Yue Xingwen carefully recalled the requirements of the additional question—— Protect Professor Tang and the data chip, escort Professor Tang to the genetic research center together, +40 points.
In other words, regardless of whether Professor Tang was unconscious or not, as long as everyone sent him to the Genetic Research Center with the data chip, it would complete the task. Now that the data chip had been removed from the glasses and personally kept by Yue Xingwen, and Professor Tang had passed out, the next thing to do was to send the unconscious Professor Tang to City F.
Jiang Pingce’s words also made sense. After Professor Tang was unconscious, he would not try to run away, and it would save everyone a lot of worry. Second, if they encountered another attack from the mutants, Professor Tang would at least not have to witness those monsters and be afraid.
For them, and for Professor Tang himself, passing out was the best outcome at the moment.
Looking at Professor Tang, whose eyes were tightly closed, Yue Xingwen sighed lightly and said, “He has suffered a lot following us, let him rest at ease. Let’s move him to the chair.”
Liu Zhaoqing and Zhuo Feng joined hands and lifted Professor Tang up and sat him down on the seat. Lin Manluo had thoughtfully made a vine guard for Professor Tang so that he would not fall out when the vehicle was bumpy.
Yue Xingwen swept his gaze over the bus and said, “Our bus needs to be repaired again.”
Those bats just hit the window glass madly, the only glass left was shattered by them. Liu Zhaoqing’s gauze that was pasted before was also bitten by them, now the bust was simply having ‘a lot of holes’.
Liu Zhaoqing asked, “Should we wrap all the windows with gauze?”
Yue Xingwen said, “This is the only way, otherwise the whole bus will be windy, and everyone will get a cold at night.”
Liu Zhaoqing immediately raised his right hand, and a steady stream of gauze appeared in his hand. He divided the gauze with his scalpel into several sections and handed it to the students. Everyone each held a piece of gauze, pasting it all over the windows, and sticking two layers to avoid leakage.
Fortunately, the window glass in front of the driver’s seat was not completely broken, only a few cracks, otherwise, the driver could not drive if it was pasted with gauze.
After the bus was ‘bandaged’ again, Liu Zhaoqing looked at the bus surrounded by a circle of white cloth and couldn’t help but complain, “It’s not that I said, our bus now looks like a funeral hearse.”
Everyone: “…”
The body was covered with white cloth, didn’t it look like a funeral hearse?
Xu Yishen said with a smile, “Driving such a bus in the wilderness feels like a horror movie. If someone passes by and sees this scene, it’s estimated that they will be scared to cry, right?”
Liu Zhaoqing made a joke and said, “If the bus can speak, it will definitely want to scold us, haha.”
Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses, seriously patted the bus’s rearview mirror and said, “You’ve suffered for accompanying us all the way.”
Lan Yarong rubbed her temples gently. She always felt that she had joined a funny acrobatic troupe.
Yue Xingwen helplessly supported his forehead and said, “Let’s make do for one night, and see if we can get another bus after dawn tomorrow.”
Their location was not in front of the village, and they really could not find any other transportation. Although the bus was tattered, it was better than them walking tens of kilometers.
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Everyone got on the bus and set off again.
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The second half of the night was peaceful. Zhuo Feng and Lin Manluo drove all the way along this provincial highway, and in the early hours of the morning, Xu Yishen came to drive. When everyone woke up at 7 o’clock, the bus had driven to a place called ‘Yuemen Town’.
Xu Yishen was deeply worried that there were mutants ambushing them in the town, so he parked his bus on the side of the road and asked Xin Yan to make breakfast for everyone first.
Zhuo Feng gave a suggestion to Yue Xingwen, “Xingwen, let’s change our transportation, this gauze covered bus is too strange to drive. Moreover, the front windshield has quite a few cracks, which affects the view while driving.”
Upon taking a closer look, Yue Xingwen saw that the front windshield was cracked like a spider’s web, which did affect the view. Last night, it was really thrilling for senior brother Zhuo and senior brother Xu to drive such a bus on the night road.
Xu Yishen said, “I’ll go to the town and find out. I can use my mitosis and still turn into cells when I encounter danger, so it’s easy to go and check. If I find the right vehicle, I’ll drive back to pick you up.”
Yue Xingwen did not feel comfortable with him going alone, so he said, “I and Pingce will accompany you.”
Xu Yishen nodded and said, “Okay.”
Yue Xingwen turned on his acceleration skill, and the three of them quickly sneaked into the town.
At this time, it was just dawn, and only some pedestrians could be seen sporadically on the road of the town, which was not lively. There was nothing unusual about the posture of those pedestrians walking, and some of them had the breakfast they had just bought in their hands.
A bun shop had opened up next to the road, and the hot buns had just come out of the oven, and the air was filled with a rich aroma from far away. The bun seller was a middle-aged woman, wearing an apron, and did not shout to sell her bun. She lowered her head and worked on steaming the buns. Occasionally, someone passed by and stopped in front of her stall. She didn’t talk to them, and just handed the bun over.
Yue Xingwen looked at this scene and asked, “The mutant’s power hasn’t expanded to this town yet?”
Jiang Pingce carefully observed the pedestrians along the roadside and said, “Although the town is rather cold, no blood or corpses are found on the streets. The location should be too remote and has not been affected by mutants.”
Xu Yishen narrowed his eyes and looked around. “But I always feel this town is a little strange.”
Yue Xingwen was silent for a few seconds and said, “Let’s go and find out if there is a suitable vehicle.”
The trio searched along the street for a few moments, not finding a suitable vehicle, but seeing a gas station in the distance.
There was a large truck parked next to the gas station. Yue Xingwen just wanted to speak, when he suddenly heard a slight ‘bang’ sound from inside the truck, as if someone was banging on the door of the truck. Yue Xingwen gave Xu Yishen a wink, “Senior brother, go up and take a look.”
Xu Yishen immediately used his mitosis to split into five, and had one of them dash to the side of the truck to check it out.
The back of the truck was locked, and they didn’t know what was inside. He turned into a cell, squeezed through the doorway, and then, startled by the scene before him——
The entire truck was densely packed with humans, but their treatment was not as good as livestock!
They were forced to squeeze together, their bodies next to each other, and they were almost squeezed into deformation. Everyone was as quiet as if the pause button had been pressed, except for one child who was lying on his back at the end of the truck, struggling to smash his hand against the door of the truck.
Before Xu Yishen had time to come out, the big truck suddenly started.
Jiang Pingce hurriedly pulled Yue Xingwen to hide behind the tree next to them.
Yue Xingwen asked in the Research Group’s chat channel: “Senior brother, what’s going on?”
Xu Yishen sent a message: “The truck is full of humans, and it’s likely to be ‘volunteers’ forced by the mutants.”
Volunteers?
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, and said, “Senior brother, be careful. We will follow up soon.”
Jiang Pingce calculated the distance, drew the coordinate system, and completed a precise parabolic movement with Yue Xingwen, and landed steadily on the roof of the truck. The roof of the truck was covered with a layer of brown cloth, and both of them were lying on the roof, peeling a little gap to look in——
The truck was more crowded than a subway during rush hour in a first-tier city. People were almost chest to back, and everyone’s hands were tied behind them. Some hid in corners and collapsed while crying, and some whispered prayers in despair, but most of the humans were in a trance. Their faces were paler and uglier than the other.
A little boy smashed the door persistently and said, “Let me out…”
A girl’s voice trembled and asked, “What kind of experiment are they doing when they call for volunteers ah?” The boy next to her whispered, “I don’t know, but those who don’t want to do the experiment were killed by them.”
The atmosphere inside the truck was unusually depressing, panic spreading among the humans.
A few moments later, the car stopped at a place that resembled an abandoned factory. A man and a woman dressed in black turned to the back of the truck.
The woman stuck out her tongue and gently licked her lips, her tongue was thin and long, exactly like the mutant snake they had met back in City C. And the man, with a tough and stocky build, was more than two meters tall, walking with the same arms and legs, looking a bit clumsy. He had great strength, directly broke the door lock with one hand, then lifted the child who was hitting the door by the collar and threw him off the truck, shouting at the people inside the truck, “All of you get down!”
The people in the truck stepped down warily as the woman lifted a submachine gun and ordered in a cold voice, “Form a line and go to door #1 over there, you better be honest and obedient or my bullets will shoot indiscriminately.”
With her pointing the gun, the crowd began to move their heavy feet, slowly walking towards door #1 ahead of them.
Xu Yishen quickly reported on the chat channel: “I turned into a cell and stuck to that kid’s head, following him in to check it out. This is probably one of the Research Bases of the mutants. These ‘volunteers’ are transported by large trucks from other places.”
At the highway’s toll booth in City C, the mutants blocked the fleeing vehicles, and asked them if they were willing to volunteer to do experiments. Those who were willing were herded into large trucks, while those who were unwilling were shot on the spot.
Unexpectedly, in this remote town, they actually saw the captured humans.
Yue Xingwen watched the crowd being herded towards the unknown door like livestocks, and his heart could not help but feel angry. He clenched his fists tightly and typed: “Senior brother, what kind of experiment are they doing?”
Xu Yishen quickly sent a series of words: “After everyone walks into the laboratory, they will be injected with a strange drug. Some people who can’t withstand it will die on the spot with their whole bodies convulsing and foaming at the mouth. If you can withstand the drug, their bodies will mutate rapidly…”
Mutation?!
In the distance, the teammates who stayed outside the town could also see the dialogue on the chat channel.
Zhuo Feng could not help but say: “Could it be that many mutants are transformed from captives among humans?”
Liu Zhaoqing replied: “First capturing a large number of human captives and then transforming those captives into mutants, no wonder their power is expanding so fast. This town should be one of their factories where they transform mutants!”
Lin Manluo said nervously: “Then, aren’t there a lot of mutants in this town? Let’s just get out of here as soon as possible!”
Those captives that had just been sent into the laboratory numbered in the hundreds. Even if Yue Xingwen had saved them, there was no way they could escape with hundreds of people. They could only save themselves first.
Yue Xingwen took a deep breath and made a quick decision: “Senior brother come back, let’s go quickly!”
Xu Yishen slipped through the crack in the door, and soon, a phantom appeared behind Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce.
Having witnessed the tragic situation inside the experimental factory with his own eyes, the always smiling senior brother Xu’s face turned very ugly as he said in a deep voice, “Taking the big truck away will immediately attract the mutants’ attention. Once they go after us with all their might, we won’t necessarily be able to escape. It seems that we have to continue driving that bus.”
The three looked at each other, and Jiang Pingce said, “Let’s go back.”
Yue Xingwen typed on the chat channel: “Everyone on board, prepare to evacuate!”
Outside the town, everyone quickly got on the bus after seeing the message. Within 5 minutes, the trio also ran over. After getting on the bus, Yue Xingwen directly said, “This town is a stronghold of the mutants, we can’t directly drive through the main road. Just now, Pingce scouted the surroundings of the town and we can go around from the side. Qin Lu, prepare for the plate movement.”
Jiang Pingce said calmly, “Fifteen degrees ahead on the right, 500 meters.”
Qin Lu quickly took out the globe and began to switch places. The bus instantly appeared behind a factory in the town.
Jiang Pingce: “Directly ahead, 350 meters.”
According to Jiang Pingce’s instructions, Qin Lu controlled the bus to teleport all the way. The gauze covered bus went around the side of the town silently.
On the way around, they saw another truck full of human captives drive into the town.
The cold, desolate town became the human graveyard in the apocalyptic world.
Until they left the town and went back on the road, everyone’s mood was still very heavy.
They really did not want to experience such an apocalyptic world again.
They needed to hurry up and send Professor Tang to the Genetic Research Center to end this terrible exam!
This is not a fun exam
They are really beasts….
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