Chapter 1: The Wind Rises
"Judging by the map, there are probably seven or eight more events, and we'll be able to reach the end, right?"
Li Shuai was driving the car, and he was bored to find a topic.
"Well, that's pretty much it." Xiao Mo was looking at a mystery novel, so he just replied casually, and he didn't mean to have an in-depth communication with Li Shuai.
Li Shuai saw Xiao Mo ignoring him, he glared at Xiao Mo viciously at the reversing mirror, but Xiao Mo was still reading the novel in his hand unconsciously, and he didn't care what Li Shuai was doing.
Li Shuai was too lazy to take care of Xiao Mo, and when he glanced at the rearview mirror, he saw Chen Cheng who was hiding under the black cloak and looking out of the window in a daze, the corners of his mouth hooked up a trace of arc at this time, and suddenly said:
"Cheng, where are you pretending to be Voldemort again?"
"Poof!"
Wen Qiayun couldn't help laughing when she heard Li Shuai's words, she glanced at Li Shuai funny, and then looked at Chen Cheng, who was really like Voldemort, shaking her head and not knowing what to say.
"Who is Lord Voldemort? Is it also an escapee? β
Chen Cheng took off his headphones and asked a little blankly.
Chen Cheng's answer made Li Shuai and Wen Qiayun speechless for a while, but thinking about it, it is normal for Chen Cheng's character not to read novels and not pay attention to movies. Li Shuai doesn't care, anyway, he is idle and bored now, and he urgently needs someone to make him ridicule and ridicule, Chen Cheng is just right.
"Voldemort is the old man on our bus, and just like you, he's a chaser."
"Exorcist!" Chen Cheng emphasized unhappily.
"Xiang means magic. This is the dialect of my hometown. Li Shuai explained seriously.
Hearing Li Shuai's words, Xiao Mo was also a little uncontrollable. He covered his mouth and snickered twice, then put on his headphones and turned on the music to the loudest, otherwise it would be hard to say what he would hear.
Chen Cheng didn't quite understand the meaning of Li Shuai's words, but seeing Wen Qiayun and Xiao Mo's expressions, he could also guess in his heart which sentence might be Li Shuai's way again. So he stopped talking and stuffed the earphones into his ears again.
Li Shuai saw Chen Cheng's reaction, and he couldn't help but secretly scold Xiao Mo in his heart for destroying his good deeds, but he was still unwilling to shout to Chen Cheng:
"Ah Cheng, do you listen to music? What music do you listen to? Do men sing or women sing? Does it sound good? How nice does it sound? How much is the difference between it and the singing voice of a handsome guy......? β
This time, Chen Cheng has learned to be smart, let you Li Shuai say anything. It's just worn out of the mouth. He also gritted his teeth and said nothing.
With Chen Cheng's silence and Li Shuai's repeated ridicule to no avail, the atmosphere of the bus couldn't help but cool down again. At this time, Xiao Mo also felt a little deafening, so he stopped listening to the music and took off the headphones. Looking out the window with some complicated feelings.
Outside the window, there was a bleak scene. The lonely highway goes straight ahead. There are only a few trees on either side of the company. The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled from the far end, and through the refraction of the car window, it reflected both red and white in Xiao Mo's sight.
Somewhat dim red sun. and a world full of loneliness.
His mood suddenly became very bad, and he didn't know if it was the scenery outside the window that affected him, or if his mood affected the way he looked at the scenery.
In short, his chest was very uncomfortable, and the tightness in his chest that he hadn't felt for a long time broke out again.
"Ahem......!"
Xiao Mo coughed heavily, his face turned pale in an instant, and when the little follower saw this, he intentionally handed over a tissue from the side.
"Thank you."
Xiao Mo smiled, took the tissue handed by the little attendant and wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth.
At this time, Wen Qiayun also looked over and asked softly:
"Look at your face is not very good, do you think of something?"
"It's not counting, it's just that there is an inexplicable sentimentality in my heart." Xiao Mo replied with a wry smile.
Wen Qiayun blinked her charming eyes and stared at Xiao Mo silently for a while, which also saw Xiao Mo turn his head aside with some embarrassment, and then heard Wen Qiayun say again:
"In fact, people will have such a time, inexplicably feeling sad, inexplicably feeling melancholy." Speaking of this, Wen Qiayun paused, and then her voice was a little low:
"Especially people like us who have left home."
"Home?" The bitterness on Xiao Mo's face was even heavier, he shook his head and said:
"To be honest, I'm not sure if I have a home, if there's a place that can be called a haven for the soul. I even ...... Even I'm not sure who it is. β
"I don't have a home either."
Wen Qiayun didn't seem to want Xiao Mo to trouble herself, she smiled a little absently after she finished speaking, and then pointed to her chest:
"But I have family, and they all hold it in my heart."
"Good." Xiao Mo didn't know what to say for a while, because his heart was really empty, and he didn't know if the parents with vague impressions could really fit into his heart.
After Wen Qiayun saw that Xiao Mo didn't mean to talk to her, she squeezed her eyes helplessly at the little attendant beside her, and then moved her gaze out the window.
They were like a group of tourists from different places with different moods, meeting on this bus. Then they enjoy the scenery along the way together, make friends, and slowly become friends. But when they wanted to get one step closer, they reluctantly found that there would always be people who got off the bus and left, and then new people got in the car to meet them, and then someone left.
In the end, everyone in the car will understand a truth, the encounter itself represents parting. This time it may be someone else who leaves, then the next time it may be you who leaves, because no one is sure where their end will be.
Therefore, Wen Qiayun has always felt that cherishing the present is to enjoy life. She likes her life now because she feels like a traveler, and every event is a new journey for her, full of danger and full of warmth and understanding.
She is a traveler, and she is using her life to record the scenery along the way.
Li Shuai didn't know if he noticed the strangeness of everyone, so he suddenly shouted:
"Xiao Xiaozi, if we can solve the next incident safely, then we can go to a mysterious location to dig for treasure."
Li Shuai's suddenly loud voice called Xiao Mo back to reality from his feelings, and he nodded and replied:
"Well, according to Zheng Yonghua, every mysterious location will hide props with different Cheng dΓΉ, we can indeed go over and have a look at it then, and if we feel dangerous, we can leave at any time."
Mystic locations are locations that are specifically marked on the Cursed Map, and unlike other places, they don't have names. At least there is nothing on the curse map, they are circled in red with a small icon of the treasure chest symbol on it.
According to Zheng Yonghua, these locations also have supernatural events, but they are simpler than normal supernatural events, and they have a certain degree of confrontation, just like a place in online games that players use to brush points and upgrade.
No matter how specific he was, he didn't ask in detail at the time, saying that it was the last word to go and see it himself.
However, this matter is still a little early for them, because judging from the map, they have to go through at least one more event before they have a chance to drive to one of the mysterious locations, so it is not what they should be in a hurry now.
At the same time, in a Xinhua bookstore in Shuyu City, a frenzy of people is being staged on the three floors inside and three layers outside.
Outside the bookstore hangs a long banner with a few large characters clearly depicted:
"Li Zhengyang, a famous horror mystery novelist, held a signing session with his new book "Xenophobia" in our store." (To be continued......)