Five minutes later, the bus finally started slowly, and the middle-aged man who seemed to be Sima Yin on the front passenger seat continued to keep his head down. His whole body was covered by a trench coat and he seemed to have fallen asleep.
However, as we were already on the bus, I wasn't in a hurry. While chatting and eating snacks with Zhang, I also closely watched the movements on the front passenger seat.
Strangely, during the entire journey, not only was there no movement at the front passenger seat, but the entire bus was unusually quiet. Besides me and Zhang, the other passengers around were all silent with a poker face, looking as if they held a deep grudge.
After bumping along for nearly half an hour, the bus finally got onto the highway, and the speed gradually stabilized. I started to feel a bit drowsy after several yawns in a row. And then, I heard Zhang beside me say, "You look really tired, why don't you take a nap for a while and I'll keep an eye on things."
Upon hearing this, I subconsciously looked at the front passenger seat and thought that the man wouldn't be waking up anytime soon, so I nodded, "Alright, I'll take a nap, and wake me up if anything happens."
"Got it!" Zhang patted his chest with a reassuring look, and said, "I'm reliable when it comes to doing things, you can rest assured!"
"Okay, then I'll sleep now."
Having just recovered from a serious illness, and not getting much rest last night, I was indeed quite tired. As soon as I closed my eyes, I quickly fell asleep.
In a daze, it seemed that I had a nightmare.
The scene was still on the bus, and in my dream, Sima Yin suddenly turned around and gave me a sinister smile, and then I realized that everyone around me had disappeared!
All the other passengers had vanished, Zhang was nowhere to be seen, and even the driver was gone without a trace.
In the vast bus, there was only me left, feeling completely helpless. What was even more eerie was that despite no one driving, the bus was still speeding along...
Suddenly, Zhang appeared in front of me, covered in blood, accusing me of causing his death, and then he reached out and grabbed my neck!
Without waiting for my reaction, at this moment, Zhang suddenly woke me up, looking nervous and said, "Wang Lin! Wake up quickly, something doesn't seem quite right!"
"Hmm?"
To be honest, when Zhang appeared before me with a pale face, I was a bit confused, unable to distinguish between reality and dream! I almost punched him down directly! Fortunately, I held back, then reacted and subconsciously asked, "What's wrong?"
"Look!"
Without explaining much to me, Zhang quickly pointed ahead.
Following his direction, I saw the car TV in the bus, playing a movie called "Real Devil's Game".
I had seen this movie before; it seemed to be a Japanese horror film, with the setting taking place on a bus. There was a very frightening scene in it that left a strong impression on me: something suddenly flew out from the front of the bus, and then everyone's heads were chopped off, leaving only one woman.
"Haha..."
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but laugh, thinking that Zhang was too timid. Considering he was a policeman, he was scared by a horror movie like this?
But then again, the driver was really something, actually playing such a terrifying movie on the bus, wasn't he deliberately trying to scare the passengers?
"Hey! It's just a movie, no big deal, right?"
With a nonchalant expression, I waved my hand and said to Zhang, "If you're scared, just don't watch it..."
"It's not that!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang was almost in tears, anxiously pointed to the other passengers around, "Look at their faces!"
"Huh?"
Zhang's expression was obviously uneasy. Hearing this, I glanced at the other passengers with a suspicious look!
At first, I didn't realize it, but upon closer look, I was surprised!
I saw that their faces, which had been poker-faced just a moment ago, were now all pale and filled with grief. Several women even started silently sobbing!
"Hmm?"
Now even I was puzzled, thinking: just by watching a horror movie, did it really scare all the passengers like this?
Just as I was puzzled, the scene on the car TV happened to play the most memorable scene for me! Something suddenly flew out from the front of the bus in the movie, directly tearing off the entire bus's roof! Except for one woman, all the remaining passengers lost their heads in an instant, and blood gushed out like a fountain from the headless corpses!
"Wuwu..."
The scene flashed by, and all the passengers around me burst into tears at the same time!
"Be careful!"
Suddenly, a strong sense of ominousness surged in my heart! With the induction of my qi, I suddenly felt that something had also flown towards the front of the bus where Zhang and I were!
"Quickly! Lie down!"
Without any hesitation, I forcefully pushed Zhang down!
With a "boom," a huge blast of air passed just above my head. Then came the howling cold wind, rushing into my ears, roaring nonstop.
When I opened my eyes, I found that, damn it, the scene was exactly the same as what I had just seen in the movie!
The entire bus's roof was lifted by the flying object, and besides Zhang and me, everyone, including the driver, had lost their heads! Only headless bodies were left, spurting blood out.
"Gulu..."
Swallowing hard, even I was a little panicked at this moment, not understanding what was going on!
At this moment, Zhang, who I had pushed down, also looked up with a puzzled expression and looked around in surprise.
"Don't look!"
I wanted to stop him, but it was too late. The horrifying scene before my eyes had fallen into Zhang's sight!
"Ah--"
As expected, Zhang screamed involuntarily and then fainted on the spot.
Ah, I told you not to look, now look what happened...
Without much consideration and no time to wake up Zhang, I immediately activated the "qi" inside my body, pinched the "Ziwei Seal" and roared, "Escort!"
With a "pu" sound, as if a soap bubble had burst, the surrounding scene instantly changed. When I looked closely, there were no headless dead bodies around anymore.
Just like I encountered in the dream, all the seats were empty! The only difference was that the backrests of these seats were all attached with strange and familiar-looking talismans!
"It's him!"
Suddenly, my heart suddenly tightened, realizing that the talismans used by Sima Yinyuan in the hospital's Deputy Captain Li's ward were surprisingly similar to the ones in front of me!
Of course, I didn't mean that the talismans on the backrest were exactly the same as those in the hospital ward, but their methods were incredibly similar. Although the symbols were different, it was clear that they were from the same person's hand!
It must be him!
The person I saw in the copilot's seat just now must be Sima Yinyuan!
"You son of a b*tch!"
If I still didn't understand by now that I was being manipulated by Sima Yinyuan, then what was the point of me practicing qi for so long?
After cursing, I rushed towards the driver's seat, anger burning inside me, and forcefully lifted the coat that was covering the copilot's seat!
However, there was nothing. There was only a palm-sized puppet with a talisman attached to it!
Looking back at the empty driver's seat, it was just as empty as in the dream. The bus was driving at a rapid speed with no one at the wheel.
"Uh-oh!"
Suddenly, I remembered the scene in the dream. If the previous dream scenes had mostly become a reality, would Zhang Ge's actions also be the same as in the dream? Would he have a blood-stained face, clutching my neck tightly?
"Zhang Ge!"
I shouted, subconsciously turning around, only to be tightly grabbed by the neck by a pair of large hands!