Chapter 58: Road Trip Tips (Part 2)
Rather than simplicity, it would be more appropriate to describe this map as simple.
It simply outlines the outline of the highway, with a few signs such as "fast food restaurant", "coffee shop", "gas station", etc. Other than that, the space is almost blank.
At first glance, the rough and random lines on the paper could almost be said to be the work of a kindergarten child.
The convertible was open to the wind. Looking through the window, I saw that I was in the middle of a road. To the left was a cliff whose top was invisible, to the right was a misty fog, and in front of me there was no end in sight. And behind me...
Tang Xinjue opened the door and got out of the car to confirm, his eyes slightly narrowed.
Behind is a broken cliff.
The road seemed to be cut in half, and countless mists rose from the collapsed area, making it impossible to see the other side. There was a signpost on the side of the road with a sign saying go ahead.
Below the sign it says: Highway Out of Town.
Tang Xinjue closed her eyes and let the perception in her sea of consciousness spread out. However, when she came into contact with the mist, a sharp tingling sensation suddenly intensified, forcing her to give up the perception.
Where does this tingling sensation come from?
She paused for a few seconds, then opened her phone and checked her physical condition.
The health value is full, the four-dimensional attributes and self-created skills are displayed normally, and there is no debuff.
[Mind Control (Level 1): The first step to control is self-control.]
Even mental control couldn't stop the pain in his sea of consciousness. It was clearly not an attack from the outside, but he couldn't find the source...
Tang Xinjue felt it quietly for a while, rubbed his eyebrows and returned to the car.
The road ahead was relatively wide, and she estimated her driving skills and thought she could probably make it.
I stepped on the accelerator and the car started slowly on the road.
I thought it would be a long distance, but unexpectedly, in less than ten meters, the fog on both sides suddenly dissipated, and lush bushes appeared on the roadside.
"bite!"
A red pole suddenly appeared in the middle of the road, and a clear bell rang from the left.
Tang Xinjue stepped on the brakes and turned his eyes to the direction where the ringing sound came from - there was a narrow green building standing on the side of the road, like an upright rectangular box, and if you didn't look closely, it almost blended into the bushes.
A hand stretched out from the "box" and waved a few times in the direction of the car.
Tang Xinjue drove the car slowly over and stopped next to the building.
The arm was extended from a small window. When it retracted, the window was pulled upwards to reveal the face of a middle-aged man wearing a chef's hat.
The middle-aged man quickly glanced at Tang Xinjue, and an exaggerated business smile appeared on his face, with his bright red gums very eye-catching: "The weather is really nice today."
The face disappeared, and a hand reached out from the small window again, this time with a cup of coffee in his hand.
“Here’s the chocolate coffee you ordered.”
Moving up the view, above the small window, a word is spelled out with crooked iron wire on the top of the hut: COFFEE.
It looks like a small coffee shop .
Tang Xin Jue didn't reach out to take it, but rested his fingers on his temples: "I've never ordered coffee from you."
The man in the kitchen hat bent down again and showed his face, his exaggerated smile unchanged: "No, it's okay, Grandma Mayas will reimburse you."
Seeing that Tang Xinjue had no intention of taking the coffee, the man in the kitchen hat maintained a fake smile and said, "This road is very long, and there are few places to rest and replenish supplies on the way. If you don't drink a cup of hot coffee, you won't be able to hold on."
Finally, the man in the kitchen hat reluctantly added: "…Replenishing your energy in a timely manner is a requirement of the Road Trip Guide."
This time, Tang Xinjue did not read deception or malice from the other person's face. She took the coffee and said, "Thank you."
The man in the kitchen hat immediately retracted his hand and muttered, "If those guys in the city find out, they will definitely laugh at me for being the kindest businessman in the world. Alas, what can I do? I just run a small business on the side of the highway."
Listening to the muttering coming from the small window, Tang Xinjue felt the stabbing pain in his head becoming more and more obvious.
An inexplicable feeling of foreboding lingered in her heart, but she couldn't figure out why.
She lowered her head and took a sip of coffee. It tasted sickeningly sweet, and the hot liquid instantly dispelled the chill brought by the breeze.
There is a line of words printed on the outside of the paper cup:
[It all starts here]
After staring at the words for a while, Tang Xinjue raised his head and asked the man in the kitchen hat, "Excuse me, do you know where Grandma Mayas lives?"
It seemed that he was not surprised that Tang Xinjue would ask this question. The man in the kitchen hat quickly replied: "Go all the way to the end of this road. At the end is Grandma Mayas's house."
"But you have to go there quickly."
The small window was opened a crack again, and the man's lips moved as he spoke indistinctly, "Mayas hates being late, before dark... You don't want to know the consequences, hurry up!"
Tang Xin Jue stared at the other person without fear: "So, what time will it get dark here?"
"I think it was probably after 7pm." The man in the kitchen hat calculated subconsciously, and his smile froze. He became angry for no reason, "No, why should I tell you this? You didn't pay me! You are a bunch of bad college students...you only know how to bully an honest man like me who runs a small business...I hope you never go back to school!"
The window was angrily slammed shut and replaced with a menu, isolating the space inside.
Tang Xin Jue looked at the menu. They only sold coffee here, and the price of each cup of coffee was marked with a currency called "University Coins". For example, the price of this cup of chocolate coffee was 5 University Coins.
She noticed that there were many pencil scratches on the back of the product "Chocolate Coffee".
Seeing that the owner was not going to show up again, Tang Xinjue stepped on the accelerator and continued on his way.
The phone showed that it was 3pm, and there were still four hours until the 7pm the shop owner said it would be dark. According to the current mission requirements, she needed to find Mayas's grandmother's house within four hours.
The green building gradually disappeared in the rearview mirror. There were still the same trees on both sides of the road, with an ominous white fog spreading among the trees, refusing the candidates to explore.
As far as the senses could reach, there was no sound except the sound of the wind, and no living creatures, only a road that seemed to have no end.
Tang Xinjue maintained a steady speed, observing the surrounding scenery while thinking about information about the exam.
This time, it was not like before, where the four of them woke up at the same time in the same place in the dormitory - at least not from what it seemed now.
The last time they were separated and acted separately was in the "Death Record of Class 3-1" copy. The four of them entered parallel dimensions separately. Although they were in the same plot, they could not sense or contact each other.
If the situation is the same this time, maybe everyone will have a task of "delivering specialties to Grandma Mayas", and all four of them need to complete it to pass the test...
The moment this hypothesis appeared, it was rejected by Tang Xinjue himself.
Because she is the only one in the whole dormitory who can drive.
If the other three people have the same task, they can be declared failed from the first step. There will be no deadlock for candidates in the exam.
His thoughts were turning and rising, and his intuition and judgment told Tang Xinjue that the difficulty of this exam was not the "parallel space".
The other three were probably here, but she hadn't found them yet.
Everything has just begun, calm down. Tang Xinjue tapped the steering wheel with his fingers, warned himself in his heart, suppressed the irritability that was rising in his mind, and focused on driving.
The car continued to move forward, with shadows of trees swaying on both sides. After looking at it for a long time, it seemed like the same road was copied and pasted over and over again. Apart from this, no other dangers appeared.
Tang Xinjue still maintained a high level of concentration and did not let his guard down at all.
Suddenly, a short figure emerged from the bushes, and the convertible braked suddenly and stopped in front of it!
The short figure fell to the ground due to inertia, but soon got up unharmed: it was a little boy with a crew cut, about five or six years old. He clapped his hands and was about to continue running forward.
Tang Xinjue watched the scene quietly in the car. She had no intention of taking any action. However, when her peripheral vision inadvertently caught a glimpse of color, her eyes froze and she honked the horn without thinking.
The loud noise made the child stop and turn around. Tang Xinjue could see clearly: his face was blank, without any facial features.
And just as she had just caught a glimpse of, the little boy was wearing an out-of-place women's watch on his arm, exactly the same as .
How could Guo Guo's watch appear on someone else?
