【Dark Night Tunnel, Conclusion.】
【TE, Möbius Strip.】
【Ye Yuzhi, Surveyor, san=13.】
【Remaining interlude time: 30 days. Please enter the next round before the interlude time ends.】
After the police car arrived, Ye Yuzhi and the others successfully completed the mission.
Because his condition was truly far too terrible, Ye Yuzhi did not stay there for long and left that world almost immediately.
When he sat up from the bed, he still had a sense of unreality.
Although, now that he thought back on what had happened, he could understand everything clearly, when he had been in that world, it had been extremely difficult for him to calm down and carefully think things through or connect the pieces together.
Not only that, the period of paranoia afterward was also… that entire state had simply been completely wrong.
Ye Yuzhi covered his face and sat on the bed for a while. He thought that none of those attributes could be taken lightly after all. Otherwise, it would be very easy for all kinds of chaotic and troublesome problems to arise…
Being alone was still somewhat better. Having teammates as well really was… far too embarrassing.
His phone, which he had placed beneath the bed, began vibrating faintly. Ye Yuzhi wiped his eyes and climbed down from the bed using the ladder.
He picked up his phone. The screen showed a newly sent message from Xia Jienan.
“Are you feeling okay now?”
Not too bad, I guess. Ye Yuzhi answered silently in his heart, but he did not really feel like typing anything with his hands.
Earlier, he had kept clinging to Xia Jienan like a child. Even if he could use “reduced Willpower” as an excuse, no matter what, his consciousness had still been clear at the time.
He had even known that, compared to wanting to live, what he wanted at that time was actually to die.
Even when he later went through the time door again with Xia Jienan, it had been the same. He had only wanted to leave that place as quickly as possible. He had wanted someone to save him…
He did not immediately reply to the message. Instead, he went to wash his face and brushed his teeth while he was at it.
After finishing those things, Ye Yuzhi glanced somewhat concernedly at Ke Hu’s bed again.
His bed curtain was drawn, and his shoes had also been left underneath the bed. From the looks of it, he seemed to still be sleeping.
Although his memories were not particularly clear, Ye Yuzhi did remember that Ke Hu and Zhong Liyu were supposed to meet.
He just did not know what was going on with those two people…
Just as he was thinking about this, someone pushed open the dormitory door.
Ye Yuzhi raised his head and looked over. Ke Hu was standing there with two bags of steamed buns in his hands, changing his shoes. After taking off his shoes, he walked around barefoot, looking everywhere.
“Where are my shoes? Little Zhi, have you seen my shoes?”
Ye Yuzhi was silent for a moment before saying, “Under your bed.”
Ke Hu suddenly realized it. He hurried over, put his shoes on, and casually handed one of the bags of steamed buns to him. “I brought you breakfast.”
Ye Yuzhi took it. “I thought you were still sleeping.”
“How could I be? I’ll sleep after I finish breakfast.” Ke Hu scratched his hair as he spoke. “Zhong Liyu suddenly came over last night, so I went out to have a late-night snack with him.”
“And then we went to play games all night… Sigh, I was planning not to stay up late before.”
Ye Yuzhi nodded. He took out a steamed bun and bit into it, then asked, “Did Zhong Liyu say anything? Earlier, you two…”
“Ah, that.” Ke Hu finished his own breakfast in three quick bites, stuffed the bag into the trash can, and said, “It’s just that I wasn’t feeling well before, you know? He kept nagging me about it, and he really annoyed me.”
“We just talked things out. It’s fine now.”
Ye Yuzhi nodded silently. He also did not have much business getting involved in those two people’s affairs. But since Ke Hu said that he had stayed up all night playing games… then he probably had not entered that kind of world either?
However, that could not be confirmed. Perhaps the fixed interlude period appeared together with sleep.
He picked up his phone and replied to Xia Jienan with a simple: “I’m okay.”
It was not long before he saw Xia Jienan send over a txt document.
Ye Yuzhi froze for a moment before choosing to receive it. After opening it, he only then realized that this was Xia Jienan’s review and summary of the previous train group.
It seemed that, even until the very end, Xia Jienan still did not have the memories from the previous few times. Those were not things that could simply be recovered once the mission ended… Could this also mean that, in some sense, the spells within that world were capable of affecting reality as well?
For example, if they lost their memories in a certain world, would they still remain in that state of amnesia even after returning to reality?
Ye Yuzhi was not sure, but there were indeed some parts of his memories that had remained blurry even after he came out of certain worlds.
After reading the first section, which was somewhat similar to a preface, he finally focused on the other person’s summary.
“First time:
First night: The deceased were the two people in Berths Nine and Ten. The person in Berth Ten was a medical student who had noticed something unusual about the body of Sergei in Berth One, and was therefore killed first, which also affected the other person in his compartment.
Second night: The deceased were He Jialan and Beizhu. The reason was related to He Jialan coming into contact with Haiman, Sergei’s mother.
Bathroom: Beizhu. She successfully escaped by borrowing R’lyeh’s fog-creation spell. The formation of the Evil God of Jushan can be interfered with by spells. It is currently unknown whether this is related to the fog.
Second time:
Before reaching the hunting stage, the follower was captured and shot dead. Beizhu was attacked and killed by Constance (Duniya).
Bathroom: Xia Jienan, failed to escape.
Third time:
Before reaching the hunting stage, the true BOSS was found.
Bathroom: He Jialan, failed to escape.
Berth personnel information:
Berth One: Sergei, previously a victim of an evil cult, later transformed into a perpetrator. His objective was to kill everyone on the train and create a terrorist attack to expose the evil cult and attract everyone’s attention. Purchased Constance, used magic to control Alexander, and reached an agreement with the follower chef. The spell he possesses is: psychological suggestion, meaning that he can control a person’s mind.
Berth Two: Alexander, origins unknown. He has a deceased daughter, Duniya, and is extremely obsessive about his daughter. Not a □□ member, sanity below 20.
Constance (Duniya), abandoned daughter. She was originally a child, but after being used by Sergei in a ritual, she transformed into a Shepherd. Her essence changed into a monster without morality or emotions.
Berths Three/Four: Alide, a local investigator. She possesses a great deal of knowledge related to mythology and is suspected to come from a family of investigators. The organization behind her is the ‘Spark’ Institute, from which one can learn a great deal of mythology and occult knowledge. Investigators seem to have tasks assigned by their superiors.
Berths Five/Six: Beizhu, He Jialan.
Berth Seven: Retired military personnel, extremely disgusted by evil cults. His combat ability is not low. If necessary, he can be brought into the combat round.
Berth Eight: Chef. He was the first to notice the problems with the train’s food. If he cooperates with the medical student, they should be able to expose the problem with the train chef.
Berth Nine: Hacker. Additional information can be obtained through him. If necessary, it should be possible to investigate everyone’s identities, backgrounds, and the information used when purchasing their tickets. There may be a better way to make use of him.
Berth Ten: Medical student. He noticed something unusual about Sergei. He should have been paying attention to Sergei all along, so to a certain extent, he also restrained Sergei’s actions during the early stages.
Berth Eleven: Ana, Constance’s biological mother. If Ye Yuzhi did not possess the ability of the time door, then the breakthrough point should be her own mother.
Berth Twelve: Joan, should be the same as Ana, both being conventional breakthrough points for the mission.
Berth Thirteen: Special police officer. For some reason, he concealed his identity and may have been carrying out a special mission. He possesses a gun and is the only person on the entire train who can reasonably fire one.
Berth Fourteen: Haiman, Sergei’s biological mother and a member of the evil cult. If methods such as psychological analysis or other magical means were used to come into contact with the psychological state in which she was being controlled by Sergei, there might be unexpected developments.
All remaining train personnel, except for the chef, have no problems.
The Hound did not catch up. The problem may have begun appearing from the fourth time onward.”
The general contents were more comprehensive than Ye Yuzhi had expected. However, there was one thing Xia Jienan had not written about.
He had already opened the door four times, and he had seen that so-called “Hound.”
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