Chapter 192

Hearing a sound behind her, Lv Meng shuddered violently and turned her head slowly, only to see a black shadow diving from the crossbeam. Claws grabbed fiercely into her shoulders, tearing the fabric and ripping the flesh open along with it.

She screamed, her voice swallowed by the cawing of crows. Blood splashed onto the glass of the turnstile. The back of her hand was instantly pecked until the white bone was exposed, and her fingernails were lifted from the roots, falling to the ground with a light, crisp sound.

The black beak probed inward bit by bit, dragging out intestines, tearing them, and swallowing them.

Her shoe soles slipped in the blood, and her legs twitched, but she could no longer kick away those dense, swarming bodies.

The moment they heard the screams, no one dared to look back; everyone just quickened their pace to board the train.

They entered Carriage No. 12, which was the last carriage. The moment the door closed, the train started.

Ruan Ruan, having completed her task, also breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, she looked at Su Mian with a complex expression, wanting to say something but stopping.

The seats were marked on the tickets, with every two people sitting opposite each other.

"Now, let's allocate the accommodation."

Wang Yan walked to the middle of the aisle.

"The sleeper berths are for two people. Now that one person has died, one person will have to stay in a single room."

She didn't give the group a chance to discuss and issued orders directly: "Wang Yan and Su Mian will share a room, Ruan Ruan and Wei Xiaowei will share a room, Zhou Yunfeng will be in a single room, and Jiang Hong and Ye Shuheng will share a room."

"Class Monitor, I want to stay with Su Mian."

Ruan Ruan said in a low voice. Once this sentence was spoken, the idea of huddling together was obvious, but Wang Yan wouldn't give her that chance.

"You guys stay out late at night, especially you, always loving to go to bars to dance. The two of us aren't playing games, so that's that."

"But..."

"It's fine."

Su Mian interrupted the two.

This allocation suited her perfectly; otherwise, it wouldn't be easy to make a move to kill.

It was just unclear why Wang Yan wanted to stay with her, even though she knew full well that she harbored resentment toward her.

Since the main person involved had spoken, Ruan Ruan didn't say anything more. Everyone sat back down. Zhou Yunfeng, at the very front, frowned.

"Why is the door in the middle of this train carriage closed?"

As soon as these words were spoken, those playing on their phones and those sleeping all raised their heads. Only then did everyone notice that the door at the very front leading to the next carriage was closed.

Jiang Hong: "Hiss... this doesn't make sense, does it?"

Su Mian stared at that door, thinking of Task Three in the script: After entering the train, please do your utmost to head to the voting office at the front of the train; otherwise, players who fail to reach the front by voting day will also die.

Su Mian: "We have to find a way to open this door."

Wang Yan: "Right, the front of the train is the voting entrance. We have to keep moving forward until we reach the front of the train."

She immediately began organizing the group: "You guys go to the seats in the back, you guys go to the front to look, and I'll go study that door."

With that, the group began to move. Before long, someone flipped over a map. The players gathered around and discovered it was the train's structural diagram, with the functions of each carriage clearly indicated.

Carriage No. 12, hard seat; Carriage No. 11, dining car; Carriage No. 10, sleeper.

Carriage No. 9, hard seat; Carriage No. 8, dining car; Carriage No. 7, sleeper.

And so on, the twelve carriages were grouped in threes, totaling four groups, each containing a hard seat car, a dining car, and a sleeper car.

Zhou Yunfeng: "That means... every three carriages constitute our activity time for one day. If we want to go to the next carriage, we must use some method to open the door?"

The group nodded, agreeing with his statement.

"But how can we open the door?"

Someone asked, and the carriage lights suddenly went out, startling everyone. "Hurry and sit back in your seats!"

Someone shouted. Everyone stepped on each other's feet and rushed back to their seats in a panic. Su Mian sat by the window with Ruan Ruan beside her.

"Attention passengers, attention passengers—"

The broadcast at the top of the carriage suddenly sounded, the mechanical female voice devoid of any emotion.

"Welcome aboard this train. This train has twelve carriages, each with its own special rules. Please follow the rules, and we wish you a pleasant journey."

"Please complete the trial of the hard seat carriage to unlock the dining car and sleeper carriage."

The broadcast screen above the door connecting the carriages suddenly lit up with red characters.

【Next stop, Sunshine Orphanage】

?!

Everyone stared at the broadcast screen with confused expressions, only Su Mian's pupils shrank slightly, and her heart trembled.

Ding-dong...

Ding-dong...

What sound is that?

Aside from the noise of the train on the tracks, a tiny sound resembling a nursery rhyme came from the direction of the door. Suddenly, there was a clatter, as if it had bumped into something.

By the dim light, Su Mian could see the expressions of the other three people at the table. Zhou Yunfeng opposite her was visibly trembling, and he spoke in a low voice.

"That... that thing bumped into me."

Just as the group stood as if frozen and didn't dare to move, Su Mian directly lifted the tablecloth to look underneath.

It was a small toy train emitting a red glow, similar to Thomas the Tank Engine. The front of the train had an expression, smiling, with large apple cheeks puffed up, and glass eyes looking at Su Mian.

The front of the train kept bumping into Zhou Yunfeng's feet.

Su Mian straightened her back. "Move your feet away."

Zhou Yunfeng shook his head repeatedly. "I... I don't dare."

Jiang Hong, next to him, couldn't stand it anymore and kicked him directly.

The feet moved away, and the little train began to sing and circle under everyone's feet again, clearly having not yet found a suitable candidate.

After circling Su Mian's table once, it didn't pause and drove to the other side. Ruan Ruan breathed a sigh of relief, her whole body going limp in the chair.

The three on the other side, Ye Shuheng and Wei Xiaowei, instantly tightened up.

Tick-tock, tick-tock...

Tick-tock, tick-tock...

The train finally stopped at Wang Yan's feet.

Wang Yan froze in disbelief, her breathing trembling as she looked down at her feet, shaking her legs slightly in an attempt to drive the toy train away. The music stopped.

A short figure appeared in the aisle, toes slightly turned inward. The red light shone on the figure, but it had no shadow.

The little boy raised his head, his pitch-black pupils wide, smiling toward the front, squeezing out apple cheeks, eight parts similar to the face on the train front. He didn't say a word but reached out his hand toward the front.

The task was already very clear. The players looked at Wang Yan together. Wang Yan shrank her neck back, her face deathly pale, and she didn't move for a long time.

No one knew if the child would suddenly charge if he grew impatient waiting. Ye Shuheng finally couldn't help but urge her, "Hurry and give it to him."

"Class Monitor, hurry up."

Ruan Ruan said in a trembling voice, but Wang Yan still didn't move. Who knew if something would suddenly rush out on the way there?

She suddenly turned her head abruptly and shouted toward that side.

"Su Mian."

Su Mian was almost asleep when she suddenly heard someone calling her, so she raised her head.

"You... you go for me."