Chapter 167: A Startling Explosion

In the Tianjing Western Suburbs, inside the Photoelectric Laboratory.

Su Xin looked at the clock on the wall nearby, put down the components in his hand, stretched, and let out a weary sigh.

"Phew! Almost missed the time to get off work again."

Taking off his laboratory protective suit, changing back into his own jacket, and picking up his personal belongings, Su Xin left the Laboratory and took a car to return in the direction of the city.

The road back to the city was a smooth asphalt surface, and the vehicle drove very steadily the whole way; Su Xin pushed the seat back, half-reclined, and closed his eyes to rest.

Xiang Lianyun and Wang Zhao were sitting in the driver's seat and passenger seat respectively; although the vehicle was driving automatically, the two remained vigilant throughout, their gazes occasionally scanning the surroundings.

The vehicle moved forward steadily.

After passing a corner, it entered a spacious four-lane road near a patch of barren hills.

It was already evening, the streetlights had been turned on, and the sky was still somewhat dim.

But in the eyes of the two who had been injected with Tianmu No. 3, it was still as bright as day, even clearer than the daytime in the eyes of ordinary people.

Suddenly, Wang Zhao in the passenger seat changed his expression and shouted in a deep voice: "There's an ambush!"

Under the medicinal effect of Tianmu No. 3, his effective visual range reached over one thousand meters, and the precision was extremely high; to a certain extent, it was equivalent to wearing binoculars at all times—binoculars that possessed powerful night vision capabilities and an ultra-wide angle.

People or objects three or four hundred meters away were clearly visible to him down to the finest detail.

Therefore.

He saw at a glance the enemies lying in wait, camouflaged in military fatigues, not far off the side of the road ahead.

Xiang Lianyun's face turned stern, and he said in a deep voice:

"Boss, sit tight!"

As he spoke, his right hand pressed the emergency button on the steering wheel almost simultaneously, and he said urgently: "Xiaozhi, return to the Laboratory immediately."

The so-called emergency button was precisely for special commands in emergency situations.

Just like now.

At Xiang Lianyun's command, the Xiaozhi Driving System immediately controlled the vehicle to slam on the brakes.

"Screech!"

A harsh screeching sound of friction rang out.

White smoke rose from all four tires.

The vehicle decelerated abruptly.

The three people in the car were nearly thrown forward by inertia, but fortunately, they were protected by their seatbelts.

And at this moment, Su Xin had already vigilantly opened his eyes at Wang Zhao's first shout and instinctively activated Ten-fold Godly Speed, so he steadily maintained his body's balance.

Furthermore, in this short span of less than a second, he cast his gaze outward and carefully observed the surroundings, yet he discovered nothing.

His eyes had not been enhanced.

But Su Xin knew that with Wang Zhao's current powerful eyesight, he shouldn't have been mistaken.

So he maintained the Ten-fold Godly Speed state and shouted at the first opportunity:

"Xiaozhi, open the sunroof!"

He was the owner of the vehicle and also the first-level controller; even sitting in the back seat, he could freely control every function of the vehicle.

In his perception, the sunroof opened bit by bit, and the vehicle happened to come to a slow stop at this moment, immediately followed by reversing.

But before their vehicle had reversed very far, the guardrail by the road suddenly exploded.

A terrifying shockwave, mixed with flames and various debris, blasted outward in all directions.

Some of the iron shards and steel balls struck the car Su Xin was in like a rainstorm, but they only left a large area of pits and dents, not even breaking the glass.

His car had been replaced earlier with a specially customized domestic bulletproof vehicle, and even the sunroof was made of special bulletproof glass; this was also a requirement the Military had proactively proposed earlier.

Now, it had indeed proven useful.

However, the shockwave of the explosion and the impact force carried by those fragments, while not damaging the car body, still caused the vehicle's trajectory to deviate to a certain extent.

The Xiaozhi Driving System was indeed powerful.

It only slowed down slightly, adjusted the car body, stabilized the vehicle, and continued to reverse.

And just at this moment.

Su Xin saw a black dot flying toward them at high speed, and he instinctively gave the order in his heart:

"Godspeed, Hundredfold Speed!"

In an instant, the speed of all objects in the outside world was slowed down tenfold again, and the black dot ahead was clearly presented in Su Xin's eyes.

That was a golden bullet about the thickness of a thumb; even with Su Xin's Hundredfold Godly Speed activated, this bullet still appeared to have a flight speed that was not too slow in his eyes.

Su Xin could faintly see that as the bullet flew, it rotated, stirring the surrounding air into a small, visible, twisted vortex.

The bullet was flying from the upper right front; according to the current flight trajectory, if the vehicle continued to maintain this reversing speed, it would be hit by this bullet.

And at this time.

The distance between the two was already less than one hundred meters.

Su Xin could have abandoned Xiang Lianyun and the other person to get out of the car alone; relying on his Godspeed Ability, he would not be in any danger at all.

But... there was no need.

Su Xin stared intently at the golden bullet in the air, which was approaching the speed of a human running, watching it continuously approach the vehicle he was in.

At a certain moment, he shouted in his heart again:

"Godspeed, Ten-thousandfold Speed!"

In an instant, the world fell into silence, and all things came to a standstill, as if Su Xin had become the only living existence in the world.

He stood up from the back seat of the car, leaned his upper body out of the sunroof, and grabbed the golden bullet that had just frozen in mid-air.

Then he looked in the direction from which the bullet had been fired.

A faint smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

He held a golden bullet as thick as a thumb between three fingers, swung his arm back, and then threw it forward violently as if throwing a dart.

The bullet left his hand and froze in mid-air once again.

It looked no different from before, the only distinction being that its direction had been reversed.

Having finished all this, Su Xin sat back down.

"Godspeed, ten times speed!"

He recited silently in his heart.

In an instant, time and space resumed, and all people and objects continued their previous movements.

That golden bullet, which had been frozen in mid-air, seemed suddenly endowed with terrifying kinetic energy and shot out instantly.

It was several times faster than the speed at which it had arrived!

Xiang Lianyun and the other person had no idea that Su Xin had done so much in those few milliseconds; they only felt the vehicle vibrate inexplicably and heard a sonic boom overhead.

This gave the two of them a sudden jolt of terror.

But immediately after, something even more shocking happened to them—

They saw a sudden, astonishing explosion occur on a bare mountainside to the front right.

Large chunks of debris sprayed in all directions.

Dust filled the sky and permeated in every direction.

A deafening, explosive roar echoed through the heavens and earth.

It was as if it had been struck by a missile.

All of this happened in an extremely short amount of time.

From the moment Wang Zhao discovered the enemy situation, to one of the enemies seizing the opportunity to press the detonator, to the sniper on the mountainside pulling the trigger, and finally to the inexplicable, astonishing explosion on the mountainside.

The entire process took no more than three to five seconds.

The other three foreign men lurking in different positions along the road at the foot of the mountain were so frightened by the sound of the explosion that they dared not move before they could even rush out of their ambush points.