Chapter 194
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It was indeed a "familiar" train carriage.
However, this did not mean that this train was exactly the same as the previous one.
Lin Sanjiu lowered her head and looked at the newspaper ball that was stuffed into the crevice of the green leather seat.
She was a little confused. She didn't need to take it out to know what was written on it. The handwriting on the back of the paper was exactly the same as the one she remembered.
If there was anything different, it would be that the newspaper was more wrinkled than before. That was because she had crumpled it.
After a day, she once again boarded the same tram as before.
Even after knowing that, Lin Sanjiu's mind was still in a mess.
In other words, after she alighted from the train, someone else boarded the train and stuffed the crumpled newspaper ball back into the crevice of the seat.
It didn't seem to be a coincidence that she boarded the same train again...
Lin Sanjiu pondered for a while and finally gave up. The only thing she could do now was to protect herself as much as possible and not try to decipher the message.
This time, Lin Sanjiu decided to do something different.
Lin Sanjiu was almost certain that the train was much safer than the outside world. This was probably the reason why one of the girls wrote "Don't get off the train". As for the other few words that had completely opposite meanings, there were many possible explanations. They might even be written by different people. Lin Sanjiu decided not to think about it for the time being.
She suppressed the strange feeling in her heart and stepped on the green leather seat. She stretched out her arm and placed the Teru Teru on the roof of the train.
The Teru Teru Teru Teru immediately stuck to the roof. It swayed slowly in the air as the train moved forward. Lin Sanjiu studied it for a while and sat in front of it, satisfied.
This time, she didn't plan to alight no matter what.
She had looked at the route sign. The next stop after Bamboo Grove Scenic Station was Pussycat Provincial Hospital. Even though the word "Pussycat" sounded a little cuter, no one would want to alight to take a look at the hospital, a place where ghost stories were prevalent.
Besides, Lin Sanjiu had decided that when the train arrived at the station and the door opened, she would rather go to the driver's seat and take a look... She might as well take a look at the driver's seat …
She straightened her back stiffly.
It was dark outside the train window. Lin Sanjiu didn't know whether it was a tunnel or the outside world.
Outside the window of the train, it was pitch black. It was hard to tell if it was a tunnel or the outside world that had darkened. The fluorescent lights in the car were not stable, but they were still bright. Lin Sanjiu could see her own reflection clearly on the car window.
When there was an additional shadow, he could naturally see it clearly.
A huge white Teru Tachi Doll hung down from the ceiling and landed right behind Lin Sanjiu. It turned its head to look at the car window, and in the reflection, it flashed a smile drawn with a black pen at Lin Sanjiu.
The down jacket couldn't cover the back of her neck. A cool breeze blew over.
Lin Sanjiu jumped up from her seat. She twisted her body in midair and looked behind her with a pale face. However, the carriage was empty. There was nothing. The Teru Teru doll was still hanging on the roof of the carriage. It had not grown any bigger.
There was only the cold wind blowing in as they drove, each stronger than the last.
"Am I too neurotic?" She steadied her heavy breathing and did not dare to let her guard down. She turned off the vibration frequency of the knife and used it to fiddle with the doll.
The doll spun twice from the tip of the knife. There was nothing wrong with the eyes and the smile drawn with the black pen. They were the same as before.
Lin Sanjiu looked at the doll and then at the seat. The feeling of "I don't want to sit" gripped her heart again.
"That's strange. Why?"
It wasn't just this seat. In fact, whenever she approached any seat on the train, she would feel a vague sense of rejection from the bottom of her heart. It was as if her instincts were against sitting down.
"Forget it, I won't sit down for now," she consoled herself. "After all, this is a ghost story world that has been corrupted by dark matter. Something is definitely not right … Why don't I go to the driver's cabin and see what's going on?"
Since she had nothing to do, she could prevent any accidents from happening when she stopped the train. Actually, she wanted to leave the Teru Teru doll for a while to calm herself down.
The train wasn't long. Soon, she reached the end of the carriage. The door of the driver's cabin was still locked.
Lin Sanjiu raised her hand and hesitated for a moment. In the end, she knocked on the door lightly.
She didn't know which situation was more unbearable to her. The door suddenly opened with a creak and there was no one inside, or the conductor suddenly appearing with a smile on his face?
Fortunately. Lin Sanjiu didn't notice either situation. The driver's cabin was still silent.
Gritting her teeth, Lin Sanjiu activated her [Mosaic Censorship] and pressed both of her hands on the door lock. As the door lock exploded into tiny fragments, the door slowly opened.
Cautiously, she used the tip of her knife to widen the gap. Then, she heaved a sigh of relief, though she couldn't tell if she was disappointed or not.
There was no one inside. There were only rows of instruments flashing with small lights, as if they were preset to be unmanned machines.
If that was the case, it would explain why there were still trams running after the apocalypse.
She put away her knife. She suddenly felt exhausted. She didn't know if it was because her down jacket couldn't keep her warm or because she had been fighting against the cold, but she didn't want to think about the strange things that happened after she arrived at Kisaragi Station world. She dragged her feet back to the carriage where the Teru Teru doll was and sat down.
Then, she felt her throat tighten.
It wasn't an illusion or a psychological feeling. Lin Sanjiu's face quickly turned purplish red. The limited air in her lungs was being squeezed out bit by bit. Her brain kept ringing with an "empty" sound as if her blood was rushing against something. She tried her best to move her eyes to the limit. From the reflection of the window, she saw a patch of white behind her. It was slowly creeping up to her neck.
"I need to call out my knife..."
This thought struggled to surface in her mind. However, the moment the card appeared in her palm, a cold aura enveloped her hand. She couldn't move at all.
Life drained from her body slowly and rapidly. In less than five minutes, Lin Sanjiu's body went limp and she stopped struggling.
She saw everything in the second before she died.
Every seat in the carriage was filled with people.
Everyone's face was gray and expressionless. On the seat below her, an old lady stretched out her withered claw-like hand and held her arm. Lin Sanjiu was sitting on this old lady.
"No wonder I had to get off the train." (To be continued.)
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