Bus

"Driver, turn left ahead." Yang Jian looked at the signal and directed the taxi driver to follow.

Based on the signal's movement speed, there's no need to use Ghost Domain to get there directly; it's easy to keep up if you're just traveling by car.

The driver quickly arrived at a main road according to the directions given by Yang Jian.

The signal stopped here, and it was very close to Yang Jian.

Out of caution, Yang Jian looked around to see if there was anything strange about the surroundings.

Everything around was normal. Cars were constantly moving on the road, and there were plenty of pedestrians. Nothing unusual happened. After all, this was Xiaochun City, with a small population. Supernatural events couldn't occur as frequently as in the Dac City. Under most circumstances, the city was relatively stable and normal.

Even though Starvation Ghost Incident in Dac City attracted global attention and shook the Ghost Tamer community, it was not enough to cause a storm in the broader context.

This explains why, even though the situation in Dachang City, which is only a few hundred miles away, is in turmoil, the residents of this city continue with their lives and work as usual, as if nothing has happened.

Yang Jing got out of the car, made sure everything around her was normal, and then looked down at the signal on her phone to track the route.

The coordinates on the mobile phone are very accurate. Combined with satellite positioning and mutual positioning between the person in charge's mobile phone, under the two positioning calculation and correction methods, the positioning error in the signal will hardly exceed two meters.

Even a small child can find a signal source at a distance of two meters.

"It's up ahead." Yang Jian walked forward for several dozen meters, crossed a road, and arrived at the location of the signal source.

This is a bus stop, and about seven or eight people are getting on a bus one after another.

Yang Jian looked at the people boarding the bus, then at the signal source, and found that the signal source had not moved. This meant that the missing Ghost Tamer's phone was not on these passengers. He looked around and even searched the trash can next to the platform, but he couldn't find the satellite positioning phone.

"If it's not at the station, then there's only one possibility: the phone is on the bus."

Yang Jian was almost certain of the true location of the signal source.

He immediately chose to queue up to board the bus.

People ahead of him continued to pay and board the bus. When it was his turn, Yang Jian felt as if someone pushed him from behind, causing him to stumble and almost fall.

"Which reckless bastard pushed me?" Yang Jian looked back.

He found that there was no one behind him. He was the last one to line up to board the bus, so there was no way anyone would push him from behind.

He immediately frowned.

Experience told him something was off, but the surrounding circumstances suggested everything was normal; it seemed his stumble was just a loss of balance, not that someone had actually pushed him from behind.

"Is something wrong with your health?" Yang Jian looked down.

After being resurrected from the Ghost Mirror, his body could no longer be considered human, and there was no guarantee that nothing unusual would happen after the Ghostly Machine crashed.

After thinking about it for a while, he still didn't have much doubt. He decided to deal with the immediate problem first.

After boarding the bus, Yang Jian looked around the carriage.

There weren't many people in the carriage, only about a dozen. The last row was more crowded, while the front was relatively empty, with plenty of empty seats around the sides.

"The signal is definitely here."

Yang Jian checked the satellite-guided phone again and found that its signal overlapped with that of the missing Ghost Tamer. Therefore, he could be completely certain that the satellite-guided phone was on this bus. As for who had it, he couldn't tell at the moment unless he searched each person.

"Searching and interrogating is too troublesome. Let's wait until the signal source moves again. As soon as the person with the phone gets off the bus, I can locate them immediately."

Yang Jian thought for a moment and decided against using force.

To avoid losing my temper and randomly pulling out a gun, which would be troublesome to clean up later, it's better to take a more moderate approach.

He chose a seat near the back door so he could easily observe anyone getting off the bus, making tracking much easier.

Soon, the bus doors closed and it started moving.

"Who is the Ghost Tamer in Xiaochun City? Let me check." Seeing that no one would be getting off at the station for the time being, Yang Jian began to investigate the local person in charge.

It's easy to access other people's information; if you're willing, you can compile a nationwide archive of Ghost Tamer.

However, these files are graded.

Ordinary files only contain basic information about the person; there's nothing particularly special about them, and the descriptions of their abilities aren't very detailed. They're just indicated by a code name, without any specific details being provided.

However, Yang Jian could only access the highest-level files.

Although his current position has not changed, he has been promoted internally.

"The person in charge of Xiaochun City is Xu Feng. Surprisingly, he doesn't have a code name or any introduction about Ghost Tamer. He's deliberately hiding his information." Yang Jian flipped through the files on his phone.

The file of Xu Feng, a local Ghost Tamer, was found to be deliberately hidden.

However, the mental health assessment indicated that his condition was good.

"This guy is a very cautious person. He doesn't trust anyone, and he even hides all information from Headquarters, not wanting anyone to know his background," Yang Jian thought to himself.

However, this kind of thinking is quite normal.

Anyone who suddenly acquires an incredible ability, if they are even slightly mature, will not flaunt it recklessly, but will instead keep it low-key and hidden.

Moreover, those Ghost Tamer are not uncommon in this world.

Being low-key is therefore especially important.

"Ghost Tamer hides all information and has no achievements, if not for a good mental evaluation, would probably be dismissed. No wonder Liu Xiaoyu didn't force me to investigate the secret of this guy's disappearance. If it were a Ghost Tamer of Wang Xiaoming's level, they would probably organize a large-scale rescue operation."

Yang Jian didn't see anything wrong with it.

Because this is reality, this is society.

You are only worth others' efforts if you have value. If you are useless, no one will waste resources on someone useless.

"Liu Xiaoyu asked me to investigate not for Xu Feng's safety, since the file shows he's been missing for ten days. She asked me to investigate to see if any supernatural events have occurred here, so that we can create a file in time."

The bus stopped at the station at that moment.

Five young people came up – two men and three women – who looked like they were going on a trip.

But no one got off the bus.

The signal source was still on the train, so Yang Jian decided to wait a few more stops.

The five young people who got on the bus also sat in the back, in the two rows to Yang Jian's left. They chatted with each other and were in a very good mood.

Looking at their carefree appearance, Yang Jian felt a little envious.

The bus continued moving.

At that moment, a young man with a backpack sitting nearby suddenly said mysteriously to his companions, "By the way, do you guys know about the recent fog incident?"

"Of course I know, it's all over the internet. The news said it's from chemical pollution in the surrounding area. Luckily, the pollution didn't drift here, otherwise we locals would be in trouble," another boy said.

Several girls nearby chimed in, "Yeah, it's chemical pollution, what's there to talk about?"

"Chemical pollution? That's bullshit! You actually believe that? Let me tell you, the real reason for the fog incident in Dac City is actually ghosts." The young man with the backpack said in a low voice, "I have a friend in DaC. About ten days ago, before the fog cleared, my friend frantically sent text messages for help, which I also received. He said that DaC was full of ghosts."

"Liar."

One girl immediately retorted with a laugh, "How can you make a ghost story like this? The whole city is haunted? Do you think this is a Resident Evil movie?"

"It's because of the commotion that the government has implemented direct controls. I heard the entire area is under lockdown, and martial law is in effect 30 kilometers away," the young man with the backpack said.

"Okay, even if it's haunted, it was haunted before, so why isn't it haunted now?" The companion next to him curled his lip and said, "Don't tell me the ghost was killed by a cannon."

"Uh, I don't know either, but my friend wouldn't lie to me," said the young man with the backpack.

"Speaking of ghosts, I did hear my mom mention a strange thing that happened in our hometown recently," a rather quiet girl suddenly said.

The others pressed, "What strange thing is this?"

"My hometown is in the countryside. About a month ago, I heard that people in my hometown were dying one after another. Most of them were elderly people. At first, I didn't pay much attention. But on the day the villagers held a collective funeral, all the bodies placed in the coffins disappeared that night." The girl looked unwell and seemed to believe the story.

"Is that so? Could someone have stolen the corpse?" a girl asked close by.

The girl shook her head and said, "No, no, the bodies are still there. The next day, people from my hometown reported it to the police, and a large number of people were dispatched to search for the bodies. And guess what? All the bodies were standing in the field, like scarecrows, with their legs sunk this deep into the mud."

As she spoke, she gestured, indicating that the mud had reached above her legs.

"And what's even more unbelievable is that, upon investigating the footprints near the fields, we discovered that they were all left by the deceased themselves." She seemed to feel a lingering fear as she said this, "Many people saw it with their own eyes, including my mother. She was so scared that she didn't dare stay in our hometown anymore, saying it was haunted."

The other friends looked at each other, somewhat stunned.

"Speaking of ghost stories, I have one too," another boy said eagerly.

Yang Jian listened from the side and was certain that what the girl said was true, because the information was clear and not the kind of story that couldn't stand up to scrutiny.

It was clearly a paranormal event that occurred in the countryside.

Judging from the number of deaths, it should be a very low-level incident, at most a C-class event.

Sitting on the bus, I didn't realize it was already dark outside.

The bus stopped at two or three stations along the way, but no one got off. However, as the journey progressed, the intervals between each stop became longer and longer, and eventually it seemed like it hadn't stopped for a long time. I looked out at the somewhat dimly lit outside.

Yang Jian discovered that the vehicle had already left the city and entered the suburbs.

After checking the bus information, it was discovered that the bus had completely deviated from its original route.

However, the satellite positioning signal of the missing Ghost Tamer was still present in the car.

"Could I be that unlucky?" Yang Jian's heart immediately sank.