Chapter 62 Road
A road they had been waiting for for a long time actually appeared here so easily?
"Mr. Jackie, am I dazzled?"
The round-faced young man rubbed his eyes and asked in disbelief.
"I saw it too!" The young man with the Chinese character's face also echoed, looking at the mysteriously appearing road with bright eyes.
The middle-aged man in the front seat remained calm: "There must be something weird about this road, but we have no other choice now, right?"
The car just parked on the side of the road, quietly waiting for the next move. The car lights shone for a limited distance and were reflected on the guardrail of the ramp.
The driver Jackie looked at everyone with a complicated expression, and said with some difficulty: "There is not much gasoline in the car. If we drive out, we may not have enough gas to drive back. Should we gamble on the road ahead, or go here?"
Is the ramp open?"
At this time, everyone had had enough of this damn road and was not willing to stay here even for another second.
"Let's go down, what if we find a gas station?"
"We may be able to find another entrance from there so we can contact staff."
"Okay, let's go then, everyone sit tight."
After getting the unanimous opinion, Jackie started the car again and turned straight to the ramp without making any stop.
The road is located on an inconspicuous hilltop. A road down the mountain is dug along the mountain. It is only big enough for cars to pass side by side, but the road surface is still very well paved.
The strange thing is that the trees on both sides of the road are extremely lush, and they look like dark clouds covering the sky, not wanting to leak even a little extra scenery to travelers.
The car drove slowly, and the intersection they imagined did not appear. This road was still like the endless Styx, floating their hearts in the void.
As the ramp progressed, the guardrails on both sides disappeared without warning, and the road degraded from asphalt to a damaged concrete road. Only the trees on both sides were still so dense and tall, oppressing the driver's sight.
Sometimes, you will even feel that the trees on both sides are pressing down in the middle like a mountain. Sometimes, you will feel that the trees on both sides are lining up and marching along the road. Sometimes, you will also feel that the trees have come to life and are flexing their teeth.
Twisting the branches, dancing a foolish and obscure dance...
"It's too scary here. Are we going the wrong way?"
The round-faced young man anxiously asked for everyone's opinions, although what he said was only an obvious fact.
"Mr. Jackie, I remember you said that your father walked on a secret road with tall trees on both sides. Is it like here?"
The middle-aged man sat in his seat and asked word by word.
"Well... this place does look like what he said."
The driver, Jackie, didn't know what he was doing and was thinking about the stories he had heard before.
"But my father was not driving on the highway at that time. At that time, the highway was only in the first phase, and the second phase had not yet started."
"They were traveling in several vehicles on an ancient road with trees on both sides. Finally, they arrived at a place that was suspected to be a round ancient tomb. They all stopped and returned after experts completed their inspection."
"It was just an ordinary trip, there couldn't be so many bizarre events happening!"
Suddenly an idea flashed in the round-faced young man's mind, and he thought of a very important clue: "No, our road is not like the story of Mr. Jackie's father, but like the story of that radio station!"
He said this almost in a roaring voice, as if the clue would slip from his mind if his voice was softer and his speaking speed was slower.
"The same fog, the same strange road, the same no end in sight." He said desperately: "What is waiting for us behind may be a desperate journey with no end! We will be trapped and die like him.
On this road!”
I can't find the end of the road, I can't find the highway exit, I can't find the location of the viaduct, I can't even find where I am...
Several people suddenly looked back and saw that the road behind them had changed beyond recognition!
The original highway has all disappeared. From their perspective, whether it is in front or behind, it is a narrow and gloomy path, surrounded by layers of trees, which is extremely oppressive.
"We should all be at the on-ramp of the highway, right? We just drove there for a short time, and we probably haven't even arrived at the exit of the highway yet. Why are we here on this country road?"
The depressing atmosphere, reflected by the dim light inside the car, carried a few travelers who were full of doubts and confusion and continued to drive to the front of the path.
The serious fire of rationality in the young man with a Chinese character face has not been extinguished. He said: "Based on our experience, since we can get here according to a certain route, we should be able to figure out the way back."
"And now we are in an increasingly strange position. It cannot be an unsolved mystery. It must be that we have overlooked some important conditions."
"The difference in results will only occur if the control variable fails."
His round-faced companion listened and asked a question: "Then are there any obvious differences in our conditions? Is it listening to the radio, encountering heavy fog, or something else?"
"No, no, no." The young man with the Chinese character's face said seriously, "None of the conditions you mentioned are the most important conditions. Those abnormalities should be triggered after we meet certain conditions. So now we have to seriously consider what happened.
Problem."
"My guess is, it's the wiring."
He showed an amazing intuition: "The route we took may have met a condition invisibly. For example, traveling late at night, arriving at the abandoned engineering headquarters, and entering the ramp. These three routes may all be special conditions, so regardless of
Anyone can encounter the same situation as us."
"Such a possibility can explain why the stories on the radio are highly similar to our experiences."
Driver Jackie also said: "Yes, could it be that after we heard this story, we unconsciously wanted to imitate their behavior. As a result, others only did one of the things, and after listening to the radio, we subconsciously combined all of them.
Everything was done once. So every step happened to be wrong."
"At least if we hadn't heard the second story, we definitely wouldn't have looked inside the car in the heavy fog, nor would we have been so frightened that we escaped from the engineering headquarters parking lot."
Several people talked to each other and gradually deduced the truth of the matter based on the speculations of the young man with a Chinese character. It turned out that his behavior was greatly affected by the broadcast.
The round-faced young man said bitterly: "If it hadn't been for that broadcast, we wouldn't be in such a dilemma. Maybe that broadcast wasn't a mysterious incident at all, but was simply broadcast by someone with ulterior motives to induce others to do these things."
The young man with a square face signaled the driver to stop, "Then let's keep walking. We must not listen to what the radio says this time. It said we will be trapped here and cannot get out, so we will keep walking. Since this is a road,
There must be an end."
After saying that, he picked up a stone, made a mark on the tree trunk by the roadside, and said.
"We will put a mark on the tree every once in a while. If the mark appears repeatedly, it means there is a problem. If not, we will definitely be able to get out."
Chapter completed!