Chapter 0571 – Donggang Reservoir
The old woman walked out of the house, she was carrying a black cloth package in her hand.
”This is all that’s left of my useless talismans, if you’re going to find trouble with that female ghost, this is naturally something that’s more of a good thing ……,” the old man pushed the parcel forward, “All of it is for you.”
Looking at a parcel of talisman paper, the corner of Chen Ge’s mouth gently twitched, “Granny, you bought so much talisman paper, how much did you spend in total?”
”The price is secondary, the key is that it works.”
Chen Ge felt that the old man was nice to him, he didn’t want the old man to continue to be cheated and was ready to help the old man, “Granny, can you introduce me to the person who sold you the talisman paper as well?”
”OK, come back and I’ll lead you to him, that’s a tall man, looks scruffy, in fact, people with real talent are like that, it’s called the Great Hidden City.”
The more you listen to Chen Ge, the more you feel that the old man was cheated, to ask for the person’s address, he left with a parcel of talisman paper.
Walking out from the neighborhood, Chen Ge looked at the photo he had just taken in his cell phone, those words on the yellow paper were very scribbled, rather than Chinese characters, they were some kind of symbols with special meanings.
”Who can read this?” Chen Ge closed the page and called Paradise again to inquire about the situation.
It was already afternoon when he sent Wen Wen home, and there was some delay on the way, and on the haunted house’s side, because of his absence, Xu Wan had closed before the sun set as he had explained earlier.
Old Zhou and Duan Yue behaved well and there were no accidents, Chen Ge also put down his heart.
”We have to give Old Zhou and Duan Yue some rewards before they can do it, the two of them don’t have any desires, but I can see that Old Zhou is fond of Duan Yue, so I can help him to pursue Duan Yue, and as for Duan Yue,…… a girl shouldn’t be able to refuse the temptation of becoming a big star, right? I can make a promise to her that in the future, when I fulfill the writer’s last wish and prepare to make a movie, I’ll let her be the female lead.”
With clear rewards and punishments, Chen Ge had always treated his employees well.
Hanging up the phone, Chen Ge stuffed the things the old lady had given her into her backpack and called a cab to rush to Donggang Reservoir.
”The task on the special tourist Wen Wen still hasn’t been triggered, what’s the problem? Does the girl have to be exposed to water recreation facilities for it to work?” The girl’s aunt had told Chen Ge to never let the child go to the water’s edge, in order to ensure Wen Wen’s safety, Chen Ge would not put the girl in danger for the sake of the quest, which was probably why the black cell phone hadn’t sent any incoming messages so far.
By the time Chen Ge arrived at Donggang Reservoir, the sky had completely darkened.
Opening the car window, he could clearly feel that the temperature here was much lower than the bottom of the city.
”Twenty-five in total.” The driver looked at Chen Ge and casually said.
”Twenty-five? That expensive? Do you think I haven’t been here before?” Chen Ge was originally viewing the surroundings, but he didn’t expect the driver to ask him for so much money.
”It’s true that you don’t need so much according to the meter, but few people are willing to come over to the Donggang Reservoir side right now, and there have been several accidents in a row in a month, so everyone drives towards the edge of the eastern suburbs at night and raises the price, besides, if I pull you over by yourself and go back to the car that is sure to be empty, and won’t be able to make any money.” The driver’s age is not big, he put his hands on the steering wheel, a little impatient: “You hurry up, a moment later it will be dark, the road is even worse, this place is not peaceful at night.”
”You still know it’s not peaceful?” Chen Ge sized up the driver, “It seems that your company still hasn’t done a good job of educating its employees about safety, you don’t even recognize me.”
The driver frowned and looked back at Chen Ge, “Who are you?”
”If you don’t want to have an accident, you should honestly calculate at the original price, if you want to rip off your customers, you’ve got the wrong person today.” Chen Ge slumped into his seat, “I don’t have much to do anyway, I can spend the whole day with you in the middle of nowhere, but you have to be careful, the eastern suburbs are really chaotic right now, and anything can happen at night.”
Cab drivers were considered to be people who knew the city better, they traveled through the city every day and knew a lot of things that ordinary people weren’t too aware of.
By Chen Ge, the driver’s face became not too good, he had met a bastard who was even more shameless than him, what made him break out in a cold sweat even more was that he realized that what Chen Ge said made sense.
What was a man doing running to a reservoir in the middle of nowhere at night with a bag on his back?
The more he looked at Chen Ge, the more he felt that Chen Ge didn’t seem like a good person, but he didn’t back down, “Everyone raises their prices, I’ll count you twenty well.”
”I’ll give you as much as you deserve, I’m doing this for your own good, because money earned against your conscience will hit a ghost when you spend it.”
Both sides spent some more time, it was almost dark, Chen Ge not only didn’t get off the car, but also took out a pile of talisman paper and yellow paper with weird writing from his backpack and studied it.
The driver spoke to him, but he didn’t care.
In the eyes of the rip-off driver, Chen Ge had already changed from a bad guy to a crazy person, this was not a normal person, which normal person would put a bunch of charms in his bag.
”Okay, count me as having a bad day.” Chen Ge hardened the driver until he gave in.
”You’re still too young, serve with a better attitude in the future, maybe you’ll meet me again next time you drive a night bus.” After paying the fare, Chen Ge stepped out of the cab, the driver looked at Chen Ge’s face, Chen Ge’s last words echoed in his ears, he inexplicably felt chills down his spine, as if he had been cursed.
Cursing in a low voice, as if he was afraid of being heard by Chen Ge, he hurriedly drove the car and ran away.
”Young and impetuous, at a glance, he hasn’t been beaten up by society yet, fortunately, he’s met someone with a milder temper like me, this is a good thing for him.” Chen Ge carried his backpack towards the reservoir.
Donggang Reservoir was just a small reservoir, very close to the eastern suburbs, so people would often come here to swim and fish a long time ago, but I don’t know when the number of people coming here suddenly decreased.
Standing next to the reservoir, Chen Ge took out his cell phone to illuminate it, and he found a bright light not far from him.
His pupils narrowed, and it was only after Chen Ge used his Yin pupil that he could see that there seemed to be two people fishing on the shore.
One was sitting on a matzah, and the other was sitting behind him watching.
After watching for a while, probably because he didn’t find it interesting, the one behind him quietly left.
”I just said that there’s no one in this place, and two came out.” Chen Ge wanted to poke around the reservoir, these fishing enthusiasts should know something.
He quickly walked over to the fishing man, the other man was focused and didn’t look back, staring at the luminous drift on the water.
The sky was slowly enveloped in darkness, the little bright light was very conspicuous in the dark water.
A few moments later, the glow-in-the-dark drift suddenly sank, and a hint of a smile appeared on the face of the man who was originally motionless: “Finally hooked.”