53: Chapter 53 Limited-Time Mission: Bus No. 444

After three whole days of sleepless and selfless Cultivation, Lu Siye had completely exhausted all twenty blood spirit pills.

A vast amount of Qi and blood transformed into surging Yang Qi, continuously strengthening his human soul's Yang Fire. Now, this Yang Fire was more than twice as strong as when it was first ignited.

As for the Qi and blood that couldn't be converted into Yang Qi in time, Lu Siye used them to strengthen his skin.

Now, when he activated the Diamond Indestructible Divine Skill, his entire body would shimmer with a golden flow, and his defensive power was such that even the twice-strengthened Blood-Red Blade could not break through his defense without applying slight force.

Lu Siye was very satisfied with the results of these three days of seclusion. If he had enough resources, he felt he could keep Cultivating until he was invincible before coming out.

It was just a pity that he didn't have enough resources.

Lu Siye opened the exorcism app, spent 400 points in the store, and immediately ordered 40 blood replenishing pills.

The 360 points rewarded by the Evil Suppression Bureau after killing Hei Ming hadn't even warmed up in his pocket before they were gone, and he even had to dip into his savings for another 40 points.

Looking at the remaining 560 points in his personal information, it was time to accept his first task after being promoted to a Night Wanderer.

Just as this thought crossed his mind, and before Lu Siye could even switch to the task interface, the app suddenly pushed a limited-time task.

Clicking into it, he saw a description of the task and a link to a satellite map.

{ Bus 444 (Limited-Time Task) }

[ On every date that is a multiple of 4, in the nights of Tianhai City, a Bus 444 will always appear. The passengers on the bus are not the living, but the dead. If a living person accidentally enters the bus and does not get off by the 4th stop, they will be devoured by the Ghosts inside.

When Bus 444 appears, four bus stops that did not previously exist will appear on the Nine Provinces satellite map. The locations of these stops can be viewed in the exorcism app map System.

Note: When Bus 444 appeared, the Evil Suppression Bureau once sent three Peak Night Patrol Envoys to execute a cleanup mission, but after entering Bus 444, their fates became unknown, and they went missing.

Meng Jianmin, captain of the West District Metal Squad, once encountered and destroyed an entire Bus 444, but the incident recurred on the next date that was a multiple of 4, suggesting it cannot be completely destroyed.

Subsequent investigations revealed that all Ghosts that died on the bus would revive whenever the bus reappeared.

Bus 444 is not unique to Tianhai City; similar records exist in Evil Suppression Bureau branches across many cities within the Nine Provinces, and multiple Bus 444s can exist simultaneously.

The Ghost information for the Tianhai City Bus 444 is: 7 intermediate evil Ghosts, 4 top-tier evil Ghosts, one half-step fierce Ghost (Ghost couple), and one low-tier fierce Ghost.

The recipient of this task must have strength reaching the first realm of the Night Wanderer! ]

"A total of 13 Ghosts, I'm rich, I'm rich!" When Lu Siye saw the Ghost information, his eyes immediately lit up.

In the eyes of others, these Ghosts might be troublesome problems, but in his eyes, they were walking ATMs, just waiting for him to make a withdrawal!

"A mere low-tier fierce Ghost, I'll just take care of it!" Lu Siye's eyes shone, and he quickly clicked to accept the task.

The task introduction interface automatically closed, and the page automatically jumped to the satellite map of Tianhai City, where five blinking light points were displayed.

One of the light points was at the Tongjiang Residential Area, which was Lu Siye himself, and the remaining four were in the suburbs near the north of the West District. Those must be the four bus stops that didn't exist.

After noting down these four locations, Lu Siye skillfully leaped from the balcony, and under the cover of night, hurried away.

...

"So it's already twelve o'clock!" Shi Yimin put down his phone, looking confused as he wanted to lift his head to see if he had reached his destination.

The moment he lifted his head, thirteen pairs of eyes inside the bus looked over in unison, each pair revealing unconcealed malice.

He saw that it was a strange person wrapped in thick clothing; Shi Yimin was certain he had absolutely no impression of these people.

But why are they looking at me like that?

"Um... is there something on me? Why is everyone looking at me like that?" Shi Yimin felt his scalp tingle from the stares and spoke stutteringly.

Could it be that my snoring while sleeping annoyed them?

Or are they all crazy, just unhappy with me for no reason?

Shi Yimin thought it was more likely that they were crazy; after all, what normal person would wear thick clothes in such hot weather!

After he finished speaking, none of the group staring at Shi Yimin answered his question; instead, they all stood up in unison and started walking toward him.

"Wake up, brother, it seems we're in trouble!" Shi Yimin felt cold all over from their stares and hurriedly pushed Cui Zhong, who was beside him, trying to wake him up.

"What's wrong? Am I home yet?" Cui Zhong lifted his head, looking confused, squinting as he leaned forward to ask.

"We're not home, but I feel like it's more likely we'll end up in the hospital." Shi Yimin said, his voice trembling.

"What?" Cui Zhong was a bit confused.

What did he mean by it being more likely to end up in the hospital? Did Old Shi's hemorrhoids flare up?

Cui Zhong looked down at the area below Shi Yimin's waist, deep in thought.

At this moment, Shi Yimin had no time to pay attention to Cui Zhong, because those eleven crazy people had already reached the middle of the bus.

However, they seemed to be restraining themselves, and none of them stepped onto the stairs.

The couple that had originally been sitting in the back stood in their original spots. After looking at Shi Yimin for a while, they turned their heads to look at the only person present who was still looking out the window—the girl wearing long sleeves with her hair disheveled.

Shi Yimin was stunned for a moment; he seemed to see a trace of fear in the eyes of that group of crazy people as they looked at the girl.

However, the girl still ignored them.

As the bus slowed down, the temperature inside the bus became lower and lower, and Shi Yimin and the others felt as if they had been thrown into an ice cellar.

"W-what's going on?" Cui Zhong was now frozen awake, and looking at the scene before him, which looked like a gang preparing to kill to silence witnesses, he asked Shi Yimin in fear.

"I don't know either!" Shi Yimin shook his head slightly; his forehead was already covered in sweat from nervousness.

Suddenly, Shi Yimin's pupils constricted, his face instantly turned deathly pale, and beads of sweat continuously seeped from his forehead, gathering on the tip of his nose; he seemed to have forgotten to wipe them away.

The crazy people gathered in front of them started to have sparks appear on their clothes, which quickly spread.

Wherever the sparks passed, their clothes turned into black fly ash and fell off, revealing the raw flesh underneath.

It was a sight of skinless bodies, like charred corpses that had been burned by a great fire; they were incomparably hideous and emitted a foul stench.

Cui Zhong, an ordinary person, had never seen such an intense scene; he couldn't even manage a scream before fainting directly.

Shi Yimin's brain buzzed with a loud bang, and the content he had previously seen in the newspaper suddenly surfaced in his mind.

Four years ago, a major fire occurred at a guesthouse, and in that fire, a total of 11 people were buried in the sea of flames.

And the name of that guesthouse was exactly what he had heard on the bus broadcast earlier—Kangle Guesthouse.

"Ah!" A heaven-shaking scream rang out, and Shi Yimin rolled his eyes back and fainted with a thud.

Why am I so unlucky?

This was the last thought Shi Yimin had before he fainted.