I Am the Youngest Son of the Gu King Who Cannot Cast a Spell [Through the Book] - Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Shen Que didn’t have the habit of sleeping in. So at eight o’clock in the morning, Gu Xiaobao, who had been tossing and turning all night, was awakened by the housekeeper. By ten o’clock in the morning, the two had already arrived at the airport.

The original owner’s hometown was Weng Na Village. The journey was very far, and it would be a waste of time to drive there. There were no suitable landing spots for a business plane, so Shen Que asked his assistant to book two tickets to the Hunan Province in the capital of Guizhou. From there, a local company would send a car to the village.

After graduating from high school, Gu Xiaobao went to work in the zoo and worked there for two years. Because he was distressed about money, Gu Xiaobao took the train every time he went home. If he had time to spare, he wouldn’t even buy a high-speed train ticket and would just take a regular green train.

So when Gu Xiaobao boarded the plane, everything looked strange and new to him.

‘So this is what the plane looks like.’ He looked left and right. After satisfying his eyes, he realized that the original owner was the son of the Gu King.

Gu King, should be quite rich, right? Then he couldn’t act too much like a bumpkin, he had to pretend to be a frequent flyer, so as not to be exposed.

Gu Xiaobao secretly observed Shen Que’s movements with his peripheral vision.

Shen Que fastened his seatbelt and buckled it.

Shen Que watched the financial news. He also operated the tablet on the seat. After turning it on, he picked and chose and found a classic movie he had never seen.

But why is there no sound in this movie?

He glanced to the right and found that Shen Que was wearing headphones. Where did that thing come from?

“Want headphones?” Shen Que asked; his doubts were too obvious.

“… No, I like to watch the movie silently.”

Shen Que didn’t argue with him and pressed the call bell. Not long after, the flight attendant came. When she saw Shen Que, her cheeks blushed slightly: “Sir, what can I do for you?”

“Get him a pair of headphones.” Shen Que tapped Gu Xiaobao with his chin.

Now there are headphones, and the headphone jack is marked and can be found, but the volume… how to adjust it?

Just now, Shen Que was discovered once, and he was afraid that he would be exposed if he looked over again.

“Brother Que,” he found an excuse and turned his head, “Is the financial news interesting?”

“You can try it yourself.”

“Oh.” Gu Xiaobao glanced quickly.

Didn’t find anything.

“Brother Que,” he turned his head again, “The weather is not very good today, it’s cloudy.”

With a “swish,” Shen Que opened the sunshade and the sun shone in.

“Heh, heh…” Gu Xiaobao chuckled dryly.

Still didn’t see it.

Looking at Shen Que’s impatient eyes, Gu Xiaobao knew that the other party was almost at his limit.

Then find it yourself.

Gu Xiaobao looked down and found a row of buttons on the left armrest of the electric seat. He planned to try pressing them one by one, and he eventually would find the volume button.

He stretched out his finger and started pressing from the first one.

Shen Que: “Want to adjust the volume?”

“No, no,” Gu Xiaobao was determined not to collapse the character of the son of the Gu King, “I know where it is.”

Shen Que simply leaned over and planned to operate it for him.

“I said I know where it is!” Gu Xiaobao didn’t let him. He caught a glimpse of a small downward triangular arrow in his peripheral vision. He felt that it was almost it. Before Shen Que’s arm stretched out, he pressed the button hard!

“Zizi–” The sound of the electric seat turning rang out!

Caught off guard, under Shen Que’s gaze, Gu Xiaobao was just like that! Straight!

Lie down!

Shen Que: “.”

Gu Xiaobao: “…”

The two of them went from staring at each other to one on top and the other on the bottom. The scene was quiet with awkwardness, awkwardness with absurdity, absurdity… and a hint of humor.

Gu Xiaobao wanted to die. He comforted himself in his heart that Shen Que came from a wealthy family and should be very well-mannered and would not laugh at others in person.

Then, Shen Que: “Tsk.”

Gu Xiaobao slowly turned to the cabin wall.

Okay, okay, in his heart anyway, the other person is already a dead person.

Dead people can’t talk, huh…

Gu Xiaobao covered himself with a blanket and finally got a little breathing space.

Panting, he fell asleep in a daze. When he opened his eyes again, the plane had landed smoothly.

The car sent by the Shen family had arrived at the airport an hour ago. Seeing the driver, Gu Xiaobao hurriedly discussed with Shen Que: “You know the situation of my family. It’s best not to let too many people know about raising Gu. And if you accidentally get Gu, it’s easy to cause death. Let’s let the driver go.”

– What he is going to do must not be known to anyone.

Shen Que: “Who drives?”

As expected, he is the eldest son, too lazy to drive the car. Gu Xiaobao gritted his teeth and said, “I drive.”

When he worked at the zoo, he took a driver’s license test so that he could work part-time as a sightseeing car driver and earn more money.

Shen Que was easy to talk to. He nodded slightly to agree, then opened the car door and sat in the back seat – the seat directly behind the driver.

Gu Xiaobao couldn’t believe his eyes. In addition to taking a taxi, he would sit in the co-pilot seat when he took a friend’s car. I believe most people do this and are more polite.

It turns out that Shen Que not only didn’t regard him as a partner but not even a friend! In Shen Que’s eyes, he was only worthy of being a driver!

Gu Xiaobao took a deep breath, got into the car, and couldn’t help slamming the door. Then he stepped on the accelerator and followed the navigation to rush towards Wengnazhai.

Bincheng is very far from Qianxiang. The plane landed at 4 pm. After driving for about two hours, it was already slightly dark.

After concentrating for a long time, he was a little tired. He parked the car at the service area and planned to walk down to ease his shoulders and right foot.

Gu Xiaobao suddenly had an idea when he saw the reminder on the sign of the service area: Drive slowly in mountainous areas.

He first secretly changed the navigation terminal, took a short rest, and returned to the highway. He drove for a while, got off the ramp at the nearest fork, and drove in the direction where there were no people and no street lights.

The Qianxiang area is full of mountain roads, with dark mountains one after another. Soon, there were more and more bends, and the terrain became steeper and steeper. Most likely, they had reached the winding mountain road.

Gu Xiaobao felt that the time was almost right and cleared his throat: “Brother Que, have you heard the story of the corpse driver?”

“No.”

It was just right that he hadn’t heard of it. Gu Xiaobao coughed twice. Because he hadn’t drunk much water along the way, his throat was a little hoarse, and he seemed sinister when he deliberately lowered his voice: “There are often corpse drivers passing by my house. I’m afraid you will be scared, so I’ll tell you about them first.”

“Chinese people believe in returning to their roots. Where you were born, you must return to where you die. So those who go out to make a living, before they feel that they are about to die, the first thing they do is to hurry back to their hometown and bury themselves in the ancestral tombs.”

“But there are always people who don’t have time to go home, or die unexpectedly outside, so someone needs to transport their bodies back to their hometown.”

“Among them, there are more transportation methods to choose from in the plains. But Guizhou and Hunan are at a high altitude, with complex terrain, a long journey, and mostly mountain roads. If the journey is too long, the corpse will easily rot, and it is difficult to send the corpse back through normal channels, so the profession of ‘corpse driver’ has evolved.”

“Legend has it that the corpse driver only needs a lantern to guide the corpse back to its hometown. Of course, to avoid being discovered by passers-by, the corpse driver will dress up the corpse to cover up the fact that they are not alive.”

“For example… like this!”

Gu Xiaobao suddenly turned his head!!!

In order not to affect the sight, the reading light in the car was not turned on, only the blue ambient light was dimly lit.

I don’t know when the boy put on the hood of his sweater, his face was hidden in the darkness and his facial features could not be seen clearly, only his stiff neck and arms could be seen. The joints exposed were bony and his skin was pale, almost exactly like a disguised corpse!

In order to act more like it, the boy even twisted his neck at a weird angle, as if his head would fall to the ground at any time.

Then he bent the corners of his mouth, waiting to appreciate the other person’s frightened look.

Shen Que just raised his eyelids, threw out a sentence “Drive carefully”,

and closed his eyes to rest.

“…Oh.”

The corpse role-playing failed, and Gu Xiaobao could only continue to play the driver.

But a smart person would never have only one plan, Gu Xiaobao also has Plan B.

He drove forward for a while, and suddenly stopped: “Hey, it seems that there is no road ahead.”

Shen Que opened his eyes.

“But that’s what the navigation said. I didn’t drive wrong,” Gu Xiaobao whispered in a voice that both of them could hear. “Why don’t you accompany me to get out of the car and walk forward to see if we are wrong? We can drive back… It’s too dark outside and I’m scared.”

The boy smiled embarrassedly. Shen Que had no choice but to get out of the car with him.

This should be an undeveloped mountain. The road is getting narrower and bumpier. At this point, the sides of the mountain road are full of mined stones. Many large stones have rolled to the middle of the road. Obviously, it is impossible to drive forward.

The vegetation is the same. There were only various trees on the roadside just now. Starting from the foot, low shrubs are connected to each other, and weeds are growing wildly.

The night gradually thickened, and with the night, there was also a thick and fishy fog. As far as the eye can see, vines are everywhere, on the ground and on the trees. The drooping branches are like ghost claws with five fingers spread out, trying to catch all the approaching creatures in the fog, and the insignificant light of the moon is almost completely blocked.

What a lousy place this is! Gu Xiaobao couldn’t help but hug his arms.

His Plan B was to find an uninhabited place to scare Shen Que unconscious, and then run away. Shen Que would have no one to turn to for help, and would most likely die there. If he encountered a wild beast, Shen Que would be lucky, and he would die quickly.

It would also be easy to explain to the Shen family, he could just say that he encountered a supernatural event in the mountains, he was lucky, and escaped thanks to the poisonous insects on his body. Unfortunately, some people can only stay in the mountains forever.

Gu Xiaobao sneered silently.

At this time, a gust of wind blew, and an unknown object waded through the bushes, making a “rustling” sound, which was extremely obvious in the deserted mountains.

Now!

Gu Xiaobao pointed to the front, slapped Shen Que’s shoulder, and shouted: “Brother Que, look what that is!”

In fact, he was pointing casually, the most important things in this combo are “slap” and “shout”.

In a dark and terrifying environment, people are already highly nervous. If there is any sudden external force, the nerves can be easily broken, and even if you don’t faint, you will be scared and run around – this is the conclusion drawn from watching horror movies.

Gu Xiaobao silently waited for Shen Que to fall on his back, or jump out like a gorilla.

While waiting, he reflexively looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a dark human figure. In front of the human figure was a beam of dim light, and behind the human figure followed several straight shadows.

No, perhaps it is more appropriate to describe them as “silhouettes”. Because their walking posture is very strange, their arms are tightly attached to the sides of the body without swinging, and their legs seem to have no knees, and they walk alternately like chopsticks.

Especially like… a stiff corpse.

“Ahhhh——” Gu Xiaobao turned around, shouted and pounced on Shen Que.

“Corpse driver——ah——ahhhh——”