The Last 299 Days of Humanity

Chapter 73 Pretending to be stupid
Yu Qing tensed up when he realized that they might be being watched by the people from Jishui and were trying to punish him for his behavior there.

However, it seems they didn't want to kill him; otherwise, they would have sabotaged his car and crashed, and he would have been dead long ago.

There's also the possibility that they don't want him dead, but rather feel he can't escape their grasp, so they're just playing around with him for now, like a cat-and-mouse game.

But since it concerned his own life and fortune, he could not afford to take any chances and had to be extremely careful.

He didn't have time to think about how they managed to make him fly for several hours for nothing. His immediate priority was to find the flaws or weaknesses in their methods and get out of this very dangerous situation.

Yu Qing believes they made a big mistake from the very beginning.

They are already in a position of absolute control, yet they still use an artificial sub-black hole to trap themselves. This is a completely foolish and unprofitable move.

It's like you could have used a strong rope to bind your enemy, but instead you chose to build a magnificent city to trap them inside—purely unnecessary.

How much energy would it take to create an artificial black hole? How long could they last? If it weren't for the fact that Dang Gui urgently needed treatment, they would have been exhausted in ten days or half a month without my intervention.

Although I don't have time to waste with them right now, I have plenty of space. They can't possibly enclose all the space that collects water to Yaoling into that possible black hole, can they?
Therefore, Yu Qing decided to use a strategy of spreading out and maneuvering to break this deadlock.

First, the two cars cannot fly together. One car must fly for several tens of minutes while maintaining a distance of several tens of miles to the left and right before the other car flies.

Then, during the flight, instead of moving straight ahead, it should rise and fall in altitude from time to time, and sometimes fly to the left or right for a period of time, trying to expand its flight airspace as much as possible, so that they have to increase the volume of the sub-black hole and waste their energy.

Of course, this will inevitably waste some of your own energy, and you'll eventually have to stop and resupply at Yaoling. Based on the current information, Yaoling doesn't seem too scary; as long as you follow its rules, there shouldn't be any major problems.

There's no time to lose; we should get out of danger before their cat-and-mouse game wears off.

Therefore, Yu Qing instructed Chang'e and Daji to take Danggui and set off immediately, proceeding towards Yaoling in a roundabout manner as he had instructed, while he himself would act an hour later.

To Yu Qing's great surprise, less than ten minutes after his car began flying, news came from Chang'e that they had successfully arrived at Yaoling! This meant that the people of Jishui were only after him and did not care about Chang'e's whereabouts.

His first move failed, so he had to expand his maneuvering space. He didn't believe they had such an inexhaustible supply of energy.

However, he also overlooked the fact that his own energy was even more limited, and he couldn't fight them like this for long. Three hours later, he realized that he would no longer be able to reach Yaoling as planned.

At this point, he only had two choices: return to the ground. However, records showed that the road from Jishui to Yaoling had been mostly destroyed decades ago, so he would have to walk to Yaoling.

He could either fly back to Jishui, admit defeat, and compensate them for their losses. But the total losses were too great; he simply couldn't afford to pay them.

So he chose to abandon the car and walk. Yao Dan calculated for him that even if everything went smoothly on the road, it would still take them about ten days.

Unfortunately, the journey was not smooth.

They parked their car in an open area and had only been walking for less than ten minutes when they heard a warning from the air: if they didn't return to their original position, the attack would begin in three minutes. This clearly meant that the three-headed, six-armed men from Jishui wanted them to turn back and beg for mercy.

This put Yu Qing in a dilemma. He didn't want to admit defeat, but he couldn't find a way to win, so he could only go back to his car and sulk.

"Husband, why don't we take a nap in the carriage before making a decision? Anyway, Dangui and the others have already arrived at Yaoling. With Chang'e there, there shouldn't be any major problems. We can delay it for a while."

Yu Qing agreed with Yao Dan's assessment, so he got into the car and sat half-reclined, half-sitting on the seat.

After calming down a bit, he realized that the other party might not have wanted to force him to go back and compensate them for their losses, but had other motives.

If they cared so much about economic gains and losses, they wouldn't have used such resource-intensive methods to intercept him; they could have just taken him back directly.

Yu Qing couldn't understand what he had that made others go to such lengths to obtain him.
But if that's really the case, then there's no need to waste any more time and energy. Since some people see themselves as a gold nugget, let them worry about it themselves. Why think so much?

So he simply stopped thinking about anything and fell fast asleep.

When he woke up the next morning, he made an even bolder decision: to go back to Jishui for another drive, recharge the car's battery, and then make further plans.

Yao Dan asked, "Should we... go back like this... and ask for their forgiveness?"

Yu Qing laughed and said, "No. We'll play dumb, eat, play, and sleep as usual. If their boss doesn't show up to find us, we'll pretend we know nothing."

The return trip to Jishui went smoothly, and no one caused any trouble. They arrived at the center of Jishui in about half an hour. Finding a charging station, they parked the car there. Yu Qing, with Yao Dan and the others on either side, swaggered into a large amusement park to relax.

He didn't order any paid items, only choosing to enjoy the free things, since the food and water were all-you-can-eat and all-you-can-drink. Moreover, he deliberately complained, either saying the food wasn't fresh or that the music was too loud.

He also instructed Yao Dan to deliberately provoke a man he secretly called "Five Points," a man with an unusually square head and a face that resembled the five points on a die.

Yao Dan walked over and bumped into the man, grabbing his hand and shouting, "Hey, where did this flathead come from? Your damned sharp edges scratched my face!"

To be publicly humiliated by a humanoid beauty was, of course, the greatest disgrace. The man was instantly enraged and grabbed a chair to smash her. Smashing a humanoid beauty would only cost him some money, so he didn't hesitate at all.

Yu Qing immediately rushed over, pretending to break up the fight. He grabbed the man's hand but deliberately used his knee to strike the man's groin. To Yu Qing's surprise, the man turned out to be a woman. This was like stirring up a hornet's nest, provoking an attack from her two companions.

Seeing Yu Qing in trouble, Fu Rong jumped over without hesitation, grabbed them, pinned them to the ground, and sat down on them. Yao Dan also joined the fray, punching anyone whose head wasn't round enough, and chaos ensued.

But the conflict quickly subsided. There were enough humanoid beauties to separate the various characters involved in the fight. The wronged "Five Points," surrounded by several humanoid men who looked similar to her, went to the VIP room to enjoy royal treatment.

Of course, Yu Qing also received VIP treatment: they sent four beautiful humanoid women to comfort him. It seems they weren't falling for his trick and were playing dumb; no matter how much he made a scene, the person behind the scenes wouldn't show themselves.

(End of this chapter)