My Endless Life.

Chapter 350 Strange Town

The car stopped at a fork in the road. Sun Xiaoqing flipped through the navigation on her phone, but could only see a straight road leading forward.

Li Qi looked up at the trees in front of the road and the bushes on both sides, and asked Sun Xiaoqing:
"Going the wrong way?"

"Impossible, we just followed this road! There is no fork in the road, it is impossible to go wrong!"

Sun Xiaoqing immediately denied it.

Li Qi asked again: "What about the possibility of your perception being affected?"

"..."

This time Sun Xiaoqing calmed down because she couldn't answer Li Qi's question.

Of course, Li Qi was just asking. Although he was sitting in the passenger seat and didn't pay much attention to the road conditions, he was just reminiscing about the past, but he could still feel the steering and deviation of the car.

Li Qi was sure that Sun Xiaoqing had not taken the wrong path, but he could not guarantee whether his own perception had also been affected.

Strange objects, pollution, these things are too mysterious. Perhaps some of them may affect other people's senses unconsciously, but Li Qi cannot detect them.

Li Qi is not a god after all, and he also suffers losses sometimes.

The two were silent for a while, and then Li Qi said to Sun Xiaoqing: "Turn back, let's keep going forward."

"Go back? But the town..."

"Isn't there a city outside the town? Let's go there first."

Li Qi explained.

On the way to the small town, there is a small city. Sun Xiaoqing originally planned to get supplies in that city and then go to the small town.

But after Li Qi realized that something might have gone wrong in the town, he decided not to move forward.

But now the way back is blocked, so I can only go to that city and take a look. At least there are people in that city, and it is also shown on the map.

After taking another look at the fork in the road ahead, Sun Xiaoqing turned around and continued forward.

But not long after the car started driving, the expressions of both men turned ugly again.

They had clearly turned around and headed to another place, but the fork in the road they had seen before still appeared before them!

"Ghost...ghost wall?"

Sun Xiaoqing uttered a word in a trembling voice.

Li Qi said in a deep voice: "It is a 'pollution' similar to the ghost wall. I am afraid we have been polluted."

Encountering the same fork in the road twice in a row could no longer be explained by coincidence. Li Qi guessed that they might have been contaminated.

But the question is when were they contaminated? And why were they contaminated?

"Now how to do?"

Sun Xiaoqing couldn't make up her mind for a moment.

She turned to ask Li Qi for his opinion. Li Qi observed the fork in the road ahead for a while. He confirmed the connection with his original body and confirmed that he could abandon this puppet body and return to his original body at any time. Then he took a deep breath and said:

"Now there is only one way to go."

"But...which one should I choose?"

“…Flip a coin.”

Li Qi took out a coin from his pocket, thought about it for a moment, and handed the coin to Sun Xiaoqing: "You do it."

"Shall I throw it?"

"The person who is affected now is likely to be you. If the pollution is trying to take you somewhere, then it is up to you to choose and you are most likely to reach your destination."

Li Qi explained calmly.

Of course, he didn't say that this was just his guess. It is also possible that after Sun Xiaoqing throws, the result of the throw will make them choose a dead end.

But no matter what, the pollution will definitely not affect Li Qi, who is now completely a puppet. Only Sun Xiaoqing has suffered from the pollution, and only she has the qualifications to choose the path.

After hearing what Li Qi said, Sun Xiaoqing no longer hesitated.

She raised her hand and tossed the coin high up, then snapped it onto the back of her hand.

Heads go left, tails go right. After muttering this for a while, Sun Xiaoqing turned over the coin.

It's the opposite.

"Go to the right."

Sun Xiaoqing told Li Qi the result of the throw, and Li Qi nodded to her: "Then let's drive."

The car restarted and drove into the forked road on the right.

Li Qi looked at the scenery along the way and found that they seemed to be going deeper into the forest. This fork in the road, which led to nowhere, seemed to be leading them deeper into a dense forest that no one had ever reached.

Because we didn't know what the road ahead would be like, the atmosphere in the car was a bit depressing.

Sun Xiaoqing was also very nervous.

She knew that Li Qi was just a puppet body and could abandon it at any time. Now that the other party was willing to stay here, it was just because he didn't want to give up Sun Xiaoqing, his newly acquired subordinate.

But if the danger really exceeds Li Qi's expectations, Sun Xiaoqing has no doubt that Li Qi will abandon her!

Because of this, Sun Xiaoqing is now worried and uneasy, fearing that she has really gone to some outrageous place due to pollution.

The car drove for about ten minutes before the surrounding trees gradually disappeared, replaced by a town with a more quaint style. The town looked quite old, and the buildings on the street were full of the style of the last century.

The road was relatively flat, but there were many abandoned vehicles around. Li Qi noticed that there were people looking at the car he was riding in next to some buildings.

Turning his gaze to other places, Li Qi discovered that because of their appearance, many people came out of the town. They stood on the side of the road, watching Sun Xiaoqing driving past them with their eyes staring straight ahead, looking a little scary.

Sun Xiaoqing didn't dare to stop the car. She drove through the town and asked Li Qi with lingering fear:

"Those people...are they human or ghost?!"

"Judging from the body temperature and heartbeat, it is definitely a human."

"Then why do they look like ghosts to me!"

Sun Xiaoqing expressed her feelings.

Li Qi looked at the town gradually disappearing in the rearview mirror and whispered, "Maybe it's because there's no hope in their eyes."

It was unknown how long these people in the small town had been here. Li Qi could only see numbness in their eyes, without much hope.

That's why they look like zombies, giving people a weird feeling.

Li Qi didn't think too much about it. He asked Sun Xiaoqing to continue driving forward and see where this road would lead.

However, after Sun Xiaoqing drove for another half an hour, they found that the strange town appeared in front of them again.

"Okay, let's stop here."

Before arriving at the town, Li Qi said to Sun Xiaoqing.

It was obvious that the purpose of the unknown pollution that caused them to encounter a 'ghost wall' was to lead them to this town.

Sun Xiaoqing stopped the car and got out of the car with Li Qi.

After taking a few steps, she saw two people walking towards them.

These two people were a rare combination, a white man and a yellow man. The white man wore a cowboy hat, a jacket on his upper body, blue jeans on his lower body, and a six-pointed star emblem on his chest that Li Qi had only seen in western movies.

The other yellow man had a crew cut, wore a white shirt inside and a black windbreaker outside, and stood aside like the white man's deputy.

The two of them stood in front of Li Qi and Sun Xiaoqing, waiting for them to come over.

Sun Xiaoqing subconsciously glanced at Li Qi. Li Qi didn't say anything. He showed a nervous and scared expression, grabbed Sun Xiaoqing's hand, and moved half a body length behind her, hiding his body behind Sun Xiaoqing.

Seeing Li Qi like this, Sun Xiaoqing knew that she had to do the communication herself.

She took a deep breath to calm herself down, then stepped forward and asked:

"Excuse me, guys.. may I ask how we can get to Storford? We seem to be lost."

After hearing what Sun Xiaoqing said, the two people in front of them looked at each other. The cowboy took off his hat, revealing a square and tough face, and said to Sun Xiaoqing in a heavy tone:
"Ma'am, I'm sorry we can't give you directions."

Sun Xiaoqing showed an appropriately surprised and slightly wary expression and asked:

"What do you mean?"

"Ma'am." A Chinese man at the side came forward and said to Sun Xiaoqing in not very standard English: "I think you should have noticed that you have been going around in circles before."

"Yes, I noticed that, that's why I stopped to ask you for directions."

Sun Xiaoqing pretended to be an ordinary person and had a conversation with the two men.

The two men looked at each other. Li Qi could see fatigue and helplessness in their eyes. They must have made similar explanations many times, so they were accustomed to Sun Xiaoqing's reaction and were not surprised at all.

Perhaps because Sun Xiaoqing has an oriental face, after the white man spoke, it was the Chinese man who continued to talk to Sun Xiaoqing.

He continued to say to Sun Xiaoqing:

“Ma’am, you may not believe what I am saying, but I can tell you clearly that you are trapped here now. No matter which way you go, you cannot get out of the town.

"If you don't believe me, you can continue driving, but please be aware that you must stop and find a place to rest before night falls."

The Chinese man spoke to Sun Xiaoqing earnestly.

Sun Xiaoqing opened her mouth slightly, wanting to continue asking, and then she heard Li Qi whisper to her:

"Auntie Sun, let's just listen to them. I'm so tired and want to find a place to sleep."

Although Li Qi was speaking in a low voice, his voice could be clearly heard by the people here.

Sun Xiaoqing immediately understood Li Qi's thoughts. She put on an anxious look, but forced herself to suppress her anxiety and sighed:
“…Okay, I don’t care whether what you said is true or not. There should be a hotel in your town, right? We are going to stay in a hotel for one night.”

"There's no hotel, but...if you don't mind, you can stay at the mansion for one night."

The white mayor interrupted.

Sun Xiaoqing was very surprised: "Mansion?"

A Chinese youth nearby explained: "It's a place where new people in the town are temporarily accommodated. Many people who don't have a choice of house to live in are there."

Settling in a new person? Choosing a home?

Sun Xiaoqing didn't quite understand what the Chinese youth was saying.

However, seeing that it was getting dark and the sun was about to set below the horizon, she decided not to chat with the two of them.

After all, according to what the white mayor said, it seems very dangerous here at night.

(End of this chapter)