Chapter 43: Rainy Wild Temple (5)
The program crew prepared a total of three vehicles. After the last emergency in Guishan, Zhang Wubing cautiously prepared a lot of emergency food and medicine, which were all placed on the logistics vehicles.
In this way, the director's car is in the front to lead the way and remove obstacles in advance, the guest car is in the middle, and the logistics car is at the end, thus ensuring the safety of the guests to the greatest extent.
However, the driver of the guest car just now braked suddenly, causing the logistics vehicle behind to be unable to react in time. In order to avoid hitting the car in front, it had to slam the steering wheel and step on the brakes, turning to the other side of the road, and only stopped when it almost hit the big tree next to it, leaving a deep brake mark on the muddy road, and the wheels were stuck in the soft mud beside the ridge.
When Zhang Wubing ran back and said that the road ahead was impassable, the staff of the logistics vehicle got out helplessly and shouted, "Director! Maybe you have to go first. We have a problem here and need to push the car out first."
In the guest car, the guests who were staggering due to the emergency brakes finally helped each other to get everyone up.
Hearing the sound of the logistics vehicle behind them, several male guests immediately opened the car window and asked: "Let us help you push it together. There is strength in numbers, and it will be faster this way."
The staff of the logistics vehicle were happy to hear this at first and wanted to agree, but soon after seeing the split-screen live broadcast equipment on the guests' shoulders, they realized that the filming was still in progress.
So the assistant director quickly waved his hand and refused: "Teachers, please stay in the car. The road below is too muddy. I almost stepped into the mud and couldn't get my feet out."
Especially with fans attaching so much importance to status and treatment, this program is already very popular among many people. If fans feel that helping the program is mistreating the guests, it will not be worth it. It is better to be cautious.
An Nanyuan also saw the staff's concerns: "It's okay, it's not normal for a grown man to help push the car down."
But Anthony quickly followed up with a smile: "Brother Nan is really good at hard work. I wonder if his 50 million fans will think that he is suffering when they see how hard he works."
An Nanyuan's face suddenly darkened.
But the assistant director already had concerns, and he immediately refused again in a firm tone, and politely asked them all to stay in the car so as not to add additional work of public opinion control to the staff.
Only the actress seemed to have strained a muscle due to the posture of falling into the gap between the seats, and she sat on the seat screaming in pain.
Yan Shixun turned a deaf ear to this and did not turn back to check the actress' injuries. Instead, he casually raised his hand and calculated and ignored it. He continued to stand under the car and asked Zhang Wubing about the specific conditions of the road ahead.
"To get to Wild Wolf Peak, you have to leave Binhai City and take the winding mountain road at the border with the neighboring mountain province to leave the valley and enter the mountain province. But now is the summer flood season, and heavy rains in the upstream provinces have caused the water level to surge, washing away the river bridges at the border with Binhai City."
Zhang Wubing said, "That road is definitely impassable now. I'm afraid we have to go around the river and go around the side into the mountain province."
As he spoke, he used his mobile phone to search for the route of another road on the electronic map and showed it to Yan Shixun.
Because of his deep understanding of Zhang Wubing's physique, Yan Shixun did not immediately agree to his plan, always feeling that there was something wrong.
But when Yan Shixun carefully looked around, he saw that the director's car driven back by Zhang Wubing had indeed been rained on, with mud on the wheels and body. It was not raining where they were and along the way, and it was obvious that the mountains had affected the climate of the two provinces, and the rain on the mountain road ahead had not stopped yet.
Yan Shixun took out his mobile phone to check the recent weather forecast for the neighboring province, which confirmed his guess. Then, he searched the route again and confirmed that it was passable. Then he nodded and said, "This road is OK, let's go."
"Mr. Yan, Director, you guys go ahead, we'll catch up with you right away."
The assistant director and the staff tried to pull the heavy wheels out of the mud. He raised his voice and shouted with a wry smile: "It must have rained for a long time here. The ground is rotten. It's hard to pull it out if it gets stuck."
Because the show was live, Zhang Wubing couldn't let the guests spend a lot of time waiting, so he had to agree: "Then I'll send you the new route."
The change of route made Yan Shixun extremely alert, especially since the driver just said he saw a human face and he himself also saw a yellow thing flash past the car window.
He did not get back into the car directly, but strode towards the logistics vehicle. Amid the assistant director's rejection, "Hey, your clothes will get dirty...", he jumped directly off the ridge of the field, and his Martin boots and black trousers were splashed with mud.
The staff were all a little puzzled, watching Yan Shixun bending down without caring about the mud and dirt and reaching out to check the wheel.
"How did you get here?" After seeing the brake marks on the muddy road and the natural wear of the tires, Yan Shixun was sure that the logistics vehicle was trapped because of human factors, not evil spirits. However, he still asked the driver of the logistics vehicle seriously, "Did you see anything outside the car window just now?"
"What's going on?" The driver, with his shoulder against the car, said blankly, "I didn't see anything. The car in front of me braked suddenly, and I turned the steering wheel sharply because I was afraid of rear-ending it. As a result, the dirt road was muddy and I went off the track."
This seemed to be a field in a nearby village. Yan Shixun could see crops growing in the fields, and a scarecrow standing in the distance to scare away birds. But the field under their feet was in a state of neglect. The edge of the field was full of dead branches and mud. Once the wheels got stuck in it, it was difficult to pull them out. More than a dozen workers worked together to lift the heavy car for a long time, but they were unable to successfully lift it up.
After dispelling his worries, Yan Shixun did not immediately stand up and walk back to the guest car, but bent over with his slender palms directly clasping the bottom edge of the car body. Then he lowered his eyelashes, slowly adjusted his breath, and at the same time whispered the obscure pronunciation quickly.
Under the puzzled gaze of the staff next to him, Yan Shixun suddenly raised his eyes, exerted force instantly, and the smooth and tight muscles of his arms stretched out beautiful lines. The edge of the car held in his palm made a metallic humming sound, and then slowly rose up as he stood up, and with a sound of mud sticking, the wheel was successfully pulled out of the mud.
"!!!"
The staff’s eyes were wide open, and they were scrolling through the screen with “Holy crap!” in their hearts.
No one expected that the problem that more than a dozen people on their side had failed to handle was solved by Yan Shixun in an instant? ?
You know, this car and the things inside weigh two tons! How can one person lift it with just his hands? This is unscientific!
"What are you standing there for? I've solved the most difficult problem for you, why don't you move the car back to the road?" Yan Shixun raised his chin towards the stunned staff, motioning them to take over.
"Oh, oh, okay, thank you Mr. Yan for your help, we will take care of the rest." At Yan Shixun's urging, the staff members finally woke up from their dream, and quickly took advantage of the situation to push the car body from under the ridge of the field back to the middle of the country road.
"But Mr. Yan." One of the staff members couldn't help but ask out of curiosity: "Could it be that what the director said is true? Do you really know some unscientific things? For example, a spell to increase strength or something. I saw you seemed to be chanting something just now."
"You have such a rich imagination. Have you watched too many movies?" Yan Shixun took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the dirt off his hands.
The staff member scratched his head in embarrassment. "Ah, Mr. Yan is really strong. We were all unable to lift it just now, but you did it in no time. And I seemed to see light in your hand just now? Just like before in Guishan."
Yan Shixun seemed to think that the staff's guess was outrageous, and followed the other party's words with a smile: "However, I do have a way to increase my strength. Do you want to know?"
The staff came over curiously and listened attentively.
Then I heard Yan Shixun say——
"Do you know Popeye? Remember to eat more spinach. It not only makes you stronger, but is also good for your eyes. You can even see the golden light. Do you have astigmatism?"
Staff: “…”
The split-screen audience was just as curious as the staff: [……]
[Fuck, this is a great excuse. I just took out my little notebook, thinking Brother Yan was going to share some secret book. But, this is it? This is it? ? ? ]
[Hahaha, Popeye loves to eat spinach. What Brother Yan said is very scientific. His train of thought is completely different from that little brother.]
[But what Brother Yan did just now really shocked me. This car must weigh at least one ton, and he lifted it up by himself! Brother Yan’s strength is amazing.]
[Instantaneous explosive power, isn't it said that when a person's potential is stimulated, their strength can reach three times their normal strength? And looking at the smoothness of Brother Yan's muscles, it doesn't look like the dead muscles that many people train in the gym just to look good. It should be the result of years of high-intensity exercise training, so it's normal for him to have strength.]
[? ? Why are you all so scientific? It seems that I, who believe that Brother Yan just used other metaphysical methods, am incompatible with you.]
[But this is too real. The road is blocked and needs to be temporarily changed. The tires are stuck in the mud. Isn't this the troublesome thing you will encounter when you travel by car? The script of this program is too good! It is so immersive. Even though I can't go out because of the heavy rain, I feel like I am traveling outside. It's cool.]
[Fuck, fuck! ! Oats, I'm so excited, Brother Yan is so handsome this time! Did you see the muscle lines of Brother Yan just now? Sorry, I'm superficial. I just saw the beautiful face of Brother Yan in the screenshot, and I fell in love with him. I didn't expect that I would become a fan of such a good figure! ]
[Hey, wipe your saliva, Yanmai in front of you, Brother Yan is going to dislike you, okay? But Brother Yan is really, this overwhelming sense of hormones and power, now I am like a pervert, slapping my thighs like crazy at home and smiling like an aunt! It's so amazing, so amazing! ]
[Did you install surveillance cameras in my house? Take them down! How did you know I was laughing so pervertedly right now? I slapped your thighs until they turned red.]
[Why take a screenshot? Just stand there!]
[This is the first time I’ve seen a star wear Martin boots to create such a powerful effect. And when Brother Yan just jumped off the road and flew into the air, I finally understood what power brings sexiness.]
[Yes, and I think after Brother Yan was covered in mud, the picture was even cooler and more impactful. If I hadn’t been watching the live broadcast, and someone had shown me this screenshot separately, I would have thought it was a photo from a fashion magazine.]
Yan Shixun quickly helped the logistics vehicle solve the dilemma. He immediately bent his long legs slightly and jumped onto the country road nimbly and easily.
The assistant director quickly thanked Yan Shixun and said that they would take care of the remaining chores right away and catch up with the convoy immediately.
But Yan Shixun didn't notice that when he bent his legs and jumped, because of his posture, his cell phone was squeezed out from the depths of his pocket and slipped out.
With a slight "bang" sound, it fell into the weeds and dead branches beside it.
When walking back to the guest car, Yan Shixun noticed a pair of gazes that were always secretly falling on him. If he hadn't calmed down and sensed it, he would have missed it.
Yan Shixun raised his head sharply, and looked back straight ahead with eyes as sharp as a blade.
Behind the dark-colored car glass that was treated with a privacy one-way mirror function, a clearly outlined profile was vaguely projected in the dim light of the cloudy day.
He frowned, unable to compare himself with anyone in the car.
"Brother Yan?" Zhang Wubing saw Yan Shixun stop not far from the car and couldn't help wondering, "What's wrong? Is the situation over there very difficult?"
"No, it's been taken care of. They'll be here soon."
Yan Shixun knocked on the car door with the small red flag in his hand, attracting the attention of all the guests. They all looked at him, and then stepped into the car: "Don't worry, everyone. We're just taking another route."
The minor incident was resolved, and the director's car and the guest car quickly set off again after being tidied up, heading for Wild Wolf Peak along the newly planned route.
However, Yan Shixun still remembered what the driver said before, that he saw a face, so he moved to the seat next to the driver.
The driver, who was originally frightened, suddenly felt that his body, which was chilled by the cold wind in the rainy day, was as if it was close to a small sun burning with vitality after Yan Shixun sat down. The fear and coldness were all dispelled, and the hands that were shaking while holding the steering wheel stopped shaking.
The vehicle started again.
The guests in the car did not think as much as Yan Shixun did. They were only concerned with saving other people when the car braked suddenly. They did not hear the driver say that he saw a face. They just thought it was because the road was difficult to drive on due to the rain.
They soon resumed their previous liveliness and started talking and laughing again. With the variety show star leading the group, the show had quite a variety show effect.
But Bai Shuang always felt that her body was shivering with cold. Even though she was sitting on the car seat with her clothes on, it felt like the wind was blowing in from all sides, and it was so cold that made her feel uneasy.
"Is the air conditioning in the car too low?" she muttered in confusion, pulling out a hiking jacket from her backpack and putting it on.
With Yan Shixun beside him, the driver seemed to feel at ease and drove the car steadily.
Yan Shixun was also scanning the scenery outside the car window while holding a tablet and answering questions in the barrage and comment section in a casual manner.
"Why do you want to be a tour guide? You should ask Zhang Wubing."
He replied with a bored look on his face: "As a tour guide, I have to manage the comments section and barrage. I won't sleep in the back seat of the car anymore. It's so annoying. So when you post comments, please be positive and healthy, and don't add extra workload to me."
"Why am I so strong? Just eat more fruits and vegetables, especially spinach, and eat a healthy diet. I am just an ordinary person. Every time I see you asking this kind of question, I almost think I am living hundreds of years ago. Believe in science, watch fewer movies and read more books."
Because the live broadcast main screen was aimed at the guests, Yan Shixun, who was sitting at the front of the car, was not in the main screen's camera, so many viewers and fans ran from the main screen to his split screen in order to see him.
When they heard Yan Shixun solemnly and confidently asking them to believe in science, many old viewers who had watched Guishan’s journey laughed out loud.
[Brother Yan, stop pretending. I can see you calculating with your hands. You have been calculating all the time and have never stopped.]
Yan Shixun curled his lips unhappily, raised his hand that was just calculating and still in this gesture, and said to the camera: "I have ADHD."
[……]
[Forget it, forget it. I’m a fan myself. I believe it!]
Yan Shixun didn’t care whether they believed it or not. As long as they didn’t post unscientific content that would cause the program’s live broadcast rights to be blocked, he wouldn’t bother to care.
As his eyes casually swept out of the car window, he was attracted by a scarecrow in the distant field.
Yan Shixun had excellent eyesight and could clearly see the extremely lifelike scarecrow wearing human clothes.
In most areas, in order to prevent birds from eating crops, a scarecrow is placed in the field to drive away birds.
But this scarecrow was the most realistic and strange one Yan Shixun had ever seen.
Its body is not as sloppy as other scarecrows, but has real hands and feet like a human, and its exposed shoulders and neck can be mistaken for a human body if you don't look closely. The clothes it wears are very long, directly covering the long pole used to fix its body, so that at first glance from a distance it looks like it is standing in the field by itself.
Its eyes were covered by the straw hat, and Yan Shixun could only see the lower half of its face.
The villagers may have taken the easy way out or just used whatever materials they had. The face of the scarecrow was made of paper money from the funeral procession of the dead, just like the paper figures in the mourning hall.
A bright red mouth and two blush spots were painted on the scarecrow's pale paper face. The rain soaked the paper, causing the bright red paint to flow down the scarecrow's lifeless paper face, forming blood-like red streaks on the pale paper, which looked extremely weird.
Yan Shixun felt uncomfortable looking at this face, but he stared at the scarecrow for a long time until the car passed by and he could no longer see the scarecrow, and he didn't find anything wrong.
Is he being too suspicious?
Yan Shixun frowned, puzzled by the fact that he had been alert several times but to no avail.
Bai Shuang, who was sitting against the car window, did see the scarecrow in the distance, but her eyesight was not as good as Yan Shixun's. Even if she squinted her eyes, she could only vaguely see the outline of a person.
The scarecrow's trousers covered its lower body, but the red painted pole supporting it was too long and went straight through its head.
So when Bai Shuang took a first look, she almost thought that it was a person pierced from head to toe on a pole. She screamed in fright and quickly covered her mouth.
When An Nanyuan looked over in confusion, she lowered her voice and pointed outside the window and asked, "Look over there, is there someone there?"
When the variety show host heard this, he turned around and saw that it was a scarecrow and laughed: "Did Bai Shuang grow up in the city? This is a scarecrow, not a real person. It's used to scare away birds in the fields."
After hearing this, Bai Shuang took another look and smiled embarrassedly: "Oh, it's a scarecrow. Excuse me, I'm sorry. This scarecrow looks... a little ugly indeed."
The variety show star laughed: "It's OK as long as he looks like a human, looks are not that important."
The car sped past amid laughter.
The fields fell into deathly silence again.
Under the gloomy sky, raindrops suddenly fell and quickly became larger and larger.
The rain blocked out all sounds. In the deserted wilderness, there were no villages or curling smoke. There was only cold, untended fields, and...
The small stone embedded in the scarecrow's face as eyeballs turned, and he lifted his straw hat stiffly and slowly, revealing a pair of pure black eyes with messy lines that looked like a child's doodles. He followed the convoy passing by on the road in the distance, slowly turning his head and looking in the direction.
Suddenly, a piece of rotten paper fell from its pale paper money face, right at the mouth.
It was like the scarecrow opened its bright red mouth.
Laughing.
Silent, crazy, malicious...
Although the incident at Ghost Mountain was successfully resolved in the end, Haiyun Temple still did not completely let go of the worry, and instead left a Taoist priest to keep an eye on the show.
In addition, most of the middle-aged and young Taoist priests in Haiyun Temple grew up practicing by listening to the legendary stories of Master Chengyun decades ago, so they are also very curious about Master Chengyun's disciples.
Taoist Master Ma, who was assigned the task of watching the live broadcast, did not find the job boring. Instead, he watched it with great interest and thought that Uncle Chengyun's disciple was indeed interesting.
However, as he watched, the smile on Master Ma's face gradually disappeared.
He suddenly realized that the destination of the program crew's journey this time was Wild Wolf Peak.
——It’s still Wild Wolf Peak on a rainy day!
Taoist Priest Ma quickly took out his cell phone and sent a message to his personal account that he had obtained from Yan Shixun last time.
[Junior Brother Yan, are you heading to Wild Wolf Peak now?]
[Don’t go! Come back soon! The Wild Wolf Peak on a rainy day is not the Wild Wolf Peak!]
However, Master Ma anxiously watched his phone for a long time, but he did not get a reply from Yan Shixun. The message he sent always showed "unread".
Beside a ridge of a field where rain was pouring down, a cell phone screen suddenly lit up, but the faint light was not enough to penetrate the gradually darkening rainy night sky.
A bony claw suddenly stretched out from the side, grabbed the dead branches and mud, and crushed the little bit of light.
“Crack!”
Yan Shixun suddenly opened his eyes, and the sleepiness from his short nap was gone.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, hitting the car windows like hail, making people worry that the windows would be broken.
Even the guests who had been laughing and making noise in the back of the car lowered their voices unconsciously, and their weak and trembling voices exposed their fear.
In the wilderness on a rainy night, the car's high beam was the only light. Driving on the long, deserted road, it was so dim that it seemed like it would be swallowed up by the surrounding darkness and silence at any time.
When people are in a situation where they are in a desperate situation and cannot get any external help, they will subconsciously have a sense of crisis even if they do not need it for the time being.
Several guests who usually live in the city felt inexplicably nervous when they looked out the car window at the vast wilderness with no people, lights, or buildings.
The dirt road the vehicle was traveling on extended all the way between two high mountains in the distance, as if leading to a completely unknown world through a gate guarded by a ferocious gate god.
The car body was constantly shaking due to the rocks on the road and the wind blowing from the front, and it even tilted at a very large angle a few times, as if it was about to be blown over.
Even Yan Shixun, who was sitting in the car, could feel the strong wind coming in through the gaps in the car window glass and blowing directly on his face.
Although he couldn't see clearly in the dark, Yan Shixun still judged that there was a narrow gap between two mountains ahead based on the vaguely visible mountains and the wind.
Also known as, vent.
In Feng Shui, this kind of terrain is called "Wind-blowing Alley". The stronger the wind, the greater the evil, and it is a dangerous place.
From common sense, for such strong winds to occur, the narrow opening in front is likely to be very narrow, barely wide enough for a car to pass through. If the vision is poor or the reaction is not timely, it is likely to be scraped against the mountain. Landslides are more likely to occur on rainy days, and vehicles have no way to avoid falling rocks.
“We can’t go any further.”
Yan Shixun said calmly, "Driver, notify the car in front and behind to stop. We can't pass the mountain road ahead tonight. Let's look for a village nearby to stay for the time being."
Upon hearing this, the driver, who was already driving nervously, quickly called Zhang Wubing and asked him to stop the director's car in front.
However, when he called the logistics vehicle behind him, he only heard a "beep" sound coming from the receiver.
"No signal? No way. I'll stop slowly to give them time to react." The driver put down his phone in a daze, slowly slowed down and parked on the side of the road.
No signal? Aren't the cars in front and behind less than a kilometer apart? How could they get through to Zhang Wubing but not to the cars behind?
Before the car stopped, Yan Shixun immediately turned around and looked back.
Then, his heart sank.
——There is no car behind.
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