I heard this and stepped on the brakes, parked the car at the entrance of the service area, and then asked Wu Tinghan in disbelief, "Are you kidding me?" This is not the same road as you went to Xiejia Village. How could it be the service area you entered?
Wu Tinghan asked me, have you ever seen an open service area without anyone in it?
I was shocked when I heard this, because through the front windshield, I clearly saw that there was indeed no one in the service area in front of me! At the gas station not far away, there seemed to be a figure, but it was too far away to see clearly.
Anyone who has entered the expressway service area knows that no matter what time it is, as long as you enter the service area, you can see people inside. Even if there are no passengers, there will be staff there. There is no one like this, it shouldn't exist at all.
Even in those deserted service areas, some people who are tired from driving will move the warning cones and park their cars to take a rest, but here, there is no one.
Impossible, this is absolutely impossible! Warning cones have been placed on the highway to block the road. If you want to continue moving forward, you must pass through the service area. Even if there is no one in the service area, there must be vehicles driving in.
But it's been several minutes since we came in, and we haven't even heard the sound of an engine, let alone a car.
I was completely dumbfounded and kept denying it. They were obviously two different roads. How could they enter the same service area?
Zhang Hazi said that it was impossible to do anything without it. Those people just moved the service area from that road.
It was impossible to move a real gas station, at least not in such a short period of time, so I thought of the paper toll station that Zhang Hazi and I encountered on the way to Xiejiacun, so I asked Zhang Hazi Son, is this also a masterpiece of your lineage of papermakers?
But Zhang Hazi shook his head and said it didn't smell much like it.
Doesn't it smell like it?
In addition to your sensitive ears, your nose, Zhang Hazi, has also become better now?
Zhang Hazi said that there is not much smell of paper dripping here, but there is a strong smell of cement dripping. It smells like the work of masons.
It turns out that Zhang Hazi can really tell it from the taste. But why don't I smell the smell of cement? Isn't the air here exactly the same as before?
Zhang Hazi said, if you can smell Lao, are you Ha, or Ha, Tue, Mai?
I didn't dwell on his sarcasm, but asked him, what is the mason's method, and is there any way you can break it?
Zhang Hazi shook his head and said, "I don't know. I don't even know what this is. I know it, but I don't know it."
You don’t even know? What to do? Wu Tinghan had nothing to do with this thing, and finally drove to Huilong Land inexplicably. If you, Zhang Hazi, couldn't do anything, wouldn't we be trapped in here forever?
Zhang Hazi didn't say anything. I looked at Wu Tinghan again and asked her, think about it, what did you do to drive out of this service area?
Wu Tinghan thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I didn't do anything special, I just kept driving forward. When I realized that I had driven out, I was already returning to Longdi." In desperation, I told Ma Yurong to cover the car with straw and wait here for you to rescue me.
She said with some frustration, if I had known how to drive out, I would not have used the painted ground as a prison to protect myself. I would have turned around and walked back. Even if I encountered this service area again, I would have just driven past it. There is no need for it. I'm asking you to save me.
Wu Tinghan is a strong person, and he has always been worried about troublesome us rescuing her, so when he said this, he inevitably felt a little guilty. But in fact, she was overthinking it. Both Zhang Hazi and I felt honored to be able to do something for her.
Especially for me, I have always owed them so much. If I can help occasionally, I will feel a sense of atonement.
At this time, Zhang Hazi said, "Haha, it's frustrating. Drive forward and see what's going on."
So I released the brakes and drove directly along the edge of the service area towards the exit without entering the service area.
When I passed the gas station, I finally saw clearly the true appearance of the figure. It was just like what Wu Tinghan described, with a white face and rosy cheeks. He was a paper man who was on par with others! With a smile on his face, when he saw us approaching, he stretched out his hand to greet us and asked us if we wanted to come on.
Even in broad daylight, I couldn't help but break out in cold sweat when I saw this scene, not to mention what a terrifying scene it would have been for Wu Tinghan when he encountered this scene at night.
Without any pause, I stepped on the accelerator and drove straight over, then took off the exit ramp and drove along the highway.
The light was better during the day, and I could even see the reflection from the road not far ahead because it was too flat. But when I drove straight past, the scene in front of me suddenly transformed into a service area, and the car just happened to be driving. Entrance and exit ramps.
It seemed so sudden together, but the car drove so smoothly, and there was no sense of frustration when the car entered another space or somewhere. It was as if it was supposed to be driving like this, without any abruptness at all.
After entering the service area, I parked the car not far from the entrance as before, trying to stay as far away from the gas station as possible.
Then I asked Zhang Hazi if he had discovered anything?
Zhang Hazi shook his head and said, "It's hard to talk about haha for the time being. You can start again and pay attention to the sound of water" (dialect, code word).
I didn’t know what Zhang Hazi was going to say in code, so I kept my ears open to listen while driving. But when I drove into the service area again, I didn’t hear Zhang Hazi’s code word, so after parking the car, I asked him , did you just say a code word?
He shook his head and said, before he had time to speak, you start again.
So I repeated it again, and then kept listening with my ears straightened up. I heard Zhang Hazi say the word "step", and then drove a short distance, and before he could say anything else, he appeared in the service area again.
I asked Zhang Hazi what stepping on meant. We had never discussed it before.
Zhang Hazi said, I forgot about old age for a moment, if you try again, I will think about old age now.
I felt that Zhang Hazi was amusing me, so I opened it again, but this time Zhang Hazi only said two words "Cai Yi", and the interval in between was a bit long, and it sounded like "Cai---" -Clothes'.
Not long after the word "Yi" was said, we returned to the service area.
I asked Zhang Hazi what 'Cai Yi' meant and why it sounded like a girl's name.
He asked me in surprise, don't you know the meaning of this code?
Let me tell you, you didn’t tell me in advance. I already knew what it meant.
Zhang Hazi slapped his forehead and said, I am careless. I thought you knew, so I only said the first two words. In fact, there are three words behind. If you open it again, I will explain it completely this time, and you will know what it means.
So I repeated it again. As a result, before Zhang Hazi could say anything this time, we returned to the service area.
I parked the car and asked Zhang Hazi what the hell he was doing. I agreed to listen to his code words, but in the end he either didn't say anything or only said one or two words. How could I know his intentions?
Hearing this, Zhang Hazi smiled and said, there was no secret code in the first place, just to fool them, otherwise I would have known what was going on in this service area?
