Chapter 24: The Tourist Village Full Of Trees
Two luxurious SUVs were driving on the road, with Jiang Shan driving alone behind the private team’s vehicle.
According to Wang Xiaoqiang’s information, it was about a two-hour journey from Dachang City to Chen Family Village. Jiang Shan kept track of the time, coldly staring at the SUV in front of him from inside the car.
“They really don’t know death when they see it.”
Watching the people in the SUV still frolicking and messing around, Jiang Shan just silently observed everything.
“Since they want to go, there’s no reason for me to stop them. After all, I’m not their dad or mom.”
“Adults make their own decisions, so they have to pay the price for their actions.”
Since they wanted to go so badly, Jiang Shan was short on people here anyway, perfect for scouting the “road” for him.
At this moment, the man drinking in the back seat turned to glance at Jiang Shan’s car, then spoke to the others in the vehicle:
“This little bastard thinks he’s a big shot just because he became a Ghost Wielder. Look at him—not even worth one of my toes. Damn it, is Little Qiang Club out of people? They send us something like this?”
After saying that, the man with a full beard took another fierce gulp of alcohol.
“Hahahaha, Old Cao, you still say I’m hurting people’s feelings? You’re cursing worse than me. But did you all see? There’s a golden box in that little bastard’s trunk!”
The man called Old Zhao said while driving. His words instantly drew the attention of the other three in the car, and someone asked:
“Real or fake, Old Zhao? You old thing aren’t fooling us, are you?”
“Real. I saw it when Manager Wang opened the trunk.” Old Zhao replied.
The men in the car exchanged glances, then lowered their voices a bit. Old Cao said with a ferocious expression:
“These Ghost Wielders, this bunch of living dead, are really rich. Wait till we get to Chen Family Village, we’ll find a chance to kill him, then dump the corpse in that woods where the boss went missing. We’ll save our damn boss, and that pure gold box will be enough for us brothers to live off for generations!”
“Don’t just sit there dumbfounded. Damn it, check your weapons and guns properly. Make sure to kill that little bastard in one go!” Old Zhao suddenly said at this point.
“After we pull off this job, us brothers will be set. Still gonna be slaves for others? A little punk Ghost Wielder—whoever messes up on me!”
After Old Zhao finished speaking, everyone in the car began checking their specially made weapons:
Gold Bullet, Gold Baton, smoke bomb with gold powder, and golden crossbow bolts.
If you didn’t know, you’d think they were playing some famous first-person shooter game.
But these were all real deal, real enough to kill a Ghost Wielder.
Just as they were about to arrive at Chen Family Village, Jiang Shan noticed the private team’s SUV suddenly stop by the roadside. He deliberately slowed down, wanting to see what they were doing.
He found that group of “professional team” was in the woods by the road, expelling impurities from their bodies.
Big and small, all of them.
Jiang Shan: .
When everyone continued on the road, Jiang Shan found that the closer they got to Chen Family Village, the denser the woods by the road became, even unusually dense.
He looked through the car window at the dark woods. Even on a sunny afternoon with blazing sun, the scorching sunlight was blocked by the man-sized broad leaves, and the entire woods exuded a eerie chill.
Although the woods were quite eerie, Jiang Shan didn’t sense any abnormality, but he still kept a bit of vigilance in his heart.
“What kind of damn road is this, shaking me to death.” Old Zhao, who was driving, grumbled.
The road to Chen Family Village started as a two-lane highway but gradually turned into a single-lane road, and the road conditions got worse and worse, eventually becoming a dirt road!
Even in the shock-absorbing SUVs, they were jolted until they felt dizzy and nauseous.
Meanwhile, Jiang Shan, who was driving, called Chen Yue several times but couldn’t get through. He had already seen the message she left him before departure—she had indeed moved here, but for some reason, after moving to Chen Family Village, she hadn’t left him any more messages.
Jiang Shan frowned, looking at the increasingly dense trees by the road, and couldn’t help but look around.
He felt these trees were strange, especially the closer to Chen Family Village, the stranger they grew.
The trees around Chen Family Village were common deciduous broadleaf forests, but their height and density had exceeded natural patterns, starting to grow in an unknown direction.
And somehow, while driving on this rural path, Jiang Shan didn’t feel refreshed; instead, he felt oppressed, with an inexplicable sense of suffocation.
Recalling the map of Chen Family Village, Jiang Shan felt that Chen Family Village seemed to be surrounded by these woods, just like how people pen livestock.
But people eat livestock—do trees eat people?
After a short muddy road, everyone’s view suddenly opened up.
A section of newly paved asphalt road appeared before them, and not far away was a village.
Jiang Shan observed that there weren’t many farmlands around the village. Unlike the rural areas in his impression, from afar, almost every house was a two-story Western-style house, with exquisite decorations like villas.
This matched Wang Xiaoqiang’s information:
Chen Family Village wasn’t a traditional farming village, but one of the new-era tourism representative villages in Dachang City.
The extremely luxurious large hotel in the village center was particularly eye-catching. Though not many floors, its gilded building decorations had the flavor of an emperor’s palace.
But after Jiang Shan drove into the village, he increasingly felt something strange here. His most direct feeling was:
Desolate.
So desolate that a village based on tourism had no trace of people on the road.
Unmanned streets and deathly stillness atmosphere—this place was exactly like a dead village!
To prevent Chen Family Village from being like Huang Gang Village, with the entire village evolved from a Fierce Ghost, Jiang Shan unhesitatingly activated Dead Face Ghost’s Ghost Domain.
But suddenly, Jiang Shan horrifiedly discovered that Dead Face Ghost’s Ghost Domain couldn’t spread out!
Unlike the time at Ghost Post Office, where due to its special suppressive nature, his Ghost Domain couldn’t appear at all.
This time.
Jiang Shan glanced at the Ghost Domain with a radius of less than four meters, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead.
His Ghost Domain was restricted!
This meant that Chen Family Village was already covered by a ghost’s Ghost Domain, and this ghost’s Ghost Domain Strength far exceeded that of the Dead Face Ghost in his body!
What made Jiang Shan most nervous was that he hadn’t felt the slightest abnormality, entering the Fierce Ghost’s Ghost Domain completely unprepared.
Not the slightest unusual feeling.
Jiang Shan took a deep breath, his gaze beginning to scan the village. At this moment, he noticed: not only were there many ornamental trees planted by the roadside, but some houses even had all sorts of trees planted around them.
These trees had one thing in common: their planting positions were very chaotic.
One here, one there, making the entire village look disorganized, nothing like a tourism village.
Things had come to this,
Jiang Shan could only maintain high vigilance, following behind the private team’s car, heading toward the hotel in the village center.
As for why he was going to the hotel, it was because he sensed the aura of Ghost Characters there.
And this aura was from the part of Ghost Characters he had left on Chen Yue at the time, which hadn’t been triggered yet.
Although there was a possibility of Fierce Ghost inducement, based on his understanding of Ghost Characters’ ability, Jiang Shan was certain that Chen Yue at least hadn’t encountered a Fierce Ghost yet, and her location should be at the hotel.
But if the person is at the hotel, where is the ghost?
Thanks to DJ and Eight-Faced Buddha brothers for the monthly ticket support. First time receiving monthly tickets from brothers for the new book, adding a chapter for this!
Here, utmost gratitude to all brothers reading this book!
