Chapter 63: The Truth

“What did you remember? Tell us quickly!” the female university student Sun Yujiao couldn’t help but ask loudly.

“Old Yu! Old Yu! Stay strong! You can do it!” the female teacher Yi Qiuhong also shouted loudly.

It was a matter of life and death for everyone present, so every person looked at Yu Zhenhua with anxious expressions. Perhaps the key to survival lay in what he was about to say.

“It’s useless… too… late… actually…” Yu Zhenhua struggled to speak, his face showing despair, anger, helplessness, and disappointment, as if all his hope had suddenly turned into disappointment, as if he had been deceived and toyed with.

A single clear tear slid from the corner of his eye, followed by bloody foam that gushed from his mouth one mouthful at a time.

Lü Yang hit his own head hard. Yu Zhenhua had clearly remembered something, but due to habits formed from his daily work, he judged this information useless, unable to save everyone’s lives, so he didn’t speak a word of what he should have said!

“Comrade Old Yu! You are a Party member! Stay strong! Quickly tell us what you remembered! This can save people’s lives!” the female teacher Yi Qiuhong yelled at Yu Zhenhua with extreme frustration.

Yu Zhenhua, whose gaze had already become unfocused, suddenly became a bit clearer when he heard the word “Party member.” He finally spoke again, but Yi Qiuhong had to lean close to his ear to barely catch the last few words he uttered.

After bravely speaking his last word, Yu Zhenhua stared wide-eyed and then died.

“‘You,’ ‘this,’ ‘damn,’ ‘vehicle.'” Yi Qiuhong repeated the last few words Yu Zhenhua had said to everyone, then looked at Lü Yang for help.

“It’s useless, it’s too late, all of you are dead, damn! The cursed vehicle! The meaning couldn’t be clearer; even a fool would understand,” the video game youth Zhao Kun quickly strung together all the words Yu Zhenhua had said, as if forming sentences in a classroom exercise.

“Is that so? Is that really it?” the female university student Sun Yujiao looked at Zhao Kun, her face pale. Her interpretation of Yu Zhenhua’s final words coincidentally matched Zhao Kun’s.

“Not the cursed vehicle, it should be the cursed car accident. We have all already died in the car accident,” the fat salesman Xiong Yifei added, his voice trembling, expanding on Zhao Kun’s explanation.

Given Yu Zhenhua’s personality, he definitely wouldn’t lie to everyone before dying. He must have completely remembered what he had forgotten, but the truth was very cruel, something he found hard to believe, even infuriating, or perhaps beyond his imagination, completely unexpected. That’s why he spoke those words with such despair.

The belief that had been sustaining everyone’s efforts to find a way out completely collapsed in that instant.

“Did he really mean that? If we are all already dead, then… what are we now?” the usually calm female teacher Yi Qiuhong now seemed to have suffered a great blow, her face full of disappointment and irritation.

Yu Zhenhua had spoken the most before his death, and his meaning was the clearest and easiest to understand.

“That’s not what he meant. What he had forgotten but remembered wasn’t about a car accident or everyone being dead or anything like that. Don’t guess randomly and scare yourselves,” Lü Yang waved his hand at everyone. Clearly, he now had some new ideas. The truth of the matter was gradually emerging with each person’s death.

“Then what is it?” Everyone looked at Lü Yang together.

“I’m not entirely sure yet, but… he mentioned the truck on the highway earlier, and before dying he said the word ‘vehicle.’ His daughter also mentioned the word ‘truck’ before she died. I think all this is likely related to that truck on the highway. I plan to go to the highway to look for that truck.”

Lü Yang informed everyone that, regardless of whether anyone was willing to go with him, he would search for that truck.

“Is there still any use? Don’t deceive everyone anymore…” the fat salesman Xiong Yifei shook his head, his face now ashen.

“If we give up, we are truly dead. Even if there’s only a sliver of hope, I won’t give up,” Lü Yang replied to Xiong Yifei, then turned and walked out of the restaurant.

“Wait! I’ll go with you! Even if I die, I want to die understanding what happened!” Yi Qiuhong called out loudly to Lü Yang.

“We’re going too!” the two video game youths Zhang Haibo and Zhao Kun also stood up.

Sun Yujiao quickly stood up as well, went to Yi Qiuhong’s side, and grabbed her arm. The fat salesman Xiong Yifei was stunned for a moment but immediately stood up too.

In this extremely terrifying environment, constantly threatened by unknown horrors and death, most people had lost their pillar of support. Yi Qiuhong and Lü Yang had previously played the roles of organizer and analyst, respectively, so everyone instinctively saw them as people they could rely on.

Dying together was better than dying alone in terror.

“Let’s go! We need to move quickly!” Lü Yang didn’t want to waste time. Seeing that everyone had stood up, he immediately ran out of the restaurant.

“Can you drive? Let’s take the minibus onto the highway. If we just walk, we might not have enough time!” Yi Qiuhong quickly ran a few steps to catch up and suggested to Lü Yang. She no longer held much hope of surviving this place, but if she was going to die, she wanted to know the truth before she did.

Lü Yang had already planned to drive the minibus onto the highway. Although he didn’t have a driver’s license, he had stolen and driven other people’s cars on the streets when he was young and wandering around. In recent days, he had also trained in driving using the Eerie Computer. Although he had never driven this type of minibus before, he figured it shouldn’t be too difficult.

As Lü Yang quickly approached the minibus, a blood-covered person rushed out from the shadows and suddenly lunged at him. Lü Yang was caught off guard and startled, but he instinctively reached out and caught her.

The blood-covered person was Shen Qi, the woman from the couple.

“Dead… all dead…” Shen Qi glanced at the crowd, said these four words, then went limp and fell into Lü Yang’s arms, clearly dead for good.

“Are we all going to die?” the female university student Sun Yujiao asked everyone in a trembling voice. After hearing Shen Qi’s words, her legs began to shake, and she could barely stand.

“It’s not about us all going to die; it’s that we are already all dead. This place is the passage to Hell. Probably because too many people died at once, the Hell registration office is too busy…” the fat salesman Xiong Yifei replied to Sun Yujiao with a wooden expression, not forgetting to add a bit of dark humor.

“Have you all given up? I haven’t given up yet! Anyone who wants to live, come with me in the vehicle! Don’t waste any more time!” Lü Yang pushed aside Shen Qi’s corpse, roared a few words at everyone without looking back, then walked around to the driver’s side door of the minibus, pulled it open, got in, started the vehicle, and opened the passenger door.

“Even if I die, I want to at least figure out how I died and what exactly I forgot!” Yi Qiuhong muttered to herself, then rushed onto the minibus first.