Chapter 3 Train Zero Hey, wanna try the curse of the stars? ...
"Help...help me..."
Jiang Yang barely managed to move Huang Si to 02, almost dragging and carrying him.
He pushed his head through the curtain, his eyes quickly scanning the carriage, and then, as if overwhelmed, he was pushed down by Huang Si, who then laid him down on a nearby seat.
The situation was worse than expected; there were no acquaintances of Huang Si in car 02.
Fortunately, the group of shadowy passengers he had seen before were not in front of the train door, and of course, no one was actually going to get off at this station, "Wutoushan Station".
Everyone is watching and waiting.
Hearing the commotion, the group of people who had been huddled together in the middle of the carriage, seemingly talking amongst themselves, quickly moved closer. The man in the lead, his eyes blazing, spoke without any politeness, "Who are you? What are you doing in there?"
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No. 15 Mengjiang
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"I..." Jiang Yang subconsciously adjusted her glasses, pursed her lips, and stammered, "I've been inside the whole time... I just saw he was injured... I don't have any medicine..."
[Zero Train Observation Room - Jiang Yang's Perspective]
"No, is this person even on this trial?"
"I'm from next door, is this the constant noise he makes?"
The few other observers who had been squatting in the observation room looked at each other in bewilderment.
"We're all in the hard-seat carriage, why are you in there!" Meng Jiang continued aggressively, taking a step forward instinctively, only to be pulled back by the woman traveling with him.
Jiang Yang glanced subtly between the two, then lowered her head, feigning surprise, and waved her hands repeatedly, "I...I don't know..."
Looking up again, her eyes flushed a natural pink from anxiety, she turned to the side and pointed to the blue curtain, explaining urgently, "The campervan is inside. I was there from the beginning, really!"
The blue curtain was only half-drawn, but the blank space at the bottom seemed to have an invisible barrier, preventing anything from showing through.
"Do you have a ticket?" asked the woman next to him.
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No.3 Xiong Bingxin
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Jiang Yang sniffed, becoming cautious as well. He gripped the backpack strap so tightly it was deformed, and looked at everyone warily. "What's it to you?"
"How dare you speak like that!" Meng Jiang shouted sternly. Jiang Yang was now certain that the woman was the real captain of their team.
Jiang Yang remained silent, his neck stiff. The panel was still on the confirmation screen for replacing the train conductor. He dared to come out and challenge people because he had already thought of a way out.
He couldn't bear it, but he wasn't brainless.
The train doors suddenly slammed shut with a dull thud, and the train restarted, slowly pulling away from the platform.
The sound of friction between the wheels and the rails gradually increased, and the speed of travel slowly increased as well.
Jiang Yang glanced at the time at the back of the car; the first stop had lasted about five minutes.
Calculating the time, it was next up to the train attendants' mobile dining car. Jiang Yang wasn't sure how the train attendants would react to Huang Si. The team in front of him was obviously experienced, leaving him in a dilemma.
The food truck started selling its wares from 02 onwards, and many players from other trucks also squeezed in at the back of the truck.
Jiang Yang raised an eyebrow, lunged at Huang Si sitting in the chair, shook his shoulders with both hands, and shouted in a shrill voice, "Huang Si! How are you!"
"Huang Si!" Someone outside also called out Huang Si's name. Jiang Yang breathed a sigh of relief. He had made the right bet, but there was a risk involved.
After all, he didn't know Huang Si; knowing someone's name was just a matter of innate talent.
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No. 7 Huang Er
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The blue curtain was lifted from the inside, revealing that the black mist-like figure was no longer there.
Wearing a uniform, her high heels clicked crisply, and her facial features appeared normal.
Jiang Yang stood up first, blocking Huang Si's way. The train conductor's gaze swept over them indifferently, as if he didn't recognize them.
The food cart was covered with a thick cotton blanket, and a sign on top vaguely indicated two things.
Food: 20
[Fruit: 30]
Jiang Yang silently pondered, and when she looked up, a black mist face appeared on the back of the train conductor's head, the corners of his blood-red mouth were pulled into an eerie arc, and then disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The young man quietly swallowed.
Xiong Bingxin and Meng Jiang, who were in the middle of the aisle, subtly moved into the seating area. The food cart passed between them, and Xiong Bingxin raised her chin, signaling her teammates to stop the cart.
"A serving of food."
Huang Er had been squeezing in from the outside ever since he heard Huang Si's name, and now he was in front of the dining car, looking extremely anxious.
But as soon as the food truck passed, Meng Jiang and his men blocked the aisle again.
"Xiong Bingxin, what the hell do you mean by bringing a bunch of mad dogs with you!" Huang Er was furious.
"Huang Er, if you can't speak properly, just come at me if you want to fight. Don't say I'm ganging up on you. Let's have a one-on-one fight!"
Xiong Bingxin pushed Meng Jiang aside, a half-meter-long cleaver appeared in her palm, which she held horizontally in front of her, coldly staring at Huang Er with an aura that said, "If you dare to touch me, I dare to chop you down."
"Heh," another person stepped out from behind the car, who looked like a teenager. He had a contemptuous smile on his lips and said casually, "Huang Er, why don't you reconsider what I just said?"
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No.4 Nan Ke
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"Stop talking nonsense, let's attack together!" Xiong Bingxin was warlike and did not back down at this moment.
[Zero Train Observation Room - Full View]
"My God, what a chaotic scene this is, they've all been gathered together."
"Fight! Fight! Fight!"
"Nan Ke! Ahhh! Daddy!! Little Daddy!!"
Taking advantage of the chaos, Jiang Yang skimmed through Huang Si's memory fragments at double speed. More than half of those fifteen minutes were spent dawdling in the lounge while buying tickets.
Huang Er appeared at the beginning and told Huang Si to buy a ticket first if the price was high. The ticket price was not much different from Jiang Yang's estimate.
[Hard sleeper: 80]
[Soft sleeper: 100]
After deducting the cost of the tickets, Huang Si only had forty or fifty yuan left, which was actually less than Jiang Yang's total. Jiang Yang sighed, no wonder he would risk stealing the tickets.
Huang Er was no longer in a hurry. He took out a lighter from his pocket and lit a cigarette.
Jiang Yang analyzed the game from a third-party perspective. Since Huang Si had no memory of Nan Ke, the key to the decision still lay with Huang Er.
But Huang Si's importance in Huang Er's heart was something he couldn't quite figure out, so Jiang Yang decided to give him another push.
"Second Brother Huang... Fourth Brother Huang has something for you..." Jiang Yang twitched the corners of his mouth, as if he had made a great decision before mustering the courage to step forward.
Huang Er took a deep drag, flicked the ash from his cigarette, and said, "Nan Ke, I promise you."
As soon as he finished speaking, a white thread, like spider silk, quickly extended from the boy named Nan Ke, passed through the crowd, and wrapped around Xiong Bingxin's hand holding the knife.
Xiong Bingxin swung her hand and cut off the thread. The small piece of thread that fell to the ground became even more agile, wandering on the ground as if searching for its next target.
"You've leveled up," Xiong Bingxin said, her scrutinizing gaze falling on Nan Ke as she confirmed, as they were old acquaintances.
"Hey, want to try the curse of the stars?" Nan Ke smiled slyly.
Fireworks went off in the center of the screen, and the banner circled three times above the observation room before stopping.
[An observer has initiated a 1v1 throw; please throw for your favorite player!]
Subsequently, huge frames displaying the names of the two individuals were hung above the center of the observation room.
[Nan Ke] vs. [Xiong Bingxin]
[Note: During the 1v1 weight-throwing event, the initiating observer is the dealer and provides a prize pool of no less than 1000 Soul Weights. Other observers throw at least 10 weights each time. After the trial, the result is determined based on the number of weights obtained by both parties during the trial.]
(Simply put, 1v1 is a contest of strength between the observers supporting the players.)
"Watch out!" A piece of iron chain swung from carriage 03, and the man who spoke suddenly appeared out of nowhere, blocking Nan Ke's back.
Jiang Yang had no idea that there was someone else in the carriage.
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No.2 Xie Lu
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In the blink of an eye, the shadow reached the connection point of 0203. Jiang Yang still remembered the fragments on the ground at that time, but Xie Lu, who had carried the iron chain by force, showed no abnormality on his face.
[Unlock Monster - Train Conductor of Train Zero]
Jiang Yang finally learned the identity of the Shadow, and this time she didn't complain anymore.
He then reacted quickly, saying, "Everyone, sit down first," and without caring whether the others listened or not, he quickly sat down in the seat opposite Huang Si.
After the safety officer appeared, the people who had been gathered at the connection point disappeared. The safety officer's chains were stained with blood, and it was likely that some of them would not have a good ending.
Jiang Yang also noticed that unless you crossed the connecting area between the carriages, it was difficult to see what was happening in another carriage while you were in one carriage.
The A4 seat had its back to the lounge, and Jiang Yang could see everyone's expressions from there. Xie Lu and Nan Ke, who were near the back of the car, sat down first, and the safety officer ignored them and continued forward. Seeing this, the others also sat down.
The security guard walked into the blue curtain, and the sign printed on the curtain, "Passengers, No Talking," swayed with his movements, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"How do you know that sitting down will make things alright?" Xiong Bingxin asked, her hand resting on the noodles.
“You guys… are fighting, and he’s the safety officer,” Jiang Yang said, her expression tense again.
The blue panel pops up automatically.
Main Quest: Obtain the train route map
"Alright, for your sake, you can leave," Xiong Bingxin waved her hand.
[Zero Train Observation Room - Full View]
"Speechless. I've been looking forward to this for so long, when did Xiong Bingxin become such a coward!"
"Damn it, I threw away all the weights! Give me my money back! Give me my money back!"
"If you're so capable, then you do it! Stop whining here. All you do is bark like a dog when you're useless!"
The blood in Huang Si's abdomen had already congealed. Huang Er stepped forward and, compared to Jiang Yang, seemed to lift Huang Si with remarkable ease.
Sure enough, as soon as I passed the connection point and entered car 03, I could no longer hear any noise behind me.
I went to 04 with Huang Ernanke. Along the way, the environment and furnishings of each carriage were the same.
When they arrived at 04, Nan Ke and Xie Lu sat at the back of the car, while Huang Er placed Huang Si in the same position as 02 and fed him several pills.
Jiang Yang later learned that as long as the health bar wasn't depleted, she wouldn't die no matter how badly she was injured.
"He asked me to give this to you..." Jiang Yang took out a train ticket with only one crease from his pocket and handed it over.
This train ticket was naturally not his; he had taken it from Huang Si later on.
Huang Er accepted the ticket and thanked him, but didn't ask what had happened inside. Then he turned to leave.
“Um…” Jiang Yang quickly spoke up.
Huang Er stopped in his tracks. "What's wrong?"
Jiang Yang handed over another crumpled ticket as well.
"Um?"
“He asked me to bring you another one, and this ticket is his payment. Here, this one is for you too,” Jiang Yang said casually, taking advantage of Huang Si’s unconscious state.
"Since it was given to you by him, you can keep it," Huang Er lit another cigarette.
Jiang Yang shook her head and said softly, "I can't keep it, so I'll give it to you."
Yes and no.
Jiang Yang has no conflict of interest with them, so he might as well do them a favor.
Huang Er squinted, and Jiang Yang's bright eyes shone through them. The large frames of his glasses couldn't suppress the gentleness in his features, and Huang Er felt a sudden surge of irritation.
"Never mind, come with me."
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