Why Do Card Players Like Not Picking Targets?

"Ah, right, right..."

As soon as Feng Xue finished speaking, the entire room fell silent. In that instant, all attention was diverted from Feng Xue, and the three roommates froze Wooden Person.

"Oh ho, interesting!" Looking at her three roommates who were stiffly maintaining their sitting posture, Feng Xue raised her eyebrows slightly, flicked her finger, and a burst of Internal Force accurately hit the head of Mango Girl in the upper bunk opposite her, making a soft "smack" sound.

The girl was knocked backward by the blow to the head, but didn't react at all. On the contrary, the Ghost Girl in the lower bunk who was the direct target of the "Ah yes yes yes" was only slightly delayed before returning to normal and walking around the room as if she were just taking a ride.

As she moved, her two roommates slowly began to move again. The Mango Girl in the upper bunk opposite her, who had been flicked on the forehead, seemed to finally recover from a time-stop, letting out an exaggerated gasp of surprise.

"It hurts!"

"What's wrong?" Bread Girl was in the upper bunk above Feng Xue, immediately asked. Mango Girl rubbed her forehead, looked around in confusion, and then said with a bewildered expression:

"I don't know, I felt like I was hit by something."

"It looks a bit red, maybe it's a beetle or something?" The Ghost Girl glanced at it and gave a fairly plausible guess, while Feng Xue leaned against her bunk, watching the three NPCs put on their act.

Currently, it seems that these three roommates have distinctly different methods of Targeting. Bread Girl and Mango Girl are clearly the type who "select targets," so they become unresponsive after losing Feng Xue as their target.

The Ghost Girl, on the other hand, doesn't have a specific target in mind, so even if she loses Feng Xue as her goal, she will still operate with "self-discipline".

Then something interesting happened--

While the Ghost Girl continued running, Bread Girl and Mango Girl also seemed to have recovered from the bug and started running on their own.

Just as Feng Xue was speculating whether there was some hidden mechanism involved, Mango Girl, who was sitting near the door, suddenly handed the empty M&Ms wrapper to Ghost Girl and said:

"You're nearby, can you throw it for me?"

"Oh." Seemingly because the rules hadn't been triggered, the Ghost Girl was quite obedient and kind at this moment, reaching out to take the plastic bag and turning around to throw it into the trash can.

But to Feng Xue's astonishment, the red trash can suddenly turned green just as the M&Ms plastic bag was about to fall into it. Then, branches shot out and tightly bound the Ghost Girl, dragging her into the trash can in her disbelief.

A chilling chewing sound came from the trash can, and crimson liquid overflowed from the rim, slowly turning the green trash can red.

Mango Girl, who caused all of this, sat there quietly as if nothing had happened, and the whole room seemed to freeze in that instant.

Seeing that Mango Girl and Bread Girl had fallen silent again, Feng Xue's lips twitched involuntarily. It seemed that because they had lost Feng Xue as their target, Mango Girl and Bread Girl's Targeting mechanism had restarted, and the Ghost Girl in the room seemed to just happen to meet the needs of this Targeting -finding mechanism. So, Bread Girl and Mango Girl seemed to regard the Ghost Girl as their target.

"This is really interesting..." Feng Xue muttered to herself, looking at the two people who seemed frozen in place like wax figures, and thought that she might as well hide herself until the end.

However, this atmosphere didn't last even two minutes before the doorknob suddenly turned, and in that instant, Bread Girl and Mango Girl came to life.

Almost as soon as the door opened, Bread Girl spoke:

"Why are you only getting back now?"

"You have no idea how many people are lined up outside the toilet right now! And there's no heating in the toilet either, I almost froze to death!"

Before she even arrived, she started talking. The person who walked in was none other than the Ghost Girl who had just been swallowed by the trash can!

Hearing what the Ghost Girl said, the Bread Girl waved her hand and said:

"It must be because the room is too warm. Look, we're both sweating buckets. Ugh, let's open the windows!"

Before the Ghost Girl could speak, the Bread Girl pressed down on the latch on the train window and lifted it up forcefully.

Almost as soon as the window was opened to fist height, a white bird, no bigger than a sparrow, flew into the room along with the snowflakes in the biting cold wind. Its pair of gleaming Claws grabbed the Ghost Girl's hair without warning.

That small figure unleashed unimaginable strength, grabbing the 1.65-meter-tall Ghost Girl and leaping towards the window. He forcefully dragged a grown woman out through the narrow gap in the window, barely the width of a fist, leaving a few strands of flesh hanging by the window.

"..." Feng Xue looked at the scene, then at the two people who were frozen in place again, and couldn't help but click his Hanako. Feeling the wind and snow that were enough to break through the Kamen Rider's temperature control system pouring in, he reached out from under the blanket and closed the window again.

But just as this action was completed, Bread Girl and Mango Girl started moving again.

"Grass!"

Feng Xue was taken aback, thinking that her actions had broken through the "Ah, yes, yes, yes" barrier. Just as she was about to react, the Room Door was opened again.

The Ghost Girl, looking relaxed, walked into the room, muttering:

"This lousy toilet is so cold! Uh, is there no heating on in the house?"

"What kind of fully automatic persecution machine is this?" Looking at the Ghost Girl sitting at the foot of the bed as if nothing had happened, Feng Xue suddenly felt like laughing, but she was worried that too much movement would change her roommate's Targeting, so she could only force herself to hold it in, and casually threw the salt in her hand at the foot of the bed, quietly watching what other tricks she could do.

In just three hours, Feng Xue watched helplessly as the Ghost Girl endured various rule-breaking incidents every ten minutes. Besides being snatched away by animals outside the window and eaten by a trash can, she was also taken away by her own kind for greeting the Ghostly Shadow outside the window, became a meal girl for ordering food outside the designated time, and ended up changing clothes and joining the crew after talking to the flight attendant in the green skirt. She practically broke every rule that could be broken on the train.

By 11 o'clock, the Ghost Girl still hadn't returned, and Feng Xue, surrounded by her two roommates who remained frozen like wax figures, heard the car radio again—

"Attention passengers, this train is about to enter Zhamundar Station. The stop is expected to last 30 minutes. As this area is now Kent Country territory, please respect local customs..."

As the broadcast began, Feng Xue couldn't help but turn her gaze back to the window. On the grassland, which was already covered with a thick layer of snow, a rather shabby-looking building was slowly approaching.