A gust of mountain wind blew by, and the trees swayed slightly.

The heat on the highway just now was also eliminated, and the whole person was much more energetic.

Ethan saw a sign nailed up by a few broken wooden boards on the side of the road, and he put down the map in his hand.

"The road is not shown on the map, there is a gas station in front of it, why don't we ask for directions."

"Okay."

Daria nodded and followed the signs.

Soon, they came to a dilapidated gas station, and in the open space outside the gas station, more than a dozen cars of various kinds were parked, and the inside of the cars were pasted with paper for sale.

The owner here is really business-minded, and where the birds don't poop, they are also used to sell second-hand cars.

Ethan probably took a look at the prices, and they were all set relatively low, and someone would come to buy them if they didn't have them.

Daria slowed down and drove into the gas station.

Inside the gas station is an old wooden house, and the walls of the wooden house are nailed with dozens of license plates, which looks like an alternative beauty.

Ethan pushed open the door, and melodious country music came from the cabin.

At the entrance to the cabin, a man sleeps on a chaise longue with a straw hat covering his face and a bottle of beer next to him.

"Good afternoon." Ethan said hello.

Without any response, Ethan took two more steps forward, swept away a few flies that flew in, and he increased his voice.

"Good afternoon, sir, excuse me."

After a few shouts, the man lying in the chair finally moved, he reached out and took off his straw hat, squinting his eyes at Ethan.

A white man, dry hair, and a mess were Ethan's first impressions of him.

The wrinkles on his face are piled up, he is not young, and the whole person looks dry and thin.

"I'm sorry to disturb your rest, I want to ask for directions?" Ethan raised the map in his hand.

The straw hat man took a sip of his beer, then asked vaguely:

"Where are you going?"

Ethan noticed that the guy had only a few teeth left in his mouth, that the beer had slid down his dirty neck and that the clothes had not been washed in a long time.

He couldn't help but think of Hood's cellmate Leonard, who was impressed when the two first met.

However, Leonard is forced to be helpless, and the person in front of him should be like this.

But Ethan didn't care, he had been a town police officer for a long time, and he had met all kinds of people, so he walked up to that person and opened the map in his hand.

"We were going to this place, but we had an accident on the highway and had to find a way to detour."

Ethan tapped his hand on the map, "Do you know where to get around?" ”

The straw hat man first glanced at Ethan, canvas shoes, jeans, and a white T-shirt, looking harmless to humans and animals.

At this time, Dariya also stepped out of the car, and her long wheat-colored legs looked full of youthful vitality.

The Straw Hat swallowed without a trace, then took the map with his oil-stained hand.

After looking at it for a while, he returned the map to Ethan, and said vaguely:

"Keep going along the road, and after half an hour, there will be a fork in the road."

"Keep an eye on the signs and head to Bear Mountain Road."

Ethan retrieved the map, thanked him, and returned to the car with Daria.

"Do you think he's right?"

After unfolding the map to confirm the direction, Daria nodded, "The direction is right, and we often ask the locals for directions when we go camping." ”

"Okay, then let's go."

The Chevrolet SUV spun around in a circle, drove out of the gas station, and continued to drive forward.

The straw hat man looked at the departing vehicle, yawned, and picked up the straw hat on his lap and put it on his face.

After driving for less than half an hour, I saw a fork in the road.

Daria glanced at the sign, turned her hand and drove into Bear Mountain Road.

Because she had just rested on the highway for a while, Daria was also in high spirits at this time, she turned up the volume of the radio, and the two of them hummed along to the music.

It didn't take long for the sound of the radio to weaken, and the sound became stuttering, and finally it simply became blind.

Ethan tapped the radio a few times, and Daria stopped him with a smile.

"It seems that you have never been camping in the mountains, and it is normal that there is no signal in it, I don't believe you look at your mobile phone."

Ethan took out his mobile phone, and sure enough, it had become a state of not being in the service area.

"Didn't I tell you? Isolated from the world, no one can reach you. Daria leaned over and opened the co-pilot's storage compartment, "There's a CD in it, you can put the CD in it." ”

"Be careful."

A crushed squirrel corpse appeared on the road ahead, presumably not long after it was hit, and there were still blood stains on the ground.

At Ethan's reminder, she quickly turned the steering wheel to avoid the animal carcasses.

"Rest assured, I'm in control."

Daria slapped her chest and glanced at Ethan, "Horror movie, right?" ”

She deliberately frightened Ethan: "Weird old man at the gas station, animal carcasses on the road." ”

"There's still an empty road, the elements of classic horror movies are all set, be careful that there are horror ogres coming for you tonight."

"You want to scare me?"

Ethan put the disc in his hand into the car CD player, and said to Daria with a smile:

"Don't forget who I am, do you want me to tell you about a serial perverted murderer."

"Shet, don't."

Dariya instantly shook her head and hurriedly refused.

The horror ogre's story is a fictional movie, and what Ethan said is true, and she doesn't want to be unable to sleep tonight.

In the frolic of the two, Chevrolet rolled up the fallen leaves on the ground and drove fast.

After driving forward for a long time, the surrounding trees became taller and taller, and large trees surrounded by one person abounded.

There should be no one walking on this road, and the middle position is surrounded by thick fallen leaves, and the scenery is quite good.

"Hey, look."

Hearing Daria's shout, Ethan looked ahead to see a white station wagon parked on the road ahead.

There are also various camping equipment strapped to the roof, and several mountain bikes are framed on it.

Next to the car, a girl in white casual pants and a small blue tank top was bouncing hard.

She kept waving her hands at Ethan, and the little white rabbit was about to come out.

The corners of Daria's mouth rose, and she said to Ethan with a smile:

"Hey, this is the type you like."

Ethan shrugged, "Let's see what's going on." ”

"No problem."

Daria let go of the accelerator, slammed on the brakes, and slowed down.

At this time, there was a loud bang, and the vehicle also vibrated violently.

Daria was instantly startled, and she grabbed the steering wheel with all her might, but the Chevrolet SUV still rushed towards the white station wagon next to her.

She could only slam on the brakes with one kick, but the inertia still hit the Chevrolet hard.

Ethan grabbed the front armrest of the roof with one hand and held Daria down with the other.

"Bang."

There was another loud bang, the two cars collided, and the front windshield shattered instantly.

Daria looked at the airbag that exploded in front of her in shock, fortunately the speed of the car had slowed down just now, otherwise she really didn't know what would have happened under this collision.

Ethan looked at the lifted hood, the vapor rising, and he exhaled heavily.

"Hey, are you alright?"

The girl in the little blue vest just now tapped on the car window and looked at them worriedly.

(End of chapter)