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Chapter 136 Why are you chasing me?
"I tried my best to carefully open the car door and jump out to escape, terrified that the driver would find out that I had noticed something was wrong with him..."

"I pretended not to know the driver was a ghost, and tried to escape in a panic, thinking that as long as I jumped out of the car and ran away before he noticed, nothing would happen..."

"I did it. The ghost driver in front of me didn't notice what I was doing. I didn't show any fear. I pretended I didn't know he was a ghost."

"But all of this was exposed just as it was about to end!"

What's the Chinese idiom that describes something failing just when it's about to succeed?

Failure at the last hurdle?

Yes, all efforts were in vain!

Just as Gu Mian opened his mouth to speak, the young man chasing the wind suddenly turned his head to look at him.

He hadn't dared to move, but it seemed as if Gu Mian's voice gave him courage. His stiff neck finally showed signs of reviving, and he suddenly twisted towards Gu Mian beside him.

He certainly didn't dare to look directly at the driver in front of him, but he could steal a glance while turning his head.

Just one glance was enough to terrify him.

His head was drooping, almost falling off completely, and his face was facing me at an eerie angle.

What's most frightening is its pair of eyes that almost bulge out. Zhui Feng felt as if this head might come over and bite him at any moment.

"What do we do? What do we do! He's found us! We have to escape, we have to escape together!"

Thinking of this, he looked at the player next to him with pleading eyes.

Unexpectedly, the player next to him did something even more terrifying.

The doctor-like man had somehow picked up his guitar bag and opened the zipper a crack. His hand was now inside the crack, and he was slowly pulling something out with a strange expression.

He looked closely.

A menacing chainsaw is being slowly taken out.

It's not a guitar, it's a chainsaw.

The doctor's expression was calm, even somewhat serene.

This is absolutely not the expression a normal person would have upon seeing a driver with a broken neck!
Zhui Feng's mind went blank for a moment, and then, as if he had just thought of something, his whole body began to tremble violently:

"I understand!"

"You are all ghosts!"

It must have been this doctor who noticed I was trying to escape, which is why he spoke up to warn the driver in front.

They are in the same group!

At that moment, he saw the doctor next to him slowly turning that strange head around.

The streetlights outside the window shone on the doctor's face, making it appear deathly pale.

"No! Don't come any closer!"

Zhui Feng let out a loud shout and then crashed into the car door next to him.

The door lock had been opened, and he easily crashed through it, landing on the cold road as if his entire body had been shattered.

But he dared not linger.

Because he saw the doctor next to him starting to move closer.

"Run!"

The boy, chasing the wind, didn't dare stop for even a second. He scrambled to his feet from the road and ran backward as fast as he could.

At the same time, he heard a sound coming from the driver's seat in front.

The driver seemed to have opened the car door; he was about to get out and chase after me!
The cold wind lashed at his face, and he breathed in the frigid air with his mouth wide open, his teeth aching from the cold.

He took long strides with all his might, his legs aching from the strain, but he couldn't care less.

Footsteps approached from behind.

I have to run fast! True to his name, the young man who chases the wind put all his attribute points into speed, so he runs much faster than the average person.

Besides, he's running for his life right now.

Before long, the sound of pursuit behind them faded into the distance, replaced by the howling of the night wind. They ran for what seemed like an eternity, about a street's distance, before the sound finally disappeared.

Only when he realized that the sound behind him had disappeared did Zhui Feng breathe a slight sigh of relief.

This relaxation caused him to feel his energy draining away, and now he could barely run anymore.

But Zhui Feng didn't stop; he just slowed down and looked back.

This sight, however, made his eyes widen in fury.

The driver, whose head was almost completely detached, was still running this way, but the distance had already increased to a great distance, a full half-street.

And behind the driver...

A doctor carrying a menacing chainsaw, his white coat stained with blood in several places, was desperately chasing after the driver.

Zhui Feng stared wide-eyed at the doctor behind the driver.

He was chasing the ghost with all his might, his mouth opening and closing, and faintly, it seemed that Zhui Feng could hear sounds coming from the doctor's mouth:

"Don't run, come back and drive!"

OMG!

Seeing this, Zhuifeng suddenly sprang up again, forgetting his fatigue, and desperately darted in the opposite direction.

He ran for an unknown amount of time until he looked back and could no longer see the two people behind him, at which point he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This city is very strange, as if no one lives here. The north wind is howling, giving people a headache.

It's still quite far from the city center. On both sides of the road are green belts that sway slightly in the wind, and beyond the green belts lies deep darkness, as if something is hiding inside.

Zhui Feng shuddered violently, and then saw a phone booth not far ahead.

He immediately ran over with some delight and squeezed into the phone booth.

There was no howling wind in the phone booth; it was fairly warm.

He calmed himself down in the phone booth.

"The person who was sitting next to me just now... he doesn't seem to be a ghost..."

Zhui Feng recalled the way the doctor desperately chased after the driver: "But he doesn't seem like a player..."

Which player would chase after a ghost like a debt collector?

"Could he be an NPC?" the young man muttered to himself. "Yeah, his nickname is green, so he's very likely a special NPC!"

Thinking about this, he felt relieved: "That's right, if the driver and other passengers on a bus are all ghosts, how are we players supposed to survive?"

He muttered to himself as he looked at the phone in front of him.

The phone in this phone booth is no different from a regular phone; it has everything you'd expect, and you can even make calls.

"I really don't understand why there's a dial pad on this phone. We don't call anyone else, we just call a car."

As he spoke, Zhui Feng picked up the microphone.

He hesitated for a long time before shakily reaching out to press the green ride-hailing button in the lower left corner.

"To get out of this instance, you either need to complete the quest or die... Waiting here is no use, I should probably call another car and see..."

He put the microphone to his ear, and a "beep beep" sound came from it.

The call was answered shortly after the voice rang.

It was a middle-aged man's voice, sounding perfectly normal: "Hello?"

The author calculated the extra chapters owed today, and wow, there are still 66 chapters to go! What an auspicious number! *writing with tears in my eyes*
Here's the book club group number again: 923017694
The author appears intermittently, like a zombie.
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