Free Web NovelAfter learning that the school ahead might be a place where urban legend are active, Lu Yibei said sincerely, "Uncle, you have to believe me, I don't know why they would come to a place like this for a date."
"Hiss—whoosh—!" Uncle Driver took a deep drag on his cigarette, nodded slightly, and said expressionlessly, "Okay, I believe you. Get out of the car quickly! I'm going home."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Yibei felt that the unbearable hunger had subsided a little more.
Damn! You call this believing me? ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
You're probably believing that I'm a Strange Tale, aren't you? Heh! Men!
Lu Yibei grumbled in her heart, saying expressionlessly, "Then the fare..."
"No need!" Uncle Driver's face sank. You've already hinted at it so obviously, how dare I take it?
"Alright." Lu Yibei responded helplessly and opened the car door.
She conveniently and stealthily tucked a fifty-yuan bill on the side of the Uncle's seat near the door.
Although getting free rides is always great, but...
It's not easy for him to be driving around late at night. She can't just get free rides every time, right?
Just as she got up, Lu Yibei seemed to suddenly remember something and sat back down, tilting her head to look at Uncle Driver.
Uncle Driver, whose nervous mood had just slightly relaxed, wiped the rearview mirror and was about to leave, when he suddenly noticed a head poking out behind him, a pair of dark red eyes staring at him sneakily. He instantly jumped, almost leaping out of his seat.
"You, what do you want to do? I'm warning you, don't mess around! I was the amateur group champion of the 32nd Hua City Open Weight Fighting Competition!"
When did Hua City ever hold an Open Weight Fighting Competition?
Lu Yibei muttered to herself and said, "Uncle, don't be scared! I just want your contact information so I can contact you when I need a ride in the future!"
After all, I might be frequenting places like this in the future, Lu Yibei added in her heart.
Isn't Uncle supposed to be collecting material for radio scripts? Isn't this perfect?
Even if he's scared at first, after being scared repeatedly, he'll get used to it, right?
As Lu Yibei thought, she leaned forward towards the front seat and took a business card from the small [N O V E L I G H T] box holding them.
"Zhang Shan..." Lu Yibei glanced at the business card, then held it up towards Uncle Driver. "Thanks, Uncle Zhang, I'll definitely give you lots of business in the future!"
Uncle Driver's mouth twitched uncontrollably.
A girl suspected of being a Strange Tale says she wants to give you long-term business. Are you touched or not?
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Lu Yibei got out of the car and left, disappearing from sight on the winding mountain road shortly after.
Uncle Driver leaned back in his seat, lost in thought, until the cigarette in his hand burned down to the filter and he felt a burning sensation on his fingers. Only then did he suddenly snap back to reality, start the car in a panic, and drive away quickly.
That night, a Strange Tale about a white-haired woman who always appeared late at night, took pleasure in scaring taxi drivers, and never paid the fare, gradually took shape in Uncle Driver's mind...
...
Lu Yibei walked on the mountain road leading to Shihekou Middle School. The ground was covered with decayed fallen leaves, and there was a track left by car tires, which should have been left by the taxi carrying that girl.
The waist-high withered yellow wild grass on both sides rustled in the evening breeze, as if something was...
No! There was indeed something hiding inside, whispering.
However, the moment Lu Yibei turned her attention there, those things fled with astonishing speed.
Because Uncle Driver had once again "generously" provided "food" for Lu Yibei earlier, her hunger was temporarily relieved, and she didn't chase after them out of desperation.
...
Continue forward along the mountain road.
No light could penetrate through the withered branches, but after walking for a while, the buildings on the mountainside gradually appeared in sight.
It was already autumn, the branches and leaves in the mountain forest were withered and yellow, and through the messy branches, one could vaguely see the grey-white European-style domes of the buildings.
Is that Shihekou Middle School? Lu Yibei narrowed her eyes slightly.
What was that girl doing running to a place like this in the middle of the night?
Was she really here to hunt?
Lu Yibei continued along the mountain road and soon saw several knocked-down signs and a wooden fence.
The signs and fence had been moved aside and lay on the ground, with tire tracks from a car and some messy footprints on them.
Seeing this scene, Lu Yibei suddenly realized that the taxi carrying that girl had driven up the mountain and hadn't come back down.
This was very unusual!
The taxi drivers active in this city could be said to be among the people most familiar with the city. They knew very well where they could go and where they couldn't.
If they said a certain place was haunted, that place was very likely to really hide a Strange Tale.
Even if there wasn't...
If enough taxi drivers believed it, perhaps a Strange Tale would really be born!
Since Uncle Zhang knew there was something wrong with this school, how could the other driver not know?
Unless...
Oh no! Could that driver have already...
No, no, how can I curse someone for no reason?
Lu Yibei thought, quickening her pace.
Walking nearly a hundred meters along the road, Lu Yibei finally arrived at the main gate of the abandoned school, and then she saw the taxi parked in front of the school gate.
The taxi's engine was off, the doors on the driver and passenger sides and the trunk were open, and there was no one inside.
Lu Yibei stopped, took the guitar case off her shoulder, took out the mingwang statue and held it in her hand, and then cautiously approached.
Walking up to the car door, she smelled a faint scent of blood in the car, and Lu Yibei frowned slightly, but after searching carefully, she found no bloodstains.
Damn it! she cursed in her heart. Although she didn't see any bloodstains, she still felt that the other taxi driver was probably in a bad way now.
Walking around the taxi, Lu Yibei pushed open the slightly ajar main gate and walked into this campus, sealed away on the edge of the city.
Stepping through the gate, as soon as her back foot landed, there was a soft creak from behind her.
The main gate closed by itself. Lu Yibei shivered slightly, turned around abruptly, pushed it, and then slammed the lock several times, but found that the gate seemed to be rusted shut and could not be opened again.
A feeling of fear rose in her heart, followed by her body temperature rising uncontrollably, her long hair hanging behind her dyed with a hint of red, and the wooden clogs on her feet suddenly caught fire.
She leaned against the main gate, frantically took off her wooden clogs, and when she looked up, she was stunned.
The metal near the lock was burnt red and had...
Completely welded shut!
Lu Yibei, "..." If other urban legend saw this from the shadows, would they think I was provoking them!?
That kind of provocation that says, 【The door is welded shut, no one can escape!】
Forget it, if it's provocation, then it's provocation! Anyway, I'm here to hunt!
Thinking to herself comfortingly, she turned around and walked into the campus.
...
Shihekou Middle School, as a private aristocratic school, was once the school with the best hardware facilities in Hua City. The entire campus was very large, stretching as far as the eye could see. After being abandoned for a few years, the originally magnificent buildings had long lost their former glory, and everything in sight was shrouded in eerie Yin (yin energy).
Gazing at the campus under the night sky, Lu Yibei frowned slightly, feeling a bit troubled.
It's so easy to hide a person in such a large place! Where should I look for that girl and the missing driver?
I don't know the layout of Shihekou Middle School, otherwise I could first go to places like the restrooms, the biology lab building, or the girls' dormitory, where urban legend are more likely to appear.
After weighing her options for a moment, she took a deep breath and walked towards the nearest teaching building.
In any case, go in and see what the situation is first.
This teaching building has Roman columns in front of the main entrance, giving it a somewhat grand feeling even now. The teaching building is not tall, only four floors, with four classrooms on each floor.
A sign with the class name was hung outside each classroom.
"First Year Class 1, Class 2..."
Walking through the corridor, Lu Yibei found that the first floor seemed to be all first-year classrooms, the second floor should be second-year, and the third floor was third-year.
What about the fourth floor? Faculty offices?
Or does it have some other use?
Lu Yibei thought, walking up the stairs. The handrail of the stairs was severely rusted and twisted out of shape for some reason, and in some places, it had even broken off and collapsed.
Going up to the second floor, walking in the corridor, she looked through the dirty windows into the empty classrooms late at night.
The classrooms were empty, and something seemed to be written on the blackboard, but the light was too dim to see the content clearly.
Rows of desks and chairs were quietly arranged there, as if a figure would appear on one of the desks if one's attention was slightly distracted.
Lu Yibei walked around the entire second floor and surprisingly found nothing, so she continued up to the third floor.
Walking in the dark stairwell, Lu Yibei suddenly felt something from upstairs calling to her, and her eyes felt slightly warm.
Is there something problematic hidden on the third floor?
With a change of thought, she quickened her pace.
As soon as she reached the third floor, she heard a whispering sound from the other end of the corridor.
Lu Yibei's brows furrowed, her body temperature rose slightly, and she gripped the mingwang statue in her hand, tiptoeing towards the classroom from which the sound came.
Standing in the corridor, leaning against the wall, Lu Yibei looked through the window and saw that in that classroom, candles were lit in the four corners, the desks and chairs were arranged in a circle, and four young people with unclear faces were squatting in the empty space in the center of the classroom, each extending a hand to press on a white porcelain plate, whispering something.
"Disc Spirit, Disc Spirit, please come out... Disc Spirit, Disc Spirit, please come out..."
As those people chanted, Lu Yibei suddenly felt something approaching.
It was a very mysterious feeling; she didn't hear footsteps or any other sounds, but she strangely felt something approaching. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
It came up from downstairs, not fast or slow, like a large area of lifeless shadow.
The darkness in the corridor became heavier, and a cold wind scurried around. An ominous feeling was so oppressive that it was hard to breathe.
Lu Yibei's face was solemn. Carrying the mingwang statue, she walked towards that thing, then stopped at the third-floor stairwell and lay in wait.
Then...
When she felt that thing was about to appear at the stairwell, its forward speed paused for a moment, it turned and left quickly, a scarlet shadow flashing around the corner of the stairs.
Holy crap! Lu Yibei was startled, and for a moment, she even forgot that thing could also be her prey. By the time she came back to her senses and wanted to chase after it, she could no longer feel its presence.
What was that thing just now? Disc Spirit? Why did it come and then leave?
It couldn't have been that it remembered leaving the gas on at home, right?
