Recalling the accidents encountered in the first round,
The first was the truck rolling over on its side.
The second was several cars slamming on their brakes and skidding sideways, and finally the explosion.
As for the current situation, the vehicles that had caused the accidents in the first round were now all behind them. Since they were all behind, then he just had to open up the distance—open up an even greater distance.
The method was simple and direct.
Lin Ye also knew that getting through this instance's crisis wouldn't be so easy, but he would first take action with an effective method, and then deal with new crises as they came.
Among his current skills,
the most effective was Time Stop, and he could still use Time Stop one more time within the cooldown period; there were still 16 minutes until the Time Stop cooldown refreshed.
Stall for time, hold out for 16 minutes, and once the Time Stop skill's cooldown passed, he would once again possess 4 chances to use the Time Stop skill.
'Whoosh whoosh whoosh!'
The car tore forward at full speed.
This time, under the effect of Hypnosis, Father Kasugano floored the gas pedal, and the car raced all the way at the expressway's speed limit.
'Whoo whoo whoo...'
Traveling at high speed, the air outside the window ripped and tore, constantly letting out sharp, shrill sounds.
The car's tires were even faintly throwing off a few sparks from the continuous high-speed spinning.
"Dear, dear..."
But Mother Kasugano quickly came to her senses, realizing that calling out to her husband was useless—it would have to be their son who stepped in.
"Haruka, Haruka, hurry, have your father slow down,"
"The speed is too fast,"
"Going on like this is too dangerous,"
She turned her head and looked at Lin Ye.
At this moment Lin Ye's expression was calm as he observed his surroundings. "Mother, hold on tight..."
"Haruka..."
"Please stay calm,"
At this point, Lin Ye wasted no more words and directly used the Hypnosis superpower.
This was the only ability not subject to restrictions,
one that could be used without limit.
But how could this ability be used to resolve the current crisis?
Lin Ye had not yet found a good method.
'Whoosh whoosh whoosh!'
The car kept driving on.
This speed—it could be said this was Father Kasugano's first time driving like this. Had it been in the city district or on a forest mountain road, there would probably have been more than one accident already.
But on this expressway, the car still ran smoothly.
Lin Ye turned his head and looked behind them, and didn't see the shadow of any vehicle.
"We should have shaken them off,"
The danger coming from behind had been temporarily avoided.
But as long as they were still on the road, this danger could still occur.
Leaving the expressway as soon as possible was the best method.
"Big Brother..."
Sora spoke up timidly,
"What is it, Sora?"
"The car… it's so fast, I'm scared..."
"It's okay, nothing will happen,"
Lin Ye comforted her.
As he comforted her, he glanced at the direction the car was heading.
A hundred meters ahead was a tunnel.
"A tunnel?"
Suddenly, a bad premonition arose.
A place like a tunnel was prone to accidents—the probability of a crash was extremely high.
"Slow down, slow down right now,"
Lin Ye immediately shouted.
Having accelerated all this way, every time a vehicle appeared ahead, Lin Ye raised his guard, but every time no accident or mishap occurred, which led Lin Ye to lower his vigilance somewhat.
But at this moment, this stretch of tunnel pushed Lin Ye's danger alarm to its maximum.
Father Kasugano was just half a second slow before he stomped down on the brake,
"Screech screech screech screech..."
The brakes engaged,
the friction sound of tires against the ground sounding continuously,
Lin Ye held Sora tightly, preventing the inertia of the emergency braking from injuring the girl.
The car began to decelerate in a short time.
But because of the distance, it still drove into the tunnel.
The instant they entered the tunnel,
Lin Ye quickly saw the scene deep within the tunnel—several cars had collided and blocked the road.
The vehicles were completely deformed, the drivers crushed, their flesh mangled and bloody, red liquid flowing.
"Screech screech screech..."
"Screech screech screech..."
Finally,
before the collision,
the car successfully came to a stop.
"Phew..."
Cold sweat broke out on the foreheads of the father and Mother in the front row.
Escaping death by a hair, they had avoided a car crash.
Had they not slowed down and crashed into the vehicle ahead, their family of four would have been, if not dead, then severely injured.
It was all thanks to this son of theirs.
Yet the reason the car had been driving at high speed was also because of this son's demand, and the two of them felt conflicted.
Father Kasugano in particular—he couldn't understand why he was listening to his son so obediently.
"Get out of the car quickly, leave this place."
It wasn't that Lin Ye hadn't considered reversing to leave, but considering the speed and the time needed to reverse out, he felt the probability of encountering danger was too high.
Better to get out of the car and leave immediately—that was the best choice.
'Click...'
Lin Ye immediately opened the car door, and the first thing he did upon stepping out of the back seat was grab Sora, pulling the girl—still dazed, frazzled, and unsure of what to do—out of the back seat.
"It hurts, Big Brother,"
"Sora, bear with it a little, it's very dangerous here,"
As Lin Ye spoke, he immediately opened the front passenger door,
"Get out of the car quickly, hurry, it's very dangerous here."
Under his renewed demand, Mother also hurriedly undid her seatbelt and got out, and Father Kasugano in the driver's seat, after turning on the hazard lights, also unbuckled his seatbelt and left the vehicle.
At the accident site ahead, there were faint cries for help.
"Haruka, let's go save people,"
Father Kasugano gritted his teeth and thought it over, feeling that he and the others couldn't just leave like this.
He told Sora and his wife to go to the side and leave the tunnel, while he and his son Haruka would go help the injured.
Lin Ye looked at this middle-aged man,
this was a man who held kindness and a sense of justice,
possessing a considerably high sense of responsibility.
On one hand he cared for his family, and on the other hand he also had compassion; when others faced danger, within his ability he would proactively offer help.
A person like this should not die.
It's just...
Lin Ye shook his head.
This family—apart from Sora, the other three were already dead.
Now, this was merely a re-enactment of the instance; no matter how beautiful the instance's ending was, it could not change reality.
The instance was the instance, reality was reality.
Lin Ye sighed softly, feeling some regret.
"Leave the tunnel."
The father was startled, but facing the Hypnosis that followed from Lin Ye, he nodded, and his body began to move, supporting his wife as he quickly headed in the direction out of the tunnel.
Lin Ye supported Sora. He would have liked to carry her on his back, but this body of "Haruka" really didn't have much strength.
In terms of physical ability compared to his own body, it was simply a difference between heaven and earth.
For this instance, the greatest constraint was his body.
And as compensation, he could probably challenge it multiple times!
This increased a player's chances of clearing it successfully.
In a game,
a challenge with multiple lives—as long as the player accumulated experience and grew familiar with the patterns, they would always pass it, unless the player's skill was truly too low, their technique truly too poor.
The party of four first moved to the edge of the tunnel to avoid oncoming vehicles, then quickly walked toward the tunnel exit.
Fifty meters.
Thirty meters,
The distance to the tunnel exit grew closer and closer,
and outside,
the roar of vehicle engines came, drawing nearer and nearer.
"Mind your safety, watch out for vehicles."
What Lin Ye worried about were those vehicles entering the tunnel causing harm to their party of four.
If a vehicle entered driving normally, even if it crashed straight into the cars ahead, it wouldn't cause them any harm.
But what Lin Ye feared was an abnormal situation.
This environment of the instance had already determined that the most abnormal, most impossible situation would appear, and crises would keep closing in.
"Screech screech screech..."
The sound of braking abruptly rang out.
A vehicle that had just entered the tunnel suddenly noticed the accident ahead and the flashing hazard lights, and immediately stepped on the brake,
the vehicle braking in emergency, rapidly decelerating.
"Thud..."
But the vehicle right behind it, after also discovering the anomaly, braked one after another, turning their steering wheels to dodge.
"Thud..."
"Boom..."
One after another,
Sora listened to those incessant crashing sounds, her heart trembling, gripping Lin Ye's hand even more tightly.
Father Kasugano watched this chain of collisions, his heart continuously battered by the impact. He even glanced over—his own car had now been crushed in the collisions, and the original accident site ahead that had blocked the road had even more vehicles crashing into it.
If he and Haruka had been there rescuing people, they'd probably have been hit by the crashes!
Dangerous—it was truly too dangerous.
He couldn't help but grip his wife's hand and quicken his steps, hoping to leave this dangerous tunnel as soon as possible.
"Hurry, speed up,"
"Screech screech..."
Another car came.
The black sedan made a sharp turn trying to dodge, but the result was that the sedan veered and rushed straight toward the party of four who were quickly leaving the tunnel to reach a safe spot.
"Aaaah!"
The moment Sora at the front witnessed it, she instinctively cried out.
The crisis had arrived.
It wasn't that Final Destination kind of thing where every mishap and accident came charging toward them, but in the end this endless string of collisions also sent a swerving, dodging sedan rushing straight at them.
Lin Ye could even see the terror on the face of the driver in the sedan's seat.
He had only instinctively turned to dodge, never imagining that the direction he dodged toward also had people.
"Get out of the way!"
He instinctively shouted, but in the blink of an eye he found that the several figures ahead had suddenly vanished.
"Huh?"
The driver let out a puzzled sound.
His brain hadn't caught up yet—he completely failed to understand how the several people ahead had vanished clean in an instant.
"Boom..."
The black sedan crashed straight into the tunnel wall, the airbag bursting out in an instant, filling the driver's seat, and the driver only felt a powerful impact.
Another crisis had been temporarily avoided,
but the matter had not yet reached the point of resolution.
Lin Ye pulled Sora and continued walking quickly toward the tunnel exit,
Father Kasugano pulled his wife along, suppressing the intense discomfort within his heart, following closely behind with his wife.
His brain no longer had time to think now; all he thought of was to follow this young yet reassuring son of his,
and as for what exactly had happened to his son, that was no longer something he had the spare energy to consider now.
As for Mother Kasugano, she had completely given up thinking. The crashing sounds and braking sounds of the car accidents, one after another, kept her in a constant state of tension and dread.
Were it not for the warmth and sense of security transmitted through her husband's hand, she probably wouldn't even have had the strength to walk, and would have collapsed directly to the ground, awaiting the arrival of death.
Closer to the tunnel exit,
they would soon be able to leave the tunnel exit.
'Thud...'
A large truck crashed, swinging hard sideways at the tunnel exit, its cargo tumbling down with a clatter.
The moment Lin Ye saw it, his eyes immediately contracted.
"Hurry,"
Flammable materials.
Once they caught fire and started burning, trapped and blocked in this tunnel, there would be absolutely no possibility of survival.
Between life and death,
Lin Ye scooped up Sora and sprinted toward the tunnel exit. In this moment his frail body erupted with unprecedented strength, adrenaline pouring out wildly, and Lin Ye carried Sora and kept charging on,
"Crawl out, Sora, hurry,"
Climbing over was very difficult.
Right now their most feasible method was to crawl out through the gap along the ground.
"Mn, mn, mn,"
Sora didn't mind the dirt at all and immediately set into action, her tender skin scraping against the rough ground—it hurt, but she was very strong, and didn't make a single sound.
And Lin Ye quickly followed.
He smelled the scorched, charcoal odor of burning.
"Hurry, I'll be last,"
Father Kasugano hurriedly urged his wife to keep up.
Staying here any longer, there was truly no telling what else might happen.
"Dear,"
"Hurry, hurry,"
Father Kasugano continued to urge.
The silver-long-haired Mother Kasugano gritted her teeth and obeyed her husband's persuasion, and she too began to move.
She had witnessed the flames that had begun to burn, and knew that if she stayed here arguing with her husband, none of them would survive.
She crawled, quickly crawling through.
'Screech screech screech...'
Another car crashed.
The truck's position immediately shifted, with the creaking, grinding sounds of twisting and turning metal.
"Papa..."
Sora's eyes went wide, and she cried out.
She lay down and looked over, but what she saw was her father pinned and stuck. At this moment her father's face showed an expression of pain, yet seeing his adorable daughter, he still revealed a gentle smile.
"Live… well, Sora."
"Mama… is entrusted to you siblings now,"
"Listen well… to your Mother… and your big brother..."
He spoke, smiling, trying his best to make himself look a little better.
But Sora's expression grew increasingly unbearable, tears streaming down.
"No, don't, Papa don't die, don't die!"
She wanted to run over, but was grabbed by Lin Ye with one hand.
The roaring flames grew ever more intense, vast amounts of thick smoke billowing out.
Those who hadn't escaped no longer had any hope of life.
"Papa, Papa..."
Sora's voice grew increasingly hoarse. She suddenly turned to look at Lin Ye. "Brother, Big Brother, you… you're so amazing,"
"You can definitely save Papa!"
"You can definitely save… Papa, right!"
She was crying out to Lin Ye for help.
In her subconscious, she had already formed the feeling that Lin Ye was very amazing.
Lin Ye did not answer immediately.
He looked toward that direction of the tunnel where the flames blazed up to the sky,
"Big Brother..."
By his ears, the mournful, sobbing cry came again.
"All right, I promise you,"
Next time, I will definitely save your father.
This was Lin Ye's promise to Sora.
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