Chương 87: _【+】(87)

_【+】(87)

The roar of engines echoed in her ears, and the sound of cannon fire bloomed in the distance. Li Xin knew the remaining barrage wouldn't last more than a few seconds. She had to get out of here before then. Besides, the ground was already starting to feel like it was sinking, the tires unable to get a grip. She had to punch through.

Listening to the sound of engines and the occasional explosion of gunfire by her ear, Li Xin frowned fiercely. She slammed her foot on the gas, pushing the Jeep's speed to its absolute limit. There was no time. She had to break through. Even if there were people ahead, she had to charge. If she met a god, she'd kill the god; if she met a Buddha, she'd slaughter the Buddha.

In the back seat, Huang Ying and Hong Ying's palms were unknowingly drenched in sweat. Back inside the pyramid, they had seen sand constantly seeping out. Following Qi Mo, they had charged out at top speed as the fine sand had already nearly submerged their calves. The stone walls, carved with exquisite images, were continuously flaking and cracking. They could almost clearly hear the sound of the lowest level beginning to collapse.

All of this indicated that the pyramid's internal structure had been damaged due to their carelessness, or perhaps ignorance. It was now heading towards self-destruction. This was a protective measure of the pharaohs, a way to deal with powerful external forces disturbing their tombs—destruction, taking everything with it.

Only at that moment did they realize how severe the consequences were. Now, on the surface, the other Qi family members might not know, but they did. Sinking. Being swept into a sinking sand flow in the desert was a terrifying thing. So, for now, their only option was to charge forward. Facing the enemy meant death, but staying put meant an even surer death. Between two impossible choices, they could only fight.

Although they understood the stakes, their expressions didn't change in the slightest. There wasn't even a flicker of emotion. This was the quality of the Qi family, a quality forged through absolute, iron-like training. Everyone remained silent, an absolute silence. Once they clashed, it would be a bloody battle to the end. Perhaps they wouldn't even get the chance to fight. They had never been in such a sorry state.

Li Xin stomped on the accelerator, no longer caring about concealing their presence. She rapidly increased speed and charged straight ahead. As the driver, she could feel the sinking sensation under the tires growing stronger. The viscous force was about to swallow them. The ground was about to collapse.

Vroom! The few cars following Li Xin sensed her acceleration and immediately sped up to keep pace. The sound of rapidly spinning tires wasn't that startling on a night filled with the chaos of war, but it was definitely enough to alert the enemy.

Qi Mo, Hong Ying, Huang Ying, and the others all gripped their weapons tightly. If they crashed, they would fight to the death. They had no other choice now.

The car sped forward, almost scraping against the Lan Bang vehicles beside them. Feeling the near misses and slight collisions, everyone's heart was in their throat. If not for Li Xin's strict order not to open fire first, the Qi family members, who had always believed in striking first, would have likely already engaged the enemy.

"SHIT. Slow the fuck down."

"Bastard, what's the rush..."

A string of curses erupted amidst the collisions. However, it seemed the other side was also heading in a different direction. Their mouths were foul, but they surprisingly didn't attack, just cursed and yelled angrily.

Qi Mo frowned slightly. Using the faint light, he exchanged a look with Hong Ying beside him. What was going on? The Lan Bang men shouldn't be this useless. They were letting them pass through such collisions and friction so easily? And it felt like they were also constantly changing direction. This was definitely not a coincidence.

Qi Mo and the others were intelligent people. In an instant, they understood that Li Xin had pulled some trick, or to put it nicely, had taken some action. Otherwise, the enemy wouldn't be acting in such a disorderly manner.

Li Xin wasn't thinking about anything else at this point. She floored the accelerator and charged forward madly. It seemed Bai Ying hadn't betrayed her trust and had opened a path for her. However, a distraction could only last for a moment. Without needing to communicate, Li Xin knew that such long-distance harassment could last for thirty seconds at most. She didn't have much time.

Madness, absolute madness. Before the Lan Bang men could fully react to the interference, Li Xin couldn't wait any longer. She directly rammed into the Lan Bang forces on the final line of defense.

Sensing a vehicle turning up ahead, Li Xin perfectly demonstrated that time is life. There was no time to dodge or go around. Li Xin steeled her heart, quickly turned the wheel, and slammed diagonally into the rear of the Jeep in front.

The open-top Jeep was sturdy at the front but empty at the back. Li Xin's vicious ram sent it flipping over. Without a second glance at the situation behind her, Li Xin kept her foot on the gas and charged out into the vast desert.

The Lan Bang men who were flipped over hadn't even reacted before they were knocked even further away by the cars charging up behind Li Xin. In an instant, all of the Qi family's vehicles broke through the encirclement, right under the enemy's noses, and sped off into the desert like a flash.

The ground was collapsing. It was starting to collapse. She could clearly feel the downward pull growing stronger, almost preventing the tires from turning. Li Xin gritted her teeth, pushing the Jeep to its absolute limit.

At this moment, Qi Mo and the others said nothing. Everything was according to Li Xin's plan. Breaking out of the Lan Bang encirclement was dangerous, but it offered a sliver of a chance for survival. The real danger was now. Hong Ying and the others hadn't seen the full size of the underground pyramid, but Li Xin and Qi Mo had. It was about five to six hundred meters wide, and according to Qu Wei's rough calculation, over a thousand meters high. The 1,180 steps of the heavenly ladder alone were several hundred meters. The force of such a sudden collapse causing the ground to sink was astonishing.

Absolute madness. Li Xin felt like she had never driven such a difficult car. The tires were practically sucked to the ground. A speed of two hundred kilometers per hour was only yielding a hundred. The powerful force from the ground was constantly pulling the car down, relentlessly pulling.

Screams, chaos, flight. The Lan Bang men, left far behind, noticed something was wrong the moment the Qi family's gunfire ceased. But before they could react, the terrifying ground collapse had begun. The powerful gravitational pull sent them into a frenzy.

The pyramid had collapsed. That pyramid was supposed to be the largest ever discovered. Under the combined force of explosives and the ancient Egyptians' self-preservation mechanisms, it had completely crumbled. A space over a thousand meters high suddenly shrank, and a distance of several hundred meters wide was suddenly exposed. The yellow sand, flowing like water towards the low point, funneled madly into that opening.

This town was in the heart of the desert. Although there was some water, there was an absolute abundance of sand. The towering sand dunes, affected by the immense gravitational pull, converged like small rivers flowing into the sea, sinking madly from all directions with earth-shattering force.

Li Xin, Qi Mo, and the others didn't see or hear the screams of the Lan Bang men, their chaos, their desperate flight, but they could well imagine it. The car headlights, which had been off, were all switched on in panic. Huang Ying looked back and saw a dense cluster of headlights illuminating the dark night behind them. Under the daylight-like glow, he could almost see the rolling yellow sand rushing towards them. And behind them, the massive, dark hole was like a monstrous beast with its bloody maw wide open in the night, devouring all surrounding forces, exuding a suffocating silence and absolute ruthlessness.

In just an instant, the dense cluster of headlights, which had been pointing in all directions, suddenly shone their beams towards the sky. Then, in a flash, everything returned to darkness and calm, as if that bright, day-like scene had never happened. It vanished cleanly, completely.

Huang Ying turned his head back, his face expressionless. No one spoke. Silence, complete silence. All that remained was the sound of the Jeep frantically scraping through the desert. The power of nature was irresistible.

Quicksand. The headlights were on. Qi Mo glanced down at the ground beneath the car. The quicksand was slowly flowing towards the massive black hole behind them, not fast but not slow either, with a faint tendency to accelerate. Qi Mo frowned slightly, retracted his gaze, and looked at Li Xin in the driver's seat, saying in a deep voice, "Don't panic."

Li Xin didn't reply. She knew what good panicking would do at a time like this. The only way was to race against time and the yellow sand. If they won, they lived. If they lost, they died.

Whether they were inside the Jeep or hanging on the outside, the Qi family members followed Li Xin without a word. The chase of life and death was playing out in its cruelest form here.

"Boss, Li Xin, did you break out? Answer me." Bai Ying's voice suddenly came through Qi Mo's earring.

Qi Mo said coldly, "We're out. Go make preparations."

Hearing Qi Mo's voice, Bai Ying let out a long sigh of relief. Li Xin had hung up immediately after talking to him, not even keeping the communication channel open, leaving him in the dark about the situation. Now, hearing Qi Mo's reply, he was finally at ease.

Absolute trust and tacit cooperation—this was the Qi family's top brass's greatest asset in dominating the world, and a testament to their absolute capability. And now, it seemed Li Xin had unknowingly infiltrated this circle.

Bai Ying immediately said, "Bai Ying understands. This time, I will definitely not let Lan Bang off easy." With that, he cut the communication and began arranging matters to deal with Lan Bang.

The quicksand flowed faster and faster, and Li Xin pushed her speed to the limit. Listening to the creaking sounds of the Jeep, which seemed on the verge of falling apart, and feeling the constantly jumping and trembling vehicle, everyone's face was grim. If the Jeep broke down, they would all be going to hell to establish a new Qi family force.

Li Xin's expression was now quite ugly. Seeing a high dune ahead, she gritted her teeth, turned the steering wheel, and charged towards it.

Seeing this, Huang Ying and Hong Ying frowned tightly. At a time like this, shouldn't they be driving on flat ground to maximize speed? Why start climbing this steep dune? But both knew better than to argue with Li Xin about cars. She would always know more than them. There had to be a reason for her choice. They immediately gripped the car door tightly as the vehicle tilted to a fifty-degree angle.

A high dune, a massive high dune. The speed was slow. Li Xin couldn't pick up speed at all, a far cry from the frantic pace just moments ago. But she stubbornly pushed towards the top of the dune.

The quicksand beside them flowed backward faster and faster, its speed gradually increasing. The rustling sound was hair-raising.

The peak. She had to get to the peak. Li Xin saw the summit right before her eyes, yet she couldn't seem to reach it. Her expression grew serious as never before. She slammed the accelerator to the maximum, a ferocious look in her eyes.

Up and down, forward and back. It was either advance or retreat. No choice, no way back. With a ruthless determination, Li Xin heard a bang. She had snapped the gear stick. Ignoring it, she wrenched the wheel, and with a final roar from the dying Jeep, Li Xin charged over the summit.

Instantly, Li Xin let out a long sigh of relief. Maintaining the Jeep's final burst of speed, she hurtled downwards. The few cars behind her had actually managed to follow and were now frantically rushing down as well.

"We're safe," Li Xin said, wiping the sweat from her face. She kept the Jeep going, letting it charge as far as it could before its imminent demise.

Qi Mo saw that the quicksand here was no longer flowing, lying peacefully in the desert. The pressure of the ground collapse was gone, leaving only peace and silence.

The towering sand dune behind them had blocked the frantic devouring force. The massive dune was more than enough to fill the large hole. Seeing this, everyone breathed a collective sigh of relief. Li Xin truly had her own vision and skills. Sometimes, speed wasn't everything; you had to use your brain.

At this moment, Qi Mo nodded slightly. He reached out and stroked Li Xin's head as she leaned against the seatback, gently rubbing it twice.

Screech! The few Jeeps following them, hurtling down at high speed, lost control upon landing and came tumbling down. The Qi family members on board, seeing the situation turn bad, quickly jumped out. For a moment, Li Xin's car was speeding down in front, while behind it, several cars tumbled head over heels, followed by the rolling figures of Qi family members. What a lively scene.

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