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Chapter 134 Today is another day of my dream—a day for a massive update!
At that moment, the driver in front suddenly spoke up.

The atmosphere was eerie. The two people were sitting in a taxi that might be a hearse, and the driver didn't know whether it was a human or a ghost.

The driver in front suddenly spoke, startling Zhui Feng so much that he trembled slightly.

"Speaking of which... you guys shouldn't go out in the middle of the night anymore..."

The driver hesitated as he spoke.

Gu Mian looked up at the rearview mirror and saw the driver's face reflected in it.

This face looks haggard; it's clear that staying up late often has taken a toll on the body.

The driver sighed again before speaking, "Don't ignore my advice. People like you who stay out so late at night might not feel the discomfort when you're young, but you'll start to feel it when you get to my age..."

He spoke haltingly, as if something was stuck in his throat.

"Besides, it's not safe to stay out all night. Didn't a young boy go missing two weeks ago after taking a taxi in the middle of the night...?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Mian asked, "Two weeks ago?"

The taxi driver had told him that four people had gone missing in Yecheng before, all of whom had taken taxis in the middle of the night and disappeared, but he hadn't mentioned that the previous person's disappearance had happened so recently.

"Yes," the driver mumbled, his voice slightly slurred.

Perhaps because it was too cold, the driver wore a very thick black scarf, which looked very warm.

"It seems like it was about ten days ago. A male high school senior got into a taxi at night and no one has seen him since. He might have been murdered..."

Gu Mian then asked, "Has anyone else gone missing after getting into a taxi before?"

"Yes," the driver nodded. "Of course, I heard that two years ago, a young girl, I think she was a college student, also disappeared like that."

"Actually, I didn't pay much attention to it at first... cough cough, but her parents posted missing person notices everywhere, and they often slipped them into my car window, so I remembered it after a while."

"If we're talking about missing persons cases, it seems there are only these two. I haven't heard of any others."

Gu Mian lowered her head slightly.

wrong.

The timing is wrong.

The previous driver mentioned that the female college student, Lin Rongrong, disappeared ten years ago.

The driver, however, said the female college student had disappeared two years ago.

There is an eight-year time difference.

Zhui Feng looked at Gu Mian with some confusion. He didn't know anything about the female college student, but he felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange.

"Can I take a look at the paper in your hand?" Gu Mian suddenly asked.

"Hmm..." Zhui Feng handed him the map, completely bewildered. "Here you go."

The front of this small advertisement also features a map of Ye City, showing the starting point and home location of the player "Chasing the Wind Boy".

Gu Mian saw that his home was almost in the city center, in a place called England.

The Rong'an residential area that Gu Mian was going to was located directly east of Yinglunbao. The two residential areas were quite far apart, requiring nearly twenty minutes by car.

He then turned the paper over to look at the advertisement on the back.

The back of the card didn't have much content either. It was the same as the one Gu Mian had in her hand. The advertisement board also had an ad for Sunshine Taxi and a missing person notice.

But the time in the upper left corner is different.

The advertisement in Gu Mian's hand was dated July 30, 2002.

But this one is from October 1, 2013.

Nearly eleven years had passed, and the people being sought in the missing person notices were different now.

【Search notices】

Name: Liu Mo; Gender: Female; Age: 18

[A high school student residing in Rong'an Community, Yecheng City, she went missing on September 29, 2013. She is 9 meters tall. Someone saw her getting into a taxi.]

[Please, kind-hearted person, contact your family immediately if you see this. A generous reward will be given!]

Looking down, you see a very familiar face: big, bright eyes, bowl-cut bangs, and a face brimming with youthful energy.

Sure enough it was her!

Gu Mian's previous driver was also one of the victims of the taxi disappearance case.

And her home address was the same as the address I was going to?
Gu Mian frowned slightly, deep in thought. In this instance, every player had to take a taxi back to their "home," but he discovered that this so-called home was actually the original address of those who had disappeared while taking taxis. Why assign it this way? Couldn't they just give each player a different, new address as their "home"?
As he pondered this, he glanced down at the missing person notice section.

Lin Rongrong, the first missing person, disappeared on July 24, 2002. Her current home address is unknown. After her disappearance, her parents lived in the same community as Liu Mo's family.

Liu Mo was one of the missing persons. She once said that four people had gone missing before her, so she was conservatively estimated to be the fifth missing person. She went missing on September 29, 2013, and lived in Rong'an Community.

The two disappeared eleven years apart.

And the driver in front...

“Master,” Gu Mian suddenly spoke.

"What's wrong?" the driver in front asked.

His voice was very hoarse, as if there was something stuck in his throat.

The boy who was chasing the wind looked a little scared, and he silently swallowed.

Gu Mian asked, "Would you mind telling me your name?"

The driver was silent for a moment before speaking: "Zuo Xiaqiu..."

What time is it now?

"It'll be around mid-April, when the weather is still a bit chilly."

As expected, each driver's time was different; they remained at the time of their own death.

Zuo Xiaqiu, he died long ago, before Liu Mo disappeared, probably two years after the female college student disappeared.

There were two missing persons before him, so he was the third person to go missing in the taxi disappearance case.

Lin Rongrong was the first to go missing.

Zuo Xiaqiu, the third to go missing.

Liu Mo, the fifth person to go missing.

Time, time is a very clear clue given in this instance.

The time of each person's disappearance is different.

Their disappearances occurred in a specific order.

The players' deaths should also occur in a specific order.

It's like a role-playing game, but it's not.

"The place I'm going to happens to be Liu Mo's address. This is probably not a coincidence," Gu Mian muttered to herself. "Does this mean I'll have the same experience as Liu Mo?"

Liu Mo was the fifth to go missing, and in a sense, he could be considered the fifth to die.

The manner of death is unknown...

Manifestation?

Gu Mian frowned.

At this moment, the young man chasing the wind was looking out the car window with some trepidation.

He always felt that if he wasn't careful, a head would fall out of the car window.

This instance is called Death Taxi, which all players know;

Therefore, everyone understands that the danger in this instance usually comes from the driver, or other passengers whose identities are unknown.

The passenger next to me seems to be safe, but the driver is acting strangely.

As the young man was thinking, he secretly glanced at the driver in front of him.

The driver was sitting tightly in the driver's seat, driving the car normally.

He breathed a sigh of relief and was about to turn back to look out the car window again.

But in the instant he turned his head, the young man's gaze swept across the rearview mirror inside the car.

Then his hair stood on end.

He noticed that the driver had opened his eyes wide and was staring intently at him in the rearview mirror.

The title is getting inappropriate again; the author can't control themselves ┓(`)┏

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