Chapter 28
Su Xingyuan looked at the game clock first.
【15:40】
Only 5 minutes until departure.
The explosion occurred shortly after the train departed.
[Ding Dong!] 】
[You have triggered a limited-time task!] 】
[-You boarded the only train to the central city of Province A on September 15. You sat on the top of the train and enjoyed the blue sky and white clouds. You felt happy. However, at the moment the train departed, you heard a warning from a reporter...]
[Please find the mastermind behind the explosion and prevent the entire train from exploding]
[Limited time——]
【Five minutes】
The black-haired boy lowered his emotionless green eyes and looked down.
The next moment, he suddenly turned over and fell down, and then without hesitation, he punched the train window!
[Strength: 79]
A huge sound of glass shattering was heard instantly, accompanied by the screams of the passengers in this carriage. Qiao Zixin, who was closest to the window, even had a direct scratch on his face.
Her eardrums were throbbing, her heart was pounding, and she almost fainted.
However, she knew very well that the reason for her current state was not because of the sudden attack by the young hunter, which caused the car window to suddenly shatter.
Qiao Zixin sensed the danger.
A strong smell of danger that will bring countless deaths.
[Name: Qiao Zixin]
[Identity: Reporter of Mantianxing Daily]
"—you sense danger, don't you?"
[Level: S]
Qiao Zixin raised his head.
The black-haired boy was staring at her from the window. His turquoise cat-like eyes were so still that they made people feel frightened, just like a cheetah under the cover of vegetation, observing his prey coldly, ready to deliver a fatal blow at any time.
Qiao Zixin suddenly felt a sense of relief. She felt a sense of danger that was almost strangling her neck and making it difficult for her to breathe. She dodged the black-haired boy like a mouse encountering a cat. She breathed in big gulps and even coughed uncontrollably.
"Yes... ahem, it was very sudden, but definitely..." She took a deep breath, covered her neck with one hand, and supported herself on the seat with the other hand, with her five fingers sunken into it.
She looked up and said, "We will all die."
Su Xingyuan: "I understand."
Qiao Zixin made way for him and he entered the carriage, glancing at the passengers who were looking like they were facing a dangerous enemy and the conductor who was calling on the intercom.
Everything seemed normal and everyone was terrified by his sudden appearance.
[Remaining time: 4 minutes]
However, it is reasonable to feel fear.
Almost in the blink of an eye, Su Xingyuan came to the conductor's side. Under her horrified gaze, he took the walkie-talkie and put it to his ear.
"Can you hear me?"
"Oh, I forgot, you should be able to see it too."
He raised his eyes and looked directly at the surveillance camera at the front of the car. On the high-definition surveillance screen, there seemed to be moving lines in his emerald green irises, and under the white light, he revealed an exceptionally calm madness.
"Stop running the trains and ask everyone to stay in their seats, don't move around, don't scream."
"Otherwise..."
"I will kill them one by one."
The game mission is to [find the mastermind].
Players can clearly see who is the enemy and who is friendly. The mission is described in this way, which means that the mastermind will not directly show his red name and health bar to him this time.
But so what?
Players have countless opportunities.
At worst, we can just try to kill them one by one as he said. Anyway, as long as they are not real enemies, they will not be killed by players at all.
At most, the player is likely to be wanted by the Hunter Association.
"...All passengers, please note that there is a temporary problem with the train. Please stay in your seats, do not panic, and do not move..."
"All passengers, please note..."
Su Xingyuan smiled.
He knew that the train conductor would not make any choice that might threaten the lives of the passengers and would agree to his request. He must have already notified the police station and the Hunters Association's nearby duty point.
But what can those people do in five minutes?
As far as he knew, there was no hunter in J City's Hunter Association who was famous for his speed.
He put the intercom back into the conductor's hands.
At this moment, a man's voice sounded from behind him: "Do you know who I am? My brother is an A-rank in the central city—"
"Bang!!"
In an instant, the black-haired boy moved to his side and slammed his head heavily on the small table in front of him!
The tabletop fell directly to the ground and broke into pieces.
“So noisy.”
He said with a smile.
Several screams were immediately suppressed in the throat and turned into low whimpers.
It's quiet.
[Remaining time: 3 minutes]
This is a good environment for problem solving.
Su Xingyuan walked up to Qiao Zixin and asked, "Can you feel where the danger is?"
Qiao Zixin glanced at him with a complicated expression, but perhaps because she didn't sense any danger from him, she tried her best to say calmly, "I still need thirty seconds."
Su Xingyuan could see that she was in great pain, as if she was already experiencing death from now on.
He turned his eyes away from her and scanned the carriage No. 6 where he was, inch by inch.
He remembered clearly that explosions occurred in every carriage, in order from number one to number nine, exploding one after another from the center of the carriage in an instant.
This would not be a capability that could be activated temporarily; the order would be determined in advance, and it would just be waiting for the moment when the explosion would begin.
So, what was the medium that caused the car to explode?
Since there is an extremely subtle and short time difference between the explosions in each carriage, it is very likely that there is an explosive medium in each carriage.
If the mastermind behind this had used his ability to detonate the explosion directly, the explosion would not have occurred in the middle of each carriage. It would have been a very well-proportioned effect.
Su Xingyuan's eyes fell on the fire extinguisher, emergency hammer and seat in the car in turn.
or……
He looked at the passengers.
One of them is the explosion itself.
[Remaining time: 2 minutes]
Su Xingyuan turned around and looked at Qiao Zixin.
The reporter had her eyes closed and there was a thin layer of sweat on her forehead, but now it seemed that her condition was much better than before.
She said with some difficulty:
"Six to nine..."
She opened her eyes. "There are six to nine carriages, and each one has a source of danger."
Su Xingyuan looked at her for a second longer. He thought that she could only detect nearby dangers, but he didn't expect that she could even clearly tell how many sources of danger there were in several carriages.
No wonder the ability is rated S-level.
"Six to nine cars?"
Su Xingyuan blinked and smiled: "It seems that the murderer is a good person. He spared the first five carriages. I am so touched."
He pulled out his knife with a smile, turned sideways and asked everyone in the carriage.
"You must feel the same way, right?"
[Remaining time: 1min]
If there is an explosive medium in a carriage, it is a source of danger.
So including the mastermind behind the explosion, there should be at least one carriage that is a source of two dangers.
If there are no two dangerous sources in the same car when the explosive media have not been completely placed, it means one thing -
The source of danger in the sixth carriage is not an explosive medium.
And it is the mastermind behind all this.
Qiao Zixin looked back somewhat stiffly, while the black-haired boy walked towards the conductor while spinning the knife in his hand.
Then he hit the conductor's forehead hard with the handle of the knife.
The conductor, who thought she was going to die, was so frightened that she almost thought her head was going to be split open. Then she realized that the hard object hitting her head was the handle of the knife, not the blade.
Conductor: “……?”
Her eyes were dull and her face was blank. She was scared and a little confused at the same time. She felt that the person in front of her was more like a psychopath with unstable moods and no logic in his actions.
Only a psychopath would pull out a gun to kill someone, then pull the trigger, be delighted to see a beautiful rose pop out of the muzzle, and then enjoy the expressions of everyone who is frightened by him and instantly feels like they have survived a disaster.
Su Xingyuan didn't know what she was thinking, he just withdrew his hand as usual and accepted the fact that he didn't even have HP-1.
The conductor is an ordinary NPC.
Fortunately, he did not attack directly with the blade, otherwise if everyone saw in public that he could not cut anyone at all, he would have lost his dignity.
Players want to be strong throughout their lives and will never allow this to happen.
Now that the conductor has been cleared of suspicion, the only people who can move around in all the carriages without arousing suspicion, apart from the conductor, are the passengers who need to find their seats.
Su Xingyuan asked the conductor: "Does this train sell unreserved tickets?"
This was probably a memory engraved in his bones, and the conductor shook his head subconsciously.
The black-haired boy narrowed his eyes, stretching out his voice as if he was really confused, and looked at the passenger in the last row who had the same terrified expression as everyone else.
"That's weird. If there's no standing room, why is this gentleman standing here?"
As soon as the words fell, the air seemed to be silent.
The passenger slowly raised his head, his originally frightened expression gradually became cold, and in just an instant, his temperament changed drastically.
The man forced a mocking smile: "Although I don't know how you found out... but unfortunately, it's too late."
Su Xingyuan: "No, it's not too late."
An explosion suddenly sounded, and before being engulfed by flames, the black-haired boy smiled and said the last few words.
"We'll see you...in five minutes."
*
Automatic save upon death.
Five minutes before the train leaves.
Su Xingyuan opened his eyes.
[Ding Dong!] Trigger a limited time mission! 】
He did not take the time to look at the task in detail, but jumped off the roof directly, and like any ordinary late passenger, hurriedly entered the train through the door between carriages 6 and 7.
Perhaps because he was walking too hurriedly, after entering the train door, the black-haired boy accidentally bumped into a man pulling a suitcase.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry..."
The boy, who seemed to still have a student vibe, lowered his head and kept apologizing, without seeming to be aggressive at all.
Then, when the man looked over subconsciously, he suddenly raised his head.
Those green eyes, like elves that seemed to be able to see through people's hearts, looked straight into the depths of the man's eyes.
And he saw very clearly that the other person's pupils shrank slightly uncontrollably.
He smiled and said, "This gentleman looks so familiar..."
After the sudden flash of snow-white knife light, he smiled as relaxed and sunny as if he had met a familiar friend.
"Should I say, 'Look, we meet again'?"
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