"How could a living person suddenly disappear..."
"It must be a ghost, right? They must have been dragged away by a ghost..."
"It's over... We're all going to be eaten by ghosts. It's over..."
"..."
Panicked voices suddenly rang out from the crowded sleeping quarters.
Fear could spread, but in these crowded sleeping quarters, it did not even need to spread. It directly drowned everyone.
A group of grown men were visibly trembling from head to toe. Some had gone pale, others green, making them look like a crowd of hanged ghosts.
"There are no ghosts in this world..."
Lu Xin instinctively wanted to correct their incorrect and unscientific notions, but he did not say it aloud.
He could see the panic in their hearts. He knew they were merely looking for an explanation for the utterly bizarre scene before them.
Even though the explanation they came up with—being dragged away by a ghost—was even more terrifying, and the very idea of a ghost was unreasonable, any guess was better than having no idea what was happening at all.
The unknown surpassed every fear!
"Are you sure no one left the room just now?"
Others could panic, but he could not, so Lu Xin could only force himself to calmly look at the front of the carriage.
"Absolutely!"
Gao Ting, the leader, bit her lip hard to calm herself down, though her voice trembled somewhat. "We stayed in the room the whole time and didn't dare go anywhere. Even when someone needed to pee, we had them do it in the corner, but..."
Her face still showed fear. "But somehow, people... people just became fewer."
Lu Xin glanced at the damp paintings on the wall of the sleeping quarters and nodded.
He worked hard to clear his somewhat muddled