Highway Survival: Unlimited Upgrades, School Beauty Begs for a Ride

Chapter 38: The Extreme Cold Weather Ends!

"Brother, isn't this Zhao Gang thinking too highly of himself?"

Just then, Lin Xiaoxiao's slightly disdainful voice came from the side. She crossed her arms, pouted, and continued, "963rd on the rankings? Anyone who didn't know better would think he's number one!"

"This kind of person is just here to get attention!"

Lin Xuan shook his head and said.

In his eyes, let alone the 963rd person, he didn't even care about the so-called guild "Temple of Godslaying" behind him.

If he really dares to attack me, I don't mind if this guild disappears from the game world!

"I really want to teach him a lesson!"

Lin Xiaoxiao clenched her fist, which was the size of a red bean bun, and waved it in front of Lin Xuan, her face full of resentment!

"Alright, alright!"

Lin Xuan patted her head, comforting her, "Why bother getting angry at this clown? It's not worth it!"

Having said that, he stopped wasting his attention on the useless information on the world channel and turned it off. In an instant, the whole world became quiet!

[Ding-dong, there are only 12 hours left until the end of this extreme cold weather!]

Just then, a familiar notification tone came from the center console.

"Is it finally going to end?"

Lin Xuan took a deep breath and looked away from the screen.

He glanced at Ye Ning'er in the back seat, who was curled up in the blanket. Her face, which had been as pale as paper, was now almost indistinguishable from that of a normal person. After turning on the car's autopilot, he leaned back in his seat and fell into a deep sleep. Twelve hours passed in the blink of an eye. "Ding-dong."

At that moment, a crisp sound rang out again, and simultaneously, the central control screen lit up, displaying a line of golden text: "[The extreme cold weather has ended. The current area is now safe. Have a pleasant journey.]"

Lin Xuan suddenly opened his eyes and immediately looked out the window. He saw that the snow on the road was disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a moment, it was completely gone, as if the previous heavy snow was an illusion. Lin Xuan reached out and tapped a few times on the central control screen to open the world channel.

The pale blue screen lit up, and comments scrolled by one after another, as fast as a waterfall, but there were at least half as many as before the extreme cold weather arrived. It wasn't that there were fewer people, but that fewer people were alive enough to open the world channel.

"The snow has stopped! The snow has stopped! I'm alive! Brothers, I'm alive!"

"My car engine is frozen solid, does anyone know what to do?"

"During the extremely cold weather, all the water in my car froze solid, and the bread turned to stone. I'm so thirsty and hungry now. Is there anyone kind enough to give me some?"

"My wife didn't make it. She had a fever last night, and we didn't have any medicine. I watched helplessly as she burned the fever all night, and she passed away at dawn."

"Don't say anything more, brother. My condolences."

"What's the use of condoling this?! This damn game! I want to go home!"

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Lin Xuan took a deep breath and turned off the world channel.

He shifted his gaze from the screen to the sunlit wasteland outside. A heavy snowfall had taken many lives; this was the cruelty of this survival game. As the saying goes, you never know which will come first, tomorrow or an accident. Just then, a soft voice came from the back seat, "Lin Xuan."

Lin Xuan glanced at the rearview mirror.

Ye Ning'er woke up.

She sat up from the blanket, her long black hair loose and slightly disheveled over her shoulders, with a few stray strands clinging to her cheeks, making her face appear even smaller.

Her skin was no longer the bloodless paleness it had been before, but had regained a rosy whiteness, like a gardenia that had been rained on and was slowly unfolding its petals after the rain stopped.

She looked at Lin Xuan, her gaze lingering on his face, a faint smile playing on her lips. "Awake?"

Lin Xuan looked at her and said softly.

Ye Ning'er nodded, smoothing a stray strand of hair from her forehead. "Thank you!"

She knew very well that if she hadn't met Lin Xuan this time, she and her mother would probably have perished in this storm long ago. "Classmate Ye!"

At this moment, a faint voice came from the passenger seat. Ye Ning'er was stunned for a moment, and her gaze shifted from Lin Xuan's face to the passenger seat.

Lin Xiaoxiao leaned back in her seat, her head tilted, her legs curled up in black stockings, her coat pulled down to her chin. "Lin Xiaoxiao, classmate?"

Ye Ning'er frowned, her gaze shifting back and forth between Lin Xuan and Lin Xiaoxiao. She remembered Lin Xiaoxiao saying that she and Lin Xuan were childhood sweethearts, something that had troubled her for a while. But unexpectedly, Lin Xiaoxiao was also in this car. Could it be that, as Lin Xiaoxiao said, the two of them—

"Let me reintroduce myself, this is my younger sister, Lin Xiaoxiao!"

Seeing the complicated expression on Ye Ning'er's face, Lin Xuan frowned and said helplessly, "Sister?"

Ye Ning'er was clearly taken aback again, her gaze sweeping back and forth between Lin Xuan and Lin Xiaoxiao twice. Then she lowered her head, a faint smile playing on her lips. For some reason, upon hearing this answer, she felt a strange joy welling up inside her. "Yes, my younger sister."

Lin Xuan glanced at her in the rearview mirror and said.

"Tch! They're not related by blood!"

Lin Xiaoxiao leaned over from the passenger seat, her lips curled up in a wide smile, her black-stockinged legs dangling on the seat. Her voice was soft, as if she were talking to herself, or perhaps reminding someone of something.

After she finished speaking, she turned her face away and looked out the window, leaving Lin Xuan with only the back of her head and two slightly reddened ears.

"hiss----"

Seeing this, Lin Xuan couldn't help but gasp. This guy was still joking even at a time like this. At this moment, Su Ran gently touched Su Nian's hair without saying anything.

Su Nian lifted her face from Su Ran's shoulder, looked at Ye Ning'er, then at Lin Xiaoxiao, then at Lin Xuan, before burying her face back into Su Ran's shoulder. She didn't know what had happened, but she felt it was better not to say anything for now.

"Let's eat something first!"

As he spoke, Lin Xuan took out two chicken leg hamburgers and a bottle of water and handed them to Ye Ning'er. "Mmm!"

Ye Ning'er nodded, two delicate blushes rising on her fair face. She took the food, her gaze lingering on that handsome face for a long time. "Thank you!"

Lin Xuan did not answer, his gaze falling on the screen on the center console. Due to the blizzard these past few days, his car had been moving at a snail's pace, and in all this time, he had only traveled a little over 100 kilometers. Now that the snow on the road had disappeared, he immediately increased the speed to 120 km/h!

At this rate, we should be able to reach the location marked on the treasure map by tomorrow afternoon!

"Sit tight, we're about to leave!"