My Beauty Collection: Starting from Banshee Town

Chapter 146 Gas Station

A gust of mountain wind blew by, and the tree swayed slightly.

The heat that was exposed on the highway just now has been completely eliminated, and the whole person is much more energetic.

Ethan saw a signboard nailed up with a few broken boards on the side of the road, and he put down the map in his hand.

"This road is not shown on the map. There is a gas station in front of it. Why don't we ask the way?"

"Ok."

Dalia nodded, and drove forward according to the guidance of the road signs.

Soon, they came to a dilapidated gas station. In the open space outside the gas station, there were more than a dozen cars of various kinds parked, all of which were pasted with papers for sale.

The boss here is really business-minded, and the place where the birds don't shit is also used to sell second-hand cars.

Ethan took a look at the prices, and they all set them relatively low, and if they were not guaranteed, someone would come to buy them.

Dahlia slowed down and drove into the gas station.

Inside the tanker is an old wooden house with dozens of license plates nailed to the wall, which looks a different kind of beauty.

Ethan pushed the car door open, and melodious country music came from the cabin.

At the door of the wooden house, a man was sleeping on a deck chair with a straw hat covering his face and a bottle of beer beside him.

"Good afternoon." Ethan greeted.

Without any response, Ethan took another two steps forward, waved away a few flies, and increased the volume.

"Good afternoon, sir, excuse me."

After shouting a few times, the man lying on the chair finally moved. He took off his straw hat and squinted his eyes at Ethan.

A white man with dry hair and mess is Ethan's first impression of him.

The wrinkles on his face have accumulated, and he is not young, and the whole person looks dry and thin.

"I'm very sorry to disturb your rest. May I ask the way?" Ethan raised the map in his hand.

The man in the straw hat took a sip of the beer, then asked vaguely:
"Where are you going?"

Ethan noticed that there were only a few teeth left in this guy's mouth. When drinking, the beer slid down the dirt-filled neck, and the clothes on his body hadn't been washed for a long time.

He couldn't help but think of Leonard, Hood's cellmate. When the two met for the first time, Leonard left a deep impression on him.

However, Leonard was forced to be helpless, and the person in front of him should be like this by nature.

But Ethan didn't care. He had been a town policeman for a long time, and he had met all kinds of people. He walked up to that person and opened the map in his hand.

"We are going to this place, but there was an accident on the highway, so we can only find a way to detour."

Ethan clicked on the map with his hand, "Do you know where I can go around?"

The man in the straw hat glanced at Ethan first. He looked harmless in canvas shoes, jeans, and a white T-shirt.

At this time, Dalia also got out of the car, her long wheat-colored legs looked full of youthful vitality.

The man in the straw hat swallowed imperceptibly, and then took the map with his oil-stained hands.

After looking at it for a while, he returned the map to Ethan, and said vaguely:

"Go straight along the road, and after half an hour, there will be a fork in the road."

"Pay attention to the road signs and go to Xiongshan Road."

Ethan took back the map, thanked him, and returned to the car with Dalia.

"Do you think he's right?"

Dalia unfolded the map to check the location, then nodded, "The direction is correct. When we go camping, we often ask the locals for directions."

"Okay, let's go on."

The Chevrolet SUV turned in a circle, drove out of the gas station, and continued to drive forward.

The man in the straw hat looked at the passing vehicle, yawned, and covered his face with the straw hat on his lap.

After driving for less than half an hour, I saw a fork in the road.

Dahlia glanced at the road sign, turned her hand accordingly, and drove into Xiongshan Road.

Because she took a break on the highway just now, Dahlia was also full of energy at this time. She turned up the volume of the radio, and the two of them hummed to the music together.

After a while, the sound of the radio weakened, the sound became stagnant, and finally became blind tone altogether.

Ethan tapped the radio a few times, Dahlia stopped him with a smile.

"It seems that you have never been camping in the mountains. It is normal to have no signal here. If you don't believe me, check your phone."

Ethan took out his mobile phone, and it turned out that he was out of service area.

"Didn't I tell you? You are isolated from the world, and no one can contact you." Dalia leaned over and opened the storage compartment of the co-pilot. "There is a CD in it, just put the CD in."

"Be careful."

A crushed squirrel corpse appeared on the road ahead. It should have been hit not long ago, and there were still blood stains on the ground.

With Ethan's reminder, she quickly turned the steering wheel to avoid the animal remains.

"Don't worry, it's under my control."

Dahlia patted her chest and glanced at Ethan, "Scary movies, right?"

She deliberately frightened Ethan again and said, "Weird old man at the gas station, dead animals on the road."

"There are still empty roads. The elements of classic horror movies are complete. Be careful that there are still scary ogres coming to you tonight."

"You want to scare me?"

Ethan put the disc in his hand into the car CD player, smiled and said to Dalia:

"Don't forget my identity, do you want me to tell you about a serial perverted murderer?"

"Shet, don't."

Dahlia shuddered for a moment and quickly refused.

The story of the scary ogre is fictional in the movie, but what Ethan said is true, she doesn't want to lose sleep tonight.

During the playfulness of the two, Chevrolet rolled up the fallen leaves on the ground and drove fast.

After driving forward for a long time, the surrounding woods became taller and taller, and there were many big trees surrounded by one person.

There should be few people walking on this road. The middle position is surrounded by thick fallen leaves, and the scenery is quite good.

"Hey, look."

Hearing Dalia's shout, Ethan looked forward, and there was a white station wagon parked on the road ahead.

There are also various camping equipment strapped to the roof, and several mountain bikes are mounted on it.

Beside the car, a girl in white casual trousers and a blue vest was bouncing around vigorously.

She kept waving her hands at Ethan and the others, and the little white rabbit was about to come out.

The corner of Dahlia's mouth raised, she smiled and said to Ethan:
"Hey, that's your type."

Ethan shrugged, "Let's see what happened."

"no problem."

Dahlia let go of the accelerator, stepped on the brake, and the car slowed down.

At this time, there was a loud bang, and the vehicle shook violently.

Dalia was shocked for a moment. She grabbed the steering wheel vigorously, but the Chevrolet SUV still rushed towards the white station wagon next to it.

She could only slam on the brake with one foot, but the inertia still brought the Chevrolet into a hard crash.

Ethan grabbed the front handle of the roof with one hand, and held Dahlia down with the other hand.

"boom."

There was another loud bang, the two cars collided, and the front windshield shattered instantly.

Dalia looked at the airbag that exploded in front of her in shock. Fortunately, the speed of the car had slowed down just now. Otherwise, she really didn't know what would have happened under the collision.

Ethan looked at the lifted hood, the steam rose, and he let out a heavy breath.

"Hey, are you all right?"

The girl in the blue vest just now slapped on the car window and looked at them worriedly.

(End of this chapter)