Chapter 594: River Escape
At 11:00 p.m. on Friday, at a certain intersection near the port area of East Tivian, the normally bustling and orderly street was now in chaos. A speeding, out-of-control horse-drawn carriage rushed onto the sidewalk without any deceleration and crashed into the roadside. The vehicle overturned and the horse neighed. A street lamp was thrown over and the carriage fell to the ground. A store was destroyed and people nearby were injured. Onlookers quickly gathered around the scene of the incident. In the distance, police blew sharp whistles and drove over.
While everyone's attention was drawn to the accident scene, John's attention was not there. Standing by the road, he looked at the carriage in front of him in astonishment. Although the driver of the carriage warmly invited him to ride, he did not dare to agree for a moment after experiencing all the thrilling moments just now, until he saw the meaningless scratches on the carriage door twisted into the familiar font in a familiar way again.
"Get in the car..."
Looking at the mysterious words in front of him that seemed to be only visible to him, John swallowed his saliva, and after a moment of internal entanglement, he chose to open the door and walked into the carriage of the cab. Although he still couldn't figure out where these mysterious words came from, but so far, each of these words has saved his life. In this dangerous environment where something seemed to want to take his life, what he can do now is to believe in these mysterious words, which are still John's life-saving straw.
After getting on the carriage, John quickly closed the door and sat down in his seat. Then the driver, who was sitting outside the front carriage, quickly asked him.
"Sir, where are you going?"
"North City, Yiyang Road Intersection."
"Okay, please sit down." After asking for the address, the coachman in front quickly mounted the horses and drove the carriage straight ahead. When the carriage started, a slightly evil smile appeared on his lips, but his behavior was not noticed by John in the carriage.
After sitting in the car, John was still worried. He looked left and right at the scenes passing by outside the window, worried that some crisis would suddenly strike. Finally, when he saw that nothing happened, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After relaxing a little, John began to think about how to figure out the current situation. He suddenly thought that since there were text messages on the carriage that saved his life, maybe the person in the carriage was related to those words and might be the writer.
As soon as John thought of this, he immediately had the desire to communicate with the driver who was driving. He wanted to ask the driver tentatively, to try to ask him what he knew, what kind of crisis he was in, and whether he understood the current situation.
John thought so in his heart, and just as he was about to put his idea into practice, he raised his head and looked forward, ready to ask a question, but he saw a familiar scene.
Before John's eyes, the originally old and ordinary scratches on the wooden panel of the carriage opposite him suddenly began to move on their own, and like the situation on the door before, they reorganized themselves to form new sentences.
"Don't talk to the driver. He is not helping you. There is a pen under your seat. Use it to draw this mark on a hidden place on your hand. Then wait patiently for your connecting flight."
"You're not helping me..."
Seeing the new fonts appearing in the carriage, John felt a chill in his heart, thinking that since the driver was not helping his people, why did the text guide him to get on the car? Wasn't this harming him?
For a moment, John's heart began to become extremely confused and anxious again, but the current situation did not allow him to actively look for answers to the problem. Since he had already got on the car according to what was written, he could only continue to do what was written.
John followed the prompt in the text and reached under the cushion he was sitting on. He unexpectedly took out a small pen. Then he looked at the so-called symbol prompted by the strange text. The symbol was located just below the words. It was a reversed pentagram symbol with a wine glass and an eye-like pattern in the center.
After carefully examining the symbols provided by the strange text, John silently wrote them down and drew an identical one on the inside of his left sleeve. Then he put away the pen, sat in his seat, took a long breath, and while using deep breathing to relieve the tension in his heart, he also began a long wait.
This period of waiting was quite tormenting for John. He watched the street scenery passing by outside the car window beside him, and at the same time waited for the so-called "turning point" to come after drawing the sign as the text on the car said. Waiting in this situation where he had no idea of the specific situation and could not foresee the future made him very anxious.
In this situation, John had no choice but to pray silently in his heart that everything would be safe.
Time passed by minute by minute, and the carriage John was riding in kept moving forward, gradually approaching the edge of Dongcheng District. After passing through countless streets and alleys, John found that the street scene outside the window suddenly became bright. The street with towering buildings disappeared, and was replaced by a wide river with flowing water.
Later, the hired carriage John was riding in had already driven to the Moon Flow River in Tivian and was crossing a bridge across the river to the other side of the river, with the destination being the city on the other side of the river.
"Strange... Do we need to cross the Yueliu River at the intersection of the Yang and Yang roads?"
Looking at the ships sailing on the wide river in front of him, John couldn't help but frown and think, but before his confusion was answered, something strange happened at the scene.
Amidst the loud neighing of horses, John felt a sudden push on his back that pressed him directly onto the seat. The horse-drawn carriage under him suddenly accelerated without any warning and rushed forward. The direction the carriage was heading was not straight ahead to the other side of the bridge, but diagonally in front of the bridge railing!
With a loud bang, the out-of-control horse-drawn carriage deviated from its own path and hit the railing on the side of the bridge diagonally. The wooden railing was smashed into pieces by the crazy horse with great force. With an evil smile on the driver's face, the crazy horse dragged the huge carriage straight out of the bridge and rushed into the air above the river. Then the whole carriage fell directly into the churning river.
"What……"
Sitting in the carriage and feeling this scene, John's eyes widened, his throat raised in shock, and he couldn't help but scream out in the feeling of weightlessness while falling. Then, with a huge splash, the space around him couldn't help but overturned, and he was knocked to the side of the carriage by the impact, and his whole body was in pain.
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