Tinker Not With Relics Chapter 8

The area of the car window that was wiped by the tissue soon became misty again, and the shadows of the fields and trees became blurred again, but Erick Qi still maintained the posture of looking out the window, and it was unclear whether he was in a daze or thinking about something.

"What are you looking at?" Ryan Xu asked, glancing at him out of the corner of his eye.

"Oh, nothing." Erick Qi played with the slightly wet tissue with his fingers and looked away. "It's not easy to live in this area. The houses are too far apart. It must be quite scary to live here at night. It seems that there are many dogs. On the way here, the dogs barked non-stop from far and near."

"Dog barking?" Ryan Xu stared at the road ahead intently for a while, then quickly turned his head to look at Erick Qi and said with a smile: "What kind of ears do you have? Why didn't I hear the dog barking?"

Erick Qi said "Hey hey" twice, pointed at the windshield wipers that were swaying left and right in front of him, brushing away the fog on the car windows, and said, "Look at your road when driving, don't look at other places. The roads are slippery and foggy in snowy weather. The dogs are barking in the fields, and the car windows are closed, so how can you hear them clearly? It's normal that you didn't pay attention while driving."

Ryan Xu said "Oh".

"How far is it?" Erick Qi was still crumpling the tissue in his hand, without looking up, looking like he was eager to do something.

Ryan Xu replied: "Soon, it won't be long."

Erick Qi responded with a "hmm" and nodded.

This time Ryan Xu's estimation was correct. After driving for about ten minutes, he looked around, finally slowed down, and finally parked the car on the side of the road.

There was a dirt road leading out of the parking lot, but it was a little narrow, so it was a little difficult to drive the car in, especially since the ice and snow on the ground had turned into muddy black mud, which spread all over the way. Even if you could barely drive in, if you weren't careful, you could easily slide into the fields beside the dirt road, which would be quite troublesome.

"Here?" Erick Qi asked Ryan Xu in surprise. Then he was too lazy to take the tissue and just wiped a piece of the car window with his fingers and looked outside.

At the end of the dirt road, there was a small hill that looked like a pitiful grave. In front of the hill there were a few trees blocking the wind. Through the trees, a gray house could be vaguely seen. Light similar to that of cheap neon lights and simple signs shone through the branches.

"Well, it's just behind that tree. It's a farm house. Although the decoration is not very good, the food is quite good!" Ryan Xu and Erick Qi got out of the car one after another. He locked the car and turned up the hood of his down jacket to cover his head to block the wind and snow. While leading Erick Qi along the dirt road, he pointed to the end of the road.

Erick Qi held the umbrella and took him under it, then couldn't help but look back at the roadside. There were dozens of private cars parked there. They were probably people who had rushed over from the city just like them to have dinner, and they all had to get out of the car and walk across the dirt road.

But it was already past mealtime and everyone who had come had already gone in. Apart from him and Ryan Xu, there was no one else on the entire dirt road.

There are no street lights on both sides, only a few sparsely scattered tall trees, which seem to have been planted here casually. They are completely bald. It is a joke to expect them to block the wind. Their only function is to make this dirt road dark and gloomy after nightfall.

Erick Qi was afraid of stepping into a puddle, so he had to take out his cell phone and turn on the flashlight to take a look.

The weather was unusually cold. After walking a few steps from the car, his hands became cold, and he even had trouble holding his phone. He moved his stiff fingers and was about to unlock the screen when a dog suddenly barked not far from his feet. Erick Qi was so shocked that his hands trembled and the phone fell out of his frozen hands and fell to the ground with a "bang".

The road that had just been somewhat lit up suddenly sank back into darkness, and the dog's barking was just the beginning.

Its barking seemed to have attracted the interest of other dog neighbors in the wilderness, and they all joined in the barking, one after another. From the looks of it, it seemed that some of them were even running towards this side.

Erick Qi was not afraid of dogs, but he had never been surrounded and barked by so many dogs from far and near, so he froze in place as soon as he picked up the phone.

He didn't know if it was because the light from his cell phone screen was too conspicuous on the dark dirt road that it attracted the guard dogs and wolfhounds. So his fingers, which were about to turn on the flashlight on his cell phone, paused, as he did not know whether to turn it on or not.

But soon, he found that it was not the case.

With the not-so-bright light from the phone screen, Erick Qi discovered that the dogs not far away didn't seem to be about to pounce, but just crouched down, their fur flying, their teeth bared, and made threatening noises. But their postures also seemed to be defensive, as if they would run away if Erick Qi and Ryan Xu made any move.

With this idea in mind, Erick Qi tentatively took a step forward with his umbrella. This time, he discovered another problem - the dogs didn't even move their heads, still maintaining their original posture and angle, staring in the original direction...

And now, only Ryan Xu is still standing there.

Are these dogs targeting Ryan Xu?

Erick Qi was confused for a moment... If they were guarding against strangers, then why did they only guard against one of them and completely ignore the other?

Just as he was stunned, a small ball of pitch-black thing brushed past his feet, quickly and lightly jumped onto a branch nearby, and disappeared into the night, leaving only a pair of eyes emitting a faint glow.

With the limited light from the phone screen, Erick Qi felt that it should be a black cat.

The moment he saw the black cat, Erick Qi suddenly remembered a sentence he had heard somewhere before -

Cats and dogs kept making noises at night, maybe they saw something dirty.

The black cat squatting on the tree meowed very softly.

Erick Qi's heart skipped a beat and it was as if he had hit a pool of ice water when he fell. He shuddered from the cold and the weird and somewhat uneasy feeling he had been feeling along the way also came up again.

Ryan Xu, who was half a step away from him, finally took a step, and the soles of his shoes made a slight sound of water scraping against the ice and snow.

The slight sound of water was like someone throwing a firecracker in front of the group of dogs in front, causing them to turn around and run away without hesitation for a second. However, they still barked softly as if they couldn't control their mouths while running away.

Before Erick Qi could recover from the sight of the dogs running away, he felt a hand suddenly on his left shoulder.

He took a breath subconsciously and his body trembled violently.

"Chengzi---" Ryan Xu was stunned for a moment, then walked to where they were shoulder to shoulder with each other, smiling, "How could you be so scared by a group of dogs?"

Erick Qi patted his chest and laughed dryly: "Yeah, probably because he has never been surrounded by so many dogs before, and they are all wolfhounds. The people here are the same. The large dogs are not tied up." At this moment, he was extremely grateful that the road was dark enough and the flashlight on his cell phone was not turned on, otherwise the stiff expression on his face would be clearly illuminated.

"Let's go." Ryan Xu said, and was about to put his arm around his shoulders and walk forward.

Erick Qi struggled subconsciously and pretended to be relaxed: "Walk properly, are you going to let me hold the umbrella with your paw on it?"

Ryan Xu laughed twice, and seemed to let go of his hand without caring, and took the lead and took a step forward: "Why hold an umbrella? Just put on a hat. It's not snowing much now, so you can only get a few snowflakes. You are the only one who is so picky!"

Erick Qi felt that his words seemed to be no different from usual. He suddenly felt that he had really let his imagination run wild. That night he had the nerve to tell Team Leader Nathan that he didn't really believe in ghosts and gods. But only two days later, he slapped himself in the face.

He attributed his previous suspicion to the overly atmospheric environment, then shook his head and cleared out those messy discussions about gods and ghosts.

"It's a skill to have such a dark road. I'll turn on the flashlight." Erick Qi opened the screensaver on his phone, raised his head and said to Ryan Xu who was one step ahead of him. At the same time, he complained about himself in his heart: I must have watched too many novels and movies to be able to associate that kind of thing with Ryan Xu. How is it possible? The materialistic scientific view has gone to hell. Before he finished complaining, he was dazzled by something in the pocket of Ryan Xu's down jacket the moment he turned on the flashlight on his phone.

His hands were in his pockets before, so Erick Qi couldn't see anything. Now he took his hands out and pulled down the hat on his head. The pocket was half-opened by his hands, but he hadn't closed it yet, so he could vaguely see a small section of the thing inside. That small section happened to be the gold-plated interface, and when the mobile phone's flashlight shone on it, it happened to reflect some light.

That thing was none other than the gold-inlaid jade bracelet that was allegedly stolen by Sister Olivia but disappeared inexplicably.

Erick Qi just took a step forward and suddenly froze there.

Ryan Xu, who had already walked a few steps, suddenly turned around without any warning and stretched out a smile. The smile only moved a piece of flesh around his mouth, making him look stiff and cold, not like a living person at all.