The Cursed Car and Its Ghostly Road

[Mystery and the Supernatural] [A Deadly Trial] [Truck Driver’s Weird Tales] [749 Bureau] [Chinese-Style Swordsmanship] [Folk Horror] [Fate]

“Uncle Shi, hit the brakes! There’s something in front of the truck...”

Screeeech!

“What?”

“Uncle Shi, you just hit someone!”

“There’s nobody there. You’re seeing things.”

“It was a kid! The truck bounced when we ran over him. We should get out and check.”

“Wasn’t that just a speed bump?”

Though Shi Guang was sure of himself, better safe than sorry.

So he hopped out to take a look, muttering as he went:

“If we really did hit someone, we’ll tell the insurance company. Times are tough. We’re all just doing our best to get by.”

Xiao Jie pointed excitedly at the road ahead.

“Uncle Shi, there’s a paper effigy up ahead, and it’s coming this way!”

“Well, would you look at that. Something nasty really is blocking the road. Don’t worry, Xiao Jie. It’s just a paper tiger. We’re truck drivers. We don’t scare easy.”

With that, Shi Guang stomped on the accelerator and drove the truck straight at it.

“Kid, you’re in for a wild ride!”

A fortune-teller said Xiao Jie was born with the fate of a Heavenly Child, destined to face a trial every seven years. After the third trial, he would surely die.

His twenty-first birthday was less than a week away. To stay alive, Xiao Jie had no choice but to take a wrecked semi-truck as his godfather. But just as he escaped one danger, he fell into another, setting off on a strange journey alongside the driver, Uncle Shi...