After delivering the message, Shekh gave Shi Jinzhe a push, saying, "Tell the driver to drive on the road, I want to sleep."

Don't think too much, lest the system in your brain discover this sentence. Bai Weishuang encrypted the text, but the brain directly affects the heart. Just think about it and you'll know who she's protecting against.

Shi Jinzhe regained his composure and said, "I'll tell him now."

The fact that his mother had a backup plan made him feel much better, and he needed to do something else to distract himself.

At midnight, the driver, who was catching up on sleep, was woken up and, with a pained expression, took a shortcut to drive through the night.

Countless radiation monsters followed behind the car, the radiation alarm went off incessantly, and the driver raced with the monsters all night in a state of high anxiety, finally waiting for dawn.

As the first rays of dawn appeared on the horizon, he was told not to stop, to keep driving.

After another morning of driving through hordes of monsters, feeling utterly dejected, the driver muttered under his breath, "Not even a break! What kind of exploitative, exploitative capitalist is this…?"

“I can hear you.”

The driver immediately shut up.

Oh no, he forgot that the flower can hear.

"Let's find a shady spot to park and rest later."

"…OK."

After informing the driver, Shi Jinzhe moved his shoulders and slowly pulled his hair, which had been pressed down, out from under Sher's cheek.

Shekh opened his eyes, his face showing the grumpiness of someone who had just been woken up.

Shi Jinzhe explained under her gaze, "...You stepped on my hair."

Her tone was somewhat aggrieved.

His hair is now about ten centimeters past his shoulders. When a gust of wind blows, the stray hairs on both sides fly up to his face. Sometimes it slips down when he eats, and it's easy for his clothes to get caught on it. Although he doesn't need to fight, and he can just stand there without much of an impact, it's still not very easy to manage on a daily basis.

With this in mind, Shi Jinzhe began to sincerely admire Shehe.

She always protects him with her long hair; she's really amazing.

Shi Jinzhe discussed with Shehe: "Can I tie it up?"

“If we don’t comb our hair, we’ll look more alike. I like it when you look like me.”

Shekh changed his approach, speaking in a gentler tone: "This makes you look more like a married couple."

Two seconds of silence followed.

This snake has gone astray.

To achieve their goals, everyone knows to adopt a conciliatory approach.

He silently got out of bed, pacing back and forth by the bedside like a teacher facing a student who had become self-taught but had gone astray and didn't know what to do.

Shekh lay on the bed, watching silently as he delivered another devastating blow.

"You proposed, so can I call you by the names you previously forbade me to use?"

At this point, Shi Jinzhe forgot what he was going to say.

"It should be possible, it should be..."

"husband."

Crack!

A thunderclap descended from the sky.

"You...that...okay,...or how about we wait...forget it..."

It was too sudden; Shi Jinzhe's language system was thrown into disarray.

After freezing in place for a minute, he suddenly had a brain fart and walked outside.

"...I'll go check how heavy the rain is first, and I'll come back once I've calmed down."

Shekh rolled over silently.

I can't even stand a single name. Luckily we're not out in public, or I'd be a disgrace to snakes.

...

The raindrops came and went quickly, and the sky cleared up again in less than half an hour.

Beneath the abandoned gas station, a swarm of radioactive insects, appearing along with the heavy rain, locked onto the car, surrounding the gas station in layers.

Shi Jinzhe stood alone in the corridor until the rain stopped. When he came to his senses, this was the scene he saw.

After observing the protective array for a while, Shi Jinzhe remained puzzled.

They appear as soon as it rains; such a huge group! Where do these insects usually hide?

It's unlikely to be in the sky, because it would require constant flight; it's more probable that it's underground.

But underground, with the sheer number of insect populations, wouldn't they be able to hollow out the ground?

Worried about the road conditions, he would use his lifeline to check outside the car.

The vibrant atmosphere stirred the insects outside, drawing more and more of them in. Soon, the outside was completely dark, and the sky was almost invisible.

As soon as Shekh came out of the cubicle, he saw that the number of insects being swarmed by Shi Jinzhe was increasing.

"You're going to hold a meeting for them?"

"...I want to catch them all in one fell swoop."

As the time passed and the car's vitality was drawn back, the insects outside surged in like waves, excitedly rushing towards the vehicle.

A black and gold liquid barrier blocked the swarm of insects. Shekh asked, "Have you discovered something?"

Shi Jinzhe said, "I didn't sleep much last night. I found that the closer we get to Dota City, the more radiation monsters there are, especially these radiation insects. The lifelines extending out of the city indicate that there are even more ahead."

Shekh: "You suspect that Dota City is attracting these radiated monsters?"

"With this idea in mind, the existence of mutants, coupled with Bing Zhou's performance last night, I believe that there really is someone in Dota City who can control the radiation monsters."

Shi Jinzhe looked out the window and, thinking about his own situation, said, "It's also possible that it's not attracting radiation monsters, but rather attracting algae."

As mentioned at the beginning of this dungeon run, the algae keeps moving around to avoid being chased by radiation monsters.

Based on the fact that rain attracts a large number of radioactive insects, Shi Jinzhe speculates that it is not rain that attracts insects, but rather that these insects naturally follow rain clouds in search of algae.

The radiation monsters are simply adapted to low-oxygen environments, not that they don't need oxygen. If they are following the trail of algae to Dota City, then their excessive numbers are understandable.

He guessed that in Dota, either someone could attract large amounts of algae, or someone could control the water so that the algae would go there on their own.

The player's rescue objective is to clear the radiation monsters on the outskirts of Dota City, find this mysterious person, and resolve the subsequent problems caused by him.

After telling Shekh his conjecture, the two chatted for a few more minutes before heading to the driver's cab.

After the person left, the players in the other cubicles peeked out like thieves.

With these two around, they'd hesitate for ages before even thinking about going to the toilet.

After Shi Jinzhe and Sheh finally left, the others, unable to hold back any longer, opened the door and the dog peeked out.

"Although I benefited from this game, I felt particularly uncomfortable. I always felt that we should be under the car, not inside it."

"You're lucky you weren't in a monster's stomach, don't be picky."

"Hey, that's not what I meant. I just heard him standing there muttering something, but judging from his expression, I thought, tsk, I shouldn't have shown up."

Xiao Su rolled her eyes: "Have you guys forgotten that he can hear?"

"...Cough, okay, stop talking."