All the other NPCs are dead.
The ghost hasn't killed any players yet; instead, it's been killing NPCs one by one.
This is similar to the principle that people get on the train at every stop; perhaps the game has programmed the ghosts to kill the players after killing the NPCs.
This is a beginner game. This approach reduces the game's difficulty and gives players enough time to observe and think, allowing them to discover opportunities for survival.
On the other hand, just like boarding at each station, there should be some kind of hidden prompt.
Based on the previous reasoning, she originally thought that the ghost was disguised as a passenger to board the bus, and they needed to find out who the ghost was disguised as. However, now the NPCs are dying one by one, and the game makes the ghost kill the NPCs first before killing the player.
If all the NPCs are dead, how can the player find out who the ghost is among the passengers?
Doesn't this contradict the previous reasoning?
Clearly, the ghost wasn't disguised as a passenger to board the bus.
So the truth is...
A flash of inspiration struck Xia Linyin, but before she could grasp it, she heard Zhang Yaya's shrill scream.
Zhang Yaya clutched her bleeding neck and fell backward, her other hand flailing wildly in the air like a drowning person desperately trying to grab onto something to stop herself from falling into the vortex of death.
"Zhang Yaya!" Xia Linyin grabbed Zhang Yaya's hand, and was pulled down to her knees by the force of her movements.
Tears streamed down Zhang Yaya's face. Her eyes widened, blood gushed from her mouth, and she uttered broken, fragmented words, "Lin...Lin Yin...I...don't...want to die..."
Zhang Yaya held Xia Linyin's hand tightly, but the strength quickly weakened, until finally her hand slipped from Xia Linyin's grasp and fell lifelessly into a pool of blood.
The first player killed by a ghost has been identified!
Xia Linyin felt a bone-chilling cold, a cold that even flames could not dispel, and her hands and feet were icy cold.
Will she be next to have her throat cut off so silently, with blood gushing from the mangled wound?
Xia Linyin gripped her red high heels tightly, looking around warily, every cell in her body filled with vigilance, like a frightened bird.
Suddenly, as she was kneeling on the ground, she saw something floating under the seat in front of her, rapidly heading towards her. Xia Linyin quickly stood up and backed away, shouting, "Under! Under there!"
Bai Xue'er peeked out from behind Su Jinyan and cried out in horror, "Ah! I saw it! I saw it!"
A porcelain doll with a ghostly face floated out from under the seat. Its face was painted with a scarlet mouth, and the corners of its mouth were stretched out exaggeratedly to both sides. In the center of its mouth was a sharp piece of porcelain, which was as sharp as a knife blade and was stained red with blood.
Its face bore a sinister and arrogant smile, like a hunter excitedly watching its prey trapped in a cage with no way to escape.
Seeing that it had been discovered, the ceramic doll stopped hiding and exposed itself completely, letting out a strange, cacophony laugh at Xia Linyin and the others.
Amidst the terrifying laughter of ghosts and monsters, the lights inside the carriage crackled and popped, then began to flicker.
The flickering lights, the eerie, grotesque laughter, and the pervasive stench of blood in the carriage created an atmosphere of terror that seemed poised to break down Xia Linyin and the others' last line of defense.
Suddenly, the ceramic doll floated close to the ground towards Xia Linyin!
Xia Linyin quickly backed away, jumping onto the back seat of the carriage. But the porcelain doll grinned at her, then floated up the seat.
Xia Linyin quickly stepped onto the back of the chair, jumping from the front chair to the back. The ceramic doll floated above the front chair back, watching her.
"Hehe—" After a strange laugh, the ceramic doll pounced directly at Xia Linyin, the sharp ceramic shard in its mouth reflecting a cold light!
"Ah!" Xia Linyin forcefully swung the high heel in her hand at the ceramic doll, but because she was standing on the back of the chair, she lost her balance and fell backward.
Instead of the expected heavy fall to the ground, Xia Linyin landed in a broad embrace, with the person behind her holding her waist tightly.
A soft breath brushed against her delicate earlobe, and the other person's deep, magnetic, and seductive voice reached her ears, "Be careful."
The voices were so close, they sounded like the whispers of lovers.
It's that man in the black jacket!
The man didn't even glance at the porcelain doll. While holding Xia Linyin in his arms, he drew his long sword with his other hand and slashed at the porcelain doll.
The blade sliced precisely across the ceramic doll's body, and as the doll shattered into pieces and fell to the ground, the man's crescent-shaped longsword was already sheathed.
The speed at which the blade strikes is insanely fast!
What's equally incredible is his appearance—it's perfect. This man's appearance can only be described as perfect. His features seem to be God's most outstanding creation, without a single flaw.
The man's clear eyes reflected her face. Looking at his features so close to hers, Xia Linyin nervously swallowed.
The other party's aura was too powerful, so powerful that it was like a large net covering her entire body.
Her mind was completely blank.
"Ah! Another one!"
Bai Xue'er's scream pulled Xia Linyin back to reality. Xia Linyin came to her senses and hurriedly left the man's embrace, saying, "Th-thank you."
The fragments of the previous ceramic doll were still scattered on the chair and the ground, but now another doll appeared that was exactly the same as the previous one, with a blood-red mouth and a sharp piece of ceramic in its mouth, floating towards them along the ground!
The porcelain doll quickly floated towards Su Jinyan and Bai Xueer, who were closest to it. Bai Xueer screamed and hid behind Su Jinyan.
Su Jinyan pointed his baton at the ceramic doll. Electricity flowed through the tip of his baton, and then, like a legendary magic wand, it shot out a beam of blood-red laser light.
The blood-red light struck the ceramic doll's body, and spiderweb-like cracks began to appear on its surface.
"whee--"
"whee--"
The ceramic doll, which had been knocked to the ground, floated up again, changed direction, and flew towards Xia Linyin, dragging its cracked body.
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