Chapter 30. Deadly highways

As a city that is developing rapidly, the convenience of transportation directly determines whether the economy of this region has the opportunity to develop and become stronger because of the convenience of transportation. Chongqing is a mountain city with undulating heights, and because of its special geographical location, the roads cannot be turned into a ring of traffic like large cities such as Beijing, Chengdu and Guangzhou. In these cities, it is common to walk along a road in one direction, and at best wait for a few traffic lights to walk from the west to the east of the city.

But traffic in Chongqing is quite different.

I have been to a lot of cities, and every time I go to a city, because I am not familiar with the place, I basically do not choose the bus or subway and other modes of transportation, generally speaking, I take a taxi. On the one hand, it is convenient and hassle-free, and on the other hand, you can get acquainted with the local situation with the group that knows the city best, the taxi drivers. And when these brothers and sisters learned that I was from Chongqing, people who knew a little about Chongqing would say that the drivers in Chongqing are very good, not only have to deal with those bumpy and twisty roads, but also have a very good driving level to remember those intricate roads.

Of course, this is actually an exaggeration, because there are still a lot of parallel traders in Chongqing, and the mountain city gives the city a personality that people like to go on a rampage, and because of this, I can see the news of traffic accidents here and there from some people's livelihood news almost every day.

Chongqing's roads are also strange, unlike many cities, they may like to use a place name to name a road, for example, Beijing Road, Shanghai Road, Changsha Road, etc., Chongqing's road name is often a place that connects both ends of the road, and then choose a word as the road name. For example, "Shiyang Road" refers to the journey from Shiping Bridge to Yangjiaping; "Songpai Road" refers to the pine bridge to the new archway, and "Chen Tuo Road" refers to the road between Chenjiaping and Tuojiaao, and so on.

But there is a special road in Chongqing, which was opened to traffic in 2005, and since the year of its opening, it has overturned, had car accidents, and killed people. Originally, it stands to reason that such a thing will inevitably happen on any road, and it is not surprising. So if I tell you that the car accidents on this road, more than 50 deaths and injuries occurred in a year, forcing the traffic and road administration to think of countless methods, adding street lights, building overpasses, installing monitoring, all kinds of methods have been exhausted, but they have not had much effect, this road is still like this, almost never stop all kinds of seemingly repetitive, but incomprehensible car accidents.

The name of this road is Wugui Road. Wugui Road, as the name suggests, refers to the road between Wulidian and Guihuawan, but since it has just been opened to traffic, there have been accidents, and the most talked about topics by residents living near this road have gradually become where and where people have been killed, and it is not good who is still a relative of whom. There are many people who spread it, and naturally some people say that when this road was built, the gas veins in this area were cut off when the roadbed was dug up. This was actually nothing, but these words quickly spread to the original construction unit of the road and the unit in charge of the road in the jurisdiction at that time. People who are engaged in architecture are serious on the surface, but they still believe in psychology. So everyone summed it up and felt that the word "gui" in this Wugui Road and the word "ghost" are homophonic words, so they thought, change the name, and make it auspicious. But what should I change the name? The comrade in charge patted his thigh, and there is a Fortune 500 company in the world on the road that has settled in and put into production here, or it will be named after this enterprise!

This enterprise is the pride of Chinese enterprises, when I was a child, I once saw a blonde and a black-haired child, no clothes to show two points, only wearing a pants to jump around, I am such a smart person not to say which company, save everyone to guess. Anyway, the road was renamed Haier Road.

I have heard the rumors of the "devil's section" of this road for a long time. My own family lives near Wulidian, so I often pass by this road. I always thought that any rumors could not be groundless, but for many years I didn't have a proper opportunity to find out on the ground until August 2010.

The case was taken over by Hu Zongren, whose client was the developer of a new community on the side of one of the roads on Haier Road. Hu Zongren has not been in Chongqing for a long time, but he has learned some rumors about Haier Road in my mouth, and there are only a few friends in Chongqing, and it is very sad that I am still his most iron buddy. So when he took this order, he immediately thought of me.

Hu Zongren said that the client who contacted him directly was the vice president in charge of sales in the newly developed area, and he himself was a believer in Buddhism. Not long ago, a very grand opening ceremony was held. Because of the construction of roads nearby, many people who originally owned land have been expropriated, and the resettlement houses are far away in Yubei District. Housing prices in Jiangbei are relatively expensive, which makes many people who have lived in Jiangbei all their lives somewhat uncomfortable. So the developer targeted these people with a strong desire to buy houses nearby, and they all had a lot of resettlement fees in their hands, so they chose this opportunity to engage in a very profitable house purchase activity. And in the newspaper media, the slogan "Miss this time, wait another hundred years". And just as the number of people looking at the house was increasing one after another, one of the nights, a large truck pulling the muck came madly and directly hit and killed a pedestrian who happened to be in the middle of the road.

Hu Zongren said that everyone felt sorry for this natural and man-made disaster, but it was not necessarily a good thing for the developer, because if people nearby came to see the house, they would inevitably have to cross the road that had just died. Gradually, there are fewer people looking at the house. So the vice president of sales had an idea, and he decided to spend a lot of money to build an overpass for the residents in the community, so as to tell the surrounding residents that if you buy a house with me, you can even save the danger of crossing the road. Just when they wanted to use this as a gimmick to make a video promotional video, they called up the video footage of the incident at the scene on the night when the truck hit and killed people.

Hu Zongren said, but when this transfer came out, problems were discovered.

When he said this, Hu Zongren suddenly stopped, and then silently lit a cigarette. Because he knew it, I would have been anxious to ask him what had happened when I heard this. In order not to disappoint him, I really asked. He continued to tell me that the vice president said that in that video, the person who was hit and killed was not killed after crossing the road without paying attention, he was simply pushed into the middle of the road.

An exclamation mark popped up on the top of my head, and then asked Hu Zongren, how could this kind of thing find you, shouldn't you report it? This is murder! Hu Zongren shook his head and said that at first he also told the vice president, but the vice president then told him that the blame was that the pusher, after pushing the person who was killed by the collision out of the road, he himself stood in the middle of the road, and the big truck was hit with the two of them. I suddenly understood, and took Hu Zongren's words, but only one person's body was found at the scene, right? Hu Zongren nodded yes, he said it was more than that, when the truck driver hurriedly ran out of the car, a person climbed out from under the car, and walked away as if nothing happened, and the direction he walked was the direction of their community.

This time it was my turn to stop talking, and in fact I had a very strong ability to construct in my mind, so I could fully relate to the original scene, even though I hadn't seen the video yet. Hu Zongren saw that I didn't speak anymore, so he asked me, have you thought of anything? I said, the one who climbed out from under the car should be the one who pushed the pedestrian into the middle of the road, it was not a person, it was a ghost, a ghost that harmed people. Hu Zongren patted his thigh and said, yes, this is an obvious thing, but guess what the vice president said to me later. I looked at him, meaning that if there was something to say, let it go. He said that the vice president said that the video he saw at that time had been post-processed. Because I had to cut out such a section to make a promotional video, but the scene was relatively bloody, I hired someone to process it, such as mosaic and the like. But it was only after the tonal adjustment that the black figure could be seen. I was taken aback and asked Hu Zongren, is it something that looks like a shadow? Hu Zongren shrugged and said he hadn't seen it yet. So I told Hu Zongren that it couldn't be wrong, it must be a ghost. And this ghost kills people, and it must be cleaned up.

Hu Zongren asked me, you said that this section of the road, I heard that so many people have died back and forth, and they have died one after another, without the slightest intention of stopping, could it really be that the nearby residents said that when the road was opened, the mountain was split, and the land lord was shocked, so that these things never stopped? I told him that I really don't understand anything about the Qi Vein Immortals, but since I've found you this time, let's go and investigate it properly. I paused and told Hu Zongren that I looked more like I was looking for a stand-in.

In the water ghost incident not long ago, Hu Zongren and I almost became stand-ins for the water ghost in the pond. Many ghosts will look for stand-ins, especially those who died unclear, or hung up before they were ready, and the ghosts who are looking for stand-ins are far more than water ghosts. For example, when I went to Sanya in the summer of 2008, I met mandrills on a small island in Sanya, which was also a kind of stand-in.

Hu Zongren knew that I would definitely help, so he asked me, why don't we make an appointment with the vice president now and get to know each other in person?

I told him no, you give him a call, and we'll go straight to his office.