Chapter 350 Strange Town

The car stopped at a fork in the road. Sun Xiaoqing flipped through the navigation on her phone, but she could only see a straight road leading ahead.

Li Qi raised his head and looked at the trees in front of the road and the bushes on both sides, and asked Sun Xiaoqing:

"Going the wrong way?"

"Impossible, we just followed this road! There is no fork in the middle of this road, it is impossible to go wrong!"

Sun Xiaoqing immediately denied it.

Li Qi asked again: "What's the possibility of your perception being affected?"

"..."

Sun Xiaoqing was quiet this time because she couldn't answer Li Qi's question.

Of course Li Qi just asked. Although he was sitting in the passenger seat and didn't pay much attention to the road conditions and was just thinking about the past, he could still feel the steering and deflection of the car.

Li Qi was sure that Sun Xiaoqing did not make a mistake, but he could not guarantee whether his perception was also affected.

Strange objects, pollution, these things are too mysterious. Maybe there are things in them that affect other people's senses unknowingly, but Li Qi cannot detect them.

After all, Li Qi is not a god, and he suffers sometimes.

The two were silent for a while, and then Li Qicai said to Sun Xiaoqing: "Look back, let's keep going forward."

"Go back? But the town..."

"Isn't there a city outside the town? Let's go there first."

Li Qi explained.

On the way to the town, there was another small city. Sun Xiaoqing was originally scheduled to supply supplies in that city before going to the town.

But after Li Qi realized that there might be a problem in the town, he had no intention of moving forward.

It's just that the way back is impassable now, so I can only go to that city to take a look. At least there are people in that city and it's also shown on the map.

After taking another look at the fork in the road ahead, Sun Xiaoqing turned around and continued to move forward along the road.

But not long after the car drove, the two people's expressions became ugly again.

They had obviously turned around and headed to another place, but the fork in the road they had seen before still appeared in front of them!

"Ghost... ghost hitting the wall?"

Sun Xiaoqing said a word with a trembling voice.

Li Qi said in a deep voice: "It's a kind of 'pollution' similar to ghosts hitting the wall. I'm afraid we have already suffered pollution."

Encountering the same fork in the road twice in a row could no longer be explained by coincidence. Li Qi guessed that they might have been contaminated.

But the question is when were they contaminated? And why them?

"What to do now?"

Sun Xiaoqing couldn't make up her mind for a while.

She turned to ask Li Qi for his opinion. After Li Qi observed the fork in the road ahead for a while, he confirmed the connection with the real body and confirmed that he could abandon the puppet body and return to the real body at any time, he took a deep breath and said :

"There is only one way to go now."

"But...which one should I choose?"

"…Flip a coin."

Li Qi dug out a coin from his pocket, thought about it for a moment, and handed the coin to Sun Xiaoqing: "Here you go."

"Shall I throw it?"

"The person affected now is probably you. If this pollution wants to take you somewhere, then it is up to you to choose the destination that is most likely to be reached."

Li Qi explained calmly.

Of course, he didn't say that this was just his guess. It's also possible that after Sun Xiaoqing threw it, the result would make them choose a dead end.

But no matter what, the pollution will definitely not affect Li Qi, who is completely in the body of a doll at this moment. Only Sun Xiaoqing has suffered pollution, and only she is qualified to choose the path.

After hearing what Li Qi said, Sun Xiaoqing no longer hesitated.

She raised her hand and tossed the coin high, and finally slapped the coin on the back of her hand.

Heads go left, tails go right. After muttering for a while, Sun Xiaoqing turned over the coin.

It's the opposite.

"Go to the right."

Sun Xiaoqing told Li Qi the result of the throw, and Li Qi nodded to her: "Then let's drive."

The car restarted and entered the forked road on the right.

Li Qi looked at the scenery along the way and found that they seemed to be going deep into the forest. This bifurcated road leading to nowhere seemed to be taking them deep into a dense forest that no one had ever reached before.

The atmosphere in the car was a little depressing because we didn't know what the future would bring.

Sun Xiaoqing was also very uneasy.

She knew that Li Qi was just a doll body, and Li Qi could throw it away at any time. Now that the other party was willing to stay here, he just didn't want to give up Sun Xiaoqing, his newly acquired subordinate.

But once the danger really exceeds Li Qi's expectation, Sun Xiaoqing has no doubt that Li Qi will abandon her!

Because of this, Sun Xiaoqing is now worried and uneasy, fearing that she has really gone to some outrageous place due to pollution.

The car drove for about ten minutes before the surrounding trees gradually disappeared and was replaced by a small town with a relatively simple style.

The town looks like it has been around for a while, and the buildings on the streets are full of the style of the last century.

The road was fairly flat, but there were many abandoned vehicles around. Li Qi noticed that there were people looking at the car he was riding next to some buildings.

Turning his eyes to other places, Li Qi found that because of their appearance, many people walked out of this small town. They stood on the roadside, watching Sun Xiaoqing drive past them, their eyes fixed. It looks a little scary.

Sun Xiaoqing did not dare to stop the car. She drove through the town and asked Li Qi with lingering fear:

"Those people...are they humans or ghosts?!"

"From the body temperature and heartbeat, they are definitely human."

"Then why do they look like ghosts to me!"

Sun Xiaoqing expressed her feelings.

Li Qi looked at the town that was gradually receding in the rearview mirror and whispered, "Maybe it's because there is no hope in their eyes."

These people in the town don't know how long they have been here. Li Qi can only see numbness in their eyes, without much hope.

That's why they look like zombies, giving people a weird feeling.

Li Qi didn't think too much. He asked Sun Xiaoqing to continue driving forward to see where this road would lead.

However, after Sun Xiaoqing drove for another half an hour, they found that the strange town appeared in front of them again.

"Okay, let's stop here."

Before arriving at the town, Li Qi said to Sun Xiaoqing.

It is obvious that the purpose of the unknown pollution that made them encounter the "ghost wall" is to lead them to this town.

Sun Xiaoqing stopped the car and took Li Qi out of the car.

Just after taking a few steps, she saw two people walking towards them.

These two people were a rare combination, a white man and a yellow man. The white man wore a cowboy hat, a jacket on his upper body, blue jeans on his lower body, and a six-pointed star emblem on his chest that Li Qi had only seen in western movies.

The other yellow man had a short haircut, a white shirt inside, and a black windbreaker outside. He stood aside like a white man's deputy.

The two of them blocked Li Qi and Sun Xiaoqing in front of them, waiting for them to come over.

Sun Xiaoqing subconsciously glanced at Li Qi, and Li Qi didn't say anything. He showed a nervous and scared expression and grabbed Sun Xiaoqing's hand, and fell behind her half a body, hiding his body behind Sun Xiaoqing.

Seeing Li Qi like this, Sun Xiaoqing knew that she had to do the communication herself.

She took a deep breath to calm herself down, then stepped forward and asked:

"Excuse me, guys...how do I get to Stovford? We seem to be lost."

After hearing what Sun Xiaoqing said, the two people in front of them looked at each other. The cowboy took off his hat, revealing a relatively square and tough face, and said to Sun Xiaoqing in a heavy tone:

"Madam, I'm sorry we can't show you the way."

Sun Xiaoqing showed a look of surprise and a little vigilance, and asked:

"What do you mean by that?"

"Madam." The Chinese man next to her stepped forward and said to Sun Xiaoqing in not very standard English: "I think you should have noticed that you have been going in circles before."

"Yes, I noticed it, so I stopped to ask you for directions."

Sun Xiaoqing pretended to be an ordinary person and talked to the two people.

The two looked at each other, and Li Qi could see the fatigue and helplessness in their eyes. They must have made similar explanations many times, so they were used to Sun Xiaoqing's reaction and were not surprised at all.

Perhaps because Sun Xiaoqing had an oriental face, after the white man spoke, it was the Chinese who was talking to Sun Xiaoqing.

He continued to say to Sun Xiaoqing:

"Madam, you may not believe me, but I can tell you clearly that you are trapped here now. No matter how you go, you can't get out of the town.

"If you don't believe me, you can continue driving, but please note that before the night comes, you must stop and find a place to rest."

The Chinese said to Sun Xiaoqing earnestly.

Sun Xiaoqing opened her mouth slightly and wanted to continue asking, and then she heard Li Qi whispered to Sun Xiaoqing:

"Auntie Sun, let's listen to them. I'm too tired and want to find a place to sleep."

Although Li Qi was speaking in a low voice, his voice could be clearly heard by several people here.

Sun Xiaoqing also immediately understood Li Qi's thoughts. She put on a look of anxiety and forcedly suppressed anxiety and sighed:

"...Okay, I don't care whether what you said is true or not, there should be a hotel in your town, right? We have to stay in a hotel for one night."

"There is no hotel, but...if you don't mind, you can stay in the mansion for one night."

The white mayor interrupted.

Sun Xiaoqing was very surprised: "Mansion?"

The Chinese youth explained: "It is a temporary place for new people in the town. Many people who have not chosen a house to live in are there."

Place new people? Choose a house?

Sun Xiaoqing didn't quite understand what the Chinese youth was talking about.

But seeing that it was getting dark and the sun was about to fall below the horizon, she didn't chat with the two people here.

After all, according to the white mayor, it seems very dangerous here at night.