Train to Moscow
The train did not stop because the last passenger got on board. Soon the train continued to move forward steadily. There were still 600 kilometers from Ukraine to Moscow, which meant it would take another ten hours to reach the destination.
This was a long experience, and Jiang Kexin, who was sitting with Ellisted, noticed a little detail, a detail that would be missed if he didn't look carefully. He put his hands on the window and saw that a little bit of tiny ice had condensed outside the window.
Then, Jiang Kexin looked over and noticed that the snow outside was getting heavier. She didn't know when it started, but it slowly accumulated to a height of about four centimeters.
However, everything that happened outside had no impact on the train. Jiang Kexin did not take this abnormality to heart. If it were four years ago, Jiang Kexin might have taken it to heart.
But now is the world of the Ascension Race, and as mentioned before, the world of the Ascension Race is based on reality, and the weather here is as weird as the weather in reality.
Jiang Kexin knew that the story was about to unfold, and he had to solve the story and find the doubts to successfully pass it.
The train continued to move and the staff's voice came over the loudspeaker.
[The next stop is Moscow... The next stop is Moscow.]
The train was very quiet, so as soon as Tana got on, she noticed Ellisted raising his hand high in his seat. He looked very ostentatious, with the sunglasses that he had not taken off just now hanging on his nose. To be honest, the way he greeted people now looked like a bald eagle.
Although Tana still smiled friendly, she was typing on the channel.
Tana: [Well, Ellisted, what other settings do you have? Honestly, with all due respect, you look so stupid.]
Ellisted didn't reply. He didn't even check his teammates' channel. He was immersed in role-playing and continued with his introduction.
"Tana, you must be Tana, right? What I said is absolutely nonsense. No one else except you took the train to Moscow like us. By the way, I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Elise, and this is our other friend, Jiang Kexin."
Ellisted hugged Jiang Kexin, who was still thinking about something and lost in thought, and pointed at himself with his other hand. Then Ellisted showed an eight-toothed smile, which was particularly eye-catching against the sunglasses.
Tana shifted her gaze from Ellisted to Jiang Kexin who was in her arms. He had an oriental face, and it seemed that the new player's true identity was also an oriental.
The copy also has some thoughtful settings. It gives settings that suit each country. You cannot change this yourself. The copy will never abruptly ask you to play as someone from another country.
However, it is said that there are other worlds in the group dungeon, where there is no distinction between countries and it is a different world for them.
But they haven't been there yet.
"Hello, I'm Tana. Ellisted, what you think is exactly the same as mine. It's the same..."
Tana pushed the luggage up and sat next to Ellisted. Although she smiled gently, there was sarcasm in her eyes.
"So lively."
After confronting Ellisted daily and being satisfied with seeing Ellisted's incompetent rage, Tana turned to ask Jiang Kexin.
"Hello, Jiang. Have you been waiting for me for a long time? I'm looking forward to meeting you."
However, when Tana got on the train, Jiang Kexin began to think about the hundreds of hardships they might encounter, such as poisoning and train out of control.
He needs to find out what is possible before a crime occurs on this train and prevent and solve it.
After waiting for a while without any reply, Tana looked at Ellisted who was still hugging Jiang Kexin.
Ellisted and Tana looked at each other.
Ellisted shrugged his shoulders helplessly, lowered his head, noticed Jiang Kexin frowned and looked worried, and pulled Jiang Kexin's face.
Jiang Kexin covered her face in pain, whimpered, and looked at the culprit.
Ellisted withdrew his hand, looked around, then repeated it uncertainly in a long voice.
"Jiang, Tana is calling you? Why do you look so worried? Relax, buddy, there's nothing to worry about."
After hearing this, Jiang Kexin dragged her chin and straightened her clothes. This guy Ellisted didn't understand that she was worried about them.
He had been extremely nervous ever since he boarded the train in Tana, and he was nervous about more than one thing.
He was worried about what would happen on the train and what he would have to do to solve the case.
Solving this case determines whether he can leave this world and whether the country will fail because of him.
Speaking of this, no one knew what happened to Miss Liu Ke. He was pulled in, which meant that Miss Liu Ke had sacrificed herself.
No, Jiang Kexin, you have to calm down.
Jiang Kexin quickly calmed down. He looked at Tana who was worried about him and Ellisted who was smiling, and sighed deeply.
These two were the unlucky ones, they might have to be poisoned or something like that soon. Anyway, because of their bad luck, Jiang Kexin didn't mind their offense, such as someone shamelessly hugging him.
But Jiang Kexin couldn't chat peacefully with the two of them about friendship or something like that, so she was thinking about how to deal with it.
He touched the glass and looked at the constantly changing scenery outside the glass. As he looked, Jiang Kexin thought of something, just like the constantly changing scenery outside.
There was nothing suspicious on the train, but this frequent dream was definitely a suspicion as to the real reason for their acquaintance. Or maybe it was a clue for him?
Why doesn't he look for the reason here? This topic can also be used to deal with these two guys.
Jiang Kexin's brows relaxed and she asked happily.
"I'm not sad. On the contrary, I'm very happy. We met because of the same dream. It does sound very romantic. By the way, how can you be so sure that the place that appeared in the dream is in Moscow?"
No way, Jiang Ke thought, it's not romantic at all. In his opinion, becoming friends just because of an unfounded dream is too fake.
But that's not what he should be thinking about now.
He simply wanted to know what the dream was and why they were so sure that the dream took place in Moscow.
If Jiang Kexin knew these words, she might be able to find some useful clues from them.
Everyone in the live broadcast room followed Jiang Kexin's perspective and watched for a long time. Seeing that Jiang Kexin was always discussing the same dream or something, everyone started discussing it again. However, there were actually a lot of self-exposures in these discussions.
[Honestly, when did such a strange thing happen in our world? Having the same dream is so strange.]
[In fact, while most of your attention has been drawn to the Chosen One, there are indeed many strange things in the corners of this world, some of which you have never noticed.]
Ah, that's right. We're all looking forward because of the Latitude Ascension Race, but we rarely pay attention to the Earth itself. I remember last time...
[Stop being so pretentious, everyone. This isn't the place for all your so-called strange things. After all, what do these strange things have to do with our Ascension Competition? They're not folk customs, nor are they mysteries. Most importantly, they're caused by natural disasters.]
What does natural disaster have to do with our failure to properly explore the inner workings of this world?
It's completely irrelevant, and it doesn't make sense at all. If you ask me, our country has definitely failed this time. There's no way human power can solve a natural disaster, and there's no need for him to solve it.]
[Don't say that, you're too negative. Also, I don't agree with what you said. First of all, you're right, those things have nothing to do with the Ascension Race. However, we who encounter these strange things are all part of Earth.]
Jiang Kexin sat in the stable car waiting for the two people's answers.
Tana and Ellisted looked at each other and saw something wrong in their eyes.
The two of them looked up at the sky and at the ground, but not at Jiang Kexin.
Ellisted: "No, why is this player still trying to sabotage us? Dreams, dreams, what exactly is Tana's dream like? Why are we so sure it's in Moscow?"
Tana: [Well, the brief introduction we received doesn't have a detailed background, just a sentence about three people who met in a dream boarding a train to Moscow. Wait... I don't think this is right, Ellisted. Are you sure he's a player? Why do I feel like he's trying to get information out of us? If he's a player, would he need to ask us questions?]
Ellisted: "Come on, Tana, what do you mean? Do you not trust the system I spent a lot of money on?"
We could think of it this way: maybe he didn't know we were players? If he was a newcomer, that's entirely possible. That would explain why he sometimes seemed strange. Now, doesn't that make sense? This dungeon is his first, and he doesn't have any extra points to redeem for the Native Classification System. So, he mistook us for Natives.
Tana: [Okay, okay, I don't disbelieve you. Regardless of what this player thinks, he doesn't have a teammate channel. This means we can't contact him at all, and there's no way to tell him that we don't know about this dream.]
"But, in reality, our character cards set us up to know each other because of this incident. It would be too OOC if we didn't know what was going on in the dream, wouldn't it? Ellisted, you take care of it."
Ellisted sighed, forced a smile, withdrew his gaze from Tana, rubbed his hands, and then looked up at Jiang Kexin with a confident smile.
Ellisted was grateful for the character card of a sunny and cheerful American college student that he randomly drew, which unexpectedly came in handy at the critical moment.
Ellisted replied to Jiang Kexin confidently without any OOC.
"Actually, I was the one who suggested Moscow. I had a hunch that the dream scene must be Moscow. I've never been to Moscow, but I've heard it's very romantic. Think about it, isn't a romantic city perfect for us?"
"Jiang, don't worry so much. We will experience a romantic trip and you will definitely like it."
Ellisted added in his heart that it would indeed be very romantic when the dungeon unfolded, and he was not lying.
Tana nodded in agreement.
Jiang Kexin leaned against the window helplessly. It was obvious that he couldn't get anything out of him. So this group of people had no idea whether the scene in the dream was related to Moscow. They were just doing it purely for romance.
He had nothing to say.
Tana leaned back in her chair and patted Jiang Kexin soothingly. She couldn't bear to see a beautiful woman sad. In Tana's eyes, Jiang Kexin had the fragility of an oriental porcelain doll, which made her subconsciously take care of her.
Jiang Kexin forced a smile at Tana. He frowned and looked outside. Snowflakes were falling outside the window. He had not found any clues yet.
We are about to face the unknown, and the unknown is always the most terrifying. What will happen?
Jiang Kexin was at a loss.
When the three of them calmed down, the train suddenly started to move slower and slower.
Until the train suddenly shook violently. After a jolt, the train seemed to resume its movement and continued to move slowly. Jiang Kexin suddenly became nervous. He stood up and looked around. Is it now?
Is it going to appear?
Inside the train carriage, the scenery outside the window slowly slid by with the roar. The snow was still heavy, and the glass windows outside were stained with some white mist.
Jiang Kexin also saw many empty seats and luggage racks on both sides of the seats, with two suitcases of different sizes placed on them, and the curtains by the windows were sometimes opened and sometimes closed.
Everything was ordinary, no screams, no corpses, no smell of blood, and no case.
If anything, it was strange that there were only three of them in the train.
Everything was in order except for the three of them, but if that were the case.
Jiang Ke thought, was it because of the bumpy ride just now?
There must be something he hadn't noticed.
Tana frowned as she watched Jiang Kexin's actions. She was now certain that this player was a novice, and that this novice must have encountered some special situation and mistakenly entered their copy.
Newbies, they're really cute. Tana changed her previous attitude and, under Ellisted's stunned, disbelieving gaze, she pressed down Jiang Kexin, who was wary. Under Jiang Kexin's questioning gaze, Tana maintained a gentle smile: "I think I can help a little. Jiang, don't be so nervous, and trust your friends a little more."
Although due to their personalities, they are unable to communicate with each other and cannot tell each other that we are a team and we will complete the game together.
But Tana believed that her next actions would make Jiang Kexin realize that they were the same as him.
What Tana needs to do is use the skill that all players will use - reconnaissance.
If you want to know if something is wrong indoors or somewhere in a dungeon, you need to behave appropriately and a reconnaissance will be automatically triggered. After the reconnaissance is triggered, a random roll will be made. If the roll value is smaller than your own value, it is a success, and if it is larger than your own value, it is a failure.
Tana's Investigative check result: 1d100 = 42/60 "Success"
So from Tana's perspective, she suddenly noticed that although the carriage was warm, there was a small cold breeze blowing past her head.
This shouldn't happen, Tana thought. The train is well sealed, especially after the staff raised the temperature inside the train, this kind of cold air shouldn't exist.
It seems that she has detected something unusual with the train.
This shouldn’t be the case, Jiang Kexin was also thinking, his eyes wide open.
He just heard something, something about the KP system and Tana's successful reconnaissance. What on earth was that?
Jiang Kexin remained calm on the surface, but she was uneasy inside. No one had ever told him that the case would include supernatural events.
Jiang Kexin didn't think he was hallucinating, because Tana's action the next second confirmed it. He bit his lip and looked at Nuosi, Tana who suddenly moved upwards to explore something, and Ellisted who looked accustomed to it.
It's so obvious, Jiang Kexin would be a fool if she still doesn't understand what's going on.
Jiang Kexin narrowed her eyes. It seemed that Ellisted and Tana had some little secret, and this secret was closely related to the upcoming case.
No matter whether this case is a supernatural case or something else, Jiang Kexin believes that she can solve it.
When Tana wanted to go and see the abnormalities caused by the bumps, a female staff member came out. She pulled the curtains of every window, and her expression was full of indescribable fatigue.
She said: "Dear passengers, don't worry, it's just heavy snow, so our driving speed will slow down a bit. Believe us, these are all minor issues, you can just get some sleep."
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