The Corpse... Is Gone

"I brushed past the killer several times. Every time I knocked on a door in the corridor, I could see the bad guy inside. It's just that he probably saw me holding a gun and, out of fear, tried to escape. I shot at him, and he stopped moving, but I knew he wasn't dead."

"He's still hiding among the crowd."

"Brother, you're not well either. Damn it, who knocks on their door in the middle of the night with a gun?"

"Opening the door and seeing the train conductor's dark muzzle pointed at you, wouldn't a normal person be crazy not to run?"

"Do you even know what you're saying!?"

"Shot him, and he stopped moving!?"

"Isn't that stating the obvious?"

"I gathered everyone together. I want to take everyone to carriage number three for judgment. No one can escape my interrogation. I am the Falcon of the battlefield, but every time we pass through a tunnel, I feel something piercing my mind. I can only watch helplessly as someone slaughters these passengers."

Qin Shang's mouth twitched again. As he read this, his thoughts became much clearer.

"I thought of a way, which is to hold hands and get through this together. That's right, as long as everyone holds hands, if the lunatic in the group lets go, we'll know immediately who it is, and we can catch him!"

"Yes, once we get to carriage number three, the bad guy hiding in the group will have nowhere to hide..."

Strange, this also contradicts the background story.

Qin Shang wanted to continue reading, but he found that there was no more content below.

Indeed, much of the diary content was repetitive, and this was all the text that could be extracted.

This Jack and Mary actually have a common hobby: printing their diaries, and not just one copy?

Or perhaps, it was printed by the game developers?

Qin Shang thought about it and subconsciously rubbed the papers.

They were stuck very firmly, but after all, two centuries had passed. With external force applied, they could easily fall off.

He saw the text on the back of the paper clearly.

"Name: Jack"

"Occupation: Middle Eastern Special Forces"

"Age: 33"

"Reason for illness: Psychological acne caused by post-war syndrome, possibly related to watching teammates disappear one by one during the war. He was a reservist, only deployed, and had not directly faced the battlefield's bloodshed. He was always doing logistics-related tasks, so he couldn't accept the daily disappearances of his teammates, leading to extreme pressure. Therefore, he was repatriated and discharged for psychological reasons, working in frontline reserve duties."

At this moment, Qin Shang's pupils suddenly contracted.

Actually, the content didn't matter. What he cared about was the paper, the feel of this paper...

His expression changed drastically. He grabbed the little loli and ran towards the very front of the first carriage. Usually, the train's schedule or similar information was posted at the very front.

"Miss, tell me the names of the staff written up front!"

"Brother, aren't you also a priest? You should be able to see it too. Actually, my English isn't very good, I only recognize that it says Jack..."

Qin Shang was exasperated. Forget it, he couldn't count on this girl.

He quickly ran to the very front. Upon closer inspection, his face changed drastically.

Train Conductor: Jack

Train Attendant: El

Train Attendant: Philip

Train Attendant: Dibis...

After looking around, Qin Shang didn't see Mary's name.

Without Mary, there was no such staff member at all.

"Holy crap!"

At this moment, a crazy thought took shape in his mind!

Immediately after, he dragged 'Grandpa Niu cosplaying a maid to seduce Zhuang Zhuang's Mom' to carriage number two. Mary's diary was posted on the wall here. Then Qin Shang raised his hand and casually tore off a piece of the diary from beside the window.

The next moment, his expression turned into two "Holy crap!"s.

"Name: Jack"

"Occupation: Middle Eastern Special Forces"

"Age: 33"

Qin Shang's features were almost twisted together, and he exclaimed subconsciously:

"Mary and Jack are the same person, which is why neither of them has much of a role in each other's diaries."

"Because this Jack has dissociative identity disorder. Miss Mary is Mr. Jack, and Mr. Jack is Miss Mary..."

The mystery of the weird deaths when Mr. Jack led everyone out of carriages one and two through the tunnel was solved.

In the background story, Miss Mary was the one doing it.

So these two guys were clearly the same person.

Qin Shang wasn't speaking without basis; there were many such details.

For example, the clothes that were repeatedly emphasized!

Whether it was Mary's diary or Jack's diary, clothes were repeatedly emphasized.

"It matches the background story. No wonder both Jack and Mary repeatedly emphasized their own clothes..."

"Even a cross-dressing enthusiast showing off in public in this era would be ridiculed. You can't insult a eunuch."

"Male compatriots have an almost obsessive madness for their sacred objects. Occasionally practicing isn't enough; they have to take them out to compare lengths to see the training effect!"

Qin Shang's mouth twitched. That Mr. Jack was clearly a cross-dressing enthusiast.

Another event that the two shared was being teased by passengers.

The passenger died!

Mary by day, Jack by night!

That's why Miss Mary's entries were more numerous.

As a train attendant, she could receive more information, and when Mr. Jack's personality awoke at night, he had to drive.

As the train conductor, he didn't have much time to interact with passengers...

No, that's not right.

Mary's occupation as a train attendant personality is actually undecided!

She never did anything a train attendant should do. Her diary entries were almost like being on vacation every day.

That's because she wasn't a train attendant at all!

The person who assigned her the job wasn't a modern capitalist. It was impossible for them to give her two jobs to exploit an employee to death, knowing she had a split personality.

Moreover, even in modern times, a cruel and inhumane capitalist, upon learning that their employee had a split personality, wouldn't try to exploit a loophole to make them do two jobs.

They would fire him immediately.

"Then Jack's personality would find Mary's disappearance normal. After all, he is Mary. When Jack's personality awakens and patrols, he would push open the door to so-called 'Mary's' dormitory and would surely be surprised to find Miss Mary not in bed."

"Nonsense, you are Mary yourself. The two personalities cannot exist simultaneously."

"When one wakes up, the other must be in a dormant state..."

"Due to post-war acne, he has always feared the disappearance of those around him. This stemmed from his innate cowardice, which gave rise to the second personality, Mary."

"For this, he fabricated a lie for himself: a war hero who could protect the extreme opposite of his cowardly personality."

"As Mr. Lu Xun said, a mask worn for too long becomes part of the face. To remove it, one must shed skin and bone. Jack, fantasizing about being a war hero, naturally couldn't accept the reality of passengers disappearing, which is why he started patrolling!"

"So the strange looks from the passengers can also be explained!"

Qin Shang pondered, resting his chin on his hand.

"A male train conductor who, during the day, always liked to expose his strange cross-dressing fetish to everyone."

"And he claimed the identity of train attendant Mary without concern. Even the most gentlemanly person couldn't control their peculiar gaze, right?"

"Wait, this personality defect should be cowardice. Otherwise, he wouldn't write in his diary every day about wanting Jack's help..."

"The passengers' gazes might have been a sharp blade, fostering this personality's resistance."

"But it wouldn't go so far as to make the Mary personality a murderer. That's a cowardly personality..."

"Combining the two diaries, the killer was basically the 'Jack personality,' except in the tunnel."

"Then..."

"There must be a trigger!"

"It's probably related to exploration. If I don't move forward, I probably won't get any new clues."

"Unless, the task and hint for [Inheritance] 'So Handsome They'll Chop Me' comes into play."

Qin Shang lowered his eyebrows in thought.

The Teacher's [Decipher] skill played a huge role in this stage.

Perhaps being a Martial Artist like 'Chop Me' could also provide him with assistance.

Of course, he still didn't really want to accept an extra task.

Originally, as a Con artist, he already had one more task than others. Although the Con artist's hidden task hadn't appeared yet.

But Qin Shang guessed it was highly likely related to exposing the God Slayer in the team.

With three tasks now, it was hard to say he wouldn't be killed by his own actions.

"Carriage number three probably hides all the secrets, including why Jack's personality suddenly went mad, why he lost control, and the reason for the murders."

"Forget it, scratch that last point. Madmen don't need reasons to kill. It's just that I still don't understand the reason for so many HelloKitty items being placed here."

Do the developers of the Path of the Gods like cats?

Why don't they like Qimiao? That's also a very cute cartoon character!

For some reason, most cat cartoon characters don't have mouths.

Except for Tom, the disgrace of all cats.

For example, HelloKitty, and also the Seven Cats logo.

Hmm... they don't have mouths...

Huh!?

No mouths!?

Qin Shang froze again, suddenly thinking of something.

"Brother, should we keep exploring?"

"I'm a bit scared. Those three have been gone for over half an hour, and I can't hear them moving at all anymore. Did you find something on these papers..."

Just then, the little loli next to him, 'Grandpa Cow Cosplaying a Maid to Seduce Zhuang Zhuang's Mom', said tremblingly.

Qin Shang noticed the little girl was also holding a diary page from the wall.

Perhaps seeing him staring at the thing for a long time, she was also curious about its content?

He just didn't know if the Priest, who didn't have the [Decipher] skill, could understand British English...

In this environment, everyone's survival instinct was at its peak, and it was not wrong to look for clues that could keep them alive.

Qin Shang sighed.

Actually, after Jack's dissociative identity disorder was confirmed, he basically knew why the passengers had disappeared.

It was the Train Conductor Jack, who disregarded human life under the guise of investigation. He was mentally unstable and would shoot passengers at night if they were scared away during room checks.

Of course, the passengers would disappear!

But setting aside the background story, during the segment in the second carriage where they entered the tunnel.

He still didn't understand why the God Slayer chose that direction to kill people!

When they first revealed their professions, out of the six players, only 'Green Grass by the River' lied.

This meant that everyone else's professions were correct.

Then why did the God Slayer choose to eliminate the Teacher and the Martial Artist first?

Was it really random killing?

Or were these two the ones who posed the greatest threat to him?

Sigh, if he couldn't get any more clues...

If it really came down to it, he would just have to inherit the 'So Handsome They'll Chop Me' quest and hints.

At this moment, the two of them were in the second carriage.

An eerie wind blew.

Thinking of this, Qin Shang turned his head to look at the corpse, but suddenly froze.

An icy chill, so intense it made his scalp tingle and his hair stand on end, instantly spread from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

Because the corpse...

was gone!