Ten minutes later.
Su Chen's refrigerated truck had a full tank, and the empty fuel cans in the cargo compartment had been filled too.
He drove back onto the national highway first, then waited another five minutes.
The last five minutes.
No matter what, he couldn't wait any longer!
"Time to go!"
"Hurry up!"
Su Chen urged the others to leave, starting his truck after shouting.
"Everyone, let's go!"
Yang Defa and Huang Wei called out too.
The other vehicles hurried away from the gas station.
After word about Sequences spread, some people guessed that Su Chen could foresee danger.
The convoy soon returned to the national highway and began speeding along.
A few more cars had joined the convoy.
There was an Off-Road Vehicle too.
Some people had checked the vehicles beside the Oil Station, found they could start, and driven them into the convoy.
Quite a few people traded their three-wheelers for cars.
Here.
Gao Yue had to be mentioned.
Gao Yue had refueled her car and seen others switching vehicles.
Thinking of her car's broken windows, she considered switching to another one.
However.
Su Chen had already started shouting.
Gao Yue remembered her choice at Banyan Tree Village, when she had chosen the opposite direction.
She had nearly gotten herself killed.
She had also heard some news about Sequences.
In particular, the strength police officer Huang Wei displayed after becoming a Werewolf.
Everyone had seen it.
Gao Yue knew too.
Su Chen had a Sequence.
Gao Yue gritted her teeth, not daring to linger and switch cars, and drove her battered car into the middle of the convoy.
Once bitten, twice shy.
"Roar!"
They had left just in time.
Not long after leaving the Oil Station, everyone heard a roar coming from it.
Wasn't it said.
That Weird Entities couldn't appear in sunlight?
Su Chen suddenly remembered the system's initial notification.
Thirty minutes?
Not particularly fast.
So.
Did that 70546 Weird Entities emerge from underground?
Su Chen immediately had a guess.
Still, he hoped it wouldn't come after him and the convoy.
Su Chen glanced at the ground beside the road, worried all the same.
They had only just dealt with the Tree People in their group.
Now another Weird Entities might be chasing them.
Then again.
He only knew that some Weird Entities had marked him.
He had no idea how many Weird Entities were coming after them.
One more.
One less.
It didn't seem to make much difference.
So he might as well think about something good.
Su Chen looked ahead and began looking forward to Xintang Town.
By his calculations, it was another 15 kilometers away.
There were two pieces of information about Xintang Town.
One was that it had something that could help with the Awakening Sequence.
Su Chen felt he really needed that.
Although a Sequence came at a cost, it could become a trump card that would save his life.
An equivalent exchange was only reasonable.
Su Chen didn't want his younger sister, Su Xi, to bear the cost.
But.
If the cost fell on him, he could accept it.
The other was that someone else there had awakened a Sequence.
That person could be recruited into the convoy.
From the battle between Huang Wei and the Tree People, he had sensed that only a Sequence could barely contend with Weird Entities.
Beside him.
Su Xi helped watch the road whenever her brother Su Chen grew distracted.
She gave him reminders from time to time.
After driving along the national highway for a while, Su Chen began glancing at both sides of the road.
He also checked the speedometer.
And the time.
Su Chen repeatedly confirmed that he was on the national highway and sensed that something was wrong.
They hadn't seen another gas station since the last one.
Having driven before, Su Chen naturally knew a few things about gas stations.
Gas stations at expressway service areas were usually 50 to 100 kilometers apart.
But gas stations along national and provincial highways were spaced at least six kilometers apart on the same side, and at least three kilometers apart on opposite sides.
He had driven nearly ten kilometers without seeing a second gas station.
Surely the gas stations hadn't been swallowed up?
There was only one truth.
This national highway was somewhat different from the national highway he knew.
As he recalled.
In some supernatural movies, new floors, new subway routes, and new roads could appear.
There were even markets ordinary people couldn't enter, called ghost markets.
There were ghostly loops that trapped people.
Forests people couldn't escape.
Things like that.
So, had two worlds merged, making the roads longer?
Could it be?
Could fake towns and fake cities appear between two places?
Like deep-sea anglerfish, luring passersby inside?
What the eyes saw wasn't necessarily real or trustworthy.
Fuck!
It really was possible!
The more Su Chen thought back, the more plausible it seemed.
It had taken them over an hour to get from the country road to the national highway.
And they had only covered a distance of 15 kilometers to reach the gas station.
At the time, he had thought it was normal.
After all, the roads they traveled couldn't have been straight.
Country roads twisted and turned.
They simply had to drive farther.
Now it seemed that besides the winding roads, there were roads that hadn't originally existed.
Their average speed had been around 60 km/h.
For a straight-line distance of 15 kilometers, they had driven 60 kilometers, or even more.
Suddenly.
Su Xi said, "Brother, there seems to be a town ahead!"
Su Chen looked at the town beside the road, then at the escape map.
There was no town marked on the map.
They were still a long way from Xintang Town.
Instantly.
Cold sweat broke out across Su Chen's back.
He had just realized something was wrong with the road, and something really was wrong.
The town before them.
Was most likely fake.
It might not even be a town originally from Blue Star.
That was close!
Even the system hadn't provided this information yet.
If he carelessly fell for it and entered the town, who knew what it might trigger?
Even having a system wouldn't be enough.
Dying despite having a system would make him a laughingstock.
Sure enough.
Even with a system, he couldn't let his guard down.
"We can't stop here."
Su Chen said this to Su Xi.
Then.
Su Chen leaned out of his truck's window.
"Keep driving!"
"Don't stop."
"Whatever you do, don't stop!"
Su Chen also roared several times at the convoy behind him.
If they wouldn't listen, he would leave them be.
Su Chen checked the time. Before he knew it, it was ten o'clock.
They had driven for over another hour.
Some people in the convoy behind him did stop their vehicles.
They had gone nearly half a day without eating, without any food.
Their stomachs were feeling hungry.
So.
They were all rather excited when they saw the town.
Originally, they had thought Su Chen's truck would stop.
Yet Su Chen actually drove past the town without stopping.
This clearly didn't match what they had in mind.
Because of this, some people stopped their vehicles.
Others hesitated, then chose to keep following Su Chen.
Yang Defa followed without hesitation.
Having already awakened a Sequence and experienced its power, Huang Wei trusted Su Chen's judgment and kept driving after him.
Gao Yue and Fan Hui once again faced a choice.
"We haven't had breakfast yet. We're sure to find something to eat in town."
Fan Hui looked at the town and spoke anxiously.
Gurgle, rumble.
As luck would have it, Gao Yue's stomach growled too.
"I'm not going."
But Gao Yue said those words firmly.
She might have been a bad person, but she had enough cunning to make it to senior management.
Not one of the people from the Awakening Sequence had stopped their car.
There was definitely something fishy going on!
"Then I'll go!"
Fan Hui was still quite tempted.
She really was hungry.
Even with a belly full of fat, she could do nothing about the hunger inside it.
It felt as though ants were crawling all over her stomach.
"Go ahead!"
Gao Yue steeled herself and stopped the car.
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