Exorcist's Self-Cultivation

The view outside the bus window was blurred, with torrential rain visible all along the way.

This bus would always drive in the rain.

In this world, as long as there was a city experiencing rain, a bus would appear.

But...

That was in New York.

And now, it was Jedecra State.

Using his Marking ability, Du Wei had brought the bus, which was supposed to run in New York, to Jedecra State.

Although conceptually, a bus's route should extend to any corner of the world.

Yet New York, Yard City, Esselgreen, and that school were places Du Wei was familiar with.

He had taken the bus through these places more than once.

And dealt with Evil Spirits.

But he had never encountered the Evil Spirits of Jedecra State before.

To him, they were unfamiliar.

What's more, based on the familiar "passenger" hypothesis of the bus, before Du Wei used his Mark, the bus should have been operating in places like Esselgreen.

Having its route forcefully altered, no one could say for certain if anomalies would occur.

At the very least...

When Josh wanted to take action, the bus's subtle will seemed to have already awakened.

It was silently observing all the passengers in the carriage.

Oddly enough, Du Wei felt a chill in his heart, he could sense an indescribable gaze, with a penetrating coldness, constantly watching him.
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"Something's not right..."

He said to himself, "Why is it focusing on me? This has never happened before, could it be because I interrupted some kind of rule?"

The possibility was not out of the question.

Du Wei could only speculate in his mind that the bus might follow a fixed route and that interrupting it could cause eerie changes.

But that was just speculation.

As to what was really going on, other than continuing to probe for the problem, he was unable to analyze too much useful information.

Of course...

Du Wei wasn't planning to probe.

His situation was awkward now; from the Evil Spirits on the bus, from Josh to that long-dressed woman, they all held a grudge against him.

Annabelle was mostly incapacitated, so she could be ignored.

But the combination of these two Evil Spirits had already made things very difficult.

"I need to keep quiet, best do nothing, and wait for the right moment to get off, then make a plan."

Thinking this, Du Wei's gaze became even more composed.

He sat motionless in the driver's seat.

The rearview mirror reflected his image wearing a coat, carrying a backpack, and wearing a mask.

At first glance.

He looked like an Evil Spirit Driver.

...

Time ticked away.

After more than ten minutes.

The bus stopped.

This was a wilderness; the forest outside was dense and the trees seemed incredibly hazy under the torrential downpour.

The ground was already accumulating a lot of dirty water.

With a squeak.

The front door of the bus opened...

Du Wei turned his head to look at the doorway but saw no passenger's shadow, nor the accidental boarding of an innocent ordinary person.

Suddenly...

A chill surged in his heart.

"It's in the back."

Du Wei squinted his eyes and abruptly turned his head to look behind.

He saw the woman in a long dress, her skin full of wrinkles, standing up.

In an instant.

All the passengers in the carriage lifted their heads, fixing their gaze on her.

The scene was extremely eerie.

In the entire bus, there was only one living person, Du Wei, and all the other passengers were Evil Spirits.

Their gazes were cold and the atmosphere suddenly became stagnant.

Then, the woman in the long dress stared at Du Wei and slowly walked towards him.

"Can it actually harm me?"

Du Wei frowned slightly. According to the rules of the bus, Evil Spirits couldn't act against anyone inside the bus; otherwise, there was only a dead end.

Could it be... that he had somehow disrupted the bus's route, resulting in a change to this rule?

He lowered his head to touch the mask on his face and simultaneously took out the Flintlock Gun from his pocket.

In this situation, Black Shadow was of little use.

There were too many Evil Spirits; Black Shadow wasn't strong enough.

Most importantly, after boarding the bus, Du Wei noticed that Black Shadow seemed fixated on the Evil Spirit sitting in the back row—that suit-wearing, tall and thin-limbed figure without hair or facial features.

Now, Du Wei was wearing the mask.

He was clad in Black Shadow's shell.

He could feel that the lanky Evil Spirit was also focused on Black Shadow.

There seemed to be some sort of relationship between the two.

Or perhaps, they might have had past grievances.

After all, Black Shadow had existed for a long time before Du Wei came into contact with it.

At that moment, the woman in the long dress had already approached to within two meters of Du Wei, but then she suddenly stopped and remained completely still.

Unconcealed malice filled her gaze.

She had an extremely vivid impression of Du Wei.

After all, back in the Horror House, the grudge she had with Du Wei was significant...

In the rearview mirror.

Du Wei watched the long-dressed woman behind him, his Right Hand caressing the Flintlock Gun, ready to pull the trigger at any moment.

However, just then.

Suddenly...

In an inadvertent glance, Du Wei saw Annabelle, who should have been lying on the ground, squirming towards him.

It looked incredibly comical.

The Evil Spirit Doll Annabelle, not even daring to float.

Meanwhile, the icy aura emanating from the long-dressed woman intensified as her gaze shifted downward, coldly fixating on Annabelle.

Inexplicably...

Annabelle shuddered, yet remained determined to crawl towards Du Wei.

It was evident.

The first time, in the Horror House, that long-dressed woman held Annabelle in her arms, stuck in a deadlock in that room. At that time, Annabelle was slightly weaker than the Evil Spirit.

If Du Wei hadn't burst in at the moment and took Annabelle away, after a prolonged standoff, the Evil Spirit might have succeeded long ago.

After Annabelle was taken away, it remained locked inside a cabinet, once drawing sustenance from Du Wei himself, but barely recovered before it was almost killed by the Evil Spirit Du Wei.

And ever since, it had been kept locked up, missing any opportunity to grow.

The long-dressed woman, however, was different.

It definitely left the Horror House and must have killed many people; otherwise, Annabelle wouldn't be so afraid of it.

"If you want it, then take it..."

Du Wei stood up, staring coldly at the approaching long-dressed woman, and kicked the crawling Annabelle over to her.

In an instant.

The long-dressed woman instinctively embraced Annabelle, completely frozen.

Annabelle was also stunned.

Then came an unstoppable shaking and struggle.

It wanted to escape the woman, but she held onto it tightly, not giving it a chance to get away.

Ultimately, the long-dressed woman gave Du Wei a deep look and returned silently to her seat.

During this process, Du Wei held the Flintlock Gun and watched coldly from the sidelines, ready to shoot without hesitation if the woman dared to attack him after obtaining Annabelle.

The current situation was too troublesome for him.

He could only resolve the uncertain factors first, then plan the next step.

Although Annabelle had ended up in the hands of the long-dressed woman, as soon as it got off the bus, Annabelle would return to the cabinet.

It was just a temporary change of ownership.