Is he dreaming?
He thought the dorm room his boss had prepared for him would be nothing special, but when he opened the door, he was completely dumbfounded.
Good heavens, that's no dormitory, it's a five-star hotel! Boss, you're being too modest. No wonder you can casually pull out thousands or tens of thousands of ghost money!
In this so-called dormitory, he had everything he could want, and even things he couldn't imagine. Everything from clothing and food to housing and transportation was provided. Not to mention, even with ghost money, one might not be able to stay in such a luxurious suite outside. Now, the boss was actually giving it to him for free. He was making a killing!
Thinking of this, and recalling the Painted Skin restaurant that had initially refused to come out of disdain, the food connoisseur was overjoyed. How could this possibly be inferior to his two-star little restaurant?
Haha, that kid won't come, he'll regret it later!
'Ding, system notification: The contracted creature, the Gourmet, has increased its affinity with the host. Current affinity: 8.'
'Ding! Congratulations, host, you have a Contracted Beast Intimacy Level of 8 or higher. Unlocked one-star cabin decoration style: Minimalist Industrial Style (this style can be freely switched within the system cabin).'
Hearing the system voice in his mind, Su Luo was slightly taken aback, thinking that getting a skin for increasing intimacy was not a bad deal.
System: Okay, you're not at a loss, he's making a killing, so who's actually losing money?
"Boss, give me a mission, or I'll go eat a few annoying humans for you. Otherwise, I'm getting anxious living in this dorm!"
I've heard of rolls, but never rolls like this. He asked for the workload himself. Su Luo glanced at the gourmet. Since this ghost has made such a request, she should naturally satisfy him, otherwise it would seem that she is not close to the ghost.
"In that case, go make some food, I'm hungry."
"And while you're at it, help me clear out the wandering ghosts outside the hut. If they're willing to submit, give them some work, like cleaning the road from here to the Delicious Restaurant. If they're not, you know what to do."
"Oh, by the way, I'm going out for a bit, you don't need to come with me."
"If you don't understand anything, you can ask that robot butler."
The gourmet nodded repeatedly upon hearing this, and happily followed the robot butler to the kitchen, as if heading to paradise rather than going to work.
...
It was 11:50 p.m., the second night after the strange occurrence.
Having enjoyed a lavish meal, Su Luo arrived early at an abandoned bus stop in the suburbs of Shanshui City. The bus stop, which had not been used for many years, had long since lost its signage. The platform was overgrown with weeds and reeked of the natural stench of stray cat and dog excrement. Even the rain shelter overhead was broken and leaking, making it a pitiful sight.
In the bizarre world of my previous life, there was a rumor.
At midnight, there is a midnight bus with no known origin or destination. It slowly travels along secluded streets and stops at abandoned bus stops to wait for passengers.
Some people who happened to encounter that bus vaguely saw passengers on it, but no one knows where those passengers eventually went.
After all, no one has ever come down from up there!
Today, Su Luo arrived at this abandoned station a few minutes early, just to wait for the legendary midnight bus.
11:58, 11:59, midnight!
From afar, Su Luo seemed to hear the sound of a midnight clock striking twelve, and suddenly opened her eyes with excitement.
There is no clock tower nearby, so the sudden, eerie chiming must be related to that bus.
I never expected that just by trying my luck, I would actually run into her.
In the darkness, a faint light bobbed up and down as it slowly approached the station platform from afar.
As they got closer, Su Luo could see in the light that it was a very old bus, the kind of thing you'd only see in period dramas on TV.
Many of the outer layers of the train had fallen off, revealing the rusty copper and iron inside. Posters of popular celebrities were still pasted on the windows, but their heads had been torn off, leaving only headless bodies.
The starting and ending stations were faintly marked on the windshield of the bus, but only the characters for "start" and "end" were clearly visible; the rest of the text appeared to have been deliberately smeared over with a pen.
The peeling tires crunched on the road with a harsh, grating sound. As the bus pulled into the station and the doors opened, a pungent, unpleasant odor wafted out.
Su Luo stood in front of the car door, not in a hurry to get in, and subtly sized up the driver.
As if noticing Su Luo's scrutiny, the driver impatiently turned his head to look at Su Luo, "If you want to get on, then get on, I'm in a hurry!"
He sounds no different from a normal person.
He really seemed like a middle-aged male driver who was in a hurry to finish his night shift and go home to rest.
"Excuse me, driver, how much would it cost to take a bus to the final stop?"
"One price, one coin per person."
One yuan of ghost coins?
It was much cheaper than she had imagined.
Just as Su Luo was about to board the bus, several men and women suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Seeing Su Luo and the bus in front of her, they rushed over as if they had seen a savior, pushed Su Luo aside, and boarded the bus in two quick steps.
"Driver, hurry up! Something is chasing us!"
"What's the panic? Can't you see there's another person?"
"Driver, why are you worrying so much? That person has been standing there for so long without getting on the bus, he probably doesn't want to! Hurry up and drive, or we'll be late!" One of the girls, dressed in a white knitted shirt and looking disheveled, grabbed the driver's arm and started yelling at him, almost ordering him to drive. If she had the strength, she probably would have grabbed the steering wheel.
"Yes, Master, if we're late, we won't be able to leave!"
A man who got on the bus behind her chimed in, glancing back every now and then in the direction they had come from, as if worried that something was chasing them.
"Close the car door quickly, drive away!" The girl in the white knitwear looked at the door open/close button and reached out to press it, but was stopped by the driver.
"What's the rush? Don't you know the rules? You can't just press these buttons randomly!"
As soon as he finished speaking, it seemed that his words had triggered something, and the lights inside the bus suddenly flickered three times, alternating between bright and dim. By the time everyone came to their senses, Su Luo had already boarded the bus.
'Squeak'.
As Su Luo got into the car, the door behind her slowly closed.
'Ding! Congratulations, host, for boarding the midnight bus, triggering the eerie one-star dungeon: Midnight Hearse. (Note: This dungeon has hidden rewards; with exceptional luck, a hidden boss may be triggered.)'
'Ding! Congratulations, host! The second bizarre instance has been triggered within three days of the bizarre arrival. Clearing this instance will grant you the basic rewards, plus a certain amount of building materials for a small house, and a surrounding city wall (this wall can protect a radius of ten miles around the small house, with the same defense level as the small house, and its area can be increased).'
Special Note: If the host completes this instance within 24 hours and there are more than one passenger on the bus, a special reward will be given: a bus key.
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