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Chapter 1006 Long-term Customer
The abnormality of the minibus quickly attracted the attention of the villagers. They gathered around and looked at Song Jiang and the other two in amazement as they got off the bus. At this time, a man in the crowd seemed to be familiar with the driver, Lao Wang. He pushed through the crowd and walked up to him and asked, "Lao Wang? What's wrong with your car? How dare you drive it out like this?"

When Lao Wang saw this, he smiled bitterly and said, "Don't mention it. It was fine when I left the village, but when I passed the vicious dog village, I inexplicably hit and killed a vicious dog, and then the fog disappeared! I was terrified while driving along the way, fearing that I would run into something else if I was unlucky... Fortunately, Lao Zhao, you didn't drive the car, please help me see if you can fix it?!"

Song Jiang understood what Lao Wang meant. Lao Zhao, who came up to talk to him, should be a more experienced driver than him. He saw the other party first circle around the car, then fetched a bucket of water from the well next to it and poured it directly on the left front wheel stained with dog blood. Then he turned to Lao Wang and said, "It should be because the wheel is stained with dog blood. Those vicious dogs were tortured and killed when they were alive. They have a lot of resentment towards people. Once the car of the Hidden Mist Village is stained with their blood, it will be difficult to maintain the previous defense function. It should be fine if you carefully rinse off the blood. If it really doesn't work, you can change a car in our village first. This car can be kept in our village for a while, and it should be almost the same after the resentment dissipates."

When Lao Wang heard this, he said gratefully, "I knew it was right to come to you for help!"

Lao Zhao laughed and said, "Why are you being so polite to me? We are all bus drivers running this route. Who doesn't encounter some difficulties? Didn't we all help each other to get here?!" After he finished speaking, he looked at Song Jiang and Gu Hao and said, "Where is your destination? How many stops are there?"

When he heard the other party ask this, Lao Wang sighed and said, "It's still a long way to go. They have to go to the last Mist Village."

After hearing this, Lao Zhao looked at Song Jiang and the other two, then smiled and said, "What a coincidence! I also have to go there to deliver supplies today! Okay, Lao Wang, you just wait in the village, I'll take them there on the way."

When Lao Wang heard this, he was so grateful that he didn't know what to say. However, he was a little worried and said, "Lao Zhao, these two are my village chief's guests. You have to take good care of them on the way!"

Old Zhao laughed and said, "You're still worried about leaving it to me? Just brush your wheels!"

Neither Song Jiang nor Gu Hao had expected that their journey to the underworld would be full of twists and turns, and they would have to change cars once in the middle. So Lao Wang told them, "Master Zhao has been driving for longer than I have, and has much more experience. Don't worry, I will definitely take you there smoothly."

After the two got back into Lao Zhao's car, Song Jiang asked Gu Hao in a low voice, "Do you think the fact that our car hit and killed a vicious dog for no apparent reason before has anything to do with our real situation?"

Gu Hao understood what Song Jiang wanted to ask, so he also said in a low voice, "Of course... The dog spirit has a very powerful nose. It must have smelled something different on us, so it was able to find us through the fog, and ended up running into the minibus in the fog."

Song Jiang was a little worried when he heard this, "What should we do next? What if Lao Zhao's car also has problems?" Gu Hao shook his head and said, "Don't worry... As long as you pass the Evil Dog Village, you will be fine. I guarantee that you won't encounter a dog in other places."

After changing the driver, the driver couldn't help but feel curious about the purpose of Song Jiang and his partner's trip again, so he chatted with them while driving, "This last Mist Hidden Village is the closest to the Infernal Hell, almost right next to it... I see that you look like new souls, what are you doing there?"

Gu Hao had no choice but to repeat his previous remarks. Old Zhao nodded and said, "Is that so? Then the guy you want to go to must be a very powerful ghost. As far as I know, because the village is located closest to the Hell of Infernal Affairs, it is often attacked by monsters that sneak out of hell. Although the village has fog defense, it cannot be absolutely safe when facing monsters with particularly strong evil spirits."

Song Jiang asked curiously, "Why do they have to live so close to the hell?"

When Lao Zhao heard this, he laughed and said, "The location of the village is planned in advance. We can't just build it wherever we want. You need money to get a good location, and the rest of the bad locations can only be snatched with fists... In villages of the level that Lao Wang and I stay in, the village chiefs are all wealthy people in the underworld. For ordinary ghosts to live in such a village, either you can afford to rent a house, or you can afford to buy a house, or you own a house. If all three conditions are not met, the village will not let you stay. But the last village is different. Even if you have nothing, as long as you have the ability to deal with the monsters that constantly disturb the peace of the village, you are qualified to stay in the last Mist Village."

Song Jiang nodded and said, "Is that so... By the way, Brother Zhao, I heard you say that you were going to the last village to deliver supplies? What supplies must be purchased from your village?"

Old Zhao glanced at the last few rows of the minibus and said, "Usually, these are ghosts who have no relatives in the world to worship them. They need to buy some daily necessities in our village, especially the last village, which is full of lonely souls. They are a very stable long-term customer of our village."

As a result, Song Jiang became even more curious when he heard it, "Where do you get these daily necessities from? Can you produce them yourself?"

Old Zhao laughed and said, "It seems that you are really new souls who know nothing. Today I will teach you some common sense about the underworld. Just like the daily necessities we use now, they usually come from two channels: one is that the family members in the world burn them when they visit the graves during the Qingming Festival every year. Some ghosts' families burn a lot of things every Qingming Festival, Zhongyuan Festival, anniversary, winter clothes sending, and even the Lunar New Year. In principle, a ghost cannot use up all these things, so they will sell the things for money; then the second channel is to buy daily necessities from these ghosts, and our village specializes in this kind of business."

Song Jiang laughed and said, "The middleman makes a profit from the price difference."

Lao Zhao nodded and said, "Yes, that's what I mean! We will take the things back from the ghosts and store them in the village. If there is a village in need, we will deliver them to the door."

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