Everyone looked up and caught sight of the semi-transparent thing. In a hurried glance, it looked like a fairly large sheet of tarpaulin, or perhaps some slimy creature like an octopus or jellyfish scuttling past. In any case, it had moved through four carriages in a very short time, leaving wet marks everywhere it went.
"Is it raining outside? Or does that thing carry water with it?" someone asked anxiously. "Has anyone done a Dungeon related to water? Can you tell what kind of Alien it is?"
"Something related to water?" someone else cut in. "Could the tracks really run through a sea or Lake? It must be a land-dwelling Alien. Don't let it fool you!"
Some players tried to steer the others back on track, while others recounted their own Dungeon experiences. Their conclusion was that there were far too many similar Aliens in aquatic environments to identify this one.
"The thing that just went by didn't look like it had claws. There must be more than one kind of Alien attacking the train. Which carriage was attacked just now? Did anyone come from the rear?"
Nobody answered. Almost every carriage door had been opened to protect the Transfer Carriage. The carriages at the front hadn't all been emptied, but people had certainly been moving around, and in the panic, no one had seen exactly which carriage anyone had come from.
"Let's check the front," a Player said, heading that way at once.
Xu Huo picked up the three metal cases and followed.
The scratching had come from the second carriage, so by the time the Players from the carriages behind arrived, those in the first carriage had already checked the front.
"All the train staff are gone." A red-scarf female player raised the Communicator in her hand. "There's