A girl of seven or eight stared blankly at Big Luck, which had just saved her, still too dazed to understand what had happened.
As the woman ran over and hugged her, the little girl, her face filthy, clutched her mother's clothes and pointed at Big Luck, asking timidly.
"Mom... what is that?"
The woman stared at Big Luck in a daze, tears streaming down her face.
If Big Luck had not appeared, both she and her daughter would probably have been mauled to death by the Mutated Spirit Beast, the Soul-Devouring Shadow Leopard.
She choked back sobs for a long while before slowly answering.
"It's... it's a god."
Just then, the door beside Big Luck's driver's seat opened.
Lu Yuan jumped down and surveyed the devastated village again, his expression grim.
He had never considered himself a particularly good person.
But the sight before him—the villagers' bodies, chewed to pieces by the Mutated Spirit Beast, the Soul-Devouring Shadow Leopard—
Sent anger surging uncontrollably through his heart.
He walked to the back of the truck and operated the controls.
With a click, the Cargo Box's doors opened.
Lu Yuan lifted his chin toward the survivors on the hillside, who were still sobbing and trembling, and shouted.
"What are you still standing around for?"
"Get in so we can leave! If more Mutated Spirit Beasts show up, you'll all die..."
Of the village's original four or five hundred inhabitants, only thirty-seven survivors remained.
More than half were elderly people, women, and children, along with a few injured young people.
When the Cargo Box's doors opened and they heard Lu Yuan shouting, they exchanged glances and hesitated.
Under Lu Yuan's control, the Cargo Box now held neither cold air nor Spirit Beast carcasses. It was just like an ordinary bus, except that it was empty, without seats or anything else.
"W-we should go inside?"
An injured young man stood up and asked in a trembling voice.
"C-can you save us?"
Lu Yuan had indeed just saved them.
But as far as he could tell, this Handcart of Lu Yuan's might not be able to carry them somewhere safe.
Lu Yuan pointed at the Cargo Box and spoke.
"The Cargo Box is ventilated, and it can shelter you from Mutated Spirit Beasts chasing us!"
"Get inside. As long as I'm alive, nothing will happen to you."
"Besides, this thing has very strong defenses."
"Even if I die, those Mutated Spirit Beasts coming out of the rifts won't find it easy to bite through the Cargo Box..."
At those words, the crowd finally began to stir.
The first to move was the mother holding her seven- or eight-year-old daughter. She stumbled toward Lu Yuan's Big Luck.
If Lu Yuan and his Martial Soul Truck had not appeared,
The mother and daughter would already have ended up in the Mutated Spirit Beast's belly. They would never have survived until now.
Since Lu Yuan had said that much, the two of them had no reason to keep doubting him. Her husband, the child's father, had already been mauled to death and eaten by Mutated Spirit Beasts...
They had no other choice. They could only trust Lu Yuan and his Big Luck.
"Good! Get in."
Lu Yuan reached out and helped the mother aboard, then continued.
"I'll take you somewhere populated, to a city with better defenses where you can shelter."
Those words seemed to open a floodgate.
The other thirty-odd survivors supported one another as they approached, then climbed into the Cargo Box one by one.
As the Cargo Box's doors slowly closed,
The survivors discovered that the space inside was enormous. They could sit or lie down wherever they liked, and there was still plenty of room left.
And something else surprised them even more.
The entire Cargo Box was not stuffy or hot in the slightest. In fact, it was slightly cool.
Lu Yuan also controlled the Cargo Box to strip hides from the Spirit Beasts in a separate compartment, turning them into soft carpeting.
They could wrap themselves in the hides for warmth or sit on them to rest.
Meanwhile, in the driver's seat, Lu Yuan shifted into gear.
With both hands on the wheel and his foot on the accelerator, he suddenly called out.
"Hold on tight."
Vroom...!
The twin engines abruptly roared to life.
All sixteen enormous wheels drove forward together, carrying them toward the large city Lu Yuan knew of—Häagen-Dazs City.
They drove for half a day. At first, the journey went fairly smoothly, with few Mutated Spirit Beasts along the way.
But the closer Lu Yuan drove Big Luck to Häagen-Dazs City, the more Mutated Spirit Beasts he found on the road.
When Big Luck crested a ridge, the main road ahead was completely blocked.
A dense, dark mass filled their view.
Dozens of ten-thousand-year Mutated Spirit Beasts stood there, along with over a hundred thousand-year Mutated Spirit Beasts.
The Mutated Spirit Beasts nearest Big Luck seemed to catch a scent, and all turned their heads in unison.
Dozens of pairs of blood-red eyes locked onto the steel behemoth speeding toward them.
"Roar...!!!"
"Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar..."
Their roars shook heaven and earth.
The other Mutated Spirit Beasts immediately turned to look as well.
Among them were those dozens of ten-thousand-year Mutated Spirit Beasts, which also turned to face Big Luck.
Then the Mutated Spirit Beasts began moving, picking up speed as they charged toward Big Luck!
Inside the Cargo Box, all thirty-seven survivors were dumbstruck as they watched through the inner window near the driver's seat and the side windows they could poke their heads out of.
Then they realized Big Luck was not stopping, but was still hurtling toward that enormous pack of Mutated Spirit Beasts. Their faces twisted in horror, and they screamed.
"We're doomed! We're doomed! There are... there are so many Mutated Spirit Beasts!"
"You're still driving forward! No! No! Those Mutated Spirit Beasts will eat us all!!"
"Ah!!! I'm terrified!! This guy is taking us to our deaths!"
"Stop! Stop! I want out! I don't want you driving me anymore! Stop right now! How do I jump out? I want to jump..."
"Are you insane?! You're still charging at them! Those Mutated Spirit Beasts will swallow us all! Aaaah..."
The entire Cargo Box descended into chaos. Some even tried to jump out of the windows.
But they discovered that only their heads would fit through; they could not squeeze their bodies out...
In the driver's seat, Lu Yuan remained perfectly calm.
Looking at the dense mass of Mutated Spirit Beasts ahead, he did not slow down at all. Instead, he slammed the accelerator straight to the floor!!!
He shifted gears.
Second gear.
Third gear.
Fifth gear!
"No Heaven-Piercing Art on the National Highway—just one thing overpowering another!!!"
Soul Power surged wildly throughout Big Luck.
[Full-Load Rampage!] [Load capacity limit: increased from 1,000 tons to 10,000 tons!] [National Highway] [Dragon-Riding Strike] [Big Luck Mountains and Rivers] [Wheel-Body Domain] [Crimson Demon Incinerates the Heavens] [Earthshaking Armor]
He unleashed every Soul Skill at once!
Lu Yuan reached out and pressed the Turbocharging button!
Then he pressed the Nitrous Boost button!
"Turbocharging! Activate!!!"
"Nitrous Boost! Activate!"
The three turbochargers on Big Luck's roof instantly blasted out searing blue flames with a shrill, roaring whine!
Big Luck's speed suddenly soared.
The nitrous outlets on either side of Big Luck's exhaust pipes opened at the same time, shooting out two jets of blue flame several meters long!
Big Luck's speed surged yet again.
At the same time, cold light gleamed in layers across the Armor-Piercing Ram at the front!
Moving at a speed that would have broken even an expressway's speed limit, Big Luck hurtled straight ahead as though it were about to take flight.
At the sight, everyone in the Cargo Box stared with mouths hanging open, their scalps prickling with terror...
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