This time, everything is truly turned upside down.
In the howling tornado, the train was like a tiny insect, so fragile that it seemed like it could be torn apart easily.
Roll, spin, shake.
The train was filled with screams and collisions.
Protective props can protect players from harm as much as possible, but they cannot prevent everyone from hitting the roof of the carriage as the train rolls, and then falling heavily to the ground, causing dizziness.
During another roll, Ye Xiang and Xia Jing both hit the car window glass. The entire glass could not withstand the heavy impact and cracked into spider-web patterns.
Feeling that the broken glass window was gradually losing its bearing capacity and sinking outward, Ye Xiang howled in fear and waved his limbs.
——Now they are in mid-air. If they fall out, they will be doomed. They will definitely die!
Xia Jing stretched out his hand with all his strength, and his five slender fingers firmly grasped the back of a seat on the train.
However, the seat back surface is too smooth and there is no place to hook, so it is very difficult to grab this thing.
Even though Xia Jing was trying very hard, his five fingers were still slowly sliding out.
The next second, another hand firmly grasped his wrist.
Xia Jing looked up.
Song Yang grabbed another place in the carriage where he could stabilize his body and held him tightly.
Because of the force, the blue veins on the man's arms bulged out.
He whispered, "Xia Jing, caught him!"
Xia Jing narrowed his eyes and reached out his other hand to grab Song Yang's arm.
Song Yang pulled him hard, brought him closer, placed his hand on the fixed hook in the car, and asked him to hold it.
Since Song Yang's position was fixed, their protective circle finally stopped rolling around. With the invisible wall of the props, the collision range of Sha Yu and Ye Xiang was also much smaller.
Soon, Sha Yu also stabilized his body, leaving Ye Xiang alone, rolling here and there like a ping-pong ball, and no one paid any attention to him.
The train was still spinning in the tornado, but it was already falling.
After Xia Jing stabilized himself, he immediately looked up towards the driver's cab.
On the small glass of the cab, the white paper with black words on it had disappeared without a trace, replaced by—
Xia Jing quickly asked, "Song Yang, can you see clearly what that is?"
As the train flipped over again, Song Yang fell backwards. He tried to keep steady, staring forward and frowning.
On that small piece of glass, there was... a color that was hard to tell whether it was white with pink or pink with white.
The color has some graininess and seems to be wriggling slightly.
"I don't know," Song Yang panted and gritted his teeth, "but I can be sure that it is definitely the body of a monster."
The conductor is an absolute monster.
As soon as he finished speaking, the train began to fall rapidly, and the screams in the carriage reached the loudest level.
With a loud "bang", the entire train hit the ground, bounced up violently, and then with a "clang", it landed completely on the ground.
The remaining nine players in the carriage were almost completely knocked unconscious. Some were lying on the ground, and some were hanging between the seats. All of them were voiceless and unable to move.
Outside the train, the tornado finally began to retreat and the wind gradually died down.
The sand fell like rain, returning to the earth and returning to silence.
The carriage also fell into dead silence.
Two full minutes later.
A humming sound echoed through the silent desert sky.
"Click," "Click," the train slowly began to move, and the journey began again...
In the carriage, Song Yang and Xia Jing were the first to wake up and struggled to get up.
The protective gear had been completely shattered, and both of them had some tinnitus.
"Everyone...is everyone okay?" Sha Yu was the third one to wake up. He groaned and asked, "Le Liu, Le Liu, where are you?"
Yang Leliu, who had already rolled to the rear of the carriage, shouted with difficulty: "Husband, I'm here..."
Wang Zhi was shaking all over, his face covered in tears: "The train, the train is running again..."
Li Mian propped himself up and shook his head.
She raised her head and glanced around, then said hoarsely, "This time... everyone is fine."
Fei Shengxiao hissed, rubbed his forehead, and said blankly: "Hey, if everything is fine, then those ten stars..."
She vaguely remembered that before the accident, Xia Jing said that the number of stars probably represented the number of players who would die in this level.
But now they are all fine...
An Ruming breathed a sigh of relief at having survived. He stood up, holding onto the chair beside him, and forced a smile as if to console himself. "Maybe Xiaodong is mistaken. Those ten stars mean something else? Maybe they represent the level of disaster..."
"If it's a disaster level, then there's no need to divide it into ten levels. It's meaningless." Xia Jing stood up completely at some point, his eyes fixed on the windows on the right side of the train. "Take a look at these windows."
Everyone heard the voice and looked up in the direction he was looking.
Everyone's expression suddenly changed.
They looked to the left again.
On both sides of the carriage, the glass...is all cracked!
Not only did the cracks develop spiderweb patterns, but there were also serious outward dents. It was almost foreseeable that if it was just a little worse, all the windows would have been completely shattered!
If all the windows shattered while the train was still rolling in the tornado, there would be no doubt that several players on the train would fall out.
Once they fall out, the consequences are self-evident. Wouldn't all of them be killed?
Thinking of this, there were gasps in the train.
And at this moment, the glass is healing itself little by little.
The spiderweb marks are disappearing automatically, the dents are gradually flattening out, and all the deformations and damages in the car are repairing themselves.
Everyone felt a chill all over their body, and they looked at Xia Jing again.
Xia Jing had already walked back to the door of the cab.
Song Yang also followed behind him.
They were able to escape this disaster, most likely because...
Li Mian and Sha Yu got up and rushed to the door of the cab. Looking inside, they exclaimed in surprise, "Where's Ma Qiuren?!"
Everything inside the cab was open to them again.
The tall figure of the train conductor had his back to them, swaying happily as before. However, Ma Qiu, who had entered the cab, was nowhere to be seen. If he was dead, where did his body go?
The next second, a "bang" sound suddenly came from the upper left of them.
A group of people subconsciously looked up, and then—
Fei Shengxiao let out a low scream!
Wang Zhi was so scared that he collapsed to the ground!
An Ruming, Ye Xiang, Sha Yu and Yang Leliu were all frightened and took two steps back reflexively.
All of them stared in amazement at the huge, irregular bulge where the square pipe connected to the cab.
It was as if a large mass of something was stuffed from the cab into the pipe and pushed out.
"What, what is this..." Ye Xiang opened his eyes wide.
As soon as the words fell, another teeth-grinding sound of metal deformation was heard—
The unidentified object in the square pipe moved forward, moving a full half meter in one breath.
——The pipe is transporting this thing to the rear carriage!
Fei Shengxiao's voice changed: "What the hell is in here?!"
Yang Leliu's face suddenly turned pale, and she shouted, "There's breathing sounds, there's breathing sounds in the pipe!"
Almost as soon as she said this, the bulge in the pipe suddenly deflated, as if the contents inside were disappearing...
Without saying a word, Song Yang took out the machete and swung it at the pipe. A silver-white light flashed by, and the pipe at the bottom of the bulge was cut in half by Song Yang!
Then, amidst screams of terror, a piece of meat—
No, it was Ma Qiu's head and neck that were corroded to the point that only half was left hanging!
A sour and smelly transparent liquid mixed with human blood and fat dripped down, and the train seats that were dripped onto were corroded with holes that were visibly formed with the naked eye!
Half of Ma Qiu's face still retained an expression of fear, and the transparent liquid continued to corrode his flesh and bones rapidly.
His eyes fell out of their sockets like a ball of jelly about to rot.
Several people were almost scared crazy!
Song Yang subconsciously took a step forward, then quickly stopped, with veins bulging on the back of his hand.
It's been corroded to this extent, it's already beyond saving...
Suddenly, an arm as long as a noodle came from the right side of the pipe and shoved Ma Qiu's body to the other end of the pipe in the blink of an eye!
Song Yang's pupils suddenly constricted.
Ma Qiu had already been corroded to the point of being almost turned into meat paste. After being pushed so violently, all the flesh on his body was squeezed together, and his head was completely broken in the squeezing, falling straight onto the seat below!
Wang Zhi was about to faint, and Fei Shengxiao couldn't help vomiting!
This came out too quickly. By the time Song Yang cut the pipe hard, the hand in the pipe had already retracted!
Li Mian said in a low voice: "Song Yang, the system punishment——"
Song Yang's face was very gloomy: "It's okay, only fifty points were deducted."
——That's fifty points, how can you call it "okay"?!
However, it has already been cut, and I can accept this result, so others can't say anything.
Xia Jing turned around quickly, leaned on the cab door, and stared straight inside.
At some point, the blond and blue-eyed conductor had reached the door and was walking back.
Noticing Xia Jing's gaze, the train conductor paused slightly.
Then, he smiled elegantly and raised his hand to wave at Xia Jing.
The hand and arm had several exposed bones...
This scene shocked everyone. An Ruming jumped up and shouted, "The train conductor is the dungeon's main monster! He is the dungeon's main monster!"
Fei Shengxiao trembled and said, "Ma Qiu was killed by him, but we survived. If Ma Qiu hadn't gone in, all ten of us would have died! This is a game of choices, and we'll have to make choices in every level!"
"If the number that rises from the star behind still means total annihilation, then only by sacrificing that one person can the rest of us survive! Even if the star behind no longer means total annihilation, we still have to choose whether to sacrifice more people or just that one person..."
Ye Xiang's eyes turned fierce. "Is this even a question? The chosen ones must go in, not only because it allows more people to survive, but also because only those who go in can kill the conductor!"
"You still say that—you still say that!" Sha Yu rushed over and grabbed Ye Xiang's collar, "If it weren't for you, if you hadn't kicked Ma Qiu in, would he have been unable to react at all?! If he had been given the chance to push the door open himself, maybe he would have done better, maybe he could have found a way to kill the conductor!"
Ye Xiang also roared with bloodshot eyes: "Go after him? Forget it! If he hesitates any longer, we will have no chance of escaping this disaster. You should thank me for your survival! And don't forget, he was corrupted. He had clearly activated the protective function of the monster props before entering the door, but he was still corrupted! All our monster props will most likely become ineffective once they enter the cab! His death is not my fault!"
Sha Yu: "You——"
"Stop arguing at this time!" Yang Leliu rushed forward to block Sha Yu.
After saying this, she suddenly tilted her ear, as if she heard something, but her attention was quickly diverted.
By the time Sha Yu and Ye Xiang separated, they were both out of breath.
An Ruming suddenly asked sinisterly, "Where do you want to escape to?"
Everyone turned around and saw that Wang Zhi had somehow reached the door leading to the second carriage.
An Ruming stepped over and grabbed him back. Wang Zhi cried out, "I can't do it! I can't do it! I can't deal with that monster!"
An Ruming sneered, "Where do you think you can escape to? The second carriage is full of pipes. Do you want to stay with them?"
Wang Zhi cried bitterly and shook his head: "No, I, I don't want to, I want to leave here, wu, I want to leave here..."
"Don't be like this for now, let's sit down and think of a solution!" Yang Leliu advised.
An Ruming had obviously also fallen into madness, his eyes bloodshot. "What can we do? We don't have any solution. He's the only one alive among the candidates designated by the conductor! It's okay if he can't kill the monster. We can find a way to get a bomb-like weapon and tie it to him-"
Yang Leliu collapsed: "Where did this weapon come from? Is this something we can make now?!"
During the quarrel, Song Yang did not say a word, but walked back to the door of the cab with a sullen face.
Xia Jing didn't move and just stood there.
He didn't turn around, but just asked quietly in tacit understanding: "Did I knock?"
Song Yang glanced at him.
The young man's unwavering calmness calmed his anger.
Song Yang calmed down and nodded: "Yeah."
Two knocks on the door woke up the people who were arguing on the other end.
They all looked over, but because they were so excited, they didn't realize what Song Yang and Xia Jing were doing.
In the cab, the conductor heard a knock on the door, walked over with a smile, tilted his head, and seemed to ask what was going on.
Xia Jing imitated Song Yang in the previous round and made the gesture of opening a door.
Fei Shengxiao was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, "You...ah, are you testing whether the train conductor will come up with new selection criteria?"
As soon as this sentence came out, others reacted——
Yes, the type of disaster changes in each round, and maybe the person in the driver's seat will also change in each round!
For people like Li Mian and Sha Yu, the candidate they most want is themselves. This is much better than watching others go in and die!
So they hurried over, their eyes fixed on the conductor's movements, with tension and prayer flashing in their eyes.
However, when Ye Xiang and An Ruming realized that the candidate might change, their faces became a little panicked.
Inside the cab, the conductor fiddled with it for a while under everyone's gaze. When he looked up again, he "snapped" and stuck the same piece of white paper on the small window glass.
Everyone looked closely.
This time, the white paper read:
"Only passengers who meet the following conditions may open the door of the cab and enter the cab:
1. Female;
2. Over 30 years old.
When this condition was put forward, Sha Yu trembled and murmured: "...No."
Of the remaining nine, only one met this condition.
——Everyone's eyes were focused on Yang Leliu.
The color drained from Yang Leliu's face.