Chapter 124: Aren’t you going to get on the bus?
The next day, Lin Zhuyue sat up from the bed and stretched out lazily, feeling refreshed.
She smelled a fragrance similar to citrus peel in the room. She looked towards the bedside and found that a diffuser had been placed on the cabinet at some point, and there was a bottle of navel orange essential oil next to it.
The smell of navel orange is sweet, yet soothing, unlike those scents that give people nightmares.
Most likely, Shican put it here on purpose.
Lin Zhuyue got up, washed, and walked down the stairs in her slippers.
Shi Can was drinking fish porridge in the restaurant. On the table were a clay pot and an empty bowl with a white porcelain spoon resting on the rim, as well as a large basket of basil and basil leaves. The leaves were still green, and must have been picked not long ago.
Shi Can stood up, picked up the empty bowl, filled a bowl of fish porridge for Lin Zhuyue, and said:
"Three Cups Chicken for lunch."
Lin Zhuyue accepted the fish porridge and thanked him. After taking a few sips, she placed her phone on the cinnamon dog holder, swiped the screen twice, clicked on the video, and ate while watching.
Shi Chan asked, “What are you looking at?”
"Urban legend."
Lin Zhuyue brought the mobile phone stand over so that Shican could see the contents on the screen.
"The Yuancheng haunted bus incident is quite famous. Have you heard of it?"
The haunted bus incident happened at the end of the last century, when neither Lin Zhuyue nor Shi Can were born.
But this urban legend was so famous that Shi Chan knew it almost by heart, repeating it without blinking:
"Three 'people' dressed in ancient costumes and without legs appeared on a public bus. An elderly woman on the bus noticed something was wrong and started arguing with a young man sitting in the back seat. She then forced him off, claiming she was going to the police station to resolve the dispute. The bus then disappeared and was found two days later, overturned in a reservoir. Everyone on board was dead."
Lin Zhuyue asked curiously, "Is it true or false?"
“Maybe it was fake at first.”
Shi Can looked at the video on Lin Zhuyue's phone and said,
“But if more people pass on the information, it will become true.”
Lin Zhuyue tilted his head in confusion.
After breakfast, Shican put the short-legged cat Xiaoyu into the backyard in the name of "basking in the sun".
As for the baguette, its legs weren't particularly long, but it had a history of climbing onto the ceiling by scraping wallpaper, so Shi Chan refused to let it out into the yard without a leash.
What should I do if I climb over the wall?
Just as Baguette was staring at the little fish who was obsessed with chewing the lettuce, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can's cell phones rang at the same time.
Lin Zhuyue turned on the screen and saw a message from "Duan Junheng", asking her and Shi Can to go to the office building to receive the commission.
"Our teacher...he feels uncomfortable when you're idle for a moment. He even refused to let you rest during the time between the preliminaries and the semi-finals."
Shi Can picked up the small fish with one hand, returned to the house, and said to Lin Zhuyue who was doing the stress relief activity of "crushing and freeze-drying",
"How about a box of freeze-dried chicken breasts to keep you occupied while you're on your way to the mission? Anyway, the two cats at home aren't picky, they'll eat you even if you grind them into powder."
"No need."
Lin Zhuyue shook his head and put the freeze-dried crumbs back into the box.
"When you squeeze it, the crumbs go everywhere. It's easier to clean up at home, but it's really troublesome when it gets in the car."
After bringing the cats back to the cat room, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can set off for the office building.
Today was Saturday, and the rematch of the four-school league hadn't even begun yet. For both students and faculty, today was considered a holiday. The office building was practically deserted, save for the robot vacuum cleaners assigned to it by the Spiritual Master's Mansion, toiling away.
The sweeping robot spit while sweeping.
"The area being cleaned is too large, and the dust bag hasn't been changed in a long time, so there's no room left for the dirt."
Shi Chan diagnosed the sweeping robot that was walking close to the edge of the room.
"My office building previously bought robot vacuums to reduce the workload of the cleaners, but they didn't buy enough. This happened within a few days... Later, they added a few more robot vacuums to each floor, and the situation improved."
"Come to think of it, would you be disgusted by hearing such a thing?"
Lin Zhuyue asked: "Why should I be disgusted?"
Shi Chan teased, "Are you disgusted by your own kind being oppressed by humans?"
"Disgusted, extremely disgusted!"
Lin Zhuyue wanted to slap Shi Can twice now.
"If you remove your human registration and install the household registration of a sweeper again, I will copy all the contents of your computer's other hard drives and put them in the C drive!"
Shi Can was not threatened at all and said calmly:
"It's no big deal. Just buy a new computer."
Lin Zhuyue: "..."
They arrived at the third floor of the office building.
In the quiet office building, "Duan Junheng" sat alone in his office, with a cup of black coffee at his side and a box of medicine next to it.
Lin Zhuyue picked up the bisoprolol, looked at it, and asked:
"Not feeling well?"
Duan Junheng nodded and said:
"My heart is beating too fast, 142 beats per minute. If I don't take medicine, my body might not be able to hold on. If this body dies now, I'll have to find a new one, which will be a bit troublesome."
Lin Zhuyue: "..."
Shi Can: “…”
Are you the living king of hell?
If you’re afraid that this body will die, don’t drink coffee!
Lin Zhuyue raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows.
It was not an illusion. Duan Junheng, who was possessed by an evil spirit, became thinner and his skin paler, with only a black aura on his forehead - this was a sign of "death from illness".
Duan Junheng handed the folder and the task execution application to Lin Zhuyue and said:
"The mission location is in Dongli City. The victim is a sixteen-year-old child. I don't think the situation is urgent, so you can visit Disneyland and take a bath on the way to Dongli City. The Spiritual Master Mansion probably won't reimburse the expenses, but I can do my best to get it for you."
Lin Zhuyue really hoped that he could speak some human language.
She pulled Shi Chan to sit on the sofa in the office, opened the folder, and read the information related to the task.
The victim is named Wang Hexu, a 16-year-old boy, a sophomore at Dongli Municipal High School.
Dongli City Municipal High School is a magical place that combines "relaxation" and "strictness". School starts early during the summer vacation and there are "voluntary" make-up classes on weekends, but classes end at 8:30 in the evening.
Most teachers think that 8:30 pm is too early and ask students to continue studying in the classroom for a while.
Anyway, the school is a boarding school and there are a lot of homework assignments. Instead of going back to the dormitory to rest early, it is better to take one more test and raise the grade by a few points.
The victim, Wang Hexu, was one of the few day students in this school.
When he first entered school, he was also a boarding student. In the second half of the first semester of his freshman year, he suffered from fulminant myocarditis due to a cold. He was hospitalized for a long time before he survived. After returning to campus, he was given the special status of a day student.
If he leaves the classroom at 8:30 in the evening, he can just catch the last bus. Therefore, the teacher will not keep him and will let him leave the classroom when the school bell rings.
Wang Hexu takes the last bus home every night and takes the early bus back to school the next morning. His life is regular and peaceful.
It was not until the end of the summer vacation before my second year of high school that school started early. On the night of the Ghost Festival, the last bus caught fire and exploded on the way, and all the driver and passengers on the bus were killed.
Wang Hexu had not returned home for a long time. His parents were very worried and drove out to look for him. On the way, they saw the bus exploding in the middle of the road. After confirming that it was the route Wang Hexu took every day, they burst into tears.
But just when Wang's father and mother were crying uncontrollably, Wang Hexu came over with his schoolbag.
The class was distributing second-year uniforms, so Wang Hexu left school ten minutes late and missed the last bus. He initially complained to his homeroom teacher and monitor about their slowness, but he never expected it would save his life.
This would have been a good thing, but...
A week later, Wang Hexu was waiting for the bus at the bus stop as usual. As he waited, the bus arrived.
The bus stopped in front of him, its doors swinging open. He had just stepped on the running board with his backpack on his back when someone grabbed him and yanked him off the bus. The feeling of falling backward and stepping on empty air was so frightening he almost had a heart attack.
The car door closed immediately, and the car drove forward, leaving behind Wang Hexu who was unable to get on the car.
Wang Hexu was very angry and turned around to curse.
The old man who pulled him out of the car cursed faster than he did:
"Are you trying to kill yourself? Look carefully, that's the car you should be riding in."
The K3 bus came slowly.
Wang Hexu was surprised.
This bus stop only has bus route K3. If the bus coming now is route K3, then what just stopped and drove away?
Wang Hexu looked into the distance, but he could no longer see the shadow of the bus that had just left. He turned around to see the old man who pulled him off the bus, but found that there was no one around him.
What's going on?
What is the car you “should take”?
So was that the car he "shouldn't have been in"? Why was he "shouldn't have been in"? What was going on?
Wang Hexu boarded the K3 bus, filled with worry, and returned home, full of questions. He told his parents about the incident, but they said he was confused.
The next few days were normal, so Wang Hexu put the matter behind him and didn't think about it anymore.
But a week later, while waiting at the bus stop again, he noticed the K3 bus was a bit old. The doors opened, and as he was about to board, he noticed it was packed. This was unusual; usually at this time of day, most of the seats on the K3 bus were empty, never so crowded that people had to hold onto the handrails or squeeze into each other.
Wang Hexu lowered his head and was surprised to find that the feet of everyone in the car were translucent.
He covered his heart, took a step back, and got out of the car in horror.
The driver turned and looked at him.
The driver's face was blurry at one moment, then pale as paper, with two bright blushes on his cheeks. He gripped the steering wheel, stepped on the brake with his translucent foot, and asked:
"Little classmate, aren't you getting in the car?"
Everyone in the car looked at him.
Their faces turned into pale and funny paper faces.
They asked in unison, "Aren't you getting in the car?"
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