D-3 Carriage, Familiar Faces Meet

With the connection to "Vill Valetti," Pankto naturally changed his mind and accepted Lin Yu's invitation to join the team, thus giving the three-person squad an NPC henchman.

Lin Yu couldn't help but thank "Will Valetti" again in his heart. He didn't expect that this guy could send him a teammate even across the Instance.

The same goes for the previous Permission card; they saved me the trouble of solving puzzles.

However, despite his gratitude, Lin Yu couldn't help but grumble about the "Grandfather -uncle" issue.

"Vill Valetti, you've been living in those Snow Mountain for who knows how many years, haven't you?"

"Your damn nephew is already having a midlife crisis!"

Because he had the Notebook and the Permission card, Pankto no suspicions and was tricked by Lin Yu into revealing a lot of his and Will Valetti's personal information.

According to Pankto...

His Grandfather, Poli Valetti and Will Valetti, were brothers from the city that City That Never Sleeps.

The older brother, Polly, was physically strong, while the younger brother, Will, was quick-witted.

The older brother, Poli Valetti, works as a boxer and thug in the underground gangs of City That Never Sleeps to earn money to support his younger brother Will's education.

Will proved himself worthy, joining the Truth Company, a newly emerging giant in the City That Never Sleeps, as an Independent Researcher, and earning the appreciation of his mentor.

Thanks to his younger brother's success, the older brother, Poli Valetti, also joined the company as a security guard.

But this good fortune didn't last long...

Just two years later, Will disappeared during an overseas assignment.

Pauline Valetti was devastated and sought out the management of Truth Company, hoping they would do everything in their power to search for her brother... at least to find him alive or dead.

However, because he was just a low-level security guard, he was powerless to do anything about it.

He could only try his best to climb upwards.

Through Poli Valetti's relentless efforts, he eventually reached what an ordinary person could achieve at Truth Company —the position of deputy head of the Security Department.

The elderly Perley had given up hope of whether Will was still alive, but he still hoped to get the "Truth".

The subordinate supervisor's authority had reached level B-2, but he still did not have the right to view the files of Will's last mission at the Independent Research Institute, which was only at level "B-3" back then.

Therefore, after retiring, Perley still arranged for his son to work at the Truth Company —a good job, on the one hand.

On the other hand, Perri hopes that his son will also continue to investigate the Truth about Will.

Meanwhile, the investigation into his uncle Will Valetti by Poli's son made no new progress. He did not even reach the heights of his father, and died of a rare disease while serving as the head of the Security Department Security Department.

And this only son of the untimely-deceased Poli Valetti was also the father of Pankto von Valetti.

He also passed on his father's will to his son.

So... even though Pankto von Valetti had never even met his great- Grandfather, he knew everything about him.

Therefore, after getting all the information out of him, Lin Yu decided to do a favor and simply recounted what had happened to Will Valetti, saying, "I heard about it from a friend."

"Thank you for sharing. I think my Grandfather and father would be comforted if they knew this... I will tell them all this when I visit their graves."

Pankto von Valetti thanked Lin Yu sincerely, then became somewhat pessimistic.

"However, I hope I can still go out and sweep their graves!"

As he spoke, Li Nian, carrying a bulging backpack, waved her hand and said, "Hey, don't be so discouraged. Follow us, and you'll definitely be fine."

The three-person team led Pankto to the other end of the food truck.

After Pankto joined the team, they naturally had no reason to linger in the dining car any longer.

To get a "ticket," you have to fight against certain things on the train.

Currently, there isn't a single living creature or even a moving object in the dining car, so there's clearly no possibility of smuggling tickets.

We reached the other end of the dining car, but the door on this side...

However, it has four doors side by side.

The four doors are labeled D-3, D-6, D-9, and "ROLL".

Chen Zhuo scratched his head.

"What does this mean? Shouldn't the trains be arranged in a row? And why are there three doors at the same time?"

Li Nian looked at Chen Zhuo: "Although you may not know what 'Truth Company' is before... but you can probably guess from our conversation just now, this company can transform people's emotions and souls into tangible energy or even matter."

"Do you think it would be difficult for a company like this to install some kind of Teleportation Device on its trains?"

As Li Nian spoke, Pankto nodded. "That's right, the company does have this technology... Although there are many limitations in terms of distance and location, it is still possible to create a fixed point-to-point teleportation portal inside a closed building or vehicle by utilizing the Twist Reality properties of 'Confusion'."

Pankto explained, Chen Zhuo suddenly understood.

"Wow, 'Truth Company' is so awesome! I should have bought some of their stuff!"

"At the last rally, someone tried to sell me weapons made by their company, but I thought the price was too high and didn't buy them."

Chen Zhuo said regretfully.

"But let's put that aside for now. Which door should we choose?"

Lin Yu stroked his chin thoughtfully and said, "Hmm... I personally prefer to choose between number 3 and number 6."

"Huh? Why were number nine and the door that rolled the number ruled out?"

Chen Zhuo asked, full of curiosity.

"Because there's a high probability of encountering other Player through these two doors. Remember that 'hint'? -- The carriages with 'new passengers' are D-4 and D-5, besides our D-13."

Li Nian analyzed.

"Of course, the two carriages most likely to encounter Player are carriage number 3, because based on our experience with carriages 12 and 13, the dining car should have a normal door leading to the larger numbers and a spatial door leading to the smaller numbers."

"But if I had to choose... I'd pick 'ROLL'—it's more fun with more randomness, right?"

After explaining, Li Nian added her own opinion with a grin.

Pankto silently to the side, appearing to be following orders.

Lin Yu then realized that everyone seemed to have handed the decision-making power over to him.

But that makes sense...

After all, the card with the highest authority, the one that could definitely open the door, was in Lin Yu's hands.

"Okay, then it'll be carriage number 3."

Lin Yu took out Will Valetti's card and swiped it next to the door marked "D-3".

The door opened again, revealing a deep, dark space with a blue glow emanating from the floor. Lin Yu led the group inside.

The door behind me closed automatically, and after a slight dizziness, a door in front of me suddenly opened.

A strong smell of blood wafted over, and the spacious carriage, almost identical in layout to the D-12, was littered with corpses.

On the bar counter, on the dining table, on the floor...

There were approximately ten lives lost, which must have occurred just a few minutes ago.

And the one who started all of this is probably the only one still standing in this carriage at this moment.

The man was Italy cooking spaghetti behind the bar.

Before Lin Yu and Pankto assume a defensive posture, and before Chen Zhuo could hide behind the crowd, Li Nian spoke up first.

"Oh my god, Brother Wang, it's you!"

The man cooking the Italy also looked up and saw Li Nian wearing sunglasses, looking slightly surprised.

"Oh? A Nian?"

"You're in this Instance too?"