Li Xian frowned, pretending to search his memory. He answered neither yes nor no:
"I asked you earlier-do you remember when you last saw him?"
The female passenger's account had covered almost all the information Li Xian had asked her to provide. The only thing she had left out was when her husband had disappeared.
He couldn't tell whether she had forgotten or was deliberately ignoring the question. Her husband's disappearance was as baffling as the extra luggage on the racks, exposing this Instance's peculiarities while offering no way to uncover the right answer.
The female passenger fell silent at the question. She lowered her head and began trying to recall when she had become separated from her husband-
"We were together when we... boarded..."
She stammered out the sentence, then kept searching her memory with a frown:
"Then, then..."
Like the scenery outside the window, her memories were shrouded in fog. When she tried to break through it, pain sliced through her brain like a knife!
The female passenger clutched her head in agony, just as the student had earlier:
"I, I don't know... Stop asking, stop asking!!!"
She repeatedly slammed her head against the table in front of her, as though she were suffering unbearable pain. Her sudden howls startled the other players searching the luggage, and they looked toward her in fear.
Seeing her suddenly go berserk, Li Xian warily retreated two steps, ready to retrieve an item from his backpack at any moment.
Ji Xie, who had been standing silently beside them and listening, stretched out an arm-placing it between Li Xian and the female passenger:
"Maybe your husband got off the train? Want to look outside? I can smash the window for you."
The female passenger raised her head and shot the ill-intentioned Ji Xie