Chapter 366: Got on the Car and Instantly Transcended

Luo Jinyou's eyes widened.

"You mean, the moment he got on the car, he directly traversed to another world?"

His voice sounded a bit airy, "...... Ying Duo, look outside!"

Ying Duo didn't look back, kept fiddling with the buttons inside the car; the car in this game still differs somewhat from a real one.

"Just an illusion."

"You call that an illusion?"

He pointed out the window; a girl in a short skirt was walking by the car, a strange white thing jammed in her ears, she kept muttering something, and as she passed the car window she even turned her head to glance this way.

Her gaze pierced the car window, pierced Luo Jinyou, and landed on a billboard far away.

Those people can't see them?

Ying Duo finally deigned to lift his head, glanced out the window following Luo Jinyou's line of sight, and his golden eyes showed no ripple.

"It appeared for the third time." His tone was flat.

"The first time was just as we emerged from the temporal fissure, it lasted only briefly; the second was last night, and now this is the third."

Luo Jinyou opened his mouth, wanted to say something, but found his voice stuck in his throat.

The third time?

This thing has appeared three times?

He stared at the oblivious crowd outside, especially at the towering buildings and vehicles he had never seen, everything that didn't exist in this world.

It looked very peaceful.

No Aberrant Species, no war, everyone could wander the streets and alleys at leisure.

Such a world would only appear in dreams, right?

Ying Duo ignored the stunned Luo Jinyou; the world outside the car window Ying Duo was far more familiar with than Luo Jinyou, and the only good news was that those were merely projections, far from causing the two worlds to merge directly.

As for the reason... it's probably because his big blast worked.

Can't blame others; he still knows too little about this world's bizarre abilities and laws, and when Fang Zhiyan mentioned it, he immediately took interest, originally thinking he could cut the link between the two worlds, but instead the situation became even more chaotic.

The key is that he can't currently confirm how long he and Luo Jinyou stayed in that temporal fissure; in Fang Zhiyan's words, everything there was chaotic, and it's already a blessing they weren't tossed out after a straight ten days or half a month.

It can't possibly turn into a low‑res pixel version of Sword Art Online, can it?

Ying Guang Lu energy lines flickered at Ying Duo's fingertips, and finally, just like last time, after some fiddling, the engine successfully roared.

Ying Duo pressed the accelerator, and the compact car surged forward, kicking up a cloud of dust on the wasteland.

Luo Jinyou hadn't reacted yet when inertia slammed him against the seat; watching the compact car charge straight toward a building, he instinctively closed his eyes.

But the anticipated collision didn't happen.

The compact car passed straight through those skyscrapers, through the crowd, as if crashing into a mirage.

A man crossing the street went right through the car's front, and he kept walking forward completely unaware.

A red compact car sliced horizontally through the middle of their vehicle; the woman in the driver's seat was on the phone, her face showing impatience.

Everything in that world swept past them, leaving no trace.

Only then did Luo Jinyou fumble for the seatbelt, trying to fasten it.

Under the grayish sky, those illusory cities gradually became transparent, receding like the tide.

This time's duration was shorter than the last.

Yang Yixie wouldn't doubt himself there, wondering whether his actions caused further merging of the worlds, then wildly regret his actions.

That would be pure waste of time.

But the current situation still needs to be grasped.

Not sure if the spacetime is stabilizing a bit; this time the illusion's appearance was brief, so it's barely a good sign.

"Stop, stop the car......!"

It was Luo Jinyou's voice, on the verge of breaking.

Ying Duo slammed the brakes, and the black compact car drew a completely uncontrolled huge spin in the desert, the body twisting like a fish flung onto shore, finally stopping in a rather messy posture.

Luo Jinyou was tossed about, his whole body pressed to the seat, his hand still mid‑air as if still reaching for the seatbelt.

He lingered for a while before turning his head to look at Ying Duo.

Ying Duo stared expressionlessly ahead, as if the deadly drift moments ago had nothing to do with him.

"...... You get out," Luo Jinyou said.

Ying Duo gave him a glance, "What for?"

"We'll swap positions."

Luo Jinyou decisively unfastened the seatbelt he had barely managed to tie, opened the door and jumped out, walked to the driver's side, opened that door, and Ying Duo and he locked eyes for two seconds.

Finally, Ying Duo silently released his seatbelt, got out, walked to the passenger side and sat down.

Luo Jinyou sat in the driver's seat and adjusted the seat position.

He was a bit shorter than Ying Duo, so the seat had to be moved forward considerably; after adjusting, he shifted his body again, feeling something was off.

Oh, and that tail.

Luo Jinyou looked down at the tail hanging over the seat edge behind him, its tip swaying unconsciously.

He tried to nudge it aside.

The tail moved obediently.

But after a few seconds it swung back to its original spot on its own.

Luo Jinyou: "......"

Forget it.

He took a deep breath, both hands gripping the steering wheel, his gaze fixed on the endless wasteland ahead.

Ying Duo fiddled nearby a few times, and a semi-transparent holographic map appeared before the two, marking their current position, the direction of the Dome outpost, and areas they might pass along the way.

"Go that way." Ying Duo pointed to a direction on the map.

Luo Jinyou nodded, pressed the accelerator, and the car smoothly pulled away.

It wasn't the kind of "death-drift style" smoothness; it was genuine smoothness.

Although occasionally, because Luo Jinyou's legs aren't long enough, pressing the accelerator requires a slight shift of his hips causing a jolt, overall it's far steadier than when Ying Duo was driving.

Ying Duo sat in the passenger seat; since he no longer needed to drive, he continued tinkering with his parts.

When he used to drive, he would first aim the direction, then press the accelerator until the car ran out of energy and slowly stopped; during this process, the car inevitably bumped.

Thus, aside from initially making himself some defensive gear, Ying Duo hardly had time to carefully study the paper fragments he had dismantled from that cannon.

Luo Jinyou focused on driving, completely immune to the "size-shifting" commotion beside him.