Chapter 1622: Chapter 1622: A Special Dream
It’s the same train again, bustling atmosphere, enthusiastic vendors, and the thugs who board halfway, inevitably appearing on the tracks ahead.
Xu Huo boarded the train and soon found the driver, gave him a tip, and got permission to watch the scenery from the front of the train.
This time, he locked both the door and windows of the cockpit, simultaneously blocking the thugs and having the driver contact the main station, reporting a nightmare murder incident on board and requesting a stop.
Those thugs indeed looked fierce, even beating the conductor who came to stop them.
The driver immediately reported to the main station, and upon receiving the stop order, promptly halted the train.
The stop perfectly avoided the tied-up group of five, and they could see each other while maintaining a distance—a distance at least not scary enough to frighten anyone to death.
Xu Huo also tried to prevent the possibility of thugs damaging the control levers and entering the cockpit.
The train didn’t overturn, and nobody died, which in theory should have been a perfect resolution, but what he didn’t expect was that another large group of thugs suddenly emerged from around the tracks, uncertain if they were blocking him or the thugs on the train. In any case, these people came aggressively, wielding sharp weapons, and trampled the people tied to the tracks to death.
Xu Huo returned to the ticket booth again.
The people on the tracks, train passengers, and thugs—all these were fixed roles. Xu Huo’s several interventions from the main station were unsuccessful, leading him to suspect he might also be a fixed role on the train, so he returned to the train, trying to calmly stop the train through the driver.
Yet still, an accident occurred.
However, one thing could be determined for sure—the position of the people on the tracks remained unchanged.
No matter how those six people ended up dying, out of ten attempts, at least nine had accidents at the same location.
The reason for nine attempts is that in his interventions from the main station, only on the ninth attempt did he falsely report a bomb, resulting in the train’s eventual explosion event having some time discrepancies from the previous eight accidents; the others occurred about forty minutes after the train departed, and this time was no exception.
After sitting for a while, Xu Huo returned to the train; this time he chose to stop the train before the thugs boarded, forcing the driver to stop the train and engaging in a half-hour standoff with the subsequent guards.
With half an hour, plus the ten minutes the train had moved, it was now the time for accidents in the previous ten train journeys.
After waiting another ten minutes, he finally released the driver and stepped out of the train, but just as he stepped off, everything blurred, and he returned to the ticket booth, still holding the same ticket.
Even the people walking beside him were identical.
“Bang bang!” Someone was knocking at the door forcefully.
Xu Huo opened his eyes and stood up, opened the door of the shelter, and looked at the people outside, “What’s up?”
The person knocking was a stranger player who pointed at the pile of food and water beside him, “Could you spare some of those for us? Anyway, you won’t finish them all. We didn’t get time to prepare much food when entering.”
At this moment, daylight had broken, Xu Huo glanced at the few players behind him, “You can take a bag of jerky, and two bottles of water.”
The food and water left by the two Rank-B players were abundant, several boxes piled there; even after distributing quite a bit to the People of Zone 013 yesterday, there was still a lot left.
What Xu Huo gave them was a big bag of jerky, not enough to fill them up but sufficient for sustaining.
Ignoring their dissatisfied expressions, Xu Huo walked to the place where the bodies were placed.
“Two people died last night.” Tong Qi said to him, “Don’t know what happened; that Tan-skinned City Dweller had just slept during the day, and he unexpectedly slept again not long after you went to sleep, didn’t make it to dawn before passing away, probably died during a sweet dream, laughed while leaving.”
“You slept for a long time this time, any insights?” Chi Xian asked.
Xu Huo slightly shook his head, “Not for the time being, but one thing can be certain—the sleep duration will get increasingly longer.”
“We’ve already noted down the situation of other players.” Scarred Glasses handed him two pieces of paper, “Have a look.”
The records were about the dreams players had after falling asleep.
Most people’s situations were similar, either indulging in sweet dreams, unable to extricate themselves, or facing various choices; the more sleep, the longer the duration, and the dream content became more monotonous.
However, among the records, none were like Xu Huo being completely stuck in one scenario without escape. There were also some special cases, one was that the People of Zone 013 had recurring nightmares about a ship, another one was about planting trees; when awakening, he had planted over three hundred trees, the third was reliving the experiences from the start of Evolution, notably, the third player was a Cannibal Player.
In comparison, other people’s dreams were almost identical.
“How are they doing?” Xu Huo asked about those two players.
“Seems quite well, the one planting trees said himself that he’s always happy when dreaming begins because he likes plants, only feels bored and upset when reaching the brink point, when dreams end.”
“As for the Cannibal Player, no need to mention, although he didn’t express it straightforwardly, I still feel he’s boasting about his upgrade process, maybe thinking a redo would make it better this time around.” Tong Qi replied.
“Everyone’s dream progression differs, there are not many patterns,” Chi Xian added from the side, “It seems you might be right, in the end, escaping this instance might hinge on the individual, whether passing or failing, it involves this process.”
Moreover, everyone’s experience is unreplicable, with a hint of relying on luck.
Some players on the side were listening intently, and hearing this, someone said, “Going by this, there’s really no need for everyone to gather together to clear the instance.”
Everyone was silent; it seems to make sense.
“Don’t get it wrong; it’s coming together that led to this conclusion.” Young Master Mo suddenly interjected, “Without this occurrence, most players presumably would still hope to snatch clues from other players.”
“Also,” the beautiful female player added, “Everyone staying together can ensure peace.”
This essentially guarantees everyone’s safety, as for whether someone might take action later—at least for now, there’s no need to sneak around.
“Did anyone go missing last night?” Xu Huo asked again.
Three players were missing from the mall, but they weren’t noted on the record paper.
“Don’t know if they suddenly disappeared,” Tong Qi continued, “Several people went out late at night, three haven’t returned.”
This made it hard to determine the situation, perhaps they were killed, but those who returned were indifferent, surely no results from pursuing, asking would be pointless.