Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 97 Arriving at the Destination

"What bad luck! It's only been less than two days since the bus broke down last time, and it's broken down again. I wonder if it can make it through like it did the day before yesterday."

Outside the bus.

Wearing a baseball cap, Lin Bei surveyed his surroundings with a grim expression.

On both sides of the asphalt road was a vast wasteland that seemed to stretch endlessly, devoid of human habitation and life except for some weeds and trees.

The vengeful spirits who got off the haunted bus didn't go far. They all lingered around the bus, walking with slightly stiff steps, exuding a chilling aura.

"Where is that person? Could it be that I guessed wrong, and that he's just a newbie who doesn't know anything, so he didn't get off the bus when it stopped?"

Xu Feng, standing on the other side of the bus, looked around and, noticing that he didn't see Li Hui, couldn't help but show a hint of surprise on his face.

He originally thought that Li Hui was a ghost controller familiar with the rules of the bus, which was why he was so calm on the bus and did not show any panic even when ghosts boarded the bus one after another.

But now it seems that this is not the case.

If someone is truly a ghost tamer who is familiar with the rules of public transportation, they would know the dangers of a bus stalling. Staying on a bus with the engine off would be certain death, and even a ghost tamer would not be exempt. Only by leaving the bus and going outside would there be a chance of survival.

However, the area outside the carriage is also unsafe, with the risk of being targeted by vengeful ghosts. But compared to the certain death if you stay inside the carriage, there is a considerable chance of survival if you are attacked by other vengeful ghosts.

After all, they don't actually need to deal with those vengeful spirits; they just need to hold out until the bus restarts. Once on board, the bus rules will restrict the vengeful spirits, preventing them from attacking living people inside the bus.

"Ok?"

suddenly.

While deep in thought, Xu Feng's expression suddenly darkened, realizing something was wrong.

At some point, the light around him suddenly dimmed considerably, and the already dim environment began to turn into darkness, with the visible range of the naked eye rapidly shrinking.

The source of this darkness was a male and a female figure.

Their appearance and clothing were clearly Western in style, and they were now holding hands, rapidly approaching Xu Feng in a strange manner.

As they approached, the surrounding light dimmed further, and the environment began to turn pitch black.

"Damn it, is it already targeting me? But what are their killing patterns? I was just standing there doing nothing. Could it be a vengeful ghost that kills indiscriminately?"

Xu Feng's already gloomy face became even more unsightly, and then a chilling aura emanated from his body.

next moment.

Xu Feng actually chose to lie flat on the asphalt road. Then, the temperature in his body quickly disappeared, and his body became stiff and cold, turning into a corpse.

His transformation was not due to being killed by a ghost, but rather Xu Feng's own deliberate action, a result of the power of the vengeful ghost he controlled.

Just for a moment.

Xu Feng turned into a corpse that looked like it had been dead for a long time, and several parts of his body had completely rotted, oozing bodily fluids and emitting a foul stench.

At this moment, Xu Feng looked like a corpse that had been abandoned for many days and was rotting. But even such a corpse had its eyes open, its pupils constantly moving, keeping an eye on the two vengeful ghosts.

"Are the vengeful ghosts starting to leave?"

really.

As Xu Feng lay there like a corpse, the vengeful ghost's behavior began to change.

Although it was still pitch black all around, and he couldn't see the two vengeful ghosts' movements clearly, the darkness was gradually receding, which proved that the two vengeful ghosts were leaving.

Compared to Xu Feng, who successfully evaded the attack of the vengeful ghost by lying dead, Lin Bei on the other side of the vehicle was clearly not so lucky.

At this moment, he too was attacked by a vengeful ghost.

The one who targeted Lin Bei was a white-clad female ghost with a slightly ethereal figure. Her attack method was very strange; she appeared directly in Lin Bei's consciousness.

At this moment, Lin Bei was sitting on the ground, leaning against the side of the supernatural bus, his head down as if he were asleep, but the expression on his face looked very painful, even somewhat ferocious.

This is an unknown, eerie space. The entire space is presented in black and white, and the overall feeling is somewhat illusory and unreal.

A chase is currently unfolding in this eerie space.

Ahead of them, running relentlessly, was a bald man, completely naked. Ordinary clothing in reality could not manifest in this supernatural space of consciousness.

The bald man had many wounds on his body, some of which were so deep that the bone was visible, giving people a shocking feeling. But strangely, no blood flowed from these wounds.

Besides.

Following behind Lin Bei was a middle-aged woman dressed in white, whose body was ethereal, like a projection.

She walked stiffly toward Lin Bei's location. Her pace was not fast, but she was able to approach Lin Bei quickly in a strange way. Then, she waved her hand, leaving sharp nail marks on his body.

at the same time.

outside world.

Lin Bei, who was leaning against the bus, had his clothes soaked with a scarlet liquid. It was blood flowing from his body. The damage that his consciousness space had suffered was strangely affecting his body.

But that's not the most dangerous part.

For some unknown reason, the other vengeful spirits that had been wandering around also began to converge on the now-extinguished ghost bus.

Besides the two vengeful ghosts, a man and a woman, who attacked Xu Feng, and the vengeful ghost that attacked Lin Bei, the remaining people who surrounded them were: the middle-aged man with a pale face and a vacant look; the woman whose body was soaked in water and swollen and white, constantly oozing sewage; and the strange man whose eyes were now just two bloody holes.

A chilling aura spread, and the surrounding temperature suddenly dropped significantly, giving people a sinister and icy feeling.

under these circumstances.

It's hard to guarantee that Lin Bei and his group won't be targeted by other vengeful ghosts.

Also.

Li Hui was the most relaxed one on the field.

At this moment, he was standing on the roof of the haunted bus, in the deepest ghost realm, quietly watching everything that was happening around him.

Ashes of paper filled the air.

Everything around him was enveloped by his ghostly domain. Whether it was Xu Feng lying dead, Lin Bei leaning against the bus, or the vengeful ghosts around him, they were all actually active in his ghostly domain. They just couldn't see through the disguise of Li Hui's ghostly domain.

Li Hui did not choose to attack those vengeful ghosts. To be precise, those vengeful ghosts had actually been restrained by him, and given their terrifying nature, they were simply unable to leave Li Hui's ghost domain.

The only difference is that Li Hui did not choose to assimilate them or make them part of his ghost domain at this moment.

the reason is simple.

Same idea as before.

Li Hui believed that among these vengeful ghosts was one that the bus wanted to take to the haunted place he wanted to go to. This idea was further confirmed when the bus took two vengeful ghosts to Zhangdong Ancient House.

For this reason, Li Hui planned not to attack these vengeful ghosts before reaching the haunted place he wanted to go, but he also wouldn't let them leave. So he pulled them all into his ghost realm, planning to let them get back on the bus once it resumed service.

As for Xu Feng and Lin Bei, both of them are actually quite capable of surviving, so the chances of them being killed here are not high.

Especially Xu Feng, who in the original story was a ruthless guy who could "press down" the dried-up corpse bride for almost three minutes without dying, even though he was forced to, but still pinning the dried-up corpse bride to the ground...

Time passed by minute by minute.

About ten minutes passed quickly, and nothing unusual happened during that time.

Whether it was good luck or not, Xu Feng and Lin Bei were never targeted by other vengeful ghosts. It seemed that their corpse-like behavior did not trigger the killing patterns of other vengeful ghosts.

The only one who suffered a rather tragic fate was Lin Bei.

More blood flowed from his body, clearly indicating that within those ten minutes, while he was in the consciousness space, he had been caught and attacked by that vengeful ghost several more times, increasing the number of wounds on his body, but none of them were fatal.

If this continues, even if Lin Bei's wounds are not fatal, excessive bleeding could still endanger his life, even though he is a ghost tamer, because Lin Bei has not yet become an anomaly.

"The bus is about to start!"

Sudden.

As if sensing something, Li Hui, who was standing on top of the bus, changed his expression slightly and looked down at the eerie bus below.

Almost at the same time, the old bus beneath his feet suddenly honked its horn, the headlights suddenly turned on, and the lights inside the bus were switched on, and the deathly silence of the darkness vanished.

The eerie bus, which had been shut down, suddenly started up again.

"Damn it, we finally made it through!"

Xu Feng, who had been lying in a corpse-like state, had been observing his surroundings. He immediately recovered and, instead of using the bus door, suddenly stood up, grabbed the window sill, and flipped himself into the bus.

Lin Bei followed closely behind.

The moment the bus started moving again, the eerie female ghost that only existed in his consciousness left, as if the bus was more attractive than killing him.

It was because of this that Lin Bei's consciousness was able to return to reality, and he immediately boarded the supernatural bus to ensure that he would not be attacked by the vengeful ghost again.

Also.

The other vengeful spirits that had been wandering around also boarded the bus one after another, but they all followed a special rule: they all boarded through the open front door of the ghost bus.

Li Hui was the last person to board the bus.

The grayish ash drifted into the bus through the open doors and windows, and then his figure appeared in the seat he had been sitting in.

"What's going on? He's not dead?"

Li Hui's sudden appearance shocked Xu Feng and Lin Bei, not only because of his physical condition, which seemed unaffected by the vengeful ghost, but also because of the way he appeared.

"Is that the power of the Ghost Realm?"

"It seems my initial guess was correct. He is indeed a powerful ghost tamer with a certain understanding of the rules of bus operation. He also has his own purpose in getting on the bus, most likely the same as us, to suppress the resurgence of his own vengeful spirit. His body may appear to be very healthy, but that may only be on the surface."

Xu Feng's eyes flickered as he secretly made his guess.

the other side.

Li Hui had absolutely no interest in what Xu Feng and the other man were thinking.

Shortly after he boarded the bus, both the front and rear doors closed, and then the bus began to move slowly along the asphalt road.

As the vehicle moved forward, Li Hui glanced at the time and realized it was already 7:13 PM, less than twenty minutes away from the haunted place mentioned on the human skin paper that they could reach at 7:30 PM.

Li Hui quietly observed the scene outside the car window.

The roadside was always a wasteland, and this desolate scene seemed to have become the mainstream of the haunted place. As far as the eye could see, there was only a desolate scene, seemingly without end.

The rest of the journey went surprisingly smoothly. The ghost bus didn't pull into the station until 7:29 PM... It was only one minute away from the time the paper effigy had mentioned.

That's when.

Li Hui and the others on the bus noticed that the bus was gradually slowing down and was starting to veer to the right.

"Is the bus about to pull into the station?" Lin Bei and his companion, still sitting in the last row of the bus, clearly understood what this change in the bus meant, and both looked out the window.

The same was true for Li Hui on the other side.

Under their gaze.

A village came into view.

The village wasn't very big, and its architectural style was completely different from modern society. It looked quite similar to the rural towns in some tourist attractions in cities.

All the houses in the village looked extremely old, most of them were old wooden houses, and there were even many mud houses and bluestone brick houses mixed in among the wooden houses.

Some houses were severely damaged, with collapsed walls, fallen windows, and toppled doors. From a distance, the houses appeared dark inside, giving off an eerie feeling.

Furthermore, the village roads are different from the cement roads in modern cities; they are the kind of country dirt and gravel paths that seem to have been neglected for a long time. The paths are overgrown with weeds and are very desolate, extending all the way to the asphalt road.

Besides.

The village was eerily quiet, devoid of any human presence; from the outside, it looked exactly like an abandoned mountain village.

soon.

It was 7:30 p.m.

With a screech of brakes, the eerie bus came to a stop at the intersection of the dirt road and the asphalt road. Beside the road stood a dilapidated and rotten temporary bus stop sign.

Immediately afterwards, the back door of the ghost bus opened, but the front door remained silent, indicating that a vengeful ghost was getting off at this stop, while no passengers were getting on.

Almost as soon as the car door opened, the middle-aged woman in white, whose figure appeared somewhat ethereal, slowly stood up and walked out of the open back door.

Apart from the other ghosts, none of them reacted, so it was clear that the only ghost with the illusory body was getting off at this stop.

But now that they had arrived at their destination, Li Hui obviously couldn't let the other vengeful ghosts stay on the train. The gray paper ash enveloped the bodies of the vengeful ghosts, and they disappeared into the carriage, getting off before the doors closed.

"This is?"

Li Hui's actions left Xu Feng and his companion dumbfounded, unable to react for a moment. It wasn't until the doors closed, the bus started moving again, and the electronic screen displaying the number of passengers showed only a solitary '1' that they came to their senses.

But what followed was even greater astonishment.

"What's going on? Didn't he get on the bus to suppress the resurgence of his vengeful spirit? Why did he get off at that stop?"

"And they even took all the vengeful ghosts off the bus with them..."

.........

(End of this chapter)