Autumn Hunt

After leaving Prison No. 18, Qing Chen followed Li Shutong through a long tunnel, across the surveillance area outside the prison, and all the way into the mountains.

Qing Chen once asked: Why is there a secret passage in the prison?

Li Shutong explained to Qing Chen: Prison No. 18 was built by the Li Group.

When the Li family built the prison, they left a way out to prevent their family from dying in prison one day if they became prisoners themselves.

At that time, the conglomerates did not have such great influence over the Federation, and they might become victims of the struggle at any time.

Afterwards, the workers responsible for building the tunnel all died in a landslide on their way to City No. 10 to carry out another engineering task.

The secret of the tunnel is known only to a few members of the Li family.

Later, as the Li family grew stronger, the original engineering drawings kept by the Li family were lost at some point, and even the Li family themselves forgot that their ancestors had left them a way to survive.

Since the Li family is firmly established within the Federation, it seems they no longer need this level of backup plan.

After Li Shutong brought Qing Chen out, he made Qing Chen carry the heavy hiking backpack the whole time. Even though the boy had an injury on his foot, the two of them moved forward at a rapid pace.

"Did you hear that crackling sound again from inside the bones?" Li Shutong asked.

"No," Qing Chen shook his head, "He hasn't appeared again."

Like all his predecessors, his Gene Lock remained stagnant after the events of Laojun Mountain.

Li Shutong smiled and said, "It's alright, we'll gain something else from this trip."

"By the way, teacher," Qing Chen asked, "The food we brought will be finished in two days. What will we eat next?"

Li Shutong looked at the boy. "How would I know? This is certainly something you, as a student, should consider!"

Qing Chen: "..."

The young girl, Qin Yiyi, got up early in the morning, folded up her tent, and threw it back into the car.

She secretly observed the boy from more than ten meters away and was shocked to find that he was already cooking for the middle-aged man.

"Brother, is there really no chance for the servants to regain their freedom?" Qin Yiyi asked Qin Tong.

"There are practically no servants who can regain their freedom," Qin Tong said. "Servants are the people closest to those big shots, so they know a lot of secrets. So even if they are crippled, the company will not let them leave; they are more likely to be killed outright."

Qin Yiyi sighed. Such a good young man had become a servant.

I wonder what kind of family would sell their child to a company.

Although the Qin Family lived a hard life and had many children, Qin Cheng never showed any intention of selling his children.

Thinking back to last night, when the boy applied medicine to his foot without batting an eye, Qin Yiyi thought that the boy must have suffered a lot, which is why he could be so calm when facing pain.

Just then, the sound of an engine and deafening music suddenly came from the north of the woods.

The music's rhythm was exceptionally intense, seemingly capable of making one's heart race even from a great distance.

Before the convoy from the north even arrived, Qin Cheng saw more than a dozen drones flying overhead.

"It's Chen's Boundary-011 model drone, carrying weapons! Quick, quickly put away our own drones!" Qin Cheng shouted.

However, it was too late to speak.

Suddenly, the drones surrounded the camp, and more than a dozen armed drones shot down Qin Cheng's drone.

Qin Yiyi a pang of heartache. These drones were hard-earned through trading their prey. With these drones, everyone could finally get a good night's sleep when they went out hunting.

Qin Cheng took a deep breath and said, "Raise your hands and don't try to resist. It's the Li and Chen families' Autumn Hunt Convoy; we can't escape."

No one in the camp dared to move. The dozen or so Border-011 fighter jets hovered around them, like the outposts of a convoy.

Qin Cheng and the others were like lambs to the slaughter, raising their hands to be cut down.

In the blink of an eye, the convoy from the north sped in, its huge tires kicking up clouds of dust on the ground.

Qing Chen and Li Shutong pulled up their down jacket collars and watched silently.

Li Shutong said in a low voice, "Don't reveal your identities yet; I don't want to kill them."

Qing Chen stared blankly at his teacher for a moment. "..."

The convoy consisted of more than 30 vehicles, including 29 off-road vehicles with oversized wheels and 7 pickup trucks as supply vehicles, making it quite large.

The exhaust ports of an off-road vehicle are not at the rear of the vehicle, but rather vertically on both sides of the vehicle.

Amidst the deafening music, someone stepped on the gas in neutral and cheered, as flames suddenly spewed from the exhaust pipes standing on both sides.

Qing Chen felt a bit curious. Jiang Xue had told him before that because it was impossible to build "Cloud Flow Tower" on a large scale in the wilderness, most of the vehicles going to the wilderness used diesel engines.

Now Qing Chen suddenly realized that the diesel engine Jiang Xue was talking about... seemed to be a little different from the diesel engine he thought it was.

In the lead vehicle, a man wearing a mechanical goggles sat in the passenger seat, controlling more than a dozen drones via neural connections.

In general, such a person is called the "first mate" in the convoy. He is responsible for all reconnaissance and security work, as well as camp security work. He is considered the deputy chief of staff in the convoy.

A young man jumped out of a car behind them and slowly walked toward the camp. But when he saw the two pickup trucks from Qin Cheng, he cursed loudly.

Someone in the car asked, "What's wrong?"

The young man shouted back, "This is a licensed wilderness hunter from City No. 18, a law-abiding citizen. You can't kill him!"

The pickup truck was painted with a wolf head logo and a serial number, which was the identification number for Qin Cheng's family to legally leave the city.

Someone in the convoy suddenly said, "It should be fine, right? I don't think their hunting recorders are on. The data recording center at the rear won't know. Let's kill them; consider it a way to raise the flag for the Autumn Hunt."

At that very moment.

A woman's voice came from inside the car. "You said you were out hunting, but you end up bullying ordinary people like this. You're really spineless."

As she spoke, the car window rolled down, revealing a tall and muscular woman in the driver's seat of an SUV.

The young man below the car whistled and burst into laughter. "Yinuo's right, let's go!"

"Wait a minute," the robust Li Yinuo said, "Make up for the money spent on destroying their drone."

"Okay!"

The young man pulled out two wads of cash from his fanny pack and threw them on the ground. Everyone turned around and got into the car.

The massive convoy set off again, leaving behind only a dilapidated and dusty camp, where everyone looked rather disheveled.

In the camp, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Qin Tong sat weakly on the ground, with the young woman beside him nestled in his arms, sobbing softly.

Ordinary people are so powerless when they encounter important figures.

Qin Yiyi turned around and found that the middle-aged man and the boy were always standing behind the tree trunk, in a place where they could easily block the view of others.