On Lijiang Road at night, pedestrians were scarce, with only a car or two occasionally speeding past.
Inside one of the taxis, the atmosphere had reached freezing point.
The driver, Zhao Zhongqiang, was still commenting on how frightening the story was, shaking his head repeatedly. "What a shame. Two college students, going out in the middle of the night for some fieldwork when they had nothing better to do, only to run into such a twisted driver."
"Young people always imagine society to be far too nice. They have no idea that anyone could be a potential criminal."
"If you go around scaring people in the middle of the night, you'd better be prepared to get killed."
He was merely offering his opinion on the incident based on his own experience in society.
But to the two of them, his words seemed to carry a pointed implication.
Jiang Chen leaned toward the female ghost's ear and spoke in a voice only the two of them could hear. "He's actually defending the taxi driver in the story. There's something wrong with this driver!"
Zhang Chunyu's body also trembled slightly.
Ghost Qi +400.
She glanced at Jiang Chen, hesitated, then revealed an even more startling fact. "I just noticed an even scarier detail. You know what? This driver's surname is Zhao, too."
"What? His surname is Zhao, too!"
Seemingly out of fear, Jiang Chen raised his voice a little.
Violent-death ghost Zhang Chunyu panicked. Keep your fucking voice down! The driver heard you! Ghost Qi +800.
The two held their breath, feeling as though their hearts were about to stop.
After watching for a while, they saw that the driver seemed not to have noticed Jiang Chen's remark because he had been avoiding a car beside him. Only