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Chapter Twenty-Four: The Curse

  "Hold on!"

  With Old Gao's loud shout, the car shot forward like a startled bird.

  Although Lao Gao had reminded them, under the strong inertia, Xiao Mo and Zhang Tianyi still couldn't sit steadily and both fell heavily from their chairs to the ground.

  Affected by this, Li Shuai and Xin Yan also woke up from their daze one after another. When they saw the situation they were in, they all let out a cry of surprise, grasping the armrests tightly with both hands, and asked loudly what was going on.

  "It's not time for explanations, Abbot Maitreya, you should still have some tricks up your sleeve."

  "Hmm...hmm, and also." The Taoist priest nodded with a bewildered expression.

  "Stick those paper symbols on both sides of the car window, so that the ghosts outside can keep away. And you, Li Shuai, try to stare at each window closely, in case any ghost breaks in..."

  The Taoist priest and General Li, despite being in a state of confusion, couldn't afford to hesitate at the moment, because on the car windows, car awnings, and even the windshield in front of Old Gao, there were some nauseating ghostly creatures crawling all over.

  Such a scene was absolutely chilling, Xiao Muo's legs were also slightly softened, and his spine kept venting cold air.

  Xiao Mo didn't let the fear erode him, he looked towards the windows on both sides and found that only two of them were shattered, while several others remained intact. As it turned out, Master Mei and Li Shuai were also guarding these two windows, although the ghosts outside were staring fiercely, fortunately none of them had come in.

  Distorted faces stuck to the car window, women's, children's, old people's... Their faces were almost greenish, each bulging eyeball seemed like a scattered marble, jumping irregularly on the car window.

  Perhaps sensing Xiao Mo's gaze, the ghostly creature stuck to the window suddenly turned to look at him, its eyes filled with malice and resentment.

  Xiao Mu involuntarily shuddered, as if electrified, and couldn't help but break out in goosebumps all over his body. It was clear that these ghostly creatures were all malevolent spirits.

  He didn't dare look again and quickly shifted his gaze elsewhere, but the situation in other car windows was also the same, with a similar scene of evil spirits invading.

  At this time, a train window caught Xiao Mo's attention, because there was no fierce ghost in front of that window. The round mirror that had been following him like a shadow was standing there at the moment.

  Seeing this, Xiao Mo's expression changed slightly, and he vaguely guessed something. He carefully approached the round mirror with his hands on the handle above. When he arrived in front of the mirror, Xiao Mo found that the cracks on the surface had deepened a bit, and a new crack appeared at the very bottom, which was clearly not there before.

  "Can this mirror really absorb evil spirits? Just like it absorbed that malevolent spirit back then?"

  Xiao Mo thought to himself, his hand turned the round mirror towards the back, directly facing the window behind which was plastered with evil spirits. Suddenly, a shocking scene appeared, the fierce ghosts outside the window all showed a terrified expression, and then jumped down from the car window in a flurry, some of those who didn't have time to leave disappeared abruptly on the car window.

  "Crack!"

  Another cracking sound came from the mirror, and Xiao Mo hastily looked at the mirror, only to find that a new crack had appeared on it. The appearance of the new crack seemed to confirm his previous guess - this mirror had the ability to absorb evil spirits!

  This was a huge surprise for Xiao Mo, as there were only three types of ghostly objects, and this mirror could deal with two of them. As for the only ghost that it couldn't handle, he himself could use the rules created by the ghost to get rid of it, making his chances of survival greatly increased.

  After learning that the mirror had such a magical effect, Xiao Mo's first reaction was to help everyone solve the fierce ghost surrounding the car, but he changed his mind and gave up on this idea.

  He couldn't say it out loud, because once he said that the mirror could absorb evil spirits, then from now on whenever they encountered an evil spirit, Zhang Tianyi and others would let him use the mirror, while they sat back and enjoyed the benefits. If the mirror could be used continuously, this wouldn't be a problem, and he would also gain a reputation for being helpful. However, the issue was that the mirror would gradually shatter as it absorbed more and more ghostly energy, which had been proven by both the incident at Luohe School and his experiment just now - if the mirror was used too many times, it would eventually shatter completely.

  He still remembers the ghostly gate that appeared in the mirror, and the thing that was about to crawl out of it, so it's hard to say what will happen when the mirror shatters.

  Xiao Mo glanced at Zhang Tianyi and others without making a sound, just as their attention was not on him, and Old Gao, who was driving, did not look in the rearview mirror either.

  "Let's just hide this fact for now."

  Xiao Mu made up his mind, he put the round mirror down and covered the reflective surface on the ground, lest the mirror would also suck in the fierce ghost on the car shed. However, what he didn't expect was that this scene was seen clearly by Xinyan sitting in the corner position, and a few unusual glints flashed from her beautiful eyes.

  After another bout of commotion, the evil spirits that had been covering the car finally dissipated, and everyone inside collapsed to the ground, listening to the sound of the tires screeching on the highway.

  Through the recent events, Li Shuai and Mo Ran's abilities have been showcased once again. Li Shuai's powers can fully take effect on fierce ghosts, while Mo Ran's talismans also have a certain driving effect.

  All of this was seen by Xiao Mo, who planned to get along well with these two people in the future. He didn't expect them to risk their lives to save him, just lending a helping hand would be enough. Now that he thought about it, among all the people, he had no idea what abilities Lao Gao possessed, or perhaps he was just an ordinary person, only having more experience than them.

  "What's going on? I clearly remember being pulled out of the room by something, could it be that thing that dragged me onto the car?"

  Li Shuai's abrupt inquiry interrupted Xiao Mo's contemplation, he turned his head to glance at Li Shuai, then turned back to sneak a peek at Zhang Tianyi, feeling slightly apprehensive in his heart. He didn't want Zhang Tianyi to tell everyone that he was the main culprit behind this curse, and some other things.

  Of course, he can completely deny it to the death, and even he himself is half-believing and half-doubting, but it's hard to say that it won't arouse Li Shuai and others' suspicion, or even hostility.

  "I told you before, stopping supernatural events in reality is just an appetizer. The real test lies ahead. And this test is what we need to face now. To put it bluntly, the world we are currently living in is a very terrifying world."

  "Every parking is enough to be fatal, enough to make us fall into endless despair!"

  "Is it like just now?"

  The monk who was reciting sutras couldn't help but interject a sentence.

  "Listen to me finish." Zhang Tianyi gestured to everyone that he would make it clear, and then he continued:

  "Along this highway, we will pass through towns and villages. This vehicle must always maintain its forward motion, because once it stops, it will be invaded by evil spirits, so maintaining its forward motion will make us very safe."

  But! The car won't keep running forever, it will run out of gas, and then we'll have to stop it. We need to fill the car with gas so that we can drive it again."

  By this time, Zhang Tianyi took a look at everyone's reaction, and then he said in a low voice:

  "It sounds easy, just drive around the highway and there won't be any danger. You must think that's all it takes, right? But you're dead wrong, because every town and village is experiencing paranormal activity."

  Entering there means... we will become victims of the haunting incident just like those residents!

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