He arrived in Liaoyuan City after sitting on the bus for six days, and these six days almost drove him crazy. As soon as he got out of the station, several waiting drivers enthusiastically came up to greet him. Xiao Mo chose a driver who looked more pleasing to his eyes and then got into his car.
"Where is the young man going?"
The driver looked like he was in his forties and had a thick local accent. Xiao Mo told him the address she wanted to go to:
"Go to Qingming Road No. 2."
"Where to?" The driver seemed not to have heard and asked again.
Xiao Mo's response was very loud, presumably even an 80-year-old should have been able to hear it clearly.
"I said go to Qingming Road No. 2."
"Qingming Road No. 2?"
The driver's doubt sounded, and he turned his head to ask Xiao Mo:
"What place is that?"
Xiao Mo was taken aback and asked somewhat unhappily:
"This can't be a black cab, how could you not even know Qingming Road 2nd!"
The driver was also unhappy when Xiao Mo said so, and he patted his chest and said:
"Kid, it's not just you and me talking, go ask around, who doesn't know that I, Zhao Laoliu, am the living map of this remote city. From hotels to street stalls and residential areas, there's no place I don't know."
The driver asked Xiao Mo again with uncertainty after boasting:
"Is the address you mentioned definitely in Liaoyuan City?"
The mysterious person had no reason to play tricks on him, so Xiao Mo was very confident in the authenticity of this address and replied affirmatively.
"Of course I'm sure, otherwise what am I doing in this remote city?"
Xiao Mo didn't bother talking nonsense with this cheating driver either. He lifted his leg off the round mirror and was about to get out of the taxi, which wasn't far away.
The driver didn't stop him from getting off the bus and only reminded Xiao Mo with a sentence:
"Kid, you must be mistaken. There is no Qingming Road in Liaoyuan City. Even if you're stupid, you should know that. Who would name a road after Qingming? It's not just unlucky, the government wouldn't even allow it!"
Xiao Mu's body stiffened, the driver's words were not unreasonable. With ZF's style, it would not allow such a road name to appear. When he was in the car, he also checked a lot of information about Liaoyuan City and didn't find Qingming Road on it.
"Is it another non-existent place? Does he want to lead me into a curse again?"
After experiencing two paranormal events, Xiao Mo had developed some tolerance for such strange occurrences, so he wasn't particularly flustered. Since the mysterious person gave him this address, it should exist; perhaps just like Class 2B of Luo River School, this place was also invisible to ordinary people.
But then he thought that the place he was looking for would be another cursed place, which made him think of retreating.
Xiao Mo was in a dilemma, wanting to get off and go back, but also wanting to find that place.
The driver also suggested to him:
"That Qingming Road 2 number is definitely not in Liaoyuan City, I think you'd better find a place to ask the person who brought you here if he made a mistake."
The driver obviously gave him the order to get off, Xiao Mo was a sensible person and nodded before getting off. At this moment, a man's voice suddenly came from outside the car window:
"Is the old man coming or not?"
Upon hearing the voice, Xiao Mo turned his head to take a look and saw that the one asking the question was a tall young man. This young man had somewhat long hair and a pair of slender eyes. When he asked the question, there was still a hint of a smile on his face, giving off an air of being carefree and irreverent.
In fact, it was indeed so, the driver was only about forty years old, but he was called "old man" by this young man, and no one would feel comfortable if they were in his shoes.
"What's wrong with you young man? What did you just call me?"
The driver was dissatisfied and retorted at the young man, but the young man just shrugged his shoulders and smiled indifferently.
Xiao Mo didn't bother to listen to the argument between the two, because he had to carry a mirror when getting off the car, so his movements were somewhat slow. It wasn't until the young man sat in the passenger seat that he completely moved out of the car.
The young man turned his head and looked at him, perhaps because he had delayed the other's time. The young man made a contemptuous gesture towards him. Then the car slowly drove away, but as it was about to leave, a conversation came from the car window:
"Where are you going?"
"I'll direct you and you can just go, even if I give you the exact address, you still won't be able to find it."
"Ha! In Liao Yuan City, there's no place I, Zhao Old Six, don't know. Go ask around the neighborhood and see who doesn't know that I'm a living map of this area!"
"Okay, I'm going to Qingming Road..."
The car had driven far away, so Xiao Mo only heard the three words "Qingming Road", and it was unclear whether it was Qingming Road 2 or not. However, even this was enough to surprise him, after all, that young man mentioned Qingming Road.
Xiao Mo suspected that the young man was going to a place similar to his own, and knew how to get there. Thinking of this, Xiao Mo no longer hesitated, waved his hand to stop a car, and ordered the driver to follow him.
Because Xiao Mo said that the person in the car in front was his friend, the driver followed very closely, almost tailgating. Xiao Mo wasn't afraid of being discovered by the young man either, after all he wasn't doing espionage or tracking, just trying to find that place.
Two cars were moving, one in front of the other. As time passed, Xiaomo found that the car had already left the city and was now entering the suburbs. The road was not only narrow but also bumpy, with lush green vegetation on both sides.
The young man had apparently discovered him and would occasionally look back, but the car didn't seem to be slowing down.
"If I had known it was so far away, I wouldn't have come. Why would your friend choose such a remote place to celebrate their birthday?"
"He's a weird person who thinks it's exciting to celebrate his birthday in this kind of place, I didn't want to come either, but our relationship has reached that point, so there's no choice."
Xiao Mo casually made up a reason, and after listening, the driver didn't ask any more questions, but only sighed and said:
"Nowadays young people are getting crazier and crazier, I really don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing."
The driver's doubts were dispelled, and the car drove for about another ten minutes before finally coming to a stop. Of course, this was a passive stop. Because the young man's car had already stopped, and he had gotten out of the car.
Xiao Mo stuck his head out and looked around, only to find that in front of him was a deserted residential area with many collapsed houses crowded together, making it extremely difficult for the car to pass through.
Xiao Mo was afraid that the young man would retaliate against him, so he kept a close eye on him and exchanged phone numbers with the driver in case of an emergency. When it came time to pay, he asked the driver another question:
"What is this place? How can there be a deserted residential area here?"
"The city was renovated inwardly, so this place was abandoned and no one has taken care of it ever since."
The young man in front had almost disappeared from view. Xiao Mo didn't delay any longer, thanked the driver and hastily got off the car.
The two taxis disappeared quickly, and the surroundings were quiet, even the wind was gone. It can be said that this is an excellent place to kill and abandon a body.
The mirror was left in its original place by him, knowing that no matter where he went, it would follow.
The young man walked very quickly and had already disappeared without a trace. Helplessly, Xiao Mo could only follow the route the young man had taken, which forced him to enter a dead end.
The road ahead was blocked by rubble, Xiao Meng cursed his bad luck in his heart, but then he thought again and felt that it wasn't right, because the young man had disappeared only after entering here.
"Could it be that he had climbed over from the pile of waste rocks?"
The pile of rubble was at least three meters high, and although it might be possible to climb over it, it would undoubtedly be very difficult. Just as he was thinking about whether or not to try to go up, a voice suddenly came from the front:
"You little brat's stalking methods are really too clumsy, speak up, who are you?"
Xiao Mo looked up and saw that the speaker was the young man he had lost, who was now sitting on top of a pile of rubble, with his legs crossed, seemingly smiling as he sized him up.
Look at that young man who has risen to such a high position in a short period of time, which is quite astonishing and also makes Xiao Mo feel a few more points of vigilance.
He asked the young man:
"Earlier I heard you and the driver mention Qingming Road, so I followed you. Excuse me, do you know where No. 2 Qingming Road is?"
Upon hearing Xiao Mo's response, the young man's expression changed slightly, and this change was precisely caused by the sudden appearance of a mirror. The young man stood up from the pile of rubble, pointing at the mirror beside Xiao Mo and asked:
"Did this mirror come with you?"
The young man's words were quite unexpected for Xiao Mo, because except for him, almost everyone else seemed to be oblivious to the strange behavior of the mirror, and yet the young man had apparently noticed it.
Xiao Mu felt a strange sense of joy in his heart, or perhaps it was a sense of belonging.
"Yes, wherever I go, it follows me."
The young man laughed and said "haha" instead:
"Haha, it turns out you're also an unlucky guy."
With a smile, his expression immediately turned serious again, and then he pointed at himself:
"Don't mind me, I'm also a jinx."
Xiao Mo thought the young man was quite interesting, but he didn't have the mind to fool around at this moment. He asked the young man very seriously:
"Do you know where Qingming Road No. 2 is?"
"Of course I know." The young man nodded indomitably.
"So I wonder if it's cursed?"