Chapter 1363: A Long Way Around
On the day after he received the task, Gu Fan obtained an access permit and a car. It seemed that Catherine hoped Gu Fan would immediately set out to execute the mission.
An identity card, access permit, and the database information—three in one—allowed Gu Fan to freely enter and exit Dark City as Tai. Before the mission even began, Gu Fan had figured out the verification method to enter and exit Dark City.
However, Catherine did not let Gu Fan go alone; instead, she assigned someone named Li to assist him. Li, like Gu Fan, was also from the Orient.
Li drove, while Gu Fan sat in the passenger seat. After they left Dark City, the car sped along the Death Road.
Previously, when Gu Fan entered the Dark Primitive Mountain, he had traversed the River of Survival. This time he traveled the Death Road and only then realized the brutality of the Death Road.
The road was covered in bloodstains after bloodstains, and bones lined the roadside, informing everyone who traveled this way that the Death Road was aptly named.
As Li drove, he chatted with Gu Fan, "What’s there to be surprised about? Who hasn’t arrived in Dark City via the Death Road? Anyone who’s made it alive, hasn’t it been a matter of luck?"
Gu Fan immediately responded, "You’re right. Many years ago when I first set foot on the Death Road, I was terrified by this sight. Even now, seeing it again, I feel the same fear."
"Yeah, just one look is enough to sense the horror of this place." As Li spoke, he couldn’t help but recall the time he and over a hundred others traveled together, yet only three survived to reach Dark City, enduring various terrifying attacks that, years later, still terrified him.