Li Xian followed everyone's gaze up to the luggage racks on either side of the carriage, but something else caught his attention.
Although the luggage was fairly sparsely arranged, there seemed to be too much of it compared to the number of passengers seated below.
There were even bags of various sizes above empty seats where no one was sitting.
What about the previous carriages? Were they like this too?
That faint sense of something being off surfaced in Li Xian's mind again, and he tried hard to recall how the luggage had been arranged in the previous carriages-
Before this, he had focused almost all his attention on the passengers and paid little attention to the luggage racks, so his recollections were hazy...
Li Xian frowned, finally dredging up a few vague impressions.
When leaving Carriage 5-the one with the tour guide-he had taken one last look back, puzzled by the number of people in the tour group.
His gaze had swept over the luggage racks then. The luggage had filled them roughly halfway, which, compared to the number of people in the tour group... was far too much.
Although this issue seemed unrelated to their current predicament, Li Xian inexplicably felt that it was crucial.
The other players around him had already started taking luggage down from the racks. Open suitcases soon covered the aisle, but no matter how thoroughly they rummaged through them, all they found were everyday necessities and clothing, not a single piece of a dismembered corpse.
"Fuck, this is the first time I've ever wanted to find a corpse so badly..."
The middle-aged man kept swearing, but he worked faster than anyone else. He searched a suitcase in a few quick motions, then fastened it shut and put it back on the rack.
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