Chapter 2464 — Journey to the Desolate Village
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The car slowly drove into the desolate village. At the village entrance stood a giant archway, giving off a bleak gleam in the moonlight. Wang Xinyan instinctively shrank back, and Kang Jinglong happened to catch the sight, so he could not help saying, "It's just a broken archway. Seen in daylight, it's about the same as a soccer goal—nothing to make a fuss about."
However, after entering the desolate village, the car carrying Wei Zhao turned off its course, heading in a direction entirely different from the convoy ahead, and drove onto a small path branching off from the village fork...
"Why aren't we taking the same road as the cars ahead?" Wei Zhao, being more observant, had noticed this problem and asked.
"Oh, every expedition car has its own route. If they all clustered together, there'd be no sense of adventure, and the fun of exploring the desolate village would be lost." The expedition car's driver had long since prepared his explanation, so when Wei Zhao asked, he spoke up at once.
"Is that so?" Wei Zhao frowned slightly. He had not seen how the very first car had gone, but at least the two cars ahead of them should have been traveling the same route, one behind the other without splitting up, so he rather doubted the driver's words.
"I say, Wei Zhao, are you scared? If you're scared, just say so—don't make up so many excuses!" Hearing Wei Zhao's words, Kang Jinglong grew all the more certain that Wei Zhao was somewhat faint-hearted. True, Wei Zhao was a peak mid-Earth-Rank expert, and he had not even changed expression before the robbers or the Heaven-Rank giant soft-shelled turtle—but that did not mean he had no weaknesses.
Fear of ghosts had nothing to do with one's rank of strength. Many people kept a heart of awe toward the unknown. If Wei Zhao was especially sensitive to things like ghosts and monsters, then fear was only natural.
Wei Zhao wanted to ask a few more questions, but since Kang Jinglong had said his piece, Wei Zhao could not be bothered to ask further. Within the bounds of this resort, nothing too serious could possibly happen no matter what. He simply felt there was something off about the car's route, which was why he had asked.
But then again, even if there was something wrong with the route, Wei Zhao did not care. What could be wrong? The driver wanted to rob them? That would be pure suicide.
After the car turned onto the branch path, the small road was noticeably much harder to travel—bumping up and down. Though the expedition car had been modified, it still had some difficulty on such a surface.
"Why is this road so hard to travel?" The doubt in Wei Zhao's heart deepened. If each car's exploration route was different, he could just barely believe that—but that this road should be so difficult, that he could not believe!