"What it craves is the nurturing of life... Among the living beings present, I am the only one."
"It wants to devour me, but my body size is obviously much larger than a baby’s."
"So..."
Wen Xishu immediately did something ruthless.
He directly took out Scorpio’s cheating knife and then cut off one of his own fingers.
As his left ring finger was severed, Wen Xishu just gritted his teeth.
Then, he threw the finger into the woman’s belly.
At that moment, the wound in the woman’s belly partially closed...
Wen Xishu clearly felt the rotten flesh instantly stop spreading.
The flesh on the door to the next compartment also began to dissipate a bit.
Wen Xishu understood:
"If it doesn’t devour a baby, it has to devour other living beings..."
Wen Xishu didn’t care about a finger.
Because when he returns to the bunker, he will be completely intact. This level is all about whether the players dare to give up part of their flesh.
However, without a static health bar, a severed arm or a cut of flesh will affect the player’s status.
Only a cheat like Wen Xishu can try this so calmly.
Wen Xishu looked at the woman, now stroking her belly, her face contorted like an evil ghost...
"It’s unfortunate, although your child didn’t arrive right, I have no intention of sharing the pain of losing flesh and blood with you."
Though the content of the compartments is eerie, the challenges, in Wen Xishu’s view, are nothing compared to the shoe woman level.
Wen Xishu no longer hesitated, preparing to head to compartment 08.
Before that, he had to "satiate" the woman. Wen Xishu didn’t hesitate and directly tore the baby off his arm violently.
Numerous tendrils were severed, causing the baby to cry out.
This sound also made the woman rage, but in the next second, Wen Xishu stuffed the baby into the woman’s torn belly.
At that moment, the baby sensed the flesh and started crazily taking root.
Numerous tendrils pierced outward from inside the woman, like an apple which seemed intact but suddenly had a worm crawl out from its flesh, breaking through the skin.
The woman now looked like this.
When the baby finally entered her belly, she began to smile, gently stroking her belly.
But at the same time, that eerie baby started continuously draining her life force.
Wen Xishu only now felt... just how abnormal his own life force was.
He had been absorbed by the baby for so long and only felt a bit tired.
But the woman quickly... her body was pierced by the bizarre tendrils thrashing about.
From her originally fair skin, countless worm-like tendrils and tentacles started sprouting.
These tentacles spread everywhere... some even pierced through her throat.
Soon, her eyes were also crawling with countless tentacles, and likewise her ears.
Seeing this horrifying scene, Wen Xishu suddenly realized...
This was the woman’s end.
She pointed at the baby to be born, but ultimately was killed by this child...
Wen Xishu felt no pity for such a person; he had completed the exploration of this compartment.
Turning around, Wen Xishu saw that the rotting flesh on the door had faded almost entirely.
In a flash, he moved to the door.
The familiar prompt appeared — would you like to proceed to the next compartment.
Wen Xishu chose yes.
...
...
The terrifying compartment 07 ended.
What awaited Wen Xishu was not compartment 08.
But compartment 07.5.
Yes, the structure of the train was such that Wen Xishu arrived at the place of exchange again.
This time Wen Xishu did not waste much time.
He considered the possibility that Ah Miao and the others might need to pass through themselves, so he had to inform them of the ways to clear each compartment.
So Wen Xishu explained every method he knew to deal with each eerie compartment.
Though the compartment of the brat was relatively easy for Wen Xishu to pass through, it might not suit everyone, so he suggested first establishing an agreement with the steward to trigger "I’ll be waiting for you in the front compartment."
Then, when encountering the steward, try to touch the "eyeballs." The eyeballs could make Wen Xishu’s hand heavier...
Most likely, they are tools to slow down the brat’s movements.
Without these tools or Wen Xishu’s methods, the truly hardest challenge is the brat compartment.
After Xiaojin and the others noted everything down, Wen Xishu headed straight to compartment 08.
Though it’s unlikely Xiaojin and the others would need to clear it, Wen Xishu prudently chose to share his acquired information.
Now, he had to proceed to compartment 08 and post the good and evil cards.
He had a very bold idea he wanted to try.
...
...
Compartment 08.
By now, Wen Xishu had traversed half the compartments. Since he chose never to retreat...
The maze train for Wen Xishu had not yet produced its maze effect.
Wen Xishu only felt that he walked a straight line, never encountering any blocks.
Yet if he had retreated midway, unable to face the horrific and bizarre compartments...
The train would turn into a different scenario. For now, those sucked into the vortex are not all those who died in the eerie compartments.
Some people retreated early, all the way back to compartment 0.
That’s a special environment resembling the "backrooms."
Of course, Wen Xishu didn’t need to worry about that.
Arriving at compartment 08, Wen Xishu noticed three police officers appear again.
Furthermore, the tea seller to whom he’d previously posted the "good" card still had it.
Almost exactly as before he left compartment 04.
But there were two noticeable changes.
First, Wen Xishu noted that the brat still had cracks on his head.
Second, the woman’s belly seemed less "swollen."
"There are still compartments 09, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, and 16. These may be the eeriest compartments... So far, I haven’t encountered ’evil’ yet."
"Using the rules properly, in the next seven eerie compartments... I can use three good cards to avoid three compartments."
"In other words, I only need to face four eerie compartments."
"These four might involve the college couple, the robbers, the male steward... or the company boss, as well as the other two of the family of three."
"Or it might be related to... the little girl."
The new round of questioning began soon.
Wen Xishu was most interested in the old man.
Having asked about the old man’s past and origin, now he asked about his destination.
"I have nowhere to go... Where I go depends on where the Evil Land escapees go."
This was the only response.
No matter how he prodded, it repeated the same sentence.
Wen Xishu didn’t say much.
He quickly reached the position of the female steward and inquired about her past.
"I actually don’t want to be on the same train with him. Though he looks handsome, I always felt he had many scary thoughts. His gaze frightens me, let alone he’s married."
This moment reminded Wen Xishu of the male steward.
But regardless, Wen Xishu hoped to meet the female steward.
Given his earlier judgment, he believed she was a good person.
So Wen Xishu posted the second good card on the female steward.
Unsurprisingly, the number of police officers didn’t decrease.
Wen Xishu heard the familiar lines:
"I’ll be waiting for you in the front compartment."
Next, the most crucial part.
Wen Xishu approached the first row directly.
He once again questioned the "child trafficker" about his past.
"Those orphanage children... They don’t belong to us! They don’t belong to us! We didn’t want them!"
The child trafficker’s eyes held sorrow.
Wen Xishu’s hand slightly trembled.
He picked up the evil card but didn’t post it on the trafficker’s head.
Instead, he looked towards the little girl nearby.
This time, the little girl’s dialogue was:
"Uncle police are so slow, why haven’t they come to catch the trafficker yet."
There are many problematic people on the train.
The woman, the family of three, the college couple, and the robbers...
Almost none were normal, including the male steward.
But Wen Xishu initially didn’t know who was the most problematic one.
Now, he seemed to have found it.