As the carriage fell into darkness, Xu Jianguo's heartbeat quickened. The lightning outside the car continued. A layer of fine sweat beads appeared on his forehead, and he clenched his fists in preparation for possible danger.
"Jianguo, why don't you go back to the space?" asked the old Taoist priest beside him.
Xu Jianguo shook his head and said, "No, I tried, but the lightning here is interfering, and I can't open the space."
The old Taoist nodded and said nothing more.
The two were waiting in a dimly lit environment. Suddenly, Xu Jianguo seemed to sense something and quickly opened his Eye of Time and Space to look around.
In his eyes, in the air that was originally empty, dots that were invisible to the naked eye and emitted a faint blue light appeared. When the dots met, they would burst out with light similar to lightning.
Xu Jianguo immediately understood that these should be charged particles floating in the air. Since charged particles appeared in the RV, did it mean that the protection of the RV had failed?
The old Taoist priest sensed Xu Jianguo's nervousness and quickly asked, "Jianguo, what's wrong?"
"It's okay!" Xu Jianguo shook his head and said.
He did not tell the old Taoist priest about what he had discovered. It was better for one person to be nervous than two people. It all depended on whether God would give him a way out.
Just as Xu Jianguo was daydreaming, the outside of the car window suddenly fell into complete darkness, and the crackling sound of lightning disappeared.
Xu Jianguo was delighted and quickly ran to the car window to check. He saw white smoke rising from the land around the off-road RV, and the blue lightning that had been falling before had disappeared.
He looked up at the sky and found that the color of the clouds was changing from dark to light, which made him more convinced that the lightning strikes should be over.
"Master, the lightning strike is over!" Xu Jianguo said happily, the joy of surviving the disaster made his voice tremble a little.
"What? It's over? We are fine now?" the old Taoist asked in disbelief.
"Well, it's over!" said Xu Jianguo.
"What are you waiting for? Let's go. I don't want to stay in this damn place for a moment!" said the old Taoist priest as he got up from the floor.
"Okay!" Xu Jianguo agreed, climbed back into the cab through the hatch connecting to the rest area, and pressed the start button of the vehicle, but to his disappointment, the car did not respond at all.
Xu Jianguo pressed the two buttons that he had turned on when he left, and after feeling them carefully, he found that there was no response at all.
At this time, the old Taoist priest also climbed into the cab. Seeing Xu Jianguo standing there in a daze, he asked, "Boy, why don't you leave?"
"No, the car is broken. I think there is a short circuit." Xu Jianguo said.
"Ah? What should I do then?"
"Wait a minute, I'll go down and take a look first!" After Xu Jianguo said that, he opened the door and jumped out. The old Taoist thought about it, then opened the door from the passenger side and got out of the car.
When the two looked at the pitch-black Unimog in front of them, they deeply realized how terrifying the lightning strike was.
"Huh!" Xu Jianguo and the old Taoist priest exhaled at the same time.
Xu Jianguo knew that the car was unusable. If they still couldn't contact the system, they would be in real danger.
"System! Come out! Help!"
[Ding, huh? Host, you're still alive? ]
"Aren't you sick? What good would it do you if I died? You failed at the crucial moment, and you still have the nerve to call yourself a system. Isn't that shameful?"
[Ding, is your skin itchy again?]
"Don't try to scare me. If you have the guts, just kill me! I've already died once, why would I care about this?"
【Ding... What do you want from me? 】
Xu Jianguo became even more furious when he heard the system's tone. He thought to himself, "Why am I looking for you? What do you think you can do? You rush forward when there's honor, but yield when there's difficulty. I can't count on you at all when it matters most!"
Seeing Xu Jianguo remained silent, the old Taoist turned to look at him. He saw that Xu Jianguo was frowning and looked unhappy. He then asked, "Boy, what's going on? Are you going to leave or not?"
Xu Jianguo seemed not to hear anything. The old Taoist didn't know what was going on and guessed that he might be thinking about something, so he stopped talking.
In his mind, Xu Jianguo scolded the system for about ten minutes before he finally ran out of words, and the system finally had a chance to speak.
[Ding, host, calm down. I'll be nicer to you from now on, okay?]
The system's voice came, and Xu Jianguo was stunned. He asked quickly: "What do you mean? Have you done anything to offend me in the past?"
[Ding, how is that possible? Just because I said I'd treat you better in the future doesn't mean I wasn't nice to you in the past!]
"Okay, stop talking nonsense. Just tell me straight up, can you please not let me down next time?"
[Ding, this depends on where you're going next. If there's still strong electromagnetic interference, I'll still malfunction, unless...]
"Unless what?"
[Ding, unless you can find more Two Realm Stones, I can upgrade. This way, my anti-interference ability will be greatly enhanced.]
"Okay, got it!"
After Xu Jianguo vented his anger, he felt much more stable.
He used his mind to put the Unimog in front of him into space, and then released the G63.
Ignoring the surprised look of the old Taoist priest beside him, Xu Jianguo opened the car door and got in.
The old Taoist priest took one look and said nothing more. He opened the passenger door and got in. Xu Jianguo pressed the start button and immediately heard the low roar of the engine.
Xu Jianguo stepped hard on the accelerator pedal, and the six-wheeled steel monster rushed out in an instant, rushing towards the coordinates of the Wuchang Temple in his mind.
It must be said that the performance of this G63 is much better than the previous Unimog. Although the off-road capability of that off-road RV is also quite good, due to its heavy body, it seems to have difficulty in traveling on soft land like Death Valley.
Xu Jianguo drove the G63 at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour in the Death Valley for nearly 40 minutes and finally arrived near the Wuchang Temple.
Seeing that the green coordinate representing himself in his mind almost overlapped with the red coordinate, Xu Jianguo stepped on the brakes and the G63 slowly stopped.
The old Taoist priest looked at the open space in front of him, not understanding why Xu Jianguo stopped the car, and asked, "Boy, are we there yet?"
Xu Jianguo shook his head, opened the car door and walked out, followed closely by the old Taoist priest.
The two looked around at the endless dark land in front of them, but did not find any buildings.
Xu Jianguo had no choice but to open the Eye of Time and Space again. He looked up and his pupils suddenly shrank. He saw a pitch-black building suddenly appeared in his sight a hundred meters in front of him.
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