Chapter 7: The Man Who Was Sacrificed
The endless black curtain outside the window continued to swallow the spiritual world of everyone inside the train, and in the ice and snow, the survivors huddled together, exuding the last heat of their bodies in the biting frost.
"Whew...... Whew......"
Ling Yi jogged rhythmically, trying to connect all the clues so far.
"The train, the trapper, the time, the diary, the black coffin...... What is the connection between them......" Ling Yi's eyelashes were already frozen with a thin layer of frost, and he looked at the door to the next carriage, thinking non-stop.
"Wait any longer, we'll all freeze to death here...... And do you feel that the temperature in the carriage is still decreasing?" The man in white stood up and kept beating, and his originally straight white shirt became stiff in the cold, making a crisp sound in the movement.
"Then what should I do, if I go out and be killed, I can only wait for death if I stay, is it really cornered?" The cowardly man leaned tightly on the strong man beside him, and his body was shaking because of fear or the cold.
"Uncle, I'm so cold!" the little girl's lips turned purple from the cold, even if she wore Ling Yi's coat, her physique could not compare to these adults present.
Looking at the little girl who was squatting on the ground and shrunk into a ball, the strong man suddenly spoke: "Let's go out together, it's a big deal to die with him, and it's better than freezing to death here!"
"I agree!" the man in white was the first to raise his hand.
"I ...... Agree......" The cowardly man pushed his glasses and raised his hand as well.
Three of the six people present had agreed to go out, excluding the little girl's votes, only Ling Yi and Uncle Migrant Workers did not agree for a long time.
The migrant worker uncle shrunk his hands in his sleeves and looked at Ling Yi silently, while Ling Yi was silent and did not make any suggestions.
Looking at the migrant worker uncle suspiciously, the strong man suddenly shouted: "Then the minority obeys the majority, let's go out!"
The man in white echoed, took the little girl's hand and walked quickly towards the door of the carriage.
When he came to the door, the man in white saw that Ling Yi and the migrant worker uncle were still standing still, and couldn't help but urge: "What are you two doing? Are you really going to freeze to death here? If you're afraid, then I'll stand at the front!"
Pressing down the door handle hard, the strong man opened the door of the carriage and said disdainfully: "You are willing to die here, right?
Just as the strong man was about to step out of the car door with one foot, the man in white suddenly dragged him back!
The man in white motioned to the strong man not to speak, and raised his hand to Ling Yi: "I don't care if that guy loves to die or not, but you have to follow me!"
Ling Yi sneered and said mockingly, "Didn't you just argue that you were going to go to the front?
The man in white stared at Ling Yi and said coldly, "What do you mean." ”
"What do you mean?"
Ling Yi looked at the door of the carriage that had been dragged open, and said, "I just said that our time has run out, as long as we get out of here, we will definitely become the target of that thing......"
Raising his head and tapping the direction of the strong man with his chin, Ling Yi smiled and said, "He can have no fear at the back of his seat, what about you, why?"
"I ......"
"I have to say, you're smart. Ling Yi didn't give him a chance to explain at all, and continued, "Because of the particularity of this carriage, it is very likely that it is a relatively independent time space, that is to say, ten minutes in this carriage is very likely to be only one second in the outer carriage...... This explains why we have reached the limit of time, but the lights are not turned off here...... Blackheart boss, am I right?"
The little girl looked back and forth at the two opposite ends of the aisle in confusion, only to see that she hesitated, suddenly broke away from the palm of the man in white, and quickly hid behind Ling Yi.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Uncle will take you out in a while. ”
The migrant worker uncle also moved to Ling Yi's side at this time, comforting the ugly little girl while looking at the three people led by the man in white coldly with slanted eyes.
Squeezed to the front in two steps, the strong man showed a fierce face and roared: "Look at your posture, you don't want to get out alive, do you?"
Ling Yi was not afraid of danger, and sneered at the strong man: "If you go out with you, you are really asking for your own death!"
As soon as he took out an iron chain from his arms, the strong man walked straight towards Ling Yi angrily, and said with an evil smile: "Then you have to die here first!"
"You dare!"
Uncle Migrant Worker roared directly in front of Ling Yi, he held the helmet firmly in his hand, and seemed to be ready to die and break the net!
"They're all dead!"
The strong man wrapped the iron chain around his wrist with force, and his eyes were full of murderous intent, seeing that he had come to the migrant workers!
Swallowing his saliva, the migrant worker uncle gritted his teeth and was about to fight hard, but suddenly felt his shoulders sinking!
Behind him, a fair-skinned and thin palm gently patted him, and Ling Yi's gentle voice sounded: "I'll come......"
Under the surprised gaze of the migrant worker, Ling Yi bypassed his body and faced the strong man's body as strong as a tiger and wolf!
Regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, the strong man threw up the chain and strangled it around his neck!
"Stop!"
At the last moment, the man in white, who had been silent, suddenly stopped, his eyes looked Ling Yi up and down as if he was about to kill, but finally squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Kill them...... We're all going to die. ”
The strong man's arm was bruised, and the chain was in the air and could be smashed at any time.
"Even if you know you're going to die, do you want to kill me?"
Ling Yi calmly looked at the strong man's hideous face, and there was no fear in his tone.
The strong man's eyes widened, and suddenly, he licked his lips that were frozen white in the cold wind, and said in a low voice: "It's all death anyway, Lao Tzu will get you first today!"
The sound of chains rubbing against each other sounded, and the strong man raised his fist and smashed it towards Ling Yi's temple!
"Big brother, get out of the way!"
In desperation, the little girl rushed up and hugged the strong man's waist and pushed it back.
"Get out of here!"
The strong man kicked the little girl into the snowdrift next to him, his eyes were bloodshot, and he stared at Ling Yi like a demon who only knew how to kill.
Seeing that the situation was getting more and more intense, the man in white finally couldn't stand anymore, and rushed up in a few steps to drag the strong man away from behind.
"His number is ahead of us, and we can't get out if we kill him!"
Looking at the two torn together in front of him, Ling Yi knew that his deception had finally worked......
Originally, Ling Yi deceived the man in white and said that his number was in front of him, in addition to stabilizing everyone's emotions, this also has an important role, that is, it can be used to protect himself at critical moments!
At this time, there are very few survivors on the train, and the man in white holds a front seat number, the premise of his survival is to ensure the safety of Ling Yi, who is higher in the number, if Ling Yi dies unexpectedly, then he will undoubtedly become the next person to be hunted!
"Calm down, everyone!" the cowardly man left the door and walked to the crowd.
He pushed his glasses with trembling palms, and the gas he spit out turned into a white mist in the cold carriage and slowly dispersed.
"If you consume calories like this, death will only come faster!" the cowardly man sighed and muttered, "I'm a doctor, and the indoor temperature should be around minus 24 degrees now...... We'll be fine for another half an hour. ”
The cowardly man's words seemed to have an effect, the man in white let go of his arm, and the strong man also put down his fist in hatred.
"What else can I do if I don't go out, waiting for death?"
The man in white looked at Ling Yi with gloomy eyes, and said mockingly: "Or is it that we can all survive with just your mouth?" If you had discovered the rules of this game earlier, maybe the first few would not have died!"
Ling Yi was silent, as if admitting his complaints.
Shifting the blame to others has been one of the weaknesses of human nature since ancient times.
"Shut up, ......" The migrant worker uncle pushed away the man in white hard, looked at the strong men with cold eyes, and muttered, "I actually heard what they said......
With that, he took out a crumpled ticket from his pocket, which read: One carriage, number 12!
Ling Yi looked at the font number firmly printed on the ticket and couldn't help but sigh.
In fact, as Ling Yi, who was at the back of the ticket number, there was no problem with the man in white proposing the idea of leaving the carriage at that time.
But when he got up, he inadvertently noticed the look of the migrant worker man, not only lonely, but also helpless! Only then did he realize that in fact, everyone present had heard the killing rules of this death game, and the migrant worker uncle was precisely the one at the top!
"No wonder you don't dare to go out of this door...... It's been a long time to coerce one!" The strong man sneered and exchanged glances with the man in white.
"Baby...... You are a good person, I know, you are afraid that something will happen to me to stay here......" said the migrant uncle, tears actually dripping down, in the cold wind, tears turned into ice crystals and stuck firmly to his coat.
"I don't want to drag everyone down, but I can't do anything about it!" the more the migrant worker uncle said, the more excited he became, "There are old and young, my wife is paralyzed in bed waiting to take medicine, and my son can't be found when he comes back from school...... You said...... What can I do?"
With his hands on Ling Yi's shoulders, the migrant worker uncle couldn't cry at this time.
The cold wind intensified, and the temperature in the carriage dropped again.
"If we can meet here, no one should be miserable!" The strong man walked over and grabbed the migrant worker by the collar, and said in a deep voice, "If you want to save your wife and find your children, I can't take care of it!" But you want to put our lives on the line, let me tell you...... Dreaming!"
punched the migrant worker in the stomach, and the strong man savagely dragged him towards the carriage door.
"Get the out of the way!"
The strong man turned around and pointed at everyone: "Whoever stops me today, whoever dies!"