Death Highway

  The three of us each found our own formal wear, packed them in boxes, called a few people over and had them help us load the car.

  It seems like nothing's wrong with us, we're going downstairs to leave. But then suddenly, Zhi's phone rang. Originally it wasn't supposed to be near us, but after Zhi answered the call, her face turned serious, and Xin saw it.

  "What's going on?"

  "Some people ambushed our brothers who were on a mission and returning with injuries, seven of them, no one survived... the one who just called me... his voice just stopped as soon as he finished speaking." Zhi's hand clenched into a fist, tightly grasped together, the force was so great that the joints of his fingers started to turn white.

  At this, the three of us stopped in our tracks, lowered our heads, closed our eyes, and the entire hall fell into an endless silence. Even the movers stopped, lowering their heads, not saying a word.

  Observed a moment of silence...

  One minute has passed...

  Two minutes have passed...

  Three minutes have passed...

  Three minutes passed, and everyone continued to busy themselves with their own affairs. Except for the more or less visible resentment and dissatisfaction on each person's face, there was no apparent difference from just a moment before.

  "You understand what you have to do now?" People may be dead, but they leave behind people or things that can't just be ignored.

  "Got it, sis!" He nodded heavily.

  "Alright, let's inform everyone to be prepared for the changing situation. Send the details of this mission and the location where we were ambushed to our phones." Rui also looked like a ruler.

  "Yes!"

  Then those people who came to see us off watched as we walked away, and the road back had to pass through a section of mountainous highway. This highway was notorious for its steepness, and in the past, they always took the big bridge, but it seemed like there was a traffic jam or something on the big bridge, so only these two roads could be taken. However, the mountainous highway was notoriously known as the "Death Highway", so no one dared to take it.

  "Rui, Xin, let's make a dash for it!" Looking at the long dragon-like convoy of cars, I didn't believe I had the patience to wait until traffic cleared.

  "Hurry up." Rui's face was filled with excitement, as if he couldn't wait.

  "I don't care." Xīn shrugged his shoulders.

  "Alright, fasten your seatbelts, check that all items won't fly out of the car, okay?" I adjusted the rearview mirror and rearranged some things in the car. Looking at Rui and Xin who were already prepared, I couldn't help but smile wryly.

  "Let's go!" Xīn stretched out his right hand, clenched his fist and knocked on the horn, the ear-piercing sound of the horn caused dissatisfaction among the crowd, but Xīn didn't care, turned the car around and headed down that steep winding road. I and Ruì followed behind helplessly, who let Xīn love to play?

  The crowd trapped on the other side saw it and began to discuss it in an uproar.

  "Hey, look at those three little girls, they really don't know what's good for them, actually heading towards the 'Death Highway'..."

  "Yes, it will definitely be on the headlines of tomorrow's newspaper. The title will be 'The three sisters as beautiful as flowers and jade, unwilling to block traffic, would rather take the road to death...' And below that, they might even publish their tragic death photos..."

  After a long time, there was no shouting or calling, and people began to discuss again.

  "Actually, Death Highway shouldn't be that scary, right? Those little girls were able to cross it, why can't we?" After saying that, he prepared to turn the car around.

  "Hey, old buddy, are you crazy? Don't you see what kind of car that is..."

  That old fellow thought for half a day and still couldn't figure out what kind of car it was.

  "It's Maserati!"

  The man was speechless for a moment and reversed the car back.