verbally, and once he has the chance, he will probably run away. Senior sister, you can use the vines to block off the inside of the bus, don’t give him any chance to escape.”
Lin Manluo nodded and stretched out her right hand, two 20 meter long vines spread rapidly in the air, completely surrounding and encircling the area where Professor Tang was. As long as Professor Tang wanted to run, Lin Manluo would be able to sense it first and have the vines tighten instantly, tying him up into a dumpling.
After setting this up, Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce assuredly walked over to sit next to Professor Tang.
Professor Tang hid in the iron box for three consecutive days without sleep. He finally couldn’t help but fall asleep from exhaustion, his head tilted to the side, not noticing that Lin Manluo had surrounded him with vines. It was a restless sleep, with repeated nightmares. He dreamed that the man named Liu Zhaoqing took out numerous scalpels out of thin air, cut his stomach open and took out the chip in his body. The student named Xin Yan put the chopped him into a distillation flask and said expressionlessly, “This time, let’s add some meat to the eight-treasure porridge.”
Professor Tang suddenly woke up, and his clothes were soaked with cold sweat.
There was a hint of marble white color in the dawn sky. The light in the car was dim, and he looked down to see that the seat was covered with green vines. He couldn’t even walk freely around the bus, let alone escape.
Turning his head, he met Xin Yan’s icy gaze.
Professor Tang recalled the dream of being taken by Xin Yan to be an ingredient for the porridge, his whole body shuddered. He adjusted his glasses as calmly as possible, and showed a friendly smile to Xin Yan.
Xin Yan looked puzzled and could not help but ask, “What are you smiling at? Are you hungry again?”
Professor Tang’s smile froze on his face and replied, “Not hungry, not hungry.”
Ke Shaobin also woke up, bumbled over, whispering, “Xin Yan, can you make corn porridge today?”
Xin Yan replied, “I can.”
The sky gradually brightened, and the students woke up in turn. Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce had gone to bed after four in the morning and they had not woken up yet, so everyone consciously did not wake them up.
Finding that Professor Tang’s surroundings were covered with green vines, Qin Lu could not help but wonder, leaned into Lin Manluo’s ear and whispered, “Senior sister Lin, these vines are… used to prevent him from escaping?”
Lin Manluo nodded and said, “Xingwen asked me to arrange it just in case, Professor Tang still doesn’t trust us.”
The additional question had a value of 40 points, which definitely was not easy. Professor Tang was self-aware and did not trust them. If he ran, it would be very troublesome for them to find him again. It was easiest to eliminate the possibility of his escape from the root. Lin Manlup believed that with so many people guarding him, Professor Tang couldn’t stir up any trouble.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce woke up at half past seven in the morning. Xin Yan had already made corn porridge, and everyone shared a bowl for breakfast.
At 9:00 am, the bus drove into a section of mountain road, and it suddenly rained outside.
The rain was getting heavier. In an instant, the windows were blurred by the rain, and the scenery outside could not be seen clearly. Zhuo Feng turned on the wiper, and the wiper kept brushing the window glass, but he still could not see the road ahead. The heavy rain in the mountains caused a thick fog to float around. In the white fog, the visibility was less than 5 meters.
Xu Yishen straightened his slightly messy hair, walked to the driver’s seat and said, “Zhuo Feng, you can rest, I’ll drive. It’s raining and the road is slippery, so you have to drive slowly.”
Zhuo Feng’s driving skills were not as good as Xu Yishen, so he simply parked the car on the side of the road and handed the steering wheel to Xu Yishen.
Ke Shaobin looked at the heavy rain outside the window and felt a little worried. “With such heavy rain, it will be dangerous to take the mountain road, right?”
Xin Yan said lightly, “But if we stop to rest, we don’t know when the heavy rain will stop, and if it rains for a whole day, we can’t wait for a whole day in place.”
Xu Yishen fastened his seat belt and said, “To go or not to go, everyone makes a decision.”
Everyone turned their head to look at their team leader, Yue Xingwen.
The weather in the mountains was cloudy. It was common for heavy rain to fall all day, so stopping and waiting was too much of a waste of time, so Yue Xingwen said decisively, “Keep going, and drive carefully.”
Heavy rain, fog, mountain roads… In reality, no one would drive into the mountain in this case. It was indeed dangerous to take the mountain road in the rain, but they were running for their lives, not traveling, after all, and time was very important to them.
Xu Yishen tensed his nerves and said, “Let Xiao Tu scout, I can’t see the road.”
Ke Shaobin asked Xiao Tu to stand next to Xu Yishen for radar monitoring. The bus drove out a few dozen meters in the heavy rain, slowly going through a curve. Just then, Xiao Tu suddenly issued an alert, “There is an obstacle ahead, please detour…”
As soon as the words fell, everyone heard a loud ‘bang’ sound overhead!
The loud noise was deafening, and the entire body was smashed and shook slightly. Yue Xingwen looked up, and saw a clear dent on the roof of the bus. He hurriedly said, “It’s a falling rock!”
Rock after rock fell from the sky.
Bang! Bang!
Falling rocks hit the roof of the bus continuously, and the bus began to shake constantly. Xu Yishen gritted his teeth and tried to maintain the stability of the steering wheel, but soon, he shouted, “The road ahead has been blocked by a mudslide!”
Yue Xingwen frowned, “Xiao Nian, use the bulldozer!”
Zhang Xiaonian quickly ran to the front of the bus, summoned the bulldozer, and started it forward to clear the way.
The bus was forced to stop in place.
At this moment, everyone suddenly heard the sound of shattering glass around them——
Since Professor Tang was sitting on the right side of the bus, close to the mountain side, when the basketball-sized rockfall flew from the sky, Professor Tang did not have time to react!
The stone instantly smashed the glass. Seeing that it was about the smash towards Professor Tang’s head, Yue Xingwen stretched out his right hand almost as if by reflex and suddenly summoned his idiom dictionary!
The heavy dictionary grazed the tip of Professor Tang’s nose and flew over, colliding with the rock in the air.
The huge momentum pushed the stone backwards out of the bus, and Yue Xingwen shouted, “Quickly protect Professor Tang!”
Several pieces of glass were smashed in succession. More and more rocks fell from the sky, almost submerging their bus in the pile of rocks.
Zhang Xiaonian built five walls with great speed, front, back, left, right, and above, like a castle, covering the bus inside! This was the strongest earthquake-proof wall in the Faculty of Architecture. As the falling rocks hit the wall, making a loud noise, it felt like a big earthquake. The students in the bus looked more nervous.
Yue Xingwen turned around and asked, “Xiao Nian, how long can the walls withstand?”
Zhang Xiaonian said, “This wall can prevent a sixth-magnitude earthquake, and the rocks won’t be able to penetrate for a while. So, when the bulldozer clears the way, we’ll leave this dangerous section as soon as possible.”
Their team had a junior brother from the Architecture Department, so it was indeed convenient to run, and this strong ‘fortress’ could support until the road was cleared.
Yue Xingwen breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Professor Tang who looked terrified, and said with concern, “Professor Tang, are you okay?”
Professor Tang came back to his senses, his face pale as he replied, “It’s-it’s okay.”
Just now, the falling rock smashed the window glass, and if Yue Xingwen had not summoned his dictionary to knock the rock out, Professor Tang would probably have been hit in the head and killed. Thinking of this, Yue Xingwen was worried, and hurriedly stepped forward to examine him carefully and said, “The glass shard has cut his face. Senior brother Liu, please help him deal with it.”
Liu Zhaoqing took out a white medical gauze, walked over and quickly helped Professor Tang bandage the wound on his face, while comforting him, “Don’t worry, it’s just the skin trauma from the glass shard, a shallow wound, nothing serious.”
Professor Tang sat there stiffly like a statue, at the mercy of Liu Zhaoqing.
His face felt cool and very comfortable. AFter the gauze was applied, the wound was actually magically healed?
Professor Tang took a deep breath and touched his smooth face. HIs mood growing more and more restless—— The people of this team were strange, they could take out a heavy dictionary out of thin air, and this gauze could actually eliminate the acne on his face after staying up late for three days?
Just now, the rock almost hit his head. Did You Xingwen really save him or did he deliberately act in exchange for his trust?
Just when Professor Tang’s mood was tangled, Liu Zhaoqing suddenly observed his face carefully and made a joke, “Professor tang, you have a lot of acne marks on your face ah? I think it’s a bit of a hormonal imbalance from the busy schedule at the Research Institute. Do you want me to help you get rid of it?”
Professor Tang: “……”
Did this team of yours not only come with a chef, but also a beautician?!
Meeting Professor Tang’s shocked eyes behind the lenses, Yue Xingwen held back a laugh and said, “Senior, don’t scare him. He’s already suffered too much yesterday, put the gauze away for now.”
Liu Zhaoqing put away the gauze and laughed, “Aren’t you already accustomed to the scare? In the future, when we summon a prison, oranges, and the like, he will need to keep calm.”
Professor Tang: “???”
What prison? What oranges?
Yue Xingwen helplessly supported his forehead, always feeling that their C-183 Research Group was becoming more and more like a villain. In Professor Tang’s eyes, they were probably ‘a terrorist organization’ that was much scarier than the mutants.
Was Professor Tang lucky to meet them, or was he unlucky?
Aye, poor Prof Tang. Can’t help but laugh about his nightmare.🤣
Prof Tang, don’t give up!!!!
Thank you for your translation 💙🤍🤍💙💙🤍
Poor Professor Tang.
haha, just wait until Professor Tang finds out about their marriage ability! then he really can’t sit still.
I need a Liu zhaoqing to treat my acne too 🥹🥹