The two of them sat in the car without making any next move.

An empty tourist bus was parked not far away, and the highway radio repeated the rescue prompts. There was only the sound of wind whistling past the window, and the desolate silence made people feel at a loss.

"What on earth is going on? It's so weird," Qin Rang gasped and thought about it in horror, "There's not even a single person on that tour bus, how can we launch a rescue?"

"And you have to get out of the car for rescue, but we just saw what happens to people who get out of the car without permission..." Qin Rang continued uneasily.

"With the radio rescue prompts, opening the car door now does not count as getting out of the car without authorization, but to complete the task." Qi Qiu said while unbuckling his seat belt.

Qi Jiu deduced that the reason why the traveler who died on the road just now met with an accident was because he got out of the car without triggering the plot. Since he and Qin Rang had already taken over the rescue mission of Highway FM, the taboo was naturally lifted.

.

While talking, Qi Jiu had already opened the car door.

The cold wind carried fine snow and hit his face. He was so cold that he sneezed, and his nose and face instantly turned red from the cold.

"Hey, Qi Chu, wait for me," Qin Rang quickly turned off the engine, followed Qi Chu's steps and got out of the car, and chased after him and said hurriedly, "But there were no injured people on the bus, and there was no sign of explosion."

Qi Jiu: "We can't know the specific situation inside the bus while we are sitting in the car. We have to go up and confirm to find out."

Qin Rang shivered violently, because this eerily quiet "accident" bus was like a ghost car in his eyes, and he felt a little repulsed by the thought of getting on it.

But no matter what, he wanted to act together with Qi Jiu, so he had to grit his teeth, make enough mental preparations, and prepare to enter the bus with Qi Jiu.

The door of the bus was wide open toward the road, and cold wind poured into the carriage. The armrest rings swayed in the wind, making a weird sound of "ding dong, ding dong."

There was no light in the car, so Qi Jiu turned on his own flashlight.

Before getting on the bus, Qi Jiu also picked up a large stone on the side of the road. He used the stone to press the open door of the bus to prevent the door from closing automatically later, sealing them in the "accident" bus.

After all, this is a scare tactic overused in horror movies.

There is also no burning smell in the car, and the pungent smell of artificial leather is diffused in the wind.

Qi Jiu raised his flashlight and looked. It was a 29-seater tourist bus. There were no corpses and no living people on the bus. There were not even signs of a struggle. Everything looked calm, like the accident mentioned on Highway FM.

It didn't exist at all, the people in the car just evaporated without any warning.

evaporation--

Qi Jiu frowned and quickly caught this inspiration.

Is the accident in FM just a metaphor, or some kind of reflection of the plot of the copy?

"Is it possible...the accident happened after we got in the car..." Qin Rang's voice became lower and lower, and he startled himself as he spoke.

Qi Jiu nodded: "It is possible."

Qin Rang choked for breath: "!"

He said that because he hoped to get the other party's disapproval so that he could feel at ease. Unexpectedly...

"Don't panic, it shouldn't be now." Following the light of the flashlight, Qi Qiu's gaze turned to the bottom of the driver's seat. His eyes narrowed slightly and he found two documents scattered on the ground.

——The driver's driving license and the flight attendant's work permit respectively.

Unexpected gains.

Qi Jiu picked up the documents and put them away: "We will try our best to search carefully. The missing passengers should have left some 'physical evidence' in the car."

In the next five minutes, the two of them searched almost every corner of the bus.

They found a rabbit stuffed doll, a tube of lipstick, a box of women's cigarettes and half a cigarette butt, an earring, a wedding ring, and even a contraceptive condom.

What satisfied Qi Ku most was that he picked up a ticket to the hot spring resort.

Qi Jiu put away the scattered objects one by one and used a flashlight to illuminate the words on the hot spring resort ticket——

"404 Hot Spring Street welcomes you"

404 Hot Spring Street?

"Ah——!" At this moment, Qin Rang, who was conducting search work in the second half of the bus, suddenly screamed.

He seemed to be greatly frightened. He took two steps back from the aisle and fell directly onto the seat on the left. He kept looking directly at the glass window on the right and his lips were trembling.

"What's wrong?" Qi Kui put away the leaflet, stood up and walked towards Qin Rang.

Qin Rang pointed to the glass window on the right, his fingers trembling: "Just now, I just saw someone there..."

Qi Jiu looked along what Qin Rang was pointing. The glass window was illuminated by the fine snow in the evening. There was nothing outside the window except the vast white wasteland.

"Really, really! Someone really flashed outside the window just now...and it wasn't just one person...it was many, many people..." Qin Rang's face turned pale, and he was too frightened to say a complete sentence.

Qi Jiu frowned: "Are they a group of tourists?"

Qin Rang nodded like a fool: "That's right! Just like people from a tourist group! I clearly saw it on the car window just now, but it was gone in the blink of an eye... Did you see it too?!"

Qi Jiu shook his head: "No, but..."

He looked at the car windows again, looking through them one after another under the reflection of the snowy light. When his sight stopped at the rearview mirror of the driver's seat, his expression froze——

At night in the wilderness with only white falling snow and black rocks, the bus rearview mirror reflected colorful spots of light.

"What, what's wrong?" Sensing the sudden change in Qi Ku's expression, Qin Rang lowered his voice and asked nervously.

Qi Qiu pressed his index finger to his lips and walked towards the driver's seat with gentle steps, as if he was afraid of disturbing the strange sight in the rearview mirror.

Qin Rang silently stopped talking. He managed to calm down and stood up. He followed Qi Qiu and looked in the rearview mirror.

——!!!

Like the noise on the TV gradually disappearing, the flowing light spots in the rearview mirror gradually became stable and clear, and finally turned into a clear image before their eyes.

At this moment, what the bus rearview mirror reflected was no longer a snowy wilderness, but a hot spring tourist street with bright lights and bustling pedestrians.

"This, this is..." Qin Rang's eyes widened in disbelief, but when he turned his eyes away from the rearview mirror and turned to look outside the car, the desolate snowy field outside the window was still there.

“…Is this a mirage?”

In the mirror, there is another strange and bizarre world.

Qi Qiu looked at the hot spring street promotional material in his hand again, and raised the corners of his lips imperceptibly: "No, this is the 404 Hot Spring Street."

404, a street that does not exist in real space.

"Let's go back." Qi Jiu confirmed again that they had searched for all the clues on the bus.

Qin Rang came to his senses in the rearview mirror in a daze: "Where are you going back?"

Qi Jiu smiled: "Of course it's back to our off-road vehicle."

"After all, it's such a cold day and I'm freezing to death walking. Let's drive to 404 Hot Spring Street." He took one last look at the mirage-like market in the rearview mirror, then got out of the car and walked towards the off-road vehicle parked on the roadside.

The two of them sat back in the off-road vehicle, and Qi Qiu turned on the highway FM 79.90mhz again——

[Dear driver friends, you have now entered the 404 Hot Spring Street Scenic Area, please follow the navigation to the scenic area]

"Eh?!" Qin Rang looked at Qi Qiu in surprise.

Qi Qiu handed the hot spring street ticket to Qin Rang: "The 'rescue' mentioned on the radio is actually the entrance to the dungeon plot. Only by entering the bus and getting this ticket can the 'mirage' plot appear in the rearview mirror.

"

The "mirage" street scene in the rearview mirror can be understood as the "trailer" for the start of the dungeon.

"So that's it," Qin Rang breathed a sigh of relief and sighed after realizing it, "The entrance to this dungeon is so ceremonial..."

Sense of ritual——

Qi Zhu doesn’t think that setting up so many links for dungeon entry is just to increase the difficulty and sense of ritual.

He guessed that whether it was the "explosion accident" reported on the highway FM or the "passengers' belongings" they found on the bus, they were all related to the main content of the dungeon, otherwise it would be too much of a waste of resources.

[Now Navigator No. 001 is at your service]

[The route will be planned for you in real time]

…

Suddenly there was a branch road on the straight road on the right side of the bus. Qin Rang followed the navigation instructions and drove towards the branch road.

Qi Qiu, who was sitting in the passenger seat, kept looking in the rearview mirror. The black wilderness was gradually fading away. The scenery on both sides of the fork in the road had already changed. The foggy swamps were intertwined in the jungle. The road was getting narrower and narrower, and it seemed to be winding.

Climbing around the mountain.

Driving on the road around the mountains on a snowy night, Qin Rang, who had not driven for a long time, was too nervous to speak.

Qi Jiu was responsible for observing the movements around him, but there were no more accidents along the way.

About twenty minutes later, a vague light appeared in front of the road, and then, intermittent voices and singing came from the wind.

[Congratulations on your successful arrival at the 404 Hot Spring Street Scenic Area, and I wish you a pleasant vacation]

After driving in the dark for a long time, the sudden appearance of warm lights made both of them a little uncomfortable.

Qin Rang slowed down and drove towards Hot Spring Street, and finally parked the off-road vehicle in a public parking area outside the scenic area.

This is a hot spring street with an old Japanese style. A mist-shrouded river flows through the center of the street. On the river are snow-covered wooden bridges and stone stacks. On both sides of the road are Japanese-style double doors made of maple wood.

In the evening, the fine snow falls, and the light shines through the windows of the townhouse, illuminating the flying fine snow and the steaming water mist.

The contrast between the hot spring street and the wilderness just now was so sharp that Qin Rang was stunned for a moment.

He didn't expect that a copy could create such a detailed and dreamy scene.

But the strange thing is that when the car was not approaching, I clearly heard people's voices and singing. Now that I got closer, I saw that there was not a single person in the entire hot spring street.

But the paradox was that the air was filled with the aroma of cooking rice. Qin Rang touched his stomach, which kept grumbling in protest, and swallowed.

He seems a little hungry.

"Good evening, two guests who have come from afar. Are you tired from the journey? The hotel has prepared room doors and meals. Come and invite them." A proprietress wearing a bathrobe and wooden clogs came towards them, warm and gentle.

He greeted them.

But when she approached, Qin Rang was startled.

The landlady wears a strange human mask on her face. The texture of the mask is pale and stiff. The eyebrows are slender and curved, and the bright red lips are raised upward. The composition of the facial features gives people a strange and inconsistent feeling.

Qi Chu quickly recognized it. It was the "Woman" noodle in Japanese Noh noodles.

Noh noodles are generally used in traditional opera performances, while "ruonv" noodles often refer to young and beautiful boss ladies.
Chapter completed!