After everyone rested in place for ten minutes, Xu Yishen drove the gauze-covered bus back on the road.
After leaving the thrilling winding road, the road down the mountain became much better, flat and spacious. Xu Yishen sped up the bus and drove forward for about half an hour, and the bus drove into a small, remote village.
The road passed right in the middle of the village, and there were many villagers sitting together in the sun and chatting on the side of the road. There were old people who set up chess boards to play chess on the side of the road.
After seeing their bus, the villagers’ faces showed extremely surprised expressions.
Some children pointed curiously at the bus and said, “Mom, that bus is so beat up ah, it has a lot of patches on it!”
“Why are there white clothes on the bus?”
The woman smiled and explained, “That’s because their windows are broken, so they drew the curtain.”
Yue Xingwen: “…”
Although the gauze could block the wind, it was not soundproof.
Everyone in the bus heard the conversation and did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Liu Zhaoqing complained, “Our bus really seems to have a lot of patches. If we drive on the open street, others will treat us as fugitives in a mental hospital.”
Zhuo Feng said, “It’s better to have a vehicle to ride in than to run wildly on foot, don’t ask too much.”
Jiang Pingce met the curious gazes of those villagers through the window and whispered towards Yue Xingwen, “The villagers of this village look quite normal, and they are still playing chess on the side of the road, they may not know what is happening outside.”
Seeing a few children still playing jianzi, Yue Xingwen sighed lightly and said, “These remote villages around here are not the first targets of the mutants. They should first occupy the big cities and gradually expand their power along the highway.”
When the crisis happened, the remote village became something like a paradise instead. Thinking of the mountains of human corpses piled up in the City C’s square, and comparing it to the children who played happily in this small village with the old people playing chess on the side of the road… It was like two completely different worlds.
Under the collective gazes of the villagers, the tattered bus slowly drove through the village.
Then there was another dozens of kilometers of deserted village road. Three drivers took turns driving, and after the dark, they finally arrived at the border of the two provinces.
The surrounding area was underdeveloped wasteland, Xu Yishen parked the bus at the roadside to rest. The gasoline in the tank was about to reach the bottom, and several boys worked together to pour the barrel of gasoline in.
Everyone got off the bus to prepare dinner. Yue Xingwen went to Professor Tang and asked, “Professor Tang, what do you want to eat tonight?”
Professor Tang adjusted his glasses and said, “Whatever.” Anyway, your hand was full of mixed grains. After eating three consecutive meals of mixed grain porridge, Professor Tang felt that he had also entered the rhythm of health preservation, and his stomach was quite comfortable.
Yue Xingwen looked back at Ke Shaobin and asked, “Is red bean and peanut porridge okay?”
Ke Shaobin nodded excitedly and said, “Yeah, the red beans in this bag haven’t been used yet.”
Everyone busily made dinner. They had just eaten their fill when, suddenly, a strange sound came from behind them——
The sound was very similar to a motorcycle team. The sound of wheels friction against the ground and the roar of the motorcycle, clearly transmitted through the darkness, coming closer and closer.
Yue Xingwen’s expression changed and he said, “Could it be that the mutants are catching up?”
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Within 5 minutes, those motorcycles appeared in front of everyone and formed a fan-shaped to surround them.
The people riding the motorcycles were all young men and women around 20 years old. They wore helmets and special forces camouflage uniforms. They happened to be exactly 12 people.
They got off the motorcycle and walked in a posture that looked like normal humans.
The woman at the front took two steps forward, looked at Professor Tang, who was wearing glasses, bowed politely and said, “Professor Tang, I’m sorry that we are late. Are you alright?”
Suddenly, Yue Xingwen had a bad premonition. Sure enough, the next moment he heard the woman continue her words, “We’re Action Team 183, we’re here to protect you.”
Yue Xingwen frowned and asked, “You guys? Protect Professor Tang?” The mutants actually intercepted halfway, and they still knew the code word ‘Action Team 183’?
Professor Tang would not be stupid enough to believe it easily. He looked at them and asked, “Who sent you?”
A young man stood up and explained in a low voice, “Professor Tang, we were entrusted by Director Zheng to escort you, but unfortunately, we encountered the interception of mutants on the road, so we came one step late.”
The woman next to him added, “When we arrived at the Research Institute in City C, the entire institute had been blown up to the ground, and you were nowhere to be seen. The highway toll booth was occupied by mutants, and we had to take a detour to the Provincial highway and go to the City F as soon as possible.”
Her sharp gaze swept over Yue Xingwen’s group, and said coldly, “I didn’t expect to meet you here. Have you been kidnapped? Rest assured, we will definitely save you!”
Yue Xingwen knew very well that the group in front of him were impostors.
However, in Professor Tang’s eyes, he was afraid that he felt the group of people riding motorcycles and wearing camouflage uniforms were the ones who looked like bodyguards arranged by superiors to escort him. And they, who drove the bus and use ‘magic’ all the way, were more like mutants, right?
The woman suddenly waved her right hand, and everyone raised the gun in unison. The gun barrels instantly aimed at Yue Xingwen’s group.
She said coldly, “Release Professor Tang!”
Yue Xingwen suddenly smiled and gave a comment, “Your acting is not bad.”
His fingers clenched into fists behind him, giving a 3, 2, 1 gesture.
That was his hint to his teammates to act.
At the moment when his fingers reached 1, all his teammates raised their right hands at the same time. The next moment, a hard wall suddenly stood up in front of them, and Zhang Xiaonian’s shockproof wall was directly blocked the front, which could stop all bullets!
The thumping of gunshots reached their ears as a rain of bullets embedded themselves in the walls.
At the same time, Qin Miao calmly recited the sentence, “To dismiss military hierarchy using wine cups!”
The surrounding air seemed to be distorted in an instant, and the guns in those people’s hands all fell to the ground!
The disarm move would make it impossible to pick up the weapon for a moment, and Lin Manluo followed up by flinging out her vines from behind the wall. Five green vines poked out abruptly like snake spirits, quickly flying over and rolling away all the guns on the ground.
All this cooperation only happened in a few seconds. Before the people wearing the camouflage could react to what was going on, the guns in their hands were all taken away!
Yue Xingwen looked at Professor Tang, who looked terrified beside him, and said softly, “Although it seems that we are more like villains, many things cannot be looked at on the surface only.”
The other side was also a team of 12 people.
After the weapons were seized, their leader immediately shouted, “Professor Tang, run!”
Professor Tang turned around and wanted to leave, but Lan Yarong suddenly summoned a thick criminal law book, “7 years in prison!”
An iron cage fell from the sky and directly locked Professor Tang inside.
Professor Tang, who was imprisoned, was dumbfounded. Not to mention escaping, he couldn’t even open this iron cage at all! At that moment, the despair in his heart flooded like a tide, and he thought that he was going to die here the next moment.
Yue Xingwen said in a low voice, “Take Professor Tang to the bus. Senior brother Xu, senior sister Lan, Qin Lu, Zhang Xiaonian, you go first!”
The few people whose names were called immediately carried Professor Tang and the prison into the bus. Xu Yishen stepped on the accelerator deeply, and drove the bus forward quickly. The mutant’s face was ugly, and the woman, the leader of the group, shouted sternly, “Chase them!”
As soon as they were about to chase, Yue Xingwen flipped open his dictionary and fired his ‘Blazing Prairie’ skill!
The raging fire spread rapidly around the wall, directly forming a fire field more than two meters high.
Their motorcycles simply could not get by.
The mutants finally stopped pretending. One of them took a deep breath, kicked his legs hard, and his extremely strong jumping ability made him jump more than ten meters away in one breath, directly bypassing the wall, his sharp claws fiercely grabbing Yue Xingwen’s neck!
Jiang Pingce hurriedly wrapped his arms around Yue Xingwen’s waist, quickly calculated the coordinate system, and flew directly into the sky with Yue Xingwen!
Yue Xingwen looked down to see those mutants jumped over the fire one after another and rushed towards his teammates. Their movements were strong, jumping and pouncing forward like a tiger!
Yue Xingwen hurriedly reminded them, “Be careful!”
Qin Miao’s face was cold. Her right hand raised gently, and she once again opened a big move from the History Department, “Sweeping Liu He!”
An extremely strong airflow from her hand surged around, and those mutants were instantly swept to the ground by the airflow. Yue Xingwen followed closely and summoned a rainstorm, and shouted, “Senior brother Zhuo!”
A dark cloud appeared in the sky, and a torrential rain fell. Zhuo Feng summoned his electricity and quickly injected it into the cloud.
Thunderstorms with electricity poured down on the mutants.
The mutants that were electrocuted, twitching all over. Yue Xingwen controlled the storm to move to the side, but those mutants reacted extremely fast, realizing that their side was at a disadvantage, they jumped and quickly fled!
They fled as swiftly as the wind, even faster than a motorcycle at full power. In the blink of an eye, they blended into the darkness and disappeared without a trace.
Yue Xingwen looked at those figures who were fleeing quickly, and felt heavy in his heart, “What kind of gene is this fused with?”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “It looks like a jungle beast, a leopard, a tiger, or something? The speed of their running is incredibly fast. When they pounce on us, it moves like a beast, and their fingernails are extremely sharp.”
The three mutants who were electrocuted by the thunderstorm passed out and lay unconscious on the ground.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce landed together and said, “Senior sister Lin, tie them up and take them to the bus to study them.”
The reason he did not let Xin Yan use acid rain to directly melt these people away, but had senior brother Zhuo cooperate by using electricity, was that he wanted to stun these people first and take a closer look at the characteristics of the mutants.
After hearing it, Lin Manluo immediately used vines to tie the three mutants into dumplings.
Then, Yue Xingwen typed on the chat channel: “Senior brother Xu, you can stop, we’ll be right over.”
The bus stopped in front, and Yue Xingwen turned on his accelerated skill, quickly chasing the bus with the three mutant captives.
On the bus, Professor Tang, who was locked up in a cage, looked desperate.
After Yue Xingwen got on the bus, he asked Ke Shaobin to open his laptop and said, “Show Professor Tang the video just now.” Ke Shaobin played the footage he had just recorded for Professor Tang from the beginning.
The more Professor Tang looked at it, the more shocked he became, “They jump that high?”
Yue Xingwen said, “They are mutants, fused with the genes of jungle beasts. It was impossible for a normal human to instantly jump over a dozen meters of fire and walls up to two meters high, now you know, right?”
Professor Tang: “…”
Yue Xingwen laughed and said, “Of course, we who can directly summon blazing prairie and walls don’t look like normal people. But in comparison, we’ve been quite friendly to you, it’s not necessary for them.”
Professor Tang did not answer, turning his head to look at the three mutants in the bus that had been caught before.
Yue Xingwen suddenly said, “The data chip on your body stores the weakness of the mutants, right? If the mutants catch you, what do you think they will do?”
Professor Tang’s face changed. “You— what do you mean?”
“The existence of you and the data chip is the biggest threat to mutants, so their real purpose is killing you and destroying the data chip. Maybe they won’t kill you directly, but just capture you in various ways, because they don’t confirm the data is in your body.”
“And we, not only confirming that you are Professor Tang, but also knowing that the data chip is in your body, but we have not killed you or destroyed the data chip. We are doing our best to protect you instead.” Yue Xingwen smiled and looked at him sincerely, “You think about it.”
“…” Professor Tang fell silent in a complicated mood, realizing that the young man in front of him was so eloquent that he almost convinced him.
Yue Xingwen rubbed his chin and looked at the three stunned mutants that were caught before and said, “These mutants, why are they so obedient? Young Ke, you can scan them and see, is there any abnormality in their body?”
Ke Shaobin had Xiao Tu come over to scan them and quickly concluded, “There’s something strange in their heads.”
He pointed to the abnormal image in the laptop. Liu Zhaoqing came over to take a closer look and said, “It seems to be implanted with some kind of metal? In Xiao Tu’s radar scan, it appears to be silver.”
“So, is the leader of the mutant organization using this means to control these mass-produced biological weapons?” Yue Xingwen paused and said, “Their IQ is not very high, so maybe, what words should be said are also sent to their brains by the organization after they know about it?”
Jiang Pingce said, “The metal implanted in their brains is likely to have a tracking function. So, for our safety, don’t take them on the bus, lest the mutant organization gets hold of our whereabouts.”
Yue Xingwen nodded and left the three behind the bus, and Xu Yishen accelerated the speed of the bus and rushed forward.
Ke Shaobin suddenly looked back at Professor Tang, “Should I scan Professor Tang? He ate the data chip. If the data chip is in his stomach, Xiao Tu’s radar scan can detect abnormal metal.”
Professor Tang’s whole body stiffened and he said, “You guys— you guys don’t mess around!”
Liu Zhaoqing smiled and pressed his shoulder as he said, “Professor Tang, cooperate with us, we’ll give you a full body scan check.”
Professor Tang: “…”
Poor Prof Tang…🤣
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Senior Liu really is scary sometimes HAHAHHAHA.
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Poor Professor Tang can’t catch a break (≧▽≦)