Wen Xishu made an extremely complex movement, lowering his body, and then his upper body and lower body seemed to separate. His upper body leaned forward while his lower body bizarrely brought his legs together.
The immense kicking force from the extreme kick provided Wen Xishu with a very steady stance.
Wen Xishu moved like a thief entering a jewelry vault, heading towards the first row to steal treasures.
And those white footprints scattered throughout the carriage resembled infrared lasers.
"It’s troublesome... but I can get through."
Relying on his formidable body flexibility, the visibility of the white footprints, and his extraordinary memory which could recall the appearances of infants or children...
Wen Xishu cautiously and very slowly advanced without touching a single white footprint, even... even if the children were to reappear, Wen Xishu could ensure that his body would not touch them.
However, all around were various sounds of laughter, crying, babies wailing, and mournful cries.
These sounds mixed together, forming a symphony of orphan grievances.
Listening to this made Wen Xishu’s skin crawl, greatly affecting his micro-movements.
"If only I had a little more Anti-Magic Value... I wouldn’t be mentally affected by these cries."
Wen Xishu’s body couldn’t afford any unnecessary movements at all. He slithered like a constantly twisting snake, perfectly avoiding each footprint while imagining a space where these children hadn’t disappeared, ensuring he didn’t touch even their imagined forms.
It was tough, but Wen Xishu managed it. However, he couldn’t do anything else to calm the negative effects brought by the children’s sounds, like knocking on wooden fish.
Wen Xishu began to force himself to think.
"Don’t panic..."
"When the children haven’t appeared, the conductor with a changed face, also known as the human trafficker woman, doesn’t have her back to me."
"But once the children appear, she turns her back to me..."
"Likely, from the moment the children appear, I can’t make eye contact with her. To speculate further, if I were to touch the white footprints left by these children—"
"She might immediately turn around to face me... potentially transforming into a rule directly capturing Bunker players."
"So... is the big boss behind the scenes, the source of evil on this train, this human trafficker?"
"There are at least sixteen carriages... the first carriage is the big boss?"
Wen Xishu had reached the fifth row.
From the corner of his eye, he could see that, apart from the conductor... almost everyone was identical to those in the previous carriage.
Wen Xishu was now very close to these passengers.
The passenger in the fifth row was a female internet celebrity.
The female internet celebrity impregnated by "Xiaowang," whom Wen Xishu had inquired about her past experience. Her response was that she never wanted to live a life of poverty again.
It could be inferred that "Xiaowang" must be very wealthy... although the female internet celebrity stated on Weibo that she didn’t want to elevate her status using the child and just wanted to have the baby. But clearly, her intention was to make money with the child.
She obviously wasn’t very smart.
Wen Xishu could see her belly was only slightly protruding.
He had a bad feeling that in the Desire Tower, this woman’s end wouldn’t be good. In his past life, there was also a female internet celebrity who made a fortune through pregnancy.
But that woman was clever, doing everything quietly and began to build her image once the child was born.
Now, however, this child hadn’t been born yet and was already being used for publicity... likely leading to significant changes.
Wen Xishu attempted to get close to the female internet celebrity, but this was the limit; he couldn’t get as close as before.
In the first carriage, Wen Xishu even touched her belly and found out the female internet celebrity had no reaction.
Of course, he wasn’t some perverted man with a fetish for pregnant women, that’s something unique to the Island Country.
But he still wanted to test if touching the most valuable "thing" on an NPC would trigger any other reactions, rather than repeating a single line of dialogue.
This time, Wen Xishu moved a bit closer, into social range... but no options were triggered.
No options—like "Where did you come from," "Where are you going," or "Past experiences" dialogue options.
Wen Xishu was puzzled...
"Could it be there’s only one chance? Or will there be more in the subsequent carriages?"
Wen Xishu was confused.
If there was only one chance, the amount of information was too little.
Wen Xishu decided to keep moving forward.
For now, the gameplay wasn’t clear yet.
"What can be confirmed is that several passengers have clear issues or stories..."
"Their problems or stories will turn into corresponding eerie scenes in the following carriages."
"In theory, I need to see through the rules and pass through these scenes, but is that really the entirety of the gameplay?"
Wen Xishu certainly didn’t think the 29th floor of the Deceit Tower would be so "simple." Although passing through each carriage was already very difficult.
But Wen Xishu had a premonition that this train had even more complex gameplay.
Just like the previous missions he completed in the Deceit Tower, he always learned part of these people’s pasts.
The third row.
Several times... Wen Xishu forced his body to dislocate, twisting his knee joints to pass through the gaps between the white footprints and the imagined children’s bodies.
It hurt, but Wen Xishu needed the pain to fend off the children’s cries. Meanwhile, his attribute from Slaughter Tower gave him astounding regenerative abilities.