Chapter 39: Explosive Last Train

Bai Liu's figure completely disappeared under Mu Sicheng's frantic jumping feet.

Mu Sicheng chewed on his fingernails and circled around the spot where Bai Liu disappeared for a few times, he crouched down and gripped his hair for a few times, chewed the lollipop in his mouth, and then finally tapped the icon of "Explosive Last Train" on the screen with gritted teeth and entered the game right after Bai Liu.

Mu Sicheng, a second before entering the game, was still muttering to himself in a depressed manner, "Damn, Bai Liu, this guy, made me curious too, I've never entered a secondary game without any preparation!"

The game "Busted Last Train" has gathered two players, and needs five more to start.

Two minutes after Mu Sicheng disappeared, four players of almost identical height, build, and appearance appeared off-screen.

Their faces are wearing the kind of very strange puppet oil painting mask, walking like a puppet on strings, every step has a kind of weird sense of stopping the joints of the limbs, it looks like a skilled craftsman produced four identical puppet toys, the naked eye can hardly distinguish the difference.

The man at the head, or puppet, inquired in a low tone, "Bai Liu is into this game?"

When this "puppet" spoke, his mouth moved up and down in a wide arc, much like a puppet theater pretending to move his lips under the strings, while the low, hoarse voice came from the strings behind him.

A hint of vengeful pleasure flashed in the eyes of the other puppet with a butcher's knife behind his back, and he respectfully arched his hand as he answered him, "Yes, Lord [String Puppeteer]."

"Exploding Last Train, is it?" The ink eyes painted on this puppet's face narrowed realistically, and finally gave an evil laugh, "A level two game, it seems that even if I don't lay a hand on Bai Liu, Bai Liu is unlikely to come out of this game alive, such a high level of talent, what a shame to die, just right to use it as my puppet."

"Go!"

In one neat movement of demeanor, the four stooges tapped and pressed "Burst Last Train" on the screen and disappeared in unison into the entrance of the boarding gate.

[The game "Explosive Last Train" has gathered six players and needs one more player to start]

A man in a pullover sweater, thick flat glasses, and a very, very thick tome in his hand, a student boy at first glance, appeared on the screen next to the entrance to the boarding gate.

His beer-bottle-cap thick square-framed glasses are so big that they cover half his face, and the bottom half of his face, where they show, has a scattering of freckles on the bridge of his nose, and his head cowers inside his sweater, so that if Bai Liu were to take a look at him, he'd probably recognize this gamer as Jeff from Siren Town.

But he looks a little more soft and normal than Jeff, and just seems like a normal student.

But it's in the game, a normally dressed student, that seems surprisingly out of place.

"Eh, let's see ah, which game do I choose ......" This player pushed his glasses, as if wearing presbyopia glasses to look closer to the screen, while looking at it, he tapped on the admin panel of his game manager.

The personal panel on his game manager read:

[Player name: Du Sanying]

Today's Rising Star Ranking: 3rd place - You have already surpassed Mu Sicheng, who is 4th in the Rising Star Ranking, by 170,000 points, and he will not be able to catch up with you in the short term, so please keep up the good work, widen the gap, and catch up with the players in front of you.

[Achievements earned: Winner with nothing to do, lucky only survivor, player inexplicably ignored by monsters, fighter who misses all your attacks]

[The props you bought in the game store before are being discounted from 10,000 points to one point, do you want to buy them?

Congratulations to player Du Sanying for winning the Top Player Gift Pack with a 1 in 100,000 chance of winning! Do you want to claim it now?

......

Du Sanying seemed to have long gotten used to these heavenly drops to the point of numbness, he didn't claim a single reward or giveaway, and scratched off these interfaces all the way to the last page of his personal panel, Du Sanying pushed his glasses up and practically put his face into the panel squinting his eyes to search for the panel information he wanted:

[Lucky Value: 100 (You are also the luckiest person in the world today, you are a favorite favored by the God of Luck, follow your instincts and choose the game you want! The one you choose is the one that will make you the luckiest!)]

"Is the lucky value a hundred today as well?" Du Sanying swept the entire screen a bit hesitantly, "In that case, it's best to go with your gut instinct then-"

He scanned around, and finally his eyes fixed on the icon of "Explosive Last Train", Du Sanying's hand hovered above the icon, and a creepy premonition surged up in his heart, as if clicking on this icon would lead to a very fortunate and unfortunate event, which was a feeling that he had never had before when Du Sanying chose the game when he was 100 percent fortunate.

He's had the feeling before that he's pretty sure he'll be lucky if he picks it, this time how it feels like something will happen that will make him suffer a lot of trials and tribulations but at the same time make him lucky if he picks this game ......

What's all this nonsense, Du Sanying shook his head, hesitated for a long time, but still tapped twice on the game icon of "Explosive Last Train".

[The game "Explosive Last Train" player set is complete, the game begins -]

A [FULL] mark popped up in the lower right corner of the icon of the train-in-fire of "Exploding Last Train" on the big screen, and the next second, Bai Liu opened his eyes in the subway station where people were coming and going.

Meanwhile, seven small TV screens lit up in the lobby, one of which showed Bai Liu's calm, unperturbed face in a crowded subway station.

Wang Shun's Game Manager, standing in the hall looking for Bai Liu, suddenly vibrated one after another:

[System alert: Bai Liu, the player you favorited, has logged in to the game~ Please go and watch~]

【System tip: You have collected the small TV player Mu Sicheng ......】.

【System tip: You have bookmarked ...... player Zhang Gui to log in the game ......】.

[System alert: You favorite ...... Du Sanying login game ......]

"No way ......" Wang Shun fell into an unprecedented trance after checking the message alerts on his game manager, "This Damn it, Bai Liu, third and fourth on the Rising Stars list. And [String Puppeteer] actually got into a multiplayer game, this is going to be a God's fight ah ......"

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Bai Liu received a system alert just as soon as he opened his eyes:

[Welcome players to Explosive Last Train]

[You are a passenger, now, please use the ticket in your pocket to enter the station within ten minutes and wait to board the last train that is about to explode]

Bai Liu reached into the pocket of his suit pants and took out a thin hard metro ticket, which read [Metro Line 4: Antique City→Antique City], Bai Liu raised his eyebrows in slight surprise, the starting and ending stations on this ticket actually had the same name, if not for the renaming of the two stations... ...

Bai Liu inclined his head to look inside the subway station, trying to find the subway line map inside this subway station, and soon Bai Liu saw the subway line map next to the ticket gate.

Line 4 is a very eye-catching red line, and Bai Liu instantly found it on the map.

"Sure enough, line 4 is a closed loop subway line." Bai Liu looked at the red Line 4 that wrapped around the city in a circle with understanding, "The starting and ending stations overlap, they're both the same, they're both this station called Antique City."

Bai Liu wandered around the subway station, in addition to a few more advertisements did not find any other superfluous information, the only thing he felt a little out of place is the design of the subway station, generally speaking, the exit and the entrance will be both will have escalators.

Normally, for the convenience of passengers, the escalator at the exit should go up and the escalator at the entrance should go down, but the design of the subway station here is the other way around, which Bai Liu finds slightly unnatural.

There was one more thing that Bai Liu found strange - he glanced at the LED electronic clock hanging on the top of the subway station.

[07:34]

It looked like it was relatively normal, but Bai Liu looked at this time a few more times and realized that it was not going forward, but backward, and Bai Liu's eyes blinked and it became [07:12], which made him quickly react.

"This is a countdown clock watch, not a clock." Bai Liu thought wistfully, "And it still looks like it's a countdown for me, I have six minutes left before I have to be in the station."

Although there are only six or seven minutes left in the countdown, Bai Liu is not in a hurry, he went out of the subway station once, and found that it was pitch black outside, no sound, no light, nothing, and out of the station to walk into the darkness of the travelers have disappeared, Bai Liu did not try to walk out of the subway after he turned back and found that the subway clock's countdown to become [03:02].

Bai Liu slowly went to look at the map again, this time focusing on memorizing the names of the stations on Line 4, the station in front of the Antique City was the Reservoir, and almost a few stops away there was a station called the Mirror Museum that caught Bai Liu's attention.

"The name of the Mirror Museum ......" Bai Liu's eyes fell on it, falling into a seemingly enlightened recollection, "Why do I feel like I've heard that name before... ..."

Bai Liu was recalling where exactly he had heard this name when a male voice interrupted his memories, "Shit! Bai Liu! Why haven't you gotten in yet!" Mu Sicheng glanced back from the platform to see a killer horseman rubbing his chin and squinting at the subway line map, and walked over while speechless, "It's only a minute or so, what are you doing here? Memorizing the map?"

Bai Liu was not surprised that Mu Sicheng would come in after him, he swept a glance at the red LED light that was already counting down the seconds, and replied to Mu Sicheng with a nonchalant "hmmm", "I was wondering if I've been to this place before! ......"

Mu Sicheng was stunned, "You've played this game?" But he quickly denied it, "Impossible, you are indeed a newcomer."

"Yes, I haven't come to this place in the game." Bai Liu admitted.

Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu with a frown, "Then how could you have come to this place ......"

"Just because I haven't been here in the game doesn't mean I can't have been here in this place, I think I should have been here in reality." Bai Liu withdrew his own gaze from the subway line.

"Reality?!" Mu Sicheng was shocked, "You came to this subway station in reality? How do you know?"

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be a horror game based on real-life events, have you heard of [Mirror City Bombing]?"

"Just a social news story about two thieves who hid a bomb in an antique mirror and were going to rob the local museum by making a bomb threat when they sent it to the museum, only to have the bomb go out of control on the way there and the whole subway explode?"

Bai Liu chatted with Mu Sicheng while walking, he took out his ticket and [beeped] at the entrance to the station, and entered the station without any problem: "I studied the subway station distribution and the subway map just now, and it's very likely that this game was designed based on the [Mirror City Bombing]."

"I've heard of it ......" Mu Sicheng also took out his ticket and followed him into the station, "But even if I know about it, it's useless, right? That case has a great impact and it's still not known how the perpetrator hid the bomb in the mirror to avoid the security check, a lot of information has not been released to the public. In the mirror to avoid security checks, a lot of information has not been released to the public."

Mu Sicheng after analyzing, non-committal spread his hands and mocked, "Even if we know that the game's reference archetype is this case, we still have no idea about what's going to happen on this going to explode the last train we're going to get on, ah, don't know the specifics, just know a source of inspiration, a little bit of egg is not useful well."

"I might actually know what's going to happen on this train ......" Bai Liu rubbed his nose and showed an amiable smile at Mu Sicheng, "I was on that subway train that day, and I got off the train at the explosion's got off the train one stop before the explosion."

Mu Sicheng: "......"

Bai Liu shrugged his shoulders innocently and said kindly to Mu Sicheng, who was shocked to the point of woodenness, "Do I count this as, getting important information that this game can be passed?"

"Sure, Mu Sicheng, I can tell you all the information I know, but not for free. If you don't believe me, you can verify if what I'm saying is true, I remember you have a prop for lie detection."