Chapter 58.2
When Xiao Tangqiu opened his eyes, he discovered that he was sitting on a high-speed subway. There was no one in this compartment but the lights inside were bright. Looking out of the gla.s.s windows, it was in a dark underground tunnel.
He couldn’t help but become confused. What was going on with the subway? Why was he on the subway? Wasn’t this mission aimed to escape from a small town?
Was the next station or terminal of the town?
Wait, where was everyone else?
Xiao Tangqiu suddenly realized that he was the only one in the subway and was shocked. This was the first time he encountered this situation. In the past, he always entered with other people every time he entered an instance. Were they scattered?
No way! He clearly wore that special prop that tied him to his teammates and Shen Yuan. How could this happen? Did the special prop fail? He shouldn’t be so unlucky? The first time using a special prop and it became a situation where the special prop was invalid!
…Then again, considering his African ancestry, this really seemed possible!
Xiao Tangqiu’s heart couldn’t help but sink. If he really was all alone, he might not live for even five minutes in this S-level difficulty instance. Even giving him one teammate was fine! Even Tang Mianmian would be–
Wait! Nevermind about Tang Mianmian! Even if a loser with a combat power of 0.5 is added to a loser with a combat power of 1.5, it would not be enough for others to chew!
Xiao Tangqiu had no hopes.
Xiao Tangqiu could only let tears stream.
Xiao Tangqiu accepted fate.
“Forget it, I can only bite the bullet.”
He took a deep breath and got ready to leave for the next compartment to see if the others were in the other compartments.
The subway swayed but the ride was fairly smooth. Xiao Tangqiu looked around and discovered that this compartment should be located towards the back of the subway. There were many cars towards the front, but there seemed to be only a few cars in the back. He immediately decided to take a look at the last compartment, and then search forward one compartment at a time.
So he turned and walked towards the last compartment of the subway. He was surprised to find that every compartment was empty. Not only was there not a single person, there wasn’t even any sound. It was so quiet that he could only hear the metallic “dang dang dang” sound.
Dang dang dang dang–
Xiao Tangqiu could not help but speed up and hurry towards the last compartment.
Unsurprisingly, the last compartment was still empty. He didn’t encounter anything and nothing happened.
The subway was unexpectedly peaceful, so peaceful that it was very abnormal.
Xiao Tangqiu turned and prepared to go to the front, but just when he was entering the next compartment, there was a sudden loud sound behind him. This unusual movement instantly startled him and he instinctively dashed towards the compartment in front.
After that burst of loud noises, he suddenly felt violent winds sweeping behind him, as if the rear compartment’s roof was suddenly ripped off by someone.
He glanced backwards as he ran forwards. This glance almost scared away his soul! The last compartment disappeared! The loud noise he heard just now is probably the sound of the last compartment disconnecting!
There is no door between the compartments in the subway. Once the compartment in the back was lost, the compartment ahead was directly exposed to the air. The subway was driving at such a high speed that the wind almost sucked Xiao Tangqiu entirely to the back.
Fortunately, he grabbed the handle of the area between the second and third sections of the compartments in time. But the relief was short-lived as the next second, he heard the connecting area between the second and third compartments also began to make strange noises.
Xiao Tangqiu instantly understood that the second compartment was about to also disconnect!
Xiao Tangqiu gritted his teeth and ran desperately to the fourth to last compartment. Just when he ran to the connection between the third-to-last compartment and the fourth-to-last car, a loud noise came from the rear! The second-to-last compartment was also gone!
This time, he was already prepared and quickly grabbed the handle while lying down so that the wind that rushed into the compartment when it broke free was not as strong as before.
However, he knew that he was still far from being able to be relaxed. After the second-to-last compartment broke away, he immediately jumped up and continued to run towards the next compartment. And sure enough, soon the junction of the previous compartment began to shake loose.
Xiao Tangqiu was desperately running towards the first compartment while secretly thanking everyone in the Reincarnation Team for his special training this month. Although the heart-wrenching physical training made him think darkly of it, but if it was not for that physical training, he was afraid he wouldn’t have been able to outrun the speed of the subway coming apart!
But soon, his heart wrenched, because he suddenly thought, if the subway compartments would break one by one, wouldn’t there be only the head in the end? What would happen if there was only the head compartment left in the end?
Should he find a way to leave the subway before all the compartments broke and came apart?
Xiao Tangqiu looked out the window as he sprinted but it was still a dark tunnel outside the window. He suddenly thought of something, from the beginning to now, he had been on this subway for more than 20 minutes. Not only did the subway not stop in these twenty minutes, but it also never came across a platform along the way.
Although all illogical things were logical in this illogical world, Xiao Tangqiu still couldn’t help but feel chilled. It meant that this subway may have no next station or terminal station. It might travel forever, just like a ghost ship drifting on its own without people on the sea — this was a ghost subway.
The more frightened and wary Xiao Tangqiu was, the more clear and cautious he became. Jumping down from a high-speed subway was extremely impactful, he’s afraid it’s no different from facing death directly… Forget it, let’s go to the first compartment and see if he could get in the control room. Maybe he could control the subway brakes to stop.
Although he hadn’t driven a subway, the brake function should be similar to that of ordinary cars, right?
He gritted his teeth and continued to run madly forward in the.
The entire subway was not long, but at this rush of life and death, Xiao Tangqiu felt that the path ahead was extremely long. Especially the moment when a compartment broke away. It tested his heart because almost every time he ran into the next section, the previous compartment began to break, leaving him to struggle to overcome the wind that rushed in.
Fortunately, the Reincarnation Team’s special training made him a lot stronger and he made it into the first compartment in such a thrilling situation.
By this time, the entire subway had only three compartments left and the head, which was a little longer than a bus.
Xiao Tangqiu rushed towards the conductor’s room, but to his disappointment, the door was locked and he couldn’t get in. Through the gla.s.s at the junction of the control room and the first compartment, he clearly saw the situation inside.
As he expected, there was no conductor in the control room and there was no one in the driver’s seat. This was a ghost subway!
And when he looked out through the gla.s.s of the control room, he saw a scene that instantly shocked him.
Not far ahead on the subway track, he saw a tail of a compartment… It seemed to be the last compartment of this subway that had broken off!
What’s going on?!!
How did the last compartment of the subway move to the front?
At this moment, an incredible idea crossed Xiao Tangqiu’s mind — was this underground tunnel reciprocating?
No wonder the subway didn’t stop, this track had no end!
Xiao Tangqiu was so scared that his heart almost stopped. As long as a few more seconds pa.s.sed, the head of the compartment would hit the rear! At this speed, wouldn’t he be directly killed by the huge impact?
He unwillingly looked back only to see that the third compartment had begun to break away. He immediately grasped the railings and was not flung out.
In a blink of an eye, the entire subway had only the head and the first and second compartments. He had no way back even if he wanted to retreat!
Should he detach from the subway with a compartment or hit the tail with the head?
Xiao Tangqiu was in a dilemma, but soon he made up his mind to simply leave the main body with the second compartment! He might still have hope of living but if he stayed in the first compartment, he would definitely be killed by the huge impact when the two collide.
So he turned and ran back, and at this moment, the second compartment began to break away!
When Xiao Tangqiu got to the junction of the first and second sections, the second compartment was almost a meter away from the first!
He gritted his teeth and jumped without hesitation, finally barely falling into the second compartment. Due to the wind and inertia, he almost dropped into an unstable position and fell onto the track. Luckily, he grabbed the handle at the junction and stabilized himself.
Once the compartment was detached, it still rushed forward because of inertia. After a while, it slowed down and finally stopped completely.
Xiao Tangqiu collapsed on the floor of the compartment, panting heavily. His heart almost leapt out of his body just now, it was too dangerous!
…Wait, now that he had left that ghost subway with the compartment, why didn’t he do it in the first place?
Just when the thought came to his mind, he suddenly realized something. Wait a minute! He hadn’t seemed to have heard the loud noise when the head and tail collided?
Xiao Tangqiu suddenly felt a bad premonition erupt. He quickly got up and looked forward… But the dark tunnel was empty ahead, there was no head or tail!
This was not because the front of the compartment had disappeared, but more like nothing had been there to begin with. It was like, from beginning to end, there was only this abandoned compartment on this track.
He turned stiffly and looked towards the back of the compartment. There was still an empty, dark tunnel at the back, and there seemed to be no end…
Suddenly, Xiao Tangqiu felt a breeze.
At first, it was just a slight breeze, but gradually, the breeze began to grow.
When he felt that the wind was getting louder, he also heard the sound of “dang dang dang dang” from the track… A subway was coming!
He widened his eyes instantly and saw the lights at the end of the tunnel, and then a familiar subway head!
No, it’s not just the front of the car, it’s a complete subway. Not only that… it’s a subway full of pa.s.sengers.
Although he could not see the faces of the pa.s.sengers on the subway, he could see the crowds on there…
How could there be a normal subway on this endless loop? How could there be normal pa.s.sengers on the subway? Xiao Tangqiu didn’t have time to think about these issues. At this moment, all he knew was that if the subway hit, he would not survive!
What to do? What to do!