Chapter 187: Old Driver
"Help! If you don't help me now, when it finishes merging, you're definitely dead!"
The young man shouted at Lin Ye from within the aggregate's body.
"Be a bit quieter. It's almost nightfall—don't you think it's beautiful here?"
Amid the young man's screams, Lin Ye gazed at the horizon where wilderness met sky, where gray-blue faded into pale yellow at the edge of his vision.
"You motherf*cker! I really am... I'll beauty your..."
The young man's voice vanished.
After a while, the aggregate completely digested the young man's body. It looked curiously at Lin Ye and asked:
"Why aren't you making a move? What exactly are you waiting for?"
The aggregate had already prepared countermeasures against Lin Ye, but to its surprise, Lin Ye had been sitting in the driver's seat the whole time, admiring the scenery.
"Waiting for you to fully digest him. It's truly beautiful here—don't you want to take a look? After all, you won't get to see it anymore soon." Lin Ye used his mental energy to sense deep within the bus. This current state was extremely rare—once the bus returned to normal, he wouldn't be able to sense it anymore.
"Are you crazy? I can crush you easily right now."
The aggregate secretly controlled slender creatures to crawl toward Lin Ye. Lin Ye was too composed, giving it a bad premonition.
"In terms of stealth, you can't compare to a trap master like me. Don't even think about ambushing me."
With just a glance, Lin Ye shredded those slender creatures.
"What did you do!"
The aggregate asked in panic.
"You should ask what I did earlier."
Lin Ye stood up and looked at the aggregate. Within its body remained numerous runes that Lin Ye had carved.
"...Those materials?"
The aggregate asked incredulously.
"Correct. Starting from your ticket, all subsequent tickets were engraved with my rune traps. Do you remember how I completely chopped up that young man's body and placed it inside? That was my masterpiece."
Lin Ye sensed the runes within the aggregate's body. Due to the enemy's mental energy interference, he couldn't directly carve runes inside the enemy's body. But if the enemy voluntarily swallowed runes, that was a different matter entirely.
"You bastard!"
The aggregate was already restrained by the numerous rune traps inside its body.
"I remember you said these low-level rune traps couldn't kill you? And that I couldn't use your body against you? I don't think so... Goodbye."
Lin Ye activated all the runes inside the aggregate's body.
Synthesis, splicing, cutting, weakening, alienation, shaping, collapse.
"No!"
Numerous spiritual energy blades erupted within the aggregate's body, completely destroying its form.
"Don't! I don't want to die yet! Please!"
The young man emitted agonized wails. Only when there was a single consciousness within its body could it transfer that consciousness into the body of whoever killed it—this was the rule granted by the relic fragment. So now it could only die unwillingly along with the aggregate.
"I told you—you'd both perish together. Why didn't you believe me?"
Lin Ye sat in the driver's seat waiting for the bus to return on its own. As darkness gradually fell, Little Red in a red-and-black dress suddenly appeared outside the windshield.
"Why did you come here?"
Lin Ye asked curiously.
This was the Surface Layer of the Abyss. According to Lin Ye's understanding, Little Red should stay far away from the Abyss.
Little Red didn't answer. She just pressed against the windshield, tilting her head as she looked at Lin Ye.
Lin Ye suddenly noticed that this Little Red's hair was bright red, and he had never seen Little Red wear this dress before.
A terrifying possibility occurred to Lin Ye—he was currently in a blessed state, so as long as the probability wasn't zero, anything could happen.
"Do you require anything?"
Cold sweat trickled into the corner of Lin Ye's eye. He involuntarily looked into 'Little Red's' eyes. He didn't know exactly what he saw, but faintly, he seemed to hear the sound of ocean waves.
When he regained his composure, 'Little Red' had disappeared. Lin Ye remained seated in the driver's seat without moving, but the bus had already returned to the mountain road. The middle-aged bald man outside the door cheered with surprised delight.
Lin Ye sighed. He knew this skill was troublesome, but he hadn't expected it to be this problematic.
He opened the door to let the passengers outside board. Since they had all already paid their tickets, there was no sucking sensation from below this time.
When Yang Yang boarded, Lin Ye controlled a spiritual energy blade to stab her once. A gray stone was knocked out of the bus.
After separating from Yang Yang, the stone underwent some changes, causing petrification phenomena to begin occurring around it.
Lin Ye stepped on the accelerator while simultaneously treating Yang Yang's wound.
The bus passed through the intersection of two road sections, leaving the petrification phenomenon behind. Lin Ye had noticed that stone earlier, but with too many troubles before, he hadn't had time to deal with it.
The bus returned to the plane where the organization was located, now carrying several additional ordinary passengers. Lin Ye didn't know if this would complete the mission, but based on previous experience, the probability of mission completion was high.
"I'm getting off here. Do you want to come with me, or go search for your own world?"
Lin Ye asked.
"Is this your world? Is it safe here?"
Yang Lin urgently asked.
He didn't want to ride anymore—he just wanted to find a safe stop to get off. As for their world, it wasn't particularly safe either.
"I wouldn't call it safe, but at least there are people desperately maintaining order."
Lin Ye waved to the Captain standing by the roadside.
The Captain returned his salute.
"That's good enough. We'll get off here."
As long as his daughter was safe, Yang Lin would be fine anywhere.
Lin Ye parked the bus by the roadside. Yang Lin and his daughter were the first to disembark, followed by the boy with his family. The middle-aged bald man had already disappeared, leaving only the student still on the bus.
"You're not leaving?"
Before getting off, Lin Ye turned back and asked.
"Thank you. I know this is dangerous, but I want to go home. My family might still be waiting for me there."
The student said with pale face, biting his lip.
"Then I wish you a smooth journey."
Lin Ye tossed the car keys to the student and got off.
As soon as Lin Ye stepped off, the bus behind him drove away. When the bus disappeared at the road's end, the road itself vanished as well.
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【Simulation Ended】
【Remaining Simulation Attempts: 5】
【Obtained Random Items Appearing in This Event*5】
【Acquired Title: Veteran Driver】
Lin Ye opened his eyes on his bed in the Shelter, Little Snake coiled around his neck, its smooth, delicate snake skin feeling quite pleasant.
But Lin Ye had no time to pay attention to Little Snake wagging its tail at him. After contact with that Abyssal Evil God, he felt completely different.
His five senses had become exceptionally sharp, his body felt much lighter than before, and spiritual energy flowed more smoothly within him.
Yet his physical structure showed no changes whatsoever—muscles, bones, nerves, internal organs—none had undergone any transformation.
What the other party had changed seemed to be something more fundamental, so fundamental that Lin Ye couldn't even perceive it.
"...Not turning into a monster is already pretty good."
Lin Ye sighed.