The door closed, and the bus started to move. The young man's Adam's apple trembled. He clamped the umbrella between his legs, took out one RMB from his pocket, and dropped it into the machine.
Following the crisp sound of the coin dropping, all the passengers on the bus turned to look at the young man.
Being stared at by so many strange people, he quickly lowered his head like if he did not look at them, they would not notice him.
The young man walked to the door, and he made a very smart decision. He would stay by the door, and he would be the first to get off.
The bus swayed, and the young man gripped the handrail tightly. Probably from his nervousness, one could see the bulging veins on his arms.
"A newcomer?" This was probably the first time the doctor had met the young man. His eyebrows rose, and he pursed his lips. In the end, he did not say anything.
After two minutes, the young man sneaked a look around. Realizing that the other passengers had stopped paying attention to him, he sighed in relief.
Reaching into his pocket, he silently took out his phone like he was going to turn on the camera function.
"That's a bit too much." Chen Ge did not want his hearse to be exposed. While the young man was turning his phone, he stood up and walked toward him.
Seeing someone coming over, the young man was so shocked that he almost dropped his phone.
"There are so many seats on the bus. Why are you standing there?" Chen Ge's smile was infectious, and his voice was soothing.
"I …" The young man did not say that he did not dare. Ever since he got on the bus, he realized that his brain had slowed down, and he could not come up with a suitable excuse.
"Are you still in school?" Chen Ge very naturally grabbed the young man's arm. "Sit here, it's windy there."
Before the young man understood what was happening, he was already pulled to the last row by Chen Ge.
He calculated the distance between him and the door, and then he looked at the closed window. He felt like it would be faster to jump out of the bus through the window.
"Don't be so nervous. Is this your first time taking the last bus on Route 104?" Chen Ge was like the big brother next door. "You've probably been misled by the posts on the internet. Actually, the bus company does open a midnight last bus on certain special days. I don't know the exact reason, but don't worry, we're all living people."
To make himself more convincing, Chen Ge opened the travel bag and took out the white cat. "Have you ever seen a ghost keep a cat?"
The white cat, who had been carried out for no reason, was very unhappy. It waved its paws, but it could not touch Chen Ge. It was so angry that its fur was standing on end.
Seeing such a lively cat, the fear in the young man's heart dissipated a lot. He scratched his head, still a little uncertain. "But it's raining heavily today, and it's early in the morning. Why are there so many people on the bus?"
"At night, there will also be many people who are busy making a living, such as telephone operators, night drivers, logistical security guards, evening program announcers, and so on. Our city can't develop better and better without them." Such a positive conversation seemed a little out of place in this creepy bus, but Chen Ge didn't mind at all. "By the way, what do you do? Why are you still out so late? "
"I …" The young man hesitated. He turned to look at the other passengers inside the bus. The lights inside the bus were not on, so he could only see clusters of black shadows.
His palms were sweating. After thinking for a long time, he silently put his phone away and told Chen Ge, "I'm a student from Linjiang First High School."
"A high school student?" Chen Ge stared at the boy's face. "You look quite mature."
"I've been repeating for two years, but I'm not in the best condition this year. I'm afraid I won't be able to pass the exam, but that's not important." The young man's tone changed, and there was a bitterness that did not match his age.
"Brother, you've been repeating for two years already. Is there anything more important than the exam?"
"There is." The young man nodded confidently. He took out his phone. "In the class that I'm repeating, three students went missing. I know where they went, but the police refused to believe me."
Turning on the phone, the young man found a group picture. "They are my best friends."
There were four people in the picture. The young man stood at the back with a basketball, and a pair of twins with very different personalities stood on his left and right. The one on the left had a dark gaze, and he was holding a black backpack in his hand. The one on the right was staring at the girl in the middle, and his eyes were filled with love.
"How did they disappear?" Chen Ge looked at the high school students in the picture, and his eyes were glued to the backpack that the boy on the left was holding.
In Xiao Bu's game, there was a black backpack at the back of the bus. When Xiao Gu took the bus, he had said that there was a high school student on the bus, and that high school student was also carrying a black backpack.
"Black backpack, twins who look the same, but have completely different personalities …" Chen Ge seemed to understand something. "The three of them disappeared after they took the last bus on Route 104?"
The young man nodded again. "The twins' surname is Bei, which is quite a rare surname. Even though they look the same, their personalities are completely different. The older brother is Bei Ye. He has a bad temper, and he likes to pull pranks. The younger brother is Bei Wen. He has good grades, but he is quiet and shy. He doesn't like to talk.
"The four of us live close to each other, and we usually go home together. A while ago, for some reason, Bei Ye and Bei Wen got into a fight at the bus stop. It sounded like Bei Ye had been jealous of Bei Wen, and he said that he had had enough.
"At the time, we didn't think too much about it. Bei Ye left alone, and the next day, we found out that Bei Ye had not returned home that night.
"During the break, Bei Ye came to find us. The first thing he did was apologize to Bei Wen, and then he told us a secret. He said that after midnight, there will be a last bus filled with dead people heading to Eastern Jiujiang."
"Of course, we didn't believe him. Bei Ye invited us to wait for the bus with him, but neither Bei Wen nor I planned to go. In the end, he mocked Bei Wen in front of the girl."
The young man stopped. He looked at the phone, and the more he thought about it, the more afraid he became.
"And then?"
"Then all three of them disappeared. Bei Ye disappeared on the same day as his father, then the girl, and finally Bei Wen."
This sequence matched one of the sequences in Chen Ge's memory. He felt like there was a high chance that Bei Ye and Bei Wen were in the world behind the door of Li Wan City.
"You should get off at the next stop. If I run into your friends, I will bring them back."
"You'll bring them back? That won't do. "The young man shook his head." I only got here after gathering all my courage … "
"If you don't want to die, then do as I say." Chen Ge still had a gentle smile on his face, but the young man who was stared at felt like he had been splashed with a bucket of cold water in the middle of winter, and he shivered involuntarily.
The boy was like the main character in a normal horror movie, but fortunately, he had run into Chen Ge.
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