Chapter 201: Torrential Downpour

Bang!

Lin An kicked open the car door, his figure flashed, and he quickly rushed to the front of the overturned truck.

The crowd hurriedly got out of the vehicle, their expressions tense.

"Quick, pull the handle, someone is trapped under the car!"

Groaning, in pain.

The suddenly out-of-control truck first knocked over the guardrail beside the highway, and after it stopped, a chain-rear-end collision occurred.

The convoy formed a long line; fortunately most of the drivers were experienced, and by quickly changing lanes they avoided major casualties.

Lin An gazed solemnly at the empty driver's cabin, his mental power spreading out.

"Where is the driver?!"

"Who was in charge of this truck before?!"

Wen Ya followed behind and hurriedly replied:

"It was arranged by Liang Shaoguang; all are experienced drivers. I remember his surname is Yan..."

Everyone present turned to look at Wen Ya, who had been monitoring the whole scene, like puppets.

The next second.

A hint of confusion suddenly flashed in Wen Ya's eyes.

What... was I just about to say?

After hesitating a moment, she slowly spoke:

"It seems no one was assigned to this truck?"

As soon as she spoke, she felt her words made no sense.

No one was driving; the truck couldn't possibly move on its own and keep up with the convoy, could it?

Moreover, as an Awakened One, she remembered that her memory was sufficient to retain everyone's information.

Lin An's face darkened, his eyes continually scanning the scene for traces.

In the crowd, a power Awakened One wearing a vest wiped rain from his face, stared blankly for a moment, then said:

"Could it be... that this truck had already been stopped here before?"

"Did we not notice and just hit it?"

After the Awakened One finished speaking, he himself felt it made no sense.

The heavy rain paused, raindrops hanging in the air.

After a moment, everyone stopped thinking.

The whole scene fell silent; standing in the rain, they were at a loss.

"Yeah, we must have accidentally hit it."

"The driver behind is also really careless, seeing a vehicle and still hitting it?"

In an instant, everyone strangely accepted this explanation.

It seemed as if the truth were exactly that.

Standing beside the truck's front.

Lin An's eyes flickered with a hint of confusion; the purple pattern hidden beneath his skin flashed briefly, then vanished instantly.

After the pattern flashed, his originally dazed consciousness was suddenly jolted, and a mass of impure mist spewed from his mouth.

Clarity welled up, and his rationality returned.

The rain continued without cease.

Something has drilled into my body!?

No time to think.

A strong palpitation arose spontaneously.

Lin An looked at everyone in disbelief,

Wrong! Although he remembered that no one was driving this truck,

but it surely couldn't be that the truck moved on its own, could it?

Why would everyone accept this ridiculous explanation?

Has my memory been tampered with?

Has someone gone missing, or has part of my memory been erased?

In an instant, he recalled the handwritten report whose missing persons count kept growing.

Lin An only felt a chill rise behind him, and he instinctively looked around.

17.. 19.. 23 people.

Who exactly is missing?

Being able to alter memory without one's notice, even alter everyone's memory, and make them feel no discrepancy.

Such means could only be a supernatural incident...

Or have I not managed to avoid it?

A bitter smile curled at the corner of his mouth; he had been quite vigilant, and had never even thought of going to the school in town.

Even for safety's sake, he didn't take the military vehicle, only driving out two armored vehicles...

But this is unreasonable!

The stationed soldiers discovered someone missing; if they too had their memories erased like I felt, how did they notice?

If it weren't for the accident, if it weren't for some mysterious force washing away the foul aura, I probably wouldn't have noticed either.

Even until now, his mind still feels that an unmanned truck is perfectly reasonable.

If it weren't for reason repeatedly telling myself there was a problem, I would probably have accepted this matter as strangely as the others in the base.

Lin Dui?

Shall we continue setting out? We still have to hurry, right?

What are you doing standing in the rain?

Zhang Tie spoke calmly, turning a blind eye to all the unreasonableness before him.

Yeah, an empty truck.

Everyone, let's go our separate ways...

The crowd dazedly dispersed back to the vehicles, chatting and laughing.

Thud.. thud.. thud.. thud

His heart pounded, Lin An struggled to open his mouth, standing alone in the rain.

Moments later, he suddenly rushed up to Zhang Tie, staring fixedly at Xiong Hanzi's dull eyes.

Xiong Hanzi's eyes, which had originally shown ferocity, were covered with a gray haze.

Zhang Tie!?

With a fierce shout, mental power surged toward Zhang Tie.

However.

"Lin Dui? What's wrong?"

Zhang Tie scratched his head, giving a puzzled grin:

"Lin Dui, it's pouring outside; let's get on the vehicle quickly."

Lin An took a deep breath, turned, and grabbed the numb Wen Ya as she boarded:

"Wen Ya!? Take another look at that vehicle!"

"Don't you find it unreasonable for an empty vehicle to be following us!?"

Wen Ya's body trembled, and she instinctively looked at the overturned truck's front.

Under Lin An's mental stimulation, a brief glimmer of clarity flashed in her eyes.

"It seems..."

"Ah..!"

As they spoke, Wen Ya suddenly clutched her head and cried out in pain.

"Lin... An..."

"My head hurts..."

After a moment, her gaze became clouded with gray again, and she stared at him, pallid, muttering:

"Lin An, let's not stand in the rain, okay..."

Having said that, she staggered back onto the vehicle.

The icy cold pierced to the bone, and the chilly rain blurred vision.

"Lord Lin An, aren't we still supposed to be rushing?"

Lin An, dazed, slowly lifted his gaze toward an injured trainee beside him.

His eyes were also filled with a gray haze.

"You all..."

"Don't you really find it unreasonable?"

His voice squeezed out from his throat, and Lin An felt utterly powerless.

The boy who crawled out of the overturned truck flashed a hint of confusion in his eyes, somewhat unable to understand Lin An's words.

"My lord, what are you saying?"

"Look at the truck behind you, look at the tire marks on the ground."

"The truck has been following us all along."

"I remember you were sitting in the back of that truck..."

Upon hearing that, the boy's eyes suddenly flashed with fear, and he abruptly turned to look at the compartment he had just crawled out of.

"Yeah..."

"I am sitting in the back of that truck..."

"We've been following him all along..."

A struggle flickered in his eyes, and his expression alternated between fear and calm.

"Me..!?"

"Bang!"

The skull exploded.

Blood mist mixed with the torrential rain, blown by the gale, splattered onto Lin An's face.

Blood rain dripped down his face.

Lin An stared blankly as the headless body swayed twice before collapsing to the ground.

The dark red bloodwater was quickly washed away.

In the downpour, he trembled all over as he lifted his gaze to the leaden sky.

Everyone had already returned to the vehicles, staring blankly at him on the road.

"Get on the vehicle, Lin An."

People shouted at him in unison.

At this moment, he seemed utterly out of place with the whole world...