Chapter 44: Explosive Last Train

Zhang Gui grunted arrogantly, "Stupid is stupid, one of those three is Bai Liu, this guy has a poor panel and can't move as fast as you guys under my control, there's no way he can search the carriage faster than you guys."

"Mu Sicheng is fast, but not as intelligent as Bai Liu, so he can't match my intelligence and your puppet players in finding things.

"But these two will certainly not cooperate." Zhang Gui's smile turned malicious as he casually kicked one of the three puppets in front of him, and the puppet fell down in response, bowing its head and clattering to its knees in front of Zhang Gui.

Zhang Gui stepped carelessly on the back of the kneeling puppet, lowered his head and approached the puppet and laughed, "Hey, Mu Sicheng's once good friend, Liu Huai, don't you think?"

The puppet player, Liu Huai, did not say a word, his limbs trembling slightly.

"I brought you here specifically when I knew there was a Mu Sicheng in this game." Zhang Gui tsked, " Mu Sicheng wouldn't expect you to become a puppet player under me, would he?"

"He almost became my puppet because of your betrayal, but in the end Mu Sicheng managed to stay calm with his spirit level down to 18, and escaped by killing four of my puppets at the time with a rampage, and with so many puppet players dead, I had to take your place."

"But I think you're happy to be my puppet, aren't you? If you see Mu Sicheng later, make sure you do a good job of messing with his mind, okay? If you let him get away again, you won't have a good job as my puppet."

Zhang Gui pats Liu Huai's face with his hand as he speaks, a cold sweat dripping down Liu's puppet face, not daring to say a word.

Zhang Gui also seemed bored, and quickly withdrew his hand: " Mu Sicheng will never cooperate with anyone, let alone someone like Bai Liu, who has a lot of heart, and even if Bai Liu is willing to cooperate with him, Mu Sicheng will definitely go against him. We should be the fastest players in the game to find something, but we still haven't found it, so there are only two possibilities-"

He said, gestured two fingers and elaborated, "First possibility: the broken lenses this shitty game says it wants to collect aren't even in the train."

"There's another way -" Zhang Gui's eyes narrowed meaningfully, "- there are seven players in this game, Mu Sicheng and Bai Liu, the three of you and I, take up six spots, leaving the last player spot to enter last, if he has the ability to find all the broken lenses before we do."

Li Gou, despite his fear, still looked up confused and asked, "But master, we've searched half the car and all at full speed and still haven't seen any broken lenses, it's not possible that all the lenses are in the other half of the car and happened to be collected by this last player who came in on the fly, is it?"

"How is that impossible?" Zhang Gui also gritted his teeth a little when he said the name of the man, "If the last person to come in was Du Sanying, then even if all the broken lenses were piled up in front of him waiting for him to pick them up, it would be possible!"

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Bai Liu glanced behind him at Du Sanying, who was looking, somewhat distressed, from carriage seat to carriage seat; he did not find any broken lenses, but he had followed Bai Liu and the others for two carriages.

"It shouldn't be ......" Du Sanying muttered to himself, he was genuinely surprised, "How come not a single broken lens was found?"

He had been doing this kind of collection-oriented tasks before without fail, but this time he had actually searched for so long and still came up empty-handed.

Du Sanying pushed up his glasses, and after clicking on the game manager to check that his luck was still 100 per cent, he was in deep confusion.

...... How can that be? Lucky 100 percent is always great at finding things ......

And Du Sanying has a strong feeling that following Bai Liu will get him through, although it comes with a creeping discomfort, but Du Sanying never doubts his instincts, his instincts tell him that if following Bai Liu will get him through, then it will.

Bai Liu withdrew his gaze after seeing Du Sanying check the panel's luck value, and he turned to Mu Sicheng and said with great certainty, "There aren't any broken lenses in the compartment."

Mu Sicheng had given up on thinking about Bai Liu's inference process on his own, and asked directly, "Why?"

"If there were broken lenses in the train, Du Sanying, who is 100 per cent lucky, would not have been able to miss them." Bai Liu said.

Mu Sicheng raised an eyebrow, "Have you forgotten that there's a puppet master in this game? While Du Sanying is indeed very good at finding things, there are four of them on the Puppeteer's side, and the puppet player moves very fast under his manipulation and could very well find the broken lenses of these carriages before we do."

"Not likely." Bai Liu shook his head, "Firstly, you said Du Sanying's luck value is an advantage in this kind of game, secondly, if the puppet master has found the broken lens and identified the key to pass this game, he will most likely come to attack us at this time, we have gone so many carriages without encountering them, I think they are intentionally avoiding us to avoid conflict, it doesn't seem like a sign of having found it."

Mu Sicheng clutched his chest and averted his eyes, giving a somewhat sarcastic laugh, "You smart people understand each other, you all like to play this game."

"I don't like that kind of thing about him." Bai Liu understands Mu Sicheng's mockery and lightly clarifies for himself, "If I need someone to work with me, I will make him willingly work with me."

"Like my partnership with you, right?" Mu Sicheng smiled twice, "Bai Liu, my verbal agreement with you without proof is not very solid."

"It's a money deal." Bai Liu emphasized, smiling slightly, "You gave me a point, Mu Sicheng ."

Mu Sicheng laughed twice mockingly and did not dwell on the matter with Bai Liu: "So if there were no broken lenses on the train, as you say, where would they be? Outside the train? In an underground station? Do we wait until we get off the train to look in the underground station?"

Bai Liu rubbed his chin in thought for a moment, "I actually think it's highly unlikely that the broken lens was on the underground station."

"Not on the train, not off the train, the map is that big." Mu Sicheng spread his hands, "So where else do you think it could be?"

Bai Liu did not answer as the train arrived at the station and the female announcement voice of the train arriving at the station interrupted Bai Liu whose lips were slightly parted: "The train has arrived at [Mirror City Museum], please get off the train in an orderly manner for those who need to get off at this station and please get on the train in an orderly manner for those who need to get on at this station ...... "

The doors of the train slowly opened and Mu Sicheng and Du Sanying saw what was outside the train and their faces changed instantly, while Bai Liu kept his bemused expression as expected.

On the platform outside the doors were charred corpses of all kinds, some with their eyes burned away and others with their limbs shrivelled up and their teeth exposed.

The eerie thing is that the bodies all maintain a normal human form, and one is looking down at his watch, even though the watch on his wrist has long since been burned beyond recognition.

The charred passengers were scattered thickly throughout the station, their heads raised in unison as the doors opened, their dark eyes looking into the car at Bai Liu's group.

The underground station was a mess, littered with blackened charcoal marks from the flames, and the smell of burnt human flesh was so strong that it made your throat itch.

Du Sanying leaned weakly behind Bai Liu and asked in a small voice, "Bai, Bai Liu, do you think this will also be an over-the-top animation? Will they, will they attack people?"

"I probably wouldn't design two similar transitions in the opening scene of a game," says Bai Liu. Bai Liu says, "It's too boring and a waste of time."

Du Sanying is getting weaker and weaker, his sweat is standing on end, and that sense of danger makes him want to run away all the time.

But once he left Bai Liu, the sense of misfortune that he was likely to die loomed large over Du Sanying, who now felt he had no choice but to ask, "Bai Liu, what will you design?"

"If it were me ......" Bai Liu spoke as he darted through his system interface looking for props, and only when he found what he was looking for did Bai Liu continue, "I would probably design I'd probably design a very high-risk train chase to add to the excitement of the opening scene."

Mu Sicheng caught Bai Liu's meaning and he looked out of the car door at the charred corpse and gave a dark fuck.

This is going to be a chase war.