Dajiang City, Tiankai Residential Compound.
“Grave-digger, you’d better give me an explanation.”
The elderly woman, her face aged and withered, stared coldly at the old man holding the iron shovel.
The old man’s expression shifted between dark and uncertain as he recalled the scene he had witnessed earlier.
They had followed the medium here.
They had seen the ghost.
But all they had seen was the Opera Ghost.
And the Opera Ghost had no mask on its face!
The mask had disappeared.
Even the Opera Ghost had only met them face-to-face for an instant before vanishing in an uncanny manner.
Not even they could tell where the Opera Ghost had gone.
“The mask is gone, and that Opera Ghost has vanished to who knows where.”
The old woman stared at the old man. “If you hadn’t let that brat go, I would have already locked that Opera Ghost back up.”
“This is what comes of your merciful heart. That brat was obviously problematic. He stayed with a ghost for so many days and yet nothing happened to him.”
“And I just happened to be recovering the mask, while he just happened to touch the medium. Do you think that’s possible?”
The old man said nothing. By now, he already understood that he had made a mistake.
The medium imprisoning the Opera Ghost had been on that boy.
It was even possible that the other party had already mastered that mask.
“This matter was my fault.” The old man sighed.
Now that he thought back on that boy, no matter how he looked at it, something had been wrong.
How could an ordinary person possibly stay alive with a ghost for so long?
“Faceless and He Liansheng have already gone after him. You’d better pray that brat doesn’t have some heaven-defying means to escape from their hands. Otherwise…”
The old woman sneered, then turned and left without looking back.
The old man let out a deep breath and glanced at Tiankai Residential Compound. At this moment, the compound was shrouded in gloom.
One terrifying corpse after another hung outside the anti-theft windows, giving off a thick, pungent stench of rot.
Pitch-black corpse water dripped onto the ground.
The old man sighed inwardly, then broke into a jog to catch up with the old woman.
At this moment.
The out-of-control, speeding taxi was already approaching the toll station.
“We’re almost there. You have to keep the steering wheel steady. Once we get onto the highway, we’ll be fine!” Lin Qian swallowed, his face somewhat pale.
The driver’s complexion was no better than Lin Qian’s right now.
At the current speed, he was already at his limit, but it was clearly not the taxi’s limit.
Three hundred and sixty!
He hadn’t even known his modification skills were this insane.
Hadn’t he just felt that something was good and installed it, then felt that something else could maintain stability and installed that too?
He had slowly modified it bit by bit, front and back. Added all together, he probably hadn’t even spent a few million.
Among them, some parts had been freeloaded from his friend.
He had heard they were things only race cars had.
At the time, he hadn’t cared too much and had simply taken them away to modify his own car.
But never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that, after modifying and modifying, he would end up with something this ridiculous.
“Don’t talk. I need to concentrate,” the driver said. Cold sweat poured down his face like rain as his eyes stared unblinkingly ahead.
The toll station was right before them. They would reach it almost in the blink of an eye.
Near the toll station were police cars, one after another.
The moment the taxi appeared, people immediately began shouting.
The barrier gate at the toll station had long since been raised.
But getting through was no simple matter.
The lane opening at a toll station was not flat road!
“Here we go!” The driver stared at that narrow passage. In the blink of an eye, the vehicle shot straight through.
Bang!
Lin Qian’s heart sank, and he quickly looked toward the source of the sound.
The car was still moving.
But the side mirror beside the driver had already vanished.
Not only that, after the loud crash, the driver’s window was instantly covered in cracks, though it had not shattered.
Thump, thump, thump.
The driver’s heart pounded wildly, but very soon he shouted excitedly, “We’re through! I made it through!”
Lin Qian gasped for breath. When that loud crash sounded just now, he had thought he was about to go meet his great-grandmother.
In the end, the driver had made it!
“Once we’re on the highway, it’ll be much safer,” Lin Qian said, panting heavily.
What had just happened had occurred extremely quickly. If there had been even the slightest mistake, the car would have been destroyed and they would have died.
Just thinking about it now still left Lin Qian afraid.
It wasn’t only him. The driver felt the same, and the police officers around the toll station had the same thought as well.
After getting onto the highway, the driver relaxed a little. He could drive very steadily on ordinary roads, let alone on the highway.
Moreover, the highway was currently being cleared.
Right now, there were basically no vehicles to be seen on the highway.
As long as the taxi stayed steady, nothing would happen.
“Young man, which way?”
Far ahead in the distance, a road sign appeared.
Lin Qian looked carefully. It was a sign pointing toward Dajiang City, Dachang City, and Dashan City.
“Go to Dachang City.”
Almost without hesitation, Lin Qian directly chose Dachang City.
The taxi sped past in an instant.
Behind them, one police car after another swiftly followed, but they were soon thrown far behind.
“Captain, the investigation is complete.”
“The driver’s name is Liu Qidong, a local from Taiyuan. He’s a retired professional race car driver and proficient in vehicle modification.”
“…”
The captain looked at the driver’s file and fell silent.
How could someone like this end up driving a taxi?
“We still can’t contact the driver?” the captain asked.
The police officer shook his head. “His phone is turned off.”
“Keep trying to contact him.” The captain only felt an incomparable headache.
Although the other party had already gotten onto the highway, the danger still remained.
When the taxi passed through the toll station just now, every single one of them had had their hearts in their throats.
They had been terrified that the taxi wouldn’t make it through.
But they hadn’t expected the other party to succeed, with only a scrape occurring.
“Captain, they’re heading toward Dachang City.”
“I know. Arrange for people to prepare to intercept and slow them down.”
The captain said.
…………
On the highway.
The vehicle tore forward at high speed. At this speed, it was practically an airplane flying along the ground.
Now, Lin Qian was not quite as panicked as before.
Ever since they had gotten onto the highway, the thing chasing after them from behind seemed to have fallen behind and had not continued pursuing.
Much of the throbbing unease in his heart had disappeared.
At their current speed, even if a Ghost Domain turned into a streak of light, it would still take some effort to catch up.
Besides, in his memory, the people of Taiping Ancient Town did not seem to focus mainly on developing Ghost Domains.
But he still could not afford to be careless.
On this trip to Dachang City, if he was not intercepted halfway, he would have a chance to survive.
But if he was stopped halfway, then whether he lived or died would be another matter.
“Young man, something’s going to happen.”
Suddenly, the driver spoke, his expression grave.
The pale-faced driver glanced at the speedometer. Three hundred and seventy.
At this speed, the taxi had already begun to tremble.
Lin Qian also noticed it. The car body was shaking, but the engine was still working hard.
“At the current speed, once we hit four hundred and forty at most, the car will fall apart.”
“When I modified it back then, I only paid attention to the inside and didn’t care about the outer shell.”
As the speed increased, the taxi shook more and more violently.
Bang—!
The window beside the driver suddenly fell off.
Wind poured straight into the car, howling as it rushed in.
In an instant, Lin Qian felt a roar explode beside his ears.
The driver’s expression changed at once.
“Young man, we have to find a way to stop!”
The driver shouted loudly.
“We’re going too fast!”
“How far are we from Dachang City now?”
Lin Qian struggled to hear the driver’s words clearly and hurriedly shouted back.
“A hundred kilometers at most!”
A hundred kilometers?
Given the current situation, the car might fall apart before they even reached it.
Lin Qian did his best to calm himself down.
They could not go to Dachang City, because they simply could not make it there.
If he wanted to avoid being hunted down, he could only use a ghost to drive off a ghost.
Lin Qian suddenly remembered something.
But he did not know whether it was true.
“Driver! Is there any haunted place not far from Dachang City?”
Lin Qian shouted the question.
“There is! A few dozen kilometers from Dachang City, there’s a stretch of rice fields. Some people say it’s haunted there, but whether it’s true or not, I don’t know!”
“Why are you asking this?”
Rice fields!
That’s right!
The Scarecrow Ghost!
Lin Qian’s pupils shrank slightly, and in an instant he had an idea.
“Driver, head there. When the time comes, I’ll think of a way to stop the car!”
Hearing this, the driver’s heart skipped a beat. But after thinking carefully, he was practically doomed right now anyway.
At this speed, there was definitely no way to stop.
“All right!”
Now they could only try everything and leave it up to fate.
Whether they survived or not was up to the heavens. In any case, he had already finished making his final arrangements.
Lin Qian looked back behind him. The highway at night was silent and empty; this stretch was very open.
Roughly ten minutes passed, and the taxi’s shaking suddenly intensified.
All of a sudden, a muffled sound rang out.
It came from the rear. Lin Qian quickly turned back to look.
His expression abruptly changed.
At some unknown point, the trunk had opened, and a faceless person was raising his head from the trunk to look at Lin Qian.
The moment he saw that faceless figure, the last of Lin Qian’s hope was directly shattered.
The other party had caught up!