Chapter 0619 – Black Book Bag
As the doors closed and the vehicle started, the young man’s throat knots trembled gently as he held the umbrella between his legs, rummaged through his pockets to find a dollar and put it into the unmanned ticket machine.
Accompanied by the crisp sound of the coin falling, the several passengers in the vehicle all looked at the young man.
Being watched by so many strange people, he hurriedly lowered his head, as if they wouldn’t notice him if he didn’t look at them.
The young man walked over to the drop-off door, and he made a very smart decision to stay right by the door so he could get off the bus first.
The 104 bus rattled, the young man gripped the handrail so hard, probably because he was so nervous, that a raised vein could be seen on his arm.
”Newcomer?” The doctor, who should have seen the young man for the first time, raised his eyebrows upwards, pursed his lips, and ultimately did not say a word.
After a minute or two, the young man stole a glance around and realized that the other passengers were no longer paying attention to him, which made him sigh with relief.
Reaching into his pocket, he quietly took out his cell phone, seemingly ready to turn on the camera function.
”Shooting photos can be a bit excessive.” Chen Ge was unwilling to have this hearse of his exposed, and as the young man turned his cell phone, he got up and walked towards him.
Seeing someone coming over, the young man was so scared that he didn’t hold his cell phone steady and almost dropped it on the ground.
”There are so many spots in the car, why are you standing there?” Chen Ge’s smile was infectious, and his voice was also very comfortable to listen to.
”I ……” The young man didn’t say that he didn’t dare, since he got into the car, he realized that his mind had slowed down, and for a while he couldn’t even think of a suitable reason.
”Are you still going to school?” Chen Ge naturally grabbed the young man’s arm, “Sit over here, it’s windy there.”
Before the young man could understand what was happening, he had already been pulled to the last row of the bus by Chen Ge.
He mentally calculated the distance between himself and the door of the bus, and then looked at the closed window, thinking that it would be faster to break the window and jump off the bus.
”Don’t be so nervous, first time taking the last bus on route 104?” Chen Ge seemed like a neighbor’s big brother, “You are probably misled by some posts on the internet, in fact, the bus company does open an extra zero hour last bus on some special days, I don’t know the exact reason, but you can rest assured that we are all alive.”
In order to increase the persuasive power, Chen Ge also opened the traveling bag and held out the white cat: “Have you ever seen a ghost still have a cat?”
The white cat that was inexplicably held out was very dissatisfied, it waved its claws but couldn’t touch Chen Ge, its fur standing up in anger.
Seeing a cat that was so lively, the fear in the young man’s heart dissipated a lot, he scratched his head, still a little uncertain: “But today it’s raining heavily and it’s early in the morning, how can there be so many people riding the bus?”
”At night there will also be many people who are busy for their lives, such as operators who answer the phone, night shift drivers, logistic security guards, announcers of evening programs, etc., our city can develop better and better without them.” Such a positive conversation seemed a bit out of place in this eerie bus, but Chen Ge didn’t care in the slightest, “By the way, what do you do? Why are you still out there so late?”
”I …… “The young man wanted to say something, he looked at the other passengers in the bus, the interior of the hearse had no lights on, he could only see a mass of black outlines.
His palms continued to sweat, and after thinking for a long time, he silently put his cell phone away and said to Chen Ge, “I’m a student at Linjiang First High School.”
”A high school student?” Chen Ge stared at the kid’s face, “It feels like you’re quite mature.”
”I’ve been repeating my studies for two years, but I’m not in too good of shape this year, so I guess the exams are up in the air, but it doesn’t matter.” The young man’s words turned, and his voice contained a trace of bitterness that didn’t match his age.
”Brother, you’ve been repeating your studies for two years, is there anything more important than the exams?”
”There is.” The young man nodded his head with certainty, he took out his cell phone, “In the class where I repeated my studies, three students have disappeared, I know where they went, but the police just don’t believe what I said.”
Opening his cell phone, the young man flipped out a group photo: “They are my best friends.”
There are four people in the photo, the young man holding a basketball standing at the end, a pair of twins with very different personalities stand apart on the left and right, the one on the left has a somber gaze and a drooping face, carrying a black backpack in his hand, and the one on the right is staring dully at the girl in the middle, with eyes full of love.
”A nice big living person, how did he go missing?” Chen Ge looked at the high school students in the photo, his eyes fixed on the school bag in the left boy’s hand.
In Xiao Bu’s game, there was a black backpack in the last row of the bus, and when Xiao Gu took the hearse, he also said that there was a high school student inside the bus he was in, and that high school student was also carrying a black backpack.
”Black backpack, twins who look the same and have completely opposite personalities ……,” Chen Ge vaguely understood something: “The three of them are the ones who disappeared after taking the last bus on route 104?”
The young man nodded again, “That pair of twins surnamed North, is considered to be a relatively rare surname, looks exactly the same, but the character is completely two extremes, the brother is called Bei Ye, short-tempered, poor people, like to get some self-righteous pranks; the brother is called Bei Wen, good academic performance, quiet and shy, do not like to talk.”
”The four of us live very close to each other, we usually go home together, some time ago I don’t know what happened, Beiye and Beiwen suddenly fought at the station, it seems that Beiye had been jealous of Beiwen, he said he had had enough.”
”We didn’t take it personally at the time, and Kitano left alone, and the next day I realized that Kitano hadn’t been home all night.”
”Between classes, Kitano took the initiative to find us, first uncharacteristically apologizing to Beiwen, and then telling us a secret, saying that after midnight, there would be a final bus full of dead people heading to the eastern suburbs.”
”A few of us didn’t believe it of course, and Kitano invited us to go with him to wait for this bus, neither Kitman nor I were prepared to go, and he ended up mocking Kitman in front of the girl.”
The young man stopped at that point, looking at his cell phone, the more he thought about it, the more scared he became.
”What happened after that?”
”Then all three of them disappeared, Beiye and his father disappeared on the same day, then the girl, and finally Beiwen.”
This order was consistent with a certain order in Chen Ge’s memory, and he felt that there was a strong possibility that Beiye and Beiwen were in the world behind the Liwan Town gate.
”Get off at the next stop, if I meet those friends of yours, I’ll bring them back.”
”You bring them back? That won’t do.” The young man shook his head, “I only came up here because I had enough courage ……”
”If you don’t want to die, do as I say.” Chen Ge still smiled gently, but the young man he was staring at felt as if he had been splashed with a pot of ice water in the middle of winter, and involuntarily shivered.
This kid was like a protagonist in a normal horror movie, but luckily, he had met Chen Ge.