Chapter 930: Wild Buffalo Jumping Off a Bridge
In fact, the moment the car's navigation system detected the herd, Teacher Ai was already adjusting the route. But unexpectedly, it wasn't until the herd was within visible range that he realized the navigation was faulty. Given the herd's size and speed, the navigation should have issued a warning much earlier!
Teacher Ai regretted his carelessness in not thoroughly checking the navigation system while repairing the car. Hearing Shangguan Xi's urging, he also grew irritable and shouted, "Can't you see I'm accelerating? If you're so capable, you drive!"
"Say less!" Zhu Feiyun, afraid he might distract Teacher Ai from driving, turned back and said, "You don't need to worry about the driving. Instead of yelling, think of a way to deal with those buffalo!"
Shangguan Xi's gaze directly fell on Kuang Wenjun. "Use your space item!"
Kuang Wenjun remained silent with a grim expression. It wasn't that she didn't want to use it, but the item itself had limitations.
"I'll find a way to divert the herd." Pan Qiao made a move to get out of the car.
"Without a large-scale area-of-effect damage item, it's impossible to divert the herd," Shangguan Xi asserted. "This type of buffalo will identify any moving object as a leader as long as it detects movement. Unless the car stops, they won't easily change direction!"
But the car couldn't stop.
"Find a way to scatter them," Xu Huo instructed Teacher Ai to follow his directions, then climbed onto the roof alone.
The "Dead End" wasn't long enough to cover the entire width of the herd, but killing them in batches was feasible.
Looking at the herd just a few meters away, Xu Huo drew a line ahead. The bursting rays easily killed three successive waves of wild buffalo attempting to cross that line, but that was only about a dozen. After the rays disappeared, the buffalo on both sides automatically filled the gap, only slightly widening the distance before being caught up again.
The rays lit up on the ground time and again, killing a considerable number of buffalo, but the herd behind surged forward like water from an endless spring.
Zhu Feiyun and Pan Qiao also came out to help kill the buffalo, but seeing the sheer numbers behind, they couldn't help feeling fatigued. "If the car keeps running, will they keep running until they die?"
"Let me remind you, this is an old car with damage. It can't run at full speed for too long!" Teacher Ai's voice came from below.
"Can't you fly? Can you make the car fly?" Pan Qiao bluntly asked Zhu Feiyun.
Zhu Feiyun fell silent, just like Kuang Wenjun.
Clearly, neither of them could manage it. A herd of wild buffalo had completely exposed the weaknesses of their items.
"The herd is quite long; we can't blow them all up..." Shangguan Xi stuck his head out to search for terrain that might help them escape the herd. After descending a small slope, he unexpectedly saw an off-road vehicle moving slowly diagonally ahead!
"Great opportunity!" he quickly said. "Teacher Ai, overtake them!"
After being locked in a stalemate with the herd for so long, this was a perfect chance to escape the predicament. Teacher Ai didn't hesitate to accelerate. Zhu Feiyun slightly reduced the car's weight, while Kuang Wenjun and Shangguan Xi both used speed-boosting items. The car sped along and actually managed to overtake the off-road vehicle diagonally ahead!
For some reason, that off-road vehicle didn't speed up but instead fell in behind their car.
"It's not following; it's going in the same direction," Xu Huo said, seeing from a distance that the driver was a short-haired young woman. The front and back seats of the vehicle were connected, and the five players inside didn't seem too concerned about the herd behind. Instead, they were trying to grab the steering wheel from the woman.
The car swerved erratically as the woman dodged their attempts, and its speed was inherently slow. In the blink of an eye, the herd caught up. Just as the vehicle seemed about to be destroyed, a patch of ground dozens of meters wide behind it suddenly tilted upward, like a broken bridge leading to the sky. It rose to a height of nearly thirty meters and then stopped. Then, Xu Huo and the others witnessed a mass suicide of wild buffalo—the ones behind followed the ones ahead, and the ones ahead ran to the end of the "bridge" and automatically jumped off. At that height, no matter how they landed, the buffalo couldn't immediately get up and run again. As the buffalo piled up below, the "bridge" above extended a bit further.
The two cars slowly moved forward across the open field until the entire herd had jumped off the bridge!
The car behind suddenly stopped. The woman driver stepped out, blew a cheerful whistle, and said with satisfaction, "What a great haul this time!"
The several players in her car also looked pleased.
"Don't stare. They're probably players from the base city. Let's hurry up and leave," Shangguan Xi said.
A strong dragon doesn't oppress a local snake. There was no need to start a conflict with local players.
"We can't leave," Xu Huo said, turning to look ahead and signaling Teacher Ai to stop.
After the car stopped, Kuang Wenjun warily looked ahead. "Are there other players?"
The view ahead was completely empty.
"Not just ahead; there are people on both sides," Xu Huo said, returning to the car and pointing out the approximate positions to Teacher Ai. "With such neat equipment, they probably aren't targeting clearance players."
The two cars remained stationary. After the people in the rear car inspected their abundant spoils, the young woman nodded to her companion. A man with a lightning-shaped tattoo on his head took out a white handkerchief and said, "Pure World!"
As his words fell, three cars appeared less than a hundred meters away, as if painted into existence. It was unclear what item they had used, but at such close range, before the camouflage was removed, Kuang Wenjun and the others hadn't even sensed the presence of living people.
One of the three cars was directly ahead, while the other two flanked them on the left and right. The formation resembled a cross, with Xu Huo's group's car at the intersection point.
The three cars opposite clearly had no intention of greeting them. The cannons on their rear ends shifted, aiming at the two cars in the middle. After a moment, someone from the front shouted, "Leave the goods! Leave the women! The men cut off one hand and get lost!"
Shangguan Xi found it unbelievable. "Are they blind?"
Hadn't they just witnessed that mass buffalo suicide? That was clearly the work of players with high-level items. And the people in the rear car were all players. What kind of people had the audacity to shout such demands at high-level players?
Either they were idiots or they were asking for death!
"Ten, nine..." The front car actually started a countdown.
Shangguan Xi and the others found it amusing, but before their smiles could fully form, Xu Huo, who had just returned to the car, vanished. The next second, the front car was engulfed in a sandstorm. Within two seconds, the yellow sand quickly receded, leaving behind a car sliced in two, its rear cannon gone without a trace!
At the same time, the cars on both sides were also attacked. The young woman and the lightning-tattooed man appeared on the vehicles, one on each side. The young woman directly blew up a car along with its occupants using a bomb. The lightning-tattooed man was slightly more refined, placing his palm on the car roof, plunging both himself and the vehicle into a blinding flash of electric light!
(Chapter End)