...Crying?
Bai Zhi temporarily shifted his attention away from the thick stack of sudoku sheets in his hands, one brow lifting slightly.
He had no idea where that sound was coming from, and it sounded utterly unfamiliar—mournful and plaintive.
There was no additional information conveyed. It simply sounded like someone hiding in a room and crying softly, without end.
The crying went on for nearly two or three hours.
Only several hours later did the sound gradually fade away before finally vanishing.
Bai Zhi did not feel much about it, aside from a slight irritation. But for the others, those three hours were extremely difficult to endure.
Unless one was naturally cold-hearted, even if they kept telling themselves that the cries, screams, and pleas for mercy from family and Friends outside were only illusions, they would inevitably be affected to some extent.
During the train's tenth hour of travel, something even harder for Players to accept than the previous Monsters appeared inside the carriage.
—Countless Bugs crawled through every corner of the carriage.
In an instant, the entire carriage turned into an Insect Nest.
Spiders, Centipedes, Ants, Cockroaches, Scorpions, venomous Snakes... and even more nameless slender Worms as thick as Chopsticks, gathered into writhing masses, completely filled the carriage.
Other than the small areas surrounding the Ten Players, every inch was covered in Bugs.
Stiffly staring at the Bugs crawling all over the table before her, as well as the Spiders and Worms dangling from above her head and in front of her, Fireworks of Romance looked as though she wanted to cry but had no tears left.
It was not just the table. Even the booth beside her was densely covered in Bugs. The unfinished bottle of Cola on the table had also been swarmed by Bugs, which clung