My Sister Never Said She Was a Creepy Tale - Chapter 98

The car Yue Yiyue had booked stopped in front of her, two hours before the appointed time.

The appearance of this vehicle felt somewhat familiar; from the moment she got in, Yue Yiyue felt she might have ridden in this car before.

But seeing the sign on the front with white characters on a black background, clearly stating, “Please do not open the window,” that concern was dismissed.

Settling in and fastening her seatbelt, Yue Yiyue took out her phone to report her whereabouts: “Mom, I’m going out for a while now. Please take care of yourself over there.”

There were many things she wanted to say to her mother, but Yue Yiyue didn’t know where to start. In the end, she just hit the enter key and sent the brief message first.

After sending the message, Yue Yiyue looked at the green bubble in the message interface, her fingers stroking the phone.

Something outside the window seemed to be pressed against the glass, letting out a sharp, piercing shriek. The slight noise caught Yue Yiyue’s attention, and she looked out the window with a disturbed mind.

The trees on both sides were lunging at her menacingly, occasionally making terrifying movements, and the birds perched on them watched the person inside the car with a predatory gaze.

So, that’s what the sign means, Yue Yiyue thought, losing interest. She returned to her phone, pondering how to say a decent goodbye to her mother.

She was reluctant to leave, truly reluctant.

Yue Yiyue wasn’t sure if she could return safely.

But she couldn’t dump everything onto Yu An either.

She spent a long time tapping and typing in her memo app, feeling conflicted.

The driver beside her suddenly clicked her tongue: “These trees nowadays, they really have no tree-virtue.”

“A few days ago, a branch even tripped me, and then a pigeon swooped by.”

She scratched her slightly frizzy hair with annoyance: “That thing carries a virus; if you catch it, you’ll turn into a pigeon-headed monster. You should be careful too. The thing in front of you—press it. There’s a hat inside. It’s better to wear it than not.”

Hearing this, Yue Yiyue tilted her head in curiosity: “Huh? Why is that? Well, Master, you must be quite lucky then. Thank you, but I probably won’t need it.”

Turning into a monster might actually be a good option.

The pigeon-head was quite powerful before, and her own resentment is very abundant. Perhaps she would become even stronger after monsterization.

Yue Yiyue pondered with a touch of dark amusement.

“Of course,” the driver interrupted Yue Yiyue’s thoughts. She subconsciously tapped the steering wheel with her pinky finger: “What are you doing at that place?”

“That’s the Zhou family’s territory. They are currently very enthusiastic about creating a god.”

Yue Yiyue paused, recalling what Wu Zhen had mentioned: creating a god…

Is it that ‘Greed’?

“It started with the Wu family, but the Wu family wasn’t up to the task,” the driver seemed a bit drowsy due to the long driving time.

She yawned: “Now it’s the Zhou family. I wonder how long the Zhou family can hold out.”

Yue Yiyue, who had been sitting lazily, straightened up immediately upon hearing this information. She turned her head to look at the driver, who was wearing a tight-fitting black sweater with sleeves rolled up to her wrists: “How did you… how do you know this information?”

“Huh?” The driver’s pale hand pointed to the radio beside her. A broadcast came on, reporting on the Zhou family’s situation.

“You’d know if you watch more TV and read more newspapers,” the driver yawned again: “I listen to this channel often; sometimes they play love songs or something.”

Yue Yiyue listened to the report, which stated that since Zhou Qingyi returned from her studies in City A, she had quickly taken control of the entire Zhou Corporation, taking the reins from her older sister and annexing the Wu family within a week.

Given this situation, Yue Yiyue realized who this online friend was.

Ye Qiu… she might know something about her family.

After all, her profession is related to this, or at least somewhat…

But if she tells Ye Qiu, Gu Nanqiu will surely know once she wakes up.

Yue Yiyue looked at her phone, feeling indecisive. She needed more information.

“Listening so intently?” The driver significantly slowed down the car. Only then did Yue Yiyue realize something had happened up ahead; there was a traffic jam.

A trip that should have taken thirty minutes had now turned into an hour.

It’s a good thing I habitually left an hour and a half early, Yue Yiyue felt a slight sense of relief for her habit of starting early.

“Do you have a lover in that Zhou Corporation?” The driver tapped the steering wheel again, asking with a slight, knowing smile: “If you’re going at this time, your relationship must be truly strong.”

“No, I don’t.” This driver’s comments are a bit out of line, Yue Yiyue thought, annoyed. Does everything have to revolve around romance?

Well, alright, I am going for Gu Nanqiu, so in a way, it is related to romance.

“I just have an online friend who said she was being controlled by her sister and could only send me messages,” Yue Yiyue tried to make the situation sound a bit lighter, less oppressive: “I’ve had a pleasant time chatting with this friend, and I happen to have some free time, so I’m going to help her out.”

“I thought it was just a simple family dispute at the time, but listening to this, it seems I might have unintentionally gotten entangled in these matters of the Zhou family.”

The driver listened and nodded: “I see. You’re a really good person, willing to wade into these murky waters for a netizen you haven’t even met. You are a true woman, and women are often so loyal.”

At this, the driver changed her tone: “However, I heard that this ‘Big Zhou’ is very clever and wise. Perhaps this could lead to a beautiful—”

“In your eyes, must I end up with this ‘Big Zhou’ person?” Yue Yiyue was somewhat unable to understand the thinking of this unfamiliar driver, who couldn’t go three sentences without mentioning relationships.

Does she have some kind of KPI to meet?

Yue Yiyue was confused, but her good upbringing merely prompted her to explain again: “I’m sorry, I already have someone I like. Please stop making wild guesses. I’m going purely to help a friend.”

The car suddenly braked hard. The sky immediately darkened, and Yue Yiyue was quite surprised to hear the faint rumble of thunder outside.

Yue Yiyue felt a strange sense of panic, an inexplicable feeling she had never experienced before.

She did her best to ignore this weird sensation and continued with what she wanted to say: “She’s sleeping at home waiting for me, but I haven’t confessed yet, so I can only say I have a crush on her.”

Yue Yiyue touched her phone and emphasized again: “Don’t think this is some kind of gossip. I truly have no excessive thoughts about her.”

The thunder outside gradually subsided. Up ahead, someone dressed in a traffic police uniform seemed to be directing the congested lane.

When the car got closer, Yue Yiyue saw that it was a traffic light directing traffic.

Yue Yiyue rubbed her eyes. This world is truly insane, and she felt she understood a little bit now.

This is not bad.

“That’s a mutated traffic cop,” the driver said with a hint of excitement, explaining the situation to Yue Yiyue: “He failed his promotion, drank too much, and was about to harass someone, so the traffic light conveniently smashed him to death and is making him atone for his sins here.”

“It’s quite interesting, too.”

“How do you know so much?” Yue Yiyue looked at her curiously. This driver truly likes to talk. Could it be that she heard or talked about all this with other passengers on the road?

Noticing this point, Yue Yiyue suddenly realized that perhaps she could ask the driver.

A former colleague had told her that being a driver was more interesting than being a delivery person.

You can listen to gossip and chat with passengers from all over.

Sometimes, you can even get some tips.

“Do you know roughly what the current situation is with the Zhou family?” Yue Yiyue pressed further: “How much do you know about their family, and did you hear anything else?”

“I have money. Name your price, and I’ll transfer it to you.”

The driver raised an eyebrow: “That won’t be necessary.”

“However, we’ll arrive at the destination in just five minutes, and the matter…”

“Besides, there’s no place to stop there…”

“Keep driving. Drive around the perimeter; there’s no rush,” Yue Yiyue understood that the driver wanted to take a detour and change the destination: “Drive back and then drive back again, or I can book another ride with you.”

“Besides, this isn’t safe. It’s not advisable to follow a driver’s instructions to change the destination or end the order early, as these all contain unstable factors.”

“There’s a coffee shop over there that looks nice. Do you have time to sit down and chat with me?”

Yue Yiyue looked at the coffee priced at $520 a cup, the milk tea at $999 a cup, and the fried noodles at $1314 a bowl.

She checked her balance—no problem. Yue Yiyue generously handed over the menu, willingly “buying” information.

The driver took out her phone, fiddled with it for a moment, and then passed it over: “Order yourself.”

She shifted into a more comfortable position, glanced at the time, and saw there was still an hour left until the time set by this distinguished customer.

She rested her chin on her hand: “A few days ago, there was someone from the Zhou family, I think she was a nanny.”

“She said that their Big CEO Zhou had been acting erratically recently, always saying that ‘the world wasn’t like this,’ and the Little CEO Zhou, unable to bear it, invited a highly skilled doctor to treat her.”

A server beside them brought the milk tea and placed it on the table: “Please enjoy.”

After speaking, the server lowered her head and walked out.

Only after confirming the server had left did the driver continue: “Later, a bodyguard took my car while on the phone. I overheard some things, something about needing someone’s blood, or something similar.”

She took a sip of the milk tea, which tasted the same as Yue Yiyue’s: “They need to find someone named Gu, claiming it’s the Little CEO Zhou’s order.”

“In some dark corners, a warrant has already been issued. That bodyguard said she still felt that the Little CEO Zhou’s actions were wrong, and she was preparing to find a way to leak the information.”

The driver sighed with emotion: “Sometimes I’m really glad that I’m a woman. She’s just like you, worried about the safety of someone she’s never met.”

Hearing this, Yue Yiyue’s heart skipped a beat, and her hand trembled, partly with regret and partly with confusion.

The last time she saw Zhou Qingyi, she looked quite normal.

The information the driver provided was quite complete. In just the time it took to celebrate the New Year, Zhou Qingyi had undergone a very strange change.

Whose doing is this?

But after listening to the driver, Yue Yiyue could roughly guess what Zhou Qingyi wanted to do next, what she planned to do.

The good news: Zhou Qingyi probably doesn’t know where Gu Nanqiu lives.

The bad news: It’s easy to get Gu Nanqiu’s specific location through school records.

What if I go to Zhou Qingyi’s place, she finds out Gu Nanqiu hasn’t arrived, and she goes crazy, resorting to extreme measures to capture Gu Nanqiu?

Yue Yiyue stood up abruptly, nearly knocking over the milk tea in front of her.

She awkwardly steadied the cup: “Thank you. Something just came up; I need to make some arrangements.”

After speaking, Yue Yiyue immediately took out her phone and urgently sent messages to the forensic doctor and Yu An. Feeling that wasn’t safe enough, she sent new messages to Ye Qiu, Gu Nanqiu, and Curator Qiu separately.

This isn’t safe, Yue Yiyue thought, walking towards the outside: “Excuse me, I need to go out and make a phone call first.”