Chapter 13: Boarding the Spiritual Bus

Just as Zhang Hao, expressionless, looked around.

The muddy road at the Bus Stop suddenly changed.

The road, originally only two hundred meters long, was extended at this moment, without Zhang Hao noticing.

The muddy path turned from a two-hundred-meter lane into a Highway that seemed to have no end.

Even more bizarre, at an unknown time, an old bus appeared on this Highway.

Unexpectedly, such a two-hundred-meter muddy road could actually welcome a Spiritual Bus.

But Zhang Hao, after thinking it over, found it normal.

Spiritual Realms cannot be mutually connected; if they were, those Spiritual Realms could not maintain Balance.

If a single Spiritual Realm experiences an accident, it immediately causes accidents in other Spiritual Realms.

In contrast, the current situation makes more sense.

A Platform that can serve as the Medium for the Spiritual Bus, and a short broken Road that can bear the Spiritual Bus's travel.

After all, when the Spiritual Bus enters the Reality World, it also appears suddenly, not truly connected to that Road.

Moreover, if they truly required Highways to connect, with so many Spiritual Realms, the construction would be far too massive.

While Zhang Hao was pondering.

The Spiritual Bus had already stopped at the Platform.

As the doors opened, Zhang Hao glanced at a digital display unique to the bus.

According to Zhang Hao, that display should record the number of Ghosts on the bus.

At that moment, the number shown was '5'.

This indicates that, including the Spiritual Bus itself, there are five Ghosts on the bus.

As Zhang Hao and the Ghost Bride boarded, the number on the display changed to '7'.

"So, in the Spiritual Bus's perception, does that make me a Ghost as well?"

Zhang Hao was a bit surprised; he had thought the bus would count himself and the Bride as a single Ghost.

But upon reflection, he could understand: although he is a Ghost Slave of the Dried Corpse Bride, there are two Ghosts residing within him.

The Male Ghost portion of Ghost Seeking Kin, and the Ghost Mourning Clothes.

If, under these circumstances, the bus does not regard Zhang Hao as a Ghost, that would be strange.

After all, Zhang Hao knows he is a Ghost Slave, but the Spiritual Bus does not.

In the other party's perception, Zhang Hao is indeed a Ghost: the body of a Fierce Ghost, and the clothing transformed from a Fierce Ghost.

Zhang Hao followed the Ghost Bride forward and soon spotted a familiar figure.

At the rear of the bus, on the right side near the window, wasn't that Xu Feng, who was thrown by Yang Jian last time to smash the Ghost Bride?

After Zhang Hao and the Ghost Bride boarded, Xu Feng kept silently watching the situation here.

He had originally breathed a sigh of relief upon noticing the Ghost Bride had taken a seat and he was not being stared at.

But when Zhang Hao, trailing the Ghost Bride, suddenly glared at Xu Feng with a resentful look, Xu Feng's heart instantly tightened.

"Damn, the one I smashed last time wasn't you; why are you staring at me?"

Xu Feng silently cursed Zhang Hao's family in his heart, while also covertly staring at Zhang Hao.

Perhaps because of Zhang Hao's attention, the Ghost Bride, who had been about to sit down, also turned her head at this moment.

Obviously, due to the Red Cap, she couldn't see faces; logically, the Ghost Bride shouldn't be able to see anyone else.

Yet when the Ghost Bride turned her head, Xu Feng also sensed an extremely dangerous Gaze.

"No way, I'm being stared at like this?"

Xu Feng felt uneasy, simultaneously cursing Zhang Hao, the Ghost who stared at him after boarding, and also the mastermind who offended the Ghost Bride—Yang Jian's family.

After all, Ghosts have no consciousness; he also recalled that Zhang Hao had likely become the Ghost Bride's Ghost Slave last time.

He had interrupted the Ghost Bride's attack last time; being stared at was normal, he couldn't blame the Ghost.

But Yang Jian, who caused all this, undoubtedly increased Xu Feng's hatred toward him by a few more points.

"Sit down."

Zhang Hao continued staring at Xu Feng, scheming in his mind how to kill the other.

Suddenly, at that moment, a thought akin to ordering Zhang Hao to sit down entered his consciousness.

After obtaining Ghost Seeking Kin, the Ghost Bride could, like a kitten or puppy, convey her meaning to Zhang Hao.

Although the meaning wasn't expressed clearly in words, Zhang Hao could still grasp it.

This is the Ghost Bride prompting Zhang Hao to sit first; the bus is about to depart.

The Ghost Bride naturally holds no grudges or scheming thoughts.

It's just that, in the Ghost Bride's instinct, she does not wish to violate the Spiritual Bus's rules.

Receiving the command, Zhang Hao stopped staring at Xu Feng and sat beside the Ghost Bride.

"I don't know if there's any chance."

"If the Spiritual Bus stalls before reaching the Reality World this time, then take out that Xu Feng."

Just as Newspaper Ghosts and Wish Ghosts remember their schemes being ruined and must kill Yang Jian.

Zhang Hao recalled that after Xu Feng interrupted the Dried Corpse Bride's killing step, he too formed the idea of killing Xu Feng.

"Interesting, it seems that Xu Feng has been targeted by the two Ghosts that just boarded."

"Moreover, Xu Feng and Lin Bei seem to have had some connection with that Ghost."

As the bus doors closed, it moved forward.

The other Ghost Tamer(s), aware that the Fierce Ghost was now suppressed and unable to act, began to discuss.

Ghost Tamer(s) are not easygoing characters; after enduring the Fierce Ghost's torment, they arrived on this bus.

Watching others' fun, mocking them when they have bad luck, became one of the few amusements they could find.

After all, Ghost Tamers are still human; even under the influence of a Fierce Ghost, their emotions already differ from those of ordinary people.

But they are still human, still subject to emotional changes.

Moreover, because of the Fierce Ghost's influence, in some respects their emotions become even more sensitive.

This is also why many Ghost Tamers, when desperate, fall into collapse, lose resistance, or go mad, fighting at the slightest provocation.

Listening to those Ghost Tamers discuss him, Xu Feng let out a cold snort.

As a Ghost Tamer who had been on the Spiritual Bus for a long time, facing these few Ghost Tamers who had just boarded, he was still considered relatively mysterious and powerful in their eyes.

Upon hearing Xu Feng's dissatisfied snort, everyone, being quite perceptive, ceased further discussion.

After all, aside from Xu Feng and Lin Bei, their longest stay on the Spiritual Bus was no more than two days, the shortest barely half a day.

In such a case, looking for amusement is one thing, but truly offending Xu Feng, who had been on the bus for a long time, is better left alone.

After all, surviving on the dangerous bus is also a kind of strength.

No one wants to offend a "strong one" without cause.

Zhang Hao listened to their words, paid them no mind, and simply stared ahead.

He wants to kill Xu Feng, but it is not necessary; the Ghost Bride's Ghost's Growth is the most important matter.

(End of Chapter)