Survival on a Bus: School Beauty Sisters Beg for a Place to Stay

Sure enough, as soon as the emergency broadcast on the radio ended, before anyone could even discuss it, the system screen popped up.

[Notice: The road ahead is temporarily closed due to construction. Drivers are requested to enter the H City National Highway section via the fork in the road 12 kilometers ahead within one hour.]

Friendly Reminder 1: This trip has an average distance of 516 kilometers and an average of 172 intersections. Drivers are requested to carefully analyze the map of H City, choose a safe route, and leave within 48 hours.

Friendly Reminder 2: The fog chase countdown will be paused after entering the national highway.

Friendly reminder 3: There are no fixed service areas on this section of the road. The driver will need to organize passengers to collect supplies in the city on their own.

Friendly Reminder 4: Drivers who return to the highway within 48 hours will receive a reward of 1000 highway coins, and each passenger will receive a reward of 100 highway coins.

Friendly reminder 5: The map will expire after 48 hours.

Immediately afterwards, a city road map of H City popped up.

"Good heavens, this damn system is deliberately making things harder to annoy us players, as if it doesn't want us to die fast enough..."

Looking at the map, which was as dense, twisted, and irregular as a maze, Chen Yan felt dizzy and her head was buzzing.

It's no wonder Chen Yan complained; even Lin Mo couldn't help but want to curse when he saw the messy map.

Moreover, who in their right mind would use an average to calculate the mileage of a single trip?

Even intersections are calculated using averages. Is this something a human being could do?

This means that there are countless possibilities for the route through H City, with the shortest and longest distances possibly differing by ten times or more.

Is 48 hours really enough?

besides......

What does it mean to choose a safe route?

Lin Mo could guess with his toes that there would be constant surprises along the way.

"Damn it, such a high-risk dungeon only rewards 1000 highway coins, this damn system is really stingy and inhuman..."

Chen Yan, Pu Mengnan, and the others exchanged glances and could only manage a wry smile in response to Lin Mo's complaints.

Because they were in a worse situation, their reward was only 100 highway coins.

As for the map becoming invalid after 48 hours, everyone can guess what it means. To put it bluntly, it means letting players who haven't completed the time travel mission fend for themselves in the city, which is no different from being wiped out if the mission fails.

"Chen Yan, you'll be driving from now on. I'll study the map first and see if I can find a route with fewer kilometers."

Since he couldn't refuse this kind of dungeon mission, Lin Mo knew that complaining and cursing were pointless, so he put aside his dissatisfaction with the system and began to assign tasks to each passenger.

"Chen Yan, remember, before the one-hour time limit ends, do not drive onto the national highway until I have found a suitable route."

"You mean the 48-hour time limit is calculated from the moment we entered the national highway?"

"Hmm, I guess that's how it is. A 12-kilometer journey won't take an hour at all. The system's arrangement must be to allow players to prepare in advance before entering the national highway. We don't lack food, so I plan to use this time to plan the route as far ahead as possible."

"As for you..."

"Besides you guys agree on your own shift schedules, Nan Nan, you have a gun, so take out two crossbows and give them to Natalia and the others. I'll buy another one for those who didn't get any. Also, I hope that if you still have any Highway Coins, you should spend them all to improve your attributes. I hope everyone will be on high alert for the next two days. If anyone dares to hold us back or betray their teammates, I won't hesitate to kick them out and let them fend for themselves."

After saying that, Lin Mo bought a crossbow from the armory and handed it to Xiao Qinwen, who hadn't received any weapons. Then he transferred 80 road coins to Pu Mengnan to pay off the debt he had borrowed before.

Last night, Lin Mo signaled Chen Yan to drive, while he focused on studying the map.

As the saying goes, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but the roads in this damn H city are not straight lines at all. The city seems to be built in a valley surrounded by mountains. The route planning is completely based on the original shape of the mountains and valleys, and there are a lot of forks in the road. Even though Lin Mo has good eyesight, he doesn't know where he went after looking at it.

Moreover, normally, in a post-apocalyptic survival game like this, the escape route should avoid urban areas and stay away from them. However, due to the special geographical location and deliberate restrictions of the system in H City, players simply cannot avoid urban areas and take the outer routes. They can only try their best to judge which areas are densely populated and which routes are relatively less crowded and safer by relying on the buildings marked on the map.

Furthermore, during his research, Lin Mo discovered that he couldn't simply choose the shortest route, because the city was full of unnamed side streets that would interfere with players. Many of these side streets even went through buildings and tunnels, which were too tall for buses to pass through.

But what if we take the wide, main roads the whole way?

Lin Mo finally selected a route that completely avoided densely populated areas and chose only wide roads. He used the system to map and calculate the distance, and was immediately taken aback. It was more than two thousand kilometers long.

Although it's far away, the theory is feasible.

The maximum speed of a bus is 70 kilometers per hour. If two people take turns driving for 48 hours without sleep, it can travel 3360 kilometers, and there is enough time to refuel along the way.

But this is on the premise that no danger is encountered along the way.

Moreover, the roads are clear.

Otherwise, running more than 2,000 kilometers in 48 hours would be an impossible task.

And so, after making adjustments again and again, Lin Mo still focused on wide main roads, avoiding as many unnamed paths as possible that buses could not pass through, and choosing routes that were relatively safe but also avoided detours. Finally, he finalized the route, a 970-kilometer route.

"Nine, over nine hundred kilometers?"

Everyone gasped upon hearing this.

They thought that even if Lin Mo was at worst, he could find a route within the average range, which would be around 500 kilometers. However, they did not expect that his final conclusion was over 900 kilometers, a full 400 kilometers more.

This is a life-or-death survival challenge; every kilometer adds to the danger, let alone hundreds of kilometers.

Pu Mengnan trusted Lin Mo completely, and she did not show any dissatisfaction.

Chen Yan, having previously served as the train conductor and having seen the map, assumed that the time was too short and Lin Mo hadn't found a better route yet, so she didn't say anything.

Natalia is carefree and has a completely indifferent attitude.

Qin Wen was always grateful to Lin Mo for saving her, and since she was young and didn't have much of her own opinion, she naturally didn't raise any objections.

Only Li Aiai's face darkened instantly upon hearing about the long route.

"Conductor Lin, so you spent almost an hour researching and only found this one route that's far above average? If you don't know how to read a map, you could ask us all for help, or even just look at the discussions in the chat channel. Although I can't see what you conductors are talking about, many people in our passenger channel have already shared the routes they've discussed and found. The shortest one is only a little over 100 kilometers. Yours is too outrageous, a full nine times worse..."

Lin Mo wasn't the type to fawn over someone. Seeing this girl's loud, disdainful expression, which seemed to say, "If you can't handle it, then stop pretending and step aside," he didn't bother arguing with her. He simply handed her the map and said:

"Since you're so capable, then you go find it. If you can't find a route that satisfies me today, you can jump down and fend for yourself."