Li Yichen covered the mile or so in the blink of an eye, running flat out.
By then, the drivers and their families stuck on the road had lost all interest in arguing. Their mouths hung open, their eyes wider than a cow's.
"Can't you see a car coming?" Ouyang Hai stuck his head out of the window and shouted at the people ahead. "Move aside! We need to get through!"
"Oh!" Everyone finally snapped out of it and hurried to the roadside. In an instant, apart from the cars scattered every which way, not a single person remained in the road.
Carrying such a huge vehicle for a mile or so had left Li Yichen utterly exhausted.
He was starting to regret it. Wasn't he just working himself to death like an idiot?
If Ouyang Hai hadn't been inside, he would have tossed the car straight into a ditch.
Seeing that he was almost through, he couldn't help breathing a sigh of relief. Then he drove his foot down and straightened his back, leaving a footprint in the hard highway pavement.
With one huge stride, he vaulted over the roof of the car ahead, ran another hundred yards or so, and casually dropped the vehicle onto the road. Then he opened the door and sprang inside.
"Uncle... Uncle Ouyang..." Li Yichen swallowed, then said between heavy gasps, "Your turn now. Full speed ahead."
"You got it!" Ouyang Hai immediately started the engine and floored the accelerator. The Land Rover's engine roared, and the vehicle shot forward, soon disappearing from sight.
Only then did everyone return to the middle of the road. One man said in utter bewilderment, "A car just flew past, right?"
"Yeah..." The others nodded in unison, looking just as dumbfounded.
Twenty minutes later, the Land Rover