Seeing a car coming, several people in Cheng Cheng hurriedly stood on the side of the road and waved. org

With a screech of brakes, the car stopped.

The buses are old, air-conditioned models that look like the long-retired green trains. The car was painted in yellow with white stripes, peeled off in many places, revealing a rusty body, and a thick layer of mud and dust on the body near the four wheels.

Although the car stopped, the engine was idling so loudly that I wondered if the car would fall apart immediately.

But the front window of the car does have a route sign with red letters on a yellow background:

Tanglu Cave - Erlang Bridge - Black Water.

Liu Haijun and Cheng Cheng got on the bus almost as soon as the car stopped, and Cheng Cheng said a few words to a conductor-like person on the bus, and then beckoned to me and Lao Dao:

"It's a car to Blackwater, get on it!"

When the old knife saw that I was still standing still, he asked me, "Why are you standing stupidly, and you don't get into the car?" ”

"I think it's a little weird - is there still such a broken bus?"

"It's a bit too broken...... However, some of the county buses are like this, and many things are used if they can be used - don't look at them, they are poor and remote, and if you miss this car, you don't know how long you have to wait. ”

Then, the old knife pulled me into the car.

Lao Dao's explanation really makes sense, and I think it makes sense, so I didn't resist getting in the car.

Unfortunately, the car was just full, and the four of us could only stand by pulling the handrail on the top of the car.

The conductor was a young woman with a ponytail, and she didn't wear any bus uniform, just plain clothes, but she was quite handsome, and after asking the other two people on the side of the road not to get on the bus, she asked the driver to drive.

The asphalt road is very flat, but the car is too dilapidated and exaggerated, and it starts like an overwhelmed old cow, and the body keeps shaking, and it is very bumpy.

I grabbed the steel handrail and looked at the passengers.

Sitting in the front two rows were several old men and women, all of them with dark skin and wrinkled faces, and when they grinned, they showed their only remaining teeth or two, and they were at least sixty or seventy years old, and at their feet were some baskets containing mountain goods, covered with old towels that could no longer be seen in their original colors, almost one of them, and crowded the aisles.

Then there were eight rural women, occupying the middle two rows of seats, and two **-year-old boys sat in the remaining two seats, two of which were holding small dolls in their arms, and one of them was breastfeeding, and I quickly turned my eyes away.

Behind them were six young men, the last row of seats packed, all dressed as plasterers, all black and red, their hair and clothes stained with white cement ash, and the collar of their shirts stained with a dark oil.

I could see a common trait among the passengers in this car: all of them had weather-beaten faces, their whole expressions were sluggish to the point of numbness, and most of them had their eyes half-closed, drowsy in the constantly jolting carriage.

My eyes finally rested on the young female conductor's face, and she smiled at me, a little stiffly, and I gave her a dry smile back.

But the strange feeling in my heart still lingers - from the time I saw this car, until now, the feeling in my heart like a spider crawling around my neck has never faded.

The people in the car were always quiet, and the car had been out for about ten minutes, and no one spoke.

And the old knife beside me has already told Cheng Cheng and Liu Haijun about my suspicion that there is still such a dilapidated car.

Liu Haijun said: "Detective Ji, you also saw the passengers in this car, right?" There are still many villages in the mountains around Heishui Town that have not yet been lifted out of poverty, don't look at our Jinguan City is a world of flowers, but only a few hours away from us, there are still poor people...... However, this is the case all over the world, but it's not just us. As he spoke, Liu Haijun sighed.

Cheng Cheng smiled and patted Liu Haijun on the shoulder: "Xiao Liu, you're wrong!" You have been with this Detective Ji for too short a time, otherwise you will know that he is not a sad sigh, but a pure suspicion! However, this car is really slow, just now I asked the ticket sister, originally we expected to arrive at Blackwater Town at noon, and now we have to go at one or two o'clock in the afternoon. ”

I didn't talk to them, but frowned.

In Cheng Cheng's words just now, there was a word that reminded me.

Hypochondriasis.

Of course, I don't have any suspicions, most of what I do have is an intuition of intricate clues, or a premonition of danger—like a knife close to your skin, even if it hasn't really touched your skin yet, but your cold hair will start first.

So, I continued to observe the passengers in the car...... After a while, I saw the oddity!

- The old men and women, all of them closed their eyes and recuperated, but every minute or two there would be some small movements: they would look up at the window, or yawn, or scratch their scalps, but whatever they did, they would quietly glance in the direction of the four of us, and then they would start to close their eyes and recuperate, and the cycle would continue.

The two and a half children would laugh inexplicably every few minutes, and then the women around them would slap them, and as soon as they slapped them, the two children would instantly smile on their faces, and only look at the four of us with stunned eyes, and every then the women would open their eyes one after another, and they would peek at us like those old men and old women.

- The plasterers in the last row dozed off as if they were on duty, and as soon as this man's snoring fell, that person's snoring began, but there was always one who was awake, looking out the window, and at the people in the car, and by the way, at the four of us.

- The driver of the car, sitting upright in the driver's seat, did not make the slightest extra movement except for the steering wheel with both hands.

I went to look at the young conductor again, and she was still smirking at me when she noticed my gaze, and then she smiled abruptly and looked away.

All of this seems so weird!

One of the biggest oddities is that the people in this car don't look like normal people!

Starting with the old lady sitting in the far left seat in the first row of the car, the whole car, as if clockwork, would repeat a set of actions very regularly, like puppeteers, manipulated by an invisible thread......

To be exact, these people are a little less "angry"!

The "angry" of the living!

Thinking of this, I was horrified and exclaimed:

"Stop!"

There was another screech of brakes, the car stopped, and the doors opened.

But the strange thing is that except for Cheng Cheng and the other three people who looked at me in shock, the other passengers in the car were indifferent, and they didn't even react at all, they continued to repeat the fixed actions that they had repeated countless times along the way, and they didn't even seem to know that the car had stopped!

This situation and this scene made the cold hair behind my back explode!

"What's wrong?" Cheng Cheng asked.

I took a deep breath and tried not to make my tone too abrupt: "I suddenly felt a lot of pain in my stomach, and we got out of the car." ”

Cheng Cheng looked reluctant and muttered, "Why are you so careless that you eat a bad stomach?" ”

Seeing that my face was wrong, the old knife said in a low voice, "What's wrong?" ”

I said in a resolute tone: "Pull the two of them out of the car." ”

Lao Dao nodded, and he and I couldn't help but pull Cheng Cheng and Liu Haijun out of the car.

But the female conductor took the lead and stood at the door.

"Get out of the car, get out of the car, what are you pulling and pulling? You have to pay for the car, right? Cheng Cheng asked the female conductor: "How much?" ”

The female conductor looked straight at the four of us, and there was a kind of regret in her eyes.

"It's almost there, you guys get out of the car?" Her voice was like the kind of dubbing in an old black-and-white movie, full of old-fashioned feeling, "Really, it's not far away, really not in the car?" ”

At this time, I noticed that the passengers who were originally sleepy on the bus had raised their heads at this time, opened their eyes and looked at us, all of them were blank and empty.

The chill in my heart was even worse, and I pulled Cheng Cheng away and stuffed a hundred yuan into the female conductor's hand: "I'm sorry, we have to get off." ”

The conductor let go of her hand, and the hundred-dollar bill fell to the ground, and the regret on her face was even worse, but it was not because the hundred-dollar bill had fallen: "If you don't arrive, we won't charge you - and we won't take that kind of money." ”

With that, she finally got out of the way.

I hurriedly pulled Cheng Cheng to escape and jumped out of the car, and the old knife behind me was the same, pulling Liu Haijun to jump out of the car.

The doors closed and the car started.

As the car slowly drove away, the young conductor suddenly poked his head out of the window and waved at us as if saying goodbye, while the rest of the car poked their heads out of the window and waved at us.

The passengers waved their hands, and suddenly their faces showed expressions of great regret, they opened and closed their mouths in unison, and the wave turned into a wave, and the faint voice penetrated our eardrums:

"Come on...... Come on......"

Now, not only me, but the other three finally felt that something was wrong.

Cheng Cheng's face sank: "Aji, what's going on?" ”

I stared at the bus in the distance: "You look at that car......"

Cheng Cheng also looked at the bus that was gradually moving away, and then, his eyes suddenly widened!

The bus came to an intersection with a red light flashing, but the bus did not stop.

A tanker truck suddenly rushed out.

"Bang!"

The bus was smashed into two, and both half-carriages rolled on the ground for dozens of meters before stopping.

The tanker truck also rolled over on its side, slid out more than ten meters, and crashed beyond recognition!