The three people at the end of the row of cars didn't understand what they were talking about, and the old man remained silent, closing his eyes and letting the couple scold him. Xie Ying crossed his legs, folded his arms, and leaned back in his chair, gritting his teeth: "Be quiet for me!".
Liang Zun and Li Xiao Juan were about to fight when they suddenly turned to look at him, Xie Ying said: "Why are you all so fussy? Can't you talk softly and slowly?".
Xie Cheng was most afraid of meddling in other people's business, so he tugged on his sleeve and whispered: "Ying, leave them alone."
Liang Zun felt a little embarrassed about arguing with his lover in public, he scratched his head and smiled awkwardly: "Ah, I'm so sorry, please understand."
Xie Ying raised his eyebrows: "So what exactly happened? What curse?".
Li Xiao Juan angrily turned back to her seat, Liang Zun raised the piece of paper and continued: "It's like this, we are under a curse and must survive and find a way to decode the curse. Otherwise, we will be stuck in the curse forever, and we won't be able to get out until we die."
He continued: "When each person starts to step onto this bus, their belongings will disappear and in their pockets there will be a black piece of paper with a yellow horizontal line drawn on it. That represents... For... For...".
He tilted his head and thought as if he was making up a story to deceive, Xie Ying looked at him and wanted to punch him.
"A yellow line represents a human life." Everyone looked at the old man in unison.
He opened his eyes, tapped his stick on the ground and continued: "If a person has gone through two missions, there will be two lines, if he has gone through three missions, there will be three lines and so on. If he dies while doing a mission with two lines, he will be revived by one line, and if he uses up all the lines, he will be gone forever."
Li Xiao Juan frowned and asked: "How do you know?"
The old man with white hair tied in a bun, a long beard fluttering, wearing a white blue shirt, stood up with a stick, walked to Liang Zun's side, took out a piece of black paper from his pocket, and said: "I already have two lines."
Liang Zun bent down to look at his piece of paper carefully, then he put it back in his pocket. The old man glared at him and said: "If someone doesn't have this piece of paper, they will die quickly, and not only that, they will drag their companions down with them."
"What if they have gone through many missions, and then there will be a lot of lines and the paper will run out of lines?" Xie Cheng suddenly spoke, everyone looked at him.
The old man stroked his beard and said: "No one would be so skilled as to cross out the entire paper, I don't know anyone like that so I don't know how and the name of this piece of paper is the chicken network".
"Chicken Network?". Doesn't it look funny and quirky?
Xie Cheng nodded and looked at the thin yellow line on the Chicken Network, Xie Ying also raised the piece of paper to look at it. Little Wang also had it, but it had swallowed it!
He immediately panicked and grabbed its beak, but Wang was still normal and happily wagged its tail. He sighed and patted its head.
The old man returned to his seat and closed his eyes to meditate, Liang Zun stood there and continued to say: "Everyone, everyone, let me check the chicken network".
After checking Xie Cheng and Xie Ying, he turned to check the others.
"It's okay, it's all nonsense, don't cry anymore". Li Xiao Juan comforted the girl sitting next to him.
Liang Zun walked over with a somewhat fearful expression: "What's wrong? Don't tell me you don't have it?".
The girl cried louder, Li Xiao Juan waved him away: "Whether you have it or not, what does it matter?!".
Crying until her eyes were swollen, the girl raised her head to look at him: "I don't have a life, tell the bus to stop, I'll get out myself".
The car suddenly became completely silent, only the sound of the bus running on the road could be heard. Suddenly the bus shook violently and stopped, Xie Ying was annoyed: "Why did it stop? Did you reach the station?".
The car continued moving.
"There was a pothole". A hoarse voice from the driver's seat rang out and then stopped as if it had never appeared.
Xie Cheng immediately squinted his eyes and looked towards the driver's seat, under the flickering lights he was startled, his pupils contracted.
On the driver's seat was an ivory-colored skeleton with black dust stains, it was wearing a driver's uniform and was driving.
Liang Zun, Li Xiao Juan and the girl shouted: "AAA!! What the hell?! Ghost! There's a ghost!".
The atmosphere in the car was noisy again, all three of them screamed so loudly that it was deafening. The old man banged his stick on the ground: "Be quiet!".
The three of them were silent, Liang Zun was so scared that he jumped down and sat next to the old man. Li Xiao Juan and the girl also went down to sit near the back. The group of seven people sat together in one place below, making the empty space above even more cold and scary.
The old man knocked his stick on Liang Zun's thigh: "Move over there!".
He screamed in pain and moved to the side, the old man said: "That driver's name is Tam Cot, his job is to take us to the bus station, so he's not dangerous, he won't harm us."
Xie Cheng stroked the iron rod in his hand and raised his head, asking: "Old man, how long have you been in this curse?".
The old man stroked his beard and said: "Four years."
He was surprised: "Four years and only one mission? Could it be that the mission is very difficult?".
The old man said: "Not only is it difficult, but I also lost many important things."
He sighed and closed his eyes to meditate again, Xie Cheng muttered: "Losing many important things..?".
Could what the old man lost be related to his teammates? His relatives? Even himself?
Could he complete the mission without losing anything?
He was worried that he would have to give up many things.
Xie Ying grabbed his hand. Startled, he turned to look at him, Ta Anh held his hand tightly and smiled: "We will definitely escape this curse."
It was just a handshake, but the warmth from him was transmitted to him, making him no longer feel the cold air in the car, Xie Cheng smiled: "Then let's work hard together."
Liang Zun suddenly stood up and walked in front of him and the boy: "I'm so sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. My last name is Liang, my first name is Sun. That hot-tempered long-haired girl is my girlfriend, Li Xiao Juan, the girl sitting next to me is Xiao Xin. What about you two?".
Xie Cheng replied in a friendly manner: "I'm Xie Cheng and this puppy is Wang."
Seeing that Wang was so cute, Liang Zun immediately raised his hand to stroke his head, but before he could say anything, Xiao Wang fiercely barked at him. Liang Zun immediately withdrew his hand and smiled awkwardly, turning to Xie Ying: "What's this friend's name?".
Xie Ying answered vaguely: "Xie Ying."
Looking at the shiny ebony cane with a gold border on the old man's pattern hanging on the top of the chair, he asked Liang Zun: "What's the old man's name?".
Luong Zun scratched his head: "I tried asking at first, but he didn't seem to like me very much so he didn't say."
Stroking Xiao Wang's head, he said: "Is that so?".
"Bai Hu". The old man suddenly spoke and continued meditating.
"Yes". Xie Cheng nodded.
Liang Zun clapped his hands and said: "Then now we are teammates, I hope everyone will help each other from now on".
Xie Cheng: "Okay".
After that, everyone sat quietly in their positions, no one said anything and no one mentioned that Xiao Xin had no life support.
"Beep Beep Beep!".
After a long while, the bus honked and stopped, the door opened, and Tam Cot said gloomily: "Please get off at the mission stop, thank you".
Li Xiao Juan and Xiao Xin were leaning on each other to sleep when they were awakened by the call.
Bai Hu used his cane to poke Liang Zun's leg: "Get out and let me out".
He immediately stood up and stepped back to let Bai Hu go. He got off the bus first, followed by Li Xiao Juan and Xiao Xin, the three of Xie Cheng, Xie Ying and Xiao Wang also got off.
When Xie Ying passed Liang Zun, he suddenly saw him furtively looking at something in his pocket, so he deliberately bumped into him. Liang Zun was startled and quickly stuffed the thing back into his pocket. Xie Ying asked, "Why don't you get off? What are you doing there?".
Liang Zun scratched his head and smiled awkwardly: "Oh, I'm checking to see if I forgot anything."
Xie Ying glared at him and got off, Liang Zun followed behind. As soon as the two got off, the bus closed the door and drove away.
Xie Cheng sat down on the bench at the bus stop, took off his shoes, and massaged his ankles. His eyes accidentally looked into the distance and discovered a figure in a white shirt fluttering. When he looked closely, he discovered that it was Bai Hu standing in the dark corner of the coconut tree, staring at Xie Ying in a frightening way.
Feeling that someone was looking at him, he turned around but there was no one there. Xie Cheng also saw that the man had turned away when he saw him.
Seeing him massaging his ankle, he immediately knelt down, put his foot on his thigh, and massaged it: "Did you sprain your ankle?".
"No, my leg is just a little tired." He pulled his leg back. Putting his shoes back on, he said: "Let's go, everyone is leaving us behind now."
The three of them stood up and followed the other four.