Lin Xiaoyou was just as quick to react this time!
The moment Liguang spoke, the smug grin on her face hadn’t even faded yet...
Before she stomped the accelerator!
“Vroom—!!”
The pink "Chopped Pepper Fish Head" car let out a ferocious roar from its electric motor!
The entire vehicle shot forward like a pink pellet launched from a slingshot!
At the green-lit intersection, it charged through, reckless and fearless!
“Beep beep beep—!!!”
A deafening blast of horns suddenly erupted!
A heavy oil tanker truck burst in from the left side of the intersection!
Running a red light!
At a devastating speed!
Fang Qi spun his head sharply!
He saw the tires sparking blindingly!
“Squeal—!!!”
The sharp screech of metal scraping metal nearly tore through his eardrums!
Brake failure?!
That massive beast couldn’t stop!!
In the next instant—
The rear of the pink fish-head car brushed past the front of the tanker!
The tanker’s front was less than half a meter from their rear!
Then...
“BOOM!!”
A violent crash echoed behind them!
The pink fish-head car shuddered!
Fang Qi spun around again to look out the rear window!
That runaway oil tanker...
Had crashed directly into the cars waiting at the red light in the oncoming lane!
Under the impact of that massive monster, several small cars were crushed like toys!
“Creeeak—!”
The sound set teeth on edge!
Metal bodies twisted and deformed under the immense pressure!
A silver-white sedan was T-boned, its entire body folding in half at the middle, flattened!
Glass shards sprayed everywhere like rain!
Another red car was sent tumbling, spraying a trail of sparks across the ground!
This… this…!
But before Fang Qi could see more...
A flash blinded him!
Then—
“BOOM—!!!!”
A massive fireball exploded!
Orange-red flames shot into the sky!
The shockwave expanded outward at a visible speed, the air warping as it was squeezed!
Fang Qi’s ears immediately began ringing! His entire mind went blank for a second from the deafening roar!
Their pink fish-head car had already made it a good distance away, but the scorching hot air...
Still hit the vehicle like an invisible giant palm, shoving the body hard!
The car rocked violently, and Fang Qi’s body was flung sideways by the inertia, nearly smashing his head into the door!
But Liguang lightly caught him.
“Crack!”
The rear window let out a sharp sound!
Thin cracks instantly appeared on the glass, spreading from the center like a spiderweb.
But it didn’t shatter—only cracked.
The other cars parked on the street weren’t so lucky!
Window after window popped with a “bang bang bang!”
Shards of glass scattered noisily all over the ground!
“Ahhhhh—!!!”
Car owners squatted by their cars, shielding their heads and screaming!
Some had their faces cut by flying glass, blood trickling through their fingers.
The shop windows along the entire street were shattered too!
A clothing store’s glass door was blown to pieces, a mannequin knocked flat by the shockwave. A nearby café’s sign hung crookedly, wires sparking.
But their pink fish-head car...
Only had a few cracked lines on the rear window.
Only then did Fang Qi, through the cracked rear glass, look at the point of impact in the distance...
Red light mixed with thick black smoke billowed skyward, expanding into a small mushroom cloud in midair!
He was completely stunned!
...What?
If they hadn’t sped away just now... would they have been...?!
“NO—!!!!!”
“MY SPECIAL GLASS—!!!”
Lin Xiaoyou in the front seat let out a shriek like a stuck pig!
“SUPER EXPENSIVE—!!!”
Fang Qi jumped at the noise!
He turned to look, and Lin Xiaoyou was staring wide-eyed into the rearview mirror at those few cracks!
Miss Genius’s chubby little face shifted from shock to heartache, then to utter despair!
Tears even started welling up in her eyes!
“How did it break?!!”
She kept howling!
Fang Qi’s twitched wildly!
Is now really the time to be upset about your special glass?!
But...
He looked at the cracked rear window, then back at the cars around them with their completely shattered windows, leaving only empty frames...
...No wonder!
Even this pink fish-head car’s glass was military-grade!
That kind of upgrade was seriously impressive!
And definitely expensive!
Lin Xiaoyou was still wailing.
“Senior!!!”
She glared at Fang Qi through the mirror, her eyes red!
Her face was full of grievance!
“If we actually succeed this time...”
“You have to compensate me! Compensate me for my glass!! I really, really...!”
“BOOM—!!!”
Before her words ended, another thunderous explosion erupted behind them!
The oil tanker had exploded a second time!
A second shockwave surged from behind!
Luckily, their car was already much farther away, so...
Only the ground’s violent trembling and that ear-splitting rumble reached them inside.
Fang Qi felt the whole car shudder again, a low thud coming from the chassis.
He took a deep breath and fell back into the rear seat.
The earlier impact had thrown him all sideways, and now he finally sat steady again.
“Fine!”
He gritted his teeth, looking at those red-rimmed eyes in the mirror!
“I’ll pay for it—I’ll even pay for a full upgrade! But on one condition...!”
He turned to look out the car window.
In the distance, the mushroom cloud was still churning! Black smoke obscured half the sky!
People had stopped all over the roadside.
Some held up their phones to take photos, others stared blankly at the flames, and a few squatted, clutching their glass-cut, bleeding faces.
The whole street was chaos!
Few cars were still moving.
Most drivers had their windows blown out; they had pulled over, gotten out...
And stood in shock, staring at the disaster scene in the distance.
“...We have to actually make it there alive first!”
Fang Qi choked out the rest of his sentence.
What the hell is even happening right now!!!
In his palm, the slightly cool hand suddenly tightened a little.
He looked down instinctively...
The silver-haired girl still sat beside him, her pretty face showing no panic.
Her crimson left eye pulsed with a steady rhythm, while her amber-colored right eye remained gentle and calm.
—Master, Liguang is here.
Yeah.
He felt a lot calmer.
Fang Qi squeezed her hand back firmly.
Outside the window, the firelight dyed half the sky red.
Inside the car, her hand was cool and soft.
Lin Xiaoyou glanced at their clasped hands in the rearview mirror and let out a light “tsk.”
“You two are too much!”
Still, she kept both hands steady on the wheel, the pink fish-head car continuing forward through the sparse traffic.
“Don’t worry, Senior. I’m driving, aren’t I?”
Her tone was light.
“Besides...”
Her eyes swept across the churning black smoke in the mirror, her brows lifting slightly.
“I wouldn’t dare stop. If I did...”
She bit her lip, then chuckled playfully.
"I always feel like we're going to get blindsided by a big truck that suddenly appears out of nowhere and smash us to death!"
Fang Qi squinted, remaining silent.
The meaning behind that was already clear enough.
She was starting to suspect...
Lin Xiaoyou looked at him through the rearview mirror, blinking gently.
"Senior, so now..."
"I think I actually do believe what your senior sister said."
Her tone was still light, her round little face carrying a playful smile, but...
There was no laughter in those almond eyes.
The flames on the rearview mirror flickered, painting her face in an orange-red glow that shifted between light and shadow.
"This time we 'hit the jackpot'..."
She tilted her head slightly.
"Looks like it's our turn, huh?"
Fang Qi stared silently at those almond eyes in the rearview mirror.
They had come to rescue An Lian, to understand her situation...
And now...
They themselves had become targets of the big trucks?
Those ghost drivers...
Those big trucks that suddenly blew tires, ran red lights, and swerved out of control...
They weren't just hunting An Lian—they were coming after them too!
...Why?
He couldn't figure out what was going on.
His mind was really in a mess.
"Oh, right... hey, Senior,"
Lin Xiaoyu's voice suddenly rang out.
Fang Qi looked up.
In the rearview mirror, Miss Genius's almond eyes were fixed on him, and that look...
It was almost timid?
"If I were to die like An Lian..."
Her voice softened a little, as if testing something. Her fingers gripping the steering wheel tightened.
"Would you really not save me?"
Fang Qi was taken aback.
What did she mean by that?
Was she bothered by the joke he made earlier?
But right now, those almond eyes in the mirror really did carry...
A trace of uncertain... vulnerability?
"Master,"
Liguang suddenly spoke softly.
The silver-haired girl was still sitting quietly beside him, her small hand still holding his.
"We're being hunted by the big truck too,"
Her tone was gentle.
"If the situation is really like what Officer Gu said..."
She tilted her head slightly to look at Fang Qi, her mismatched eyes meeting his directly.
"’Fate being rewritten’ is what's causing this..."
Her eyelashes fluttered lightly.
"Then that means..."
Fang Qi's gaze grew a little distant as he looked at her.
Means what?
...What else could it mean.
He had already thought of it.
It was just...
He didn't really want to admit it.
It meant that...
Out of the three of them, at least one person, as Gu Xi had said...
Had their fate rewritten!
Was going to die today!
Would also...
Be hit and killed by a big truck!
Who?!
Fang Qi squinted, his breathing quickening!
Him?
He was an outsider, the one Gu Xi called "the person stirring up fate."
He should be unbound by the rules of this world.
His fate wasn't supposed to be in the script here!
Then... Liguang?
His Crazy Girl had the original core!
Hidden inside that core were the "permissions" left by his parents, and in the previous loop, Gu Xi had said she "shouldn't have permissions like that."
She was strong—it wasn't likely she had been rewritten either!
So...
Fang Qi slowly raised his head, looking toward the rearview mirror.
Lin Xiaoyou was looking at him from the mirror.
Her almond eyes blinked pitifully, her chubby face carrying a fawning, guilty smile...
And a hint of barely hidden anticipation.
Lin Xiaoyou.
Lin You.
She was an native of this world.
Her father had his fate rewritten and died in a car crash.
She herself had been studying the underlying code of this world all along.
She had no original core, no outsider identity, no known "permissions" protecting her.
She was an ordinary person, just...
A smart one—too smart, really.
So, among the three of them, she was the most likely...
To be the one whose fate had been rewritten!
Fang Qi opened his mouth, his throat dry.
Then he spoke softly:
"...I was joking earlier."
"If something happens to you, I will definitely save you too."
He looked at those almond eyes in the rearview mirror, his tone becoming serious:
"Don't worry!"
Lin Xiaoyou's eyelashes trembled.
Then, the grievance and guilt in those almond eyes disappeared in an instant.
She blinked hard, forcing back the tears that were threatening to spill, and then...
A brilliant smile immediately bloomed across her round little face!
"Got it!"
She quickly reverted to her carefree, devil-may-care demeanor!
Both hands gripped the steering wheel tightly, and she sat up straight in the driver's seat!
"Senior, Liguang..."
"Hang on tight!"
The curve of her lips once again tilted into that infuriatingly smug grin.
"It's time to show off my driving skills!"
She took a deep breath, her almond eyes locked dead ahead on the road!
"Since I'm already just a lowly life anyway, then..."
Her grin widened!
"Who needs to follow traffic laws anymore?!"
"VRROOOM—!!!"
The pink "chopped pepper fish head" instantly let out a furious roar!
The car shot forward like a pink bolt of lightning,
surging through the main roads of the city!
In an instant, Fang Qi was slammed back into his seat by the force of inertia!
Holy crap! Here we go again!!
Lin Xiaoyou's about to speed again!!
"Lin Xiaoyou!!!"
He grabbed Liguang's little hand tightly, shouting at the top of his lungs!
"Even if nothing happens, doing this in the city is going to get us killed!!!"
"VRROOOM—!!!"
A pink blur zigzagged at breakneck speed through the traffic,
cutting a dizzying, frantic path across the city's lanes!
"Don't worry, Senior! Trust my driving skills!!!"
iemie, male, Race: Moon. Hobby: Collecting anomalies. At first, he thought he possessed two systems: the Crimson Rainbow Moon and the Clear Cold Frost Moon. One day, he discovered that he himself could also become a system for others, holding the chessboard of fate. The Eighth Epoch, also known as the Eternal Moon Epoch. Humans, witches, elves, bloodline descendants, specters, demons, and spirits together compose a new history. Walking the path on behalf of the moon, before he knew it, Chen Miemie's footsteps were followed by all manner of strange and wondrous anomalies. As time passed, many titles circulated about him—The King in Yellow, Lord of Anomalies, Heart of the Eternal Moon, and more. "Me? I'm just a traveler who enjoys collecting interesting creatures," Chen Miemie said.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ver to a world of cultivation and returned invincible. Modern medicine is child's play compared to elixirs; technological might crumbles before true cultivation. My name is Qin Ning, Earth's sole cultivator!
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
