Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 953: Seating

The hooded passenger's mouth was slightly open. Although the purplish-black, slippery thing no longer protruded, an even colder and more eerie aura still surrounded it, lingering for a long time.

But Yu Shijiu's gaze only lingered on it for a few seconds before returning to the forest.

Why is Lin Hai speaking up at this time? What benefit does he get?

The bride and groom both stopped moving at the same time.

Two figures, their faces obscured by red veils, slowly turned towards the back row, aiming at Lin Hai and the hooded passenger next to him who was "looking up".

The air inside the carriage seemed to freeze at that moment.

On one side are a ghost couple from the No Return Station, filled with resentment.

On one side is Lin Hai, who not long ago was frantically absorbing pollution from inside the car and behaving strangely and erratically, and on the other side is the bizarre passenger who is becoming more and more "like" him.

"You two..."

Lin Hai's voice was soft, yet it clearly pierced through the deathly silence, reaching the ears of everyone in the car.

"Aren't those seats already occupied?"

Lin Hai's smile deepened as his gaze swept over Xiao Juan and A Hao, whose eyes were filled with terror, before returning to the ghost couple.

"Look, aren't there even better 'seats' on this bus?"

As he spoke, Lin Hai's gaze, with a meaningful undertone, fell upon the five skeletons inside the carriage that had come up from the burial mound.

Especially the skeleton with dark red sparks flickering in its eye sockets, the one that burned the old lady to death, and the "fresh" skeleton that forced Ma Ming to change seats.

The red veil on the bride's head swayed slightly.

The groom stiffly turned his neck, and the "gaze" under the veil shifted to the five skeletons.

The five skeletons being watched by the ghost couple seemed to be stimulated by something, and at the same time emitted a slight "crackling" sound, a crisp sound of joints rubbing and twisting.

The sparks in the crack of the skull, which was throbbing with fire in its eye sockets, suddenly blazed angrily, and it turned its neck to look at Lin Hai in the back row.

The murky eyeball remaining on the fresh skeleton also rotated rapidly, slowly meeting the "gaze" cast from under the groom's red veil.

The silent standoff between the two non-human creatures spread out throughout the carriage.

Just like at the previous stops, the driver remained oblivious to everything happening inside the vehicle, only urging the driver on again, his voice clearly showing impatience.

"Once you get on the bus, find a seat quickly! The bus is about to leave! Don't dawdle and waste time! What if you fall and get hit after the bus starts moving?!"

The driver's urging seemed to break the balance inside the car.

The bride, silently holding the groom's hand, actually changed direction after Lin Hai's few words of provocation.

They no longer looked at Xiao Juan and A Hao, who were huddled together, but instead drifted towards the area where the five skeletons were located.

Finally, the ghost couple stopped in front of the skeleton with fire leaping from its eye sockets and the empty seat next to it.

The bride released the groom's hand and slowly, stiffly... sat down in the empty seat next to the eye-hollowed fire skeleton.

As it sat down, the hem of its dark red wedding dress spread out, almost blending into the dark red mud dripping from the skeleton.

The groom stood still, his head under the red veil turned, "looking" at the fresh skeleton that had taken Ma Ming's place.

The fresh skeleton, being watched by the groom, slowly stood up, gave up its window seat, and moved to an empty seat on the other side of the aisle.

The groom then sat down, separated from the bride by an aisle, and turned to look at her.

The bride, however, showed no interest in looking at the groom. She sat quietly in her chair, with only the hem of her red veil swaying gently.

At this point, the two "new passengers" who boarded without returning to their original stations had also chosen their seats and settled down.

The car door slammed shut with an impatient "tsk" from the driver.

The bus engine roared again, slowly starting up and leaving the station of no return where paper money fluttered and lanterns swayed in the wind, once again plunging into the deep darkness ahead.

Inside the carriage, the atmosphere was more eerie and oppressive than ever before.

The newly boarded ghost couple sat silently in their seats, their heads bowed, covered by red veils. However, the invisible resentment and death aura surrounding them clung to the carriage like a cold, sticky spider web.

However, Xiao Juan and A Hao, the young couple, are fine.

After the ghost couple turned around and chose their seats again, they collapsed into their seats. Ah Hao was panting heavily, while Xiao Juan began to sob softly, her suppressed cries filled with despair and lingering fear.

You could tell how scared she was just by listening to her voice, how terrified she was of what had happened when the ghost couple approached them.

Anjie slowly sat up straight and exchanged a very solemn look with Chen Yi.

Lin Hai... He actually took the initiative to guide the ghost couple to target the skeletons on the burial slope?

What exactly does he want to do?

To incite a conflict between these "things that shouldn't exist"? Or did a fleeting glimmer of conscience suddenly sprout, unable to bear the loss of Xiaojuan and Ahao?

Even Chen Yi didn't dare believe this last possibility.

Yu Shijiu put away his axe, looked down at his left arm which was trembling slightly again, and seemed to be deep in thought.

After the ghost couple got into the car, the left arm reacted more excitedly than when it was facing the skeleton.

It wasn't just disgust and stinging; there was a deeper, eerie pain, as if being called by one's own kind... And this "call" seemed to be subtly pointing to the groom of that ghost couple?

This discovery made Yu Shijiu thoughtful.

In his view, even if the ghost couple were indeed calling out to him, it should be the bride.

It wasn't for any other reason than that the woman in the wedding dress gave him a stronger sense of strength.

But why did the couple sit separately?

"Sister An, Brother Chen, they're a married couple, why are they sitting separately?"

Yu Shijiu withdrew his gaze and asked in a low voice, puzzled.

Xu Han and An Jie: "..."

Anjie's lips twitched, and she subconsciously said, "I guess they haven't finished getting married yet?"

"Not yet married?"

Yu Shijiu was even more surprised, "So, are they running away from their wedding now?"

An Jie and Chen Yi: "..."

The two were momentarily speechless, a scene from a movie they had once seen simultaneously flashing through their minds—wait! They've got the wrong idea!

The two people in the movie were wearing wedding dresses, not the red wedding gowns from their side!

Xu Han couldn't help but mutter, "Yeah, how can a married couple sit separately? Did they have a fight? But that doesn't make sense... They were holding hands just now."

No one could respond to Xu Han's mutterings.

Anjie and Chen Yi pretended not to hear anything and turned a deaf ear.

You can't answer these kinds of questions, otherwise they'll probably steer the conversation off to who-knows-where.

Anjie and Chen Yi exchanged a glance, then simultaneously looked away, beginning to consider the possibility that Lin Hai had spoken up to help Xiao Juan and Ahao.

Since getting on the bus, Lin Hai hasn't had any contact with Xiao Juan and A Hao, the young couple...