Volume 2: Ghost Invitation Chapter 0026 Weird Youth
It took Xiao Mo six days to get to Liaoyuan City, and he almost went crazy. When he came out of the station, several drivers waiting for work came up to him enthusiastically. Xiao Mo chose a driver he liked and got into his car.
"Where are you going young man?"
The driver looked to be in his forties and had a strong local accent. Xiao Mo told him the address he was going to:
"Go to No. 2 Qingming Road."
"Where are you going?" The driver asked again, as if he hadn't heard.
Xiao Mo's answer was so loud that even an eighty-year-old man would have been able to hear it clearly.
"I said No. 2 Qingming Road."
"No. 2 Qingming Road?"
The driver asked in confusion, turned around and asked Xiao Mo:
"What is that place?"
Xiao Mo was startled, and asked back somewhat unhappily:
"Your car is not a black car, how come you don't even know the number 2 Qingming Road!"
After hearing what Xiao Mo said, the driver became unhappy too, and he patted his chest and said:
"Young man, I'm not bragging to you. Go ask around and see who doesn't know that I, Zhao Laoliu, am the living map of Liaoyuan City. From hotels to street stalls and residences, there is no place I don't know."
After boasting, the driver asked Xiao Mo again uncertainly:
"Are you sure the address you mentioned is in Liaoyuan City?"
The mysterious man had no reason to play tricks on him, so Xiao Mo believed in the authenticity of the address and immediately answered with certainty:
"Of course I am sure, otherwise why would I come to Liaoyuan City?"
Xiao Mo was too lazy to waste time talking to the swindler driver. He lifted the round glasses on his legs and was about to get out of the car. There were not many taxis left.
Seeing that he was about to get off, the driver did not stop him, but just reminded Xiao Mo:
"Young man, you must be mistaken. There is no Qingming Road in Liaoyuan City. Even if you are stupid, you should know who would use Qingming as the name of a road? Not only is it unlucky, but even the government cannot allow it!"
Xiao Mo paused. The driver's words made sense. The government would not allow such a road name to appear. He also looked up a lot of information about Liaoyuan City while in the car, but he didn't find Qingming Road on it.
"Is it another non-existent place? Does that person still want to bring me into the curse?"
After encountering two supernatural events, Xiao Mo had already become somewhat tolerant of such strange things, so he was not too panicked. Since the mysterious person gave him this address, then this address should exist. Perhaps just like Class B of the second year of Luohe School, this place is also invisible and cannot be seen by ordinary people.
But thinking like this, wouldn't the place he was looking for be a cursed place? This made him want to retreat.
Xiao Mo was caught in an awkward dilemma. He wanted to get off the bus and go back, but he also wanted to find that place.
Seeing Xiao Mo hesitant and unwilling to leave, the driver also suggested to him:
"No. 2 Qingming Road is definitely not in Liaoyuan City. I think you should find a place to ask the person who asked you to come to see if he made a mistake."
The driver obviously ordered him to leave. Xiao Mo was a sensible person, so he nodded and was about to get off the car. At this moment, a man's voice suddenly sounded from outside the car window:
"Are you going to leave, old man?"
Hearing the voice, Xiao Mo glanced over and saw that the person asking the question was a tall young man with long hair and a pair of slender eyes. There was a slight smile on his face when he asked the question, giving people a cynical feeling.
In fact, this is true. The driver is only about 40 years old, but he is called an old man by this young man. No one would feel comfortable in this situation.
"How can you talk like that, young man? What do you mean by old man?"
The driver retorted to the young man in dissatisfaction, but the young man spread his hands and smiled indifferently.
Xiao Mo was too lazy to listen to the quarrel between the two. He moved slowly because he had to lift the mirror to get out of the car. He didn't move out of the car until the young man sat in the passenger seat.
The young man turned his head and looked at him. Perhaps because he wasted the other person's time, the young man made a contemptuous gesture to him. Then the car slowly drove away, but before leaving, the following conversation came out of the car window:
"Where are you going?"
"Just let me tell you to drive. You won't be able to find it even if I tell you the exact address."
"What a joke! There is no place in Liaoyuan City that I, Zhao Laoliu, don't know about. Just ask around and see who doesn't know that I am a living map of this place!"
"Okay, I'm going to Qingming Road..."
The car had already driven away, so Xiao Mo only heard the three words "Qingming Road". He was not sure whether it was No. 2 Qingming Road. But even so, it was enough to surprise him, after all, the young man mentioned Qingming Road.
Xiao Mo suspected that the young man was going to the same place as him and knew how to get there. Thinking of this, Xiao Mo no longer hesitated and waved to stop a car, and told the driver to follow.
Because Xiao Mo said that the person in the car in front was his friend, the driver followed very closely, almost right behind the car. Xiao Mo was not afraid of being discovered by the young man, after all, he was not a spy tracking , he just wanted to find that place.
The two cars drove one after the other. As time passed, Xiao Mo found that the car had already left the city and entered the suburbs. The road was not only narrow but also rugged, with emerald green vegetation on both sides.
The young man had obviously noticed him and looked back from time to time, but the car showed no intention of stopping.
"If I had known it was so far, I wouldn't have come. Why would your friend choose such a remote place for his birthday?"
"He has a weird personality and finds it stimulating to celebrate his birthday in this place. I actually didn't want to come here, but the relationship was so bad that I couldn't help it."
Xiao Mo made up a reason casually. After hearing it, the driver did not ask any more questions but just sighed and said:
"Young people nowadays are getting crazier and crazier. I don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing."
The driver's doubts were dispelled, and the car finally stopped after driving for about ten minutes. Of course, this stop was passive, because the car the young man was in had already stopped and he had left the car.
Xiao Mo stuck his head out and looked outside, and found that there was an abandoned residential area in front of him. Many collapsed houses were crowded together, making it very difficult for a car to pass through.
Xiao Mo was afraid that the young man would retaliate against him, so he was cautious and exchanged mobile phone numbers with the driver to prevent any danger. When paying the money, he asked the driver with concern:
"Where is this place? Why is there an abandoned residential area?"
"The city was rebuilt inwards, so this place was abandoned and no one has been taking care of it since then."
Seeing that the young man in front was almost out of sight, Xiao Mo did not waste any more time. He thanked the driver and got out of the car in a hurry.
The two taxis disappeared very quickly. There was total silence all around, not even the sound of the wind. It could be said that this was a perfect place to kill someone and abandon the body.
He left the mirror where it was, knowing that it would follow him wherever he went.
The young man walked very fast, and no one knew where he had disappeared to. Helplessly, Xiao Mo could only follow the route the young man had just taken, which forced him into a dead end.
The road ahead was blocked by waste rocks . Xiao Mo cursed his bad luck in his heart, but then he thought again and felt that something was wrong, because the young man disappeared after walking into here.
"Could it be that it fell over the rubble pile?"
The pile of rubble was at least three meters high. Although it was possible to climb over it, it would undoubtedly be difficult to do. Just as he was thinking about whether to try to climb up, a voice suddenly came from the front:
"Your tracking skills are really lame. Tell me, who are you?"
Xiao Mo looked up and saw that the person who spoke was the young man he had lost. At this moment, the young man was sitting on top of the rubble pile, with his legs crossed, looking at him with a smile.
Seeing that the young man had reached such a high position in such a short time, Xiao Mo was inevitably surprised and became more vigilant.
He asked the young man:
"I heard you and the driver mention Qingming Road earlier, so I followed you. Excuse me, do you know where No. 2 Qingming Road is?"
Hearing Xiao Mo's answer, the young man's expression changed slightly. To be exact, this change was caused by the sudden appearance of the mirror. The young man stood up from the rubble and pointed at the mirror next to Xiao Mo and asked:
"Did this mirror come here with you?"
The young man's words surprised Xiao Mo, because almost everyone except him turned a blind eye to the weirdness shown by the mirror, but the young man obviously noticed it.
Xiao Mo felt a strange sense of joy in his heart, or perhaps it was a sense of identity.
"Yes, wherever I go, it follows me."
The young man was not surprised at all after hearing this, instead he laughed out loud:
"Haha, it turns out you are also an unlucky guy."
After he finished speaking with a smile, his expression immediately turned serious again, and then he pointed at himself and said:
"Don't mind me, I'm actually an unlucky guy too."
Although Xiao Mo thought this young man was very interesting, he was not in the mood to talk nonsense at the moment. He asked the young man very seriously:
"You know where No. 2 Qingming Road is, right?"
"Of course I know." The young man nodded without denying.
"So I wonder if it's cursed?"
