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Chapter 522 - 488 Unspeakable Strangeness

Chapter 522: Chapter 488 Unspeakable Strangeness

"How can I leave this place?"

"Sorry, if we could leave, why would we stay here risking our lives?"

Jiang Xiao wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, but he was no fool and instantly understood the implication behind the co-driver’s words.

It was eerie...

It didn’t want anyone to leave this train.

Forget it~

Jiang Xiao didn’t feel like slacking off anymore; a high-level Kaidan like this probably wouldn’t have any loopholes for him to exploit. Whatever it was, wouldn’t it be fine as long as he dealt with it?

"Alright, since you’ve been fighting against this eerie power for so long, where is it now? You should know how to get rid of it, right?"

The co-driver looked at Jiang Xiao in surprise.

He hadn’t expected this man to speak with such grandiosity, as if it was no more difficult than squashing an ant...

However...

"Young man, I’m ashamed to say that...I... I still don’t know how to pinpoint its exact location..."

Wang Defa?

"Bro, are you messing with me? Then why were you whining just now, talking about sacrificing and using passengers’ lives, when you don’t even know where it is?"

Could this spirit be something like Pennywise?

Surely not?

Such beings are unfathomable, unpredictable, come and go as they please, and are capable of making an entire professional department suffer immensely. In the end, they even sacrificed many eerie devices to the Kaidan to seek external help.

No matter how you put it, this is just a small instance; even if its difficulty might be high, it shouldn’t involve a freaky existence like Pennywise, right?

Worried they might not understand, Jiang Xiao briefly explained his knowledge about Pennywise and his previous solo experiences to them.

"Do you think the entity on this train could also be similar to ’Pennywise’?"

Pennywise’s strength was in the realm of the spirit, which happened to be Jiang Xiao’s strongest area.

If there was another similar entity, but its attack method was physical or something, Jiang Xiao would still feel troubled.

But since he brought the clown mask this time, even if it were a head-on solo, he’d have a better chance of winning.

Hearing Jiang Xiao describe the "spirit" as so terrifying, including Naiko and the co-driver, everyone got quite startled.

The co-driver simply couldn’t imagine what kind of thing could threaten a country.

As for Naiko...

She just couldn’t understand what type of entity could possibly affect Jiang Xiao’s spirit.

To know, from the information collected by the Sakura, it’s a good day when Jiang Xiao’s spirit doesn’t corrupt others.

And that Pennywise could actually stand up to Jiang Xiao, and even deceived him multiple times in the spirit world, how freakish must it be?

"No, no, no, young man, you’re thinking too much. The spirit here isn’t as eerie as what you’ve encountered before..."

Only when Jiang Xiao could deal with a big shot like Pennywise, did the co-driver start addressing him as "you."

"So what have you all been fighting against? Air?"

"Not exactly. Actually, the main force fighting the spirit isn’t me, it’s the train driver..."

"Aren’t you the train driver?"

"I’m the assistant!" Scar-faced responded passionately.

"And where is the actual one?"

"The actual one is fighting the spirit!"

Are you freaking kidding me here?!

"Stop joking around. Are you asking for a slap?"

Jiang Xiao’s tone turned cold, and the co-driver finally started to take things seriously.

"The strangeness that enshrouds this train has never manifested in a concrete form, yet its presence is omnipresent, like a toxin in the air, seeping into everyone’s vitals."

"Every breath we take, every heartbeat, is under its influence."

He paused, as if recalling those unspeakable past events, and continued.

"We’ve tried to resist countless times, but each attempt ended in failure. Its power seemed to anticipate our every move, and each counterattack would be effortlessly neutralized. It’s like an invisible jailer, locking us firmly on this caged track."

Jiang Xiao frowned, feeling a tinge of unease about this intangible enemy.

Such unreachable adversaries are often the most troublesome.

The co-driver continued.

"But our driver; he was a hero. At the critical moment, he stood up!"

"With everything he had, including willingly giving up his own life to fight against the strangeness, he also told us that only by continuously sacrificing living people could he temporarily suppress the power of the strangeness and bring us a glimmer of hope."

Hiss...

Suddenly, Jiang Xiao seemed to think of something and asked the co-driver.

"During the tunnel passage earlier, I saw two shadows battling against the force of the strangeness. It was the driver, right? But who was the other shadow?"

Huh?

The co-driver widened his eyes, his voice filled with incredulity.

"You were able to keep your eyes open through the tunnel?!"

You see, when the driver made his sacrifice, he established a life-saving rule.

That was to never open your eyes while passing through a tunnel!

"Why?"

"Because our sacrificial ritual begins during the tunnel passage. At that time, the carriage will be enveloped by darkness, which makes the sacramental power easier to be absorbed."

"Oh, I see."

Jiang Xiao thought of the bizarre dance performed by those passengers...

"Are these passengers volunteering?"

"Of course not, they are compelled to volunteer. Nobody wants to offer themselves, even if they know that if no one steps forward, everyone will perish under the power of the strangeness."

It seems that the power of the strangeness and the train driver’s power combined have created a unique reaction.

These passengers seem normal most of the time.

That young man even made a call to ’complain’ to his ’dad.’

But in reality, that supposed ’dad’s’ voice was probably just an illusion created under the influence of the driver.

Just like the dance these passengers performed, after which they have no recollection whatsoever.

’Thud thud~’

Jiang Xiao tapped the table, looking at the co-driver with a half-smile.

"There’s another question—who is the other shadow?"

Scar-faced shook his head honestly, indicating he didn’t know.

He couldn’t even guarantee if those shadows were the train driver.

It likely was.

This much Jiang Xiao was sure of.

Besides those two shadows, there seemed to be no one else on this train with the power to challenge the strangeness.

Including the three individuals in front of him and those security guards.

True, they have some capabilities, if placed in any other Kaidan...

Let’s put it this way, just like the ’glasses-man’ in Madman Villa, talking about confronting such a nine-star level device.

It would probably be no different from delivering vegetables~

[Damn, the snow in Suqian this year is insanely bizarre. Slipped and fell again on the way home after hanging up the IV, tailbone hurts like hell, shit!]