Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 96 Zhangdong Ancient House, the fire goes out again!
Time quickly passed to six o'clock in the evening.

Three and a half hours had passed since Li Hui boarded the bus. During this time, the bus stopped five more times, but no ghost got off. Instead, ghosts boarded at each stop.

now.

The number on the black electronic screen that records the number of passengers on the bus has changed to 9. The reason why the number changed from 3 to 9 after five stops is because there was more than one ghost boarding at one of the stops.

Nine vengeful ghosts.

This is already a considerable number, nearly a third of the seats on the bus, and it's only evening. It's hard to imagine how many ghosts will board the bus tonight, and whether it will eventually be full.

A bus that is fully loaded is more terrifying and harder to encounter than one that has stalled, because the number of vengeful spirits on board would be unimaginable, posing a deadly threat to all passengers except the spirits themselves, even if they are spirit controllers...

For example, Xu Feng and Lin Bei were clearly becoming uneasy. They stopped keeping their heads down and started looking at the other passengers in the carriage.

At the same time, Li Hui was also observing the vengeful ghost inside the carriage.

Aside from the female ghost who was already present before he boarded the bus, with a slightly ethereal figure and dressed in white, and the middle-aged ghost who boarded the bus in the eerie forest, with a pale face, vacant eyes, and dressed in tattered black clothes, the other six ghosts who boarded the bus later also had eerie appearances.

Among them was a strange old man, thin and hunched over, with grayish-brown skin covered with black spots. He sat in the front row of the carriage after boarding.

The place where the old man boarded the bus was a wasteland. The roadside was barren, with no weeds or trees except for a lone bus stop sign.

The moment the bus stopped and the front door opened, the old man appeared strangely next to the bus stop sign. His appearance was very abrupt and without any warning, as if he had always been standing there.

After the elderly man boarded the bus, a middle-aged woman was soaked to the bone. Because she had been soaking for so long, her body was white and swollen, and water was still seeping out of her body before she boarded the bus, but the seepage stopped after she got on.

The next stop was a place that Li Hui was quite familiar with.

It was a group of buildings that appeared to be in ruins. Each building was decorated in the style of the Republic of China era, but it looked as if a fire had taken place there, with obvious traces of fire damage.

When Li Hui first transmigrated to this world, the supernatural bus had stopped at that ruins stop. Li Hui remembered it clearly. At that time, a strange old man got off the bus there, but correspondingly, a charred man whose body was severely burned and twisted got on the bus at that stop.

This time, a man boarded the bus at the building complex stop, but he did not have any burn marks on his body. However, he was equally eerie, exuding a chilling aura. There were only two bloody holes left around his eyes, and his eyeballs had disappeared.

The bus then stopped on the roadside in front of a strange grave mound.

Li Hui didn't know if that grave mound was related to Luo Qian's endless graveyard. He only saw that one grave in the entire wasteland, and the vengeful ghost in that grave was the one who boarded the bus at that stop.

He was an expressionless, eerie man who exuded a faint stench of death and whose clothes were covered in mud. After boarding the train, he sat in a seat in the aisle.

The last time the paranormal bus stopped was twenty minutes earlier, when it stopped in front of a fork in the road.

At the end of that road stands a castle in the style of Central Europe.

The castle looked very dilapidated, seemingly due to years of neglect. Many parts had collapsed, and there were cracks in the castle walls, as if it might collapse at any moment.

Furthermore, the entire castle was shrouded in darkness, with extremely poor lighting, giving it a sinister feel from the outside.

After the bus stopped, a man and a woman walked out of the eerie castle hand in hand and boarded the bus along the path.

If it weren't for the woman's appearance and her distinctly Western-style clothing, Li Hui would have thought he had encountered a mummy bride. After all, the mummy bride is a symbol of two vengeful ghosts, a man and a woman, holding hands.

Even after boarding the bus, the two vengeful ghosts who emerged from the castle did not let go of each other's hands; their hands remained tightly clasped together before they sat down in the back row, two seats next to each other.

.........

"Damn it, this ghost bus is definitely not for the living to ride. It's far too dangerous. At this rate, it might stall again even if it's not fully loaded!"

Xu Feng, sitting in the back row, had an extremely gloomy expression.

The fact that the bus only picked up passengers at these stops, but no ghosts got off, made him feel extremely uneasy.

This reminded him of the terrifying experience he had just had two days ago when he boarded this eerie bus, completely unaware of what was happening.

At that time, the ghost bus stalled, and that stalling almost killed all the living people on the bus, including a ghost tamer who was more powerful than him. However, he survived by accident. Only after that did Xu Feng realize how terrifying the abnormal situation of this ghost bus was.

However, the haunted bus has one rule that is very useful for ghost controllers: being on the bus can suppress the risk of the vengeful spirit within the body reviving, and if you stay on the bus long enough, the vengeful spirit within the body can even completely subside.

That's why, even after the bus stalled, Xu Feng still chose to stay on the haunted bus, as the unusual situation made him feel very uneasy.

Besides the fact that the bus only picked up passengers and no ghosts got off, the frequency of the ghost bus stopping at stations today also seemed a bit too frequent.

It was only evening, and the bus had already stopped six or seven times. He had never encountered this situation in the past two days of taking the bus. It was as if the bus had become more haunted ever since Li Hui got on it.

Think of this.

Xu Feng turned his gaze to Li Hui.

"So many vengeful ghosts boarded the vehicle one after another, but he did not show any panic or anything unusual. Is he also a ghost tamer? However, his physical condition is too healthy. He seems no different from an ordinary person."

Xu Feng was somewhat confused about Li Hui's purpose in getting on the bus, given that the Ghost Tamer was in such good physical condition.

Most importantly, judging from Li Hui's behavior after boarding the bus, Xu Feng knew that Li Hui had not mistakenly boarded the ghost bus because he got on the wrong bus. Otherwise, he would not have remained so calm and still after seeing so many ghosts; he would have taken some action.

"Judging from his physical condition, he seems to be a novice ghost tamer, but how could a novice remain so calm in the face of so many vengeful spirits? It's really strange..."

While thinking.

Xu Feng lowered his head again, his face full of thought.

Li Hui's presence piqued his curiosity, but he chose not to speak, opting instead to observe further.

at the same time.

As Li Hui looked around, he suddenly noticed that the scenery outside the window was beginning to change.

Trees began to appear in what was once a barren wasteland devoid of life. These trees were different from the previous grove of dead trees; they had dense branches and leaves and appeared no different from ordinary trees in appearance.

As the bus continued its journey, the number of trees began to increase, eventually forming an old forest.

The strangest thing is...

A faint red glow appeared deep within that old forest.

Li Hui's gaze followed, and through the headlights of the bus, he could see a winding forest path in the dense woods, the dirt road surface overgrown with weeds.

At the end of that road, an old house came into Li Hui's view.

The house was a wooden structure, and it was unclear how long it had been built. Several parts had collapsed, and it was overgrown with weeds, as if it had been abandoned. It didn't look like anyone had ever lived there.

But in front of this old house, two red lanterns hung, emitting a red glow that was extremely conspicuous in the dim environment.

"That wooden house...could it be the old house where Zhang Dong lives?"

After getting a clear look at the general layout of the environment outside the car window, Li Hui had this thought in mind: he matched the old house with a strange place he knew.

Old forest, narrow path, wooden house, lantern... This is indeed consistent with the environment of the ancient house where Zhang Dong is located as described in the original work.

"At this point in time, Zhang Dong is clearly not dead. Is the bus going to stop here, or is it just passing by?"

However, just as this thought crossed Li Hui's mind, the bus began to gradually slow down.

"Are you sure you want to park here?"

Li Hui was slightly surprised. He was very curious. At this point in time, Zhang Dong was still alive. Which vengeful ghost could escape Zhang Dong's suppression and leave? It couldn't be that mummified bride, could it?
The supernatural bus obviously wouldn't cancel its stop because of Li Hui's surprise, and eventually the bus stopped beside the forest path leading to the old house.

Bang~!

The moment the vehicle came to a stop, the front door of the ghost bus remained still, but the rear door opened by itself, letting in a cold, damp wind that caused the temperature inside the bus to drop drastically.

"Is it a vengeful ghost getting off at this stop, or a ghost getting on?" Li Hui instantly realized this upon seeing this scene.

At the same time, two figures slowly stood up in the car.

They were a gaunt, hunched old man with grayish-brown skin covered in black spots, and a man who had crawled out of a lonely grave, expressionless, emanating a faint stench of death, and covered in mud.

Two figures got out of the car one after the other and eventually disappeared into the depths of that old forest.

"These two vengeful ghosts really know how to pick their spots, choosing to get off at this stop. Or is this the bus's doing, deliberately sending the ghosts to this haunted place where Zhang Dong is to be suppressed?"

This time, Li Hui did not choose to attack the two vengeful ghosts, but instead took them into his ghost domain. He simply watched the scene unfold quietly.

Xu Feng and Lin Bei, who were sitting in the back of the bus, were also watching this scene. However, they had a different thought from Li Hui. They were just relieved that only the evil spirits got off at this stop and no evil spirits got on.

The decrease in the number of vengeful spirits on the bus was undoubtedly good news for them.

They were unaware of the horror of this haunted place, but they could sense the eeriness of it. They felt that if a vengeful ghost boarded the train at this stop, it would be an exceptionally terrifying experience!

After the two vengeful ghosts got off the bus, the number on the black electronic screen displaying the number of passengers on the haunted bus changed from 9 to 7.

Aside from the bus itself accounting for one number, this means there are six more vengeful ghosts on board, which is also a significant number.

About two or three minutes later, the back door of the bus closed again, and the vehicle began to move slowly.

Just as the vehicle was about to leave, Li Hui noticed a change in the old house. A figure suddenly stood under the red lantern, seemingly looking in their direction.

Is it Zhang Dong?

Because of the distance, the dim lighting outside, and the fact that the bus was moving faster, Li Hui only managed a quick glance and couldn't make out the face of the figure standing in front of the old house.

.........

The paranormal bus then continued smoothly along the asphalt road, without stopping again until 7 p.m.

However, just when Li Hui thought he could sit peacefully until 7:30 and arrive at the supernatural place he wanted to reach, a sudden change occurred.

The ghost bus stalled.

There were no warning signs whatsoever.

With a screech of brakes, the bus came to a sudden stop in the middle of the road, neither stopping at a station nor reaching its destination.

Followed by.

As if sensing something in advance, the vengeful spirits on the train all stood up from their seats and slowly walked towards the rear door of the carriage.

Almost simultaneously, the doors of the paranormal bus suddenly opened, and then the ghosts began to get off. The first to step off was the middle-aged woman with a slightly ethereal figure who had been sitting in the aisle closest to the rear door.

After she got off the bus, the number on the electronic screen changed from 7 to 6, and then to 5, indicating that the second ghost had also gotten off the bus.

The number then jumped from 5 to 3.

It was the two vengeful ghosts, a man and a woman, who got off the bus at the same time, hand in hand.

See this scene.

Li Hui's eyes flickered slightly, but in the end he chose not to interfere with the stall and did not force the bus to restart.

The number eventually returned to 1, proving that all the ghosts on the bus got off at the rear door at that moment, and the remaining number 1 represents the ghost bus itself.

The vengeful ghost did not go far after getting off the bus, but wandered around the bus area with stiff steps, as if waiting for the bus to resume operation.

At the same time, the environment inside the carriage began to darken, the lights inside the carriage began to go out, and a darkness began to rapidly extend from the front of the carriage to the back.

Just as the darkness was about to engulf Li Hui's seat, his figure vanished from the spot.

the other side.

Xu Feng and Lin Bei, who were sitting in the last row of seats on the paranormal bus, opened the window next to them before the extreme darkness arrived, and then jumped out of the window, choosing to escape the bus after it had been turned off in this way...

.........

I'm feeling a little unwell.

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(End of this chapter)