The car window glass shattered instantly under the banging.
The glass of four consecutive windows was shattered, but the students near the windows, seeing the rapidly passing mountainside, realized the vehicle was moving very fast.
They hesitated.
The car itself was traveling on a very narrow mountain road. If they jumped out, they might not control their bodies well and could roll down the mountainside.
Jumping out and waiting were both not the best solutions.
But they still refused to give up, watching and thinking. If they really reached the turning point, they would surely die.
Jumping out might still hold a glimmer of hope.
One after another, four people came to the window, with half their bodies already out, but their hearts were in utter panic, lacking confidence.
The others watched, not knowing what to do.
Lin Beichen observed all this and made a decision, standing up from his seat immediately.
"Hold on to me, don’t let go."
An Xiaoran wrapped her arms tightly around Lin Beichen from the front, looking up at his determined gaze, and hugged him even tighter.
Lin Beichen stood up, grabbed the handle on top of the seat to his right, lifted himself up, and grabbed the handrail to suspend himself, beginning to swing back and forth.
He controlled the amplitude of the swing to influence the car’s balance.
But, his effort alone, with An Xiaoran holding onto him, wasn’t enough to affect the vehicle significantly.
Seeing this, other students followed suit. This involved more people than those who had smashed the windows.
Almost everyone in the carriage, including Hao Jianhua, grabbed the handrails and started swaying.
The entire car was instantly affected, starting to tilt left and right.
In extreme cases, the left wheels lifted off the ground.
The driver turned around in surprise, more than fifty people swaying in unison, actually making the car wobble.
"Listen to me."
"At the moment of the turn, we all swing to the right."
"Driver, steer to the right."
Lin Beichen shouted, everyone heard him in unison, and the driver nodded in a panic.
This was their last hope.
The critical moment of the turn was upon them.
Everyone swayed in unison, achieving an impressive level of coordination. At the exact moment of the turn, the driver sharply turned the steering wheel to the right.
The over fifty people swung in unison, and the whole car began to tilt.
Almost everyone present closed their eyes, too afraid to look. Life and death came down to this moment.
They started praying.
An Xiaoran clutched Lin Beichen, her eyes tightly shut, feeling the tilt of the car, and in terror, she bit Lin Beichen’s shoulder.
But at this moment, Lin Beichen could not care about that.
He was the only one in the carriage with his eyes open, witnessing everything. He saw the left tires indeed lift off the ground, but the tilting wasn’t enough...
Just a little more.
Everyone swung their bodies, leaning right onto the seats.
But the car continued forward, not achieving the purpose of flipping over.
Lin Beichen felt an unprecedented crisis.
He started to panic a bit.
"Are we really going to meet our end here?"
Lin Beichen questioned himself. At that moment, the car was already at the edge of the road.
Everyone screamed in terror.
Just then, a mass of lightning appeared in Lin Beichen’s hand, mixed with blue flames and surrounded by a golden light.
The three elements merged...
Suddenly, he struck the ground outside the right window.
Boom...
The impact lifted the car’s left wheels, causing it to tilt to the right. The tremendous energy wave exploded on the ground, creating a massive shockwave.
The force rebounded through Lin Beichen’s hand, pushing the entire car to the left.
The car rolled over to the left and slid for several meters, finally coming to a stop at the edge of the road.
As the car came to a complete halt and the surrounding noise ceased, everyone slowly opened their eyes and looked around.
"Did it stop?"
"Did we really flip the car over?"
"Are we safe?"
"Woah, that was so thrilling, we were so close."
"So terrifying, we walked through the Ghost Gate."
"Thank heaven, and our ancestors’ blessings."
"Scared me to death, I thought we were going to die here."
"..."
The students came back to their senses from the terror, checking their surroundings.
The entire carriage was a mess, people piled on people to the left side. Only a few people holding onto the handrails had managed to stay upright, standing up first.
Hao Jianhua’s arm was slightly injured, having hit the car body in the roll.
He helped himself up, and his first reaction was to get everyone out of the vehicle.
"Quick, get out of here."
"Climb out through the windows, help the girls."
"Forget the luggage, get out first, check the injured."
"Hurry, hurry, hurry."
Under his urging, the students quickly climbed out of the car through the broken windows.
Fortunately, many had held onto the handrails in advance, and most were able to climb out in turn, checking their injuries afterward to find only minor scrapes and no serious harm.
"Can you let go of me now?"
Lin Beichen looked at An Xiaoran in his arms, still clinging tightly to his neck with her legs wrapped around him, practically hanging on him.
Her petite body was trembling, eyes tightly shut, still not daring to open them.
"The car has stabilized, come down now."
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