117. Taking the Yin Yang Road

The road ahead, illuminated by the car window, seemed endless. The buildings on either side were gloomy, lit by dim yellow or orange-red lights, creating an eerie atmosphere.

There were no pedestrians or cars on the street; it was very quiet.

The only thing that made me feel uneasy was the "Yin Yang Road" shown on the navigation.

"Where is this? Does Jiangcheng have roads like this?"

He Youwu slowed down, and the surrounding scenery became clearer. In the occasional lights that came on in the buildings, there seemed to be figures moving about, but there was still darkness most of the time.

The traffic lights were all yellow, and there seemed to be some water on the road, but they didn't stop to check.

As the two police officers were focused on what was ahead, Lu Ban's phone suddenly started playing a woman's singing.

"Grass!"

He Youwu hurriedly stepped on the brakes, and looked back before the car had even come to a complete stop.

Lu Ban was playing a song on his phone and didn't seem nervous at all.

What are you doing? You scared me to death!

He Youwu cursed.

"I think the atmosphere is great, so I'll add some background music."

Lu Ban paused the music on his phone.

"Don't be so nervous, sometimes people just scare themselves."

"Shall we get out of the car and check the situation?"

Chen Danshen looked in the rearview mirror; it was all fogged up, and she couldn't see anything.

"I think it's best if we don't get off the bus."

Lu Ban spoke up to stop Chen Danshen, who was about to Door Opening.

"But if we keep driving forward, it doesn't seem like we can get out of here?"

Chen Danshen didn't understand.

"Did we take the wrong road or is there something wrong with the navigation? This doesn't feel like the streets of Jiangcheng."

"Yes."

He Youwu's hands, gripping the steering wheel, were covered in sweat. He picked up his phone to use the navigation system and found that the signal was lost and there was no network. However, the navigation system showed that it was working normally. But no matter how much he zoomed in on the map, he could only see one road with the name "Yin Yang Road".

The surroundings were deathly silent; even the normally noisy chirping of insects could not be heard. The night breeze blowing through the window actually made one feel a bit chilly.

He Youwu looked at the green belt next to him. The trees there were strangely shaped, crooked and twisted, as if they had been pulled by something.

He suddenly felt something float past behind him.

Turning around, He Youwu saw Chen Danshen's serious face, and behind Chen Danshen, under the crooked tree, there seemed to be a person standing.

"There's someone here!"

Feeling a chill run down his spine, He Youwu hurriedly called out. Chen Danshen turned around, but saw nothing.

Are you sure you saw someone?

Chen Danshen carefully checked outside the window and asked a question.

"Really, there was someone standing under the tree just now, right over there."

He Youwu pointed to the tree.

"Shhh."

Lu Ban suddenly put his finger to his lips, signaling for silence.

"Drive the car to the side of the road."

He gave instructions.

He Youwu hurriedly started the car and slowly drove to the side of the road.

The shadows of the trees swayed gently, and the night sky, devoid of Moon and stars, was pitch black, with only the lights from the buildings illuminating the road.

At this moment, Chen Danshen noticed that the lights in those buildings had turned a ghostly green color.

A gust of cold wind blew in through the window, sending a chill down one's spine.

"Close the window."

Lu Ban instructed.

He Youwu closed all the car windows before he felt a little warmer.

"What exactly is this?"

"Look ahead."

Lu Ban pointed to the side front.

He Youwu looked over.

Before he could see anything, he first heard a series of soft voices.

Or rather, the sound of chanting scriptures.

The language he couldn't understand was chanting something, like a prayer before Buddha or the murmurs of a funeral procession.

A leaf blew in from the front and stuck to the car window.

Upon closer inspection, He Youwu discovered that these were not tree leaves at all, but paper money!

Rough, dark yellow paper money with copper coin imprints!

More paper money floated over from ahead, and in an instant, the sky was filled with these paper scraps.

Chen Danshen felt a chill run down his spine. He stared intently ahead and saw a group of people slowly walking towards him at the end of the road.

Some of them scattered paper money, while most carried sticks and flags, walking forward blankly like puppets. They all wore wide bamboo hats with long black cloths hanging down to cover their faces, and they wore coarse cloth robes, as if they did not belong to this era.

Behind these people were carriages, one after another. The horses pulling the carriages were emaciated, their eyes covered by black cloth. The carriages were dilapidated, as if they had just experienced a thunderstorm. Only a single lamp hanging above the carriages flickered faintly.

However, the light was green.

The lights were a vibrant green, just like the lights of the silent buildings next to it.

"The Yin soldiers borrowing passage; you must not speak, and it would be best if you closed your eyes."

Lu Ban offered a reminder.

What the hell?

He Youwu complained, "Isn't this just superstition? How could there really be ghosts in this world?"

But his heart still made him close his eyes and cover his ears.

Chen Danshen glanced at Lu Ban and then closed her eyes.

The two policemen felt the air inside the car getting colder and colder, as if it were winter, so cold that their teeth chattered.

Despite covering his ears, He Youwu was closer to the road, could still hear the crisp sound of horses' hooves hitting the road and the friction of wheels rolling over it.

His heart was pounding, and his whole body was tense.

Suddenly, He Youwu felt that all those sounds had disappeared.

"It's over?"

Thinking to himself, He Youwu secretly opened his eyes and glanced outside.

Only then did he notice that the horses pulling the carriage were standing outside his carriage window.

Beside the horse stood a man wearing a straw hat. He was much taller than the average person; He Youwu even thought the man was over two meters tall.

They stood silently in the middle of the road.

He Youwu's heart leaped into his throat. He saw that the horse whose eyes were covered by a black cloth had festering muscles, and there seemed to be maggots crawling inside. The hands of the people standing there were black, as if they had been dead for a long time.

And those carriages were filled with countless heads, each with a blank and terrified expression!

Just as the sound was about to burst from his throat, a hand reached out from behind his head and covered He Youwu's mouth, startling him and swallowing his voice back.

The already decaying horse seemed to hear something, lowered its head slightly, and searched its surroundings with its empty eyes that flickered with a faint green light. It stared at He Youwu for a moment, but seemed not to see the carriage at all.

After waiting for a while, the procession started moving forward again. He Youwu was extremely tense, his heart pounding, afraid that the procession would stop again and come looking for him.

By the time the entire procession had passed, He Youwu had lost track of how much time had elapsed.

Lu Ban released his hand from He Youwu's mouth and took out a tissue to carefully wipe his palm.

"It should be fine now. Just look ahead, and you'll be able to leave in a while."

He pointed to the road ahead.

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