The door closed and the car started. The young man's Adam's apple trembled slightly. He tucked the umbrella between his legs, took out a dollar from his pocket and put it into the unmanned ticket machine.

With the crisp sound of coins falling, several passengers in the car all looked at the young man.

Being stared at by so many weirdos, he quickly lowered his head, as if they wouldn't notice him if he didn't look at them.

When the young man walked to the exit door, he made a very smart decision and stood by the door so that he could get off the bus first.

The No. 104 bus was shaking, and the young man held the handrail tightly. Perhaps because he was too nervous, bulging blue veins could be seen on his arms.

"Newcomer?" This should be the first time the doctor saw the young man. He raised his eyebrows, pursed his lips, but didn't say a word in the end.

After a minute or two, the young man glanced around furtively and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the other passengers were no longer paying attention to him.

Reaching into his pocket, he quietly took out his mobile phone, as if preparing to turn on the camera function.

"Taking photos is a bit too much." Chen Ge didn't want his hearse to be exposed, so he stood up and walked towards the young man when he turned his phone.

Seeing someone coming, the young man was so scared that he lost his grip on his phone and almost dropped it on the ground.

"There are so many seats in the car, why are you standing there?" Chen Ge's smile was very contagious and his voice was very comfortable to listen to.

"I..." The young man did not say that he didn't dare. Since getting on the bus, he found that his brain had slowed down and he couldn't think of a suitable reason for a while.

"Are you still in school?" Chen Ge naturally grabbed the young man's arm and said, "Sit over here, it's windy there."

Before the young man understood what was happening, Chen Ge had already pulled him to the last row of the bus.

He calculated the distance between himself and the car door in his mind, then looked at the closed car window and felt that it would be faster to break the window and jump out of the car.

"Don't be so nervous. Is this your first time taking the last bus on route 104?" Chen Ge said as if he were an older brother from the neighborhood. "You may have been misled by some posts on the Internet. In fact, the bus company does add a last bus at midnight on certain special days. I don't know the specific reason, but you can rest assured. We are all living people."

To increase his persuasiveness, Chen Ge opened his travel bag and took out the white cat: "Have you ever seen a ghost and still kept a cat?"

The white cat, who was inexplicably carried out, was very dissatisfied. It waved its claws, but couldn't touch Chen Ge, and its fur stood up in anger.

Seeing such a lively cat, the young man's fear dissipated a lot. He scratched his head, still a little uncertain: "But it's raining heavily today, and it's early in the morning, how come there are so many people on the bus?"

"There are also many people busy with their lives at night, such as telephone operators, night shift drivers, logistics security, evening show announcers, etc. Our city can develop better and better, and it is inseparable from them." Such a positive conversation seemed a bit out of place in this gloomy and scary bus, but Chen Ge didn't care at all: "By the way, what do you do? Why are you still out so late?"

"I..." The young man hesitated to speak. He looked at the other passengers in the car. There were no lights on inside the hearse. He could only see black outlines.

His palms were sweating. After thinking for a long time, he quietly put away his phone and said to Chen Ge, "I am a student at Linjiang No. 1 High School."

"High school student?" Chen Ge stared at the boy's face: "You seem quite mature."

"I repeated two years, but my condition is not very good this year. I think my entrance exam is in jeopardy, but it doesn't matter." The young man changed his tone, and there was a bitterness in his voice that didn't match his age.

"Brother, you have been repeating your studies for two years. Is there anything more important than taking the entrance exam?"

"Yes." The young man nodded confidently and took out his cell phone. "Three students from the class I was repeating in went missing. I know where they went, but the police just don't believe me."

Opening his phone, the young man found a group photo: "They are my best friends."

There are four people in the photo. A young man is standing at the back holding a basketball. A pair of twins with very different personalities are standing on the left and right. The one on the left has a gloomy look, a drooping face, and is holding a black backpack in his hand. The one on the right is staring blankly at the girl in the middle, with love in his eyes.

"How could a living person disappear?" Chen Ge looked at the high school student in the photo, his eyes fixed on the schoolbag in the boy's left hand.

In Xiaobu's game, there is a black backpack in the last row of the bus. Xiao Gu also said when he was riding in the hearse that there was a high school student in his bus, and that high school student also carried a black backpack.

"Black backpacks, identical looks, twins with completely opposite personalities..." Chen Ge vaguely understood something: "Did the three of them disappear after taking the last bus on route 104?"

The young man nodded again. "The twins' surname is Bei, which is a relatively rare surname. Although they look exactly the same, their personalities are completely different. The older brother is Beiye, who has a bad temper, is unpopular, and likes to play self-righteous pranks. The younger brother is Beiwen, who has good academic performance, is quiet and shy, and doesn't like to talk."

"The four of us live very close to each other and usually go home together. Some time ago, for some reason, Kitano and Beiwen suddenly started fighting at the station. It seemed that Kitano had always been jealous of Beiwen, and he said he had had enough."

"We didn't take it seriously at the time, and Kitano left alone. The next day I found out that Kitano didn't come home all night."

"During the break, Kitano approached us and apologized to Beiwen, which was unusual for him. Then he told us a secret. He said that after midnight, there would be a last bus full of dead people heading to the eastern suburbs."

"Of course we didn't believe it. Beiye invited us to wait for the car with him. Beiwen and I were not going to go, so he laughed at Beiwen in front of the girl."

The young man stopped talking here. He looked at his phone and became more and more scared the more he thought about it.

"And then?"

"Then all three of them disappeared, Kitano and his father disappeared on the same day, then the girl, and finally Kitano."

This order is consistent with a certain order in Chen Ge's memory. He thinks that Beiye and Beiwen are very likely to be in the world behind the gate of Liwan Town.

"Just get off at the next stop. If I meet your friends, I will bring them back."

"You brought them back? That won't work." The young man shook his head: "It took me a lot of courage to come up here..."

"If you don't want to die, do as I say." Chen Ge still smiled gently, but the young man he was staring at felt as if he was poured with a basin of ice water in the middle of winter and shivered involuntarily.

This kid was like the protagonist in a normal horror movie, but luckily, he met Chen Ge.