"Have you seen my child?"
A voice floated past Xiao Gu's ears, and in his sight, the woman in a red raincoat in the distance turned her head and seemed to glance at him.
Shivering, Xiao Gu involuntarily took two steps back.
"What's wrong with you?" The doctor stood up and wanted to support Xiao Gu with great concern. There was a strange smell on him.
"It's okay, it's okay." Xiao Gu looked back, and when he got closer he realized that the doctor seemed to be wearing nothing under his white coat.
His expression instantly became interesting, and Xiao Gu waved his hands to avoid the doctor.
"I'm glad you're okay." The man in the white coat kept smiling and stood next to Xiao Gu for a while before returning to his seat.
Forcing a smile, Xiao Gu clasped his hands together, goose bumps appeared on the back of his hands: "This guy seems to be a pervert. What kind of people did I meet tonight?"
Xiao Gu really wanted to get off the bus and leave, but when he thought of the red raincoat waiting for him at the station, he became conflicted again.
Between the perverts and the evil spirits, he thought about it and felt that it would be safer to stay in the car. Although the passengers around him were strange, at least they were all human beings.
Huang Ling's cell phone rang several times on the way. The man on the other end of the phone kept asking her where she was. Even if Huang Ling told the other party her location, the man would call again after a while to ask where she was.
After repeating this several times, Huang Ling felt that the man was being unreasonable and simply turned off her phone.
"You promised me so many times but never did it. Now you feel remorse?" Huang Ling seemed to have suffered a lot of grievances. Through chatting, Xiao Gu roughly figured out Huang Ling's situation. Her husband had no job and called himself a freelancer. The family was supported by Huang Ling alone.
After the phone was turned off, the car became quiet again, and occasionally a child's cough could be heard.
Heavy rain flooded the city. Bus No. 104 was speeding on the long and endless road. No one knew where it would end up.
"We were clearly driving in the city, but it felt like we were getting further and further away from the city. There was no sign of people, and it looked so desolate."
All the lights in the buildings outside were off, making it feel a little strange.
A few minutes later, we arrived at Liwan Shopping Mall Station, and the front and rear doors of the bus opened amid the cold synthetic broadcast.
Xiao Gu leaned against the glass and took a look. The woman in the raincoat was standing at the edge of the platform, silently looking at the bus.
"I guess she will appear at the door next time. How about I wait until she gets on the bus before getting off?" Xiao Gu was thinking about a plan to escape when he suddenly heard a quarrel from the other side of the platform.
They made a lot of noise, the woman's voice was shrill, the man was hysterical, and they seemed to have hit each other.
Turning his head to look towards the station, Xiao Gu saw a man and a woman pressed tightly together, hugging each other, and arguing fiercely.
The man wanted to get in the car, but the woman tried her best to keep him, scratching and biting him, and just didn't want the man to get in the car.
"What's going on with these two?" Xiao Gu shrank his neck: "They are arguing so hard, why don't they separate? Are their bodies stuck together?"
The bus stopped for a minute, and ultimately the man did not get on the bus due to the woman's frantic obstruction.
The vehicle started and slowly drove out of the bus stop.
"It rained for an hour, but the two people's clothes were still dry. It seems that they have been arguing at this bus stop for a long time." In the blink of an eye, when Xiao Gu looked at the bus stop again, the quarreling couple had disappeared, and only the red figure was left on the platform.
"Where are the people?" He stood up and wanted to open the car window to see, but he failed after trying for a long time. The car window lock seemed to be broken.
"This is so weird." Xiao Gu felt more and more uneasy: "Could that couple also be ghosts? But they behave just like normal people, there is no difference at all..."
Holding the phone tightly, Xiao Gu looked at it and thought of the doctor and the previous report again.
"Liwan Mall? Something seemed to have happened at this stop too!" Xiao Gu flipped through his phone and found the news about the couple who had set themselves on fire in the mall. The accompanying picture on the webpage was blurred. The couple was hugging each other, the flames were burning, and they could never be separated again.
"What a coincidence, isn't it? The doctor and the couple are exactly the same as what was said in the news. Aren't they human? Ghosts can also take the bus?" Xiao Gu glanced at the doctor across the aisle. The man in the white coat was staring straight at Huang Ling, as if he was fantasizing about something dirty.
"No, such a pure guy shouldn't be a ghost, just a pervert."
The bus continued to move forward, and no one got on the bus for several stops in a row. However, Xiao Gu discovered something strange: every time the bus passed a stop, the driver would stop at the station for one minute.
Xiao Gu wanted to get off the bus several times, but when he saw the woman in the raincoat on the platform, all his courage disappeared.
The situation was not what he had planned. The woman in red was getting closer and closer to the bus, but she was not going to get on. She just stood outside the back door, as if she was waiting for someone.
"Why is she so obsessed with this car?" Xiao Gu became more and more scared the more he thought about it. Finally, he took out his phone, opened the address book and found Chen Ge's number: "It's not a good idea to call Brother Chen directly. If I really encountered a ghost, wouldn't this implicate him?"
Xiao Gu couldn't make up his mind, and finally had no other choice but to send a message to Chen Ge.
He wrote down everything that happened tonight, and after making sure there was nothing missing, he sent it to Chen Ge.
While he was editing the text message, bus No. 104 arrived at the next stop, Donggang Reservoir.
The vehicle stopped, footsteps were heard on the platform, and three men who were soaking wet walked onto the bus.
They all lowered their heads, their clothes were soaked by the rain, they were silent, and without inserting any coins, they got on the bus and walked straight inside.
The driver ignored the three people, but from the sweat running down his chin, it could be seen that he was very nervous.
After the three men got on the bus, they sat around Xiao Gu, and one of them sat in the seat next to Xiao Gu.
A fishy smell wafted past his nose, and Xiao Gu moved towards the car window.
It looked even scarier when they were closer. The three men looked like they had just been pulled out of the water, with pale and wrinkled skin.
Xiao Gu didn't dare to read on, so he took out his cell phone and sent the edited message to Chen Ge.
The vehicle started again, and apparently because it had entered the suburbs, the body of the vehicle shook and slowly left the Donggang Reservoir, officially entering the eastern suburbs of Jiujiang.
Drops of water fell from the men's bodies. The three men's eyeballs bulged outwards. Their heads swayed gently with the vehicle, and their bodies slowly approached Xiao Gu.
After the vehicle completely left the station, Xiao Gu's phone vibrated and Chen Ge sent him a message.
"Can you call me? It's urgent!"