Foundation Exusiai, Containment Breach!

"Want to see who can hold their liquor better?"

"You drink first. However many cups you have, I'll have the same." Xiao Huasheng raised an eyebrow in the rearview mirror.

In the end, Exusiai drank them all right in front of her.

"Ten cups total. Your turn."

As she spoke, she pulled out another ten cups from the car's underground liquor cabinet.

"Hey, hey, hey! No drinking while driving!" Croissant protested.

"That's not fair! I want to drink!" Xiao Huasheng protested.

Out here in the wasteland, there really was no need to worry about drunk driving.

Even if they flipped the car, they would not hit a single person.

She did not object to the soda, either.

She turned sideways and took a big sip, looking thoroughly satisfied.

Unfortunately, the moment she took that sip, an accident happened.

Boom!!!

In the distance beside the car, a cloud of black smoke tinged with fiery red exploded into the air!

The violent tremor nearly sent the entire car rolling onto its side.

Exusiai's cup tilted as well, sending soda splashing everywhere and drenching her.

Huh?!

Xiao Huasheng's eyes widened. She still had not understood what had happened.

But her teammates already did.

"What's going on?!" Xiao Huasheng shouted.

Croissant had already grabbed her shield and smashed the window, her eyes wide. "Bandits!"

A faint blush colored Exusiai's face as she swiftly drew her submachine gun. Her light wings spread open. "I'll deal with them. SCP-173, I'll leave the driving to you!"

Xiao Huasheng saw dozens of motorcycles closing in through the rearview mirror. Every rider was dressed in yellow.

"Desert bandits?" she muttered.

Over the past few days, she had learned more or less about the troubles logistics companies encountered.

Bandits were undoubtedly one of them.

These people, unable to make a living in the cities, specialized in robbing passing vehicles.

Crossbow bolts rained down upon the car's body.

Exusiai returned fire with precision, taking down a motorcycle with a burst.

Croissant held up her shield to protect Exusiai.

The bandits quickly realized they had kicked an iron plate. They immediately spread out and focused their attack on the driver's seat.

As the motorcycles closed in, the driver's window suddenly shattered beneath a punch!

Before the bandits could react, a heavy machine gun had already been mounted at the window.

Xiao Huasheng spread her light wings, steering with one hand. After blinking cutely, she pulled the trigger with the other. "Surprise~"

The machine gun roared, blasting a string of craters across the ground.

At that moment, the bandits truly saw an Angel—literally.

I Thought It Was a Speed Bump [2nd Update]

The motorcycles speeding along the left side of the black sedan were utterly routed by a single machine gun.

The orange-red muzzle flashes took most of their lives in an instant. Once they realized that, they retreated at top speed, fleeing the area.

Xiao Huasheng watched everything expressionlessly. The moment the bandits began to withdraw, she did not pull the trigger again.

It really still made me uncomfortable, this whole killing people thing.

Croissant sat in the back and chuckled, comforting her.

"After all, if they hadn't come after us, none of this would have happened. They brought this upon themselves."

Exusiai also put away her gun without even glancing at the motorcycles that had turned into fireballs behind them.

"If we weren't this strong, we'd probably have been captured and made into bandit chiefs' wives, right?"

"Look on the bright side. At worst, it's rpq."

Croissant retorted with a laugh.

The way Penguin Logistics talked really was rather...

Unique.

Xiao Huasheng shrugged, treating the matter as over and done with.

"Alright, enough about that. What do you two think about our air-conditioning leaking out?"

Croissant and Exusiai's expressions changed at once. They suddenly realized that the pleasant cool air inside the car had vanished, while the searing heat outside rushed into the cabin.

There was not the slightest pause.

Croissant and Exusiai tried to grab the cool air, only to come up empty-handed, suffering a complete defeat.

"I'm going to die from the heat!"

"I don't want to turn into an Angel bun!"

The two of them immediately huddled beside the air conditioner.

They were unwilling to stay by the window for even one more second!

The temperature had to be at least thirty-five degrees Celsius!

Xiao Huasheng, on the other hand, felt nothing at all.

Even sitting under the sun, she found the temperature cool and just right.

It seemed she was immune to changes in temperature.

The secrets of SCP-173's body seemed to far exceed her imagination.

That counted as a very, very nice perk.

As for why she had become like Exusiai?

That could only be attributed to her love for Exusiai.

Heh.

The black sedan silently drove across the barren land for another half hour or so, and the cabin completely turned into a steamer.

The two Penguin Logistics employees fell into despair.

"We seem to have made a serious mistake. We shouldn't have smashed the window. This place feels like a sauna."

Exusiai's beautiful brows furrowed slightly, her face covered in sweat. For her, this was another kind of torment, painful enough to make her wear a mask of agony.

Croissant lay sprawled across the back seat, tongue hanging out as though she were about to die.

Xiao Huasheng leisurely drove while humming a tune. To her, heat waves of this level posed no threat whatsoever.

Still, the weather had indeed grown much hotter lately.

Ever since the Catastrophes occurred and Originium appeared, the heat generated by mobile cities had far exceeded people's imagination.

That was why the outside world had become so scorching. At the very least, no one wanted to stay in a place like this.

No one wanted to.

"So hot, so hot! I'm dying!"

Croissant held a cup of lukewarm cola. Drinking it only added another layer of heat.

Exusiai had given up struggling and lay limply in her seat, unwilling to move.

She was completely different from her dashing demeanor at the start.

"Croissant, you look just like a Lupo right now~"

Seeing this, Xiao Huasheng found it quite amusing. No one knew that Penguin Logistics had such a side outside the story.

In the game, every one of them had been a perfect wife.

Exusiai listlessly teased, "Texas sticks her tongue out when she gets hot too!"

Croissant stuck out her tongue as well and gave a bitter smile.

"Then it looks like I can go visit Texas and play in the Lupo homeland with her. Hahaha..."

Exusiai and Croissant laughed weakly at the same time. The temperature really was affecting them quite badly.

Meanwhile, Xiao Huasheng glanced at the GPS on the dashboard.

Chernobog was about an hour away. The trip was neither too long nor too late.

And it was at that moment.

Another accident occurred.

The car body jolted first, then underwent a strange change.

It actually could not move anymore, and its speed grew slower and slower, enough to drive anyone mad.

"We're out of gas!"

She shouted this at the two lying in the back seat, but shouting would not bring any help.

It would only spread the frustration.

"What?!"

"We're dead, we're dead!"

The two reluctantly flailed about. Indeed, weather like this was simply too torturous.

The car.

Had broken down.

Inside the Reunion Movement camp.

Skullshatterer sat silently on the desert ground, waiting for the logistics company to arrive.

Just as she waited.

A Reunion Movement member came over and said,

"Skullshatterer, we found a black sedan broken down in the distance. It looks like it came from Lungmen."

Skullshatterer pondered for a moment before quickly reaching a conclusion.

"No one knows what the Ursus Empire is thinking. It might be a transport vehicle. Let's go."

Skullshatterer silently rose to her feet, leading a large group of Reunion Movement members toward the vehicle.

As for passing vehicles.

The Reunion Movement's attitude was to kill rather than let them go.

A vehicle had appeared on the transport route mentioned in the intelligence.

They definitely could not let it escape.

Back with Xiao Huasheng.

The miserable Penguin Logistics members finally found the cause of the breakdown.

The fuel tank had been punctured...

The three of them stared at the damaged fuel tank and fell into deep thought.