Invade the World

  Chapter 207 The Woman in White at the Junction of Rainy Night

  Xu Xiangyang, Lin Xingjie and Zhu Qingyue looked at each other.

  Uh...what can be the problem?

  I have to say that the words of the old lady came exactly right, just after the ghost story that Xu Xiangyang just finished telling, and in this supernatural rumor, there is also an old lady who pulled the protagonist out of the car after seeing the ghost.

  It’s just that ghost stories belong to ghost stories. They are not ordinary people who can only shiver at the ghosts in the story, but superpowers who have dealt with the real supernatural world. Let alone ghosts, even a haunted house has been demolished.

  The squad leader looked at Xu Xiangyang with inquiring gaze. He shook his head, indicating that he did not feel any evil spirits lurking on the bus.

  So, the girl smiled and persuaded softly.

   "Don't be nervous, old man, this car will drive to the destination smoothly, we will have nothing to do, come, take a deep breath."

   "You...you don't know..."

  The fear revealed in the old lady’s pupils and expressions was genuine. She was still holding the hand of the young girl beside her, and said with a trembling voice:

   "I can really see that kind of thing, I have always seen it, you must believe me... Yes, yes! I want to get off the car, I have to get off now!"

  The old man’s vague words are also mixed with a strong dialect accent, making it more difficult for others to understand.

   She trembled and tried to get up from the parking space, as if she was about to call the driver to stop, but the squad leader quickly reacted and grabbed the old man’s arm.

  At this time, both the back seat and the front row of the car where the two people were located, people began to look curiously behind.

  After all, the people sitting in the car are full of people in the tour group. It is difficult to hide the situation of the elderly.

  "Wait first. Mother-in-law, please calm down first."

  The squad leader didn’t use his hand, but under the soft smile, there seemed to be some unbearable courage, which made the old man next to him fail to stand up smoothly.

   "Can you tell us what happened?"

  At the same time, her demeanor and behavior can give people a "trustworthy" look as always. Seeing the young man in front of her, who is not her granddaughter, behaves so calmly, the old man seems to gradually calm down.

   "I...want to go down..."

   "We are on the highway now, we can't just say that we can get off by just getting off the car. Violating traffic rules is not responsible for everyone's life and safety, and the driver cannot agree."

   "Besides, everyone is enthusiastically preparing to travel out, and shouldn't want to be interrupted by others..."

  The clear pupils of the girl and the cloudy pupils of the old man look at each other.

  After a cough, the old lady finally trembling and told the truth.

   "I saw it just now... I saw something in the car."

  "In the car? Everyone is in their seats, where are the ‘things’ you said?"

   "It's not...in the car."

  The old man pointed upward carefully, as if he was afraid of being noticed by the “things” in her mouth.

  "It was outside the car window. I saw it, and there was something as black as a dead man’s arm passing across the window...it’s true, I didn’t lie..."

  The young people looked at each other again.

  If the old man’s observation ability is sharp enough, he may notice that there is no doubt, fear or ridicule in their expressions, but... an obvious embarrassment.

   "——You may have read it wrong."

  Zhu Qingyue whispered.

   "Maybe, maybe it's just a spider with a big head crawling past the edge of the window."

   "Spider? How is this possible?"

  Zhu Qingyue did not answer, but suddenly stretched out her hand and pushed the window in front of her open.

"do not……!"

  The old man exclaimed, and the wind outside the window had already poured in.

  The old lady was almost so nervous that she was going to lose her breath, for fear that the dead man lying on the roof (in her imagination) would climb into the car.

  But after a while, there was no sound except the whistling wind.

  In the fast passing scenery outside the window, there are only invisible sidewalk trees planted on both sides of the guardrail. Outside the guardrail is sometimes the village scenery on the flat terrain, sometimes it is the steep cliff wall, sometimes it is the lush woods.

   "Look, are you okay?"

The squad leader touched the old man's thin back like a soothing.

   "Don't worry, this car is safe, there are so many people there. There will be nothing wrong."

   While comforting the old lady in a low voice, she quietly gestured to the two friends.

  ……

  After another ten minutes, it may be that after this mess, the old man who was scared by some evil spirit who accidentally exposed his "horse feet" was exhausted, and finally fell asleep.

  Zhu Qingyue sighed slightly and smiled helplessly at them.

  Xu Xiangyang suddenly felt that what they did was really like the protagonists in horror movies. They didn’t take the old man’s warning seriously. Even if someone saw a ghost, they just said it was an illusion.

  Of course, the actual situation is just the opposite, because a few of them are the initiators of the "haunted" phenomenon.

  This is a point that Xu Xiangyang ignored in the past.

   "It seems we need to pay attention."

  He said to Lin Xingjie.

  The people with superpowers they have met before, either the latent criminals, or the members of the official organization, all seemed very "official".

  In fact, the folks will naturally have lurking people. For the time being, psychics with superpowers should have more psychics than they thought.

Just like this old lady, she doesn’t understand the world of so-called psychics or psychics. When she sees things that others can’t see, she may think it is an illusion at first, but then she feels that she has a legend. "Yin and Yang Eyes"...

   "Such a thing happened."

  Lin Xingjie picked up a stack of playing cards in her hand and reluctantly said:

  "Are we still playing cards?"

  Xu Xiangyang glanced at her.

   "Do you still want to fight?"

  "Why, why look at me with this expression..."

  The girl with long hair curled her hands back and glared at herself with alert.

   "Don't hit me again!"

  Xu Xiangyang was taken aback. He also remembered the tearful and pitiful appearance when his girlfriend was slapped with a ruler because of his playfulness, and he felt a touch of heartbeat.

  It's a pity that the ruler is not with me...it's not right.

  He coughed.

   "No, it's a holiday now, let's just let it go."

  *

  "Let's go to the hotel first." The tour guide said, "There is still some way ahead. We have arranged lunch, don't worry."

  Until about one o'clock in the afternoon, the bus finally came to a roadside restaurant.

  At the dinner table, the members of the same tour group all knew each other, some were more talkative, and some were good at relationships, and they all yelled about "uncles and aunts", "brothers and sisters".

  In fact, these years, those who have the opportunity to travel and relax, the family conditions are good. Because every trip is a considerable amount of expenditure, which is not affordable for ordinary employees, and most people have no awareness of this. Even the concept of "Golden Week" is only available this year.

   There are a total of twenty people, who are allocated next to the three dining tables. Among them, Xu Linzhu, a trio of high school students, has attracted much attention, mainly because the two girls are too eye-catching, and there are more than one or two who take the initiative to talk to each other.

  The atmosphere of lunch is not bad, but I didn’t get enough to eat—Xu Xiangyang looked at his girlfriend’s profile and knew that she felt the same as herself.

  After eating out with a group of strangers, it is not as good as relaxing at home. Perhaps because of consciously worrying about her own image, Lin Xingjie’s speed of moving chopsticks on the table has dropped significantly.

  ……

  After the meal is over, the bus starts slowly again.

  The destination this time is a hotel. I heard the driver say that it will take a few more hours to get there.

  The vehicle runs smoothly on the open road.

  As Xu Xiangyang said, no matter how fresh the landscape is, it will feel boring after a long time.

  In addition, it is the afternoon. After eating a full meal, people's energy is not as strong in the morning, and the interest in talking is not high. After a while, all the children fall asleep beside their parents.

  The inside of the bus, which was very noisy and too noisy at first, is now surrounded by a quiet atmosphere, with occasional whispers, mixed in the jitter of the vehicle from time to time.

  It seemed to fit this kind of atmosphere. The sky outside gradually dimmed. Looking across the window to the distant sky, the dark clouds were pressing down a little bit.

  Xu Xiangyang likes this moment before the storm, such as now.

  The drowsy world, the trivial sounds, the tremors of the tires rolling across the ground, the quiet people in the car...give him an exact and genuine "on the road" experience.

  After a while, Xu Xiangyang found that his arms could no longer move, and his shoulders were still a little sore. He looked down and discovered that Lin Xingjie had fallen into a deep sleep with her arm in her arms since she didn't know when.

  The corners of Xu Xiangyang's mouth slightly cocked. Later, he turned his attention to the squad leader next to him.

  Zhu Qingyue is supporting her cheek with one hand and looking out the window.

  This scene made him think of Xingjie's appearance on the day he went to the sports meeting, which was a bit familiar.

  The difference is that at that time, Lin Xingjie was quieter than usual, while she was very interested.

  Xu Xiangyang was surprised.

  Because in the squad leader, what he saw was not a kind of excitement that only existed in the departure; the feeling of interest was still well maintained by the other party after the five-hour drive.

  Is traveling such an interesting thing for Qingyue?

  "Have you never traveled abroad before?"

   he asked in a low voice.

   "Yes, never, this is the first time."

The squad leader did not turn his head. Her gaze was always firmly nailed to the fast passing scenery outside the window, and her voice was saturated with a soft smile.

   "Looking at the city I live in like this is a little bit behind, a little bit away from me, there is a feeling of running to a new world, escaping to the end of the world... I really like it."

  Xu Xiangyang seems to understand but not understand.

  He seems to have some understanding, but he can't fully empathize with him.

  Xu Xiangyang only knows one thing. He is very fortunate now. Fortunately, that day he followed Xingjie’s suggestion and pulled the squad leader out of the house with a strong attitude, otherwise he would not see her like this.

  ……

time flies.

  The evening did not come, because the setting sun cannot be seen. The sky above his head was covered by continuous black clouds.

  It's only half past five now, and the sky is already scaryly dark, like it's late at night.

It’s not very obvious when sitting in a closed car. If you open the window, you can clearly feel: the wind is really strong outside, "huhuhu" slaps the windows mercilessly, and the trees on both sides of the road. One after another bent down.

  After a short while, it started to rain in the dimly lit world.

  The rain is between the pouring heavy rain and the light rain, and the scenery outside the window gradually becomes hazy.

  Xu Xiangyang’s fingers touched the cold glass, and on the other end of the glass were countless dense drops of water.

  There was more noise from the wiper in the carriage, but it was still very quiet.

  Small puddles of water quickly accumulated in the roadside depressions. When the tires ran over, large water splashes would be splashed on the glass like waves.

  Dark mountain road, with no end in sight for a while.

  Xu Xiangyang felt a little sleepy. Before taking a break, he shouted to the young man sitting in the front row:

   "How long shall we have?"

  The tour guide’s head leaned slantingly on the seat next to him, without looking back, he replied in a muffled voice:

"Coming."

   "I have already crossed the mountain road." The driver's tone was with a strong local dialect, "I will be there in half an hour."

  Xu Xiangyang put his face to the window and saw villages and small towns slowly appearing on both sides of the road, knowing that this is probably the location of the urban-rural junction, and the city should be further ahead.

  Not far away, you can see a road extending from the village in the distance, winding out from the woods on both sides, and at the entrance of the junction of the village road and the highway, there are a few white shadows standing.

  At first, he thought he had misunderstood, but when the bus drove closer, he realized that it was really a human being.

  Like a mother holding the hands of two sisters, all of them are wearing white fluttering clothes.

  When the bus drove to the vicinity of the intersection, Xu Xiangyang felt that his gaze seemed to coincide with the eyes of the woman standing in it hidden under her wet black hair.

  He is not convinced of this, just a very vague feeling.

  It is not clear through the window glass covered with water droplets. It's just that they didn't wear an umbrella or a raincoat. I'm afraid their clothes and hair will be soaked in the rain.

  It's raining so much...

  Xu Xiangyang felt that these women seemed a bit pitiful.

  Of course, he can’t help them either. After all, this car is a member of a tour group, and the driver can never stop to help.

  What's more, they may also be waiting for others...

  Xu Xiangyang was thinking, the bus drove past the intersection with a scream, leaving the women in white behind.

  He soon stopped thinking about it and just wanted to sleep.

Half-closed and half-open, he watched the bus continue to drive under the gloomy sky, the sound of rain slapping on the windows and ceiling of the car was pattering, the road in the rain was long and fuzzy. This car was carrying these people, passing one after another. At intersections, tunnel after tunnel, there is no end in sight...

   is another intersection of a familiar village.

   Suddenly, Xu Xiangyang's eyes widened, and he sat up straight, with an incredible expression on his face.

  The drowsy sleepiness just disappeared, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.

  Xu Xiangyang quickly put his face on the window, trying to look back.

  Sure enough...

  At the intersection where the bus had just passed, three women in white clothes were indeed standing.

  ——It's exactly the same as the scene I saw a few minutes ago!

  (End of this chapter)