Chapter 4 Drivers
I have a mobile phone...... Seeing the equipment column, Zuoqiu realized this, and he unbuttoned his coat and found a palm-sized mobile phone from his inner pocket.
When touching the machine, the system gives the relevant ways to use it, after all, it is 400 years ago technology, in order to keep the player from getting stuck in the mind, the system is still very intimate, but Zuoqiu does not need it. He skillfully clicked the button to turn it on, as if he had done it countless times.
The screen shows the current time, the city you are in, as well as the temperature and weather.
You can get a lot of information on the Internet, but you first have to determine how many monsters there are in this peaceful city
Click on the browser and enter four keywords on the search bar: Anning City, weird, ghost, and urban legend. About 100 subsequent results emerged.
Zuoqiu's gaze moves quickly over the text, ignoring most of the false advertisements and ghost romance novels. There are a total of seven strange events that can be known in the end.
One: Many children in the city died in their sleep, the reason is unknown, some experts say that this is because of sudden death caused by excessive study pressure?
2: A mysterious man appeared in the Crystal Lake surveillance, about 195cm tall, wearing a hockey mask and holding a machete.
Three: Cannibals appear in neighboring Raccoon City, where bitten people will attack others within a day, and experts say a new generation of rabies is suspected.
Four: A woman named Tomie was tortured by her lover and thrown into the river, but the police salvaged three identical Tomie heads in the river
Five: In the old elementary school girls' toilet, there was a girl's cry.
Six: [Ghost Sky Forum] I watched a tape...... Then I got a weird phone call
Seven: [Ghost Sky Forum] I recently moved to a relatively remote old house, and I always heard strange cries and black cat meows, and one night I even saw a pale boy from my bed.
Flandi, Jason, Zombie, Tomie, Hanako, Sadako, and ...... Ga coconut.
Obviously he has never been in contact with it, but Zuoqiu can easily name the role represented in each news and forum. To him, these ghosts don't seem to represent fear, but rather characters in a novel, a movie, or a weird story.
Why do I know this...... No...... It should be said...... Why does this game show these ......
He remembered the letter that O had sent...... It was born because of you, and it will have your shadow. This sentence, which sounds meaningless, has a little more credibility at the moment.
Who am I? Who is it? And what is this game? Three questions flooded the brain, and Zuoqiu couldn't help but start to get irritable. He tossed his phone to the side and pulled his hair like some manic people do.
Half an hour later, he let out a long breath of nothing
You have to put these doubts aside for the time being and deal with the copy in front of you. He secretly told himself that after two minutes, he calmed down, and Zuoqiu realized that there was an extra message in the taskbar.
[You gradually realize the extraordinaryness of this world, and activate the hidden quest - strange secrets
For every unusual thing you touch, you will be given a chance to win a prize. 】
Obviously, the purpose of the hidden mission was to get Zuoqiu to take the initiative to find these ghosts, but he didn't have that idea. In Zuoqiu's view, the main line is the most important, and as for the hidden mission, if you encounter it, you will talk about it. But he also has to be prepared in advance, if the ghosts come uninvited, he must also have a way to deal with it. Thinking of this, he made up his mind to buy some props tomorrow.
By the way, these messages also bring an important hint.
Zuoqiu picked up his phone and his gaze stopped on Gaco's forum post. She and Sadako are both female ghosts, and with the scene of the two ghosts fighting in her mind, it is clear that the opponent is very likely to be in Gacoko's residence.
I only have one, and the other side has four, and if you want to win, you have to add fuel to the fire on your own......
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The clock on the wall made a ticking sound, and before you knew it, it was 24:00.
"Kick ...... Step on...... Pedal" three bells rang out from the staircase of the tallest building in Anning City, and at the same time, Zuoqiu's ears heard the soft voice of the narrator,
[It's dark,
The close companion went out and hasn't come back yet. You think of that eerie phone call, and that eerie voice still seems to be in your ears.
You don't dare to fall asleep, but sleepiness hits you and you can't stop it.
You fall asleep. 】
Zuo Qiu was still making notes in his notebook, and after the narration was over, he suddenly felt that his eyelids were a little heavy, and his hand holding the pen was loose, and his face fell straight down.
When he opened his eyes again, the sun was already shining through the glass on the leopard-print couch, and he looked at the clock on the wall, seven o'clock in the morning. Yesterday he clearly didn't feel the slightest bit sleepy, presumably the act of sleeping is mandated by the system. Zuoqiu looked at the notebook on the table, where three pages were densely filled with words. One is about the props that are needed. One is a plan on how to win the game. He's not a smart guy, and he's not confident in his ability to play on the fly. The best way to do this is to prepare and plan ahead. In the plan, he put forward a total of three strategies, and the third one was not completed because he fell asleep last night. Taking advantage of the fact that it was still early, Zuoqiu hurriedly completed it.
Outside the open window, the voices of the crowd grew louder. At the end of the day, when it was time for office workers and student parties to usher in the most reluctant time, Zuoqiu packed up his pen and paper, took out an apple from the refrigerator, and walked out of the door with his mouth in his mouth, his back arched so badly that he was extremely conspicuous even in the crowd.
In the morning he had to go to several places, one was the wholesale clothing market in the metropolis, the second was the video studio, and the third was the grocery market.
The quality of the clothes in the metropolis is not very good, and most of the owners who sell clothes sit on wooden benches, holding a feather duster in their hands and slapping on their clothes. They each had a stall, and in a space of no more than five square meters, hundreds of clothes were piled on top of each other. Vicious competition is indispensable on the stalls, and when Zuoqiu passes, I often hear the boss say to the guests which clothes are ugly and the quality is rotten. But it had nothing to do with him, and after a few minutes of going around the wholesale market, Zuoqiu stopped in one place.
It's a unique-looking stall with a few clothes, about a hundred, and a few exhibition clothes hanging on the wall behind the owner. Unlike other stalls that try to show off the best clothes, the clothes on this one are police uniforms, fire uniforms, and Taoist robes, which have unknown meanings. Moreover, the workmanship of the clothes is of poor quality, and if you look a little closer, you can see that they are counterfeit and shoddy products.
"What do you want to buy?" The boss was playing with his mobile phone, and he didn't seem to be too hot when he noticed that there were guests.
"The robe." Zuoqiu pointed to the yellow robe on the wall and said. The boss took off the robe, and there was a dusty dust with the robe, but fortunately, Zuoqiu didn't mind. After paying, he went to another stall and bought a shoddy black wig and a long white dress under the strange gaze of the stall owner.
Zuoqiu didn't give himself a moment to rest, he picked up his clothes pocket and stopped a taxi and went to the video studio 7,000 meters away. "I'm going to shoot a horror video." Zuoqiu said to the boss. He put on the long dress he bought and put on a wig. Just wait for the makeup artist to add a few strokes to the face. But in fact, the makeup artist just pulled the hair on the back of the head in front of the face, and did nothing else. When asked about this, the girl in charge of makeup looked away and said, "You don't need to put on makeup at all, it's already scary...... and she didn't even dare to look at Zuoqiu.
And it was exactly what she said. When the long black hair covered most of Zuoqiu's face, the pitch-black pupils and pale complexion that emerged from the hair were enough to cause an extremely terrifying visual impact.
Zuoqiu recorded a short video as he had in mind, which was edited and processed by the video studio and reproduced on a tape.
Put on the cassette tape and continue your non-stop journey to the grocery market. A decorative dagger made of mahogany, more than a dozen candies, a telescope, and a lighter were bought.
When everything was done, it was exactly 12 o'clock.
He didn't want to go home, so he casually asked for a bowl of noodles at a street stall, and after eating, he called for a taxi again.
"Where to go?" The driver is a middle-aged uncle, his face is very round, and he will unconsciously bring out a smile on his face when he speaks, and he looks very good.
"Tonkin Street in the southern suburbs." Zuoqiu got in the car, and the temperature inside was very low, probably because of the air conditioning.
Hearing Zuoqiu say this location, the driver's face became a little ugly. However, the other party still stepped on the accelerator.
There is soothing music playing in the taxi, and the driver clicks on the next track, the next track, the next track...... Then he angrily turned off the radio.
Zuoqiu's fingers touched the glass covered with a black film, and his expression changed slightly. "Can I smoke in the car?" As he spoke, he took out his lighter, clicked it, and small yellow flames burst out of it.
"No, you can't."
"Okay, sorry." Zuoqiu put the lighter back and put his right hand on the driver's seat. He had a small hole in his thumb, and there was some residual ash at the mouth of the hole. Zuoqiu's fingers grinded lightly on the ashes, and the gray confetti was clearly not formed after the cloth was burned.
This taxi turned out to be made of paper! Zuoqiu didn't show a different color on his face, but boldly asked out loud.
"It's hard work."
"yes." The driver said with a nostalgic look. "I'm not enterprising, I don't make a lot of money. My wife was always noisy at home, so I had no choice but to run away from home and rent a room in the suburbs. ”
"Too impulsive......"
"yes, that's impulsive." The driver sniffled. "We have a daughter. On the day I ran away, my daughter called me and said that my mother had been crying at home. I told my daughter to let her mother rest at home alone, and I would go back in three days. ”
Zuoqiu took out the dagger he bought, and touched the side eaves of the dagger for a while, "Then are you going back?" ”
The driver's shoulders trembled and he shook his head, "I want to go back too, think about it carefully, my wife didn't give up on me when the family was the saddest...... My daughter is so cute and tomorrow is her birthday...... I also promised her to give her a life-size doll of Pikachu. Finally, he raised his head and looked into the inner rearview mirror, which shone on Zuoqiu's face, and the driver looked at it for a while, and finally let out a long breath.
He turned on the music radio again, and a man's voice came from the song.
“DragmyselffrommybedAround20past6
I had a hard time getting out of bed around 6:20
Getmykidsupmakebreakfast1egg2toast3weetabix
Wake up my child and make breakfast with 1 egg, 2 slices of toast, 3 three vitabixes
AndasIsitdownIlookup
I sat down and looked up
Andyourstandinginthedoorwaysunatyourback
You stand in the doorway, and the sun is behind you
inmyoldbrowndressinggown
In my old brown dressing gown
WellnoonecanloveyoumorethanIloveyounow
Well, no one loves you more than I do now
……
ThedayIdiedwasthebestdayofmylife
The day I die will be the best day of my life
Tellmyfriendsandmykidsandmywifeeverythingwillbealright
Tell my friends my kids my wife and everything will be fine"
The driver listened quietly...... He may not know English, but he's serious.