Chapter 58 Road Trip Tips
Compared with ‘simple’, it was more appropriate to use ‘crude’ to evaluate this map.
*简洁; 简陋 - both means simple, but the first one is more ‘neat, concise’ while the second means ‘simple and crude’.
It only briefly outlined the highway, and added a few signs such as "fast food restaurant", "coffee shop" and "gas station". Other than that, the other positions were almost all blank.
At first glance, the rough and random lines on the paper seemed to be the work of a kindergartener.
The convertible car was ventilated from all sides. Looking through the window, she could see that this place was in the middle of a highway. On the left was a cliff with no visible top. On the right was a mist with no end in sight. And behind her...
Tang Xinjue opened the door and got out of the car to confirm, her eyes slightly narrowed.
Behind was a broken cliff.
The road seemed to be cut open, and countless mist rose from the collapse, making it difficult to see what was on the other side. There was a sign on the side of the road with a forward sign painted on it.
Below the sign it says: Outer CIty Highway.
Tang Xinjue closed her eyes and let the perception in the sea of consciousness spread. However, when she came into contact with the mist, a sharp tingling sensation suddenly became stronger, forcing her to give up sensing.
Where did this tingling sensation come from?
She calmed down for a few seconds, then turned on her phone and checked her physical condition.
Her health value was full, the four-dimensional attributes and self-created skills were displayed normally, and there were no debuffs.
[Mental Control (Level 1): The first step in control is self-control. ]
Even mental control could not suppress the pain in the sea of consciousness. It was obviously not an attack from the outside world, but the source cannot be found...
Tang Xinjue felt it quietly for a while, then rubbed her brows and returned to the car.
The road ahead was quite open, and she estimated that with her driving skills. She should be able to drive on.
Stepping on the accelerator, the car started slowly on the road.
She thought it would be a long distance, but she didn't expect that within ten meters, the fog on both sides suddenly dispersed, and lush trees appeared on the roadside.
"Ding!"
A red pole suddenly laid across the middle of the road, and a clear bell sounded from her left side.
Tang Xinjue stepped on the brakes and turned her gaze to the direction where the ringing sound appeared - a small green building stood on the side of the road, like an upright rectangular box. If she didn't look carefully, it almost blended in with the trees.
From the "box", a hand stretched out and waved a few times in the direction of the car.
Tang Xinjue pressed the steering wheel and drove slowly over, stopping next to the building.
The arm was sticking out of a small window. After it retracted, the window was pulled upward, revealing the face of a middle-aged man wearing a chef's hat.
The middle-aged man glanced at Tang Xinjue quickly, and an exaggerated business smile appeared on his face. His bright red gums were very eye-catching: "The weather is really nice today."
The face disappeared, and a hand reached out from the small window again, this time with a cup of coffee in it.
"Here's the chocolate coffee you ordered."
As she moved her gaze upwards, above the small window, a word was spelled out with twisted wire on the top of the hut: COFFEE.
It looked like it should be a small coffee shop open on the side of the road, open only for passing cars.
Tang Xinjue didn't reach out to take it, but put her fingers on her temples: "I've never ordered your coffee."
The man in the chef hat bent down and showed his face again, his exaggerated smile unchanged: "No, it doesn't matter, Grandma Mayas will reimburse you."
Seeing that Tang Xinjue had no intention of accepting the coffee, the man in the chef hat kept his fake smile: "This road is very long, and there are few rests and supplies along the way. If you don't drink a cup of hot coffee, you won't be able to persevere."
Finally, the man in the chef hat reluctantly added: "...Replenishing your physical strength in a timely manner is a requirement of the Road Trip Instructions."
This time, Tang Xinjue did not read any deceit or malice on the other party's face. She took the coffee and said, "Thank you."
The man in the chef hat immediately retracted his hand and muttered: "If the guys in the city find out, they will definitely make fun of me for being the kindest businessman in the world. Alas, what can I do? I'm just a small businessman driving next to the highway. It’s just business.”
Listening to the muttering in the small window, Tang Xinjue felt the tingling sensation in her mind becoming more and more obvious.
An inexplicable sense of foreboding lingered in her heart, but she couldn't figure out why.
She lowered her head and took a sip of the coffee. It tasted so sweet that it was sickening. The hot liquid instantly dissipated the coolness of the wind.
There was a line of words printed on the outside of the paper cup:
[Everything starts here]
After staring at these words for a long time, Tang Xinjue raised her head and asked the man in the chef hat: "Excuse me, do you know where Grandma Mayas's house is?"
He didn’t seem surprised that Tang Xinjue would ask this question. The man in the chef hat quickly answered: "Follow this road to the end. At the end is Grandma Mayas' house.
"But you have to hurry up."
The small window was opened again, and the man's lips moved and he said vaguely: "Grandma Mayas hates being late. Before dark... you don't want to know the consequences, speed up!"
Tang Xinjue stared at the other party without any fear: "So, what time will it get dark here?"
"I think it will be after seven o'clock in the evening." The man in the chef hat calculated subconsciously, the smile on his face froze, and he became angry for no reason, "No, why should I tell you this? You didn't pay me! You guys are university students who are full of bad intentions... you only know how to bully me, an honest person who runs a small business... I hope you will never go back to university!"
The window was closed angrily and replaced with a menu with a snap, cutting off the space inside.
Tang Xinjue's eyes moved to the menu. Only coffee was sold here, and the price of each cup of coffee was marked in a currency called "University Coins." For example, the price of this cup of chocolate coffee in her hand was 5 university coins.
She noticed that there were many pencil marks behind the product "Chocolate Coffee".
Seeing that the shop owner was not going to show up again, Tang Xinjue stepped on the accelerator and continued on the road.
The phone showed that it was now three o'clock in the afternoon, four hours before it would get dark at seven o'clock in the evening as the store owner said. According to the current task requirements, she needed to find Grandma Mayas' house within four hours.
The green buildings gradually disappeared in the rearview mirror, and there were still the same trees on both sides of the road. An ominous white mist spread among the trees, preventing candidates from exploring.
As far as the senses could reach, there was no sound except the sound of wind, and there were no living creatures. There was only a road with no end in sight.
Tang Xinjue maintained an even speed while observing the surrounding scene while thinking about the information about this exam.
This time it was not like before, the four of them woke up in the dormitory at the same time and in the same place - at least not from the current point of view.
The last time they were separated and acted alone was in the dungeon of "Death Record of Class 3-1". The four of them entered parallel spaces respectively. They were obviously in the same plot, but they were unable to perceive or contact each other.
If the situation was the same this time, everyone might have a task of "delivering specialties to Grandma Mayas", which needed to be completed by all four people to pass the exam...
This hypothesis was rejected by Tang Xinjue herself the moment it appeared.
Because she was the only one in the entire dormitory who could drive.
If the other three people have the same mission, they could declare failure directly from the first step. There would be no dead ends for candidates in the exam.
Her thoughts were ups and downs, and her intuition and judgment told Tang Xinjue that the difficulty in this exam was not "parallel space".
The other three were probably here already, she just hadn't found them yet.
Everything had just begun, calm down. Tang Xinjue tapped her fingers on the steering wheel, warning herself in her mind to suppress the rising irritability and focus on driving.
The car continued to drive forward, with shadows of trees on both sides dancing. After looking at it for a long time, it seemed as if the same stretch of road was being copied and pasted. Apart from this, no other dangers have emerged.
Tang Xinjue still maintained a high degree of concentration and did not take it lightly.
Suddenly, a short figure emerged from the thorns of the trees, and she braked the convertible suddenly and stopped in front of them!
The short figure also fell to the ground due to the inertia of his body, and soon got up without any injuries: he was a short-haired boy about five or six years old. He clapped his hands and was about to continue running forward.
Tang Xinjue watched this scene quietly in the car. She had no intention of taking any action at first, but when she inadvertently caught a glimpse of color in her peripheral vision, her eyes froze and she pressed the horn without thinking.
The loud sound made the child stop and turn his head. Only then did Tang Xinjue see clearly: his face was blank, with no facial features.
And just as she had just captured with her peripheral vision, the little boy was wearing an incongruous women's watch on his arm, which was exactly the same as the one Guo Guo wore before taking the exam.
How could Guo Guo's watch appear on other people's bodies?
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