After the Familiarity

The train started moving again, and after leaving the station, the scenery on both sides changed.

Compared to Kent Country, whose landscape is mainly composed of deserts and grasslands, Bell Country has a more diverse landscape, which made the next five days of the trip less monotonous.

But Feng Xue didn't care about the journey at all. He was just holding his phone, nervously observing the situation outside the car, while also keeping an eye on Lin Jiaxin's condition.

At this moment, he could still feel the marked Lin Jiaxin, and the two Lin Jiaxin in the School Hell were still burying themselves in their studies. They looked exactly the same, but in essence, they had all sorts of contradictions.

The one in front of me is undoubtedly the most complex one I've seen these past few days. She's not afraid of chocolate, nor does she eat her Admission Letter. She has no sins, yet she can be identified as an independent individual.

The most amazing thing was that after the train departed, she chatted for a few minutes, and suddenly an Absolution Mark appeared above her head.

It wasn't that the mark left by Lin Jiaxin at the station was moved; rather, she lied during the conversation.

It wasn't a big lie, at most it was just a little boasting about her work or education, but it made Feng Xue clearly realize that Lin Jiaxin, in some ways, was almost no different from an ordinary person, and she even had the Growth Potential!

Regardless, Feng Xue didn't believe that everyone in the carriage was like that, but if there was only one constantly changing individual, and that person happened to be her roommate, did that mean anything?

The essence of this problem lies in --

What is the purpose of setting up level master challenges in the Infinite City, or rather, the Tower of Babel?

Or rather, why did the Infinite City specifically choose this world as the level for the boss's challenge?

"Beep beep!"

Suddenly, Haotian Mirror sent a notification sound to Feng Xue's mind, forcibly pulling him back from his wandering thoughts. Feng Xue immediately looked at his phone, his face instantly darkening.

"Damn it, is that tractor cutting in front of you?!"

Looking at the unattended crossing at the end of the high-definition screen, Feng Xue's blood pressure spiked. As the Ghostly Evasion unfolded, the Omni-Press Drive also pressed down simultaneously.

The next moment, Feng Xue, transformed into Kamen Rider Orca, had already passed through the roof of the car and stood in the cold wind, rushing towards the front of the car with the Ascending Profound Settled View Steps.

The hundred-meter distance passed in the blink of an eye, but at this moment, the front of the train was less than three seconds away from the tractor on the rails.

Although it's just a tractor, at the train's current speed, a collision with it would at least cause a derailment. Leaving aside the possibility of accidents to the passengers, the tractor would certainly be unable to continue operating.

"I'm so sorry for this train!"

Feng Xue stood atop the front of the vehicle, her back bent and her spirit perfectly unified at that moment.

His momentum began to surge rapidly, but the train did not slow down because of his gathering of strength.

No, it did slow down, but that wasn't because of Feng Xue; it was because the train conductor, who had finally seen the tractor, pulled the brakes.

But it was too late.

Given the train's braking capabilities, this distance was definitely not enough to stop it, but those extra fractions of a second were enough for Feng Xue to elevate her momentum to another level.

With the tractor almost in sight, Feng Xue finally stopped gathering her strength and threw a seemingly ordinary straight punch, yet it subtly produced the force of wind and thunder.

The snow piled up on both sides of the train was suddenly blown into the air by the explosive force, and the tractor, which was already very close, was blown apart along with its driver.

Metal fragments mingled with the splatter of flesh, staining the snowflakes a rusty, cherry-red hue. But all of this was irrelevant to the train that had already crossed the crossing in the blink of an eye.

"It took seven seconds in total... Looks like I can use it a few more times."

Using her Visage of Oath, Feng Xue Teleportation directly behind the Marker in the sixth carriage. She immediately deactivated her Kamen Rider transformation, canceled the lock on the panicked passenger who was startled by the sudden appearance of someone behind her with "Ah, right, right, right," and passed through two smokers who were about to be swallowed up, returning to her room.

At this moment, Lin Jiaxin was calmly scrolling through Short Video on her phone, but a strong sense of incongruity welled up in Feng Xue's heart.

This feeling didn't last long, because the next moment, he discovered the problem—

A few words have been added to Lin Jiaxin's body.

"Damn it, how did things change?!"

Feng Xue suppressed the shock in his eyes and looked at the [Survivor] Tag that appeared above Lin Jiaxin's head. He was completely dumbfounded.

"Is there something dirty on my face?" Lin Jiaxin noticed Feng Xue's undisguised shock, as if she hadn't realized Feng Xue had left in the middle of the conversation, and asked casually.

Feng Xue calmed herself down, took two deep breaths, and then said:

Did something just happen?

"No, the car just suddenly started to bounce a bit, but it's fine now..."

Before Lin Jiaxin could finish speaking, the conductor's voice echoed through the carriage again:

"Dear passengers, the previous turbulence was just an accident, and the problem has now been resolved. Please rest assured..."

"See? I told you it would be fine. How can a grown man like you be such a coward?"

Hearing Lin Jiaxin's joking tone, Feng Xue felt uneasy, because he couldn't understand how Lin Jiaxin managed to lift the Tag in seven seconds.

If everyone had one because the train survived, then when Feng Xue Teleportation into the carriage, no one else had one.

Moreover, the most important issue is that Tag don't form out of thin air; they require an "observer" to observe them before they are created.

But given the circumstances of this train, who can possibly be a observer of Lin Jiaxin?

Me?

Although Feng Xue felt he was among the strongest in the Weird Tale, he was also well aware that he hadn't truly reached the level of being able to generate [consciousness] like a real person, much less provide one.

Or, to put it another way, who exactly observed this Weird Tale known as the "Train K7"?

When this overlooked problem came to mind, an idea involuntarily popped into Feng Xue's head: there was actually another way to obtain Tag.

That is "renting," just like when a specific Tag was "lent" to the Infinite City.

As the Infinite City came to mind, Feng Xue also realized the crux of the problem—

For Weird Tale to maintain their existence and intensity, they must be observed by a large number of people, but there haven't been enough observers along the way.

This seems to contradict the basic definition of Weird Tale.

But what if, hypothetically, this train, along with the railway it travels on and all the surrounding scenery, were part of Weird Tale like the Infinite City?