Chapter 12: Xu Feng's Psychological Shadow

Lin Bei, do you feel like this road seems familiar?

On the dark black highway, a dilapidated big bus emitted a dim yellow light as it kept moving.

In the back seat of the carriage, a man with a bizarre appearance and a stiff, gloomy face looked toward the man on the other side.

"Doesn't the Spiritual Bus always travel this kind of road?"

Lin Bei glanced casually at Xu Feng, paying no attention to the scenery outside.

"That may be so."

Listening to Lin Bei, Xu Feng nodded.

The Spiritual Bus travels either through Wilderness or mountain forests, so seeing similarities isn't surprising.

Unless there are distinctive features, no one would deliberately remember the routes the bus has taken.

After all, this is a bus that runs through various Spiritual Realms, and no one can fully recall what all its paths look like.

"But hearing you say that, this area does resemble the place we visited a few days ago."

A hint of lingering fear flashed in Lin Bei's eyes.

"Oh? Which place?"

Xu Feng became interested; he had originally asked out of doubt whether they had passed through this place.

Now that Lin Bei also says this looks like the place from a few days ago, a bad premonition rose in him.

"Do you still remember Yang Jian, who got on the bus a few days ago?"

Lin Bei stared out the window; perhaps due to memory, in a daze he seemed to see that terrifying Hong Bai Shuang Sha figure outside.

"You mean the place where the Dried Corpse Bride boarded that time?"

Xu Feng also caught on, looking around; the road indeed looked similar.

From a distance, a mansion could be seen far away, but it differed from the Old Mansion the Dried Corpse Bride left last time.

This time the building resembled a Thatched Cottage, and no lanterns hung around it.

"It should just be a similarity; see, the distant Old Mansion has no lanterns."

Xu Feng pointed at the distant Thatched Cottage, denying the speculation.

He certainly didn't want to experience another encounter with the Dried Corpse Bride.

That kind of Ghost Summoning phenomenon is too terrifying.

"Perhaps it isn't just similar."

However, as Xu Feng denied it, Lin Bei interrupted his words.

Xu Feng looked and saw Lin Bei pointing toward the front of the bus.

There, a Bus Stop existed; on the Bus Stop stood two figures, one red and one white.

Although the two figures seemed to have changed somewhat, they remembered those two outfits clearly.

Hong Bai Shuang Sha Wedding Dress, Hong Bai Shuang Sha Veil, and the gesture of both hands placed flat before the abdomen.

And the white figure, wearing Funeral Clothes, with White Cloth wrapped around the head and attached to the body, and a long white trailing cloth dragging on the ground.

As they drew nearer to the Bus Stop, the two could see more clearly.

For unknown reasons, the Dried Corpse Bride's once emaciated hands now bore a ghastly white flesh.

And the Crying Tomb Ghost, whose face was taken by Yang Jian, somehow now seemed to have a new face.

Yet they recognized it at a glance.

"Is that the Crying Tomb Ghost and the Dried Corpse Bride?" Xu Feng's expression turned terrified.

"What's with the changes on their bodies?"

This time the bus added several Ghost Tamers, but none of the Fierce Ghosts.

Xu Feng didn't think these people could block the Crying Tomb Ghost and the Dried Corpse Bride. "I'm not clear on the Dried Corpse Bride's situation," Lin Bei mused.

"But I can guess some details about the one in Funeral Clothes; do you remember the face of the guy the Dried Corpse Bride held hand with?"

"You mean Zhang Hao?" Xu Feng's brows furrowed slightly.

"It should be that name," Lin Bei nodded.

"Now it seems the fellow called Zhang Hao has put on that Funeral Clothes; as for why, I'm not sure."

Lin Bei truly is someone who, after leaving the Spiritual Bus, can Ghost's Growth into a captain.

In just a few minutes, he guessed Zhang Hao's situation.

"But doesn't this make it even more dangerous?"

Xu Feng's face grew solemn; the last time Zhang Hao was held hand, he was just an ordinary person.

This time Zhang Hao donned Ghost Mourning Clothes; if the bus stalls again, no one knows how terrifying the Dried Corpse Bride‑handed Zhang Hao would be.

"Don't worry, there are more people this time; as long as it's like last time, we might not be targeted."

Lin Bei waved his hand indifferently.

He and Xu Feng's ridden ghosts are special, possessing strong self‑preservation abilities.

If Yang Jian hadn't been there last time, throwing Xu Feng out, Xu Feng might not have faced a crisis.

"That's true," Xu Feng nodded.

He was merely smashed toward the Dried Corpse Bride by Yang Jian last time, so he only has a psychological shadow regarding the Dried Corpse Bride.

As the saying goes, as long as my teammates are alive, I will not suffer hardship.

Those who ride special Fierce Ghosts, before their teammates die, are basically not targeted by Fierce Ghosts.

On the Bus Stop.

Zhang Hao, standing on the platform, looked to both sides.

Although there is a Bus Stop here, there is no road leading away.

Looking left and right, one can only see a muddy footpath extending from the Platform, about a hundred meters long.

At the spot a hundred meters later, there is only overgrown weeds and no Road at all.

If Zhang Hao still retained a living person's mindset, he probably wouldn't be willing to wait for a bus here so long.

Yes, Zhang Hao and the Dried Corpse Bride waited at this Bus Stop for at least a day.

In other words, Zhang Hao now does not have a living person's mindset; otherwise he would have lost patience to keep waiting.

After all, how could a Road only a little over two hundred meters long ever have a bus come? Of course, since he was waiting for a bus at this Bus Stop, Zhang Hao took the time before the bus arrived to test the changes between himself and the Dried Corpse Bride.

(After a reader's reminder, the Dried Corpse Bride can no longer be called a Dry Corpse, so we change the name.) Originally, there was a certain distance limit between Zhang Hao and the Dried Corpse Bride.

Before obtaining Ghost Seeking Kin, whenever Zhang Hao created a certain distance from the Dried Corpse Bride, he would become somewhat uncontrollable and instinctively want to return to her side.

But after acquiring Ghost Seeking Kin, the distance they could separate by increased.

Previously the distance limit was roughly a hundred meters; now it has become a thousand meters, expanding the range of movement tenfold.

In addition, Zhang Hao discovered that his body had been enhanced.

Previously, after becoming a Ghost Slave, Zhang Hao, because his body was already dead,

Even with the Ghost Mourning Clothes' ghostly protection, his body inevitably emitted a corpse odor, and the body was slowly decaying.

And after obtaining Ghost Seeking Kin, the newly formed flesh no longer continued to decay.

The Ghost Mourning Clothes protected Zhang Hao's body, preventing damage from Ghost Power attacks, but could not guarantee that the corpse would not naturally decay.

And Ghost Seeking Kin strengthened the protection of Zhang Hao's body.

No, it should be said that it directly turned Zhang Hao's body into one composed of Fierce Ghost blood and flesh.

(End of Chapter)