Shi Yu was silent for a long while after hearing this question. Finally, he said calmly and matter-of-factly, "Because blind guessing has no factual basis, it has no basis for validity."
If you can’t pry it open, then just don’t pry it open.
Qiao Yan didn't dwell on this topic. After all, he had heard the conclusions of the reasoning and believed that it was correct.
He didn't know when the idea that "what the other party says is right" was imprinted in his mind like a stereotype, but he felt that it was mostly because there was someone around him who was a die-hard fan of the other party.
"There are four types of identities. As for the identity card that may be above everyone else, no player has claimed to have obtained it. Let's not talk about whether it exists or not. But so far, I have only seen a few people on this train who are definitely players. According to the probability, it is actually a bit small."
Shi Yu said: "Even if there is an average of one player hiding in every half-length carriage, white smoke suddenly appeared in the aisles of the second and third carriages just now, and after the smoke alarm went off, every carriage could hear the location described in the alarm. It stands to reason that it is unlikely that nearby players would not go and see if they noticed the noise..."
Before he finished speaking, a "sizzling" sound suddenly appeared in the air.
Ji Congyang was stunned for a few seconds and quickly picked up the walkie-talkie.
The intercom lit up green: "Everyone, listen up. Keep the passengers in your compartment calm and don't cause panic."
The conductor just said this and nothing more happened.
Ji Congyang held the intercom: "What does he mean?"
There was no need to answer, because everyone heard the answer the next moment.
The broadcast above the train was turned on, and the voice that had just informed the staff on the intercom appeared on the radio: "Dear passengers, due to an emergency, this CK4685 train will not stop at Canglin Station. We apologize for any inconvenience caused to your travel."
This time, it was different from the previous minor incident when the ground shook when the train turned. The whole train was like a pot of boiling water, and everyone was in a commotion in an instant: "What the hell?"
"I'm fucking going to get off at Canglin Station and you told me you're not stopping?"
"Why would I have gotten on the bus if I had known this would happen? Will you bear the loss of time and money?"
"Why won't you let me get off the car for no reason? Can you give me a definite answer as to what happened? The car has been shaking all the way and it's been hard to drive, and now you can't even park it?!"
“…”
The passengers were in an uproar, and even through the aisle doors, the shouting and cursing could still be heard in the narrow aisle between the carriages.
Qiao Yan listened through the door for a moment and said, "It seems that the train can't slow down. The conductor knows that if the train doesn't stop at the platform, it will definitely arouse the suspicion of the passengers and he can't keep it a secret any longer. So he can only warn them in advance that they won't stop. What did you want to say when you were interrupted just now?"
"There was a fight between the second and third carriages, which caused quite a stir. It wouldn't be long before the news spread to the carriages behind. If the players noticed it, they would have rushed over to check it out. However, it's been almost half an hour since I arrived at this carriage, and I haven't seen anyone who looks like a player go to the carriage ahead."
Shi Yu said, "There are 20 players in this game, assuming they are evenly distributed on the train. However, the twelfth and thirteenth carriages are located in the front half of the train. There should be at least ten players in the carriages behind this one, but I only see you now."
Qiao Yan was stunned for a moment: "Do you think there are too few players in the car behind us? But is it too arbitrary to think so? Maybe they haven't heard the news of the sudden white smoke in front, maybe they found something in their position and have no time to care about others, or maybe they are as self-aware as Ji Congyang and don't join in the fun?"
Ji Congyang: "..."
It’s better to put severing ties with each other on the agenda as soon as possible.
"Sister Chao."
Ji Congyang's thoughts had just begun to emerge, but were instantly cut off by this shout.
Qiao Yan frowned: "What did you say?"
Tan Wang, who had been silent from beginning to end, finally spoke: "My friends and I entered this game together. But it has been more than an hour since the game started, and I still haven't seen her."
Although the train looks quite large, it is still limited in size, and there is only one passage to move between different carriages. Even if you really want to hide, there are not many places.
Before, Tan Wang and Shi Yu were escorted by five or six train conductors from the last carriage to the third carriage. The noise of more than a dozen people walking together was spectacular.
Since Gu Jinchao and Tan Wang were in a team and they were standing together in the pure white space, it was obvious that she was also in this game. If it were someone else, they might remember to hide their identity, but Gu Jinchao knew Tan Wang, so wouldn't she take the initiative to come over if she saw him?
Why hadn't they seen her in all this time?
Where did she go after entering the game?
Just at this moment, a shrill scream suddenly came from the carriage in front, which actually drowned out the complaints of the passengers in the carriage, and the volume had been reduced several times by the time it came back.
Tan Wang was the first to react. Without even saying hello, he turned around and rushed out.
The source of the scream was at the end of the tenth carriage.
Tan Wang ran all the way and saw the passengers who had gathered in groups.
He used his strength to push through the crowd, walked to the front, and saw an open bathroom door.
The bathroom door was an opaque sliding wooden door. Inside was a person lying. It was a man with a gaming bracelet on his wrist.
He fell to the ground, his whole body looked like it had been chopped hard by something, breaking into two pieces from the waist, the bones and blood vessels in his spine were all broken and eroded, his messy internal organs slid out from the broken abdomen, and the gurgling blood formed a large pool of bright red on the floor tiles.
Looking up again, I saw that the expression on his face was extremely terrified, but his eyes were actually closed.
The woman who screamed at first was just an ordinary passenger in the game world. She fainted on the spot after seeing the scene and fell outside the door. Not long after, she was taken away by her companions who had arrived late after hearing the sound.
Tan Wang was standing at the door. Before he could get a clear look at the fallen player, he made eye contact with the man who was squatting next to the player and checking him.
It’s Jiang Ze.
The two sides looked at each other, and finally moved away at the same time.
There is no need to think about what is more important at the moment.
The bathroom on the train was small to begin with, with a male player lying on the floor and Jiang Ze standing there, leaving no room for a third person.
Tan Wang glanced at the male player, and his expression became increasingly gloomy the more he looked.
Suddenly, Jiang Ze raised his hand and took something from the player's chest.
Tan Wang looked sharp and saw that it seemed to be a silver-white hook-type headset with the word "Temple" engraved on the round surface.
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When Shi Yu arrived at the scene, Jiang Ze had already finished the inspection and left first.
The male player who fell down was obviously dead very completely. The blood that was originally just enough to wet his clothes suddenly filled most of the bathroom and flowed down the sink in the corner.
Tan Wang looked through the male player's body, shook his head, and stood up to make way: "There is no prop. I guess he didn't use it before he died, or it was taken away by that Jiang guy."
Shi Yu looked at the male player's body that was broken into two pieces. She bent down while grabbing her long hair with one hand, and lifted the player's clothes around his waist with the other hand.
The fracture on the waist was clean and crisp, with all the organs and bones shattered completely. The flesh above was black and purple, and just by looking at it one could imagine what kind of tremendous force could have caused such a wound.
He loosened his hand, moved his eyes upward to the player's pocket, reached out and pinched the blue corner, pulled it out and took a look.
It's a train ticket.
The people around were talking non-stop, and from their accounts we could roughly piece together the circumstances before the body was discovered: the female passenger came over, found the door locked, and left. Not wanting to go far, she sat on the seat at the head of the carriage, waiting while paying attention to the movements here. She came again after the door had been closed for nearly an hour, and knocked on the door for a long time but no one answered. Finally, she couldn't stand it anymore and called the conductor to open the door.
The news was passed on by word of mouth by countless people until it reached the ears of the train conductor, who used the intercom to send all the train crew members to isolate the scene and comfort the frightened people, and personally came to the door of the bathroom.
Shi Yu stood up and left before the conductor came over, without letting anyone see his face.
Although changing into work clothes could fool other people who were unaware, it was impossible for the train conductor not to know who his subordinates were, and he would inevitably get into trouble if he was noticed and questioned.
Qiao Yan walked around the bathroom, but didn't find any traces of the murderer, so he returned to where he was and asked, "Did you finish reading?"
Shi Yu nodded, let down his hair, avoided the conductor and walked to the rear carriage. After crossing two carriages, he pushed open the toilet door of the twelfth carriage.
Ji Congyang pulled him back reflexively: "What are you doing in there?"
"handwashing."
"……oh."
Shi Yu's left hand was stained with a lot of blood, all from when he lifted the clothes of the deceased. He did not close the door, turned on the faucet, and washed his hands clean before coming out.
"The dead person should be someone from the temple. I saw a brooch on him with the same words engraved on it as Jiang Ze's." Tan Wang said, "But who could have killed him?"
"His limbs were not twisted by the struggle, and the cut at the waist was obviously caused by a huge force. Let's not talk about whether a human has enough strength to cut an adult male player with hands, feet and props in half. Even if he did, he couldn't disappear from the bathroom under the eyes of so many passengers." Qiao Yan took out the paper from his pocket again, held it between two fingers and handed it over, "In this case, it can only be a ghost in this game."
Shi Yu thanked him, tore off a piece of paper to wipe the water droplets off his hands, and did not comment on this.
Tan Wang was a little stunned: "Is there another ghost in this game?"
"Isn't it normal for games in God's Domain to have some monsters? Which of our missions doesn't involve these in the end?" Qiao Yan didn't care much. "It's been more than two hours since we got on the car. That ghost - whether it's a supernatural creature or not, let's call it that for now - killed the male player. That ghost made its first move and killed a player. It actually appeared quite quickly. Of course, we can't rule out that this is not the first time it has made a move and there are other players who have died but we haven't discovered them yet."
Tan Wang's expression suddenly changed.
Qiao Yan probably guessed what he was worried about now: "But generally speaking, people don't die that quickly."
Tan Wang was still worried and called out hesitantly, "Boss, can I…"
Shi Yu: "It's up to you."
After getting permission, Tan Wang turned around and disappeared into the carriage.
Gu Jinchao still hasn't shown up yet, and he can't feel at ease unless he goes to check on him in person.
Shi Yu crumpled the tissue into a ball and threw it into the trash can, then walked towards the car in the direction of the parking space.
The two groups of people searched all the toilets on the train one after another, but they still couldn't find the second player's body.
During this process, Shi Yu also encountered several players who were also knocking on the bathroom door to ask questions. When they met, they saw his face and avoided him directly. No one stopped him. It was not until he checked the last carriage and returned the same way that he ran into Tan Wang again in the dining car in the middle of the train.
It was a good thing that no other player had died, but it also meant that there were no more samples for reference. The information that could be observed from the male player was always limited. Qiao Yan could not see anything except that he was suspected to have been killed by the ghost in this game. He could only ask, "What do you think?"
Shi Yu sat down at a dining table: "Train CK4685, 10 cars, 35 seats."
"What?"
"The male player's ticket."
Qiao Yan thought about it and said, "He did die in the restroom of the tenth carriage. It's normal for his seat to be in the tenth carriage. So is there any problem with the seat number?"
Shi Yu shook his head: "There is something wrong with the carriage."
Qiao Yan was stunned: "Why."
"I can't see the information on his bracelet, so I can't be sure." Shi Yu folded a napkin on the table in half, then unfolded it again, leaving clear creases on the paper. "The tenth carriage is first-class. There are only eighty seats on the entire train, and it's not full yet. If my previous guess about the four identities of the players is correct, then the identity of the person who would specifically buy a first-class ticket is likely to be above that of ordinary passengers."
"He may be a high-ranking official."
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