Ghost Wall
On the way home, Ye Jing'an felt something was amiss. He'd been driving for over twenty minutes, but he hadn't seen a single car. The steep cliffs still hung on either side, and the road ahead lay pitch black, with no city lights visible.
Ye Jing'an glanced at the navigation system. It had only been eight minutes, and he hadn't taken the wrong route. This reminded him of what had happened during the day, and he shuddered. He asked, "Old Qiu, don't you think there's something wrong with this stretch of road?"
"Huh?" Qiu Zimu was so tired after catching bugs for a long time that he fell asleep on the seat. He didn't pay attention to the road. He rubbed his eyes and looked around. "What's wrong?"
"It feels like we've been driving for a long time. Judging from the time we arrived, we should have reached the city. Even if we haven't, we should be able to see the city lights." He felt uneasy and slowed down.
"Did you take the wrong road?" Qiu Zimu looked out the window and saw that the mountain road was really pitch black.
"My navigation is fine, you can check it on your phone." Ye Jing'an said.
Qiu Zimu turned on the navigation on his phone and checked the route. He held up his phone and let Ye Jingan check it himself.
"It's the same as the navigation on my phone. What's going on?" Ye Jing'an turned around and continued driving seriously. Suddenly, a woman appeared in front of the car.
"What the hell!" Ye Jingan stepped on the brakes and hurriedly got out of the car to see what was going on.
"Why did you brake suddenly?" Qiu Zimu's head hit the headrest of the seat hard. Fortunately, he was wearing a seat belt, otherwise his forehead would have been bleeding today.
Ye Jing'an checked the front and bottom of the car, and looked into the ravine next to it, but there was nothing there, and there was no blood on the road around him. Ye Jing'an patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief, thinking he had hit someone to death.
Qiu Zimu looked at him in a daze and asked in confusion: "What's wrong with you?"
"Oh, nothing, I thought I bumped into someone." Ye Jingan said lightly.
"It's pitch black, where...where is there anyone?" Qiu Zimu's hairs stood up on his back, and he slowly moved his head to look around.
This sentence seemed to hit Ye Jingan on the head. It would be strange if he didn't hit anyone, then what was he seeing just now? Ye Jingan suddenly felt a chill running from his spine to his brain, and shouted: "Get in the car!"
The two sat in the car in shock, not daring to breathe. Ye Jingan stepped on the accelerator to the bottom.
"What's going on?" Qiu Zimu asked.
Ye Jingan described the woman he had just seen to Qiu Zimu.
"Before you braked, I was looking ahead, but there was nothing. Are you too tired? Fatigue driving at night can cause hallucinations." In the past, Qiu Zimu would have definitely determined that he was hallucinating due to fatigue driving, but after experiencing all these things, he really couldn't be sure.
He recalled a trip he and Qiu Ningyuan had taken to a remote mountain village to help someone detoxify a poisonous poison. They'd originally planned to skip the mountain road and sleep over at a local family's house. After they'd packed up and were about to go to bed, Qiu Ningyuan got a call from a friend. The friend was in an emergency, dying, and asked him to come over and help.
Qiu Ningyuan had no choice but to rush back. The mountain road back then was just as dark as it is now, but the road conditions were even worse. The two of them drove for a long time without getting out, and finally realized they had encountered a ghost wall.
"Then how did you solve it?" Ye Jing'an asked.
"My dad knows witchcraft, so ghost walls are a piece of cake for him." Qiu Zimu said, "But I don't know witchcraft, so I can't be sure if this is a ghost wall."
"No matter what, I'll drive slowly and you keep an eye on me." Ye Jing'an slowed down.
After driving for a while, the two finally saw car lights in front of them after a big turn.
"Finally, we see the light." The tense atmosphere in the car eased, and both of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
The car was a little far away, and Ye Jingan couldn't see the body of the car even with the high beam on. He could only see the red taillights. Ye Jingan guessed that there was a black car in front.
He stepped on the accelerator, trying to get closer. But he found that even if he increased his speed, he still couldn't catch up with the car in front. The car in front seemed unwilling to be overtaken by him. Because of what had just happened, Ye Jingan didn't dare to drive too fast, so he could only follow at a distance.
After following for a long distance, the car in front suddenly disappeared.
"Where did the car go?" Qiu Zimu swallowed.
"I don't know." Ye Jing'an gripped the steering wheel tightly. Based on past experience, he must have encountered something dirty today.
He continued driving, trying to see where the car in front was going. Maybe there was a big turn or a downhill slope, but the navigation showed that the road ahead was straight again.
When he was about to drive to the place where the car disappeared, the navigation voice reminder suddenly sounded: "Please turn right in 200 meters ahead."
Hearing this voice, Ye Jingan glanced at the navigation. The strong sense of uneasiness in his heart reappeared, and he stopped the car immediately.
"Why is the voice reminder different from the route shown in the navigation?" The two looked at each other and decided to walk over to take a look.
After walking for about two or three minutes, the sight before them made them break out in a cold sweat. This wasn't a straight road at all; there was a cliff ahead, shrouded in mist, so thick that even the light couldn't see the bottom.
"So, the car fell down?" Qiu Zimu asked weakly.
"No, the car had its headlights on. Even if it fell, we should be able to see the lights, and there should be a loud crash at such a high altitude." Ye Jingan analyzed what was wrong, "Did you hear any sound just now?"
Qiu Zimu shook his head.
"Go back to the car first." Ye Jing'an was sure that he was much calmer after encountering the dirty things.
"What should we do? There's something wrong with our navigation, and I'm going straight too." Qiu Zimu sounded a little anxious.
"Another possibility is that the navigation is fine, but our eyes and ears are hallucinating, and the road ahead is straight." Ye Jing'an frowned.
"Why did the car disappear?" Qiu Zimu asked.
"..." Ye Jingan poked his eye socket with his finger, "That's why you said there's something wrong with our eyes!"
Qiu Zimu didn't understand at first, but after a while he finally understood. A cold sweat broke out on his back, and even now he's terrified just thinking about it.
Ye Jing'an thought about what he had learned that would help him cope with this situation. Although he had studied for several years, the truth was that he was absent-minded most of the time, his eyes on the book, his mind on other things. The few things he had mastered were just for show, and they were no longer applicable now.
He himself hadn't experienced this kind of thing many times, and the theory hadn't been tested in practice. He didn't know how well he had learned it, but now he had to use it directly! The more he thought about it, the more he regretted not studying hard at the time!
If it weren't for Brother Liu's help in the previous few times, with his level of ability, he would have been caught by them and died somewhere without knowing it.
"Yes, looking for Brother Liu!" Ye Jing'an picked up his phone and made a video call to Liu Muzhe.
When the video call ended, Liu Muze didn't answer. He called twice more, but still no one answered. Ye Jing'an asked Qiu Zimu to call him. The phone rang for a long time, and when Qiu Zimu was about to hang up, it was connected.
"What's wrong?" Liu Muzhe's voice appeared on the phone, making Qiu Zimu feel particularly at ease. He hurriedly told Liu Muzhe what happened in the evening and Ye Jingan's strange feeling during the day.
Liu Muze: "Yeah."
Qiu Zimu said so much, and then he just replied with a "hmm". She was almost crying anxiously: "What should we do now? We don't even dare to leave..."
Liu Muze: "Solve it yourself."
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Ye Jingan grabbed the phone and shouted, "Mr. Liu, why are you so cold? We almost died!"
"Don't worry, you won't die. I've calculated it." Liu Muzhe said with a smile.
"You..." Before Ye Jingan could finish his words, the call was hung up. Ye Jingan now suspected that he had known that something would happen today and deliberately didn't come, or that he had arranged this disaster today.
"Brother, I really depend on you this time." Qiu Zimu gave Ye Jing'an an affirmative look.
"Well, let's walk this distance first," Ye Jing'an said. "Our hearing and vision might be failing, so let's try relying on touch."
"The sense of touch is also unreliable?" Qiu Zimu asked back.
Ye Jingan was silent for a while, then replied meaningfully: "That depends on who is luckier between the two of us!"
Qiu Zimu: "..."
The two men cut two long branches from a tree beside the road, took out insect nets, and with one in each hand, prepared to use them to test the strength of the cliff ahead.
As the branch reached down toward the cliff, it felt as if an invisible barrier was holding it back. Qiu Zimu felt around and found that the invisible barrier felt just like the road itself.
They tried to turn right again, but the tree branch actually penetrated the road. Ye Jingan picked up another big stone and threw it down. The stone disappeared from the road, and after a while, the sound of the stone falling to the ground was heard.
"You're right. It's a good thing we didn't turn right at that time." Qiu Zimu said.
"Okay, you use the branches to explore the way ahead, and I'll drive the car slowly over. I'll get you a talisman for peace and happiness, and burn another one on the car!" Ye Jing'an snapped his fingers and happily ran back to the car to get the talisman.
"Another amulet?" Qiu Zimu didn't think it had much power just by hearing the name. "Don't you have a lot of amulets at home? I remember seeing a lot of amulets with complicated runes on them when I was a kid. Why don't you use a few more?"
"You also know how complicated it is! I haven't learned it!" Ye Jing'an said with a roll of his eyelids.
Qiu Zimu seemed to have heard something incredible and asked in disbelief: "How did you get past your dad if you didn't learn anything? He actually let you out."
Ye Jingan rubbed his face with his hands and said to Qiu Zimu: "I used sulfuric acid paper to carve the talisman once, and then copied it and painted it on, and I got through it."
Ye Jing'an thought of the many awesome talismans at home, but he was too lazy to learn how to draw them. Now he wanted to use them but didn't know how to draw them. He regretted it so much.
"Damn, it can be done this way!" Qiu Zimu was stunned. "Then how many kinds of talismans do you know now?"
"Two kinds." Ye Jingan pointed with his fingers.
"What is the other one used for?" Qiu Zimu asked curiously.
"Fight ghosts and monsters!" Ye Jing'an smiled, took out a card, made a hand gesture and swung it a few times.
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