Friends and Family

On the wilderness, the two war machines sped up faster and faster.

The mounds and gullies on the earth could not slow their movements even slightly.

In Qing Chen's ears, the sound of the precise machine parts meshing grew louder and louder.

The boy kept pulling the trigger, not to hit his opponent, but to hope that the opponent would slow down a little while dodging the bullets, giving him some time.

The old man watched silently from the side, and suddenly found the boy quite interesting.

Everyone knows that if no one comes to their aid, their only outcome will be being caught up by the two war machines and easily killed.

This is the most expensive Tiger-01 war machine in the Kamishiro Family, comparable to B-Class gene warrior.

Among the people in this car, Li Ke and Hu Xiaoniu were ordinary people, Qing Chen was only at the peak of D-Class, and the old man was even weaker than a chicken.

In this situation, no one can survive.

The old man believed that Qing Chen could also think of these things, but even so, the other party still showed no intention of giving up. It seemed that even if he was about to die, he would maintain his fighting spirit until the very last second...

This is a dignified death.

When the distance between the two sides was reduced to 200 meters, Qing Chen saw from afar that the two humanoid war machines raised their arms. The palms at the front of their arms suddenly disintegrated, revealing the dark muzzles of cannons on their wrists.

When Hu Xiaoniu saw this scene in the rearview mirror, he was completely shocked. He then looked at Qing Chen...

But they found that Qing Chen remained calm.

Why? He couldn't understand why Qing Chen could remain so calm.

With a loud bang, a miniature grenade launcher shot out, heading straight for Qing Chen and his group's off-road vehicle.

The moment Hu Xiaoniu saw the flash of fire from the muzzle of the war machine's cannon, his heart sank into despair.

He never imagined that despite his hard work in establishing himself in the Inner World, he would still die here in the end.

However, just when everyone thought the off-road vehicle would be blown to pieces by the howitzer, the howitzer, which was moving at a speed too fast for the naked eye to see, suddenly seemed to hit an invisible elastic force in mid-air, changing its original trajectory.

A howitzer narrowly missed an off-road vehicle!

Qing Chen breathed a slight sigh of relief.

All his previous delaying tactics were worthwhile at this moment!

Before anyone could react, the two war machines, while running, suddenly took a step and flew diagonally into the sky.

Like astronauts in a vacuum, they seem to be flying towards an endless end.

This was not their intention; rather, something around them suddenly seemed to have disappeared.

Gravity has disappeared!

When everyone is running, every step they take is extremely forceful.

Everyone takes a step, then is pulled back to the ground by gravity, and then takes another step.

But what if gravity suddenly disappeared at some point?

Everything will be different.

Yang Yang has arrived.

"Shot!"

Just as the two war machines were flying diagonally into the sky, Yang Yang landed heavily on the off-road vehicle and said.

Gravity reappeared, and the two war machines suddenly slowed down in the air before plummeting to the ground in a parabolic trajectory.

At this point, the trajectories of the two war machines in the air could no longer be changed, and their falling speed was completely within Qing Chen's detection range.

Qing Chen pulled the trigger twice in succession, only to see the miniature reactors on the chests of the two war machines accurately hit by the sniper rifle.

It transformed into a giant firework in the night sky!

"Holy crap, awesome!" Hu Xiaoniu roared excitedly.

Qing Chen and Yang Yang worked together to resolve the biggest crisis, but the boy in the car was not blinded by joy. He calmly lay on the back of the seat, firing shot after shot.

Realizing the situation was dire, the Kamishiro convoy turned around and split up.

However, as they turned, they exposed their fuel tanks to Qing Chen's firing range.

Qing Chen switched to armor-piercing incendiary rounds and calmly pulled the trigger.

One by one, the vehicles of the Kamishiro Family turned into torches in the night, illuminating the darkness.

Yang Yang climbed into the car through the open trunk and asked Qing Chen with a smile, "You've been waiting for me, haven't you?"

After his thoughts were exposed, Qing Chen didn't show any embarrassment. He laughed and said, "You came at just the right time. If you had been two seconds later, we would have been finished. But, can you control the force field around two B-Class experts at the same time? That's a bit too impressive."

Yang Yang shook her head and laughed, "They may possess B-Class strength and speed, but to me they're just a little over two hundred pounds. If it were a true B-Class expert, it wouldn't work. An expert's life force field would repel my force field, and I wouldn't be able to influence them so easily."

"I see," Qing Chen nodded. "By the way, did you see a battle between two A-rank individuals on your way here?"

"I saw them, but I didn't dare get close. And it wasn't just two A-rank fighters fighting, it was three, two against one, and March from the Tribunal of Taboos was watching from the sidelines, so there were four A-rank fighters in total," Yang Yang said after thinking for a moment.

"Two against one?" Qing Chen was taken aback. "What's going on? Are there other A-rank beings in the Divine Era?"

"No, no," Yang Yang said with a smile, "It was two people who beat up the guy in the Japanese samurai outfit."

Qing Chen suddenly looked at the old man. "You've prepared quite a few backup plans, haven't you? You even planted another A-level? Could it be that you've brought out the entire Li family's wealth?"

He thought to himself, no wonder the old man was so calm throughout.

When the other party said they would use him as bait, Qing Chen thought they were there to fish, but he never expected that they were actually there to use explosives to fish!

However, it's not particularly surprising when you think about it. As one of the five most powerful people in the entire Federation, it would seem petty of the old man to personally set up a trap if there weren't enough A-level individuals present.

The financial resources of conglomerates are far beyond what ordinary people can imagine.

Qing Chen looked at the old man. "Do you have any other tricks up your sleeve?"

The old man looked at Qing Chen: "Do I still want to drink? No, the doctor said I can't drink in my condition. You guys drink, we should celebrate escaping death."

Qing Chen observed the old man's expression, unsure whether the man was genuinely hard of hearing from the sniper rifle fire or was simply pretending.

Yang Yang suddenly said, "Grandpa, will there be any more dangers ahead? If not, why don't you come and join us? There are many female classmates waiting to hear your story."

Old man. "Okay."

Hu Xiaoniu: "..."

Li Ke: "..."

Qing Chen: "..."

You heard that very clearly!

The old man chuckled and said, "I don't know what happened, the tinnitus suddenly stopped, haha, look at the mess this has made."

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, "We won't reunite. You all better be careful. The crows splitting up into two groups to travel might be a trap."

March must have anticipated that Qing Chen and his group would part ways with the Freemasons, which is why she let the little crows get on the Freemasons' bus.

Later, the two sides really did separate. The other side just calmly sat in the car and casually mentioned it, without calling the little crows to get off and reunite.

Therefore, from the very beginning, the Tribunal of Taboos had not only one target to take in.

Freemasonry can also encounter danger.

The old man glanced at Qing Chen: "You've just been through a great battle, yet you're still so meticulous? The Tribunal of Taboos. Young lady, Qing Chen is right, you might encounter danger if you continue south."

Qing Chen looked at Yang Yang and said, "I won't go to help. The old man's health can't take any more strain."

Today alone, the old man has briefly fallen into a coma three times, and he is becoming increasingly drowsy and his breathing is becoming weaker and weaker.

This change might be hard for others to notice, but for Qing Chen, a simple comparison was all it took to make it clear that the old man's condition was much worse than yesterday.

Therefore, even though Qing Chen knew that the Freemasons would be in danger, he couldn't gamble that the old man would be able to hold on.

At this moment, the old man said with a smile, "They've come to help you, aren't you going to help them? Don't worry, I'm fine, I'm very healthy."

As he spoke, the old man pounded his chest loudly as if to prove something, and then fainted.

Qing Chen said helplessly, "If you don't want to go, you don't have to do this. I've already decided not to go."

Yang Yang said, "She really fainted; the energy field in her brain has almost stopped."

"Wait, you can observe other people's thought fluctuations by observing force fields?" Qing Chen was taken aback.

"A person's force field is very complex, composed of many small force fields merging together to form a complete large force field," Yang Yang said. "Alright, I need to hurry up and meet up with the Freemasons. Whatever you're going to do in Forbidden Zone No. 002, just be careful."

After saying that, Yang Yang flew out of the trunk again, and even helped close the door before leaving.

The car fell silent, but the old man remained unconscious.

They walked through the night and through the dawn.

The old man did not wake up as quickly as before that night, but woke up groggily and fainted several times.

Qing Chen understood that the intense fighting at night had likely affected the old man's mind with the roar of the sniper rifle.

Moreover, the biting December wind shattered the windshield of the SUV, and the howling wind made the already frail elderly man even more vulnerable.

Qing Chen took out a sleeping bag and placed the old man inside, leaving only his face exposed, to prevent the low temperature from having a negative impact on him again.

Qing Chen had always known that the old man would eventually have this moment, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.

The old man was actually on the verge of making this trip because of two wishes: one was to go to Forbidden Zone No. 002, and the other was to help Li Yunshou get rid of Kamishiro Tongshan.

Now that Kamishiro Tongshan is certain to die, it's as if half of the old man's life has been taken away by fate.

They were running out of time and had to get to Forbidden Zone No. 002 as soon as possible.

As the sun rose, Hu Xiaoniu suddenly said, "Brother Chen, there are people ahead."

Qing Chen looked over and suddenly saw an old man with white hair dressed in a samurai outfit, standing alone in the morning sun, smiling warmly.

The vehicle slowly came to a stop. Qing Chen didn't reach for the gun, but instead got out of the car as if he had a sudden realization and asked, "Are you the old man's friend? He's unconscious right now, so we might not be able to wake him up."

The old man smiled slowly and said, "There's no need to see him again. Young man, please tell him for me that I've always been ashamed that I became his friend because of my dirty motives. If there is an afterlife, I hope we can still be friends, clean and pure friends."

After saying this, the old man knelt down facing north, plunged a short knife into his abdomen, and calmly cut it open horizontally.

Helping the old man catch the Kamishiro Tongshan was his way of fulfilling his promise to his friend.

He chose to atone with his death; this was his way of making amends to his family.