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Chapter 207 Flight Attendant Code of Conduct, Article 108

Gu Mian stood beside the counter, looking down.

1. Flight attendants should replenish the restaurant's food supplies in a timely manner.

2. Flight attendants should try their best to fulfill passengers' orders and should not refuse them.

3. Please carry your work ID with you at all times, as it is the only key to open the corresponding train car's dining car storage area.

4. Train attendants in different carriages can communicate via intercom.

Walkie talkie?
Where is the walkie-talkie?
Just as Gu Mian was wondering, he suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from behind the counter.

"Hello? Lieutenant, can you hear me?"

You can tell from that it was Guiguzi who said it.

This guy keeps saying "Second Lieutenant" all the time, as if he's afraid people won't know that Hanshan, the flight attendant, has the rank of Second Lieutenant.

Then Gu Mian walked behind the counter and saw the walkie-talkie lying quietly in the counter drawer.

Fortunately, Gu Mian had used a walkie-talkie before and knew how to use it.

He pressed the button next to him and said, "Alright, stop howling. Your lieutenant is on the bus. He was just standing next to me."

Guigu suddenly fell silent.

Immediately afterwards, Han Shan's voice came through the walkie-talkie: "I'm at the back of my carriage. Has everyone else boarded?"

No one answered him.

Silence fell over the walkie-talkie.

Guigu's strange voice came through: "What's going on? Only the three of us can communicate on this walkie-talkie?"

Just as Gu Mian was about to say something, a girl's voice came through the walkie-talkie in her hand. It was Killing Angel: "I can hear you. Can you hear me?"

Gu Mian replied, "Yes."

The Angel of Death seemed to breathe a sigh of relief: "No... I'm sorry, I didn't know how to use this thing just now, I just pressed it randomly a few times, and I didn't know if you could hear me. Since you can hear me, I'm relieved."

Guigu's voice came through the walkie-talkie: "The other three who didn't speak probably don't know how to use this either."

Han Shan spoke up: "No, it's possible that one person didn't get on the bus."

"Who didn't get on the bus?" Guigu asked in a strange voice.

Just then, Gu Mian heard Fang Xiang's voice come through the walkie-talkie: "I'm in the car."

His voice was weak, as if he was still breathing heavily. He said one sentence and then fell silent, as if he wanted to catch his breath.

At this moment, Suo Qingqiu and Xiao Tiantian's voices also came one after another.

Suo Qingqiu: "It's good that Mr. Fang made it up successfully."

Xiaotian from carriage number two then started asking about the important matter: "By the way, have any of you seen the list on the counter?"

Gu Mian glanced at the A4 paper beside her: "I see it. There are some snacks and such on it."

That said, shouldn't something like a sandwich made entirely of tomatoes be considered a snack?

Xiaotian's voice then came: "No... I meant the number of passengers on the list..."

His voice sounded weak when he said this, and he deliberately lowered it, as if he was afraid of something.

Hearing Xiaotiantian's voice, Gu Mian sensed that something was wrong.

He glanced at the list on the counter and saw the first few lines.

Overview of carriage number four of the 'Time Escape' train.

Flight attendant: 1 person

Passengers: 31

Sure enough, Xiaotian's even weaker voice came through: "My passenger log for carriage number two says there are thirty-five passengers in this carriage, but... but..."

Xiaotian's voice started to stutter.

Gu Mian glanced at the passenger area subconsciously.

Because the dining car in each carriage is located at the back of the carriage, you can only see the backs of the passengers' heads from this direction. "But... but there's one more!" Finally, Xiaotian said this in a terrified and anxious voice.

"One more?" Guigu swallowed hard upon hearing this.

The passenger area is not far from the restaurant counter; you can even see it with just a turn of your head. In other words, passengers on the other side can also see him with a turn of their head.

Guigu felt a chill run down his spine.

He turned the volume on the walkie-talkie down a little, then glanced with some difficulty at the number of passengers on the list beside him.

[Overview of Carriage 1 of the 'Time Escape' Train]

Flight attendant: 1 person

Passengers: 32

"Thirty-two passengers... I wonder if there's an extra one here too?" Guigu muttered to himself as he furtively glanced in the direction of the passenger area.

Just then, Han Shan's voice came through the walkie-talkie: "Everyone should pay attention to the number of passengers in their own carriages."

The voice of the Angel of Death came from the other end: "Yes, we should count the number of people in our carriage."

Guigu chimed in, "Then why don't we first count the number of people in our carriages?"

If there were one extra person in each carriage...

At this moment, Fang Xiang, who had only said one sentence after getting on the bus, suddenly spoke up: "I... I injured my leg, and I may need to rest for a while before I can move... It hurts so much."

Han Shan paused for a moment, then said, "Alright, the rest of you can go and count the number of people in your own carriages. Do you have any objections?"

The others agreed without much objection.

The train was already moving rapidly, and Gu Mian looked out the window and saw that the train had reached the ground.

The train was traveling on the tracks high up, and looking down through the window, one could see some dilapidated houses.

It is the dead of night, and a full moon hangs in the dark sky.

There was a digital clock on one side of the counter. Gu Mian glanced at it and saw that it was 10:43.

The train takes a total of 34 minutes to travel, with a total of nine stops including the starting and ending stations. That means it stops about once every five minutes on average.

"This is really strange," Gu Mian frowned, tightened her grip on the guitar on her back, and walked towards the passenger area, muttering to herself, "Isn't this train stopping a bit too often?"

It's past 11 p.m., and the passengers on the bus look a bit drowsy.

Some people were resting against the backrests; others were holding newspapers, seemingly reading some news.

No one was interested in Gu Mian, the flight attendant who wore a white coat and carried a guitar.

Gu Mian then slowed her pace and walked slowly through the aisle, observing the passengers beside her.

Actually, there's no need to make a special trip. Gu Mian has good eyesight; she can tell the number of passengers in this carriage just by standing at the back of the train and scanning the area.

He only came here to better observe the passengers in the carriage.

This time, Gu Mian carefully glanced at it several times, and sure enough, it was just as the middle-aged man, Xiao Tiantian, had said.

One more!
There's an extra passenger in the carriage!
Gu Mian frowned and turned to walk back, but just as he was halfway there, he suddenly heard two passengers whispering to each other.

"Hey Xiaomei, have you seen the news? It seems like a lot of people have encountered paranormal events lately."

Gu Mian looked in the direction of the voice and saw that it was a girl with a bob haircut who looked like a high school student.

Meanwhile, the girl with the bob haircut was talking to another girl with a ponytail next to her.

Gu Mian perked up her ears.

Upon hearing this, Xiaomei bit her lip tightly, lowered her head slightly, and then whispered, "Actually..."

"Actually, when I got on the bus just now, I think I saw someone who looked exactly like me!"

Gu Mian stopped in her tracks.

This is……

One more?
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