The road outside Yorknew City was pitch-black at night.
Most of the streetlights were broken.
A black sedan hurtled down the rutted dirt road.
Its engine roared.
Its tires kicked up clouds of mud and sand.
Leorio gripped the steering wheel.
Veins bulged on the backs of his hands.
Sweat ran down his forehead.
It trickled into his eyes, stinging.
He didn't dare blink.
He had the accelerator floored.
The speedometer needle edged toward the red zone.
"Turn left."
Luo Ye lounged in the passenger seat.
His eyes were closed.
A strawberry lollipop hung from his mouth, its plastic stick bobbing up and down.
"Old man, your driving really sucks."
Luo Ye crunched the hard candy in his mouth.
It cracked.
"Go any faster and we'll take off."
Leorio jerked the steering wheel.
The tires screeched against the road.
The car tilted, nearly rolling into a ditch.
"Shut up."
Leorio's voice was dry and hoarse.
"Those two brats are in the Spider's hands."
"Waste another second and their bodies won't even be warm when we get there."
Luo Ye opened his eyes.
He looked into the darkness ahead.
His nose twitched.
The air smelled of exhaust and damp earth.
There was another scent, too.
A faint trace of Nen that had never broken.
Gon's presence.
The mental imprint that kid had left behind.
Usually useless, it had now become their navigation system.
"Don't panic."
Luo Ye patted the dashboard.
"Those two little troublemakers are hard to kill."
"Besides."
"The finish line's right ahead."
At the edge of his vision stood a building.
An abandoned seven-story building.
There were no lights.
Several presences of Nen lurked inside, each more sinister and twisted than the last.
In the abandoned building's ground-floor lobby.
The air was stale.
Dust danced in the moonlight.
Gon