Players, Please Board the Train
Chapter 401

Track Records

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Track Records

"These places have harsh environments, unsuitable for human or animal life, so most are desolate. Forget people—even Aliens are nowhere to be seen. Especially at points where space is warped, you could say that aside from the train, there's nowhere safe."

"Because it's so difficult to figure out the patterns, there's no telling whether Aliens will appear. The train doesn't shake only because of Aliens."

"Besides Aliens, there are unknown viruses, radiation, and other unpredictable dangers. That's why high-risk Dungeons make Players turn pale just hearing about them."

She Ping spoke at length, then summed up: "After all, the tracks are part of the game too, so the places they pass through must be within the game's bounds. Forget places that might lead to high-risk Dungeons—even places we can see are a different world from the train. Unless the train is completely destroyed, leaving it under any circumstances is unwise."

"Those places we see along the tracks are also part of the game..." Xu Huo said. "So some high-risk Dungeons are actually cut off from ordinary Dungeon worlds. They're worlds that have been completely abandoned."

What was more, although some spaces might indeed be unable to sustain life because of their harsh environments, there had to be human factors behind some of them. Why were there so many Aliens around the tracks? Were they all Preliminary Players? Not necessarily.

"That's one way to put it," Ai Jia chimed in.

"Can't we use a Ticket to leave after getting off the train?" Xu Huo continued.

"It's difficult," Ai Jia said. "My Ticket is like a signal transmitter. The space around the tracks is complicated, so there's no guarantee a Ticket can connect to a nearby Station. But nothing's impossible—you might get lucky."

"If Tickets could be used freely on

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