Chapter 229: Angry Youth
Even on Mambo Street, normal traffic conditions were never great, let alone during a dancing plague.
The main street was usually littered with delirious drifters and piles of garbage. Trash cans lay scattered about, sometimes set ablaze to billow thick smoke alongside the occasional burning car.
Right now, all of that was happening at once—and ten times worse.
"Lorna, watch out!" Gu He shouted as more tentacles surged out of the car windows to sweep the crowd aside.
The crazed mob sprinted right at them with no regard for their lives, practically throwing themselves into the path of the speeding heavy Off-Road Vehicle.
"Just keep swatting them! I can dodge!" Lorna shouted back. "I'm driving the sleigh!"
She cranked the steering wheel, showing off her superb driving skills. Linked by their neural sync, they coordinated flawlessly; the vehicle seemed to be plowing blindly ahead, yet it didn't strike a single person.
But the bizarrely dancing pedestrians seemed to be deliberately throwing themselves at the car. At this rate, it was only a matter of time before evasion became impossible.
Crash! Vivian's Off-Road Vehicle clipped a trash can, launching it into the air.