After leaving the strange town, the bus drove forward for a day, coming to a fork in the road as it was getting dark, and signs for the highway appeared at the intersection.
Xu Yishen parked the bus at the side and turned back to ask everyone, “Shall we continue on the side road, or get on the highway?”
Yue Xingwen frowned and thought for a moment.
If they took the highway, there was a risk of encountering a mutant interception, just like at that time in City C, where the mutants had taken over the toll booths in advance, and they would be in danger if they encountered the mutants. However, if they continued to take the side road, because there were many curves and mountain roads, with the lack of spacious and flat roads, their speed was always controlled below 60 km/h.
Yue Xingwen turned around and asked Jiang Pingce’s opinion, “What do you think?”
Jiang Pingce said, “The mutant bats launched a surprise attack on us in the middle of last night, and they failed in their task. The organization must have received the news, so our whereabouts are no longer a secret.”
Yue Xingwen nodded and said, “In other words, whether we take the highway or not, we will be intercepted by mutants. Then it’s better to take the highway, at least it’s much faster and we can get to City F two days earlier.”
Zhuo Feng agreed, “I also think the provincial road is too difficult to drive. If we encounter landslides, heavy rain, and the like, it will be equally dangerous. On the highway, at least the road conditions are better, and we can speed up to 80 km/h or more.”
Xu Yishen reminded them, “Our tattered bus will be very noisy if the speed goes up to 80 km/h.”
As all the window glass on both sides were damaged and temporarily covered with gauze, the tire and wind noise would be very noisy if the bus was going over 80 km/h. Yue Xingwen looked at his classmates and said, “Can everyone stand the noise?”
Lin Manluo said, “I don’t care.”
Ke Shaobin said seriously, “It’s okay to be noisy, we’ll get accustomed to it eventually.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Okay, then get on the highway and hurry up to the end.”
With the unanimous approval of his teammates, Xu Yishen turned left at the fork in the road and drove the bus onto the highway.
The three-lane highway was indeed flat and spacious, and the view was extremely open, so Xu Yishen gave a kick to the accelerator, quickly raising the speed of the bus to 80 km/h.
They did not know if it was because the mutant’s power had not expanded to this area yet, but occasionally private cars appear on the highway, and when those drivers see this ‘funeral hearse’ clanking while driving, they show a shock expression.
One driver drove past the bus and almost hit the pier in surprise when he saw the bus covered in gauze.
The noise in the bus was so loud and made everyone’s ears buzz.
But as Ke Shaobin said—— we’ll get accustomed to it eventually.
Half an hour later, everyone was able to pull themselves together and chat loudly.
Yue Xingwen asked, “See how Professor Tang is doing?”
Liu Zhaoqing said loudly, “He hasn’t woken up yet. He has been unconscious for a day and a night. It seems like he’s been stimulated a bit too much this time!”
Seeing that Professor Tang’s eyes were tightly closed and he was drowsily sleeping against the seat. Yue Xingwen did not forcefully wake up the other party and said with a smile, “Leave him for now, it’s good to let him lie down until the end.”
Everyone was worried all night. In the second half of the night, the three drivers even stared at the road conditions together for safety, but there was no accident.
After dawn, there were more and more private cars on the highway.
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Yue Xingwen lifted a gap in the screen window and looked out. He found that the highway was passing through a modern city. The streets of the city were full of traffic and the shops along the roadside were open for business as usual. Compared to City C, which was a purgatory on Earth, this city, that was 1,000 kilometers away, seemed to be completely unaffected.
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The bustling city, with its smiling people, had no idea that disaster was coming.
Ke Shaobin asked in a small voice, “The mutants are currently occupying only one stronghold in City C, and some surrounding remote towns as experimental bases. Haven’t they expanded towards the nearby cities?”
Yue Xingwen had left City C for three days with Professor Tang, taking the winding country roads. If the mutants had taken the highway directly, they would have arrived here long ago.
Judging from the pace of the apocalyptic crisis, the speed of mutant expansion was indeed a little slow.
Were they busy with other matters in City C, or were they having trouble attacking human cities?
Yue Xingwen did not know the specific reason, but he did not dare to take it lightly.
After dawn, their ‘fully patch’ bus was indeed the most ‘beautiful’ scenery. Many private cars passed by, and many people would curiously look at them through the windows.
Then, Yue Xingwen instructed, “Don’t let your guard down everyone, keep all your skills.”
The crowd tightened their nerves and endured the noise, passing through the highway all morning, saying nothing except for being curiously watched by people in the vehicles around them.
Getting closer and closer to City F, Yue Xingwen still did not dare to relax.
At noon, they arrived at a highway service area.
The service area was very lively, with a number of private cars and buses parked there. Many people got out to eat and drink, and others leaned against the railings to smoke. After observing carefully for a moment and finding nothing unusual in the service area, Yue Xingwen said, “Stop for a 10-minute break to eat lunch. Those who want to use the restroom, go in pairs and go back as soon as possible.”
Qin Lu asked in a low voice, “Sister, do you want to go to the restroom?”
“I’ll accompany you,” Qin Miao replied lightly.
Lin Manluo and Lan Yarong also followed.
The four girls went to the restroom together, and Xin Yan, who was worried about being seen as a monster by the humans around him, made the distillation flask smaller and cooked up porridge directly in the bus.
At this moment, an eldery’s voice suddenly sounded outside, “Selling liangpi, do you want liangpi?”
Ke Shaobin’s eyes lit up and he subconsciously went to dig into his pocket, only to find that not only did he not have his wallet with him, but also did not have a mobile phone. He had to swallow his saliva and try to focus on Xin Yan’s porridge.
The grandmother worked to sell, “5 yuan a bowl, delicious liangpi!”
There was also a child holding a large string of tanghulu, “Do you want a tanghulu? A tanghulu costs 1 yuan!”
Yue Xingwen smiled and said politely, “No, thank you.”
Just then, Jiang Pingce, who had been staring out the window, suddenly whispered, “Something is wrong with this service area.”
He had spoken up to warn because he had accidentally seen a woman eating corn with sharp fangs showing when she opened her mouth. Yue Xingwen pulled open the gauze to look out and noticed a child standing in a very strange posture.
It was a mutant!
Yue Xingwen hurriedly typed on the chat channel: “Return quickly!”
Four girls who went to the restroom were washing their hands in front of the washing station, and a cute girl suddenly said, “Sister, do you want to buy a flower?”
“No,” Lin Manluo replied subconsciously.
The little girl persevered and offered her again, “Do you want to buy a flower?”
After seeing the message from the chat channel, Lin Manluo immediately said, “Go!”
The four quickly turned and ran towards the bus, but as soon as they ran out of the restroom, they were surrounded by a group of children, with their hands and feet on the ground like a pack of little wolves, their eyes were cold and sharp.
In the blink of an eye, they pounced fiercely towards the four people!
Qin Lu took out the globe and quickly tapped at two points. “Switch places, go!”
The four people instantly switched to the side of the bus, but the bus was already surrounded by werewolves, and Lin Manluo shouted, “Zhuo Feng!” After shouting, she immediately reached out and released a vine, and Zhuo Feng’s electricity abruptly sprang out of the window and attached itself to her vine. The electrically charged vine darted around and lashed, electrocuted the wolves, making their whole bodies jerked and flew away.
The four of them hurriedly got on the bus.
Zhuo Feng hurriedly walked over and looked at Lin Manluo, saying, “Is everything okay?”
Lin Manluo shook her head and replied, “It’s okay, we’re surrounded.”
Jiang Pingce said solemnly, “This service area is full of mutants. They wait here just to ambush us.”
Liu Zhaoqing could not help but spit out, “Drinking water, smokers, eating corn, even those selling liangpi and tanghulu! These mutant in wolf’s skin, their acting skills have become fucking movie stars!”
They must be acting on orders from their superiors. However, mutants were mutants after all, even if their behavior was similar to humans, it was difficult to hide the nature of some animals.
Their original plan was supposed to take advantage of the temporary break and restroom break of Yue Xingwen’s team to quickly surround the bus and capture both Professor Tang and Research Group 183. Unexpectedly, one of the mutants accidentally showed her fangs while performing to gnaw corn, and was discovered by the sharp-eyed Jiang Pingce.
Before they could make their move, they were seen through by Yue Xingwen’s team.
The mutants whose whereabouts were revealed were no longer disguised. One of the leaders let out a wolf howl, and all the werewolves around instantly pounced with alarming speed in an instant——
Unfortunately, they pounced on the empty air!
Qin Lu teleported directly with her plate movement and switched the bus back to the highway lane instantly.
Xu Yishen kicked the accelerator down and the bus rushed out, but the wolves ran extremely fast and hundreds of wolves chased after the bust like crazy. Ke Shaobin’s face turned pale and said, “Is it wolves this time? They are so fast!”
Jiang Pingce said in a deep voice, “Everyone sit tight, let’s fly straight out.”
Wolves were fast and could only run on land, but Jiang Pingce’s coordinate system could manipulate the target to fly.
Jiang Pingce directly set the bus as coordinate and quickly wrote down the sine formula——
The bus suddenly flew into the air like an off-string arrow and began to make a wavy sine motion in the air.
With the bus flew forward, Jiang Pingce modified the formula so that the bus could keep flying in the air for 30 minutes continuously as long as Jiang Pingce’s vision was not blocked.
The wolves howled and chased after them on the ground, unable to attack them as their vehicle was in the air. They could only stare reluctantly at the bus overheard, running wildly all the way.
Most of the teammates were used to Jiang Pingce’s sine movement and they would not get motion sickness like the first time.
Lan Yarong had just joined the team and it was the first time she rode such an up and down ‘roller coaster’. She helplessly held the back of the chair and thought, ‘This is really an acrobatic troupe, right?’
At this moment, Professor Tang in the bus suddenly woke up in a daze.
His body kept rising and falling, shaking him so much that he wanted to vomit, and then he woke up slowly. He opened his eyes and found himself actually sitting… in a roller coaster?
Professor Tang was frightened and said, “What’s going on?!”
Everyone was stunned when he suddenly made a sound. Yue Xingwen turned back to him, surprised and said, “Professor Tang, are you finally awake?”
Meeting with Yue Xingwen’s familiar eyes, Professor Tang’s face turned ashen—— Did he go to hell after he died? Why did he still see these people? Weren’t you going to buy me oranges?!
As if sensing Professor Tang’s thought, Yue Xingwen smiled and took out an orange, “Eat an orange to suppress the shock, I’ve been saving it for you.”
Professor Tang: “…”
I’ll fucking eat!
His body went up and down, rising and falling, more dizzying than a roller coaster ride.
Professor Tang resisted the urge to vomit and looked down through the gap in the screen window—— He saw the bus flying in the air like a wave, and a large group of mutants chased below the bus… a werewolf pack?
Professor Tang’s face froze instantly. “What— what’s the situation?”
Yue Xingwen explained, “You’re not dead, we won’t leave you behind. Look at the front, is it a little familiar?”
Professor Tang followed his finger and looked forward.
The bustling city was lined with high-rise buildings, and the sign on the highway clearly read: “City F.”
Professor Tang said in shock, “I made it to City F?”
Yue Xingwen said, “That’s right. Is it a surprise that you slept and then woke up straight to the end?”
Professor Tang: “……”
The bus landed with a ‘bang’. Zhang Xiaonian directly raised a wall behind the bus to stop the wolves. Xu Yishen drove out of the highway ramp, turned and drove into the city.
Professor Tang looked at the gauze that was blown by the wind, the familiar bus, even more tattered than before he fell unconscious. Looking at the people around him again, devil-like familiar faces were actually smiling at him in a friendly manner.
The corner of Professor Tang’s mouth twitched, and his face turned blue and white for a while—— He actually made it to City F alive? It was incredible.
poor Professor Tang, he’s had it rough 🙁
Thankfully he was basically able to lie down and win during the last portion of this hellish journey lol
Great job translating!!! Can’t wait to see what happens next <3
he truly became a salted fish! luckily the gods forcefully made him latch on to these golden thighs even despite his reluctance!
I can’t believe what City F is safe and Research Institute is really working
Thank you for your translation 🤍🤍💙🤍💙💙
… I hope other teams who going through these exam treat others Professor Tang better…
Being NPC is a hard job.