Big Plane

The "thrilling" flight lasted for over an hour, and just as the small plane was about to run out of fuel, they finally arrived at Las Vegas International Airport.

The sky around them had turned dim and dusky; although it was only six in the evening, thick ash had already stained the firmament a disturbing dark red.

The airport was in complete chaos, with a massive crowd of disaster victims and firefighters jumbled together, the thick, suffocating air of confusion and panic palpable.

They observed the faces of the refugees, seeing the hysteria of those who had lost everything, the bewilderment toward the unknown, and the despair for the future.

Li Wei was the first to step off the plane, and upon seeing the scenes around him, even his face lost its familiar composure for once.

He released a pulse of sensory perception to scan the surroundings, clearly observing everything within a two-kilometer radius.

"Be careful, don't touch this area, and try to hold your breath!" After using his suit jacket to cover the seat where Li Wei had sat, Jackson sternly warned the others still on the plane.

Kate and Gordon both crossed over the seat Li Wei had occupied with trepidation, making absolutely sure their hands didn't touch a single spot that Li Wei had come into contact with.

If it weren't for the apocalypse, they wouldn't believe that Li Wei was a walking virus...

But since even the end of the world had occurred, what reason was there not to believe such an absurd thing? Besides, they had seen Li Wei transform with their own eyes!

After the three adults got off, the two children were carefully carried out. Just as Jackson was preparing to take his family and run to the terminal to find staff, he was slapped on the chest by Li Wei, who was standing to the side, startling Jackson into letting out a scream like a woman who had just seen a mouse.

"Ah~!"

"Follow me." Li Wei said only that before walking toward a certain direction in the airport.

He only gave the reminder; as for whether Jackson and the others would follow, he didn't care. He had already learned the exact location of the large ship from Jackson, so whether they came along or not made no difference to him.

After the scream, Jackson fell into a struggle because of Li Wei's words.

Li Wei had told his group to follow him... so, should they follow a walking virus?

He wasn't the only one who heard this. When Gordon saw Jackson actually standing there hesitating, he immediately wore a look of disbelief and said, "No way! Jackson, you don't actually want to follow a ticking time bomb, do you? We should go to the terminal!"

Kate also prepared to pull her daughter and son away, but Jackson felt as if he had been struck by a bolt of lightning, his brain suddenly snapping into gear.

Li Wei's miraculous abilities, the attitude Li Wei had displayed, and his own slight interpretation of the apocalypse led him to make the most correct decision.

He reached out and grabbed Kate and Gordon's hands, saying urgently, "No, no! We are following Li Wei! We follow him!"

"Are you crazy?" Kate tilted her head as if she couldn't believe her ears. She had thought Jackson was crazy enough for spending all day hunched over his computer writing nonsense, but she never expected him to want their group to follow that strange alien!

The expression on Kate's face was extremely awkward; she felt fortunate that she had divorced Jackson earlier. She shook her head in disappointment, preparing to break free from Jackson's grip to take Noah and Lily to the terminal.

The young boy, Noah, looked up and suggested, "Why don't we follow Li Wei?"

But he was small and his words carried little weight, so no one paid him any mind.

Seeing that neither Kate nor Gordon agreed to follow Li Wei, and noticing that Li Wei's figure was already moving away, Jackson hurriedly blocked them and explained, "Believe me! Staying with the majority is useless! Li Wei has no hostility; he wants to live too. You saw it yourselves, he has the ability to help us. This is the apocalypse, only a few will survive. We must stick with the few, not the many!

Don't count on politicians to save us. There is no time left. Trust me, trust Li Wei, and come with me! Please!"

Despite Jackson's earnest persuasion, Kate and Gordon remained hesitant. Jackson was so anxious he felt like slapping Gordon. He glanced to the side, saw the weak, pitiful, and helpless Lily, and a plan formed in his mind.

He slapped away the hand Kate was using to hold Lily, bent down to snatch the girl up, and sprinted in the direction Li Wei had left, leaving behind only one sentence: "Follow me!"

"Hey!" Gordon let out a roar. Since Lily had been snatched away, they had no choice but to follow.

Kate was frantic, but in the end, she chased after them!

At the same time, sirens began to wail throughout the airport. The suffocating volcanic ash had already spread to the outskirts of the airport, and the rolling smoke, like a massive curtain, would swallow them in just a few minutes.

Staying in a place like that would surely make it impossible to breathe!

When Jackson, carrying his daughter Lily, followed by Gordon and Kate, finally found Li Wei, he was using a fuel truck to refuel a large, abandoned plane, having just tossed a pile of luxury cars out from inside the aircraft.

Standing by the plane were several other people: a large fat man, a blonde man and woman, and two chubby children.

The group seemed to be gathered around Li Wei, who was sitting on the plane's landing gear, discussing something. When they saw Jackson's group arrive, they looked somewhat surprised.

"Dr. Silberman?" The blonde woman holding a dog recognized Gordon and called out his surname in surprise.

Jackson, meanwhile, looked at the large fat man and called out his former boss's name, "Karpov Yuri?!"

He then ran quickly with Lily in his arms toward his former superior, the bear-like, obese former Soviet man, Karpov.

Jackson grabbed his shoulder with one hand in excitement and asked impatiently, "You knew all along, didn't you! You must have a way, right!"

Thud!

Before the somewhat impatient Karpov could say anything, the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground startled them into jumping.

Li Wei's voice also rang out from the engineering ladder above their heads, "The plane is taking off. This flight has no insurance, and whether it crashes or not depends entirely on my mood. Passengers who wish to board, please prepare yourselves mentally~!"

With that, he jumped off the fuel truck, pushed the multi-ton vehicle aside, and climbed into the plane via the ladder.

Having seen Li Wei's power, Karpov's family didn't hesitate at all and ran toward the plane, and Jackson followed with Lily in his arms.

Seeing the large plane, Gordon and Kate, realizing what they had just done, boarded the aircraft feeling both embarrassed and relieved.

Behind them, the volcanic ash, like a giant beast devouring all things, was rolling in. If they had really gone to the terminal, they would have been left waiting for death.

Seeing the embarrassed yet relieved expressions on Kate and Gordon's faces as they boarded, Jackson felt truly satisfied; divorce was never easy for anyone.

Using the wisdom of the writer Kate had once disdained, he had saved her. What more could she say now?

Seeing Kate look at him, Jackson smiled easily. Amidst her expression of gratitude mixed with apology, his sense of triumph finally reached its peak.

Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west!

Gordon, you sucker, get lost!

Li Wei walked into the cockpit, and Sasha, Karpov's bodyguard, followed him inside.

Despite being a square-jawed, burly Russian man, he had a name that Li Wei found rather feminine.

He took the pilot's seat as a matter of course, and Sasha didn't hesitate, sitting directly in the co-pilot's seat.

"I'll help!"

The plane soon began to move. After entering the runway, Li Wei pushed the throttle and power to the maximum, opening the aircraft engines to full capacity.

Seeing this, Sasha exclaimed, "This... this doesn't follow the flight manual!"

Li Wei's flight skills were learned from the memories of multiple pilots in his previous world; his technique was on par with professional veteran captains, so there was no way he would stick to a manual.

"Pfft, that useless book is for beginners. Shut your mouth and watch how I do it." Li Wei waved his hand, flipped on a dizzying array of instruments, and incidentally blocked the control tower signal.

The plane's speed continued to climb until it finally managed to lift off just as it reached the end of the runway. The landing gear retracted, and the large transport plane finally soared into the sky.

Sasha had barely done anything, simply watching as Li Wei skillfully operated the transport plane to take off. He clutched his head and exclaimed, "Incredible!"

If he had been the one operating it, he probably would have been scrambling in a panic before finally succeeding. Compared to Li Wei's practiced technique, the flight skills he practiced in his spare time were simply too lacking in experience.