The Death Knell

The car slid over the water, and strangely, it made a squeaking sound when braking, as if the water was solid to it.

The tires stopped rotating, and the passenger door opened facing the two of them. A small sign was posted on the stairs in the door, which read, 'Watch your steps? ', but that question mark looks a bit like the number '2' partially obscured by mud.

The driver is a praying mantis. He is wearing dark blue work clothes with a loose collar. Although it is not clear how it controls the steering wheel with a pair of scythes, its big compound eyes are staring at the door, as if Asking people who were caught in the rain if they wanted to get in the car.

Of course you have to get in the car. Although I don't know what the purpose of this puzzle game is, it is obviously a safer choice to play according to the other party's design for the time being.

Su Ming can still contact the adjutant, and if he wants to leave, he can do so at any time.

But if he leaves, the Hand of Nothingness will definitely not appear, and then he will intervene in the game Deathstroke is playing on the two earths and deliberately cause trouble.

Therefore, when you get in the car and want to kill someone, you must first find the person.

Picking up his cousin whose uniform had a stale smell due to being wet, and covering the cat on his head, Deathstroke jumped onto the bus in one step. Then he heard the air pump running and the door slamming shut behind him.

The carriage was empty, with no other passengers except the driver Mantis.

This is a common interstate long-distance bus in the United States. In the normal world, there are often all kinds of desperate people on this bus, such as orphans who want to go to relatives after their family members die, and people who want to run away secretly after committing a crime. Street activists, mules that have just come from the Mexican border but are carrying other people's goods, etc.

Of course, there are more of those office workers who are groggy and sleep from the moment they get in the car, like zombies on business trips. They are always the backdrop for those special people.

In the United States, cars and gas are very cheap. If you can't afford them and have to take an interstate bus to go out, it will be really miserable.

There was a narrow aisle with two rows of tattered seats on each side. The carriage was still dirty, and there were cockroaches crawling in the corners. No matter how you looked at it, this was an ordinary bus.

The driver had no intention of letting them pay. He stepped on the accelerator and the car started to move. Although the road was flooded with water, he seemed to know where to drive.

There is only silver between heaven and earth, and looking out from the car window, the scenery is no different.

"Can you understand English?" Su Ming tried to communicate with the driver. After all, there seemed to be not many people in the car with whom he could communicate.

Mantis just glanced at him, then took off a pair of sunglasses from the sun visor and put them on his face. I will tell you if you can understand English, but this obviously meant that strangers should not be approached.

"Ah, as expected, I still have to use this, my physical persuasion device, or the Difference Eraser."

Seeing this reaction, Deadpool smiled and pulled out the samurai sword from his back with a backhand. He made a show of swordsmanship and prepared to draw on the driver's neck:

"I've seen this kind of uncooperative people a lot. Normally, I would put fire ants on their balls, then cut off their fingers one by one and stuff them into their anus, so that they wouldn't feel itchy. It can be scratched. But now there is a difficulty. The mantis has no fingers. Cousin, what do you think I should do?"

"Don't do anything."

The driver didn't want to talk to anyone, and Su Ming didn't force him. He pulled his cousin to the back and held the cat in his arms:

"Maybe this is equivalent to a cutscene. After a while, something will happen in the car, and the story has nothing to do with the driver. Besides, even elementary school students should know not to kill the driver while the vehicle is moving."

Only the driver, Mantis, knows the road, so don’t we have to leave him alive?

Su Ming didn't want to let the strangulation kill the insect's head. However, the game had just begun. Before getting specific clues about the location of the Hand of Nothingness, it was better not to rush out of the game frame.

"I don't know, I haven't killed a bus driver before." Deadpool tilted his head and began to recall, but brain cancer made his memory unclear. He couldn't even remember whether he had a monthly pass for the New York subway.

However, when the two of them came to sit in the first row behind the driver's seat, Deadpool tilted his head and discovered another sign stuck behind the driver's seat.

‘Please do not talk to the driver. ’

That’s what it says on the brand, and it also draws a picture of a cockroach, and then covers the cockroach with a red ‘x’ symbol, as if to promote pest control.

When Deadpool saw the sticker, Deathstroke also saw it. He squinted his eyes, then put the cat on his lap and smiled:

"Strangulation!"

The black sludge-like creature flowed out of the cracks in his armor and ate the mantis on the driver's seat as fast as lightning, leaving only the pair of sunglasses spit out to Wade. It seemed that it didn't want to eat glass today.

And even though the mantis was killed and its brains were strangled and eaten, the car was still driving normally. No one was holding the steering wheel, but it could turn the direction independently without any bumps.

There was no living thing in the empty driver's seat, but the clicking sound when the car was in gear could still be heard from time to time.

"Tsk, am I right? Hum, this mantis looks really mean at first glance, he should be killed."

Wade didn't care why his cousin said he couldn't kill him one second, but he could kill him the next second. He couldn't figure it out, but he didn't mind speaking out to make his presence felt.

"I almost got misled into thinking that the person in the driver's seat was driving the car."

Su Ming looked down at the corner of the carriage. The cockroach was still there. As if feeling the gaze, its beard nodded up and down, and the death knell also nodded to it:

"It turns out that the cockroach in the carriage is the driver, and the mantis is a mentally ill passenger."

"You're saying that, it means it doesn't have the information you want in its mind, cat?" The big cat also looked down at the cockroach and wiped its mouth. The North American cockroach looked a bit fat.

How does a cockroach control the bus remotely from the carriage?

Because this is a game world formed under the control of external forces, there is no need to delve into what is possible and what is logical.

Here, those are useless. The game is meant for playing, not for you to study deep theories or pursue the roots of the universe.

There is logic in this world, but whether the logic recognized by the Hand of Nothingness is the logic of a madman is another matter.

"She is a female mantis, and she only has crazy memories of eating her spouse in her mind. She loves her husband, but she has to eat him just because that is the rule of the mantis world. The void hand seems to be implying something, but that is not important. , she doesn’t have the information I need.”

Su Ming crossed his legs and looked out the window through the glass. At this time, the car had already driven out on the silver water. He didn't know how far away. He could see everyone's reflections on the water, and the reflections were also there. Look at him.

"Haha, no, it won't be so vulgar, right?"

The next second, Su Ming slowly shook his head, as if he had discovered something, and even laughed out loud.