Chapter 10 On the bus

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Without further ado, at 5:47 a.m. the next morning, we were already on the bus to Shennongjia Tourist Scenic Spot. Since this is not the peak season for tourism, the buses are not crowded with people, and a few sporadic seats are vacated.

Gao Peng and Bu Jin and I sat in the back row of the bus, bumping up and down as the car moved. In the morning, it took me a lot of effort to wake Gao Peng up and go to the designated place to take the bus of the travel agency. Since there were five seats in the back row, two were vacant, so Gao Peng lay on those two seats as soon as he got on the bus and fell asleep.

I squeezed my eyes, and I felt very tired, but I didn't feel like I wanted to sleep, and I still had an inexplicable sense of excitement in my heart about the mysterious Shennongjia primeval forest.

Bu Jin sat in the back row by the window, her eyes fixed on a middle-aged man sitting in the first two rows of us. The middle-aged man looked to be about thirty-five years old, wearing a pair of sunglasses, two mustaches on his mouth, and a thick black trench coat. After Bu Jin noticed that I was paying attention to her, she turned her head away, looked out the window, and never said a word.

Most of the people in the bus are young and middle-aged, and there are even two elderly people. Since it was still early, there was no guide in the car, and most of the people in the car were sleeping, so it was quiet in the car.

The bus did not leave Wuhan immediately, but went to other places in the city to pick up some people. Among the three people who got into the car later, one was a young woman in her thirties with heavy makeup, and there was a man with an incompetent face, and these two people should be a couple. They didn't get much of my attention, and at most I felt sorry for the man.

However, the third, the last passenger of the train, surprised me.

This is a young man, he is wearing a dark undershirt, a black leather jacket on the outside, a set of jeans underneath, and a very smart hairstyle. With headphones in his ears and a book in his hand, he found a spare seat and sat down.

Isn't this the same young man who was sleeping across the bed when I came to Wuhan? Could it be that he is the person Ryazan said was following me?

It's quite possible. I thought carefully about the time when I was on the train, this young man was always passive when he was talking, he didn't ask or answer, and when he asked, he just stopped after saying a few words, and he never talked endlessly, could it be that the reason why he was like this was to prevent himself from revealing his flaws?

Immediately afterwards, I thought of the night when the train passed by the mass graves, and the mass graves roamed in all directions, and when everyone was deeply shocked by that scene, he reacted immediately. He made a phone call!

Actually, I had doubts about this at the time, but due to Bu Jin's obstruction at that time, I didn't delve into it, the most important thing is that the incident of Yuan Baqian borrowing the corpse to lock the soul later attracted all my attention at that time, so that I had no time to take care of this young man anymore.

Today, when I look closely, this young man is indeed somewhat extraordinary. He is fair-skinned, and he looks three or four years younger than me, but between his eyebrows there is a feeling that he is quite involved in the world, and reading is his only hobby. His kind of quiet composure was different from Bu Jin's silence.

Bu Jin's silence often gives people a sense of mystery like the ocean, you don't know what she will do next, let alone what will happen to Lu Dao's silence, you can only guess.

And this young man's silence is a kind of self-isolation silence, or rather, it should be a certain degree of indifference, in his eyes, you can't see a trace of waves, the only time is when you meet the ghosts of the mass graves.

I pushed Gao Peng, hoping to wake him up and help me come up with an idea. Gao Peng muttered twice, saying that he would not open his eyes. I looked at Bu Jin again, she had been looking out the window, and she didn't seem to notice the young man's figure.

What's next? If this young man was really the one who was following me, then it meant that I couldn't get rid of him the whole time. Moreover, I remember that Ryazan once told me clearly that there was more than one person following me, does that also mean that there are still people in this large number of cars who are following me?

What to do? If the enemy doesn't move, I won't move? I'm not willing to do that, I'm already tired of being passive.

After thinking about it for a while, I made a bold decision - to take the initiative.

In any case, since the other party is already following me, then there is no need for me to hide my identity, rather than evading the problem like this, it is better to step forward and question, pierce this layer of window paper, and catch him off guard.

Whatever you think in your heart, let's do it.

I lifted my ass and strode over to the young man, who happened to have an empty seat next to him, so I sat down and said, "What a coincidence, little brother." ”

The young man looked up at me, then looked back at the book and said, "Hmm." Quite a coincidence. ”

"You're also traveling to Shennongjia?" I tried to penetrate little by little, hoping that in this way I would be able to find the flaws in the young man. At the same time, I chatted with him while constantly observing the behavior and reactions of the other people in the car to see if he still had accomplices.

"Nope." The young man said lightly.

I smiled in my heart and asked, "If you don't travel, what are you going to Shennongjia for?" ”

The young man took a breath, turned a page of the book, and said, "Just walk around." ”

Take a walk! I scolded in my heart, who the fuck are you, if you want to walk around, then why bother to report to the travel agency?

However, the young man answered in such a way that the conversation had already been terminated. However, I have to say that I didn't get any valuable clues from his stingy exchange just now—I wanted to know who was following me, the mysterious organization that Zhang Hefang was talking about, or Nanwu?

I tried to look for signs of tattoos on the young man's body, but because he was wearing more, there was very little skin exposed, only the neck was visible, and there was no trace of any tattoo.

In order to find a new topic, I asked again: "Why do you like to read books like "Imaginary Country" when you are young?" ”

The young man didn't speak, but slowly flipped the book cover to me - "Walden".

"Oh," I said, "I've changed a book." ”

"Hmm." He replied.

"You see, let's come to Wuhan from Shenyang together, and then take a bus to Shennongjia at the same time, which ...... It's such a coincidence, no one will believe it, right? ”

"Probably."

"Then we are so fateful, can we make a friend?" I swear, I've never tried so much to please someone in my life.

At this time, the young man seemed a little impatient, he sighed, then turned to me for the first time and said a long word, "Excellent, friend, I want to read for a while." ”

At this time, everyone else sitting around me looked at me, probably saying in their hearts, how can this person be like this, slimy and chatting with a stranger, doing nothing, either traitor or thief!

I was embarrassed myself, so I said yes and stumbled back to my seat.

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The bus continued to drive forward, and I knew that it would take a long time to get to Shennongjia tourist destination, and if the traffic was not smooth, it might take a day to reach the Shennongjia tourist destination.

About two hours later, I was half asleep when suddenly the bus stopped.

I opened my eyes in a daze and found a young, beautiful and energetic young female tour guide on the bus, holding a small flag, and then shouting with a small loudspeaker: "Hello everyone, I am your tour guide, my name is He Xiaochen, you can call me He Dao in the future." First of all, thank you for choosing our travel company, on behalf of our company, I wish you a happy trip in advance......"

The words after that are all familiar clichés, which make people uncomfortable to listen to. After saying a cliché, the female tour guide announced her mobile phone number, saying that she asked everyone to call that number if there was anything.

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