After being watched by Chen Ge for a long time, the man tightened his collar and coughed lightly.
"Have we met before?"
His voice was cold and vicissitudes, as if he didn't care about anything in the outside world.
Chen Ge didn't expect the other party to speak suddenly, he paused for a while, and then continued following the man's words: "You are very like a friend of mine, with almost the same temperament, have we met somewhere?"
The man turned his head, and there was a trace of tiredness in his eyes: "You may be mistaken."
"Impossible, I must have seen you somewhere." Chen Ge and the man were only meeting for the first time. He said this just to have a few more chats with the other party and gain more useful information.
The man was silent for a while, he saw that Chen Ge didn't seem to be lying, he hesitated again and again, raised his hand, and took off the mask on his face.
With a high nose bridge, pale skin, and blue lips, the man took off his mask and coughed violently a few times: "You're wrong, I'm not the person you're looking for."
After he finished speaking, he put on the mask again, and there was an emotion that others could not understand in his eyes: "I have no friends."
This man is not afraid of Chen Ge. He is a passenger who got on the bus later, and he is a living person. He does not know what is hidden in Chen Ge's shadow. Maybe in his eyes, Chen Ge and other passengers are not too big. different.
Chen Ge wanted to find out what happened in the eastern suburbs, and wanted to bring all the ghosts on the hearse back to the haunted house, but what he didn't expect was that there were two living passengers on the hearse tonight.
He didn't want to reveal his secrets, and it was inconvenient to do anything outrageous in front of the two living people, so he temporarily changed his plan and kept a low profile. After the two living passengers got off the bus in Liwan Town, he Have a good chat with other passengers.
Sitting in the seat honestly, Chen Ge looked away from the man and looked out the window.
The rain fell on the glass, the buildings on both sides could not be seen clearly, and the surroundings were pitch black. The 104 hearse they were riding was like an island floating on the black ocean.
The car suddenly became quiet, and the man found that Chen Ge hadn't spoken since he finished talking to him, and thought he had said something wrong.
He put his hands on his knees, and suddenly asked Chen Ge in a low voice, "Do you want to take this car just to find your friend?"
Chen Ge's eyes gradually focused, and the expression on his face began to change, as if the man had guessed the secret in his heart, a little uneasy, a little painful, and a little self-blame.
Nodding slowly, Chen Ge looked at the man next to him: "How did you know?"
"The passengers on this bus have their own stories and secrets, otherwise people wouldn't have come to ride this bus after midnight."
"Listening to your tone, isn't this the first time you've taken this bus?" Chen Ge's mouth moved, showing the same smile as when he got on the bus, but there was a trace of deeply suppressed pain in his eyes, which made people feel distressed.
"I took the No. 104 bus when I went to work, and I've been there for almost twenty years." The man seemed to have not talked to anyone for a long time, and his voice was very slow: "At that time, the department was busy and there were not enough staff. I often worked overtime, always Take the last bus to go home. At first, I liked to take the last bus, there were few people and it was very quiet, but after that, I sat more and felt a little lonely looking at the dark buildings on both sides.”
"Department? What did you do before?"
"Doctor, the doctor of the burn department." The man emphasized the word burn department in particular, and there was a trace of waves in his eyes, as if he had remembered something.
"Burn department?" Chen Ge had only dealt with a psychiatrist before, so he didn't know much about the burn department.
"Surgery, skin grafting, rehabilitation, this is our job." The man said lightly, but Chen Ge heard a hint of heaviness behind these words.
The man also noticed the deeply suppressed pain in Chen Ge's eyes. He seemed to see his own shadow in Chen Ge, and subconsciously regarded Chen Ge as a person just like him.
After a brief conversation, the two fell silent again. After a long while, Chen Ge said, "Are you also looking for someone in this car?"
The man nodded lightly, his gloved hands pressed against the scarf.
"Is this scarf woven for you by your wife?" Chen Ge asked at the right moment, pretending to be casual.
Hearing Chen Ge's words, the man was stunned for a moment. He took his hand away from the scarf and slowly shook his head.
"It wasn't from your wife?" The fact was different from Chen Ge's previous guess. He was a little curious: "Can you tell me your story?"
It was raining harder, and the rain clicked on the windows, making a constant noise.
The man pondered for a moment, took off his mask, and took a deep breath: "Patients in the burn department are not the same as other departments. They are unfinished, unrecognizable, battered, and their skin is torn. In our place, they are everywhere. When I was an intern, I thought that I came to hell myself, until I got used to the blood and flesh, the stench and all kinds of odors."
"At that time, I once thought that I would never have too much emotional ups and downs when facing patients."
"It wasn't until I was thirty that I met a patient of fourteen."
"She was still a child and her back was badly scalded by boiling water, and it took me half an hour to separate her clothes from her skin."
"That girl is very quiet, she doesn't cry or make trouble."
"I didn't use general anesthesia in order to prevent the child's brain from being affected. When I separated her clothes and skin, the child opened her eyes and looked at me."
"Her back and her face are polar opposites, and I comfort her like any other patient."
"After the wound was treated, I found the adult who sent her to the hospital and was going to explain some precautions, but after inquiring, I found out that it was a neighbor who sent her to the hospital, and her injury was not due to an accident, but her parents. did."
"I called the police." When the man spoke, he occasionally coughed a few times, and his physical condition was very poor.
"The girl's father has serious violent tendencies, and the mother is deaf and mute and has a weak personality."
"The police detained and educated her father for a month. Later, her mother took the initiative to go to the police station to ask for mercy. After all, the family counted on her father to support her."
"During the treatment of the girl, I have been with her. This child is like a small white wild flower blooming on the side of the road. Accompanying her has also made me used to seeing cruelty and smelling stench, and I feel it after a long time. A touch of happiness."
"One day two months after she was discharged from the hospital, I suddenly received an unfamiliar call with her voice over the phone."
"Unable to stand her father's drunken brutality, she ran away from home."
"I took her in without telling the police and her family."
"I know I may have done something wrong, but I can't imagine what would happen to her if she was sent back then?"
Having said that, the man paused for a while, and seeing that Chen Ge's expression had not changed, he continued: "She confessed to me when she was 20 years old."
"I was thirty-six years old that year, and I saved the process of falling in love. We didn't get a certificate. That year, we held a wedding for just the two of us."
"I've had the happiest five years with her, and I've been under unimaginable stress."
"When I was 41 years old, her parents found her, abused, beaten, made trouble at school, and made trouble at my hospital."
"Life changed at once. People said it was terrible. I could bear it, but she gave up."
"When I got home on the last bus that day, I called her several times, but no one answered."
"Open the door and come home, there are ready meals on the table, and a long letter she wrote to me."
"Finally I found her in the bathroom, her body was submerged in water and she was not breathing."
The man's face was terrifyingly pale, his coughing became worse and worse, Chen Ge reached out and patted his back.
"Thank you." The man did not put on a mask, and the tiredness in his eyes could not be concealed: "Actually, the passengers in this car have their own stories. During the day, everyone is busy and hides their hearts. At night, these helpless and painful Desperate people will take this car to the terminal."
From the man's words, he didn't seem to know that the other passengers were ghosts, or maybe he already knew it, but he also regarded ghosts as human beings.
"Do you know anything else?"
"Too many, like the mute next to me, I've met him before." There was a hint of sympathy in the man's tone: "He is mentally retarded, can't speak, works as a porter in a supermarket, and is often bullied by others. , and smirk and read other people's good."
"Then why did he get in this car? A simple-minded person should not be missed by dirty things." Chen Ge was a little puzzled.
"He went to the terminal to find his daughter." The man couldn't bear to go on: "For some reason, some gangsters outside the school bullied his daughter. The smoke burned his palms, his hair was pulled out, and the surveillance cameras even recorded it. Even more extreme things. Her daughter never said anything, and finally she couldn't stand it and ended her life."
"Campus bullying?" Chen Ge's eyes darkened. These things did happen. He had seen them before: "Have you called the police? How did the police deal with it?"
The man in the seat next to him is mentally retarded and physically uncoordinated. He usually falls when he walks. It is very difficult for a person like him to defend his rights.
"Call the police?" The man split his mouth: "This father, who has a congenital intelligence defect, can't speak, and usually walks unsteadily, knocked all the gangsters and the culprits into an abandoned building in the eastern suburbs. in the building, and then doused with gasoline and a fire burned them all."
"He's not in good health, and his intelligence is still flawed, so how did he do all this alone?"
"The police also don't understand, so the murderer has not yet been caught in this case."
The burn doctor and Chen Ge looked back at the man at the same time. He looked a little embarrassed and smirked at the two of them.
"Using violence to control violence will leave more problems in the future. With a broken heart because of being hurt, it is difficult to bear the pressure of revenge and murder. He may go from one extreme to the other." Chen Ge could not go. Evaluate what the father has done, and think in a different position. If he is the father, he can't guarantee what he will do.
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, I think it's fair. Not to mention him, I have seen a worse condition than him in this car." The burn doctor said casually: "Once it rained heavily, I went to the In the back of the car, I saw a young man in a suit and leather shoes, he was dressed very energetically and looked different from the other passengers, but who would know that this man was a complete lunatic."
"What has he done?"
"The young man was a wedding officiant. He had been in the business for a few years and hosted hundreds of weddings. When it was finally time for him to get married, he married the bride in a suit and leather shoes, but he had a car accident on the way back."
"The bride was not rescued. Although his life was saved, his appearance was ruined."
"The wedding company fired him. Later, he changed his career to become a funeral designer. When someone found him, he helped them design the funeral, and when no one was there, he guarded the cemetery."
"These are quite normal, but then during the conversation, he inadvertently revealed a message."
"In the dead of night, he will pull the yin edge of the corpses, match them with ghost marriages, and then preside over them by himself."
What the man said was a little scary: "He got in the car to find his wife, and then he was going to hold a special wedding later."
After listening to the stories of the burn doctor, the mentally handicapped father, and the funeral designer, Chen Ge found that the last bus on Route 104 was different from what he thought. The person rides it to find the last thought.
Chen Ge didn't know how to tell the burn doctor that everyone took this train as their last hope, but they were destined to fail because the terminal of this train was composed of the deepest despair and pain.
Chen Ge even suspected that the reason why the gangsters behind the scenes in the Eastern Suburbs would send out such a train was to collect despair and various negative emotions.
"The Strange Talk Association kept making ghost stories for the sake of despair and negative emotions. The ghosts in the door need these things. In addition, only those who are in despair and pain and are dominated by negative emotions can become the containers of ghosts."
There are ghosts on the last train. They come to the terminal with the last glimmer of hope, but they will probably be greeted by another endless world of despair.
"I can't let this happen anymore, it looks like I'll just have to drive the car away, maybe I can get a new route to the haunted house."
The abnormal living passengers in the car reminded Chen Ge of the game he played at Fan Cong's house.
In that game, there were not only Specter and Red Clothes, but also many perverted murderers. Chen Ge now doubted that those murderers were the living passengers on the Route 104 bus.
"The whole town is full of ghosts and murderers. The gangsters in the eastern suburbs are much more crazy than the Weird Talk Association."