The engine roared like a dying beast as three black Escalades barreled forward, nearly out of control.
They tore down the rutted dirt road, kicking up clouds of dust.
Behind them, piercing sirens and the thunder of helicopter rotors followed, searchlight beams clinging to them like a disease.
They locked onto the fleeing vehicles, exposing every inch of their escape route.
A Black Hawk descended, flying less than a hundred meters ahead of the convoy.
Its loudspeaker issued a stern warning, drowning out the engines and wind:
"Vehicles ahead! Pull over immediately! You are surrounded!
I repeat, stop immediately! Otherwise, we will use force!"
The response was an even more furious roar of accelerators!
The three vehicles did not slow down in the slightest. Instead, they floored the gas, sending their engines into the red.
The bodies trembled under the violent acceleration as they charged toward the abandoned warehouse looming in the darkness ahead!
The warehouse drew closer, its rusted rolling door gleaming coldly beneath the moonlight.
Just as the vehicles were about to crash into it, a smaller side door on the warehouse suddenly swung inward!
"Now! Get inside!" Wang Qiang roared through the communicator.
The lead vehicle suddenly fishtailed, executing a hair-raising drift as it scraped past the doorframe and plunged into the warehouse's dark interior first!
The second and third vehicles followed close behind, their tires shrieking against the ground and spraying sparks and dust.
Clang! The heavy side door was swiftly shut from within.
And barred with a thick iron beam.
The warehouse interior was vast. In the open space at its center,
Su Xiao and the other nine trainees stood solemnly at key points around the formation's perimeter.
Their hands maintained hand seals, sweat beading on their foreheads. Light flowed through the formation, displaying stable