"What did the ghost look like?"
"What did it look like... I didn't get a very clear look. That shadow just flashed by, like in a horror movie. At first, it flashed by somewhere pretty far away. My dad was driving at night, and we were all nervous, afraid he'd fall asleep. We had music playing in the car, and I'd had some coffee. My mom dozed off for a while. I'd slept that afternoon, since I was going to switch places with my dad the next day... I... I didn't believe it at the time. My dad didn't believe it at first, either. We were both wide awake. My dad even said, 'It's so late, and there are still people around here.' Hardly any of the apartment buildings nearby had their lights on. That area was a bit different from Minqing, too. There weren't as many 24-hour shops. There weren't many stores open on the street at all. I even told my dad, 'Let's hope it's not someone trying to rob us...' We even joked about it... That person just flashed by, then disappeared. At the time, we both thought someone had crossed the road and walked away. The streetlights were pretty bright, but all the residential communities nearby had turned off their lights. It was pitch-black. My dad even said he wasn't afraid of robbers, but of people staging accidents. We... We were really wide awake."
"I believe you were wide awake at the time, Mr. Li. What happened next?"
"After that, we saw it again. In the same spot... closer... I mean, as our car drove past, we were closer to it. That was when we started to realize something was wrong. Before, we'd only seen a shadow, a distant shadow. We could just about tell it