Eldritch Apocalypse: My Bus Is Sequence 001
Chapter 1

He Is Not Human! Awakening the All Things Fusion System!

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"Attention! Attention! Mutant Beasts may be hidden among the crowd!"

"Attention! Attention! Eldritch Horrors only operate at night!"

"Bzzz... bzzz..."

Jiang He, who was in a deep sleep, was woken by a burst of static electricity.

He sat up and rubbed his eyes, discovering that he was currently on a moving bus.

"This is..."

He scanned the environment inside the carriage with some uncertainty.

That old lady with a leg disability who liked to collect junk...

The female internet celebrity who loved putting on makeup...

The fat man who liked to hunker down in the back row of the vehicle and stealthily study shooting techniques!

And sitting right beside him, looking naive, foolish, and straightforward, was the male college student Xiao Wu...

They were actually all still alive!

As he confirmed these familiar faces one by one, the familiar scene before his eyes continuously stimulated Jiang He's brain.

"Am I... am I dreaming? Or..."

He pinched his thigh fiercely, and the sensation of pain rushed over instantly!

Jiang He finally confirmed that this was not a dream!

According to his memory, this scene before him should be the third week of the apocalypse outbreak.

The Sunshine Convoy to which Jiang He belonged had received a message and was heading to a sanctuary in Mountain City to seek refuge.

Three weeks ago, a large batch of unidentified creatures invaded Blue Star.

They ate people on sight!

Ordinary weapons could not harm these monsters at all.

Relying on the extraordinary powers they possessed and their near-immortal bodies, in just one week, they occupied numerous human gathering places.

The formerly prosperous cities soon all completely degenerated into paradises for monsters.

[Eldritch Horrors]-this was the name given to them by Blue Star scientists!

Since then, survivors officially entered the migration era.

They had to move quickly in the wild in order to avoid the perception of Eldritch Horrors.

At this time, there were still very few places where military troops were stationed that were still putting up stubborn resistance.

However, that was merely like moths flying into a flame.

Because powerful firepower could only slow down the pace of Eldritch Horrors' attacks, and could completely fail to kill them...

The Sunshine Convoy was a team composed of survivors, totaling one hundred and fifty people distributed across four buses.

The one Jiang He was on was the third from the front, serving as the core supply vehicle in the team, so there were not many people on board, and most of the seats were filled with supplies.

"I've been reborn!"

Ahem... ahem...

A burst of gentle coughing interrupted Jiang He's train of thought.

His gaze drifted toward the front-left, where a middle-aged man was sitting.

The man wore a shirt in his upper body that had been washed until it was pale white. Sitting behind him, Jiang He could see that at the cuffs of the man's shirt, the cotton threads had already unraveled.

Ahem!

Seeming to notice Jiang He's gaze, the man turned his head to look at him.

Even though he had imagined this scene in his mind, Jiang He still could not stop his inner trembling!

Simply because this man's expression was far too peculiar!

His yellowish pupils currently held a scattered gaze without a shred of focus, resembling a dead person.

His lips were chapped and half-open, and it could be seen that they were slightly purplish, presumably caused by not drinking water for a long time combined with continuous coughing and oxygen deprivation.

At this moment, he was holding a bone urn, staring dully at Jiang He.

In Jiang He's memory, ever since he first saw this man, he had looked just like this...

He had heard from other people in the team that this man's mother had been accidentally pushed downstairs by him.

Ever since that day, he had been holding his mother's bone urn, unwilling to let go for even a single moment!

Seeing Jiang He smile and nod at him, the man mechanically split his mouth open.

His dead-skinned lips cracked from the excessive movement, and the blood that flowed out appeared dark red.

The man seemed unable to feel any pain, raising his hand to wipe it with his sleeve, and the dark red smudges extended all the way from his lips to the side of his face. Coupled with his numb smile at this moment, it looked incomparably spine-chilling!

Ahem ahem ahem ahem!

Just as Jiang He was beginning to feel uneasy under the man's stare, the man suddenly burst into a fit of violent coughing.

No longer paying Jiang He any attention, he turned around and frantically rummaged in his shirt pocket for a pill bottle...

Seeing this, Jiang He finally lowered his head and let out a small breath of relief.

It really... was him...?

Glancing again out of the corner of his eye toward the front side, Jiang He couldn't help feeling a shadow fall over his heart!

Because...

This man wasn't human!

He was a Mutant Beast!

Mutant Beasts were monsters born from human mutation. They were like Eldritch Horrors, but clearly different from them! Eldritch Horrors seemed to be condensed masses of energy, with no physical bodies.

Mutant Beasts, on the other hand, were more like humans strengthened by beast genes.

Their bodies were extremely powerful, and their ability to recover was astonishing.

Even if killed with ordinary weapons, they could quickly recover!

He had to deal with this man before it was too late!

Otherwise, when night fell, everyone in the convoy, including Jiang He himself, might be eaten by him!

The terrifying scene from his previous life surfaced before his eyes again, making him clench his teeth...

It was an abandoned gas station. A blood moon hung high in the sky, its dark red light spilling down to illuminate a red stream across the asphalt!

The stream gurgled toward the young man's feet, viscous and pungent!

Jiang He held the gasoline he had just filled, his whole body trembling uncontrollably as he slowly looked up...

The giant monster before him stood upright on its upper body. Its shriveled legs seemed unable to bear its weight, bending sharply under the strain...

"Roar!"

The monster threw back its head and let out a long howl. Its sharp foreclaws swept through the air with a shriek and slammed down at Jiang He's head!

The crushing pressure made him forget to run. He stood there blankly, his pupils dilated. Reflected in them was an urn in the crook of the monster's arm...

Buzz...

Huff... huff...

The intense feeling of suffocation jolted Jiang He awake from his memories. Without realizing it, he had already soaked the back of his shirt with cold sweat.

If it happened again, he wasn't sure whether that monster would spare him...

Feeling the rusted dagger by his leg, Jiang He couldn't help tightening his fingers around it.

This was the only weapon he could use right now!

Although Mutant Beasts couldn't be killed with ordinary weapons, based on the experience Jiang He had accumulated in his previous life, before mutating, they were still ordinary humans.

Once killed in their human state, they couldn't come back to life!

But...

Looking at the dagger in his hand, covered in rust and with its edge curled, Jiang He couldn't help doubting how much damage it could do.

When he had found it by the side of the road, it was already so rusted that it was barely recognizable.

The convoy was about to set off then, so he hadn't had time to sharpen it.

He hadn't expected this to become the thing he regretted most!

[Ding] [Incomplete Weird Object detected. All Things Fusion System beginning activation...]

All Things Fusion System?

The blue interface that suddenly appeared before his eyes interrupted Jiang He's thoughts.

[1%...] [15%...] [45%...]

Watching the numbers on the progress bar jump rapidly, Jiang He was delighted inside, but his expression remained unchanged.

He hadn't been very confident about killing the middle-aged man, but now that he had the system, he had another option...

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