Chapter 431 - Highway 78

The man was dumbfounded. "You mean? The street vagrants escaped while we are on that tunnel?" That couldn't be. That highway has always been their choice of route whenever they were transporting street vagrants or any humans from their warehouse to Crocus Facility. So, they were familiar with that road even if they had to take it at midnight. But then, his eyes suddenly widened when he realized something.

He is riding the first car ahead of the bus and there was a time inside that tunnel that they became a few minutes ahead of them and lost sight of them in a sharp curve but that was just for a couple of seconds. Although he found out that there was a slight disturbance, a couple of seconds is not enough for 62 street vagrants to escape and 2 of their guards to just vanished into thin air.

Or did they really escape?

The truth is…

The travel from the industrial warehouse at Camelia Province to Crocus is three hours. From the industrial warehouse where the street vagrants were taken to the infamous tunnel in highway 78 is 1 hour. The tunnel was infamous because it is 3 kilometers long and halfway through it is a sharp curve that is almost impossible to see the incoming cars from the other side making it an accident-prone area.

That is why when another highway that connects Camelia Province and Crocus opens up. Highway 78 was quickly forgotten by private and public vehicles. Only mining trucks, tractor-trailer, and tankers were using that highway because highway 78 is the fastest way to a certain mining field.

When the convoy nears the tunnel the first car started to slow down to make the bus and the other two SUVs behind them catch up to them.

"We are in the entrance of the tunnel," Blowfish said on the communicating device while riding his motorbike. He didn't follow the convoy from the industrial warehouse in Camelia, instead, he used a short cut going to highway 78 and just waited for the convoy in a road that connects the highway to a small town. When he saw the convoy, he then started following them making it seem like he just came out of that small town.

"Okay, Cobra is just behind you." Dart frog who is sitting inside a control room with a lot of monitors in front of her said on the other line.

Blowfish glanced at the side mirror and saw another bus that is exactly identical to the bus carrying the 62 street vagrants.

Blowfish swerved to the right making way to the bus as it overtakes him and the cars in front of him. The bus was followed by a tractor-trailer. There was a white car coming from the other lane so the bus had to go back to its lane cutting the convoy between the first car and the bus carrying the street vagrants.

But unfortunately for the tractor-trailer, it was too late. It is a dangerous sharp curve that if you overtake without noticing the coming car from the other direction, it will cause a collision. Fortunately, the collision didn't take place but the tractor-trailer ends up blocking the road when he tried to go back to its lane.

"Okay Cobra you got exactly 20 seconds." Dart frog said.

The man named Cobra came out of the bus followed by another one and its driver then they rushed towards the bus carrying the street vagrants. During those times, two men pretending to be a street vagrant have already put their two guards into sleep while the driver was already tied up with duct tape on its mouth.