Chapter 31: The Responsible Person Takes Action
The driver felt a little irritated as he rubbed his neck and turned his head. "Well then, hurry up. Who does this boss think he is, acting so important?"
Just at that moment, at least ten minutes ago, a black car drove onto the road that had been empty of any vehicles.
Seeing the car, all the police officers couldn't help but relax their expressions.
However, the leading officer didn't let his guard down and continued to observe the driver's every move.
Soon, the car stopped, and a young man dressed in black got out from the driver's seat, while a man in a gray coat wearing sunglasses got out from the passenger seat.
He took off his sunglasses and threw them to his subordinate, then walked straight towards them.
This man had a slightly hooked nose with a hint of hostility in his features. There was even a scar on his left cheek, making him seem like a difficult person to get along with.
As he walked closer, he waved his right hand as though shooing away a bunch of flies.
Look at his hand gesture, all police officers immediately retreat! Find cover and draw their pistols, aiming at the driver who is standing still and a bit confused.
Seeing so many guns pointed at him, the driver raises his hands in fear and steps back.
"What are you doing? I was just a bit impatient, why are you aiming guns at me?!"
As the man wearing black gloves approaches within five meters of the driver, he says, "You are special, but I have let you escape once before; combined with the latest intelligence I just received, I have figured out your patterns."
"So this time, you won't have any chance!"
Saying that, the man opens his coat in front of him. From behind, someone who doesn't know the truth might mistake him for an exhibitionist.
However, the driver, who is facing the man, is now so frightened that he is almost screaming.
Because on the man's exposed chest, abdomen, and shoulders, there are mouths with black color. They open and close, as if very eager to devour anything.
What's even more terrifying is that the man's coat, which he opened, also has mouths. Those mouths are somewhere between reality and illusion, each one eager to escape from their host and devour the driver's flesh and blood.
Upon seeing this scene, even with five or six guns pointing at him, the driver was so scared that he ran for his life.
Seeing this, the police officers decisively fired their guns!
The man with the hooked nose didn't stop them and watched as the driver was shot by stray bullets.
But then, something unbelievable happened. The driver, lying on the ground with blood flowing, spasmed strangely.
Then his head rapidly decayed, appearing completely rotten within a few breaths.
In the middle of the decay, five or six black mouths flew out of the man's body and tightly bit onto the driver's head.
They uncontrollably chewed up and swallowed the rotten dead head, bite by bite.
Throughout this process, the dead head showed no resistance.
During this time, the man with the hooked nose constantly looked around, with his focus not on the dead driver at all.
His subordinate was holding strange papers and jars in his hands, nervously looking around. This made the police officers hiding behind the car a bit confused.
When the black mouth finished devouring the heads and even started preparing to eat the driver's body, the two still hadn't noticed anything.
So the man could only look unpleasant and even slightly pained as he forcefully retracted all the mouths and quickly closed his coat.
There was no doubt that the ghost had escaped again.
"They're all a bunch of useless people, Yang Xuan! Call that person with the last name Chu to come see me, now, immediately!"
"The rest of you search the scene, especially the hidden green areas."
While the man was venting his anger, in the green area, the driver's misplaced head had quietly completed its transformation.
Or rather, as the head on the driver's neck decayed, this fresh head also quickly became highly decomposed.
Tears of blood flowed from its dark eye sockets, its mouth opening and closing, seemingly unwillingly expressing something.
But at this moment, no one could see it, and no one could notice it.
The ghost head just flew into the sky on its own, it didn't attack anyone, and leisurely drifted towards the city center, where there seemed to be a lot of people driving...
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Linjiang Hotel, Chu Jiang just sent a private message to the user on the supernatural forum who posted a complaint about the Stretching Ghost.
Basically, he mentioned that he had also experienced the same event and wanted to exchange some details with him, also indicating that he had new information.
However, the other person didn't reply right away, but Chu Jiang wasn't worried, he just continued browsing the paranormal website.
Then he received a strange phone call.
Chu Jiang thought about answering directly, and there was a polite stranger's voice on the other side.
"Hello, sir. I am an employee of Research Institute No. 21, Luozhou City branch. My last name is Yang."
"Here's the thing, there have been some new changes regarding the supernatural incident you experienced before. The head of the division and I are currently at the crime scene. Would you have time to come over here?"
After thinking for a moment, Chu Jiang said, "What's going on over there? If it's not necessary, I don't really want to go."
At that moment, there was a momentary silence from the other side, unsure if they were communicating with someone else. After a while, someone with the surname Yang spoke up, "The driver who was driving you has died. It would be best for you to come over. The head of the division wants to talk to you in person."
As soon as Chu Jiang heard this news, he couldn't help but sit up in bed, shocked! Dead??
He had just spoken to the driver on the phone not long ago...
"Then I'll come over."
After saying that, Chu Jiang left the hotel with a serious expression, of course, not forgetting to bring the Ghost Diary with him.
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Fifteen minutes later, when Chu Jiang arrived at the crime scene, he saw that it was sealed off. The headless body of the driver from the ride-hailing service was lying on the ground, with multiple bullet holes.
Before he had a chance to carefully observe, a man dressed in a gray coat with an unfriendly face walked straight towards him.
With his hands in his pockets and narrowed eyes, he looked down at Chu Jiang and said, "Are you the Chu Jiang who escaped from the A-class event with a few ordinary classmates?"
Chu Jiang furrowed his brow, realizing that this man seemed unfriendly, or even rude.
Just then, Yang Xuan hurried over to smooth things over and said, "This is our manager, Fang Tianci. He's in charge of handling all the paranormal events in Luozhou City."
"Mr. Chu, we would like to ask you about something."
Without hesitation, Fang Tianci asked Chu Jiang a few questions.
He mainly focused on the details of Chu Jiang's encounters with the ghost, especially asking about the ghost's last whereabouts, even specific directions and locations.
Translator: Volume 4 has been translated and published on Amazon (Amazon.com: I Have a Ghost Dairy, Volume 4 (Chinese Web Novel) (I Have a Ghost Diary) eBook : Xuan, Shenmi, fanfictioncat).
