Ita Era

Chapter 55 Going Home (18)

Everyone got on the bus, and Chu Yu said, "Be vigilant, Ferrand may have already gotten ahead of us."

Whether Ferrand had reached the front was unknown, but Sha Bi had already arrived at the exit of Blackwater Gully. He was still as nonchalant as ever, listening to rock music, driving, and entering Blackwater Gully Road without hesitation. The exit and the entrance were similar in that they were both 3 kilometers long cliff roads.

The entrance is on the left cliff, and the exit is on the right cliff.

Sha Bi drove to the narrowest part of the cliffside road and stopped. This 300-meter stretch of road averaged only 2.1 meters in width. Sha Bi opened the car door, leaned down, and looked over a sheer drop. One deep look sent a surge of adrenaline through him, giving him a long-lost, thrilling joy.

He closed the car door and sat quietly in the driver's seat, carrying out his ambush plan. A moment later, a sound came from behind him. He opened his eyes and saw a motorcycle appear a hundred meters ahead, ridden by a man wearing a black cloak and a mask.

Hey, what's with the motorcycle? You're cheating! The idiot had no idea it was the wanted criminal, Ferrand.

Before Foolish could think any further, motorcyclist Ferrand had already charged at him. Foolish stepped on the gas and charged toward him, only to see the motorcycle's front wheel lift up, flip onto the hood, and drive over the top of the car.

Sha Bi was furious, but he could only be furious, because reversing to chase was impractical. Getting out to shoot was also out of the question, because getting out meant facing a cliff. Shooting backwards from inside the car was not only awkward, but also offered a very small field of view. Sha Bi could only watch the motorcycle disappear into the distance.

Sha Bi, seething with anger, drove forward and reversed at a 5-meter-wide intersection. His car was a C-class, 5 meters long, theoretically making a U-turn difficult in a 5-meter-wide space. However, car length doesn't equal wheelbase; a 5-meter-long car typically has a wheelbase of around 3.1 meters.

When NB711 arrived, it saw that the front of Stupid's car was facing the cliff, and the rear was facing the precipice, looking like it was about to jump off. That's right, NB711 happened to appear just as Stupid was halfway through turning around.

NB711 stopped the car. Mumu was on the left side of the car, and Ding Shi was on the right side. Both of them held guns and aimed at the stupid car.

Ding Shi shouted, "Hey idiot inside, what are you doing?" The idiot's car window tint and black suit agent attire made Ding Shi unable to recognize him at first.

However, Sha Bi recognized Ding Shi about ten meters away. He suddenly understood why his first clone had died; it was most likely because he had encountered Ding Shi. Regardless, Sha Bi admitted one thing: in a one-on-one confrontation with Ding Shi, he had more losses than wins. Specific statistics were hard to say, as he hadn't won yet.

Silly Bike chose to abandon the car and suddenly pushed open the door to get out. The two were separated by a car.

As Sha Bi opened the car door, Mu Mu and Ding Shi fired simultaneously. Two bullets hit Sha Bi's back and arm respectively. He lay down on the ground, aimed, and fired again. One bullet flew out from under the car.

Mumu cried out "Ah!" and fell to the ground; a bullet had pierced her left foot. A second bullet followed, piercing her head.

Why target Mumu instead of Ding Shi? Because Ding Shi consistently used the tires to protect his feet. Mumu, lacking practical experience, didn't notice this detail.

In the age of firearms, life and death hung in the balance, and bullets would not show you mercy because of your beauty.

Sha Bi's car wasn't armored. Ding Shi anticipated where Sha Bi had fallen and fired ten shots in quick succession. Most of the bullets pierced the car and hit Sha Bi's body. Only then did Ding Shi lie down and fire a single shot at the head of the motionless Sha Bi corpse.

Just as Ding Shi was about to step forward to check on Sha Bi's condition, he heard Chu Yu's cries from the left: "Mu Mu, Mu Mu..."

Ding Shi hurriedly walked around the front of the car to the left, where he saw Chu Yu sitting on the ground, with Mu Mu on her lap, holding Mu Mu's head in her hands and wailing loudly.

Ding Shi noticed the gunshot wound on Mu Mu's forehead and comforted her, saying, "Don't cry, she's not really dead, it's just a game."

Chu Yu ignored him. Behind her, Kai Ge had his head down, his expression gloomy, as if he too was finding it hard to accept the fact that Mu Mu was dead.

Ding Shi continued to reassure him, "Maybe the system will reward you with a resurrection card?"

Chu Yu stopped crying, looked at Ding Shi, and said angrily, "I shouldn't have listened to you. Why did we go into the no-signal area and take that stupid mission? Otherwise, Mu Mu would never have died." Ding Shi shrugged, "I'm sorry." He didn't say anything more, went over to loot Sha Bi's body, took it, and threw the body off the cliff.

Ding Shi got into the black sedan and, after several reversing maneuvers, straightened the front of the car. This car was quite impressive; not only was the interior luxurious, but its acceleration, top speed, and 0-100 km/h acceleration figures were also excellent.

How do you determine if a car is a luxury car? You can't just rely on the brand; for example, Mercedes-Benz prices range from around 20 to tens of millions of yuan. Here's a little trick: look at the top speed limit on the speedometer. The higher the top speed limit, the more expensive the car is likely to be.

The situation is somewhat complicated now.

Ding Shi got out of the car and walked back to Yu Yu's car. Chu Yu covered Mu Mu's face with her coat, and she and Kai Ge stood in front of Mu Mu's body.

Chu Yu said, "Put Mu Mu in the back seat, and let's drive both cars out first." After saying that, she sat in the passenger seat and lowered her head.

Ding Shi and Kai Ge put Mu Mu's body in the back seat. Kai Ge got into the driver's seat of the fish car, and Ding Shi got into the driver's seat of the black car.

The two cars passed the cliffside road one after the other and drove onto a flat piece of land. The exit of the Blackwater Ditch Road was one kilometer away.

The two cars pulled over. Twenty meters away in the reeds, a pair of sinister, emotionless eyes stared intently at them. It was Ferrand, of course.

Ferrand's ambush location was near a sharp bend in the road, which was narrow and would inevitably cause vehicles to slow down. He had prepared various plans to kill the lead car driver and escape to lure the enemy, but he did not expect that the group would stop in the clearing at the edge of the cliff.

Ding Shi and Kai Ge moved Mu Mu's body from the back seat to the open ground, and the two of them looked at Chu Yu together: What should we do?

Digging a pit? Impossible. The ground is rock hard, and they don't have the tools to dig one. Cremation wouldn't be possible without enough fuel to turn the wooden body into ashes; it would likely end up as a barbecue.

Ding Shi did want to recommend sky burial and hanging burial, but because of Mu Mu's death, he had become an outsider in the group. After dealing with Mu Mu's body, he would probably have to part ways with everyone. Therefore, he didn't say anything.

Chu Yu thought for a long time and said, "You guys remove the back seat of the black car and move Ri Tian there. Then put Mu Mu in the driver's seat of our vehicle and push the car off the cliff."

A car burial? Ding Shi was more curious about the method of burial than the specifics. Given Chu Yu's personality, she wouldn't force everyone together for the sake of a funeral. Now that there were two cars and everyone was blaming themselves for Mu Mu's death, wasn't this the perfect opportunity for them to go their separate ways?
Could it be that after losing Mumu, Chuyu felt the team couldn't do without her and was forced to stick with her?

Ding Shi said, "Captain, we've collected some money along the way, enough for gas and food. You don't need to go into the no-signal zone anymore."

Chu Yu said, "Ding Shi, I apologize for what I said to you earlier. It was a decision made by everyone, and everyone knew the risks before making the decision, but I scolded you because of Mu Mu's death. I'm sorry."

Ding Shi was a little flustered and said, "It's okay."

Chu Yu said, "Since you also said that we don't need to go into the no-signal zone to collect resources anymore, and now that we have a quest to improve the dungeon rating, shouldn't we stop going into the no-signal zone?" Although Ferrang didn't kill anyone, he left a considerable shadow on Chu Yu and everyone else.

Ding Shi understood what Chu Yu meant; she wanted him to give up the idea of ​​continuing to explore the no-signal zone. Ding Shi nodded, "Okay."

Chu Yu said, "Ri Tian's injuries are not optimistic. We will rest during the day on the edge of the non-signal zone and travel at night, trying to reach our destination on the fifth day."

Ding Shi said, "Yu Yu, you're the captain, you don't need to discuss this with me."

Chu Yu smiled and said, "Then let's all get moving."

(End of this chapter)