"You need to get out of your seats first." Su Bai had already discussed his deductions with Wu Heng, so he knew what they needed to do next.
"Get out of our seats?" The passengers still looked puzzled by Su Bai's request. Millie, the female university student, couldn't help asking, "I know everything happening here is beyond anything we could have imagined, and we've already seen far too many things we can't explain, but I still want to know... is there something wrong with the seats on this bus?"
The moment Millie finished asking, Feng Yan couldn't help getting up from his seat. Of everyone there, he was probably the one who trusted Su Bai the most.
"Yes, when you board a bus and see empty seats, even if you already know it's a strange, eerie bus without so much as a driver, you still choose to sit down after waiting a little while. That's only human nature."
Su Bai explained unhurriedly, "But have you considered that this bus is a tree? We don't know why, but it desperately needs nutrients right now-perhaps it's even dying. So this tree spreads its roots throughout the bus, letting them draw nutrients from the soil."
"And aren't all of you sitting obediently in your seats precisely that soil, full of nutrients and vitality?" Su Bai brushed his fingers over the back of the seat beside him. "Guess what on this bus is connected to the roots it uses to draw nutrients?"
Hearing Su Bai's words, the passengers, all of whom had received at least a decent education, rose from their seats. But the moving bus swayed so much that they couldn't help grabbing the seat backs beside them to steady themselves.
Yet as soon as their hands touched the seat backs, they remembered