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Chapter 214 is so sad that there's no chapter to say.
"It's a trap."

The Angel of Death took a deep breath and then said this.

She was in a hurry on the platform, so she spoke very briefly, but basically she meant, "The doctor said that if you take anything from here, you'll fall into a trap."

The Angel of Slaughter hadn't expected to persuade the two of them with just a few words, but to his surprise, Han Shan immediately turned around and walked back after hearing this, leaving the Angel of Slaughter, who was ready to give them a heartfelt plea, dumbfounded.

The three of them had already returned to the car, and now they could talk about it in detail.

Just then, a mechanical voice came from above—"Next stop, Sweet Manor. Passengers who wish to disembark, please prepare in advance."

The Angel of Death was unaffected by the voice above him and wanted to continue speaking.

But when she opened her mouth, she found her mind was a bit of a mess. Although she roughly understood the trap, she couldn't explain it clearly, so she simply threw the question to Gu Mian.

"I'm very flustered right now, and my mind isn't quite clear. You should just ask the doctor in carriage number four. Anyway, he's the one who deduced the trap and told me about it."

Gu Mian was suddenly confronted with this question, which gave her a bit of a headache.

However, he immediately spoke up, not mentioning the 'trap,' but instead asking, "What was the tablet that the vendor gave you for?"

Gu Mian saw the tablet in the car. Although she had a guess, she still asked a couple of questions to confirm.

Hanshan answered succinctly: "We can order any quantity of goods. The people at this station will notify the vendors at the next station to prepare them for us in advance."

Everyone else was gripping their walkie-talkies, waiting for the doctor's reply.

From the moment they heard the word "trap," they had a vague sense that something terrible was about to happen.

A few seconds later, the doctor's voice came through the walkie-talkie: "How many of you have pre-ordered raw meat?"

The voices of Xiaotiantian, Suo Qingqiu, and Guigu rang out in turn.

The Angel of Slaughter left a little late; by then, Ghost Valley had already booked the resources for the next stop.

Gu Mian's voice continued, "If I ask you this, you should have figured some things out by now. The trap is related to this raw meat."

"From the moment we boarded the train, we saw the passenger list on the counter, which showed the number of passengers in our respective carriages, but each of us found that there was one extra person in our carriage."

"But the flight attendant code tells us that we cannot refuse a 'passenger''s order. We must understand that the number of passengers is clearly written on the list, and the extra one is not considered a 'passenger'..."

Han Shan's brow relaxed. He couldn't possibly not understand now that things had been said this far: "We can absolutely refuse the request of the extra person."

The message of this copy is very clear: it's meant to make them refuse.

Xiaotian hesitated before speaking, "You mean the person who placed the raw meat order with us is the 'extra one'? How can you be sure?"

Gu Mian declared confidently, "Because I checked the ticket!"

Xiaotiantian: "..."

"Ahem," Gu Mian coughed twice more before explaining, "Actually, I noticed before that everyone who placed a raw meat order went to the counter to place it in person. They could have easily placed the order when the flight attendants passed by, but they didn't."

"The woman in my carriage who was placing an order for raw meat was right next to me when she tried to order, but instead of calling out to me, she went to the counter and waited for a long time."

"This shows that those who placed the order did not want the passengers around them to know that they had placed the order. They knew they were different and were afraid of attracting the attention of others, so they came to the counter to place the order."

"Scared?" Guigu's sarcastic voice came through: "Can you please stop describing ghosts as so weak?" Gu Mian continued, "In fact, the ghosts who placed the orders are indeed very weak. They probably just want to eat meat; I even suspect that even if you punched one of them, it wouldn't dare to fight back, and might even whimper..."

Han Shan promptly interrupted Gu Mian's whimpering: "Alright, enough with the nonsense, get to the point."

Gu Mian stopped imitating the voice in time: "At first, I thought this was a misleading plot device, misleading us into killing each other with limited resources and fighting over the insufficient raw meat."

"That's why I sent the Angel of Death down to stop you. I originally said not to buy raw meat, but other things were fine. But I don't know why the three of you got into the car empty-handed."

The Angel of Death choked: "I was in too much of a rush, I misspoke."

However, this is nothing to worry about, as everyone's warehouses are not currently lacking in ordinary goods.

Gu Mian unscrewed a bottle of orange soda and continued, "I just said I suspected the dungeon was misleading us into killing each other, but after Hanshan described it to me, I suddenly feel that's not the case."

He took a sip: "As long as there are reservations, resources will be plentiful. With sufficient resources, even if players are misled, there is little chance of them killing each other."

Guigu muttered, "Why do I think I heard someone unscrewing a soda bottle?"

Angel of Death: "I saw him drink it with my own eyes."

Since even if misled, there's a high probability that infighting won't occur, the danger in this instance must come from elsewhere.

So where did it come from...?

Han Shan frowned in confusion.

Just then, a terrified voice came through the walkie-talkie. It was Xiaotian: "Wait! I just discovered... in my carriage..."

However, just as they were speaking, a voice came from above everyone's heads—"The fourth stop, Sweet Manor, is approaching. Passengers who wish to disembark, please prepare in advance."

The sound was so loud that it almost completely drowned out Xiaotiantian's voice.

Immediately after that announcement, another announcement came through: "Attention passengers, we are about to enter a tunnel area. Power to the train will be temporarily cut off. Please prepare accordingly."

It's a tunnel area again!
Another power outage!

how so!
Halfway through the tunnel broadcast, everyone was suddenly plunged into darkness.

These two announcements completely drowned out Xiaotiantian's voice.

Guigu was getting anxious. He strained his ears in the darkness, almost pressing the walkie-talkie to his ear, but he could only hear two words in fits and starts.

"Few..."

Just as the word "few" was uttered, Xiaotiantian's voice abruptly stopped.

It was as if someone had suddenly turned off the walkie-talkie; there was no sound from the other end.

At the same time, the announcements overhead also fell silent, and the dark train was plunged into an eerie stillness, with no one uttering a sound.

After a long while, Suo Qingqiu's chattering voice finally came from the darkness: "What... happened to him? What did he say in the end?"

"Fewer," Gu Mian said, feeling the train slow down. "The number has decreased."

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