Chapter 82: ‘out-of-control’ Bus
“Thirty-two already…”
Lin Qian, sitting in the driver’s seat, had a grave expression.
The bus stopped at two more stations and three ghosts got on.
Three more until full load.
“I still have five stops before getting off, three…”
How could no ghosts get on the bus over five stops?
Today’s bus was simply eerie; from the start of ghosts boarding until now, not a single ghost had gotten off.
Back in that snowy region, he had even taken control of one ghost.
If he hadn’t controlled that Ice Ghost, the number of fierce ghosts on the bus right now would be a terrifying thirty-three, just two short of full load.
“Must get off at thirty-five…”
Lin Qian’s eyes narrowed slightly as he withdrew his gaze from the fierce ghosts on the bus.
“Get off…”
But once he got off, how would he reach his destination?
It was only five stops away, but who knew where his destination was in this ghostly place?
Without the bus, he couldn’t find that place at all.
He’d come this far; getting off midway would just be a waste of effort.
“On the bus, I can’t make a move.”
What to do when the bus was about to reach full load?
Just reduce the number of fierce ghosts.
But the problem was, he couldn’t make a move on the bus.
“Now, either the bus stalls or encounters Ghost Blocking the Bus before full load, or it’s hard to reduce the number of fierce ghosts.”
“Trouble…”
Lin Qian exhaled, stroking the doll in his pocket.
Though he didn’t know what would happen at full load, if even Meng Xiaodong thought it was trouble, for him it might be more than just trouble.
“Get off, or tough it out?”
The bus, carrying a busload of fierce ghosts, swayed along in the supernatural land.
After an unknown time, the bus suddenly veered right and slowed down.
Lin Qian’s expression shifted slightly; ahead, mist suddenly rose from a small path between a forest.
In the mist, faint figures of a group of people appeared.
Lin Qian’s pupils contracted slightly, “Fuck!”
He stood up directly, staring intently at the figures emerging from the mist.
Numerous shadowy figures, unknown number, but definitely more than three.
The bus drew closer and closer to that eerie small path.
The mist spread, and gradually, Lin Qian saw the true faces of those figures.
They were seven or eight drenched people, men and women, utterly eerie.
Water dripped from them, leaving puddles and footprints along the small path.
“Can’t let them on the bus!”
Lin Qian thought to himself.
He went straight to the bus door; if they tried to board, he would get off without hesitation and block them outside.
If possible, he would directly plunder the fierce ghosts on them.
Lin Qian’s eyes darkened; the seven or eight figures slowly stopped on the small path as the mist receded back into it.
The bus slowly stopped, and the bus door opened instantly.
A thick stench of corpses spread from outside the bus.
Bone-chilling cold hit him in the face.
Lin Qian’s eyes narrowed slightly, “Terror level isn’t low.”
The bus door fully opened.
The seven or eight figures moved, walking toward the bus.
“They’re really getting on.”
Lin Qian stepped off the bus; Ghost Domain instantly spread out, and the snow-white shadow behind him moved at once.
Freezing supernatural cold spread toward the several fierce ghosts.
Ice crystals rose instantly from the ground, rapidly covering toward those fierce ghosts.
The terrifying supernatural could unhesitatingly freeze these seven or eight ghosts.
But suddenly, Lin Qian frowned and glanced back at the bus behind him.
“Why not see what happens after full load?”
With that thought, Lin Qian vanished from the spot.
The terrifying supernatural vanished, and the ice crystals on the ground shattered and disappeared abruptly.
Lin Qian appeared on the bus roof.
He looked around and found no place to grip.
“This way, I’ll definitely be thrown off.”
Undoubtedly, if he dared stand on the bus, he’d be thrown off.
His figure left the bus roof, quickly scouting the bus.
Soon, he found a spot to hitch a ride.
At the bus tail, above the license plate, there was a tiny spot to stand.
Lin Qian stood directly on it, and at the same time, a weird mask appeared on his face.
He fully activated his supernatural, ready for accidents.
Meanwhile, the shadow at his feet stood up, extending both hands to grip the license plate tightly.
With all preparations foolproof, Lin Qian looked toward those fierce ghosts through Ghost Domain.
Without his obstruction, all the fierce ghosts boarded the bus.
“Forty ghosts… excluding the one already on the bus, that’s thirty-nine ghosts.”
This was seriously overloaded; at least four ghosts on the bus had no seats!
What terrifying thing would happen at full load?
In the original work, there was no description of the bus at full load, only that it was very terrifying.
Intelligence on the bus at full load was always missing.
“I want to see what terrifying thing happens after full load.”
Ghost Eye turned, and suddenly, he was surprised to find ghosts stirring on the bus.
Looking inside through Ghost Domain, after those eight ghosts boarded, over a dozen fierce ghosts stood up and headed for the back door.
This was clearly the rhythm of getting off.
After full load, some fierce ghosts would get off?
If so, full load posed no danger at all.
But why didn’t Meng Xiaodong board?
As a top ghost controller from the Republic of China, this alone wouldn’t make her think it was trouble.
Things were definitely not that simple.
Lin Qian watched the situation inside the bus intently.
Suddenly, his eyes sharpened:
“What the hell!”
Bang~!
The bus door closed without warning.
The fierce ghosts that had just reached the door were knocked back by the closing door.
Immediately after, the bus instantly started up.
Terrifying supernatural appeared abruptly; Lin Qian gripped the bus tightly, supernatural surging.
The shadow at his feet had its arms taut, ten transparent fingers gripping the license plate tightly.
But the sudden action caught Lin Qian off guard.
Ghost Domain was directly suppressed by that terrifying supernatural.
His mask flickered nonstop.
He dangled in mid-air, one hand gripping the license plate tightly along with the shadow.
“What the hell is this!”
The bus’s speed was insanely fast, faster than his Ghost Domain Rainbow Transformation at full speed.
He was dragged along at high speed.
The bus emitted terrifying supernatural, slowly suppressing the fierce ghosts in his body.
He watched in terror as the Ice Ghost’s hand gripping the license plate slowly loosened.
The Ice Ghost’s supernatural was sinking into dormancy.
“Damn it, can’t let the Ice Ghost keep gripping, or it’ll be fully suppressed.”
Lin Qian hadn’t expected that even off the bus, the bus’s suppression power was so terrifying.
Decisively, Lin Qian made the Ice Ghost let go.
Instantly, the Ice Ghost retracted to his feet.
“Think of something fast…”
Lin Qian knew that without a solution, he’d definitely be thrown off by the bus.
The bus’s state was extremely eerie; something unknown had happened.
The bus carrying thirty-nine ghosts had clearly lost control.
Icy wind howled past his ears.
Lin Qian swayed up and down behind the bus like a kite.
“Calm down, stay calm.”
Under the flickering mask, Lin Qian’s eyes narrowed; suddenly, he thought of something.
Instantly, extreme cold appeared.
His feet were directly frozen by ice cubes.
Then, following his frozen feet, a large thick ice block formed beneath them.
“Hope this works.”
Lin Qian pulled his body with his arms, then gripped the license plate with both hands.
Next, he controlled the thick ice on his feet to lightly touch the ground.
Splash~!
The ice cubes touched the ground and shattered directly, but in the instant of shattering, new thick ice reformed.
Then, a bizarre and magical scene occurred.
Lin Qian glided on the ground using the thick ice on his feet.
Like surfing, he gripped the license plate, with the thick ice under his feet as the surfboard.
“It works!”
Lin Qian breathed a sigh of relief, “Next, just keep maintaining and thickening this ice.”
The surrounding environment receded rapidly; he stood on the ice cubes, pulled along by the bus in a glide.
He adjusted his posture to avoid being blocked when hitting bumps and potholes.
He slowly tilted up the ice block so its end touched the ground, preventing it from catching on potholes.
Lin Qian’s pressure eased greatly.
Though the bus suppressed his fierce ghosts, it didn’t suppress too harshly; he could still use supernatural, just about thirty percent.
But that was enough.
Sounds of splashing water, wind, and ice scraping mud and stones rang in his ears.
Trees and weeds on both sides receded rapidly.
Lin Qian’s eyes scanned, watching surroundings while keeping an eye on the bus.
But with Ghost Domain suppressed and vision obstructed, he didn’t see that the bus speeding on the road had pitch blackness inside.
The lights inside the bus were all out, the bus windows pitch black, impossible to see the situation within.
No one knew what was happening inside the bus.
After an unknown time, the ice under his feet broke and reformed repeatedly.
The surrounding environment remained indistinct.
Luckily Lin Qian wasn’t ordinary; otherwise, these high-difficulty maneuvers would’ve thrown him off countless times.
The bus showed no sign of stopping, still speeding along.
Time passed slowly.
Suddenly, Lin Qian noticed a small forest flash by, and not far in its depths seemed to be an ancient house.
Besides that, there seemed to be an old man in a Zhongshan suit by the roadside.
He made eye contact with the old man.
The old man seemed surprised, but Lin Qian stayed calm, waving at him.
Then, the bus carried him a kilometer away in an instant.
By the road, the old man in Zhongshan suit looked at the gliding marks on the ground.
The corner of his eye twitched slightly.
“Are the young people these days all this wild?”
“You can ride the bus like this?”
The old man recalled the bus’s state just now, his turbid eyes shifting slightly.
“Cabin pitch black, speed off…”
“Full load again?”
The old man shook his head, then thought of that young man who waved at him.
“First time someone’s dared wave at me.”
The old man chuckled, shook his head, and turned toward the ancient house behind the small forest.
“Who was that old man just now? Human or ghost? He seemed very strong.”
Lin Qian stroked his chin, thinking, “Whatever, doesn’t matter, strong or not has nothing to do with me.”
When passing that small forest, he’d only caught a rough glimpse, most attention drawn by the old man.
He hadn’t paid much attention to more.
So, he hadn’t clearly seen the ancient house’s situation.
But no matter; there were so many ancient houses in the supernatural land, who knew which one Zhang Dong lived in?
Since entering the supernatural land, he’d seen no few ancient houses.
At least a dozen large and small ones.
At the start, he’d thought one was Zhang Dong’s place.
He’d been nervous about it for a while.
But after finding such ancient houses weren’t rare, he stopped caring.
“No idea how much longer until it stops.”
Lin Qian looked at the bus, somewhat helpless.
Gliding along pulled by it was cool, but boring.
And the later it got, the more dangerous.
Time passed slowly, but a long time had gone by.
Lin Qian didn’t know how long he’d been gliding.
He only knew he’d seen over a dozen supernatural lands.
A burning Ghost Lake with human heads rolling in it, billowing thick smoke.
A mountain fire with countless charred figures.
A white bone plain stretching unknown widths.
Pavilions and towers with song and dance, shadowy figures moving.
A funeral procession with suona blaring deafeningly, terrifying supernatural attacking indiscriminately all who heard the suona.
If not for the suona ghost being male and him having burst his eardrums, he might’ve been thrown off by the suona sound.
Towering cliffs with figures lining up to jump.
A round moon high, under moonlight full of standing fierce ghosts; the bus didn’t dare enter the moonlit area, just skirting the edge.
A great river spanning banks, mist covering the surface, shadowy figures poling boats through the mist.
A fierce ghost carrying a lantern on its back with an old book chest, walking through the mountain forest.
Eerie, bizarre, creepy, terrifying—he’d seen it all.
Not being on the bus, he saw more clearly.
And understood the terror of these places.
Another unknown time passed.
Suddenly, Lin Qian felt his face wet, as if something dripped onto it.
Before Lin Qian could think what it was.
The surrounding environment suddenly changed.
Drip drop~!
Heavy rain poured down, roads splashing mud.
“This is…”
Icy chill emanated from the rainwater; the moment it touched his body, he suddenly felt his body being eroded by supernatural.
Lin Qian looked up, face changing slightly.
Rain curtain poured down; in an instant, he was engulfed.
Supernatural heavy rain!
“Damn…”
The worst thing he didn’t want to see had happened.
The bus had entered an extremely eerie and terrifying area.
Lin Qian lowered his head slightly; heavy rain fell, his glide smoother, but danger had arrived.
He discovered in horror that he couldn’t avoid the rainwater’s erosion.
The source of this heavy rain wasn’t a male ghost…
Lin Qian’s mood grew heavy, temporarily unsure how to evade the heavy rain’s erosion.
