298 Homecoming Train (Part 2)
Everyone will die
Lin Xiaofeng didn't dare to touch the pink eggs at all. What was this thing?
Lin Xiaofeng had lived inside the wall since she was a child and had never seen many natural creatures, but she could tell that these seemed to be the eggs of some creature.
If there are eggs, where is the organism itself? Could it be this car?
This thing is not very pleasant to look at. On one side is a pink mass of eggs, and on the other side is an eye that is staring at you like a corpse. Both sides are uncomfortable.
Lin Xiaofeng originally wanted to lie down and try to think of something else to divert her attention, but it was really hard to ignore, and there was an impulse in her heart urging her to leave immediately.
Lin Xiaofeng lay there for two seconds and it felt like a year. She was so depressed and a little breathless. She wanted to turn over and get out of bed, but the upper bunk was too narrow. She had to turn around first, grope for the iron stairs, and slowly get down from the bed with her back to the stairs.
When going down from the upper bunk, one must pass by the middle bunk. She remembered seeing a pair of feet when she went up to the bed, just like the feet of a dead person exposed on a corpse board.
At this moment, Lin Xiaofeng's whole body stiffened and she didn't move at all. She saw a face.
The man lying on the middle bunk should have his feet facing her, but now his head is facing her!
The man was bald, his face was blue, his mouth was slightly open, his head was tilted back a little, his eyes were still wide open, and he was looking straight at me from behind, just like the person in the next bed.
Lin Xiaofeng was stiff for a long time, and the blood in his body seemed to have turned cold. It took him a while to regain consciousness. The opponent did not launch an attack, so Lin Xiaofeng also remained still.
Is he dead?
Lin Xiaofeng stared at him for more than five seconds, and the man didn't even breathe, but if it was a corpse, why were the positions of the head and feet swapped?
The dead move? No, it's not the body that moves, but the things inside the body that move.
Suddenly, she saw the man's tongue seemed to... move?
The scene was hard to describe. The man had been dead for a long time, his body was stiff, and his lips were black and blue. In contrast to the stiff corpse was his soft tongue, which was brown in color and had two tentacles growing from the tip, wriggling like some kind of mollusk.
The body is just a shell with other species inside.
Lin Xiaofeng even lost the ability to move at that moment. She couldn't help but move her tongue, and the tip of her tongue scraped across her palate. Her mouth was dry because of nervousness, but she wanted to make sure whether she still had control of her tongue.
Does the tongue still belong to her?
If she were invaded by those pink egg masses and her tongue began to fork, she would soon become the same disgusting thing.
While she was thinking, the man's tongue moved gently, and he actually spit out pink eggs in front of Lin Xiaofeng.
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Bang, bang, the train is speeding.
Zhu Ning wiped the mucus off his hands. The golden apple snail is a typical invasive species. Does this mean that the car has been invaded by alien species?
Why the golden apple snail? Did the Homecoming Train emerge from the water? Or is it about to enter the water?
When getting on the bus, she encountered two strange things. One was a person lying in the inspection machine like a piece of luggage, and the other was a crowd that suddenly appeared when she walked through the ticket gate.
These people should be considered passengers, and their characteristics are currently unknown. If Pei Shuzeng said that everything entering the car must comply with the rules of pollution sources.
There are some invisible creatures in Yinshan Station, let's call them ghosts. Zhu Ning can see human figures when he crosses the gate. Does it mean that after ticket checking, he has entered the rules of the Homecoming Train?
It wasn't Zhu Ning who saw them, but they appeared.
Zhu Ning couldn't determine the pattern of the car and planned to check the bed one last time. She was careful not to touch the apple snail eggs. This time she found a new clue and found a word on the iron railing - home.
The words are crooked, probably carved by someone, as if there was someone here who stared at these words for a long time.
This car is called Homecoming. Is it normal to miss home?
Zhu Ning had no idea about the background of this place and even wanted to open his notebook to take a look.
Boom——
Suddenly, she heard a dull sound, like the sound of meat colliding with iron.
Coming from the connection between the carriages?
Zhu Ning gently got out of bed and planned to go see what was going on. The more clues he knew, the easier it would be for him to survive on the train.
When Zhu Ning stepped underground, the train just entered the tunnel. The scene in front of him suddenly turned dark, the rumbling sound became louder, and the already dim corridor became even more unclear.
Every bed is the same, and you can't tell where it is at first glance. It's actually very easy to get lost once you leave your bed.
There were very few passengers in car 18, only a few scattered around, unlike Lin Xiaofeng's car which was full.
Why? Because this car is more dangerous and no one wants to ride it?
Zhu Ning stopped and walked in the direction of the sound. Because he was passing through a tunnel, the sound was drowned out by the louder noise and suddenly became a little difficult to catch.
Zhu Ning opened the connecting door between the carriages, and the connection shook even more severely. People standing on it were shaky and had to hold on to the carriages to keep their feet.
Could it be coming from the bathroom?
The sign on the toilet indicated that no one was using it. Zhu Ning just touched it with one hand when the train suddenly emerged from the tunnel. The noise became lower and other sounds were amplified.
Boom——
Zhu Ning was startled by the sound and looked down to find that she was stepping into the water. Fortunately, the soles of the shoes that Qi Xueliu found for her were relatively high, so only the tips of the shoes were wet.
The toilet door in front of me was ajar, and I could smell a foul odor before I even got close. The green train was in poor condition, so it was normal to have a smell.
Theoretically, she should ask if anyone is there, but she hasn't dared to speak since she got on the bus. Zhu Ning pushed open the toilet door and felt a sense of stagnation. There was something behind the toilet door and she couldn't open it. From her God's perspective, there was only a chaotic gray and black color.
Zhu Ning had no choice but to lean against the door and look inside through the palm-sized gap.
This is a voyeuristic perspective with a very narrow field of view. If there really was someone using the toilet inside, they would probably think Zhu Ning was a pervert.
Zhu Ning's pupils shrank after she saw clearly. She saw a person, no, to be more precise, it was a corpse.
A man wearing a black protective suit sat with his back to the door and his feet against the wall, as if hiding from some terrifying creature.
The inside of the toilet was covered with pink eggs. There were so many of them that they blocked the stainless steel sink, leaving no gap untouched.
The thumping sound Zhu Ning heard was caused by the investigator's head hitting the carriage.
Zhu Ning's heartbeat quickened, and she held the door with one hand. In fact, if it was an ordinary person, she would not care, but the corpse in front of her was wearing a protective suit. It was definitely not someone who died here eighty years ago. It was very likely someone inside the wall.
Zhu Ning felt a sense of sympathy with him. He was willing to get on the train because he had no other means of transportation, so he got on the Homecoming Train to take a gamble. However, he lost the gamble and died on the train forever.
Mercenary or bounty hunter?
Zhu Ning wanted to feel if there was anything on the other person that could reveal any information, so she put her arm through the crack in the door.
This action was a bit strenuous, touching a stranger's body on an unknown train.
After reaching into the toilet, Zhu Ning's arm seemed to have entered another world, with dampness and stench hitting his face.
Zhu Ning carefully avoided the pink eggs and groped around the other person's shoulders, where the identity was usually marked.
There is a special hole in the protective suit outside the wall to store some personal information or suicide notes. In this way, even if you die, if you are lucky enough to meet a kind person, he can fulfill your last wish.
Of course, this also depends on personal choice. Some people are alone. Zhu Ning guessed that someone like Pei Shu would definitely not leave a suicide note.
Soon, Zhu Ning's hand hooked onto a cold shoulder badge. This should be the identity card, but she was stunned after seeing it clearly. It was more terrifying than seeing a corpse.
On the pendant: Beidiao T8907.
Is he an outside investigator?
The seriousness of the incident suddenly escalated. Even the investigator died in the car, but how did he die?
Investigators usually work in teams, and there was only one person in the bathroom, which meant he was alone.
When the investigator died, he had no weapon in his hand, and the gun on his body was even properly locked. He didn't seem to have resisted violently, but just hid in the toilet and then died suddenly.
Was he frightened to death? Or was it because the opponent was too powerful and there was no room for him to fight back?
Suddenly, the lights in the car flickered. Zhu Ning froze and slowly turned his head.
She was attracted by the investigator's body in the toilet and didn't actually look at car 19 carefully.
The sliding door connecting the carriages was transparent, and Zhu Ning saw a dark crowd of people as soon as he turned around.
They were dressed in clothes from the old world. The person closest to Zhu Ning wore a brown gown. There was numbness and coldness on their faces. No one smiled. Their movements and expressions were so neat that they seemed like clones. They were just standing there, but they gave people a strong sense of oppression.
It's so cold.
19 The car was full of water, and densely packed figures were standing in the water, with the accumulated water submerging their knees. No one made a sound, and they seemed to be some kind of creatures in the water, looking over silently.
The moment Zhu Ning saw the apple snails, he guessed there might be water and shouldn't have been surprised. But the moment he saw the passengers in car 19, a chill ran up from the soles of his feet.
Zhu Ning felt the bone-chilling cold for the first time. Seeing the abnormal creatures, she immediately used the three-dimensional defense space. This was the most instinctive approach. No matter what was in car 19, Zhu Ning didn't want them to get close.
There was a slight rustling sound, and the passengers in car 19 moved.
They took a step forward woodenly, and the person closest to the car door actually walked through the door right under Zhu Ning's nose.
Are they spirits, able to pass through matter?
If it can pass through the car door, it might also be able to pass through the human body surface. Zhu Ning's heart was filled with alarm because they were getting closer.
They want to penetrate Zhu Ning's body!
People's first reaction is to run, but for some reason, she seemed to be locked by the other party, with her shoulders held down by a powerful force, and her feet could not move.
She couldn't move.
The passengers in car 19 moved forward again. Zhu Ning used spider silk and a dentist's electric drill, both powerful offensive weapons, but all her attacks hit the air.
A man in a brown gown walked up to Zhu Ning. He passed through the defensive space, his gray face pressed against Zhu Ning's face, and one hand touched her chest.
With a "puff", the man's right hand sank and pierced through Zhu Ning's chest.
Zhu Ning's heart contracted violently, her pupils shrank, and when she lowered her head, her heart had stopped beating, her face full of surprise.
bite--
The system prompts that a two-minute danger warning has been sent and she is dead.
Zhu Ning's heartbeat quickened, and he stood beside the toilet without moving. The passengers in car 19 had not yet passed through the door or moved.
Zhu Ning had just received a death notice. In the notice, the passenger closest to her pierced her body with his hand without leaving any surface wound. Her heart stopped beating and she died instantly.
The man who killed her was now standing quietly behind the car door, looking at her lifelessly.
Zhu Ning's face was pale. She died just ten minutes after getting in the car. There was not even any useful clue. Her death was unclear.
How did she die? Why were her attacks useless?
The death notice was in two minutes, which meant she had to come up with a solution within two minutes.
What was in the car? Why couldn't she even run away? It was as if something had grabbed her ankles.
The cold and damp air was getting heavier, and all the heat in her body had been sucked away.
The passengers in carriage 19 looked over through the blurry glass door like creatures from hell.
Ding, the system reminds again that the death notice has been sent one minute and forty seconds in advance.
Zhu Ning did not come up with a solution, and as time passed, her death was getting closer.
Ding, the death notice has been sent one and a half minutes in advance.
The system sent a death notice every fifteen seconds, which was an unprecedented situation. It meant that she was not only killed by the thing in car 19, but she even failed to escape.
What's the problem? Too much death and too little information.
In the death notice, Zhu Ning was killed again and again, and each death was almost the same, with his heart being caught and stopping.
Calm down and think about it again. If the passengers in car 19 wanted to kill someone, they must follow some pattern, otherwise they would have done it when Zhu Ning got on the car. There was no need to lead her to car 19.
Ever since they bought their tickets, they have been subject to the rules of the Homecoming Train.
This train knew the names and identity information of the four of them, and the ticket information was correct. The Homecoming might also know the special abilities of the four of them.
Separating them into different carriages and not allowing them to change positions should leave the four of them alone so that they can be defeated one by one.
The one being attacked now is Zhu Ning.
Zhu Ning's seat was closest to car 19, while Qi Xueliu was the opposite and was the only one to enter the soft sleeper. Qi Xueliu's bed was close to the front of the car, while Zhu Ning was closest to the rear.
Do you think Zhu Ning is the most difficult one and want to kill her first?
There must be a pattern. Where is the pattern?
Ding, the death notice in the system kept refreshing and had been shortened to forty-five seconds. Forty-five seconds later, Zhu Ning died again.
But Zhu Ning clearly didn't move, which meant that she had entered the death circle from the moment she walked into the bathroom, so no matter what supernatural power she used, she couldn't escape.
Zhu Ning's attacks in the Death Premonition fell into the air several times. She split the car door several times, but her spider silk actually passed through their bodies and the black mucus could not swallow them. It was as if the person in front of her was a ghost and the mucus was just eating the air.
The passengers in car 19 have no physical form, so all of Zhu Ning's attacks are ineffective, but the other party can still attack her. Why?
The opponent could kill her, but she couldn't even touch a hair of the opponent and had no way to escape.
This is not a fair contest. According to the rules of the Homecoming Train, she is too passive.
Zhu Ning's feet felt colder and colder, as if he had stepped into an ice cellar.
Wait, Zhu Ning's pupils trembled and moved downwards. Water, she walked to the toilet door and stepped into the water. There were water stains on the toe of her right shoe. A pool of cold water connected to car 19.
So Zhu Ning had no way of escaping because she had already stepped into the trap.
Did the passengers in car 19 use water as a medium to attack people?
As long as you touch the water, you are in the opponent's absolute hunting range? No wonder the investigator outside the wall died, because there was no way to dodge, and all counterattacks were ineffective.
Ding, there are only fifteen seconds left in the death notice. This is the closest she has ever been to death.
Zhu Ning had the ability to control water, and she activated it immediately after thinking it through. She had once used this ability to crush a dentist's heart, and it was quick and efficient, but at this time the water on the toe of her shoe was surprisingly heavy.
This time she was in an extremely dangerous situation, but she was doing a very delicate job. She needed to extract the water from her shoes bit by bit.
Unable to remove the water stains quickly, Zhu Ning exerted all his strength, his fingers were trembling slightly, and his bones felt like they were about to be crushed.
Water droplets were secreted from the shoe surface and were sliding down slowly. Zhu Ning didn't dare to let go, as if he was trapped in a swamp and had to find a way to escape.
Such a small water stain actually consumed all her energy. In her newly updated system, the life bar was decreasing bit by bit.
Hurry up, hurry up, she can't hear the system's death warning. She will die in fifteen seconds and the system will no longer broadcast.
Because it won't give any clues to the dead, this ability is really disappointing. Zhu Ning's teeth were chattering and water droplets were already sliding down the surface of the toe of his shoes.
Finally, with only one second left before her death, her shoe suddenly felt lighter, leaving a gap of less than one centimeter between the toe of her shoe and the water stain.
Zhu Ning immediately moved his feet, as if pulling them out of the mud.
Zhu Ning stepped back suddenly, and the passengers in carriage 19 passed through the train door and temporarily stayed at the connection between the carriages, only half a meter away from Zhu Ning.
Without the medium of water, they stopped.
Zhu Ning returned car 18 and quickly closed the door. This door could not be opened for long and ordinary materials could not withstand it.
Water was seeping from all sides of the carriage connection, half of the carriage 19 was submerged in water, and the accumulated water was slowly flowing towards car 18.
The closer to the rear of the car, the more dangerous it is. Passengers immersed in water will turn into ghost-like things, which are impervious to ordinary physical attacks. Once they touch the cold water, they will fall into the opponent's attack range.
Zhu Ning's water-based abilities were of limited use here, as the power disparity was too great to control the situation.
Ever since they boarded the train, the four of them had become the Homecoming's meal; it was only a matter of time.
The cold water was spreading, and the 18 cars would be submerged soon. The closer to the front of the car, the safer it was. Once it was completely submerged, everyone would die.
And they couldn't even get out of the car.
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