Because it was so early, the streets were inevitably somewhat deserted.
Rather than driving his own beat-up old car, Nan Tian slung on the Inventory filled with all sorts of small tools and stopped at an intersection.
After waiting at the intersection with the invitation in hand for about a few minutes, a tour bus slowly approached from afar.
"..."
Watching the bus drive straight toward him in the distance, Nan Tian furrowed his brows almost imperceptibly.
Generally speaking, tour buses used green or other warm tones as their base colors, but this approaching bus was entirely red.
Not the kind of vivid red, but a dark crimson like dried blood, as if the entire vehicle had been smeared with coagulated blood. Just looking at it from afar was enough to make one feel deeply uncomfortable.
As Nan Tian pondered this, the bus stopped directly in front of him. Its doors slowly opened, and a man dressed like a tour guide, with a small tattoo on his left cheek, appeared in the doorway.
For some reason, however, the guide's face was swollen and bruised, as though he had been beaten up by something. Not only was his nose crooked, but several of his teeth had also been knocked out.
"Gah!? Aargh!!"
Seemingly growing angry from Nan Tian's stare, the guide covered his swollen cheek and spat out an insult.
However, because his lips were leaking air, his words sounded badly distorted.
...Had he been beaten up by the Passengers on the bus?
Not bothering to argue with someone like that, Nan Tian boarded the bus with his bag on his back as he pondered inwardly.
If he was right, this guide should have been a Staff member working at the amusement park, like Qian Tai. He had likely been recruited