But the number of infected people was increasing, so they kept running after the car. They were already practically dead, so they didn't feel tired at all.

In this place, which resembles the desert next door, amidst the swirling yellow sand and winds whipped up by the wheels, ferocious infected roar and run wildly, relentlessly pursuing their prey.

Wang Lan and Sun Muchen smashed the rear window and fired backwards, but the bumpy road made it impossible for them to aim properly, and even Sun Muchen's accuracy was greatly reduced.

"Oh no!" Old Zhang suddenly shouted, "The car is out of gas!"

"Oil? What oil?" Wang Lan looked puzzled; he had no idea what oil was.

While Lao Zhang was looking down at the fuel gauge, he didn't notice a large rock on the road ahead. He only saw the rock when he looked up. In a panic, Lao Zhang swerved the steering wheel, but it was too late.

As the wheels turned, although the front of the car did not directly hit the stone, the right side scraped against it. At high speed, the car suddenly lifted into the air, and the people inside immediately felt a sense of weightlessness, as if they had been lifted off their seats and into the air.

Time seemed to stretch out infinitely, yet it also felt like it was just a fleeting moment.

When Wang Lan was the first to come to his senses, he felt the car slamming towards the ground. He quickly pressed Sun Muchen into the seat and reached for Lao Zhang with his other hand.

But he was ultimately a step too late.

The car crashed onto the ground.

The violent impact left Wang Lan inside the car completely disoriented, not to mention how Sun Muchen and Lao Zhang felt at that moment.

The car's four tires shattered, but the wheels continued to spin forward, bending and deforming the rims. After traveling a few meters, the car crashed into a stone wall.

But just as the car's front made contact with the stone wall, blue striped lightning suddenly flashed on the wall, and the car plunged into it. The light immediately became extremely dim. This sudden change brought Wang Lan back to his senses. He grabbed Sun Muchen with one hand and held down Lao Zhang with the other, and stared intently.

After the car passed through the stone wall, it once again crashed into a wall that looked like metal while suspended in mid-air.

Wang Lan reacted quickly, grabbing Lao Zhang's hand and pulling him towards the seat, forcefully dragging Lao Zhang and the seat into the back seat. At the same time, she tensed her legs to steady herself.

The car crashed into the wall.

The immense force caused by inertia smashed the front of the car to the point of disappearing completely, and the control panel was also knocked off and landed inside the car.

Fortunately, the impact caused the car to lose all its momentum and plummet straight down without losing its balance, falling vertically.

"puff!"

The expected sound of falling did not occur; instead, it sounded like they had landed on something soft. Wang Lan became suspicious, but in any case, it was a stroke of luck amidst misfortune. He quickly looked at the two of them.

How are you?

Old Zhang was hit so hard he saw stars and felt dizzy, but thankfully he wasn't seriously injured. Wang Lan's words brought him back to his senses, and he stammered, "Ah, I, I'm fine, I was wearing my seatbelt."

"I...it hurts so much."

Sun Muchen's eyes were filled with tears as he covered his head and screamed repeatedly.

It turns out that she suffered because she didn't wear a seatbelt. Even though Wang Lan was protecting her, she still couldn't avoid bumps and scrapes, especially when the car took off and crashed directly into the roof.

Wang Lan patted Sun Muchen's head and saw that there was only a bump and nothing else was wrong, so she breathed a sigh of relief, kicked open the car door, and helped Sun Muchen out of the car.

But as soon as the brother and sister took a step, it was as if they were stepping on cotton; they lost their footing and both fell down.

The light was dim, and they couldn't see their surroundings clearly for a moment. They felt as if they had fallen onto something cold, soft, and slippery. After rolling around for a while, they finally touched the hard ground. Before they could turn around, a loud, noisy crash came from their ears.

The brother and sister exchanged a glance, then frowned and looked up.

Before them stood a colossal gear system composed of massive gears thicker than a person, with an eerie blue light emanating from somewhere, flickering between the gears as they slowly rotated, accompanied by a constant, grating mechanical clanging.

The brother and sister were stunned by what they saw.

They had never seen such a magnificent and grand sight before. They watched as the gears rotated continuously, driving each other, and looked up to see a huge axle connected at the top.

Huge leather belts could be vaguely seen winding between the axles, like giant pythons slithering and dancing, emitting a deep, rumbling sound.

"Hello!"

A loud shout came from Old Zhang behind them. His voice seemed insignificant amidst the noise of the machinery. Fortunately, Wang Lan had extraordinary hearing. He patted Sun Muchen on the shoulder, and the two of them turned to look at Old Zhang.

Old Zhang was sitting on the roof of the car, throwing weapons down one after another. When the two men turned around, he paused and pointed to the area below the car.

The brother and sister followed Old Zhang's hand and moved their gaze downwards, their eyes widening little by little.

They actually saw another small mountain made up of infected corpses. Although it was much smaller than the mountain of corpses in the restricted area, the grotesque appearance of the infected was in no way inferior.

The brother and sister realized what was happening.

Why didn't the car feel a strong impact when it fell? It turns out they landed on a pile of dead bodies.

At the same time, the brother and sister's faces turned deathly pale, and their stomachs churned violently.

They remembered the slippery, icy sensation of rolling down the mountain of corpses, and goosebumps rose all over their skin.

Old Zhang jumped out of the car. Compared to the brother and sister, Old Zhang seemed particularly natural. After jumping down, he said, "We've really escaped with our lives. If it weren't for these mountains of infected people, we might not have been able to land so safely."

As they spoke, several howls and roars rang out from above. The three of them looked up and saw several infected people falling from above, crashing into the car one after another, and then rolling down.

Old Zhang picked up the machine gun, pointed it at the heads of several infected people, and blew their heads to pieces. Then, he looked at the mountain of corpses with a strange expression and said, "Judging from this, the height is definitely not enough to kill the infected people by falling. In other words, there must be living people shooting the infected people here, otherwise the corpses would not be piled up like a mountain."

"Let's be careful." Wang Lan nodded. "This place is strange. The lighting is bad, and the gears are huge. We're in the light, but we don't know if anyone else is in the dark. Let's all stay alert!"

Sun Muchen and Lao Zhang nodded.

Sun Muchen immediately raised his sniper rifle and aimed at the surrounding area.

Old Zhang looked up at the giant gear that was turning and said, "This seems to be the central operating point of the entire final fortress."