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Chapter 263 Global Changes (26) Bus No. [-]

In July, Shenhua City is about to usher in the scorching heat, and the unheated weather is depressing, especially in the middle of the night, when it is so hot that you can hardly breathe.

Shen Changming got up from the elevator at No. [-] subway station, and waited at Jinhua Station at Yafeng intersection when he got out of the station.

She got off the bus at the same place as the waiting people around her like a doll carved out of a mold, and they all played with their phones with their heads down.

There are no whistles from the surrounding vehicles, only the roar of the engine is not harsh, but it is the most familiar sound to everyone living in the city.

Occasionally, when a large truck passed by and the ground trembled after the shock, the people who lowered their heads looked up, and more or less retreated or turned sideways to make an avoidance gesture.

Chi la—a sound, it was the sound of the bus door opening. The people with lowered heads took time out of their busy schedules to look. When the No. 26 bus arrived at the stop, a large crowd poured out of the back door, and a large crowd of people poured out of the front door.

In urban areas, there are few obvious braking sounds when buses stop, but the sound of doors opening can always grab the hearts of waiting passengers instantly.

Shen Changming wanted to get on the No. 26 bus. As soon as the bus opened, she put away her mobile phone as quickly as possible and rushed to the front door with the crowd.

Because the waiting position was not far from the bus stop, Shen Changming was lucky enough to occupy a seat for the disabled in the middle after swiping his card on the bus.

After being seated, I waited, waiting for the bus to start again, watching other people squeeze to death as if watching a play.

In the carriage, apart from the passengers shouting to give way, and the driver anxiously saying to go inside, the rest is the sound of various card swiping by Didi.

Soon the front and rear doors were forcibly closed against the back of the last person, and the people in the car were filled to the brim like sausages.

The No. 26 bus finally departed. The scenery outside the window was reflected in the eyes of the passengers, and they began to back away. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Shen Changming is an intern teacher at No. [-] Middle School in Shenhua City. He was assigned to teach Chinese in the school as soon as he graduated.

The intern teacher has not yet been allocated accommodation, so after a day's work, like some students, she leaves school by subway and squeezes the bus during rush hour.

But she always felt that she had forgotten something, but she couldn't remember it.

No. 26 is the latest bus from the west of the city to the north of the city.The north of Shenhua City is in an undeveloped state, and the people of Shenhua City call it the countryside and the suburbs.

Depart from Fengya intersection at 05:30, and arrive at Chengbei Station after about two hours.

There are fewer and fewer people along the road, and the sky is getting darker. The moon and the sun appear in the sky at the same time. Compared with the domineering sun, the light-colored moon is dying.

At six o'clock, the sun was shut back into the darkness by Xishan, the clouds deliberately erased the traces of the sun, the stars worshiped around the moon at some point, and the night was triumphant.

The street lamps lit up a few degrees under the moonlight, tearing apart the pride of the night.

The No. 26 bus is completely far away from the urban area, and there are no intersecting streets and intersections around it. Instead, there are dense street trees that cover the sky and the moon, and the cicadas crawling on the trunks call for early summer.

Almost all the people on the bus got off, and now there are only six or seven young people left. They look a little tired, some rest with their eyes closed, and some are still working overtime with their laptops to deal with things.

Shen Changming propped his chin and stared blankly at the tree shadows passing by under the street lamp outside the window, and let herself go.

Every day when sitting on the last bus, Shen Changming is always in this state, dazed or thinking.

Suddenly, Shen Changming's eyes froze.

I saw a simple iron sign standing on the front right, and beside the iron sign stood two people, an old man and a young man. Unlike the general passengers waiting for the bus to look around, they stood upright like two sculptures.When the bus stopped in front of them, the two pairs of dull eyeballs moved, indicating that the two bodies still had signs of life.

Creaking——The driver instantly braked and leaned forward weightlessly.Leaving the urban driver's skills tinged with some suburban wildness.

Shen Changming saw the faces of the young and old.

The child had a sallow complexion and frizzy hair, and looked malnourished.The old man's face was wrinkled, old and thin, like a piece of human skin wrapped in white bones.It looks like a human but not a human, like a ghost but not a ghost.

It's hard to imagine that in Shenhua City, there can still be this kind of yellow-skinned and thin-skinned people who wander around like beggars without even knowing where they are.

Shen Changming guessed from the posture of the two of them that they would definitely not get on this bus.

"Changlin Station is here, please take your luggage and get off at the back door, please be careful when you open the door."

The woman's icy mechanical voice echoed in the compartment through the precise setting, and when the broadcast ended, the front and rear doors opened with a "squeak".

No one got out of the car.

Shen Changming looked at the simple rusty and mottled Changlin stop sign with some doubts. In her impression, the No. 26 bus didn't seem to have such a stop.

The bus only stopped for a few seconds, and the driver saw that there were no passengers getting on and off, so he planned to rush to the next stop quickly.

The car door was about to close, but at this moment, an old man and a young man next to the stop sign moved. They moved their bodies forward, and every joint was stiff like puppets.

The dull-looking two people reacted very quickly. The old man grabbed the door with his right hand, and the two door leaves hit the skinny black fingers. The passenger sitting in front took a breath.

The car door was opened again, and the elderly and children boarded the bus, followed by a night-like chill coming in from the outside.

The door finally closed, the driver stepped on the gas pedal, and the bus resumed driving on the dark road.

After getting on the bus, the old man dragged the child from the front to the back of the carriage. There were many empty seats in front of them, neither of them glanced at them, and their eyes were fixed on the seats behind.

Shen Changming thought that the grandparent and grandson must want to sit at the back, but the old man in the middle sat down next to Shen Changming without warning, and the child quietly stopped beside the old man, still looking at the last seat as if it was locked.

The moment the old man sat down, Shen Changming's heart skipped a beat, and he felt a little uncomfortable for some reason. Before she could think about the discomfort, a stench came from the old man, covering most of the space.

As a high school teacher, Shen Changming's education made her reluctant to get up and change to another seat immediately. Anyway, she got off the bus in three stops.

Others around were obviously less friendly.

"What's the smell? Why is it so stinky? Open the window for some ventilation."

"The child won't be pooping in the crotch, why don't adults clean it up before taking the child into the car."

"Hurry up, are you a beggar?"

"Do you think that child has some brain problems?"

The windows were opened, and the ventilation in the car was also turned on by the driver, but the smell in the car did not improve, but it was because the stench made the atmosphere in the car much more lively.

City people will try their best not to ridicule those disadvantaged groups, but when one or two start to promote a sense of gregariousness or superiority, the maintenance of superficial gentlemen will no longer exist.

The old man and the child froze and did not move, as if they were not the ones being talked about, and they seemed to be ashamed to maintain their composure.

Shen Changming listened to the arrogance of the passengers in the car intentionally or unintentionally, and was a little annoyed by the smell of the old man. She took out her mobile phone and looked at it, her eyes shrank suddenly.

It was night: 20:41 that suddenly jumped into the line of sight!
Bus No. 26 departs at 05:30, and it usually takes about two hours to reach the terminal station. It stands to reason that they can arrive at Chengbei Station at eight o'clock at the latest, and now it has been more than an hour longer.

What's more, the driver is not driving slowly today. Based on Shen Changming's past experience, they should be able to reach Chengbei Station before 07:30!

(End of this chapter)