Chapter 27: The Stretching Ghost
Chu Jiang casually flipped for a while and discovered that the forum could also be set to a specific city, so that he could filter out posts from the same location.
So, he became interested and located himself in Luozhou City, which was within the whole country.
As a result, the number of posts decreased significantly, but there were still some tomb posts. However, the top few new posts caught Chu Jiang's attention.
The first post highlighted in red seemed to be posted by a local person in charge, with a temporary mission as the title.
Clicking into the post, the content was also very short:
Anyone who can provide complete rules for three supernatural events, namely "Stretching Ghost," "Ghost Chess Game," and "Ghost Cry," can receive a reward.
Anyone who can solve these three supernatural events will receive double the reward.
At the bottom, there was a line of contact information.
This temporary mission post didn't specify what the reward was, and there were only a few scattered replies below.
Moreover, the people who replied didn't ask about the reward. Most of them were complaining that they were not given detailed information, only an event code. Some people even said they didn't know the danger level, so how could they accept it?
Chu Jiang looked at two more new posts. One person was cursing at the ghost in "Stretching Ghost", it seemed like he had encountered the ghost while taking a taxi and narrowly escaped death in a car accident.
This immediately caught Chu Jiang's attention and he instinctively looked up because he was also taking a ride.
Of course, nothing happened at that moment. Chu Jiang felt that he was being a bit too sensitive. How could something so unlucky happen? Just after seeing the relevant information, he would encounter a ghost.
In Chu Jiang's understanding, the so-called "Stretching Ghost" should belong to a type of transportation mishap.
The word "ghost" is used to describe a situation that is difficult to prevent and can easily cause accidents resulting in deaths.
To put it simply, when normal people drove, they had a blind spot in their field of vision.
But in some situations, a person or an electric bike suddenly appeared in the blind spot.
In a state of being unprepared and caught off guard, the driver's car could easily collide directly without even having time to step on the brakes.
Since these people tended to first reveal their entire upper bodies when crossing the road, what the driver first saw was definitely their popping-up heads.
There was also a type of Stretching Ghost, which was a head that stretched out from the car window.
Imagine that you were driving a truck and there was a bus not far ahead, also driving normally.
The bus was going slowly, but naturally, you didn't follow its pace and instead, overtook it normally.
But at this moment, unfortunately, a passenger stuck their head out of the window, either spitting or looking back.
In this situation, it was difficult for the driver to react in time, so the truck rushed past, and the passenger's head was directly hit and sent flying...
In summary, the Stretching Ghost could easily cause car crashes and fatalities, making it one of the scenes that all drivers least wanted to encounter.
Sometimes, even if the driver was fine, even if the car could be insured, and even if the deceased was fully responsible, some relatives of the deceased might still go and make trouble for the driver.
The "Stretching Ghost" incident happening in Luozhou City involves real ghosts, of course.
According to this internet user with a bunch of letters and numbers as their username, the taxi they rode in suddenly, and while driving normally, had a terrifying and grim ghost head appear mysteriously in front of the windshield.
Not to mention the driver was just a normal person, even if this internet friend had a little bit of supernatural power, he was scared half to death.
When real ghosts came to perform the Stretching Ghost act, their destructive power was very terrifying.
Although the ghosts didn't directly attack the two people in the car, in that situation, even if the taxi driver desperately stepped on the brakes, the car still unavoidably collided with the ghost's head.
With this collision, the ghost's head was fine, but the entire car seemed to have hit a large obstacle and flipped over 360 degrees.
As a result of the incident, the vehicle burst into flames, and the driver died.
This internet friend was relatively lucky, only suffering minor injuries, but this experience was enough for him to remember for a lifetime.
From this incident, the Stretching Ghost's killing pattern could be analyzed, which seemed to specifically target people who were driving.
Avoiding this ghost was actually quite simple, just avoid hitchhiking, and it was better to not take any form of transportation.
This made Chu Jiang, who was currently riding in the car, feel a bit uncomfortable. But after checking the navigation, he realized that the hotel was not yet close enough, so he didn't get off early.
Moreover, if the Stretching Ghost appeared too frequently, it would be difficult to keep this matter a secret. After all, these days, there were so many people driving in the city.
In addition, the person who posted the message should have already sold the information to the local authorities. However, the authorities were still collecting relevant information, indicating that the inferred patterns might not be complete.
Of course, even if they were complete, they could only be confirmed after solving the supernatural events, and no reward would be given directly.
Chu Jiang could understand why the authorities had assigned temporary tasks. These authorities were not foolish, and the more they used supernatural powers, the faster they would die. Naturally, they preferred to outsource the tasks to temporary workers.
Anyway, the credit would also be attributed to the authorities, as long as they offered some rewards to the public.
However, on the other hand, the authorities were very wary of temporary workers, at least that was the case in Luozhou City. If you wanted information, figure it out yourself, it was even better if you could solve it alone.
This was also because in the supernatural community, information about ghosts was very valuable, and sometimes it was obtained at the cost of someone's life. Therefore, it wouldn't be easily given away.
As for the person who complained in the post, they probably sold the information first before posting it. If others tried to sell the same information, they wouldn't receive any rewards.
Aside from these two new posts, there was another one that was a bunch of gibberish. Chu Jiang didn't feel like decrypting it, so he temporarily shut off his phone.
He turned his head to the driver and said, "Sir, I came here from the neighboring city for sightseeing. Is it true that there have been many recent accidents in this area?"
"Accidents? Are you talking about that crazy guy who has been causing trouble lately?"
While speaking, the driver's gaze remained fixed ahead, without getting distracted.
But as soon as he finished speaking, something terrifying happened. Just in front of the windshield, at a position almost level with the driver's head, a ghostly head suddenly appeared from the left!
This ghostly head looked like the decaying head of a dead person. Its messy strands of hair stuck to the forehead, and its facial features were mostly rotten, almost reduced to just bones. Only some shapeless rotten flesh remained, clinging to the face.
Despite having only empty eye sockets, the ghostly head seemed to shed tears of blood.
At this moment, its mouth opened and closed, as if it were still trying to say something. The mixture of blood and bodily fluids dripped onto the hood of the car, forming a foul-smelling puddle.
The sudden appearance of this ghostly head frightened the driver, and he screamed. His facial expression twisted, his heart raced to a hundred and eighty beats per minute, and his body instinctively slammed the brakes.
As for the emergency plan that he had already rehearsed in his mind, it seemed to have disappeared somewhere in that moment.
