Su Jinyan didn't interrupt Xia Linyin. After listening carefully to what Xia Linyin said, a smile slowly appeared on her lips. "Didn't you two notice it before?"

Xia Lin was speechless. Indeed, apart from Su Jinyan, the other three were all covered in cold sweat and pale-faced, clearly looking like they had been chased by a ghost.

Although her expression remained relatively calm, her hair and clothes, soaked with cold sweat, betrayed her inner fear.

“Ghosts can sense your fear. This task is too easy for ghosts. Not to mention ghosts, I could tell at a glance that you guys are players. A beginner game can’t be this difficult,” Su Jinyan said, shaking his head.

"Jinyan, you don't need to pay attention to her. This kind of person is just pretending to know what she doesn't. Jinyan, do you have any ideas? What should we do?" Bai Xueer called Jinyan affectionately, her tone sweet and coquettish, and her full breasts rubbed against Su Jinyan.

Su Jinyan completely ignored Bai Xueer and looked at Xia Linyin, saying, "However, as the game gets harder and the players' mental fortitude improves, it's not hard to guarantee that there will be a setting that lets the ghost discover that you are a player. At that time, you will have to learn to control your fear and not let the ghost see through you."

"Like you?" Xia Linyin asked. He couldn't see any fear on Su Jinyan's face. His expression was as calm as if he didn't know that this was a ghost bus.

How strong must a person's mental fortitude be to do that? Is he really a novice player?

Su Jinyan paused for a moment, then slowly raised the corners of her mouth, "Yes, like me."

"How many games is this?" Xia Linyin asked.

"The second one." As if seeing through Xia Linyin's thoughts, Su Jinyan rarely talked about his real life. "First, I am a doctor in real life. Second, I have criminal tendencies. If I hadn't been pulled into this game, I might have become a perverted serial killer because life was too boring, just to seek thrills."

In reality, Su Jinyan is a doctor who is used to seeing life and death but is meticulous in his work and highly skilled in medicine. At night, he is surrounded by endless emptiness and loneliness, and nothing can arouse his interest. It wasn't until he was pulled into this game that his heart started to beat again and he found a sense of excitement.

Hearing Su Jinyan calmly state the fact that he would have become a psychopathic killer, and seemingly feel some regret about it, Xia Linyin forced a smile.

"Wow! Jinyan, you're amazing!" Bai Xue'er exclaimed exaggeratedly, then looked at Su Jinyan and said sweetly, "Jinyan, you have to protect me! I was just pulled into this game, I don't know anything, I'm so scared..."

“I will protect you, but not without expecting anything in return. You will need to pay me five ghost coins. Moreover, the protection I'm talking about is just helping you out when I can, and I will not be responsible for your lives. So you need to think it through.”

As soon as Su Jinyan finished speaking, Bai Xueer immediately said, "No problem, Jinyan, I'll give you all that damn coin you want, you have to protect me, okay?"

"What are ghost coins?" Zhang Yaya asked cautiously, her heart filled with worry and anxiety. What would she do if she didn't have any ghost coins?

Su Jinyan pushed up his glasses. "The rewards for completing the task are: the higher the difficulty of the game task, the more Ghost Coins you get."

The reward for completing the mission, which they could only receive after surviving, was now a question of whether she could even survive, let alone consider any reward.

If you lose your life, what's the point of a reward? You won't get it anyway. So, surviving is the most important thing.

After thinking for a moment, Zhang Yaya nodded and said, "Yes, I'm willing to give you the ghost coins. I hope... I hope you can protect me."

"What do you mean by protecting you? Didn't you hear Jin Yan say that he would only help you when he could? Jin Yan is busy enough protecting me alone. I'm warning you, you're not allowed to distract Jin Yan!" Bai Xue'er possessively took Su Jin Yan's arm.

"Bai Xue'er, I hope you'll stop rubbing against me. I'm not interested in your body. I'm only interested in—" Su Jinyan smiled gently, but her words sent chills down one's spine, "corpses."

Su Jinyan lowered his eyes to look at Bai Xueer's arm that was linked with his. Bai Xueer couldn't help but shiver. Su Jinyan's gaze... was terrifying.

It felt as if a cold dagger was gently slicing across her arm.

Under Su Jinyan's gaze, Bai Xueer awkwardly let go of his arm.

Xia Linyin frowned in thought. Su Jinyan was a person indifferent to life and death, yet he was willing to protect unrelated people for the sake of ghost coins. This proved that ghost coins must be an important thing, and they had great uses.

Furthermore, this is only the first game. As Su Jinyan said, in this game, no one can rely on anyone else; you can only rely on yourself. If she needs to rely on others to survive in the first game, the outcome is already predictable.

The game will only get harder in the future, not easier.

It is absolutely foolish to place your hopes on others!

Moreover, Su Jinyan has made it very clear that he will only help when he can. It doesn't mean that making a deal with him guarantees your life 100%. Danger still exists. They are dealing with ghosts, and Su Jinyan himself is also facing danger.

After thinking it through, Xia Linyin relaxed her brows and looked at Su Jinyan with a firm gaze, saying, "I want to rely on myself."

Seemingly unsurprised by Xia Linyin's decision, Su Jinyan didn't say much, but his gaze swept over Xia Linyin's chest without making a sound, and he smiled lightly. Who said that girls with big breasts are brainless?

"I got on the bus relatively late. Did you discover anything before me?" Su Jinyan asked, her smile fading.

"Besides the boy in front of me and the little girl next to him who got on together, someone else gets on at each bus stop. I asked the middle-aged woman in the big floral dress, and she thought it was the number 17 bus—"

Bai Xueer interrupted Xia Linyin, saying defiantly, "Jinyan, let me tell you, I didn't want to get on the bus, but no matter which direction I ran, I always ended up back at that bus stop, like being trapped in a ghost wall. It was pitch black all around, and I was afraid there were ghosts outside, so I got on the bus. Luckily I got on, otherwise I would have disappeared from head to toe like that bald man, and you would never have seen me."

“Not getting on the bus is equivalent to choosing to give up the game, and players who give up the game will be directly eliminated,” Su Jinyan explained. After thinking for a moment, he looked at Xia Linyin and asked, “You just said that one person will get on at each bus stop. Do you remember the order?”