Chapter 27: The Overturned Carriage

  Linglong decided to follow Yanfeng because she thought he was in danger.

  Dr. Rong said that predicting the future is possible, but currently there are no scientific test results, only a mysterious spiritual power, broadly referred to as the sixth sense, narrowly defined as personal feelings, possibly intuition or special abilities.

  Since Yan Feng left, Ling Long started having nightmares constantly. She dreamed that he walked into a cave and came out without his head. She was very scared, but strangely, she wasn't afraid of his appearance, but rather afraid that these things would really harm him.

  When she knew that Yan Feng was about to leave, Ling Long felt reluctant to part with him, but she couldn't show it because he was going on a business trip and their relationship was just friends, or maybe a little closer than friends.

  She accepted the witness protection program, on one hand because she was really afraid of finding another body or having nightmares again, but on the other hand also because she could often see him. But now that he's leaving, she feels like they're parting forever, as if she's going to lose him completely.

  No matter why she started liking him, but now she can be very sure of her feelings. She doesn't like a lifesaver, someone who helped her at a critical moment, but rather likes him as an ordinary man in her heart.

  She is a modern woman who doesn't mind taking the initiative, but unfortunately this man is very strong in all aspects except that he is sensitive and easily hurt emotionally. As soon as she gets close to him, he will dodge or maybe he was hurt too much in his first love.

  It was fatal that Rong Yi also liked Yan Feng, and she took action. This made her hesitate for a while, but after sensing his danger, she decided to help him instead. He had helped her before, now it's her turn to return the favor. As long as her heart doesn't become ill like Rong Yi said, that would be good. If she unknowingly did something terrible to hurt Yan Feng, she would hate herself to death.

  She didn't tell anyone. She left Jing County and headed straight for the Two Stages Mountain. Where Yan Feng was going, she originally didn't know, but once when Gu Long called her to go to the Bureau's place, she inadvertently saw a document. On it was explained where Yan Feng was heading.

  She almost threw up on the long-distance bus, not expecting it to be speeding along so bumpy. Turning her head back, she felt like she was being stared at again, but couldn't tell who was secretly watching her. Her seat was closer to the front, and the back of the bus was packed with people, making it extremely difficult to distinguish individual faces, so she simply ignored it, thinking that maybe she had just been too stressed out lately.

  Exhaustion had her dozing off for a while. When she woke up, it was already dark outside, the lights were on inside the car, and people hadn't slept but were instead chattering away about something. She glanced at her watch, it was almost 10 o'clock. In two hours, she would arrive in the small county town at the foot of Liangjishan. If Yanfeng hadn't gone up the mountain, maybe she would see him immediately. It's said that it's a small county town, there won't be more than three hotels. However, since the long-distance bus arrived there at midnight, she should probably find a hotel to stay in first, but no matter what, she had finally caught up with him.

  She won't interfere with his work, as long as she stays where she can see him.

  She looked out the window, but because the lights were on inside the car, the outside scenery was just a dark mass that couldn't be seen at all. Instead, her own face was reflected in the car window. She used the car window as a mirror and took a look, finding that her complexion was still good, only her hair was a bit disheveled, so she smoothed it out against the glass.

  It was at this moment that the feeling of being stared at came again, and this time it felt very close, making her heart suddenly feel hairy. Looking around, there was a middle-aged woman who was as fat as a bean bug, with folds of flesh on her body, currently chatting excitedly with the person next to her in dialect, but couldn't understand what they were saying; The two people in front didn't turn their heads at all, while the people behind were dozing off.

  This time it wasn't just psychological, she really felt like someone was watching her from close by. She even glanced at the luggage rack and outside the window, but didn't find anything, yet that feeling grew stronger. Where was it? She subconsciously looked at her own shadow on the window glass, still nothing.

  Haha! The people in the car suddenly burst out laughing, and the atmosphere inside the carriage was more lively than ever. The middle-aged woman next to Linglong couldn't help but laugh, leaning back and squeezing Linglong against the window.

  Suddenly, Linglong finally found out what was staring at her! Outside the window, there was a dark shadow clinging to the outside of the car body. Two withered and weak hands were grasping the lower edge of the window, and a pair of eyes were moving back and forth, emitting a faint white glow. The black shadow's eyes met Linglong's eyes, and the tips of its claws had already pierced through the ten holes in the window, scratching at the car skin. Its body was only separated from Linglong by a layer of car leather, and Linglong could even feel the chill emanating from outside the car seeping in.

  She let out a loud cry and suddenly stood up, instinctively wanting to escape, but was blocked by a mountain of flesh and couldn't move an inch. She pushed hard several times, but the mountain of flesh didn't react at all, as if the force she applied to her body was being blocked by something. The other people in the car also ignored her, not even noticing her loud cry and overreaction, continuing to chat and laugh.

  This made Linglong mistakenly think that what she saw was an illusion, and when she turned her head to take another look outside the window, she only saw the black shadow's body slowly rising up, with its entire upper body stuck to the window glass, maliciously staring at Linglong and smiling, as long as one wasn't blind, they could see it.

  "Get out of the way, there's a ghost!" Ling shouted at the top of her lungs, hoping someone would hear her, but those people just ignored her, as if she didn't exist. No matter how hard she pushed and yelled, it was all in vain.

  Its claws slowly extended, its arms passing through the hard leather as if it were paper, and then its feet and legs. Ling saw that it was about to enter the car, using all her strength to try to break through the invisible barrier but couldn't, and could only despairingly press herself tightly against the meat mountain behind her, holding her breath to prevent its limbs from touching her body. Just as she thought there was no way to escape, it suddenly stopped advancing and instead shook the car violently.

  The car was shaking violently, but the people inside seemed to be used to it and were completely unaffected. Only Linglong was extremely anxious, looking out of the window at the dark shadows that were getting more and more intense. She knew that if this continued, the car would definitely flip over! She didn't know if there were cliffs on either side of the road, but if there were, she would never see Yanfeng again. At this critical moment, she realized that she had truly fallen in love with him, because every time she thought of Yanfeng's face, her heart ached unbearably, not for fear of her own death, but for the fact that she might never see him again!

  The last big jolt came, and Linglong was shocked to see that the people in the car finally reacted, shouting loudly at the same time. But this wouldn't make her feel relieved, because the dizzying feeling told her that the car had rolled down into a ravine.