Silence!
Apart from the zombies' roars, there was no other sound in the carriage!
No matter how Lin Dong called out, there was no response from Carriage 15.
An eerie, murderous atmosphere swiftly enveloped Lin Dong!
"Damn it!"
A sharp glint flashed in Lin Dong's eyes as he carefully studied the utterly motionless Carriage 15.
On the surface, the door to Carriage 15 was intact, with nothing out of the ordinary.
Even the open-and-close buttons displayed normally.
From the outside, he could see no sign of a problem.
"Something's wrong!"
Lin Dong's gaze suddenly sharpened as he spotted the anomaly.
The door was too clean!
It was so clean it looked as though it had never been used!
They had just charged their way through Carriage 15, splattering blood and brains everywhere. The door couldn't possibly have escaped untouched.
Yet the door before Lin Dong now was far too clean!
Not a speck of dust, and impossibly white.
Whoosh!
Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Dong raised the Silent Sleeve Arrow and fired!
Thud!
The refined-steel Sleeve Arrow struck the carriage's glass door, yet it made only a dull sound. It didn't even leave a mark before dropping straight to the floor.
"Hiss!"
Lin Dong sucked in a cold breath at the sight.
Even against the Mutant Zombie that could use Iron Body, his Silent Sleeve Arrow had left faint marks on its body.
Yet now, an ordinary glass door was tougher than Iron Body?!
Just then!
The glass door he had attacked began making the sound of rushing water!
The next second!
A scene Lin Dong would never forget slowly unfolded before him!
Blood began seeping down from the top of the once-spotless carriage door!
The blood was frighteningly dark. Within moments, it had stained the door with horrifying blotches!
And that wasn't all!
The dripping blood began slowly writhing on its own!
Lin Dong's scalp prickled as he watched, not daring to breathe.
In mere moments!
The blood formed a huge word: "Kill"!
It was exactly like the word Lin Dong had seen on the glass in Carriage 15!
Dark and reeking of blood, it held resentment so intense it was almost tangible, as though it could devour a person!
Kill!
Lin Dong's expression grew grave as his mind raced. What did this mean?!
Kill whom?
Was this a warning that he would be the next one killed?!
The more Lin Dong thought, the heavier his heart grew. The strangeness inside this train had already gone far beyond anything he understood!
There were now two paths before Lin Dong.
First, he could ignore these strange phenomena, along with Zhou Gong and Bai Ruoxue, and keep moving forward.
Second, he could turn back to Carriage 15 and search for the reason behind their disappearance.
Both paths were extremely dangerous!
One careless move could easily cost him his life.
So Lin Dong chose... to slaughter the Mutant Zombie first!
This Mutant Zombie had appeared far too abruptly!
Just as the train's transformation had been far too abrupt!
Lin Dong wouldn't believe the two were unconnected, not even if someone beat him to death!
If he could find a connection between them, things might become easier afterward.
Squish!
Moving swiftly, Lin Dong pulled the arrow out of the zombie's eye socket, then viciously plunged it back in!
He repeated this dozens of times!
"Roar... roar..."
Only when the Mutant Zombie's brain had nearly been churned into mush did it finally collapse, unwilling to give in.
"Whew!"
Lin Dong exhaled a stale breath, his eyes filled with wariness.
If he hadn't happened to master the Breath Concealment Art...
The Mutant Zombie could have worn Lin Dong down to death with its powerful body alone!
Squish!
Afraid the Mutant Zombie might suddenly spring up, Lin Dong drove refined-steel arrows through its limbs and palms, pinning it firmly to the floor. Only then did he feel reassured.
Lin Dong waited another three minutes. Once he confirmed the Mutant Zombie was completely dead, he cautiously approached and began examining it.
Rrrip!
Without wasting any time, Lin Dong tore open the Mutant Zombie's clothes, hoping to see whether it had any information hidden on its body.
But the next second!
Lin Dong's eyes widened, every hair on his body stood on end, and his scalp crawled!
"Hiss!"
Only after sucking in two cold breaths in succession did Lin Dong gradually calm down.
The Mutant Zombie's upper body was densely covered in scratches, bites, and teeth marks!
They were packed so tightly that they covered almost its entire chest and back!
There wasn't a single patch of normal skin!
Lin Dong didn't dare imagine how many zombies had surrounded and attacked the Mutant Zombie while it was alive to leave so many wounds!
"What the hell did you do?!"
From some of the wounds, Lin Dong could even tell that this hadn't been a simple zombie attack. It looked more like enraged people exacting revenge.
He couldn't understand what this person had done while alive to suffer such retaliation.
"Huh?!"
As Lin Dong puzzled over it, his gaze suddenly swept across the inner pocket of the Mutant Zombie's clothes, and he noticed something unusual.
Lin Dong opened the inner pocket. When he saw what was inside, he froze on the spot!
It was something roughly the size of a human middle finger bone.
It looked like a human finger bone, but its tip wasn't normal bone. Instead, it was a lifelike skull!
Even stranger, the skull had its mouth open and was biting the Mutant Zombie.
A finger biting someone!
No matter how he looked at it, the scene was bizarre!
Yet Lin Dong immediately recognized what it was. "It's actually a Soul Bone Finger Skill!"
"Just who was this guy? How could he afford such an extravagant item?!"
As people explored the Douluo World more deeply, Soul Bones had gradually come to public attention.
These items could boost a person's strength and came with skills of their own.
Like Devil Fruits, they were convenient and easy to use.
Thus, they gradually became another popular product in the real world.
But even in the Douluo World, Soul Bones were rare treasures. Ordinary people aside, even wealthy families might not be able to buy one.
So some people had used the properties of Soul Bones to create a batch of "Fake Soul Bones"!
Once equipped, these Fake Soul Bones could likewise grant people skills and enhance their strength.
The only difference was that a real Soul Bone could merge with its user's body, while a Fake Soul Bone could not.
Even so, Fake Soul Bones that let people acquire an extra skill out of nowhere remained incredibly sought-after treasures!
Lin Dong had heard that some Fake Soul Bones cost no less than Devil Fruits!
Anyone who could afford a Fake Soul Bone like this had to be worth at least several hundred million.
Lin Dong simply couldn't understand why someone who could afford a Fake Soul Bone would go out of their way to enter a D-Rank Instance!
Creak!
Creak!
Lin Dong tried to pull the Soul Bone Finger Skill off, but the skull's bite was much tighter than he had imagined. No matter how much force he used, he couldn't pull it free!
Whoosh!
Just then, the door connecting to Carriage 14 suddenly opened!
Lin Dong looked up. Before he could make out what was happening, he heard a frantic, terrified cry: "Run! He's here!"
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