Chapter 123 Tunnel (2)

Driving in the dark is a very strange experience. I keep my foot on the accelerator and maintain the previous speed. After a while, I feel numb and confused.

Is my foot really still on the accelerator?

Is the car really still moving?

Will it hit the car in front?

In the darkness, one's five senses are maximized. The slightly sunken seat, the touch of the palms, the breath by the ears, all intertwine and merge with the chaotic thoughts in the mind, and finally turn into a blank. I don't know what to do.

Ji Weihang's mind was in a mess, he was bewildered and at a loss.

Where is this?

What am I doing?

...Did I let go?

Bai Jiuyue slowly tightened his left hand, but caught nothing.

The palms of my hands still felt cold and wet, but there was no real object left.

The breathing sound in my ears also disappeared.

She felt like she was standing on a dark island or submerged in a vast ocean. Silent screams echoed in her mind and her body became stiff with fear.

As if she was back in her childhood, she stepped on the formation in the dark and fell into the darkness and got injured.

The mocking and sarcastic voices outside the formation gradually faded away, leaving her alone in the dark and quiet cave.

Time freezes with vision, flowing slowly and silently.

“Sizzle, sizzle—”

The sudden noise of the radio broke the darkness, startled her, and slowly woke her up from the sudden fear.

Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. She repeated these three words to encourage herself, you are almost an adult, a mature adult, don't be afraid.

"Zizizizi——" the radio was still sounding.

Remembering that Ji Weihang said the radio was a clue, she turned on the radio in the dark.

In fact, she was not afraid of ghost stories. On the contrary, she was afraid of the silence in the darkness.

She turned off the radio because she was "trapped in a dark cave for forty-eight hours as a child," which reminded her of her own childhood experiences.

The mechanical female voice sounded again, telling the story in a slow tone.

“…To get to the Huandong Service Area, you have to go through a long tunnel. The sister who was in charge of driving knew that Xiaole was afraid of the dark, so she comforted her and told her to just close her eyes and take a nap.

"Before entering the tunnel, Xiaole closed his eyes, hoping to be out of the tunnel when he woke up."

The story is basically connected to the previous one, and Bai Jiuyue didn't miss much.

With a voice, she is no longer alone in the darkness. She is no longer lonely.

Bai Jiuyue relaxed slightly, closed her eyes, listened to the story, and waited for the next development of the story.

"The moment I entered the tunnel, the light shining through my eyelids disappeared, and the silent darkness enveloped me like a veil, isolating Xiaole from everything around him."

"Xiao Le was a little scared, but she didn't want to distract her sister who was driving, so she tried to suppress her fear and told herself to just pretend she was sleeping."

It sounds normal for now. Bai Jiyue slowly adjusted his breathing and finally dared to use his spiritual sense to explore the surroundings.

She deliberately avoided the driver's seat.

If the driver's seat is empty, she will be mentally devastated.

She looked outside the car to see where the other cars were.

Is traffic still moving?

"call--"

The gentle blowing sound appeared again. Bai Jiuyue's body tensed up for a moment, and then he realized that it was the sound coming from the radio.

"Xiao Le felt someone blowing into his ears."

"She knew it couldn't be her sister."

"call--"

A light, clear, and seemingly very close blowing sound came from the radio and echoed in the silent car.

"As if sensing Xiaole's tense body, the other person blew into her ear again."

The mechanical female voice whispered, "Xiao Le couldn't help but call her sister, but got no response."

"She couldn't pretend she was sleeping anymore and keep her eyes open."

"However, what you see with your eyes open is no different than what you see with your eyes closed."

"It's dark."

"The blowing sound in my ear disappeared at some point."

"She was left in this empty darkness."

"'Sister?' she couldn't help shouting."

"No voice answered. The darkness swallowed her voice."

"She hesitated for a moment, then reached out to touch the driver's seat, but only felt a cold seat."

"The driver appears to have left long ago."

“It’s as if it never existed in the first place.”

Bai Jiuyue subconsciously glanced at the driver's seat, and as expected, she saw nothing.

"'Sister, don't scare me. Where have you been?'"

"Xiao Le's fearful question was not answered."

"She was confused and scared and didn't know what to do."

"She knew she shouldn't get off the bus. This is not a service area. Once she gets off the bus, the gods of the road will devour those who violate the rules."

"Besides that, she was also afraid to walk into that darkness."

"But she also didn't want to wait in the car all the time. It would be very hard to wait in the silent darkness until the light came out."

"I don't know whether it was excessive fear that led to insanity, or she forgot her fear of the dark, but she came up with a bold idea."

"She grabbed the baseball bat from next to the chair, opened the window, leaned out, and used the baseball bat to test the position of the car next to her."

"The baseball bat hit something, but it wasn't the hard touch of the car. It felt like it hit soft flesh."

"At the same time, a cold and wet touch slipped into the gaps between her fingers that were holding onto the car window, frightening her so much that she let go and lost control and fell out of the window. In a hurry, she let go of the baseball bat and supported herself outside the car with both hands to control her balance."

"What made her feel cold was that the outside of the car seemed to have turned into a monster's lair."

"What she was holding down with her hands was not the car's hull, but some kind of soft, cold living thing. It was wriggling and struggling under her hands, wrapping around and climbing."

Bai Jiuyue's body and mind were completely absorbed by the story, and her spiritual consciousness that was exploring outside moved slowly. At this moment, it finally hit some real object, awakening her thoughts.

Originally, there was some kind of living creature with bared fangs and claws where the car next to it was.

As if it had sensed her investigation, the creature stretched out its "hand" towards her.

"Xiao Le was so scared that he rolled and crawled back into the car, closed the window, and gasped for breath."

Bai Jiuyue touched the car window to make sure it was closed tightly.

"Fearing that she had brought that strange thing into the car, Xiaole checked her body and made sure that there was nothing that did not belong to her. She leaned back in her chair and breathed a sigh of relief."

Bai Jiyue's consciousness was paying attention to the things that were probing from the outside world. She reached for the gun at her waist, but what she grasped was a familiar cold and narrow touch. She suddenly let go, feeling uncomfortable all over.

"She had no idea of the dangers lurking in the darkness."

"As the coldness slowly climbed up his arm from his wrist and wrapped around his neck, Xiaole knew that he had brought that thing in after all."

Bang--!

The "hand" extending from the car next door hit the car window hard.

"The Grim Reaper wrapped around his neck tightened, and death came with the feeling of suffocation. Xiaole opened his eyes wide and vaguely saw light."

Bang--!

There was another sound, closer and closer.

Bai Jiuyue's spiritual sense made a wide circle around, confirming that there were these ferocious creatures at the location of each car. He moved carefully towards his own car, trying not to alarm them.

Bang--!

Bang--!

There were two more car clapping sounds.

There is a slight difference between the two sounds that are closely connected.

One of the sounds was so close that it seemed like it wasn't being filmed through the car window.

The divine consciousness had returned to the car and found that the exterior of the car was clean and tidy, unlike other cars where there were no living creatures wrapped around the entire body.

Every car has it but they don't. Is it possible?

For some unknown reason, Bai Jiuyue turned to the left and reached behind the back of the chair.

The cold creature that clung to the seat squirmed in her hands, slowly entwining itself with her fingers.

He seemed very happy and slammed the window twice again.

Bang, bang——!

Now I can hear it clearly.

This was taken from the inside.

After receiving the warning, the "hand" in the neighboring car retreated.

The broadcast was late.

"Xiao Le lost his eternal life and returned to the embrace of the rules."

The cold touch climbed up along his fingers, and Bai Jiuyue felt cold all over.

Suddenly, "Ding Di——!"

The shrill sound of the horn broke through the darkness and silence, bringing Bai Jiuyue back to his senses.

The cold touch receded like the tide, and she easily withdrew her hand.

The driver's seat was still dark. I reached out and felt nothing.

But she was no longer afraid.

She fumbled for the steering wheel in the dark and honked the horn twice.

“Ding Di——!”

As if awakened by the sound of a horn.

For a moment, horns blared one after another in the tunnel. Although it was still dark, it was no longer silent.

On the radio, a mechanical female voice slowly said: "May Xiaole be at peace. May the God of the Road be at peace. May the rules always be with us."

Bai Jiuyue was inexplicably no longer afraid. He touched the back of the seat and the feeling was no longer there. His spiritual sense spread outward and he saw familiar vehicles.

Hallucination?

Amid the long and continuous honking of horns, I don’t know how long it took before the light illuminated the front of the car.

It's almost over. Bai Jiyue breathed a sigh of relief.

When the car drove into the light, leaving only the end in darkness——

call--

A familiar blowing sound.

Bai Jiuyue was startled and heard a giggle coming from behind her.

The light was shining, and the person who disappeared in the driver's seat reappeared.

She sat in the driver's seat, one hand on the steering wheel and the other on the center of the seat, making a handshake gesture.

Watching her actions, Bai Jiuyue smiled guiltily, put his hand into her palm, and pretended that he had not pulled his hand away.

Ji Weihang naturally withdrew his hand and asked, "Were you listening to the radio just now?"

Announcement: "I hope you like our first story. The next stories will be even more exciting."

Not wanting to hear any more weird stories, Bai Jiyue turned down the volume of the radio and said, "Yeah."

She told Ji Weihang the general story.

Ji Weihang said: "This story is tailor-made for you."

Bai Jiyue thought for a moment and said, "It seems so."

"Ask other people and see what their version of the story is." Ji Weihang opened Bai Jiuyue's car window and motioned for her to go and talk.

"Is this some kind of exercise?" Bai Jiuyue muttered, but still shouted out of the car, "I was the first person to honk the horn. What strange things did you see just now? Can you tell me?"

She took the blame for what Ji Weihang did on herself in order to make it easier to communicate with other people.

They were in the middle of a group of cars with relatively normal mental states. Most of the people here were awakened by Ji Weihang's horn just now. They felt grateful and urgently needed to vent their emotions, so they were willing to say a few more words, and so they talked about their experiences in the tunnel.

Bai Jiyue saw that Ji Weihang didn't hear clearly, so he sorted out what he said and said:

"After entering the tunnel, the radio will automatically play spooky stories. What everyone hears are things that they have imagined might appear in the dark, snakes, spiders, demons - I don't know what this is, maybe it's similar to the demon tribe, there's everything. It should be a fixed scare mechanism."

"I've seen a few car owners who were relatively normal before and are now almost like RV owners. They are probably too scared."

Bai Jiuyue was still frightened when she thought that she might have almost become like that.

"Oh..." Ji Weihang nodded.

Bai Jiyue looked at Ji Weihang and felt that they were already familiar with each other. She asked curiously, "Senior, what did you feel in the darkness?"

Ji Weihang frowned and thought for a moment, then said: "At first, something cold and wet replaced your hand, and I knew it must be an illusion, so I not only did not let go, but held on tighter.

"After that, my mind was in a daze. I wasn't thinking about anything and my attention was distracted. When I came to my senses, I felt that I had stepped on the accelerator too much. I was worried about hitting the car in front of me, so I subconsciously honked the horn. You know what happened next."

It sounded like she wouldn't be in any danger if he hadn't affected her. Bai Jiyue scratched his head, "I'm sorry, senior, I seem to be holding you back again."

Ji Weihang said: "What do you mean by again? You did a good job before.

"You are still young, being afraid of the dark is nothing."

Bai Jiuyue felt numb all over when she looked at Ji Weihang who was inexplicably gentle. This was too weird!

Ji Weihang glanced at her sideways, saw what she was thinking, and suddenly moved closer.

"call--"

Blowing a breath at her.

“Aaaaaaah!”

Bai Jiuyue was so scared that she slapped him.

Ji Weihang dodged swiftly and said with a smile, "Don't think too much. I was just thinking about my junior sister. She wasn't replaced."

Bai Jiuyue huddled in the corner of the seat, leaning against the car door, looking at her vigilantly.

Don't believe it.