Chapter 610

"Ahhh!"

The moment Qiong, who was in the lead, witnessed it, she cried out subconsciously.

The crisis had arrived.

It wasn't the kind of "Final Destination" where every accident and mishap was aimed directly at them, but the constant pile-ups eventually caused a sedan that was swerving to avoid a collision to head straight for them.

Lin Ye could still see the panic on the driver's face in the sedan.

The driver had only swerved by instinct, never expecting that there were people in the direction they were dodging toward.

"Get out of the way!"

He shouted subconsciously, but in the blink of an eye, he discovered that the few figures in front of him had suddenly vanished.

"Huh?"

The driver let out a sound of confusion.

His brain hadn't caught up yet; he completely failed to understand how the few people in front had disappeared in an instant.

"Boom..."

The black sedan crashed straight into the tunnel wall. The safety airbag deployed instantly, filling the driver's seat. The driver only felt a violent impact.

A crisis had been temporarily avoided,

but the matter had not yet reached its resolution.

Lin Ye pulled Qiong and continued to walk quickly toward the tunnel exit.

Kasugano's father held his wife, suppressing the intense discomfort in his heart, and followed closely behind.

His brain was already too overwhelmed to think; all he wanted was to follow this young but reassuring son of his.

As for what exactly had happened to his son, that was no longer something he had the energy to consider.

As for Kasugano's mother, she had completely given up on thinking. The crisis caused by the repeated sounds of car crashes and braking kept her in a constant state of tension and terror.

If not for the warmth and sense of security transmitted by her husband's hand, she feared she would not even have the strength to walk, but would have collapsed directly to the ground, waiting for death to arrive.

They were closer to the tunnel exit now.

They would soon be able to leave the tunnel.

'Thud...'

A large truck crashed, sliding violently sideways at the tunnel exit, and cargo spilled out with a clatter.

Lin Ye took one look, and his pupils immediately constricted.

"Quick,"

Flammable materials.

Once they caught fire and burned, being trapped in this part of the tunnel meant there was absolutely no possibility of survival.

Between life and death,

Lin Ye held Qiong and sprinted toward the tunnel exit. His frail body erupted with unprecedented strength at this moment. Adrenaline surged wildly, and Lin Ye continued to charge forward with Qiong.

"Crawl out, Qiong, quick,"

Climbing over was very difficult.

Their most likely method now was to crawl out through the gap in the ground.

"Mm, mm, mm,"

Qiong didn't mind the dirt at all and acted immediately. The friction between her soft skin and the rough ground was very painful, but she was very strong and didn't make a single sound.

And Lin Ye followed quickly behind.

He smelled the scent of burning charcoal.

"Quick, I'm the last one,"

Kasugano's father hurriedly urged his wife to keep up.

If they stayed here any longer, he truly didn't know what else might happen.

"Dear,"

"Quick, quick,"

Kasugano's father continued to urge.

The woman with long silver hair gritted her teeth, followed her husband's advice, and began to move as well.

She had witnessed the flames igniting and knew that if she continued to argue with her husband here, no one would survive.

She crawled, and crawled over very quickly.

'Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...'

Another car crashed.

The truck's position changed instantly, accompanied by the creaking and twisting sounds of metal.

"Dad..."

Qiong widened her eyes and cried out.

She looked down as she crawled, only to see her father trapped. At this moment, her father wore a pained expression, but upon seeing his lovely daughter, he still managed a gentle smile.

"Live... well, Qiong."

"Mom... I'll leave her to you and your brother,"

"Listen to... Mom... and your brother more..."

He spoke, smiling, trying his best to look alright.

Qiong's expression, however, became increasingly ugly, and tears streamed down her face.

"No, don't, Dad, don't die, don't die!"

She wanted to run over, but was grabbed by Lin Ye with one hand.

The raging flames grew more intense, and large amounts of thick smoke billowed out.

Those who hadn't escaped had no chance of survival.

"Dad, Dad..."

Qiong's voice grew hoarse, and she suddenly turned to look at Lin Ye, "Brother, brother, you... you are so powerful,"

"You can definitely save Dad!"

"You can definitely save... Dad, right!"

She was pleading for help from Lin Ye.

Subconsciously, the feeling that Lin Ye was very powerful had already formed in her mind.

Lin Ye did not answer immediately.

He looked at the sky-high flames burning in the direction of the tunnel.

"Brother..."

The wailing cries reached his ears again.

"Alright, I promise you,"

Next time, I will definitely save your father.

This was Lin Ye's promise to Qiong.

The flames burned fiercely,

thick smoke billowed, obscuring the sun.

Lin Ye knew that Kasugano's father was beyond saving.

And according to the experience from last time, once Qiong realized that her father had died and there was no possibility of saving him, this cycle would come to an end, and everything would be reset once again.

"Ahhh!"

"Wuu wuu wuu..."

All that could be heard in his ears was the girl's sorrowful weeping.

When the flames engulfed the truck,

Lin Ye realized that his body had once again fallen into absolute silence. He kept issuing commands, sending signals to his body, but his body was no longer receiving them. Finally, his consciousness sank and gradually vanished.

But when he woke up again,

Lin Ye opened his eyes and found that he had returned to the backseat of the car as it drove normally, just as it was in the beginning.

Another reset.

Everything had started over.

Lin Ye observed his body immediately.

His chest felt heavy and uncomfortable; the infection and erosion rate of the eerie aura had increased.

"As expected, every reset after a failure increases the erosion rate of the eerie aura in the body."

A few more times,

and the infection and erosion rate of the eerie aura would reach an irreversible level. By then, no matter how strong his power was, he would only be able to transform into an eerie monster, completely becoming just another monster in the eerie world.

"Brother..."

The girl with long silver hair sitting beside Lin Ye seemed to hear his murmurs and raised her little head to look at him.

Her curious eyes were waiting for Lin Ye's answer.

"It's nothing, I'm fine."

Lin Ye patted Qiong's little head.

"Mm,"

Qiong hummed in response.

The sight of the brother and sister getting along well in the backseat made the mother in the front passenger seat reveal a sweet smile. There was nothing better than a harmonious and friendly relationship between family members.

She was very happy about this.

Having a loving and reliable husband, and a pair of cute and obedient twins—there was nothing that made her happier or more blessed than this.

The car drove steadily,

the scenery outside the window was peaceful, and everything was perfectly normal.

But only Lin Ye knew that in a little while, problems would arise.

Decelerating to pull over and leave had failed,

and the second attempt to accelerate and escape had ended with trouble at the tunnel exit.

It wasn't that Lin Ye hadn't considered the method of timing to avoid the accident's time point to successfully leave the dangerous highway.

But he quickly dismissed this idea.

If it were just avoiding a few time points—for example, if the car was originally supposed to encounter the truck attack in three minutes, could changing the choice to stop in four minutes avoid the truck's attack?

If this were reality, that would be very likely.

But this was an eerie dungeon, a dungeon world subjected to unknown mysterious forces.

No matter at what time point he stopped, he would be subjected to a car accident attack caused by mysterious forces.

This was Lin Ye's guess.

If it weren't for the eerie infection limiting his number of testable attempts, Lin Ye would have really intended to test everything and collect more intelligence.

Decelerating to pull over and accelerating to move forward both didn't work.

Then,

what he needed to do next was...

He called Kasugano's father.

Kasugano's father in the driver's seat was the driver, the one in control of this car.

It wasn't that Lin Ye hadn't thought about taking the wheel himself, but considering his own driving skills, he decided to let Kasugano's father, this veteran driver, continue driving.

"What's wrong?"

Kasugano's father glanced at his son.

He always felt that his son's state today was a bit off. Was he feeling unwell?

"Follow my instructions to drive from now on,"

"Huh?"

He asked in confusion.

The commanding tone made him stunned. Since when did his son dare to speak to him in such a tone? And these were driving instructions—what was he trying to do?

Yu didn't understand driving at all, so how could he dare to instruct him?

"Listen to me, follow my instructions for every action from now on."

Superpower hypnosis, activated.

Their eyes met,

and the ability took effect.

Kasugano's father's eyes shifted slightly. An invisible force influenced his brain, and his consciousness changed.

One second later,

Kasugano's father gave an answer, "Alright, I'll follow Yu's instructions."

Qiong was stunned, staring blankly at her father and the brother beside her. The mother in the passenger seat was also full of shock—how could her husband choose to follow the instructions of their son, Yu?

"Yu, don't joke around,"

"Don't talk nonsense,"

"Dear, you too, how can you say that? Are you joking with Yu!"

But faced with Kasugano's mother's words, neither the father nor Lin Ye answered.

"Decelerate immediately,"

'Swish, swish!'

Deceleration began.

The steadily moving vehicle began to slow down with a significant rate of deceleration.

One gave instructions, the other cooperated in execution.

Kasugano's mother watched blankly. She thought her husband was just joking, playing a friendly prank with their son, but she never imagined that her husband was serious—that he was truly going to follow their son's instructions.

"Dear, that's enough of the joke. Suddenly decelerating on the highway is a very dangerous behavior."

She didn't have a driver's license, but that didn't mean she didn't know the huge risks of decelerating on a highway.

If one wasn't careful, they could be hit by a vehicle from behind.

Kasugano's father gave no response, focusing entirely on the car.

"Next, turn the car around immediately. We are... driving against traffic."

Yes,

this was Lin Ye's idea.

Since stopping to escape and accelerating to move away had both failed, he chose to drive against traffic, to commit an act that violated traffic rules.

Faced with this behavior, he wanted to see what response this dungeon would give.

Normal methods could no longer find a suitable breakthrough. Since that was the case, he would use abnormal methods to find one.

'Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...'

Kasugano's father used his skilled technique to demonstrate a U-turn on the highway.

'Swish, swish!'

One car after another drove past,

and unexpectedly, none of them hit the car that was turning around.

Accidents would happen, but not every car was destined to hit their car.

Kasugano's mother was about to go crazy.

Decelerating on the highway was already a dangerous behavior, and now they were turning around and driving against traffic—this was no different from suicide.

"Dear, stop quickly."

"Don't play around anymore,"

"This is very dangerous."

She shouted, even preparing to take action to stop them, but was immediately grabbed by the wrist by Lin Ye.

"Stay calm,"

"Keep calm,"

Under Lin Ye's hypnosis, Kasugano's mother's emotions gradually calmed down. She leaned back and faced all of this calmly, no longer doing anything agitated or panicked.

As for Qiong, her performance was much quieter, though one could tell from her eyes and physical reactions that the girl was extremely nervous and worried.

This was out of fear of death.

But the fact that she could endure it without screaming, merely feeling fear and terror on her own, was already a very impressive performance.