Killing Game

The Ghost Bus on Bus Route 104 had a new owner, yet Red Raincoat Woman remained wary of the vehicle. She stood outside, her hands gripping the door frame, her red raincoat standing out starkly against the dark night.

"Since we're heading the same way, let's go to Liwan Town together tonight." Chen Ge extended an invitation to Red Raincoat Woman; he had many questions he wanted to ask her.

When he had left in the Ghost Bus earlier, he had handed over the "human trafficker" who had abducted Red Raincoat Woman's child to her. Now that he saw her again, that trafficker was nowhere to be seen.

Chen Ge guessed that Red Raincoat Woman had likely pried the information she wanted out of the man and had found the location of her child.

If she hadn't gained anything, she probably wouldn't have been waiting at the station for the Ghost Bus to reappear.

"If you're ready, we can go save your child tonight. I'll go with you; that's my promise to you." Walking to the front door, Chen Ge bent down and spoke to Red Raincoat Woman.

With her mouth stitched shut by blood-red threads, Red Raincoat Woman could not speak. Instead, she made a strange gesture at Chen Ge.

Her fingertip pointed at the Ghost Bus, then at Chen Ge's face, and finally at his heart. Then, she clenched her five fingers tightly, as if she were crushing Chen Ge's heart.

"The Ghost Bus? My face? Crushing my heart?" It took Chen Ge a few seconds to react. "You mean there's someone who looks like me who wants to dig out my heart? And he's on the Ghost Bus right now?"

Red Raincoat Woman neither nodded nor shook her head. Her gaze pierced through the gaps in her