The night was deep, but Li Yu couldn't sleep.
This time, eleven people had come from the base, and together with the original five, there were sixteen people in total.
Tonight, Li Hang, Song Min, and Wang Cheng were on duty while Li Yu lay in the RV, unable to fall asleep.
He always felt that the black-haired boy Uncle mentioned today was problematic.
An indescribable sense of discomfort, his intuition, seemed to warn him that nothing had happened when Uncle and the others returned last time, but this time it might be different.
After thinking, he decided he would go back with them tomorrow, just in case.
Having made up his mind, Li Yu entered a light sleep.
Early next morning, Li Yu found Uncle: "Uncle, I'm going back with them today. I always felt that the person you encountered yesterday wasn't just a coincidence."
Uncle yawned, and after hearing what Li Yu said, he pondered for a moment and seriously replied, "Okay, you mean for me to stay here?"
Li Yu nodded and said, "Yes, Uncle, you stay here, and there might be another trip."
Uncle didn't refuse, and simply acknowledged with an "okay".
Like the day before, everyone started moving firearms and ammunition. Although there were more people, this time there were also several more vehicles to load.
It took half an hour more than last time to finally load the guns onto the vehicles.
This time, those who stayed here were Uncle, Dapao, Li Gang, Lai Dongsheng, and the optimistic Xiao Han.
The others went back, in a total of eight vehicles, packed full.
Driving down the mountain was again the most perilous moment.
Li Yu sat in Li Tie's car, and behind were vehicles driven by Tianlong's people.
The long convoy advanced, facing the morning sun, like a golden dragon.
On the vehicle, Li Yu was pressing bullets into magazine after magazine.
Seeing this, Li Tie, while driving, asked, "Big brother, what is this about?"
Li Yu thought for a moment and responded, "Didn't you guys run into some people last time? I think there was something off about that."
Li Tie considered it; the person they encountered last time did seem a bit insane, but as for problems... there seemed to be some.
As the vehicles moved forward, Li Yu felt increasingly uneasy.
Meanwhile, still some ten kilometers away from where Li Yu and his group were, right outside the entrance to that long tunnel.
Above the tunnel stood a line of people, about a dozen or so, looking pale but wearing clean clothes.
"Brother Hua, will they come back?" Xiao Kalemimi asked.
"Tau Pi, since they went there and then drove so many cars back, they must have discovered something. It's a pity we can't find a car with gasoline, otherwise we could have followed them to see," Brother Hua said.
"The lunatic last time, after we let him go down, never came back out," Kalemimi remarked.
"Never mind him, this time I won't let them enter the cave. Seeing them driving the truck, they must have good stuff, might have found the Government's strategic food depot," Brother Hua said.
Xiao Kalemimi replied excitedly, "Heh, we're going to get rich this time."
Brother Hua thought for a moment and then asked, "The nails you guys were supposed to scatter, did you do it?"
Another Kalemimi replied, "They were scattered long ago, heh, scattered a lot."
"Didn't I tell you to scatter them all?" Brother Hua frowned and said.
Kalemimi promptly responded, "Right away, Brother Hua. I'm on it."
"Such a minor task, and I have to keep reminding. Hurry up, and don't get caught," Brother Hua said.
And here on Li Yu's side, they didn't know any of this yet. Li Yu was just pressing bullets into the magazines.
Several minutes flew by.
On this national highway, by the tunnel entrance on both sides, Brother Hua led his crew crouching by the entrance.
They had scattered nails at the tunnel entrance as a trap.
It was easy for cars to slip and even crash directly into the tunnel.
This was their method. According to their observation, this time eight cars passed, the number of people was a bit troubling, but not a big problem. In this regard, Brother Hua was utterly confident.
Li Yu and his group were getting closer and closer.
Meanwhile, in the car, Li Tie noticed this tunnel and said, "Big brother, last time it was in this tunnel where we encountered that boy in black silk."
"Hm?" Li Yu lifted his head and looked toward the tunnel in front.
They had encountered many tunnels along the road, but this one seemed much larger.
Ever since his rebirth, Li Yu's eyesight had improved significantly. Under the sunlight, he slightly narrowed his eyes as he saw the tunnel ahead.
The car wasn't moving slowly, and Li Yu seemed to have spotted something.
He quickly said, "Stop the car, stop the car!" Urgency in his eyes, his hands reached towards the steering wheel but didn't move it.
Li Tie reacted quickly and immediately braked hard.
The vehicle swerved like a dragon tail, swinging over.
The tires squealed sharply from braking.
They narrowly missed a spot that was brightly lit. From a distance, people might not see clearly, but Li Yu's good vision caught a vague glimpse.
Yet, he felt something was off.
The sound of a tire bursting.
The front side tire had driven right over a nail at the front.
This sound definitely wasn't due to tire wear; it must have been something sharp.
Through the window glass, Li Tie looked toward the road ahead with a lingering fear, sitting in the car, now clearly seeing nails covering the surface ten meters ahead.
The vehicles behind, as instructed by Li Yu, were all large vehicles, so the distance between them was a good twenty meters.
By the tunnel, Brother Hua and a few others watched the leading car brake sharply and perform a miraculous maneuver, managing to swerve around.
Although the last tire did burst, this was not at all what they had anticipated.
According to their plan, a vehicle speeding would definitely slip and flip over after hitting the nails, causing a chain reaction of accidents with the following vehicles.
Except for the first vehicle, which only had one tire bursted, the other seven vehicles had no issues at all and calmly stopped.
This was unexpected...
"Brother Hua, should we still go over and rob them?" asked Little Karl.
Brother Hua looked at him speechlessly. The people opposite had no problems, at least eight people in eight cars, and they only had a dozen men; what could they do.
"Forget it, let's retreat. They might still come back, and next time we'll change the spot; they can't always be this lucky."
"Okay," Little Karl responded.
As Karl and his gang retreated from both sides, they sent a secret signal.
In the car, Li Yu heard the sound of the cuckoo and asked Li Tie, "Aren't cuckoos supposed to call more often around April and May?"
"I think so." Li Tie scratched his head, the tire was burst, and it needed to be replaced.