Chapter 1: The Man
The sun is setting.
In the twilight, a bus is heading towards the sunset.
The early autumn weather is still hot, and the cicadas on the street trees are singing long.
As the bus heads toward the outskirts of the city, the occasional scent wafts from the roadside food cart into the carriage, reminding the passengers that it's time to eat.
The moving car failed to stir up a cool breeze in the sultry air, and a shrill "squeak" suddenly joined the noisy cicada chirping.
With a sudden brake, the bus stopped on the road.
Shabhe was closing her eyes when the sudden braking caused her forehead to hit the backrest of the front seat with a muffled sound.
Before Shabhe could complain, the carriage was already noisy.
"Why are you driving the car, my eggs are broken!"
"My old bones are about to fall apart......"
“……”
Amid the passengers' complaints, the driver scratched his head and leaned forward halfway, scanning the road outside the windshield: "It's strange, I just saw a person standing in the middle of the road......"
Xia Buhe rubbed his forehead, stood up and looked out of the car, the wide road was empty, not to mention people, not even cars coming and going.
The driver stood up and bowed to the passengers in the carriage: "I'm sorry guys, I thought there was someone on the road just now, and I stepped on the brakes, I'm really sorry......"
After the driver apologized, several passengers still complained unrelentingly:
"There are guardrails on both sides of this road, how can anyone walk on the road......"
"The sun hasn't set yet, so it's not the time to see the hell......"
"Hey, this big brother, it's the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and the moon is full today, don't say such things today." A low and magnetic voice came from Xia Buhe's side, and as soon as Xia Buhe turned his head, he met the man's gaze, "We are now driving west towards the setting sun, the light is dazzling, and the driver is dazzled, so if everyone is fine, let's continue on the road and get home early." ”
Shabhe didn't understand why the man stared at him when he spoke, and that hot gaze seemed to burn through Shabhe's pupils.
Shabhe avoided his gaze and lowered his head.
The sculptural handsome face, the sturdy figure, and the deep voice are completely in line with the imagination of the perfect man I once had.
"Be sober Xia Buhe, you are married, you can't be sorry for Xiao Yu......" Xia Buhe sat down by himself, looked at the group photo on the mobile phone screen, and reminded himself that he couldn't have illusions about other men.
Wrong!
The route of this bus is very biased, so there are not many passengers on this bus, even during the rush hour.
If such a handsome man was in the car from the beginning, it would be difficult not to notice him.
It is impossible for him to get on the bus halfway, and he has not made a few stops to get on the bus by himself, and every time he hears the sound of coin insertion or card swiping at the station, he will open his eyes and take a look.
At this thought, Xia Buhe's scalp tingled for a while, and his throbbing thoughts about this man were gone, leaving only a trace of fear......
Moreover, the whole car didn't seem to notice the strangeness of this man, as if he was in the car all the time.
Coupled with what he just said, the seventh lunar month, the full moon, westward travel, and the road......
The gratuitous association made Xia Buhe fall into an ice cave, and shivered in the hot weather.
What's worse is that damn curiosity.
The more scared you are, the more you want to take another look. It's as if you can see clearly and no longer be afraid.
She moved her gaze slowly, from black leather shoes to dark teal suit pants, from white blouse to well-defined jaw......
"Are you looking at me?" The man took a step back with his right foot, crouched down, and looked sideways at Shabhe.
There was a vague smile on the corner of his mouth, a terrible expression.
"Yes......" Xia Buhe plucked up a little courage after seeing the man's shadow stretched by the setting sun.
"Do you have something to say to me?"
The sharpness in the man's eyes once again made Xia Buhe dare not look at him: "The person the driver saw just now is you, right?" ”
Her voice was like a mosquito chirping muffled by the roar of all beasts in the noisy environment of the bus.
"It's me." The man's answer was cold and crisp.
This unabashing acknowledgment instantly attacked all of Shabho's rational cognition, and her breathing became rapid with nervousness and fear.
She didn't know how to continue the conversation, and she couldn't do it, because she was trying to use what little sanity she had left to keep herself from screaming.
She couldn't figure out how a person could get into a car without the door open;
She couldn't figure out why a person could suddenly appear in a car and still go unnoticed;
She couldn't figure out why this weird and chilling man was staring at her......
"Arrival in front: Yeosu Garden, please ...... if you have passengers getting off the train"
The brief silence between the two was broken by the announcement of the arrival of the vehicle.
"I'm here, we'll see you again." The man stood up and pulled his shirt flat.
"You should be more afraid of the man you took a picture with than afraid of me......"
The deep voice was like a bubble against Shabho's eardrums, cracking.
When Shabhe turned around, the man was gone, and only the rear door, which had not yet been fully closed, was still creaking and shaking......
"This real estate has been unfinished since the accident two years ago, how can anyone still get off here......" A white-haired old lady picked up an intact egg from a plastic bag, wiped it clean with a paper towel and put it in the vegetable basket.
"I heard that the person who had the accident at that time was dressed like this, a white shirt and suit pants, and said that he was the accountant who took the blame for this real estate......" The uncle, who was complaining that his bones were going to fall apart just now, stood up neatly and told everyone the gossip he had heard.
"I also heard that this accountant is a young man who has just worked, and he can't think about it after being cheated by a black-hearted company, so he can be regarded as unjustly killed......"
"Isn't it, there is always some strange noise in this neighborhood in the middle of the night, and now no one even wants to come to the gatekeeper......"
“……”
Shabhe listened silently, his heart beating so fast that he almost jumped out of his chest. She let out a long sigh of relief, and after calming down for a while, she picked up her mobile phone tremblingly and dialed Xiao Yu's number.
"Why don't you pick me up at the bus stop......?"
"Uh...... I'm playing a group, I'm home a few steps after getting off the bus, what's there to pick up......"
"Do you know what day it is? It's getting dark soon, what's wrong with you coming to pick me up! ”
"Huh? What is today? Game Sale Festival? Or what new game is released......"
Hearing Xiao Yu's heartless words, Xia Buhe was so angry that he hung up the phone directly.
The man who took the picture with me? That's all Xiao Yu?!
What is there for him to be afraid of, he lacks two fools!
I am even more stupid than a fool to marry this kind of second fool!!