Chapter 0535 – Desperate Hearse
The dark night sky seemed like a huge curtain that covered all the light.
Chen Ge sat on the electric car and spread out his palms as raindrops fell into his palms with a slight coolness.
”It seems like it’s going to rain heavily.”
The buildings on both sides of the road looked a little blurry, it wasn’t even the middle of the night yet, and there was already no light visible in the residential area.
”Do people in the eastern suburbs like to go to bed early?”
Chen Ge had already noticed the abnormality, he parked his electric car on the bus stop platform, took out his cell phone and glanced at the time.
”It’s not even twelve o’clock at night, usually those things become active after zero o’clock.” Chen Ge didn’t carry a raincoat or umbrella, and he was worried about Yan Dainian’s cartoon getting wet: “Stay here and wait? Or continue the journey before the rain gets too heavy?”
After thinking for a moment, Chen Ge still decided to continue forward, “When it rains heavily, we’ll find a place to take shelter, I can’t spend the whole night waiting for the hearse to show up, going to Jiang Long’s old house where he imprisoned Boo’s mom to take a look at it is tonight’s top priority.”
Chen Ge was a very decisive person, and would immediately go into action when he had a decision.
He was the only car on the entire highway at this moment, but he wasn’t the least bit flustered.
”Bus 104 is the bus with the longest route and the most stops in Jiujiang, and it’s also the only bus that runs directly from the western suburbs to the eastern suburbs, when the city opened this route, it was to strengthen the connection between the eastern suburbs and the western suburbs.”
”Now that I think about it, out of all the lines, only the last bus on route 104 will have an accident, and I’m afraid that the person behind this is trying to bring the ghosts and remnants of the western suburb to the eastern suburb through this bus, or trying to sneak certain things from the eastern suburb to the western suburb.”
Chen Ge wasn’t sure what exactly the people behind the eastern suburbs wanted, but from some previous contacts, it seemed that the other party was preparing to turn the eastern suburbs into a paradise for ghosts and monsters, and they had even built a neighborhood outside Liwan Town specifically for ghosts and monsters.
”The eastern suburb is much more dangerous than the western suburb, we can’t be careless.”
The deeper one went into the eastern suburb, the dimmer the streetlights on both sides became, and that distorted light not only failed to bring warmth and a sense of security, but instead aggravated the uneasiness within one’s heart.
The buildings next to the road were obviously common in life, but at this time there was always an indescribable strangeness, as if what lived inside was not a living person at all, but something else.
When passing through a crossroads, Chen Ge stopped.
He stood next to a 104 stop sign and looked at the left and right roads, trying his best to think back, but he couldn’t remember which way to go.
After completing the Black Phone’s trial mission multiple times, in order to be able to escape in times of crisis, he had developed the habit of remembering the nearby roads no matter where he went.
After having been to Liwan Town several times before, he had already memorized the road, but when he followed the memorized road, a path that was not in his memory appeared in front of him.
”Am I remembering it wrong? Or have I gotten within the influence of that runaway door?”
He took out his own cell phone and opened the map to navigate, but the phone was unable to locate it for half a day.
”It looks like I’ve also encountered the kind of situation that Dr. Pei described.”
The same situation, but Chen Ge did something completely different from that patient, he parked his battery-operated car on the side of the road, carried his backpack to the door of the nearest store, and knocked hard on the already closed roll-up door.
”Twelve o’clock in the morning, knocking on the door so frantically, and not a single family in the entire building has come out to see what’s going on?”
Chen Ge looked back, the building in his field of vision was a bit blurry, and the darkness was like a wildly running herd of beasts attacking from afar, ready to devour everything and anything, including Chen Ge.
”When the out-of-control door is opened for a long time, the world filled with despair and weirdness inside the door will overlap with the world outside the door.” Chen Ge had only heard Men Nan say this, he had never seen it himself, so he couldn’t be sure.
”Forget it, don’t think about it.” Chen Ge pulled open the backpack zipper and was about to take out the skull-crushing hammer to smash the door and test the reaction of the residents behind the door when something suddenly drove this way in the middle of the thick darkness in the distance.
The worn out body seemed to have not been maintained for a long time, rather than saying that this was a bus, it would be more apt to say that it was a coffin moving on the highway.
”Route 104?” Chen Ge’s pupils narrowed as he looked at the bus that was pulling out of the dinky intersection.
At the same time, the black cell phone that had been in the inner pocket of his jacket vibrated.
Chen Ge habitually took it out and slid the screen.
”Lucky Knightly Demon Favorite! Congratulations on triggering the two-star trial mission – Desperate Hearse!”
”Does it accept the quest?”
”Attention! After abandoning the mission, the scene will never be unlocked!”
Looking at the prompt message on his cell phone, Chen Ge directly chose yes without any hesitation.
”The hearse carrying the dead is on its way, if you can’t leave within an hour, you will be left on it forever!”
”Mission Requirement: arrive at Liwan Town on bus 104 after midnight early morning and get off safely.”
”Mission tip: Upon completion of this mission, a brand new trial mission will be unlocked!”
After two to three seconds, Chen Ge put the black phone away, and after reading the mission information on the black phone he was even more certain of his guess: “Of the several trial missions initially gifted on the black phone, the Desperate Hearse mission should be the key to connecting the western and eastern suburbs! After completing this mission, the black phone might be updated with a difficult trial mission that needs to be completed in the eastern suburbs!”
Chen Ge carried his backpack back to the side of the stop sign, he looked at the bus number 104 that was slowly approaching as if it was a coffin, his eyes gently narrowed, “There should be an existence above the red clothes in the eastern suburb, it seems that after completing the hearse mission, the black phone will probably update with a four-star trial mission.”
Taking a deep breath, Chen Ge was ready, he stood alone in the middle of the dark night with a solemn expression, “The hearse mission is a new beginning, we can’t be careless.”
Cold wind blew against his sleeves and his hair was wet, Chen Ge looked at the approaching 104 road hearse and slowly reached into his backpack with one hand.
The rain, the more it fell, the bigger it got.
The depressingly eerie No. 104 final bus finally pulled into the bus stop, and Chen Ge’s heartbeat began to accelerate as he heard the sound of the stop announcement coming from the bus radio.
”It’s finally here.”
Chen Ge looked at the passengers on the bus with their heads hanging low and took a few steps forward, but before he could get out of the platform, the bus drove right past his eyes, accelerated out of the station, and sped off into the distance.
Looking at the gradually fading away No. 104 hearse, Chen Ge reacted only after half a day.
”Not letting me get on the bus?!”
The mission requirement on the black cell phone was to arrive at Liwan Town on the No. 104 hearse and get off safely, but the current situation was that the hearse had no intention of letting Chen Ge get on.
Without taking the hearse, the mission would naturally fail, and Chen Ge had never thought that he would encounter such a situation.
In order to avoid failing the mission, Chen Ge put his bag on his back, rode Fan Cong’s electric bike, and chased after the hearse in front of him like crazy on the road.
”There are still people who haven’t gotten on!”