Big G, Coffee Machine and Goblin

Chapter 5 A Traffic Accident (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival~)

Realizing that the trap had been triggered, Ma Li suddenly became alert and became fully alert.

He immediately took out a pistol from the glove box, held it in his hand, and without getting out of the car, he started the engine, rolled down the window, crouched down behind the car door, and shouted outside.

"Who are you? I've found you, come out now!"

"Stop hiding it, I mean no harm, let's talk."

"If you don't come out now, don't blame me for being impolite!"

Considering that the person opposite might be an international friend, Ma Li repeated himself in broken English.

However, only the sound of the wind in the valley answered him.

Wait... the sound of wind?
Ma Li suddenly paused, as if something had occurred to him. The place that had been shrouded in red mist seemed to have been frozen in time; there was no wind, and even the surface of the river that flowed through the city was calm and smooth as a mirror.

This was a long-lost feeling of being caressed, although the wind just now wasn't strong, no, it should be said that it was very weak.

So... were those empty plastic bottles and matchboxes blown away by the wind?

Otherwise, it's hard to explain why the traps he set in several directions were triggered. If something were to get close, it should only have encountered one or two traps, while heavier objects like stones would have remained unharmed.

Ma Li waited a while longer, and seeing that there was still no response, he finally got out of the car and picked up the bottles and jars on the ground, along with the toothbrush that had been thrown away.

The appearance of the wind invigorated him.

This means that he may soon be able to leave the area shrouded in red mist and return to the normal world.

Ma Li opened a can of lychees to celebrate, scooping up lychee flesh with a spoon while flipping through an atlas.

A winding red line is drawn above it, starting from Xiaozhai Village. This red line represents the route Ma Li has traveled over the past two days.

The canyon is not straight; in fact, it is very winding and meandering. Ma Li could only rely on a compass to determine the approximate direction and then calculate the distance based on the travel distance on the dashboard.

The margin of error is probably quite large.

However, it can still be roughly seen that he is still in the province, um... probably in the Wuzhi County area of ​​Jiaozuo.

Maybe we'll meet other people once we get to the city!
As Ma Li thought about it, he became excited and scooped the food out even faster, finishing the rest of the can in just a few bites.

He then eagerly started the car.

After driving for another half day, he gradually felt that the red fog outside the window seemed to be fading, the range of the headlights was becoming farther, and the light was also changing, gradually dimming.

Ma Li glanced at his phone; it was just past 2 PM.

Of course, this time was fabricated out of thin air, so it's normal that it's inaccurate.

It was clearly nighttime outside.

Ma Li became increasingly excited, and he pressed the accelerator harder and harder.

Finally, at 16:14, he drove out of the red fog completely.

Although it was not quite what he had expected, the valley took a sharp turn halfway through, taking him further and further away from Jiaozuo and bringing him closer to Zhengzhou to the south.

But in any case, he escaped that unsettling, deathly red mist.

Ma Li rolled down the car window, feeling the slightly earthy breeze blowing in from outside. Even the dark and deep night in front of him became enchanting.

He could even hear insects chirping, their calls so melodious. They're back! They're all back!!!
The vibrant world he once knew has finally returned completely!

Ma Li was already fantasizing about finding a hotel after arriving in the city, ordering takeout, and taking a bath while eating.

But the next moment, his joy turned to sorrow as a loud bang came from the front of the car!
Ma Li hurriedly slammed on the brakes.

Due to the immense inertia, he was thrown towards the steering wheel, but fortunately, his seatbelt came into play at the critical moment, locking instantly and pulling him back from the brink.

In addition, the off-road vehicle wasn't going very fast. Even though Ma Li had already gone all out, it was only going less than 30 kilometers per hour. He was basically unharmed, but the guy outside was a different story.

Ma Li shifted the SUV into Park, pulled the handbrake, hurriedly opened the car door, and jumped out.

He almost jogged around to the front of the car, but quickly froze.

He did indeed bump into some creature.

But Ma Li couldn't be sure what it was.

It has a humanoid shape, but it is very short, only about 1.4 meters tall, about the same height as a ten-year-old child. This is why Ma Li did not notice it before.

In addition, its skin is dark green, like a frog's, and its head is also pointed with almost no hair, because it got stuck between the bull bars of the G300p after the collision.

The enormous Mercedes-Benz logo was almost embedded in its ugly left face, and its protruding tawny eyes gleamed with a fierce light.

However, it should already be dead, its limbs hanging limply, and its armored body drooping as well, after all, it had just used its head to take the brunt of a 3.5-ton off-road vehicle.

Even the hardest skull cannot withstand such a blow; he would probably have been sent away on the spot.

Ma Li looked at him strangely; he couldn't help but feel that this thing resembled a goblin, a creature often found in fantasy novels. He even found a spiked hammer on a nearby pile of stones, which, if he wasn't mistaken, was this goblin's weapon.

But this is Henan, and it's very close to Zhengzhou. Why would goblins appear in Henan?

Ma Li's brain was starting to overload, and the excitement he had felt from escaping the red mist gradually faded.

Something's wrong! What went wrong?!

Did he take the wrong turn?

Even if we're not in Henan right now, we shouldn't have encountered goblins, right? Or is this actually some kind of lifelike robot, or some kind of trendy cosplay?

If it's the latter, he'll be in big trouble, which is equivalent to a traffic accident, and the person he hit is very likely a minor.

Thinking of this, Ma Li quickly squatted down, intending to get closer and study the strange creature in front of him that resembled a goblin.

However, just as he bent down, something flew past his head, and at the same time, he heard footsteps in the distance.

Ok?
Ma Li turned his head and saw a figure in the beam of the headlights.

She was a chestnut-haired girl wearing a brown leather breastplate, a linen blouse with a belt, a short-handled sword hanging at her waist, and a longbow on her back.

She moved nimbly, like a deer, and as her tall leather boots leaped and twirled across the rocks, the distance between them rapidly closed.

However, perhaps because he was facing the headlights, he didn't realize there was someone standing there until he was almost in Ma Li's arms.

She paused for a moment, then grabbed Ma Li's arm.

(End of this chapter)