Chapter 204: Brothers! Smells Good! Meet in Person!

"Where did you get hold of RDX explosive?!"

The moment Bai Tao received the notification, she was already seated in the driver's seat of the old car, raising her hand to reach out the sunroof and grip the fox's waist, pulling him back inside.

Upon hearing Bai Tao's message, Su Qiyuan rushed to the back seat of the old car; without opening the door, he leapt forward like a fish and crashed through the open window into the cabin.

The name RDX explosive might be very unfamiliar to many non-specialists or military enthusiasts.

But one of the most famous ingredients of C4 is RDX explosive—or rather, all other components in C4 serve only to reduce the sensitivity of RDX explosive.

Fungal parasitic beast and C4?

To be honest, Su Qiyuan didn't understand—he truly had no idea how the two could possibly be connected.

"During its escape, the parasitic beast stopped twice at rest areas: once to feed, and once to use the restroom."

Bai Tao drove straight away from the observation post, sharply turning the steering wheel to enter another highway, moving far from the city.

"According to coordinated analysis by intelligence personnel, the time the parasitic beast used the restroom coincided once with the presence of a poaching team member from the club. They suspect that at the time, the parasitic beast wasn't using the restroom—it used some unknown perception to locate the poacher and rob him."

When mentioning the poaching team, Bai Tao's tone carried a hint of hidden hatred and gritted teeth.

These people are truly annoying—they always steal something quietly and then vanish, and they can never be fully eradicated.

Because the club behind them is immensely powerful, they can easily arrange for poachers to obtain student visas, executive positions, or other low-profile identities like professors or scholars, making it extremely difficult to identify the club's poachers.

The Longsheng Club has a huge reputation within the circle, but it is not a political organization—only a commercial group.

Many of their actions are initiated individually, then expanded through the Longsheng Club's resource platform.

The poachers don't steal secrets or show interest in commercial intelligence; they settle down for a while, then head deep into the wilderness, making them nearly impossible to prevent.

Unless you monitor every family and conglomerate, or completely cut off all contact, they will always find ways to sneak into civilian areas.

"Right now, based on satellite imagery, there's a probability that the parasitic beast is heading toward Fuli Lao Ye."

After giving Su Qiyuan a rough explanation of the situation, Bai Tao's expression grew subtle as she glanced at Fuli Lao Ye, sitting in the front passenger seat, drinking iced cola.

When the fungal parasitic beast escaped, it kept muttering strange phrases about Fuli.

At the time, no one could interpret it—until the parasitic beast headed straight for Jiule City, and only then did they finally understand what "Fuli" in its mutterings meant.

Based on currently known intelligence, intelligence analysts have made a hypothesis.

The fungal parasitic beast may be seeking a new host.

The fungal parasitic beast consists of three parts: one is the fungus spread throughout its body, which dominates the host's physiology and grants it epic-level physical enhancement.

Another part is the parasite—before the host becomes a spirit beast, it is known as 'Double-Disc Trematode,' a parasite that affects the host's senses. It typically parasitizes snails; when infecting humans, it may cause liver-related illnesses.

The human host, meanwhile, may be the weakest link among the three.

Its sole purpose is to absorb nutrients and provide a platform for the others to operate.

According to all current observation reports, Xia Dong's Fuli Lao Ye is strongest in physical constitution.

The parasite and fungus are seeking Fuli Lao Ye because their ultimate goal is to parasitize him, fully completing their weakest link: the human host!

"Oh? My Wish Power +4 isn't causing traffic jams anymore?"

Listening to Bai Tao and Su Qiyuan's conversation, An Sheng didn't understand mycology or entomology, but his only thought was: had his Wish Power +4 just walked right up to him?

An Sheng grinned broadly, pulled out his phone from his waist pouch, and quickly typed:

【Where are we going now? Take me to find that parasitic beast for high-intensity PVP? PVE works for me too.】

An Sheng placed his phone in front of Bai Tao.

"Huh?"

Seeing Fuli Lao Ye eager to jump in, Bai Tao, driving toward the suburbs, shook her head and said: "No. Our mission is to protect Fuli Lao Ye and conduct a small test to verify whether the intelligence analysts' hypothesis is correct."

"The test is over. Now we're heading to the safehouse, handing over the entire combat operation to the real professionals."

"Professionals? Someone more professional than me?" An Sheng gave a skeptical look and sneered.

If the "professionals" Bai Tao mentioned were truly that skilled, how could the comatose one have escaped twice?

"Woooh—"

Yet just as An Sheng sneered, a thunderous roar erupted from the lane behind them.

Continuous truck horns blared along the road, shaking the glass windows of the Honda car Su Qiyuan had somehow acquired.

"Shit! They're going to hit us!"

Dazed by the blaring horns, Su Qiyuan instinctively turned around and saw a red tractor-trailer accelerating straight toward their small car.

"!"

As the horn blared, Bai Tao instinctively checked the rearview mirror and saw a young man wearing sunglasses, grinning, one hand gripping the steering wheel, the other frantically pounding the truck's horn.

Though he wore sunglasses, Bai Tao, through the mirror, could almost see the madness blazing in his eyes and expression.

"Damn it!"

The tractor-trailer surged closer; just before it would have slammed into their bumper, Bai Tao floored the accelerator and yanked the steering wheel sharply left, swerving lanes with the car nearly tipping over.

"Senior!"

In the instant they dodged the truck's collision, Bai Tao slammed the brake pedal hard—the old sedan's wheels locked, skidding sideways across the road, leaving deep tire marks.

Just as Bai Tao stomped the brake, the tractor-trailer slammed directly into the left lane—had she not anticipated it, their car would now be flipped into the field, crushed between the two vehicles.

"Go!"

In the back seat, Su Qiyuan stabilized himself after tumbling, pried open the rear seat, reached into the trunk's secured compartment, and pulled out a long black rectangular box, extracting its controller.

From the box, Su Qiyuan took out a drone no bigger than his palm, pinching it between three fingers—its propellers suddenly emitted a shrill whine.

He released it—the palm-sized drone instantly blurred into a streak, reaching 130 km/h in under a second.

"Boom—"

Under Su Qiyuan's control, the drone detonated instantly beside the truck.

Chemical adhesive sprayed from the drone, clinging to the left tire of the tractor-trailer, causing it to lose control for a moment, swerving wildly across the road.

(End of Chapter)