A ghost storyteller can lose his life but cannot lose his job

Chapter 135: Fighting against the Coolie

As Lin Youlan restarted the car, the other three people in the car also noticed something strange in the rearview mirror.

Four pale and thin figures were located behind the car. Each figure was nearly two meters tall, but extremely slender. They stood in pairs by the rear lights, trying to slowly push the vehicle forward with a stiff movement.

However, after noticing the car started, the four tall and thin figures stopped exerting any effort and just slowly followed behind the car, moving at the same constant speed as the car, as if they had just completed the task of pushing the car to start.

"The car has to keep going, and if it stops, these four guys will push the car from behind, but it's not clear what they are going to do."

Lin Youlan explained calmly that she noticed the presence of the four thin figures after the fork in the road appeared, and when she parked the car, she clearly felt the four of them pushing the car from behind, turning this new energy vehicle into the most traditional rickshaw.

The vehicle had the driving force to move forward under the push of the thin ghost. She didn't know what the four ghosts wanted to do, but she subconsciously wanted the four ghosts to stop, so she chose to start the vehicle.

Just as she expected, after she started the car, the four ghosts behind it stopped pushing the car and simply followed it and accompanied it.

"We've triggered a ghost story. These four ghosts are targeting us. They just match our number. I have a feeling I'm being watched." The captain said quickly. He was aware that one of the tall and thin figures was looking at him from the rear of the car. Its gaze could penetrate the protection of the vehicle's shell and fall straight on his back, making his hair stand on end.

Xiao Yuan looked back hurriedly, but she could only see the tunnel entrance at the rear through the rear window, and there was no trace of the four ghostly figures in her field of vision.

At this time, Lin Youlan noticed that one of the ghosts slowly swayed up, walked to the side of the front door, stretched out a pale and skinny hand, and slowly took off the rearview mirror on the right door.

Lin Youlan opened the right car window, grabbed the skull-crushing hammer on the right seat and smashed it over, hitting the sneaky little hand of the ghost.

The ghost had no substance and could not be seen in the field of vision, but it was indeed hit by Lin Youlan's skull-crushing hammer and it retracted its hand, as if it was instinctively feeling pain.

However, the ghost did not give up. Instead, it stuck its head into the car angrily and stared at Lin Youlan.

Similarly, Lin Youlan herself could not see the ghost's movements. She saw the ghost's movements by adjusting the interior mirror, and she also saw the ghost's face clearly.

The pale face was particularly flat, with almost no ups and downs in the facial features, only shallow wrinkles forming lines similar to talismans. The earlobes on both sides were like huge drops of water, drooping down almost to the corners of the mouth, a bit like a fat head and big ears. However, combined with the lanky figure, it looked extremely weird. Now it gave people the only feeling of being eerie and terrifying.

It had the look of an old man with a deep hatred and a deep vengeance on its face, and now it had a ferocious look on its face, as if questioning Lin Youlan why she attacked it with a hammer for no reason.

Without waiting for Lin Youlan to react, the old man pulled out a hammer exactly the same as the skull-crushing hammer out of thin air and hit Lin Youlan's left hand at almost the speed of light. The strength, angle and position were exactly the same as Lin Youlan's previous attack.

The hammer in his hand seemed to have no substance, and could easily penetrate the roof of the car and directly attack Lin Youlan's hand, but when it hit Lin Youlan, it clearly showed its solid texture.

This attack caused Lin Youlan to instinctively retract her hand. She could feel cracks in the bones in her wrist. The intense pain made her take a few deep breaths. Her expression remained unchanged, but her left hand began to tremble uncontrollably and she could not hold the steering wheel steadily.

He let go of the skull crusher with his right hand and grasped the steering wheel. The ghost took the opportunity to snatch the right rearview mirror and returned to the rear of the vehicle.

There is only one attack and only one object to rob.

"Don't attack this ghost, it will retaliate in kind." Lin Youlan's voice was a little erratic, the pain making it difficult for her to keep her voice steady, "Also, the car cannot stop. If you stop, they will push the car, and the reward is the parts of this car."

Lin Youlan quickly came to a conclusion after the two incidents. She had handled many strange cases, so she quickly understood the logic behind the ghost's behavior.

Xiao Yuan, who was sitting in the back seat, took out a small mirror from his bag. When he saw the ghost through the mirror, he immediately shouted anxiously, "Quick, back up the car. Let's find another way before we get too involved in the ghost story."

Stopping losses in time is not a wrong decision when dealing with strange events, it can even be said to be correct.

For most ordinary people, there is definitely no big problem if they quickly move away when they notice something strange happening.

"I can't go back." Lin Youlan tried to turn the steering wheel to reverse, but she only felt a "slipping" sensation when turning the steering wheel, and there was no normal damping feeling. The car chose the fork in the road on the left when she subconsciously turned left.

"What are you doing?" Xiao Yuan saw the car driving into the dim left fork. This unexpected choice made her even more panicked, and her voice became shrill, "Why did you choose the left side?"

She reached out to open the car door, but found that it seemed to be welded shut and there was no hope of opening it.

"I wanted to turn left, but there was something wrong with the steering wheel and I couldn't make a big turn, so I just took the fork on the left." Lin Youlan frowned slightly. She really didn't think of this and was forced to take the fork on the left without any precautions.

Even one wrong choice in this situation can lead to trouble.

On the other side, Zhong Xie, who was at a high place above the recording room, could not see what was happening below at all. From his perspective, all he saw was Lin Youlan reaching out a hammer and hitting the rearview mirror, and then the rearview mirror disappeared.

As for what Lin Youlan and the others said in the car, when it reached his ears, it became extremely distant and inaudible.

In this situation where normal communication was impossible, he just followed Lin Youlan, who chose the left fork, with full of doubts.

He wanted to go to the fork on the right to have a look, but there was no option to go back on this recording number. If he wanted to turn around by turning, he would need to make a big circle. Anyway, it didn't matter which way he went first, so he just thought about catching up with Lin Youlan's car first.

However, at this time, Lin Youlan opened her car window, stuck her head out and shouted at Zhong Xie: "Use the mirror, our car has been targeted by a ghost, don't attack, or you will be attacked back."

Mirror?

This time Lin Youlan spoke louder, so Zhong Xie heard what she was saying. Just as he was about to look for a mirror, he saw Lin Youlan throwing a small mirror up from the car window.

Zhong Xie caught the mirror steadily and observed the four ghosts following the car bit by bit through the mirror. He even took the time to look behind the recording number and saw two ghosts following the recording number, one on the left and one on the right.

Through Lin Youlan's further explanation, Zhong Xie learned the three rules that have been discovered so far.

1. You cannot attack the ghost, as you will be counterattacked by the same attack, and this attack cannot be blocked.

2. You cannot stop in the tunnel, otherwise the ghosts will help you push the cart, and once they help, they will take away the parts of the car.

3. Unable to turn around or go backwards.

The three rules jointly restrict the people in the tunnel, and they actually lead to the same thing.

Ask them to choose the fork in the road and go through the tunnel.

No stopping, no turning around, this forced them to keep moving forward and make a choice of the fork in the road. With this idea in mind, Zhong Xie estimated that there should be another rule, that is, they cannot get off the car, and this car will take them forward until they solve this strange story, or until they reach the end.

In short, it is not possible to stop the progress of ghost stories by simple tricks.

but……

Is the recording number also considered a car?
In the eyes of this weird story, the scope of "car" is so broad?
Zhong Xie was full of confusion, but at this moment, he noticed new changes in the fork in the road.

The lane was shortened in half.

The tunnel was still the same tunnel, with dim lights overhead and straight white lines drawn on the road, guiding them deeper into the darkness.

Originally, Zhong Xie's recording number could travel side by side with the car, but now it could only follow behind Lin Youlan's car, and he also felt almost intuitively that the air in the tunnel had become thinner.

To be precise, it is not the air that becomes thinner, but the oxygen in the air that becomes thinner.

The road is getting narrower and the air is getting thinner. Is this tunnel going to block our way of survival in this way?

Because we just took the wrong turn?
But what is the significance of this choice?

And the ghosts of those carts...

Every time they stop, they grab a part that belongs to the car, which means they want to build a car of their own.

Assemble your own car, then drive it through the tunnel and choose another fork in the road?
In other words, these ghosts are not the main body of tunnel ghost stories, but more like derivative ghost story creatures that are also affected by the rules.

Zhong Xie's gaze fell on one of the ghosts through the reflection of the mirror. On its back was embedded the right rearview mirror from the car, which should be the part that had just been snatched from Lin Youlan's car.

I have always been the one who snatches other people's things, and no one has ever been able to snatch my things.

You can't steal my teammates.

Zhong Xie looked at the twin-tailed recording number in his hand, and tried to change the recording number from a standing position to a kneeling position by adjusting the open position.

It's always the same posture, which is not very comfortable in this tunnel.

Now the road is just getting narrower, but the height of the tunnel may be halved in the future. In that case, the recording number in the standing position will be at a great disadvantage.

This might cause Zhong Xie, who is at the head of the recording, to get stuck in the mountain above, and he would really be like a monkey trapped under the Five Finger Mountain.

The joints on the Recording Number's body were actually bearings, which were used to connect the steel pipes that symbolized the limbs. Therefore, Zhong Xie pulled the twin ponytails with one hand and climbed down the Recording Number's back by pulling the wire like a mountain climber.

Afterwards, he used the bloody mouth to rotate the bearings on the joints, and soon gradually transformed the recording number into a standing posture.

Now it is in a kneeling position, with its head facing forward and its tail facing backward, and its legs kneeling on the ground. Zhong Xie also modified the two pairs of roller skates and installed them on the "calves" of the recording number so that it does not have to kneel and rub all the way forward.

Thanks to the successful change of posture, Zhong Xie is now at a height of only about two meters, and can jump to the ground of the tunnel while pulling his twin ponytails.

In this case, he was not considered to have "left" the vehicle, and therefore was not stopped by the ghost story.

I'm afraid that even the tunnel ghost story itself did not expect that there would be such a special vehicle running in the tunnel in such a special way.

"What are you going to do?" Lin Youlan was driving with one hand. She noticed Zhong Xie walking behind her car with a sneaky look on his face.

The three people in the back seat also turned around and saw Zhong Xie following the car with his twin ponytails held in one hand, and they all showed surprised expressions.

The purpose of Zhong Xie doing all this is not complicated, it is just to get back his things.

He was seen holding his twin ponytails with one hand and holding up a makeup mirror with the other. He used the reflection to find the ghost who had snatched the rearview mirror, and then reached out to grab the car body parts from the other person's back.

There was nothing there with his eyes, but when he stretched out his hand, he could touch the rearview mirror, so he exerted force and took the rearview mirror off the ghost.

It took a lot of strength to achieve this step, and Zhong Xie just had a little strength, and with his strength like a mountain, he pulled the entire ghost to the ground.

The moment he grabbed the rearview mirror, he did not hesitate at all. He quickly jumped back on the back of the recording number, carefully grabbed the twin ponytails, and operated the recording number again.

Through the lens, he clearly saw the ghost figure get up from the ground in great anger, then walk straight towards Zhong Xie, grab his back and try to knock him down, fighting back in the same way that Zhong Xie had just used on him.

Then it didn't fall.

"Eh?" Zhong Xie blinked, as if he had discovered some new toy.

He was already prepared to be thrown out by the ghost, but it turned out that the ghost didn't have enough strength?

Combined with what Lin Youlan just said, these ghost shadows seem to be formed one on one?
In other words, this ghost is not absolutely protected by the rules, right?
After all, they are just derivatives.

Zhong Xie chuckled, and with one hand grabbed the ghost who wanted to go back to push the cart after failing to counterattack, and some strange information about this strange creature came to his mind.

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Ghost story name: Coolie
Weird story level: ???
Note: They will appear behind your car and help push the car when you need it, but the reward is that they will take parts from your car after each push, and they need to assemble their own vehicles.

With just a slight pull, Zhong Xie grabbed a lot of other car parts from the coolie's back.

The hood, doors, windows...

You like being a laborer, right?
You like being Camel Xiangzi, right?
Do you know what happened to Camel Xiangzi?

Can he put together the car and you learn?
(End of this chapter)