"Um, Ms. Fang Yuxuan..."
"Enough. Don't be so awkward. Call me Yuxuan or Sister Fang. No need for anything else."
"Okay... Um, Sister Fang, do you know where our helicopter went down?"
Li Erniu asked as he drove, a compressed biscuit still hanging from the corner of his mouth.
"Turn right at the intersection up ahead. What are you planning to do?"
"Yuxuan, there's quite a bit of food and weaponry there. It's not exactly delicious, but it's still better than these compressed biscuits."
"Mm, all right."
I nodded, and we drove straight ahead. Just after turning at the intersection, we saw the helicopter wreckage. It wasn't too badly damaged.
It hadn't fallen from the outer ring route, but had come down at an angle. The rotor was wrecked and the body was bent, but it hadn't broken apart.
The car pulled up beside it, and then Li Erniu said to me,
"Wait here."
Then he got out and rushed straight toward the helicopter.
I sat in the car, bored, watching the torrential rain outside as I nibbled on a compressed biscuit.
Yin Kecao in the back didn't seem to be feeling much better. He lay across the rear seat without saying a word.
The car fell quiet. I opened the window and looked out at the scenery. From where I sat, I had a clear view of the helicopter.
Since the West Rain we were headed for was in the opposite direction, the car was already parked facing the right way. Once Erniu came back, we could drive straight out of the city.
Just then, a loud crash suddenly rang out in the distance.
"Boom!"
I instinctively looked toward the sound. An enormous spider, eight meters long, was crouched on the side of a nearby high-rise.
And, as luck