There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game

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Arriving in Pengcheng, the bustling city, and settling into the hotel for rest, Xu Shuo had finally come to a complete break from business by evening after having dinner and negotiations with the partner.

Negotiating business wasn't something that could be concluded in a single day, and they would have to continue discussions about the details tomorrow.

In his plan, he only had three days. If a satisfactory agreement wasn't reached within that time frame, he would simply pack up his things and move on to the next potential partner.

But now with some free time on his hands, Xu Shuo wasn't preoccupied with preparing for the continuing negotiations but rather opened his laptop and searched for past accident records of the Pengcheng high-speed rail line.

However, the high-speed rail line from Yangcheng to Pengcheng had only been operational for three years and nothing major had happened during that period, at most a few normal equipment malfunctions and one emergency brake incident.

Such incidents weren't even as newsworthy as a regular traffic accident.

The Hoodie Man was right, high-speed trains do indeed have a higher fault rate than airplanes, but the actual impact was quite minor.

Recalling the environment inside the train he had seen after entering the realm and the attire of those people, Xu Shuo furrowed his brows slightly.

After a long while, he directly searched for all the train derailment incidents recorded to date, focusing on the timeframe before 2015, which was before the discontinuation of the green-skin trains.

Then, the vast amount of information that came up on the internet instantly dampened Xu Shuo's exploratory zeal somewhat.

So many, I don't want to look anymore.

However, this was the first time he had encountered a supernatural event in the real world. He had taken that train to Pengcheng before but had never ridden the "Spirit Car".

Xu Shuo was unclear whether it was because he had joined Script Space or due to some other factor, but the presence of a supernatural event in the reality he lived in made him feel very anxious without proper understanding.

A place like a school would obviously be a hotspot for incidents.

Xu Shuo rubbed his forehead and scrolled down with the mouse to continue reading.

But at that moment, someone suddenly knocked on the door of his hotel room.

The irregular sequence of "bang, bang, bang" did not cease, fully expressing the impatient sentiment of the person waiting outside.

Both Xu Shuo and Pei Sheng had booked single rooms, and Xu Shuo initially thought it might be Pei Sheng with some issue, but after he went over to open the door, it took less than a second for him to close it hastily again.

"Wait a minute!"

The person knocking quickly tried to wedge their foot against the door, but Xu Shuo, unsympathetically, kicked it away and forcefully shut the door.

The next moment, the knocking resumed with a clang.

Xu Shuo, calm, walked over to pick up the room's phone, and at that moment, the person outside hastily said, "I think I might know how that incident happened!"

"…"

…

After a while, the scruffy Hoodie Man sprawled casually on the sofa.

Xu Shuo sat opposite him neatly, not bothering to ask how he found his hotel room, and directly inquired, "What happened?"

The Hoodie Man looked around and said, "Aren't you going to offer me a cup of water?"

"Out the door and to the left."

"Man, you're really cold," the Hoodie Man said, touching his nose. "Let me introduce myself first, my name is Luo Kai, and I'm a Wanderer."

"Hmm, my name is Pei Sheng, and I'm a salesman," Xu Shuo also said.

The Hoodie Man paused, then dully said, "Isn't that your friend's name?"

Could you at least make an effort to disguise it?!

Xu Shuo looked at him calmly.

Luo Kai sighed deeply, straightened himself from his casual slouch, and spoke earnestly with a serious expression, "Ten years ago, train G123 from Yangcheng to Xiangcheng had a severe derailment. The entire train fell off the bridge, with over eight hundred people perishing!"

While there have been numerous train derailments over the past few decades, that particular event caused a massive public outcry nationwide!

But at that age, they were still kids and didn't have a strong memory of it.

Now that he mentioned it, Xu Shuo faintly began to recall some of it.

Luo Kai continued, "There were newspapers left on the seats inside the carriage, dated 2011. Using that year, I managed to pinpoint the specific incident."

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He was sitting outside at the time, and compared to Xu Shuo's field of vision, he could see much more.

The train car seemed to be a green-skin train from the decades ago, with torn and tattered seats, and the kind of windows that could be opened; even the clothing styles worn by the people passing by were full of a sense of the era.

As long as those pieces of information were locked down, it would be easy to look up.

However, neither the time of the occurrence nor the cause of the event was actually what Xu Shuo cared about.

After Luo Kai rambled on with his speculations, he looked at the young man opposite him and found that his expression from beginning to end hadn't changed in the slightest.

His brows slightly drooped, his hands rested on his legs, and his clean-cut handsome face was tranquil and indifferent, even carrying a hint of a serene quality detached from worldly matters.

Put in colloquial terms, it was full of a 'Buddha-like' vibe.

Luo Kai had talked for quite a while, his mouth was dry, and he hadn't even had a sip of water. Now, feeling helpless, he said, "Alright, brother, I'll lay it on the table, I need your help."

"Not helping," Xu Shuo finally spoke up, his voice short and forceful.

"Don't be in a hurry to refuse, just listen to me first," Luo Kai waved his hand and continued, "Only the two of us entered the Illusory Realm on the train, and I think you must have understood something too, because we are the same kind of people."

"I've had Yin-Yang Eyes since I was a kid," Xu Shuo said lazily, his gaze sidelong at him.

"..."

Luo Kai was suddenly choked up.

He stared, dumbstruck for a moment. Although he didn't dismiss the possibility, he always felt like the young man was making fun of him.

After thinking it over, Luo Kai took out a card from his pocket, the size of a poker card, reflecting a metallic texture under the room lights with its silver base.

He tossed the card over with a flick, and the seemingly heavy metallic card spun in the air, but Xu Shuo caught it effortlessly.

"I'm giving you a quarter of the payment up front, is that enough of a gesture?"

Luo Kai blinked his dark-circled dead fish eyes, trying to spread his sparkling sincerity, all the while keeping his gaze fixed tightly on Xu Shuo, with an unclear meaning in the depths of his eyes.

The moment Xu Shuo caught the card, he caught a glimpse of a prompt popping up in the corner.

[You have received a 100 points recharge card from a friend, would you like to deposit it into your account?]

A hundred points?

So the total payment is only four hundred points?

That sounded very little.

Xu Shuo's points were even lower than his Performance Value, only in the double digits, so he directly threw the card back.

"Too low."

"..."

Luo Kai caught the card, momentarily at a loss for words, but the test in his heart already had its result.

They really were the same kind of people.

Then the negotiation that followed would be much simpler.

It was unclear what Luo Kai did, but he quickly threw the card back, gritting his teeth as he said, "Fine, I've added a zero!"

[You have received a 1000 points recharge card from a friend, would you like to deposit it into your account?]

Xu Shuo looked at the silver metallic card without any pictures, his eyebrows slightly raised.

Actually adding money without haggling?

If he wasn't a fool, did that mean the Spirit Car Illusory Realm was very important to him, and also that he was very wealthy?

Xu Shuo opened his mouth.

Luo Kai immediately glared and said, "That's the bottom line! I'm not your employee, nor can I be exploited like this. I might as well go by myself!"

Xu Shuo: "Tsk."

He hadn't exploited Pei Sheng, had he?