“You madman, you absolute madman!”

The young woman clutched her thumb, her face filled with venomous hatred, all traces of her previous obedience and caution completely vanished.

But deep inside, the young woman felt deeply confused. From beginning to end, every word she had spoken had been carefully considered.

Moreover, about ninety percent of what she said was truth, with only some key parts omitted.

Could he have discovered something?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

How could he possibly detect the flaws in my words?

“One more unnecessary word, and I’ll make you cut out your own tongue!”

“I imagine you’ve never experienced that feeling before, have you?”

The young woman wisely chose to remain silent, but the venom in her eyes remained impossible to conceal.

Chen Ye didn’t even bother acknowledging the young woman’s emotions toward him.

“You just said that because of the Fog Slaves, your group of over a hundred people was reduced to only seventeen?”

The young woman gritted her teeth, sweat beading on her forehead, clearly in pain.

Chen Ye gripped the steering wheel, deliberately ramming into a parked car before leisurely saying:

“Impossible. Even if you were a thousand people, if you encountered an Anomaly, you’d be lucky to have ten escape!”

“If a hundred people encounter an Anomaly, there’s only one outcome!”

Chen Ye turned his head to glance at the young woman’s venomous expression.

The young woman didn’t expect Chen Ye to suddenly turn around and quickly hid the hatred in her eyes, lowering her head in silence.

Chen Ye continued: “None of them would survive!”

“Therefore, you must be withholding some information!”

“You killed one Superhuman before, but that doesn’t mean all Superhumans are like him.”

“If you want to lie to a Superhuman, you should first check if your acting skills are up to par!”

Chen Ye’s words were as cold as midnight ice, making people shiver.

The young woman’s body began trembling slightly, immense fear rising in her heart.

She had indeed underestimated Chen Ye, and underestimated Superhumans.

In her understanding, Superhumans should be like Xia Bo – just possessing powerful and incredible abilities.

In other aspects, they should be the same as normal people.

But this person before her, whether in cunning or cruelty, exceeded her imagination.

“I… I’m sorry!”

“I forgot to mention something!”

“The Fog Slaves are very powerful, we… we once tried to kill them, but without Xia Bo, we’re no match for the Fog Slaves at all!”

“His… those weapons, we can’t use them either!”

Even Wonders with the lowest ranking numbers couldn’t be used by ordinary people.

Chen Ye naturally knew why they couldn’t use them, but didn’t say anything.

“In our attempts to kill the Fog Slaves, many of us died, but none of our methods had any effect on them.”

“Originally, none of us should have survived!”

“But… the Fog Slaves only appear for three minutes each time. After three minutes, they disappear into the mist.”

“Three minutes? Why?”

Hearing about this three-minute limitation, Chen Ye’s expression didn’t improve.

He thought of a very unpleasant term.

The young woman shook her head, her face pale: “I don’t know, I’m not lying to you!”

“I really don’t know, it’s always three minutes every time!”

“It’s because of this that we managed to survive!”

Seeing that Chen Ye seemed unconvinced, the young woman grew increasingly uneasy, causing more blood to spurt from the wound on her hand.

“Wrap your wound, don’t dirty my car!”

The young woman hurriedly picked up the knife in panic, cut off a strip of cloth from her clothing, wrapped it around the thumb wound on her left hand, and picked up the severed thumb to hide in her jacket pocket.

The young woman smiled bitterly. She had imagined there would be a day of reckoning for her actions.

She just never expected to encounter someone like this.

Thinking about the things she had done, she felt she might deserve this punishment.

Chen Ye coldly spoke one sentence, but felt even more certain in his heart.

This should be…

“Zzzzt… Hey, Squad Leader Chu…”

Chen Ye picked up the walkie-talkie and relayed what this young woman named Xiao Hua had said to Chu Che.

After hearing it, Chu Che’s mood also became extremely heavy.

“Zzzzt… Yezi, this should be a Rule Anomaly!”

“You’ve read my notes – Rule Anomalies are even more terrifying than regular Anomalies.”

“Once you trigger a Rule Anomaly’s rules, for people at our current level, Rule Anomalies are unbeatable.”

“Even with all squad members combined, defeating a Rule Anomaly is nearly impossible!”

Chu Che’s words were calm and logically analyzed.

Chen Ye listened, his mouth twitching.

With all squad members combined?

Our little squad has only managed to kill one Anomaly – that Human-Faced Scorpion in the desert before.

As for the later Eight-Limbed Human Face and Abyssal Blood Pupil, either one of them was beyond what our squad could handle.

Of course, except for those cannon fodder Crawlers.

The power of Anomalies, in the face of the Fair Convoy, is practically invincible.

Just reached Sequence 2, feeling confident enough to face some lower-level Anomalies.

Then immediately encounter even more powerful Anomalies.

It’s just… never-ending!

“Squad Leader Chu, how much longer until we arrive?”

“At our current speed, at least two days!”

Chen Ye glanced at the countdown on his machete – still over sixty hours remaining.

Two days, that’s less than fifty hours.

This upgrade is taking quite a long time.

Silence fell over the walkie-talkie, clearly both Chen Ye and Chu Che were feeling heavy-hearted.

Even with a guide like the young woman Xiao Hua, plus Chu Che’s talent and the map, the two vehicles were moving considerably faster.

But the journey remained difficult.

Sometimes when they could clearly take a straight road, Squad Leader Chu’s voice would come through the walkie-talkie, telling them to turn into a side alley.

A ten-minute journey sometimes took two full hours.

Although Xiao Hua and the other survivors didn’t fully understand, they remained quiet.

Chen Ye had already thrown this woman Xiao Hua into the back truck bed, letting the previously injured Uncle Zheng with broken legs guide them instead.

Before leaving, the woman endured her wound to briefly clean the passenger seat.

The middle-aged man got in the car again, showing obvious fear and respect toward Chen Ye.

Chen Ye had no intention of speaking much with him.

He didn’t even ask why he had been in that barbershop’s second floor.

He just mechanically had him give directions at critical moments.

After realizing Chen Ye’s aloofness, the middle-aged man relaxed somewhat.

The vehicle continued winding through the Old City district of Fog City.

Clearly, a main road could have taken them directly to Mist River Bridge, taking at most one or two hours.

But Chen Ye and Chu Che somehow managed to drive for over ten hours.

Fortunately, both vehicles still had ample gasoline reserves.

To save time, the two vehicles only stopped to rest for five minutes.

Chu Che boiled some hot water for Xiao Wang and Old Bao.

Old Bao was now breathing more out than in.

As for Xiao Wang…

Chen Ye wanted to find an opportunity to check on Old Bao in the vehicle, and quietly search through the trunk for that gun left by the mechanic.

But for some reason, every time Chen Ye tried to act stealthily, Chu Che would somehow, intentionally or unintentionally, thwart his plans.

Making Chen Ye wonder if this guy was doing it deliberately or on purpose.

Chen Ye carefully looked around but didn’t see any trace of that broken radio.

This gave Chen Ye some relief, deciding to endure a bit longer – impatience could ruin great plans.

The vehicles continued on their way.

After two hours of driving, they finally reached the entrance to Mist River Bridge!

Looking at the Mist River Bridge stretching straight into the deep thick fog ahead, it was impossible not to feel fear.

“Zzzzt… Chen Ye!”

Squad Leader Chu’s voice came through the walkie-talkie again.

“I have some rather bad news for you!”

Hearing this, Chen Ye felt his scalp tingle.

“Come on, Squad Leader Chu, can’t you just say everything at once!”

“Yezi, I sense there’s a big guy beneath the Mist River Bridge ahead!”

Squad Leader Chu’s voice sounded somewhat tense through the walkie-talkie.

“How big?”

“Don’t know, very big!”

Chen Ye also grew tense, swallowing hard before speaking into the walkie-talkie with a dry voice: “Then let’s wait for that big guy to leave before we cross!”

“I’m afraid that’s not possible!”

From Chu Che’s tone, you could tell Squad Leader Chu was probably feeling restless too.

“Why?”

“There are Anomalies catching up to us from behind. We need to cross Mist River Bridge as quickly as possible!”

“…”

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