In Chapter 6, on Train Zero, the boy's tone was filled with a sense of new life...
"We've arrived..."
Even Nan Ke felt a bit exhausted from running for so long. He even had to use two speed-up skills to barely keep up with the safety officer by the distance of one carriage.
Jiang Yang was two steps behind him. When he tried to speed up, he felt his stomach churning violently and it took him a long time to calm down.
At the head of carriage 08 is another train attendant's rest room, and the interior is clearly visible through the transparent window.
But standing prominently on the table was the exact same flashlight that Jiang Yang had picked up inside, and the flashlight was still lying quietly at the bottom of his backpack.
The Fool's Card can be obtained on Train Zero from Train 0027. So, will the items already taken from Train 0027 disappear on Train Zero?
Jiang Yang stopped Nan Ke from opening the door and cautiously took out a flashlight from her bag and shone it inside.
The expected black mist full of fangs did not appear. Nan Ke blinked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"I don't know," Jiang Yang lowered her hand and slowly shook her head.
"Don't worry, Xingxing didn't call the police, so it's not a life-or-death situation."
He tilted his head, propped it up, and pondered, a flash of red appearing in his eyes.
Jiang Yang suddenly turned around and looked at the left side of the door frame.
[Please press to call a flight attendant]
"Didn't we notice this button just now?"
"No, I don't think so..." Nan Ke wasn't sure either.
"They upgraded their tickets by pressing a button first, and then the train conductor appeared, but if we both ignored it..."
Jiang Yang hesitated, then said, "It seems like it was intentional."
The button was pressed by Nan Ke, and the safety officer had already passed the connection and entered the line of sight, seemingly moving much faster than at the beginning.
To avoid facing two NPCs at once, the two didn't dare to hesitate any longer.
The door to the lounge slowly opened from the inside, and a black silhouette appeared out of thin air on a chair in the center of the small, square room.
Jiang Yang was glad that she and Nan Ke hadn't barged in directly.
"Hello, we're here to buy tickets."
The train conductor pointed to the table, and Nan Ke stepped forward to take a look.
Hard sleeper: 60 (crossed out) 80 (crossed out) 100
[Soft sleeper: 80 (crossed out) 100 (crossed out) 120]
Like food, prices also change.
"Let's buy two hard sleeper tickets first," Jiang Yang also noticed.
“One… sheet…” the train conductor began slowly, black mist swirling around her.
"Are there no tickets left?" Nan Ke asked, unwilling to give up.
The train conductor's neck snapped and cracked, a smile spreading across his face, almost reaching his ears. "You...can only...buy one."
The malice was obvious; the empty gaze fell on Jiang Yang, and Jiang Yang realized that she was being targeted.
[Zero Train Observation Room - Jiang Yang's Perspective]
"Why are even NPCs targeting him? Is he really that annoying?"
"Perhaps NPCs are just more vengeful (uncertain version)."
"Have you forgotten? He got the Fool's card. If you don't hold a grudge against him, who should you hold a grudge against? It's his fault."
Enraged, Nan Ke wrapped the white thread around his wrist, ready to strike.
"Buy one first," Jiang Yang said, blocking Nan Ke's way. He took out his money bag from his backpack, remembering Huang Si's rule-breaking behavior.
The ticket was handed out by a slimy tentacle. Jiang Yang took a deep breath and carefully picked up the ticket. The moment he touched it, a cold temperature spread throughout his palm, and he instinctively wanted to throw it away.
"Four and a half minutes, what do we do now?"
The door to the break room closed again, and the safety officer was no longer in sight. The sound of chains at the connection point gradually became clearer.
"Run!" The two made a snap decision and rushed towards the rear of the carriage, while the safety officer behind them began to smash the iron chains down one after another.
At the same time, the chains hooked onto Xiong Bingxin and her group were violently ripped off by a powerful force, tearing off a patch of bloody, mangled skin. The security guard who had been standing in front of them also vanished without a trace in that instant.
Several people had already been taken to vehicle 06. Xie Lu walked over and, seeing the situation, asked, "What happened?"
Despite the pain, Xiong Bingxin said, "I got into a fight with the safety officer."
"Did you see Nan Ke?" Xie Lu felt a sudden surge of irritation.
Meng Jiang said irritably, "I haven't seen it. Go find it yourself."
The black slime dripping from his head became more frequent, causing a burning pain on his skin, and his SAN value continued to plummet.
Nan Ke took out a steamed bun, one black and one white, which made him unable to hold back his rage and roar, "No! Which one am I supposed to eat?!"
A drop of viscous liquid fell onto the surface of the black steamed bun and was immediately absorbed. Jiang Yang laughed out loud, finding humor in the situation. "Are you still conflicted?"
Nan Ke took a fierce bite of the white steamed bun, then her eyes lit up, "It works!"
After eating two more bites, the SAN value stabilized at 60.
Jiang Yang wasn't too conflicted. The red apple looked like it would have a mealy texture, so he chose to eat the green apple.
Good news, the SAN value won't drop.
The bad news is that the SAN value is no longer increasing.
Duration: 20 minutes
"That's it, three and a half minutes left," Nan Ke said, looking radiant after his SAN value was restored.
But what Jiang Yang saw was him pointing to a door filled with thick black fog and telling him...
"Can't you see it?" Jiang Yang pointed over as well. The black mist seemed to detect the presence of a living person and immediately became active, clinging to the person's fingertips.
Jiang Yang emphasized again, "There's a door here," and he had a feeling that he should go in.
What's your SAN value?
“20”
"That must be the reason."
The ticket in the pocket started moving around, and both of them could notice.
Jiang Yang took it out, and the originally stiff paper ticket, with its unsettling elasticity, became unusually delicate and smooth.
"It looks like human skin," Nan Ke said, half-closing his eyes as he pressed against it. Jiang Yang wanted to let go again.
I held it in my hand, trying to suppress my discomfort, and examined it. The neat little characters on the back had disappeared, replaced by a crooked ouroboros.
It appears to have been drawn on randomly, with the snake's head wide open, its teeth sharp and pointed, and its tail held in its mouth, forming a closed loop.
"The snake bites its own tail, facing death to live..." Jiang Yang murmured subconsciously.
The safety officer continued to close in, ten meters... nine meters... eight meters... the speed was getting faster and faster.
"My skills are barely enough to last until the end, how so?"
“No need, we want to go in,” Jiang Yang’s eyes hardened.
The upper half of their fingertips became transparent, and the influence of the door prevented them from making any rash moves, but they could take advantage of the security guard in front of them.
"Is there any way to get him to attack this place precisely?"
"You can give it a try."
Five meters...
Four meters...
Three meters...
Within the attack range, Jiang Yang focused his attention and quickly dodged to the side when the safety officer threw out the chain.
Perhaps realizing their intentions, the iron chain chased straight towards Jiang Yang, only to be intercepted halfway by Nan Ke's white thread.
On the other side, Nan Ke gritted her teeth and pulled hard, finally managing to land on the metal door just before it hit Jiang Yang.
The metal door was struck hard, the black mist dissipated to reveal the doorknob, and Jiang Yang rushed forward and pressed the handle, shouting, "Quick!"
The chain was still gathering strength, and it struck the door again on a second strike. Fortunately, Jiang Yang and Nan Ke entered unharmed.
"I...I can't see anymore," Nan Ke said frantically, blinking her eyes, which were still shrouded in mist.
"Don't be afraid, I'll pull you along," Jiang Yang said. He couldn't see clearly, but he was certain that the mist wasn't poisonous and there was no more black liquid above his head.
Two minutes remain.
As if struck by a thought, Jiang Yang rummaged through his bag. Sure enough, the notebook had become as soft as human skin. He quickly flipped through the pages as he walked, then suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Nan Ke's heart skipped a beat.
The original scribbles on the notebook became letters that Jiang Yang could understand.
"I am guilty, I have lost the nourishment."
"Father God, you know I am loyal to you!"
"Father God, are you going to abandon me?"
...He was mostly admitting his mistakes earlier, which made him seem crazy.
Jiang Yang read it quickly, to the last page.
"Father God has abandoned me. I feel my soul being torn away. Now I can look back on my life from an outsider's perspective. No Man's Land itself is a huge deception. We were wrong from the very beginning. Don't bring evil back to No Man's Land! Don't offer your soul to the Tower of Judgment! Destroy the train! Get off the train!"
One minute.
Jiang Yang's face was hidden in the darkness. His glasses had been taken off at some point. A beam of light shone in from the front of the train, piercing through the fog and revealing most of the environment behind him.
"We're almost at the station. The campervan is ahead of you. Go straight to Xie Lu and give him your black steamed bun."
"Then we went to Xiong Bingxin to cooperate, and asked her to control the SAN value and look at the circuit diagram."
"And what about you?" Nan Ke gripped Jiang Yang's forearm, both nervous and worried.
Jiang Yang put the train ticket into Nan Ke's pocket, opened the door, and the door creaked open.
The boy's tone was brimming with a newfound energy: "See you in the No Man's Land."
[Zero Train Observation Room - Jiang Yang's Perspective]
"None of you will tell, right?"
"I won't tell you either."
"I dare not say, I dare not say."
"But...right?"
The comments section became a silent exchange, with a group of observers understanding each other implicitly.
From the moment he saw the ouroboros, everything became clear.
Their being pulled in by the security personnel caused changes inside Train Zero, which is essentially a snake.
It stopped at Wutoushan Station countless times, trapped in the ouroboros, going around in circles.
And so, behind the small door he saw was the front of the car, a place they had never been before.
The snake bites its own tail, facing death to live.
One thing Jiang Yang wasn't quite sure about was whether this situation was part of the trial's setup or something someone had deliberately orchestrated.
Destroy it?
Unfortunately, not now.
Main Quest: Find the real train route map
[Personal Mission: Player Jiang Yang, please pick up the passengers stranded on the platform of train K0027]
10 seconds countdown.
Jiang Yang grabbed the pliers from the toolbox next to him, opened the electrical box door, pulled out a large clump of wire, and forcefully cut it in the middle.
A feeling of floating and sinking washed over Jiang Yang, and he struggled to raise his hand, but the train conductor's image was blended into the crowd and no longer stood out.
With her SAN value decreasing, she reverted to her original form.
Congratulations on finding Xiaomei! Please return the ID card to Xiaomei before the train arrives at the station. Don't let Xiaomei cry.
Ignoring the prompt, Jiang Yang clicked the button below his profile picture.
Due to character differences, some of the player's actions will be restricted to NPC settings, and the substitution time will be shortened by one-third. Depending on the player's level, the substitution time will be 10 minutes.
[Whether to replace]
【yes】
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