It takes seventeen hours to travel from Tonghua City to Wuchuan City by hard seat train.

Why not choose to take a plane? Ajin said it was for safety reasons. If something happened on the plane, they would be trapped in the air and there would be no chance of survival. But if the train had an accident, they could at least have a chance of survival.

As he said this, Ajin stared at her.

Jiang Ji felt that she was being implicated, but she had no evidence.

Actually, think about it, one of them has a luck value of -99, and the other is the protagonist of a horror and hot-blooded comic, neither of them is an easy target.

The plot of "Night Watch Rules" revolves around Tonghua City. The protagonist has basically never been on a business trip and has no room to perform. He might also be a god of death who causes strange stories wherever he goes. The last and the second to last dislike each other, and finally both run to the train.

Just in time for a short holiday.

The sleeper berths were sold out in recent days, so they could only choose hard seats.

Ying Huai set off with them, but he had to go to Wuchuan city first.

Jiang Ji and A Jin first went to the neighboring county to inquire about the news.

Before leaving, Wei Shengdie took her makeup bag and put on makeup for her.

Jiang Ji had become very popular on the Internet before, and all her photos from childhood to adulthood were dug out. The recent popularity has not died down yet, and she receives countless harassing calls every day asking her to become an Internet celebrity. She might be recognized by someone on the train, adding some unnecessary trouble.

Wei Shengdie's makeup was done on her facial features, and she finally wore a pair of glasses without prescription. The effect was not as magical as the makeup cream, but when Jiang Ji looked in the mirror, her aura suddenly dimmed, and if she wasn't staring at him, she wouldn't be recognized at all.

Three tickets with consecutive numbers, three people squeezed in a row.

Ah Jin tactfully chose the outermost seat and let Ying Huai sit in the middle.

Ying Huaisheng was tall, so the space in the hard seat was inevitably a bit cramped for him, but he seemed to have adapted the best among the others. He put on wired headphones after getting on the bus. Several young girls across the aisle looked over here from time to time.

When he closed his eyes, the casual and unruly look in his brows disappeared, and his whole temperament became cold.

Jiang Ji couldn't help but take a few more glances, and then she felt an earphone plugged into her ear, and Ying Huai had already opened her eyes.

"listen."

Jiang Ji was about to speak when the sound from her headphones diverted her attention.

Ying Huai's body temperature still remained on the tip of his ear, making it a little itchy.

The sound in the headphones did not sound like it could be made by a living person. It was distorted and numb, with no ups and downs.

They appeared one after another, all repeating the same words.

"Nannan, when will you be back?"

"Nannan...we miss you so much..."

"Nannan, the wedding is ready and the guests are on the way. It's time to go home and don't miss this auspicious day..."

The voices of all kinds, young and old, men and women, finally turned into an innocent child's voice: "Hahahahaha... go home, go home!"

The sudden high volume startled Jiang Ji. Ying Huai took away the headphones and asked, "What did you hear?"

Jiang Ji recalled the voices he had just heard, and a strong picture emerged in his mind: a distorted and pale face, a kind but weird smile, and two exaggerated blushes on the cheeks. They asked over and over again into the microphone when they would be back.

She thought for a moment, "So far, the police have received calls from women between the ages of seventeen and thirty. These 'people' on the phone kept talking about weddings, saying that they were ready... But I remember the data showing that many girls had completely cut off contact with their hometowns in the county since their parents' generation, and seventeen years old was still a minor in the legal sense, so it was impossible for them to go back and get married."

Ying Huai nodded, "Yes, these people who reported the case said that the caller had a five-year-old niece who drowned, an aunt who died in a car accident, and a grandmother who died of cancer... These people have been dead for a long time, and the Wuchuan Branch has ruled out the suspicion of AI forging voice fraud."

“These voices started to appear last week, and as time goes by, they become more frequent and more urgent.

These people who reported the case in various places said that they woke up in the middle of the night and found themselves lying at the door, which was half open. After checking the surveillance video, they found that they had sleepwalked in the middle of the night and walked out the door, but they had never had the habit of sleepwalking before.

"Those things are guiding them back."

Ying Huai's eyes fell on the opposite side, and Jiang Ji followed his gaze.

Sitting opposite them was a woman who looked to be around 25 or 26 years old, dressed youthfully and beautifully.

The girl has been answering the phone since she got on the car. Her expression changes from calm to impatient to anxious, and her tone keeps changing.

"Mom, I'm leaving. It'll take seventeen hours. I'll let you know when I get there."

"Hello, what's wrong? Why are you calling again? I told you it would take seventeen hours, but you guys started rushing me after just one hour. I can still control the train to arrive soon! Okay, stop talking, I'm going to take a break..."

"Please, stop hitting me. Is it fun to keep hitting me?"

The phone rang every ten minutes or so, and Jiang Ji could even hear the emotionless and cold voice on the other end of the line.

"When will you be back... Nannan."

Ajin caught a glimpse of the train ticket in her hand, and also went to Wuchuan City first, so he simply tried to get close to her.

"Classmate, are you going back to Shangshan County too?"

The girl looked alert when she saw someone trying to talk to her. She saw the handsome black-haired young man who was indifferent to her but had a very good temperament, and the girl next to him. At first glance, they looked like celebrities, but they didn't look like bad people. She hesitated and said, "You too?"

"Yeah," Jin said, "We're also going to... uh."

He didn't have time to organize his words and was stuck for a moment.

"Okay, there's nothing to hide." Jiang Ji took over the conversation very naturally, put his hand on the back of Ying Huai's hand, and said angrily: "I brought my boyfriend home to show my parents. It's really inexplicable. I told my mother that I have a boyfriend, but she still asked me to go home and get married.

I haven't even met the person, and I don't know his personal information. They just told me to go back and meet him and I'll know.

I will have a serious talk with them when I get back. Why are they still arranging marriages in this day and age? "

"That's right, sister." The girl felt the same way, put down all her guard, and complained across the small table, "I suddenly received a call asking me to go back and get married, without saying anything, just a few words... I talked to my boyfriend about it.