The guide

Inside the twelve-seat van, Wu Han watched Lin Yu race along on his skateboard and slammed a hand against the steering wheel, overwhelmed with regret. If only he had persisted a little longer back then...

If he had kept trying to win Lin Yu over even after Lin Yu offended Zhai Guang, he might have earned Lin Yu's goodwill!

Now Lin Yu had soared to new heights.

He would never have another chance!

He had made countless investments in his life, some successful, some failures.

But this time alone...

He felt he had lost completely.

A streak of silver sped up beside Lin Yu.

Riding his silver-white bicycle, Yellow Hair stared at Lin Yu in shock:

"Holy shit, your skateboard is a Transcendent Transport too?"

Lin Yu smiled and replied:

"I was worried about a certain someone targeting me back then, so I disguised it. But now... clearly, there's no need."

Yellow Hair glanced at Zhai Guang on his motorcycle and nodded.

"Yeah, you definitely had to watch out for a certain someone."

Zhai Guang hit the throttle, and his heavy black motorcycle shot forward, drawing level with Yellow Hair and Lin Yu. His gaze was icy as he sneered, "Keep your voices down next time you talk shit about someone. I'm a fucking Transcendent. I can hear you!"

"As for that skateboard..."

Zhai Guang glanced at it and sneered:

"Heh. Even if it's a Transcendent Transport, I couldn't care less!"

Zhai Guang twisted the throttle and shot ahead again.

He was not just saying that to save face.

The Transcendent Transports he wanted were jeeps, tanks, and land cruisers.

In his eyes, a skateboard that lacked any imposing presence was nowhere near as appealing as his heavy motorcycle.

Yellow Hair flipped off Zhai Guang's retreating back:

"Keep telling yourself that!"

Lin Yu could not be bothered with Zhai Guang. Why waste his time on someone with a screw loose?

Lin Yu quickly accelerated, riding the Demon Spirit Rabbit Skateboard up beside Shen Sui's jeep. "Head southwest. That's where I saw our chance of survival."

Southwest.

That was the direction with a [Choice]!

Shen Sui glanced at the Demon Spirit Rabbit Skateboard beneath Lin Yu's feet:

"Why don't you lead the way? Your skateboard is... fast enough."

Lin Yu immediately slowed down and shook his head:

"No!"

"You're the captain. You have to lead!"

With that,

without waiting for anything Shen Sui might say, Lin Yu dropped back behind the jeep again.

Have him take point?

Not a chance!

Inside the jeep.

Uncle Zhao chuckled:

"Young Lin really is... cautious."

Shen Sui's face darkened:

"That isn't caution. He's absolutely terrified of dying!"

Shen Sui had figured it out: Lin Yu was the one most afraid of death in their entire team!

Following behind the jeep, Lin Yu kept studying the threads in the air. Before long, he noticed that the black threads approaching from behind were gradually fading away.

Clearly, they had escaped that danger.

As for the southwest,

a faint, thin black thread had suddenly appeared among the [Choice] threads full of opportunities.

That meant danger had appeared to the southwest too.

But...

It was not particularly dangerous.

Lin Yu's eyes flickered, and he finally decided not to change their route!

He needed to test just how much danger such a faint black thread represented. This was information he had to gather.

In the apocalypse,

avoiding every danger was impossible!

Some things had to be faced!

"There's danger to the southwest, but it isn't too serious. Be careful, Captain Shen."

Lin Yu sped up to warn him, then quietly dropped back again.

Shen Sui nodded. Looking at Lin Yu on his skateboard through the rearview mirror, he could not help the slight smile tugging at his lips. So this was what having a guide on the team felt like?

This feeling...

It really was wonderful.

At last, he no longer had to play both mother and father and handle everything himself!

At least...

Now he only had to focus on driving ahead.

Uncle Zhao chuckled too:

"Don't you think things have been going more smoothly for our team ever since young Lin became a Transcendent?"

Behind his glasses, Shen Sui's eyes grew contemplative for a moment before he nodded.

He had noticed it too.

Could it be...

Was Lin Yu really on the Fate pathway?

Was Sequence 9 of the Fate pathway the Guide?

Or perhaps...

It was guidance?

Guiding an apostle of fate toward the right direction, guiding him to a chance of survival within a [Choice].

This seemed...

It really did seem like the work of fate.

This was fate itself...

To date, he had never heard of anyone receiving fate's favor.

If Lin Yu really was on the Fate pathway...

This had to be kept secret.

The vehicles sped along the abandoned highway, clouds of dust billowing behind them. As far as the eye could see, endless wilderness stretched in every direction, without a single sign of life. Not even weeds grew there. It was as though the entire world had lost its life.

During the first few days after the apocalypse descended, every existing vehicle in the world had been erased by some unknown, eerie power.

As a result,

the abandoned highway was empty as far as the eye could see.

Suddenly!

The jeep slammed on the brakes. Its tires scraped hard against the asphalt, throwing up sparks and letting out a sharp, prolonged screech.

Screeech-

The jeep came to a steady stop, and Shen Sui narrowed his eyes slightly:

"Trouble's here."

Rows of tire spikes lay across the highway ahead, with barricades piled behind them. Two heavy black pickup trucks were parked on either side of the road.

More than twenty burly men stood beside the pickups.

They held weapons, their eyes cold and bloodthirsty, as though they had spotted prey!

Screeech...

Behind them, the red supercar, heavy black motorcycle, silver-white bicycle, and Demon Spirit Rabbit Skateboard all braked together, lining up on either side of the jeep.

Lin Yu frowned slightly:

"Road Bandits?"

This was a "profession" that had sprung up after the apocalypse.

Unwilling to risk their lives in [Choices], they made their living robbing other teams on abandoned highways. They were a bunch of murderous outlaws.

People they waylaid rarely met a good end.

Men would be tortured and then killed.

Some of the more twisted Road Bandits even kept humans as livestock.

Livestock, as the name suggested...

To be eaten!

They would not kill you outright. Instead, they would take you along with their group and cut a piece of flesh from you whenever they needed meat. That kept the "meat" fresh for as long as possible, until you finally died.

Women had it even worse.

Not only were they kept as livestock, but the bandits also raped and abused them.

Even death was a luxury.

In short,

Road Bandits were a pack of animals, more disgusting and appalling than Anomalies.

Shen Sui opened the door and got out. Looking back at Lin Yu, he asked:

"Is this the danger you mentioned?"

Lin Yu shrugged:

"Looks like it."

The black thread before his eyes pointed straight at the Road Bandits. Its thinness and faintness also indicated that they were weak. At least, they posed no threat to his team!

A gleam flashed through Shen Sui's eyes.

What a powerful Sequence!

He could even foresee danger from people!

Most similar guide Sequences could only detect dangers posed by Anomalies, ferocious beasts, the environment, and so on. Human intentions were unpredictable, and such threats usually could not be anticipated.

But Lin Yu...

He actually could!