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Chapter 521 - 487: The Train That Can’t Leave

Chapter 521: Chapter 487: The Train That Can’t Leave

"What makes you think I should sacrifice myself?"

Jiang Xiao’s rebellious expression filled the others with speechlessness.

"It’s your life they want! Not your body! Damn it!"

Scar-faced explained, his voice tinged with barely concealed anger.

What kind of person is this!

Uh...

So they don’t want to sleep with me?

Jiang Xiao gently patted his chest, clearly not ready for polygamy.

"Wait a minute?"

That’s not right either!

They want my life?

I’d rather give my body than that!

Jiang Xiao stood up indignantly and approached the still-angered co-driver aggressively.

"What’s this ’light’ you’re talking about? Why should I sacrifice myself for it? Do I owe it something?"

At that moment, Scar-faced did not immediately answer Jiang Xiao’s question.

Instead, he looked at Jiang Xiao back and forth with a face full of doubt and uncertainty before finally asking unsurely.

"You... you seem like a good person?"

Jiang Xiao: ?

"What the hell? Who are you calling a good person?!"

As everyone knows, in the 21st century, there’s nothing more damaging than telling someone, "You are a good person."

If there was, it would be, "You are an honest person..."

Both phrases are equally devastating to a person, especially to a man...

"No, no, no, I mean, you don’t seem purely evil, or rather, you’re not simply a bad person."

Jiang Xiao: .....

What on earth is he talking about? I can hardly understand him anymore.

"What I mean is, you’re not the spokesperson for that power..."

What power?

Wait a minute!

Jiang Xiao just realized something—that the co-driver... didn’t have any strange scent?

So...

Could it be that this co-driver, with his sinister and malevolent triangular eyes and a fierce scar on his face, might actually be truly a "good person"?

Put yourself in their shoes.

If the other party is normal, but had a conductor check on me, does that mean... they thought I was the peculiar one?

"Am I the ’peculiar’ one?"

No... Still, this train is filled with abnormalities.

After all, whether it’s the conductor Ling Zi or the salesperson, both have the authority to command security to kill.

And it seems, the hierarchy here is co-driver > Ling Zi = Salesperson > Security.

If the co-driver didn’t allow killings below, the train wouldn’t have turned out this way...

If they were purely good, they wouldn’t have to protect the general public, but at least they shouldn’t kill innocents, right?

Thinking this, Jiang Xiao nodded, having roughly understood part of the situation.

"Oh, I get it. So initially, you thought I was the ’peculiar’ one, and that’s why you had Ling Zi check on me, right?"

Jiang Xiao’s voice carried a hint of mockery, his gaze fixed intently on the co-driver.

Scar-faced felt uneasy under Jiang Xiao’s stare, he slightly turned away, but eventually nodded.

"Yes, initially, we did suspect you were the ’peculiar’ one."

His voice was low, carrying a hint of helplessness and tiredness.

"But now it seems, I was wrong. You are not the ’peculiar’, at least not the kind that poses a threat to us."

"So, what exactly is the ’peculiar’ on this train trip?"

The co-driver fell silent for a moment, as if considering how to answer.

"This train’s eeriness is a force, a power that can manipulate fate, not a specific creature, but an omnipresent sensation, indescribable."

Jiang Xiao furrowed his brow slightly as he listened to the co-driver’s words.

"Then why do you want me to sacrifice myself? To combat this force?"

A flicker of pain crossed the co-driver’s face.

"Yes, we need the power of a living person, a sacrifice, to maintain the balance of the train and prevent it from descending into complete chaos!"

Oh?

A thought struck Jiang Xiao. He suddenly realized that this co-driver might not be a villain by choice but was forced to make decisions in these circumstances.

That would make sense...

The train had been invaded by a strange force.

At the same time, the people led by the co-driver seemed to have found a way to resist or even retaliate against the strangeness by consuming life.

Beneath the clash of these two forces, that’s why the eerie rules were incomplete.

That’s also why, although the co-driver seemed to be a good person, he and Ling Zi demanded that the security team harvest the passengers’ lives under their respective commands.

Seeing Jiang Xiao remained silent, Scar-faced hastily added,

"Actually, by all conventional wisdom, no matter how dangerous it is, we shouldn’t be killing these passengers..."

Jiang Xiao and Ling Zi nodded in agreement.

"But," the co-driver added, "even if we don’t kill the passengers, they would still die under the influence of the eerie power, so it’s better to make use of their lives, which they are inevitably going to lose anyway..."

Well~

Scar-faced had made his point, and it was hard to say whether what he was doing was right or wrong.

So, the train’s rules were indeed incomplete, but the remaining rules hadn’t been concealed, rather were they being erased by the people led by the co-driver in a unique way?

"Now that you know I am not a ’Kaidan’, can you let me leave the train?"

Faced with Jiang Xiao’s question, the co-driver revealed a meaningful smile.

"I have just felt your power. If you truly wished to leave, how could I stop you?"

Hmm?

Jiang Xiao didn’t understand what he meant by that, but since he wasn’t being stopped, he naturally wouldn’t stay any longer.

After briefly saying goodbye to Ling Zi, Jiang Xiao planned to leave the train...

...

Can’t leave?

Jiang Xiao stared blankly at his surroundings.

It seemed to be the same place he had entered at the beginning?

Next to him was an old man sleeping in a very uncomfortable position.

Beside the old man was a middle-aged man, holding a thermos and also nodding off bit by bit.

Opposite Jiang Xiao was a rural old lady.

Her callused large feet were on the wooden table, casually cracking sunflower seeds.

The other two were her husband and their son.

Back to the starting point again?

He had just forcibly opened the train door and leaped down to the ground below, hadn’t he?

Something was off...

At least thirteen parts off, even if the eerie force was blocked by some power.

But it was a nine-star-plus "Kaidan".

Jumping off a train and completing the scenario would be too childish, wouldn’t it?

Jiang Xiao was still mulling over it in a frown.

The co-driver appeared before him with Ling Zi and Ling Zi’s rookie coworker, Wu Yu.

"How about that? You wanted to leave, so why have you come back?"

Ling Zi looked utterly composed, seemingly unsurprised by any of this.

Wu Yu, on the other hand, seemed a bit bewildered. Clearly, as someone relatively new to the job, she still had much to learn and understand.