As I was being massaged, I was almost falling asleep when the car suddenly stopped. I exerted force in my abdomen, sat up, and looked outside. The entire convoy had stopped at the entrance to the highway. Another car pulled up and stopped parallel to mine. The driver's side window rolled down, and Shen Xingyue waved at me.
I also rolled down my car window. Shen Xingyue said, "I'll escort you only this far. I still have to stay in Shengjing and help you clean up the mess."
"...Alright, then we'll meet again." I said. Although I didn't know what "cleaning up the mess" meant, I could guess that our move was likely related to the big battle in Fucheng. Perhaps after the battle, our location was exposed, forcing us to relocate.
After Shen Xingyue drove away, our convoy entered the highway one after another.
"Huh?" I noticed something odd. The license plate of Bingbing's BMW, which had been leading the way in front, had changed! While I couldn't remember it completely, I recalled its last three digits were 530, corresponding to the car's badge, the 530i. Now it had become 567?
"What's wrong?" the fox demon asked.
I pointed to the license plate of the car in front and said, "Did you follow the wrong car?"
"No."
I activated my Qi sensing technique. It was indeed correct; there were only two people in the car ahead. Bingbing was driving because she had attended university in Lvshun before and was more familiar with the area.
"Why did the number change? Did they change cars?" I asked.
"Haha, this is new technology," the fox demon said, reaching for the phone that was wirelessly charging on the center console and calling Zheng Bingbing. "Bingbing, change the plate again and show the boss something amazing."
After saying that, the fox demon pulled our car up close, less than ten meters behind the car in front.
Three seconds later, I watched with my own eyes as all the numbers and letters on the license plate of the car ahead changed. Moreover, the change was instantaneous. Then, less than two seconds later, the license plate flickered and changed to another set of numbers!
"What kind of technology is this?" I asked, astonished.
"I don't know either, something about liquid crystal display?" the fox demon turned to ask Chen Ke, "Did I remember it correctly?"
"Uh... I didn't remember it clearly either, but it's close. Anyway, the license plate was provided by Sabia."
No wonder they dared to drive so openly on the highway; they no longer had to worry about being tracked.
The fox demon pointed to an extra button on the steering wheel. "Our cars have it. When you press this, it randomly generates a cloned license plate number. It's not a fake plate, you know. You can even check it."
I knew about cloned plates. If a car wanted to use a cloned plate, it would find a car of the same make and color and duplicate its plate. This way, if a violation was caught, the system would compare the license plate with the car's make and color, and the real owner would often be unable to defend themselves.
However, since this technology was provided by Sabia, it probably wasn't considered a cloned plate, but rather... for work purposes?
At least this made me feel more at ease. I lay back down on the seat and accepted the head massage from Chen Ke. The car was well-heated, and with the fox demon's fragrant presence, I gradually drifted off to sleep.
When I woke up, my energy had been restored. I saw a sign by the roadside indicating that we were only two kilometers from Lvshun.
After two kilometers, the convoy spread out over a long distance, interspersed with various other vehicles. We exited the highway and drove for about another kilometer. The other vehicles turned left towards the main urban area. Our cars pulled out, turned right onto a national highway, and headed towards a place marked on the sign as "Jiguan Mountain."
After driving for less than ten kilometers, I saw the distant coastline. The car's navigation indicated that further ahead was a scenic area called Jiguan Mountain Scenic Area, with several scattered attractions that seemed to be far apart. The car began to climb. At the crest of the hill, the view opened up to a bay. Within the bay, scattered along the shore were various sized hills and some structures that looked like ruins. There were no people living there.
"What kind of place is this?" I couldn't help but ask. There was no sign of life. Within the range of my Qi sensing technique, I couldn't detect any humans, only many presences in the bay, likely large fish or marine mammals.
"Jiguan Mountain, isn't it written on the map?"
"It's a desolate wilderness!" I frowned. It would have been better than Jiuxian Cave. Near Jiuxian Cave, there was at least a town called Wofenggou. On our journey so far, we had basically seen no towns or villages.