The woman's face grew larger and larger in Xiao Gu's eyes. He had not seen such a twisted face before, and his mind was blank.
"Get off!" At the crucial moment, Chen Ge's voice reminded Xiao Gu. His brain regained control over his body. The reflexes trained at the Haunted House allowed Xiao Gu to lean to the side to avoid the middle-aged woman's hand. He did not have the time to grab the lifeless child, and his fingers only managed to hook onto his jacket.
"Run! Don't worry about anything else! "
Grabbing the jacket, he yanked it out. When Xiao Gu turned back, he saw that the woman called Huang Ling was still sitting where she was.
The phone in the woman's palm emitted her husband's scream, but Huang Ling herself appeared to have been scared out of her wits. She did not even have the strength to scream.
"This should be a human as well."
The bus shook, and the sealed compartment started to leak water. Three strange people with their heads lowered stood up from their seats. Their hair was spitting out from their mouths, and their eyes were rolled back. Their arms shook like spasms as they reached for Xiao Gu.
It was too late to escape from the back door. Xiao Gu decided to change his escape route. He rushed toward the front door, and when he passed Huang Ling, he did not hesitate to grab the woman's wrist.
"Follow me!"
The front and back doors started to close. The terrified driver looked at the road, and his foot moved to the gas pedal.
As if he had seen something very scary, he stepped on it.
The bus shook even more violently. The moment before the door closed, Xiao Gu dragged Huang Ling and squeezed out from the front door.
The two fell into the mud, and the rain drenched their bodies instantly.
Beside them, the Route 104 bus that had its doors completely closed suddenly accelerated.
There was only one streetlight on this part of the road, and it was difficult to see the road clearly in the storm. The bus continued to move forward and soon disappeared into the night.
"It didn't turn. I remember there was a river in front of us."
Before Xiao Gu could help Huang Ling, Chen Ge's voice came through the earpiece. "Xiao Gu! Are you alright? "
Hearing Chen Ge's anxious voice, Xiao Gu felt a trace of warmth in his heart. "It's just a little scratch. I've already gotten out of the car."
After saying that, Xiao Gu was about to get up when he suddenly felt a slight itch on his neck. When he looked back, he discovered that strands of rain-soaked black hair were hanging down and landing on the back of his neck.
Slowly raising his head, Xiao Gu looked at the woman in the red raincoat standing behind him, and his eyes twitched. "Boss, what should I do next?"
"Have you seen my child?"
A pair of women's hands grabbed Xiao Gu's shoulders, and the strong Xiao Gu was actually lifted up by those skinny hands.
The raincoat woman's bloodshot eyes peered at Xiao Gu through the gaps of her black hair.
She seemed to have sensed her child's aura from Xiao Gu, and she became more and more deranged.
"You've seen my child?"
"You must have seen my child before!"
Her mouth fell open, and her black hair scattered. It was then that Xiao Gu saw that the woman's mouth had been sealed with threads!
She screamed loudly, and the corners of her lips were torn apart, and the threads snapped one by one!
Pain came from his shoulders, and Xiao Gu was dumbfounded. The scene before him was beyond a normal person's tolerance. If not for the training he had received from Chen Ge, he would have fainted already.
The woman's body kept changing. The sound of joints cracking came from her body. She continued to grow taller, and the color of the raincoat became brighter like it was dyed red by blood.
"Xiao Gu? Gu Feiyu? Calm down! Try to communicate with her! She wants to find her child! Didn't you see her child in the car? Tell her! Tell her everything! "Chen Ge screamed.
Hearing the voice in the earpiece, Xiao Gu's unfocused eyes regained some focus. His lips trembled as he said, "I … I've seen your child before. He was on that bus. He was being carried by a middle-aged woman …"
"Get to the point!" Chen Ge was getting more and more anxious. "Who the hell would know what you've done? You have to emphasize that you tried your best to save her child! You almost lost your life because of that! "
Xiao Gu nodded quickly, but he did not dare to look at the woman before him. His eyes wandered elsewhere, and he gritted his teeth to say, "I wanted to save your child, but I was so close."
The pain in his shoulders intensified. Xiao Gu felt like his shoulders were about to be pierced through. He groaned in pain, and his hands dropped limply. The jacket that he had lent to the child slipped through his fingers.
Just as the jacket was about to fall into the muddy water, the woman in the raincoat suddenly let go. She caught Xiao Gu's jacket.
The woman in the raincoat suddenly let go, and Xiao Gu fell to the ground.
Having survived the calamity, he quickly crawled backwards, wanting to stay away from that woman.
"This is amazing! The method that boss taught me is so effective. "With his body shaking, Xiao Gu retreated to Huang Ling's side before he stopped.
Both of her hands gripped Xiao Gu's jacket. The woman in the red raincoat hugged his jacket like she was hugging a child. This scene caused Gu Feiyu's hair to stand on end.
"Xiao Gu? Are you still alive? "
"Boss, she seems to have let me go!" Xiao Gu crawled up from the muddy water, and his legs were shaking. "Should I run home now?"
"Do you want her to haunt you for the rest of her life?" Chen Ge's one sentence caused Xiao Gu's face to turn green.
"Then what should I do? Boss, I'm really afraid now. "Xiao Gu looked at the woman in the red raincoat, and his scalp went numb.
"Don't be afraid. Try to remain calm." Chen Ge seemed to be thinking on the other side of the phone. After a while, he told Xiao Gu, "How about this? Give her the phone, and I'll talk to her."
"Give it to her?" Xiao Gu did not understand.
"Do as I say."
Under the confused gaze of Huang Ling and the raincoat ghost, Xiao Gu unplugged the phone with trembling hands. He walked to the woman in the raincoat and raised his hand.
"My boss has something to tell you."
His eyelids twitched, and Xiao Gu's arm that held the phone shook violently.
The woman in the raincoat stopped what she was doing. She tilted her head to look at Xiao Gu. Her cracked lips had not closed, and the threads were tangled with her hair.
"My boss said that he … he wants to talk to you."
The woman in the raincoat hugged the jacket and stood where she was, unmoved.
Xiao Gu took a deep breath and took another step forward. He gathered his courage and placed the phone next to the woman's ear. "Boss, I'll put it on. You can talk now."
A child's cry came from the phone, but it soon returned to normal, and then Chen Ge's voice came out.
"I am the leader of the Society of Strange Tales — Chen Ge.
"I will help you find your lost child! If I fail to do that in one week, you can come and take my life at any time.
In return, I only have one request for you — release my employee. "
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