On the vehicle behind Gao Ming, those in ordinary clothes were his old classmates from Class Thirteen. Every last one dressed in blood-red clothing was a terrifying ghost!
To see the murderer who had killed him, Gao Ming recalled his gruesome deaths over and over, "inviting" out every ghost from those terrible futures.
The fatal blade he swung at his murderer had been forged from the butcher's knives that had swung at him countless times before.
"Stay on the bus. Don't wander off." Gao Ming did not actually need to leave the Bus. He was simply worried that he would draw the murderer aboard and get the students killed.
"Once I've dealt with my own business, I'll keep taking you home."
Opening the door, Gao Ming smiled, holding up divine fire like a man possessed.
Blood-red threads flowed beneath his feet. All the divine patterns on the Coach behind him activated, and the evil ghosts from the anomaly events stood on either side of the vehicle. Gao Ming had gathered almost the entire East District's strength.
Masks appeared all around Gao Ming. The evil ghosts wore identical masks, but their bodies came in all manner of bizarre shapes. Standing at their center, Gao Ming looked like the king of a hundred ghosts. The sight left every student on the bus dumbstruck.
The starter-village guide NPC they had imagined instead exuded the imposing presence of the story's final villainous boss.
Provoked by so much resentment, the black fog inside the Tunnel seemed to boil. But this stretch of the Tunnel was extremely unusual. The unspeakable horrors outside seemed unable to enter.
*Several different forces exist within True Reality and true death. I once saw twelve Blood Cities standing in the dark, and their Blood City Lords aren't united either. The anomaly