Suddenly, Su Kun thought of the posture Zhang Fuquan was in when he died, wasn't it quite similar to that of the infant spirit! This was definitely a rhythm of coming back for revenge!
Just as he was thinking about it, making the back of his neck tingle with chills, the old woman in the front seat who had been studying the brown and black wooden circular disk in her hands suddenly made an "eh" sound.
"What is it, old woman? Did you discover something?" The old man who had been resting with his eyes closed in the back seat suddenly asked.
"Why did that thing run to Quan County?"
"Quan County?" The long-haired man who had been focused on driving turned his head to stare at the old woman's disk, as if to confirm whether she had seen wrong. After a moment, he said, "It really did. Tsk, what is it doing there?!"
He didn't slow down at all. The curve ahead was getting closer and closer, yet the entire car was still driving in a straight line at a frighteningly fast speed.
Su Kun, somewhat terrified, grabbed the back of the driver's seat with one hand and urgently patted the long-haired man's shoulder with the other, "Holy crap, big brother, you're driving! Don't look at that little disk, watch the road! There will be casualties, ahhhhh~~~~"
The long-haired man slowly sat up straight. Just when it looked like they were about to crash into the guardrail, he turned the steering wheel.
This car, which had obviously been tampered with by these people who may or may not be human, followed the curve with astonishing agility, without any issues at all. The old woman and the old man in the back seat also seemed used to it, not even batting an eye.
The one studying the disk continued studying, the one resting with eyes closed continued resting. They were so calm it was outrageous! Obviously this wasn't the first time they had experienced such a thrilling situation.
But Su Kun and the others were different. Due to the inertia of making a sharp turn at high speed, without any preparation, Su Kun felt Qin Xiu's plump body tilt and squeeze towards him, pressing him together towards Gu Yan on the far left.
"Pff--" This deflated fellow, even when he himself was about to go from a cucumber stick to a flat bean, still didn't forget to raise his face towards Gu Yan and dryly chuckle hehe, then say in a voice that sounded like he was about to suffocate, "Thanks for the hard work, Comrade Gu Yan!"
Fortunately, Gu Yan had turned back to normal size. If he was still in child ghost form, not only would his entire face be pressed against the car window bearing the weight of a middle-aged woman, he'd also have to endure a kid-sized ghost sinking into his body. =_=
Gu Yan, currently bearing the heavy pressure of two people, had an expressionless face: "......"
The car quickly passed that big curve and returned to a straight line.
The old man in the back calmly commented, "Your driving skills have improved, not bad, much gentler than this old man's Pomegranate at home." As soon as he finished speaking, the fiery red bird in his palm fiercely pecked him on the forehead a couple times, pecking the old man who always puts on airs in front of outsiders until he broke character, howling "Ow ow".
Su Kun twitched the corner of his mouth: If he remembered correctly, he had called that bird Pomegranate before, right?? Comparing a person's driving skills to a bird? Can that bird drive too?!
He suddenly felt the people in this car weren't some experts from a special department at all, they were a bunch of oddballs, wahhhh! QAQ They're playing with their own lives but dragging him along too.
After pondering the value and meaning of life for a moment, he sat up straight, paws clinging to the back of the driver's seat, and asked pitifully, "Can you drop us off at home first before continuing your bumper cars?"
Unfortunately, no one paid him any mind.
After studying the disk for a while, the old woman spoke again, "It's still moving, now it's arrived in Fu County...stopped in the east. Where is this place?...Tsk, can't pinpoint the exact location, this crappy disk, should improve it one of these days."
Qin Xiu, who had just sat up and was still shaken, suddenly interjected, "Fu County? Which Fu County? The one next to Quan County?!"
"Yes."
"That's our hometown!" Qin Xiu asked urgently, "Who are you talking about? Who went to Fu County?"
The long-haired man suddenly turned his head back, but didn't answer her question. Instead, he frowned and said, "Your hometown? The place where your son and daughter-in-law are staying?"
This time Su Kun didn't care about being polite or not. He directly grabbed the man's head with both hands and turned it straight, trembling, "I'm begging you, big brother, focus on driving, okay? Leave the questioning to others!"
And Gu Yan, who clearly understood something, asked Qin Xiu in a concise and low voice, "Address of your family residence."
So, the old woman who had just turned her head and was about to speak, closed her mouth and nodded at Gu Yan with satisfaction.
Seeing everyone staring at her, Qin Xiu felt a sense of panic and unease rising in her heart. She said in a shaky voice, "East side of Fu County, Zhashu Village, past the river, first household entering the village."
Although what she said couldn't really be considered a detailed address, it seemed to be enough for the people in the car, because the old woman and the master both nodded and urged the long-haired man, "Drive straight there, don't dally! Something is clearly about to happen. We can send the people back later."
"Some- something's going to happen?!" Qin Xiu was so shocked that her voice became shrill and off-key.
"To our family? What will happen? You- you can't just say half and swallow half, what exactly is going on, I--" Before she could finish, she felt a puff of smoke dispersing in front of her eyes, the fragrance carrying a sweet scent. Before she could react to what was happening, her vision went black and she lost consciousness.
Su Kun looked at Qin Xiu, who had suddenly slumped over in her seat and passed out, then at the old man who retracted his hand and put a small white porcelain bottle into his cloth pocket. He once again felt his life was being threatened.
The old man leaned back in the back seat and sighed contentedly, "Peace and quiet."
The long-haired man and old woman extended their thumbs towards the back without turning their heads, "Well done."
Su Kun, Gu Yan: "......" Is this really an organization linked to the police and not human traffickers?!
After Qin Xiu fainted, the long-haired man said in a deep voice, "Sit tight."
Su Kun didn't even have time to react to the meaning of his words before seeing him floor the gas pedal.
The entire van instantly shot out at a speed that normal cars would find hard to reach, heading straight in a certain direction without even needing to turn the steering wheel. The surrounding scenery all blurred into a mass, whooshing past towards the back, even giving a sense of time and space being distorted.
Su Kun closed his eyes and let out a howl: "Mommy~~~" QAQ Damn it, if I ever run into this group of idiots again, I'd be a fool not to run away ahhhhh~~~
"You brat, if you keep yelling, I'll knock you out too, you believe me?" Ever since Qin Xiu fell unconscious, the old man in the back seat stopped putting on airs and returned to his previous demeanor.
He smacked Su Kun on the head several times, threatening him.
After howling for a while and realizing he was still alive and the car hadn't crashed into anything, Su Kun finally tried opening his eyes. Outside the car window, everything was still a blur, and he could even hear the whooshing sound of the wind as the entire car sped along at an eerie speed, unimpeded.
Finally believing that the car actually wouldn't crash into anything and was absolutely safe, Su Kun turned to the old man: "Why did you knock her out but not me?"
The old man waved his sleeve and pointed at the unconscious Qin Xiu with his chin: "We have a confidentiality agreement. These supernatural things can't be spread around. If she saw it, wouldn't that be a violation? Otherwise, why was he driving so properly before?"
Su Kun: "..." Proper enough to cry.
"As for you, kid..." The old man glanced at Gu Yan, "Since you've already seen this kid, what's the point of keeping secrets from you? Besides—"
Just as he was halfway through his sentence, the car that had been flying smoothly suddenly jolted. The old man stroked his beard, seeming a bit uneasy as he glanced outside, then said to the two in the front seat, "Forget it, you guys keep driving. I'll take Pomegranate to check it out first."
"We're only a few seconds slower than you. You go straight to the other end of Zhashi Village and block it off. Don't let that thing get away. If it really hurts someone else, it would be a major evil. You are human after all, and quite old. Don't end up with missing arms or broken legs. We wouldn't know how to explain it to your stammering little disciple," the old woman in the front seat turned around and nagged.
Su Kun successfully grasped the key point: You are human after all... Very good, in the entire car, only he, Qin Xiu, and this old man were human. Confirmation complete.
The old man angrily said, "You're questioning my abilities!" Then he opened the much larger sunroof compared to other cars, threw out the fiery red bird in his hand, and stood up on the seat himself.
There was a clear cry from the roof of the car, and a huge claw reached down from the sunroof, accurately grabbing the master's collar and nimbly lifting him out.
Su Kun stared blankly at Gu Yan: "I feel like the door to a new world has opened before my eyes. Am I still on Earth?"
Gu Yan replied expressionlessly: "What is Earth?"
Su Kun: "..." Very good. Out of the three humans, one was unconscious, one ran away, and now he was the only human left in the car! As for the other three, one evil spirit was a migrant worker, the rest unknown... Life is so wonderful =_=
"Young man, please close the sunroof," the old woman in the front reminded.
Su Kun stood up numbly to close the bizarrely windless sunroof, then sat down numbly again. After a long silence, he couldn't help but ask, "What are we going to do?"
"Remember Qin Xiu said her daughter-in-law was pregnant again?" The long-haired man in the front seat said calmly, "The baby that killed Zhang Fuquan apparently felt that killing one wasn't enough and went after the second one."
"Why?"
"Probably felt that the position that should have been its own was about to be taken by someone else, so it became resentful."
"What?!" Su Kun was shocked. "That's- that's too much!"
Gu Yan glanced at him and said solemnly, "For some souls, there is no such thing as going too far. That resentment was buried from the moment of death. If they can't control it, they can't stop."
"Ai—" the old woman sighed. "That's why we brought this girl along, so she wouldn't be used again."
"Used? What do you mean?" Su Kun was puzzled.
"The aura of that baby spirit on her hasn't completely dissipated yet. Otherwise, why would this old woman have her touch the navigating wheel a couple times? Heh... If you ask her carefully about what exactly she did this afternoon, there will be a period in the middle that she definitely won't remember clearly."
Su Kun gasped, "You mean, the baby spirit possessed her to kill Zhang Fuquan?"
"Not entirely," said the long-haired man. "We can only determine that the baby spirit used her to do something, maybe killing Zhang Fuquan, maybe helping to arrange Zhang Fuquan like that, or maybe cleaning up the scene... In any case, no matter what it was, if she finds out in the future, she's bound to have a breakdown."
As soon as he finished speaking, before Su Kun even had time to react, he felt the entire car screech to an abrupt halt with the sharp sound of brakes.
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