Neverland

Before Xu Muzhou had time to tell the girl, the man who had been standing quietly at the side suddenly came up and threw something under the platform.

The screen in front of him flickered and instantly changed to [2/? 】.

The girl was stunned for a moment: "...What, what is this for?"

Before Xu Muzhou could speak, the man who had been silent just now opened his mouth first, and said, "Go through the security check."

The man's voice was not as impersonal as his eyes, but after he opened his mouth, he looked a little like a normal person.His voice is slightly lower than ordinary people, a bit like an old smoker who is used to smoking, a bit hoarse, but can be classified as "good-sounding".

Xu Muzhou couldn't help but look at him twice, the man's answer was exactly what he wanted to say.At this moment, he suddenly had a subtle sense of overlap with the man's thoughts. This subtle feeling inexplicably narrowed the distance between the two of them, making Xu Muzhou feel that men are closer than girls.

"There's no time." Xu Muzhou stared at the countdown on the LED, frowned and said, "Quickly throw one away."

There were only two things in the girl's hands. She held on tightly to the seven-color flower that claimed to be able to be resurrected, and was reluctant to let go. Finally, she took out a small folding umbrella from her bag and threw it off the platform.

The small folded parasol made a creaking sound of gears before being swallowed by the vortex, and the handle was elongated and rotated, revealing the sharp blade inside.

The light green screen in front of him flickered for a moment, the original task objective was folded and hidden, and the original line of small characters was enlarged and placed in the center of the screen.

[3/3]

The carriage door in front of it finally made a sharp deflation sound, and the mechanical axle tightened, driving the bar to pull the door open a gap.

The door opened.

Xu Muzhou heaved a sigh of relief without a trace—he was not mistaken, if the backpack itself is a special object given to the player by the game, then it must be something useful.In various decryption reasoning games, collecting clues is a very important part. In a mature game, all the clues that appear in it are logical. Only in this way can players achieve the decryption task through thinking.

Although the door opened, Xu Muzhou fell into another kind of logic circle instead.

If we only think about it from the perspective of the actual ride, then the security check and ticket check are important factors for whether we can board the train. Since Xu Muzhou searched his backpack and found nothing similar to the ticket, he could only try to gamble. , using the model of confiscated contraband to simulate the security checkpoint, I didn't expect to bet right.

But what puzzled Xu Muzhou was that taking the high-speed rail was nothing more than a daily routine. It was his own preconceived instilled cognitive thoughts about games, which caused him to subconsciously regard the places he looked at as games. The venue, the whole mind is like a paste, and it is focused on the train in front of it.It was only when he realized that the train itself had nothing to write about, did Xu Muzhou suddenly remember the boarding process, and proceeded along this line of reasoning.

That's why he discovered the clues later than many ignorant players.

The memories that inexplicably appeared in his mind undoubtedly avoided many unnecessary life risks for him. For example, when Xu Muzhou saw the SUV, he instinctively felt bad.But this kind of cognition in a sense strengthens the difficulty of logical reasoning in this game.

——This goes against the essence of the game again.

"The door!" But before Xu Muzhou could continue to think, he heard the girl beside him get excited: "The door is open!"

As she said, she couldn't wait for the car door to be fully opened, and squeezed in through the gap while grabbing the railing beside the car door.Fortunately, the girl was smaller and was not stuck.

Xu Muzhou's train of thought was interrupted by the girl, he glanced at the screen hastily, and found that there were 5 seconds left before the final 25-minute countdown, so he had no time to think about anything else, so he hurriedly turned his head to look at the man, and then entered the open room. door.

The broadcast sounded one after another, including the No. [-] car that Xu Muzhou took, more than two-thirds of the cars had been declared qualified.

The man tightened his bag with one hand, watched his back quietly, waited for Xu Muzhou to turn right and entered the carriage, and then walked up slowly.

The carriage door closed again behind him, as if it had never been opened.

Xu Muzhou turned into the No. [-] car. He had clearly seen that it was full of people from the outside, but when he got on the car, he found that the car was empty, and there was only one steward standing at the other end of the car.

The lights in the carriage were not turned on, and the flight attendant was standing outside the edge of the window light source. Xu Muzhou only glanced at her, and then looked away first.He didn't want to take a closer look at the distorted face of the other party, Xu Muzhou shook his head, trying to delete the hasty glance through the car door from his mind.

The outside broadcast sounded for the last time, and the countdown was completely reset to zero. The car door not far behind Xu Muzhou clicked and locked, and the fog that had been used to isolate the line of sight outside the car began to slowly dissipate.

The train shook and started to move slowly, Xu Muzhou jumped to the window almost immediately, trying his best to look out.

There were still people on the platform who hadn't made it to the carriages—and they probably never would.

The floor tiles on the platform began to shatter, and the ground collapsed without warning, but in an instant, it collapsed into a huge hole almost like an abyss.

The angle Xu Muzhou could see was very limited. He watched the people who were close to him fall into the abyss. A man in front of the No. [-] carriage desperately grabbed the edge of the collapse, and broken bricks rolled down from his feet.

The platform collapsed like a disaster scene, but the moving train was not affected at all, and even began to speed up gradually. Xu Muzhou only saw it briefly, and when he was distracted, he couldn't see anything.

As the train pulled out of the station, the flight attendant who was originally standing in the shadow suddenly said, "Passengers, I'm sorry, there is only one vacancy reserved on the train at D13, one passenger can take a seat, and the remaining two passengers with station tickets Please try not to disturb other passengers."

Xu Muzhou looked at the empty carriage, and thought to himself that what it means to open his eyes and talk nonsense today.

D13 is the side of the two-person carriage on the right side of the aisle. Xu Muzhou stood in the aisle without moving. He held his backpack cautiously and said to the flight attendant, "I am a standing ticket."

He was special enough, and he didn't want to be any more special.

"I'm D13." A man's voice came from behind, he strode past Xu Muzhou, walked straight to the middle of the carriage, took off his bag and sat on the seat of D13.

Xu Muzhou himself was 178cm tall, and the man was half a head taller than him when he passed by, and he seemed to be at least 185cm tall.

Just now he couldn't feel it on the platform, maybe it was because of his height, the man was full of pressure, when passing by, Xu Muzhou subconsciously turned sideways to make way for him.

It doesn't matter whether the man really has a ticket in his hand or is just helping him out, Xu Muzhou sized him up for a while, then walked forward as if nothing had happened, and stood by his side.

The girl bit her lip, hesitated for a moment, and sat on the seat behind the man. She curled up slightly, covering her body behind Xu Muzhou and the man.

The flight attendant said again: "Passengers, please put your personal belongings on the shelf above your head, otherwise it will affect other passengers' walking."

The girl was startled, and quickly took off the little yellow duck's backpack.

Xu Muzhou took off his backpack and looked at it, but he didn't put it on top of his head as he said. He unzipped the bag halfway and put it under his feet, kicking it in front of the man's seat.

Regardless of whether there are any so-called passengers in this car, Xu Muzhou is not prepared to be led by the nose.

The flight attendant seemed to be smiling, and said again: "Passengers with standing tickets, please go to the front row of the carriage."

Xu Muzhou didn't even want to let go of the bag, let alone looked at the jagged-faced model in dismay. He reached out and grabbed the man's back, and said casually, "I'm with him."

He said and looked down at the man, as if he was waiting for further evidence from the other party.

Xu Muzhou unconsciously squeezed the backrest tightly, the sticky cold sweat on the palm of his hand was wiped on the rough fabric, the man looked at him, and nodded indifferently: "Yes."

Xu Muzhou suddenly discovered that the man's original amber eyes had turned an extremely dark brown in the dim environment. He had deep eyebrows, a high nose bridge, and a very decent and handsome appearance.Although the whole person was dressed up and looked very unfavorable, but with this face alone, it was difficult for people to feel bad for him.

Seeing what he said all the time, the flight attendant didn't insist anymore. There seemed to be a flash of light outside the train. Xu Muzhou watched the flight attendant grin, revealing a stiff and exaggerated smile.

"The flight attendants are waiting in the front compartment. If you have any questions, you can ask for help at any time. I hope you have a pleasant journey."

The door of the carriage compartment opened suddenly, and the flight attendant turned around, sinking into the other side of the darkness.

Xu Muzhou staggered, stretched out his hand to touch it, only to find that his back was soaked in cold sweat.

With the departure of the flight attendants, there were only three of them left in the carriage. Xu Muzhou glanced at the mission panel, and found that the sentence on the mission panel was still the same, without any change.

The girl held the little yellow duck's backpack and hid tremblingly for a while, then stretched out her hand to grab the back of the man's chair to show her head, and asked cautiously: "After that, do we just need to take the car to the destination?"

Xu Muzhou was not as optimistic as she was. He suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, what did you throw away just now?"

"I threw an umbrella." The girl shrank her shoulders, her deer-like clean eyes hadn't completely faded from the panic, and she seemed a little submissive: "It's a weapon... I don't know how to fight anyway, and it's useless to add more than a dozen points of force. It's better to keep that flower, and it can be resurrected many times."

In the face of life and death, people will instinctively cling to the driftwood for survival, which is human nature.But Xu Muzhou always felt that there was something wrong. Apart from the fact that the number of resurrections was too much, when he chose to discard the item, he felt a great crisis when hesitating on the dagger. The crisis seemed to come from the soul. The survival instinct emanating from the depths made Xu Muzhou choose to abandon the resurrection props almost without hesitation.

It's just that people's choices are based on subjective wishes, but Xu Muzhou believes that he has no intention of taking responsibility, so he will not dictate the girl's thoughts.

The train was steadily maintained at a constant speed. There was no view outside the window, but it was pitch black. Xu Muzhou glanced at it intermittently, but found no clues worth noting, so he didn't make any more effort.

But before Xu Muzhou could breathe a sigh of relief, the broadcast urging him to die sounded again.

"The train arrives at the transfer station in front of it, and the train stops for a short time. Passengers who haven't arrived at their destination, please don't get off blindly—"