Chapter 85: Not One Less
"I see you don't want to come to this place, so why did you come here? Are you kidding?"
Colin listened to the "clang clang" sound echoing in the carriage and couldn't help but complain in his heart.
However, when he saw the train start moving, he felt a little relieved. This city was so weird and scary. He didn't see anything, but he was so frightened that he almost fainted.
If the "Reverser" hadn't shown his power for the first time, he might have fainted.
What if something else pops up at that time?
The horror here is much greater than that of the straw bush before!
It is definitely a terrifying place where even if you have the "Book of Fortune Telling", you cannot easily use it to test the dangers!
Because in that case, the feedback brought by the end of the "Book of Numerology" alone would have a certain chance of causing him to die suddenly.
"Speaking of which, where exactly is that place? It's twelve o'clock in the afternoon but it's dark already. Is it because of the time difference? The time difference is at least seven or eight hours... Is it a city in America?"
"It doesn't seem so. I just saw that most places have Chinese signs, and some road signs are from China. It's just that they are too far away and seem to be worn out, so I can't see the details clearly..."
"And looking at the outlines of those tall buildings, they seem to be first-tier or new first-tier cities. But if there is really a big city that has fallen abnormally, it would be impossible to hide it..."
While thinking, Colin suddenly seemed to have a feeling. He looked up and saw a bridge across the river appearing outside the car window which was gradually covered by white fog.
With his extraordinary vision, he vaguely saw that on the towering bridge head that pulled a large number of steel cables, there seemed to be four words "Xu Pu Bridge" engraved in large red letters.
I seem to have heard of it, but I don't have much impression...
However, before he could think about it, Colin's heart skipped a beat, and he heard a hissing sound of electricity in his ears, and the gas lights in the train compartment became flickering.
A strong premonition told him that something horrible was approaching!
"Everyone close your eyes, hold on to your seats, don't move, don't look!"
Colin shouted once, then ignored the others, closed his eyes, put his feet against the seat in front of him, and grabbed the armrests with both hands.
Just two seconds after he did all this, the carriage shook violently, as if it was hit by some huge monster.
The train wheels rubbed against the tracks, making a mournful metallic scraping sound.
Behind him were the panic and screams of others...
However, the scream did not last long before it suddenly stopped as if it had its throat cut, as if it happened to a rooster.
At the same time, even with his eyes closed, he could feel that the lights seemed to be out.
A chilly feeling invaded the room.
The speed of the entire train slowed down significantly, as if it was being dragged by some invisible force and was stuck in a quagmire and unable to move forward.
"Colin, Colin, Colin, Colin..."
In the cold darkness, Colin seemed to hear someone calling his name. He did not dare to respond and silently shifted his attention to something else.
Like singing a ballad with the lyrics “This is the last struggle”…
This made Colin feel much better. At least he would not be misled by the voice that came from nowhere.
The train was shaking more and more violently, as if it was about to derail at any time, but fortunately, it continued to move forward steadily even when it was shaking the most violently.
A few minutes later...
The shaking of the train car slowly disappeared, light appeared outside my closed eyelids, and the train's forward speed seemed to gradually recover.
"alright?"
Colin had some guesses, but he still waited for a long time before tentatively opening his eyes. Then his breathing stagnated and he almost jumped up from his seat.
He saw a clearly raised human face outline appearing on the train window glass next to him, and the face outline was less than ten centimeters away from him.
Fortunately, the train escaped in time and he did not come into contact with the unknown thing.
"I think it should be the thing that just called my name."
Colin glanced at other parts of the car window and found that there were dents and signs of damage in many places in the car, and there were heart-wrenching fingernail scratches on the glass, one after another, left by someone unknown.
Obviously, when the train just encountered the unknown attack, something must have wanted to get in.
But it seems that they all failed in the end.
As the train successfully escaped, the glass on the face of the person next to Colin slowly recovered, and the scratches and cracks disappeared little by little. The train began to repair itself as if it were a living organism.
"The quality is really good. Even with all the damage that looks terrible, not a single drop of air leaked in. Now it has the ability to repair itself. It really feels like a living metal creature."
Colin muttered, then turned to look at the Nine-Barreled Money Slave. It still had no signs of life as before, but it didn't seem to have any problems.
She glanced past him and then at the group of college students behind her. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, they were all fine...
Well, it seems... there is no problem.
Although this sudden encounter was extremely terrifying, fortunately no one was lost and there was no casualty.
It’s not like last time, when someone died when he came back from going out.
Colin withdrew his gaze, leaned back in his chair and breathed a long sigh of relief. He could get off the bus smoothly at the next stop and complete the first round of the task.
"This promotion task is not that difficult, but it is scary."
Colin shook his head and checked himself to see if there was anything wrong. He always felt like something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what it was.
At the same time, in the city shrouded in darkness, when the "fog train" slowly disappeared, a crimson light suddenly appeared below the city.
Immediately afterwards, a red "moon" quietly poked its head out from the dim high-rise buildings, as if watching the departing train.
The scarlet light instantly covered the entire city due to its appearance...
But not long after, everything returned to darkness and the red "moon" disappeared.
…
Colin's eyelids twitched twice, and he inexplicably felt a palpitation as if something had glanced at him.
But this feeling came and went quickly, just like an illusion.
So, he didn't care too much...
Moreover, at this moment, after passing through that strange city, Colin suddenly felt extremely tired, even more exhausted than after running in that alien world for seven days and seven nights.
I looked at the time, it was twelve seventeen.
"Based on the train's trajectories, the next time it stops may be in the evening."
Colin thought about it and decided to eat something and take a deep rest.
Otherwise, if he continues the next mission in his current state, he might fail accidentally due to his condition.
Generally speaking, safety can be guaranteed during the train's journey.
However, Colin had just closed his eyes for less than ten minutes, and in a daze, he suddenly felt a strong sense of crisis in his heart.
Immediately afterwards, a shrill scream rang out from the back of the train.
