Alien? Player? Conductor?
Anyone who could work on the train wasn't someone Xu Huo would consider normal, either. He paused, then asked, "Are there any Aliens that can freely control their body's growth?"
The Conductor looked at him in surprise. "How could there be an Alien like that?"
Xu Huo asked no more. After the Conductor left, he put away the Silencing Figurine. Facing the curious looks from the others in the carriage, he said, "Looks like we were unlucky and ran into a Train Slayer."
He briefly recounted what the Conductor had told him. The Player wearing a hat was the first to express doubt. "I've never heard of a Train Slayer."
"Didn't the Conductor say that if one showed up, even the train staff might be wiped out? It's only natural that word wouldn't spread among Players," a female Player said. "Most Players who ran into one probably died."
"Then what do we do?" the middle-aged woman asked anxiously. "Aren't we in danger?"
The Train Slayer had killed everyone in an entire carriage. The train was so small—where could they hide?
The baby-faced man, however, quickly noticed a flaw in Xu Huo's account. "If that Train Slayer was so dangerous, how did you get away?"
"It left on its own," Xu Huo said calmly. "I just happened to see those eyes in the lightning. I have no idea what it looked like otherwise."
"Then you were really lucky," Skinny monkey said.
Xu Huo glanced at him. "You were lucky, too."
He'd gone to the Rear Carriage and hadn't run into the Train Slayer. How could he call that bad luck?
Skinny monkey realized this, too, and his expression darkened.
"Let's go to the carriages up ahead," said the inconspicuous Player skinny monkey had knocked out. "It's definitely more