Chapter 514 The Last Passenger

Chapter 514: The Last Passenger

"This book might be... acting up?" Feng Yan couldn't quite explain the strange situation with the book in his hand at the moment. He could only close it temporarily and turn around to stick out his right hand to Su Bai in the back. "Guess I should introduce myself. I'm Feng Yan, 'Feng' as in seal, 'Yan' as in speech. I'm a trainee member of the Qingliu City Special Operations Team."

"Su Bai, just the two common characters." Su Bai knew Feng Yan had mistaken him for a member of the official rescue team, but he wasn't going to correct him.

Feng Yan didn't explain what the "Qingliu City Special Operations Team" was, clearly assuming that Su Bai, as a rescuer, should be well aware of his identity. Su Bai didn't ask more about it either. Since he now knew Feng Yan was connected to the relevant authorities, he quickly understood why Feng Yan had an item from the Mist Shop.

Even Boss Su himself wasn't aware that ordinary people could use items from the Mist Shop, but he just thought it was interesting, not particularly surprising.

Humans are a race with limitless potential, which might also be why they've gotten on the radar of the Red Moon Association...

If what Feng Yan said was true, then Su Bai believed the relevant authorities must have already received Feng Yan's distress signal. Given Qin Ge's style, an actual rescue team should already be on their way. That said, when the authorities would locate this bus or find a method to free them remained unknown.

"How much do you know about this bus?" Su Bai had a feeling that the relatively "fresh" passengers in the back rows likely boarded with Feng Yan. Even though Feng Yan had labeled him as "rescue," those passengers still seemed to trust Feng Yan's judgment more.

Without hesitation, Feng Yan dumped all the info he knew about Bus No. 666 to Su Bai. After all, this information wasn't exactly a secret; they had only gotten the gist of it from the old passengers.

"So, we can only get off when all seats are full?" Su Bai was lost in thought after hearing Feng Yan's account.

When Feng Yan was staring at his book earlier, Su Bai had also heard his muttering and the content Feng Yan recited from that Q&A book—"One, five, nine, twelve, twenty-four, more... more... that one, dare not..."

Clearly, that Q&A book that came from the Mist Shop had tried to count how many Eerie Entities Su Bai had brought aboard, only to ultimately call it quits.

From this, it was clear that even if Su Bai had brought the entire Evil Ghost Puzzle onto the bus, the vehicle still hadn't reached full capacity. So, did "full capacity" really only count the number of humans?

"That means we're still one person short."

"Are you really a Special Ability User? Do you truly have special abilities? Abilities that can get us off this bus?" The passengers in the back also chimed in anxiously. "Even though we've only been on board for less than an hour and the bus has already stopped twice, if what those old passengers say is true, no one can guarantee when the next stop will be. It could be a few hours, or it could be several days. By then, we might have already turned into..."

Surrounded by the old passengers, they were careful not to say anything rude, but it was clear they didn't want to end up looking like that either.

"Special abilities to leave this bus?" Su Bai thought it over carefully. It wasn't that he couldn't think of a way to leave Bus No. 666; there were many feasible methods.

The only thing that gave Su Bai pause was that he could sense the currently door-locked Bus No. 666 was like a completely sealed space. He and the other passengers were as if inside the belly of some monster. To force their way out would require some violent means of cutting our way out.

For Su Bai, Feng Yan, and the other recently boarded passengers, even if someone ripped a huge hole in Bus No. 666, it wouldn't matter much. Only the bus itself would be "injured."

However, besides them, there were also some old passengers who had been trapped for a long time on this bus. Their situation wasn't looking good.

After sitting quietly in his seat for a moment, Su Bai could sense that some connection had formed between the passengers showing signs of withering and this bus... as if plants inserted into soil were gradually taking root and sprouting.

Su Bai's earlier attempt to swap seats with an old passenger was also to verify his suspicion. It proved that while the passenger wasn't literally "rooted" and unable to leave their seat, something still connected them to the seat when they moved, like it was stuck with glue, impossible to pull free.

When Su Bai sat down in the seat, he could even more keenly feel a certain lingering connection left behind.

If he were to take direct action on the bus, Su Bai couldn't guarantee the safety of these old passengers' lives at all.

He could slaughter Eerie Entities in the Nightmare World, but he didn't like taking action against still-living people in the real world.

"Perhaps we can try to fill all the seats on this bus." Su Bai suddenly had this thought. "Since the onboard announcement said so, then after the bus is full, some change will inevitably occur, or a weakness we can use will appear."

"But we don't know when the next passenger will board." After hearing Su Bai's "suggestion," Feng Yan's face fell a little. Perhaps he had hoped the Special Ability User who boarded would directly lead them out, never expecting Su Bai's "suggestion" to be so... ordinary.

When Feng Yan looked at Su Bai again, he noticed this incredibly handsome Special Ability User actually had his eyes closed, resting. Like many people in the real world, Feng Yan couldn't help but start doubting Su Bai's "professional" competence due to his overly outstanding appearance. After all, during training, the Qingliu City Special Operations Team Captain Qin Ge and other Special Ability Users who came to teach all had an unkempt, weathered air about them, even with various scars on their faces and bodies, completely unlike the clean-cut and refined look of Su Bai before him.

"I contacted a passenger." Su Bai opened his eyes and smiled at Feng Yan, who was looking his way.

Different from his previous standard smile, the smile on Su Bai's face now held something else, like genuine joy and a hint of anticipation.

"Contacted a passenger? How is that possible?" Feng Yan blurted out. "There's no signal here at all."

"Consider it part of my special ability." Although smiling, Su Bai offered no further explanation. "I wasn't sure it would work either, I just wanted to try. But it seems there's no problem on his end."

Feng Yan was dumbfounded.

Although he hadn't seen Su Bai take out any communication device, from what Su Bai was saying, he hadn't just contacted a "passenger," but had also communicated with them?

When did this happen?