I'm the mayor of a simulated ghost city

When they left Hei Lian's house, it had already dark. Lu Yao had originally planned to have a meal at Hei Lian's house, but after waiting for a long time, she didn't see her sixty-year-old sister-in-law come back.

Strangely enough, Lu Yao had already vaguely noticed that something was wrong with Hei Lian.

He kept talking about his sister-in-law, but Lu Yao didn't see any trace of her in the house.

Yes, indeed, she saw her sister-in-law’s clothes and shoes, even their wedding photos, as well as all the daily necessities and evidence of their love, but the only thing missing was... traces of a living person!

Half of the leftovers in the kitchen are always thrown away, and although the shoes in the shoe cabinet are always cleaned, no one wears them to treat foot ulcers...

Of course, Lu Yao didn't mean to smell it, but her nose was there and she couldn't help but smell it.

"Lao Hei...you haven't been single for too long, have you imagined a wife?"

Although Lu Yao had thought about it, looking at Lao Hei's condition, it seemed that he had no wife so he made up one, but he would not make up a sixty-year-old woman. Moreover, the things in the house also proved that his wife did... exist.

So, she just took the courage to send her ghost babies to check Lao Hei's house, but there was no sign of ghosts in his house.

Looking at it this way, we can only draw one conclusion - Lao Hei’s wife is imaginary!

But why did he imagine a wife? And he made it look real.

Just as he was thinking about this, Lu Yao's mind once again recalled the system's prompt sound: [Beep beep... Mayor, you have triggered the fire truck mission that disappeared at the end of the night. Please resolve it as soon as possible. Mission prompt - I never thought I was wrong! You are the ones who are wrong! ]

Hearing this, Lu Yao said impatiently: "Okay, okay, got it. Am I not on my way there now? You are asking for my life every day. I haven't even blamed you for shortening my life so much!"

Lu Yao raised his watch and saw the countdown to his remaining nine years of life.

I could only sigh and put aside the question of Lao Hei for now. Although I always felt that something was wrong with him, it seemed that he was in a healthy mental state. I would talk about it later. Maybe Lao Hei's problem would surface as we were doing it.

Therefore, solving the fire truck incident is the top priority! After all, the system is a piece of shit. Once it is triggered, if it is not solved immediately, it will cause trouble again.

Upon hearing this, the system said shamelessly: [What can I do? I am a bad system. You can’t do anything about it. Quickly deal with the creator of this game.]

"Heh." Lu Yao was almost laughing at it. "I want to find out who he is, why am I wasting time with you? Come to think of it, do you have a grudge against the creator of this game? You complain, slack off, and rant about it just because you don't agree with him. I really doubt that you and the game are not the same boss."

As soon as the words fell, the system returned to silence.

Seeing that it didn't move for a long time, Lu Yao paused and said, "Could it be that I'm right?"

The system remains silent.

Lu Yao: “….”

OK, let's not say anything. Back to the fire truck question...

Lu Yao thought that he had arrived at the subway station, got on his own subway, and recalled what Black Face said later: "According to Old Black, Deng Youwei stole the fire truck and disappeared, and Zhang Zhiwei also bid farewell to the fire department in order to find him. So, these two people are pretty good..."

Having been in contact with people in the police system for a long time, Lu Yao probably knew it.

There are some feelings that you really won't understand unless you're in it, but if you're in it, you'll have a little understanding of their comradeship, brotherhood and sisterhood, and love that goes through life and death together.

He Jing's obsession, Officer Gao and Han Dong's feelings, even her senior sister, they all have something more than their lives to sacrifice for in the police station.

Therefore, Zhang Zhiwei went to find Deng Youwei who was gradually going astray. It might be hard to understand logically, but everyone could understand the emotion.

As for why Deng Youwei went astray, it was because the fire truck incident mentioned by Lao Hei had a follow-up -

Shortly after Deng Youwei stole the fire truck, another accident occurred on the road near Lingzikou Tunnel, causing a vehicle fire.

At first, everyone thought it was an ordinary incident, but unexpectedly, traffic accidents kept happening one after another on that section of road, and every time there was a traffic accident, a fire broke out.

Gradually, rumors began to spread that there were too many vengeful spirits accumulated on that section of road, so it was a cursed "highway".

Due to such rumors, fewer and fewer people left, and the nearby village, where the owner of the car lived, was gradually emptied.

But this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is... every time a traffic accident occurs, there are always witnesses who see a fire truck appear at the scene of the road and then disappear into the darkness soon after.

There is a rumor that "Deng Youwei was dissatisfied with the punishment he received that year, so he stole a fire truck. However, during his escape, he had a car accident, the car was destroyed and the people died. The vengeful spirits harmed the passing vehicles!"

When Lao Hei and his group heard this rumor, they didn't take it seriously because they were atheists. But Zhang Zhiwei took it very seriously because he didn't want his good brother to bear such a bad reputation.

So Zhang Zhiwei left the fire department and began to look for Deng Youwei.

At first, Zhang Zhiwei kept in touch with Team Hei and his team, but gradually, until one day, the contact was cut off and Zhang Zhiwei never heard from them again.

Along with the missing fire truck, their whereabouts are unknown.

Now all that's left is some after-dinner gossip - the Lingzikou Tunnel is not clean.

......

While thinking, Lu Yao came to a subway station near Lingzikou Tunnel, walked out, and walked about a kilometer, then he saw the maintenance sign hanging on the main road.

"The Lingzikou Tunnel was closed five years ago, and was not repaired until last year and resumed operation. Unexpectedly, a traffic accident occurred again only half a year later, and it had to be closed for repairs again. Apparently, this was the opportunity for Shengui Radio to receive the fire truck mission."

According to Lao Hei, many traffic accidents have occurred in the Lingzikou Tunnel section, and they have occurred almost every year from 10 to 20 years ago.

So, the official explanation is that the road conditions here are limited, leading to frequent traffic accidents. The folk explanation is that it is naturally haunted.

Regardless of which side's statement is true, the Lingzikou section has been closed.

However, this is a road that runs from east to west, and we can’t just ignore it. So the government repaired it for a few years and put it back into use. Unexpectedly, a car accident occurred again half a year ago. Now it seems that this car accident was really caused by the resentment of the fire truck...

Thinking about this, Lu Yao climbed over the yellow warning line of [Closed for Maintenance] and walked inside.

Just as I crossed the warning line, a cold wind suddenly blew towards me.

The familiar air conditioning, the familiar sense of emptiness, the familiar darkness without even street lights...

There's no escape! There's a ghost here!

Lu Yao turned on the flashlight and shone it forward. In an environment without even the sound of cicadas, he saw a pitch-black tunnel 500 meters ahead. It was bottomless and looked like a bloody mouth that could eat people.