Without saying anything, Gecko started the car.
The off-road vehicle, like a roaring beast, rushed into the path on the left and went away.
The investigators who stayed in the original place looked a little strange. They had conducted a very detailed investigation of the surrounding area before and confirmed that those people went south. However, there was no trace of the path on the left that passed by the abandoned city. They didn't know why the special operations team, who had been strictly instructed by their superiors to cooperate with them, went there.
They couldn't help but...
...felt a kind of admiration, looked at each other, and whispered: "This may be a master. What he did is incomprehensible."
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"It's time to go south now."
Under the control of Gecko, the off-road vehicle sped up crazily and rushed on the rugged road.
Every time it reached a critical point, Mom would gently point out the direction.
And Lu Xin didn't think much and told Gecko directly.
This made Gecko very surprised. He drove with one hand from time to time, and spread out the map with the other hand and looked at it.
This is the latest map drawn by Qinggang City in recent years based on the surrounding terrain, traffic conditions, and some general situations. It marks all the crowd gathering points and dangerous places within a thousand miles. There are also different color markings for road conditions. Some unfeasible roads, broken roads or roads with obstacles in the middle are outlined with red pens.
The small cross means that vehicles cannot pass here.
The dotted line means that the road conditions are extremely difficult to drive, but you can barely pass.
A lot of particularly valuable information is concentrated on a small map, but Lu Xin can't understand it.
But fortunately, he can use his mother's ability to determine the enemy's position.
These positions, combined with Gecko's driving and road condition judgment abilities, can find the best route.
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"These guys are really good at running..."
After running for more than two hours in a roaring manner, Gecko turned over the map and muttered.
Lu Xin nodded. Since leaving the city, they have not wasted time and have been chasing quickly. Moreover, she believes that the direction pointed out by her mother is accurate, which saves them a lot of time.
Although the road conditions are good or bad, under Gecko's driving, their speed has always been maintained at a speed of at least 100 kilometers per hour.
Now that they have been driving for more than two hours, they are almost 200 to 300 kilometers away from Qinggang City.
Even if the straight-line distance is more than 100 kilometers, it should have exceeded more than 100 kilometers.
In this case, it means that the other party immediately fled to a distance after succeeding in Qinggang, and did not even stop on the road.
It can be seen that the other party is very careful.
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"However, this at least proves that the other party is not the Knights around us."
Gecko also analyzed: "There has always been a Knights outside the high wall. But they are called Knights, but they are actually a group of bandits, driving a few broken motorcycles, holding a few broken guns, and robbing everywhere. The targets they attack are often those small gathering bases, or some transport teams walking around. They don't have the courage to attack the high-walled city directly."
"Nowadays, with the increasing influence of our Qinggang, many Knights have begun to take the right path and started to accept transportation escort missions in our city, or some wasteland search commissions. Of course, they will still rob occasionally when they encounter opportunities, as a side job."
Gecko's tone was more certain: "The gathering points and activity ranges of these Knights around our Qinggang City are basically under our control, and now the few people we are chasing have not stopped at all and have been walking out, which means that their base is not around."
"I suspect that they might have been hired by other high-walled cities to come to our Qinggang City to do something bad..."
"..."
Lu Xin nodded slightly.
From what he knew, this group of knights should be led by Qin Ran.
They are not many in number, only about "seven people", but they are very capable. Among them, there are even three people with special abilities, and they can cause chaos in the city. They can also ambush him and Chen Jing's convoy with six multi-barreled conversion machine guns.
The purpose of this group of people should be to steal the painting.
As for where they came from, why they stole the painting, and how long they secretly investigated in order to find the painting, they all don't know.
But there is no need for him to know.
It is Chen Jing's business to investigate these things, and his mission on this trip is to take them back.
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"Swoosh..."
The tall and strong modified off-road vehicle was driving on the endless wilderness.
Four huge special rubber wheels and a steel frame that is so strong that it is abnormal, making this car look like a steel giant. No matter what kind of cracks or gullies it encounters, it will just "whoosh" and crush it.
There were wolves walking in groups in the wilderness, and they heard the noise from afar and began to listen.
But when the monster approached, they were scared and scattered.
There was a puddle of water that was looking at something dangerous, and was directly rushed by the steel monster.
Huge water splashed two or three meters high, washing the muddy car body.
There was a humanoid "madman" whose body had already rotted and was walking mechanically and slowly in the middle of the road. When he heard the roar of the engine, he turned around woodenly, and a kind of madness appeared in the only turbid eye left...
...But as soon as he turned around, he was hit into a pool of meat by the whistling car head.
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"Don't look at me as just a sheep, ah..."
"The green grass becomes more fragrant because of me, ah..."
"The sky becomes bluer because of me, woooo..."
"The white clouds become softer, ah ah ah..."
"..."
The night gradually fell, and the off-road vehicle had been driving for a long time without seeing anyone.
All that could be seen were some ruined village ruins in the distance and near, hidden by wildly growing vines or weeds. Perhaps before long, even the last traces of these villages would disappear.
On the road covered with weeds, there were only bright lights and the sound of the gecko singing.
His singing made Lu Xin feel very familiar. His sister seemed to like watching this cartoon very much before.
Later she stopped watching it, saying that the protagonist could never eat the sheep.
However, the version sung by the gecko was different from what Lu Xin remembered, and it had a bit of a wild taste.
It sang out the arrogance of those villains.
The singing spread far away, and from time to time there would be wild beasts in the depths of the wilderness, howling loudly, responding to him.
"Won't singing like this attract a lot of crazy people?"
Lu Xin asked before he started a climax.
"Madman?"
The gecko laughed and said, "It's not like ten or twenty years ago. There are not many crazy people now. Especially now, the roads we are taking are the roads that some transport convoys have taken before. They have been traversed long ago. We have encountered so few along the way. They are all rare animals. If we can meet a group of them so easily, we are lucky..."
After a while, he started singing again: "What problems do you have..."
Lu Xin had to interrupt him again and asked with a smile: "Why do you keep singing?"
The gecko turned his head and looked at him, saying: "Because you don't chat with me, I sing to refresh myself..."
Lu Xin thought about it. The gecko had been driving for four or five hours, so he kindly said: "Do you want me to take your place?"
"No, no..."
The gecko shook his head again and again: "I can still hold on."
Lu Xin smiled helplessly and said: "Are you afraid that I can't drive?"
The gecko looked at him seriously and said: "No, I'm afraid that after I have no use value, your family will..."
As he said that, he gestured at his neck with his hand.
Lu Xin was startled and thought: This guy also described my family too unreasonable...
Then he saw from the rearview mirror that his mother and his sister who had returned to the car were looking at the gecko with interest.
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"If I can't catch up today, I'll first..."
Lu Xin had to think about this problem and planned to find a place to rest first.
The gecko has been using his ability to drive. Although driving is a very simple use of his ability, it should be very tiring to maintain such intensity for four or five hours in a row. He doesn't want the gecko to fall down.
...After all, if he falls down, no one will drive for him.
However, just when he was about to make this suggestion, his mother in the back seat suddenly sat up gently.
She frowned slightly.
Her expression looked a little disgusted, but it was hard to hide the slightly excited expression deep inside.
The younger sister was obviously excited, and her little head leaned over the car window and sniffed hard.
Her eyes were obviously bright under her black hair.
Lu Xin noticed something, so he slowly rolled down the car window and looked out.
The gecko covered his mouth and nose and said, "What's that smell?"
Lu Xin looked out the car window without saying anything. He also smelled the refreshing smell of fresh blood.
A particularly strong smell of blood floated in from the car window.
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"I found it..."
At this time, my mother smiled, covered her mouth and nose, and looked out the car window.
"It's right there..."