[Mystery, imaginative twists, rule-based horror, infinite loop, logical deduction, global livestream, national destiny, System, ensemble cast]
The last midnight bus charges two yuan a ticket.
Lu Ye has no coins, so he can only hand the ghost driver a ten-million-yuan ghost note.
The rules say: Cash must be given change in person.
But the ghost driver’s change box contains only three hundred and twenty yuan.
If he can’t make change, that counts as a breach of contract.
The rules trap the ghost driver for ten minutes, while Lu Ye is forced to take the wheel and assume responsibility for every accident involving the bus.
Up ahead, three headless ghosts block the road.
Behind him, a hanged ghost without a ticket wants to check his.
Lu Ye rams through the headless ghosts, then puts on a conductor’s cap and checks the hanged ghost’s job assignment and ticket instead. In the end, he makes it scrub blood off the floor for five minutes.
Everyone else enters a ghost story looking for a way to survive.
Lu Ye just stares at the rules and asks: Who wrote them? Who enforces them? Who has the authority?
He can see the anomalies left behind as the rules operate: where they’ll jam, where they can be tripped, and who will ultimately pay the price.
The ghost bus, the crooked hospital, the silent exam city…
The more Lu Ye discovers, the more he realizes the rules conceal more than just loopholes.
They also conceal…
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