Everyone's attention was soon drawn elsewhere. They put the items they had agreed to wager on the table, and whoever won would take them all. The pink-haired man joined in for a few rounds, but he was unlucky and bad at cards, losing three C-class items in no time. He could only leave in frustration.
Xu Huo didn't take part. He rested in his room instead.
The atmosphere in the carriage was fairly pleasant, and nobody caused trouble before lights-out. After the sky outside grew dark, the players each settled down to rest. The calm lasted until midnight, when a sound like raindrops pattering rang out beyond the train.
But it probably wasn't rain.
The train carriages seemed designed to trip up players, but they certainly weren't so thin that they couldn't keep out the sound of a little rain. It sounded more like something falling onto the train.
Before boarding, Xu Huo had read the passenger guidelines for B-class trains. Their general conditions were much the same as those of other trains, but since B-class instances could cover much greater distances, the routes had to balance speed against safety. On this B-class train, it was clear that speed had won out.
The section of track they reached after nightfall was completely dark, as if the whole train had plunged into some uncanny darkness. There wasn't a single trace of light. The players naturally couldn't see what was happening outside, and to avoid causing trouble, they had to keep the carriage completely dark and refrain from making too much noise.
No one spoke. The players wished they could slow their breathing to a bare minimum.
The pattering continued outside the carriage. It moved toward the front, then toward the back, lingering there a few times before gradually fading away.
But