Chapter 678

One of the girls held her forehead and said, "Someone must be chasing us from behind. Grab onto things around you; don't get thrown out."

Hearing Chu Muyu glanced at the girl through the dim light, guessing she might be motion sick, which was why her face was pale, and reminded her, "Sitting on the ground should feel better."

Upon hearing this, the girl furrowed her brow, seeming to hesitate, then looked at the slightly dirty ground, pouted, and finally sat down with a thud.

All five people in the rear cargo hold gripped whatever was around them; no one dared to let go. Although the truck as a whole was relatively stable, the rear cargo hold still jolted somewhat.

Among the five, some had poor constitutions; after walking for so long, some had forced themselves to this point. Now that the vehicle jolted, symptoms like dizziness and nausea appeared. Chu Muyu had the best constitution among them, so he supported the swaying person with one hand while helping those inside grip whatever they could lean on.

Yu Ningchen kept looking back, observing his own situation and that of the several cars behind him. Without a doubt, those cars were the truck's greatest enemies, so while looking, Yu Ningchen took out a new-style rifle he carried.

"I want to take them out," Yu Ningchen said, then glanced at the driver beside him, as if seeking the driver's opinion or waiting for his cooperation.

Master Li had no objection to this; his eyes even sparkled as he urged Yu Ningchen to show off a few more moves: "Feel free to shoot; I'll drive steadily!"

With Master Li's assurance, Yu Ningchen also relaxed, nodded to Master Li, quickly stuck his head out, and aimed the muzzle perfectly at the driver's seat of one car.

The people chasing Yu Ningchen were all professionally trained, so the instant Yu Ningchen aimed his rifle at one of the cars, the driver of that car reacted almost immediately.

Although he didn't know who the people were that had kidnapped the five scientists, since they could extract people from the Bugu Group, they certainly weren't pushovers. Thus, the driver became alert in an instant and suddenly jerked the steering wheel hard to the side.

He had to avoid the bullets Yu Ningchen fired, but this driver forgot that this was actually a narrow road; besides him, there were other vehicles traveling on the same small road.

558. Pursuit, The Real Showdown

So when he suddenly turned the steering wheel to the side, the vehicles beside him couldn't dodge in time, and this was a small car, not an ordinary motorcycle.

This caused the car, when turning the steering wheel to the side, to jerk its front end suddenly, veering the vehicle to the side, and in an instant it collided with a motorcycle beside it.

There was a person on that motorcycle, and precisely because a car crashed toward them, the person on it couldn't even maintain balance; their body tilted to one side, and they couldn't even straighten the bike.

Not being able to straighten the bike was one thing, but this motorcycle driver also fell in the same direction. Before the car tire could crush his leg, he already felt that while falling to the right, he collided with others, resulting in a series of chain reactions.

Yu Ningchen looked back and naturally saw this scene; under such circumstances, he actually felt like laughing.

Yu Ningchen didn't even put his hand on the trigger; he was just holding the rifle aimed at the driver's seat of the car closest to him.

As a result, that driver acted as if he was about to die in the next second; not only did he immediately turn the steering wheel to the side, but because of nervousness, he didn't even notice there were even more vehicles beside him.

Seeing this snowballing scene, Yu Ningchen felt it was a pity he hadn't recorded it.

The people behind had already collapsed into a heap. After Yu Ningchen smiled and watched for a few moments, he withdrew his gaze, sat back in his seat, adjusted into a comfortable position, and reminded Master Li.

"More people will likely come to hunt us down later... and it's very possible the tools they use won't be cars and motorcycles anymore, but things like airplanes."

Yu Ningchen said this not to scare Master Li; he gave Master Li one last chance. If he retreated at this moment, Yu Ningchen would also let him go, give him enough Qian Cai to live comfortably for the rest of his life, ensuring he could survive anywhere without problems.

But this time, Master Li's answer surprised him, yet also felt as if it had always been expected: "I won't flee at the critical moment. No matter what, I must return."

Hearing Master Li say this, Yu Ningchen sighed lightly and said, "This time you've helped us a great deal again. Without you, I estimate I would have had to spend considerable energy dealing with those people."

After shaking off the pursuers behind, the smile on Master Li's face became more genuine: "It's nothing, just a small favor."

Yu Ningchen smiled; if the timing weren't wrong now, he would quite like to make friends with someone of such a character.

It was just a pity Yu Ningchen couldn't spare much mental energy to protect a sixth person. Taking away the five people in the rear cargo hold had already left Yu Ningchen somewhat exhausted. Usually, he acted alone; taking on five burdens was already extremely difficult.

Yu Ningchen ultimately said nothing. After all, he had been the one to contact Master Li; if he chose to say such cold words at this moment, it might be too hurtful.

The truck kept moving. Master Li seemed very familiar with the area, bypassing several roads, finding the shortest one, and driving Yu Ningchen and the five people in the rear cargo hold toward the national border.

Meanwhile, a huge uproar had already erupted within the Bugu Group.

The chairman of the Bugu Group was named Jia Yi, who was related to Jia Da; although they were distant relatives, Jia Da had also benefited greatly from this chairman.

Jia Yi's group started as an unknown small company; since Jia Yi transformed the company, it had risen step by step.

But after the transformation, the company needed to develop new products to make money, so he turned his gaze toward Huaguo, which was very close to Cangbei.

Jia Yi had long heard that Huaguo had many people, and that the number of high-IQ individuals was far greater than on the Cangbei side, so three years ago he bought a plane ticket to go to Huaguo, with the purpose of finding his targets in advance.

But Huaguo's security management was always good; Jia Yi searched for so long but still couldn't find an opportunity to strike. Although Huaguo had many outstanding scientific researchers, he still had no chance to act.

He could only return to Cangbei in disgrace, relying on several subordinates who were accustomed to various evils, and realized that robbing was the only way to save time, effort, and money.

So he began posting notices in Huaguo and publishing advertisements on various job-hunting platforms. The results proved that there were indeed many energetic college students; within just two years, many graduates from prestigious universities had contacted Jia Yi proactively.

Jia Yi's requirements gradually became higher, until in the last half-year, he finally assembled a scientific research team, which was precisely the five-person team Chu Muyu belonged to.

The days of Chu Muyu and the others within the Bugu Group were not good; people above often criticized them, especially Jia Yi.

During the several months they were trapped here, they couldn't even contact the outside world; they were simply locked in the laboratory day after day doing research. Except for research, there were no other tasks.

It wasn't that they hadn't tried to escape; the outcome was just worse.

Jia Yi carefully concealed the whereabouts of these five people from the outside world, while the Bugu Group developed step by step until it became the large group it is today. He forced the five people to work even harder for him, and wages became lower and lower; after all, Jia Yi knew that no matter how much these people wanted to escape, they still couldn't escape his grasp.

To prevent the five people from escaping, Jia Yi specially added some manpower, simultaneously forbidding anyone other than employees from entering or leaving the company, and equipped armed police, fearing someone would come to kidnap the people.

But ultimately, the thing he worried about still happened.

When Yu Ningchen infiltrated the Bugu Group silently, Jia Yi didn't hear even a whisper; he was handling work in his office as usual and didn't hear anyone report that an outsider who wasn't an employee had entered the company.

So the five people were kidnapped silently. That day, Jia Yi got off work early, leaving four armed police at the entrance. Originally thinking the security was strict enough, when he learned all five had escaped, Jia Yi's emotion was even furious.

He almost mobilized every power under his command, with the sole purpose of finding the person who took the five people away. After finding the target, he discovered that person was already about to leave Cangbei.

Jia Yi could no longer sit still; he mobilized all his forces to pursue Yu Ningchen and the others. Airplanes and cars were equipped. After locking onto Yu Ningchen's location, Jia Yi could no longer sit still; he boarded an airplane himself to see what kind of He Fangshensheng this person named "Yu Ningchen" was.

Yu Ningchen suddenly furrowed his brow.

He seemed to hear some sound.

After reacting, Yu Ningchen stuck his head out and suddenly looked up, his gaze locking onto the half sky.

559. Attempting to Shoot Down the Airplane

After all, it was in the half sky, so there was still some distance from Yu Ningchen's current position. When Yu Ningchen's gaze looked up and contacted a helicopter flying above his head, his pupils shrank.

Without a doubt, Jia Yi's side had already started moving, and very likely made full preparations; the airplane above was just one step; besides this, there should be other weapons not yet used.

This experience of being chased was actually very common for Yu Ningchen; from being chased by the Gulf Family people before, to fighting an entire mercenary battalion alone, in terms of fleeing, Yu Ningchen had never lost to anyone.

It's just that this situation was obviously quite tricky.

This time it wasn't Yu Ningchen fleeing alone; he was also carrying the five people currently in the rear cargo hold. Those five people were the purpose of his mission this time; he must ensure those people suffered not the slightest harm.

So Yu Ningchen carefully stared at the helicopter above his head, circling his gaze, and discovered the leading helicopter seemed not to have installed attack devices; that is to say, the helicopters pursuing them couldn't attack people.

Did Ning Chen couldn't help but let out a breath of relief, but before that breath had fully escaped, it caught in his throat again.

Because Did Ning Chen saw another four or five helicopters in pursuit behind them, and although the helicopters weren't large in scale, they were all the most attack-capable and fastest helicopters currently available.

Fortunately, however, Did Ning Chen knew clearly that although Jiayi only wanted to chase them, he had no intention of slaughtering them.

After all, there were still five people useful to Jiayi in this car; if he wanted to kill them for good, then what Jiayi would have to bear was not just the loss of five lives, but the follow-up research would also be unable to proceed.

Thinking of this, Did Ning Chen actually became a little brazen, and said to the driver: "I counted, there are about five helicopters following behind us. They won't let us return to Hua Country, but they won't hurt us either. You keep driving first, I'll think of something."

Master Li trusted Did Ning Chen very much; whatever Did Ning Chen said, he would take seriously. With both eyes fixed earnestly on the road ahead, he said somewhat tensely: "We're almost at the national border... Judging by their stance, it looks like they'll be on us any second now."

Master Li was sitting in the driver's seat, so he couldn't see as directly and accurately as Did Ning Chen could the things chasing them from behind.

But as the helicopters drew closer and closer to them, Master Li finally noticed a patch of suspicious shadow hovering right above his own car.

He raised his head and looked, and discovered that the patch of shadow was exactly the "helicopters" Did Ning Chen had mentioned.

Although a little scared inside, Master Li, upholding his professional integrity, still gripped the steering wheel tightly and pressed forward all the way toward the national border.

Did Ning Chen suddenly switched to a different gun.

The new-model rifle he had just had in his hand, although easy to use, wasn't really suited for dealing with big targets like helicopters; he had to switch to a machine gun to achieve that kind of area damage.

Did Ning Chen's idea was to first shoot down the helicopter Jiayi was on; that way, with the head of the dragon gone, the threat the other side posed to him would grow smaller and smaller.

So Did Ning Chen once again rolled down the car window, once again took aim at the helicopter overhead, and without further hesitation, pressed his finger on the trigger.

A burst of gunfire rang out; Did Ning Chen pulled the gun back without changing expression, while Master Li beside him turned a little pale.

Did Ning Chen, after looking at Master Li, said: "Don't be afraid, I'll try to deal with it."

Hearing these words, Master Li's heart suddenly steadied a little; then he nodded hard and said nothing more.

Did Ning Chen, meanwhile, leaned half his head out, took a look outside, and discovered that three of the helicopters had already flown ahead of them. The shots he had just fired had almost no effect on the helicopters; it seemed the angle wasn't accurate enough, or perhaps the gun's power wasn't sufficient.

Clearly, if he wanted to shoot down the helicopters overhead, it was almost impossible.

But Did Ning Chen insisted on giving it a try.

He kept adjusting his angle, and told Master Li beside him: "Don't stop, keep driving."

Then he raised the gun in his hand, repeatedly adjusting for the best angle, and took aim at the wing section.

"Facing Pengpeng—!"

Bullets kept pouring out of the machine gun, clattering to the ground in a noisy stream, and perhaps because the angle Did Ning Chen found really was accurate, a few of the shots happened to hit the wing section.

But it only caused a little "flesh wound" to the wing.

Did Ning Chen couldn't help but frown.

And Jiayi, sitting in that helicopter, naturally also felt the slight wobble of the aircraft. He lowered his head, stared at Did Ning Chen—who was pointing a gun at him and overestimating himself—and let out a cold laugh: "He really does think he's something."

Jiayi had run into plenty of hotheaded young men, and plenty of gifted and brilliant ones as well, but anyone who posed a threat to him would be crippled in Jiayi's hands, never to rise again.