Chapter 154
"Wait for me in place, I'm coming." Jiang Han hung up the phone Xia Chong had called.
He looked up at the four-faced Buddha statue standing motionless in the distance, and then glanced down at the 'No Signal' icon on the phone's status bar, and a subtle doubt arose from the bottom of his heart.
"... The program team's phone can't get through, but people inside the small town can communicate normally?"
It had a bit of the flavor of a supernatural event.
Jiang Han tentatively took this as a show effect created by the program team behind the streamers' backs, turned around and walked back, running all the way through the empty street. In the empty and quiet environment, only his own footsteps could be heard echoing between the ruins, without a single extra noise.
This is extremely abnormal.
Qinzhou is a southern state. At this time, it is the summer season. The climate is sultry and humid, naturally nourishing mosquitoes and insects, which is why Xia Chong carried anti-mosquito perfume with her. Otherwise, with her cool outfit, she would have been covered in bites if she had been shaking her two long white legs here all night.
But since nightfall, Jiang Han hadn't heard half a sound of insects, birds, or beasts in this town, and it was unnaturally quiet.
In the fragrance of rice flowers, one talks about a good harvest, listening to the sound of frogs.
And as the pitch-black night fell, what was presented in front of Jiang Han was a dead-silent rice field without the sound of frogs. The out-of-place sense of incongruity made him feel as if he had left the earth and traveled to another world.
The bullet comments that drifted across the livestream room from time to time, and the rotten memes played by netizens, were the few remaining fireworks of popularity in this dead world.
Jiang Han was not Brother Deep Affection with old people above and children below. He was in no mood to reply to the gifts and concerned bullet comments from his mother fans, just silently holding the flashlight and running toward the road he came from with his head buried.
The area of Zanjü Town is not small, but not big either. Soon, Jiang Han returned to the intersection he came from. The withered grass was blown down by the wind, and an old oil-tea tree grew on the empty ground not far from the road. A pure white van was parked under the tree crown.
"...?"
Jiang Han's footsteps slowed down.
That wasn't their car.
Jiang Han remembered clearly that there were 3 vehicles in total driven by the program team, 2 of which were SUVs modified for off-road, and 1 was a large RV loaded with various equipment and daily necessities.
The program team chose to camp and spend the night on this empty space by the road, and all 3 cars were parked under the oil-tea tree.
But Jiang Han had walked through Zanjü Town once, returned to the intersection, and found that oil-tea tree again. Not only did the program team camping there disappear strangely, but even the car parked under the tree had changed its appearance.
"Did we drive a van here?"
Jiang Han frowned. Just now he wanted to say whether the program team was playing show effects, but in the blink of an eye, the program team disappeared. He took out his phone and looked at the screen again. The status bar still showed 'No Signal'.
"Have to find the platform to complain later... This kind of arrangement should be notified in advance. If not notified, that's fine, but have to pay more."
After complaining in his heart, Jiang Han took a photo of the van under the oil-tea tree with his phone, captured most of the car body and license plate clearly against the moonlight, and could easily see the numbers on the license plate.
After taking the photo, Jiang Han walked under the tree and observed this car that appeared from nowhere at close range:
The license plate started with 'Qin', so this car was registered in Qinzhou.
After 'Qin' was the letter 'C', indicating that the registration location was in the 3rd largest city in Qinzhou, Taoyuan City.
If it was registered in the capital of Qinzhou, the license plate would start with 'Qin-A'. The program team's three cars all started with 'Qin-A'. Besides the license plate, this car itself also had some eye-catching places, such as the tires being replaced with thickened mountain tires, and the anti-collision bar on the front of the car was not the original factory one, which was clearly modified. Qinzhou's vehicle modification laws are relatively loose. If it were in Yongzhou, this car would likely not be able to get on the road.
The car door was locked and couldn't be opened. Looking through the dark glass window, he couldn't see the situation inside the car, which was a waste of time.
At this time, a bullet comment flashed across the screen:
'Jiang Han, you say, could this be the car A-Zhen and A-Qiang parked here back then?'
'I've seen the news reports from back then, A-Qiang and the others were driving a modified van.'
"Maybe, but I think it's still a prop prepared by the program team with a high probability." Jiang Han exhaled lightly. Even if he understood what was going on rationally, experiencing such an eerie scene in person still made one's scalp tingle.
If Tang Xin or Xiao Ke had discovered this car and were reminded by the bullet comments like this, they would probably be scared out of their wits, and then the program team's goal would be achieved.
A rocket flashed across the livestream room at the right time, and a viewer left a message:
'Look inside the car'
Jiang Han raised his eyebrows and smiled: "No problem."
As he spoke, he bent down to pick up half a brick and smashed it hard on the corner of the car window. The dark-fog-colored tempered glass shattered in response. Anyway, it was a prop prepared by the program team, so it didn't matter if it was smashed.
As the window glass shattered, several large tips appeared in the livestream room again.
Jiang Han cleared the broken glass on the window frame, aimed the camera at the inside of the car, and shone the high-intensity flashlight to illuminate the appearance inside.
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Inside the car were piled up some supplies: bottled water, packaged tents and sleeping bags, oil drums, spare tires, boxes of instant noodles and self-heating food, change of clothes for both men and women, and spare medical kits.
"The preparations are quite complete." Jiang Han nodded. Why didn't he find the program team so reliable before?
Reaching into the car window, Jiang Han ignored the 'scary' bullet comments from the mother fans in the livestream room and casually picked up the medical kit, preparing to go and treat Xia Chong's wound bitten by the cat.
But as he turned around with the medical kit, a listless human figure suddenly appeared in his field of vision.
Jiang Han froze in place.
He didn't hear any footsteps, but that person appeared behind him just like that. While he was stunned, the bullet comments in the livestream room suddenly became dense.
It was a woman, wearing a large men's windbreaker, standing motionless in the middle of the road. A bright moon hung behind her, and her disheveled long hair covered most of her face, making it impossible to see her appearance and expression, only pitch black.
And a touch of bright red.
The high-intensity flashlight shone over, illuminating a wheat-colored chin and a snow-white neck and collarbone. Fresh blood flowed down from the woman's ear root to her shoulder.
Jiang Han's body stiffened at an inappropriate time. The light of the flashlight moved up carefully and slowly. Finally, a face with distorted features, seemingly suffering great pain, appeared in the center of the livestream room.
"You, stole my things."
A-Zhen's mouth didn't open or close, and a hoarse voice came directly from her throat: "You, stole my things."
WTF!
Jiang Han dropped the medical kit and ran for his life.
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