Chapter 0251 – Black Package
While the driver uncle waited for the red light, he took out his cell phone and sent a voice in their group chat.
He had just sent Chen Ge to Locust Lane and listened to ghost stories all the way there, and now his heart was in a panic.
”The car is equipped with a car recorder, a positioning system, and a guardrail, so nothing should happen.” The driver uncle has a lot of heart, when sending the voice intentionally speak loudly, so that the passengers in the back row can also hear clearly.
”The last few nights have been a bit chaotic, so pay more attention.”
”Okay.”
The green light came on, and the driver uncle put his cell phone aside and started the cab.
The scenery on both sides flew backwards, and there were fewer and fewer vehicles on the road.
The driver uncle quietly glanced in the rearview mirror at the passenger in the back row, not too tall, wearing a black sweater on top and a light red shirt inside.
The man ran into the car in a hurry and didn’t open his mouth again after saying where he was going.
What was even stranger was that he also didn’t remove the sweatshirt hat he wore on top of his head after entering the car, and because of the angle he could only see half of his face clearly.
”Brother, we who run night cars are more particular, we usually don’t go to that place.” The driver uncle had no bottom in his heart and started to pull the wool over his eyes, “But since I let you get on the bus, I definitely won’t charge you even more, but I can only send you to that neighborhood, you need to walk a couple of hundred meters in by yourself, do you think it’s okay?”
He was like this the first time he drove Chen Ge, he was so timid that he started to plan the route to leave without arriving at the place, and when the passengers got off the bus, he turned around and ran.
”Don’t, I’m just going to pick up something, my home is downtown.” The man raised his head, from the voice but could not hear any problem: “You go, leaving me alone in front of the crematorium, when I pick up something back how to get a taxi? Where would a cab run to haul passengers from the crematorium in the middle of the night?”
Driver Old Zhang thought about it and pondered that what the passenger said made sense.
”You send me to, and then send back, round trip two car money, not more than you pull the empty car to run back to earn?”
By the passenger so said, old Zhang a little moved, can earn a share of money why not earn.
If it is before he will certainly agree, mainly after carrying Chen Ge, he has a psychological shadow, do everything carefully up: “also OK, but I will wait for you at the intersection, you fetch the things and then come back to me.”
”Success, as long as you don’t mind the delay.” The male passenger in the back row had his hands in his pockets, and had a good look on his face.
”There’s nothing out of the ordinary about this person other than the fact that he wears a hat all the time, he feels a lot more reliable than that guy who went on a date to the abandoned campus.”
Old Zhang muttered under his breath, thinking that there are so many cabs running night buses in the whole of Jiujiang, so he can’t let himself encounter any strange things, right?
The probability of bumping into that psycho twice in a row was low enough, so it was time to do some math.
He thought of all kinds of reasons to comfort himself in his mind, but the hands holding the steering wheel were still sweating.
The car drove very fast, it only took ten minutes to run out of the old city center, heading towards the crematorium located in the suburbs.
There were fewer and fewer people on both sides, and the lights of the store signs were no longer visible, leaving only Old Zhang’s cab speeding along the highway.
”Almost there.”
The driver uncle peeked at his passenger from the rearview mirror from time to time, and the other person stayed honestly in his seat, not seeming to move at all the entire way.
”Please drive a little further, you don’t need to send it to the door, just a little closer.” The passenger in the back row’s voice was soft, with the feeling of sucking in air as he spoke.
Nearly a hundred meters around could not see any bright light, today this place was extraordinarily quiet, the cab was slowly moving forward on the concrete road, as if it was a moving black coffin.
”Just park here.” The night wind blew in along the windows, Old Zhang gripped the steering wheel with both hands, somewhat uneasy.
”Okay, give me two minutes.”
”Car money!”
”Give it together when I come back.” The passenger in the back row said faintly, and his voice seemed to have some kind of change.
”You this person …….”
Old Zhang was tempted to get out of the car and argue with the other party, he was afraid that the passenger would flee, but he flinched at the thought of leaving the car to go outside: “What a hell, running to the crematorium in the middle of the night to look for something, does he work here?”
The driver uncle looked at the time, it was already eleven fifty-six, it would be twelve soon.
”Every day I meet such a customer, always running to some strange and weird places, but I don’t have to worry about traffic jams.” He watched the passenger leave at a fast pace, and felt that the man walked a little awkwardly, just as if he wasn’t used to walking.
The passenger entered the crematorium through the small door, and Old Zhang sat alone in the car, he raised all the windows all the way up, the confined space made him feel safer.
”It’s too slow.” Just after ten seconds or so, Old Zhang was a bit unable to sit still: “Could I have met a crook? Does this guy not want to pay for the car?”
He pondered for a moment, his expression slowly changed, and he seemed to realize a very bad thing: “That passenger going to Locust Flower Lane, it seems like he also got off the bus without paying!”
Chen Ge was going to Sophora Lane, and there were still fifty to sixty meters from the entrance of the lane, when Old Zhang started to urge him to get off, and finally said he was not willing to drive any further.
When Chen Ge had no choice but to get out of the car and wanted to pay the fare, Old Zhang had already driven a dozen meters away.
Lightly afraid of hitting his face, the old Zhang face of bitterness: “Take over the shift for an hour, a penny did not earn, but also ride in a few dollars of gas money. Forget it, as if it is a disaster, as long as I can never meet him again, I’ll give him the money for the car.”
Old Zhang was so upset that he turned on the music in the car, but the more he listened to it, the more he panicked.
Outside is the crematorium, dark and very quiet. Making noise in the car at this time felt like it would be targeted by something in the darkness.
Not even one song had finished playing, so he turned off the music again, gripped the steering wheel tightly, and looked around.
”Why isn’t it out yet?” It was one minute to midnight early morning, and the more Uncle Driver thought about it, the more wrong he felt that something was going to happen.
He picked up the broken talisman paper that he had thrown on the ground again, bowed his head in worship, and stuffed it into his inner pocket of his clothes.
Coincidentally, as he bowed his head, his eyes happened to scan the cushion that the passenger had once made.
On the white cushion was a not too obvious blood stain.
”Was there any before? I didn’t seem to see it when I picked up the car.”
Old Zhang twisted his head to look at the backseat and suddenly remembered that the passenger was dressed in a very different way, with a sweatshirt over the outside and a light red shirt underneath.
”The red color of that shirt isn’t too even, it shouldn’t be ……”
”Bang! Bang! Bang!”
The window of the car was knocked, and the passenger walked out of the crematorium at some point, holding a package covered with a black cloth.
Old Zhang was startled and hurriedly retracted his gaze.
”The item has been found, let’s return the way we came.” The passenger’s tone was completely different from before, as if there was a change somewhere.
The driver looked at the black package in the passenger’s hand from the reflector and rubbed his hand on his clothes, his palm had long been soaked in sweat.