After being watched by Chen Ge for a long time, the man tightened his clothes at the neckline and coughed lightly.

"Did we know each other before?"

His voice was cold and vicissitudes, and he didn't seem to care about anything in the outside world.

Chen Ge didn't expect the other party to suddenly speak, he paused slightly, and then followed the man's words: "You are very similar to a friend of mine, with almost the same temperament, have we met somewhere?" ”

The man turned his head, and there was a hint of tiredness in his eyes: "You may have admitted that you were mistaken." ”

"No way, I must have seen you somewhere." Chen Ge and the man had only met for the first time, and he said this just to have a few more words with the other party so as to get more useful information.

The man was silent for a while, he didn't see that Chen Ge was lying, hesitated, raised his hand, and took off the mask on his face.

With a high nose, pale skin, and bruised lips, the man coughed violently a few times after taking off his mask: "You admit that you are wrong, I am not the person you are looking for." ”

After speaking, he put on the mask again, and there was a hint of emotion in his eyes that was incomprehensible to others: "I don't have friends." ”

This man was not afraid of Chen Ge, he was a passenger who only got on the bus later, and he was a living person, he didn't know what was hidden in Chen Ge's shadow, maybe in his eyes, Chen Ge was not much different from other passengers.

Chen Ge wanted to find out what happened in the eastern suburbs, and he also wanted to bring all the ghosts in the hearse back to the haunted house, but to his surprise, there were two living passengers in the hearse tonight.

He didn't want to reveal his secret, and it was inconvenient to do anything out of the ordinary in front of two living people, so he temporarily changed his plan, first kept a low profile, and waited until he arrived in Liwan Town, after the two living passengers got off the bus, he would have a good chat with the other passengers.

Sitting honestly in his seat, Chen Ge looked away from the man and looked out the window.

The rain fell on the glass, the buildings on both sides were no longer visible, the surroundings were pitch black, and the hearse they were riding on No. 104 looked like an island floating on a black sea.

The car suddenly fell silent, and the man found that Chen Ge hadn't spoken since he finished talking to him, and he thought he had said something wrong.

He put his hands on his knees, and suddenly asked Chen Ge in a low voice: "Does he want to take this car just to find your friend?" ”

Chen Ge's gaze gradually focused, and the expression on his face began to change, as if the man had guessed the secret in his heart, a little uneasy, a little painful, and a little self-blame.

Nodding slowly, Chen Ge looked at the man next to him: "How do you know?" ”

"The passengers on this bus have their own stories and secrets, otherwise they wouldn't have taken this bus after midnight."

"Listen to your tone, isn't it the first time you've taken this bus?" The corners of Chen Ge's mouth twitched, revealing the same smile as when he got into the car, but there was a trace of extremely suppressed pain in his eyes, which made people feel distressed when they saw it.

"When I went to work, I took the No. 104 bus for almost 20 years." The man didn't seem to have talked to anyone for a long time, and his tone was very slow: "At that time, the department was busy, there were not enough people, I often worked overtime, and I always took the last bus home. At first, I liked to take the last train, there were few people, it was very quiet, but then I sat more, looking at the dark buildings on both sides, I felt a little lonely. ”

"Department? What did you do before? ”

"Doctor, doctor in the burn department." The man especially emphasized the three words burn department, and a trace of waves appeared in his eyes, as if he remembered something.

"Burns?" Chen Ge had only dealt with psychiatrists before, and he didn't know much about the burn department.

"Surgery, skin grafting, rehabilitation, that's what we do." The man said lightly, but Chen Ge heard a hint of heaviness behind these words.

The man also noticed the extremely suppressed pain in Chen Ge's eyes, he seemed to see his own shadow in Chen Ge, and subconsciously regarded Chen Ge as a person like him.

After a brief conversation, the two fell silent again, and after a long time, Chen Ge spoke: "Did you take this car to find someone?" ”

The man nodded slightly, his gloved hands pressed against the scarf.

"Your wife knitted this scarf for you?" Chen Ge found the right time and asked casually.

Hearing Chen Ge's words, the man was stunned for a moment, he took his hand away from the scarf and shook his head slowly.

"Didn't your wife send it?" The facts were not quite the same as Chen Ge's previous guess, and he was a little curious: "Can you tell me your story?" ”

The rain was even heavier, and the rain clicked on the windows, making a constant sound.

The man pondered for a moment, took off his mask, and took a deep breath: "The patients in the burn department are different from other departments, they are incomplete, unrecognizable, burnt, and open-skinned, and in our place, they abound. When I was an intern, I thought I was going to hell, until I got used to the blur of flesh and blood, the stench and all kinds of smells. ”

"At that time, I thought that I would never have too many emotional ups and downs when facing patients."

"It wasn't until I was thirty years old that I met a fourteen-year-old patient."

"She was still a child, and her back was badly burned by boiling water, and it took me half an hour to separate her clothes from her skin."

"The girl was quiet, she didn't cry or make a fuss."

"I didn't use general anesthesia to prevent it from affecting the nerves in the child's brain, and the child looked at me with his eyes open when I parted her clothes and skin."

"Her back and her countenance are two extremes, and I comfort her as I comfort other patients."

"After the wound was treated, I found the adult who sent her to the hospital, and was ready to explain some precautions, but after inquiry, I found out that it was a neighbor who sent her to the hospital, and the injuries on her body were not due to an accident, but to her parents."

"I called the police." When the man speaks, he occasionally coughs a few times, and his physical condition is very poor.

"The girl's father has serious violent tendencies, and her mother is deaf and mute and has a cowardly personality."

"The police detained and educated her father for a month, and then her mother took the initiative to go to the police station to plead for mercy, after all, the family was counting on her father to support him."

"I stayed with her during the treatment of the girl, and the child was like a little white wildflower blooming on the side of the road. Accompanying her also made me, who was used to seeing cruelty and smelling the stench, feel a trace of happiness for a long time. ”

"One day, two months after she was discharged from the hospital, I suddenly received a strange phone call from her voice."

"Unable to stand her father's drunken brutality, she ran away from home."

"I took her in, hiding it from the police and her family."

"I know I might have done something wrong, but I can't imagine what would happen to her if she was sent back then?"

Speaking of this, the man paused, and seeing that Chen Ge's expression had not changed, he continued to speak: "When she was twenty years old, she confessed to me. ”

"I was thirty-six years old that year, and I didn't have to go through the process of falling in love, and we had a wedding that year with just the two of us."

"I had the happiest five years with her, and I was under unimaginable pressure."

"When I was forty-one years old, her parents found her, verbally abused, beaten, and made trouble at school and to the hospital where I was."

"Life changed all of a sudden, people were terrible, I could bear it, but she gave up."

"On the last train home that day, I called her several times, but no one answered."

"When I opened the door and came home, there was a prepared meal on the table and a long letter she had written to me."

"I finally found her in the bathroom, her body was soaked in water and she was no longer breathing."

The man's face was pale and frightening, he was coughing more and more, Chen Ge reached out and patted his back.

"Thank you." The man did not wear a mask, and the tiredness in his eyes could not be concealed: "In fact, the passengers in this car have their own stories, during the day everyone is busy, hiding their hearts, and at night, these helpless, painful, and desperate people will take this car to the terminal." ”

From the man's words, he didn't seem to know that the other passengers were ghosts, or maybe he already knew, but he thought of ghosts as humans.

"What else do you know?"

"There are too many, like the mute next to me, I've met him before." There was a hint of sympathy in the man's tone: "He is mentally defective, he can't speak, he works as a porter in a supermarket, he is often bullied, and he smirks at other people's goodness." ”

"Then why did he get into this car? A simple-minded person should not be bothered by dirty things. Chen Ge had some doubts in his heart.

"He's going to the terminal to find his daughter." The man couldn't bear to continue: "For some reason, someone found a gangster outside the school to bully this daughter, the cigarette burned the palm, the hair was pulled off, and even more excessive things were filmed in the surveillance." Her daughter never said anything, and finally she couldn't stand it anymore and ended her life. ”

"School bullying?" Chen Ge's eyes were gloomy, these things did happen, and he had also seen them: "Did you call the police?" How did the police deal with it? ”

The man in the seat next to him was mentally defective, physically uncoordinated, and usually fell when walking, making it difficult for people like him to defend his rights.

"Call the police?" The man cracked his mouth: "This father, who is congenitally mentally deficient, unable to speak, and usually can't walk steadily, stunned all the gangsters and culprits in an abandoned building in the eastern suburbs, and then poured gasoline on them and burned them all in one fire." ”

"He's not in good health, he's mentally deficient, so how did he do it all by himself?"

"The police can't figure it out, so the murderer hasn't been caught in this case so far."

The burn doctor and Chen Ge looked back at the man at the same time, he looked a little cramped, and smirked at the two of them.

"Countering violence with violence, there will be more problems left in the future, and the heart that is already broken because of the injury is difficult to withstand all kinds of pressure after the revenge killing, and he may go from one extreme to the other." Chen Ge couldn't evaluate what that father had done, and if he was that father, he didn't dare to guarantee what he would do.

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, I think that's fair. Not to mention him, I've seen more serious cases in this car. The burn doctor said casually: "One time it was raining, and when I got on the bus, I saw a young man in a suit and leather shoes, he was dressed very energetically, and he looked different from the other passengers, but who knew that this man was a complete lunatic." ”

"What did he do?"

"The young man was a wedding officiant, he had been in the industry for several years, he had presided over hundreds of weddings, and finally when it was time for him to get married, he married the bride in a suit and leather shoes, but he had a car accident on the way back."

"The bride was not saved, and although his life was saved, he was disfigured."

"The wedding company fired him, and then he changed his career to become a funeral designer, and when someone found him, he helped them design the funeral, and when no one was around, he guarded the cemetery."

"It's all quite normal, but then in the middle of the conversation, he inadvertently leaked a message."

"In the dead of night, he will pull the yin edge for those corpses, match the underworld, and then preside over it himself."

The man said a little scary: "He got in the car to look for his wife, and then he was going to have a special wedding at that time." ”

After listening to the stories of the burn doctor, the mentally handicapped father and the funeral designer, Chen Ge found that the last train of No. 104 was not what he had thought before, and this car seemed to have become a passage for the living people of Jiujiang to enter the shadows of the city, and all kinds of people rode it to find the last trace of thought.

Chen Ge didn't know what to tell the burn doctor that everyone regarded this bus as their last hope, but they were doomed to not succeed, because the terminal of this bus was made up of the deepest despair and pain.

Chen Ge even suspected that the reason why the mastermind behind the scenes in the eastern suburbs would make such a bus out was to collect despair and all kinds of negative emotions.

"The Strange Tales Association kept making strange tales for the sake of despair and negative emotions, and the ghosts inside the door needed these things, and in addition, only people who were desperate and painful and dominated by negative emotions could become containers for ghosts."

There are ghosts on the last train, and they arrive at the terminal with the last glimmer of hope, but they will be greeted by another world of endless despair.

"I can't let that happen again, it looks like I'm going to have to drive this car away, maybe I can get a new line to the haunted house."

These abnormal living passengers in the car reminded Chen Ge of the game he played at Fan Cong's house.

In that game, there are not only ghosts and red clothes, but also many perverted murderers, and Chen Ge now suspects that those murderers are the living passengers on the 104 bus.

"The whole town is full of ghosts and murderers, and the people behind the scenes in the eastern suburbs are much crazier than the Weird Tales Association."