The Core-Totem Great Vajra sped along the roads. From several rounds of racing back and forth, the Beijing–Shanghai Expressway, the Lai-Tai Expressway, and the Tai-Xin Expressway had all been cleared into relatively level road surfaces, and one could start really flooring it.

Shen Cong naturally wouldn't honestly obey traffic rules—in fact he'd never sat a driver's test.

The Great Vajra advanced at a hundred kilometers an hour, the herringbone blade thrust forward, and every obstruction ahead was swept away into nothing under the herringbone blade's sweep.

Racing along the Tai-Xin Expressway, he soon spotted the Snail Traveler.

This giant snail hadn't gone very fast—it had only just reached the vicinity of Xinwen Subdistrict in Xintai City. It knew how to take the clever route too, advancing along the Tai-Xin Expressway, which was more convenient.

"Big fellow, make way." Shen Cong, seeing the Snail Traveler blocking the road, communicated via Snail-Cicada-Language.

The giant snail held a special awe for Shen Cong. In its simple impression, the Bug Warriors who'd beaten it to a pulp that day had been driven off by Shen Cong, who'd rescued it. So even though Shen Cong was only a very small "little bug," it still obeyed him closely, taking Shen Cong for its boss.

Hearing this, it immediately turned direction and crawled to the roadside.

Then it watched the Great Vajra race past, soon vanishing ahead on the road.

An hour later, the Great Vajra reached Huamawan Township. At Huamawan Township, it turned onto Provincial Road 103 and kept racing.

The provincial road's condition was somewhat worse, and the vehicle speed could only hold at eighty kilometers an hour. In no time he drove to Qiujiadian Town, turned north, drove past the Yanjiazhuang Station he'd reached last night, crossed the railway whose tracks were already hard to make out, and kept driving north.

Further north was Shankou Town.

This already fell within the range Shen Cong guessed the mysterious thing was located.

After reaching Shankou Town, Shen Cong slowed the vehicle and began moving in fits and starts, the Third Eye Radar ceaselessly scanning along the…