Survival [End Times]

All this happened so quickly, the passengers were all excited! people! The staff showed up!

"The fucking staff finally dared to show up. They have been playing tricks on me all night and I have to kill them!" The middle-aged man with a bad temper ran over angrily and stretched out his fist: "You fucking--ah!"

Everyone was stunned as they watched the fist pass through the ticket collector's face. The ticket inspector still wore a professional smile: "Please bring your ID card and ticket for me to check." Another ticket inspector also smiled and said to the crowd: "Please line up to check in as soon as possible, otherwise you will be delayed and you will not be able to leave. Oh.”

The smiling ticket inspector gave off a ghostly look. Some passengers took a few steps back. The waiting hall was extremely quiet. Some children were frightened into crying by this atmosphere. The children's cries became even louder at this time. Add horror.

The middle-aged man covered his hands and backed away slowly on the ground. The ticket inspector in front of him continued to smile and said: "Please show me your ID card and ticket for inspection."

"Ah! Ghost!"

Watching the middle-aged man run away, the crowd suddenly became noisy.

"What's going on? I feel like I'm panicking."

Seeing that the time on the wall display changed to twenty-seven minutes, Yu Heng strode up and took out his ID card and ticket.

The ticket inspector reached out to take it, compared it carefully, and nodded before returning it to him: "Go over."

Yu Heng took the ticket and ID card, and saw that the originally simple ticket with only the words Suihong to Jixiang had become complete. Not only the train number, departure time, and seat were filled in, but also his name!

It says Zhang Luheng, the name is written in red, and each stroke is drawn out, like blood oozing out.

Yu Heng put away the things but was not in a hurry to go over. He asked, "Can you open the door and let us out? I don't want to take the next bus. I want to go back to my home."

The ticket inspector's standard smile disappeared, his lips raised strangely, and he spoke in a faint tone: "Open the door? I can't open it, but I might be able to open it after the train leaves." He stared at Yu Heng with no concealed malice. : "You can also choose to stay and see if you can go back to your home."

Before Yu Heng could answer, the other passengers exploded in anger.

"What does this mean? Please explain it clearly!"

"Yes, yes, we are not allowed to leave. This is illegal imprisonment!"

"Where is the auspicious station? I have never heard of such a station."

The ticket inspector paused, adjusted his facial expression at a visible slow speed, and became polite and gentle again: "The train will leave in twenty-six minutes, are you still checking the tickets?"

Yu Heng has another question: "Will we be free at the terminal? Can we go home?"

The ticket inspector ignored him and kept smiling to remind other passengers to hurry up and check their tickets. Seeing that he couldn't find anything, Yu Heng crossed the ticket gate, but he didn't leave in a hurry and still stood there to see the situation of others. After the first person tried it, other people with tickets in their hands also lined up to check in.

The ticket check-in speed is very fast. People without tickets are not allowed to pass. However, if passengers check the ticket gates by themselves, the ticket inspector will turn a blind eye and ignore them.

"Let me tell you, this must be a joke! You can leave without a ticket."

In the end, all the passengers passed the ticket gate. Regardless of whether they had tickets or not, nearly a thousand people went to the platform together. Some still stayed in the waiting hall because the ticket inspector said that the gate might be opened after the train left.

"Then we can go home then!"

According to normal time, fourteen hours have passed from last night to today. It must be daytime now, but in fact, it is still pitch black outside, the platform lights are bright, and there is obviously no sound of the train stopping. A train has stopped. There, it doesn’t look much different from the shape of the trains I’ve taken in the past. Several birds circled in the air and made sharp calls. When their wings flapped, their figures alternated between darkness and light. Yu Heng looked away and looked away.

There was also a train conductor outside the door. He refused the train conductor to help him carry his luggage. After getting on the train, he found the car and the seat according to the ticket mark. After sitting down, he looked at the car. It was a very ordinary car. The yellow light was a bit hazy. There were quite a few people in the carriage with him. After they were all seated, it was probably two-thirds full, about eighty people.

He was sitting by the window and could see the passengers without tickets who were blocked outside and arguing fiercely with the train conductors. Whether they couldn't find the tickets or didn't look for them, they were stopped.

Faced with the crowd's pushing, the train conductor at the door showed that meaningful and malicious smile again: "It's not impossible for you to get on the train. The conductor's office on the train can make up for the ticket. Are you - are you sure you can pay that price? "

"How much does a replacement ticket cost?"

"Well, this is not a price you can accept."

"I have a lot of money! Get out of the way——"

When someone squeezed onto the train, there was a second person. The train conductor seemed to have given up completely and turned around to enter the car. Yu Heng saw that person entering the conductor's room at the front of the car. Watching the conductor's room door close, the other passengers looked at me and I looked at you, and they all chose to get on the train first and pay for their tickets later.

Another two minutes passed after they came up. All the doors were closed, the whistle sounded, and the train moved forward. The last passenger to get on the bus complained and walked slowly, holding on to the back of his chair, looking for an empty seat. Yu Heng lay on the glass window and looked at the platform behind him. When he was about to lose sight, he saw that the entire station suddenly fell into darkness.

All the lights went out. At that moment, the puppet he left in the station lost contact again, and he could "see" nothing. He sat up straight again, thinking about what the people who stayed at the station were doing now. Was the station door really open?

While thinking, Yu Heng took out the amulet to ward off evil spirits. As expected, the amulet turned black again. The ticket inspector we just met and the conductors on this train are most likely ghosts. They disguise themselves as humans, where exactly are they going to take them? Everything is still unknown now. He knows that if the ghost is still willing to pretend to be a human, it can still maintain the surface calm and there is still room for negotiation. If you don't even bother pretending, that would be a big mistake.

Wait and see.

By this time, the carriage had settled down, and the conductor came out of the lounge and led all the people in the carriage to make up their tickets. The conductor's memory is particularly good. He doesn't need the passengers to stand up and point one by one with their fingers: "You, you, you..."

Watching the flight attendant leading people to the middle of the train and to the conductor's office to replenish their tickets, Yu Heng stood up and followed behind, intending to see how the replenishment of tickets was done. The carriage he was in was carriage number four. When he reached the eighth carriage, he remembered that this was the kitchen and dining room. This carriage looked very long, the dining room seemed to be of average size, and the kitchen took up a little more space. If you want to pay for a replacement ticket, it is usually in the conductor's office in the car next to the restaurant. According to previous experience, there will be a bar where you can do things.

But after walking over, he realized something was wrong. In this obviously longer carriage, the conductor's office was also inside. He saw the conductor sitting behind the bar. There were already many people here waiting to make up their tickets, and the discussion was buzzing.

"This guest, you shouldn't be here, please go back." Yu Heng wanted to look again, but was stopped by a flight attendant. The arm in front of him was thick and powerful, with a smell of oil smoke and an indescribable strangeness. Wen'er, he turned his head and saw a chef wearing a chef's hat. The chef looked dissatisfied and cut him out from head to toe, with eyes like boning knives, which made Yu Heng very uncomfortable, so he smiled. , explained: "I'm waiting for my friend."

The chef pushed him out without hesitation: "If you want to wait, just wait here." He pushed him to the passage outside the restaurant. Soon, people in other carriages were also led over by the conductor one after another. The people in line were number 8. The carriage was crowded, so he retreated further back. After waiting for a while, I saw a few familiar passengers coming out of the carriage, so we went back to the carriage together.

After returning to the carriage, many passengers came to ask: "How is it?" Their eyes were filled with panic and anxiety. Anyone who is not extremely nervous can feel that things are weird.

"It's okay! The fare is not expensive, but he actually asked me if this is the only money I have." A male passenger burst out laughing: "Then if I don't bring RMB, should I still use US dollars to buy the ticket? Otherwise Japanese yen and Hong Kong dollars hahaha. It’s so funny.”

Yu Heng hadn't really heard the news just now. He listened quietly for a while and found that other passengers had been asked this question.

"Then you didn't ask each other what kind of money they charge?"

"Hey, of course I asked, but he didn't make it clear. He must be entertaining us! Money, money, isn't that just a few things? We are all locals, and we don't usually need Hong Kong dollars and US dollars. Where can I find it? But he didn’t want it, so I asked him if he wanted paper money if he didn’t want RMB, hahaha.”

"Then how did he answer?" Hearing this, he felt something was wrong. At this time, he has already regarded this train as a scourge, but also as a "clearance" game, so whether it is "finding train tickets", "replacing tickets", "replacing tickets with coins", etc., they are all key clues.

Faced with his inquiry, the passenger scratched his head and said, "The train conductor just laughed and took my money and gave me a ticket."

A woman said: "I tried it once." She took out her wallet, which contained a few Hong Kong dollars. She took out the Hong Kong dollars: "I asked the conductor if it was okay, but he didn't give a clear answer, but I looked at his expression. It shouldn't be possible." She glanced at Yu Heng and said, "Everyone knows how strange things have happened to us in the past two days, so I hid my thoughts and took out the ones I got at the station ahead. wallet."

She took out another man's wallet and took out the money inside: "It looks like our RMB, but the train conductor's expression changed at that time, as if he was a little dissatisfied, but he still gave me a replacement ticket. I guess This is the kind of money he wants.”

Someone took one and looked at it over and over: "This looks exactly like RMB." It was a hundred-yuan bill. The man rubbed it and held it up to the light to see whether it was genuine or not: "It seems to be real money, isn't it?" □□.”

"That's weird, isn't it all about money?"

"Oops! I think you're just overthinking it, sister. Maybe you've read it wrong. It's just a replacement ticket. It's not that complicated!"

The woman snatched the money back and put it away, sneering: "You guys keep deceiving yourselves! Who has the means to control a station and turn off all lights around the station? The previous station was originally the terminal. My home is in the old town 500 meters away from the station. I have lived here for 30 years, and this is the first time I have encountered such a situation. There are so many of us. The broadcast also said that there are 944 people in total. So many people were delayed and did not get off the train to go home. Did your family call? Can we call out? Not to mention that a signal jammer was installed, even if it was really It was the entertainment program that was playing a prank on us. Such means are also illegal! Think about the ticket inspector. I saw clearly that the fist of the gentleman who hit him really went through the ticket inspector's face! "

After a lot of chatter, the woman squeezed out of the crowd with a sullen face and walked back to her seat. The others were silent. Yu Heng sat in the empty seat next to the woman's seat and asked in a low voice: "Can I see your ticket?"

The woman took it out silently. Yu Heng thanked him and looked carefully. This ticket was exactly the same as his except for personal information and seat.

"This is mine, you can take a look too."

The woman quickly finished reading and returned the ticket to him. Yu Heng took the initiative to introduce himself: "My name is Zhang Luheng."

"My name is Wu Yuxuan."