"Su Chen."
"The moon's out, and it's red!"
Su Xi exclaimed in wonder the moment the red moon appeared.
"Be good. Don't look!"
Su Chen had already received intelligence about the red moon and knew that looking at it for too long could easily cause mental derangement.
"Okay."
Su Xi obediently closed her eyes and leaned back in the driver's seat.
I just have to trust my brother!
Watching Changcheng recede in the rearview mirror, Su Chen also noticed the change.
Red mist suddenly appeared above Changcheng.
The thick fog spread, enveloping the entire city.
The red fog crept outward, actually following the national highway toward them.
Cars that had been heading into Changcheng instinctively stopped.
They tried to turn around.
Cars leaving Changcheng couldn't help speeding up.
After all, the red fog was still spreading toward them.
It looked like a chemical plant leak.
When faced with the unknown,
people were afraid!
No one wanted to stay in that eerie red fog.
Urgent honking began behind them.
They urged the drivers ahead to go a little faster.
Under these circumstances, Su Chen was swept forward with the traffic.
Su Chen glanced at the time.
17:40.
It had been exactly five hours, just as the Intelligence System had said.
He had made full use of his time.
The supplies behind him gave him a strong sense of security.
Of course, Su Chen didn't relax. He drove with his nerves taut.
An accident could happen on the road at any moment.
Su Chen also honked from time to time.
Amid the honking,
the police siren stood out, warning everyone.
"Wee-woo, wee-woo~"
This helped maintain some semblance of order nearby.
Inside the police car,
Huang Wei watched the occasional cars turning around and heard the honking behind him.
He was puzzled.
When he looked up, he saw the red moon.
A red moon?
"Senior, something seems wrong with the moon."
Zhang Xiaomeng had also noticed the red moon.
Sensing that something was wrong with the atmosphere, she even glanced back.
That one look gave her a fright.
Zhang Xiaomeng said in panic, "Changcheng behind us is covered in red fog! The fog is still chasing us!"
Huang Wei's heart also sped up for no apparent reason, but he remained calm.
"Xiaomeng, ask the station if something's happened."
Huang Wei gave Zhang Xiaomeng an instruction.
Zhang Xiaomeng immediately picked up her phone to check.
"The phone signal's terrible!"
After turning on her phone, Zhang Xiaomeng saw the signal bars flickering.
"Try my phone!"
Huang Wei frowned when he heard that the signal was poor.
Zhang Xiaomeng picked up Huang Wei's phone and took a look.
"The signal's bad on this one too!"
Zhang Xiaomeng sounded helpless.
Huang Wei was also being swept forward by the traffic.
But suddenly, he spotted a refrigerated truck ahead.
"I think I see Su Chen's truck. Let's catch up first!"
Huang Wei bit his lip.
He was still on duty.
There didn't seem to be much he could do now.
Even if he felt something had happened in Changcheng, turning back wasn't easy anymore.
Meanwhile, Zhang Xiaomeng began fidgeting in the car.
After looking back, she seemed to hear all kinds of strange noises in the red fog.
"Aaah~"
Bang!
"That scared me to death!"
Behind the police car, Fan Hui shrieked.
She saw a strange figure in the red fog pressed against the car window.
Tall and twisted.
"Drive faster!"
Anxious, Fan Hui tried to grab Gao Yue's steering wheel.
"Keep your hands off!"
"This is my car. Get out if you don't like it."
Gao Yue was already panicking. With the struggle over the steering wheel, the car swerved wildly.
They nearly got into an accident because of it.
"Get out?"
"If you make me get out, I'll take you with me even if I turn into a ghost!"
Fan Hui began acting shamelessly.
"Then shut up!"
Gao Yue desperately pressed the accelerator, finding Fan Hui noisy.
She had also seen the red fog and the monsters.
Everything before her was far removed from her life as a supervisor.
People were creatures of habit.
Anything unfamiliar would make them frightened and uneasy.
For some reason, Gao Yue thought of Su Chen.
Su Chen had headed out of the city right from the start. Was he really that lucky?
Escaping disaster?
Was prison really the disaster he was escaping?
Distracted for a moment, Gao Yue nearly crashed and had to swerve back.
"What the hell!"
Yang Defa drove his truck, trying to escape the red fog.
The car ahead was swerving, and he nearly hit it.
Yang Defa regretted it more and more.
His wife had wanted to pack their belongings, delaying them a little.
As a result, the red fog had soon caught up with them after they left the city.
The red moon!
The red fog!
"So this was the disaster."
Remembering Su Chen's words, Yang Defa suddenly understood.
"Honey, what's happening?"
Wang Xiumei was frightened, but afraid of affecting Yang Defa's driving, she only dared clutch the hem of his shirt with one hand.
She had felt deeply uneasy ever since the red fog appeared.
"Ah!"
Suddenly, Wang Xiumei cried out.
A human skin had covered the window at some point.
It looked as though something had sucked it dry.
More importantly, the human skin wasn't dead and was trying to squeeze through a gap.
Yang Defa acted decisively too, flooring the accelerator and charging onward.
When sunlight came into view again, the human skin drifted away.
It vanished without a trace.
Yang Defa glanced at his wife, and his driving skills suddenly improved considerably.
He maneuvered nimbly along the road, actually putting more and more distance between them and the black fog.
"Wee-woo, wee-woo~"
Yang Defa spotted the police car whose occupants had questioned him earlier and immediately followed it.
A police car?
Su Chen also saw the police car in his rearview mirror.
He didn't think the police were coming for him.
Who would think of themselves as a criminal?
Until,
in the rearview mirror, Su Chen also saw the female supervisor's car following close behind the police.
Were they really pursuing me?
Su Chen had considered that his actions might attract the police.
But he hadn't expected it to happen today.
After all, reporting a crime and dealing with it would certainly take some time.
Watching the police pursue him, Su Chen wasn't particularly panicked.
The traffic kept flowing.
The police couldn't get ahead of him at all to catch him.
Su Chen drove for nearly another hour.
Screech!
Suddenly, Su Chen hit the brakes.
There was a multi-car pileup ahead. Even the national highway was blocked.
Su Chen had taken the national highway.
He had done so because expressways had guardrails, making it difficult to get on and off.
They could only be entered and exited through interchanges.
If anything happened along the way, he would be stuck on the expressway.
He might even have to abandon the truck.
His sister still couldn't walk.
Wandering around with his sister on his back would leave them in a miserable situation.
The national highway was different.
There were plenty of country roads beside it, giving him more routes to take.
That was why Su Chen had deliberately taken the national highway.
Now that an accident had occurred on it, he could only stop for the time being.
Su Chen checked the time. It was already almost six.
There were many cars behind him.
Traffic hadn't been moving very fast.
As a result, they were only a little over ten kilometers from Changcheng.
The red fog hadn't spread this far.
But the setting sun had sunk completely, and the red moon was growing ever clearer.
The surroundings took on a reddish glow.
Su Chen was stuck on the road, feeling somewhat unsettled.
Now, there were two options.
He could take another route and keep going, using the country roads.
The other option.
He could stay for a while, wait for someone to move the vehicles out of the way, then continue on.
Bang, bang!
Just then, someone knocked on his car window.
Su Chen thought it was the police and instinctively panicked for a moment.
He turned to look.
Although the police car had stopped beside him, the officers had already gotten out to deal with the accident.
The person knocking on his window was the owner of the repair shop from earlier.
Why had that shop owner come over?
"Hey, my house is in the village right next to here. Why don't you come over and take a break?"
Yang Defa extended an invitation.
It could only be called a coincidence.
There was a country road near the accident, and it led straight into his village.
Yang Defa had quite a few questions on his mind. Seeing Su Chen's car stop, he had thought to invite him over.
Perhaps he might learn something else.
"For a meal?"
Su Chen glanced at the country road beside them.
Farther in, beside the winding concrete road, stood a banyan tree that blotted out the sky.
There were quite a few buildings in the woods beyond.
This was a village.
"I have tools at home, too. I can install the solar panels for you."
Yang Defa also offered something he could hardly refuse.
Su Chen was rather cautious and still hesitated.
The apocalypse had arrived.
The village might not be safe.
Just then, however, something changed in the Intelligence System.
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