The door closed and the vehicle started. The young man's Adam's apple trembled slightly. He put the umbrella between his legs, dug out a dollar from his pocket, and put it into the unmanned ticket vending machine.
With the crisp sound of coins falling, all the passengers in the car looked at the young man.
Being stared at by so many weirdos, he quickly lowered his head, as if if he didn't look at them, they wouldn't notice him.
The young man walked to the exit door. He made a very smart decision and stood by the door so that he could get off the bus as soon as possible.
The No. 104 bus was swaying, and the young man was holding on to the handrails, probably because he was too nervous, and bulging veins could be seen on his arms.
"Newcomer?" The doctor must have seen the young man for the first time. He raised his eyebrows and pursed his lips, but in the end he didn't say a word.
After a minute or two, the young man secretly glanced around and breathed a sigh of relief when he found that the other passengers were no longer paying attention to him.
He reached into his pocket and quietly took out his mobile phone, seemingly preparing to turn on the camera function.
"Taking photos is a bit too much." Chen Ge didn't want his hearse to be exposed. When the young man turned his cell phone, he stood up and walked towards him.
Seeing someone coming, the young man was so frightened that he couldn't hold his cell phone steady and almost dropped it on the ground.
"There are so many seats in the car, why are you standing there?" Chen Ge's smile was contagious, and his voice was very comfortable to listen to.
"I..." The young man didn't say that he didn't dare. Ever since he got in the car, he found that his mind had slowed down and he couldn't think of a suitable reason for a while.
"Are you still in school?" Chen Ge naturally grabbed the young man's arm and said, "Sit here, it's windy over there."
Before the young man understood what was happening, he was already pulled to the last row of the bus by Chen Ge.
He mentally calculated the distance between himself and the car door, and then looked at the closed window, feeling that it would be faster to break the window and jump out of the car.
"Don't be so nervous. Is it your first time to take the last bus of No. 104?" Chen Ge seemed like a neighbor's big brother: "You may have been misled by some posts on the Internet. In fact, the bus company does add extra buses on certain special days.
The last train is at zero o'clock. I don't know the specific reason, but you can rest assured that we are all alive."
In order to increase his persuasion, Chen Ge also opened his travel bag and took out the white cat: "Have you ever seen a ghost and still keep a cat?"
The white cat that was carried out for no reason was very dissatisfied. It waved its paws, but it couldn't touch Chen Ge, and its fur stood up in anger.
Seeing such a lively cat, the fear in the young man's heart dissipated a lot. He scratched his head, still a little unsure: "But it's raining heavily today and it's early morning. How come there are so many people riding on the bus?"
"There are also many people who are busy with their lives at night, such as telephone operators, night shift drivers, logistics security guards, evening program announcers, etc. Our city can develop better and better without them."
Such a positive conversation seemed a bit inconsistent in this eerie bus, but Chen Ge didn't care at all: "By the way, what are you doing? Why are you still out so late?"
"I..." The young man hesitated. He looked at the other passengers in the car. There were no lights on inside the hearse, and he could only see black outlines.
His palms were sweating, and after thinking for a long time, he silently put away his phone and said to Chen Ge, "I am a student from Linjiang No. 1 High School."
"High school student?" Chen Ge stared at the child's face: "You feel quite mature."
"I have repeated my studies for two years, but my condition this year is not very good. I guess the exams are on hold, but that's not important." The young man's voice changed, and there was a hint of bitterness in his voice that was inconsistent with his age.
"Brother, you have been re-study for two years. Is there anything more important than taking the exam?"
"Yes." The young man nodded affirmatively, and took out his mobile phone: "In the class I was repeating, three students disappeared. I know where they went, but the police just didn't believe what I said.
"
Turning on his phone, the young man found a group photo: "They are my best friends."
There are four people in the photo. The young man is standing at the back holding a basketball. A pair of twins with very different personalities are separated on the left and right. The one on the left has a gloomy look and a droopy face, holding a black backpack in his hand. The one on the right is looking blankly.
Looking at the girl in the middle, her eyes are full of love.
"A good living person, why did he disappear?" Chen Ge looked at the high school student in the photo, his eyes fixed on the schoolbag in the boy's hand on the left.
In Xiaobu's game, there is a black backpack in the last row of the bus. Xiaogu also said when he was riding in the hearse that there was a high school student in the bus he was on, and that high school student also had a black backpack.
"Twins with black backpacks, identical looks, and completely opposite personalities..." Chen Ge vaguely understood something: "Did the three of them disappear after taking the last bus No. 104?"
The young man nodded again: "The twins' surname is Bei, which is a relatively rare surname. Although they look exactly the same, their personalities are completely opposite. The elder brother is called Beiye. He has a bad temper and is not popular. He likes to play some self-righteous pranks; the younger brother is called Beiye.
My name is Beiwen, I have good academic performance, I am quiet and shy, and I don’t like to talk.”
"The four of us went home together when we were living together. Some time ago, for some unknown reason, Kitano and Beiwen suddenly got into a fight at the station. It seemed that Kitano had been jealous of Beiwen, and he said he had had enough.
"
"We didn't take it seriously at the time. Kitano left alone. The next day I found out that Kitano didn't come home all night."
"During the break between classes, Bei Ye took the initiative to find us. He first apologized to Bei Wen uncharacteristically, and then told us a secret, saying that after early in the morning, there would be the last bus full of dead people heading to the eastern suburbs."
"Of course we didn't believe it. Beiye invited us to wait for the car with him. Neither Beiwen nor I were ready to go. As a result, he laughed at Beiwen in front of the girl."
The young man stopped here. He looked at his phone and became more and more scared as he thought about it.
"and after?"
"Later, all three of them disappeared. Kitano and his father disappeared on the same day, then the girl, and finally Beiwen."
This sequence was consistent with a certain sequence in Chen Ge's memory. He felt that Beiye and Beiwen were very likely to be in the world behind the gate of Liwan Town.
"You can get off the bus at the next stop. If I meet your friends, I will bring them back."
"You bring them back? That's not possible." The young man shook his head: "I only came up after I mustered up the courage..."
"If you don't want to die, just do as I say." Chen Ge still smiled gently, but the young man he was staring at felt as if a basin of ice water had been poured on him in the middle of winter, and he shivered involuntarily.
This kid is like the protagonist in a normal horror movie, but luckily, he met Chen Ge.