Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 287 You, Go and Kill the Train (3k)

"Who said you can't escape!"

"There are us too!"

"That's it!"

A swarm of steel 'locusts', like a dark cloud, has arrived.

"You stinking cop, you brought the Wallfacer here with you! Change vehicles! We'll send you and the Wallfacer back to the surface!"

A large group of children on flying motorcycles caught up with them, chattering away, and completely surrounded Shi Qiang and Luo Ji.

"Officer, the armed police force in the North District has started to fight back. They are different from ordinary police officers. Their advanced police equipment is not connected to the network. If we hold out for a while, they will be able to break through."

"It seems there's been a virus outbreak. All the billboards and displays on the road have turned into dense red text, but our motorcycles were illegally modified and didn't dare to connect to the internet, so we escaped unscathed."

"The sky has turned from red to blue, but the displays haven't."

"Another car is chasing us! Run!"

"Sit in my seat!"

"Sit in mine! Mine's faster!"

"No, UU, is your arm broken? Get in my car, I'll take you back to get it fixed." These words were spoken by a boy to the little girl.

The children surrounded the wall-facing man and Shi Qiang, arguing.

Luo Ji was so moved he almost cried.

In the distance, various flying cars, private cars, flying trains, and transport trucks caught up again. On the ground, in the urban forest, all kinds of flying cars were activated. Now it was no longer limited to the automatic flying cars of the Carrot Company. Everything that could fly was rushing over.

Some vehicles with people also began to go out of control, and the virus even began to compete with the driver for control of the vehicle. Fortunately, the car owner is the first person with authority over the vehicle and can generally control his car. Moreover, private cars usually have mechanical control doors.

However, those unmanned private cars were not so lucky; they were basically all thrown up like disposable missiles.

These unmanned vehicles, like tens of thousands of subsonic missiles, hurtled towards the direction where the children were gathered.

Shi Qiang's gaze swept over the group of "young bikers," and he suddenly gave them a thumbs up: "Well done! If anyone online criticizes you for disturbing the peace again, I'll personally arrest you! You guys are the best kids here! Everyone else, scatter and don't go near the one facing the wall! Who has the best driving skills?"

"Me!" A composed young man stepped forward.

"You're the one!" Shi Qiang grabbed Luo Ji and jumped from the damaged flying motorcycle to another flying motorcycle. This big kid's flying motorcycle was even more powerful, with a full six hydrogen thrusters.

"The others should go and rescue the other people trapped in the cars. Don't come near us, it's dangerous!" Luo Ji said, sitting in the car, not forgetting to scare away the other children.

"boom!"

Multiple loud blasts erupted as the silver-white flying motorcycle climbed to a terrifying Mach 2, causing the other flying motorcycles to scatter like birds and beasts.

Without a helmet to protect him, Luo Ji's face was almost blown out of shape by the wind.

The Mach 2 speed temporarily gave them a head start over their pursuers. Meanwhile, the Digital Republic's counterattack began to take effect; some of the flying vehicles regained control, disconnected from the network, and either landed on their own or parked in the nearest "leaf" parking lot. Inside the underground city, about one-fifth of the screens faded from their crimson glow and returned to normal.

About one-fifth of the screens in the entire dungeon have returned to normal, and the red color is fading.

Shi Qiang glanced down at Luo Ji, who had closed his eyes and gritted his teeth at some point, as if sensing something, and was gripping Shi Qiang's arm tightly.

“Brother Luo, I remember you used to be fearless.” Shi Qiang said, braving the strong wind.

"It's not that I'm afraid of dying... it's that... forget it, I'll just run for my life first. I really thank these kids. I was thinking of using my Wallfacer privileges to stop the biker gang... I'm such a heartless bastard."

The older child was clearly smarter than the little girl from before. He noticed that when riding his flying motorcycle through the network of branches of the super-tree trunk, the pursuing flying vehicles behind him would slow down, as if their path planning was being interfered with by the complex spatial structure. So the child simply dashed towards the densest part of the 'forest'.

The flying motorcycle plunged into a maze of crisscrossing branches like a fish. The pursuing radish-shaped flying cars indeed began to scatter; some crashed into thick tree trunks and exploded into fireballs, while others got stuck between branches, emitting a piercing metallic scraping sound.

"People will die! Go to the suburbs, go to the suburbs!" Luo Ji shouted.

"You won't die! In this day and age, even dogs have tougher lives than you! At most, you'll get hurt. Your life is the most important!" Shi Qiang flatly denied.

But a dozen or so of the most agile "luxury cars" were still hot on its heels. These unmanned luxury cars were more maneuverable and had more sensitive radar detection. While flying at supersonic speeds, they could accurately dodge all obstacles, relentlessly pursuing the flying motorcycle's shadow. "I hate rich people," Luo Ji cursed.

The older boy calmly said, "Police officer, Wallfacer, you two hold on tight. I have two more secondary thrusters. I'm the king of cars in this area, I can reach Mach 3! Just you wait and see!"

With the last two hydrogen thrusters ignited, the flying motorcycle reached Mach 3, briefly leaving the flying sports cars behind. However, these multi-million dollar supercars were not to be underestimated and quickly reached Mach 3 as well.

"The hydrogen fuel in the secondary thruster will only last for three minutes. I'll send you two to the ground. You two should hide inside the building! It's not far from the elevator shaft on the ground."

After saying that, the flying motorcycle began its supersonic dive, eventually turning into a very low-altitude flight.

Two sports cars were unable to avoid the crash and crashed to the ground.

Just then, a string of metal pipes suddenly crashed down from the ground. They were ventilation pipes that had broken off from the exterior wall of a tree-trunk building. They were more than ten meters long and came crashing down with a whooshing sound.

Shi Qiang strapped the bound Luo Ji to the back seat, leaped into the air, and smashed the ventilation duct with a single punch. Using the recoil, he yanked hard, sending the duct debris swerving and grazing the edge of the motorcycle before crashing into a tree trunk and shattering into dozens of pieces of metal. Shi Qiang then landed on the ground, took a powerful leap, instantly reaching Mach 5, a sonic boom forming beneath his feet, and landed back on the motorcycle.

"Damn it! Even building parts have been controlled! What kind of virus is this? It can't even suppress a little moss." Shi Qiang spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva; the shock from the previous attack had left his hands numb.

"A Grandmaster of the Innate Realm! Are all police officers this powerful? I want to be a police officer too!" The boy was extremely excited after witnessing what had just happened.

"After you rescue the Wallfacer, you can be the police chief's father," Shi Qiang shouted.

"Then I'll be his dad!" the big boy roared, using up the last bit of hydrogen in the engine. The flying motorcycle shot through countless obstacles like an arrow, successfully delivering the two to their destination.

"We're very close to the elevator shaft. There are interceptor weapons nearby, so we're not afraid of being hit by a flying car. There are still three blocks to go! I'm out of fuel, so you'll have to figure out how to get there yourselves."

The big boy threw Luo Ji and Shi Qiang to the ground, then started to turn back. Sure enough, the sports cars stopped chasing his motorcycle. The big boy's voice came from afar: "I'll go call for reinforcements. Hang in there!"

The chase between Shi Qiang and Luo Ji and the flying car was just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, the entire city had fallen into chaos due to the virus outbreak, such as the unmanned train crashing around everywhere.

A self-rescue team composed of several residents of the innate realm and police officers jumped directly from the leaves and crashed into the train's control room, damaging the flying train's flight control system and beginning to physically regain control.

Some service industry robots, cleaning robots, and other intelligent machines were also affected by the virus and began to riot. However, when faced with humans at the martial arts realm, they were basically crushed by the residents as soon as they showed any signs of rioting.

These tiny robots dare to riot? Is your iron head harder than my fist?
The robots themselves pose little threat; the main dangers lie in the large mechanical facilities controlled by the virus.

The residents of the underground city have exhausted all available tactics: power outage, internet shutdown, paralyzing vehicles with police electromagnetic pulse grenades, and releasing the 360 ​​antivirus system.

The residents of Houtianjing formed teams and went door to door to rescue people.

For example, some unlucky guys get stuck while having sex with sex dolls and can't get out. The rescue team just barges into their homes and punches the sex dolls off their heads to free these fat otaku who haven't even reached the martial arts realm.

Not everyone possesses the abilities of the Acquired Realm. Infants, the elderly, and some couch potatoes do not have this level. Ordinary people at the Sub-Martial Artist level account for at least 10%, such as Luo Ji, the couch potato who was killed by a toilet.

Moreover, some young, couch potatoes were trapped in virtual pods and couldn't climb out, nearly suffocating in their living coffins.

Police, firefighters, and medical personnel have all been mobilized, working in concert with the Digital Republic. With this two-pronged approach, the [Curse 4.0] is being slowly suppressed, and the crimson color that has spread throughout the underground city is beginning to fade.

But Shi Qiang's pressure did not decrease as a result.

Because the core objective of [Curse 4.0] has always been the same: Luo Ji.

As for the riots in other areas, they were essentially just attempts to delay human rescue of Luo Ji, making him too busy to help him.

On their way to the underground elevator, a real steel dragon had appeared out of nowhere! It was a maglev train connecting other underground city areas inside the tunnel!

"Damn, the Harmony Express train?"

Luo Ji cursed as he looked at the dancing steel dragon. He noticed that most of the train's windows had been broken, indicating that most of the passengers had managed to escape by jumping off the train. However, the crew members had apparently failed to regain control of the train, causing it to crash out of the tunnel and into the outskirts of the No. 1 underground city.

Due to the weight of the train itself, the underground city's power supply is insufficient for the maglev train to fly, but it can still move quickly on the ground and occasionally leap halfway into the sky like a snake.

"Da Shi, can you beat the Harmony Express train?"

Shi Qiang fell into deep thought.

"You want me to take down a tank? I'm confident. But this thing... I'm afraid it's not so good."

(End of this chapter)