1TWITF[C Chapter 45

Chapter 45

A single sentence dropped the temperature inside the car by seven or eight degrees.

After a long while, Chu Xiu finally asked, “What you just said… is it true?”

Soon, they arrived at another hotel.

As soon as they stopped the car, Nie Yunzhen and Shi Yan surrounded them, clearly curious about Lu Yanli.

Chu Xiu had said he was bringing someone back, so why did the two of them seem to know each other?

When did they meet? Or was it that, in a short amount of time, Chu Xiu had already managed to deceive him into becoming like a good friend?

This person… didn’t seem like it. He looked quite shrewd.

Lu Yanli allowed them to size him up, nodded slightly, and didn’t bother to greet them.

Anyway, his goal had already been achieved.

The moment Chu Xiu agreed to his request, Lu Yanli intensified the psychological suggestion, making him remember at all times to investigate the Omniscient God Cult for him.

But now it seemed that Chu Xiu would be a better choice; he should live longer than An Xingyu. An Xingyu was still a student, with limitations.

Lu Yanli had been searching for so many years. Even though he constantly cheered himself on and gave himself positive psychological suggestions every day, he still felt a faint sense of despair deep down. How could the feeling of being the only sober one in a world of drunks be pleasant? He often couldn’t tell if everything was just his imagination.

Fortunately, the appearance of these task-takers allowed him to occasionally see what the normal world should be like before the anomalies.

He absolutely, absolutely would not give up.

Lu Yanli followed the three of them around, bought all the necessary supplies, and after dinner, asked the boss to pack four bowls of rice.

Incense ash mixed with rice, also known as “dead man’s rice,” was often found at intersections, which were prone to accidents. Besides the road conditions being a common cause of car accidents, there were also urban legends claiming that the spirits of those who died in these accidents lingered at the intersections, unable to find their way home. So, people would help these ghosts by giving them a full meal.

As for living people eating incense ash mixed with rice… it was said that they could easily see the dead, and even worse, they might become dead themselves!

Not to mention that Yinming Road was already known as a place where the yin and yang realms met, playing around in this place was simply courting death.

The four of them walked along the street, the setting sun having just dipped below the horizon. Just then, a black cat suddenly pounced down from a tree and jumped into Lu Yanli’s arms.

A missing cat poster was pasted on the tree trunk, and the photo on it was exactly the same as the one in his arms. At that moment, the little black cat stepped on his elbow, held a student ID card in its mouth and placed it in his palm, then meowed softly twice.

The contact person was Wen Qing.

With Chu Xiu at the center, they restarted the task, avoiding Wen Qing and Yun Qian, so they naturally didn’t know the destructive power of these two names. Shi Yan liked cats, and even while doing a task, she couldn’t help but soften her heart towards them.

It was better if they couldn’t find this cat. Wen Qing lacked one condition for resurrection, unable to be reborn, and therefore unable to kill everyone in the hotel, including Wen Zhengxin. Perhaps this could break the vicious cycle.

The black cat opened its green eyes and nimbly dodged Shi Yan’s hand, which wanted to pet it, and scurried back up the tree. Its black fur quickly blended into the green shade, making it difficult to see.

Everything was ready, just waiting for night to fall.

Tonight’s night sky was even darker, the moon and stars hidden in the darkness, difficult to see. As the vehicle drove towards Yinming Road, the surrounding environment became even dimmer, almost like a pot of ink that couldn’t be dissolved.

Nie Yunzhen had specially selected a few quiet car music songs. He didn’t know what kind of person Chu Xiu had invited, but even Chu Xiu’s attitude towards him was so friendly, so he naturally wouldn’t be brainless enough to provoke him.

The trees outside the window grew denser and denser, but they were devoid of a single green leaf. After driving a bit further, the headlights illuminated the Yinming Road road sign.

“We’re here,” Nie Yunzhen said.

“Let’s wait here first, and go over after midnight,” Chu Xiu said.

Lu Yanli sat in the back seat, Shi Yan to his left, holding a thermos bucket in her arms, which was filled with rice. She looked out the window and suddenly thought of Ye Shengke again, sighing quietly.

Little Yezi died… how much longer could she live?

If you can live, why choose to die?

These were still the words that Ye Shengke had used to comfort her.

Shi Yan took a deep breath, “I’m fine.” She tried to cheer up and shift her attention, but the fear of death and the grief of losing a friend made it difficult for her to recover for a while.

But Nie Yunzhen’s words left ripples in her heart.

The dead… can’t come back to life?

They waited for a long time, the cold gradually encroaching. The frost and dew were heavy. Midnight finally arrived.

Needless to say, Nie Yunzhen had already started the car and drove forward. After driving for a while in the darkness, they could see the intersection ahead.

“Is it starting now?” Nie Yunzhen asked uncertainly. Chu Xiu said, “Let’s start, the sooner we finish, the sooner we can go back.”

The other three also thought of a terrifying possibility…

This time, a dozen or so incense sticks were easily lit.

Nie Yunzhen breathed a sigh of relief, and distributed three sticks to each person.

Shi Yan and Lu Yanli had just been busy packing the rice. In order to avoid accidents, they chose the smallest bowls. The four bowls of white rice were placed in a row, each with three incense sticks neatly inserted, white smoke rising.

The three incense sticks on the four bowls of rice had all burned out.

Next, they had to eat it.

Shi Yan held the bowl, stirring it with her chopsticks for a while. The white rice was sticky and clumpy, forming gray granular objects, which looked disgusting. She gritted her teeth and shoveled a mouthful into her mouth.

Disgusting, nauseating, too disgusting…

In order to survive, Shi Yan resisted the urge to vomit. Looking at the others, their expressions were also very difficult.

A small bowl was quickly eaten.

It was said that eating dead man’s rice would allow one to see ghosts.

But he didn’t see anything.

It was still the dark night sky, the pale road surface, a blank space, nothing.

But Shi Yan slowly widened her eyes.

She saw it… she saw it!

According to legend, if you accidentally see a ghost, you must not make a sound. Pretending not to see it would be fine, but if you let the ghost notice you, or make eye contact with the ghost, you would either die or be injured.

Shi Yan kept her head down, not daring to say much, but her eyes gradually drifted towards Chu Xiu and Nie Yunzhen.

Could they see it?