“I’m asking you too, who does it belong to?” Shen Qingcheng repeated with a smile on his lips.
If it wasn’t for the knife on his neck, Jin Da would’ve rushed over to fight Shen Qingcheng.
This guy really needed to be dealt with!
He was scared and angry: his face was white with fright, but his eyes were red with the effort of holding back. He replied to Lu Qi in a muted voice, “You.”
He would rather give things to the man in front of him, who had threatened him, than let Shen Qingcheng take advantage.
Shen Qingcheng looked at Jin Da with very friendly eyes. Anyhow, it wouldn’t take long for this person to understand that it really didn’t make any difference whether it belonged to him or to Lu Qi.
Lu Qi took back the long knife and let him go, but the atmosphere didn’t improve.
Jin Da wasn’t the only one who didn’t find any bricks. The others were hungry, but still had a little more sense than Jin Da. They were afraid of Lu Qi’s power and didn’t do anything.
The screaming baby was so annoying that a bad-tempered player kicked the seat next to Lan Xiu’er to vent his anger.
The child’s cries grew louder, and Lan Xiu’er hugged it tightly and shrunk into herself.
“Everyone, calm down,” Lin Wen hurried over to stop the player, fearing that he would do something bad on impulse, “All luggage can be exchanged for food, not just bricks!”
Lan Xiu’er was the first to react. She quickly raised her head and asked expectantly, “Can I exchange for anything?”
Lin Wen nodded. He hadn’t blindly focused on the bricks like the other players: when he saw someone exchanging for food, he went directly to the flight attendant to read the note.
Who knew that such things would happen in just a few seconds.
He was the oldest player present, and hoped to lead every player to the end.
Lan Xiu’er, who received a positive reply, immediately picked up her useless luggage and went to the flight attendant to exchange food. The other players followed suit, and the space surrounding Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi soon emptied.
Lin Wen apologized to the two and said, “Sorry, they were too impulsive.”
Shen Qingcheng thought this person was quite interesting, “It’s not like you did something wrong, you don’t need to apologize for them.”
Lin Wen just smiled bitterly and shook his head.
Shen Qingcheng understood and patted him on the shoulder comfortingly, “Indeed, the players in the copies would have the greatest chance of survival by helping each other, but not everyone has your awareness and ability to take action.”
Lin Wen did not deny it, “Since I can, I should.”
Shen Qingcheng was not such a person himself, but it did not prevent him from admiring him; he and Lin Wen exchanged names.
Lin Wen reminded him before leaving, “This copy mechanism is alienating players.”
Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi had realized this.
Since ghosts could disguise themselves as other players and appear beside them, it was impossible for players to completely trust in people other than themselves. This was actually very detrimental to the chances of everyone cooperating to clear customs.
But what Shen Qingcheng was curious about was how, at present, it seemed that all players’ activities were limited to the first car–how had the ghosts infiltrated them?
Shen Qingcheng quickly figured out the answer to his question.
On the first night of the copy, the players had been exhausted and endured the discomfort of their surroundings to fell asleep.
A scream had begun the second day.
Shen Qingcheng had been confused when he woke up from Lu Qi’s shoulder: he remembered that he had had no plans to sleep the previous night because the chair was too hard, so how had he fallen asleep?
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He guiltily stretched out his small hand to squeeze his shoulder, changing the subject, “Did you also fall asleep?”
Lu Qi glanced at the hand on his shoulder and said nothing about it, “En, around 12 o’clock.”
He was accustomed to keeping vigil at night, so even if he closed his eyes and took a nap, he wouldn’t be completely unaware of his surroundings–but his perception of the outside world ended at 12 last night.
It was about 1 in the morning, and a beautiful woman in her mid-20s was sitting in the third row by the window. The sunlight through the window was shining brightly on her face.
The woman frowned and opened her sleepy eyes.
It was already light outside her window, and most of the players in the front row were still sleeping in various positions.
She glanced at the two men in the first row. The two men were already awake and very close to each other. She didn’t know what they were talking about.
The woman turned to look at the back row again, wanting to see if the players in the back row were awake and what they were doing.
It was after this glance that the pupils of the woman’s eyes dilated and she screamed, “Oh, oh my god!”
All the players in the car who were still sleeping were awakened immediately. Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi heard the movement behind them, stopped the conversation, and turned their heads.
A player had died.
By the door that was connected to the car behind them, a male gamer with broken bones was hanging limply from the ceiling like a rag doll.
The man was bleeding from his seven orifices, his face was a ball of messy flesh, his head was sunken in, and yellow and white brains flowed out along his cracked bones.
Players who couldn’t stand this scene covered their mouths and retched on the spot.
Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi left their seats and walked to the deceased, observing it. The man’s bones were all crushed, as if he had been hit.
Lin Wen endured his discomfort and stood behind the two, “It’s like he was in a major car accident.”
Shen Qingcheng turned around and asked curiously, “You can tell?”
Lin Wen said: “I used to do autopsies before, and I had a lot of exposure.”
Shen Qingcheng nodded and looked around the car, “Who died?”
When a person died, their luggage should be left behind; however, every unoccupied seat was totally empty.
Lu Qi raised his head to look, and quickly judged, “The one by the window on the right side of the fifth row.”
Shen Qingcheng had no doubts at all.
He walked over. There was a player sitting on the right side of the fifth row. “You move quite fast! The bodies of others are still warm, but you take their luggage for yourself?”
The man didn’t meet Shen Qingcheng’s eyes, turning his head to the side and saying, “First come, first served!”
He thought Shen Qingcheng was there to steal his luggage.
This made Shen Qingcheng incredibly angry: he could tolerate being called nosy, but he actually said that he had no “money”?
How could he lose face with his bag of “gold” bricks!
“We have a companion who died under uncertain circumstances, we must find out what happened.” Lin Wen said.
He stabilized the overall situation and asked everyone, “Did anyone hear anything last night?”
The players all had different expressions, some disdainful, some indifferent, and some as if they were waiting for a good show.
Lin Wen was unaffected and looked at the woman who woke everyone up, “You found the body first?”
He Mei nodded in fear, and then remembered something, “No, it wasn’t me!”
She pointed at Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi, “It was them! They were already awake when I woke up. They were very close together, and they were plotting something!”
Shen Qingcheng pointed his fingers at himself and Lu Qi, shocked, “What’s wrong with getting close? What’s wrong with you?”
From within the group of players Jin Da whispered, “Hehe, what did I say? This man uses his knife at the slightest provocation; what we saw on the platform was a ghost, but who knows if the other three players were also killed by him? And he almost killed me yesterday, just think about it!”
After listening to his words, everyone’s expressions shifted.
Indifferently, Lu Qi turned around and continued to observe the corpse, as if the other person was not talking about him.
Shen Qingcheng was speechless, “Are you trying to anger me to death so you can inherit my golden bricks?”
Lin Wen interjected at the perfect time to prevent the two from arguing again, and asked He Mei, “DId you see them go to the back row with your own eyes?”
He Mei: “I didn’t, but there is a toilet in the back, maybe they woke up in the middle of the night…”
Shen Qingcheng turned a blind eye and simply swiveled to observe the corpse with Lu Qi.
In the face of life and death, some people would always reveal their ugly sides.
Although there was no conflict in Lin Wen’s circle, it was obvious that the players were becoming more and more hostile and vigilant towards Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi.
Shen Qingcheng was happy and relaxed, having decided not to worry about the shortsighted players.
The corpse had been hanging in the back of the carriage, and Lin Wen called on everyone to bring the corpse down, but no one helped.
Everyone had nothing to do with themselves until a player couldn’t help but go to the toilet.
The player was naturally strong, with the body of a bodybuilder.
Suspecting the corpse was unlucky, he took the handle off of his suitcase and jabbed the corpse down with it, then opened the door of the train and pushed the corpse out.
“Wait–” Lin Wen didn’t get the chance to finish his sentence. He lay by the car window and watched the muddy corpse on the side of the road recede as the train drove further and further away.
He sighed reluctantly.
As the old saying goes, to be buried was to rest in peace; they were too busy to even take care of themselves, and they could no longer take care of the dead.
Life on the train was boring: there was no TV, and the scenery outside the window was always the same wasteland.
Shen Qingcheng found a deck of playing cards in his bag, and played a game that really suited their situation with Lu Qi – “Driving the Train”.
A total of 54 poker cards were scrambled and evenly divided, with each player receiving one half, and then the cards were played one after another.
If the same card came out twice,, then all the cards went to whoever put it out.
This game was simple and easy to play. He wouldn’t need to use his brain and he could play it for a long while every time; it was deeply loved by Shen Qingcheng.
He explained the rules to Lu Qi, and the two of them quickly started playing with a stack of cards.
After a little while:
Shen Qingcheng pressed his stomach, “How long has it been since breakfast?”
Lu Qi: “Two hours.”
Shen Qingcheng: “Are you hungry?”
Lu Qi: “I’m still okay.”
Shen Qingcheng fell into self-doubt, “Am I too good at eating? Why am I hungry again so soon?”
Lu Qi: “No.”
Shen Qingcheng: “?”
Just as he was wondering, the next second he saw Lan Xiu’er taking her luggage and looking for the flight attendant to exchange food.
In the next hour, a total of 11 players changed food, ah, including Shen Qingcheng himself.
It wasn’t not normal for them to get hungry so fast.
Now the players who were exchanging for food had a lot of luggage, but at this rate, their luggage would definitely be used up before seven days passed.
And there were a few players who didn’t have much luggage. They could endure hunger now, but that didn’t mean they could endure it forever.
Lu Qi: “Conflict will break out sooner or later.”
It happened earlier than they thought, and the catalyst was not the food.
In the evening, the flight attendant announced the start of seat adjustment.
His tall, thin figure had changed from the mechanical numbness from when he was exchanging food for the players during the day, his whole figure seeming to come alive in the dark.
The corners of his mouth pulled into a grin, and he scraped out staccato words, as if his throat had been sandpapered. He said, “Tonight’s… rule… choose who’s by your side… not a companion… person.”
There was indeed a ghost among them!
The players became quietly vigilant, looking at everyone like an enemy, and feeling that something was wrong.
Paper and a pen suddenly appeared on the small table in front of them, and asked them to fill in the seat where the person was sitting.
Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi had no clue who this person was, so they just drew some random symbols.
After all players had filled it out, the black shadow had 15 slips of paper in his hand.
Seeing the contents of the notes in his hand, his smile widened.
He slowly read out the words on the notes in a hoarse voice.
Who wrote it, and who they suspected, was clearly stated.
Immediately there were two players with bad expressions: guilty consciences, and anger at being suspected.
Lu Qi received the most suspicion.
Shen Qingcheng was shocked, and immediately turned to grab Lu Qi’s arm, and comforted earnestly, “Don’t be sad, Lu-dage, I know what you are like, inside and out!”
Lu Qi: “?”
Haha, they should be hugging these big bosses’ thigh instead of alienating them. Both at the top in the leaderboard…🫢
What if the baby is the 👻, now that would be a twist.
Isn’t it a bit stupid how up till this third copy there are still people who dig pits for themselves?? I would like a copy where most are smart veterans who have conflict with the npcs and game puzzles not with other players
ooo i wonder who the ghost is
thank you for the chapter!
Hard outside and soft inside?
Thank you for your translation ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
SQC is so cute! …and strong…stupid players. Tysm ❤️
*le gasp, aka gasping dramatically * “how could you accuse my Lu-dage like that?! What did he ever do to you besides looking threatening and literally just threatened to kill someone??” – said Xiao Qing.