bookbashuk Chapter 2 The Groom's Attire
Chapter 2 The Groom's Attire
The neon lights grew brighter and brighter, and after some time, the bus began to gradually slow down.
With a final, piercing screech of brakes, the vehicle quickly came to a stop.
This stop is Dachang City.
boom!
The rear door opened at that moment, and Chu Mo seized the opportunity to get up and walk out of the car.
If you don't leave now, you won't be able to leave later.
However, no sooner had Chu Mo moved than the mummy bride, who had been sitting quietly to the side, suddenly stood up.
The sudden situation caught Chu Mo off guard, and he bumped right into the red veil of the dried corpse bride.
"Are you kidding me? Is this ghost also planning to get off in Dachang City?"
Chu Mo clutched his head, wincing in pain.
In the original novel, the dried-up corpse bride did not appear in Dachang City.
He wasn't sure if it was a coincidence or a hidden event.
It may not have been mentioned in the original work, but it might actually have happened.
But it doesn't matter anymore.
Chu Mo would never interfere in something that would be harmful to him.
He waited quietly for a while, and fortunately, there was a strong supernatural suppression in the bus, so the other party did not show any abnormality.
The ghost walked normally to the rear door, but because it wasn't moving fast and the door was small, Chu Mo could only wait patiently at the back.
Not long after.
The ghost got off the car smoothly, and Chu Mo finally breathed in the first breath of fresh air outside the car.
However, the mummy bride did not leave; she simply stood there quietly.
This actually confused Chu Mo.
"What's going on? This ghost is blocking the car door, neither leaving nor turning back. Is it really targeting me?"
Chu Mo was undecided. He had nowhere to stand and was stuck between the car doors.
There were even new footsteps coming from behind.
There was more than one ghost who got off at this stop.
Chu Mo glanced back and saw a guy dressed in a suit, but whose gait was extremely awkward.
What's even stranger is that this person kept fiddling with his head, as if it didn't fit his body well, and he seemed to be trying to remove it.
"Damn it, I'm stuck between two ghosts..."
Chu Mo's expression was rather unpleasant.
"Although the haunted bus can suppress the evil spirits inside the bus without thinking, the bus only stops at the station for five minutes. After five minutes, the doors close again, and I will still be taken to other haunted places by the bus."
Chu Mo took out the talisman given to him by the second generation. He would use the supernatural power of this thing if he had no other choice.
While waiting in the car, he roughly counted the number and effects of the talismans.
Three of the talismans can temporarily grant you the supernatural power of a ghost.
Then came two supernatural curses that meant certain death.
And a talisman for summoning and controlling ghosts.
Chu Mo didn't want to confront the dried-up corpse bride directly, so he planned to use this ghost-attracting talisman to resolve the conflict.
I don't ask for anything else, just that the dried-up corpse bride make room for me.
As time ticked by, Chu Mo decisively picked up the talisman.
The conditions for using this thing are very simple: a drop of blood can trigger the medium and bind the supernatural entity.
Just as Chu Mo was about to bite his fingertip to draw blood and release the supernatural power within the talisman, an old woman's voice outside the car interrupted his actions.
"So this is where it is. It took me, an old man of this age, quite a while to find it..."
As soon as the voice fell, the mummy bride quickly moved aside.
Then an old woman with a wrinkled face, carrying a basket, and hunched over came into view.
She grabbed the hand of the mummified bride, whose skin was dark brown, and led her back to the front door of the bus.
Chu Mo was slightly taken aback upon seeing this, and then decisively withdrew his index finger.
"It's Meng Xiaodong!"
Using the memories of the first and second generations, Chu Mo immediately recognized the other party based on their silhouettes.
This is one of the top seven elders among the ghost tamers during the Republic of China era. His appearance in Dachang City at this time is only to find this dried corpse bride.
Chu Mo didn't know, nor did he care. He put away the talisman, got off the bus expressionlessly, and then walked towards the pedestrian street.
As he was leaving, Chu Mo felt as if a pair of eyes were watching him from behind.
He didn't turn around, but stared at the only reflective surface on the platform.
In the blurry image, a head wearing a red veil appeared strangely on the bus window behind me.
The mummy bride got back into the car.
Moreover, the ghost's gaze was fixed precisely on Chu Mo's location.
"Depend on!"
Chu Mo felt a chill run down his spine. Ignoring the other ghost who got off the bus at the same time as him, he quickly left.
By the time we finally managed to hail a taxi and arrived at Dachang No. 7 Middle School, it was already past eight o'clock.
"Report...Report!"
Chu Mo pushed open the classroom door, still panting as he spoke.
He glanced at Teacher Wang on the podium and Zhou Zheng, the man in the trench coat who had just arrived, and his heart finally settled down.
I finally made it.
"Chu Mo, why are you always late for evening self-study?"
Teacher Wang originally intended to scold him, but after seeing Chu Mo's appearance, the anger in her eyes suddenly turned into confusion.
"Weren't you attending your parents' funeral? Why are you wearing a wedding suit?"
"Groom's attire?"
Chu Mo was completely bewildered.
He looked at the other students below the podium and found that everyone was looking at him with strange eyes. Only then did he realize that something was wrong.
So he looked down.
moment.
Chu Mo himself couldn't help but take two steps back.
In his mind, he should have come in his school uniform, and there hadn't been any problems along the way.
But now, the school uniform has been transformed into a bright red groom's suit, complete with a bizarrely large red embroidered ball on the chest.
Are you kidding me!
Zhou Zheng was the first to sense something was wrong. He immediately stepped forward and asked, "Did you encounter anything strange on your way here?"
Strange things...
of course!
Without Zhou Zheng's reminder, Chu Mo had already found the source.
This is definitely the work of the mummy bride.
The ghost eventually set its sights on him.
But how could a problem occur when the supernatural was suppressed on the bus?
Was it when we got off the bus?
Chu Mo suddenly remembered that when the bus stopped and opened the door, the moment he got off, the dried-up corpse bride suddenly stood up, causing him to accidentally bump his head on the ghost's red cloth veil.
That's probably why I got connected with this ghost.
"Damn it, I still couldn't get rid of them..."
Chu Mo tried to take off the groom's suit, but under the zipper, there was another set of groom's suit.
He realized he was being targeted, the supernatural medium had taken effect, and he couldn't escape it.
After a long silence, he said helplessly, "I'm not very lucky. I've been targeted by a ghost."
Chu Mo spoke frankly and made no attempt to hide anything.
I stared at the three lines of text written in chalk on the blackboard at the podium.
"Ghosts cannot be killed."
"Only ghosts can defeat ghosts."
"Understanding the patterns of ghosts."
As a setting that runs through the entire world, Chu Mo was naturally very clear about it.
"Zhou Zheng, don't worry about me. Let's arrange for the students to evacuate as soon as possible. This place will soon be shrouded in the ghost realm."
"Ghostland?"
Upon hearing the name, Zhou Zheng's pupils contracted sharply, and he looked at Chu Mo incredulously, showing no surprise that the other party knew his name.
Obviously.
He didn't believe that an ordinary student would know anything about the paranormal.
However, after the initial shock, he quickly regained his composure.
"That's impossible. Among all the known paranormal events in the country, the number of vengeful ghosts with ghostly auras can be counted on one hand. How could they possibly appear in Dachang City?"
Chu Mo sighed, wanting to say something more, but then the sound of footsteps came from the corridor outside.
Followed by.
The lights on the entire floor began to hiss and crackle, the current oscillating erratically, until finally, with a loud 'bang,' they went out completely.
The classroom was plunged into darkness.
A cold wind blew back into the classroom, carrying with it the stench of rotting corpses.
The sudden scene caused many people to gasp in surprise.
Chu Mo and Zhou Zheng looked at the source of the anomaly almost simultaneously.
It was an old man dressed in a long black robe, his body covered in lividity.
The other person had been standing at the window for some time now.
The old man's face was covered in wrinkles, and his eyes were pale and empty. Just one glance was enough to feel the deathly coldness in his pupils.
It's a door-knocking ghost.