Chapter 3: Stygian (1)

"I didn't expect that this time it would be the three of us going together." Chang Miao leaned back and said lazily.

"Don't hold us back." Chang Yan sat in the co-pilot and echoed.

On the evening of September 12, I was not the only one who received the mission text message, Chang Yan and Chang Miao received the same message. In the face of this reincarnation, we are just as confused, and although I have some information about Styx, I am still at a loss. However, compared to Fang Lei, our situation is not bad, after all, we know what the goal of this mission is, and we also limit the number of reincarnations, these factors have relieved the pressure in our hearts to a certain extent, so that we can prepare in advance.

"By the way, the text message said that you can leave after one success, what does this sentence mean, can we successfully save that Wang Huan once, and we can end this reincarnation." I asked.

"Hmm." Chang Yan nodded, noncommittal, "How to say it, not all reincarnations will have this condition, for example, like Brother Lei's last mission, there are no requirements, and that is also the reincarnation with the highest difficulty coefficient I have seen so far." However, even in the same reincarnation, reincarnators who perform different tasks may not all have the same requirements in terms of completion standards. ”

"So what kind of task doesn't have such conditions, and how many times do they need to complete it before it can be finished?" I turned my head to look at Chang Yan and asked, "Twice?" Three times? Or all of them? ”

"I said you can drive and look good on the road." Suddenly, a pungent smell came, and Chang Miao, who was sitting in the back seat, kicked off his shoes, put his feet on the back of the driver's seat, and rubbed his big toe back and forth against my face. I couldn't see it, but I could still clearly feel the dead skin on his feet.

"Hey, fuck, just talk, Chang Miao, what do you mean by getting on your feet?" I said with a look of disgust, tilting my head to the other side, as far away from his feet as I could.

"Haha......" Chang Yan on the side was already laughing backwards, "You don't care about him, he's like this." Then he took off his shoes and sat there and began to pick at his feet, sniffing them every now and then.

I stopped the car with a sharp brake, and the two brothers leaned forward due to inertia, and Chang Yan's fingers were also inserted into his mouth.

"Phew, bah......" Chang Yan opened the car window and spat on it, and said with displeasure: "Gu Liangguo, are you crazy?" ”

"That's it!" Chang Miao also chirped in the back.

I started the car again and said with the same serious face: "Answer me first, what task needs to be completed more than once?" ”

"What task? Hehe. Chang Yan said with a sneer, "You first think about how to successfully survive this reincarnation, the four reincarnations that our brothers have experienced so far, except for the first one, the last three have all succeeded." You're not like us, and if you fail this time, you'll already have two times in a row. Don't forget, if you fail three times in a row, you will end up the same as Fang Lei. At this moment, Chang Yan's voice became low and sinister.

I was silent, and I had no reason to refute Chang Yan's words. Indeed, as he said, I need to take care of the task at hand, and if I fail, then I have already failed twice in a row. Even if there is one more chance, for me, it is a life and death.

"I said you should hurry up, it's past seven o'clock in the evening, and we haven't even finished half the way. Let me tell you, if you can't get to Styx Town before twelve o'clock, our mission will be directly recorded as a failure, and we won't even know who Wang Huan is, so we won't be wronged? Chang Yan returned to his usual unserious face in an instant, "But it's strange, I haven't heard of this Styx Town before, and there is no introduction to this town on the Internet, but navigation can easily help us plan the path." ”

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"Turn left ahead and take the off-ramp." Navigation voices play routes.

I was shocked, I had walked this road many times, and I didn't remember what ramps were ahead, and I didn't encounter any signs about ramps along the way.

"No, brother, is there a ramp ahead of this road?" Chang Yan turned his head to look at Chang Miao and asked.

"Regardless of whether he has it or not, brother, think about it, ghosts exist in the mission, and even our stronghold of the 'Yellow Gate' appeared out of thin air, so what's so strange about having an extra road now." Chang Miao replied easily.

Chang Miao's words not only answered Chang Yan's question, but also woke me up. Since the manipulators behind the scenes can change things at will, it seems that this mission will not be as simple as imagined.

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At half past eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, a faint firelight flickered in sight, followed by a light smoke. As I drove the car closer, I saw an old man sitting on a stone, holding a cigarette stick and smacking dry tobacco.

"This old man, he doesn't go back to sleep in the middle of the night, it's scary here." Chang Yan said impatiently.

I opened the car door and got out of the car and walked over to the old man. "Uncle, why are you smoking here in the middle of the night, aren't you sleepy?" I asked.

The old man, however, looked at me, and did not speak, but smoked to himself. I patted the old man on the shoulder, and the old man looked up at me again, his eyes blank. I repeated what I had just said, hoping to catch up with him and ask about Styx.

"Aba." The old man pointed to his mouth and shook his head.

"Uncle, do you know where Styx Town is?" Knowing that the old man couldn't speak, I went straight to the point.

Hearing my inquiry, the uncle's face instantly became surprised, but he quickly regained his composure. "Aba." The old man pointed to the front of the car.

"How?" Back in the car, Chang Miao couldn't wait to know what I heard.

"It's a mute." I shook my head helplessly, "However, he showed me the direction of the town, which should be just ahead." ”

At 11:50 a.m., a house with the lights still on appeared in front of us, stopped, knocked on the door, and no one answered, so I continued to knock several more times.

"Oh, you go and ask who it is." A voice resembling a middle-aged woman sounded in the room.

"Who?" Then, the voice of a middle-aged man also sounded.

"I'm sorry to disturb, we're from out of town, we may be lost, and I want to inquire with you."

After about two minutes, there was a sound of slippers rubbing against the floor, and then a fat man in a riding coat with dark skin opened the door and poked his head out, "What do you want to ask?" ”

I was just about to speak, when Chang Yan and Chang Miao got out of the car at some point, and the two of them asked in unison, "Is this Styx Town?" ”