Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

After a few words, the men in black quickly left, leaving Li Mo standing there in a daze.

It was as if the other party had said everything, yet said nothing at all.

"Supernatural events, ghosts..." Li Mo muttered in a daze.

Beichen had told him countless things about ghosts, cases, and rules. Judging from his knowledge on paper, not many people in this world knew the habits of ghosts better than him.

But what one gets from paper is ultimately shallow. It was useless to just talk on paper. Li Mo knew very well that if he really had to face an unknown ghost, he probably wouldn't be able to remain as calm as he was now.

The instinct to fear the unknown would greatly reduce his rationality.

More importantly... ghosts could not be killed.

One could only avoid being locked on by a ghost by using the loopholes in the rules. But how could rules be so easy to find? Apart from those few original rules, the rules of most ghosts were not the same. Who knew what rules a ghost had? How many rules?

Probing the rules required a chance for trial and error... but how could there be so many chances for trial and error? You die once and it's over. How could you clear the game with "no cost" on one life?

It was simply a fantasy.

"Then I'd better stay away from supernatural events and be an ordinary person. It's actually good to know nothing," Li Mo folded his hands and held the back of his head as he strode forward.

Just as he walked out of the hospital, the men in black appeared in front of him again.

Li Mo frowned, "No, why are you guys here again? You don't say anything, and you always make riddles. You won't tell me if you were sent by Sister Beichen, nor will you tell me how Sister Beichen's health is now. Just be direct and tell me where Sister Beichen is now. I'll go ask her directly."

The few of them looked at each other and handed a black file to Li Mo.

Li Mo was puzzled. Why did the other party give him such a file? Could it be that it contained all the information he needed?

After completing this matter, the men in black quickly left without looking back. In the blink of an eye, they were gone.

Li Mo suddenly wanted to curse at them for being crazy.

After all this time, he hadn't gotten any information. He didn't even know if they were sent by Beichen.

But the only person Li Mo knew who could ignore the laws of the Far East and was related to him was Beichen.

Who cares. I'll see what's in the file first.

Li Mo walked to a dark alley. After confirming that there was no one else around, he opened the file and took out a pile of documents with pictures and words.

His expectant eyes disappeared in an instant after seeing the portraits in the photos.

On it were a few photos with discontinuous times.

The first few photos were from three years ago—

in the bus crash that caused Sakura and Rin's family to be torn apart, according to the official report.

The bus driver suddenly had a mental problem. On a bridge sixty meters above the river, he deviated from the normal track, broke through the guardrail, and plunged directly into the river under the bridge.

Of the twenty-four passengers and one driver on the bus, none survived.

Among them were Sakura and Rin's parents, who were on the bus after work to pick them up.

After Rin became his family, with Beichen's authority, Li Mo had specially gone through the news at that time and more undisclosed information.

There was one point that was not reported, and two points where the news was suppressed: the remains of the bus after the accident and the bodies of the deceased.

No bodies of the deceased were found, and the remains of the bus were taken away by a special department. After compensating the families with a large sum of money, there was no more news about this matter.

This was also why the couple who had become Sakura and Rin's guardians could buy a villa, even if that villa was on a big sale.

Because the compensation given was a lot, so much that an ordinary family could live comfortably for a lifetime.

Li Mo remembered the surveillance video at that time. The driver did not actually have any mental problems. At least from the surveillance video, he did not. The driver was just driving very calmly.

The surveillance video was not made public and was covered up by the relevant departments. There must be something fishy about it.

Li Mo suddenly had a bold guess, "Wait, the men in black just told me about ghosts, and then gave me this file. If that accident wasn't man-made..."

That accident involved an unknown ghost, and that ghost had not been dealt with and was still wandering in the city!

"No, are you really asking me to solve that ghost!? I'm just an ordinary middle school student. A bunch of highly educated, highly intelligent, and highly executive adults can't solve it. Can I just hang the ghost up and beat it to death?"

Li Mo simply found these people unreasonable. Even if he was confident in himself, he shouldn't have just thrown the file at him and then let him go and solve a supernatural event that the officials had been holding all the top-secret files and information on for three years without solving?

This is so ridiculous that my parents opened the door for ridiculousness, and ridiculousness came home.

Where are my subordinates? Resources? Props?

Complaining was one thing, but Li Mo poked his temple and patiently continued to read.

After all, this file might have come to him with Beichen's approval. Beichen would definitely not watch him die in vain. She had given him this file, so she must have a foolproof plan.

Let's keep reading.

Maybe he didn't even need to do anything. This ghost might have already been contained.

Li Mo continued to flip through the file. The next second, a blurry photo appeared in front of him.

"Huh?"

Li Mo was stunned. The photo on the second page was still a photo of the bus's trajectory deviating, exactly the same as the first one.

But the quality was worse, blurry, as if it were covered by a layer of thin mist.

Li Mo reached out his hand and wiped it a few times. The quality did not change, but in the photo... there were some strange things—a faint bus.

"A bus driving in reverse?"

Li Mo squinted his eyes and brought the photo closer to his eyeball to observe carefully.

He finally found the clue. There were actually two similar buses in the photo.

The first one was the ordinary bus that was carrying Sakura and Rin's parents and was driving normally in the city.

The second one was very strange, like a bus that had been abandoned in a deserted junkyard for decades.

The body was mottled, the paint was peeling, the windows were broken, and the shape of the body was severely deformed.

The driver on it wasn't even holding the steering wheel? No... his hand was on the steering wheel, but the steering wheel was not connected to the operating machine below.

It was like holding a mouse that was not connected to a computer and moving it around, completely useless.

The accident happened during the day. The sky was clear and the sun was shining.

But the light in the second car was extremely dim. Only the faint figures on the seats could be vaguely seen. They were either sitting or standing, with no expression, their eyes were empty, their faces were pale, and they had no expression of a living person. They were completely a bunch of walking dead on the bus.

The two buses collided...

The tattered bus's reverse trajectory did not change at all. Instead, the first normally driving bus was hit into the guardrail. Although the driver stepped on the brake immediately, because he was very close to the guardrail, and the strong inertia, the car body uncontrollably rushed out of the road and fell into the river...

Li Mo stared at the second bus and couldn't help but murmur:

"So, the cause of the tragedy back then was not that the driver had a mental problem, but you... this group of ghosts."

"...Ugh!!"

As soon as his voice fell, Li Mo's head felt like it was splitting. A roar of a bus suddenly sounded in his ears.

The file fell from his hands. Li Mo knelt on the ground, his two hands tightly pressing his temples, his eyes hurt so much that he couldn't open them.

The sound grew louder and louder, so loud that Li Mo's ears had already started to bleed. His eyes, nose, and mouth were no exception.

"Ahhh!!"

The intense pain made Li Mo collapse on the ground, curl up his body, and keep rolling. No action could be maintained for more than three seconds.

A terrible thought appeared in Li Mo's mind. If he hit his head against the wall and died, maybe he wouldn't have to endure this torment anymore.

"Hee hee... you're going to die! The ghost's voice pierces the ears! The fierce ghost digs out the heart!"

"Beg for mercy! Commit suicide! Then die meaninglessly by hitting the wall!! Be trapped in the photo forever!!"

"I'm watching you die! I'm watching you die! I'm watching you die! Cheer! Applaud!"

An evil curse sounded in his mind, and it faintly suppressed the roar of the bus.

Compared to the roar that kept attacking his consciousness and spirit, the curse was just a little louder, but it was not uncomfortable to listen to.

This state did not last long. After about half a minute, the two sounds finally disappeared.

At this time, Li Mo's back was already soaked with cold sweat.

"Huff... huff... what... happened just now?" Li Mo felt a wave of fear in his heart. He didn't understand why this had happened.

It was definitely not an illusion. The reason why an illusion was called an illusion was because the senses it brought to the human body were not as real as the pain of really suffering.

But the roar Li Mo heard just now had almost shattered his brain.

If it weren't for the sudden appearance of, uh... that gentle curse, he would have probably had his spirit shattered and turned into an idiot.

He didn't have time to think about the source of the curse. Li Mo turned his head to look at the file that had fallen on the ground.

He swallowed his saliva and said timidly, "Why don't... I just leave it alone? I won't touch this thing again. I really can't deal with ghosts. If I continue to dig deeper, I will only be as embarrassed as just now, like a dead dog struggling to death."

"Sister Beichen will definitely understand me. I have a family. My family is rich and powerful. My future will be smooth. I can have whatever I want. There's absolutely no need to die on this kind of thing..."

"..."

Li Mo was silent, walking step by step out of the alley. He didn't even want to look at the file.

The painful lesson just now had already given Li Mo a heavy blow. He had warned himself before that when he encountered something related to ghosts, he should just run. As long as he ran away, nothing would happen. Don't try to understand, let alone try to touch it...

"..."

The file was on the ground, covered by a shadow.

After a long while, a hand picked it up and wiped off the dust on it.

"I'm not reconciled," Li Mo clenched his fists and said. After half a minute, he repeated, "I'm not reconciled."

The door to the truth was right in front of him. As long as he was brave enough, he might be able to push open the door and find the truth of that year.

Rin and Sakura both needed this truth.

He had always been one to seek revenge, no matter if the other party was a person or a ghost.

There was always a way to get revenge, it was just that the channels were different.

But the premise was that he had to have the courage to face it.

At least he had to take a look. If it really didn't work, he would quit. He would tell Beichen in advance and let her prepare something more for him. Just being slightly involved in a supernatural event shouldn't be too life-threatening.

"..." Li Mo's heart was beating fast, and his legs were trembling uncontrollably. If he flipped through it again, he would probably face the same situation as just now.

It was even possible that he would die directly.

He was very afraid of death, especially dying powerlessly like a stray dog just now.

But that was just like it. And if he ran away, then he would be a real stray dog.

Li Mo believed that Beichen would not harm him.

He was also willing to bet all his chips for his family.

"Come on, let me see what you really are."

Li Mo hardened his heart and flipped through the second page of the document again. His pupils contracted sharply.

His legs trembled, and his whole body was as if struck by lightning. He almost dropped the file again.

An inexplicable bizarre phenomenon appeared in the photo.

In the photo, in the second bus, the passengers who were originally with their heads lowered, either sitting or standing, with no expression, empty eyes, pale faces, and no expression of a living person, no matter which direction their bodies were facing, their heads were all turned, all looking at Li Mo outside the photo.

It was as if to say— "I see you, living person."

Li Mo endured the fear in his heart, clicked his tongue, and said stubbornly, "Who, who are you trying to scare! I was raised on being scared!"

With that, Li Mo immediately flipped to the third page, not wanting to look at the photo on the second page for another second.

There were no photos on the third page, only a pile of text. Li Mo's nerves immediately relaxed a lot.

[Ghost Bus]

Activity Time: Unknown.

Rules: Others unknown, the rule for getting on the bus is: in a state of being alone, walk three consecutive stations in Nagazora City, Far East, and finally stop at a certain station for more than seven minutes.

Killing Method: Unknown.

Supplement: Two hundred and thirty-two ordinary people who were completely unaware, thirty-seven professionally trained and fully equipped soldiers entered the ghost bus, none survived.

The corner of Li Mo's mouth twitched. The four big words "none survived" were really... eye-catching enough.

In other words, if you got on the ghost bus, you basically had no chance of surviving by luck. Otherwise, out of two hundred and thirty-two ordinary people, there would have been more or less survivors.

And the thirty-seven professionally trained and fully equipped soldiers must have known the known information about ghosts and the ghost bus before they set off, but even so, there were still no survivors.

This showed that force was useless on the ghost bus, at least... human weapons were useless at all. Otherwise, a few soldiers would have been able to escape from it, instead of the entire army being wiped out.

This file was most likely left to him by Beichen. From years of getting along, Beichen would not have put him in a deadly situation for no reason.

This meant that there must be something of his on the ghost bus, or... a ritual that needed to be completed.