Master of Kaidan-Chapter 570: The First Night Is Coming

"Ah, this..."

Upon hearing the broadcast, Feng Xue’s expression twitched slightly. Although this kind of scenario was part of classic long journey tropes, as an emergency situation within the Kaidan rules, it couldn’t be taken lightly.

Generally speaking, the essence of Kaidan rules can be seen as a collection of Bad Ends derived from one or more spontaneous events in a specific scene (this is a personal summary by the author—any disputes are welcome to be discussed).

To put it more colloquially, it’s a game made up of a multitude of bad endings, which you can only evade by using the given information (rules) to reach the "one and only" good ending.

In other words, in the scene, every emergency leads to at least one bad ending inevitably.

For instance, with this emergency that calls for a doctor, there are two options: help or do nothing. If you ignore it, will the person who dies become a vengeful ghost? And if you do help, can you save the person? If not, will the family take their anger out on you? And what if the person you save turns out to be a living bomb?

However, Feng Xue didn’t need to consider all of this because...

"Hello? Hi, I’m a passenger on train K7, and someone here needs urgent medical treatment. Please send your fastest ambulance."

After saying this, Feng Xue hung up the phone with a snap. Soon after, on the vast Gobi desert, the urgent whistling of "wan liu wan liu wan liu..." could be heard.

The Ambulance Demon’s mobile phone, which Feng Xue had always treated as an ordinary mobile phone that could be used across different worlds, revealed its true function at this moment.

It called the local most expensive ambulance.

But just like a fake stone used to open automatic doors, the essence of this mobile phone wasn’t that the called ambulance was expensive, but in that description—

"It will surely arrive."

That is to say, it’s a guaranteed Skill. In other words, whether he was on a train, an airplane, or even a space station, as long as the concept of an ambulance existed locally and the call could get through, the ambulance would surely arrive—

Though Feng Xue had no idea how an ambulance would arrive on a plane, like, perhaps, a Cybertronian named Ambulance?

Feng Xue didn’t continue to let his thoughts wander and instead started studying the travel guide he held, beginning to look for potential issues he might encounter on this route.

This seven-day and seven-night tour train crossed three countries, passing through wetlands, forests, grasslands, permafrost, and numerous diverse landscapes, with countless bridges and tunnels along the way. Too many accidents could occur.

Yet, as if sensing Feng Xue’s vigilance, no emergencies appeared on the train while he was on edge, even the two station stops passed smoothly. This lasted until 20:03 when, apart from the Gobi, hills, rail tracks, and tanks, nothing else could be seen around, the train broadcast sounded again—

"Ladies and gentlemen, the train will soon arrive at Red Bear Station, with an expected halt of four hours. We will then enter the territory of Kent Country. Passengers who need to can get off to rest but please return before midnight."

"Good grief, even looking at the tanks around here, it’s not a place where you can just get off at will, not to mention the train rules about lights out after nightfall. Although it’s from midnight to five in the morning, on the Gobi desert where it gets dark by six, there doesn’t seem to be much difference between midnight and twenty o’clock for ’wildlife’."

Better safe than sorry.

Feng Xue himself had no need to get off the train and didn’t plan to challenge the train’s rules but simply lay quietly in bed, maintaining a state of being Both still and moving, meditating while diffusing his consciousness to sense the surroundings.

Although the train had stopped, his spirit would still vanish the moment it passed through the carriage, as if the train itself was the only real entity.

As time ticked by second by second, Feng Xue lowered his own presence. About two hours later, he suddenly felt a disquieting footsteps approaching the door.

Though fundamentally no different from ordinary footsteps, Feng Xue felt inexplicably uneasy. He was very aware that, given his temperament, this was definitely not a normal situation. He immediately left his meditative state, opened his eyes, and as his gaze moved to the door, the face of a slightly tall woman appeared in the window.

"Fuck!"

Feng Xue’s first reaction was to immediately concentrate on his pocket, and the moment he mentally connected with the Hell of Studying, images of three female high school students buried in their books surfaced in his consciousness, especially one who looked strikingly similar to the person now at the door.

Although he didn’t know whether these three passengers were human or ghosts, there was no doubt that the one outside the door, identical to her, was definitely not human.

With rapid thoughts, Feng Xue’s fingers trembled, three business cards flew out from beneath the blanket, landing on the lower berth opposite him, then he closed his eyes, pretending to be asleep.

"Click..."

The door opened, and the three giggling beauties saw Feng Xue asleep on the lower bunk; their voices suddenly paused, with Lin Jiaxin frowning and saying,

"How can this person be like this?"

"Let it be, we don’t know each other. If someone took the good spot when I got on, I’d be unhappy too. And why is there an extra potted plant on the table?"

"That must be his, I guess? Some potted plants are quite expensive, we better not touch anything, in case we get blamed!"

The other two women’s voices reached his ears, clearly belonging to the other two from the Hell of Studying.

The three moved to the opposite bunk in an uncannily synchronized manner and sat down. Their deliberately hushed voices, yet still audible to everyone in the room, followed:

"Why is this person asleep so early?"

"I think they’re just pretending to be asleep after securing a berth."

"Keep it down, if we annoy someone, we three women will be the ones to suffer."

"What’s there to be afraid of? If it comes down to it, we’ll just call the train police. The bed allocation on this train is unreasonable. We bought tickets under real names, yet they sold a berth meant for three women to a man... Hey, what’s this?"

"It looks like a business card. Hmm, why does it have your name on it?"

"This one’s yours, isn’t it?"

"How can this be? I never printed any business cards. And what’s with this high school stuff? I’m already a junior in college..."

...

One after another, voices came from the opposite bunk. Feng Xue maintained a restful state with his eyes closed, using the perception of the Circle Realm to lock onto the three "people."

The moment the corresponding identities reached the rightful holders, Feng Xue’s mind stirred, but nothing happened.

"It’s not Identity substitution? This might be a bit troublesome." Feng Xue furrowed his brow when he felt no new students added to the Hell of Studying. However, at that moment, the train’s broadcast sounded yet again—

"Attention all passengers, according to the meteorological station, a cold front will pass over Red Bear Station tonight. Please be sure to stay warm..."

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