C229 Chapter 249

Their car was mired in mud, the gas pedal useless against the muck.

Jiang Ruan watched the car ahead disappear into the distance, her eyes dimming. She harbored no hope for a savior; in perilous times, one could only rely on oneself.

Glancing at the encroaching wall of yellow sand, she commanded with cool urgency, "Out of the car, on foot