The Missing Woman

Niu Luo's hands trembled as he gripped the steering wheel.

He hurriedly glanced down at his watch. It was 8:52 a.m.

About four minutes earlier, he was certain he had seen the same family of three flash past beneath a bus stop sign.

There was absolutely no way they could have walked between stops in just four minutes, much less gotten ahead of him.

That family waiting for the bus, showing only their backs and never their faces, kept appearing...

His extensive mission experience told him this was no hallucination. Something genuinely supernatural had arrived.

Niu Luo was a veteran, after all. Unlike Deng Yiwen, he did not alert the enemy.

After a brief moment of panic, he quietly nudged Wen Yongxin, who was smoking beside him.

Wen Yongxin frowned and gave Niu Luo a questioning look, only to find his face deathly pale and cold sweat trickling down his temples.

He immediately realized something was wrong, but kept quiet.

Niu Luo took a deep breath, discreetly pointed toward the window on the left, and lowered his voice.

"It looks like ghosts waiting for a bus.

About four minutes ago, I saw a family of three standing at a bus stop with their backs to me.

They just appeared again. I'm certain it was the same family."

Wen Yongxin was horrified, but only his expression changed. He made no outcry.

Instinctively, he looked through the windshield. There were no pedestrians on this broad road with its sparse traffic.

"Ghosts waiting for a bus? Wasn't that what the fourth priority target experienced?"

That was precisely the problem.

Niu Luo had realized it right away, too.

But he could not understand why supernatural incidents that had happened to other people were all converging on this mission.

"Whatever the reason, we can't just