"Ah - help! Chen Manyin! Chen Manyin! Come down quickly! Come down quickly..."
Xu Xiaoyu struggled endlessly, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.
Since the woman in the white shirt pointed at her for the second time, the passengers on the bus suddenly moved. The bus door opened, and countless hands pushed Xu Xiaoyu out of the bus.
Chen Manyin was held tightly by them all over her body, unable to move, let alone take the opportunity to escape.
At this point, Xu Xiaoyu also knew that he couldn't take the bus.
But she was forcibly "driven" down, and Chen Manyin was left in the car...
After Xu Xiaoyu was pushed out of the bus, the door was quickly closed as if they were afraid that she would get on again, and the bus started to leave.
Xu Xiaoyu chased the bus for about fifty meters, watching the light from the bus's high beams gradually fade away until it disappeared, as if it was driving on another invisible road and could no longer touch the road or the track.
His feet kicked something with a clanging sound. Xu Xiaoyu staggered two steps and fell to the ground helplessly.
The image that emerged before his eyes was Chen Manyin having her head, arms, body, legs and feet grabbed by countless arms.
Her mouth was covered by a hand stretched out from behind. Her eyes looked at Xu Xiaoyu who was pushed out of the car. Her look was full of despair and tears rolled down her face.
…
Under the dark blue night sky, the lights were dim, and the branches of the trees on both sides of the road were shadowy and looked threatening.
After a long time.
Xu Xiaoyu got up from the ground with red and swollen eyes, wiping his nose, and hurriedly dialed the police number.
Maybe it's of no use.
Maybe he'd be considered a mental patient.
But this was her only option.
She watched Chen Manyin being taken away and didn't know who to turn to for help.
“Bang.”
Something under my feet was kicked.
When I looked down, I found that it was a somewhat worn porcelain-white iron basin with several pieces of paint falling off and an obvious dent on the basin. There was a festive red pattern printed on the edge of the basin.
Xu Xiaoyu had only seen this kind of basin in his hometown in the countryside when he was a child. It was very sturdy and durable, and of a very old style. It would not break even after being bumped and dropped dozens of times. At most, it would just have a new hole. This kind of basin and pattern was widely used by every household decades ago, but it is rarely seen in cities now, and not many are preserved even in rural areas.
There are a lot of black ashes in the basin, with a slight red glow. They should have been burning for no more than ten minutes from now, and their appearance before burning can still be vaguely recognized.
——The ashes in there were once piles of paper money.
This was the thing that tripped Xu Xiaoyu before. She kicked the black ash in the basin and scattered it everywhere, making the ashes incomplete.
The burned paper money was destroyed.
It was so late, and someone was burning paper money in the middle of the street, causing her to kick over the basin containing the paper money.
I heard that you must not step on the paper money at the intersection at night, otherwise you will be haunted by ghosts.
Because you have disrupted their financial resources and destroyed their money.
Xu Xiaoyu clenched her phone, bit her lip, and suddenly turned around to look behind her.
…………
00:04:25
Luo Zheyu was waiting at the bus stop. When he saw the time on his phone was already early the next morning, he raised his eyebrows.
The last ghost bus of the night was supposed to appear at 23:59:59.
Five minutes have passed.
"Meow~"
Instead of waiting for the car, a passing black cat came.
The black cat raised its head and looked at him curiously, then walked over with its tail up, rubbing its body against Luo Zheyu's feet and rubbing its head against them hard.
"Meow~"
Then he suddenly realized something and stopped moving.
It realized belatedly that Luo Zheyu was not a living human being.
The black cat's body stiffened, its dark green vertical pupils suddenly shrank, its eyes became round, and it looked up at Luo Zheyu.
The nose sniffed quietly.
“Meow——!”
The black cat screamed miserably, its hair stood up, and it flew high into the sky.
After more than a second, he landed on the ground, crouched down, and crawled quickly on all fours, then disappeared into the green belt.
Luo Zheyu watched its performance in silence.
Cats are indeed neurotic animals.
A bus with its high beams dazzlingly on appeared from the corner of the street, slowly drove into the platform and stopped in front of me.
An extended version of bus route 4.
The bus was filled with ghosts, who looked no different from living people, except that they were unnaturally well-behaved.
They sat quietly, looking straight ahead, their hands folded neatly on their knees.
They didn't whisper to each other, didn't do things secretly, didn't make trouble or fight, and didn't reveal their original appearance before death, which instead made them seem somewhat mysterious and weird.
It was as if this was not the last bus picking up the dead, but an elementary school classroom that a strict teacher had just entered.
The long-haired woman in a white shirt and a black skirt that I saw in the morning was standing sideways holding the handrail, looking down attentively, and did not turn her head to look when the bus stopped.
The other party "introduced himself" as a part-time temporary worker for the Dark World Government. He was traveling with the bus at this time, and should be acting as a bus conductor.
The temporary worker was holding someone in his free hand.
A young girl with long hair draped over her shoulders. There was no Yin energy on her. She was breathing rapidly and her chest was heaving. She was a living person.
The only living person on this bus.
She was held by the wrist by a temporary worker, standing upright in the carriage, like a javelin, leaning against nothing, with her eyes tightly closed, her lips purple, and her upper and lower teeth trembling and chattering.
Luo Zheyu put the bus card that the temporary worker gave him in the morning into the only coin box, glanced at the fat driver, and walked straight towards the temporary worker.
He stood beside her and raised his hands to hold the handrail of the hanging ring.
The bus started and left the station.
The car body shook slightly, and the young girl standing between Luo Zheyu and the temporary worker began to sway with the bumps, swaying from side to side, but still maintaining a straight posture, without adjusting her posture because of her body's instinctive conditioned reflex.
Only the fear and worry between his brows deepened a little.
"Hello, are you feeling unwell?"
Luo Zheyu tilted his head and asked with curiosity and worry.
The young girl's eyebrows twitched in shock. Regardless of her fear, she suddenly opened her eyes and looked towards the source of the sound.
There was a daze on her face, and then she didn't know what she was thinking about. She became even more frightened and lowered her head, not daring to look at him again.
After confirming that the other party was still conscious, Luo Zheyu didn't say anything else. He held the hanging ring and waited silently for the bus to go to the destination.
According to the note taken out by the temporary worker, he was working for the dark world government, so the destination of this bus was most likely the so-called dark world.
The scene outside the car window was bizarre. One second it was driving on a colorful, neon-lit road, and the next second it turned into a deserted and dilapidated platform at a dim country intersection.
The road kept changing, and ghosts appeared one after another standing at the platform, waving and inviting people to take the bus.
The carriage gradually became crowded.
As the only living person on the bus, the young girl attracted a lot of attention and shone brightly, like a charming roast duck that was covered with honey, roasted over fire, dripping with oil, and emitting hot steam.
There are often new ghosts on the bus who show a greedy and crazy look, and they don't know their place and are eager to try on young girls.
However, the ghosts who had such thoughts were strangled by the temporary workers, and they were not allowed to move even a step. They were taught a good lesson to make them understand that even if they died and became ghosts, the world would not allow them to do whatever they wanted.
The girl's body was stiff and motionless because she was caught by the temporary worker, but she was shaking like a quail uncontrollably. She was so scared that she wished she could faint.
The scenery outside the window changed at some point.
The bus was driving on a winding one-way street. It was dark and only the high beam, which was always on, illuminated a clear path.
The sky and the earth in the distance were also endlessly black. The horizon where the sky and the earth met was blurred by the darkness. At a very long distance, there were clusters of orange-yellow light emitting bright glow. Some were big, some were small, the big ones were closer, and the small ones were farther away.
Gradually, these light balls became more and more numerous and dense. The top, left, right, and even below where the ground should be were all filled with orange-yellow light balls.
The winding path was still spreading, but the vicinity of the path was not occupied by the orange-yellow light clusters, so it was impossible to know what those orange-yellow lights were and what they were made of.
The road is long, with no end in sight and no way back.
Apart from the orange-yellow light ball, there was no other reference point. I didn’t know how long this boring and long road would take.
The ghosts on the bus were drowsy, as if they were about to fall asleep, and slowly closed their eyes.
The young girl's trembling body calmed down, her breathing gradually slowed down, and her tense body relaxed.
She fell asleep standing up on the hearse full of ghosts.
Luo Zheyu also felt this sudden, inexplicable sleepiness that made him relax and feel comfortable. It had little effect on him, but when he felt the temporary worker's eyes hidden between the black hair on the side of his head, he pretended to be captured by this sleepiness and closed his eyes.
The bus stopped silently on the winding road.
The orange and yellow flames in the distance suddenly rushed into the car. When they got closer, they found that they were lanterns. The outer layer of the lantern paper was orange and as thin as a cicada's wing, with faint pictures and patterns emerging and flowing.
Above the lantern, a round wooden pole hangs up the lantern. The pole floats in the air, but no one lifts it.
Below the lantern, there is a huge red tassel hanging, with red threads on the tassel fluttering in the wind, looking so elegant.
These lanterns correspond to the ghosts on the car one by one and stay above the ghosts' heads.
The red tassels that seemed to be used for decoration under the lanterns came alive, stretched and elongated, and red silk threads were wrapped around the ghosts' limbs, lifting up the "sleeping" ghosts. The ghosts did not resist and allowed themselves to be swung around like puppets.
There was also an orange-yellow paper lantern above Luo Zheyu's head. He tried to hold back, but still let the red tassel thread under the paper lantern wrap around his limbs. The silky and smooth touch floated around his arms and ankles, which was very itchy.
The lantern that was suspended above the young girl's head had just placed the silk thread on the girl when it suddenly retracted, as if its hand had been burned. The red silk thread tried several more times, but it was the same every time. The paper lantern swayed aggrievedly, trying to leave through the open car window, floated to the car window, and had to go back again.
But he refused to touch the young girl with the silk thread again.
Seeing this, the temporary worker broke free from the red silk thread that was entangled around him, jumped down from the air, stretched out his pale arms, and pointed his index finger at the young girl's forehead.
She is a living person with yang energy in her body that can burn the tassels of the paper lanterns.
Only by becoming a ghost can you continue the journey.
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