182 Against the curren (1/2)

Wang Fugui and the others stood at the gate and watched as Ren Xiaosu headed back into the dangerous stronghold. Sometimes, Wang Fugui felt that Ren Xiaosu was way too brave. He just had to head back into a place everyone was trying their best to run away from.

Though, Wang Fugui felt he had made the wisest decision of his life when he chose to bring Wang Dalong with him and follow Ren Xiaosu in their escape. If it weren't for that, he would probably have perished in another disaster even if he were fortunate enough to survive the one that happened at Stronghold 113.

The world today was simply too dangerous a place.

The past couple days, Ren Xiaosu and Wang Fugui had both been doubted countless of times by the stores they bought their escape supplies from. It even caused Wang Fugui to sometimes feel that if it weren't an earthquake or some other natural disasters occurring, no harm would befall the stronghold.

But as the facts had proven, Ren Xiaosu was correct after all.

At this moment, Yan Liuyuan could only watch helplessly as Ren Xiaosu headed back in. Xiaoyu sighed and said, ”Liuyuan, are you worried about your brother?”

Everyone knew how close these two brothers were, so it was only natural that Yan Liuyuan would be worried about Ren Xiaosu. However, Yan Liuyuan shook his head and said, ”No, I'm just thinking if I should go over to remind him that he's still carrying his bike around.”

Xiaoyu was surprised.

It was only at this moment that everyone realized in shock that Ren Xiaosu still was carrying his bicycle with him when he turned back to the stronghold.

But the earlier situation was simply too pressing, and with Ren Xiaosu's shocking decision to head back into the stronghold, they couldn't get a handle on the situation.

Wang Fugui felt that the mighty presence and image Ren Xiaosu had built up in their minds had all but poofed.

Yan Liuyuan got onto his bicycle and said, ”Let's go! My brother naturally knows what he's doing if he dares to go back in there. We'll head north!”

Chen Wudi looked at the stronghold and said in a sad voice, ”Master will probably elope with the ruler of Womanland now. How can we go and seek the Buddhist scriptures from the Western Paradise?”

Yan Liuyuan consoled, ”Don't worry, we'll just bring the ruler of Womanland with us.”

Chen Wudi mulled over this for a long time before saying reluctantly, ”Well, alright.”

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The high-rise building Yang Xiaojin was on was only about a kilometer away from the stronghold's gate. Ren Xiaosu glanced at the building, then sighed as he put the bicycle down by the road. How careless of him to have forgotten to hand it to Yan Liuyuan for safekeeping first.

The 15 cubic meters of storage space he had was already stuffed full of supplies. Actually, he could just take some of the supplies out and put the bicycle in, but there was no time to fiddle around with it now.

Suddenly, Ren Xiaosu saw many people in front of him fleeing toward the stronghold gate near him. Behind them, several Experimentals were frantically chasing after them.

The Experimentals were so terrifying that the stronghold residents cried with fear. Some people even lost their shoes as they ran, while others were fleeing wearing only a thin pair of pajamas. From the looks of it, they must have run straight out of their homes.

These stronghold residents who had recently been talking about music festivals and fashion trends finally understood just what the world outside the stronghold was like.

When Ren Xiaosu first came into the stronghold, he had a thought: Everything in the outside world seemed to be changing at an extremely rapid pace, but the strongholds remained the same throughout. These people were enjoying a false sense of peace and prosperity behind the stronghold walls that seemed to be protecting them but were actually shackling their progress.

Ren Xiaosu looked up at the high-rise building Yang Xiaojin was on. He saw an Experimental climb almost to the top. However, just as it was about to leap over onto the rooftop, it was greeted by the large muzzle of a gun.