“We’re leaving.”
As the headlights of the ghost bus lit up ahead, Lu Ming and Yang Jian knew that the danger this time could be considered over. As long as they returned to the bus, those ghosts would no longer launch attacks on them.
Red light spread out from around Yang Jian, enveloping Lu Ming within it, and the strands of ghost rope were also withdrawn along the way.
Without the restriction of the ghost rope, the malevolent ghosts wandering among the graves began moving again. Only, there was not a single living person left at the scene.
The next moment, they returned to the ghost bus.
The light inside the bus was still very dim, and the old seats gave off an eerie aura.
But at this moment, both Lu Ming and Yang Jian let out a breath of relief.
At the very least, being on the bus was far safer than being outside. As long as they followed the rules and did not let this bus become full and overloaded, under normal circumstances, no great danger would appear.
Moreover, the bus’s suppressive effect was very strong. Lu Ming could feel that the malevolent ghost in his body, which had been on the verge of reviving, had calmed down again, and the supernatural power that had been constantly eroding his thoughts had also stopped its agitation.
“If I stay on the bus for a while before leaving, even if I can’t completely solve the problem of the ghost’s revival, I can at least suppress it temporarily for a few days.”
“The first-stage mission issued by the Main God Space is to survive in this world for seven days.”
“As for after seven days… I can only take things one step at a time.”
Lu Ming felt somewhat emotional. He had originally wanted to muddle through these seven days as an ordinary person.
But now…
He raised his hand and looked at it. What entered his eyes were the stiff corpse spots crawling all over his arm.
“I can no longer be considered a normal living person.”
Whether it was an illusion or not, even Lu Ming’s voice had become hoarse when he spoke, as if his bodily functions had already completely necrosed, leaving only his consciousness behind, his shell maintained purely by supernatural power.
Another five minutes passed. The front and rear doors, which had originally been open, suddenly closed at the same time, and the ghost bus jolted into motion.
The red number displayed above the bus changed from “8” to “2.”
This meant that at this moment, aside from the malevolent ghost under the seat, there was only one malevolent ghost left on the bus.
Yang Jian looked around toward the front, but did not see the figure of any ghost. According to what Lu Ming had said earlier, after the lights came on, another five minutes would pass, and regardless of whether any passengers boarded or not, the bus would start on its own.
“Perhaps there’s still something invisible on the bus.”
Some malevolent ghosts with a relatively high level of terror could not be observed with the naked eye.
They would only reveal themselves under a deeper-level ghost domain.
Just as he was thinking this, Yang Jian inadvertently glanced at the seat beside Lu Ming.
On that seat was an eerie, scarlet figure. Looking closely, it was precisely the mastermind behind the great danger just now—the mummified bride.
“Fuck!”
Yang Jian was badly startled and subconsciously cursed.
The pressure this mummified bride gave off was far too strong. The psychological shadow she had left on him just now was no less than that of the old man knocking on the door in the corridor outside the classroom.
“What kind of joke is this! Wasn’t this ghost left outside the bus?”
When Yang Jian used his ghost domain to take Lu Ming away, he had deliberately left the mummified bride outside the ghost domain.
In his view, although Lu Ming had become a ghost controller, the malevolent ghost he controlled was that eerie set of mourning clothes, not this mummified bride whose level of terror was comparable to S-class.
Only then did Yang Jian react. Of the number “2” displayed on the bus, one of them represented precisely the mummified bride, this malevolent ghost.
Perhaps sensing the fluctuation in Yang Jian’s emotions, Lu Ming glanced at him and spoke to comfort him. “No need to be afraid. This bride has been holding my hand the whole time. If her supernatural power goes out of control, the first person to die from the revival of a malevolent ghost won’t be you, but me.”
“…”
Yang Jian fell silent. He had not been comforted in the slightest.
Lu Ming grinned and extended his free hand over. “Allow me to introduce myself. Lu Ming, a perfectly ordinary young man of society.”
Yang Jian did not shake hands with Lu Ming. He only replied indifferently, “Yang Jian, person in charge of Dachang City.”
The reason he said he was a young man of society was because after Lu Ming came to this world, he still did not have a formal identity.
Without an identity, if this society’s order were operating normally, Lu Ming might run into some trouble.
But in the current situation… Lu Ming could only say it was just right.
Having no past meant those who wanted to deal with him would have nowhere to begin investigating.
Having no family meant that aside from his own life, Lu Ming had no weaknesses whatsoever.
But Yang Jian did not believe this explanation at all.
Leaving aside the fact that Lu Ming’s temperament was nothing like that of a young man scraping by in society, just the fact that when Lu Ming had still been an ordinary person, he had been able to thoroughly uncover his information proved that he was definitely no ordinary person.
As the two conversed, the bus drove away from the supernatural place.
What no one noticed was that beside the forest just now, at some unknown point, a small path had suddenly appeared. The wailing ghost that had lost its mourning clothes followed this newly appeared path into the forest, and very soon vanished from sight.
On the bus, Yang Jian was somewhat concerned about the mummified bride sitting in the seat beside Lu Ming, so he chose a seat farther away.
Previously, this bus had still been packed with people. He had not expected that after experiencing such danger, only the two of them would be left alive in the end.
The ghost bus drove for a long time. Only after a full ten minutes did it finally leave this terrifying graveyard.
Lu Ming could clearly feel that after spending so long on this bus, not only the mourning clothes on his body, but even the mummified bride holding his hand had quieted down.
“So-called balance can only be considered treating the symptoms but not the root cause. As a ghost controller continuously uses supernatural power, the two malevolent ghosts will eventually revive together, and that will only make the ghost controller die even faster.”
“By contrast, on the bus, there’s no need to concern oneself with this. A revived ghost cannot kill, which means I’ll never need to worry about dying. No matter how the ghost inside my body awakens, it will only keep increasing the supernatural power.”
“No wonder those ghost controllers who are close to revival choose to board the ghost bus. It is indeed a decent choice.”
“But with danger of this level, if one is lucky, one might survive it once. Yet surviving a second time, a third time… would be very difficult. There will always be a time when one is killed. In the end, it is not a long-term solution.”
Lu Ming glanced at the hand with which the mummified bride was holding his. This thing emitted an aura dangerous to the extreme, while also carrying a faint stench of corpses. Her palm was wrapped in dark-brown withered skin, like that of a true mummy.
The reason she looked so terrifying was because the so-called mummified bride was, at the end of the day, only an unlucky ordinary bride who had been possessed by a supernatural wedding dress, thus becoming what she was now.
“Maintaining this state all the time makes moving around far too inconvenient. After getting off the bus, perhaps I can try using supernatural power to hide the mummified bride inside a ghost domain.”
Lu Ming was able to use the supernatural power of two terrifying malevolent ghosts.
As long as he solved the problem of revival, he would naturally be able to use a ghost domain.
But he did not know what his own ghost domain would be like. Presumably, before seizing the supernatural power of the Ghost Painting, the strength of this incomplete ghost domain would not be very high.
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