Midnight Bookstore - Chapter 439
Chapter 439: Dead People and Empty Buildings
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The Old Priest felt deep fatigue. His eyes started to turn red. He was expressionless. He just numbly drove the car. He saw a car in front and overtook it. He saw a red light in front and stopped. He drove on in this state.
All of his actions were in instinctive mode. He was in a mindless state. It was very dangerous to drive in this state. Many accidents have happened in this state.
The monkey crawled on its Old Master’s lap and fell asleep. The Little Monkey was tired.
The Old Master looked in the rearview mirror. The Boss had already fallen asleep while leaning on Bai Yingying’s shoulder. Bai Yingying was gently stroking the boss’s hair with one hand. As she often did to the monkey, she helped the boss to pick lice.
Lawyer An was sleeping soundly in the front passenger seat. He was drooling with abandon. The snoring was so loud that it completely drowned out the sound of the engine. It was terrifying.
Lawyer An cherished this rare opportunity to take advantage of the air conditioning. He even brought a pillow and an eye mask for the ride.
The Old Priest lit a cigarette and forced himself to continue driving. The last location of Lu Laosan’s cell phone number had been detected. The boss did not intend to let the police intervene in this operation. So Zhang Yanfeng was not allowed to follow.
It was impossible for Little Loli to be abducted. This meant that something had happened to Little Loli.
Waiting for the police’s assistance was a little time-consuming. Moreover, the police would have a lot of things to worry about in their actions. It would be faster for them to do it themselves.
Finally, the boss woke up when the sky was getting dark. Bai Yingying handed him water and gave him a massage. She kept saying that the boss had worked hard. Sleeping in the car must be very uncomfortable for him.
“Boss?” The Old Priest tried to call out.
“Yes?” Zhou Ze answered.
“We’re still 30 miles away from the location. Do you want to drive?” The Old Priest was tired and sleepy.
“There’s only 30 miles left. You should continue driving.”
“…” the Old Priest.
After driving for a while, the Old Priest was too tired and said, “Boss, I can’t keep my eyes open.”
“Then close your eyes and drive. It’s okay.”
“…” the Old Priest.
It didn’t make sense. If they got into a car accident, he, the driver, would be the quickest to die among the few people in the car.
After a few minutes, “Boss… I really can’t drive anymore.”
“Only you can drive in this case.”
“Why, boss?”
“You and that group of human traffickers are fated.”
“Uh…”
Although these words sounded a little strange, they seemed to make a lot of sense. As soon as he got out of prison, he ran off to drink with the human traffickers.
“Boss, if we drive any further, there won’t be any specific landmarks. There’s a small town ahead. I don’t even know where I should drive.”
“Just drive wherever you want. Just wander around aimlessly.”
There was something Zhou Ze didn’t say explicitly. He believed in the Old Daoist’s lightning-fast constitution.
The Old Daoist nodded helplessly and continued driving.
The small town was located on the side of a big mountain. The town wasn’t small. After the Old Daoist drove the car in. He looked to both sides and was careful of the pedestrians on the road.
The monkey was woken up by the Old Daoist. The Little Monkey leaned against the window and twitched its nose from time to time. It was also helping to look for her.
Lawyer An opened his eyes slowly and stretched his back. He had a comfortable sleep. He yawned. Lawyer An wondered if he should also go into the wild and catch a zombie to sleep with him?
On second thought, the Zombies in the wild were all so dirty and disgusting. How could he sleep with one?
He had only seen this kind of cute and considerate female zombie once in his life. Sigh… He was jealous.
“Do you want to eat something?” Lawyer An asked.
“Keep looking. Don’t waste time.” Zhou Ze rejected.
Wang Ke was not brought here. Zhou Ze assured him that his daughter would be fine and forced him to go home. If something had happened to Little Loli or Wang Rui, he could not explain to Wang Ke.
The car continued to drive slowly. It was almost out of town. A gas station appeared in front, and there was a junkyard behind it.
“Come on, boss.”
The Old Priest drove the car into the gas station and filled it up.
The people in the car got out too. They had been in the car for a whole day. They needed to stretch their muscles.
“We should buy an RV. It will be more convenient for us to come out and do things.” Lawyer An said.
Zhou Ze nodded and agreed. “Do we need to inform the ghost messengers nearby?” Zhou Ze asked.
In the past, he had crossed the border and gotten attacked by the local ghost messengers.
It was rare to see Buddhist ghost messengers in other places.
“It’s okay. Let’s hurry up and leave. We’re here to look for someone, not to cause trouble.”
Lawyer An habitually wanted to light a cigarette but he didn’t because they were at a gas station.
“I’ll be in charge of communication if any ghost messengers nearby sense us.”
“Boss, do you have any money with you?” The Old Priest ran over and asked.
The Old Priest’s chest was still affixed with his talisman. His eyes were watery. He must have wiped away the ox tears that had been mixed with the talisman water. After experiencing certain things, the Old Priest’s sense of self-protection had been greatly strengthened. However, he had just come out. He did not take out his phone, nor did he have any money in his pocket.
Lawyer An took out the money from his wallet and gave it to the Old Priest. He pointed at the snack bar in the gas station and said, “Go and buy some water and bread.”
“Okay.” The Old Priest went to settle the bill and buy some things.
Zhou Ze found a clean place and sat down. Bai Yingying stood beside Zhou Ze and reached out to massage his shoulders.
“There is one thing that we have to be careful of. Lin Ke must be in trouble. Whatever caused that could affect us too.
“Okay.”
Zhou Ze thought of the temple in Changzhou. Both he and Lawyer An painfully prostrated on the ground when the bell rang.
The world was so big that there were all kinds of strange things. There were too many things that had a restraining effect on ghosts. Although they were ghost errand boys, in reality, they were just ghosts.
“Don’t run!!!” Suddenly, the Old Daoist’s shout came from the gas station followed by the sound of glass shattering.
The Little Monkey immediately raised its head and rushed over. In the entire bookstore, it was the one who was most concerned about the Old Daoist’s safety.
Meanwhile, Zhou Ze and Lawyer An looked at each other. They could see a hint of shock in each other’s eyes.
F*ck. This Old Daoist was too useful!
When the crowd rushed into the gas station’s snack bar, they saw the Old Daoist lying under the shelves. The two gas station employees were standing beside him at a loss.
Lawyer An reached out to lift the shelves and let the Old Daoist climb out.
“I saw him! I saw that hunchback. He ran to the back door!” The Old Daoist pointed at the back door of the gas station and shouted.
Zhou Ze immediately rushed over. When he pushed the door open, he found that it was locked from the inside.
How could this be?
Before he had time to think, Zhou Ze used his fingernails to break the door lock. He pushed the door open and rushed out. Bai Yingying followed behind Zhou Ze, never leaving her boss for a moment.
There was a field behind the gas station. On the other side of the field was the junkyard.
Zhou Ze looked around and decided to continue forward. The two of them passed through the field and arrived at the entrance of the junkyard.
There was no one inside. There wasn’t even a lamp.
“Boss, there’s a smell.” Bai Yingying pointed out to him.
Zhou Ze nodded. He smelled it too. It was the smell of blood.
The two of them walked into the junkyard together. They did not dare to be too rash. Instead, they walked around carefully and observed.
They both had zombie bodies and were extremely sensitive to human blood. They couldn’t confuse the smell of human blood with the smell of animal blood.
The closer they were to the shack of the junkyard, the more obvious the smell of blood was.
The door was pushed open. The strong smell assailed their nostrils. There were many flies and insects because the weather was still very hot. There was a water tank inside.
In the water tank lay a woman who looked like she was upside down. The woman’s body was in a very twisted shape. The upper and lower half of her body was twisted like Tianjin hemp. The woman’s head was in the water tank and her hair was spread out. The water in the water tank was dirty.
In the middle of the room, a hunchbacked old man was kneeling on the ground. His feet were sunk into the ground. He was bent over and kneeling there. His entire body was covered in bloody wounds. Countless flies were swarming around him.
There were only these two corpses in the room and no one else. Moreover, this place seemed to have been deliberately cleaned up. It was not sloppy at all. Even the blood that flowed out of the hunchbacked old man’s body had been wiped clean on purpose.
Lawyer An and the Old Daoist entered the house at that moment. The moment they saw the hunchbacked old man’s corpse, the Old Daoist was startled.
He immediately shouted, “Boss, you killed them?”
The Old Daoist felt a chill in his heart when he saw the way the woman was twisted to death. When did his boss become so ruthless? He was just like his previous boss.
“She’s been dead for a while.” Lawyer An said.
“She’s been dead for a while?” The Old Priest immediately shook his head. “Impossible. I saw this hunchbacked guy at the gas station just now. I rushed over to catch him, but I couldn’t. Instead, I pushed myself under the shelf.”
Zhou Ze suddenly remembered the locked door from the back door of the gas station. He understood immediately. “Maybe the person you saw at the gas station wasn’t a person.”
“If it wasn’t a person, then what was it?”
“It was a ghost.”
