After that, the bus passed several stops and halted a few times. Fierce ghosts kept boarding as well, but outside the bus was still a supernatural place, so Lu Ming and Yang Jian merely waited quietly on board.
Yang Jian glanced at Lu Ming and broke the silence. “This bus can suppress the supernatural power of fierce ghosts, right?”
Lu Ming did not hide it. He nodded. After all, this was already an obvious fact.
“Those ghost controllers just now were all in that kind of situation. After staying on the ghost bus for long enough, their ghosts are suppressed for an extended period and fall into a state similar to sleep. In that state, we can control a fierce ghost that has completely revived. But once the limit is passed, the ghost may still revive.”
“Then after getting on, how long do we have to wait for a chance to get off? Or do we need to meet some condition?”
Lu Ming knew this was Yang Jian’s first time boarding the ghost bus, and that he did not fully understand its rules. He did not mind using this important information to draw a little closer to Yang Jian.
So Lu Ming said, “There’s no specific time. But I do know that as long as we survive the dangers on the bus, an opportunity to get off will come sooner or later. Once we reach a normal stop, we can get off.”
“Doesn’t that mean that as long as a fierce ghost is about to revive, you can come sit on this bus for a while and keep living?”
Lu Ming smiled bitterly at this. “In theory, yes. But you saw it just now too. The supernatural is uncertain. In other words, everything we face is unknown. A danger like that earlier—I’m not confident I could survive it a second time.”
In truth, Yang Jian had already formed a vague guess about these things. Hearing them from Lu Ming merely confirmed his thoughts.
At the same time, Yang Jian gave Lu Ming, whose face was somewhat pale and cold, a deep look.
For Lu Ming to casually tell him such important intelligence without the slightest concern could only mean that these things were utterly unimportant to him.
And for him to have come into contact with such secrets as an ordinary person...
That point alone already explained a great deal.
“With the calm Lu Ming showed when encountering ghosts, the current situation is very likely still within his control. Perhaps even boarding this bus was something he deliberately arranged. All of this is for the sake of becoming a ghost controller.”
Yang Jian silently speculated in his heart, and finally reached a conclusion.
“This Lu Ming is very dangerous, but he can also provide me with tremendous help. Whether he’s an enemy or a friend—I’ll have to observe him first.”
Thinking of this, he could not help but sigh. There were still far too many kinds of people in this world. There was always someone better, always a sky beyond the sky. Even after making the ghost shadow crash, even after he had become one of the very top ghost controllers, he still could not afford to be too careless.
After their brief conversation, the dim carriage returned to an eerie silence.
After some unknown amount of time, at last, a faint ray of light filtered in through the filthy bus window.
“We’re finally back.”
Lu Ming let out a breath of relief.
After sitting on the bus for so long, the mourning clothes from the Wailing Mourner Ghost on his body, as well as the ghost bride he held with his right hand, had both entered a relatively stable state.
And now, the ghost bus happened to have driven out of the supernatural place and arrived at a normal stop.
He did not know what city this was, but it looked fairly prosperous. Judging from the style of the buildings, it should still be somewhere in Asia.
As the bus came to a steady stop, an aged creaking sound rang out, and the front and rear doors opened at the same time.
Lu Ming and Yang Jian no longer had to worry about their fierce ghosts reviving, so naturally, they would not continue staying on the bus.
The two stood up at the same time and walked toward the rear door.
After confirming that this bus was the ghost bus, Lu Ming knew that no matter what he wanted to do, he had to obey the rules here.
Board through the front door. Get off through the rear door.
If he failed to follow the bus’s rules, something absolutely terrifying would happen.
At this time, the sky had only just begun to brighten. It was still very early, so there were no pedestrians waiting for the bus at the stop.
Yang Jian glanced at the bride wearing the red veil, lingering fear in his heart. “You’re going to bring this terrifying fierce ghost into the real world?”
Lu Ming tugged at the corners of his mouth and gave a stiff smile. “There’s nothing that says I can’t. Besides, don’t you also have two terrifying fierce ghosts inside your body?”
Hearing this, Yang Jian fell silent.
That reasoning was indeed correct.
But the supernatural power of this mummified bride was truly far too terrifying. She was even more frightening than the Knocking Ghost he had encountered back at No. 7 High School.
If such a ghost existed in the real world, then once the fierce ghost inside Lu Ming revived, the consequences would be absolutely immeasurable. It was very likely to form an S-class supernatural incident with an extremely wide area of impact.
“Good luck.”
In the end, Yang Jian said nothing more. He waved his hand and turned to leave.
The two had already exchanged contact information. Hua Nation’s supernatural circle was only so large; they would surely meet again in the future.
After seeing Yang Jian off, Lu Ming stood where he was without moving.
His current condition was still fairly good. Even if he used the mummified bride’s supernatural power, it would not cause a fierce ghost to revive.
With a thought, Lu Ming made the ghost domain envelop the mummified bride holding his hand.
The next moment, the surrounding space turned gray and dim. From some unknown place, paper money burned into ash drifted down without pause.
This feeling was very special. Although the range covered by the ghost domain was not large, within this area, Lu Ming felt as though he could control everything.
Lu Ming carefully sensed it for a while and thought to himself, “It seems somewhat similar to the Ghost Painting’s ghost domain, but its intensity is far too low. And I don’t dare casually layer it...”
Afterward, Lu Ming withdrew the ghost domain, and the mummified bride’s figure “disappeared” from his side.
But only Lu Ming knew that the mummified bride had not truly disappeared. Instead, he had hidden her within a deeper layer of the ghost domain.
..........
On the road, inside a sedan.
A little girl with braided hair opened the car window, pointed toward the bus stop sign not far away, and happily said to the woman driving, “Mom, there’s a handsome big brother over there holding hands with a big sister. They’re going to get married... That big sister’s clothes are so beautiful!”
“Hm?”
The woman frowned, inexplicably feeling a strange chill rise in her heart.
So early in the morning, with only a bus stop here, why would a bride and groom come to this place?
Thinking this, the woman glanced toward the bus stop sign.
There was no bride in wedding clothes there at all. Clearly, there was only a young man, his right hand extended in a hand-holding gesture, but there was nothing beside him.
Above his head, paper ash was drifting down in a flurry.
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