Chapter 106 Homecoming
Sitting in the last row of the bus, the artificial leather seats under my buttocks emitted a slightly damp musty smell, and there were some small mildew spots growing on the curtains tied to the window. This car The bus looked like it hadn't been cleaned in a long time.
The light of the streetlight slowly moved forward, turned a corner and then went backwards. The bus drove out of the parking lot of the western suburbs station and hit the road.
But not long after driving, the car stopped.
Ji Taixun subconsciously raised her head and looked across the seat to the front. She saw the door of the bus opened again. A tall, middle-aged man wearing a raincoat, a bamboo hat, and straw sandals appeared from below. Walked up.
"Where is this gentleman going?" the conductor asked delicately.
The man stood there without making any sound, but the conductor seemed to hear what he said, and then asked: "One way or round trip?"
The man still did not speak, the conductor He took a 10-yuan note from his hand and found 1-yuan change and a handwritten invoice.
The man took the invoice and change, got into the car, and walked toward the back row of the car where Ji Taixun was. His big feet tied with straw sandals stepped on the floor without making any sound, as if a An illusory ghost floated by.
Ji Taixun's heart was in her throat, and she subconsciously wanted to stand up and change positions. At this time, a deep male voice suddenly came from the direction of the car door:
"Heian Jing."
Who is speaking? Ji Taixun dared to look up. The driver was still sitting in the driver's seat. The conductor was leaning against the guardrail without saying a word. There was no one at the door, but a man's voice came from behind:
< br>"One way."
"Is he answering the conductor's question?" Ji Taixun opened her eyes wide and did not dare to blink. The man came to the back row of the carriage where he was still some distance away. On the seat, he bowed and sat down.
Subsequently, the sound of small footsteps on the floor of straw sandals was heard from the car door, as well as the sound of the coir raincoat rubbing against the cloth. This sound came closer all the way, one step, two steps, three steps, and they walked silently. From the seat at the back of the carriage, he disappeared.
Ji Taijun's Adam's apple moved, and he seemed to have understood what had just happened: "How many seconds after this man finished speaking did I hear his voice?"
The same was true for the footsteps just now. It sounded after he finished walking and sat down on the seat. It was as if this person's voice and his body were two separate entities. The person walked first, and the sound followed later.
This person is not normal...
Before Ji Taixun could think more about what just happened, another person walked up to the car door.
The person who walked into the car this time was a woman wearing a long skirt, with a dignified manner and a graceful figure. Her plump and noble body was tied up by a waistband, and her round oval face was covered with a purple veil. , can't see the specific appearance, only the charming temperament is particularly alluring.
"Where are you going, sister?" the conductor asked.
"Yanglao." The voice of the woman in the long skirt was very soft, like the gentle lake water of Yunmengze in autumn, which made Ji Taixun feel a little dazed.
"One way or round trip?"
"Round trip."
After paying for the ticket, the woman in the long skirt took the invoice and change and got on the bus, wearing low-heeled sandals. There was a nice clicking sound on the floor, and there was no weird separation between the person and the sound like the man who got in the car just now.
Ji Taixun breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that she finally met a normal person. But when he lowered his head, the scene that followed made him even more horrified. There was no shadow under this woman's feet.
The bus compartment was dimly lit, and the rows of seats cast rows of narrow shadows. The woman was walking in the compartment, and the dizzy light fell on her body. , as if passing through a piece of completely transparent glass, with his feet stepping on the dim light under the skirt, and no one's shadow was seen.
"This person is not normal either..." Ji Taixun's breathing couldn't help but freeze, and even his heartbeat slowed down. He lowered his head carefully and sat back in his seat, not daring to move.
The patter of footsteps gradually came closer, and a gust of fragrant wind floated towards my face. The woman sat in the last row of the bus, in the same row as Ji Taifun, but she was leaning against There were several seats between the two of them through the window on the other side of the carriage.
Ji Taixun breathed a sigh of relief again, as long as he didn't sit next to him.
Pull open the curtain and look out the window. The street lights outside are emitting feeble light. The door of the bus is closed, and no one is getting on the bus anymore.
The bus left the station and left Yundu City at night along the suburban road. There were two more people on the bus, but it was still quiet. Neither the man nor the woman spoke. They all sat in silence. Sitting in his seat, he didn't say a word, only the cold evening breeze blew in from the window and made a whistling sound.
Ji Taixun carefully took out her mobile phone and opened the map navigation software to see the route of the bus, but as soon as she clicked on the software icon, a line of small text notification popped up at the bottom of the screen:
< br>【No network connection】
After the blank advertising page flashed by, what appeared on the screen was the offline page of the map software. Ji Taixun’s mobile phone memory was used to install games. He did not have the habit of downloading local maps. After disconnecting from the network, the navigation software only had Ambiguous map color patches, no signposts and landmarks visible in online mode.
"Damn..." Ji Taixun had no choice but to close the navigation and glanced at the 4G signal on the status bar, which showed that it was full.
He tried to open the browser and use the online map, but the network was still disconnected.
After several failed attempts, Ji Taixun turned off the screen of his mobile phone and put it back in his pocket. He vaguely understood one thing - from the moment he entered the station, he might have been in another place. A world away.
The distance from Yundu Xijiao Station to Yanglao Village is 15 kilometers. We drove and stopped at various stations along the way. The cypress trees on both sides of the road fell back in a hurry. There was no one there for more than 20 minutes. Get in the car again.
At about 10:30 in the evening, the bus pulled over at the intersection of a small road, and the door opened automatically.
"Yanglao Village is ahead. Will you two get off here?" The conductor's voice came from the front.
Ji Taixun glanced sideways at the woman sitting by the window and saw that she seemed to have no intention of getting up, so she quickly said: "Yes, here."
Finished , Ji Taixun immediately got up and ran through the carriage in a hurry, seeming to get out of the car while running away.
There are no street lights on the suburban roads. Under the dark night sky, only the high beams on the front of the bus are still on, illuminating the pale weeds on both sides of the road. A small road branches off from the side of the road, heading towards the distance. The fields stretched away.
Ji Taixun took a deep breath and finally looked back at the bus parked on the roadside. He still remembered what the letter said. If you take this road into the village, you can never look back.
(End of this chapter)