Chapter 148 Another Force
With a successful shot, Qiao Yu retreated, aimed at the other wall of the newsstand, and slammed on the gas.
With several thuds, the straw-assembled newsstand collapsed, burying the little gnome inside under the rubble.
Qiao Yu didn't stop, but continued to step on the gas, relentlessly driving over the pile of ruins.
Then more and more insects emerged from under the newsstand, settled on the ruins, and assembled into the shape of dwarfs.
Two tentacles flickered, and after a moment the beetle dwarf spoke.
"Human, why are you still moving forward? Wouldn't it be better to stay on the highway?"
Qiao Yu rolled up the window, leaving only a crack, gripped the steering wheel, and sneered, "What you said isn't nonsense. Of course it's not good. Who wants to leave their hometown for the rest of their life? This isn't my hometown."
She then rammed into the rubble, completely ignoring the Beetles above, smashing piles of debris to both sides of the road.
The beetle's body suddenly flew into the air, where it landed and left behind more powder.
"But you don't seem very happy. You have plenty to eat and drink, and you can easily get things that others can't."
“My memory tells me that you have surpassed most people. No, even surpassed 99 percent of humanity. Isn’t this kind of life better than your planet?”
Qiao Yu's lips curled into a sneer. "I thank you, but only you monsters can understand this kind of life. I am human, so of course I should return to human territory."
The beetle in mid-air tilted its non-existent head. "But that's not what you really think. You clearly long to stay here and are willing to be our companions. Who seduced you?"
"Who else could it be, of course it's..."
Qiao Yu stopped abruptly as she spoke, quickly turned on the car's interior lights, and looked up at herself in the mirror.
There was no sign of time before her eyes turned red, and her black pupils were slowly being invaded by the red.
Her temple throbbed, and out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of powder seeping in from the ceiling. She immediately slapped herself to clear her mind.
Without stopping, she took out a red paddle leaf and swallowed it, along with a little green leaf paste.
A moment later, the drug took effect. Qiao Yu confirmed with her own eyes that the redness in her eyes had faded. Her eyes suddenly turned cold, and she started the car resolutely, heading towards the ruins.
"I don't care what methods you used, no one can stop me from going home."
"Boom!"
After the last pile of rubble was smashed away, Qiao Yu accelerated and drove away from the newsstand without stopping.
The instant the car disappeared, a large bucket of fuel was thrown from the front, followed by a piece of burning wood.
Flames shot into the sky, the dry straw burst into flames, and the monster beneath the flames squeaked and howled. The tentacles of the beetle in the sky then flickered.
The beetle dwarf looked up at the sky through the black mist, and his voice suddenly turned icy cold.
"Report to headquarters, it has been confirmed that there is another energy within the survivor Qiao Yu. This energy has self-awareness and, at first glance, seems to be related to Earth."
The red dot sizzled twice, followed by a mechanical sound that pierced through the black mist and landed on the red dot of the beetle.
"Feedback received, 1121, you can come back now."
"yes."
1121's head took a deep look at the vanished silver-white vehicle, and the powder hovering around it suddenly lost control and fell to the ground.
The black beetle that crawled everywhere died in the blink of an eye as the powder fell. Only the red dot left its tentacles, burrowed into the black mist, and disappeared.
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Qiao Yu drove at high speed the whole way, her palms sweating profusely as she gripped the steering wheel.
She was focused on looking ahead, but her thoughts were wandering far away.
How long are these systems going to test her?
There was something inside her that caught the attention of this group, from their initial frankness to their current probing and attempts to lure her into a life of slaughter.
If she hadn't noticed the change in the panel in time and seen the vehicle stored on it, she wouldn't have suspected that the black bug was part of the system.
When Qiao Yu first encountered the system, he vaguely sensed the situation on the panel. Now that he summoned the panel again, he was certain that the black worm was the system.
Instead of chasing after her, he kept luring her into losing control. Was he trying to see what was so special about her?
Qiao Yu had a feeling of the truth.
I glanced at the panel but couldn't summon it. I remembered the information I had hastily scanned in that second: the survivors were all saying to go up the mountain, and my teammates were also saying to run up the mountain.
The main group was heading up the mountain, proving that the dangers ahead weren't that difficult at all. Why was it so difficult for her?
Qiao Yu tightened her grip on the steering wheel, glanced ahead, and suddenly slammed on the brakes, stopping in place.
The road ahead gradually brightened, and most of the black fog overhead dissipated.
A familiar bus stop sign stands by the roadside, with several bloody handprints imprinted on it.
The little dwarfs, carrying their vegetable baskets, emerged dejectedly from the darkness.
They walked together, their voices low, muttering to themselves.
"Damn humans, I shouldn't have listened to the management ten days ago. They said there would definitely be vegetables every day. In the end, I finally managed to get a ticket but didn't get any vegetables."
"What's this? Last week at least all the stalls had vegetables, but this week almost half of them are gone."
"When do you think these humans are leaving? I don't want to see them at all. They're awful. My family is in a bad situation, and if we still can't buy vegetables tomorrow, our food supplies will be gone."
"Are the market management personnel in cahoots with humans? Otherwise, why would they let the people escape back then?"
"Don't even mention it. It makes me so angry. If I had known we wouldn't be able to buy vegetables every day, I would never have let those humans leave."
A group of dwarfs who hadn't bought any vegetables got increasingly angry as they talked, and suddenly stopped in their tracks when they stepped into the light.
Everyone stared in surprise at the large vehicle in the darkness, squinting through the headlights to peer inside. Once they saw who was sitting inside, the little dwarf who had been cursing the loudest immediately changed his expression.
"It's that human from last time. I know this person. She's the one who steals the most vegetables. She's the one who caused us to not be able to buy any."
"Everyone, get down here, beat this woman up, and see if she dares to steal our vegetables again."
One of the dwarfs waved his hand behind him, and all the dwarfs carrying empty baskets responded immediately.
They rushed forward like they'd been hit by a dynamite, punching and kicking the old man's car. Some dwarfs even climbed onto the hood and started smashing the car with stones.
Other dwarfs ran to the driver's seat, banging on the door and yelling for Qiao Yu to get out.
After calling for a while and seeing that Qiao Yu didn't move, the group of people worked together to find a rock by the roadside, and with great effort stood at a distance and lifted the large rock to throw it at the car window.
"Bang!"
The stone fell to the ground, not because the glass shattered, but because the noisy little dwarves exploded in the firelight.
Their angry, contorted faces gradually vanished in the flames, their skin burned away, revealing their black bodies riddled with pustules.
Qiao Yu sat in the car without moving, with only a warning sign pasted on the half-open window.
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