The smell of incense ash was very unpalatable. When mixed with cooled rice, not only was the taste disgusting, but the meaning behind the game also made them imagine a lot.
Really... will I see a ghost
Shi Yan tried hard to conceal her abnormality, pretending to be indifferent and not looking into the eyes of those strange things.
In many horror stories, when the protagonist can see ghosts, he will also be aware of ghosts, thus becoming attracted to certain supernatural substances. This is the case with Shi Yan now, and she doesn't want to be noticed.
Except for Lu Yanli, everyone else also noticed that something was wrong.
They felt colder and colder, and it was no use wearing thick clothes. The cold seemed to be coming out from the cracks in their bones, making them shiver.
Ghost... is coming.
Several shadows appeared at the end of the road on all sides of the intersection. They were blurry and not very clear. In the eyes of the three people, their bodies were translucent, and from a distance they could tell that their bodies were a little incomplete.
Crossroads are prone to car accidents, and are known as one of the most yin places. Some ghost-attracting methods are to keep knocking bowls at the crossroads at night. It is said that this can also attract lonely ghosts. Not to mention eating dead people's meals at the crossroads of the underworld, it seems that the attraction of dead people's meals to ghosts is greater than they imagined.
Although the dead food was hard to swallow for the living, it was a rare delicacy for the hungry ghosts. They ate too fast to complete their task early, and when the hungry ghosts followed the aroma, the bowls were empty.
Suddenly, the hungry ghosts turned their starving eyes from the dead to the few living people.
One of the bloody, translucent shadows had already entangled Shi Yan. It looked like she was born a woman. Her face was pale, and her limbs were crushed into meat paste from the joints. However, she crawled very quickly. When she saw that the food had been eaten up, her pair of empty eye sockets with blood dripping from them stared at Shi Yan intently. Her arm, which had turned into a pool of meat paste, slowly stretched out towards Shi Yan.
"Hurry up! Are you not done yet?" Shi Yan screamed as she backed away desperately, trying to avoid the other party's seemingly light hands that were reaching out to her.
As soon as the ghost appeared at the street corner, Nie Yunzhen had already scooped out a spoonful of rice from the thermos bucket and put it into a bowl, and then inserted three incense sticks. Now the three incense sticks are still burning slowly, and some incense ash has fallen into the bowl, making it all gray and white.
"It's not done yet, hold on a little longer." The incense was still halfway burned. Nie Yunzhen lit the lighter and kept burning it, hoping to make the red tip burn faster.
However, these three incense sticks seemed to be condensed by the damp and cold air around them, and they turned to ashes very slowly.
"I'm so hungry..."
A cold and hoarse sigh sounded in Shi Yan's ears.
It was like something was opening, one after another. Before they knew it, the blurry ghost had surrounded them all in the middle of the intersection, and a light mist was floating around the four of them, making it impossible to see the scenery outside clearly.
Surrounded by ghosts, it is hard not to feel fear.
"Ghosts are hungry and may not be patient enough to wait any longer." Lu Yanli said quietly.
"Damn it, when did so many of them come?" Nie Yunzhen dodged left and right, trying to avoid the ghosts that were still moving slowly.
Shi Yan and Chu Xiu were in the same awkward situation as him, but they did not dare to stop and dodge, lest they get hurt. Once they saw blood, then their food would not only be this bowl of dead food.
"So hungry..."
"I'm... so hungry..."
The sighs became louder and louder, forming a circle, and the continuous crying became a whole.
"Hungry… "
"Ah—" The next second, Nie Yunzhen let out a scream, then held it back, sweating all over his forehead from the pain.
One of the ghosts that looked like a child bit hard on his hand and bit off a piece of meat. The severe pain made him unable to hold the bowl for a while, and it fell to the ground, but Lu Yanli caught it quickly.
A stream of blood fell into the bowl, and there was also a spurt of blood from the wound.
Three incense sticks burned to the bottom, and the last bit of gray powder fell down.
"Run!" Chu Xiu growled, snatched the bowl from the other person's hand and threw it on the ground, ignoring the evil spirits that rushed over them in an instant, the four of them rushed out together.
Only after they ran out of the encirclement did they have time to look back. They saw groups of ghosts tearing and fighting with each other, their translucent bodies almost merging together, and they could hear continuous screams and howls.
Without taking the time to look, the four of them quickly got into the car. Nie Yunzhen had a piece of meat bitten off by his hand, so he couldn't drive. It was Chu Xiu's turn to sit in the driver's seat, and he stepped on the accelerator almost to the bottom. In the dark night, they almost rushed out recklessly.
No one knows how long that bowl of rice can last, and there are so many evil spirits. If they are allowed to finish eating and come back to look for themselves, the consequences will be disastrous.
Nie Yunzhen sat in the back seat. Shi Yan wrapped his wound with several rounds of gauze. He tried not to cry out in pain, but sweat oozed from his forehead. He said with a smile, "Fortunately, we brought enough materials just now, otherwise we really wouldn't be able to get out now."
He didn't expect that the person who responded to him was Lu Yanli, who had been silent in the passenger seat: "It's both good and bad. The more dead meals you make, the more ghosts you attract."
His eyes looked through the glass window, and it was unknown what he saw. That look made Nie Yunzhen uncomfortable. He always felt that the other party would rather look at the boring night view outside the window than even bother to look at him.
Chu Xiu also sighed: "Don't forget our mission tomorrow."
Tomorrow's mission location is still a gloomy road.
Who knows if these ghosts will leave in a day
After Chu Xiu finished speaking, there was no movement in the back seat. I think Nie Yunzhen also knew the seriousness of the problem. Looking at him in the rearview mirror, his face was pale, and Shi Yan, who was applying medicine and bandaging him, was also frighteningly pale.
As if aware of Chu Xiu's gaze on her through the mirror, Shi Yan stared straight into the mirror.
Suddenly, she gave Chu Xiu a ghostly smile.
Chu Xiu stepped on the brakes hard, looked back suddenly, and his scalp suddenly felt numb.
Where was the man and woman in the back seat? In just a few seconds, they disappeared without a trace.
It's a ghost!
When Chu Xiu turned around again, Lu Yanli, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was gone. He was the only one left in the car.
But from looking in the mirror, he saw that the other three were still there, and he could still hear Lu Yanli asking, "What's wrong? Why did you stop the car suddenly?"
Chu Xiu gritted his teeth and continued to drive forward. He had made full preparations to get out of the car and run once he reached the edge of the city. This place was too desolate. If he got out of the car rashly, he might not be able to get back alive.
The vehicle almost reached its maximum speed, rushing outward like a flash of lightning, but the situation quickly developed in a strange direction. The vehicle's forward route suddenly became strange, with wavy lines drawn on the long straight road.
"What are you doing?!" Lu Yanli almost threw out his chair and hurried back to his original position, but he soon realized that something was wrong. Chu Xiu was still sitting in the driver's seat, holding the steering wheel, but his eyes were dull, as if he was sleeping with his eyes open.
Oh no! Chu Xiu is out!
Lu Yanli immediately leaned out and grabbed the steering wheel. The high-speed vehicle almost hit the tree at the corner because of his action. Then he turned the steering wheel suddenly and almost brushed the tree roots to pass the sharp turn.
"What's going on? What happened to Brother Chu?" Shi Yan didn't notice what happened before, and when she saw him and Lu Yanli snatch the steering wheel, she asked hurriedly. Then, she understood what was going on.
Chu Xiu's head tilted to one side. If he hadn't been wearing a seat belt, he would have fallen down. Even so, the people in the car were not in a good situation. He stepped on the brake and couldn't move away for a while. The speed of the car was getting faster and faster, almost running at the speed of a racing car.
"Brother Chu is out, please help me!" Nie Yunzhen almost made a sharp turn and was thrown out, and hurriedly grabbed the handrail.
In response to them, there was the gradually increasing speed and the suddenly changing scenery outside the window.
The three people's eyes went dark as the scene in front of them suddenly changed. However, they opened their eyes again in an instant. To their shock, they were actually several hundred meters away from the intersection and were speeding towards the intersection.
What frightened them the most was that at the other three intersections, there were cars exactly like the one they were riding in, rushing straight towards them! Just by looking at the appearance, it was difficult to tell the real car from the fake one, as if there were really four identical cars.
"What's going on?!" Shi Yan and Nie Yunzhen couldn't believe their eyes. The car was driving too fast, and the car on the opposite side had its high beams on, so the light was particularly dazzling. The scene they saw was enough to shock them.
"Brake! Please!"
Little did he know that Lu Yanli was also shocked. He kicked Chu Xiu's foot on the accelerator with a force that almost broke his leg, and slammed on the brakes himself. However, the brakes seemed to have a problem at this time, and the speed increased instead of decreasing.
"Brake failure."
Lu Yanli's answer made Nie Yunzhen extremely anxious. He tried to lean forward to help, but Chu Xiu, who had opened his eyes and was unconscious, blocked his way. A bump on the way shook him back.
But in just a few seconds, the distance between the four cars quickly narrowed and they were about to collide!
If you crash at this speed, you will be seriously injured if not killed.
What they didn't see was that under the car, a pale figure was clinging to the chassis tightly. This was the culprit that caused the brake failure.
Faced with a life-and-death situation, Lu Yanli became calmer instead. After carefully observing through the light, he made a decisive decision. In the second before reaching the intersection, he swerved the steering wheel to the right.
The car was forced to turn while traveling at high speed. If it were someone with less skill, the car would have flipped over. The people in the car were thrown out by inertia. Before they could complain, they saw that they had almost brushed past the SUV that had come out of the right corner. The glass mirrors collided with each other and shattered directly, and even the car body had many scratches.
In the moment they passed each other, they saw clearly the passengers in the other car.
On the seats... were four neatly arranged white skeletons wearing the same clothes as them!
Fortunately, after they turned the corner, apart from the serious damage to the car body, there was no major damage elsewhere.
Behind him, several other cars that were head-on collided violently with a loud bang. The car that rushed from the left side disappeared in the instant after the collision and explosion.
Only after he realized it did Lu Yanli breathe a sigh of relief.
It seems that his guess was correct.
Nie Yunzhen was also breathing heavily. He had hit his head several times due to the bumps just now. He thought he would be seriously injured if not killed. But the car actually disappeared when it hit him
"You, how did you do that?" He was still in shock.