"Have you seen my child?"
A voice floated into Xiao Gu's ears. In his sight, the woman in the red raincoat turned her head around like she was looking at him.
Shivering, Xiao Gu involuntarily took two steps back.
"What's wrong?" The doctor stood up and reached out to help Xiao Gu. There was a strange smell on him.
"It's fine, it's fine." Xiao Gu turned back to look. When he got closer, he realized that the doctor was not wearing anything underneath the white coat.
His expression turned interesting, and Xiao Gu quickly waved his hands to avoid the doctor.
"It's good that you're fine." The doctor maintained the smile. He stood next to Xiao Gu for a while before returning to his seat.
Forcing a smile, Xiao Gu gripped his hands together, and goosebumps rose on the back of his hands. "This man appears to be a madman. Just what kind of people have I run into tonight?"
Xiao Gu wanted to get off the bus and leave, but when he thought about the woman in the red raincoat waiting for him at the bus stop, he started to hesitate.
Between a madman and a baleful ghost, he thought about it and decided to stay on the bus. Even though the passengers around him were strange, at least they were human.
On the way, Huang Ling's phone rang a few more times. The man on the other end of the phone kept asking where she was. Even if Huang Ling told him where she was, the man would still call to ask where she was after a while.
This repeated several times, and Huang Ling felt like the man was just messing with her, so she turned off the phone.
"You've promised me so many times, but you've never kept your promise. Now you know how to repent?" Huang Ling appeared to have been wronged many times. Through the conversation, Xiao Gu had a general understanding of Huang Ling's situation. Her husband did not have a job, and he was a freelancer. The family depended on Huang Ling alone.
After the phone was turned off, the bus became quiet again. Occasionally, one could hear the sound of children coughing.
The heavy rain flooded the city. The bus sped down the endless road, and no one knew where it would end up.
"I'm driving in the middle of the city, but how come it feels like I'm getting further away from the city? There's no sign of life, and it looks so deserted."
The lights of the buildings outside were all extinguished, giving off a strange vibe.
Several minutes later, they arrived at Li Wan City Mall. In the cold, synthesized voice, the doors of the bus opened.
Xiao Gu leaned against the window to take a look. The woman in the raincoat was standing at the edge of the platform, watching the bus quietly.
Next time, she'll probably appear at the door. Should I wait for her to get on before I get off? Xiao Gu was thinking about his escape plan when he heard the sound of an argument coming from the other side of the platform.
They made a lot of noise. The woman's voice was shrill, and the man was hysterical. It seemed that they even hit each other.
Turning his head to look at the train station, Xiao Gu saw a man and a woman hugging each other and arguing fiercely.
The man wanted to get in the car, but the woman tried her best to make him stay. She scratched and bit, unwilling to let the man get in.
"What's going on with the two of them?" Xiao Gu shrunk his neck. "The two of them are quarreling like this. Why aren't they separating? His body is stuck? "
The bus stopped for a minute. In the end, under the woman's frantic obstruction, the man did not get on.
The bus started to move, and it slowly left the bus stop.
"It's been raining for an hour already, but their clothes are still dry. Looks like they've been arguing for a long time at this stop." In the blink of an eye, when Xiao Gu turned to look at the bus stop again, the arguing couple had already disappeared, and only the red shadow was left on the platform.
"Where are they?" He stood up and tried to open the window to take a look, but he failed after a long time. The window lock appeared to be broken.
"This is weird." Xiao Gu felt more and more unsettled. "Could the couple be ghosts as well? But they're acting like a normal person, and I can't see any difference at all … "
Gripping the phone, Xiao Gu looked at it and was reminded of the doctor and the earlier news article.
"Li Wan City Mall? Something has happened at this stop as well! " Xiao Gu scrolled through his phone and found the news article about the couple who self-immolated at the mall. The picture on the page was pixelated. The couple was hugging each other, and the fire was burning. They could not be separated anymore.
"Isn't this too much of a coincidence? The doctor and the couple are exactly like the news article. Could it be that they're not human? Even a ghost will take the bus? " Xiao Gu glanced at the doctor on the other side of the corridor. The man in the white coat was staring at Huang Ling like he was imagining something very dirty.
"No, someone so pure shouldn't be a ghost but a madman."
The bus continued to move forward, and no one got on for several stops. However, Xiao Gu noticed something strange. Every time they passed a stop, the driver would stop for one minute.
Xiao Gu wanted to get off the bus several times, but once he saw the woman in the raincoat at the stop, all his courage disappeared.
The situation was different from what he had expected. The woman in the red dress got closer and closer to the bus, but she did not plan to get on. She merely waited outside the door like she was waiting for someone.
"Why is she so insistent on this bus?" The more Xiao Gu thought about it, the more afraid he became. In the end, he took out his phone and clicked on his contact list to find Chen Ge's number. "It's not a good idea to call Brother Chen directly, right? If I really run into a ghost, won't I be dragging him down with me?"
Xiao Gu could not make up his mind. In the end, he had no other choice, so he decided to send a message to Chen Ge.
He wrote down everything that had happened that night, and after making sure he had not missed anything, he sent it to Chen Ge.
While he was writing the message, the bus arrived at the next stop — Eastern Jiujiang Dam.
The bus stopped, and footsteps came from the platform. Three men who were completely soaked walked onto the bus.
They all had their heads lowered, and their clothes were soaked. They did not say a word, and they did not pay the fare. They got on the bus and walked into the station.
The driver ignored the three men, but from the sweat that flowed to his chin, it was clear that he was very nervous.
After the three men got on the bus, they sat around Xiao Gu, and one of them happened to sit next to Xiao Gu.
A stench floated past his nose, and Xiao Gu moved closer to the window.
The closer he got, the scarier it was. The three men looked like they had just been fished out of the water. Their skin was pale and wrinkled.
Xiao Gu did not dare look any further. He took out his phone and sent the message to Chen Ge.
The bus started to move again. Due to entering the rural area, the bus shook as it slowly left Eastern Jiujiang Dam and officially entered Eastern Jiujiang.
Water droplets fell from the men's bodies, and the three men's eyes bulged out. Their heads moved with the sway of the bus, and their bodies moved closer to Xiao Gu.
After the bus left the station, Xiao Gu's phone vibrated. It was a message from Chen Ge.
"Is it convenient for you to make a call? It's very important! "
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