Mist

Chapter 15: Ouroboros

Everyone inside the car was silent for a moment. Their eyes fell onto the screen displayed on the control panel.
Although there were many obstacles as the spacecar navigated through the city, its speed was at least 100km/hr. They had only cared about the thrill and no one expected that they would suddenly run into another car, let alone encounter living people. To run into another car and to crush the car completely, anyone with morality and conscience would feel very uncomfortable.

Li Chun was shocked silly. His expression revealed horror, “D-did we just hit someone?”

The faces of the other teammates were also not very good.
Hitting and killing a zombie was one thing but hitting and killing a living person was something entirely different.

Only Tang Qi who was always calm and unwavering answered, “Yes.”
Li Chun hesitated: “What should we do?! Should we go back and take a look?”
Zhou Mingxuan’s tone was heavy, “What point is there? With that speed and that weight, they’re definitely a goner. Have you seen how cars are scrapped in scrap car yards? It’s pretty much like that.”

“PU3K650.” Ji Yushi read out the licence plate number.

That line was very abrupt. All the teammates looked over.
They only saw Ji Yushi lower his eyes and turn to walk towards the back of the car.

There was a small square glass window at the back of the car. It was located quite high and just enough for Ji Yushi to see outside.
The run-down streets shone brightly from the lights coming from the rising sun and even the scattered corpses looked strangely good like this —— The spacecar moved very fast. The completely scrapped small car from earlier had long disappeared into the distance.

This wasn’t Ji Yushi’s first time seeing that car.
Following his memory, scenes quickly unfolded like a picture scroll.

The gunfire was fierce, and the zombies were clamouring about frantically.
He jumped out from the window of the warehouse. When the soles of his feet landed on the ground, he felt some pain from the strong impact. He didn’t have the time to think and quickly raised his gun to kill a zombie at his 10 o’clock position. That zombie was shot in the eye and thick fluid exploded out, splattering onto his hair. With his left hand, he dragged Tang Le who was on the verge of breakdown forward.
Behind him, Song Qinglan was still roaring at them to go ahead first. The sound from Shen Mian was very loud. When a bullet was fired, parts of the wall would chip off and scatter in the air.
There was a small silver-grey car not far away. Li Chun stuck his head out of the driver’s seat, his expression anxious. He shouted loudly, “Get in the car!!”
These memories were played in very slow motion, turning into a slow motion movie lasting dozens of seconds long.
——- A not very eye-catching licence plate appeared briefly in his line of sight.

As if he was experiencing it again while recalling that scene, Ji Yushi could clearly see the licence plate.
PU3K650.
Black text on white background
It was exactly the same as the car just now.

Something cold touched the back of his hand.
Ji Yushi looked down and saw a brand-new bottle of mineral water. He then raised his head and saw Song Qinglan.

The other party’s handsome eyebrows were furrowed together, “Do you need to take a break?”

The light from the small window was projected onto Song Qinglan’s face.
At this moment, having just come out from the mission loop, his face was still the same as how it was when he left the capsule, clean and refreshing.
Song Qinglan’s appearance was actually in line with most people’s aesthetics. With high brow bones, a tall nose, deep set eyes, extremely dark irises as well as lips that are not too thick and not too thin, he was an embodiment of a very handsome man. He however was born with innate roguishness and he also didn’t like to speak or do things the typical way, so he always gave others a feeling of rebelliousness.