16 Chapter 16 (Three in One)
◎The hearse is out, hundreds of coffins are parading through the night◎
Ye Ping'an quickly let go of the box, preventing him from running into him with tears and snot.
When she moved, Boss Liu screamed in fear and crawled a few meters to the side. "Ghost! Don't, don't come over here!"
Ye Pingan: ...
I know you feel embarrassed, but why are you still cursing at me?
Ye Pingan picked up the phone speechlessly, "Do you want me to call 120 for you?"
The familiar calm voice finally made the car dealership owner, who was crawling on the ground, stop.
He looked up with his eyes wide open, then closed them in disbelief, then opened them again. "...Boss Xiaoye? It was you? You drove the ghost away?"
"I just saw a cardboard box. How could there be a ghost? Feudal superstitions are a bad idea. Don't scare yourself all the time." Seeing that he was so nervous that his face turned pale, Ye Ping'an kindly gave his business partner a way out:
"Isn't it just that he accidentally fell in while practicing acrobatics and got stuck? Just like that video online where someone fell into a box. I didn't expect Boss Liu to have such great size and flexibility. He's a master of space management."
Boss Liu, still in shock, collapsed on the ground, gasping for breath, repeating subconsciously, "Fell in...? I almost suffocated in there! Xiao Liu is still unconscious!"
"Uncle?" Xiao Liu opened his eyes drowsily. "I think I fell asleep in the cardboard box? I think I saw you here too, uncle? I slept so soundly."
Ye Pingan looked at him, then at Boss Liu, and said earnestly, "Old Liu, the cardboard box may be big, but with two of you both so big, squeezing into one box, there wouldn't be enough oxygen. How could you not feel dizzy?"
Old Liu opened his mouth.
Don't mention it, it makes damn sense.
Turning to look again, the cardboard box lay overturned on the ground, its surface covered in dust. The opening of the box was slightly deformed, the lid was cracked, and the edges of the torn kraft paper were visible.
The bottom of the box was clearly visible through the sunlight coming through the skylight. It was empty, not at all the bottomless abyss I had imagined.
Apart from the material, it looks like an ordinary cardboard box.
Old Liu wiped his sweat and said, "Thank you so much, Boss Ye, for today! If it weren't for you, I don't know when I would be able to get out of this situation."
Even if you scare yourself, you might be scared to death.
Old Liu still feels scared when he looks at the cardboard box, and he speaks quite sincerely.
"Have you picked out your drinks? Well, I won't make any profit, I'll just give them to you at the wholesale price. Let's add each other as friends, and I'll be the first to notify you of new arrivals or new cars. If today's car doesn't appeal to you, find one next time you like it. I'll take care of all the paperwork, car washes, and other small details. Just consider it a friendship."
Ye Ping'an looked at him suspiciously.
What is this? Hush money?
"Okay. Come for dinner when you have time." Ye Ping'an handed him a business card.
"Of course, of course." Boss Liu breathed a sigh of relief as if he had accomplished an important task.
"Hurry up and get the cart!" He glared at the confused relative, supported himself on the ground, and tried to stand up. "Wait a minute, I'll get you some drinks."
"I didn't bring such a big bag when I came out..." Ye Ping'an looked around and bent down to pick up the cardboard box lying on the ground.
"Don't!"
The white palms easily deflated the cardboard box, and the bottom of the box folded inward like a non-woven bag, and was picked up harmlessly.
Ye Ping'an dusted off his hands and shook the cardboard box in confusion, "Do you want to keep this cardboard box? Then I'll find another one."
“No, no, no, no need.” Old Liu leaned back frantically, his head almost falling to the ground. “This is for you, this is for you.”
Ye Pingan was satisfied.
Not bad, not bad. I got a good deal on the drink and also got a high-quality box for free.
When I buy a car, I can use boxes to pack the vegetables so they don’t run around in the trunk.
Ye Ping'an took a few steps and found that no one was following him.
Looking back, Xiao Liu, who had just woken up, was rubbing his eyes and busy looking for tools. Lao Liu, holding onto the shelf with trembling legs, moved forward step by step, but after a long time, he had not taken more than two steps.
I guess it’s because he’s old and twisted his waist when he was crawling into the box.
"I'll be there right away." Old Liu forced an awkward smile.
He wanted to follow him out, but his weak legs refused to obey.
Afraid that Ye Ping'an would get impatient, he slapped his forehead and said, "Okay. Xiao Liu! Go and bring the drinks you've picked to the door, and we'll pay together later. I'll drive it back to Boss Ye. Boss Ye, we still have time this afternoon, so why don't you let Xiao Liu accompany you to test drive some cars and see which model suits you best? I'll look for some cheaper ones for you."
"You can drive any car you want. If it's going well, you can drive it freely before you decide on a new car. If you want a van, you'll have to drive it farther and on more terrain to see the difference. There used to be flat dirt and stone roads on the highway where you could just turn a few corners and try them out, but now that's no longer possible. You'll be caught by the surveillance cameras if you drive there. I guess it's because of the car accident at the highway exit a while ago."
Old Liu sighed and casually asked, "By the way, do you have a driver's license? If you have a license, Xiao Liu doesn't need to follow. I trust Boss Ye's character."
"Yes." Ye Ping'an touched his nose.
Well... if you have a license, you have it. The traffic rules are the same and there is no problem with it being universal.
"Oh oh." Xiao Liu ran out, still a little sleepy, and only then noticed Ye Ping'an's presence. He bowed stupidly, "Hello, Boss Ye! I'll go to the store to get the car keys."
As the two young men left, the warehouse suddenly became quiet. The car dealer felt a chill on his back and quickened his pace to leave.
I just entered the car dealership to choose a car, but we couldn't agree on the price and quality, so we didn't even get to the test drive stage.
The cars here are similar to those before crossing over, but Ye Pingan used to drive more jeeps and motorcycles, and rarely encountered vans that were specifically designed for transporting goods. Now, the cars in the entire car dealership are open to you. He drove slowly and looked at the cars. In a blink of an eye, it was dark.
The car park is located in a remote suburb and is quite large. As long as you don't drive on the road without a license, you can always go around the yard from the car park and come back.
The queue at the highway toll station in the distance was stuck in a long queue, and the sound of car horns and radio speakers was one after another, as noisy as a vegetable market.
Even across a few side roads, Ye Ping'an could hear people swearing on the highway.
"Didi - There are road repairs and traffic restrictions on the highway ahead. Passing time will be extended. Drivers, please queue up in an orderly manner and drive slowly..."
"Road construction, road construction, all they do all day is build roads! They're working from the outside of the highway to the inside, and it's been a month and it's still not fixed. You told me to slow down on the highway, what are highways for?! Will you let people pass on May Day?"
A protective barrier was erected on a section of the highway, separated by a wall. Candlelight flickered behind the barrier, and dark shadows covered the entire area, swaying in the darkness.
The investigators gritted their teeth at the scolding outside, but still did not dare to slack off at all. They patted their faces to cheer themselves up.
"Whether or not it drives away from this accident site, everyone stay alert. This interprovincial coordinated hunt for the hearse cannot fail in Jiang City."
At other times, failure would at most leave behind a mess, but once Guiyi escapes in Jiang City, a series of bloody incidents will surely occur after being besieged.
In the investigator's headphones, messages from other roundup locations kept ringing.
"Since the May Day holiday, we have intercepted 16 suspected suicide car accidents and busted two True Spirit Society strongholds in Lin Province."
"The strange creature's trap was successful. The hearse has appeared in Sanshan City, Lin Province."
"Alert! The target of the Sanshan City roundup has been split, leaving behind corpses and husks. The hearse itself is on the loose! Correcting the file: The hearse itself may not be the vehicle itself, but the driver is suspected. The number of hidden hearses is unknown. All parties involved should beware of it causing a car accident and a surprise attack!"
Creak——
A tattered taxi drove out of the darkness, and the night became even darker.
The noisy sound of the highway across the wall seemed particularly distant, and the lights seemed cold, as if covered by a layer of ice.
The primitive fear of darkness was sounding the alarm like crazy, so suppressed that it was almost impossible to breathe.
The new investigators who faced the C-level weirdness for the first time couldn't even remember what to do, and could only respond instinctively based on mechanical repetition training.
The candles in their hands burned dimly, outlining the rising black shadows around the car body.
The taxi, which seemed to be illusory and about to disappear, suddenly became much clearer.
The car body was already in tatters, covered in dust, with peeling paint, and even the side of the car was flattened, vaguely exposing the metal frame inside, as if it had just been driven out of a car accident scene.
The candlelight seemed to melt the ground, and a sticky black liquid dripped down the ground as it passed by, revealing the pale bones at the edges of the car body.
The tires seemed to wriggle softly rather than roll, their tread patterns constantly shifting, and it was as if, in a blur, I saw dozens of human faces bulging out from them.
A large, pale face was pressed against the front window of the car's driver's seat. Its facial features were dislocated and deformed, and deeply sunken. At first glance, it looked like a huge piece of white cloth.
His face seemed to be pressed against the glass with all his strength, looking greedily at everyone outside the car.
There was no other figure behind the dirty window. Long necks stretched out from where the seats were originally. Several fat necks like pythons filled the car and connected behind the pale faces.
Bright red tears flowed from the pale ghost face, but its mouth was wide open.
Full of malice and salivating.
He stepped on the accelerator and rushed straight to where the most people were.
The wheels rolled, and the sticky black liquid dripping down swayed and wavered. It seemed as if a road stretched out in the shadows, overlapping with the real road.
In the shadows, countless branches sprouted wildly on either side of the car, like ghostly hands, pinching the narrow road in one direction. The black asphalt road stretched out tentacles flowing with black liquid, transforming into a swamp of water ghosts reaching out to grab people. Suddenly, they grabbed the investigator at the edge of the candlelight and pulled him unconsciously towards the car.
“Ring, ring, ring—”
The old telephone ringtone suddenly rang out in the rapidly accelerating taxi.
It wasn't in the carriage, but more like deep in the vehicle frame, with a buzzing echo.
In the carriage filled with long necks, a few sharp hairs and teeth vaguely grew out in the corners, chewing on the fat necks.
They quickly faded, but the second time the phone rang, it was clearer, as if it were ringing right inside the car.
“Ring, ring, ring—”
The fat necks in the car swelled up. One of them bulged outward, forming a bulge like the outline of a cell phone.
As the ringing continued, the outline of the bulge became more and more obvious.
The phone was attached to two twisted and deformed hands, the outline of the forearm growing on the bulging head...
Behind that swollen, fat face, where is the neck connected?
It was clearly the driver and the bodies of countless other people connected together, corpses growing on top of corpses, arms holding up the seats, legs stacked together to form a millipede-like vehicle!
“Ring, ring, ring—”
As soon as the second ringing stopped, a third rang out in rapid succession. It wasn't just coming from one phone; the outlines of phones were bulging out from the fat inside the car.
The cell phones were embedded in the bloodless flesh, having long since run out of battery and become scrapped, yet at this moment they were ringing one after another, all at once.
The bells rang all around the taxi.
The ringing cell phones were like countless nails, protruding from the car, pinning their snake-like, stretched necks to the taxi.
The third time the call was automatically connected after only one ring.
All the mobile phones embedded in the car made the same sound:
"This is the Jiang City Action Detachment, Hu Tu. We found you."
Hu Tu held the old-fashioned cell phone stained with blood against his chest. His voice was soft but firm enough.
"I found you... I found you..." The repeated voice of the phone in the carriage inexplicably had a whispering echo, turning into a shrill and vicious whisper in her ear, as if another person was repeating her voice.
Creak——
The thin and frail woman looked like she would fall down at the slightest gust of wind. The taxi braked suddenly and stopped just one step away from her.
The neck growing out of the carriage behind the face was like a nailed snake, shaking and struggling constantly.
The pale ghost face stopped smiling, and the driver's empty and stiff eyes tilted down, stuck to the car window, staring straight at Hu Tu.
Old Li resisted the urge to look at the captain with concern, pulled out a pair of black scissors, and surrounded the taxi with the others.
The tip of the scissors fell on the car window, creating a ripple like liquid.
Before the car was opened, the driver, who was pinned to the spot by the ringing of the phone, had a strange look on his face.
BANG!!!
A loud crash rang out from the investigators' headphones.
"The surrounded [hearse] vehicle disintegrated, injuring several people before disappearing."
"A car accident occurred at the interception point in City X, and the vehicle that was being rounded up escaped."
“…”
Terrible news of car accidents came in from all over the country. Streams of sticky black liquid gushed out of the carriages, covering the drivers' pale faces and disappearing in the blink of an eye.
The driver's seat was empty, and all that remained was a hearse made of bloody corpses, which began to stagger as if it was about to fall apart.
"Escaped."
Old Li successfully tore open the car window with the scissors, but his heart sank.
It seems that the vehicle is really just a carrier for this strange appearance. In this way, as long as there are cars involved in the [hearse] accident outside, it will be easier for it to escape, hide and kill people.
The smelly black water splashed everywhere like blood, and the sharp blades of the scissors were like dry land, and all the black water that fell on it disappeared.
The phone in Hu Tu's hand was already covered in blood, like a blood-red phone case. She shook it palely, pressed her chest, and sternly shouted, "Scatter and intercept! Don't give it a chance to cause another car accident!"
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The noise from the highway could be heard in the distance, and there were faint flashes of lights. It was probably some enthusiast who got tired of waiting and started a light show to entertain himself.
The highway was brightly lit, but the small roads after exiting the highway seemed even darker.
The roar of an old engine like a bellows came from afar. Ye Ping'an turned on the car lights, illuminating a car turning out of the dim road from afar.
A shabby bus had been unearthed from some unknown corner. Its doors were missing, its lights were broken, and its seats were tilted and twisted. Even the front window was covered in spiderweb-like cracks, looking like it could fall apart at any moment.
But it stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, the speed soared, and the noise was deafening.
Bang!
The bus didn't turn the corner, but instead drove out to the side and crashed headfirst into the concrete platform on the side of the road. The sound of the crash echoed simultaneously with the sounds of many other arrest areas.
"Good boy, it's okay to just crash into the roadside. Is the driver asleep?"
Ye Ping'an braked lightly, and reversed the car just in case, staying away from the accident scene.
If the bus overturned, even though her Wuling minivan was a durable car, it would not be able to withstand the impact.
"Wait...why does this car look familiar?"
The bus window glass made a creaking sound as it shook, and as the car crashed, the skinny and pale driver slammed his head against the steering wheel.
He quickly sat up straight, held the steering wheel, and continued to perform his work as if no car accident had happened at all.
Blood was oozing from his broken forehead, but the blood flow was much slower than that of an ordinary person, and the dark red blood soaked the work badge on his chest.
"Xingkui Real Estate, Wang Qiang."
The blood that flowed onto the steering wheel was like being absorbed by a sponge and quickly disappeared into thin air.
The bus seat began to become soft and cold. Wang Qiang felt a sharp pain in his forehead and his body seemed to be stuck in a swamp, unable to escape.
"The descent of God was successful... Haha, the descent of God was successful! As expected, the gods are looking after me. I have been resurrected within the gods, and I am destined to possess the power of the [hearse]!"
Wang Qiang's eyes were bloodshot and he laughed excitedly in the driver's seat.
The man's pale face was reflected in the cracked rearview mirror. It was clear that only his forehead was broken, but it was as if he had been hit by a huge force, and his skull was gradually sunken from the top.
Become...
Exactly the same as the other pale, flat face.
Wang Qiang raised his hand stiffly and turned the steering wheel. "I'm going to the company and hit him to death. Yes, hit them to death!"
The bus that had just been in an accident started to move slowly. Wang Qiang's blurred vision vaguely saw another car on the road ahead.
He subconsciously wanted to run, but quickly remembered: "What I have now is a hearse! If there is another car accident and more people are swallowed up, the hearse will be even stronger, right?"
Wang Qiang grinned, "Be my sacrifice!"
Drops of sticky black liquid oozed from the carriage, flowing onto the road, casting a chilling shadow. The shattered headlights emitted two beams of pale white light, with faint, twisted shadows wriggling at the edges of the light, covering the entire area.
The bus drove straight towards the minivan. Even though their headlights were clearly illuminating each other, the bus did not slow down at all.
Even faster.
As the bus got closer, Ye Ping'an looked more and more familiar.
Seeing the familiar face, her eyes lit up, "...Isn't this the No. 140 bus that ran away last night? I haven't seen it for a night, and it's become so shabby that I almost didn't recognize it."
Ye Pingan released the brake, drove towards the bus, rolled down the window and shouted, "Hey! Driver, you're just in time! You didn't pay for the midnight snack yesterday!"
Wang Qiang vaguely heard the woman shouting from the opposite side and smiled contemptuously.
Asking Guiyi for money? How could someone be so stupid!
Two cars were heading towards each other, and in the few seconds it took for the car to be shouted at, it was already very close.
Wang Qiang stepped on the accelerator, as if he had already seen the scene of the minivan being run over and exploding with blood.
Creak——
The shrill screech of sudden braking drowned out the roar of the bus's engine, and the immense inertia dragged Wang Qiang down, nearly sending him flying. His legs, trapped deep in the driver's seat, caught him, and he slammed his head against the steering wheel.
The blood gushed out like a fountain and quickly disappeared in the carriage.
Wang Qiang was dizzy from the shaking, and his hands on the steering wheel started to turn by themselves. He hit the steering wheel hard, and the car made a 180-degree turn.
The old bus quickly turned around, and the cold shadows spreading everywhere scrambled to climb back onto the bus. Without Wang Qiang remembering to step on the accelerator, the bus had already begun to accelerate wildly, running in the opposite direction faster than it had appeared.
Wang Qiang's eyes were glazed over, and he couldn't recover for a moment. "Run, run away? It's not like you ran into a ghost while walking on the road at night! Aren't you a weird god?!"
In less than 24 hours, I was once again slapped in the face by the taillights. Even the best-tempered person couldn't stand it.
Ye Pingan was furious, "Running again?"
With a step on the accelerator, the minivan emits a deep roar.
The wheels rolled over the sticky road surface, and the ghost hands that stretched out from the black liquid swamp were crushed into pieces.
The van drifted across the intersection and blocked the corner in front of the bus, forcing it to stop.
The bus braked suddenly and was forced to stop, all parts clanging and clattering, as if it had been driven too hard and was about to fall apart.
Wang Qiang's head was covered in blood and he could no longer understand what was happening.
"Would a strange spirit with extraordinary power also be afraid?"
What about that woman opposite?
She talks about money all the time, just like any ordinary businessperson who loves money.
But is it really the same?
Even those investigators who were so arrogant as to try to stop the gods didn't dare to rush in front of the strange gods so carelessly!
Ye Pingan opened the car door and got out, sneering, "I finally met you, but you got away alone. I drove for nothing!"
Wang Qiang watched her getting closer and closer, and he shuddered, sobering up a little from his frenzied excitement. He reached out to hold the steering wheel with trembling hands.
He had to escape, yes, he had to use the power of the gods to escape quickly.
He didn't dare to imagine what would happen if he went against a "person" that even the gods feared.
But his hands seemed glued to the steering wheel, unable to move.
What's going on?
He finally realized that his body was stuck in the driver's seat and he couldn't move. He couldn't even control a finger, let alone start the bus.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw "my own" pale and swollen face in the driver's seat in the rearview mirror, which was deeply sunken, with only a hint of a familiar outline.
Is this... the resurrection among the gods that is circulated in the True Spirit Society?
Is this really the power of the gods after resurrection, rather than being swallowed by the gods and becoming another sacrifice?
It felt like a swamp had grown under the driver's seat, swallowing up Wang Qiang bit by bit.
In his final vision, all he could see was his own reflection in the rearview mirror, crawling up like a snake and leaping out the driver's door. But he also saw the shadowy figures of cars driving out of the darkness outside.
Wang Qiang finally understood that he had become part of this car, left behind to block its pursuit. It was no different from the other cars that had been abandoned when the Bureau of Investigation rounded up the hearse today.
Ye Pingan stepped over the broken car door and exclaimed in surprise, "Why is the coin box gone and the chair broken?"
I don't know what happened to the bus last night. The walls of the car were splashed with smelly liquid all over, black mixed with dark red. It was so dirty that it couldn't even be called performance art.
The seats that had seemed fine yesterday were now cracked and toppled. Black water, like decay, oozed out of the cracks, and unidentified fragments lay scattered on the ground. Upon closer inspection, some looked like they had been torn apart by vicious beasts, while others resembled fragments of flesh scratched out by fingernails and hair.
The only relatively intact part of the entire car is the driver's seat, but it doesn't look worth much at first glance.
It's broken, and the driver still wants to drive it out when it's so damaged. Will he have no money to pay the bill?
She had clearly only taken out 25 yuan yesterday. Nowadays, everyone has their money in their mobile banking account! It shouldn't have turned out like this.
Could it be...
Ye Ping'an's pace quickened instantly, catching up with the driver who was climbing up quickly. "Driver, you weren't robbed last night, right?"
As soon as he grabbed the collar, the driver in Ye Ping'an's hand deflated quickly like a deflated balloon, leaving only a white driver's seat.
In the darkness behind the bus, several cars drove out slowly one after another.
In the blink of an eye, a familiar pale face appeared on the oncoming car.
"It's good for middle-aged and elderly people to exercise and maintain their physical strength. The driver is surprisingly agile given his size. He runs really fast and can even slip out of the way wearing a leather suit."
Ye Pingan wiped his hands in disgust and held the steering wheel of the bus, "Run? I passed the A license test!"
The steering wheel of the truck was as nimble as a toy in Ye Ping'an's hands. He controlled the bus as if it were his own arm. The tires made a loud squeaking and friction sound, and he turned sideways in an instant to block the convoy.
The car coming from behind was blocked by the bus before it could drive into the darkness and leave.
The wheels rolled over the dark road, and the shadows were boiling.
Under the shadows of the overlapping roads, it seemed as if countless hideous faces were trying to squeeze out of the black liquid swamp, knock it away, and struggle to leave, but they were just fleeting shadows and were quickly crushed.
"You thought I couldn't catch up with you by changing a car? Do you have the guts to keep running?"
As Ye Ping'an got closer, the car began to shake, and the doors and glass trembled, looking like they were about to fall off.
His pale face was pressed against the car window, and his eyeballs were desperately moving away from her, pretending that nothing happened, like trying to cover up his ears and steal the bell.
“Get off…get off…stop picking up passengers…”
The rapid, repetitive sound was like a scream, and if you listened closely, it was very similar to the announcement on a bus. The car stereo seemed to have a damaged audio source, repeating the same phrase over and over again.
"Your car player needs repairing."
As soon as Ye Ping'an finished speaking, the sound immediately became quiet.
"Do you think replacing a junky car will help? Yesterday, I was so kind as to ask for a small amount of compensation. Today, even if you want to smash your car and sell it for scrap, you still have to pay me!"
Ye Ping'an leaned through the car window, grabbed the driver's collar, and said confidently, "It's only natural to pay back a debt. Don't worry, I'm a law-abiding citizen. I won't go through a lot of trouble. I'll just pay four times the loan interest rate."
squeak--
The driver who had just been pulled over had another flat tire, and a ball of white fat rolled out of the other side window and appeared on the next car that had just arrived.
The driver stared at Ye Ping'an blankly, his neck hunched behind the car window, only half sitting in the driver's seat. It seemed as if he was waiting for her to come, but also as if he was expecting her to leave quickly.
Ye Pingan laughed angrily, "Yesterday's midnight snack for seven or eight people only cost a little over a hundred yuan. You wouldn't spend so much money and then just run away with it, right?"
A specially customized rubber holster for fat bodies costs more than a midnight snack! If you have money to burn, give it to her!
The traffic was stuck in traffic, so I didn't know what the point of running was.
Ye Ping'an walked over and knocked on the car door, dissatisfied, "Or do you think I shouldn't ask for compensation? Did you deliberately bring people here to disgust me today?"
The driver shuddered.
Cars kept coming from far away at the end of the path, squeezing in behind the cars stuck in traffic. In the shadows, the road seemed to have no end in sight.
On the edge of Lin Province, the highway intersection connecting Huaxi City and Jiang City was half blocked.
The complaints outside the isolation wall never stopped. The series of traffic accidents in the past ten minutes and the vehicles that were stopped and attempted to cause traffic accidents made the entire highway intersection noisy.
"Are you crazy? A psychopath driving on the highway and hitting someone?? Coming out to the newspaper office on a holiday? That's too much!"
Inside the isolation wall, the Huaxi City investigators wiped their sweat and breathed a sigh of relief as they looked at the carcasses and vehicles tightly wrapped with ropes.
"Luckily, the hearse we caught here was just a small car that didn't take many people with it. We can still stop it if it gets into an accident and flees. Xiao Zhang, come up with an explanation quickly. If we don't report the situation quickly, the cooperating police will be scolded again."
"I've been thinking about it. I was just looking at the Jiang City announcement for reference! I thought I wouldn't have to write official documents after joining the bureau. If I had known, I wouldn't have given my civil service exam materials to anyone."
Xiao Zhang frowned. "Speaking of which, the pressure next door is much greater than ours right now. First, it's closer to the headquarters, and second, Captain Hu has a C-level monster in his possession. Once [Ghost Call] revives, its combat power will be doubled, and the relatively safe city will be more vulnerable to panic. I can't even imagine how much stronger the monster will become after those lunatics sacrifice it."
"Don't worry, Xiao Zhang! Just got some news! Captain Hu next door trapped the hearse itself. If it hadn't escaped by relying on the pattern of car accidents, the roundup might have been successful by now. No wonder Captain Hu was able to keep Jiang City free of so many big ghosts and blockades. He's truly amazing!"
The investigators couldn't help but gasp in amazement, "If only I could be that powerful... No, no, it would be great to be as strong as our Captain Yan!"
The investigators chatted to drive away their sleepiness and focused their attention on dealing with the sealed-off vehicle with corpses.
The person in charge, who had just taken action, rested to the side, not bothering to pay attention to the little bastards' nonsense. Her vitality had been devoured by the strange creature too much, and when the noise around her stopped, she felt sleepy.
...Wait, no sound?
Captain Yan suddenly opened her eyes, and everything she saw made her unable to react for a moment.
Shadows spread out from under the wheels, ghost hands formed a forest, and the companions who were just chatting and laughing were hanging on the "tree branches" and were dragged towards the corpse vehicle that was gradually regaining its shape.
There were a few unfamiliar faces on the "tree branches", clearly ordinary people who had been drawn into the den of evil from outside the quarantine area.
Xiao Zhang was closest to her. He stretched out his hand with all his strength under the pressure of fear, but failed to grab the corner of her clothes to wake her up.
Xiao Zhang was pierced by the black mucus condensed from the strange aura. He could not see the blood flowing, but his face quickly turned pale.
The shadows on the swamp-like road continued to spread, and the darkness engulfed the entire area. Captain Yan could no longer see outside the isolation zone, and the sounds of cursing on the highway outside were also cut off.
The hearse in the center of the road was covered with a layer of "normal" vehicle skin, and the D-level weird object "hanging rope" wrapped around it was soaked in black sticky liquid and was dragged into the car little by little.
The already weakened five senses were blinded by the strange aura, and the strange objects used were swallowed up and suppressed.
If it weren't for her accumulated experience that made her instinctively feel that something was wrong, she might have been swallowed by the time she came to her senses.
It's a den of ghosts.
Only demons can distort reality.
The miniature ghosts in the hearse had always been limited to a small area inside and around the vehicle, so no one had anticipated the frenzy they would experience when they erupted. Captain Yan even suspected it was approaching the B-level level listed in the data.
Captain Yan vomited a mouthful of black blood and pressed the shortcut button on her phone, sending an emergency message and starting recording. There was usually no signal in the ghost cave, but she had to at least leave some record.
Captain Yan reached into the air and yanked out a hemp rope. Marks of ligature gradually appeared on her neck, and a choking sound squeezed out of her throat. "Stop...!"
Hemp ropes hung from the air, wrapped around the rotating wheels in circles, almost lifting up the front half of the car.
The restarted hearse was much slower than before, but it was still moving forward, dragging the investigators with it into the dark road.
The road was filled with sticky darkness, and a strange atmosphere covered everything. It was boundless, without beginning or end, and no one knew where it led.
The car body gradually took shape, and the figure hanging on the "branch" was suppressed by the erupting ghosts, his face pale and unconscious.
A distorted figure emerged from the driver's seat, its pale face pressed against the car window.
Unlike the real driver in the hearse, the new ghost face's facial features were not as distorted, and there was still a trace of human fanaticism on his face.
It rolled its eyes, greedily surveying its surroundings, its malicious gaze resting on the investigator who was trying to stop it. But only for a brief moment.
"A sacrifice from the True Spirit Society... a sacrifice from a madman. It's impossible for him to remain conscious while being devoured by the strangeness. [Hearse] unleashes all its power, willing to give up on me, its prey. Where are you in such a hurry to go?"
It couldn't possibly be devouring a new sacrificial prey. The vehicles that split from [Hearse] could still kill, and wouldn't stop eating her.
The tires of the vehicles spinning in place made sharp squeaking sounds, the whimpering and crying of ghosts became more and more intense in the wind, and the hallucinations caused by the strange aura made people dizzy.
The hemp ropes hanging in the air broke one by one, and Captain Yan's face turned purple due to lack of oxygen. He was holding on by his last breath.
Huh~
A gust of wind blew from the darkness. Captain Yan struggled to pay attention and looked over, his eyes widening instantly.
car.
One car after another.
Big and small cars, some new and some old, formed a long line.
A dense convoy of vehicles emerged from the Hearse Road, moving forward silently. Each vehicle was shrouded in a murky black shadow, vaguely deformed as it departed, resembling one gigantic black coffin after another.
The hearse is out for the funeral, and hundreds of coffins are parading through the night.
Captain Yan felt like he was falling into an icy cave.
There was no way she could stop so many [hearses]!
wrong.
Except for the car that was already here, the other coffin-like vehicles of all sizes just drove past quickly and disappeared into the darkness ahead. No car stopped.
Like, just passing by.
Captain Yan calmed himself, not having time to think about anything else. He gripped the hemp rope tightly, and the rope slowly pulled the slowing vehicle back. Ghost Hand, dragging its prey, dangled over the edge of the vehicle, and was dragged back along with it.
Even if the world ends, she has to guard this place.
The trapped hearses started moving again one after another, and the encirclement positions were gradually plunged into darkness.
In the command meeting room of the Lin Province Investigation Bureau, which was responsible for this operation, there was an anxious hum.
"No one can reply, but the signal can still be received. The surviving action team is concentrating on dealing with the struggling hearse. We need to dispatch personnel as soon as possible."
"Every intersection where they're being rounded up has a convoy of hearses passing by. What on earth are they trying to do? Have they become stronger and gained their own minds, deliberately trying to create panic?"
"I think it's more like chasing something."
"Could it be that the A-level anomaly detected by the General Administration has appeared?!"
"Perhaps it's the General Administration's advisor, or perhaps the Ghost Controllers who stayed behind to guard the restricted area who just happened to return. They're forcing the [Hearse] to flee desperately, and is it concentrating its strength to try to escape? Forget it, forget it, I'd better not dream. Advisor Tushan can't act rashly. We need people around the restricted area. If they escape from the restricted area, it would be a big disaster."
Amidst the discussion, the data officer hurriedly stood up. "We've analyzed its trajectory! If the hearse follows the previous jump distance, its final destination is likely Jiang City!"
The huge procession of hearses continued to advance, converging into a river.
Cars came from behind one after another, with people vaguely visible behind the windows.
They staggered down and looked straight at Ye Ping'an.
More and more figures gathered, and black liquid continued to surge around the driver, but it disappeared without making a splash.
"There are so many people!" Ye Ping'an's anger turned into excitement in a second.
One, two, three, four... The car dealer was right. There were often convoys and truck drivers passing through here. It was a pity that our shop was far away, so we couldn't do business with them.
Eh?
Ye Pingan suddenly realized and looked at the driver, "You don't have enough money, so you asked your friends to come? With so many people, will they eat?"
"Unfortunately I'm not in the store, I can only wait until I get back..."
Ye Ping'an rolled his eyes. "How about you pull over and I give you a ride? You two look like relatives, so you shouldn't mind riding together, right?"
The people who got off the car looked like they were cast in the same mold, with pale faces and fat bodies.
The person who walked closest was only an arm's length away from Ye Ping'an, standing in front of the car where the driver was sitting, but he could not move forward any further. He could only stare at Ye Ping'an without saying a word.
Ye Pingan talked for a long time but no one responded. He frowned and patted the driver, "Why don't you say anything? Is this okay?"
Every time you slap him, the driver becomes a little shorter, like a hit mole, the more you slap him, the shorter he becomes.
The driver's neck was stiff and his head maintained a strange balance, as if he didn't dare to shake his head or nod.
"Just take it as your agreement." Ye Ping'an spread his hands in front of him, "Add today's mental damages, yesterday's underpayment, medical expenses, and interest for running away with the bill, and give me the money."
Customers who keep running away from paying have no credit in her eyes and must pay first!
The driver shrank in his chair and raised his hand stiffly, holding a binder clip with a dollar in it.
The figures gathered around raised their hands along with him, and one tattered paper roll after another appeared in their hands.
One hundred, two hundred... one dollar, two dollars... There were a lot of banknotes, but most of them were either covered with strange black, dirty stains, or had been gnawed by something with only corners left. They were damaged banknotes that banks could only exchange for a small amount.
Ye Ping'an's mouth twitched in disbelief. "With so many of you, you only have 500 yuan in your pockets? What era is this? Can't we just scan the code?"
The driver's relatives all looked so much alike that it was dark, so I counted them twice. Sometimes there were 33 heads, and sometimes there were 32.
Ye Pingan gave up counting. "Even after deducting the compensation, it's still not enough for tonight's meal. There are so many people here, so come back with me to the warehouse and each of you get a bottle of Coke. It's a little over three yuan a bottle, and I'll only sell it for three yuan! There's internet in the warehouse, just scan the code there to pay."
This way she doesn't have to pay for gas to get back across Jiang City. She's a genius!
"Come on, come on, get in the car." Ye Ping'an smiled broadly, picked up a relative of the driver and drove off, pinching the loose fat and vigorously trying to sell it, "It seems that your relatives are not in good health. Do you want to learn about medicinal food?"
The driver's relative, like him, was quite fat, but the bag seemed weightless in Ye Ping'an's hands. His feet dragged on the ground, leaving a winding black sticky trail.
The figures in the crowd swayed, their bodies expanded one after another, some turned into giants, some had an extra hand out of thin air, they had long necks, and their heads stretched out like snakes to follow Ye Pingan, but they were completely unable to hold back the young boss who had already walked away.
From the rustling car speakers, faint wailing and screaming could be heard. In the shadows, ghostly hands, condensed from black liquid, trembled beneath the wheel tracks, unable to extend a single one.
Ye Ping'an walked past the bus parked on the side of the road and opened the door of a small van that drove out of the dealership.
The cardboard box was leaning against the car door with its dark mouth open. When Ye Ping'an approached, it shrank back slightly without being noticeable.
"Huh? I remember putting it in the trunk. The wind was so strong that it almost blew away." Ye Ping'an grabbed the cardboard box and pushed it back, then turned around with a smile on his face.
She held the driver's relative's arm and led him to the car. "Please get in, guests. There are newspapers on the floor. Please sit down and wait for a moment. We'll leave soon!"
The "relative," who looked exactly like the driver, was pulled back and staggered. His plump flesh swayed, exploding a small piece of rotting skin. Before the debris could hit the ground, it was caught by an open cardboard box.
As Ye Ping'an turned around, the opening of the cardboard box opened wider and wider, and the huge body of his "relative" fell into the cardboard box.
To be precise...it was more like a cardboard box trapped him.
The driver's "relative" still had half of his body exposed, his waist folded in half very softly, and the exposed part was like a string of slime, slowly flowing out.
A pale face just squirmed out from the crack at the edge of the cardboard box, and the lid snapped shut, leaving only a barely visible trace of mucus.
There was no one in the van behind Ye Ping'an, only a cardboard box. After a slight shake, it opened and was still empty.
【Author’s words】
Ten thousand updates! I'm a V now, thank you all for your support!
I've tried it recently and it seems more people read it after midnight, right? [Eat melon] Before the thousands of words are added to the collection on Friday and it's included in the V list, it should be posted at 12 or midnight. It will be a little later on Friday because it's on the list. Kiss everyone!
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