This place is quite suburban. In fact, it used to be very prosperous and it was a place where most people would hang out after dinner.
In the evenings more than ten years ago, there would be a bunch of small vendors in the old square, selling all kinds of toys, attracting children to beg adults at home to buy them.
The center of the square was where the elderly danced at that time. At that time, this kind of dance was not called square dance. It had a nicer name, called "health exercises"...
It's a pity that in the end, things change and people change.
As times change, the construction of new urban areas in the city has caused this area to gradually become desolate.
Maybe people like to go to nice places, so many people are gradually moving away from this area, leaving many houses here empty.
Old, damaged...
It seems to have become synonymous with this place.
When some houses have become dilapidated, only a few stubborn old people are unwilling to move out and are still willing to live in this place.
those years......
Before vehicles became a means of transportation for every household, a thing called "Yong'an Garage" was built in this area. In fact, it was just a car wash. However, at that time, car washes were considered a relatively luxurious place.
It's just a place.
At that time, someone could spend money in Yongan Garage, which was actually similar to entering those luxury places now. If a relative or neighbor saw it, it wouldn't be long before gossip about that person's "prosperity" would spread everywhere...
certainly.
These were just things from that time.
The decline of the old city made Yong'an Garage's business increasingly difficult to do. As various luxury car shops gradually opened in the new city, Yong'an Garage had no choice but to declare bankruptcy.
This place has been vacant since then.
Up to now, most people who know about Yongan Garage are basically residents of this city, or have lived here for a long time...
And I don’t know when it started.
Some gangsters who had stopped studying for a long time found this area inexplicably. Maybe it was because there were not many people in the old city, or maybe because there were relatively few surveillance systems in the old city, so they naturally formed a bunch of racing gangs here.
The road is not too wide, it can even be said to be very narrow, but it is enough for them. After all, apart from this place, they can't find any other more suitable location.
The lax management of the old city is exactly the place where gangsters like them like to hang out...
Four-wheelers, two-wheelers, and even three-wheelers are all fine.
For these low-class racing gangs, as long as it's a car and it can move, it's no problem at all.
So here, don’t be surprised to see some old tricycles racing wildly on the streets in the middle of the night. Most of those bastards who couldn’t afford a car stole their grandparents’ tricycles and drove them.
Moreover, it is difficult to restrain them with moral laws and the like.
Not only are they not ashamed of this behavior, but they are somewhat proud of it. In their words, the tricycle is a very cool means of transportation. One car can pull more than a dozen people, which is so majestic...
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And it is precisely because of the existence of this group of people that Yongan Garage has gradually become a place that all taxis are afraid of. Most drivers are unwilling to come here. They are afraid that when they are driving well, there will be someone who is not long.
The tricycle in my eyes hit me with a bang.
Most of those tricycles don't have license plates. Well, even if they do, they will be torn down by those guys... In addition, there is little surveillance in this place, so it is very difficult to catch them.
Um......
Even if you are caught, it will be difficult to ask for compensation.
Most of these little bastards don't have any money. Even if they go to court or something, they just don't have money. What they waste the most by doing this is their own time.
That's why.
Therefore, the taxi that Wang Qingqing hailed did not take the three people to the exact destination. He took the three people to a corner and refused to get in at all costs.
Get off the car and walk a few more steps.
Too lazy to talk to the driver, Qianye took Su Zao and Wang Qingqing and got off the car at the entrance of the old city.
As soon as he got off the bus, he saw the dilapidated scene of the so-called old city...
His eyes swept across the empty house in front of him, and Qianye couldn't help but sigh when he thought about the driver's explanation on the way because he didn't want to drive him and others over.
"Living in a place like this, it's probably not convenient to even buy a pack of salt, right?"
Su Zao stood behind Qianye. He looked in the direction Qianye was looking. Under his field of vision, it was difficult to see a store that was still open for business.
Only when you go deeper can you see an old canteen selling cigarettes with the door still open. At the door is an old man sitting on a small bench peeling corn.
"Do you know how to go next? The road here seems to be different from the navigation." Qianye turned to Wang Qingqing and asked, while shaking his phone, indicating that there was something wrong with the navigation direction above.
"I don't remember it clearly. I haven't been here for many years. My parents only took me here to play when I was a kid... The navigation above has been around for a long time, and many houses are gone now. It's normal to have problems.
"Wang Qingqing answered truthfully.
"Then what should we do now? Call them and ask them for their location?" Qianye asked next.
"Let's take a walk around first. Although I don't remember clearly, I should have some impression. If that doesn't work, we can ask some old people who live here and haven't moved out yet."
Wang Qingqing thought for a while and then replied.
It seemed that this was the only thing that could be done for now. Qianye turned to look at Su Zao again. The other person had not spoken much from the beginning to the end. He acted as if he didn't care about the matter and didn't express any opinions along the way.
After a two-second pause, Qianye decided not to ask Su Zao what he thought. It was still early, so there was no point in using Wang Qingqing's method first...
The old city is indeed abandoned.
The deeper he walked inside, the more Qianye understood why so many people wanted to move away.
By now, the road surface has deteriorated a lot. The flat cement floor has long become bumpy and bumpy, and even the soil under the cement floor has been exposed. If it rains, this road will definitely not be difficult to walk...
..
Most of the houses that can be seen on the street are stone-walled houses, and the walls of most of the houses have cracked. Although there is still some time before they collapse, it is disturbing just to look at them. If you live there, you may worry that the house will collapse at any time.
Go further in.
You can still see some weeds emerging from the corners of the wall. Some people have grown to the height of half a person. If he guessed correctly, Qianye estimated that these grasses have grown into the cracks of the bricks.
"Can racing be done in a place like this..."
"On such a bumpy road, why not just take off if you go a little faster?"
Qianye looked at the surrounding scene and couldn't help but said something.
"They like this kind of place. Maybe they find uneven roads more challenging." Wang Qingqing explained in agreement.
Speaking of this, she couldn't help but think that her brother was in this place now, and she couldn't help but feel uncomfortable in her heart.
Recalling that in the past, she always used this old city as a negative lesson to educate Wang Chengcheng, telling him not to play here because there were many gangsters here.
only,
Now it seems that those negative teaching materials have not had any educational effect...
All right.
Judging from the facts, just some impressions are not enough. The navigation has not been updated for a long time and the offset is incorrect. Wang Qingqing cannot find the way just by relying on his impressions.
After walking around twice, the three of them still chose to ask for directions to the old man who was collecting corn in the canteen.
"Grandpa, do you know which way to Yong'an Garage?" Wang Qingqing politely asked.
"Yong'an Garage? What are you doing there?" The old man held the unused corn husks, turned his head and glanced at Qianye and the other three in confusion.
"It's like this. My brother said he lives near Yong'an Garage, and I wanted to come over and take a look at him." Wang Qingqing naturally couldn't tell the truth, so she came up with an excuse and was ready to excuse him.
"Living near Yong'an Garage...are those little kids who love racing?" the old man muttered.
It seems that the existence of drag racing parties in the old city has become a fixed impression. Not only the drivers will immediately think of drag racing when they hear Yongan Garage, but also the old man who lives here will do the same when he hears the name.
Speed racing is a highly reviled behavior.
As long as it's serious about playing on the track, that's a personal hobby after all, and it doesn't involve too much.
But although this old city is now abandoned, there are still people living there, and most of them are elderly people. They just want a quiet life.
No one likes to be on tenterhooks when walking on the road, and no one likes to be woken up by the sudden sound of a vehicle honking its horn outside while sleeping soundly in the middle of the night...
So when he heard Wang Qingqing mention Yongan Garage, the expression on the old man's face began to become impatient.
"Who can find people here, those kids with abnormal brains..." He muttered unhappily, but the old man still told Wang Qingqing the truth:
"The person you are looking for may not be found. There was a fire there just a few weeks ago. The Yongan garage was completely burned, and the houses next to it were almost completely burned."
"Your brother probably lied to you. No one can live there now."
After saying that, the old man was ready to go back to the house, as if he didn't want to talk to Wang Qingqing anymore.
Burned?
No one can live there?
This news undoubtedly stunned Wang Qingqing. In the phone call he received not long ago, the other party indeed said that Wang Chengcheng was at the Yongan garage now and asked him to bring the money there to compensate.
Moreover, the location message sent through Wang Chengcheng’s mobile phone was indeed Yongan Garage. If it was really burned, how could anyone still be there?
"Grandpa, did you remember wrongly? My brother really told me that he was over there, or he called me today and said he lived near the Yongan garage." Wang Qingqing stopped the old man who was about to go back to the house.
.
"Remember wrong? Even though I am old, I have a very good memory." The old man became even more unhappy. He curled his lips and replied to Wang Qingqing without much anger.
"If it's burned, it's burned."
"The police have come to see it. They said that those kids who were playing with cars had modified a car by themselves a few weeks ago, but the modifications were not done properly. The car started burning on its own where it was left, and the whole place was burned down.
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"This incident even made the news. None of those kids survived. Can I remember it wrong? If you don't believe it, you can go and see for yourself..."
After that, the old man turned around and left without giving Wang Qingqing a chance to ask questions again.
Wang Qingqing wanted to say something more, but Qianye reached out and patted her shoulder, indicating that she didn't need to ask any more questions.
"Our main purpose now is to get past it. As for whether this happened, we will know if we go there and take a look...and it was only burned down. Maybe the Yongan garage is still there, and they are in the Yongan garage that burned down."
The truth is correct.
Wang Qingqing thought for two seconds and decided not to ask any more questions. She looked up at the old man in the room and asked for directions: "Grandpa, do you know how to get to Yong'an Garage? We still want to go there and have a look."
"Just keep walking from the east without turning." The old man replied casually, turned his head and ignored Qianye and the others.
He picked up the old pipe beside him, lit it, and started smoking.
"East?"
"How to get here?"
Wang Qingqing always knew the directions up, down, left, right, southeast, northwest, etc. She could only identify them on a plan map.
"That way." Qianye reminded.
Now that they got the direction, the three of them didn't waste time here. After Wang Qingqing turned her head and said "thank you" to the old man, the three of them walked in the direction the old man said.
In the old town.
There aren't many people living there, but that doesn't prove there aren't.
In addition to the old man who ran the canteen, Qianye also saw other residents here. Of course, most of them were elderly people. One of them, an old lady, asked curiously after seeing them.
"What are you going over there for?"
"Grandma, we were looking for someone. Is Yong'an Garage heading this way?" Wang Qingqing replied politely.
"Yong'an Garage? Who are you looking for in that damn place? They were all burned to the ground. You are looking for the wrong place." The old lady's words were exactly the same as those of the old man at the canteen, but she didn't say much, she just muttered like this
After the sentence, I didn't care anymore.
Burned,
Still not burning...
To be honest, Qian Ye felt something strange in his heart. One person said it was nothing, but now two people had said it, and both said there would be no one in the Yongan garage. It made people feel a little numb for no reason.
He turned his head and glanced at Su Zao, asking for his thoughts with his eyes.
It's a pity that Su Zao doesn't care about this, and is destined to be unable to communicate with Qianye. In his world view, whatever problems he encounters can be solved violently, so Qianye can only keep questions in his heart.
Wang Qingqing has not experienced many supernatural events. Although the news about the horror world is now known to everyone, she did not think too much for a while because she had no relevant experience.
On the way, she chatted with Qianye at various times, mostly just talking about whether Wang Chengcheng was okay...
As we get closer and closer to Yongan Garage.
The uneasiness in Qian Zhi's heart became even stronger.
Logically speaking, after walking for so long, we should be able to see a few burned houses. After all, according to the residents of the old city, the fire two weeks ago was crazy, and most of the surrounding land was damaged.
Looking at these old houses around him, Qianye became curious.