To be honest, the situation on both sides is hard to describe.

Xia Jing lightly recounted the whole process of being blocked by Ye Xiang in the second car to find fault.

A group of people were shocked that Ye Xiang was still thinking about revenge at such a critical moment, and they were even more shocked that Ye Xiang, who was carrying monster props, and several giant worm monsters only made the young man's clothes tattered. I was unharmed.

——They only knew that this guy had a good brain, but they didn't expect that this guy was as powerful as Song Yang.

They were lucky enough to enter the same instance as the two bosses!

"So these bugs all come out of the pipes?" After recovering, Li Mian looked down at the lumps of slurry around him, and his mood was still calm. "At first, the movement that Sister Yang heard in the second compartment was Are they sent out? But what is the trigger for their appearance?"

Speaking of this, Xia Jing turned to look at Yang Leliu who was still huddled in the corner and stared in a daze, and asked, "Did you hear any sound after Ma Qiu was transported out by the square pipe?"

Yang Leliu was stunned for a while by Xia Jing's question, but she quickly remembered something, nodded quickly and said, "Yes! At that time, I did hear that rustling sound in the pipe again, but Everyone was arguing at the time, I... maybe I didn't pay attention, and I couldn't hear it again after a while, I thought I had an illusion..."

Everyone followed Yang Leliu's words to recall.

Indeed, they were all agitated by Ma Qiu's death at the time, and they were all arguing emotionally, and it was normal for Yang Leliu to have difficulty maintaining his concentration.

After hearing this, Song Yang quickly found the point: "Is it a corpse?"

Xia Jingdao: "No, to be precise, it should be enough as long as it is 'skinned and bruised'. If we destroy the pipeline, as long as there is a smell of blood or meat outside the pipeline, these insects should be attracted and come out. Xiang was attacked by bugs probably because his face was stained with my blood."

Song Yang frowned and asked, "Are you injured?"

"Huh?" Xia Jing blinked, "Ah, I used the medicine in time."

"The clothes on your body must have been splashed by corrosive liquid..." Fei Shengxiao swallowed, and finally had the strength to stand up while leaning on the wall, but her voice was still weak. Clothes, if that kind of thing gets on your skin, it will be a disaster."

Xia Jing smiled and said, "Yes."

It's a pity that none of them have any extra coats to lend Xia Jing, the tattered clothes on his body look somewhat funny.

Song Yang's eyes lingered on Xia Jing for a while, then he took them back.

He asked again: "Then what happened to An Ruming?"

Fei Shengxiao: "An Ruming was standing guard at the door of the second car, probably because he blocked the way, and the insects attacked him!"

Xia Jing shook his head: "No, there must be a reason for the bugs to attack him."

He pointed to Cheng Jiayu's corpse half a meter away from Fei Shengxiao and Yang Leliu, and said, "When the last two bugs rushed out of the second car, their target was not you, but this corpse. It proves that ordinary humans cannot attract them. If An Ruming was not injured or stained with blood, then there must be other reasons why he was attacked by insects."

After Xia Jing said this, Fei Shengxiao and Yang Leliu finally remembered something dull, looked at each other, and exclaimed at the same time: "That piece of paper!"

Sha Yu quickly asked: "What paper?"

Song Yang's thoughts changed, and he walked into the cab again, searched the door, and picked up a piece of white paper lying on the ground: "It's about the piece of paper that the train conductor will give in every level. "

Xia Jing took a closer look.

On this piece of white paper, it was written impressively:

"Only passengers who meet the following conditions can push open the door of the cab and enter the cab:

1. Male;

2. Over 40 years old. "

Sha Yu asked in a daze, "Did the train conductor change his candidate this round?"

Yang Leliu nodded quickly.

She originally thought that she should enter the cab this round.

Unexpectedly, when the file is read and restarted, other conditions remain the same, but the candidate for the train conductor has changed!

Yang Leliu knew that her husband was 30 years old, let alone Song Yang, Xia Jing, and Wang Zhi, they were all young, and Ye Xiang seemed to be in his early thirties.

Among the people present, only An Ruming met the requirements of being male and over 40 years old!

That's why she and Fei Shengxiao looked at that guy at the same time. They were also very surprised at the time, and what they didn't expect was that before they had time to say anything, An Ruming had already been swallowed by the giant worm.

Xia Jing thought about it: "Then besides the fact that 'the skin is bruised and bruised', another condition that can attract bugs to attack the player is probably 'the person chosen by the train conductor'."

The young man thought for a second, and whispered: "Our round passed smoothly, probably not because the train conductor died, but because An Ruming was sacrificed."

The others were stunned.

Li Mian frowned and asked, "What do you mean? Those who are selected must be caught by the train conductor, so the rest of us can survive smoothly, right?"

But An Ruming was obviously eaten by a bug monster?

Xia Jing seemed to have suddenly realized.

He didn't answer Li Mian's question immediately, but pointed to the head of a giant insect that was still intact not far away, and turned to Song Yang, "You are a medical student, can you recognize what kind of insect this is?"

Song Yang already had a guess in his mind at this moment.

He carefully examined the bug corpses there.

The bug has been torn apart, it's hard to imagine what it looks like when it's whole, but Song Yang can still distinguish it by virtue of certain characteristics.

He said slowly, "...it's a roundworm."

Everyone was surprised.

Sha Yu was stunned and said: "What?!"

roundworms? !

Is it the kind of parasite roundworm that occurs in the human intestine? !

Sha Yu wanted to ask something else, but he quickly thought of the real face shown by the conductor when he and Song Yang attacked him just now.

At that time, Sha Yu hadn't realized what the ultimate form meant, but at this moment, when he connected these clues, everyone was stunned.

Xia Jing turned around, finally pushed open the half-open door of the cab, and saw the whole picture of the cab.

The train conductor was lying on the bridge, with serious injuries on his forehead, shoulders and chest, and a large amount of blood sprayed around him, which was enough to prove how fierce the short battle was just now.

besides…….

Fei Shengxiao, Yang Leliu, Li Mian, and Wang Zhi, who finally had the strength to move over, glanced at the train conductor's body clearly, all gasped.

——The body of this monster has been split in two.

——It was split all the way from the center of the skull, as if it had been split open by someone.

However, it could never be the masterpiece of Song Yang or Sha Yu.

Because the edge of the crack is smooth, without any bloodstains, only complete, mature skin and flesh tissue.

No organs can be seen inside the two halves of the body, only blood-red inner cavities, as if the train conductor is a "pure meat product".

And the inner cavity is slightly sunken inward, if the two halves of the body are put together, a cavity will be formed directly inside.

From the root of the cavity, that is, the abdomen of the conductor's body, a huge, flat, thick, reddish-white strip extends out, and one side is covered with a layer of granulated meat.

This is……

Fei Shengxiao covered his mouth.

Wang Zhi vomited again.

Li Mian and Yang Leliu were dumbfounded.

Xia Jing said slowly: "—The one in the middle is the tongue?"

"That's right," Song Yang said in a deep voice, "When Brother Sha and I attacked him, he changed into this posture."

"The two halves and the tongue, it looks like a complete mouth."

——The monster form of the train conductor is actually a mouth!

But whose mouth is he?

The rest of the people were completely stupefied, they could only follow Xia Jing's gaze and look at the train conductor's legs together.

Because the small window on the cab door was too narrow, they hadn't been able to notice the conductor's lower body before.

—This fellow has no feet at all!

From where the ankles should be, his two legs turned into two strips of meat—no, it should be said that they were two thick fleshy pipes, and these two fleshy pipes were connected to the left and right walls of the cab. Square metal pipes.

Xia Jing slowly said: "After the prey enters the cab, it is swallowed by the mouth of the 'train conductor', and transported through his body to the right or left pipeline, and the pipeline transports the 'food' all the way to the second compartment, which is ' large intestine', which eventually excreted to the open platform at the rear of the train."

There was a hint of interest in Xia Jing's eyes: "This is a complete set of structures."

Some kind of bad premonition rose in the hearts of everyone.

They heard the youth say:

"No wonder you killed the train conductor and the bug, this dungeon can't end."

"It turns out that the main monster of this dungeon is the train itself."

"We are in the monster's body."

The locomotive left the rainforest without looking back, and drove to the wilderness again.

The train began to heal itself again.

Everything inside the cars that belonged to the train itself—the shattered glass, the splattered worm slurry and corpses, the pipe fragments and caustic fluid in the second car—was quickly disappearing.

Even the wounds on the train conductor's body were being healed quickly, and his complexion was gradually turning red, which was a sign of his slow resurrection.

Several people hurried out of the cab and closed the door.

The amount of information they need to digest is too great, and they can't take care of the monster's resurrection for the time being.

Fei Shengxiao, Yang Leliu and Wang Zhi's faces were pale and dull.

But Li Mian, Song Yang and Sha Yu rushed to the second compartment before all the traces disappeared.

After they entered the second compartment, they turned around and looked up——

There are several bags of mulberry-shaped insect eggs hanging from the openings of the two broken pipes inlaid on the left and right walls——

Xia Jing was the first to come into contact with these giant worms, and he was also the only one who had a full view of the giant worms. According to him, when these giant worms grew to attack An Ruming, there was still a part of their tail stuck in the pipe.

And at the end of the tails of these giant worms are eggs.

Their bodies had been wiped out by Xia Jing and the others, but the eggs on their tails were broken in time.

The bug eggs are always connected to the square pipe, and they are still being slowly recovered at this time.

This is naturally different from the structure of roundworms in reality, but the dungeon will maliciously tamper with some realistic elements, which is not surprising to players.

Xia Jing walked in slowly, and his voice reached several people's ears: "The train conductor's process of selecting players is more like 'ordering food' for the main monster of the train."

The word "order food" made Sha Yu and Li Mian look a little ugly.

"The train eats its prey, and the nutrition is absorbed into the body through the 'gut'. It will naturally have the strength to survive the next disaster and ensure the survival of all the rest of us."

Xia Jing revealed the distorted and disgusting truth in a calm tone.

"As for the roundworms, they themselves are connected to the 'gut'."

"After they devour the food, if they start to digest it immediately, then as long as a trace of nutrition is sent back to the 'gut' and spreads around the monster's body, it can achieve the same effect as 'the train itself eats food'."

"Ye Xiang is not the player selected by the train this round. Although the insects were attracted by the smell of blood and attacked him just now, they spit him out after a short while. He was dead, but there was no corrosive liquid on his body at that time. It was purple all over, as if it had been poisoned to death, and it was only after it fell out that it began to be corroded by the corrosive liquid on the ground."

Xia Jing lowered his eyes and stepped on the ground: "So I speculate that only the selected players can prompt the worms to secrete the corrosive liquid and complete the process of nutrient transfer normally - it is An Ruming who plays a role in this round."

Xia Jing's voice fell to the ground, and the train's self-healing has been completed.

All the dirt that belonged to the train itself disappeared.

The pipes in the second compartment were as twisted and twisted as they were at the beginning, smooth and shiny.

However, Sha Yu and Li Mian only feel shudder when they look at this picture with the truth at this time.

After confirming the situation, they immediately left the second compartment.

Song Yang turned around and wanted to leave too, but when he raised his foot, he paused.

He looked down at his feet.

After the train finished self-healing, the corrosive liquid, bug corpses, pipe fragments, and the residue formed after the corrosive liquid eroded them should have all disappeared.

The only thing left in this train is the player's body.

But at this moment, there were still some red and purple fleshy slime-like objects under his feet, among which fragments of Ye Xiang's clothes could be faintly seen.

Obviously, this is Ye Xiang's body, he was abandoned here by the giant worm.

However, there was always a question in Song Yang's heart.

He raised his head, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, he calmly asked Xia Jing who was also planning to leave: "Are you really not injured?"

Xia Jing stopped walking.

He didn't turn around, just tilted his head, and said with a light smile, "What do you mean?"

Ask knowingly.

Song Yang said bluntly, "Is it true that none of the corrosive liquid splashed on you?"

When Song Yang came out of the cab, he found that in just ten minutes, the young man not only failed to protect himself from the corrosive liquid, but was even made into a tattered beggar by the corrosive liquid. At that time, he really felt that The skull hurts.

But Song Yang is not stupid either.

The clothes were corroded like this, but the liquid didn't touch the young man's skin at all. Is this really possible?

Song Yang didn't want Xia Jing to get hurt, but felt that something was unreasonable.

This irrationality was the same as the other eccentricities of this young man.

Song Yang admitted that he had an inexplicable caring mentality towards this strange young man. This mentality may come from the joy in his brain when he resonated with this young man's thinking, and the feeling in his heart when he and the other party secretly tested each other. that excitement.

Dopamine is a miracle substance.

Song Yang really liked playing games with Xia Jing and enjoying communicating with him.

As for his concern for Xia Jing, it was purely his human instinct after paying attention to the other party.

——But this kind of mentality does not affect his doubts about this guy's identity, and his doubts about all the weirdness of this guy.

He still doesn't regard Xia Jing as a friend like Jia Qing.

He still has a search for this young man.

Song Yang stared at Xia Jing and asked, "Did you never expect Ye Xiang to retaliate against you?"

Xia Jing finally turned around and looked at him.

When the third round of disaster happened, Song Yang noticed Xia Jing's tricks towards Wang Zhi.

Within the controllable scope of the situation, Song Yang never intends to interfere with anyone else's actions, but this young man is a calm lunatic, and he will do many crazy moves just to play games, Song Yang has fully realized this.

And what happened in the second car, did this guy really not expect it at all?

Didn't he deliberately guide at all?

In the dimly lit compartment, the two kept a distance of two meters.

The remains of corpses on the ground continued to emit a stench.

A zigzag pipe loops between the two.

The slight rustling sound in the pipe showed that the resurrected giant worm monsters hadn't completely calmed down from the thrill just now.

In silence, Xia Jing looked at Song Yang for a while, then suddenly smiled.

He said, "Song Yang, it's really interesting to play games with you."

Song Yang was taken aback.

"But you've played so many games, you should have already known it." The young man narrowed his eyes with a smile, and said word by word, "The dungeon will never take the initiative to tell you the answer, because it's too boring."

Song Yang reacted quickly: "But you are not a copy."

"Who knows?" Xia Jing asked back.

"Explore the map, look for clues, get answers, defeat monsters...and then clear the level," Xia Jing said with a raised lip. "I've been doing things to myself that are no different from clearing the level dungeon."

"I also welcome you to join this game."

Song Yang was stunned.

After the young man finished speaking, he left the carriage.

Song Yang was caught off guard, paused, and then walked out.

He watched the young man walk towards the other people, his eyes gradually darkened.

He originally wanted to wait until the dungeon was over, and then find an opportunity to "settle accounts" with this guy, but after such a conversation, Song Yang felt that this matter should not go smoothly.

This young man is as slippery as a loach.

Think of him as a dungeon game, to explore and clear the level?

Song Yang read Xia Jing's words back and forth, squinting his eyes.

After a long time, he laughed.

have to.

He was led by the nose again by this guy.

But it also sounds interesting.

Song Yang exhaled slowly.

Anyway, exploring this treacherous world is also exploring...how can one more person be explored?

This guy doesn't seem to be resisting his approach.

Song Yang put his hands in his trouser pockets and walked over.

……

The train kept going forward without stopping.

According to previous experience, their rest time for this round will only be 15 minutes in total, and there are only 5 minutes left at this time.

Fei Shengxiao swallowed, looked around nervously, and asked: "So...if we are inside the monster now...how are we going to kill it?"

Her voice was kept low, as if she was afraid that the "monster" would hear their plan.

Yang Leliu also whispered: "Do we all need to climb out of the train and destroy the train?"

Song Yang said: "No, this dungeon has a mechanism to read and restart."

Several people were taken aback, Li Mian frowned and asked: "Wait, isn't this mechanism aimed at our players?"

After all the players die, reload the file and start again. This is a mechanism formed to protect the players. The train itself is not in it, right?

They all climbed out of the train, and then destroyed the train, they should be able to clear the dungeon, right?

Song Yang shook his head and said, "The previous information was not sufficient. I think we should have misjudged the nature of this mechanism."

"Every time this train is damaged by us internally or externally, it will eventually heal itself. Now, even the conductor and the giant worm have been resurrected—"

A group of people turned their heads and quietly looked at the cab.

Through the small window, the conductor's blond hair was faintly visible.

Song Yang withdrew his gaze: "—I think this is actually a signal from the dungeon."

"

The mechanism of reloading the file has indeed reduced the difficulty of the dungeon to three stars, but this mechanism is likely to be born to protect the main monster of the train. "

"Our players are just the 'contents' of the train, and we were resurrected by the way."

"That is to say," Song Yang said after a pause, "Even if we destroy the train, we can't kill the train monster."

The rest of the people were stunned.

Sha Yu didn't dare to believe it: "Then how can we kill this thing?!"

Fei Shengxiao's eyes widened: "There are about ten chances to restart after reloading the file. Do we have to kill it ten times?!"

Xia Jing reminded: "If the train monster cannot be killed simply by 'hacking and killing', then this means that this is not the real way to clear the level of this dungeon. When the ten chances are used up, what we are waiting for is probably not clearing the level. It's the closing of the copy."

Song Yang nodded.

The dungeon is closed, which means customs clearance failed.

Upon hearing this, several people's complexions changed drastically.

They never expected to reach this level, they didn't even have a clue how to kill monsters!

"I think we have to rethink the game mode of this dungeon," Song Yang suddenly said to Sha Yu, "Do you still remember the number that followed us above the train?"

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