In the dark crevice, an empty corner.

The pungent smell of ammonia.

A faint hint of blood lingered in the air.

The eerie green glow of the Ghost Candle illuminated three sneaky figures.

At this moment, a muscular man, drenched but still reeking of feces, raised his right hand.

"Question!"

"Why are we in the women's restroom instead of the men's?"

Zhao Yi glanced at him and nodded, saying:

"Good question."

"Don't ask again next time."

Under Wen Long's awkward gaze, Zhao Yi took out a textbook and placed it in front of the two.

"This is a clue I found in the sixth carriage."

He read the four sentences aloud to them.

[The control room has the latest morning paper and map.]

[Starting the train requires diesel.]

[Do not go to the driver's cabin.]

[It will keep watching you!]

The short four lines gave the two an eerie feeling.

"Strange..."

"Why mention starting the train?" Wen Long frowned.

"Isn't our goal to resolve the grievances inside the train?"

"Could it be a trick by the system to divert our attention?"

Zhao Yi said nothing.

He spread out the newspaper, illuminating it with the Ghost Candle's light.

The newspaper recorded fourteen days of events in Moye Village.

In July of a certain year, they routinely refurbished the station's facilities and checked the train parts for wear, preparing for the village children to return to Hanging Valley Town after the holidays. But before school started, a terrifying disaster struck!

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After a sudden black storm swept through Moye Village, the next day, monsters appeared all over the village!

They were cruel, bloodthirsty, and bizarrely shaped, always accompanied by inexplicable black fog. Those dragged into the fog would be transformed into terrifying monsters like them!

By the time people received the news, the riots had already become severe.

Fortunately, their station still had three trains, which could carry most of the carless people away from Moye Village to Hanging Valley Town!

The morning paper and electronic reports gathered most of the villagers, who rushed to the station to catch this last train out of the dreadful place!

"So, the station originally had three trains, but now only this one remains."

"This means two trains safely reached Hanging Valley Town."

"And this one encountered an accident."

Wen Long analyzed very seriously.

A rather useless analysis.

Zhao Yi remembered Sun Baibai's situation; evidently, Sun Baibai also left on this last train!

Although that train successfully escaped Moye Village, it eventually met with an accident!

As everyone fell silent, a shadow drifted into the women's restroom.

The three slowly turned their heads to look at her.

It was a janitor lady.

Of course, she was no longer human.

Seeing two men in the women's restroom, she seemed a bit confused.

Did she enter the wrong place?

Especially one of the muscular men, whose clothes seemed somewhat familiar.

It seemed like...

Suddenly, she froze.

She turned to run, but Zhao Yi's voice came from behind, laughing:

"Do you see who's sitting next to me?"

"The new security team captain!"

"Try running, and believe me, he'll beat the crap out of you with his baton!"

Wen Long also raised his baton, looking fierce!

His expression, combined with the stench, was evidently very convincing!

The janitor lady, with a tearful, rotten face, cautiously sat down beside the three.

For a moment, Bai Shuiji actually felt sorry for her.

Scared by ghosts when alive, now scared by people as a ghost.

"What do you need?"

This janitor lady was at the bottom of the specter's combat power, so she was very timid and dared not offend anyone.

Zhao Yi patted her shoulder, making her shiver.

"It's nothing, don't be so nervous."

"This new security team captain isn't clear about the situation and wants to ask you a few questions... Answer seriously."

The janitor nodded like a pecking chicken.

"What exactly happened at this station back then?"

Zhao Yi pointed to the date on the newspaper. The janitor glanced at it, then shivered violently, shaking her head frantically.

"I don't know... I don't know... I don't know..."

"I know nothing..."

"Don't ask me..."

Seeing this, Wen Long felt they had touched a key point, so he waved his baton, looking fierce.

"Not talking?"

"Do you want to be beaten until you crap?"

The janitor steeled herself and gritted her teeth:

"Even if you beat me, I can't say!"

After a pause, she whispered:

"It... It keeps watching us!"

Hearing this, Wen Long and Bai Shuiji immediately got goosebumps!

They looked around secretly.

No sign.

But precisely because of this, Wen Long and Bai Shuiji felt even more terrified!

"Who... Who's watching us?" Bai Shuiji swallowed.

The janitor still shook her head.

Seeing her like this, she was determined not to speak.

Zhao Yi, deep in thought, looked up and said to the janitor:

"Auntie, one last question... Where is the diesel storage?"

Generally, there should be a place on the platform to store a large amount of diesel, and it should be close to the tracks, but there was no indication on the map.

The janitor replied:

"The original station had a diesel point, right up ahead, but it was dismantled during station repairs for some reason..."

"But I remember there are still a few barrels of diesel in the basement, though the basement manager has a bad temper. If you want to get diesel from him, it might be quite troublesome..."

Zhao Yi nodded, thanked her, and let her go.

"You're just letting her go like that?"

Wen Long frowned, thinking the janitor still had value.

But Zhao Yi said:

"The basic line of this mission is already clear."

"Huh?"

The two looked puzzled.

"Wha... What basic line?"

Zhao Yi:

"The grievances inside the train come from the passengers who died in it, and what they want to do... is leave here..."

"To resolve their grievances, we need to start the train."

"And starting the train requires at least three necessary conditions—the first is that the train conductor must be able to operate the engine in the driver's cabin."

"The second is some diesel."

At this point, Zhao Yi's expression became subtle.

Wen Long, listening intently, hurriedly asked:

"And the third? What's the third?"

Zhao Yi, with a mysterious look, said:

"Can't say."

"If I say it... it will know!"

The two, hearing this, felt a cold sweat on their backs.

"So, is there really... something ghostly watching us?"

Zhao Yi nodded, his gaze sharp.

"Exactly."

"But the good news is... it's not fully awake yet."

"When it wakes up... we'll all die!"