Chapter 5: The Sixth or Seventh Cycle of Time

Chapter 5: The Sixth or Seventh Cycle of Time

A person who has had a bad experience tends to run away from reality.

And the easiest way to escape reality is to fall asleep and not wake up.

So, when Li Shiqing realised that she was slowly regaining consciousness, she wouldn't even open her eyes and continued to pretend to sleep.

Who knows what will happen when you wake up? What if it's another fatigue bombardment of "questioning"?

"Nope!"

After a few moments of sleep with her eyes closed, Li Shiqing began to feel something unusual.

Does the hospital bed have this rocking sensation?

Besides, she doesn't seem to be lying down!

Could it be that they are moving themselves to some other place?

Li Shiqing was so shocked by the thought that she could no longer pretend to be asleep and opened her eyes in a hurry.

She was absolutely right in thinking that she was now in a bus and was moving with it.

Looking out the opposite window, a blue road sign has just been passed, the car is not going fast and the words " River Road" can be faintly seen on it.

Didn't the two officers say that the River Road section was closed due to a car accident?

Were they going to drive her to the scene to see it and stimulate her to recall some of the circumstances?

Li Shiqing, desperately trying to keep the panic out of her mind, looked around her, but it didn't look right.

It wasn't the police car she had imagined, it was just an ordinary bus anyhow.

She didn't look like she was being escorted anywhere either. There wasn't a single person in a police uniform on the bus, and apart from a few young people, most of them were old men and women.

Probably because of her movements, the passenger next door, who had been resting with his head against the window, was also awakened by her movements and opened his eyes in a daze, rubbing them.

"Crikey, what's going on!"

As he rubbed, his movements just stopped and his eyes widened as he looked around.

Then, all at once, he jumped up and kept touching himself like a psychopath, shining his face in the car window and picking his ears, like a psychotic narcissist.

Li Shiqing didn't care what people were surprised about, she had had enough surprises for a while and now she just wanted to call her family.

Speaking of phone calls ......

Is that a mobile phone sinking into your pocket?

Officer Jiang didn't say she wasn't allowed to communicate with the public? Why did you give her back her phone?

As Li Shiqing panicked and pulled her phone out of her pocket, the inexplicable person next door tapped her on the shoulder and looked at her as if she had seen a ghost.

"How is it you? Why are you here? No, how come we're still here?"

His voice was dry and harsh, and he couldn't stop rubbing his ears as he spoke.

"Who are you?"

Li Shiqing holds the phone and looks at Boy with glasses in confusion.

"Do I know you?"

The Boy with the glasses actually froze for a moment when he heard what Li Shiqing said, looking agitated, "You don't know me? You made me suffer so much! After you pulled me off the bus, I ......"

After a moment, he froze again and said instead, "No, I should thank you, if you hadn't been so good to me ......"

"I don't know you!"

At the sight of his agitated and incoherent face, Li Shiqing recoiled in horror, almost falling backwards into the car seat.

Could it be that she had met an onset psychopath?

When she saw an empty seat at the back, she got up without thinking and changed seats, running to the back, away from that inexplicable person.

As soon as she sat on her butt, she immediately called her mother.

While waiting for the call to be dialed, Li Shiqing's eyes saw the boy with glasses look out of the car window for a while, then suddenly jump up and run straight to the driver.

"Hey mum, I'm telling you, I ......"

When the call was finally answered, Li Shiqing spoke excitedly at the familiar voice on the other end of the line, wanting to tell her family about the strange events she had encountered earlier.

Her voice, however, was completely drowned out by someone's roar.

"Driver, pull over now! Something's going to happen to this car!"

Boy with glasses looks terrified and stands next to the driver shouting, "This car can't go on the bridge! It's dangerous!"

"Who told you something was going to happen? What's going to happen?"

It was probably the first time the driver had encountered such a thing, and his voice was a bit flustered, "What are you talking nonsense about!"

"Hey, what did you just say? You seem to be making a lot of noise over there? I didn't hear it ......"

Li Shiqing silently averted her gaze.

Even if it was a dream or a misplaced memory, she didn't want to lock eyes with a madman.

"Sorry, let me out for a minute."

Instead of shouting, as Li Shiqing remembered, this Boy restrained his emotions and asked her to move aside while trembling slightly.

Li Shiqing rushed to her feet and, as she had done last time, moved to the nearest available seat.

It's horrible!

A calmed down lunatic is worse than an emotional one!

Boy got out of his seat and looked around the carriage, finally locking his eyes on the safety hammer fixed to the window.

Li Shiqing drew a breath of cold air when she saw Boy's eyes move to the safety hammer.

Is this the rhythm of a broken window?

This man is not only crazy, but I'm afraid he has serious tendencies to endanger society!

As she watched the Boy reaching for the safety hammer in the window, Li Shiqing finally stopped herself.

"What are you doing? That's not very nice, is it?"

The safety hammer he was about to take off was directly above her head.

Hearing Li Shiqing speaking, he glanced down at me, looking at her with a look that was both strange and odd.

"Are you asking what I'm up to?"

He smiles softly at Li Shiqing and asks himself a question.

"I'm going to make the car stop."

Then, the safety hammer was removed.

The moment the safety hammer was pulled off, an ear-splitting alarm sounded in the carriage.

The siren was so horrible, not only was it extremely loud, but it was also sharp and thin, and when the sharp siren sounded overhead, Li Shiqing felt a "buzz" in his right ear, and then he couldn't hear anything at all.

Does this dream world even come with five senses?

This is not scientific!

She covered her right ear in pain and watched as a number of dozing people in the carriage were startled awake and covered their ears as she had done.

Boy, however, stood there as if nothing had happened and read the instructions posted next to the hammer before trying to tap on the window.

"Driver, stop the car! Someone's trying to break the window!"

Someone in the car shouted in panic.

"Stop the car quickly!"

"What's happening? What's going on back there? Ah what's rattling!"

The driver was even more flustered than the passengers, and it was probably the first time he had met a passenger who had taken the safety hammer off.

"Someone has taken off the safety hammer and is breaking the window! Stop the car, driver!"

The car was a mess and the windows began to crack a little as Boy pounded on them.

The commotion inside the bus drew the attention of many people on the road. Li Shiqing saw some cars either slowing down or speeding up, all trying to stay away from the bus, after all, no one knew what was happening on it.

Soon, a large empty space on the road near this vehicle became available.

The angry passengers pounced on Boy with glasses behind her, subduing him once more, and the car, too, began to slow down slowly and more.

Li Shiqing did not panic at the sight of the subdued Boy and did not even struggle, allowing people to pin him to the ground and grab the hammer.

When he saw Li Shiqing looking at him, Boy, who was pinned to the ground and covered in wreckage, even hooked a smile at the corner of his mouth at her.

It's really crazy!

Li Shiqing rubbed the goose bumps that had risen on her arms, not quite sure it was just a dream.

So plain she couldn't dream up such a perversion.

So it's still her brain that's broken?

If you tell the officers about your "memory", you won't be believed, will you?

Just as Li Shiqing and the subdued Boy with glasses thought the car would pull over, a motorbike came out of nowhere and crashed straight into the bus, which was about to pull over.

Squeak!

The driver was startled and reflexively jerked the steering wheel to dodge. The car's tyres made a harsh scraping sound and the car lost control once again, crashing into the opposite lane.

Amidst screams, Li Shiqing watched as the bus crashed into the oncoming tanker ......

Author's Note: Changed to third person