"My heavens, isn't this suicide?"
"It's too dangerous."
"She's courting death."
"She's the Young Mistress of the Hidden Lord. If she dies, won't Madam Lan Ya's plan be ruined?"
"What are you all looking at? Hurry and drive down the mountain to check."
...
As everyone chattered, Mu Chilang Kun reprimanded them, and everyone immediately got into the cars and drove down the mountain.
Inside the car, Meng Jingwei gripped the steering wheel tightly as the bumpy, rattling SUV continued its descent. Despite her attempts to brake, the SUV was accelerating downhill.
Due to the steep incline, Meng Jingwei, sitting in the driver's seat, felt as if the car was about to flip over.
Just as she thought this, a pothole appeared on what looked like a flat surface ahead. Because the pothole was overgrown with grass, the terrain was completely obscured. The SUV's wheels sank into the pit, causing the car to tilt, and the SUV lost control, tumbling down the slope.
Bang, bang, clatter-
The car rolled down the mountain. Inside, Meng Jingwei’s forehead slammed violently against something, leaving her dizzy and disoriented, truly experiencing a world spinning out of control.
The car plunged onto the next layer of the road, not stopping, but instead crashing through the barrier and rolling towards the road below.
Inside the car, Meng Jingwei could no longer control its direction. In this final moment of life and death, she gave up struggling.
She thought to herself, perhaps this was for the best.
If she died, she would never be a puppet for Old Chen Tou and the others.
If she died, perhaps it could be exchanged for Qing Muye’s life.
However, fortune favored her.
Just as Meng Jingwei believed she was about to die, the car landed on the second layer of the road, with all four wheels on the ground. The car jolted violently but then stopped steadily.
The airbags deployed. Although Meng Jingwei sustained scratches on her face and arm from the shattered car window glass, she was fortunately not seriously injured.
Dazed from the jolting, Meng Jingwei remained unconscious for a while before gradually regaining her senses.
She used a dagger to cut open the airbag and then continued driving.
Fortunately, only the side windows were shattered. The roof of the SUV had caved in, and the right side of the windshield had a hole, with a few cracks on the left, but it was still drivable.
Meng Jingwei felt pain all over her body, but her concern for Qing Muye was greater. She started the car and found it could still move forward.
She adjusted her state, ignoring the pain of her injuries, and stepped on the accelerator, speeding away.
"A Ye, wait for me!"
West District, Research Institute.
Tang Si's accompanying group had become scattered. They were ambushed by He Kaqing Tang and suffered heavy losses.
However, Tang Si managed to escape the pursuit with his own abilities and successfully entered the research institute.
Inside the institute, he encountered two staff members. Seeing them in formal attire with work badges around their necks, Tang Si couldn't recognize the characters on the badges, but they appeared to be of a considerable rank.
The two were engaged in conversation and didn't notice anything unusual about Tang Si. They walked right past him, brushing shoulders.
In that instant, Tang Si spun around abruptly, producing a gun from behind him. With two quick shots, the tranquilizer darts hit their marks, incapacitating the two individuals.
The drug was potent; upon being hit, they immediately collapsed onto the ground.
"As expected, this thing is effective. Little Pepper is truly smart." He had only brought a handgun, but Meng Jingwei had told him that if they were to infiltrate the research institute, gunshots would cause trouble, so she had him bring a tranquilizer gun.
Using the mental map of the research institute he had memorized, he quickly dragged the two into a restroom, stripped them of their work uniforms, donned a research institute cap, and left.
In fact, he had to thank He Kaqing Tang.
Because He Kaqing Tang had set up an ambush outside, the gunshots had alerted many people in the research institute, drawing them out to observe, thus leaving fewer people inside.
Tang Si walked to the elevator and took it directly to the underground research laboratory.