There is a trick

Chapter 147 Taxi Driver (5K, 1/1)

"Om..."

With a dull sound, the two elevator doors slowly slid open to the left and right.

As the elevator door slowly opened, a strong white light filled Zhou Chang's vision in an instant.

What he saw was that the numerous demons on the "Disaster List" were all melting like snow in this strong light.

"Wow..."

Noisy and vague voices spread into the elevator along with the white light.

Zhou Chang subconsciously turned his head and looked around.

Now, there was no one around him!
Bai Xiu'e, Uncle Yang, Xiao Zhenming, Cui Ai and others clearly followed him in the elevator and descended into this dark mine.

But now he suddenly disappeared.

There was not a single footprint of theirs left in the elevator.

The walls are as smooth as a mirror.

The 'heartless ghost' whom Cui Ai called his son is also nowhere to be found.

"Boom! Boom!"

At this moment, the elevator suddenly shook violently.

The lights overhead flickered.

A voice in his heart reminded Zhou Chang: "It's time to go..."

Zhou Chang followed the figure and staggered out of the elevator.

The moment he stepped out of the elevator, his five senses became chaotic and distorted.

He didn't know where he was, what he should do, and at this moment he couldn't sense the existence of the real world.

All the chaotic feelings disappeared in an instant.

Zhou Chang took a deep breath and suddenly came back to his senses.

He made a muffled gurgling sound in his throat, and then he realized that he was sitting in the driver's seat of a car, which was filled with the stench of second-hand smoke and incense.

A late-night ghost story was playing on the car's speakers.

The announcer's cold and crisp voice added a bit of eerie color to the story itself:

"Corpse oil magic... In Southeast Asia and southern Yunnan in my country, it is rumored that a kind of evil magic called 'black magic' was once popular..."

This story has just begun.

Zhou Chang only heard a few words before he came back to his senses. A man's trembling voice called out from behind him: "Master, Master..."

Hearing this voice, Zhou Chang subconsciously turned the steering wheel——

The vehicle was traveling at high speed, and even though Zhou Chang just turned the steering wheel slightly, the car suddenly shifted its direction and the body of the car shook a few times.

Fortunately, Zhou Chang reacted quickly.

He gripped the steering wheel and eased off the accelerator slightly, slowing down the car and continuing to drive smoothly.

Then he glanced at the rearview mirror and saw three people sitting closely together in the back seat.

The man who had called Zhou Chang earlier was sitting in the seat behind the driver's seat.

The man was in his early twenties, wearing a black baseball shirt with white sleeves. Even though he looked terrified at the moment, it was difficult to dilute the unruly feeling between his eyebrows.

The man was holding a selfie stick with a mobile phone on it.

His two companions were identical to him, holding selfie sticks with various devices mounted on them.

The two men and one woman in the back seat are all ruffians.

From Zhou Chang's perspective, he couldn't see what was on the three people's mobile phone screens.

However, just by looking at the posture of the three people, one can tell that they must be doing a live broadcast.

From the way that "baseball shirt" referred to himself, Zhou Chang also understood his current occupation - an online car-hailing driver.

The Taoist priests of the Xiao family had said before that sometimes when one entered a densely populated Yin Mine area, one would automatically obtain an identity of a 'response body'.

After outsiders go down to the mine, they must consciously maintain the "personality" of their "response body".

Don't do anything that goes against your character.

Once violated, it will bring all kinds of curses and misfortunes upon oneself.

For example, nowadays, an online car-hailing driver like Zhou Chang cannot drive his car around doing nothing.

He needs to take orders and send customers to their destinations.

Unless in special circumstances, after picking up a customer, you are generally not allowed to abandon the customer halfway - this will lead to punishment from the online ride-hailing platform, causing difficulties for the online ride-hailing driver's livelihood.

"Master, you are scared too, right?" The woman sitting between the two male anchors, with heavy makeup on her face and a hint of uneasiness on her face, asked Zhou Chang.

"Um……"

Zhou Chang didn't know why he was frightened, but he still responded vaguely.

The man on the right side of the female anchor had a gloomy expression and whispered: "It's really weird...

We were talking about the abandoned hospital near Wangying Village that was reselling corpse oil, and the driver in the car here played a ghost story about corpse oil... "

“Brothers, we didn’t hire any actors!
As you have just seen, we just randomly hailed a car on DaDa and didn't know the driver at all.

This matter is extremely weird!

You also heard the handprints and the cries of babies in the abandoned hospital.

I can only say that there are some things in this world that you'd rather believe in than not believe in...

Recently, various places have been quite unstable, and this strange legend has begun to spread everywhere..." The man in the 'baseball shirt' raised the screen of his mobile phone, chattered to the 'brothers' on the screen, and patted Zhou Chang on the shoulder, "Don't you agree? Master?
You are not our invited actor, and we didn’t act in it, right?

When we got on the bus, did you also see a trail of bloody footprints following us? "

Generally speaking, the more a person emphasizes that what he said is true, that he spoke from the heart, that he did not hire any actors, that it was not a performance, etc., the more likely he is to be lying.

Zhou Chang is now convinced that there are ghosts in the world.

But he certainly didn't see the bloody footprints that the three anchors talked about.

Moreover, the panic-stricken expressions on the faces of the three anchors made it difficult for Zhou Chang to convince them.

They were overly dramatic.

Looking at the lower left corner of the phone screen that was almost sticking to my face, I saw messages from my "brothers":

"It's just acting!"

"I've seen the real thing, and it's nothing like what they said!"

"Look at the female anchor, you can find the highlights yourself..."

"When I saw you guys running out of the hospital corridor just now, I was almost scared to death!"

"..."

This live broadcast room is quite popular.

Messages from viewers kept scrolling from the lower left corner.

Zhou Chang had a stern face and said nothing to the screen.

At this time, the man in the baseball shirt stuffed a banknote in front of him.

He avoided the camera of his mobile phone, so the scene of him handing the money to Zhou Chang did not appear on the screen.

For the sake of the red banknote, Zhou Chang nodded: "That abandoned hospital is quite evil."

"Yeah, I said it!
Brothers, do you think today’s adventure program is exciting and wonderful? Feel great!
Thank you Brother Payne for the carnival, thank you boss! "

'Baseball Shirt' sat back in the back seat and started interacting with the audience in the live broadcast room again.

Zhou Chang finally had some free time at this time.

He was driving this old model of Corolla, glanced at the navigation reminder on the mobile phone holder next to him, stepped on the accelerator, and sped up the car on the dark forest road.

On both sides of the road, rows of poplar trees passed by quickly.

Further away, there are vast stretches of rice fields with crisscrossing paths.

The rice in the fields has turned green and yellow.

The car went over a high slope and passed several bends around rolling hills. The city’s street lights lit up the night sky, and the neon lights in the distance flooded into an ocean.

When Zhou Chang drove to a busy street, a reminder sounded from the phone on the stand: "We are about to arrive at our destination, Xingye Middle Street. Please pull over and remind passengers to watch out for cars coming from behind."

"We have arrived at our destination, Xingye Middle Street. Please pull over..."

Zhou Chang parked the car by the curb, and the three passengers in the back seat opened the door and walked out.

Through the rearview mirror, Zhou Chang saw that there were still some of their belongings left on the back seat.

He rolled down the window and wanted to call back the three internet anchors, but in just a moment, the three of them had already entered the crowded downtown area and disappeared in a flash.

Zhou Chang didn't even see their backs, so he had to lean sideways and stretch out his arm to bring their leftover things to the front seat.

I thought about packing up the things and returning them to them when they contact the platform.

——It was only a matter of 10 to 20 minutes, and Zhou Chang had already subtly assumed the role of an "online taxi driver". He seemed to have done this kind of work before, and everything was a natural progression. However, Zhou Chang had never done this kind of work before.

When he went to pick up the small wallet that the three passengers had dropped, the zipper of the wallet was open and a piece of paper was exposed.

Apart from this piece of paper, there were no other documents, bank cards or anything like that in the wallet. It was completely empty.

On the yellowed graph paper, someone wrote some words in childish handwriting:

"Legend has it that unlucky things often happen in leap years. This year is the year 2000, which is both the millennium and the century leap year. Many unusual things are bound to happen this year.

But, my friend, please don't worry.

When you receive this letter, you will receive my greatest blessing.

I wish you good academic success, study hard, and make progress every day;
2. I wish your family good health and happiness;

Third, I wish all your wishes come true and the person you secretly love also happens to like you.

You have received my blessing. Please pass this blessing on to three other people as well, and enclose three yuan and thirty coins in the letter. They are numbers that can ward off bad luck.

When you pass the letter to three other people, please write your name on the letter and add the number '3.3' after your name, so that your blessing will be passed on to the next person along with the letter.

However, if you received the letter, did not pass it on to three people, and accepted the money attached to the letter, then you will be cursed by everyone for 2000 years!
We curse you to never succeed in your studies and to have a rough fate;

We curse your parents to die early, and many unlucky things will happen to your relatives and friends;
We curse you - after evening self-study and school every day, no friends will go home with you, and "Asi" will always follow you.

You must know 'Ashi'.

After he received the letter, he spent all his money on buying toys.

Since then, he hasn't come to school for a long time.

Some people said that his mother was mentally ill and hacked him to death.

After the lights in classroom 423 were turned off at 8:20 p.m., Asi squatted in the corner and cried.

Please follow the rules, my friend.

I don't want Asi to target you."

Zhou Chang read all the words on the graph paper.

The handwriting was written with a ballpoint pen, and it looked immature and unfamiliar.

The paper has yellowed.

After countless years, the ballpoint pen marks have faded slightly.

Around the body of the letter, in the blank spaces that were not marked with spaces, names were written in different handwritings, and after each name, there was the Arabic numeral 3.3.

This "curse letter" was obviously written by an elementary or middle school student. Although the words were full of childishness and innocence, when Zhou Chang read to the end, he still felt a little creepy.

He even felt that this "curse letter" might have been deliberately left in his car by the three "adventure hosts".

Zhou Chang had no idea what the three anchors were thinking or whether they did it on purpose.

But we still need to handle this letter with caution.

Zhou Chang had just gotten off the elevator, with a thousand thoughts in his mind, all kinds of things floating in the air that he hadn't grasped. He couldn't spare the energy to deal with the letter for the time being, so he temporarily put it back into the wallet and threw it into the armrest box.

He glanced at the time displayed on his phone screen: 10:30.

For online ride-hailing drivers who work at night, this is neither early nor late.

Anyway, it’s not time to pack up and go home.

Zhou Chang searched for a while on his mobile phone and opened the "DaDa" platform page. When he was about to "pause taking orders" first, an order suddenly came in and the platform automatically accepted the order for him.

The phone showed that the passenger was less than a kilometer away from him.

This order is 129.32 yuan, which is about the same price as the orders brought by the three anchors just now. It is considered a large order in a small city.

Zhou Chang glanced at the destination, and it was the same as the starting point of the three anchors.

“Those three anchors are going to turn back again?
Just give them the wallet back." A thought flashed through Zhou Chang's mind subconsciously, and he drove to the boarding point marked by the passenger.

On the side of the road, a young woman was waving goodbye to a few friends: "Something happened at work, sorry to spoil the fun for you all!"

"Let's get together next time, I'll invite everyone!"

"Yeah, let's get together next time. You two have been drinking, so be careful on the road."

"It's so late, and your boss has to call you to work. You are really inhuman!"

"..."

The friend helped the young woman open the car door. The fashionably dressed woman stepped into the back seat with one long leg. She then bent down and squeezed into the narrow car, closed the door, and waved goodbye to her friends standing outside.

The woman was so beautiful that Zhou Chang took a few more glances at her.

He then drove out of the downtown area and sped towards his destination.

The woman in the back seat opened the window, and the summer breeze blew into the car, dispelling the stench of cigarette smoke.

Originally, Zhou Chang thought that the three anchors had returned and were going to explore the abandoned hospital near Wangyingzhuang to gain traffic, but he did not expect that the person who got on the car this time was only a young woman.

He was curious about why the other party was doing near the abandoned hospital so late at night, but seeing that the other party was absent-minded at the moment, he did not ask any more questions.

The wind outside the window blew for a while, and the woman gradually came back to her senses.

The phone in her purse began to ring.

After answering the phone, the woman’s attitude became serious and earnest: “Leader.

I'm heading to the abandoned hospital."

"..."

"Well, colleagues Shi Jue and Qian Keren have already rushed over. OK, I get it.

I contacted them in the work group. "

"..."

“Well, the main thing is to determine whether there really was any special incident over there.

I understand, I understand."

"..."

"Okay, let me check my phone."

The call was then disconnected.

The woman frowned and looked down at her phone.

She kept moving her fingers, as if she was flipping through the pictures sent by the "leader" who had just talked to her on the phone.

After a moment, the woman seemed to remember something and suddenly raised her head and looked at Zhou Chang who was in the driver's seat.

The angle at which she was sitting was diagonally facing Zhou Chang, so she could just see Zhou Chang's profile clearly.

After looking at Zhou Chang's profile for a while, she seemed a little surprised: "Master, have you ever been to the abandoned hospital in Wangyingzhuang to pick up passengers before?"

"The place called 'Spring Hospital'?" Zhou Chang asked calmly.

"Yes, it's called Spring Hospital."

Zhou Chang laughed and said, “I just went there and got three anchors.

Hey, those three are not serious people. They rely on making trouble and scaring people to gain traffic and attract attention.

Girl, what are you doing in that abandoned hospital?
That place is quite lively tonight.”

"I wasn't going there, I was going to the nearby Wangyingzhuang to do some work. The sheep raised by a poor household suddenly fell ill in the middle of the night.

My colleagues and I will go check it out." The woman smiled gently and evaded Zhou Chang's inquiries with a few words. She also vaguely made up an identity for herself. She then asked Zhou Chang, "Those anchors should make a lot of money doing this, right?
This emerging profession is very popular nowadays.

But Master, you can tell at a glance that they are deliberately making trouble and pretending to be ghosts to scare people?

What tricks do they use to act like ghosts and monsters when doing this kind of work?"

This young woman was very skilled. After just a few words she began to ask questions indirectly, trying to get information out of Zhou Chang.

She did not tell the truth to Zhou Chang and was very wary of him.

Zhou Chang was too lazy to pay attention to her and shook his head absentmindedly: "I don't know, I just think they must be pretending to be ghosts to scare people. There are no ghosts in this world - I have been driving for a few years, and I am not sure I will be scared by ghosts, but I am often scared by some people!"

The woman shook her head and said softly, "It was like this before, but it may not be the case now."

The wind was so loud that her voice was muffled.

A normal person shouldn't be able to hear this.

Zhou Chang heard it but pretended not to hear it: "What did you say, beauty?"

"Nothing!" The woman laughed. "I think it's better to believe some things. Master, be careful when you drive at night on your way back later!"

"Ok.

Thank you. "

Zhou Chang nodded.

The two ended their conversation, and the woman sat in the back seat swiping her phone, answering calls from time to time and chatting with her colleagues on the other end of the line.

Her words were vague and Zhou Chang could not get any useful information from them.

(End of this chapter)