Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 2 A World of Despair

"The erosion of supernatural forces? Ghost tamers? A paranormal bus? A ghost realm? A messenger?"

"No way……"

Although the five people deliberately kept their voices down, the carriage was only so big, and Li Hui wasn't far from their seats.

In addition, Li Hui has always been sharp-eared and sharp-eyed since childhood. Although he couldn't hear all of the five people's conversation, he could still hear most of it.

And that's enough!

From the information revealed during the conversation of the five people and their 'appearances', Li Hui had already vaguely guessed what kind of place he had traveled to.

In this defiled and evil world, where hell is empty, vengeful ghosts have resurfaced, supernatural phenomena run rampant, and people feel utterly hopeless.

"So, the strange red light that appeared on my phone earlier transported me to the novel 'Mysterious Resurrection'?"

Li Hui's expression changed drastically in an instant.

Although he had complained about the ending of the novel when he read it before, and sometimes wondered what would happen if he were to travel to the mysterious resurrection, he was only thinking about it from the perspective of an outsider.

To put it bluntly, it's just daydreaming when you're bored.

Li Hui was extremely unwilling to be transported to a world where supernatural events were frequent and vengeful ghosts roamed freely!
In the parlance of online novel circles, this is simply a terrifying world where the difficulty of survival is on par with hell, and one can easily be drawn into supernatural events if one is not careful.

If an ordinary person encounters a supernatural event and is targeted by a vengeful ghost, it is almost certain that they will die.

Even if one is lucky enough to become a ghost tamer and possess the initial ability to fight against vengeful ghosts, they will soon die from the resurgence of vengeful ghosts.

Generally speaking, the lifespan of a ghost tamer is only a few months to half a year, and the lifespan will gradually decrease as the ghost tamer uses their supernatural powers more often.

Therefore, those who control ghosts are all short-lived ghosts!

"If I really did travel to the mysterious resurgence, and even ended up on a supernatural bus, wouldn't that mean..."

As if he had just thought of something, Li Hui hurriedly looked at the black electronic display screen hanging in the middle of the bus.

At that moment, a line of text composed of red lights floated across the electronic screen: Current number of passengers: 3.

"Are there three vengeful ghosts in the car?"

Li Hui frowned. He knew that this supernatural bus was not actually meant to carry living people; the bus was meant to carry vengeful ghosts. The number of passengers displayed on the electronic screen was the number of vengeful ghosts on the bus.

Seeing that the number was 3, Li Hui examined the interior of the carriage even more carefully.

Besides the driver and himself, there were six other people in the car: an elderly man sitting in the front row and five people in the middle seats.

Li Hui first focused his attention on the elderly people in the front row.

He had vaguely sensed something was off about the old man before, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. Now he knew.

The old man's gray long gown and black hat were very different from modern clothing styles, dating back to the 1970s and 80s.

The most important thing is the elderly person's exposed skin.

Wrinkles and age spots are nothing to worry about; some older people get them for various reasons. But those dark red marks on the skin are a serious problem.

Li Hui hadn't thought of it that way before, assuming it was just a lot of birthmarks. Now it seems that the dark red marks are livor mortis!
An elderly man covered in lividity sat quietly on the bus, less than ten meters away from Li Hui. This had a profound impact on Li Hui, rewriting his materialistic mindset and giving rise to a feeling of fear.

This is different from reading novels or watching television.

At that time, he was an observer, without any fear. But now he was involved, and a vengeful ghost had indeed appeared before his eyes. Fear is an emotion that a normal person should have.

Shaking his head, Li Hui forced himself to suppress the fear in his heart and stopped looking at the old man. Instead, he looked at the other five passengers in the middle of the carriage with an inscrutable expression.

"Is there a spies mixed in with them?"

Li Hui was basically certain that the old man in the front row was a ghost, so the remaining ghosts would be among the other people.

of course.

It cannot be ruled out that the other vengeful spirits on the bus are the kind that have no physical form or are invisible to the naked eye, such as 'nightmare'.

But Li Hui still felt that there was a higher probability that one of the five was the ghost.

“They had spoken with each other before. They all seemed to be messengers from the Ghost Post Office. Judging from their mental state, none of them seemed like vengeful ghosts, but judging from their appearance, none of them were normal people…”

Recalling how the five people had turned to look at him, Li Hui frowned even more deeply.

He remembered clearly that among the five, the man in front looked the most terrifying. His face was covered with scars, his skin was turned inside out, and the flesh above his nose was gone, leaving only bone. His eyes were bloodshot.

The others weren't as scary, but they weren't much better; they all had some obvious eerie features.

For example, the only woman among the five, although her body was relatively normal, had completely black eyes with no whites, as black as ink, and her gaze was unusually cold.

The way she looked at Li Hui that day gave him a terrifying feeling that he was being targeted by a vengeful ghost, and the hairs on his body stood on end.

"Which one is the ghost?"

Li Hui scanned the five people for a long time, but he couldn't determine which one of them was the vengeful ghost. The main reason was that all five of them were ghost tamers, so they all looked like vengeful ghosts.

This situation is even more terrifying than knowing that the old man in the front row is a vengeful ghost. After all, the unknown is often more frightening!
After taking a few more glances, Li Hui, having come up empty-handed, decided to give up. He only hoped that the next stop on the bus would lead him into the real world so he could get off directly, and that even if the bus was full of vengeful ghosts, it wouldn't concern him.

Of course, this is on the premise that no vengeful ghost gets off the bus with him.

.........

"I don't know what timeline we're in now, whether it's before or after the Starving Ghost Incident..."

Li Hui, who had read the original novel, knew that the Hungry Ghost incident was a watershed moment in the plot of "Mysterious Resurrection," and that the protagonist, Yang Jian, became a semi-outcast during the Hungry Ghost incident.

The reason Li Hui had such doubts was mainly because the scene inside the supernatural bus differed somewhat from the original story he had read.

He was the only person in the last row of the carriage.

Lin Bei, who became the captain later in the original story, and Xu Feng, who died early, were nowhere to be seen. It's unclear whether they hadn't boarded the bus yet or had already suppressed the throbbing of the vengeful spirit within them and gotten off.

If it's the former, it means the Dachang City starving ghost incident hasn't happened yet, and the timeline is still in its early stages.

Because Yang Jian experienced the supernatural bus after dealing with the starving ghost incident, and Xu Feng and the others had already been on the bus for seven or eight days at that time.

However, if Lin Bei and the others have already suppressed the vengeful spirits within them and gotten off the bus, then it means that the timeline has progressed to the middle stage, and the starving ghost incident has already occurred.

For Li Hui.

Understanding the current timeline is important, as it determines how he will integrate into this despairing world.

As a loyal fan of the Mysterious Revival, Li Hui has studied the various time periods of the Mysterious Revival and has thought about what he would do if he traveled to different timelines in his spare time.

Unfortunately, there is currently no reference point for him to confirm the timeline.

The only certainty is that the current time is before the national war, because the ghost bus is still running perfectly, transporting vengeful spirits to various haunted places.

However, what Li Hui didn't know was that the appearance of the next vengeful ghost allowed him to initially determine the approximate timeline.

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(End of this chapter)