Chapter 169: Global Extreme Cold 12
Chu Yian, though staying in the car, was not idle.
She not only had to constantly listen for Lu Qingyuan’s whistle but also pay attention to her surroundings. She absolutely couldn’t let anyone get within five meters of her or the car; she couldn’t just sit in the car and lose it.
Because of this, she was highly strung and didn’t dare to even doze off until an hour later when Lu Qingyuan returned.
Chu Yian saw the figure in the black down jacket in the distance, but behind him, a group of people followed.
Teacher Lu was in trouble!
She frowned and immediately drove towards them.
The car tires rubbed against the ground, and due to the excessive speed, snow splattered upwards.
The group chasing Lu Qingyuan instantly got a mouthful of ice, and their vision was blurred by the splattering slush.
Although this briefly stopped them from approaching, Chu Yian didn’t dare to stop. She used something to hold down the accelerator, keeping the car moving, then got up and pushed open the car door. As she passed Lu Qingyuan, she leaned out, “Teacher Lu!”
Lu Qingyuan accelerated, rushing towards Chu Yian, “Get out of the way!”
As he said this, he first threw his backpack into the car, then leaped up and grabbed the door frame.
He used his arm strength, “flying” up like an eagle. The moment he got in, he closed the car door.
Chu Yian quickly returned to the driver’s seat, sharply turned the steering wheel, and the car slid in the snow before speeding away.
“What kind of car was that?”
“It drove so smoothly in the snow!”
The people left far behind watched them leave in shock.
These ordinary citizens, cooped up at home, were only amazed by the car’s performance in the snow, completely unaware of its actual value.
“Teacher Lu, what did you take from them to be chased this far?” Chu Yian drove the car to a deserted place and stopped, then turned to ask.
Lu Qingyuan took out several cans of… paint from his backpack.
“No way, paint is worth chasing you like that?” She was a little disbelieving.
Are you sure you didn’t steal something else from them?
“Not paint, my clothes.”
Lu Qingyuan answered faintly.
Who would have thought that winter clothing in the city would become the most important resource? He also didn’t expect to be chased for so long just because of a down jacket.
“Where’s the strong liquor? Let me have a sip.”
He reached out to Chu Yian and directly drank from the bottle.
This was their way of warding off the cold, especially when it was unbearable.
“What are you going to do with all this paint?”
Chu Yian flipped through the cans of paint and suddenly noticed that all of them were white.
White?
Chu Yian looked at the heavy snow outside, then remembered the military green exterior of their car, and instantly understood what he was going to do—
Change the car’s color.
Military green was conspicuous, but white would be very deceptive.
She had originally been considering whether to cover the car with white cloth for camouflage; they had two white bedsheets among their covers.
She didn’t expect Lu Qingyuan to be even more efficient than her.
However, the paint was currently frozen, hard as a rock.
Chu Yian opened a can to check it, then turned to find the portable gas stove.
This small stove was left over from when they had hotpot, and it could be used to heat and melt the paint.
They spent two hours that afternoon working on this.
But the result was good; they painted the car extremely white.
Perhaps up close, one could clearly see the difference between the car and the heavy snow, but from a distance, it was very deceptive. Especially when they passed through the city at night, the concealment was even stronger!
Game Day 7, 11 PM.
It had been dark for a long time.
The surrounding heavy snow reflected the moonlight, making the night brighter than usual.
The heavy snow had already submerged the first floor of buildings, and only the bare branches of trees remained above the roadside. The road, which should have been congested, was now clear because the heavy snow had directly raised the ground, burying most vehicles.
Their camouflage was very effective; the surrounding residents found it difficult to spot the vehicle until it got closer and the engine roared.
“Old Dong, is that a car passing outside?”
In a house in the residential area Chu Yian and Lu Qingyuan passed, someone heard the sound of a vehicle and suddenly sat up.
The man, wrapped in a quilt, sat up and approached the window. He couldn’t see anything in the night, but he clearly heard the sound of the vehicle moving from far to near, then from near to far.
Even if he couldn’t see, he could guess.
On such a cold and late night, ordinary NPCs would choose to stay home to keep warm.
The only people still out were… Players!
The man and his companion exchanged glances, swore, and rushed out wrapped in their quilts.
However, by the time they came down, the car had already driven away.
Chu Yian and Lu Qingyuan’s car left a clear set of tracks in the soft snow, indicating that what they had just heard was not an illusion.
“They couldn’t have found the Oasis, could they?”
The man looked at the direction where the tracks disappeared into the distance, a faint guess forming in his mind.
Although players knew they had to reach the Oasis within 15 days, the game didn’t specify its exact location. Without accurate information, running around outside would lead to freezing to death on the road.
Most players would still be hiding in buildings to avoid the cold, not running around like this. Driving out at night like this highly suggested they had news of the Oasis.
As for the location of the Oasis, it might just be in the direction of these tracks!
The two, wrapped in quilts, followed the tracks forward, desperately hoping to catch up to the distant car, or at least find out the direction of the Oasis.
But it was simply too cold outside.
They followed the tracks for a while, and although they wanted to continue, their bodies couldn’t withstand the low temperature.
If they continued walking like this, wrapped in quilts, both of them would freeze to death on the road.
“Old Dong, how many players do you think will pass this round?”
On their way back, one of them suddenly brought up the topic, “This round of the game is really hard, isn’t it? Starting with two thousand yuan, you can’t even buy a slightly expensive down jacket. The temperature dropped from over thirty degrees to minus thirty or forty degrees in seven days.
The Oasis can’t be found, and the cold can simply kill people.”
This round of the game was truly difficult!
“If that car that left really belonged to players, why are we cold and hungry while they already know the location of the Oasis and are driving there?”
The man felt a little unbalanced, “What kind of people must the players who can pass this round be?!”
“Global top 100 super potential players?”
The player called Old Dong replied, “I don’t know how they manage to pass, but they are indeed too amazing, almost inhuman.”
At this point, he sighed deeply again, “If I had the same amount of points as those players, who the hell would be stuck in a place like this?”
Just thinking about the terrifying point totals of those super potential players made him envious!
