Chapter 312 The Last Fragment
The special station "Golden Train" has been found.
Congratulations on waking up from the "Train Virtual World".
Congratulations on receiving the reward: "Golden Train" immunity.
Easter Egg (activated): Fragment collection rate (80%), number of fragments at this station: 1.
The Easter Egg fragment has been sensed (it is the brilliance in the darkness), and the countdown to enter the fragment collection is: 23 hours, 59 minutes and 49 seconds. Note: The Easter Egg fragments at this station are special. If they are not successfully obtained within the time limit, the previously accumulated Easter Egg fragment collection rate will be reset to zero, and passengers will be sent back to the ordinary train to continue the station mission until they get the Golden Train ticket again.
Five people received similar prompts at the same time - everyone's Easter Egg prompts were different, but only Xiyuan looked at his phone with an ugly face.
"What's wrong?" You Zhenzhen went over curiously and burst into laughter. "You became a train attendant? The barista in the No. 3 observation car? Oh, I'm dying of laughter. You're not really going to serve coffee in the No. 3 observation car, are you?"
Xiyuan: ...
You Zhenzhen's words made You Xi look at Xiyuan: "Did you receive a reminder of the Easter egg fragments?"
"Yes." Xiyuan moved closer to her and showed her his mobile phone.
The message on Xiyuan's mobile phone was the same as always, with two cards on one phone and reminders of two different identities.
Now that everyone has confirmed that they have received their own Easter egg fragments, plus the "Golden Train" immunity reward, it is obvious that this special station will no longer cause any temptation or influence to them in the future.
Just like when Youxi was at the "No Empty City" station, she also got the "Mirror World" immunity reward because she escaped the influence of the "Mirror World". After that, the things in the mirror world no longer had any effect on her.
This reward is very practical, mainly because they are not sure when they entered the virtual world and what key things affected them. But the hints of the Easter egg fragments are different. It is obvious that they are divided on the score line, but everyone is worried about them being scattered on the train.
Now that they have received this reward, everyone can find their own Easter egg fragments.
Twenty-four hours sounds like a long time, but they all know that the hints of these Easter egg fragments are sometimes not so obvious, and they are not completely clear about how long this train is and how many carriages it has.
So, before they went to look for the Easter egg fragments, they knocked No. 17 and the other two crew members again, took away their bracelets, and after comparing the authority of the train steward and the crew members' bracelets, they found no difference, and asked No. 17 to call a few crew members again to "rob" their bracelets.
Afterwards, Xing Min tied up No. 17 and the other crew members tightly with a light golden arc rope, and then found two small rooms in the tool compartment of the train to store miscellaneous items through the information obtained by Xiyuan from the memory of the aboriginal identity and the hint in the bracelet, and locked No. 17 and the other crew members separately.
"Safety comes first. Don't wear the bracelet while holding it." Lin Wu was thoughtful and reminded at the right time, "Also, regarding the person named Mengsha, according to Xiaoxi, she is most likely a tasker sent by the system tower. After Xiaoxi used the station reset ticket, we all left the carriage where the glass column was located, but we don't know whether there has been any change in time. This also means that we don't know whether Mengsha is still on this train at this point in time. This is a station, fighting and killing are not taboos, and everyone should be careful of potential enemies while searching for fragments. In my opinion, the system tower will not send out only one tasker like this."
After listening to this, the others nodded to show that they understood.
Youxi thought about it and took out the life assistive device he bought in the "Devouring Land". This device is easy to wear, voice-controlled, and can produce three-dimensional images during video.
If this assistive device can be used on the train, the video function can be turned on at any time. If someone is in danger, others will know it in the first time and rush to support them. After
several people wore it for debugging, they found that it can indeed be used. In the absence of a network source, the built-in band signal coverage range is very wide, almost reaching the range of a city.
It's a pity that there are restrictions on the application of this life assistive device. I can only receive one. If the life assistive device in use is broken, I want to apply for another one, I must take the broken one to exchange. In addition, this thing has a built-in positioning system, and no one except herself can use it, so she can't throw it away even if she wants to.
Otherwise, she would like to stock up a few more and bring them back to the native world for Fan Qi and You Feng to use.
Everyone was ready and swiped the wristband to open the door of the carriage: "Let's go!"
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It is the brilliance in the darkness.
If it is understood literally, the location of the easter egg fragments should be related to the light and environment of the carriage. Darkness can be understood as the night and the night sky. At night, the stars in the night sky are the brightest.
If it is understood from a deeper meaning, darkness is like despair and predicament, and the brilliance in the darkness is hope in predicament.
But the second guess is too vague and has no entity, so You Xi plans to go to the possible carriage according to the first guess.
There are two carriages on the Golden Train, one is the Fantasy Carriage and the other is the Forest Oxygen Bar Carriage.
The Fantasy Carriage is similar to a 5D stereoscopic cinema. The four walls of the entire carriage are made of special electronic display screens. There are not many seats inside, which are concave fully covered soft seats. There are movable brackets behind each seat, and seat belts are required.
This is an immersive carriage for physical and mental relaxation. There are different themes at different times of the day, such as the universe and stars, crossing the canyon, the dinosaur world, the snowfield aurora, and about 30 different scenes.
After the theme scene begins, the lights in the carriage are completely dark, and the 360-degree electronic screen presents different theme scenery in a three-dimensional way. At the same time, the seats will move up and down and left and right according to different scenery and vision, which will make people feel like they are really in a certain scene.
This fantasy carriage is very popular, and there are not many seats. Every time a new passenger gets on the train, because there are too many people who want to experience it, sometimes reservations are required before entry.
Today, a group of passengers just got on the train, and Youxi estimated that there would be a lot of passengers in this carriage today. But she didn't need to go to all the scenes. According to the hint of the Easter egg fragments, only the theme of "universe and starry sky" was suitable.
She checked with her bracelet and found that the theme scene of "universe and starry sky" would start in two hours, but as she guessed, all the seats for passengers in this scene had been booked. Fortunately, she was holding the bracelet of the crew member in her hand. The crew member was not a passenger, but a train staff member, and could enter the fantasy carriage at any time.
The other forest oxygen bar carriage was an indoor botanical garden. Because the train was a closed space, although she could see various beautiful scenery through the window every day, she couldn't participate in it. How could the Golden Train allow such a regret to exist, so two carriages were merged to create an indoor botanical garden.
The carriage of the botanical garden is four meters high. In addition to plants suitable for indoor planting, there are also various improved trees. These trees basically only grow to a height of about three and a half to four meters. Some will bloom, and some will bear beautiful fruits.
The overall effect of the botanical garden is very similar to a wild forest. There are soil, moss and fungi on the ground, vines hanging on the trees, and a complete set of ecological systems, such as various harmless insects and various farmed birds.
There is an area called Firefly Light. There are many fireflies nearby. They may not be noticeable during the day, but every night, the fireflies will gather in the surrounding air, emitting dots of fluorescent light. Coupled with the surrounding dark forest environment, people will feel completely in nature.
These fireflies also fit the description of "bright in the dark".
The time displayed on the bracelet is five o'clock in the afternoon. There is still more than an hour before it gets dark outside the train. She plans to try the firefly light area in the forest oxygen bar car first. She remembers that sometimes when collecting Easter egg fragments, she doesn't look at the time, but finds the right place and understands the meaning of the prompt.
To go from one car to another, you only need to enter the car number you need to go to. After the door opens and closes again, others can continue to the next car.
They have never been to the forest oxygen bar car before, because there are too many interesting cars on the train, and it is impossible to visit all the open cars in just seven or eight days.
This indoor botanical garden is very realistic. There are electronic screens on both sides of the carriage, and the real plants in the carriage simulate the surrounding environment, the forest in the distance, the lake in the distance, the green mountains... If you ignore the four-meter height limit of the roof, there is almost no area here that is similar to the real forest. It is
very quiet around, you can hear the subtle chirping of insects and the singing of birds in the distance, the air is also full of the fresh fragrance of plants and trees, and the oxygen content in the air is adjusted to the most comfortable percentage for human breathing.
Everything here can be almost real, but there are few passengers coming to this carriage. Passengers who can get on the train have passed through many stations. They have been running around outside all the time. For passengers who have just boarded the train, such scenery is very common. In comparison, those luxuriously decorated entertainment carriages are more attractive.
"Safe." Youxi sent a report voice to her teammates through the "Life Aid Device" and then walked to the other side of the forest.
While she was walking through the forest oxygen bar carriage, other friends also arrived at the guessed carriages and reported "safe" one by one.
Tang Yatong went to the surfing carriage, Lin Wu went to the swimming pool carriage, Xing Min went to the aquarium carriage, You Zhenzhen went to the dessert carriage, and Xi Yuan went to the escape room carriage.
Everyone's movements were clearly communicated to others through the "Life Aid".
Youxi soon arrived at the "Firefly Light" area, which was a small open space in the "forest". After trying to collect the Easter egg fragments to no avail, she found a random place to sit down and waited for the fireflies to illuminate the surroundings with their star-like fluorescent lights after dark.
Two hours later, Youxi, who had gained nothing, stood up, walked through the star-like fireflies flying around, returned to the carriage door, and entered the carriage number of the phantom carriage.
Behind the carriage door, the space that appeared was a small workshop on the side of the phantom carriage. Through the glass wall of the workshop, you can see the phantom carriage in the area where the passengers are outside. The simulation scene of the universe and the starry sky has begun.
The glass wall of the workshop is also the 5D display screen outside. At this moment, it is showing different colors due to the changing light and shadow of the scene outside.
Inside the carriage, dozens of soft seats that wrap passengers are being held up by brackets to match the weightless scene of the surrounding universe and starry sky.
Youxi took out her mobile phone and sorted out the message of "The brilliance in the dark" again according to her thoughts.
However, there was no prompt on the mobile phone screen that the debris collection was successful.
Not here either?
Youxi frowned. The place she looked in twice was wrong. Could it be that her understanding was wrong?
"The brilliance in the dark", could it be that the breakthrough is really in the deeper explanation?
Hope in adversity? This special station is indeed a dilemma, but where on this train can it be considered hope?
In Youxi's view, there is no hope anywhere here. Whether it is the gorgeous entertainment space or the luxurious suites with all the items, they are all sugar-coated poisons left by the lured people. They are full of vitality on the surface, but dark and rotten in reality. Even the beautiful scenery on the window is made up of the vivid lives of the passengers...
When she sorted out the information and thought, the "life aid" also received voice messages from other friends from time to time.
The process of everyone looking for the Easter egg fragments was not smooth, because the information obtained this time was very abstract, but this was the most critical piece of all the memory fragments after all, and everyone understood the increased difficulty.
"Could it be that we are overthinking it? Maybe the prompt this time is not that complicated..." When You Zhenzhen's voice came, You Xi was checking the train compartments on the bracelet, trying to find clues from the names of compartments with different functions.
She said that casually, but You Xi's eyes stopped on the name of a compartment on the bracelet. If you don't think the prompt is so complicated, and just understand this prompt in the simplest way, at this point in time, this compartment does meet the prompt in the message.
But there are a total of six compartments with the same function. If you want to verify it, you have to go to all six compartments.
This guess was just something she thought of by accident, and it was too simple. You Xi subconsciously felt that it was unlikely, but she had no other ideas at the moment, and it would be a waste of time to stay here, so she might as well go through all six carriages.
These six identical carriages are observation carriages, and they are also the most ordinary of all the functional carriages on this golden train.
In order to allow passengers to appreciate the night view outside the carriage, the lights of the observation carriage at night are almost completely turned off, and occasionally all the partitions on the body of the carriage will be opened to form an all-round glass carriage.
It was night outside the window at the moment. If the train was running in the wilderness, there would be stars in the night sky, and occasionally you could see the city lights at the end of the horizon, which also fits the "brilliance in the darkness".
The first observation car, nothing; the second observation car, still nothing... Youxi moved quickly, and soon she had checked all five observation cars. Probably because it was dinner time, the double-decker restaurant on the train was having a banquet, so there were almost no people in these observation cars.
When Youxi passed the fifth observation car and was about to go to the sixth, Xiyuan sent a video on the "Life Assist Device". After she answered it, a 3D picture popped up in front of her left eye.
"Hey, you're not in the phantom car. I was just about to go look for you."
"Yeah, I'm in the observation car."
"I don't have any idea. I plan to sort out the information with you and see if we can come up with any new ideas." Xiyuan said, and couldn't help sighing, "Yours is pretty nice..."
Is it beautiful? Youxi looked back at the glass on the top of the carriage.
In the night sky tonight, you can see a winding Milky Way, which is a magnificent scenery composed of countless stars.
It is beautiful visually, but once you realize what is behind this beautiful scenery, even the most beautiful scenery becomes chilling...
Wait!
"Brilliance in the Dark", yes, the golden train is the same as other ordinary trains, in fact, it is running in endless darkness, but unlike other ordinary trains, the reflection of the passengers' conscious world will appear on the glass of the golden train. These scenes are the places they have been to in their memories, the scenery they have seen, and the places they yearn to go... These are their beautiful and precious memories...
Xiyuan noticed the change in her expression: "What's wrong, do you have new ideas?"
"Yes!" Youxi answered as she walked quickly towards the carriage door not far away: "...If there is anything on this train that can be called truly dazzling, then of course--" Just as she was about to enter the carriage number, the carriage door was opened from the other end.
In the glass carriage, a slender figure stepped through the door and stood in the dim shadows.
"Xiaoxi?" The other party spoke and called her name softly.
"Who?" Xiyuan's puzzled question came from the "life aid" embedded in her ear.
Because Youxi did not choose to play the video publicly, Xiyuan could only see the screen on the side that the bracelet was facing due to the direction of the video on the bracelet. At this moment, from his angle, he could only see Youxi's shocked expression and the glass compartment behind her, but he could not see the door in front of her.
The person standing at the door slowly stepped forward, and a long-lost and familiar face emerged from the darkness.
She smiled at Youxi, but her eyes were misty: "Xiaoxi, it's me. Finally... I found you."
"Leng, Lengmian?!" Youxi blurted out subconsciously to this familiar face.
"What, Leng——" Xiyuan's voice disappeared in the life aid device because the video ended.
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