After Ding Weihai finished recording the video, he turned off the camera and said to his roommates next to him, “It’s done! Why don’t we get out of the bus now? We’ve been here for an hour, and I already have enough material.” 

His roommate Wei Zhe nodded. He took out his phone and looked at the time, thinking it was about past one o’clock, but when he saw the time, he was shocked. “Ah? Why is it only twelve o’clock now?”

“No way, your phone is broken, right?”

“Really?”

The other roommates looked at their phones and suddenly realized that their phones, too, really did say midnight!

But it was already midnight when they got in the bus.

Ding Weihai licked his suddenly dry lips and felt something was wrong. How could four people’s mobile phones break down at the same time?

Why was time behaving oddly? Something wasn’t right.

As he thought about this, a powerful suspicion came over him. The more he thought about it, the more anxious he became. Fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and his whole person was now in a state of high anxiety.

Sitting next to Ding Weihai was an old man with gray hair. He was wearing glasses and had an elegant temperament, like an intellectual.

He took out a white handkerchief from his shirt pocket and handed it to Ding Weihai. “Child, are you okay? You are sweating so much. Go on and wipe your sweat.”

Ding Weihai was a little flattered by the stranger’s sudden kindness. He took the proffered handkerchief without looking at it carefully and used it wipe the sweat from his forehead.

As a result, a warm feeling suddenly came over him and something that felt like liquid dripped down from his forehead, slid down the bridge of his nose, and touched his lips.

He couldn’t help but wipe his lips with his hand, and when he lowered his head, he saw traces of bright, red blood on his fingers.

Ding Weihai’s eyes widened, and he turned to look at the old professor next to him. The old professor was still the old professor from before, with a kind smile on his face.

He glanced at the old professor’s chest and saw what was inside the suit he was wearing: the shirt underneath was actually bright red.

“Ahhhhh!”

Ding Weihai screamed, stepped back, and fell to the ground with a thud. His other roommates also saw what was going on and were so frightened that they clung together and shivered in fear.

Ding Weihai took a breath and tried to calm down. “You… what kind of prop is this? It really smells like blood. You guys are so dedicated.”

The old professor still smiled, but a trace of pity flashed in his eyes. “Young man, when you first got on the bus, I told you to get off the bus quickly. Now, even if you wanted to, you can’t get off.”

Ding Weihai: “???”

Ding Weihai made so much noise that no one on the bus was chatting anymore, and almost everyone was looking at Ding Weihai. Only the driver looked into the distance and drove the bus steadily as the scenery outside the window flew by.

With everyone looking at them with pity, expectation or excitement, Ding Weihai and his roommates covered their heads, straining their heads, thinking about what happened in this past hour.

They boarded the bus and excitedly took photos and recorded videos. The old professor next to Ding Weihai did indeed urge them to get out of the bus quickly, but they wanted to shoot more material and did not listen to him.

Ding Weihai and his roommates seemed to be on the verge of figuring out something, and were now stunned on the spot, unable to move.

There was something really wrong with this bus, and time seemed to have stopped since they boarded…

The old professor’s pupils reflected their dazed looks. He sighed deeply and turned to look at the scenery passing by outside the window. “We have been traveling like this for a long time.”

Many people who jump off a building become earthbound spirits, repeating the process of jumping off the building over and over again. That was their cycle.

However, the situation of their bus was different: it didn’t cycle, but it never ended.

No matter what they did, they couldn’t leave the bus and were doomed to be trapped here forever at eternal midnight, as if they had entered a gap in time and been forgotten by everyone.

The vehicle kept moving forward, but it never reached the destination. It was only able to occasionally stop between the cracks of time, and it has only picked up a passenger once before in so many years.

Normally, neither yin beings nor living people would get on the bus, but Ding Weihai and the others stupidly got on.

Ding Weihai looked at his watch. The hands of the watch did not move at all, and he could not get rid of the suffocating feeling that time was at a standstill.

“Isn’t this a living prison?”

“Mom, I regret it, I will never explore spirits again!”

“Can someone please save me? I don’t want to die. My parents are still home waiting for me.”

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

At this time, a soft sigh came, footsteps came from far away, and a pair of feet appeared in front of Ding Weihai.

Ding Weihai, who was almost at the point of collapse, raised his head and his red eyes saw a woman who was too beautiful to be ordinary.

She was wearing a T-shirt and black trousers, clean and neat, with an expressionless face. Her high nose, bright red lips, and cold aura made people dare not think anything wrong about her.

An Rugu lowered her head and looked at Ding Weihai who was still lying limply on the floor. “Your mother asked me to find you. The time inside this bus is chaotic. It’s only been an hour for you, but it has been a few days in the outside world since you went missing.”

Ding Weihai was stunned when he heard this and instantly crawled closer to An Rugu as if he had found a savior. “I knew my mother would definitely come to save me wuwuwu. I won’t ever dare to touch these kind of matters again! If I get out of here, I will definitely listen to my mother.”

When the old professor saw the new faces and the aura of living people on her, he sighed faintly, “The door is not closed yet, so you still have time to get out of the car. If you stay here, you will also risk your life.”

An Rugu heard his advice. Her face softened slightly, but she did not give in. She looked at the four college students, “I want to take them away with me.”

“These four can’t go with you. Once the door closed after they came in, they can never leave this car again.”

I Livestream Divination to the World translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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