"Shhhh

Riji's scalp tingled, as if something unseen was caressing the top of her head.

"What's going on tonight? There are so few people. ”

Is there something wrong with her or is there something wrong with the subway station? Isn't it supposed to be the time when the subway station is most crowded at night?

A barrage of questions filled her brain, and before she could begin to think, the door of the tram had closed completely, and a slightly cold, ethereal young male voice came over the radio.

"What you're traveling to...... The train is about to start, so please sit and hold on. ”

The male voice spoke of the location of the site suddenly stuck, and Rydge didn't hear what the word was. It was mixed with vague babble, which were fleeting and seemed to never appear.

The roar of machinery, the grinding of the train through the night wind, completely drowned out the slightest noise. The temperature inside the carriage is lower than that of the platform, almost comparable to that of an ice cellar.

The airtight carriage completely sealed in the cold air and passengers, and Ruiji couldn't help but miss the sweltering courtyard room at home and the tatami mats that covered her sweat after just a few minutes of lying down.

As early as the Heian period, witches had already developed a spell that could change body temperature in order to adapt to a variety of different temperature environments, and this spell was called [Thermostat Spell].

It is a simple and useful secondary spell,

Ruiji quickly constructed the technique in her mind, the warmth flowing through her veins, and the temperature of her blood rose to a stable value under the infiltration of magic, quickly driving away the chill that had penetrated her body.

As her stiff body warmed up by the flow of magic, she stepped away from the cold rectangular metal seat and walked to the other compartments. There is no one in the section you are on, maybe there are people in the other carriages?

Staying alone in an unfamiliar confined space is a personal distraction.

Even if the tram stop does not restrict the witch from carrying weapons, the sword with a very sense of security is also in her hand, and the abnormal atmosphere makes Ruiji dare not relax. When people are nervous, they tend to become neurotic, and she is on the verge of being suspicious at the moment.

The strange tale that appears in the courtyard tells about the night of the red moon, the izakaya chef he met on the way, and the station where the passengers suddenly disappeared...... One by one, they flashed in front of me like a slideshow.

The hand holding the knife tightened to the limit, the cold and hard metal and the rough pattern and the delicate white palm rubbed against each other, and the knuckles were pinched white with increasing force.

Ryche stepped over the slightly shaky carriage junction to the adjacent carriage. Then came the third and fourth sections, and she went all the way to the end, and there was not a single passenger on the train.

"Not good."

She looked down at her watch, and the brass-colored hands seemed to be affected by an anomalous magnetic field, completely violating the normal rules of walking, sometimes rushing forward, sometimes backward frantically, unable to discern the current time.

When I turned on my phone, I found that the time on the lock screen had also become an incomprehensible garbled code, and there was no such text in the real world. The misfortune is not a single line, the time is garbled, and the signal position in the upper left corner has also become "outside the circle", and the connection between Ruiji and the outside world has been completely cut off.

Outside the window of the train was the boundless night, and the scenery on both sides could not be seen clearly in the speeding train, all of which were blurry black shadows. The blood-colored moonlight pierced through the glass, leaving large patches of glowing scarlet on the floor of the carriage, which was shaped like neatly cut geometry.

Rhett stared at the red geometry and realized that it could move.

The wriggling color extended a few moving tentacles that pounced on her shadow, nearly strangling her throat. The strange talk of killing the main body by attacking the shadow is not high, and it is a little difficult, so as long as the shadow is not touched, it is not a big problem.

Dodge the entanglement of the tentacles, then draw your sword and slash. The magic-infused blade lit up with a string of golden spells, and it was no longer an ordinary ordinary sword, but had the ability to fight against strange words.

The body's muscle memory awakens at the critical moment, and a series of actions are made almost subconsciously.

It looks like Ryji is slashing at the Void, and her reflection does the same. The only thing that can hurt the shadow monster is its own reflection, and the only thing the body can do is make the shadow move.

"Go away—"

The sword stabbed diagonally downwards and sliced to the sides, the tentacles in the reflection sliced into several pieces by the sword, and the blades were burned into countless flying ashes with fire magic attached to them.

The lowest-level E-class monster is easy to deal with.

In the following time, Ruiji encountered some strange stories of the same type. If you have the right method, you can clean it up no matter how much you come. As the train entered the tunnel, the red moonlight was blocked by the rocks and concrete, and the shadow disappeared without a trace.

At the end of the tunnel is a station built near the town, and there are quite a few buildings scattered in front of it. Lights can be seen in buildings, and where there are lights, it means that there are people.

Ruiji didn't want to stay on this train for a second, and she couldn't wait to get off the train right away and find a way to contact Shizuru.

The chilling male voice came out of the radio again.

"Dear passengers, the next stop is...... Station, please prepare to get off the train in advance and wait for the train to stop. The next stop is ......"

The station name was still a vague whisper, and the train slowed down and stopped next to a rudimentary platform. The door opened, and Ruiji took her things and stepped out of the car, taking a hard breath of the fresh outdoor air.

The air in the carriage was always filled with a vague fishy sweetness, the atmosphere was indescribable, and everything that happened on it could not be explained by common sense.

Not only were there no passengers, but even the conductor and conductor at the front of the train did not respond to her call. The door of the cab cannot be opened from the outside, and the glass on the door is also one-way glass, so it is impossible to see what is inside from the outside.

The only passenger got off the train, and the tram didn't even have the patience to stop for a moment, and drove into the night in front of Ryji and continued along the tracks. While continuing to hitchhike was a viable option, she feared that if she continued to ride, someone would have an accident and get lost at the end of the night.

There are dozens of urban myths about trains in Japan, if not a hundred, but the most famous is the "train without an end". Those who get on the train can never leave the train, and can only drive forever between the present world and the chasm, and they will neither die nor return to the original world.

Endless torment, more painful than death.

Seeing the tram disappear completely into the dim horizon, Ruiji thought of turning around and looking at the stop sign first. Only by figuring out what kind of place this is can you find your way home.

The stop sign behind him is very old, the light tube inside has not been turned on, and the white stop sign is covered with a thin layer of dust and cobwebs, and no one has cleaned it for a long time.

On the front is the name of the station - Ruyue Station.