Chapter 5: Adventure in the Rain

I followed Li Xiaochen out of the school gate, and got into a taxi, which was driven by a middle-aged man with a black face, who turned his head and looked at us when he heard us say where we were going, as if he looked very strange.

I couldn't help but be surprised, wondering if he also knew about this Hongyu Venerable Master, so he looked at us with such a gaze, after all, we were looking for a ghost hunter.

But when the car drove out of the city, I understood why he looked at us like this, it turned out that it was a wilderness, and even people rarely saw people, and it was indeed a bit surprising that two students came here.

Just as our car was moving forward and passing a small river, I saw a white mist on the water, and my heart couldn't help but tighten, could it be that ghost Li Yuchi still followed me here.

"It's going to rain." The taxi driver looked at the sky and said, speeding up at the same time.

I followed and looked into the sky, and sure enough, a dark cloud was pressing down, and it looked like a storm was about to happen.

"I said you two, you want to go out and have fun, why don't you change the day?" The taxi driver persuaded the two of us to go home.

Where did he think of it, how could we come out to play, go back like this, how do I spend the night?

Li Xiaochen glanced at me, guessed my thoughts, and told the driver that we would not go back and let him move on.

The taxi driver laughed, saying that we were too stubborn, and asking questions as if he cared about us.

I didn't dare to tell him too much, for fear of meeting strange people again this time, in fact, this is also what my mother told me when I came to school, not to talk to strangers casually.

Li Xiaochen seemed to be a little wary, but he was a boy and he was bolder than me, so he chatted with the taxi driver.

"It turns out that you want to go to see that Zhang Laodao, I have heard of this person, and they all say that he has some ability, but I have never looked for him, and I have encountered something when I look for him, what, have you encountered something?" The taxi driver was still asking enthusiastically.

I glanced at Li Xiaochen nervously and shook my head gently at him, although my matter is very tricky, I can't just tell others.

In fact, Li Xiaochen didn't know what was going on with me, he just came with me, I haven't told him yet, and I don't know how to tell him.

The taxi driver seemed to see my thoughts, and couldn't help but glance at me in the rearview mirror, and there was a grim look in his eyes, and I wondered in my heart that he must have some idea about us going to find the Venerable Master, and yes, just the two of us students, it is easy to be deceived.

"You're freshmen, aren't you?"

"Hmm."

"When I first left home, I was always a little unaccustomed to it, but it would be good to wait for a long time."

Sure enough, the taxi driver kindly reminded the two of us, but it was so easy, and if I told him what happened to me, I am sure he would be afraid.

Soon there was lightning and thunder, and the rain fell like a torrent, and the sky also darkened, although it was not as dark as the night, but it was already difficult to distinguish from the other side.

It was at this moment that our car was preparing to drive over a small bridge over the river.

Looking at the water on the bridge, flowing into the river like a waterfall on both sides, making a loud noise, it was terrifying to look at, and the taxi driver stopped and told us to wait here for a while, and the rain would be a little lighter before it passed.

My heart is anxious, I really want to rush over now, but looking at Li Xiaochen beside him, he also nodded, saying that it was too rainy, and there was too much water on the bridge deck, so it would be unsafe in the past.

How do they know my thoughts, I'm afraid that the dead ghost Li Yuchi will change his mind, stop being a ghost, and go back to be a water ghost, at this time come to catch me back as a stand-in, I can't help but hug my shoulders.

"What kind of river is this, it doesn't seem small?" Li Xiaochen had nothing to do and chatted with the driver.

"Here, it's just a nameless river, everyone calls it the West River, I heard that last year at this time, there was an old lady who jumped into the river here and drowned, pitiful, I heard that they are all over ninety years old, no one at home to take care of, and I don't know how I got here, so I jumped in and drowned." The taxi driver sighed.

"He's in his nineties and still came here to jump into the river, but here, how did he get here?" I asked curiously, but I was terrified that the name of the river also had a Western character in it.

"No one knows about this, but the road construction workers reported the case when they saw his body floating up." The driver lit a cigarette as he spoke, puffing out the smoke rings leisurely, looking at the flickering red fire in his hand, but he felt a little safe.

"So, do people drown here?" I asked.

The taxi driver and Li Xiaochen both laughed, it was not enough to drown one, they often drowned, when this is the base for drowning people.

I also sensed that I was asking abruptly, and I couldn't help but blush and smile wryly.

"Not to mention, there are really many people drowning in this river, and I heard that there are people who drowned in this river in the past." The taxi driver seemed to be comforting me and giving me a step down.

But at that moment, a bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, and I saw a white mist drifting over the already dark river, and really, the white mist was coming straight for our taxi, like a running monster, and pounced on us, and I couldn't help screaming in fright.

Li Xiaochen, who was still chatting, heard my scream, gave me a blank look, and asked me what was wrong, I didn't speak, just turned white and looked at the white fog that was getting closer and closer in the dark.

I don't know what's going on, it's dark outside, and the white fog isn't invisible because it's dark, but it's conspicuous.

Seeing that I didn't answer, Li Xiaochen was a little impatient, and looked at me anxiously, with an unhappy face.

"Don't even speak, I'll see if I can drive over." The taxi driver started the motor as he spoke, his movements were a little hasty, and even the cigarette in his mouth was trembling, and the ash fell on his clothes, and he didn't pay attention.

But at this time, the water on the ground was already very deep, and it was not easy to start the car again, and beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his forehead.

"What's wrong?" Li Xiaochen still looked confused, he didn't know what was going on, he just looked at the taxi driver in surprise, and didn't understand why he suddenly wanted to rush across the bridge again.

But soon he realized what was wrong, and his eyes looked out of the car window, and his big chubby face couldn't help but sweat.

"Which of you has an amulet or something?" Li Xiaochen looked at me and the taxi driver with a confused expression.

I don't know if the driver had that thing with him, but I had a lot of them, all of which my mother begged me for, but I left them all at home, not to mention here, not even my apartment or bedroom.

The driver didn't answer, thinking that he didn't have anything like that with him either.

Li Xiaochen smiled bitterly, he watched the white mist outside gradually spread, and he was about to rush to the taxi, when suddenly, he put his hands together and said something in his mouth, as if an old monk was chanting.

I was inspired by him, and I also muttered to the fog outside, I wasn't reading any scriptures or anything like that, I was talking about Li Yuchi, a dead ghost.

If he still wants his family to salvage his body from the Xilin River earlier, then let us get out of here alive and smoothly, otherwise, I can't do anything, so let his body feed Wang Ba in the river.

Strange to say, just as I was meditating in my heart, I felt a chill in my back, as if a cold wind was blowing, and I hurriedly turned my head to look, only the soft backrest behind me.

I couldn't help but wonder where the cold wind came from, and it was so cold, like winter ice and snow.

"Don't look back." Li Xiaochen shouted at me coldly, although his voice was very low, in this already dark taxi, it was very powerful, and I was scared.

"What are you doing here to find that Daochang Zhang?" Seeing that I was scared, the taxi driver came to comfort me again and turned the conversation away.

"He gave me a business card, and it was written about the Venerable Master Hongyu, Zhang Tianchi, or something." I answered him in a trembling voice.

"Oh, when did he give it to you?" The driver asked unhurriedly, but took the cigarette from his mouth and pressed it hard into the ashtray beside him.

"Yesterday." I was still shaking, and I was even more trembling at the sight of him extinguishing the cigarette like that.

Li Xiaochen glanced at me, and there seemed to be a glimmer of light in his eyes behind the thick lenses.

I began to think in my heart, whether to tell the matter and the discernment, I can't let these two people die with me, but I don't know how they died.

In such an atmosphere, at this time, seeing that the white mist outside the window has surrounded the taxi, it is like turning the taxi into a big package, if I say anything scary, I don't know if these two can really withstand it.

The taxi driver continued to start the motor, and the whole body was trembling slightly, shaking so much that my internal organs were about to turn over.

The fog outside the window had become almost the color of milk, and I was so frightened that tears were circulating in my eyes.

It was then that I saw a large white hand reach out of the taxi and push towards the white mist, which seemed to be elastic, pushed out of the way, but bounced back.

Suddenly, there was a "poof" sound from my side, and a patch of blood sprayed towards the car window.