Without strangeness, everything is easy to handle, but once strangeness arrives, so seemingly ordinary people exhibit surprisingly quick reactions.
Take our bus driver, for instance. After opening the door, he managed to surpass Yan Junze and was the first to rush out of the bus.
However, upon exiting, he instantly turned back to glance inside the bus, only to find that the young passenger who had been sitting in the front row had now vanished without a trace.
The young man who had warned him about the strangeness, carrying a backpack, was still standing there, staring at him in shock, neither getting off the bus nor making any other movents.
"What’s going on?" The driver felt a chill running down his spine.
Today, there was no sunshine; it was cloudy turning overcast, casting an inherently cold feeling, despite it being morning.
"Master, just keep walking, don’t look back," Yan Junze’s voice ca from the back of the bus. Explore hidden tales at empire
But he had stood still the entire ti, staring fixedly at the bus driver.
No, he was staring at sothing behind the bus driver.
At that mont, the bus driver’s heart raced even faster, his legs going numb as he kept guessing why Yan Junze was looking behind him, and wondering where was the person who had been sitting in the first row.
"Shouldn’t turn back, he told not to turn back, could it be…"
The driver realized his body was starting to tremble, a pressing urge to urinate nearly uncontrollable, and although he was moving forward unconsciously, he was doing so more slowly than a snail.
"What… What’s behind ? Is that young man following ?"
The driver’s imagination was vivid, conjuring up thoughts that perhaps the young man was currently perched on his shoulders or clinging to his back.
The more he thought about it, the more terrified he beca until he could no longer move, his legs giving way, and he fell to his knees.
Right then, a cold sensation crept up from behind him.
Unable to withstand such torture, the driver shakily turned his head.
Then he felt two palms pressing tightly against his face, his head jerking backward violently, with a crisp snap, and his consciousness faded away.
Lv Xin stood up expressionlessly, a faint breath escaping the driver’s nostrils and wafting into his own.
Lv Xin’s body trembled involuntarily twice as if he found it quite comfortable, then he turned his head towards the bus.
Gone.
The bus that had been stationary just monts ago had now disappeared without a trace.
In the distance at the end of the road, a faint wisp of smoke could still be seen coming from the bus’s exhaust, barely recognizable as it curled around the mountain road, then went out of sight.
If not now, when?
Yan Junze hadn’t expected that after the driver alighted, Lv Xin would follow so closely behind him; when he told the driver not to look back, he had simply feared the driver would be frightened, not intentionally luring the driver to lead Lv Xin away.
In fact, he didn’t know what Lv Xin was up to following the man.
But it was a good opportunity: they went down, leaving him alone with the bus, the keys still in the ignition!
Yan Junze, sweating profusely, gripped the steering wheel of the bus, his expression focused, staring intently at the road ahead, not daring to relax for a second.
True, he knew how to drive from his previous life, but after getting his license, he had mostly driven automatic cars; he had only occasionally touched manual ones, just not as adeptly.
As for a bus like this, he had never even touched one before.
However, Yan Junze knew about starting in second gear and was aware that a bus has complex gear shifts, which he had once studied out of curiosity.
This mont had finally co after much difficulty in driving the bus away, and his mood beca very complex.
First, the road was steep and winding, and second, he couldn’t control the clutch properly, so he had to pay close attention the entire ti, not even daring to blink.
He wanted to go faster, but just couldn’t speed up!
It wasn’t long before the bus charged onto the mountain road that curved back and forth, with a 30-ter steep slope on the left. Due to the uneven road surface, he couldn’t get the hang of the clutch, and shortly after ascending, the bus stalled outright.
Yan Junze’s heart raced with urgency as he turned his head to look back, then suddenly froze, his hands leaving the steering wheel.
He saw Lv Xin sitting in the first row of the bus, calmly looking at him.
"Oh, we’ve arrived?" Yan Junze stood up, putting down his backpack, "Look at you, not even saying hello when you arrive!"
He knew that driving the bus away was a montary burst of effort and that any slip up along the way would an losing their last chance to escape.
Lv Xin leaned forward slightly, like a marionette being pulled up, approaching Yan Junze swiftly on tiptoes, just as he had followed the bus driver before.
The next second, the Crawler Monster, Ke’er, and Long-tongued Zhenzhen appeared before Yan Junze in succession.
Yan Junze shouted fiercely, "Attack him!"
Although he knew what the final outco would be, he was now in the most unfavorable position, so whatever happened, he would seize any opportunity that arose.
If he found a flaw, Yan Junze would imdiately Rewind and look for a chance to break through.
The three strangenesses charged at Lv Xin simultaneously.
This ti the Crawler Monster wasn’t as dim-witted and helpless as when it faced the cross-dressing gang leader Jian Tong. Instead, it was ferociously charging forward, although still less rapid than Ke’er.
Upon seeing Lv Xin, Long-tongued Zhenzhen imdiately said to Yan Junze, "You should run, he’s very strong, we won’t be able to hold him off for long!"
Thud!
The Crawler Monster’s head had been squashed flat under Lv Xin’s foot.
Ke’er had pounced onto Lv Xin’s shoulder at that mont, limbs elongated, mouth open wide, biting at Lv Xin’s forehead.
"Aah!"
A strange scream ca from Lv Xin’s mouth as his body violently shook, and Ke’er was instantly flung away, hitting the bus roof then tumbling back down onto the seats.
Zhenzhen stepped forward, her crimson tongue lashing out rapidly at Lv Xin’s face.
Lv Xin didn’t dodge but instead reached out to grab it with his hand, biting off a piece of the tongue and chewing it before swallowing.
Zhenzhen didn’t back down either. Instead, she stepped closer, her tongue rapidly coiling around in the middle section, forming two circles, one end still held by the opponent, the rest wrapping around Lv Xin’s neck.
At this mont, Ke’er climbed up from the seat, baring her teeth and issuing a "yah yah yah" warning sound, and sprang toward Lv Xin again with a push of her legs.
But while she was still in the air, Lv Xin reached out with his other hand, gripping Ke’er’s throat before she could reach him, intercepting her in mid-flight and pinning her down, rendering her scratching and kicking futile.
Lv Xin plunged his fingers into the captured tongue of Zhenzhen, causing her body to shudder violently, as if she would fall apart at any mont.
The Crawler Monster, with its shattered skull, lay at Lv Xin’s feet. It licked its disheveled parting with what remained of its tongue, weakly extended its tiny fists, and staggered to Lv Xin’s ankle to deliver a punch before lying on the ground, motionless.
Regardless, it had done its best!
The three strangenesses gave their selfless help from the bottom of their hearts, leaving Yan Junze dumbfounded, and then, the next second...
Rewind!
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