Two hundred and fourteen. The carriage that followed
"Is it raining too hard..."
Anna raised her head, and the rain passed through her unreal cheeks.
She has never seen such a long period of heavy rain.
The heavy rain that continues day and night continues unabated. Fortunately, most of the Allen Peninsula is a coastal city, and a few inland cities are located on high ground, so they will not be inundated by water.
But the road is getting harder and harder.
A few miles after leaving Himfast, the ground turned into muddy and waterlogged land again, and the long carriage drove past, leaving two lines of deep ruts.
Anna sat by the car curtain, covering Annie's trunk with one palm, silently feeling her gradually weakening breath.
She tried to wrap Annie with her breath, but this move made the already weak candle of life even weaker, so she had to stop quickly.
The carriage was moving forward in the dark rainy night. There might be a carriage nearby that was also on its way, but the rain curtain and the sound of rain obscured everything.
After nearly an hour of driving in relative peace, the horses suddenly stopped.
Anna picked up the oil lamp and raised it to the outside of the car. She saw a dark carriage parked in front of the carriage. It was so abrupt that the horses stopped before Lu Li and Anna in the car noticed its presence.
Lu Li and Anna looked at each other, and Anna shook her head slightly: "I didn't feel the breath."
In other words, this carriage, or the being controlling the carriage, is not a ghost.
The horses at the front of the carriage disappeared, and the wooden carriage reflected the light of the oil lamp.
"Go around." Lu Li said.
"Um."
Anna picked up the reins and pulled the horse around this strange unmanned carriage in the rainy night.
Anna moved in the direction of the carriage, always protecting Lu Li behind her, until their carriage traveled a certain distance and stopped suddenly again.
Another carriage blocked the road in front of them.
Anna, who was still observing behind her, hurriedly blocked Lu Li: "Another one!?"
"It's not the same carriage." The focus of his eyes shifted from the carriage to Anna's back in front of him, and Lu Li asked, "Are you sure you didn't find anything?"
"No……"
"Keep going around."
There is no value in being delayed on the road, especially when faced with inexplicable weirdness.
The carriage once again bypassed the deserted and silent carriage and continued forward. Anna still protected Lu Li, while focusing part of her attention on the front of the carriage.
Just as Lu Li and Anna thought, a few minutes later, the carriage stopped again.
The unmanned carriage once again blocked the road ahead, and what was different from the previous two times was that this time it stood across the road, blocking their way.
"I'll go take a look!" Anna shouted softly, and a cold aura began to fill her body.
Lu Li shook his head gently to stop her impulse: "No, just go around from the outside."
"It's haunting us." Anna said reluctantly.
"So we can't get entangled in it."
In any case, there must be a purpose for the carriage blocking their way again and again, such as forcing them to get out of the car to check.
Because of this, Lu Li didn't intend to do things according to "its" ideas, even though Weird might not have any malicious intentions.
The last thing they can't waste now is time.
Anna nodded thoughtfully, controlled the carriage to drive down the road, and at the same time used her ability to prop up the carriage so that it would not roll over due to the slope beside the road.
The elongated carriage drove past closely, and Lu Li didn't even glance at the carriage behind the curtain. After going back to the road, the carriage continued to move forward.
This time they didn't encounter any obstacles.
"We got rid of it?"
Anna looked back, but she could only see the wall at the rear of the carriage and the wooden box sealed with tree roots.
"It should be."
Anna looked away, with doubt in her clear eyes: "What on earth is that?"
"There's no need to delve into it," Lu Li said. "Weirdness can never be measured by common sense."
Just like [the cry for help in the alley], neither running away nor rescuing people is the correct way to deal with it. You must follow their rituals to possibly escape. This is a relatively traceable ghost——
At least people know that resentful spirits and evil spirits have a sense of ritual.
If you think about it carefully, you don't have to go back too far. Even a month ago, the wilderness was not so dangerous.
Traveling at night seems to have become an extremely dangerous thing.
Anna's existence helped Lu Li avoid some troubles. Some cold auras belonging to ghosts were wandering around. He felt the more powerful aura released by Anna and thought it was something with an owner, so it quietly hid in the boundless darkness around him.
At a certain moment, Anna suddenly noticed that Lu Li tilted his head slightly, as if he was listening to something.
Feeling Anna's gaze, Lu Li answered her question: "There is some movement behind."
"Shall I go take a look?"
"Um."
With permission, Anna floated up with another oil lamp and penetrated the car roof. The oil lamp hit the car roof, was held up by the invisible air as it fell, and rushed out of the car curtain.
On the roof of the car, Anna, who stood firm, took the oil lamp that floated in front of her and held it high.
In the heavy rain late at night, the oil lamp could only illuminate a small area, so she took the oil lamp out of her palm and floated toward the rear of the car.
A silhouette suddenly appeared behind the oil lamp after it floated a few meters away.
A dark carriage that blended into the night followed behind them. There was no horse pulling it, but the dark carriage was still bumping up and down, as if an unseen horse was pulling the carriage without a trace of light.
This scene is breathtaking and strange.
"The carriage is following us!"
Anna's shouts reached Lu Li's ears through the ceiling.
"Let it follow." Lu Li responded.
Lu Li's increasingly better perception told him that if he stopped or ignored the carriage at this time, they would definitely lose.
Anna's eyes turned cold, and she silently glanced at the carriage, then floated back to the carriage and leaned against Lu Li, towards the rear of the carriage and the strange carriage following a few meters away.
The muddy road and heavy weight limited the speed of the extended carriage, but even so, the carriage following them never caught up.
On the road, Lu Li encountered a convoy of trucks that was traveling at a slower speed. After noticing the strange carriage behind the elongated carriage, the grooms in the convoy tightened their reins in horror and stopped at the roadside, not daring to move any further.
After running out with the strange carriage for nearly an hour, the movement behind her began to become inaudible until it disappeared. After a while, Anna floated out to check, but there was no trace of the carriage.
This time I really got rid of it.
Lu Li leaned against the cold carriage wall, covered himself with a blanket, and took a nap while Anna drove the carriage and kept an eye on the surroundings.
Nothing unusual happened again.
It was close to five o'clock in the morning when Lu Li woke up. The sky had not changed at all compared to a few hours late at night, and was still dark and dark.
They had reached the foot of the mountain and might be able to reach Belfast before dawn.
Although Lu Li has never seen the dawn and starry sky of this world with his own eyes.
If you don’t count the sunrise I saw the moment I jumped off the undead return ferry and returned to the sea of the human world.
