bestfiction Chapter 196 Tower Crane
Chapter 196 Tower Crane
It wasn't that Xu Si didn't trust Fu Xiaojian; it was just that the path this guy led was too bizarre.
I've traveled a lot, and I've faced just as many dangers.
Uh! That's not right either!
Several times it seemed that Xu Si was the one who provoked them.
If we exclude those few instances, the path Fu Xiao pointed to seems alright.
He seems to have misunderstood Fu Xiaojian!
Fu Xiaojian had always guided the overall direction, while Xu Si had foreseen the impending danger.
This relationship is like the difference between strategy and tactics.
Xu Si's sense of danger is centered on the convoy, while Fu Xiaojian's sense of danger is a judgment of the general direction.
Overall, their team hasn't suffered significant losses so far, and Fu Xiaojian certainly deserves some credit for that.
The largest and heaviest thing Xu Si had ever lifted with the Star Guide was Jiao Jiao.
He still doesn't know if he can use the Star Guide to lift the bus, but fortunately, after trying it out, Xu Si felt it was feasible and not too strenuous.
If buses are feasible, other vehicles will naturally be fine as well.
"How is it? Is it going to work?" Xu Si asked Ta Shan.
If relying solely on Xu Si's Star Guidance, the distance is somewhat limited.
If Tashan could extend a stone arm several tens of meters long, Xu Si would be more at ease.
Alternatively, Xu Si could also ride these vehicles over like a sword.
But that would be too inefficient.
"Me? I'm perfectly fine!" Tashan's condition was actually better than it appeared.
On one hand, Jiao Jiao recovered most of the damage; on the other hand, this time there was not only Su Su's "recovery", but also Xu Si's "comforting aura" and Chen Pei's "spring-like sweetness".
His triple recovery ability allows his injuries to heal faster than expected. Moreover, severe external injuries are extremely beneficial to him, making his foundation and sequence more stable.
Stoneborn is a rather buggy sequence.
As long as you don't die, the more severe the injury, the faster you recover and the faster you progress.
Seeing the entire camp riddled with injuries caused by him, he had to do it even if he couldn't; there was nothing more to say about it.
"Let's get there first!" Fu Xiaojian's impression of the wasteland was the worst, even worse than the snowfield, the Gobi Desert, and the rain world.
Compared to that, 【Time Delay Mirage】 feels much more approachable.
Tashan did not fail.
With his arms planted into the edge of the cliff, a deep rumble came from inside the cliff, as if an earth dragon were turning over.
At the edge of the cliff, the hard rocks seem to come alive, obediently arching, deforming, and extending upwards.
First, a thick stone beam, about three meters wide, jutted out from the cliff edge, slowly and steadily advancing towards the opposite bank of the abyss, producing a rumbling sound as rocks rubbed together. Gravel fell in a rustling sound, disappearing into the darkness, remaining silent for a long time.
After the stone beam extended for about several tens of meters, cold sweat seeped from Tashan's forehead, the color of the rocks dimmed slightly, and the speed of its extension slowed down visibly.
He grunted and looked at Xu Si: "Knife, it's up to you now!"
"Get in the car!" Fu Xiaojian ordered directly.
He didn't want to stay in the wasteland for even a minute longer.
The memories this place left on him were truly profound.
Xu Si walked to the end of the stone beam, estimated the distance, and found it to be just right.
Xu Si then transformed into a crane, using a star guide to pull Fu Xiaojian's warriors to the other side.
The Warrior's body shuddered slightly, and its four tires slowly left the surface of the wasteland.
Like manipulating a marionette, he used starlight to envelop the warrior and slowly move forward, passing the end of the stone beam and hanging hundreds of meters above the darkness.
Everyone on the cliff held their breath.
Jiao Jiao forgot the pain and stared intently into her big eyes.
The warrior glided smoothly over the abyss.
Thirty meters, fifty meters, one hundred meters...
This is not about controlling a sword or a person, but about controlling a steel beast weighing several tons.
Xingyin's energy expenditure far exceeded expectations, but fortunately he recovered a lot last night, otherwise he would have really become a five-second man.
Only when the outline of the cliffs on the opposite bank became clearer did Fu Xiaojian and Yang Fan relax.
They dared not even glance at the darkness that had just emerged from the abyss.
Because they are genuinely afraid of being drawn into the darkness.
Finally, amidst cheers, the front wheels of the Warrior touched solid ground on the opposite bank.
"Bang!"
The tire touched the ground, causing a slight vibration in the car body.
Yang Fan, the bespectacled man in the driver's seat, gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands, his knuckles turning white.
He pushed open the car door with trembling hands, stumbled when his feet touched solid ground, almost kneeling down, and looked back at the other side of the abyss, giving a thumbs up.
Xu Si let out a long breath and withdrew the Star Guide.
Seeing Fu Xiaojian and Yang Fan waving their arms across the river, the weight that had been hanging over my heart finally eased a little.
"Next." His voice was slightly hoarse.
Next up is Jiao Jiao's pickup truck.
Su Su took the initiative to sit in the driver's seat and start the car.
The dilapidated pickup truck was breathing heavily, but enveloped in the starlight, it lifted off the ground as lightly as a feather.
Jiao Jiao leaned against the passenger window, looking down at the terrifying dark abyss below. Her face paled even more. She instinctively tried to grab onto something, but forgot that her arm was tightly wrapped in bandages. She could only shrink back in vain, like a groundhog retreating into its burrow.
The pickup truck traced a gentle arc through the air and landed steadily next to the Warrior, the vehicle giving a slight jolt.
Su Su pushed open the car door, a hint of relief appearing on her usually cool face.
She looked back into the abyss and saw Xu Si. She didn't say anything, and even if she did, he probably wouldn't hear her. She just nodded slightly.
Next up were Tang Jinxiu and Chen Pei's RV, Li Miao and Xiao Luo's big dog, and Wang Hu's Volkswagen.
Xu Si silently and methodically guided the vehicle across the abyss time and time again.
The bus is the heaviest, so it's placed last.
As the massive bus slowly lifted off the ground under the starlight, Xu Si stood on the roof, looking like an immortal about to ascend to heaven.
Tashan gripped the seat tightly, his only sense of security coming from his trust in Xu Si.
Everyone on the bus held their breath, their large eyes reflecting the dizzying darkness of the abyss outside the window.
If everyone saw this scene before the apocalypse, they would be speechless.
Xu Si also deeply experienced the joy of Wenren Jiujiang.
The bus crossed the middle of the abyss.
The ordinary people inside the car had already turned pale with fright, and even Tashan was unusually nervous, counting "one, two, three, four, five, six" to himself.
The abyss, hundreds of meters wide, now seemed as long as an eternity.
Suddenly, a very faint sound, like shattering glass, came from the starlight connection controlled by Xu Si!
It wasn't that he lacked strength, but rather that a strange suction force was coming from the bottom of the cliff!
The bus suddenly lurched downwards!
"Ah—!" A suppressed gasp suddenly rang out from inside the car.
[Spend 200 purification points to purify the human presence of the convoy, time limit: 10 minutes]
"Yes," Xu Si answered without hesitation.
Purification Points: -200, Remaining Purification Points: 25170
The suction suddenly dissipated.
For a fleeting moment, Xu Si even felt that the darkness beneath the abyss was a physical entity.
"Get up!" he roared, his internal energy surging wildly as he squeezed out his last bit of strength, almost to the point of exhaustion.
The starlight surrounding the bus instantly solidified several times over, forcefully halting its descent and pulling the massive vehicle back onto a stable trajectory.
Nothing unexpected happened for the rest of the journey.
When the bus's heavy tires finally rolled onto the solid ground on the other side with a reassuring thud, everyone breathed a long sigh of relief.