This chilling feeling doesn't seem normal. I told Fatty to quickly burn all the paper money he had in his hands, and after burning it, we hurriedly got on the car. The Qianshi Hill area is indeed a bit eerie.

Fatty nodded, then suddenly opened his mouth and let out a loud sneeze.

Xie Lao Ba acted quickly and covered the flame on the candle with his hand while Fatty was sneezing.

Xie Lao Ba scolded Fatty, asking him if he couldn't sneeze away from the candle. The candle almost went out because of him. If the lonely souls and wild ghosts got angry, they could harm all of us in the car.

Fatty rubbed his nose and mumbled, "What's there to be afraid of when it comes to lonely souls and wild ghosts? I'm Yang Cheng, brother..."

I clapped my hands and pulled Fatty towards the car.

I warned him in a low voice not to go around revealing that I know Taoist magic.

Fatty chuckled and patted my chest, saying, "Understood. It is said that those who achieve great things must keep a low profile. Brother Cheng will definitely achieve great things in the future!"

I rolled my eyes and said, "You're just good at sweet talking and flattering, you haven't learned anything in three years of middle school!"

Fatty curled his lips and said, "I'm not flattering. I truly admire you, Brother Cheng. Really, my admiration for you is like the never-ending flowing river!"

I kicked Fatty's butt like kicking a soccer ball and kicked him into the van.

After a while, the others also got on the car one by one and sat in their previous positions.

Xie Lao Ba drove, Niu Fu Gui sat in the passenger seat, and Fatty and I sat in the middle. Chen Dong and Liu Jie sat in the back.

Xie Lao Ba rubbed his hands, blew into his palms, and muttered to himself, "It's really ** cold!"

When Xie Lao Ba said this, we indeed felt a bit cold in the car, as if the air conditioning was turned on. The van seemed to have turned into a refrigerated truck. Fatty joked, "If we sit at this temperature until we reach the county town, we'll probably all turn into ** popsicles!"

Xie Lao Ba started the van, slowly driving through the fog.

As we drove, Xie Lao Ba glanced at the rearview mirror and suddenly asked Niu Fu Gui a strange question, "How many people are sitting in our car?"

Niu Fu Gui said, "You're the driver, don't you know how many people are in the car? You're young. How come your brain doesn't work as well as an old man like me? There are a total of six people in the car, five passengers plus you as the driver!"

Xie Lao Ba's face instantly turned pale, and his speech became stuttered, "Then... why are there... seven people in the car now..."

Xie Lao Ba's voice wasn't loud, but it exploded in our ears like thunder.

I also remembered clearly that there were originally only six people in the car: Xie Lao Ba, Niu Fu Gui, Fatty, Liu Jie, Chen Dong, and me. But now Xie Lao Ba was saying there were seven people in the car. What was going on? Where did the seventh person come from? Could it be that someone secretly climbed into the van when we were burning paper earlier?

Subconsciously, I wanted to turn around and see what was happening, but the back of my neck felt chilly, as if there was a lingering cold air, making my neck stiff and making it difficult to turn around.

I gathered myself and quickly looked in the rearview mirror. When I looked, all the hairs on my body stood on end.

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In the back seat of the van, there were originally only Liu Jie and Chen Dong, but now, there was an additional person leaning against the leftmost seat. In other words, there were three people sitting in the back seat now. Counting the two in the middle and the two in the front, there were a total of seven people in the van, one more than before, for no apparent reason!

Silence filled the van, and no one spoke, but we could hear each other's heartbeats.

Xie Lao Ba's face was covered in cold sweat as he continuously wiped it with his hand, looking extremely flustered.

Through the rearview mirror, I saw the extra person in the back seat, an old man wearing a straw hat, sitting with his head down in the corner. He was wearing a black shroud!

A sense of unease gripped my heart, and subconsciously, I reached into my pocket and grasped a talisman to ward off evil spirits.

This old man in the shroud was definitely not normal; he could very well be a ghost.

Qianshi Hill was indeed sinister. I never expected that while burning paper, an old ghost would mysteriously get on our van.

This time, when going to the county town for high school, I had drawn many talismans in advance and brought a soul-summoning gourd. I had five ghost brothers accompanying me, so even if we encountered something supernatural, I had assistance. The previous trip to Fairy Lake for a wild excursion made me realize that it's really difficult to deal with such things without talismans and ghost companions.

Fatty quietly held my hand, and his palm was covered in cold sweat. I glanced at Fatty, noticing his trembling upper and lower jaws, making a chattering sound.

I took a deep breath, tightened my grip on the talisman, and prepared to take action against the shrouded old man in the back seat.

Just at that moment, Xie Lao Ba, who was responsible for driving, happened to see the horrifying face of the old man in the rearview mirror. He was so frightened that his hair stood on end and let out a terrified scream.

Xie Lao Ba was severely shocked and became completely flustered, frantically shaking the steering wheel.

The van lost balance, swerving on the road like a snake, with the tires rubbing against the ground, emitting a piercing sound.

Niu Fu Gui, sitting in the passenger seat, shouted in fear, "Hold on! Hold on..."

Before he could finish speaking, the van directly rushed out of the mountain road. There was a cliff ahead, and once we went over it, the van would become an airplane, plunging into the deep valley below. We might not even be able to find bone fragments.

Everyone screamed in despair, but there was no time to jump out of the car. We could only watch helplessly as the van approached the cliff.

My heart was already in my throat, almost flying out from my mouth.

In a stroke of luck within misfortune, there was a large tree growing at the edge of the cliff. Just when we thought it was over, the van crashed into the trunk of the tree. If not for this tree blocking our way, the van would have certainly plunged down the steep cliff.

Although the speed of the van wasn't very fast, it still deformed, especially the front, which caved in and shattered the glass.

I fell onto the floor beneath the seat, feeling dizzy. I was the last one to get out of the car.

When getting off the car, I remembered the shrouded old man, so I glanced at the back seat. It was empty, with no trace of the shrouded old man anywhere.