Guiding Hand 02

指引着我的手 02

It was then that I heard someone say my name, very clearly from the back seat of the car and felt a hand on my shoulder. Naturally I freaked out and my instinct was to take my foot off the accelerator and pull back into the lane I had come from and check if someone else (namely an axe wielding maniac as per urban legend) was in the car, however, a quick glance in the rear-view showed no one in the back seat.

As I moved my eyes from the rear-view mirror back to the darkened highway ahead, a dark blue Holden Commodore sedan, it’s headlights off, flew past me straddling the two lanes of the highway, doing what I estimate to be about 160km/hour. Its speed was such that it rocked my vehicle as it passed. Had I moved into the other lane at the time I had planned, the driver would not have had time to slow down and I have no doubt that I would have been killed...the realization of this was what made me pull over to the side of the road.

就在这时，我听到有人叫我的名字，非常清晰地从车的后座上传来，我还感觉到我肩膀上搭着一只手。我当然吓得魂飞魄散，凭着本能，我赶紧松开油门，把车开回我之前的那条车道，想看看我车里面还是谁(就像是电影《都市传奇》里的那个拿着斧头乱挥的疯子)，但是我从车子的后视镜里却没看到后座上有人。当我把视线重新从后视镜移回前方漆黑的高速公路时，一辆深蓝色的holden commodore轿车从我身边呼啸而过，时速我估计有每小时160公里，车子跨线行驶，而且前灯也没开。要是我刚才像我想的那样开到另外一条车道上，那个司机肯定没时间减速，那样毫无疑问我就没命了。想到这个，我把车停在了高速公路一边。