Chapter 116: [Harboring a Ghostly Secret] Getting Closer
The inside of the bus fell into an eerie silence.
Not a single person spoke.
Under the tense gaze of everyone, the bus headlights suddenly flickered off.
When they turned back on, the sedan chair was gone.
The driver restarted the bus and continued driving forward.
Everyone breathed a slight sigh of relief, but the bus became even quieter.
Bai Cha glanced at the magazine hanging behind the front seat.
There were also advertisements stuck behind the front seat, advertisements for shaping underwear. The magazines were usually also full of advertisements, mixed with some small stories about marital ethics.
Bai Cha flipped through a few pages, and an old piece of paper fell out.
The paper was already a bit yellowed, especially at the creases.
After opening it, there was a line of text inside, the handwriting clear and elegant, more like a girl’s handwriting.
[I hope I can fulfill my dream]
A sharp-eyed player noticed all of this and first checked their own magazine for any notes. After finding none, they looked at Bai Cha.
“That thing you have, can we take a look?”
Bai Cha naturally didn’t object and gave them the note.
Everyone passed it around.
The boy who had introduced himself as Wang Jiangtao earlier said, “Is this, um… from that person?”
Everyone knew he was talking about Ji Xiaolan, but no one said her name aloud, who knew if it would cause any changes?
The bus suddenly braked hard again.
The players bumped into the front seats once more.
Looking up ahead, sure enough, it was that bridal sedan chair again.
“Did it get a little closer this time?” a player asked after a moment of silence.
One sentence made everyone’s scalp tingle.
“No way, what’s going on? It’s just the beginning…”
Did they really have to start with such a big scene right away?
Xu Shengsheng was a little nervous and a little excited.
This time, just like before, the sedan chair probably only stopped for about three minutes. The headlights flickered off, and the sedan chair disappeared.
Then the driver started driving again.
Such a steady driver proved that he was definitely not an ordinary person, probably not even a human.
“It will definitely appear again in a while. We should discuss what to do if we crash into it…”
Everyone looked at each other.
“But why would it appear here? I remember in the dream it was very smooth, didn’t we just arrive at the place?”
“Are you stupid? That only proves that the survival probability here might be higher.”
Dreams and games were never quite the same.
Games were far more dangerous than dreams.
Anyone who really took the so-called hints as the standard for clearing the game would only be heading for their death.
Bai Cha had already pulled out another flyer from the back pocket of the front seat.
It was a flyer for a tourist attraction, and the address was Lan Mountain.
This flyer was also quite crude, just a very thin piece of magenta paper with black text and black and white photos.
The photo was of a temple.
Next to the temple was a lake.
The flyer roughly said that this temple was called Ruolan Temple, and making wishes there was very effective, welcoming everyone to visit.
But just looking at the name, you could tell it was蹭热度 (riding on popularity). Although the flyer didn’t have a date, judging from some dates on the magazine and advertisements, it should have been around 2012-2015.
Back then, the Liaozhai series in TV dramas was still something people talked about with relish.
Someone else next to her also reached into the pocket and pulled out a flyer.
Not everyone got one. Some people even pulled out a blob of something unknown.
It looked like spoiled fruit, already moldy and rotten.
Xu Shengsheng found a pen.
It was a Hero fountain pen. The ink had dried up, some of the paint on the pen itself had peeled off, but the nib was fine. It was unknown if it could still be used after refilling the ink.
Xu Shengsheng looked sadly at the “Five-Three” in her arms and then at the pen.
Was this the inescapable fate of her as a high school student?
Bai Cha had already spent 1 point to exchange for a bottle of very ordinary blue ink for her.
The name of this ink was just “Very Ordinary Blue Ink,” which was why it was so cheap.
In contrast, the introduction of the “Five-Three” confidently stated that completing it would definitely lead to good results in the college entrance exam.
Xu Shengsheng looked at the ink, then at the pen, and unscrewed the pen.
There were some dried ink stains inside, but it didn’t affect refilling.
She casually used the flyer to wipe the ink stuck to the nib, swiped it twice on the paper, and the ink flowed smoothly.
Great, she was going to start working hard… NOT!
“There’s not enough light in the car,” Xu Shengsheng said softly, blinking her eyes, which looked very much like Bai Cha’s.
Xu Shengsheng inherited her eyes from her mother, while Bai Cha’s father and aunt had the same eyes.
So the two sisters’ eyes looked very similar.
The light inside the car was indeed very dim, because only when the front headlights illuminated the road could they also light up the interior a little.
The front seats were brighter, while the last row where they sat was quite dark.
“It’s okay, your eyesight will return to what it was before you entered the game after you leave, so don’t worry about getting nearsighted,” Bai Cha considerately understood her meaning and whispered in her ear.
Xu Shengsheng: “…”
Sis, you’re a devil!!
My mom would wholeheartedly agree!!
While they were whispering, the car braked hard once again.
This time, the sedan chair was indeed closer.
The initial distance was probably as long as a bus. The second time it was half that distance, and now it had been halved again.
It was probably only the distance of two seats away from the bus.
And the wind seemed to have picked up a bit.
The curtains of the sedan chair swayed in the wind. Although they weren’t fully lifted, you could already see a pair of red embroidered shoes in the lower part of the sedan chair, illuminated by the headlights.
The temperature inside the car seemed to have dropped several degrees.
Perhaps it was psychological, or perhaps it really had gotten colder. Many people subconsciously rubbed their arms, getting goosebumps all over.
Xu Shengsheng hugged Bai Cha, trying to warm her with her own body temperature.
“Sis, don’t be afraid!”
Bai Cha: “…”
In fact, she was probably the only one here who didn’t feel anything at all.
As long as it wasn’t the controlled experience in a dream, she really had a hard time feeling anything when encountering such things in person.
She patted Xu Shengsheng’s back in return and said, “It’s okay, this is nothing. If she had directly plastered herself on the back window of our car, now that would be something!”
Although the two sisters’ conversation was quiet, it wasn’t a whisper.
Apart from Xu Shengsheng, who was a newbie, there were no other newbies here. Everyone had undergone some degree of physical enhancement.
Even without enhancement, they could actually hear most of it.
Someone with a complicated expression wanted to turn around to look at the two sisters but was really deterred by Bai Cha’s words about the back window.
Especially Wang Jiangtao and Zhang Feng, who were sitting in the aisle.
Wang Jiangtao, sitting by the aisle, cast a resentful glance at Bai Cha, who was also by the aisle.
Bai Cha smiled innocently and gently.
The sedan chair disappeared once again.
Anxiety inevitably rose in everyone’s hearts.
Who knew what it would be like when it appeared next time?
What would happen if they directly crashed into it?
