Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 139 The Mummified Bride
"Since you've been on this bus for a while now, tell me about some of the patterns on this ghost bus."

Ye Zhen's tone was unquestionable, as if the twisted longsword in his hand would fall on Xu Feng the moment he dared to refuse.

As for Xu Feng's earlier statement that the bus could suppress the resurgence of vengeful spirits within a ghost tamer, Ye Zhen did not experience this, perhaps because he did not exhibit any symptoms of vengeful spirit resurgence.

However, the eerie aura emanating from this bus gave Ye Zhen a strange feeling that was quite familiar, as if he had encountered similar supernatural forces somewhere before.

suddenly.

A figure flashed through Ye Zhen's mind.

"Li Hui!"

Yes.

The feeling this ghost bus gave him was similar to the supernatural power emanating from Li Hui, the only difference being that this bus seemed more complete, while the supernatural power emanating from Li Hui appeared weaker.

"Could it be that the vengeful ghost that Li Hui is riding is related to this ghost bus?"

Thinking about this, Ye Zhen became even more interested in the bus.

He had witnessed the kind of supernatural power that Li Hui wielded, and it was extremely terrifying. Even the scapegoat fell into a brief silence after being punched by Li Hui, and was unable to immediately take the damage it had suffered in place of the scapegoat.

At this moment, Xu Feng, who was sitting next to Ye Zhen, spoke up: "This ghost bus isn't for carrying people, it's for carrying ghosts. Actually, it's not that ghosts have infiltrated the crowd, but that living people have boarded a bus specifically for carrying ghosts!"

"For ordinary people, getting on this bus is almost certain death. But for ghost riders, this ghost bus can help suppress the resurgence of the vengeful spirits within them. As long as we are careful, this bus can be of great help to us. It is a case of risk and reward coexisting, because if we can keep surviving, the vengeful spirits within us might just die out completely!"

Xu Feng continued, "However, this ghost bus is indeed very dangerous. Unexpected emergencies can occur during its journey, such as the vehicle stalling..."

soon.

With Xu Feng's explanation, Ye Zhen gained a deeper understanding of the supernatural bus and roughly knew how it operated.

The train travels between the real world and eerie, supernatural places, picking up real ghosts as its passengers. There's also a chance the engine will stall during the journey, at which point all passengers must get off, or they will encounter something terrifying.

Although Ye Zhen had just boarded the bus and had not yet experienced the unexpected event Xu Feng mentioned, through his account, Ye Zhen realized how dangerous it would be for the living people inside the bus if the engine were to stall.

After all, this was a ghost bus, and the real passengers on board were vengeful ghosts. A group of living people mixed in with the vengeful ghosts got off the bus together when it turned off. The scene was self-evident.

Besides stalling, this eerie bus also encountered other equally dangerous emergencies, such as... being fully loaded!
Although Xu Feng, who gave him this information, said that he had never encountered a fully loaded vehicle, he had heard from an "old man" on a previous vehicle that it was more dangerous when the vehicle was fully loaded and almost no one could survive.

Although Ye Zhen expressed serious doubts about this, he did not question the terror of the bus, because according to Xu Feng, a full bus meant that the number of ghosts inside the bus exceeded the number of seats.

More than thirty fierce ghosts—even someone like Ye, whose strength ranks among the top three in Asia, wouldn't dare to underestimate them.

As for the other two, they are Li Hui, whose whereabouts are currently unknown, and Wang Chaling, who recently fought against Ye Zhen.

Thinking.

Ye Zhen looked toward the black electronic screen at the front of the carriage. According to Xu Feng, that screen recorded the number of passengers in the carriage, and at that moment, a line of text composed of red lights flashed across the electronic screen.

Current passenger count: 4!

"Four vengeful ghosts?"

Ye Zhen frowned slightly after seeing the handwriting clearly, feeling somewhat puzzled. The information given by the scapegoat clearly indicated that there were only three vengeful ghosts in the carriage, so Ye Zhen had no idea where the other vengeful ghost had come from.

"Could it be..."

As if he had thought of something, Ye Zhen turned his gaze to the twisted longsword in his hand, but he quickly dismissed the idea.

It's true that there's a vengeful spirit residing inside his longsword, but it's not just one. Besides the untouchable vengeful spirit, he also hammered another vengeful spirit of considerable terror into the other side.

Therefore, strictly speaking, if we were to count the longsword in his hand, it would obviously not be one, but two. This also explains why the unknown passenger on the bus does not refer to the longsword in Ye Zhen's hand.

Lin Bei, who was sitting on the other side, had long since lost his sleepiness and was quietly watching Xu Feng and Ye Zhen talk. At this moment, seemingly noticing Ye Zhen's confusion, he couldn't help but speak up:
"This ghost bus itself is actually included, so the initial number on that black electronic screen is not 1, but 1."

Upon hearing this, Ye Zhen glanced at Lin Bei, especially at Lin Bei's head. Although he was wearing a baseball cap, Ye Zhen could still tell that the person in front of him was a monk.
At the same time, Ye Zhen's doubts only increased. He couldn't understand the rules for judging this ghost bus. Could it be that if a vengeful ghost was made into a supernatural weapon and brought onto the bus, it wouldn't count as a passenger?

It was at this time.

The whole bus suddenly shook.

Then the view outside the car window suddenly changed. The scene of skyscrapers in Dahai City disappeared and was replaced by a strange place with a dark and cold theme.

At that moment, the bus... carrying Ye Zhen and the others, drove into the supernatural land!

"The Ghost Realm, a path that doesn't exist in the real world, requiring a deep level of the Ghost Realm to enter. Is this the secret of the Ghost Bus?" Ye Zhen's expression remained unchanged.

He noticed the strange signs that had first appeared on the paranormal bus. The intersecting lights of the two dim yellow headlights illuminated a road that did not exist in the real world, and then the bus drove into that road.

"We're about to enter the supernatural realm." Xu Feng spoke up, confirming Ye Zhen's earlier guess.

Compared to Ye Zhen and his two companions, the remaining ordinary people in the carriage were more agitated, clearly realizing that something was wrong with the bus.

But it was too late.

No matter how much they shouted, the bus continued to travel at about 60 miles per hour, ignoring their cries.

Then a brave young man was about to confront the driver, but the next second he discovered that the driver sitting in the driver's seat was actually a corpse, the bus had not been started, and even the dashboard was not lit.

Especially when the driver's body was found lying in the aisle of the train, a feeling of panic instantly began to spread throughout the carriage!
The fact that there was no cell phone signal caused some timid women to break down in tears on the spot.

at the same time.

Dajing City.

Ping An Hotel.

Not long after returning to his room, Yang Jian received a call from his personal operator, Liu Xiaoyu, who wanted him to attend a seven-day training course.

Upon hearing this, Yang Jian refused without hesitation. He thought, "Seven days? Whoever wants to go to this damn training can go. I'm not going!"
However, after being persuaded by Liu Xiaoyu, Yang Jian finally agreed to participate in the training course.

At the same time, Wang Xiaoming led Li Jun into the experimental base. After several identity verifications, they successfully arrived at their work area and finally stopped in front of the door of a laboratory.

In the center of the small room in front of him was a coffin.

The red paint on the slightly worn coffin looked incredibly eerie under the dim light, giving off a sinister and unsettling feeling, as if something was being conceived beneath the red coffin lid.

"It was clearly a failed experiment, so why did Li Hui and the paper doll both say that Wei Jing would succeed in the end? Especially that strange paper doll, which provided very comprehensive information..."

Standing in front of the small room, Wang Xiaoming looked through the gilded glass and gazed inside, his eyes landing on the red coffin. His expression was inscrutable, making it impossible to guess what he was thinking.

next moment.

Wang Xiaoming seemed to have made a very difficult decision. He turned to Li Jun and said, "Open this door, and then have someone move that coffin to the open space outside the experimental base."

Upon hearing this, Li Jun almost thought he was hallucinating from exhaustion, until Wang Xiaoming emphasized it again, and Li Jun was finally certain.

Then he began to carry it out.

Although he had a million questions in his mind, Professor Wang had clearly said that the Ghost Coffin experiment had almost failed and that they were going to seal it away completely, but none of these questions mattered at the moment. A soldier's nature is to obey orders.

You can have questions, but please raise them after you have completed the task!
soon.

As the staff moved, the red coffin was carried out of the small room.

Whether it was due to staff negligence or some uncontrollable factors, the coffin-carrying operation did not go smoothly. The coffin bumped against the ground midway, but the staff quickly regained their balance and continued carrying the coffin towards the open space outside.

However, almost no one noticed.

The collision had caused a small crack to appear in the coffin lid, though it was very small, it was still there...

.........

the other side.

A haunted place.

The conversation between Li Hui and Zhang Dong was nearing its end.

Li Hui gained a lot from this trip to the old house. He not only solved the evil spirit hidden in the phone tattoo with the help of Zhang Dong, thus gaining initial control over the tattoo, but also learned many secrets from the Republican era.

During the conversation, Li Hui discovered that Zhang Dong treated him as an equal, which proved that Zhang Dong recognized his abilities and believed that Li Hui could one day reach their level.

"Alright, you know everything you need to know. If there's nothing else, go back to the real world. This kind of ghostly place isn't suitable for young people like you. Our generation can be said to have failed. We can't see the future. I hope that the future is really as Xiao Qin saw it, and that the supernatural era can really end in your generation. But I guess I won't live to see that day."

Zhang Dong's voice was loud and powerful, but it also revealed a hint of weariness.

But this is normal.

After all, even Elder Qin was a junior to Zhang Dong and his group. Zhang Dong was already over a hundred years old at this time, which would be considered a long life in any era.

"Okay, thank you for this, Mr. Zhang," Li Hui said.

"Yes, I remember what I told you. If you ever run into them, please say hello for me. I don't know how many of them are still alive, but if nothing unexpected happens, I probably won't have the chance to see them again."

Zhang Dong continued, "Come back here a year from now. If I'm already dead by then, that's fine, you don't need to go into the old house anymore. But if I'm still alive then, I'll give you a big gift!"

"..."

The two chatted for a few more minutes before Li Hui got up to leave.

However, just as he stepped out of the main hall of the old house, preparing to use the supernatural bus's abilities to return directly to the real world, he suddenly saw a figure slowly emerging from the darkness of the corridor on the left side of the old house.

She was a woman wearing a red cheongsam and a red veil covering her head, looking like she was about to get married.

However, the exposed hands of the woman in the red cheongsam were extremely terrifying. Her palms were dry and stiff, and dark brown skin tightly wrapped around her bones, making her look like a dried corpse.

"A mummified bride?!"

Li Hui recognized her at a glance because of her distinctive attire. The only thing that puzzled him was that Yang Jian had already gone to Dajing City, but the mummified bride had not yet left the old house by car.

According to the original story, the mummified bride should have already disappeared into the depths of the boundless supernatural land with her lover by this time, so why would she still be staying in the old house?

The next moment, another idea popped into Li Hui's mind.

"Speaking of which... the Ghost Painting and the Mummified Bride seem to be related as puzzle pieces. The supernatural power of the two combined could potentially amplify the level of horror?"

If this trip to the old house has been so fruitful, does Li Hui still have any regrets? Of course he does!

He failed to replicate Zhang Dong's supernatural abilities!
At that moment, a living, mummified bride was placed before him, and Li Hui's heart was instantly stirred.

The main reason is that the mummy bride is not only extremely terrifying, but her ability to summon ghosts and the protective power of her red hood are also very powerful and practical.

under these circumstances.

I think anyone would be tempted by that, right?

The only thing to consider is using one of the remaining four frames capable of replicating supernatural powers on the mummified bride...

Is it worth it?
(End of this chapter)