The people who had seemed ready to skin Liang Yi and eat her flesh just half a minute ago were now corpses. One "dead broke" had reduced four vicious thugs to laughingstocks—though they weren't literally laughingstocks, of course. Everyone else in the carriage couldn't help moving more carefully, especially Liang Yi and the stubble man.
Xu Huo glanced at them. He didn't pursue the fact that Liang Yi had deliberately led the men to him, and went straight to his room to rest.
The carriage stayed quiet all afternoon. Apart from the delivery robot bringing meals, none of the other players in the carriage came or went.
Someone from the carriage ahead had come by, but after seeing the situation inside, they hesitated for a moment before returning.
Xu Huo slept until shortly before lights-out. The train's rules required passengers to spend money every day, so he ordered a meal before the lights went out and paid the Conductor for a table as well.
As he ate, the other players in the carriage came out one after another. Besides Liang Yi and the two who had boarded with her, there were the two who had been outside earlier, along with a man and a woman.
The two players fiddling with their Communicators were around thirty and didn't seem to care much about anyone else. They leaned wherever they pleased and lowered their heads again. The remaining man and woman knew each other. Both had snow-white skin. The man focused on the Magic Cube in his hands, while the woman kept touching up her makeup.
When Liang Yi was attacked, she had called to Ye Kaihua for help, but Ye Kaihua hadn't lifted a finger. The two who'd chatted amicably before boarding had turned cold toward each other. The stubble man,