"The most important decision? Then I'd better be careful. But there's something I'm wondering... and you should tell me who you are first."
Wen Xishu asked quite openly.
"I'm the conductor, the conductor of the Chosen Train. You can call me Wei Ping'an."
Wei Ping'an had something of a military bearing. He was no young man.
Wen Xishu said:
"Does the Chosen Train... follow a fixed route?"
Wei Ping'an said:
"You noticed?"
"Since every platform has a supply point, I imagine you're quite familiar with these stations," Wen Xishu said.
Wei Ping'an said:
"The World of Obsessions is a very special world, formed from the obsessions of countless people. The train's obsession comes from a special department of ours."
"Our obsession is very powerful, which gives us... a special region of our own."
"I'm delighted that, after the lengthy tests and passing through car after car, you've all made it here. Now, please relax. Car 16 is for our own people."
Wen Xishu and the others seemed to be standing in a huge conference hall, with two rows of rooms along its sides.
Each row contained five rooms.
After going through the Maze Carriage, Wen Xishu and the others no longer paid much attention to the sudden expansion of a carriage's interior.
This was the World of Obsessions, after all. Anything that happened here made sense.
Wen Xishu said:
"So you've reserved places for ten people who might make it here?"
Wei Ping'an said:
"Yes. If the contestants on any given run are all good enough..."
"Then it's possible for everyone to reach this place. In practice, however, all ten have never made it."
"On our most successful run, a total of five people passed every car's test and reached us."
Ten people on each run? It seemed the train