Chapter 1: Bus without a driver
… In the thick fog, a dilapidated bus slowly drove along a boundless highway.
There were seven people on the bus, three women and four men.
They sat in the bus, looking at the fog outside through the windows, their expressions varied.
Doubt, bewilderment, fear…
But besides that, their faces were all the same pale color.
It was as if they had experienced something terrible on the road.
The bus continued on its way, finally stopping outside an old and dilapidated villa.
The villa was shrouded in fog, completely black, mysterious and eerie.
The door opened, seemingly telling the passengers inside…it was time to get off.
The seven people on the bus slowly got off.
They looked back, their eyes filled with indescribable fear.
Because, in the driver's seat of the bus, where a driver should have been...it was empty.
Yes, this bus...had no driver.
As the last passenger got off, the bus door automatically closed, then drove off, disappearing into the depths of the fog...
The seven people standing outside the black villa looked at each other, seeing the extremely ugly expressions on each other's faces.
"Let's go..."
"I think we have no other choice."
At this critical moment, a thin man in the crowd spoke.
He wore a deep brown square wooden frame glasses, and his delicate face showed a calmness different from others.
"Really...are you sure we should go in?"
The beautiful woman with the gold earrings asked in a trembling voice.
She was wearing very little, so she was very cold.
Her hands were wrapped around her arms, constantly rubbing.
"What if it's...not safe inside?"
The others remained silent.
They had originally thought it was some kind of prank, or some people specifically invited them to participate in a program...
However, when they found that there was no driver on the bus, they were all plunged into deep fear!
Although they were all firm materialists, some of the things that had happened before...were simply too unbelievable!
"So, are you going to walk into the fog?"
Ning took a deep breath, trying to appear calm.
Actually, his heart was beating very fast.
From the moment he received the mysterious letter to the moment he arrived at this place, it had only been less than an hour.
But this hour had had a huge impact on his worldview!
"Did you forget about the fat guy who jumped out of the car at the intersection?"
At the mention of the fat man, the woman's beautiful eyes were immediately filled with immense fear!
Her legs gave way, and she almost fell!
Previously, there were eight people on the bus.
They all appeared on the bus suddenly while they were asleep.
Among them was a fat man who kept grumbling along the way, saying that it must be some unscrupulous program producers who invited them to participate in a reality show.
The fat man complained impatiently, saying that their phones must have been replaced, the driver of the car was actually driving the bus under their feet, the foggy scene was specially created using dry ice, and so on...
Finally, when the bus stopped at an intersection, the fat man opened the window and jumped out of the car, walking alone into the fog...
Things progressed normally up to this point.
However, when they reached the next intersection, they found something floating on the fog-shrouded traffic lights...
As the bus slowly approached, they could finally see clearly.
What was fluttering on the traffic lights was...the bloody skin of the fat man who had left earlier!
The skin had been completely peeled off, and they could even see the fat man's face contorted in extreme terror, as if he had seen something particularly terrifying before he died!
And on the traffic light pole, large patches of crimson blood kept dripping!
This scene directly scared the people on the bus silly!
Someone didn't believe it and pulled down the window, so the nauseating smell of blood drifted into the car...
...
Mentioning the fat man, everyone's faces were very ugly, some people even started to vomit.
"...Since no one dares to go near that fog, we can only enter this black villa..."
Ning took a deep breath.
He was also afraid.
But for some reason, whether it was seeing the bloody skin on the traffic lights or smelling the blood, his reaction wasn't as great as the others.
Furthermore, he was very interested in the mysterious letter he received earlier.
What did the author of the letter...want to tell him?
With Ning taking the lead, the others followed behind him, pushed open the iron gate of the black villa and entered the garden outside the villa.
It was very quiet around them.
Quietly terrifying.
The group had to stick close together.
The beautiful woman with the gold earrings in the middle felt someone groping her, but she just frowned slightly and didn't say anything.
Groping so be it...it's better than being skinned without reason!
Like this, they reached the door of the black villa.
Ning knocked on the door.
Knock, knock, knock
As he knocked, footsteps were soon heard from inside the door.
The people behind all involuntarily took a few steps back, watching the door warily, as if they were very nervous!
Creak...
The door opened.
However, the terrifying scene they had expected didn't appear.
The person who opened the door was a very delicate and beautiful girl.
She seemed to be only fifteen or sixteen years old.
"You're here?"
"Come in."
The girl spoke, and the group only then realized that he was actually...a boy.
A very beautiful boy.
However, the boy's voice was very cold.
Not much emotion.
The group watched Ning follow the boy inside, and for a while they looked at each other, not knowing whether to follow or not.
"You guys better hurry up..."
Just as the group was hesitating, the boy's voice came from inside the room.
"That fog...is very dangerous."
Mentioning the fog, the group thought of the fat man who had died earlier, and they shuddered in fear, rushing into the room one after another.
The villa's hall was very spacious and decorated in a very classical style.
On the left was a row of neatly arranged bookshelves, on the right was a wooden staircase leading upstairs, and in the middle resting area were three large sofas.
In the center of the sofas was a burning brazier.
In the room, four people were gathered around the brazier.
They stared at the flames in the brazier, lost in thought, not speaking.
The atmosphere, in this silence...became colder and colder.
"Excuse me...where is this place?"
"Why are we here?"
"What about the fog and the bus outside?"
"..."
Finally, after pondering for a moment, Ning asked these three questions.
However, no one answered him.
Not even the four people who were roasting by the fire looked at him.
At this time, the man with a beard behind Ning , Liu, couldn't take it anymore:
"I'm asking you a question!"
"Are you all deaf?"
His voice was very loud, booming through the room, making people's eardrums hurt.
Finally, the man in a suit who was sitting opposite Ning on the sofa roasting by the fire spoke:
"I know you have a lot of questions..."
"If you can survive the first blood gate, I will tell you the answers to these questions."
Upon hearing this, a sense of foreboding immediately filled everyone's hearts.
"Blood gate? What is that?"
Ning's heart moved, remembering the mysterious woman's phone call to him earlier, and asked.
The man in the suit didn't look up, and pointed at the third floor of the villa with his finger.
"You don't have much time. The blood gate will open in less than five minutes. At that time, you will enter the terrifying world behind the blood gate and complete the task on the blood gate."
"After completing the task, the bus will come to pick you up."
After he finished speaking, a short and thin girl with twin ponytails in the crowd, Yan, asked weakly:
"What if...we don't complete the task?"
The man in the suit raised his head slowly and met Yan's gaze.
Those calm and indifferent eyes made Yan's heart tremble.
"You'll die."
"And it will be...a very miserable death."
Everyone was limp after hearing this.
They wanted to think it was just a joke.
However...the man in the suit's serious expression dispelled the last sliver of hope in their hearts.
"Can...no, can't we go?"
Another young man with bleached blond hair swallowed, asking like this.
The man in the suit glanced at him.
"You can."
"But...you'd better not sleep from now on."
The blond man was stunned:
"Why?"
The man in the suit smiled coldly without smiling:
"Because, if you don't complete the task in the blood gate, then...things will come out from behind the blood gate to find you."
"No matter where you run, they will find you."
"Then..."
The man in the suit didn't continue speaking, but everyone already knew the outcome.
Ning took a look at the third floor and finally asked the man in the suit:
"Before we go in, is there anything else you want to tell us?"
The man in the suit was slightly stunned, then shifted his gaze to Ning .
Seeing Ning's calmness, which was different from the others, a hint of subtle admiration flashed in his eyes.
"Advice? Yes."
"Although the story behind the blood gate is extremely dangerous, there is more than one way out. As long as you find the way out, it won't be difficult for you to complete the task and survive..."
Ning nodded.
"Thank you."
After he finished speaking, he was the first to take a step forward, walking towards the upstairs.
Seeing Ning so decisive, Liu, who was behind him, went through a fierce struggle in his eyes, and then gritted his teeth and followed.
"Damn, bro...you're really brave!"
Behind Ning, Liu said in a low voice.
On the way, he had actually already noticed Ning.
It's hard not to notice.
Whether it was seeing the fat man's skin or smelling the strong bloody smell, Ning didn't react much.
"Brave?"
Ning laughed self-deprecatingly.
"Do you think we have a choice?"
Liu was very tall, so even though he was a step lower than Ning , he was only slightly shorter than him.
"When you saw the fat man's skin earlier, bro, you didn't even blink. Have you...been doing that before?"
"Doing what?"
"A killer."
"You've read too many novels. Where are there so many killers in reality?"
"Uh...then..."
"I'm a doctor."
"Oh~ I see, a forensic pathologist?"
"Almost, a veterinarian."
"..."
The two of them chatted and reached the third floor of the villa.
As soon as they arrived, the two of them stopped talking.
A strong bloody smell mixed with a strong smell of decaying wood filled the air.
There was nothing on the third floor of the villa, only a blood-soaked wooden door.
**A line of blood-red words was written on the wooden door:
[Take care of the bedridden old man for five days]
"Take care of the old man...that's our task this time."
Ning's eyes flickered.
The others also came up one after another, saw the words on the wooden door, and were all stunned.
"Is it...that simple?"
Wang, the woman with the gold earrings, couldn't believe it.
The group murmured among themselves, and suddenly, they all stopped as if they had the same feeling and looked at the wooden door together.
Creak
Inside the wooden door, it seemed as if something was pushing the door.
Soon, the blood-stained wooden door was pushed open by a pair of pale hands!
As the blood-stained wooden door slowly opened, everyone's vision suddenly went black, and they lost consciousness...
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