Turning the tide in the Red Chamber

Chapter 146 [146] The Shadow

Wang Xifeng's breath sprayed on the earlobe, warm and itchy, Jia Chen felt a little uncomfortable, stepped back half a step, and said with a dry smile:
"Sister Wang, how can there be ghosts in this world?"

"Hee hee, your ears are red, tell me honestly, do you like my sister? If there is a ghost, you have to protect me~"

Wang Xifeng flirtatiously scratched a strand of hair hanging in front of her eyes.

"Sister Wang, this kind of joke can't be messed up."

The corners of Jia Chen's lips twitched slightly, he didn't want to talk to this seductive fairy anymore, and strode towards the parking lot.

Wang Xifeng followed quickly, teasing him from time to time.

When Jia Chen walked to the side of the ambulance, he saw Xue Pan more than ten meters away.

He was pushing a stretcher cart with wheels, and ran towards the warehouse in a panic.

"Master Xue, shall we go?" Jia Chen called out.

Xue Pan looked back, and asked in astonishment:
"Doctor Jia, you're fast enough! Just wait a moment, I'll go to the warehouse and push a stretcher over."

Jia Chen asked in surprise:

"Is there no one in the ambulance?"

Xue Pan explained:
"The stretcher in the car was stained with a lot of blood, I'm going to replace it with a clean one."

Soon, he pushed back a stretcher and stuffed it into the rear compartment.

Just as Jia Chen opened the door of the passenger seat, Xue Pan suddenly said quietly:

"Doctor Jia, the village we are going to is haunted by ghosts, be careful."

Come again?

You are Wang Xifeng's repeater, right?

Jia Chen became more and more suspicious that Xue Pan and Wang Xifeng were having an affair, otherwise why did they both talk about being haunted in such a nervous manner?
Even the tone of voice is exactly the same.

This is too tacit.

"Master Xue, now is not the time to make jokes, let's go quickly." Jia Chen urged while fastening his seat belt.

Xue Pan saw that he was not in the mood, so he didn't mention the haunting again. After Wang Xifeng sat in the back seat, he started the car.

The ambulance drove out of the urban area and drove all the way north. Under the lonely starry sky, the buildings and street lights outside the window became less and less, gradually turning into a large wilderness.

"The village we are going to is called Zhenjia Village. All the young and middle-aged people in the village have gone out to work, and there are not many families left. It is no wonder that there are ghosts."

Wang Xifeng muttered something tense, looking very nervous.

Jia Chen frowned and didn't answer, he didn't believe there were ghosts in this world at all.

Xue Pan sucked his teeth and complained:

"I seldom go to such places where the birds don't shit, and I don't know the way very well."

Wang Xifeng pointed to the display screen of the car navigation and reminded:

"You can turn on the navigation."

Xue Pan sneered and said:

"This broken car is too old, and the navigation is not very accurate."

With that said, he took out a Huawei mobile phone from his trouser pocket and handed it to Wang Xifeng:
"Use Baidu Maps. Now I have changed to Beidou Navigation, which is more accurate than the previous GPS."

"it is good!"

Wang Xifeng tapped the screen a few times, and soon, "Sister Zhiling" played softly from the phone.

After driving for less than half an hour, the car turned into a forest path.

The tree shadows on both sides swayed with the wind under the pale moonlight, and the twisted branches had weird shapes, like the sharp claws of demons waving, looking a bit hideous.

There was a chill in Jia Chen's heart.

The surrounding was eerily quiet, reminding him of the haunted rumors about Xue Pan and Wang Xifeng.

This place is too remote and inaccessible, can't it really be haunted?

After wandering on the bumpy dirt road for more than ten minutes, rows of bungalows appeared in front of me.

Most of the houses are gray tiles and white walls, hidden in a black mist that drifts, looking mysterious and weird.

As the distance got closer, the three people in the carriage stopped talking, and the atmosphere became more and more oppressive.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Jia Chen felt that the temperature around him had dropped several degrees, and bursts of cold breath climbed up his back and invaded his skin.

Xue Pan slowly drove the car into a main road in the village. On both sides were dark and cramped streets and alleys. The ends of the alleys were all dark, and there was no unknown hidden thing.

"What's the house number of the caller?" Xue Pan asked.

"No. [-], Group Seven." Wang Xifeng replied.

Xue Pan drove the car to the entrance of the alley in the seventh group, but found that the alley was too narrow to turn in.

"You get out of the car and look for his house first, I'll turn the car around."

"Row!"

Jia Chen got out of the car first, but Wang Xifeng hesitated to get out of the car.

Xue Pan persuaded her a few words, and she reluctantly got out of the car.

"Doctor Jia, I'm afraid, you have to protect me." Wang Xifeng grabbed Jia Chen's arm and said coquettishly tremblingly.

Jia Chen sighed helplessly and said:

"Okay, then follow me closely."

As he said that, Jia Chen walked into the alley in the dark, Wang Xifeng held his arm tightly and followed closely behind.

The faint light beam of the mobile phone flashlight wobbled along with the footsteps. After fumbling and checking the twelve doors, I finally found seven groups of No. [-].

The courtyard door was closed tightly, the door knocker was rusty, and the door frame was intertwined with dirty cobwebs, as if no one had lived in it for a long time.

"This ghostly place seems to have been abandoned for a long time, is it here?" Wang Xifeng's voice was trembling all the time, and the hand holding Jia Chen's arm was also trembling.

"Let me ask!" Jia Chen knocked on the door knocker.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

There was a loud knock on the door, but no one answered inside.

Jia Chen increased his strength and knocked on the door knocker more than a dozen times, but still no one answered.

"Is anyone there?" Jia Chen asked several times in a raucous voice, but the yard was still silent and dead silent.

"What's going on? Didn't he faint?"

Jia Chen hurriedly took out his mobile phone and called the other party, but the other party turned off the phone.

"You can try calling too."

Hearing Jia Chen's urging, Wang Xifeng also dialed the other party's number, but found that the other party's phone was indeed turned off.

"It's really weird. If the other party is unconscious, it should be because there is no one answering, not the phone is turned off." Jia Chen frowned and muttered.

"Could it be a ghost who made the emergency call?" Wang Xifeng asked in a shy voice while taking a breath.

"Don't talk nonsense, what the hell is there in this world?"

I don't know if it was because of Wang Xifeng's psychological suggestion that Jia Chen also felt guilty.

This village is empty and deserted, who knows if something unclean will grow?
He boldly knocked on the door a few more times and yelled a few more times, but the yard was still silent.

"Let's go. In this situation, there should be only one possibility, and that is that someone is playing a prank!"

Jia Chen turned around and left. He was not worried about delaying the patient's treatment. No one would turn off their mobile phone before fainting. The other party must be playing a prank on the emergency center.

He has a super ability to solve crimes, and he quickly figured out the logical relationship among them.

"Oh! It seems that there is a figure on the second floor!" Wang Xifeng suddenly screamed and shrank behind Jia Chen.

(End of this chapter)