299 Homecoming Train (Part 3)
◎Should I open Chen Qihang's notebook?◎
The carriage Pei Shu was in was full of dead bodies, and he knew that as soon as he got on the train.
They lay on the berths, covered by the pale bed. Some of the beds had more than one person on them, and two people snuggled together, their limbs entangled, as if they had become one person.
The bed was wet, a strange liquid was flowing from the corpse, and there was a stench that seemed to have been soaked in the river.
The good news was that Pei Shu found several packages of supplies on the luggage rack. Based on his experience, they should be the equipment of a bounty hunter who had been dead for more than a year. These nutrients had been forgotten in a corner.
Why have bounty hunters been on this train? Bounty hunters are notoriously cautious about their lives. Could they also be short of supplies? But they have plenty of supplies. Could they be on this train treasure hunting?
What contaminated items are on the Homecoming?
Secretary Pei found another pack of hot weapons and tried them all out. Secretary Pei remembered Zhu Ning's instructions and went to the next carriage to see Lin Xiaofeng.
To be honest, he doesn't like children, but at this time he can only be a nanny.
With a bang, when Pei Shu took the package from the luggage rack, a secondary brain fell out, wrapped in a layer of blue plastic bag. This thing was deliberately left in the corner.
Those who survive outside the wall will do one thing: if they are doomed to die, they will find ways to leave relevant information to others.
Pei Shu opened the plastic bag and connected the secondary brain to the network of his protective suit. He did not have Zhu Ning's ability to read data quickly, so he could only read it slowly.
Pei Shu quickly found a video. Because it was connected to the protective suit, the video was projected directly onto the screen inside the helmet, at a very close distance. As soon as Pei Shu opened it, he wanted to close it immediately.
The scene was taken in a carriage. A group of people were standing densely in the water, which had already submerged their waists. The passengers on the train were dressed a bit strangely. Generally speaking, one can roughly infer which era they belong to from their clothes.
But what they wore was too old-fashioned, even older than the old world that Pei Shu understood. Some people even wore long gowns.
Did certain regions in the old world dress this way? Pei Shu didn't know much about it and didn't dare to make a conclusion.
The scene was so shocking that Pei Shu took a while to adjust before continuing to watch. The person who took the photo was most likely standing in the water, making a splashing sound when taking the photo.
The man's voice was filled with tears, "I can't run, I can't move."
The picture was shaking and even zoomed in. "What should I do? I can't move. I'm going to die. I'm definitely going to die."
Pei Shu instantly empathized with the videographer's despair, as if it had spread from the video to reality. "It's moving! It's moving!"
It can be seen in the video that in the narrow corridor of the carriage, a man in a gray shirt took a step forward, causing ripples on the water.
There was such a strong sense of oppression that the photographer's hands were shaking constantly, but he didn't run away immediately. Could it be that he was really unable to move, as he said?
"I..." The man filming the video was trembling more and more violently. He knew he was doomed and could only grasp the brief moment before death. He took a deep breath and said quickly, "My name is Yang Tian. We've boarded the Homecoming Express to search for a contaminated item."
As he spoke, the water ghost-like creatures took another step forward.
Yang Tian spoke faster and faster, racing against death to try to leave more information. "This is the fifth minute since I came up here. I saw apple snail eggs and these, these, drowned people. I can't move. The bullets will definitely penetrate them. They have no substance. I--ah!"
Before he could finish his words, the camera shook and splashed into the water. After falling into the water, it became even blurrier. Pei Shu only saw a pair of legs walking towards him.
The photographer died.
Pei Shu was stunned. If the monster had no physical form, how would they fight it? Furthermore, the person filming the video spoke, but they had remained silent since getting in the car. No one had explained the rules to them, but since everyone else was quiet, they didn't speak rashly.
Could it be that the person filming the incident triggered the rules by talking inside the train? So, was he killed by the water ghost? The background of the video is unclear, except for the hard sleeper compartment. Where did this happen?
The bounty hunter died five minutes after getting in the car. Was this video hidden by someone later?
The dead may have left behind crucial information. Pei Shu quickly searched the entire row of luggage racks. This time his goal was clear, and he found the sub-brains of fifteen people.
The secondary brain is a high-tech product inside the wall, and the main body is a very narrow metal bracelet, not even as thick as a jade bracelet, flashing with a sense of human technology.
But now they were piled up like dead bones. So many people were dead? This car was more dangerous than he thought.
Pei Shu was about to look over when he heard a bang. He had just finished watching a video that was like a horror movie, so he was inevitably on edge and had already raised his gun.
Zhu Ning appeared at the connection between the carriages. She pushed open the door with a jerk, her face looking very ugly. Cold sweat had stuck her hair to her forehead. She was already in a mess with the moldy clothes she was wearing, and now she looked even worse.
Zhu Ning?
Outside the wall, it is easy for people to think that their companions are fake. Zhu Ning encountered something and looked like she had died, but she could remain calm in the Mold City.
Zhu Ning ran all the way here. As she walked, the water stains were spreading and there was already water in car 18.
Zhu Ning glanced at Pei Shu and gestured, "Go quickly."
Pei Shu threw a bag over, and when Zhu Ning opened it, it was full of ammunition. If he had seen it a few minutes earlier, Zhu Ning might have been quite happy, as this was in line with their purpose of boarding the Homecoming, and they had found supplies.
But Zhu Ning had a fight with the passengers of car 19 and almost escaped. When he saw the ammunition, he felt despair and thought that the weapon was worthless.
Zhu Ning didn't say much and didn't stop. Lin Xiaofeng was in the next carriage and she had to find him immediately.
Zhu Ning walked very fast. She had the ability of acceleration which Pei Shu did not have. She almost appeared in front of Lin Xiaofeng's bed, but she did not see the little girl as she expected.
Her bed was empty.
Pei Shu was also stunned. Lin Xiaofeng was missing? Would Zhu Ning kill him?
Zhu Ning saw the passenger in the lower bunk of Lin Xiaofeng. The man had vomited so many apple snail eggs that his mouth was blocked by the pink egg masses.
It was a truly disgusting scene. Zhu Ning couldn't help but frown. What was this apple snail doing in this carriage?
Zhu Ning's mind was in a mess and she had no idea what was going on. This was definitely the scariest place she had ever been to. If a creature came from inside the wall, the people outside would be treated like ants.
Go to the dining car.
Zhu Ning was not panicked. Lin Xiaofeng was not a fool and would not run around. They had agreed to meet at the dining car.
The dining car was car 9. She opened the cars one by one, with Pei Shu following closely behind her. Zhu Ning had seen the passengers of car 19 with her own eyes, and her sense of crisis was even stronger. She knew that when she was walking, the water ghosts were also walking.
The possibility of survival has been compressed to the limit.
Zhu Ning opened doors one after another. Behind each door, they all looked the same. Walking through identical carriages, he felt like he was wandering in a maze.
She paused after reaching carriage 9, and before she got close she heard voices inside.
Everyone on the Homecoming was silent, and talking was rare. Zhu Ning pushed open the dining car door.
The dining car has a bar where you can pick up your food. At the third four-person table on the left are two people wearing black protective suits, one big and one small.
Zhu Ning's heart skipped a beat. Lin Xiaofeng sat obediently opposite Qi Xueliu. When she saw the man in the middle bunk spit out the eggs of the golden apple snail, she immediately ran to the dining car to wait. Fortunately, she met Qi Xueliu.
When Lin Xiaofeng saw Zhu Ning, he wanted to say hello to her, but Zhu Ning looked scary, so Lin Xiaofeng retracted his outstretched hand.
Qi Xueliu was startled by the sound of the door opening. Seeing Zhu Ning's extremely bad expression, she asked, "What's wrong with you?"
After Qi Xueliu spoke, Pei Shu felt as if he was facing a great enemy. Afraid of triggering the invisible rules, Qi Xueliu had to turn over a sign on the dining table.
The yellow sign reads: Dining Car Can Talk.
There is also a line of small words below: The Homecoming Train is a quiet and civilized train, please do not make noise.
Damn, Zhu Ning couldn’t help but want to curse. This rule can only be known after entering the dining car.
This car has invisible rules, one of which is that you cannot talk. If you are a foolish person and start talking as soon as you get in the car, you will probably be dead.
Hiding this rule in the dining car, where anyone who can get here can follow it without even reading it, is arguably meaningless.
Qi Xueliu: "Don't worry, I tried it and I can talk."
After Qi Xueliu finished speaking, she waited for a few seconds. Nothing unusual happened. It seemed that this rule was correct.
Zhu Ning breathed a sigh of relief. After she confirmed that Lin Xiaofeng was safe, she didn't say much and sat opposite Lin Xiaofeng.
Only Zhu Ning had encountered a water ghost in the car. The other three had no idea about it, especially Qi Xueliu. She didn't encounter anything and was like on vacation. She also took the opportunity to enjoy the scenery from the car window.
The first thing Zhu Ning said after he sat down was, "There's a ghost at the back of the car."
Her words were earth-shattering. Pei Shugang had been prepared after watching the videotape, but Qi Xueliu took a while to digest the information before accepting it.
Zhu Ning: "I was killed eight times."
In the death foreknowledge, all deaths are very vivid and need to be experienced again and again. Zhu Ning was killed eight times in a short period of time. It was too fast, and the fear of death has not been dispelled.
Zhu Ning now fully understood why the first generation Zhu Ning was once on the verge of going crazy.
Pei Shu thought he had misheard. Zhu Ning was definitely the combat ceiling of their team. She could blow up the Kingdom of God by herself, but was killed by this car eight times?
Zhu Ning attacked the Kingdom of God because there was no pollution zone in the second zone. After she opened her own pollution zone, she became the boss. But on the Homecoming, the source of pollution here was someone else, and Zhu Ning was forced to comply.
Zhu Ning briefly described his experience and quickly concluded, "There are supernatural creatures at the rear of the car. I'll call them water ghosts. Water is the medium. As long as you don't touch the water, you'll be fine, but if you do, there's no way to escape."
Only the toes of Zhu Ning's shoes were wet at the time. If she had been completely immersed in water, she would have been dead by now even with her water-related abilities.
It stands to reason that where there is a pattern there is hope, but the problem is that the water in car 19 is spreading, and the space inside the car is limited. Even if they can keep hiding, where can they hide?
Pei Shu slowed down and said, "I also saw it in the videotape."
If it was just Zhu Ning who encountered it, it might be an illusion. If both of them encountered the same thing, then it was the truth.
Pei Shu didn't understand the content of the video tape at first, but now he understands why the bounty hunter didn't run away.
Pei Shu shared the videotape with Qi Xueliu and Lin Xiaofeng. For the first time, Qi Xueliu clearly felt that she was on a pirate ship. They discovered the danger very quickly, but it was of little help to the current situation.
That thing is like a ghost, all physical attacks are ineffective.
How to break this deadlock? You can get off on ordinary trains, but you are not allowed to get off on the Homecoming Train at will.
Lin Xiaofeng said: "I met a man whose tongue was spitting eggs."
When she thought of that scene, she couldn't help but want to use the tip of her tongue to press against her palate to confirm her control of her tongue.
After Lin Xiaofeng finished speaking, the three of them were silent for a while.
Qi Xueliu: "So, there are currently two kinds of creatures on this car. One is the eggs of the golden apple snail, which hatch by parasitizing the human body."
The eggs of the golden apple snail have low attack power and seem to have only one goal: reproduction.
"The other type is like a ghost. It has no physical form, so physical attacks are meaningless. However, it can still kill you. Even Zhu Ning barely escaped."
This is the situation, and it seems particularly desperate after summarizing it.
Qi Xueliu asked: "Is there any connection between the golden apple snail and the water ghost?"
Zhu Ning: "I don't know, it's probably just a creature that lives together."
If the entire train is a river, with water ghosts in it and apple snails laying eggs on the shore, that is the ecological chain.
Zhu Ning suddenly thought of Bao Ruiming. He was right. There was a complete ecological logic outside the wall. Maybe there was also a complete food chain on the car.
Qi Xueliu: "Didn't find any way to fight back?"
Zhu Ning paused and said, "Not necessarily. The solution to this problem may lie with you."
Zhu Ning looked into Qi Xueliu's eyes while speaking. She was not wearing protective clothing, so her gaze was very direct.
Qi Xueliu: "Me?"
Zhu Ning: "Yes, those ghost-like creatures that spread through water, if they don't have physical bodies, they might rely on their thoughts to kill me."
Qi Xueliu's special ability is to control everything with her mind, possibly including water ghosts.
Zhu Ning added, "You were the only one assigned to the soft sleeper, which is farthest from the rear of the train. The lair of those water ghosts must be at the rear. I guess the Homecoming doesn't want you to face them directly."
If Zhu Ning had not foreseen the danger, she would have died first, and Pei Shu and Lin Xiaofeng would have been attacked as well, and everyone's death would have been inexplicable.
Qi Xueliu was speechless for a long time. This matter was a bit out of the scope. Did Zhu Ning want her to kill an untouchable ghost?
Qi Xueliu: "My control range is very limited. I don't have 100% control."
Even if she could kill ghosts with her mind, she could only kill a few at most. What Zhu Ning described was more than one or two. It was a water ghost in a car.
Moreover, mind controllers are very sensitive and wish they could die when their nerves are attacked.
"I know," Zhu Ning said quickly, "There's too little information right now. Let me take a look at the video Pei Shu found."
Pei Shu found more than a dozen secondary brains. Zhu Ning read them quickly and only saw the ways in which different people died. They were all equally desperate. It made people feel very uncomfortable after watching them for a long time.
Zhu Ning took a quick look and then stopped reading. Pei Shu had provided a lot of data, but Zhu Ning extracted a crucial piece of information. "Is there something in this car?"
Not everyone was as unlucky as them to lose their means of transportation. Taking the Homecoming was a helpless move, but there were surprisingly many investigators and bounty hunters on board, as if they were here for something.
Pei Shu: "If only one or two investigators got on the bus, they might have been alone, but in one video, they had twelve investigators at once."
Zhu Ning also saw the investigator's body in the toilet and asked, "What does this mean?"
Pei Shu used to be an investigator and was very familiar with their actions. All the people who came were transferred from the north.
Pei Shu: "The only possibility is that they think this car contains information about the truth of the apocalypse."
The highest goal of the investigators is to find the secrets of the old world and find the source of the pollution. With so many investigators coming in continuously, it is very likely that they have mastered some information and know that there are secrets here.
Now Pei Shu suspects that the news that the Homecoming Train can arrive safely is fake, and someone is trying to lure people in.
Zhu Ning made a prompt decision: "We just need to survive."
Any secret treasure is too mysterious. If Zhu Ning had never really dealt with it, he might still want to give it a try. After dying eight times, only a fool would seek death again.
Zhu Ning’s goal was very clear. He got on the bus just to catch a ride and get to his destination.
Everyone else agreed. No one was interested in that thing. The problem was that staying alive was a luxury now.
Zhu Ning: "Let's go towards the front of the train first. Qi Xueliu didn't encounter any danger, which proves that the front of the train is safer."
Qi Xueliu: "When will the water from truck 19 spread here?"
Zhu Ning: "I don't know. It depends on the weather. If it rains, it will be over."
After it rains, the entire train will leak and collapse.
Qi Xueliu's face darkened. This was almost the worst case scenario, but they had no power to fight back at all.
There was a high probability that this possibility would come true. Pei Shu glanced out the window. The sky was gloomy and the water vapor had increased significantly. They had heard the weather forecast before they set off. The northern region had entered the rainy season.
Zhu Ning: "Should I open Chen Qihang's notebook?"
They lack the key information to break the deadlock and may die without knowing why.
Zhu Ning took out a notebook from his waist. The black cover was wrapped in a white bandage and exuded a strange aura.
Opening a notebook is a gamble, but getting on the Homecoming Train is also a gamble. Do you want to take another gamble in the same gambling game?
For a moment, the only sound in the car was the rumbling sound of the train moving forward.
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