Forces of Temptation

Chapter 3: Three become ghosts (three)

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The limit of time left for Nan Zhou to think cannot exceed five seconds.

More than five seconds is enough to arouse everyone's suspicion.

Nanzhou has sorted out the currently known information and can draw the following conclusions:

This is an intercity bus from City C.

The destination of the vehicle is unknown.

Where it went, unknown.

The driving gps is turned off, and there is no way to predict the driving route.

He has four seconds left.

There is a small map of City C on the advertising light box in front of the first row of seats.

The map covered by several tracing notices revealed a corner, which happened to be the location of Longtan District, with the school logo of No. 2 Middle School on it.

This is also the source of inspiration for one of Nanzhou Lies.

However, the location of the residential area will not be marked on it.

In other words, if you were to ask him where he got on the bus from and what details were there, he couldn't make it up completely.

The corner of Nan Zhou's eyes quickly turned to the driver's seat in front of him.

… three seconds to go.

It was clearly written on the badge that the driver of this car should be a woman named Shen Qiuyan.

But next to the shelf where the water glasses were placed, there was a brand-new plastic-sealed work card, and the lanyard and the water glass handle were intertwined.

From the information I could see, the person driving today was named She or Yu, and it was a man.

Why change drivers

Is it a common shift between drivers

… two seconds.

wrong.

None of the four people who have spoken so far said they got on the bus from the bus stop.

They all start from their respective residential areas, and even the details go to "Phase I" and "Phase II", "Foreign Area" and "Ordinary Residential Area".

So, this is a bus that travels on an unusual route.

… a new driver suddenly replaced, a bus that is not running normally.

Moreover, all the passengers in the car seem to be going to a specific location.

Therefore, it is very likely that the bus was requisitioned to perform rescue missions.

The "volunteers" mentioned in Li Yinhang's words can confirm each other with his guess.

… only one second left.

So why are there so few people in the car

It's still daytime, and it stands to reason that now is the best time to carry out the rescue.

In other words, even if the bus is not overcrowded during the day, it should not be the current density of people.

what does this mean

It means that these people are very likely not the first wave of rescued people.

… So, it was already obvious where Nan Zhou should get on the bus.

-time up.

Nan Zhou retracted his gaze and looked at the crowd.

He said calmly: "I was the first to get in the car."

Zhao Guanglu was the first to disagree: "No, I didn't see you when I got in the car."

Just before the atmosphere in the car solidified, Nan Zhou accepted his question and gave his answer: "I came up secretly."

Everyone: "...?"

"I was taken to a shelter that didn't have my mother."

"But I don't know where she is, and I asked the volunteers, but there was no result."

"I'm worried about her, so I've been hiding in this car parked at the door since last night, hiding under the seat, trying to find her."

"Maybe get off the bus halfway, maybe sneak into other shelters to see."

"I was very sleepy, then fell asleep, and woke up after driving for a long time."

"I had a headache, and after I came out quietly, I slept against the glass for a while..."

He speaks a little slowly, but in a well-organized manner, giving the impression that he is not fully awake yet.

While speaking, Nan Zhou also raised his sleeves to make sure that everyone could see the thin dust on it that he had just gone down to find the bracelet.

Everyone in their hearts unanimously "Oh".

The gap under the bus is indeed enough to hide a person.

If you don't look carefully, you may not find anything hiding under the seat.

Someone asked: "At such a time, if you don't stay in the 'cocoon room' obediently, how dare you run outside?"

... Nan Zhou silently wrote down that the shelter was called "Cocoon Room".

At the same time, he gently cleaned the dust on his sleeves and replied slowly: "Well, not everyone has relatives, and not everyone will understand this feeling of worry."

"..." The questioner was so choked that he almost rolled his eyes.

It has to be said that Nan Zhou's reason is sufficient, and there is nothing to refute it.

But the problem is that Nan Zhou's temperament is very strange.

Black eyes, black hair, no extra decoration except for the clothes that are out of season, and the corners of her eyes that were drooping and reddened when she spoke, she looked like a wooden beauty with unresponsiveness.

But the little tear mole that fell just below the left eye, in addition to adding the style and coolness that he should have, made him have a strange ghostly air instead.

Even though there was a strong and almost whitish sunlight outside the window next to him, he still had a sense of incompatibility with the sun.

This smell makes everyone feel uncomfortable.

Someone continued to ask him: "The mushroom is so close to you, why aren't you afraid?"

"Because I thought it was a dream at first." Nan Zhou said, "I woke up later and found that it wasn't too scary."

Everyone:"… "

One thing to say, the mushroom itself is not scary.

And the strange head of the mushroom is too far away from the first row.

He did have reason not to be afraid.

Well, it's time for the last question.

"What is there to prove what you said?"

Moreover, the question is also buy one get one free: "--gt;gt;

In summer, how do you dress like this? "

Nan Zhou didn't speak any more, but loosened the bandage on the cuff of the windbreaker.

A squirrel-colored critter poked its head out of his cuff.

It's a honey glider.

Nan Zhou introduced: "Get to know it, it's called Nanji Star."

As soon as he saw the apple on the other side of the seat, Nanji Xing's black eyes suddenly lit up. He opened the skin of his hind limbs and flew out. He hugged the apple tightly with his two front paws, moved his buttocks with energy, thinking about it. Put an apple into your sleeve and keep it for yourself.

Nan Zhou pressed the apple stalk with his hand and stopped it from moving. He was a little unhappy: "mine."

The little animal puffed out its cheeks, stared at Nanzhou, and felt wronged.

Nan Zhou was unmoved.

It maintained such a pitiful posture, snatched a piece of apple in one gulp, and quickly slipped back along Nanzhou's open cuff with the apple in its mouth.

Nan Zhou: "… "

Facts have proved that people's judgments will be affected by some non-objective factors.

Just like now, everyone's vigilance against Nanzhou has been greatly reduced.

Not only because of the reason "ghosts bring pets?", but the fluctuation of his expression at the moment when the apple was stolen made him look much more alive.

The person whom Nan Zhou had beaten just now pointed at him unwillingly: "Didn't you say you are a teacher?"

Nan Zhou held the apple in his hand and nodded, "Yes."

The man asked sharply: "The teacher allows you to have such hair?"

Nan Zhou nodded again reservedly: "Yes, art teacher. What else is there to ask?"

Crowd: ... grass.

Suddenly, everyone had a completely reasonable understanding of this person's strange temperament.

—It turns out to be an artist, I see.

Nan Zhou calmly looked at the people who had started the next round of self-introduction, and looked at every nervous or forcedly calm face.

But when his gaze turned to the Ukrainian mixed-race youth, Nan Zhou's gaze paused slightly.

Jiang Fang leaned on the bus seat, and didn't seem to be looking at himself.

… But Nan Zhou knew that he was looking at himself.

Look at the reflection of yourself on the side window glass.

It's half-smiling, so gentle that it's hard to judge emotions.

Nan Zhou didn't make a sound, as if he didn't notice it at all, and naturally turned his attention to other people.

Nan Zhou's presentation and explanation took more time, so the speed of everyone's introduction was a little slow.

There are 15 rows and 61 seats in the bus.

Counting from back to front, the situation is as follows:

In the last row, the man sitting on the left is the architect Zhao Guanglu.

On the right side of the penultimate row is an unknown person who died by trying to jump out of a window in violation of the rules. The only information that can be determined so far is "he is an ordinary person".

On the left in the fourth-to-last row is Li Yinhang, a hapless bank clerk.

In the fifth-to-last row, Jiang Fang was sitting right in front of Li Yinhang.

The door of the 2-door bus opens near the fifth-to-last row.

Further forward, a man named Liu Rongrui was sitting in the sixth row from the bottom.

He was the one who was left speechless by Nan Zhou just now.

He said that he had run out of food, so he plucked up the courage to leave the house and walked for a long time, but he couldn't find a supermarket that was still open.

In the end, he heard that there was food to eat, so he followed two volunteers, an old man and a young man, into the car.

Speaking of this, his face was full of regret, "I knew I would die of starvation and would not get on this pirate ship".

Seventh row from the bottom, vacant.

The penultimate eighth row, that is, the positive eighth row, is a bit special. There are two people, a man and a woman.

The girl sitting on the left is called Sun Ruowei, and the young man sitting on the right is called Lin Xiangjun.

Both of them came from Longquan Community, and they had a couple of sentences after getting in the car. It can be said that they are the most able to testify for each other among all the people in the car.

But on the contrary, they may also be ghost companions who lie together.

Positive seventh row, vacant.

In the sixth row, on the left, sits Qin Yadong, male, getting into the car from Xingfu Street.

He took the initiative to wave from the side of the road and boarded the bus.

In the fifth row, Qin Yadong was sitting directly in front of a fat man who weighed nearly two hundred pounds.

According to him, he got on the bus at Xingfuyuan on Worker Street.

Qin Yadong can testify for him, because he adjusted the back of the chair from the moment he got up, and when he lay back, it directly pressed against his thigh.

But the fat man didn't appreciate it very much, saying that he fell asleep when he got up, and didn't notice anyone behind him.

In the fourth row, on the right, sat a neurotic young man.

He looked at everyone vigilantly, gnawed on his fingernails anxiously, and revealed that he was a student of C University and his name was Wu Yukai.

When someone questioned "Did we pass by C University just now?", he angrily shouted back: "Nonsense!"

The reaction was so intense, I don't know if it was because of a guilty conscience, or simply because I didn't like being questioned in this situation.

In the third row, Xie Yangyang, an employee of a foreign company who was the first to scream and is now shivering, got on the bus in Donghua Community with Jiang Fang.

The first row of positive numbers is Nanzhou, also known as Luoyan by everyone.

Just as Xie Yangyang stammered and made a self-declaration, the inside of the carriage was suddenly swept, wrapped, and squeezed by the boundless darkness.

The moment the bus passed through the tunnel without warning, a fact was silently announced to everyone.

First round, empty ticket.

Five more rounds to go...

Only five rounds left.

After seeing the light again, everyone turned their attention to the huge mushroom in the back row.

The soft and slender mycelium has wrapped the entire seat he was in, and the colorful umbrella cover swayed regularly as the vehicle swayed.

…as if there was life.

The atmosphere in the car was visibly anxious and tense. :,