Chapter 9 Traffic jams

Colorful neon lights illuminate the city at night, shining on the car windows, reflecting a blurred circle of light that dazzles people's eyes.

All kinds of cars are hurrying along the road, and the bright lights will reflect the dark night very lively.

Shen Luotian parked the car at an intersection, looked at the countdown numbers in front of him that were decreasing little by little, and anxiously tapped the steering wheel.

Thirty seconds to go.

There seemed to be a shadow on the windshield, just blocking his view.

He lowered his head and pulled out the cigarette case and lighter from the side.

The passenger side of a plastic umbrella was lying quietly, and the transparent umbrella reflected the light outside the window.

Shen Luotian raised his head, put the cigarette in his mouth, and lit the lighter.

Fifteen seconds to go.

"Big Brother ......"

A childish voice sounded in his ears.

A wisp of smoke dispersed before his eyes, and a red shadow appeared on the windshield in front of the smoke.

The countdown to the traffic light began to flicker, and there were five seconds left.

"Big brother...... Do you see my mom? ”

The childish voice asked with a crying voice.

A little girl in a red dress stood on the front cover of his car, pressed her face against the glass, and looked at him pitifully with blinking eyes.

The girl had two pigtails, two lines of tears on her round face, and she looked only four or five years old, which was the cutest age.

The red light flashed one last time, and then finally turned green.

"Big brother...... Why don't you even look at me! The girl pressed her hands on the window and leaned on the windshield, shouting angrily while patting the glass.

A shrill horn came from behind him.

Shen Luotian took a puff of his cigarette and stepped on the accelerator suddenly.

The girl was shaken by him, and the whole person rolled twice on the front cover of the car. Then he fell hard to the ground.

The umbrella in the passenger seat also shook a few times with the impact, and finally fell into the gap under the saddle.

Two small bright red handprints on the windshield were slowly dripping with blood.

Shen Luotian drove the car past the intersection before he had time to tilt his head and glance at the girl who fell to the ground behind him.

Her bright red dress was already covered in dust, shattered into a few roadside branches. Speeding cars passed her, crushing her young body to pieces, leaving a large pool of blood in the center of the intersection.

Her head was rolling around next to the signal lamppost. There was a weird smile on the bloodstained little face, and a pair of black eyes were staring at Shen Luotian who was getting farther and farther away, his mouth was open and closed, and he didn't know what he was saying.

The two bloody handprints on the windshield slowly faded in color until they disappeared.

"Hmph......" Shen Luotian dusted off his cigarette ash and sneered, "It's been eight hundred years since you died, and you're still looking for your mother, who cares about you!" ”

He took his eyes back from the rearview mirror, turned the steering wheel, and turned a corner.

An emaciated man was lying in the middle of the road on the bend. Hit by cars coming and going, he rolled around like a ball.

The man's eyes lit up when he saw Shen Luotian's car coming towards him. He quickly rolled over, got up from the ground, crouched on the ground and waved at the man in the SUV.

Unfortunately, the tall SUV was no different from the others, and it drove mercilessly past him, flattening him on the road once again.

"Remember to obey the traffic rules! Otherwise, after you die, you're still lying on the ground and rolling around, isn't it beautiful? ”

Shen Luotian held on to the steering wheel and slowed down the car. Another turn.

I always feel that something is not right, as if I have forgotten something.

He looked at the overpass ahead as it began to emerge. A puzzled frown.

He thought for a while, and suddenly was surprised, "Ah! With a sigh, he raised his hand and pulled the seat belt next to him and buckled it on his body.

The car turned towards the overpass.

Five minutes later.

Shen Luotian silently stepped on the brakes, parked the car in the middle of the road, and opened the window. Poked his head out and glanced forward.

In a white BMW car next to him, a middle-aged man also opened the window with him and poked his head out.

Dense cars crowded on the road ahead. Many people, like the two of them, opened their car windows and looked out of nowhere.

The BMW watcher looked at it for a moment. Seeing nothing, he retracted his head again and glanced behind him.

The car was already parked in the back.

The vast convoy was untold how long, and the shrill horns sounded one after another, mixed with a few complaints and curses, and it sounded like the door of a vegetable market during the rush hour.

The owner of the BMW observed for a while, made sure that he had been blocked on this road, turned his head and glanced at Shen Luotian beside him, and shrugged helplessly.

Shen Luotian nodded politely at him.

"Little brother, do you know what's going on ahead?"

Shen Luotian shook his head at him in confusion. He glanced down at the electronic clock on the car, honked the horn as if angry, and then leaned back on the car seat and smoked a cigarette.

"Oh, the little brother has a good car! How much did you buy it? The middle-aged man driving the BMW left the driver's seat with a smile, leaned into the window on the other side, and said to Shen Luotian enthusiastically: "Is there any more smoke?" ”

"I don't know, my brother's car." Shen Luotian said and took out the cigarette case and handed it to the man, "Why, the eldest brother is so strict at home?" ”

"Hey, that's not it, I talk every day that my lungs are blackened, second-hand smoke is not good for children's health, and sooner or later I will die of lung cancer or something, and I am annoyed!" The man showed a "you know" expression, raised his hand and pointed to the lighter on Shen Luotian's car, "It's still good for you young people, you don't have to worry about anything, you can do whatever you want, and no one cares." People like me can only take advantage of the traffic jam to take advantage of this time to have a good time, and I have to find a way to get rid of the smell before I go home. ”

"Let's smoke less." Shen Luotian said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if the lungs are not lung cancer, but my sister-in-law is always right when she speaks, this is the ultimate truth of the universe." ”

The man laughed loudly when he heard this, returned the lighter to Shen Luotian, and reached out to pat him on the shoulder.

"Little brother, you're really funny talking...... Yes, that's the truth. ”

Shen Luotian took out his mobile phone from his pocket again. He lowered his head and pressed it for a while, then looked up at the man and said, "It seems that there was a car accident ahead, and there was a series of rear-end collisions." It's going to be blocked here for a while, big brother, are you in a hurry? ”

"It's okay, just got off work, not too anxious. But first, give me a phone call home. The man bit his cigarette, took out his mobile phone, squinted his eyes and carefully pressed the touch screen, shook his head and sighed: "It's still good for you young people, so many new things, you can understand it at a glance, you can know that there was a car accident at a glance at your mobile phone, it's amazing!" I just don't understand what kind of smart machine this is...... Hey, old! ”

"Uh...... It's okay. Shen Luotian looked at the man and pressed the phone screen again and again. Finally, after a number was finally broadcast, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief for him.

"Ah, wife, it's me. I'm stuck in a traffic jam here, and it looks like I've been in an accident. The man began to speak into the phone.

Shen Luotian chuckled, took another puff of cigarette, leaned back on the back of the seat with his eyes closed, and rubbed his temples a few times, which had been beating just now.

Countless chaotic and broken pictures flashed in front of him. There are all kinds of weird noises, like watching a damaged videotape. Not to mention the poor picture quality, the picture is still distorted and messy.

Several cars were strewn across the road.

The driver, whose face was covered in blood, lay on the steering wheel and shouted: "I have a broken leg!" ”

The voice of the man in the BMW kept drilling into his ears, reminding him where he was now, that reality was still real.

"Hey...... Yes, that's the way, how do you know? ”

"Oooh oh. It's on the news, that's good, I'm afraid you won't believe it! ”

A little boy lies in broken glass, his chest heaving slightly, and beside him lies a twisted electric car that no longer makes out the prototype.

"Uh-huh. I'm fine, I'm just stuck in traffic, don't worry. ”

A middle-aged woman was kneeling in a pool of blood, holding a bloody human body and crying loudly.

"Yes, you and your son should have dinner first, I don't know what time it will take to go back."

Several police cars honked, red and blue police lights flashed constantly, and the traffic police shouted loudly and ran back and forth on the road.

"I'm really fine, the place where I had a car accident is far away from me, don't think about it, hurry up and eat."

Two ambulances were stuck in a certain intersection, motionless......

"Okay, then I'll hang up, you remember to leave me some supper!"

"Hey, woman, I know that I'm blindly worried, and I keep asking if I was hit, and I don't want to think about whether I can call like this if I am blown up." The man hung up the phone, smiled at Shen Luotian, scratched his head in embarrassment, although it was a complaining tone, but with some unconscious sweetness, "It's really annoying, little brother, you said yes?" ”

Shen Luotian let out a soft "um", opened his eyes again, and nodded at the man.

"Oh, little brother, why are your eyes red!" The man looked at Shen Luotian's face and shouted in surprise.

"Is there one?" Shen Luotian pretended to look in front of the rearview mirror for a while, turned his head to stare at the man, and said suspiciously: "I don't look at it, big brother, are you dazzled." ”

The man looked at it for a moment, shook his head, and sighed.

"I think I'm really dazzled...... Hey, I'm old! ”

Shen Luotian smiled again and pointed to the taillights in front of him.

"I guess it was when the light came on."

The man nodded in realization, leaned back in his chair, tilted his head and began to smoke leisurely.

Shen Luotian listened to all kinds of noises in his ears, and looked at the endless convoy in front of him and began to be in a daze.

The middle-aged man smoked for a while, then suddenly sighed and sighed, "Hey...... I don't know what happened to the car accident in front of me now, it looks like it should be quite serious, did there be any death? ”

Shen Luotian looked at the large car lights in front of him in a daze, and said unconsciously: "Three dead." ”

A child, two men.

A shrill horn sounded right behind them, muffling out his otherwise unsound words.

"Huh?" The middle-aged man turned his head suspiciously and looked at Shen Luotian, "Did you just say something?" ”

Shen Luotian was startled by the sound of the horn, quickly came back to his senses, and shook his head at the middle-aged man.

"Nothing."

The middle-aged man raised his eyes and recalled, still not sure if what he had just heard was what he had just heard.

Shen Luotian glanced down at the time again.

Twenty minutes had passed, but he was still there, not moving at all.

"Ah, by the way, little brother, where are you going?" The man asked again.

"I ...... Went to my uncle's shop and did me a favor. ”

"I'm in a hurry." The man lifted down the electronic display in his car, "I see you've been looking at the time, aren't you particularly disturbed!." ”

"It's okay, it's not too much of a rush."

It's just that one or two people will die when it's too late, please don't worry about me.

"Then do you want to call home or something, even if they are not in a hurry, they should worry about you."

Shen Luotian glanced down at his mobile phone.

"Forget it, no need." He said to himself, "It's useless to call anyone now." ”

As he said this, he closed his eyes again, trying to recall Shen Yungui's face.

The two of them usually don't see each other much, although they are biological uncles and nephews, but they don't know each other too well, and it really takes a little time to suddenly think about what he looks like at this time.

Fortunately, I remembered it in the end.

While thinking of Shen Yungui's appearance, Shen Luotian also saw what he wanted to see.

A man was struggling to curl up his body, tucking himself into a dark and small space.

A tiny ray of light poured into the small space through a slit on the man's side, becoming the only source of light in the enclosed space.

And this light source is not too stable, and from time to time something flickers in the direction of the light, causing the space to fall into darkness for a short time.

From time to time, the sound of scratching things came from outside, and the listener panicked for no reason.

There is also the cry of a woman.

The sound of the man's breathing and heartbeat filled the small space, and the sound that should have been inaudible sounded extremely clear at this time.

It seems that he should not be able to die for the time being.

Shen Luotian looked at the convoy in front of him, which was gradually starting to loosen a little, exhaled, turned his head to the middle-aged man and said, "Big brother, it seems that you can go." ”

"Huh?" The man looked forward for a moment and laughed sharply, "yes, it looks like you can go." ”

Amid the constant honking of horns and the sound of swearing, the convoy, which had been blocked for nearly half an hour, finally began to squirm little by little.

When the road was completely cleared, the middle-aged man next to Shen Luotian greeted him at the intersection and drove the car in the other direction.

Shen Luotian also breathed a sigh of relief, quickly turned the steering wheel a few times, and drove in the direction of Shen Yungui's antique shop.

A drop of rain fell from the sky and wet the ground.

A little boy squatted on the road in confusion, looking at the various cars coming and going in front of him, and the large black and red blood stains on the ground, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

More raindrops soon covered the ground, and the large pool of blood was soon diluted by the rain and turned into a pink stream that flowed down the edge of the road into the well.

The little boy watched in a daze as the fine raindrops passed through his body and fell to the ground, blinked, and suddenly cried out with a "wow".

Behind him, a young man was crouching on the top of a street lamp, looking at the little boy with disgust and gouging out his ears.

"Cut...... What are you crying about? The man whispered, "Isn't it just dead, what's the big deal (to be continued.) )