Volume 2, Chapter 30 (Chapter 68): There Is Something Strange About This Broadcast!

The call time increased second by second, and Zhang Shan’s forehead was covered in beads of sweat.

He didn’t dare touch his mobile phone for fear that something might appear behind him.

“Hello? You there?” Lu Yibei’s voice sounded again.

Zhang Shan couldn’t help but growl, “What on earth are you trying to do? I’m live right now! I have thousands of witnesses right now, so don’t you dare.”

The number of listeners never exceeded four digits, but Zhang Shan felt like he had the world behind his back at this very moment.

“Uh… I just want to go home. We want to go home. We can’t get a taxi, so I could only come to you. Could you please come and pick us up?”

“We? You didn’t go to high school alone?”

From the very beginning, Zhang Shan doubted Lu Yibei’s motives for going to high school. He always felt that there was a secret behind her.

And now there was an extra person?

“Please?”

“Damn it, wait.” Zhang Shan gritted his teeth and turned to the microphone. “Dear viewers, something urgent came up. I’ll see all of you tomorrow.”

“If I survive the night.”

After he spoke, he cut off the broadcast and picked up his car keys.

Strangely enough, although he was no longer streaming, his viewer count kept going up.

I don’t understand. Nobody is streaming; where are all of you coming from? lol]

[The streamer said he met a weird passenger, and then a girl called him… We all heard the phone call.]

[He was scared and then rushed out.]

[He said something about not coming back alive; it’s scary.]

[Shihekou High School is an abandoned high school. Omg. I heard that it’s haunted.]

[I suspect that the girl on the phone is a plant. But even if it’s fake, his viewer count keeps rising. Haha.]

[Man, I really wanted to see some feet.]

[This user has been banned by AutoMod.]

In the middle of the night, in the empty streets, figures were squatting by the side of the road, burning paper money.

In front of them were incense sticks stuck into a bowl of white rice. Despite the fire, their faces were still blurred and obscured.

From time to time, these figures cast their gazes hastily towards Lu Yibei, and they were on guard.

Lu Yibei frowned.

‘Why do they keep looking at me? I know that I’m cute, but I can’t be cute towards urban legends, right?’

In the distance, an old bus trudged through the mist and stopped at an unmanned platform. It could be seen that there was no driver on the bus.

‘I know I told Zhang Shan to come, but is he actually coming?’

Thinking about the urban legends roaming across the street, Yibei stared at Du Sixian. She was sitting on the trolley case absentmindedly.

After she calmed down, Yibei was surprised to find that she was no longer hungry, despite being hungry moments ago.

Zhang Shan fears me, she thought. But this… it doesn’t feel like it’s just him being scared.

Before Yibei could figure it out, the hum of an engine could be heard at the end of the road.

It didn’t take long before a speeding taxi came into view.

The speeding taxi had a looming shadow riding on it.

‘Oh my god.’

The taxi drifted across the empty street, drawing a beautiful arc and stopping right in front of the two of them.

As if sensing a being of a higher power, the ghost hanging on the taxi quickly scattered away.

Zhang Shan stopped the car and rolled down the window, saying, “Get in.”

Glancing at Sixian, Yibei hurriedly put the trolley case into the trunk, saying, “Too late to explain. Get in the car.”

She hurriedly sat in the backseat and looked at Zhang Shan through the rearview mirror.

‘This is exactly as it is in those action movies, where the protagonist happens to know a taxi driver, which means that he isn’t somebody simple.’

‘I should get on good terms with him too!’ Sixian concluded.

Looking around the inside of the taxi, her gaze landed on a small box containing his business cards.

As her hand reached over towards the business card, a hand snatched the box away and threw it out the window.

“Hmph!” Zhang Shan sneered, rolling up the window.

I don’t think he likes me very much, Sixian thought.

Lu Yibei got into the car, closed the door, and looked back and forth at the silent duo in the car.

‘Why does it feel so awkward?’

The taxi drove alone in the night, and the three gradually drove away from the high school.

A strong resentment brewed in Zhang Shan’s heart as he drove, but at the same time, he was worried for his life.

Du Sixian was fast asleep.

Lu Yibei looked at Zhang Shan through the rearview mirror.

“Zhang Shan, I…”

Hearing this, Zhang Shan’s body shuddered, and the taxi swayed on the road left and right for a bit.

“Not hearing it! Nope!”

All kinds of scenarios were brewing in Zhang Shan’s head: the trolley case must be concealing a body, and this girl must be…

Lu Yibei didn’t speak anymore, and the ride was incredibly quiet.

Zhang Shan first sent Du Sixian back home, waited for Yibei to escort her safely, and then dragged Yibei back to her apartment.

After confirming that Yibei didn’t leave anything weird in his car, the fare was paid, and Zhang Shan chased Yibei out of his car.

Sitting in the car, Zhang Shan lit a cigarette and watched as Lu Yibei walked into the apartment.

‘I need to go to a temple tomorrow for an amulet,’ he concluded. ‘No matter the amount they ask, I will pay.’