Chapter 0490 – Do as I say
”The boss wrote back!”
Xiao Gu looked at the short line on his cell phone screen and felt much more solid in his heart, he fished out the headphones from his pocket and put them on before dialing Chen Ge’s number.
After only one ring, the phone was picked up, and Chen Ge’s voice came from the other side of the phone, “You should try to open your mouth as little as possible, and just listen to me from now on.”
”Good.” Xiao Gu leaned against the window, blocking the headphone cord with his arm, his body swaying from side to side with the vehicle.
”I’ve read everything you just sent me, and believe it or not, I’m going to tell you something.” Chen Ge’s voice was calm and composed, “Before I say this matter, I hope that you will prepare yourself in advance and not react too much. If you’re already prepared, send me a text message.”
”Go ahead, boss.” Xiao Gu took a deep breath after sending the text, he was still a little scared inside.
”I just checked the 104 bus you took, that bus had three consecutive accidents within a month, and the most recent one happened just last night, the last bus had an accident while passing by the East Suburb Water Plant, the vehicle ran off the highway and almost crashed into the White Dragon River next to it. It was also because of this accident that a notice was urgently issued from above that bus number 104 had temporarily changed its route and would no longer drive to the eastern suburbs.”
”Not driving to the eastern suburbs?” Xiao Gu didn’t hold back and still said it, “Then what’s going on with this bus I’m on?”
”Not only did the 104 bus change its route, that last bus at nine o’clock was also called off, so the bus you’re on right now isn’t really the 104 bus, it’s most likely a hearse filled with dead people.” Chen Ge used a very smooth tone to say something incomparably frightening.
The arm supporting his body trembled gently, Xiao Gu’s forehead gushed with fine sweat, he didn’t dare to crane his neck to look at the passengers beside him, his hands gripped his cell phone tightly, as if it was his only hope.
”I… What should I do?” Xiao Gu wanted to send a text message, but it was as if his fingers didn’t obey him.
Chen Ge had saved his life, so he had always trusted Chen Ge unconditionally, but because of this, after hearing what Chen Ge said, he felt even more scared.
”Calm down, you must remain calm at this time.” Chen Ge’s voice was not mixed with any unnecessary emotions, “Don’t open your mouth to speak so that you won’t be heard by the people next to you, you use SMS to communicate with me, how far away is the bus you took from the next stop?”
”The next stop is the Eastern Suburbs Waterworks, the suburban line stops are all far apart from each other, it is estimated that there are still seven or eight minutes before it arrives.” Xiao Gu moved his stiff fingers and took a good half day to finish typing this sentence.
”The Eastern Suburbs Waterworks is where the last bus on Route 104 crashed yesterday, that stop is your last chance, now you still have six minutes to get ready, tell me how far you are from the back door, are there any other passengers in the way in between?”
”I was sitting near the rear door, but there was a passenger next to me whose coat was soaked.” Gu stole a glance to the side, the man with his head down was leaning his body towards him, he was soaked to the skin and there seemed to be untreated mud stains in the pockets of his jacket.
”Since you’re so close to the back door, there’s nothing to worry about. As soon as the car stops, just do whatever you can to get down the back door.”
”No need to worry? But I still feel like I’m in danger.” Xiao Gu clutched his cell phone and thought for a moment before sending another message to Chen Ge, “Boss, there’s a woman in a red raincoat outside the bus stop, and I can see her at every stop! Really! I haven’t lied a single word! I suspect that red raincoat, she’s not human.”
Xiao Gu sucked in his breath and mustered up enough courage to say these words.
In the middle of the Fang Hua Yuan neighborhood, he had also seen a ghost once, that experience was buried deep in his heart, he was constantly deceiving himself, but everything that happened tonight reawakened that horrible memory.
”Boss, right now I should still be safe in the car, once I get off the car I might have to face her alone, face that ghost in the red raincoat.” Xiao Gu’s palms were covered in sweat, leaving him little time to prepare.
”I understand where you’re coming from, with a ghost guarding the outside of the bus and ghosts mixed in amongst the bus passengers, at first glance it seems safer to stay on the bus.”
”Yeah, I’m pretty clueless in this situation.” Xiao Gu cried out, he just wanted to go home, who knew he would meet such a thing.
”It’s not insurmountable, it’s just that you don’t see it.” Chen Ge used the fastest speed of speech and calmly analyzed, “As you can see through the information you sent me at the very beginning, the female ghost on the platform didn’t make things difficult for you, she just kept asking you if you had seen her child, which means that at least at this stage, she doesn’t have any malicious intent towards you, and only wants to find her own child.”
”That’s right.”
”Then have you ever wondered where her child went? And why she’s been guarding the bus stop?”
Xiao Gu hadn’t really thought about that, who would think that much for a ghost? Besides, he was already freaked out by the sight of that red raincoat, so how would he have time to think about those things?
”The red raincoat has been following bus number 104, which means that her lost child might be on the bus.” Chen Ge tried his best to say in a tone that was acceptable to normal people, “Red Raincoat wasn’t able to get on the bus for some reason, but you were on the bus, and that’s the key to breaking the game!”
”The raincoat woman’s child is on the bus ……,” Xiao Gu looked at the middle-aged woman, who didn’t seem to care about the death of the child in her arms, even if the child had a fever and was coughing violently, she only symbolically picked up the child, and there was even a hint of impatience on her face.
”Boss, I seem to know who the child the raincoat woman is looking for.”
”Don’t make a sound, wait until the bus is almost at the stop, get close to the kid and take him off the bus with you! If you can fulfill the red raincoat’s wish, she will definitely not hurt you.”
”But she’s a ghost no matter what, if I bring the child off the bus, she’ll let me go? No matter what, she’s still a ghost, not a human being!” It was Xiao Gu’s first time doing something like this after all, and her body started to shake just thinking about it.
”The one who killed them was a human, why are you so prejudiced against ghosts?” Chen Ge’s voice remained calm: “Do as I say, this is the only way to save you, remember, don’t stay in the car for too long!”
”Understood.” Xiao Gu’s heart was beating so hard that it was not controlled at all, he was getting nervous.
”There’s more than one ghost on the 104 bus, maybe all of them are ghosts except you, you must be decisive when you get off the bus, don’t get entangled by them, in addition ……” Chen Ge paused for a moment, “After you get off the bus smoothly, don’t immediately give the child to the red raincoat, observe her reaction before making a decision.”