"Ha ha ha ha..."
In the carriage, Xu Yuanzhou's jokes kept coming out one after another with Bai Ke's cheering. Liu Tianyu on the side was also driven by the atmosphere and kept making jokes. Bai Ke sat between the two of them and laughed even louder.
Boys who are good at live streaming also deliberately make their laughter sweet and crisp, which is actually pleasant to hear. However, after listening to it for a long time, it will inevitably make people feel a little noisy.
Although Jiang Chuyan wasn't prone to motion sickness, his physical condition wasn't great. Being jostled around in the car was definitely making him feel uncomfortable. Bai Ke's laughter was sharp, and he couldn't help but frown slightly.
He Yuan was driving the car, as if nothing had happened, and glanced quickly to the side of him.
Then he caught a glimpse of Jiang Chuyan's well-hidden irritation.
"Can you be quiet? You're disturbing me while I'm driving."
He Yuan suddenly spoke to the back.
As soon as the words fell, the carriage fell silent.
There was no inflection in He Yuan's voice. It wasn't really a scolding, but rather a cold, oppressive feeling. Bai Ke was still grinning, barely maintaining a broad smile. He Yuan's words had just happened to be his loudest laugh, and it felt like He Yuan was taunting him.
"...I just thought this was funny, so I laughed a few times."
The boy replied subconsciously, with a somewhat stiff expression on his round face.
He Yuan did not respond to him.
However, Bai Ke always felt that He Yuan seemed to glance at him coldly in the rearview mirror.
For a moment, the carriage was dead silent, with only the hum of the engine.
Bai Ke pursed his lips, his expression becoming even stiffer. He instinctively glanced in Xu Yuanzhou's direction. Xu Yuanzhou was also bewildered.
At this moment, He Yuan added calmly, "As I said before, there are often incidents on this road. Sometimes there are falling rocks, and occasionally there are mudslides. I have to listen carefully. It's best to be quiet on the road."
His expression was normal, as if what he just said was just a casual reminder to An Jing.
Xu Yuanzhou reacted immediately and said with an embarrassed smile, "Oh, it's my fault. I forgot about it. He Yuan, you were driving so steadily that we didn't even think about it."
Liu Tianyu, who was sitting on Bai Ke's other side, curled his lips. He was actually a little dissatisfied with He Yuan's harsh words just now. However, thinking about his own multi-million dollar car and He Yuan's background, he rolled his eyes, immediately suppressed his dissatisfaction, and helped to speak up.
"Ah, sorry, sorry, the road conditions are so complicated here, Mr. He, you really need to be quieter so you can concentrate on driving. We weren't paying attention."
He Yuan said "hmm".
From then on, the car suddenly became quiet.
After driving for a while, the three people in the back seat saw He Yuan raise his hand and hand another candy to the passenger seat beside him.
"Give."
He Yuan was concise and to the point.
Jiang Chuyan, who had remained silent since a while ago, was also stunned when he saw that there was suddenly another candy in his palm.
"…This one tastes like tangerine peel."
As a result, he heard a boy with a stern face and a cold aura explaining to him seriously.
"This tastes good too. And it helps with nausea."
Jiang Chuyan was stunned: "Thank you."
Then he peeled off the candy wrapper and obediently placed the tangerine peel-flavored candy in his mouth. The normally cold-faced young man's cheeks bulged a little, making him look unexpectedly childish.
He Yuan calmly withdrew his gaze and looked ahead.
"Chu Yan, are you awake?! Are you still carsick? Where do you feel uncomfortable?"
After being alerted by He Yuan's action, Xu Yuanzhou realized that Jiang Chuyan in the front seat was awake. He quickly leaned forward to Jiang Chuyan and showed great concern for her.
Jiang Chuyan had a candy ball in her mouth and didn't really want to talk. At this time, she just tilted her head slightly and shook her head at the boy.
"fine."
The young man repeated it calmly.
"I don't get carsick."
*
When getting on the car today, Bai Ke got on before Jiang Chuyan and sat down next to Xu Yuanzhou with ease.
The well-dressed boy looked at Jiang Chuyan, appearing very well-behaved and concerned.
"Brother Chuyan is in poor health and prone to motion sickness, so let him sit in the passenger seat."
Xu Yuanzhou was playing games on his phone with his head buried in his arms at the time. When he heard the voice and looked up, he realized that the person sticking to him was not Jiang Chuyan but Bai Ke.
He looked at Jiang Chuyan who was standing under the car, and after a slight pause, he said casually: "Ah, yes, Chuyan, you are not in good health, it would be better for you to sit in the front."
*
Back to the present.
After Jiang Chuyan perfunctorily answered Xu Yuanzhou's question, he turned around and sat in his seat for a while before his cell phone rang.
When he opened the screen, he found that Xu Yuanzhou had sent him a message on WeChat.
Are you angry?
Obviously, Xu Yuanzhou only realized now that something was wrong.
"I didn't think much about it today. I just thought it would be more comfortable for you to sit in the front seat since you're not feeling well."
[Wuwuwu, honey, please don't be angry with me. ]
[I am an idiot.]
Xu Yuanzhou sent several emojis of a dog head rolling on the ground with tears in its eyes and begging for forgiveness.
"…"
Jiang Chuyan's gaze fixed on the aggrieved dog's head, which looked extremely cute.
Aside from the fact that he was always pursuing Jiang Chuyan, Xu Yuanzhou had always acted like a straight man in his daily life. Jiang Chuyan didn't remember Xu Yuanzhou ever using any emojis other than the default ones when chatting with her.
The sugar ball that was previously in my mouth rolled on the tip of my tongue.
"Ka--"
Then he bit it to pieces.
*
He is unhappy.
He Yuan held the steering wheel with both hands but was keenly aware of the change in the boy's aura beside him.
Of course, there wasn't much expression on Jiang Chuyan's face. Although she was a beautiful person, He Yuan was very sure that she was in a bad mood.
Unable to hold back, He Yuan stole a few more glances in Jiang Chuyan's direction.
He had good eyesight and saw at a glance the profile picture of the person who was sending him a message on Jiang Chuyan's phone screen.
It's Xu Yuanzhou.
The car was shaking violently. He Yuan took a peek but couldn't see clearly what Xu Yuanzhou sent to Jiang Chuyan. He only knew that the other party should have sent a series of messages, while Jiang Chuyan lowered his head and looked at the dialog box, his fingertips resting on the keyboard without moving much.
When He Yuan thought that Xu Yuanzhou had most likely offended Jiang Chuyan again, he felt that some extremely dark and despicable emotions were surfacing from the deepest part of his heart.
He looked at Xu Yuanzhou in the back seat again through the rearview mirror.
It's a really stupid face.
He Yuan thought.
At the moment when he was distracted, he suddenly heard Jiang Chuyan in the passenger seat suddenly shout: "--Be careful!"
He Yuan suddenly came back to his senses, and then his pupils constricted.
I saw a person suddenly appear on the ground not far in front of the car.
The most terrifying thing is that the man was not standing on his own, he was lying down.
On the winding mountain road covered with gravel powder, the man's limbs were extremely twisted, his entire belly pressed against the ground, and he rushed towards He Yuan and the others at a terrifying speed.
"Bang--"
A muffled sound.
With a slight impact sound, He Yuan stepped on the brakes hard.
Everyone was thrown forward, and then the seat belts tightened around their chests and pulled them back to their seats.
"Fuck—"
"Depend on--"
"what happened?!"
…
The car was in chaos.
He Yuan sat in his seat, staring intently at the front of the car—where the figure had been, now only a streak of blood remained, dripping onto the road. Jiang Chuyan, also sitting in the front, naturally saw the bloodstain as well, and his breathing paused slightly.
"I'll go take a look."
He Yuan said in a deep voice, unbuckled his seat belt and quickly got out of the car.
Jiang Chuyan didn't think much about it and rushed down right behind him.
After getting off, he saw the tall boy with black curly hair leaning over the wheel, reaching out to slowly pull the victim of the accident out from the gap between the fender and the wheel.
"Tick…"
Bright red blood dripped down the torn cloth, and the crushed flesh mixed with something that looked like fragments of internal organs dyed He Yuan's entire hand bright red.
"hiss--"
"Oh my god...what the hell..."
…
Jiang Chuyan heard a few low cries from behind him, coming from the other three people who followed him.
Seeing this bloody and tragic scene, Bai Ke screamed, her knees went weak, and she turned around and hid on Xu Yuanzhou's shoulder.
"Oh my god, this is so scary—"
"Bai Ke, you are timid, go back first."
Xu Yuanzhou patted Bai Ke on the back and said in a trembling voice.
Jiang Chuyan caught a glimpse of the scene behind him out of the corner of his eye, then turned his gaze back.
"Do you need help?"
He walked forward a few steps, stood beside He Yuan, who had a frown on his face and a serious expression, and asked.
Seeing Jiang Chuyan's actions, Xu Yuanzhou's face turned pale, and he subconsciously called out to his boyfriend: "Chuyan?! What are you doing?! It's so unlucky - stay away!"
As if to respond to Xu Yuanzhou's words, the bloody corpse in He Yuan's hand moved again in the next second.
"Ah—Ah—Ah—Ah—"
There was only a creepy and miserable scream, and the corpse leaped up and suddenly rushed towards the people next to the car.
During the action, smelly blood splashed everywhere, and the scene suddenly became a mess.
Bai Ke was timid to begin with, and was so frightened at this moment that she hid in Xu Yuanzhou's arms in an instant.
Jiang Chuyan was also shocked by this unexpected scene. He subconsciously raised his hands to protect his face, but before he could move, he was protected by a tall figure.
"It's okay, don't be afraid."
In the chaos, Jiang Chuyan only heard a low voice of admonition in his ear.
"It's just a chicken."
Then the other party added nervously.
…
A few minutes later, the frightened people came closer again in fear.
Lying on the ground was the victim of the car accident that had frightened them so much that they almost fainted not long ago - a chicken.
It was indeed just a chicken.
However, the way this chicken died is still creepy.
The chicken was huge, about the size of a small dog. Many feathers had fallen off its body, revealing its fleshy color. The shape of its wings and legs was also a little off, likely due to comminuted fractures. A pool of crimson blood slowly spread beneath the chicken's corpse.
No one knew whether it was rolled by the wheel or stepped on by He Yuan just now, but the part of the chicken above the neck was just a mass of white meat paste.
One of its eyes had fallen out, but it seemed to still be staring at the human approaching.
...Of course, the most bizarre thing was that the chicken was wrapped in a tattered, half-worn sweatshirt soaked in chicken blood.
Anyone could see that the clothes were indeed human-made, and the cuffs even had daily wear and tear from years of wear.
The buttons of the sweatshirt were buttoned neatly, and the clothes and the chicken were tied tightly together with cotton thread.
So, when the chicken was walking quickly on the road, from a distance it really looked like a person crawling around on the ground.
Jiang Chuyan also thought at first that He Yuan had bumped into someone.
Before getting off the car, Jiang Chuyan had already prepared for the worst. Later, when he looked closely, he found that He Yuan was just trying to pick out the chicken that was smashed to pieces from the gap in the car frame.
Of course, even He Yuan didn't expect that the big rooster, whose bones had been broken by the collision, would come back to life after he took it out.
"Fuck, this chicken almost sent me away..."
Liu Tianyu came over tremblingly, looked at the dead chicken lying motionless on the ground, and muttered.
"Thank God, it's just a chicken, not a person." Xu Yuanzhou responded involuntarily.
"But why is this chicken... still wearing human clothes?"
He asked in a panic.
He Yuan's face was so gloomy that it seemed as if ice chips could condense out of it.
"I encountered a substitute who brought evil."
The boy said this coldly, his sharp eyes scanning the dense forests on both sides of the road.
Perhaps influenced by He Yuan, Jiang Chuyan couldn't help but look up at the wild trees and shrubs on both sides of them, which were so green that they seemed to be black.
A breeze blew by, and the plants rustled.
Jiang Chuyan suddenly felt a slight chill running up his spine.
It must be an illusion... Why did he feel that there seemed to be someone watching them from behind the bushes?