Xia Linyin raised the mirror in her hand, and the mirror clearly reflected her pale face. She tried to act as if she was fixing her hair in front of the mirror.
As she tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear, she slightly tilted the mirror to show the direction behind her—the direction from which that gaze was coming from!
The feeling of being firmly locked onto by a strong gaze suddenly vanished when she looked in the mirror!
The makeup mirror only reflected the figure of the man sitting in the last row. He remained in the same position, motionless like a statue.
Xia Linyin stared intently at the mirror, observing the man through it, when suddenly the car door opened with a "whoosh".
Xia Linyin shuddered. The sudden "sizzle" startled her so much that she almost dropped the mirror she was holding, even though she was highly focused!
"Heh—" A pleasant chuckle seemed to come from behind.
Standing next to the bus stop sign was a somewhat overweight, balding middle-aged man. He looked at the bus with an expression of extreme fear on his face.
The bus driver neither urged them to hurry nor drove off, but waited quietly.
The middle-aged woman felt that the driver's behavior was a bit strange. To be honest, she felt that everyone on this bus was crazy; not a single one of them was normal.
I feel uneasy traveling late at night; I always feel like something is about to happen.
Seeing the middle-aged man hesitate to get on the bus, as if there were some man-eating monster inside, the middle-aged woman became even more furious. "Do you even want to get on the bus or not?! If you don't want to get on, then get the hell out of here!"
The middle-aged man, yelled at by the middle-aged woman, backed away step by step, shaking his head vigorously like a rattle drum, shouting, "I won't get on the bus! I won't get on the bus! I don't want to get on the bus!"
Then she yelled "Ahhh!" and ran away.
He's like a madman who just escaped from a mental hospital.
The boy wearing headphones stared dumbfounded at the middle-aged man running away. "Is this guy... sick?"
The driver finally closed the doors, and the bus started moving again.
Xia Linyin turned to look at the middle-aged man who had already run far away behind the bus, and a scene that sent chills down her spine unfolded.
The middle-aged man, who was screaming and trying to escape the bus, gradually lost his legs, leaving only half of his body moving. Then only his head remained, and finally, even his head disappeared.
The middle-aged man's entire body looked as if it had been erased from head to toe by an eraser.
Besides Xia Linyin, the woman in the suit was also among those who witnessed this horrifying scene.
A perfectly healthy person vanished right before their eyes, leaving no trace whatsoever.
They all knew why the middle-aged man didn't get on the bus: because it was a ghost bus, and there were ghosts on it.
Middle-aged men are definitely gamers; is this the consequence of not getting on board?
The woman in the suit trembled, her lips turning pale. A wave of fear washed over her. Thank goodness, thank goodness she hadn't gotten on the bus.
Thank goodness, thank goodness she didn't get off the bus.
Time ticked by, and outside the car window was pitch black, without a glimmer of light.
The bus driver, the old woman carrying a bamboo basket, the young man wearing a baseball cap, and the girl in white with flowing long hair—compared to the other three NPCs, these four people all seemed a bit abnormal. Xia Linyin mentally drew a red line between them.
The dim light from the streetlights came from ahead; it was another bus stop!
Xia Linyin clenched her fist and prayed silently, "Player! Player! It must be a player!"
A man in a white shirt and black suit pants stood in front of a bench, his slender body casting a long shadow on the ground.
He wore a pair of silver-rimmed glasses on his high, straight nose, which made him look very refined and handsome.
When the bus stopped in front of him, he didn't hesitate at all and stepped onto the bus with his long legs.
Xia Linyin saw not a trace of panic on his handsome face, and couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. He was probably just an NPC.
After scanning the area, the bespectacled man walked straight to the back of the bus and sat down behind Xia Linyin and the others.
The bespectacled man sat down, leaned forward, and asked softly, "Player?"
Like a cello slowly opening, a warm and magnetic voice entered Xia Linyin and Zhang Yaya's ears.
Although the tone was questioning, it carried more of an affirmative meaning.
Xia Linyin's eyes flickered, and a look of surprise flashed in them.
Zhang Yaya turned to the bespectacled man with even greater excitement, "How did you know we were players? You... are you a player too?"
"What?! You're a player too!" The woman in the suit lunged forward, grabbing the man's wrist tightly as if it were a lifeline.
The bespectacled man frowned slightly as he looked at the woman in the suit gripping his hands tightly. He then put his long, slender index finger to his lips. "Shh!"
Zhang Yaya and the woman in the suit immediately shut their mouths, but their eyes were still excitedly looking at the man, silently conveying their desire.
"First, beautiful lady, please let go of my hand," the bespectacled man said politely. He pushed up his glasses, the clean lenses reflecting a bright light, making it impossible to see his gaze.
"I'm sorry, I got too excited." The woman in the suit blushed and glanced shyly at the man with glasses, then casually pulled down her neckline, revealing a hint of her black bra.
The bespectacled man didn't glance at the erotic scene again. He continued, "Second, although we may all die in this game and never cross paths again, let's still get to know each other. My name is Su Jinyan."
"I...I...my name is Zhang Yaya." Zhang Yaya stammered nervously, not daring to even look at Su Jinyan's handsome face.
Even before Su Jinyan got into the car, she thought this man was incredibly handsome, no less so than a popular celebrity. Now, seeing him up close, she was even more impressed by his skin, which was so smooth that it would make any girl jealous. It was so flawless that you couldn't even see a single pore.
"My name is Bai Xue'er. My dad is the mayor of City A. If you save me—"
Su Jinyan raised her hand to interrupt Bai Xueer, "No one can save anyone in this game. The only one who can save you is yourself. Also, no matter who you were before, you are insignificant here. We are all just pitiful people who have been dragged into this horror game."
Hearing Su Jinyan's words, Bai Xueer bit her lip in resentment.
"Xia Linyin." Xia Linyin didn't waste any more time on this, but lowered her voice and asked, "We're so obvious right now, won't the ghost notice us? Hmm... I mean, our mission is to find the ghost, and the ghost hasn't made a move yet. Could it also have a mission, like finding the players and killing them, or is the game restricting it from accidentally killing NPCs?"
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