There were quite a few people inside. Counting Li Kui and three others, there were nineteen people in total.
Yang Chao helped the old woman sit on the empty seat and looked up at Li Kui. The latter shook his head slightly and had to give up and simply sit next to the old woman.
Li Kui lowered his head and looked at the driver. He was an extremely pale man, probably in his early thirties, with dead eyes, staring straight at the road in front of him. He thought for a moment and whispered:
"Master, where are we going?"
The driver didn't speak, he just held the steering wheel firmly.
There was a dim light in Li Kui's eyes, and it was like a layer of mist dissipating, and he finally saw the man's true face. He was only supported by a skeleton from the neck down, without any trace of flesh and blood.
"puppet?"
Li Kui didn't dare to make a decision, so he turned around and walked to the back seat. Suddenly... he felt an ominous premonition, as if he was staying next to the driver's seat again, or something bad had happened, and he was in a strange environment. He didn't want to risk his life.
"It would be a pity not to go see the sunrise this time... I don't know if I will have the chance next time."
"Yes, I heard that the resort also has some good specialties, but I was in a hurry when I came back and didn't buy anything!"
As I walked down the aisle, I heard whispers.
Li Kui's pace was neither hasty nor slow, his eyes quietly swept over everyone's face, and he paused for a moment on a couple. He looked at them and saw that they were about seventeen or eighteen years old. The boy held the girl's hand tightly and spoke softly in his ear.
"Ding Xiaonan, why don't you believe what I say?"
When he saw someone walking by, the boy immediately fell silent.
The car drove into the tunnel, eating away the faint light inside the car. When darkness fell, a dozen or so people in the car all turned to look at Li Kui, their faces pale and their pupils dark and sinister.
Li Kui sneered at the corner of his mouth and came to sit in front of the empty seat. He did not communicate with Yang Chao, or even make eye contact. It was as if he was alone.
He took off his travel bag and laid it flat on his knees, and looked up at the car. Although it was located at the back, it had a wide field of vision, and he could see everything at a glance. The whole thing was quite old, and the fan on the top was spinning feebly.
"What exactly does the parchment want me to do? Why is the mission description this time so vague?"
There are no answers to all the doubts in my heart, but I have no choice but to use soldiers to cover up the water and the earth.
Li Kui looked out the window. Occasionally, dark yellow lights flashed through the tunnel, and then he was immersed in darkness again.
After a while, I took out my phone and took a look. In the past five minutes, the car had not yet driven out of the tunnel. Where was it planning to go?
the other side.
Yang Chao greeted the two people in front of him very familiarly and asked with a smile: "Where are you guys planning to go?"
"We just came back from Dayu Villa, of course we are going home now!"
The ordinary-looking man replied.
Dayu Villa is a famous internet celebrity check-in place in the suburbs of Binhai City. Of course Yang Chao was impressed. He turned his eyes and asked:
"So you are with a tour group?"
"Yeah, buddy, where are you going?"
"I won't go that far. I'll send my grandma away." Yang Chao glanced at the old woman and his smile did not change.
"Oh." The two people said in unison.
Yang Chao spoke very skillfully and conveyed a large amount of information in just a few sentences without causing any offence. He quickly got along with the four people in front and behind him.
Half an hour later.
The bus finally exited the tunnel.
The sky was gloomy, and the long deserted road seemed to be endless. Amidst the low roar, the bus slowly stopped at the edge of the wilderness.
Through the glass, Li Kui saw a white-haired old man standing by the roadside. His hopeful eyes swept over every face on the glass, and then he saw Yang Chao helping the old woman out of the car.
"Thank you."
The old man quickly stepped forward to support his lover and thanked him repeatedly.
Yang Chao waved his hand and turned back to the car. The two elderly people seemed to be expressing their longing for each other and walked hand in hand on the long road.
Immediately afterwards.
The bus's engine started again, the doors closed, and it was back on the road.
As the car drove on, the backs of the two old men gradually faded away from their sight until they disappeared. The smile on Li Kui's lips slowly tightened, and doubts in his heart continued to grow.
This place is already the underworld, and the long road is Huangquan Road. Could it be that this bus is also going back and forth between the Yin and Yang realms to pick up dead ghosts? But if this is the case, why didn't the sixteen passengers on the bus get off?
Mist.
Can't see clearly.
Maybe Yang Chao has some useful news.
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The time to exit the tunnel this time was very fast, only five minutes.
Bright light came in, and the front suddenly opened up, and a brightly lit market appeared at the end of the line of sight.
The bus stopped on the side of the road, the front and rear doors opened at the same time, and a scarlet word flashed across the electronic screen at the front:
"All passengers please get off the bus."
The sixteen passengers seemed to be used to it, and they got off the bus quickly. Li Kui was the last one to get off from the back door. Looking around, he found three stones piled up on the roadside. His eyes flickered slightly, and he walked towards the small woods on the left.
Stepping into the haystack, a familiar voice rang in my ears.
"What about this..."
Yang Chao hid behind the tree, poked his face out from the shadow, and waved to Li Kui.
Two faint sparks suddenly appeared.
"First of all, there is no doubt that these sixteen people are ghosts, but one thing is that they should have died just a few days ago."
Yang Chao slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, leaned against the tree, and continued: "If I guessed correctly, they were indeed passengers of the tour group, and they died in a landslide..."
"How do you know?" Li Kui looked at the lights in the distance and said in surprise.
"Have you forgotten? The news was on TV when you came out. It was about sixteen members of the tour group who encountered a landslide while riding through a tunnel. Fifteen of them were killed. It seems that none of them have been rescued now.
"
"So that's it."
Li Kui thought about it for a while and then came up with it.
"These people are quite smart. They know that they are dead, but they avoid talking about it in their words. They are as if they have just returned from a trip and are very defensive..."
Yang Chao flicked the ashes of his cigarette: "One more thing, they said there was a ticket inspector on the bus. We didn't see this person when we got on the bus. According to them, this person had something to do. He didn't know what to do when he got off at the previous stop.
What's gone?"
"oh?"
Li Kui raised his eyebrows and said in a calm tone: "What you mean is, we didn't buy a ticket to get on the bus. Do we need to pay for it later?"
"Then who knows." Yang Chao shrugged, glanced at Li Kui, and said with a smile: "But you are really brave. Do you want to let out the living breath so blatantly? I even pinched it for you at that time.
Sweat it."
"Some things have to be done."
Li Kui held the cigarette holder, took a deep puff, and the smoke poured out wantonly, repeating: "If you don't do something, how will you know who is the enemy and who is a friend among these dozen people!"
The moment you enter the tunnel.
Li Kui told them arrogantly, a living person walked in, what are you going to do?
The reason for this is simple.
Ghosts that absorb Yang Qi from humans are addictive, and vice versa. If you have never sucked Yang Qi, you won’t have much of a reaction.
It is clear at a glance whether he is an enemy or a friend, whether he should be killed or not.
After hearing what Li Kui said, Yang Chao gave a thumbs up, threw away the cigarette butt, looked at the market in the distance, and asked:
"So what are you going to do next?"
"Go over and have a look."
Li Kui had already made up his mind. He took out the Hades wrapped in chocolate paper from his pocket and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it twice and swallowed it quickly.
It's like eating canned herring.
"Okay!" Yang Chao nodded, and the soles of his shoes crushed the sparks on the cigarette butt: "I just have some ideas in my mind, but... I still need to take a look."
"What do you think? Tell me."
"It's pointless to say it. Wait... we need some clues to confirm."
"Then why are you saying this? Aren't you just trying to whet my appetite?"