Chapter 3: A Taxi That Even Ghost Domain Can’t Catch Up To
“Young man, what’s got you in such a hurry? You don’t even care about your life anymore?”
At three or four in the morning, some streets had only streetlights gathered with moths and mosquitoes.
Vehicles were sparse.
The driver was driving at a pretty good speed, over eighty kilometers per hour.
“My girlfriend and I had a fight and broke up, I’m going to chase after her.”
Lin Qian looked ahead, feeling extremely uneasy inside, but he still braced himself and answered.
“For love, huh. I was wondering what it was.” The driver shook his head. “You young people are all like this, willing to live or die for love…”
Lin Qian currently had little mood to discuss love matters with the driver.
He only knew that he was not safe right now.
He had roughly figured out the ins and outs of what happened before and after.
When his predecessor went to Taiping Ancient Town for tourism, he mistakenly entered that Ghost Street and bought that mask.
He died the next day after returning.
But a few days passed, the mask never left, and when he crossed over, it happened to be when the old man from Taiping Ancient Town wanted to recover the mask.
When he was attacked by the fierce ghost, he activated his ‘Plunder’ ability.
He forcibly stripped that mask from the fierce ghost.
And what the old man from Taiping Ancient Town wanted was the mask.
He was pulled to Taiping Ancient Town by the old man’s supernatural power.
At this moment, that mask was on him, already controlled by him.
At this moment, the mask was in a dormant state, he appeared as an ordinary person, and felt like an ordinary person.
His plunder ability was very strange; when he wasn’t using supernatural power, others seemed unable to detect the fierce ghost within him.
But…
Lin Qian was very clear about one thing: he had already been noticed as suspicious by someone.
The people from Taiping Ancient Town knew very well the terror level of that ghost performer.
An ordinary person without controlling a fierce ghost could never survive from a fierce ghost’s hands, let alone survive for so long.
Lin Qian was certain that the old man from Taiping Ancient Town confirmed the ghost had killed, then went dormant, before recovering it.
All his circumstances were off.
The people from Taiping Ancient Town could easily see it.
Those old men, though not having lived from the Republic of China era to now, were of the same generation as Zhang Xiangguang and the others.
They could be called the Republic of China second-generation ghost controllers.
None of those old guys who survived from that era just one step short of the Republic of China were pushovers.
Moreover, there was still a He Yin’er lying in Ghost Lake.
Just for that He Yin’er, they wouldn’t let someone as strange as him survive!
What’s more, he survived from that ghost performer’s hands.
And the ghost performer was deliberately sold by that old woman.
This was already a dead end.
If it were him, no matter if the other party was ordinary or not, he wouldn’t let them leave Dayuan City alive.
Lin Qian pondered and guessed in his mind.
His plunder ability had forcibly seized supernatural power from the fierce ghost.
The killing pattern was very terrifying; it was a curse.
From this killing pattern, he could confirm it was the ghost performer.
Once he was attacked, the other party would directly suffer the curse; supernatural power would breed from within them and kill them, just like the result when Yang Jian attacked the ghost performer at Caesar Grand Hotel.
And he could also attack others with the same effect, but the other party had to trigger his killing pattern first, otherwise he could only activate the attack by touching them.
And the killing pattern was easy to trigger; anyone who saw the eyes on the mask would be cursed.
Lin Qian clenched his fist.
His ability hadn’t fully plundered that ghost performer, only a tenth of the supernatural power.
His ghost now had a very low terror level; if he didn’t kill or supplement puzzle pieces, his ghost would probably stay at this terror level forever, until his fierce ghost revival, or that ghost performer found him and killed him.
It was too early to talk about that now; his top priority was to quickly leave Dayuan City.
And he had to be prepared at all times to encounter the old man from Taiping Ancient Town.
The other party had no reason to let him leave alive!
“Young man, I can tell you’re in a big hurry.”
The driver saw Lin Qian’s clenched fist.
At this moment, Lin Qian’s face was pale, his whole body trembling slightly, probably without even noticing it himself.
“Master, I’m nineteen this year, already a first year university student. My girlfriend started dating me in junior high, up to now. Today we had a fight, I feel she’s really planning to leave. How can I not be anxious?”
Hearing this, the driver was stunned for a moment, then pursed his lips. “I don’t know what you fought about.”
“But just based on how long you’ve been together, today I’ll make sure you catch up to your little girlfriend no matter what.”
“How much longer until the plane takes off?”
The driver asked solemnly.
“Ten minutes!” Lin Qian said without hesitation.
At this moment, he felt his heartbeat speeding up, an ominous premonition appearing in his heart.
Something was coming!
“Ten minutes?” The driver’s eyes narrowed slightly.
“A bit challenging, but…”
Before the driver could finish speaking, a strong push-back feeling appeared instantly.
Lin Qian abruptly looked at the driver.
The speedometer was rapidly climbing, jumping from eighty straight to one hundred, then one hundred twenty, one hundred thirty…
“But today, I stake my title as Dayuan City’s number one drift king—I’ll get you to the airport in at most seven minutes!”
Lin Qian swallowed, looking at the speedometer hitting one hundred ninety, and without any hesitation, quickly fastened his seatbelt.
“M-Master, this car of yours… is it modified?”
Lin Qian asked, somewhat stammering.
“Yo, young man, you know your stuff.”
“Mitsubishi engine, super durable. With this set of mods, estimated top speed of three hundred thirty.”
“Three hundred thirty!” Lin Qian’s eyes widened.
The surrounding environment flashed by almost instantly at this speed.
What kind of concept would three hundred thirty be?
This wasn’t driving too fast; it was flying too low!
“Relax, to get you to the airport, two hundred twenty is enough. Young man, you’re lucky—it’s a straight shot from here to the airport, no turns.”
“If it weren’t, I wouldn’t dare go that fast.”
The driver steadied the steering wheel with both hands, licked his lips, and said.
Red and green lights flashed by.
Lin Qian swallowed hard, gripping tightly with both hands whatever he felt could reassure him.
At this speed, if anything happened, even as a ghost controller, he’d need a while to recover.
In the city, a severely speeding taxi raced along, like a Barrett bullet fired from the chamber, shooting toward its target.
At this moment, behind the taxi, streetlights flickered, and traffic lights weirdly short-circuited.
“This…”
“Can you believe my ghost domain can’t even catch up to this taxi?”
In the ghost domain, He Liansheng’s mouth twitched as he watched the taxi speed away; no matter how he chased, he couldn’t catch it.
The faceless person remained silent.
He didn’t even know what to say anymore.
How much did this kid pay that taxi driver to make him disregard his life and drive that fast?
Even reincarnation isn’t that urgent!
“The more anxious the other party is, the more it proves something.”
A line of text appeared on the faceless person’s head.
Seeing this, He Liansheng nodded. “Indeed, this kid absolutely cannot be left alive!”
