Twin female zombies come to the door: My lord, please have mercy!

The four of them went to the long bench at the back of the carriage.

There are just enough seats for three people.

Fatty Wang slumped in the rightmost seat by the window, his eyes tightly shut, silently reciting the Great Compassion Mantra he had somehow heard.

Leng Yue sat down to Lin Ye's left.

As soon as she sat down, she reached out her slender left hand and firmly covered Lin Ye's hand, which was resting on his knee.

A pure stream of drought demon yin energy flowed along the skin where they were touching, enveloping Lin Ye's entire body like mercury spilling onto the ground.

This aura wasn't harsh; it carried the cool fragrance of red spider lilies, perfectly masking Lin Ye's pure yang energy, which was like a torch in the night.

Froststar glanced at the seats that were already full, her heterochromatic eyes darting around.

The little girl smiled slyly, walked straight up to Lin Ye, turned around without any politeness, and straddled Lin Ye's lap.

"There aren't enough seats, so Frostnova will have to make do and sit on her brother-in-law's lap."

She spoke of her grievances, but her hands, like two nimble snakes, tightly embraced Lin Ye's neck.

Her delicate, porcelain-doll-like face nestled into Lin Ye's neck, her pink nose brushing against his throbbing carotid artery as she took a deep breath.

Lin Ye froze.

The atmosphere inside the carriage should have been terrifyingly oppressive.

The surrounding area was filled with dripping vengeful spirits, and the driver was a monster whose face was so obscured that it was impossible to see clearly.

At this very moment, however, he was forced to experience another kind of torment that brought his sanity to the brink of collapse.

A soft, petite, mutated white zombie was pressed against his thigh.

Froststar's fair, bare legs, exposed beneath her Lolita skirt, were restlessly rubbing against his knees as the bus swayed.

His left hand was tightly held in the palm of a hot-bodied, aloof, thousand-year-old red beast.

Leng Yue's fingertips, slightly cool to the touch, would occasionally gently caress the back of his hand, soothing his tense nerves.

"Behave yourself and don't move around," Lin Ye warned Shuangxing in a low voice.

Froststar stuck out her little tongue and curled up even tighter.

A pair of eyes peered through Lin Ye's shoulder, fixed on the water ghosts in front of them, which emitted an enticing aroma of "food".

"Creak!"

The car doors slammed shut.

The bus let out a dying gasp, like a wild beast, and slowly drove away from the station.

The fog outside the car window grew thicker and thicker, like a white wall, completely isolating the car from the outside world.

The streetlights went out, and the surroundings fell into a deathly silence.

The car wasn't going fast, but the bumps inside the carriage were unusually severe.

From time to time, the crisp sound of bones being crushed could be heard from under the chassis, and it was unknown what kind of underworld road this ghost car was traveling on.

Time seemed to lose its meaning in this cramped space.

Sudden.

The "passenger" sitting in the single seat directly in front of Lin Ye moved.

It was a figure wearing a yellowish-white raincoat.

Its shoulders began to shrug stiffly, as if rusty gears were being forced to turn.

Thick, black droplets of water dripped down the hem of his raincoat and onto the aisle in front of Lin Ye's knees.

Followed by.

The head that had been buried deep in the chest began to snap back at a full ninety degrees.

A pale, swollen face covered in green algae appeared upside down in Lin Ye and the others' view.

There were no whites in his eyes, only two bottomless black holes on his face.

Its mouth was wide open, and water plants mixed with mud and sand poured out of its mouth.

It hung upside down, staring intently at Lin Ye and Shuang Xing, who were sitting in the last row.

An intense, unyielding resentment and probing spread like a bone-deep infection.

The temperature inside the carriage plummeted again, and even the air we breathed out turned into ice crystals.

Fatty Wang, sitting next to me, was so frightened that his eyes rolled back and he looked like he was about to faint.

Lin Ye's heart skipped a beat.

He understood that the truck full of water ghosts were testing the secrets of these few "living people".

Once a flaw is revealed, it will immediately trigger a frenzied counterattack from all the vengeful spirits on the bus.

Just as Lin Ye was secretly circulating his pure Yang energy, preparing to launch a sudden attack at any moment.

The system notification sounded crisply in his mind.

"Ding! My Lord, please exercise restraint. System notification: The host has been detected being subjected to a close-up probing by a ghost bus passenger. The current atmosphere has reached a terrifying threshold. Please make a decision within three minutes to break the mystery!"

Option A: Scream – Play the role of a worthy cannon fodder in a horror movie, scream at the top of your lungs and try to smash a window to escape.

[Reward: Dolphin Sound Proficiency +100. Consequence: Triggers the bloodthirsty instincts of the entire vehicle full of vengeful ghosts; you will be torn to pieces. Leng Yue has to overturn the entire vehicle beforehand to save you, and the clues are lost.]

[Option B: Pure Yang Emerges – Pulling out the Three Yang Obscuring Fire Talisman, he slaps it on its swollen face and shouts, "Demon, prepare to die!"]

[Reward: Obtain the title "Reckless". Consequence: The battle breaks out prematurely, violating the host's original intention of "secretly investigating the destination," and there is a high risk of accidentally injuring Fatty Wang in a confined space.]

[Option C: If the enemy doesn't move, I don't move; I apply pressure from the opposite direction—remain still, using the Zombie Lady's rank and her own temperament to give this arrogant water ghost a slight shock.]

[Reward: Official Points +200, Obtain 4 Mystic Artifacts [Concealment Talisman]]

Lin Ye would naturally not make the wrong choice when faced with an option that tests one's resolve.

I choose C.

The thought was settled.

Lin Ye leaned back in his chair, his face expressionless, without even the slightest twitch of a muscle.

He stared indifferently back at the terrifying water ghost face hanging upside down in front of him, as if looking at a piece of lifeless, broken furniture.

Sensing Lin Ye's composure, Froststar, sitting on his lap, became even more unrestrained.

The little girl lifted her head from the crook of Lin Ye's neck.

The once clear left eye was instantly swallowed by abyssal darkness, while the right eye erupted with scarlet blood light.

A wide grin spread across her face, revealing two sharp canine teeth that gleamed with a chilling light.

Froststar stared at the water ghost, then stuck out her pink tongue and slowly licked her lips.

She didn't release any aura; her eyes, filled with extreme hunger, pierced directly through the water ghost's remaining intelligence.

In the water ghost's empty black eye sockets, a strange, human-like extreme fear flashed.

Its upside-down head made a series of "crackling" sounds and then retracted as if it had been electrocuted.

Then, its whole body, like a frightened quail, clung tightly to the back of the seat in front of it, not daring to move an inch.

It's not just that.

The passengers who had been subtly restless and trying to turn around seemed to simultaneously feel the overwhelming pressure coming from the back, and they all lowered their heads even further.

The carriage fell silent once more.

Only the groaning of the aging engine echoed lonely through the thick fog.

"My lord has great composure."

Leng Yue's voice came through my mind via divine sense.

She tightened her grip on Lin Ye's hand slightly, her fingertips gently tracing across his palm, sending a tingling sensation through her.

Lin Ye held her hand, his expression calm, but his back was already covered in a thin layer of sweat.

In this claustrophobic and terrifying space, sharing a room with a group of unknown and vengeful spirits is a far greater test of mental fortitude than direct combat.

"Ding! Option task completed. Official's points +200. Current points: 2450. Mystic artifact [Concealment Talisman] x4 has been issued to the system space."

With a thought, two thin, cicada-wing-like yellow paper talismans appeared out of thin air between Lin Ye's fingers.

He flicked his finger, and a concealment talisman was placed on Fatty Wang's back, completely preventing the leakage of yang energy from the fat man who was about to be terrified.

The other one was held face down in his palm, just in case.

"Thump!"

The bus suddenly drove over a huge pothole, and the bus shook violently.

The thick fog outside the car window began to change.

The originally white mist gradually took on a dark red glow.

The scenery on both sides of the road is no longer desolate weeds, but rows of strange building ruins are vaguely emerging.

The buildings looked like ancient archways, their surfaces covered with mottled moss, and faint green phosphorescence flickered around them.

Lin Ye narrowed his eyes, staring intently at the changes outside through the car window.

"This is not a view of the outskirts of Jiangzhou City."

Lin Ye frowned deeply.

This ghost bus, route 404, has clearly broken through the barrier between the realms of Yin and Yang and entered a ghostly space entirely constructed of dense Yin energy.

What made him even more uneasy was...

As the vehicle ventured deeper into the road, a massive black city gate came into view at the end of the road ahead.

Above the city gate, three large characters are carved in an ancient seal script.

Even through the thick fog, the overwhelming resentment emanating from those three words still sent a chill down one's spine.

Those are place names that are said to have only appeared in ancient books and fragments—

The City of the Unjustly Dead

"These water ghosts actually found the entrance to the abandoned city of the underworld." Lin Ye clenched his fists, his knuckles turning white.

This "free sightseeing bus" trip took him to a destination far beyond his expectations.