The door closed, the vehicle started, and the young man's Adam's apple trembled slightly. He sandwiched the umbrella between his legs, rummaged through his pockets to find a dollar, and put it into the unmanned ticket machine.
With the crisp sound of coins falling, several passengers in the car all looked at the young man.
Being watched by so many weirdos, he hurriedly lowered his head, as if they wouldn't notice him if he didn't look at them.
The young man walked to the exit door, and he made a very smart decision to stand by the door and get off the bus as soon as possible.
The 104 bus was swaying, and the young man was holding on to the handrail, probably because he was too nervous, and he could see bulging blue veins on his arms.
"A newcomer?" The doctor must have seen a young man for the first time. He raised his eyebrows and pursed his lips. After all, he didn't say a word.
After a minute or two, the young man secretly glanced around and was relieved to find that the other passengers had stopped paying attention to him.
Reaching into his pocket, he quietly took out his mobile phone, as if preparing to turn on the camera function.
"Taking pictures is a bit too much." Chen Ge didn't want his hearse to be exposed. When the young man turned his phone, he got up and walked towards him.
Seeing someone approaching, the young man was so frightened that his mobile phone was not steady and almost fell to the ground.
"There are so many places in the car, why are you standing there?" Chen Ge's smile was contagious, and his voice made people feel very comfortable.
"I..." The young man didn't say that he didn't dare. 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 grabbed the young man's arm naturally: "Sit here, it's windy there."
Before the young man understood what was going on, he was already pulled by Chen Ge to the last row of the bus.
He calculated the distance between himself and the car door in his heart, and then looked at the closed car window, thinking that it would be faster to jump from the car with a broken window.
"Don't be so nervous, is it the first time to take the last bus of No. 104?" Chen Ge seemed to be a neighbor's eldest brother: "You may have been misled by some online posts. The last train at 0:00, I don't know the specific reason, but you can rest assured that we are all living."
In order to increase his persuasion, Chen Ge also opened the travel bag and held out the white cat: "Have you seen ghosts and raised cats?"
The white cat who was taken out inexplicably was very dissatisfied. It waved its claws, but it couldn't touch Chen Ge, and its furious hair stood up.
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 is raining heavily today and it's early morning, why are there so many people riding in the car?"
"Many people are busy with their lives at night, such as telephone operators, night drivers, logistics security guards, announcers of evening programs, etc. Our city can develop better and better, and it is inseparable from them." Such a positive dialogue 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 outside so late?"
"I..." The young man hesitated, he looked at the other passengers in the car, the lights were not turned on inside the hearse, he could only see black outlines.
His palms were sweating constantly, and after thinking for a long time, he silently put away the phone and said to Chen Ge, "I am a student of Linjiang No. 1 High School."
"High school student?" Chen Ge stared at the child's face: "I feel like you are quite mature."
"I've repeated my studies for two years, but this year's situation is not very good. It is estimated that the exam is over, but it doesn't matter." The young man's voice changed, and there was a bit of bitterness in his voice that did not match his age.
"Brother, you have been repeating your studies for two years. Is there anything more important than the entrance exam?"
"Yes." The young man nodded affirmatively, and took out his mobile phone: "In the class I repeated, three students disappeared, I know where they went, but the police just didn't believe what I said. "
Turning on the phone, the young man looked through to find a group photo: "They are my best friends."
There are four people in the photo. The young man is standing at the back with a basketball in his arms. A pair of twins with very different personalities are separated. The one on the left has a gloomy look, his face is drooping, and he has a black backpack in his hand. The one on the right looks blankly. Looking at the girl in the middle, her eyes are full of love.
"Why did a good living person 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. When Xiao Gu was riding the hearse, he also said that there was a high school student in the bus he was in, and that high school student also wore a black backpack.
"Black backpacks, twins with the same appearance and completely opposite personalities..." Chen Ge vaguely understood something: "The three of them disappeared after taking the last bus on Route 104?"
The young man nodded again: "The twins are surnamed Bei, which is a relatively rare surname. Although they look exactly the same, their personalities are completely two extremes. The elder brother's name is Beiye. My name is Beiwen, I have good grades in studies, quiet and shy, and don't like to talk."
"The four of us live very close, and we usually go home together. Some time ago, for some unknown reason, Kitano and Beiwen suddenly started fighting at the station. It seems that Kitano has been jealous of Beiwen. He said he had had enough."
"We didn't take it to heart at that time. Kitano left alone. The next day I found out that Kitano didn't go home overnight."
"During the big break, Kitano took the initiative to find us. First, he apologized to Beiwen uncharacteristically, and then told us a secret, saying that after the early morning, there would be a last train full of dead people heading for 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 going to go. As a result, he laughed at Beiwen in front of the girl."
The young man stopped here when he said it. He looked at the phone, and the more he thought about it, the more scared he became.
"and after?"
"Then all three of them disappeared, Kitano and his father disappeared on the same day, then the girl, and finally Beiwen."
This order is consistent with a certain order in Chen Ge's memory. He thinks that Beiye and Beiwen are very likely to be in the world behind Liwan Town.
"Get off the bus at the next stop. If I meet some of your friends, I will bring them back."
"You brought them back? That won't work." The young man shook his head: "I also mustered up the courage to come up..."
"If you don't want to die, just do as I say." Chen Ge still smiled gently, but the young man staring at him felt as if he had been splashed with ice water in the winter, and shivered involuntarily.
This kid is like the protagonist of a normal horror movie, but fortunately, he met Chen Ge.