Chapter 0606: The Third
After the little boy finished speaking, the temperature in the car seemed to drop to freezing point, and the driver’s face brushed white.
”Just one hand short?”
The driver thought for a moment that something was wrong with his ears, and he had a hard time believing that he would hear such words from the mouth of a seven or eight year old child.
His pupils throbbed, and he couldn’t help but look at his cell phone; the news didn’t describe the child’s death in detail, but only briefly mentioned the murderer’s brutal methods.
Because of the child’s words, the atmosphere in the car suddenly became bizarre.
Driver holding the steering wheel hands wet with sweat, the woman on the passenger seat silent, the back seat of the child tightly clutching the black plastic bag, face with and his age does not match the smile.
Several “people” in the car, only Chen Ge is still normal, as if everything is under control.
He moved toward the child’s side again, his voice calm and warm, but what he said made the driver in front of him break out in a cold sweat.
”Still missing a hand? So is the rest of what you’ve already found in this black bag?” Chen Ge looked at the bulging plastic bag, “Can you let uncle take a look? After getting off the bus, uncle can help you look for it together.”
”No need.” Seeing that Chen Ge had put his mind on the black bag, the smile on the child’s face slowly tightened.
”Actually, we’re quite similar, I’m also looking for something.” Chen Ge lifted his own backpack, his bag was much larger than the kid’s bag.
”You’re looking for it too?” The kid could smell the faint odor of blood emanating from Chen Ge’s backpack, he felt that something was wrong with the situation, it wasn’t quite what he had envisioned before getting on the bus, “What are you looking for?”
”What I’m looking for is right here in the car, when I find a suitable time, I’ll put them all in the bag and take them away.” Chen Ge was like a bad uncle who was scaring children, his tone was quirky, but the child sitting next to him didn’t have a trace of a smile on his face, the kid could hear that Chen Ge was serious.
”They?” Unlike the child, the driver who was driving almost used the brake as a gas pedal and crashed headfirst into the woods when he heard Chen Ge’s use of words.
He felt that the subtext of Chen Ge’s words was to kill everyone in the car and put them in his backpack.
Thoughts completely unable to keep up with the rhythm of the conversation of the rear passengers, the only thing in the car that could now put the driver’s mind at ease was the woman sitting on the passenger side, in his opinion, the woman on the passenger side was soft and pitiful, if there was really an accident, he would take that woman and run together, so that they could also have a care for each other.
”Now the situation is very complicated, what I can do is to save myself while rescuing more people in need of help!” The driver secretly resolved in his heart, he secretly glanced towards the co-pilot, the poor woman seemed to realize the problem as well, her fingers gently resting on the driver’s knee.
Chen Ge didn’t realize what kind of role he was filling in the driver’s script, his attention was focused on the child next to him.
Since he had met him, it would be good to make a friend and invite him to sit in his house.
The cab drove on a little further and came to a thruway.
Continuing forward, one would leave the eastern outskirts of Jiujiang and enter the county, while heading the other way, one would reach the White Dragon Cave Tunnel.
”Which direction is your home?” The driver asked the woman in a very gentlemanly manner, and the woman, who had been hanging her head low, slowly tilted her face up and reached out her hand to point in the direction of the White Dragon Cave.
”White Dragon Cave Tunnel?” Anyone who had been working as a taxi in Jiujiang for a long time knew about the White Dragon Cave, the place was simply a section of cursed highway, accidents were frequent, there were many rumors about it, and it even spawned several different versions of strange stories.
The driver’s face became very pale, he steeled himself and kept his composure, turning his head to look at the child carrying the bag again, “Little friend, do you still remember which direction your home is in?”
The boy was a bit unhappy sitting with Chen Ge, and he expressionlessly nudged his mouth towards the White Dragon Cave side.
”Your home is over there too? Looks like you guys are from the same village.” The driver was making excuses for himself, trying to find ways to comfort himself as he squeezed out a smile and looked at Chen Ge again, “What about you?”
”I’m also going in that direction, but I advise you that it’s best if you don’t continue driving forward, let the two of them get off the bus, and then send me back to where the woman got on the bus just now.” Chen Ge was trying to protect the driver, if he followed the woman and the child out of the car, and the driver went back alone, there was a high chance that he would encounter an accident on the road, so that’s why he was thinking of accompanying the driver to drive a little way back.
His starting point was good, but the driver didn’t think so, Chen Ge gave him a very dangerous feeling, it was okay to say that there were a lot of people now, but when he was left alone, he might not know what Chen Ge would do.
The more the driver thought about it, the more scared he got, Chen Ge was driving to the middle of nowhere in a cab alone at night, and holding a backpack that smelled like blood, what this person wanted to do was actually clear.
”It’s better to forget it, you guys are on the way, then I’ll just drop you off together.” The driver sent his location to their company group, but the network was very poor, sending half a day did not work, he slowed down the car, and hand-typed two more messages, but it still showed that it failed to send.
Obviously a car of people, but the driver is not the slightest sense of security, he wanted to call the police, but also worried about angering the passengers in the car, let them do something irrational.
Just as the driver was agonizing, an old man walked out right in front of the dingzhi intersection, limping with a medicine frame on his back.
This seemed to be a medicine picker, the eastern suburb was surrounded by a large river and mountains, the economy was not well developed, but because of this, the environment was not damaged, the mountains had a wide variety of flora and fauna, and there were also many rare medicinal herbs.
Unlike those grown artificially, herbs picked in the wild were a little more expensive, so the old men who stayed behind in the nearby villages would often go into the mountains to pick herbs.
The old man seemed to have fallen on his way down the mountain, his right leg was slightly deformed, and his clothes were scratched by the branches of a tree, with a blood stain remaining on the leg of his pants.
He walked past the cab and unconsciously glanced towards the car, his eyes slowly widened and sped up, limping towards the distance.
Witnessing the old man’s facial expression change, the driver now panicked even more.
He opened the car window and wanted to ask the old man, but when he looked out the window, the limping old man had already disappeared.
”Limping and still able to walk that fast?”
The back of his hand felt a coolness, and the driver was startled, only to turn around and see that the woman on the passenger side had placed her hand on the back of his hand.
”What’s wrong?”
The woman pointed over to the White Dragon Cave, signaling him to hurry over.
As the driver turned the corner, Chen Ge also opened his mouth, “Did someone go over outside the car just now? Who were you talking to?”
”An old man with leg problems, carrying a bamboo basket, didn’t you see? He even stopped by our car for a while!” The driver’s voice became louder.
Chen Ge shook his head, there were only shadows of swaying trees outside the car, there was no old man passing by at all.