Bai Liu's figure completely disappeared as Mu Sicheng jumped madly.

Mu Sicheng bit his fingernails and anxiously walked around the place where Bai Liu disappeared. He squatted down and pulled his hair a few times, bit the lollipop in his mouth, and finally, feeling very frustrated, he gritted his teeth and clicked the icon of "Last Train" on the screen, and followed Bai Liu into the game.

A second before entering the game, Mu Sicheng was still muttering to himself in frustration: "Damn, Bai Liu has made me curious too. I've never entered a level 2 game without any preparation!"

[The game "Last Train" has gathered two players, and five more players are needed to start]

Two minutes after Mu Sicheng disappeared, four players with almost identical height, build, and appearance appeared outside the screen.

They all wore those weird puppet oil-painted masks on their faces, and walked like puppets being led by strings. With every step, there was a strange pause in the joints of their limbs. They looked like four identical puppet toys made by a skilled craftsman, and it was almost impossible to tell the difference with the naked eye.

The leader, or puppet, asked in a low voice, "Did Bai Liu enter this game?"

When this "puppet" spoke, its mouth moved up and down with a large arc, much like a puppeteer whose lips moved under the strings to pretend to speak, while the low, hoarse voice came from the string-puller behind him.

The other puppet with a butcher knife on his back had a flash of revenge in his eyes. He bowed respectfully and answered him, "Yes, Master [Puppeteer]."

"Is it 'The Last Train to Explosion'?" The ink eyes painted on the puppet's face narrowed realistically, and finally laughed evilly, "It's a second-level game. It seems that even if I don't do anything to Bai Liu, it's unlikely that Bai Liu will come out of this game alive. It would be a pity if he died with such a high talent. He can be used as my puppet."

"Walk!"

The four puppets moved in unison, clicked the "Last Train" button on the screen, and disappeared at the entrance at the same time.

[The game "Last Train" has gathered six players, and one more player is needed to start]

A man wearing a turtleneck sweater, thick plain glasses, and holding a very thick book in his hand, who looked like a student, appeared on the screen next to the login entrance.

His square glasses, as thick as beer bottle caps, covered half of his face. The lower half of his face that was exposed through the glasses had scattered freckles on his nose. His head was tucked timidly into his sweater. If Bai Liu had taken a closer look, he might have mistaken this player for Jelf from "Siren Town".

But he looks weaker and more normal than Jeff, and looks like a normal student.

But in the game, a student dressed normally looks surprisingly abnormal.

"Hey, let me see, which game should I choose..." The player pushed up his glasses and moved closer to the screen as if he was wearing reading glasses. While reading, he opened the management panel of his game manager.

His personal dashboard on the game manager clearly showed:

【Player name: Du Sanying】

[Today's Rising Star Points Ranking: Third Place - You have surpassed the fourth-placed Rising Star Mu Sicheng by 170,000 points. He will definitely not be able to catch up with you in the short term. Please continue to perform well and widen the gap to catch up with the players ahead.]

[Achievements obtained: The winner who does nothing, the only lucky person left alive, the player who is inexplicably ignored by monsters, the fighter who always misses your attacks]

[The item you bought in the game store is currently on sale, from 10,000 points to 1 point. Do you want to buy it? ]

[Congratulations to player Du Sanying for winning the top player gift pack with a winning rate of one in 100,000! Do you want to claim it now? ]

…

Du Sanying seemed to have gotten so used to these unexpected fortunes that he had become numb to them. He did not claim any of the rewards or gifts. He scrolled through all the screens until he reached the last page of his personal dashboard. Du Sanying pushed his glasses up, almost pressed his face against the dashboard, and squinted his eyes to search for the information he wanted:

[Luck value: 100 (You are the luckiest person in the world today. You are the darling favored by the God of Luck. Choose the game you want according to your intuition! What you choose is the one that will make you the luckiest!)]

"Is the luck value today also 100?" Du Sanying glanced at the entire screen hesitantly. "In that case, it's best to choose according to your intuition, then-"

He looked around and finally fixed his eyes on the icon of "Last Train". Du Sanying's hand was suspended above the icon. He suddenly had a creepy premonition in his heart, as if clicking on this icon would cause something very lucky yet very unfortunate to happen. This was a feeling he had never had before when Du Sanying's luck value was 100% when playing games.

He had always felt that if he chose this game, he would be very lucky. But this time, he felt that if he chose this game, he would suffer a lot but at the same time be very lucky...

What a mess! Du Sanying shook his head and hesitated for a long time before finally clicking twice on the game icon of "Last Train".

[Game "Last Train" players have gathered and the game begins——]

On the big screen, a "FULL" sign popped up in the lower right corner of the icon of the burning train in "The Last Train". The next second, Bai Liu opened his eyes in the crowded subway station.

At the same time, seven small TV screens lit up in the hall, and on one of them was Bai Liu's calm face in the crowded subway station.

Wang Shun, who was standing in the hall looking for Bai Liu, suddenly had his game manager vibrate continuously:

[System prompt: Bai Liu, the player whose small TV you have collected, has logged into the game~ Please go and watch~]

[System prompt: You have collected the player Mu Sicheng who has a small TV...]

[System prompt: You have collected... Player Zhang Kui logged into the game...]

[System prompt: You have collected... Du Sanying has logged into the game...]

"No way..." Wang Shun fell into an unprecedented trance after checking the message reminder on his game manager. "What the hell, Bai Liu, the third and fourth on the Rising Star List, and [Puppeteer] actually entered a multiplayer game. This is going to be a fight between gods..."

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As soon as Bai Liu opened his eyes, he received a system reminder:

【Welcome players to "The Last Train"】

[You are a passenger. Now, please use the tickets in your pockets to enter the station within ten minutes and wait to board the last train that is about to explode.]

Bai Liu reached into his suit pants pocket and took out a thin hard subway ticket. It said [Subway Line 4: Antique City → Antique City]. Bai Liu raised his eyebrows slightly in surprise. The departure station and the terminal station on the ticket had the same name. If the two platforms didn't have the same name...

Bai Liu turned his head and glanced inside the subway station, trying to find a subway map inside the subway station. Soon, Bai Liu saw the subway map next to the ticket gate.

Line 4 is a very eye-catching red line, and Bai Liu instantly found this subway line from the route map.

"As expected, Line 4 is a closed-loop subway line." Bai Liu looked at the red Line 4 that circled the city with understanding. "The starting station and the terminal station overlap, they are the same, both are called Antique City Station."

Bai Liu wandered around the subway station. Apart from looking at a few more advertisements, he didn't find any other unnecessary information. The only thing he felt was a bit inconsistent with the design of the subway station. Generally, there would be escalators at both the exit and the entrance.

Normally, for the convenience of passengers, the escalators at the exit should go up, while the escalators at the entrance should go down, but the design of the subway station here is the opposite, which makes Bai Liu feel a little unnatural.

Another thing that Bai Liu found very strange was that he glanced at the LED electronic clock hanging on the top of the subway station.

【07:34】

It seemed normal, but Bai Liu looked at the time a few more times and found that the time was not moving forward, but backward. In the blink of an eye, it became [07:12], which made him react quickly.

"This is a countdown clock, not a clock." Bai Liu thought, "And it looks like it's a countdown for me. I have six minutes left before I have to enter the station."

Even though there were only six or seven minutes left in the countdown, Bai Liu was not in a hurry. He left the subway station once and found it was pitch black outside. There was no sound, no light, nothing. The passengers who walked out of the station into the darkness also disappeared. Bai Liu did not try to go out. After he turned back, he found that the countdown on the clock on the subway had changed to [03:02].

Bai Liu slowly looked at the map again. This time, he paid special attention to the names of the platforms on Line 4. The platform in front of [Antique City] was [Reservoir]. About a few platforms away, there was a platform called [Mirror Museum] that caught Bai Liu's attention.

"The name of the Mirror Museum..." Bai Liu's eyes fell on it, and he fell into a recollection of enlightenment, "Why do I feel like I have heard of this name..."

Bai Liu was just trying to remember where he had heard this name before, when a male voice interrupted his memory: "Damn! Bai Liu! Why haven't you gone in yet!" Mu Sicheng looked back from the platform and saw a killer stroking his chin and squinting at the subway map. He walked over to him without saying a word: "There's only a little over a minute left. What are you doing here? Are you memorizing the map?"

Bai Liu was not surprised that Mu Sicheng followed him in. He glanced at the red LED light that had already entered the countdown, and said "hmm" slowly, and replied to Mu Sicheng: "I was wondering, have I been to this place before..."

Mu Sicheng was stunned: "Have you played this game?" But he quickly denied it, "Impossible, you are indeed a newcomer."

"Yes, I haven't been to this place in the game." Bai Liu admitted.

Mu Sicheng frowned and looked at Bai Liu: "Then how could you have been to this place..."

"Just because I haven't been here in the game doesn't mean I can't have been here. I think I should have been here in reality." Bai Liu withdrew his gaze from the subway line.

"Really?!" Mu Sicheng was shocked. "Have you been to this subway station in real life? How did you know?"

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be a horror game adapted from real events. Have you heard of the "Mirror City Bombing"? "

"Two thieves hid a bomb in an antique mirror and were about to send it to a local museum. They threatened to rob the museum with a bomb, but the bomb went out of control on the way and the entire subway exploded. Is this a social news story?"

Bai Liu chatted with Mu Sicheng as he walked. He took out his ticket and beeped at the entrance, and entered the station smoothly: "I studied the layout of the subway stations and the subway map just now. This game is very likely designed based on the prototype of [Mirror City Bombing Case]."

"I have heard of it..." Mu Sicheng also took out his ticket and followed him into the station. "But even if we knew, it would be useless. The case had a huge impact, and we still don't know how the perpetrator hid the bomb in the mirror to avoid security checks, so a lot of information has not been made public."

After Mu Sicheng's analysis, he threw up his hands and said mockingly, "Even if we know that the game's reference prototype is this case, we still have no idea what will happen on this last train that is about to explode. We don't know the specific details, and we only know the source of inspiration. It's useless, okay?"

"I might actually know what happened on that train..." Bai Liu touched his nose and gave Mu Sicheng a friendly smile, "I was on that subway that day, and I got off at the stop before the explosion."

Mu Sicheng: "..."

Bai Liu shrugged innocently and said kindly to the shocked Mu Sicheng: "Does this count as obtaining important information that can help you complete this game?"

"Of course, Mu Sicheng, I can tell you everything I know, but it's not free. If you don't believe me, you can verify whether what I say is true. I remember you have a prop that can detect lies."