Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian tracked the missing Ghost Tamer Xu Feng's phone to a bus and rode along to identify its carrier. After hearing reports of supernatural incidents, he realized the bus had left its route and entered the outskirts while the signal remained aboard.

• Yang Jian followed the satellite signal to a bus stop and boarded the bus after concluding that Xu Feng's phone was on board.
• Yang Jian felt an unexplained push while boarding, but continued searching for the phone's carrier without confronting the passengers.
• Yang Jian checked Xu Feng's file and learned that the Xiaochun City Ghost Tamer had deliberately concealed his information.
• Passengers discussed the Dachang City fog and a countryside incident in which missing corpses were found standing in rice fields.
• Yang Jian noticed that the bus had left its route and reached the outskirts, while Xu Feng's phone signal was still aboard.

Yang Jian discovered that the bus he had boarded was sealed off from the outside, and even his Ghost Domain could not pass through its windows. While the other passengers debated the route, an old woman stopped Zhang Hao from approaching the driver, leaving Yang Jian wary of what would happen at the next stop.

• Yang Jian tried to escape through a window, but it would not open, and his Ghost Domain could not cross the bus compartment’s boundary.
• Yang Jian suspected the bus was connected to Xu Feng’s disappearance, while Zhang Hao and his friends discussed whether ghosts existed.
• Yang Jian warned the group that the bus seemed to be heading the wrong way, but Zhang Hao said roadwork had changed the route.
• After another passenger remembered that the route had been changed back five days earlier, Zhang Hao decided to question the driver.
• An old woman grabbed Zhang Hao and urged him not to approach the driver or ask for a route change, so he sat back down.

Yang Jian warned the passengers that the bus was abnormal, but they dismissed him until Zheng Yaowen discovered the driver was a corpse. The bus continued driving without power or responsive controls, leaving everyone trapped aboard.

• Yang Jian told the passengers that the bus was dangerous and that they might not be able to get off, but Zhang Hao and another young man brushed off his warning.
• Zheng Yaowen went to confront the silent driver and knocked the dead driver's corpse onto the floor.
• Yang Jian noticed the steering wheel turning by itself and considered whether the bus itself or a hidden ghost was driving it.
• The passengers panicked after discovering the corpse, and a middle-aged man tried to take control of the bus.
• The middle-aged man found that the dashboard was off and the brakes and steering did not work, while the bus kept moving at a steady speed.

Yang Jian investigated the haunted bus after the driver died and realized its display might count two ghosts rather than the living passengers. The bus finally began to pull over, and Yang Jian prepared to escape as soon as its doors opened.

• After the driver’s corpse fell, the bus kept moving, and the passengers’ attempts to escape failed.
• Yang Jian inspected the bus and saw its electronic display show a passenger count of two.
• Yang Jian suspected the driver’s corpse and several motionless figures, including two people in the back row, might be ghosts.
• Yang Jian returned to his seat and told Zhang Hao they could only wait for the bus to stop.
• After more than half an hour, the bus slowed and pulled over, so Yang Jian prepared to leave using his Ghost Domain.

Yang Jian hesitated to leave the ghost bus after Xu Feng warned him about its stops and explained that its passenger counter tracked ghosts. When a mournful figure appeared outside and several passengers died, Yang Jian realized the bus stop lay in a supernatural world and warned the survivors to return aboard.

• The bus stopped at an isolated roadside sign, and most passengers rushed out into the gloomy wilderness while Yang Jian tested the area with his Ghost Domain.
• Xu Feng warned Yang Jian that the bus’s passenger count tracked ghosts and said the bus departed five minutes after each stop; Yang Jian recognized him as the missing Ghost Tamer from Xiaochun City.
• A distant figure in white mourning clothes appeared kneeling at a grave, and passengers outside began crying before collapsing dead.
• Yang Jian warned Zhang Hao, Zheng Yaowen, and the others that the world outside belonged to ghosts and urged them to get back on the bus.

A Grave-Crying Ghost killed passengers who got off the bus, while Yang Jian guided three survivors back aboard. The ghost then boarded and sat silently as the bus resumed its journey, leaving Yang Jian uncertain about the other ghost among the passengers.

• The Grave-Crying Ghost made passengers kneel and cry until they died, and Yang Jian told Zhang Hao and the others to return to the bus.
• Zheng Yaowen and Feng Xiaolu fell under the ghost's control and died, while Zhang Hao and two girls made it back aboard.
• Yang Jian realized the Grave-Crying Ghost had vanished from the grave and was approaching the bus, but chose not to confront it.
• The Grave-Crying Ghost boarded, sat by the door, and stopped crying; the passenger display counted it as one of two ghosts aboard.
• Five minutes later, the bus doors shut and the bus departed the stop.

Yang Jian tried to survive the supernatural bus by avoiding the Grave-Crying Ghost and learning what he could from Xu Feng. The bus stopped at increasingly eerie locations, adding a mummified bride and an invisible ghost, while Yang Jian remained trapped and unsure where he could safely get off.

• Yang Jian pulled Zhang Hao and the two girls away from the aisle as the Grave-Crying Ghost boarded, then questioned Xu Feng about the bus and learned that ghosts could accumulate until it reached full capacity.
• Yang Jian identified the bus's known passengers and warned Zhang Hao and the two girls that he had no clear way to get them off safely.
• At a wilderness stop, Yang Jian saw a figure approach from an abandoned wooden residence beneath red lanterns; a mummified bride in a red qipao boarded and sat in front of him.
• The bus later stopped at a dark intersection with no visible passengers, then departed with its passenger count increased, revealing that an invisible ghost had boarded.
• Yang Jian grew more alarmed as four ghosts remained aboard and waited for a stop in a normal city district, while Xu Feng appeared to sleep through the danger.

Yang Jian watched the ghosts leave the bus after it stopped unexpectedly, but the bus then stalled and plunged into darkness. He escaped with Zhang Hao and the two girls, while Xu Feng and a man in a baseball cap remained outside, revealing that Xu Feng had helped him only to secure a seat.

• Yang Jian observed the bus slow to a sudden stop on the highway, where the grave-weeping ghost and the bride began moving toward the rear.
• The rear door opened, and the bride and the grave-weeping ghost got off, leaving the passenger display at one.
• Xu Feng abruptly headed for the exit as the bus headlights and aisle lights went out.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to teleport away with Zhang Hao and the two girls as the bus fell into darkness.
• Outside, a man in a baseball cap spoke with Xu Feng and revealed that he had been on the bus with him unnoticed.
• Xu Feng admitted that he had helped Yang Jian only to secure a seat, and said dying on the bus was safer than dying outside.

Yang Jian learned that Xu Feng had deliberately left him on the stalled ghost bus, then confronted Xu Feng and rejected his offer to cooperate. The grave-weeping ghost remained in the nearby forest as the men faced off.

• Xu Feng and the man in the baseball cap discussed the stalled bus and admitted that Xu Feng had left Yang Jian aboard, believing him doomed.
• Yang Jian revealed himself from his Ghost Domain and confronted Xu Feng, who was shocked that he had escaped the bus.
• The man in the baseball cap explained that the stalled bus’s doors and windows could open, and that staying aboard meant certain death.
• Xu Feng offered to cooperate, but Yang Jian refused and warned that he would attack Xu Feng before leaving the bus.
• As Yang Jian and Xu Feng faced off, the grave-weeping ghost’s cries drifted from the roadside forest, showing it had not left.

Yang Jian and the others faced the Grave-Crying Ghost’s deadly sound, which grew stronger even inside his Ghost Domain. He temporarily made himself deaf to block it, but the threat remained nearby.

• Yang Jian and Xu Feng stopped arguing when the Grave-Crying Ghost’s crying sounded from the nearby woods.
• Yang Jian entered his Ghost Domain and weakened the crying, but it began growing louder again while Zhang Hao and the two girls panicked.
• Yang Jian activated the second layer of his Ghost Domain and realized the crying intensified through lingering echoes that could only be escaped by fleeing its range.
• Yang Jian tried covering his ears, then used the Ghost Shadow to make himself temporarily deaf.

Yang Jian survived the grave-weeping ghost by deafening himself and discovered that Xu Feng and the man in the baseball cap had unusual ways of resisting the attack. As Yang Jian considered killing the immobile Xu Feng, Zhang Hao walked out of the Ghost Domain toward the mummified bride.

• Yang Jian deafened himself, stopped hearing the ghostly crying, and found Zhang Hao still alive while the two women with him were dead.
• Yang Jian found Xu Feng alive but motionless and decomposing, then suspected his corpse-like state had protected him from the grave-weeping ghost.
• Yang Jian tested Xu Feng's inability to move with a pistol and considered killing him.
• Yang Jian prepared to use the Headless Ghost Shadow on Xu Feng, but Zhang Hao stood up and walked out of the Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian saw the mummified bride across the road, where she waited as Zhang Hao approached her.

Yang Jian realized Zhang Hao had become the desiccated bride’s Ghost Slave and was beckoning multiple ghosts toward them. He hurled Xu Feng’s corpse at the bride to break its hold on Zhang Hao, but the other ghosts and the threat inside the sleeping man remained.

• Zhang Hao walked out of Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain, took the desiccated bride’s hand, died, and became its Ghost Slave.
• Zhang Hao waved toward the Grave-Crying Ghost, which stopped crying and emerged from the woods; a ghost inside the bus also began pounding to get out.
• Yang Jian suspected the sleeping man was being hunted by a ghost in his dreams, possibly the entity codenamed Nightmare.
• Yang Jian spread his Ghost Shadow over himself, lifted Xu Feng’s corpse, and hurled it at the desiccated bride.
• Xu Feng’s corpse knocked the bride down and broke its contact with Zhang Hao, who fell to the ground.

Yang Jian faced the grave-weeping ghost while the other ghosts remained active around him. He restrained it with the Ghost Rope, but the dried corpse bride rose again before the bus restarted.

• Yang Jian saw that the grave-weeping ghost was the only ghost directly targeting him and used the Ghost Rope to hang it inside his Ghost Domain.
• The grave-weeping ghost appeared restrained until pounding resumed from the bus and its suspended body began swinging toward Yang Jian.
• The dried corpse bride stood up after Xu Feng’s corpse failed to hold her down, and Zhang Hao returned to his previous state and waved toward Yang Jian.
• The bus sounded its horn, turned on its lights, and started moving again.

Yang Jian escaped the roadside ghosts, took the crying grave ghost’s face-covering cloth, and returned to the bus. Lin Bei and Xu Feng also survived, but Yang Jian and Xu Feng clashed over Xu Feng’s role in the confrontation.

• Yang Jian retrieved the face-covering cloth and boarded the bus, where he found the middle-aged driver’s corpse sitting upright at the wheel.
• The crying grave ghost revealed a hollow, faceless head, stopped crying, and walked into the woods along a newly appeared path.
• Lin Bei climbed back onto the bus and introduced himself to Yang Jian, explaining that a dream-entering ghost had attacked him while he slept.
• Yang Jian noticed that Xu Feng’s body was missing, and Xu Feng then ran onto the bus alive.
• Xu Feng accused Yang Jian of nearly getting him killed, and Yang Jian defended his actions and threatened Xu Feng.

After the bus escaped the mummified bride, Yang Jian and the others passed through a vast graveyard without stopping. The bus then headed toward a city, and Yang Jian sensed that he might soon have a chance to get off.

• Five minutes after the bus lights came back on, its doors and window shut, and it drove away from the mummified bride while the passenger display still showed one ghost aboard.
• Yang Jian and Xu Feng noticed that the bus had entered an enormous graveyard, while Lin Bei fell asleep in the corner.
• The bus passed a lone wooden house among the graves without stopping, and a tall, thin figure emerged after it had gone.
• After crossing the graveyard, the bus approached a brightly lit city, and Yang Jian sensed that he could soon get off.

Yang Jian learned that Lin Bei and Xu Feng stayed on the bus because its supernatural suppression kept their resurging ghosts dormant and prolonged their lives. Lin Bei revealed how staying aboard could help Ghost Tamers control their ghosts, while Yang Jian concluded that others had pursued paths similar to his own.

• Yang Jian noticed streetlights and passing trucks, suggesting the bus had returned to a normal city road.
• Lin Bei warned Yang Jian to get off if the bus stopped, then explained that the bus's suppression kept him and Xu Feng alive despite their ghosts having resurged.
• Yang Jian deduced that the bus restrained the ghosts in their bodies, and Lin Bei confirmed that prolonged stays could extend the time they could control fully resurged ghosts.
• Xu Feng criticized Lin Bei for sharing the bus's secrets, while Lin Bei argued that future Ghost Tamers should benefit from what earlier riders had learned.
• Lin Bei said the longest-known survivor had ridden for two and a half months before getting off, and Yang Jian suspected that person had achieved perfect control of a ghost.

Yang Jian got off the ghost bus at a station after taunting Xu Feng and offering to help Lin Bei. He then discovered that the bus had vanished, leaving him uncertain whether Xu Feng and Lin Bei could ever escape it.

• Yang Jian argued with Xu Feng and threatened to have Headquarters fire him and arrest him once he got off the bus.
• The bus stopped at a station at seven thirty, and Yang Jian told Xu Feng he could leave.
• Yang Jian promised to tell Lin Bei's family that he was safe and offered him fifty million to kill Xu Feng on the bus.
• Yang Jian stepped off and warned the boarding passengers that the bus was haunted, but they ignored him.
• Yang Jian turned around and realized the ghost bus had disappeared, leaving a different bus in its place.

After surviving the ghost bus, Yang Jian reported the incident to Headquarters as an X-class file and arranged follow-up actions. The bus remained missing, with Xu Feng’s phone aboard, while Yang Jian left Headquarters to investigate its location.

• Yang Jian considered the ghost bus’s ability to suppress ghosts and concluded that Headquarters would be needed to track it through Xu Feng’s phone.
• Yang Jian ordered operator Qin Meirou to create an X-class file and recounted the bus’s stops, the ghosts aboard, and the deadly first stop.
• Yang Jian asked Qin Meirou to find Lin Bei’s family, tell them Lin Bei was safe, and arrange a ten-million transfer at Yang Jian’s expense.
• Yang Jian ordered Headquarters to track Xu Feng’s phone and submit a report to remove Xu Feng from his post and place him on the wanted list because he had tried to get Yang Jian killed.

Five days after leaving the ghost bus, Yang Jian returned to Dachang City and reflected on the Ghost Cupboard’s secrets. He received a Ghost Candle and updates from Zhang Hua and Zhao Jianguo, then refused a business trip so he could rest and remain in the city.

• Yang Jian analyzed the Ghost Cupboard’s five deciphered sentences and speculated about its former owner, its possible cost, and its connection to other supernatural clues.
• Zhang Hua met Yang Jian at the station, gave him a search warrant to investigate Shangtong Technology Co., Ltd., and handed him a red Ghost Candle.
• Zhang Hua reported that Yang Jian’s gold quota had arrived, Dachang City was safe, and rescue work was nearly finished; Yang Jian told him to focus on intelligence rather than form a temporary team.
• Zhao Jianguo told Yang Jian that the Weeping Grave Ghost was classified as B-class, the Mummified Bride as C-class, and the ghost bus file had been sealed and transferred.
• Zhao Jianguo said Yang Jian’s request had been approved and asked whether he wanted a business trip; Yang Jian declined and decided to stay in Dachang City.

Yang Jian returned home and told Jiang Yan about surviving a ghost bus before heading to the old house to investigate the ghost cupboard. He left the cupboard with a question and received the eerie answer “Ghost.”

• Yang Jian returned home, explained to Jiang Yan that he had survived a ghost bus, and learned that the sales office had closed and Zhang Liqin had left.
• Yang Jian told Jiang Yan he planned to start a company and hire Zhang Liqin as his secretary, while Jiang Yan asked to become his secretary instead.
• Yang Jian met Zhang Xiangui at the old house construction site and learned that the safe house and its large underground shelter were nearly finished.
• Yang Jian asked Zhang Xiangui to stop work for the day so the workers would not be caught up in a possible supernatural incident.
• Yang Jian entered the old house’s second secret room and slipped the question “Who are you?” into the ghost cupboard.
• The cupboard returned the paper with the word “Ghost” written beneath Yang Jian’s question.