After strange phenomena invaded Earth, chaos ensued, people panicked and collapsed, and various pieces of evidence indicated the existence of ghosts in this world. Cold cases emerged one after anot...
Chapter 154 154 The Teeth Knocked Out
Tu Lanxun was shocked and told Wenchong immediately, but Wenchong had just gone out because of a phone call and couldn't talk to him.
"What should we do?" N's voice lingered in my ears.
Tu Lanxun calmed himself down and said, "Let's go back first!"
The two left a note in the office, and Tu Lanxun sent a brief summary of the situation to Wen Chong and Li Ao respectively. However, the two people received no response at all.
Could something really have happened?
Tu Lanxun accelerated her driving. Since her bankruptcy, her driving skills had leapt from "just ok" to "proficient," but the scene of speeding back to the convenience store never materialized. She slammed the steering wheel in frustration, then forced herself to calm down. N, who had materialized in the passenger seat, also had a serious expression on his face.
Because there is a traffic jam in Lucheng.
Not only the main roads, but even the side roads were completely blocked.
Lucheng is very large, but its economy developed early, the roads are straight and wide, and traffic jams usually only occur during rush hours in the morning and evening. At most, there are only two or three places that happen to have schools, business districts and traffic bottlenecks that are prone to random traffic jams throughout the day.
What is the situation now?
The time clearly shows: 21:31.
The traffic on the overpass stretched from the horizon to the front, and there was even a tail of traffic growing behind him, blocking Tu Lanxun who was about to reverse and change lanes.
The horns of these cars resounded through the night sky. Some cars on the road ahead even left the lane lines, and the convoy changed from a straight long dragon to a crooked centipede.
"Damn it, how can we clear the traffic jam if no one follows the rules?" Tu Lanxun cursed softly and immediately realized that something had happened.
If nothing happened, no one would get out of the car directly because of a traffic jam, and the goal would not be to get some fresh air on the side, but to run to the other side of the road without looking back.
This kind of scene where everyone abandons their cars and flees, leaving behind only a long line of congested scrap metal, was something she had last seen in a zombie movie back in college!
Seeing that the drivers and passengers of at least ten cars had run out, Tu Lanxun's eyes became fierce, and he actually put the car in reverse gear and backed straight back. The silver-gray Jetta reversed very aggressively. There were already four or five cars stuck behind him. The leader saw that the rear of the Jetta was about to hit his front license plate, and he honked his horn in anger. Some people opened their car windows and tilted their heads to curse.
"Can you drive?"
"Come down and let's talk!"
"Did you dream about someone dying in your family? Why is the driver stomping his feet?"
N's figure faltered for a moment. "I'll go get him." Tu Lanxun gently pressed his hand, and he suddenly became solid. She said, "Don't go. There are too many of them. Be careful of the Fourth Agreement."
She was completely unmoved and continued to reverse. Fortunately, the car behind her was a mid-range sedan worth hundreds of thousands of yuan. She was afraid that the shiny paint would be damaged by this old Jetta, so she could only swallow her anger and reverse along with it.
The second, third, fourth...
The four four-wheeled vehicles and a motorcycle behind were forced to retreat, with endless curses. Tu Lanxun finally got enough space to leave the rear end of the traffic jam.
The moment he met the five cars behind, N's figure disappeared behind the passenger seat, and with the anti-peep film covering the glass, it was difficult to discern his shape.
Tu Lanxun drove the illegal car with a calm expression, which actually aroused the respect of the drivers of the five cars behind him. The driver who had been cursing the loudest leaned over and asked in confusion: "You, you, you, aren't you afraid of losing points? Why are you driving like that?"
Tu Lanxun turned the steering wheel, peeked through the windshield, and glanced behind him. "Look, there's an accident up ahead. Do you want to deduct points and illegally turn around and go home, or do you want to drive forward and wait for the problem to come?"
The five cars behind her just thought her words were a bit unlucky, but the driver who had spoken to her suddenly shouted, "Ah! Look! What's that in front?"
A mass of black objects flew towards this side from far ahead. Their upper ends were boiling in the air, higher than the oversized street lamps on this road, while their lower ends were tightly inserted into the convoy. They were moving at a very fast speed.
"There won't be a swarm of wasps, will there?"
"Looks like locusts to me..."
"A sandstorm? A tornado? A miniature drone show?"
The ghost detection device that Tu Lanxun took out from the South Branch flashed wildly, and her eyelids twitched.
In the distance, the cars stuck in traffic emitted inaudible sounds, like screams or laughter, which pierced the dull air. Those who had abandoned their cars and fled were relatively lucky, but it was unknown whether they had been caught up by the ghosts.
Yes, ghost.
Every one of those things that swarmed in like a swarm of bees was a ghost.
A rough count would give us a few hundred.
"The Tianguo Group has taken action. The eastern section of Ginkgo West Road was attacked." Tu Lanxun sent a message to Wenchong, but still no response.
She sighed. If the ghosts ahead were just a few rogue ones, she could still suppress them, but with hundreds of them coming at once...
Forget it, who made her have half of the Tourism Administration’s staff?
Wen Chong’s bold words, “When I’m too old to work, I’ll be a volunteer experimental subject,” are still echoing in his mind.
Tu Lanxun drove the car to a place where it was easy to leave. There were already people running towards this side in front. She was afraid that they would steal the car, so she asked Lu Jiasui, who happened to be sleeping in her hair, to stay in the car, lie on the back seat and not show up. Most importantly, she asked her to use the power of ghosts to protect the car locks.
Lu Jiasui nodded seriously, and Tu Lanxun turned and left. This time she changed to walking forward, but still in the opposite direction, passing several panicked fugitives. Tu Lanxun squatted beside a van. There was a tanker truck in front of her, which was an excellent cover.
"Don't worry." Tu Lanxun spoke to the chain in his pocket, which was twisting slightly. The latter was obviously dissatisfied with being forced back into the metal. "Wait until this group of people passes. I will ask you for help later."
After saying this, Tu Lanxun was about to go to the tanker truck when he suddenly noticed that the tanker truck was swaying. Its left and right tires were lifting off the ground one by one, only an inch or two at a time, but it was as if an invisible giant hand was shaking the truck from side to side. It was about to fall over.
My God, if the car wasn't empty and had really overturned, this road would have been destroyed.
Just as Tu Lanxun rushed over to stop it, he saw the car door open and the driver inside was dragged out in a panic.
There was no doubt that it was a ghost that dragged him out.
"Are you still a coward?" the ghost cursed, "I told you to come out, but you didn't. I'll flip your car over and make you into a Chicken Orleans!"
The driver was still alive, and the source of the screams in front was also clear. So far, no living people were killed on the spot - at least not seen by Tu Lanxun - the ghosts that swept in took people out of the car and asked them to stand in rows as if they were prisoners.
Tu Lanxun felt very strange. Aren’t these ghosts afraid of the fourth treaty of collapse?
They had clearly been witnessed.
You only have one to three quarters of an hour to survive.
"Let him go." Tu Lanxun walked around to the other side of the car and said suddenly.
The ghost was so frightened that he jumped up, then turned around and said fiercely, "You said so and I let you go? Who do you think you are? Come here too!"
Tu Lanxun actually came over. Just as the ghost was wondering if the person in front of him was a little stupid, Tu Lanxun stopped, standing with one foot in front and the other behind. The ghost's eyes showed an ominous suspicion.
"I'm here. Is there anything I can help you with?" Tu Lanxun raised his eyelids and asked politely.
The ghost nodded and shook his head subconsciously: "Something, no, nothing...you?"
"If you can't explain it clearly, don't talk about it. I have something to talk to you about." Tu Lanxun suddenly pushed off the ground with his back foot, jumped up, and hit the ghost in the face with his elbow.
This ghost's ability should be focused on strength, otherwise he wouldn't be able to shake the tanker truck. However, this level of strength is still two orders of magnitude lower than Mikhail's elbow strike.
"Puff!" The ghost's face suddenly tilted to one side, his eyes full of horror. He had never expected to be touched by a living person, and a tooth flew out of his mouth.
Then the ghost flew back half a meter and landed on the ground with a "Ah!"
He tried to scramble back, but his heel scraped against the ground before a shoe stepped on his trouser leg. Tu Lanxun gave him another polite but chilling smile: "I have something to talk to you about."
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Tu Lanxun pulled the unlucky guy into the car and forced the truth out of him.
"I, we didn't kill anyone..." The ghost's eyes flickered and evaded, "We just arrested them all."
Tu Lanxun frowned, "Hmm?"
The ghost quickly explained, "You want to ask about the Fourth Treaty, right? We have a way to temporarily block the Fourth Treaty. This is... is..."
"What is it?" Tu Lanxun stared at the ghost carefully and found that the ghost's appearance was far from the average face of people in Eastern Province. The facial features were deeper, but the face shape was more rugged, and the skin color was copper-colored. It had a feeling of being from a foreign land and a foreign race, but not an alien species.
And most importantly, she could tell from the moment she shouted that the ghost had a heavy accent, which was not from their area.
"It's a folk remedy," the ghost said dejectedly. "It's a method passed down by the ghosts in our area. Do you want to hear it?"
Tu Lanxun said, "If you want to hear it, keep it in mind first. Now, tell me why you came here. Why did you kidnap a living person?"
The word hijacked made the ghost's expression even more embarrassed. He said, "I believe you can see that most of the ghosts on this road are my fellow countrymen. We come from far away."
"What are you doing here?"
"Under the orders of the Heavenly Kingdom Group, we are here to help the Ghost Resistance Organization take over Lucheng."
Tu Lanxun wasn't too surprised. "Explain the Ghost Resistance Organization. And why did you come all the way to occupy Lucheng? Isn't your hometown worth occupying?"
The ghost replied with a gloomy face, "The organization is exactly what it says. It unites the ghosts whose living space is squeezed out by the living, and takes over the city and the world. I can tell you about my hometown and that folk method together. It's a very long story. Now I can tell you why we are here."
"Aren't we going to occupy this street?" Tu Lanxun retorted.
"No, or rather, it was at first, but not now." The ghost sighed. "We were the branch that was sent to this street, but then we agreed to go back on our word before we took action... We took the living away to save..."
Tu Lanxun looked over coldly: "Save? What about after you rescue them?"
The ghost was seen through, and felt guilty and weak. He then changed his words: "It can be considered as a rescue. After rescuing him, we will take care of him in our own hands. No matter which side wins, it will be a guarantee for our future survival."