Chapter 8, Train Zero's death, is the cheapest form of survival in No Man's Land...
The train, which had been forcibly stopped by Jiang Yang cutting the power lines, resumed operation as Xiong Bingxin, Nan Ke, and the others completed their mission.
The dark sleeper compartments did not seem to affect the lighting in other vehicles.
The group of people were furtively plotting something at the 0203 connection point.
The carriage was now filled with shadowy figures, and the few empty seats left for them were scattered around, so they simply stood up.
"Uh...really want to..." Xiong Bingxin's eyes lit up as she looked at Azi, forcing him to swallow the rest of his sentence.
Just now, Nan Ke and Xiong Bingxin hit it off and came up with a bold idea.
get off.
If passengers board the train at every stop on Wutou Mountain, then when the train actually arrives at Wutou Mountain, there will probably be even more passengers.
There's still room for them on the bus now, but if it gets overloaded...
Of course, they didn't simply get off the train. To be precise, they went to the train conductor to explain that they had boarded the wrong train and learned from the conductor how to take the train whose final destination was an unclaimed land.
The idea came about because when Xie Lu was looking at the route map, he discovered that in addition to the main line corresponding to Train Zero, there were several other lines underneath.
There are three other routes that can reach the No Man's Land and whose final destination is located in the No Man's Land.
The key problem is that they don't have tickets to the no man's land; all the tickets they bought through the train conductor are printed with "Headless Mountain Station" as the final destination.
"How about giving it a try?" Nan Ke met Xiong Bingxin's gaze again, nodding his head toward the chair next to him.
Azi instinctively took a step back. "Are you... sure?"
"Of course," Xiong Bingxin said, pulling out her large knife and tossing it around in her hand a couple of times.
"Wait a minute," Xie Lu interrupted her.
Ah Zi felt like he had grasped a lifeline. The boss was too crazy, and the younger brother couldn't handle it!
Of course, Xie Lu didn't let him have his way. "Killing other passengers will attract the security personnel. Let's threaten them."
"To be honest, Lu's dad has really gone bad after hanging out with Nan Ke for so long..."
A barrage of comments silently floated across the observation screen, followed by a row of +1+1+1.
Yes, Xie Lu went even crazier, and Azi dragged him up the sand dune to go crazy together.
"Then how do we do it?" Nan Ke pondered, pursing her lips.
“Leave it to me,” Azi conceded.
[Player Azi's Skill Card: Holy Grail Six]
[Personal Talent: Inner Purification]
[Instructions for use: This can obtain unconditional compromise and love from any living being]
Duration: 10 minutes
[Number of uses remaining for this dungeon: 3/3]
“We have ten minutes. After ten minutes, it will expire. If they realize that we have taken the tickets, it may get out of control.”
Ah Zi's little face was chubby, and when he spoke seriously, he wasn't intimidating, but he was impossible to ignore. "And, you can only take three."
"If it's three, then we'll bring three of them at once. Is that alright?" Xie Lu asked.
“There shouldn’t be any problem…” Azi thought for a moment.
"Then, Xiong Bingxin and Nan Ke will go together, while Sha Qiu, Xie Lu, and I will go our separate ways. After Azi gets the tickets, he can go directly to the train conductor and then get off the train. Is that alright?"
"Only three tickets, what should we do..." Sand Dune's Adam's apple bobbed up and down, his expression tense.
“Don’t worry, we are restricted in the car. Let’s get off first,” Meng Jiang comforted him.
Xiong Bingxin glanced at Nan Ke, who shrugged indifferently.
The group assignments in Mengjiang were fairly done, so there's no need to start fighting amongst ourselves over this.
“The interval between the two stations is basically between 30 and 40 minutes,” Xiong Bingxin said, looking down carefully at the human skin map in her hand. The stations between Wutoushan Station and Wuzhudi were clearly marked, but they didn’t know which station they were at.
"We've been at this station for about fifteen minutes now, so let's move out in ten minutes."
Everything is progressing fairly smoothly.
Xiong Bingxin used the items she obtained from the previous trial to temporarily suppress a lone shadowy figure.
Nan Ke quickly tied it with white thread and dragged it into the nearest bathroom.
Then Xiong Bingxin sent a signal to the team to summon Azi over.
It was Xie Lu again. Just as Nan Ke was struggling to move the shadowy figure inside, Xie Lu suddenly appeared inside the door, hoisted the unconscious shadowy figure onto his shoulder, threw it inside, and then closed the door as if no one else was there.
"Brother, won't the safety officer find out?" Xiong Bingxin asked innocently.
"No, I've blocked my breath," Xie Ge said coolly.
[Zero Train Observation Room - Xie Lu's Perspective]
"Ahhh, my husband is so handsome!"
"Although I really dislike Meng Nu, you're right, he's really handsome!!!"
"When will I get to see my brother use that skill?! I'd risk my soul for him, ahhhhh!"
[Player Xie Lu's Talent Card: Strength]
[Personal Talent: Vampire Protection]
[Instructions for Use - Presence: When actively activated, it reduces your presence in other perspectives during trials. When the talent is upgraded to the maximum level, you can achieve complete invisibility. Currently, players can use it for 3 hours at a time. After clearing the duration, you can go to the dark, where darkness will provide the best protection for your power.]
【Instructions for Use - Domination: Creatures in the darkness can be manipulated by power; the effect of manipulation depends on the individual attributes of the creature】
【Instructions for Use - Vampire Protection: By harnessing the mysterious and powerful abilities of vampires, you can transform from a mortal into a vampire and gain control of the supreme power of the entire vampire race】
Mengjiang and Shaqiu dragged the shadowy figure to the restroom at the back of the train. After Azi got the tickets there, the three of them ran over together.
“It’s done…it’s done…” Azi handed the ticket to the middle.
[Final Destination: No Man's Land]
That's right.
Azi took a deep breath, pushed the door open, and was stunned by the dark figure lying on the ground. He then took a breath to calm himself down.
He crouched down, pried open the dark figure's clenched fist with his five fingers, and clasped them together, then slowly closed his eyes.
Soon, large beads of sweat dripped from Azi's forehead. He gritted his teeth and held on for almost half a minute before letting go. Sure enough, there was a train ticket in his palm.
He wiped away his sweat and repeated the process, finally managing to get the third ticket out just as he was about to give up.
"Human skin hostage!" Sand Dune exclaimed.
Of the three tickets, two were ordinary and one was a human skin ticket. Meng Jiang helped Azi up. "We don't have much time left. Let's go find the train conductor first."
"No……"
In front of the lounge, the door was open, and Meng Jiang was confronting the train conductor while holding his ticket.
It's not that they can't get it done, but rather that this group of people is being targeted by the train conductor once again.
"Then we..."
Meng Jiang turned around from the door of the rest room, about to speak, when the train conductor's voice came from behind him again, "Two tickets."
Spinning around on the speeding train, Meng Jiang almost lost his balance. The train conductor reached out his hand to him and repeated, "Two sheets," with a hint of schadenfreude in his tone.
Meng Jiang and Xiong Bingxin exchanged glances and picked up a regular ticket from the three available.
The train conductor took it and, seemingly out of nowhere, stamped it quickly in the corner of the ticket.
Two signs indicating "mistaken boarding" and a station stamp appeared in the corner. Meng Jiang quietly made a "3" gesture to Xiong Bingxin.
[Third stop: Uninhabited bone station]
Meng Jiang handed over the human skin ticket for the second ticket, intending to test its use, but it was returned directly by the train conductor. Having no other choice, he handed over another ordinary ticket instead.
After Nan Ke escaped, his eyesight returned, and he stood to the side, reaching into his pocket to rub them.
He had noticed when Jiang Yang put the ticket in his pocket.
But for some reason, Jiang Yang's image suddenly popped into his mind.
The two of them had gone to great lengths to get the train tickets, but now they were useless. Nan Ke inexplicably felt as if he had let them down.
I wonder how that guy is doing now.
Although they live in different dimensions, their desire to cause trouble is the same.
On train K0027, Jiang Yang, dressed in an engineer's uniform, carefully walked forward in the carriage, just like the other NPCs.
The engineer's identity was given to him by the system. He was just testing the waters while still dressed up, but he didn't expect it to actually work out.
But the shadowy figure's cold gaze kept falling on him, so sharp that it gave him goosebumps.
His heaving chest betrayed his emotions, but he forced himself to remain calm and continued forward.
Fortunately, the passengers went to their seats after boarding, and the people sitting in the carriage were not very concentrated.
What puzzled him was why they were all left together on the platform when they weren't supposed to be together.
He had carefully checked the tickets and found that everyone's starting station was different; they seemed to have gathered together on this platform after being stranded.
At the connection between the carriages, the NPCs are better off than the players; their line of sight can easily penetrate between the two carriages.
Jiang Yang secretly glanced back, and seeing that no one was paying attention to her, she quietly opened the bathroom door and slipped inside.
To avoid being discovered, he left his backpack in the campervan, and his pockets are now stuffed full.
He took out the items one by one, and put the train ticket into the black bag that contained the chips.
With Nan Ke by his side, he didn't have time to check the changes to the train ticket.
But now it seems... nothing has changed.
The SAN value remained at 20, with only half a minute left to last. Jiang Yang waited patiently.
[Green Apple Usage Status: Expired]
[Player Jiang Yang's remaining SAN points: 20]
[Note: When the SAN value drops to 10, the user will lose the ability to act.]
[Danger: When the SAN value reaches zero, the player will lose consciousness.]
"Won't I die?" Jiang Yang murmured to himself.
“Death is the cheapest thing in the land of no man,” the trial assistant said with a smile.
Jiang Yang washed her face in front of the mirror. After the effect failed, she didn't have any other reactions, except that she felt a chill on her body.
The red apple was still on the windowsill. After thinking about it, he decided not to eat it right away.
My gut feeling tells me we can wait a little longer.
I straightened my clothes a little, turned around, opened the door, and went out.
But he didn't notice that there was a large red mark on the skin under his collar.
On Train Zero, everyone had a solemn expression.
[Third stop: Uninhabited bone station]
[Second stop: Nanshi North Station]
Between the two stations, there was a three-minute gap between them and the shadowy figure.
When they received their tickets, the train attendant told them that after arriving at the station, they should get off at the front door of carriage number two and someone would take them there.
Therefore, they could only wait near Gate 2, and were only two carriages away from the dark figure they had locked in the toilet.
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