Previously, because of the unfamiliar environment, Zhang Yangming did not have time to think too much. He just wanted to find a way to escape from that strange environment as soon as possible.

So when he saw the bus appear, Zhang Yangming grabbed a life-saving straw and got on the bus without thinking, hoping that the bus could take him back to a crowded and familiar place.

But now, after getting in the car, I saw the specific scene inside the car!

Zhang Yangming's brain, which had not been thinking much due to fear, finally calmed down.

However, what Zhang Yangming found strange was not why a bus suddenly appeared here. After all, there was already a bus stop on the road nearby.

The main thing is the time now! It's almost eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening.

Why do buses still exist?

Even if there really is a night bus that Zhang Yangming doesn't know about.

But the bus he got on at this moment was so old that it was outrageous.

If I remember correctly, this style of bus was only available when Zhang Yangming was a child, and it is an extremely old model that has long been eliminated by now.

If Zhang Yangming had not personally ridden on this model of bus again now, he might not have been able to recall this old model of vehicle.

Looking at the small space inside the car, there are only seventeen seats in total from front to back.

And there seemed to be a lot of dark stains on each seat, although the dark red stains could not be seen clearly due to the darkness.

But for some reason, the slight smell of blood coming from the tip of his nose made Zhang Yangming feel that those stains were dried and solidified blood clots.

A bone-chilling feeling suddenly surged in Zhang Yangming's heart, causing him to tremble all over.

And just at this moment.

A "creak" sound suddenly occurred.

The front door that was originally open was closed again, and the space inside the car seemed even darker.

I took out the mobile phone in my hand, and it prompted me that the battery was running out, with only 70% to 80% left.

When I was running earlier, perhaps because I accidentally pressed the power button, the rear light that should have been turned on was turned off.

Regardless of the fact that the battery was almost exhausted, the fear in the darkness continued to grow in Zhang Yangming.

He just wanted to turn the rear lights back on to provide a little light inside the car.

But at the moment when the rear light was turned on, Zhang Yangming felt his breathing suddenly stagnate.

Because he found that he seemed to be right.

The blurry stains on the empty spaces were actually bloodstains that had already dried and solidified.

After swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Zhang Yangming stood stiffly in the car.

For a moment, he even forgot to find a seat to sit down, and it was obvious that Zhang Yangming was not willing to sit down on these dirty chairs.

At the same time, for some reason, Zhang Yangming subconsciously and quietly shone the rear light of his mobile phone towards the driver's seat.

This time, he clearly saw the driver's extremely stiff face in the driving seat.

But the bus driver ignored him.

Out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly saw a piece of paper stuck next to the driver's seat.

With the help of the rear light of his mobile phone, Zhang Yangming could barely see that there seemed to be some words written on it.

Passenger travel guide for bus route 444.

1: When passengers enter bus No. 444, they must not have any conversation or contact with unfamiliar passengers.

…

While Zhang Yangming was looking at the bus guide, he unknowingly...

The front door opened again.

Zhang Yangming looked out the window.

The scenery outside the window was still extremely unfamiliar to Zhang Yangming.

Even Zhang Yangming began to doubt whether the scene outside the window was really a scene somewhere in Qiucheng.

At this moment, a hunchbacked old lady slowly hobbled towards the car from the front door.

Having one more person on the bus should have been a good thing for Zhang Yangming, who was alone at the moment.

But for some reason, the moment the old lady got on the bus, the already cold environment inside the car seemed to become even colder.

The light from the phone's rear lamp shone on the hunchbacked old lady.

Zhang Yangming could clearly see a strange expression on the old lady's face as she slowly walked towards him.

"Do you recognize my grandson? Do you know where he is?"

A hoarse voice came from the old lady's mouth, and Zhang Yangming shook his head subconsciously.

But when Zhang Yangming shook his head, he seemed to have thought of something.

His eyes suddenly turned to the first item in the No. 444 bus guide that he had seen posted next to the driver's seat.

An extremely bad premonition suddenly appeared in his heart.

But the next moment, Zhang Yangming turned his gaze back to the old lady in front of him.

Then his pupils suddenly widened, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying, and the scream that had been suppressed in his heart finally came out.

"ah!"

…

Thriller Society.

In the president's office.

Becoming the president of the association means having more power than before.

But correspondingly, there are many more things to deal with on a daily basis than before.

Fortunately, there are not too many incidents of horror game players causing trouble in real life.

Even if there really are such cases, the horror game players who are causing the trouble are not that strong, and the experts in the association can easily arrest them.

And just at this moment.

Suddenly, when Xu Tianlei saw the next event, his brows furrowed.

This happened two days ago.

The source of the incident was the owner of an ordinary small company.

The general content was that an employee of their company had not come to work for two days and could not be reached by phone.

Ordinary missing cases will naturally not be included in the horror association.

Continue reading the following content. The general content is that this matter was originally reported only to the ordinary police superintendent.

But the ordinary police officers had already checked the surrounding surveillance at the first opportunity.

The surveillance footage showed that the missing person returned home from get off work as usual that night.

It was not until they passed an area where the surveillance was strangely broken on the way that they completely disappeared.

"Zhang Yangming."

After looking at the name of the missing person, Xu Tianlei read it out.

Xu Tianlei immediately called an investigator from the Horror Association and asked him to check the interpersonal relationships of this man named Zhang Yangming.

The purpose, of course, is to see if Zhang Yangming has had any conflicts with any horror game players recently and seek revenge.

After all, such things have been happening repeatedly since the advent of the game.

But of course, revenge is different for every horror game player.

Some just beat people up secretly, while the worst ones just kill them directly.

Soon the investigator came back.

Investigators from the association, who had extremely high authority, quickly investigated Zhang Yangming's interpersonal relationships thoroughly.

The reply to Xu Tianlei was.

Zhang Yangming has not had any contact with any horror game players recently.

And to be on the safe side, the investigator also thoroughly investigated the company where Zhang Yangming worked to rule out the possibility of malicious competition from competitors.

Moreover, if it was really malicious competition, they would not let an ordinary employee like Zhang Yangming disappear. It would be better to just let the company boss disappear.

And heard this series of news.

Xu Tianlei's brows suddenly frowned.

But the next moment, the investigator seemed to have thought of something and suddenly said.

"By the way, President Xu, if I remember correctly, this guy named Zhang Yangming disappeared a few days ago. The association detected strange fluctuations in the area where he disappeared, but when other investigators were sent there later, the strange fluctuations had disappeared."

As he spoke, the investigator's face suddenly turned ugly.

After hearing this, Xu Tianlei seemed to understand something, and his expression also turned ugly.

"You mean, that time, another copy was revived?"

The investigator nodded grimly.

It was originally thought that the strange fluctuations inside Qiu City detected by the association were only temporary and short-lived.

It could even be a counterattack from other revived copies that were previously suppressed by the association.

But I didn't expect that the one a few days ago seemed to be a newly revived copy? "Why is there another one? Why are there more and more revived copies recently!"

But before the question was asked, Xu Tianlei stopped talking.

Because he suddenly remembered that this period of time could be called a copy with abnormalities.

There is only the No. 444 bus copy that Li Yinchuan entered due to the copy bug on that day.

Thinking of this, Xu Tianlei's face suddenly darkened.

Although not every abnormal copy will be revived in reality.

But the copy that was revived in reality was definitely an abnormal copy.

To be on the safe side, Xu Tianlei even arranged for the investigators in front of him to check again among the game copies during this period to see if there were any other abnormal copies besides the "Bus Route 444" copy.

Abnormalities in the copy are not limited to the increase in the strength of ghosts and monsters. It may also be due to deviations in the links of the copy, abnormalities in basic tasks, etc.

But unfortunately, not long after, when the investigators returned again.

The answer given to Xu Tianlei was that during this period, except for the abnormality in the 444 bus line copy, no abnormalities occurred in other copies.

“It’s really bus line 444.”

Xu Tianlei's face looked terribly gloomy.

As a viewer who has watched Li Yinchuan's live broadcast with his own eyes, Xu Tianlei knows how terrible the No. 444 bus route is.

And there is no doubt that it is the evil spirit in the 444 bus line copy that has been revived this time.

This was definitely a copy that Li Yinchuan and his team had experienced, with a top-level green-clothed evil ghost, and not the original strongest copy that only had one top-level yellow-clothed evil ghost.

This time if the copy of bus line 444 is really revived in reality.

What they are facing is at least one top-level green-clothed evil ghost, plus several ordinary green-clothed ones.

And just at this moment.

The door of President Xu Tianlei's office was opened again.

Chang Lan walked in from outside the office.

Compared to before, the ghostly aura that emanates from Chang Lan from time to time now seems to be even more terrifying.

During the past few days, Chang Lan once again passed the new copy and once again gained the infusion of ghost energy, which greatly improved his strength.

At this moment, Chang Lan's expression also looked a little ugly.

"President, has a new copy been revived in reality?"

When Chang Lan saw the investigator checking whether there were any unusual changes in the copy during this period, he had probably guessed what had happened.

At this moment, seeing Xu Tianlei nodded in the office, Chang Lan became more certain of what was in his mind.

"It's a copy of bus route 444 completed by Li Yinchuan."

And Xu Tianlei knew that Chang Lan entered the copy a little earlier than Li Yinchuan and had no chance to watch Li Yinchuan's live broadcast.

After coming out of the copy last time, Chang Lan has been resting for the past few days and has no free time to pay attention to things in the outside world.

He gave a brief account of the unusual events that occurred on bus line 444.

When Chang Lan heard that there was a high probability that there would be a top-level blue-clothed evil spirit in the real 444 bus line copy that had been revived this time.

Even Chang Lan's expression became even uglier.

Chang Lan himself was just a top-level Qingyi player, even though he had just completed the dungeon with a good score a few days ago.

The strength improvement obtained only increased Chang Lan's combat power from the original 15,000+ to 16,000+.

This is because players are naturally weaker than real evil spirits.

Although the performance of the ghost driver was not that of the strongest green-clothed ghost.

But if Chang Lan really confronted him, he would not have the confidence to suppress the ghost driver in a one-on-one fight.

Not to mention the complete suppression of the entire Route 444 bus.

After all, Xu Tianlei has made it very clear.

In this copy of the No. 444 bus line, in addition to the top-level green-clothed ghost who is the ghost driver, there are also many ordinary green-clothed ghosts.

The combined threat of those ordinary green-clothed ghosts is not much weaker than that of the ghost driver of a top-level green-clothed ghost.

Facing such a lineup of evil spirits.

If all the masters of their association were present, it would not be difficult to suppress it.

However, because a dungeon must be completed every seven days, some experts in the association will even take the initiative to enter the dungeon to improve their strength.

There aren't many experts usually in the Horror Association.

Including Chang Lan, there is only one person with similar strength to him.

Then there are a few ordinary blue-clothed players, as well as second-level yellow-clothed players whose strength is one level lower.

And the other side.

After Xu Tianlei calculated the number of masters currently available in his association, he couldn't help but frowned deeply.

What a coincidence, if the copy revival happened later.

Perhaps if we waited for a few more experts from the association to come out of the dungeon, it would not be difficult to handle this revival incident, but it was just a few days too early.

Even at this moment, Xu Tianlei had the idea of ​​inviting a few players from the horror associations in other cities to help.

Or should I ask that person for help?

The person Xu Tianlei was thinking of was naturally Li Yinchuan.

In Xu Tianlei's opinion, although Li Yinchuan is not a member of the association.

But considering Li Yinchuan's previous attitude towards the association, although there were some unpleasant things along the way, at least Li Yinchuan did not make a big comment and did not intend to pursue the matter.

If Li Yinchuan could really take action, with Li Yinchuan's strength, it should not be too difficult to get rid of the No. 444 bus line that he had already solved once in the copy.

Of course, if Li Yinchuan is really asked to take action, the Thriller Association will naturally prepare sufficient compensation.

Otherwise, why would a civilian player who just came out of a dungeon and didn't take a good rest risk dealing with such things?

Xu Tianlei doesn't think he has that kind of face, and his superiors don't think they have that kind of face either, so they have a reasonable reward system for inviting powerful horror players from the public to come forward.

And it is precisely because of this that the Horror Association gives greater preferential treatment to stronger players.

But just at this moment.

Somewhere in the Horror Association, a strong ghostly aura suddenly appeared out of nowhere and was released.

Even this fluctuation of ghost energy was much stronger than the ghost energy that Chang Lan had previously exuded around his body.

But soon, the terrifying ghost energy fluctuations subsided.

The surprised expressions on Xu Tianlei and others' faces did not disappear.

Because they knew that a master in the association had returned from the copy.

Xu Tianlei and Chang Lan looked at each other, then hurriedly left the office and headed towards the room where the ghostly aura had been emitted.

Soon they arrived at a separate lounge inside the Horror Society.

Looking at this separate lounge in front of them, Xu Tianlei and Chang Lan's eyes were filled with more and more surprise.

The people living in this room are some of the best masters in their Horror Association.

His strength is even stronger than Chang Lan.

Chang Lan has just come out of the dungeon and his combat power is only 16,000+.

The "Fang Xiang" who lived in this room already had a combat power of over 19,000+ before entering the copy this time.

And now, Fang Xiang has once again completed the copy and returned to reality from the horror game.

After another infusion of ghost energy, Fang Xiang's strength will probably become even stronger.

Thinking of this, Xu Tianlei, who was standing at the door, knocked on the door.

Soon, the door was opened.

The person who opened the door was a very tall young man.

Fang Xiang looked at Xu Tianlei and his group, who had just returned from the dungeon and came to visit him, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

But before Fang Xiang could open his mouth, Xu Tianlei spoke first.

"Fang Xiang, you're back just in time."

Then, Xu Tianlei explained that there was a high probability that the copy of bus line 444 in Qiucheng would be revived.

"Another new copy has revived in reality?"

Fang Xiang originally frowned when he heard this.

But when Xu Tianlei said that the strongest ghost on the revived 444 bus line was just an ordinary top-level blue-clothed ghost.

Fang Xiang's frown suddenly relaxed.

"Is there only one top-level green-clothed ghost and some ordinary green-clothed ghosts in this resurrection copy?"

A confident smile gradually appeared on Fang Xiang's face.

"If the information you provided is correct, and there are really only these few evil spirits in this revived instance. With my current strength, I can easily clear this revived instance by myself."

(End of this chapter)