112 - Possession Trap

Translated by rabbitrisu

Su Zimo hadn’t seen a similar situation before. He didn’t know if the cards up his sleeves could allow him to retreat.

After all, even if he wanted to enter An Yu Yi Yu, he had to find a time when no one was paying attention.

But even if Su Zimo entered An Yu Yi Yu, what about the others in the compartment? How would they escape?

Su Zimo would admit that he’s not a good person, but he wasn’t a bad person either. He may be able to leave the arrogant veteran trainer to face the terrible things that are about to happen, but what about the old people in the compartment? What about the family of three?

What would they face if they stay here?

Su Zimo thought for a while, still sitting in his seat, then said to Fu Mingchen who sat next to him: “Mr. Fu, do you think the situation here is a bit off? I’ve seen the route for this scenic bus before. It should be driving along a broad national road. How come we’ve suddenly come to this type of road?”

“Maybe it’s a special program? After all, it’s a very expensive scenic bus.” Fu Mingchen, as a newcomer who’s only participated in one nightmare world and was protected by a veteran the whole time, still lacked some insight. Like the other passengers, he was immersed in the beauty of the sea of wisps.

“Wife.” At this time, the young father’s voice was heard for the first time from the final row. “I remember that the movie we watched on our first date was called ‘Love of Fireflies.’ The love between the male and female leads formed because they chased fireflies together, and they finally confessed successfully in a cloud of fireflies. So… we could also be considered to have gotten married because of fireflies, right?”

“This scene, it seems as if God is telling us that it’s not the time for everything to end.”

Then, in the final row, the young woman sobbed and voiced in a whisper.

“Oh my god, it’s so beautiful! I want to take a picture and post it to Moments!” After a female colleague sitting in the front row came back to her senses, the first thing she did was pick up her cell phone and think about taking a picture of the of the wisp scene to post online to show off.

But at that moment, the female colleague suddenly shouted in surprise: “Yi? Why is there no signal on my phone?”

“Weird. My phone has no signal either!”

“What’s the problem? I was chatting with my friends on my phone before it started raining. Why is there suddenly no signal?”

Voices began to chime in one after another. More and more passengers found that their communication devices were all missing signals. They were unable to make calls or even access the internet.

“Driver-shifu, where are we? Why is there no signal here?” Someone stood up in their seat and loudly asked for the location of the bus.

But there was no response from the cabin.

Although the front cabin was separated from the compartment, passengers could see the dark head of the driver in the cabin shaking with the steering wheel through the rearview mirror in the gap above.

But the other person just wasn’t speaking!

“Hey, driver, didn’t you hear us?!” Liu Qi, a veteran trainer and the son of the company CEO, was accustomed to giving orders in both the real and nightmare worlds. After he discovered that his phone had no signal and the driver didn’t respond, he felt unpleasant. He got out of his seat and knocked forcefully on the partition for the cabin.

“Open the cabin for me!” Liu Qi’s enhanced strength was extraordinary, but even though he knocked on the partition with a ‘bang bang,’ the white-painted metal partition remained silent.

“You…”

“Zi—Ga—“

Just as Liu Qi was about to become furious, the scenic bus suddenly braked. Amid the piercing sound of the brakes, the two-layered super large scenic bus stopped on a small rural road surrounded by fields and wisps on either side.

“Bang!” Then, another loud noise came from the cabin.

“It hurts. Ah, my head!” It sounded like the driver in the cabin made a noise as he hit his head.

Immediately after, there was another exclamation from the driver. “What the hell? Where are we? Shouldn’t we be on the national highway?”

The entire compartment fell silent.

Everyone realized something was wrong.

“Driver, what happened here?” Liu Qi looked around for a moment, then spoke like a commander. “You didn’t answer our question just now. Now you’re saying something inexplicable. I think we need an explanation, and we must be immediately brought somewhere where our phones have a signal.”

“What happened?” The driver’s voice in the cabin hadn’t slowed down. “I only remember closing my eyes for a few seconds because they were sore. Then I opened my eyes and we’re here.”

Although he was at a loss, there was movement from the cabin that showed the driver was restarting the bus as fast as possible.

“Zi–ga–ziga.” The noise kept ringing in the passengers’ ears, but the bus still stayed there without any movement. It couldn’t be started at all.

“Dear… I’m sorry.” The driver’s voice came anxiously from the cabin. “The bus seems to be malfunctioning.”

“What’s the problem?” The tall woman who had seemed mysterious at first, but now seemed like an ordinary businesswoman, was looking anxious. “Doesn’t your company’s advertisement say that this kind of bus is safer than an airplane?”

“Dear… I’m sorry. This is the first time I’ve encountered this situation.” The driver seemed to be at a loss as he opened the partition between the cabin and the compartment. Everyone could see who was wearing the driver’s uniform. He was a young and slightly new figure who seemed to have joined the industry not long ago. He was already sweating at the moment.

“I’ve calculated the time. I need to arrive at Huadu Airport by the arranged time.” The tall woman was somewhat impatient. “You could at least tell us where we are and how far until you can find a bus stop or something.”

“Here… why are there so many fireflies?” When the driver let out a surprised voice, Su Zimo and the others noticed that the wisps outside the compartment had changed.

The wisps were all hidden in the crop fields, faint, looming, and they looked almost like fairies.

They didn’t know when it started, but the wisps had slowly begun to approach them and the bus.

At that time, the long bus windows that were originally convenient for viewing the outside seemed to have become a huge barrier.

It seemed that if the door to the bus was opened, all the wisps would swarm in!

“It’s beautiful.” The passengers, except for Su Zimo, were still immersed in the beauty of the wisps.

Just as everyone’s attention was pulled to the wisps, only Su Zimo rose from his seat and looked around for something that should be present but had somehow disappeared.

That is, the pair of red high heels should have separated from the driver, but he didn’t know where they were.

After a while, Su Zimo discovered that the red heels had appeared. They were placed upright at the entrance to the bus.

It was a pair of heels that looked very ordinary, but if someone looked closely, they would find that the lining of the heels were also red, as if they were dyed red by something.

What alarmed Su Zimo most was that the toes of the heels were now facing the automatic door of the bus’s only exit, and it seemed as if they were about to get off the bus!

The shoes wanted to open the door!

If the door to the bus opened, all the wisps would swarm inside.

But the pair of heels seemed unable to open the door by themselves. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have attached themselves to the tall woman before getting on the bus.

Su Zimo thought the heels that entered the bus for a certain purpose must possess someone to be able to do anything.

As if to verify Su Zimo’s idea, the heels disappeared instantly before his eyes. When Su Zimo came back to his senses, he saw one of Fu Mingchen’s colleagues from the second row, who was originally staring out the window, suddenly stand up with a pair of bright red high heels on his feet.

Because the person who was possessed this time was a man, the image of him wearing red high heels looked very strange.

Su Zimo didn’t care about that. When he saw the passenger possessed by the heels walk towards the bus door again, he didn’t even care that he was about to ‘force’ the ghost umbrella to speak the truth. He directly lowered his voice and said–

“Ghost Umbrella, get rid of those shoes!”

Su Zimo knew that the Ghost Umbrella didn’t actually eat the ‘Ghost Eye of the Berserker’ that was about to revive, but instead used it as an experiment.

But when he was entertaining a certain customer before, he really saw the Ghost Umbrella swallow those lonely wild ghosts who wanted to break in to the store.

Since the power of the heels wasn’t that strong, the ghost umbrella should be able to prevent them from opening the door.

“Not a problem?” Su Zimo asked, just to be on the safe side.

After he was finally finished waiting for his boss to speak, the ghost umbrella chuckled. “Boss, in your eyes, I really don’t have any talent.”

As the ghost umbrella spoke, he slightly approached the bus door with a body that others couldn’t see.

In fact, although Ghost Umbrella knew that Su Zimo had refused to talk to him, he should have felt that his boss was particularly dignified when silent.

Ghost Umbrella would surely laugh secretly and think about that whenever Su Zimo ignored him. Not only did he not feel any sense of elegance, it made him feel that his boss was arguing with him.

……

When the pair of heels was about to make the passenger open the door, the ghost umbrella silently cam up behind him and stretched his hand out to gently tap his shoulder.

After that, Su Zimo saw that the pair of red heels, which looked very weird as they were worn by a man, began to fade away from their original red color. They gradually turned into a pair of ordinary white running shoes.

The male passenger who was previously possessed by the heels stood there blankly, scratching his head clumsily and obviously not understanding how he had left his seat.

But soon, the male passenger’s gaze was attracted by the wisps outside the car window, and he was immersed in it once again.

Originally, the purpose of the red heels that should belong to a young girl should be to possess a passenger getting on the bus, possess the driver and direct the bus to drive to the sea of wisps, then continue possessing a human to open the door to be ‘hunted’ by hundreds of ghosts!

But now, the chain had been broken.

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