He offered his grand plan: 'Let me tell you, the best way to deal with being stuck in a ghost loop is to open the window, then stick your head out and look at the road outside while driving. Never look at the road through the windshield because the image on the windshield is fake, it's an illusion made by ghosts.'
'Nonsense! What if a car comes from behind? Won't your head get smashed? Haven't you heard the government slogans — don't stick your head or hands out of the window.' I scolded Xiao Hei.
'Alright, then I have another method.' Xiao Hei said.
I couldn't help thinking that this guy really has a lot of methods, but unfortunately, they're all bad ideas. What he should really be doing is thinking of ways to avoid being disciplined by the officer and also figuring out how to keep his mouth shut.
'Come on, tell us.' A Ming added fuel to the fire.
'Ahem.' Xiao Hei cleared his throat and said seriously, 'Then we just sit here and wait, wait until midnight passes, and drive at 1 a.m.'
'You…' Jian Zai clenched his teeth and glared at Xiao Hei, looking like he was about to explode in anger.
Fearing that Jian Zai might rush up to smash Xiao Hei, I acted as the peacemaker and said, 'Let's drive. We'll drive first. Maybe if we go a bit further, we'll find the camp.'
Jian Zai looked at me, said nothing more, and roughly put the map away. Then he pressed the accelerator again and drove the military vehicle that was parked by the side of the road into the darkness.
Military redeployments are common; a unit moves from the old camp to the new one to station there. Our task this time was to go to the next camp for reconnaissance to prepare for the troops' redeployment the day after tomorrow.
Generally speaking, reconnaissance is not done during redeployment, but the location for our redeployment this time seemed strange. It was a long-abandoned camp, and even the officer who issued the order to us had never been there. Because of this, the responsibility of the four of us became extremely significant.
After the earlier atmosphere, which felt like an argument, the four of us in the car fell silent. I was about to start a conversation to break the awkwardness when suddenly a mobile phone rang, startling all four of us.
'Whose phone is that?' A Ming asked, his voice trembling.
'It's now ** twelve o'clock. I suspect it's a ghost call, you must not answer it!' Xiao Hei said nervously.\Jianzai took out his phone and glanced at the incoming call display, then said, 'Idiot, it's the boss calling.'\I have a good relationship with both Jianzai and the officer, so we habitually refer to the officer as 'boss' in private.\'Boss, we're still on the road,' Jianzai reported the situation to the boss.\Through the phone, I could vaguely hear the boss's voice: 'Still on the road? Haven't you found that camp area yet?'\'Can't find it. There are no signs on this stretch of road, not even streetlights. We can only drive slowly. This map is correct, right?' Jianzai asked the boss.\Xiao Hei sat in the back seat. He took out a McDonald's paper bag, grabbed some fries from it, and stuffed them into his mouth. We didn't tell the boss that, in fact, we had stopped midway to buy dinner at McDonald's and KFC.