Chapter 13 Train Zero: The Final Judgment Begins...

Just as Jiang Yang was about to press the button for the third time, a dark figure finally appeared in the lounge of carriage number 8.

So that's why people dawdle at work, huh? Jiang Yang pouted and secretly touched the cricket.

The door opened, revealing eight perfect teeth. He held up his ID card at head level. "Hello, I found an ID card!"

The two stood frozen at the door for a long time before the train conductor reacted, took out a booklet from the other side, and tossed it over, saying, "Register."

The booklet is a new page, with headings indicating the lost item information and the finder's personal information.

Jiang Yang hunched over, writing each word slowly and deliberately, while glancing furtively at the characters.

That shouldn't be the case.

The train conductor's hand, hanging at his side, trembled almost imperceptibly. Jiang Yang's eyes lit up, and he drew the outline of the small square with his pen.

"Sorry, I haven't eaten yet, my hand is shaking a bit," she said, tearing off the page neatly and holding the pen to start registering again on the new page.

He had only written one word when he straightened up and said to himself, "You said the owner isn't on the bus, maybe she's in some no-owner area? I happen to be going that way, why don't I take her there?"

The train conductor trembled even more noticeably, and Jiang Yang took a step back in a defensive stance, saying, "Don't get agitated."

"One month."

"What?"

"She only has one month left," the hoarse voice seemed to carry a hint of sorrow.

"But, is the mission no longer necessary?"

The black mist slammed into Jiang Yang, pushing him against the carriage wall. After a moment of dizziness, the door to the rest room slammed shut, and the train conductor's voice came from inside, "It's ready."

Jiang Yang rubbed her chest hard, tears welling up in her eyes from the pain, and opened the panel to take a look.

[Terminated - Mission Released: D4 - Xiaomei's ID Card]

[NPC-Exclusive Quest: Find Xiao Mei]

[Duration: One month]

"No, let me finish what I have to say," Jiang Yang muttered as she walked toward the food truck.

But after taking only a few steps, he was surprised to find that something seemed to have changed inside the carriage.

He strode into the dining car, ignoring the arm entangled in the aisle, which confirmed his suspicion: the hidden door for the security guard was still hanging in its original place.

Hmm... Xiaomei is reliable.

Of course, Jiang Yang didn't forget to bring his own Bawang mineral water before going in.

But he didn't know that a figure had been silently following behind him all along.

[Zero Train Observation Room - Full View]

"Go to the Hanged Man, he's not being disturbed there!"

"What! The Hanged Man has started observation! He's here!"

...

[Zero Train Observation Room - The Hanged Man's Perspective]

"Wait, where is he?"

"It's really nauseating to look at something that makes me have a deep-sea phobia for too long."

"Could it be in his well...?"

"Yes, we are in the well now," as if knowing what the observation room would say.

Of course, no one could have imagined that there would be such a vast, ocean-like space beneath the hanging man's well, and that he could walk through it as if on flat ground.

"This is the first time I've ever seen the boss go into a well by himself!"

"Boss's strength has broken through!! Ahhh!!"

"So what are they planning to do now? (Ant rubs its hands excitedly)"

"Tsk tsk, they're starting to create hype again~ A bunch of sycophants."

The observation room was crowded with observers, and some dissenting observers appeared, but they were quickly silenced by the other observers.

The Hanged Man stopped in front of a small door, and the comments section paused as his voice echoed in the video.

He was completely covered by a black robe, with only his sharp eyes showing. Occasionally, like now, he would raise his hand and lightly touch the panel, his wide sleeves slipping down to reveal a long, slender hand with distinct knuckles.

"Let's go and wait for an old friend to come."

Rewind the time to before the safety officer locked up the violator, and the person hanging upside down opened the door and waited in carriage number 10, which did not exist in K0027.

Carriage No. 10

Normally, trains are used for storing luggage, but on this train, the nearly 100-square-meter carriage was filled with countless dark figures standing side by side.

The light was dim, and one could vaguely see that the top of the hooks was covered in rusty spikes. Some of the hooks had caught fishermen with their eyes closed, their fate unknown.

Upon entering, Jiang Yang was startled by the scene before him; the stench of rotting corpses filling the air nearly made him vomit.

Carefully avoiding the shadows, I ventured deeper in. Fortunately, there weren't many in the row, and I could roughly tell with a glance whether they were fresh pork hanging up today (crossed out) shadows.

Suddenly, he was kicked in the foot. Looking down, he saw that the shinbone had fallen from someone's body, one on the left and one on the right. His right leg had been kicked far away.

Turning around again, he almost bumped into a skull that was nothing but a skeleton. The empty eye sockets made Jiang Yang's already meager SAN value drop by two drops.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to bother you, I'm so sorry..." Jiang Yang bowed as he turned to the side, changed direction, and continued forward through a gap.

Perhaps as compensation for his fright, after taking only a few steps, he saw a fresh, dark shadow still dripping with slime, and hurriedly took out a bottle of mineral water and opened it.

The black viscous liquid dripped into the transparent bottle, only remaining on the surface for a moment before dissolving completely.

With dust on his knees, Jiang Yang frowned and reluctantly reached out to dust it off.

The hanging shadow swayed unwillingly, the chain above it clanging as it swung. Jiang Yang pretended to soothe it, taking the opportunity to rub the ashes off his fingertips on the black mist. "Use some of your blood, okay, okay, don't be angry, Ou."

He discovered that the restrained shadowy figure was temporarily powerless to attack.

"Jiang Yang, you still haven't gotten rid of your bad habits?" The Hanged Man's sinister voice rang out from the corner.

[Zero Train Observation Room - The Hanged Man]

"Help! Could the old friend the Hanged Man was talking about be him?!"

"But isn't he a newcomer?"

"You actually believed he was a newbie, okay?"

"We...know each other?" Jiang Yang tilted his head, the upside-down man blending into the shadows and not being clearly visible.

"Oh, sorry, I forgot you don't like opening the observation room."

[The Hanged Man closes the observed perspective]

A chorus of wails filled the observation room.

"I feel like we're missing out on something with our family!"

“Same feeling +1”

“I don’t understand what you’re talking about,” Jiang Yang said, taking out his glasses and putting them on. “However, you might as well move forward a bit. I’m nearsighted and have night blindness, so I might not be able to see very clearly.”

The Hanged Man took a step forward. "I heard you've lost your memory?"

"Who told you that? I think I just arrived."

"Jiang Yang, what are you afraid of?" The Hanged Man took another step forward. The dark shadow that had been blocking their way was swallowed up by the well that suddenly appeared at his feet, and Jiang Yang unconsciously stepped back.

"The Hanged Man?"

"You remember now?"

"Please, Hanged Man, help me find Huang Si and bring him back to life!"

"you!"

The Hanged Man wanted to move forward, but the system rules forced him to open the panel.

The oppressive feeling of death only gradually eased after the Hanged Man disappeared from the spot. Fortunately, the privileges that the system had initially given him had become backup options after countless choices.

Of course, this was indeed a huge gamble. If it were Huang Si here, he would have to find a way to leave first, but he bet it was Huang Er.

"Huang Er! How do you expect me to recognize you?!" Jiang Yang shouted at the top of his lungs.

The dark figure, whose blood had been drawn by Jiang Yang, swayed again. "You should have said it was you earlier! You made me shout so loudly!"

Huang Er remained silent. Having been forced to watch the spectacle for so long, he knew he absolutely couldn't admit that he had actually seen it.

He's starting to doubt which one is the real Jiang Yang.

Of course, Jiang Yang found out much, much later, from Huang Si.

Huang Er thought that Jiang Yang was probably having an affair with the Hanged Man.

Jiang Yang thought, "Which leg is no good? I'll cut it off along with yours."

A bottle of mineral water was poured over his head, slowly revealing Huang Er inside. The black mist dissipated, and he fell straight to the ground with a thud.

"Has he lost his ability to move?" Jiang Yang nudged him with his toe. Huang Er's eyes were tightly closed, and his slightly trembling eyelashes betrayed his condition, but Jiang Yang didn't notice.

He took out a red apple and tossed it twice in his palm. "You got a good deal. Remember to pay me back later."

"Oh no, I've lost the knife." He searched his own pockets to no avail, so he had no choice but to search Huang Er's pockets. The key from Huang Er's mission also fell out.

Nan Ke and Xie Lu had already reached the driver's cab. Of course, Xie Lu didn't know how to drive the train, but they found the train conductor's manual.

Nan Ke's vision went black at the sight of these things, so he simply stood aside and waited for Xie Lu to tinker with them.

The door to the power supply was half-open. Nan Ke pulled it open, revealing a hastily wrapped white tape, unlike the tape Meng Jiang had used back then.

"No wonder..." He had already guessed that Jiang Yang was behind it.

"What's wrong?" Xie Lu asked.

"It's alright," Nan Ke returned to Xie Lu's side, "How are you?"

"One button is missing."

Whether they were able to get into the driver's cab smoothly or because Xiong Bingxin and her group forced their way into the sleeper berth to attract the safety officer's attention, no one knows what will happen after they press the button.

"I'll do it," Nan Ke said without hesitation.

“You…don’t need to worry,” Xie Lu realized Nan Ke’s intention.

Pressing down would be going against the tower, and Nan Ke didn't want to put Xie Lu in a difficult position.

"Dear passengers, due to route changes, there will be no stops along the way..."

"Next stop, No Man's Land Station, estimated arrival time is 1 hour."

The final trial of Train Zero begins.

Before getting off the train, please ensure you have a paper ticket to No Man's Land.

Players without tickets can purchase them at the train conductor's lounge if they have sufficient funds.

[Train Zero is about to crash, players stranded on Train Zero...]

The system seems to be stuck.

The Hanged Man mask, hidden beneath its mask, curled into a disdainful smile as he traveled through the Well of Despair to Train Zero to save Huang Si from the source.

Wandering through the vast ocean of time, he selected the nodes where other players were still alive and collected them into the well.

"Want to be a good person?"

"Hahahahaha," he laughed uncontrollably.

"I will grant your wish."

[Train Zero is about to crash; no players remaining on Train Zero can be detected.]

After eating the apple, Huang Er's tense body finally relaxed, a cigarette dangling from his lips as he seemed lost in thought.

As the broadcast sounded, Jiang Yang's expression darkened, then her eyes crinkled into a smile, "Second Brother, you go out first. Nan Ke and the others should be outside."

"And what about you?" Huang Er didn't expose Jiang Yang.

"I still have tasks to do."

After thinking for a moment, Huang Er handed the key to Jiang Yang, "There's another door over there, why don't you help me make it too?"

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