104: Chapter 104 Headless Ghost? What era are we living in? People still believe in this?

The atmosphere in the livestream instantly became eerie.

After all, this setting of a confined space, late at night, the last bus, and a creepy driver was practically standard for horror movies.

“Don’t scare yourself,”

Su Yun said indifferently. “Maybe he just has a cold, or maybe he’s just too ugly and is afraid of scaring you.”

“Master, stop joking!”

Zhang Qiang was on the verge of tears. “This bus... this bus has entered a tunnel!”

As soon as he finished speaking,

the surrounding light suddenly dimmed.

The bus drove into a tunnel with no streetlights.

The already dim yellow lights in the carriage suddenly began to flicker wildly.

“Zzzt! Zzzt!”

The sound of electricity was infinitely amplified in the silent carriage.

The lights flickered on and off; with every flicker, the shadows in the carriage seemed to come alive, twisting and jumping frantically.

“Ah!”

Zhang Qiang let out a terrified scream, nearly dropping his phone.

“Don’t scream!” Su Yun frowned and shouted in a deep voice, “Hold your phone steady!”

Zhang Qiang tremblingly gripped his phone, curling into a ball and pressing his back tightly against the seat.

Just then,

he seemed to see something extremely terrifying. His eyes widened suddenly, and his fingers pointed shakily toward the left window.

“Ma-Master, look...”

“What... what is that?!”

Su Yun looked through the camera lens.

On the dust-covered glass of the left window, a bizarre figure was reflected.

The figure was dressed in black and had a tall build.

But...

Above the figure's neck, it was completely empty!

There was no head!

It was a headless ghost shadow!

Moreover, the shadow wasn't inside against the glass; it seemed to be floating outside the window, sliding along with the bus as it sped through the tunnel!

This scene was clearly presented to over two million viewers through the high-definition camera.

“Holy crap! Holy crap! A headless ghost!”

“Bullet chat shield! Bullet chat shield!”

“Prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony...”

“Mommy, I’m scared! I want to go home!”

“It really is a ghost! This bus is actually haunted!”

Zhang Qiang had completely broken down.

“Help! There’s a ghost! There really is a ghost!”

“I want to get off! I'm not riding this anymore!”

He jumped up from his seat like a madman, grabbing the nearby safety hammer to smash the window.

“Stop!”

A sharp shout exploded in Zhang Qiang's ears like a clap of thunder.

Su Yun’s voice wasn't loud, but it carried an unquestionable authority that forcibly snapped Zhang Qiang back from the brink of collapse.

“Put down the hammer in your hand.”

Su Yun looked coldly at the camera. “That’s tempered glass; you won't be able to smash it. Besides, jumping off a bus in a tunnel—do you think your life is too long?”

“But... but there’s a ghost outside!”

Zhang Qiang cried out, pointing at the window. “It has no head! It’s watching me!”

“Watching your ass.”

Su Yun rolled his eyes, looking at him as if he were an idiot. “What year is it? You still believe in this?”

“That’s a physical phenomenon, do you understand?”

“Physics?” Zhang Qiang froze, his hand holding the hammer stiffening mid-air. “Master, don’t fool me, I saw it with my own eyes!”

“You saw a hammer.”

Su Yun cursed irritably.

The moment that "headless ghost shadow" appeared earlier, he had indeed been stunned for a second.

But in the next second, he activated the system.

[Heavenly Secrets Divine Calculation System activated.]

[Scanning Target: Bus Route 404.]

[Scanning Subjects: Driver, vehicle condition, environmental factors.]

Countless golden streams of data flashed before Su Yun’s eyes.

In just one second, the truth was laid bare before him.

Where was there any ghost?

This was clearly a carefully planned prank, or rather, an illusion to cover up a crime.

“Zhang Qiang, use that useless brain of yours.”

Su Yun pointed at the screen. “You’re in a tunnel right now. Is it very dark outside?”

Zhang Qiang nodded subconsciously. “Yes... it’s very dark.”

“Are the lights on inside the bus?”

“Yes...”

“Then don't you know that when the light inside a car is stronger than the light outside, the window glass becomes a mirror?”

Su Yun sounded like a physics teacher frustrated with a poor student. “The so-called ghost outside the window you saw is actually just the reflection of something inside the bus!”

“Impossible!”

Zhang Qiang argued back, “I’m the only one in the bus! And that shadow has no head!”

“Who said you’re the only one in the bus?”

A cold smirk curled on Su Yun’s lips. “Isn’t there someone sitting in the front?”

Zhang Qiang snapped his head around to look at the driver’s seat.

The driver was still sitting stiffly, motionless.

“Aim the camera at the rearview mirror,” Su Yun commanded.

Though terrified, Zhang Qiang obediently aimed his phone at the large rearview mirror above the front of the bus.

“Look closely.”

Su Yun’s voice became calm and full of logic. “The windows of this bus are coated with a special one-way film. In specific lighting, this film has an extremely high reflectivity.”

“Add to that the side lights in the tunnel flickering at a fixed frequency.”

“The driver’s seat has been adjusted to be lower than the normal position.”

“He’s wearing a high-collared black uniform and a black hat.”

“Under the refraction of the rearview mirror and the secondary reflection of the window glass, the light was distorted.”

“His black clothes blended into the dark background, and only the outline of his shoulders was reflected onto the window.”

“As for the head...”

Su Yun scoffed, “It was cut off by the blind spot of the rearview mirror.”

“This is a simple principle of optical imaging. Didn't you study middle school physics?”

“A headless ghost shadow? If you read more books, you wouldn’t have scared yourself like this.”

The horrific atmosphere that had filled the livestream was instantly dispelled by Su Yun’s hardcore scientific explanation.

“???”

“I don't understand, but it sounds impressive.”

“I told you it was physics! Where would a ghost come from!”

“Master Su: I don't watch 'Approaching Science' unless I'm in it.”

“This plot twist... nearly broke my back.”

“But...” Zhang Qiang was still a bit skeptical. “Isn’t this too much of a coincidence? Why did it have to be headless?”

“A coincidence?”

Su Yun shook his head, his eyes suddenly becoming sharp.

He stared at the back of the still-motionless driver on the screen, his tone abruptly turning cold.

“How can there be so many coincidences in this world?”

“So-called coincidences are nothing more than someone's deliberate actions.”

“Am I right?”

“Master Wang Jianping.”

Su Yun suddenly called out a name.

As soon as those three words were spoken, they were like a sharp knife stabbing into the eerie atmosphere.

The driver, who had been sitting like a dead man, suddenly jerked his shoulders.

Zhang Qiang took a step back in fear. “Ma-Master, you know him?”

Su Yun ignored Zhang Qiang and stared intently at the figure's back.

[Name: Wang Jianping]

[Age: 48]

[Occupation: Driver of Bus Route 404 (Former auto mechanic)]

[Recent Fortune: Great Calamity]

[Past: An involved resident in the Jiangcheng shantytown demolition case ten years ago. Due to the incidents back then, his psychology became extremely twisted, leading to thoughts of retaliating against society...]

[Future: Because the truth behind the 'Ghost Bus Eating People' is exposed, he is arrested during an attempted assault...]

[Sin Value: 68]

[Detailed Crimes: Using the surveillance blind spots in tunnels late at night, he releases ether through the air conditioning vents to knock out lone passengers, creating the illusion of 'supernatural disappearances'...]