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Chapter 131 Big Eyes
This phone call was very efficient.

Gu Mian held the microphone and heard two beeps before someone answered.

Across from me was a girl who sounded like she was still in her adolescence.

"Hello, this is Sunshine Taxi."

"Ah!" Upon hearing the voice of a teenage girl, Gu Mian paused for a moment before continuing, "I need to call a car..."

Without hesitation, the other party replied, "Okay, I've noted down your address. Please wait a moment."

Then, as if giving a final instruction, she said, "Don't wander off!"

After saying that, the other party hung up the phone.

Gu Mian stared at the microphone, somewhat dumbfounded.

"Don't wander off!"

The time on the phone is 1:02 AM, which is obviously early morning.

He can't wander off anywhere with that kind of skill.

The person who answered the phone just now was probably a taxi dispatcher. Passengers who want to hail a taxi will dial a certain number to call a taxi, and then the dispatcher will assign the task to the taxis after receiving the call.

But the young woman didn't ask Gu Mian where she was.

Gu Mian stood in the transparent phone booth looking outside. It was pitch black outside, and there wasn't a soul in sight.

"Let's just assume this phone booth has a GPS location." That's why the young woman assigned a taxi without asking where he was.

But these days, even in the dead of night, ride-hailing drivers are still sticking to their posts? That's really impressive.

Gu Mian remarked, "Come to think of it, the woman from earlier didn't sound very old, like a middle school student..."

Hiring minors is illegal, isn't it?

However, the laws in the game might be different from the laws in the real world?
Thinking of this, Gu Mian looked down at the map in her hand again.

The size and texture of this map are similar to those of small advertisements handed out on the roadside. When you flip it over, you can see that it is indeed a small advertisement.

The reverse side of the advertisement features a map of Ye City, seemingly designed specifically for out-of-towners, with a very complex route.

Gu Mian is located in the upper left corner of the map, which looks like a remote area of ​​Ye City.

The wind howled outside, a sharp gust of wind blowing from the darkness in the distance, lashing against the glass around the phone booth and making a terrifying sound, like the roar of a monster.

He looked up and saw that it was still dark all around, with the streetlights flickering dimly, but there was no sign of a taxi.

Gu Mian then looked down at the small advertisement in her hand with relief.

The actual content of the advertisement is on the front of this paper.

Like newspapers, this small advertisement also has many pages, but it seems that the pages are not selling, and most of the content on a single page is meaningless.

Apart from two of the layouts and the time in the top left corner, there's nothing of value.

Gu Mian first glanced at the date in the upper left corner.

2002 7 Month 30 Day.

There were no lights in the phone booth, so Gu Mian could only hold up the small advertisement and lean close to the glass next to it, struggling to read the tiny words on it by the light of the streetlights outside.

The first page that Gu Mian found useful was an advertisement related to taxis.

Sunshine Taxi Company

Sunshine Taxi is committed to serving passengers, providing them with comfort and safety. Please feel free to ride with us; our drivers will provide you with the safest service.

"Comfortable and safe service," Gu Mian repeated the sentence again: "Now everyone just hopes your taxi drivers aren't ghosts, right?"

The car he hailed belonged to Sunshine Taxi Company, and this company also appeared on the small advertisement in his hand, which was obviously not a coincidence.

However, Gu Mian still doesn't understand the relationship between them.

"After all, this instance has just begun..." Gu Mian comforted herself.

He then looked down.

The second section he found useful was a missing person notice.

Name: Lin Rongrong

【Gender: Female】

[Age: 21 years old]

[A college student residing in Yecheng City, he went missing on July 24, 2002, after getting into a taxi. He is 7 meters tall and was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and denim shorts when he disappeared.]

[Please, kind-hearted person, contact your family immediately or call 110 if you see this. A generous reward will be given!]

Below is the family's contact information, and also a photo.

Gu Mian looked at the photo.

The woman in the photo has shoulder-length hair and wears thin-rimmed glasses. At first glance, she looks quite pretty and could be considered a young beauty.

"Sunshine Taxi, the female college student who disappeared after getting in the car..."

Gu Mian still remembered that the description of this instance was like this: "Years ago, a terrifying story circulated in Yecheng City: someone got into a strange taxi after midnight and then vanished without a trace."

The taxis in Ye City are really strange; it's as if some kind of taxi killer has appeared.

Gu Mian muttered to herself, "It seems that if we want to find clues in this instance, we have to contact the taxi."

他一边说着一边又看了眼左上角的日期，是2002年7月30日，而林蓉蓉这个女大学生失踪的时间是7月24日。

So now it's exactly six days after Lin Rongrong went missing?

Gu Mian touched her chin.

Just then, the roar of a car engine suddenly came from outside.

Gu Mian looked up and saw two lights on the road in the distance. Two bright lights illuminated the road, and then he saw the front of a green car.

This is exactly what a regular taxi looks like.

The taxi was speeding towards them at an alarming rate.

The roar of the car engine was accompanied by the sound of strong winds.

As if to match the sound of the car, the wind picked up a bit more, making one want to shiver.

"brake--"

The sound of brakes came from beside the phone booth, and the speeding green taxi came to a sudden stop.

The driver then rolled down his window: "Hello, is this the taxi you hailed?"

The moment she rolled down the car window, Gu Mian saw the driver's face clearly.

It wasn't the grotesque face with half a head missing that you might imagine, nor was it any other disgusting appearance; it was just an ordinary, perfectly normal person.

And it was a girl, and her voice sounded very familiar.

It's the one who just called him.

The girl had a thin bowl-cut fringe, her slightly curly hair was tied in a ponytail, her face was very clean, and her eyes were slightly large, glistening under the streetlights.

Gu Mian still remembers when she was in junior high school, there was a time when her classmates had a lot of non-mainstream profile pictures that were popular – bowl cut bangs, big eyes, fair skin, and covering their mouths with their sleeves.

This girl looks just like those profile pictures.

Although those profile pictures look incredibly tacky now, people still take a second look when they see girls like that in real life, because they are actually quite pretty.

"I called the car." After confirming that the other person wasn't wearing a ghost face, Gu Mian pushed open the door of the phone booth and slipped out.

The moment he stepped out, a fierce wind lashed against him, sending a chill through him.

Just then, Gu Mian, whose head was hit by a gust of cold wind, suddenly thought of something.

The girl looked up at him and smiled, "It's cold outside, let's get in the car first..."

Before she could finish speaking, she saw the doctor, who appeared to be carrying a large guitar, frown and suddenly say, "That's not right!"

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