Chapter 285: Locust Tree Hotel 3
“Move over quickly!”
Chu Yian couldn’t help but remind him mentally, but it was already too late.
Those two things had come up.
Although they were called passengers, they were not at all human-shaped. Their bodies were abnormally tall, hunched over in the carriage. Their appearance was extremely blurry; only their vague outlines could be seen, their specific forms like a swirling mist.
The monster walking at the front sat down in the spot where that person hadn’t moved.
Chu Yian didn’t have time to care what happened to the person sitting with the monster, because there was still another monster standing. With no empty seats by the aisle, it began to ask each person, “Is anyone here?”
The first player asked was now terrified.
He clutched the rulebook tightly, neither answering, moving, nor giving up his seat. Only when the monster moved elsewhere did he finally relax.
His body trembled like a sieve.
The car door closed, and the bus continued to drive. Chu Yian watched as the monster at the front had already reached the middle of the bus with its inquiries, and it would soon reach her.
“Is anyone here?”
A wave of icy coldness washed over her, but Chu Yian ignored it.
The bus was incredibly quiet, with only the creaking sound of the vehicle as it drove along the mountain road.
Right, what happened to the person sitting by the window?
Chu Yian looked forward, but the “new passengers” who had boarded blocked her entire view. Just then, she felt a sudden chill from all directions, and the temperature inside the bus noticeably dropped a lot.
She looked at the time display at the front of the bus: 10:14.
According to Rule 4, the surrounding temperature would plummet between 10:14 and 10:44.
Chu Yian thought that by closing the windows as required, it wouldn’t be too cold, but she hadn’t expected the temperature to feel like wearing a shirt in winter, with cold wind blowing through her clothes, making her bones feel cold.
She remembered that there seemed to be air conditioning in the bus, right above her head, those small circular things.
She glanced at the “new passenger” with its back to her, then quickly looked up at the ceiling. Sure enough, there was a device for blowing warm air. Taking advantage of the monster’s back being turned, she quickly reached up.
The passenger in the aisle seemed to sense her movement, abruptly turning and rushing over.
It stopped right beside her.
Chu Yian had already withdrawn her hand and was sitting motionless in her seat. She felt the temperature suddenly drop when the new passenger was beside her.
Cold.
Extremely cold.
Fortunately, this situation didn’t last long. When it didn’t find any moving passengers, it slowly moved away.
As the new passenger left, warm air immediately blew down from above.
The surrounding temperature gradually rose, becoming comfortable.
But not everyone would think of the air conditioning overhead at such a time. In the cold carriage, some people would inevitably get so cold that they’d have a physiological reaction, then uncontrollably sneeze.
In the quiet carriage, this sound was incredibly obvious.
The new passenger, who had been walking in front, heard the sound and abruptly turned around. Then, in the fourth seat in front of Chu Yian, the player’s body was instantly torn apart. Warm blood splattered, sticking to the ceiling, windows, seats, and nearby players.
The fishy smell of blood filled their nostrils, making them all clearly realize that this person was dead.
And dying in this round of the game meant direct death.
Just moments ago, some people were drowsy, but now everyone was wide awake. This was a place where even a sneeze could kill. Fear and cold, the lamplight flickered in the carriage, silent to the point of no sound.
Chu Yian was probably in the best state among them.
Her gaze shifted from the new passenger inside the car to the window; outside was pitch black. After an unknown amount of time, the vehicle suddenly jolted. Not just one jolt, but continuous jolting.
Rule 5: Between 10:34 and 10:44, the bus will enter a bumpy section of road.
The current requirement was not to vomit.
Do not vomit… This was too difficult for some people who get motion sickness.
Li Ming’s face was pale, his stomach already churning.
It was because his motion sickness was too severe that even after finding the rulebook, he only fastened his seatbelt and closed the window, not moving to the aisle side.
“Ugh—!”
He finally couldn’t help but start dry heaving, immediately followed by the contents of his stomach rising up his esophagus.
He held it in his mouth, the nausea making him want to vomit even more, but his rationality told him to swallow it back down. “Ugh—!”
He couldn’t hold it in after all.
Li Ming’s face grew even paler. He had already violated two rules consecutively. He now seemed to see something extremely terrifying, his pupils gradually shifting towards the passenger in the seat beside him. He opened his mouth wide but no sound came out… A sour, fermented smell spread through the car, overpowering the original scent of blood.
Vomiting is contagious. Smelling this, even people who didn’t get motion sickness now felt like throwing up. And at this moment, the monster in the aisle became increasingly active.
Everyone knew that even one heave could be fatal; they had to hold it in, even if they couldn’t!
Until the bus reached their destination—the Locust Tree Hotel, built halfway up the mountain.
The Hotel stood before them, even more luxurious than they had imagined.
Everyone on the bus got off, including the two monsters.
No, the monsters had become three!
Chu Yian watched as two of the monsters supported the third monster as they left. After getting off the bus, they no longer attacked people but headed directly into the Hotel.
“Holy crap!”
“Do we still have to go in there?”
The people on the bus didn’t dare to get off, and at this moment, another old bus suddenly appeared. Through the window, Chu Yian saw that it was also carrying passengers.
“Let’s get off first; finding the rules is very important.”
Chu Yian unbuckled her seatbelt and cautiously walked forward.
All the players in the car were waiting for Chu Yian, the first to “eat the crab,” to set an example. She slowly looked forward and saw that all the seats in the row not by the aisle were empty. She also saw the driver in the driver’s seat was actually a paper figure made of shoddy paper glued together.
A pale face, cheap peach-red dye.
Holy crap!
When Chu Yian saw it, she couldn’t help but quicken her steps to get off the bus.
She ran very fast, as if someone was chasing her from behind. And indeed, someone was.
“Da Ni, Da Ni, wait for me!”
Li Mingzhu, who had been sitting behind Chu Yian, ran and shouted, finally catching up to her.
Chu Yian looked at her sleeve, which was being tugged, then at the unfamiliar girl. She frowned slightly: “What do you want?”
“I… can I team up with you for this round of the game?”
“Why do you want to team up with me?”
Chu Yian glanced at the group of people who had just gotten off a few meters away. There were so many strong and robust people among them, why would this person think of teaming up with her?
