Chapter 253 The Third Person
The train was not empty. There were passengers in every carriage, who had boarded the train at other stations. When the three of them passed by, other passengers thought they were going to their own compartments to find seats, and no one paid much attention.
When they walked to the end of the No. 9 carriage, someone in this carriage finally turned around and looked at them, as if he was surprised why they went to the back. There were no seats in the carriages from No. 10 to No. 12, and they were all berth compartments.
Many passengers did not know who these berths were provided for, and they did not dare to walk past casually. They had not seen anyone walking to the back all the way, and now they saw someone really walking past, so they could not help but be curious.
The door of Carriage No. 10 is the same as other cars. The difference is that inside the car, it is no longer a public seating space, but a narrow aisle with berth compartments distributed on the aisle.
Maybe because they got on the train early and other passengers from Paradise Island have not yet boarded, at a glance, the sliding doors of the berth compartments are open and empty.
Youxi took a quick look and found that the berths here are similar to the soft sleepers in real trains.
However, in comparison, the interior of the compartments here is more spacious, clean and bright, and the berths are also larger, with pull-out berth curtains.
The activity area in the middle of the berth is larger, and there are seats and tables for four people near the train windows. The whole compartment design is very fashionable, with black, white and gray tones, inlaid with metal lights and upper berth ladders, giving it a sense of technology.
The sleeping berths are divided into four-person upper and lower bed compartments and six-person upper, middle and lower bed compartments. The six-person compartments are one-tenth larger than the four-person compartments, and each compartment is equipped with a small bathroom with a shower.
Tang Yatong smiled and said, "Does the accommodation here look like the compensation given to us by the Endless Train because the station was suddenly closed?"
You Xi nodded.
Of course not, one is a first-class hard seat, and the other is a soft sleeper compartment with an independent shower room. The conditions are much better.
The three of them naturally didn't need a six-person compartment, so they chose the first four-person compartment nearby. When the compartment's sliding door was closed, a black display screen on the wall was revealed, with instructions for binding below.
Youxi followed the instructions and first put her phone over. After hearing a "beep", she put her face over. After scanning her face, a few lines of words appeared on the display screen: Passenger Good Morning has been bound to No. 1 berth in compartment No. 2 of carriage 10. Team detected, a total of three people, please ask other team members to bind as soon as possible.
Then, at the head of the upper bunk bed on the left side, a similar black display screen appeared with her name in the endless train world: Good Morning.
After that, Tang Yatong and Lin Wu also tied up the bunks one after another, Lin Wu was on her lower bunk, and Tang Yatong was on the upper bunk opposite her.
After Youxi tied up the compartment, he immediately found that the compartment could be locked from the inside.
While they were tying up and checking the bunks, the battle for tickets had already begun on the platform outside the train, and it was more intense than any time they had experienced before.
They saw a variety of different skills and weapons. Several lone travelers were obviously much stronger than ordinary passengers. Some passengers who originally wanted to attack them immediately gave up and wanted to find another target after the fight.
But the provoked passengers were not vegetarians. They immediately fought back and killed them, not even giving the other party a chance to escape.
When the one and a half hour boarding time was about to end, there were dozens of corpses on the platform. At the same time, they also heard footsteps coming to the sleeper car one after another. They each chose and tied up a sleeper compartment.
The countdown ended, and the train slowly drove out of the platform. Youxi leaned against the glass and looked back.
This time, after the train left, the platform did not fall into darkness, but began to collapse one by one, from the ceiling to the walls, and finally even the ground cracked, like a house that encountered a magnitude 10 earthquake, and finally collapsed and shattered, and then at a certain moment, returned to darkness and silence.
Youxi heard screams from the No. 9 car in front, and some puzzled passengers asked questions, wanting to know what was going on at this station?
Most people have never experienced it and can't answer it, but some who have experienced it calmly replied, "It must have been sold out."
After that, no one spoke again, no matter how many other passengers asked.
**
When Lu Yong passed by compartment 2 of carriage 10, he smelled the aroma of food coming from inside.
At this time yesterday, it was fried chicken, but today it was even worse, it smelled like spicy hot pot, and it wasn't the kind of self-heating hot pot, it smelled like real Sichuan hot pot.
This is really "brutal"! It's almost life-threatening!
They have a large team, there is space for two people, and there are sufficient supplies, so there is a lot of food.
But the team is full of rough masters. Generally speaking, they buy food in boxes of instant noodles, canned meat, bread, military ration bags, and various vacuum-packed chicken, duck, beef and other fast foods. They can be eaten as soon as they are opened, and they do not need to be heated when conditions do not allow.
Anyway, as long as they are not unlucky and can go to a city with normal order, they can have a feast there.
Therefore, in their team, they rarely use the precious and limited space to stockpile such fresh, hot and space-consuming food, let alone pots and pans. After all, scattered items cannot be placed in the item grid, and the ten or so square meters of space are most reasonably used to store scattered weapons such as pistols, bullets, knives, etc.
But who would have expected that the site would be blown up this time! We haven’t figured out where we will go next, and we don’t know how long we will stay on the train.
In fact, it is rare to have such a rest time. There is no danger, no various prompt tasks, and no sneak attacks from other passengers. It is not a bad thing.
They even forgot about the dangers of the world for a while - they felt that the accommodation provided by Endless Train was very humane, and of course they knew in their hearts that this was a kind of Stockholm Syndrome.
However, in such a comfortable private room, everyone knows which is more comfortable and comfortable, eating vacuum meat in a bubble bath or directly cooking hot pot.
Lu Yong passed by Box 2 again, but he finally had the nerve to knock on the door with a shameless face and ask for food.
It would be nice if they also stocked up some hot pot ingredients in the space, such as beef, mutton, duck blood, vermicelli, tripe, and pig throat...
But do they need to stock up a pot?
There are sockets in the train compartment, so can they just use an induction cooker? A duck pot? Where can they buy it?
What about dipping sauce?
Garlic, green onion, ginger, and seafood sauce are all necessary, right?
Bowls and chopsticks are also necessary, because you can't use your hands to cook hot pot...
Ah, it's so complicated...
Forget it, he should go back and eat beef jerky, chicken wings, chicken feet, duck necks, duck wings, and duck feet with the others. It's also delicious with instant noodles...
At this time, in compartment No. 2, You Xi, Tang Yatong, and Lin Wu were having a hot pot seminar on serious topics such as "What is the real meaning of increasing or decreasing the difficulty of a station?", "If all stations are regarded as game copies, what world tasks do they have to complete in the endless train world to completely escape? Do they have to clear all stations? This seems a bit absurd?", "Before this, did the trains that boarded at normal stations also have sleeper compartments? What hidden tasks do they have to complete in order to sit in a sleeper compartment every time? It's so comfortable that they don't want to go back to first-class seats?", etc.
It was Youxi's idea to turn the ordinary discussion into a "hot pot seminar". There were electrical sockets and a sink in the sleeping compartment. Even if they didn't drink the water on the train, it was still very convenient to pour out the remaining soup, clean the table, and wash the pot after eating.
In addition, the vegetables were all washed, and the beef and mutton hot pot meatballs were cooked right out of the bag. There was no technical content, so it was considered a lazy dinner.
Youxi thought the table in the compartment was too small, so he found a camping table and opened the various dishes to be cooked one by one and placed them on it.
Tang Yatong was studying her newly acquired skills: steeling and steel simulation.
As she expected, she still couldn't use the space skill. The "Iron Man" skill did appear, and she finally chose this skill. However, it was somewhat reduced compared to her own skill, and could only exert about one-third of the original skill's power.
For example, the opponent can maintain this ability for one hour each time, and the CD time is eleven hours, while Tang Yatong can only change it for ten minutes, and the CD time is as long as thirty-six hours.
In addition, the opponent can transform his hands to simulate a weapon like a propeller that is powerful and intimidating enough. She can only turn her fingers into daggers to cut vegetables - just like at this moment, she is cutting the chili peppers into sections at Youxi's request, and then putting them in the bowl of ingredients on the side. The
only advantage is that this skill is a permanent skill and can be used repeatedly at any station.
In certain situations, it can be used to sneak attack the enemy.
**
Compared to the peaceful atmosphere in Cars 10 to 12, the first 9 cars are completely different.
The train sounded the arrival notice a few minutes ago, and the train will stop at a new station in a few minutes, but unlike before, this station is the departure platform.
The electronic voice that Youxi heard was as follows:
{The next station is Cretaceous, the stop time is 1 hour}
{This station is the departure platform, passengers in the train do not need to get off, you can take a rest in the train and look at the scenery outside the window. }
Youxi: ...? ?
The scenery outside the window?
She looked at Tang Yatong and Lin Wu: "The scenery mentioned here could not be the passengers fighting for tickets when boarding the train, right?"
Tang Yatong chuckled: "Is this considered a cold humor?"
"So in this world, passengers can only have two states of killing and appreciating killing." Lin Wu continued.
You Xi turned on his phone and took a look. Their next stop had not yet been refreshed.
This platform was already the third stop where the train stopped after You Xi and the others boarded the train. However, the first two stops are arrival platforms. Each time they stop for ten minutes, some passengers will get off each time.
They thought they would get some information from different stations, but the first two stations were places where Lin Wu and Tang Yatong had been.
One stop is Phantom Manor and the other is Hope City.
The platform of Phantom Manor is built in the style of medieval Western countries, dark and cold.
Giant bats are hung everywhere on the columns, walls and ceiling of the platform. Bats have human heads, beastly fangs and bloodshot eyes. Once a passenger gets off the train from the wrong door, they will be besieged and torn into pieces in an instant.
The platform of Hope City is a purely physical attack. The walls and ceiling of the platform are inlaid with various hot weapons. The ground of the platform is also full of puddles and mud like a battlefield. If you are not careful, you will fall into the mud or fall.
Of course, there are also many things like medical kits and defense shields everywhere on the ground, which will take effect on the human body as long as they are touched. So it doesn't matter if you get hit by a bullet, as long as you can hold on and touch a medical kit or a defense shield, you can walk out of the platform alive.
Although Lin Wu and Tang Yatong have been to these two stations, they were already inside the station when they woke up, so they have not experienced the platforms of these two stations. When You Xi leaned over to the window to watch, they also watched the whole process.
"Will the stations we have been to appear in the selection column again?"
"Unlikely, the endless train can stop here for us to see these levels, which should mean that we will not go there again in the future."
You Xi felt it was a bit of a pity. If he could go there again for a round, he would definitely be familiar with it and could trigger more hidden tasks.
Ten minutes later, the train broke through the darkness and stopped at the dimly lit platform. Probably because it was the boarding station, looking out of the window at this moment, the platform was clean and there were no strange things or creatures.
But they all knew that in the next hour, there would be a fierce fight here, and the number of passengers who died would be several times more than the number of passengers who died on the platform.
The truly cruel killings have always come from humans themselves.
A few minutes after the train entered the station, passengers soon appeared on the platform. The first group of passengers obviously had tickets and wanted to get on the train as quickly as possible regardless of everything.
But before the waiting time began to count down, there were passengers who gave up looking for tickets waiting nearby, just to intercept the first group of passengers.
The fight started soon. Someone was just two steps away from getting on the train, but because he let his guard down, his throat was cut by an invisible blade in the air. The person who killed him showed up at the side, checked his phone, and quickly rushed onto the train.
Youxi estimated that this person should have a prop like the invisible sticker she had seen before, or a similar skill.
Someone fought head-on and finally killed the opponent, but was taken advantage of by someone else.
The previous ones were all fighting alone, and it was easy to be ambushed during the fight.
After that, the people who entered the platform were all teams. The passengers in the teams seemed to be much more cautious than the lone rangers. The teams with enough tickets were well defended and boarded the train quickly.
Teams without enough tickets either had to work together to snatch tickets from others for their teammates without tickets, or abandon the one without a ticket and board the train on their own.
In just one hour, the platform became a hell on earth.
Many passengers on the train were passing through the boarding platform for the first time. They themselves had experienced fighting, being besieged and ambushed, or killing others.
But looking at everything outside the window at this moment, they still felt shocked.
It seems that people are no longer human beings, but animals. For their own survival, what does the life of others matter?
Of course, in addition to this kind of life-and-death struggle for tickets, there is another kind of struggle on the platform, that is, revenge.
The station is too big, and as long as the passengers know how to hide, others can't find them. But the station is different. As long as the passengers who get off the same train will get on the train at the same time, if you want to find someone, you can ambush them.
A small team of a man and a woman appeared on the platform. When they rushed in, they chased a girl running in front of them. They obviously knew each other and only stared at her.
"Stop! Weren't you very capable before? Why are you running now?" One of them controlled several flying knives and chased the girl's back closely, while the other one raised a machine gun and shot at her, but all the attacks were blocked by the translucent light arcs around the girl's body.
"Shield? Tasker?" Lin Wu was very familiar with this.
Upon hearing this, You Xi moved his eyes and looked at the running girl. She was passing through other fighting passengers and running towards the direction of Carriage 9.
The doors of Carriages 10 to 12 were not open, as if they were defaulted to another area.
Carriage 9 was close to the inside of the platform, so there were fewer passengers on the nearby platforms. She was anxious to get on the train and didn't want to fight with other passengers again, so she would rather take a detour.
Youxi's eyes swept across the girl's face, and she suddenly stood up from the booth and walked towards Carriage 9 in front.
"What's going on?" Tang Yatong was just about to prepare the hot pot after cutting chili peppers and garlic paste and chopped green onions. When she saw Youxi's abnormal appearance, she immediately thought of something, "Could it be someone she knows?"
Youxi recognized the other person's face, but it was not exactly the same. Her skin was whiter than before, her eyes were brighter than before, and her lips were more rosy and red than before. Overall, it was like a person who suddenly turned on the beauty effect. Although they were not exactly the same, they could be recognized at a glance.
The girl had already run to Carriage 8, but the man and woman behind her kept chasing her, and the flying knives and bullets kept hitting the shield outside her body.
Between her and Carriage No. 8, there were two teams of more than a dozen people fighting in a melee, with swords flashing and sabers flying, leaving no space for them to stand.
She couldn't get on Carriage No. 8, so she could only continue to run towards Carriage No. 9.
"You Meixi! Don't think you can get rid of us by getting on the car! We can tell where your next stop is just by looking at your phone. Instead of running around like this, you might as well be honest and take out your defensive gear! We can give you a chance to live!"
"Do you think I'm an idiot?" The girl turned around and threw a round black ball out, which exploded and emitted a puff of smoke.
No one knew what the smoke was, but the man and woman immediately coughed and burst into tears when they smelled it.
But compared to their weapons, the girl had no more lethal weapons except for the defensive shield. The other party seemed to know this, so he kept chasing her, shouting and laughing wildly.
Finally, when she was seven or eight steps away from the door of Carriage No. 9, the defense value of the shield outside the girl's body was exhausted and disappeared with a snap. Two flying knives pierced into her shoulder, and the other pierced into her calf. Her body tilted and fell heavily to the ground.
She turned her head and saw a man and a woman approaching not far away with their raised guns.
She was not afraid of death, but she was unwilling to die in the hands of such a person, and what was even more unwilling was that she had not seen that person yet...
"Next-" A scolding came from the door of Carriage No. 9 behind her.
She felt something falling towards her, and immediately reached out to catch it, but her hand sank, and she found that it was actually a small rocket launcher, which was already loaded with rockets and could be fired immediately.
She quickly rolled to the ground to avoid the enemy's bullets, then half-knelt up despite the pain, aimed at the two people and pulled the trigger. It was too late
for them to hide, and with a bang, the two were blown to pieces by the rocket on the spot.
You Meixi turned around and saw a young and beautiful short-haired woman standing in the door of carriage No. 9. She stared at the direction of the rocket explosion with a cold expression, and only after confirming that the two people were dead did she turn her eyes to her.
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