Exorcist's Self-Cultivation

Chapter 109 109, How many seats?

at this moment, emily and merri realized they had boarded the wrong bus.

the heavy rain had been simply too great, and as they waited for the last bus, a subconscious move had led them into the most dangerous of situations.

but at this time, the two of them had not yet realized just how terrifying the situation they faced would be...

emily regretted it deeply. she grabbed merri's hand, wanting to get off the bus, but found that the rear door wouldn't open at all.

when they turned around, the front door had already slowly closed...

and those malicious gazes became even more somber and eerie.

...

in the storm, the bus continued on its way.

after the front door closed and the bus moved forward, for some reason, these "passengers" did not immediately attack them.

one could even say that aside from getting a scare, the two of them were actually not too badly off?

emily and merri shivered as they sat in the second-to-last row, by the window, right in front of du wei's seat.

well... aside from the fright, there was also the fact that their clothes were wet, which couldn't keep them warm.

the two were very scared but dared not speak, intuition telling them that this bus was extremely dangerous, like in a horror tale, possibly a ghost bus.

the entire bus's passengers were all ghosts...

...

du wei observed all this silently, biding his time.

the bus had two seats on the left side and one seat on the right, arranged in parallel rows.

excluding the two who had just boarded, there were three other seats.

one of these seats was between du wei and the umbrella-carrying woman, and the other two were ahead of where the nun was sitting, both single seats.

out of these three seats, one was already occupied by an unseen passenger.

that is to say, there were actually only two more spots for evil spirits if they were to board.

but if three, or more than three, were to come on board, there would be a situation of evil spirits murdering to take a seat.

this was an unchangeable rule of the bus.

in such a confined space as a bus, humans were simply unable to resist evil spirits.

even du wei couldn't use the rule of evil spirits balancing each other out. explore new worlds at empire

because each seat was meant for a real "passenger," people taking seats meant that evil spirits wouldn't strike until they got off, but once the seats were full, any new evil spirits boarding would kill those occupying their seats.

this was already the strongest rule of the bus.

he needed to stay alert and tread carefully.

however, at that moment, the bus suddenly slowed down...

du wei's gaze turned cold. it had only been two or three minutes, so why stop so soon?

he sharply focused his gaze on the driver.

the driver also turned his head, revealing that wrinkled face, his mouth curving into a sinister arc...

it looked almost mocking...

with a creak...

the moment the bus stopped, the front door opened.

visible to the naked eye was a stream of mist that seeped in from the front door.

the mist was chillingly white, and the temperature inside the bus dropped significantly.

following that, du wei saw two "familiar faces" board the bus.

one was tall and wrapped in bandages, with indistinguishable features and skin.

the other was a smaller-statured woman, but also wrapped in bandages.

du wei had encountered these two ghostly things before.

their bodies were actually made up of these bandages, with completely hollow insides, incomprehensible.

however, the last time he saw them, they boarded the bus one after the other, this time they did it together.

"do evil spirits also tend toward group behavior?"

this thought flashed through du wei's mind, but he quickly dismissed it.

there must be another reason.

nevertheless, with that, the bus was basically full.

excluding the invisible evil spirit, the two newly boarded evil spirits took up the remaining seats, and if one more passenger boarded, the twin sisters in the front seats would die.

du wei took a deep breath, about to continue thinking about disembarking, but then, he saw something that exceeded his understanding.

of the two bandage-wrapped evil spirits, only the male one took a seat when they reached the middle of the bus.

the other one, who appeared to be female, continued to walk towards the back.

and its target was precisely the twin sisters.

du wei's body stiffened as he suddenly realized something—if one followed the bus rules, he was equivalent to two passengers.

one with a mask, and the other, the unseen evil spirit du wei.

in other words, the evil spirits had already met the bus's murder quota.