The shabby and smelly cars were wobbling along the little-known mountain roads, and even some difficult-to-observe forest paths were used.
Obviously, this greasy black car driver is still very capable and can be considered a veteran in the local black car world.
Taking this opportunity, William, who was sitting in the back row, asked:
"Master, how much do you know about Huahai Village?"
"You foreigners are really amazing. You speak Mandarin better than me... Flower Sea Village? This is something I know a lot about. After all, most of my expenses come from tourists from other places who go to Flower Sea Village.
There are a large number of jacarandas planted in Huahai Village, and generally speaking, they only bloom from May to June.
But the Flower Sea Village allows the flowering period to continue all year round, so you can get the best travel experience no matter when you go there.
This has a lot to do with the sea god worshipped by the locals. It is said that the local sea god is a beautiful woman who loves flowers very much, especially the jacaranda, which is similar in color to the sea water.
The falling blue flowers will be swept into the sea by the waves and cover the sea surface. That would be a great sight!
Just a month ago, I heard that a group of young people who didn't know what was good for them wanted to increase the traffic of their live broadcast room by exploring the secret of the year-round flowering in the Flower Sea Village, and tried every means to film the secrets of the gods hidden in the village.
One of them seemed to have been given a "low-level gift", and in the end they were able to bypass the layers of guards of the villagers and find the secret place of Huahai Village.
The result was naturally the anger of the Sea God. All the young men, including those who were given low-level gifts, died. Not only that, but the village that was responsible for guarding the shrine that day was also not spared.
Later, more and more innocent tourists died, and it was rumored that their deaths were very tragic. Under pressure, the whole village had to be blocked.
The city also sent experts to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the village. Some experts even encountered danger during the investigation and were towed back to the city for rescue by ambulances.
This is why the village has not been opened for a whole month.
If you want to go back now, you still have time, but the price we agreed on will not change, you have to pay whatever you are owed."
The illegal taxi driver also deliberately made the situation sound very serious. If he could persuade these three people to go back, he could avoid risks and make a lot of money.
Unexpectedly, William not only had no intention of going back, but even became more interested. "Do you know how those people died, or what they looked like after death?"
The driver reached out and rubbed the oil stains on his neck, rubbing out a coal ball and flicking it out of the car with his fingertips.
“Well… I’ve definitely never seen it with my own eyes, but it’s rumored that people who go missing in Flower Sea Village will eventually float on the sea with flowers all over their bodies. After floating for a while, they will become food for the sea god.
If anyone dared to salvage Huahua's body, he would surely disappear within a day.
This is just a rumor and not necessarily true.”
"Thank you, Master."
"Are you really not afraid? You still want to go, right?"
"There's nothing to be afraid of. Aren't there experts from downtown right now? If they're fine, so are we."
"All right."
For some reason, when the black car driver looked at the foreign youth sitting in the back through the rearview mirror again, he felt that he was a little different, even more dangerous than the gangsters he had encountered before, so he didn't dare to continue to sneak a peek at the beauty next to William.
We drove along the mountain and village roads for a full two and a half hours before we finally bypassed the national highway and officially entered the boundary marker of Huahai Village.
The black car driver was going to go around the last short stretch of mountain road and then drop off the foreigners.
However, something strange happened.
As he was driving on a winding mountain road, he braked slowly and slowed down to pass a sharp turn. Then, a strange thing caught the driver's eye.
A woman in a pure white dress was standing at the corner, waving at the car.
The completely purple lips keep smiling,
The woman's eyes were gone, replaced by blooming blue flowers.
The central flower core is densely packed with raised dots, and it seems that each flower core has a visual effect and is looking at the people in the car, welcoming their arrival.
The black car driver was shocked by this scene.
But he had driven this road hundreds of times, and he did not step on the accelerator too hard nor forget the steering wheel. Instead, he drove normally based on instinct.
The driver started breathing heavily only when he could no longer see the waving woman in the rearview mirror. However, he still did not dare to step on the brakes for fear that the other party would catch up with him.
In order to calm his nervousness, the driver opened the car window and lit a cigarette for himself.
As he inhaled nicotine, his trembling hands slowly stabilized, and his fat and greasy neck was covered with an even greasier layer of sweat.
As time passed, the surrounding trees were gradually replaced by the iconic jacaranda trees of Huahai Village.
But the driver still did not stop the car and continued driving. He did not ask William and others in the back seat whether they had also seen the strange woman, and said nothing.
The cigarette remains in the mouth even when the tobacco is gone.
Catherine reminded from the side, "William, the driver is not feeling well."
"I know. We have to be careful... and try not to inhale pollen."
William looked at the driver through the rearview mirror. His facial expression was slightly stiff, and a grain of rice was protruding from his eye. Soon, the grain of rice began to sprout, and purple-blue flowers bloomed with the eyeball as nutrients.
There was even a substance similar to seawater flowing out of the driver's mouth.
William could only observe all this silently. Now he was unable to rescue the driver, and he didn't even know when the other party was planted.
Recalling the experience just now, the most likely time to be seeded is when the driver is smoking.
His cigarette was not placed in a box, but behind his ear. When the car window was opened, it was very likely that some pollen would fall on the cigarette holder, and smoking would directly lead to pollen inhalation.
Another possibility is that tobacco may have been assimilated by local plants.
Either way, this is a warning to William and others.
In the past, William would not be afraid of this kind of thing at all. Any foreign object that invades the flesh would be beaten up in an instant by various pathogens in the body, and even his mother would not recognize him.
But now the restricted and weakened body must be considered.
Fortunately, he absorbed a blessed statue of "Guanyin" on the train and activated his body. He regained about 5% of his body. He could barely control his body to form a filtering membrane inside his five senses to block the inhalation of pollen.
Catherine formed a seawater mucous membrane in the same location.
As for Fangfang, she seemed to be indifferent, as if pollen could not get close to her facial cube.
As rows of exquisite houses covered with vegetation came into view, we arrived at Huahai Village. The black car driver also stepped on the brakes lightly and stopped steadily.
Turn the face of the blooming flower, keep smiling, and you can even see some spore dust floating out of his mouth.
"We have arrived at our destination, Flower Sea Village. Everyone, please have fun."
After William and the other two got off the car,
The driver stepped on the accelerator and rushed into the sea with his car. His face was filled with happiness as he sank, as if something happy that he had never encountered in his life was waiting for him in the sea.
This commotion also attracted the investigators who were handling the village incident nearby.
Taking this opportunity, William and others quickly moved towards the other side of the village.
Sudden,
Creak! The back door of a guesthouse opened, and the plump proprietress in a long dress waved to everyone, signaling them to come over.
Normally, William wouldn't go there.
But Catherine seemed to sense something, and she pulled William's shoulder and said, "Let's go to the hotel. The locals will help us quickly understand the real situation here."