Chapter 142 - Village (1/2)
“Have you packed everything?”
He suddenly heard a male voice. When Su Min opened his eyes, he saw a hand flash by and he subconsciously swatted it away.
The other party hissed in pain. He complained: “What are you doing? I’m kind-heartedly reminding yet you actually hit me?!”
Su Min could finally see who the other party was. He said: “Sorry, I was just lost in thought earlier and wasn’t paying attention.”
He assessed his surroundings and saw that he was in a dormitory.
Noting the professional textbooks on the table, it appeared to be a university dormitory. These books also happen to be covering the same major he was currently studying. He didn’t know how Chen Su knew about it.
But after thinking about it, he realised that his major was already revealed to the public. Perhaps that was how Chen Su knew about it.
The other party was a thin, bamboo-looking man. It was Su Min’s first time seeing such a thin man.
The thin man san said: “Your phone rang just now.”
Su Min nodded. He reached out for his phone and saw that it was a call from someone saved as “Mum”.
He called back. It didn’t take long for the phone to connect.
The other party was a middle-aged woman: “Why didn’t you answer your phone earlier? When will you be coming back today? I’ll go and buy some things.”
Su Min had no idea when he was supposed to go back. He could only turn the phone into speaker mode and search through his phone.
Unfortunately, he couldn’t find anything. In the end, he could only make something up: “About seven.”
“Okay, pay attention to safety as you make your way home.”
Su Min hummed in response and hung up.
His physical body seemed to be his own. Including the little habits from earlier, there was almost no difference from this and his real body.
There must be something on his phone.
Su Min went through his phone and finally found the answer in a taxi app. It was a small village. Just the fare itself was several hundred yuan.
He must be really rich.
But that was something that was arrranged a long time ago. Su Min couldn’t delay things any longer and quickly called a taxi over.
When he left the dormitory, he went out of his way to look at the structure both inside and out. It was almost the same as his dormitory. The only difference was the placement of books and the like.
Su Min dragged his suitcase over to a taxi.
The taxi driver was a bit reluctant when he heard the village name: “That place is too remote. I won’t be able to get any passengers back so I’ll lose money like this.”
Su Min said: “Then add another hundred yuan.”
Driver: “Deal.”
He agreed without any hesitation.
Su Min: “……..”
The driver made an extra one hundred yuan so his heart was filled with joy. Along the way, he played many songs and sang along. Su Min on the other hand fell asleep to those songs.
It was almost dark when he woke up.
Su Min had never heard of the village name. He didn’t know if it was something that was made up. That woman’s voice was also very unfamiliar.
He asked: “Master, do you know this place?”
The driver was very talkative: “I know. I came here once before. At that time, I took a university student……..Ah, could that have been you?”
Su Min felt that it probably was him.
The driver glanced at him a few times and compared him with the person in his memory, “Ah, it really is you.”
Su Min: “………Yeah.”
The driver has good memory, but it had been a long time since he last took him here. It was probably because he was good looking that he remembered him.
Su Min listened to him talk about various things. He even touched on ghost stories: “You probably don’t know about this but there are lots of ghost stories in our line of business. If you want, I can tell you a few.”
“This happened just a few days ago. A colleague of mine does night shifts. When he was done, it was almost one. At that time, he had no intention to take on any more passengers, but someone ran onto the road and stopped him.”
“Seeing that there were no other cars on the road, he let that person on. After asking for the destination, he sent that person back.”
“Soon after that person left, a pair of drunkards then came. They saw that his door was open and it automatically closed and even asked him if the car was broken………..”
“Don’t you think that’s scary?”
Su Min didn’t feel anything.
The driver then continued and spoke of a few more. From domestic to foreign, taxis to buses, he even spoke about tractors.
He then asked cheerfully: “Afraid?”
Su Min couldn’t say he wasn’t, so he just nodded: “Afraid.”
Driver: “………….”
He didn’t seem scared at all.
***
The sky had completely darkened outside.
As they ventured closer to the village, the area became more and more remote and the road got more and more bumpy. Su Min opened the window and looked outside.
He wondered if this was a horror movie.
Did Chen Su want him to watch a horror movie taking place in a small village?
Su Min looked around and felt a little clueless. He couldn’t figure it out at all.
It was still summer so the wind at night was very cool.
Su Min chatted with the driver occasionally along the way so time passed quickly and it didn’t take long for them to reach the destination.
Light came from the village.
Su Min saw that it was almost eight o’clock.
He hurriedly paid the driver and dragged his suitcase down the road. The roads in the village weren’t that bad.
The village here was not the same as the usual villages. The floors were all concrete, houses were made of brick and each building looked like a resort villa.