Evil Bug
As the saying goes, "a leaf before the eyes obscures Mount Tai, "Feng Xue truly had no idea that this train was connected to Infinite City until those words appeared above Lin Jiaxin's head.
But when the need for Weird Tale to be "recognized" is taken into account, all of this becomes perfectly reasonable.
However, the problem was not solved at that point.
The K7 Train and the Infinite City have a fundamental difference: the passengers on the train do not have the same level of autonomy.
Although Lin Jiaxin, Mango Girl, and Bread Girl all seem to have independent "personas," their behavior is extremely mechanical. Whether it's being able to refresh or ignoring the Weird Tale mechanics, they are fundamentally different from Wu in Infinite City.
After a moment's thought, Feng Xue suddenly reached into her waist pouch, pulled out a small brass whistle about the size of a thumbnail, put it in her mouth, and blew out a completely arrhythmic whistle.
Lin Jiaxin, who had been leaning against the bed reading a book, suddenly blushed. After hesitating for a moment, she finally stood up abruptly and ran out of the room.
"Tsk tsk, so there are no useless props after all? These comedic gadgets can be useful sometimes."
Name: Phantom Object - Bronze Whistle
Elements: [Props], [Musical Instruments], [Playing], [Stimulus]
Description: This whistle is made of three thin metal pieces and is perfect for children who want to whistle but can't seem to get it to work.
However, it's important to note that this arrhythmic whistle can be very irritating to the bladder, and blowing it randomly might make it difficult to find a toilet.
Note: Whistling outside the window of a house with children at night is extremely indecent.
Feng Xue spat out the copper whistle, put it back in her pouch, and stood up to walk to the center of the room. As the thought arose, a box that seemed to be cast in gold appeared out of thin air. She opened the box, took out Santa Claus's sackcloth, and poured out the two people inside.
As soon as Bread Girl landed, she screamed, while Mango Girl glared and angrily rebuked:
"What exactly do you want? I'm going to call..."
The two women stopped mid-sentence, for two women had suddenly appeared out of nowhere in front of them.
Aside from wearing school uniforms inappropriate for their age, the two seemed to see themselves in the mirror. These two passengers, who had just escaped the nightmare of the first week of high school exams, gasped in surprise as they looked at their identical "selves" in front of them.
"Who are you?!"
Almost simultaneously, voices rang out from the four people in the private room. Feng Xue sat calmly on the edge of the bed, watching her two pairs of roommates, who looked like twins, arguing.
"I really mean it!"
"I am the real one!"
"You're clearly a fake! I'm twenty-four, how could I possibly be wearing a school uniform!"
"Pah! If I hadn't inexplicably transmigrated to that damned school, I would never want to wear a school uniform!"
"Interesting. It wasn't refreshed, nor did it merge. It's as if it truly believes it is itself, and... it doesn't seem like this train intends to interfere."
As Feng Xue watched the women argue, she gently tapped the small bell at her waist. The sound of the Bell of Absolution echoed out, and the four women became noticeably different.
The two students in school uniforms had Absolution Mark naturally appearing on their heads; judging by the color, they were roughly the same as ordinary people.
The other two, on the other hand, showed absolutely no resemblance to their past, as they had repeatedly caused the death of the Ghost Girl, Lin Jiaxin, more than a dozen times.
"In other words, the initial batch of passengers were mostly good quality, but for some reason, after the first three were sent to school, only Lin Jiaxin kept updating her version, while the other two became appendages of the train Weird Tale after they appeared."
Feng Xue muttered to himself, and just then, Lin Jiaxin, who had been whistled to the bathroom by him, opened her Room Door, stared wide-eyed at her two pairs of roommates who looked like twins, and said:
"Didn't you already get off the bus? And why are there two of you? Am I dreaming?"
"I wish I were dreaming!" the two Mango Girl exclaimed in unison, then paused slightly, glared at each other angrily, and shouted, "Don't you dare copy me!"
This synchronization rate starting at 400% left Lin Jiaxin completely bewildered, but what followed was even more baffling—
There were two more Lin Jiaxin in the room.
"What? You have one more?!"
The original four-person room instantly became an eight-person room, and the already noisy debate escalated to another level. However, what concerned Feng Xue was that after the three Lin Jiaxin met, their state was completely different from the other two groups. This was because both the Ghost Girl"Lin Jiaxin and the original Lin Jiaxin began to show the Tag of "[survivor]".
"It's almost like a cloud drive sync."
Feng Xue watched the chaos unfold before her, awaiting the train's final verdict, and occasionally rang the Bell of Absolution to check on the seven people's current condition.
Through eye contact Visage of Oath, Feng Xue marked and numbered each person. But just as she was calmly observing, Bread Girl #2 suddenly turned her head, looked at Feng Xue, and said:
"You must have done something! You were the one who stuffed me and Xu Ruyi into that sack before!"
"Ah, right, right, right." Feng Xue nodded calmly, and then the seven of them started arguing again on their own.
"No immunity? Oh right, so it seems the problem before was indeed due to a change of players rather than a status update?"
Feng Xue, wrapped in a small blanket, leaned against the corner of the wall, waiting quietly. He was also very curious: faced with this "malicious bug," what would the train do, or perhaps do nothing at all? Let them kill each other?
Thinking about the methods of murder that might exist in this room, Feng Xue couldn't help but turn her gaze to the still-red trash can and the tightly closed car windows.
To his surprise, however, the first thing he heard was a knock on the door.
"Excuse me, we've received a complaint. In this carriage... um, passengers, could you please show your tickets? Using twins or triplets to evade fares is a very serious offense."
Upon seeing the eight people in the room, the flight attendant in her blue uniform immediately changed her expression and spoke in a very serious tone.
"That's right! Tickets!" Upon hearing the conductor's words, Mango Girl seemed to suddenly realize something and immediately pulled out her ticket stub from her pocket. Mango Girl Number Two also pulled out the exact same ticket stub at almost the same time.
The flight attendant was utterly bewildered when she saw the two ticket stubs with identical seat numbers, and immediately turned to look at the other passengers.
But the result was exactly the same: even though they were forced to change into school uniforms, these passengers were still able to pull out their ticket stubs from their pockets.
A brief silence fell over the carriage. Even the train attendant seemed flustered, pausing for a full twenty seconds before finally speaking:
"Please wait a moment, I need someone to check my ticket!"