"It seems that your ambition is not only to become a wealthy merchant, but also to become the monarch of a country?"

Shu Yungui leaned back on the uncomfortable back of the chair, feeling the violent bumps caused by the old-fashioned diesel engine, and said lightly: "The ambition is too big, I don't dare, in case the king knows, my ten lives are not enough to die."

"The King?" Harvey couldn't imagine that the reason why Shu Yungui was reluctant to join the gang was because he was afraid of the king, and couldn't help but say, "Since the establishment of the inner city, the king has never appeared, you might as well be afraid of him as well as be afraid that the stars in the sky will fall and kill you."

Shu Yungui was unmoved, and replied without any focus: "If the stars in the sky really fall, all of us will die."

Harvey saw that he was deliberately avoiding the problem, so he was not in a hurry to let him agree, as the saying goes, let the long line catch a big fish, he believed that as long as Shu Yungui enjoyed the pleasure of money and power a few times, he would definitely agree to join the gang immediately.

Under the command of the guide Vincent, the two off-road vehicles drove on the road in disrepair one after the other, and the signs on both sides had been polished by the wind and rain to make it completely impossible to read the words on them, and they could only rely on the kilometer count on the car to determine where they went.

Due to the long period of unmaintained roads, the convoy travels very slowly, and it is often necessary to stop and come down to remove rocks and broken logs on the road in order to continue.

When he first set off, Shu Yungui thought that two hundred kilometers was not far according to his inherent impression, but the truth was far beyond his expectations, and it was not until the sun was about to set that he could see the shadow of Gobain City from the car window.

Shu Yungui slept several times on the road, and when he woke up, he heard the driver Billy clenching the steering wheel and complaining, "This road is really difficult to walk."

Guide Vincent said helplessly: "When I was a child, when I followed my father to run transportation, this road was very easy to walk, and the scenery on both sides was also very beautiful."

"His father was the driver of the convoy, and he used to take this line exclusively, and he followed it since he was a child, until the orcs took all the cities, and then followed his father to the outer city."

Without waiting for Shu Yungui to ask, Harvey explained to him: "This off-road vehicle was driven by his father, when the outer city was just established, resources were scarce, and many things had to be found by the bounty team out of the city, his father had been a guide for twenty years, and now it was his turn."

It turned out that the son inherited his father's business, Shu Yungui nodded and asked, "Are we going to spend the night in Goban City today?"

Guide Vincent looked back and said, "That's right, these two cars are so old that every time they drive will cause irreversible damage to the engine, we have to find a safe place to stop and rest for the night to let the engine cool down completely."

Afraid that Shu Yun would not understand, Vincent also deliberately explained: "The vehicles in the field have become broken copper and iron after being abandoned for twenty years, and the Ninth Star can't do any steel smelting now, and if the car is broken, there will be one less, so we would rather be slow and try not to damage the equipment on the road."

No wonder Harvey was in a hurry to get out of the city in search of metallurgical machines, and it seemed that the number of vehicles available in the outer city was already stretched.

Shu Yungui glanced at Harvey, who was looking at the map by the last light of day.

"Below the stadium in the center of the city is a personal defense fortification, I'm not sure if we can continue to use it, but if we want to get to the next city, we will have to cross the city of Gobain, and we won't take a detour in the past, if it is not occupied by the orcs, we will spend the night under it tonight."

Billy replied, the lights of the SUV had long been broken, and he could only concentrate on driving in the increasingly dim environment, until night fell, and the convoy finally drove through the abandoned toll gate of the North Highway in Gobain City and officially entered the city.

Even though humans have retreated from the land for twenty years and plants and animals have taken over it, it is still not difficult to see the shadow of the city's once high-rise buildings in the creeping plants and tall shrubs.

This made Shu Yungui feel a sense of separation, as if the two hundred kilometers were a time and space tunnel, allowing him to travel from the Middle Ages to the city after the end of the world and the disappearance of mankind.

In order not to alarm the orcs, they did not use any lighting tools, only relied on starlight vision, the wheels ran over unknown plants and animals, occasionally there were one or two small animal screams, and black shadows kept flashing from the front and back of the convoy.

"Turn left ahead, cross the second junction and turn right onto the viaduct."

Following the instructions of his guide, Vinson, Billy taps the steering wheel to the left, but slams on the brakes before the front of the car is fully turned.

The engine made a sound that didn't sound good because of the force, and Billy leaned over and wiped the front windshield, wondering, "There's a wall up ahead."

Hearing that there was a mistake in the route, Harvey and Shu Yungui both sat up straight, Vincent lowered the window and leaned out half of his body to look around, and also sat back in the car with a puzzled face, holding up the map and bewildered: "There is obviously a road here on the map!"

Harvey snatched the map with his hand, turned the flashlight to the darkest light, covered the light with his hand, and carefully checked the route, but as Vincent said, the map did mark a road, but it was actually a wall.

Unable to make sure that there was no road ahead, Billy waved his hand at the car behind him, signaled to retreat, then turned around and retreated out of the cul-de-sac.

"Keep going."

Harvey's fingertips follow the main road of Gobain on the map: "After three intersections and turn left, you can get back on the way to the stadium in the city center."

Billy shifted gears and the convoy returned to the same path it had been on since entering the city, and as it got deeper and deeper into the city, the insanely long street trees on both sides of the road almost covered the city, obscuring almost all the starlight, plunging the convoy into total darkness.

The first problem was the No. 2 car, probably because of the subgrade settlement that had not been maintained for 20 years, the road surface that the No. 1 car had just driven collapsed, and the No. 2 car braked in time in the dark, the wheels were crooked, and the whole car fell into the big hole obliquely.

As a last resort, Harvey could only order everyone to get out of the car and help push car number two out of the pit.

Raymond, the musketeer, moved quickly, holding a cigarette in his mouth and standing guard on the side of car No. 2 with a musket in his hand, but to be honest, in this kind of situation, unless there is a heat sensor or infrared night vision device, there is no way to detect the attacker with ordinary firearms alone.

In order to ensure safety, Shu Yungui took out his air beam energy gun, and he stood next to Raymond, closing his eyes and listening carefully to his surroundings using the superb hearing that comes with the Speech Spirit Mutation Ability.

"Brother, your gun is really interesting, show me!"

Like all gun lovers, Raymond's attention was quickly drawn to his beam gun, and he leaned in and stabbed him with his elbow.

The originally silent night was filled with the sound of everyone's carts, and for the ability to speak and spirit, the sound close at hand would have affected them to hear sounds farther away, not to mention that there was someone who kept chattering in their ears.

Shu Yungui pushed Raymond away, made a silent gesture at him, and motioned him not to say much, but it was too dark nearby, Raymond didn't see his movements at all, and after a while, he came up again and said with a smile: "Let's change the two, I've never used this kind of gun, you also let me put two guns to cool off!"

Probably unable to stand his chatter, Harvey gritted his back molars and whispered, "Raymond! Come and help!"

Raymond regretted not being able to get the gun he was thinking of, he walked to Harvey's side, leaned sideways to push the cart with his shoulder, and protested to Harvey while pushing: "Boss, you are too partial, the good guys are all given to the newcomers, shouldn't my weapons also be upgraded?"

Harvey was sweating profusely because of the cart, and he slapped him on the back of the head when he heard the words: "That's someone else's own, if you have the ability, you can also find it yourself, what kind of ability is it to find me?"

Raymond was hit by this merciless slap and his brain buzzed, and before he could react, a few gusts of breeze brought by the rapid movement of objects suddenly set off in his ears, and Raymond, who seemed to be a child, immediately became alert and signaled everyone: "Be vigilant! There's something next to us!"

Shu Yungui also keenly felt the subtle sound of the gust of wind and the movement of the creature, but he did not hear the unique sound of the malignant mutant, because there are always various unexpected problems with the mutant ability on the ninth star, so the sound cannot be the only evidence to determine whether the other party is a malignant or not.

To be on the safe side, he immediately commanded everyone: "Give up car number two! Ride for everyone

Car No. 1 is away from here!"

"No!"

Billy, who was cleaning up the mud on the rear wheels of car No. 2, looked up when he heard the sound and retorted, "Car No. 1 can't sit so many people, what about the supplies in car No. 2?!"

"It's too dangerous here, if we don't leave, we'll all have to fold here!"

Shu Yungui pulled Billy up, dragged the person to the No. 1 car, and said sharply, "We'll come back to pick up the car after dawn, and now everyone will leave here immediately!"

Billy is Harvey's subordinate, so naturally he will not easily obey Shu Yungui's command, but fortunately, Harvey is a person who understands and knows the importance of abandoning the pawn to protect the car at this time, and immediately ordered everyone to get in the car immediately.

The driver was still Billy, the co-pilot was replaced by Harvey, the musketeer Raymond climbed on the roof of the car to guard, and the rest of the people were crammed into the narrow back seat.

Shu Yungui didn't answer him, as the noise of the diesel engine resounded in the night sky again, and when the off-road vehicle slid forward for a long distance, Shu Yungui stopped the confrontation with the darkness, reflexively sprinted two steps, stepped on the pedal, reached out to grab the luggage rack, and hung half of his body in the air outside the off-road vehicle, as the vehicle accelerated, the night wind quickly filled his clothes.

"There are a lot of people on the other side."

Shu Yungui firmly grasped the luggage rack and told Billy in a deep voice: "Go forward, step on the accelerator, don't stop."

Harvey looked in the rearview mirror, and he couldn't see anything in the dark night, but he could clearly feel the danger.

"Is it an orc?"

He asked Shu Yungui for confirmation.

"It's not."

Shu Yungui faced backwards, his eyes staring at the ghostly creatures in the darkness, and said coldly, "Not quite."