The Modern Age of the Mysterious

v1 Chapter 512: endless?

"An extra car?" Moonlight frowned, looking at the car that continued to extend...

The Northland Express has only 16 carriages, however, this Lingjian obviously does not intend to follow that.

Standing in the corridor, Sean was also looking at the newly appeared carriage.

Judging from the decoration and arrangement, it is certain that what is in front of me is definitely not the carriage of the Northland Express.

"Is there another train's carriage in front?" Moonlight turned around and asked.

Xiao En pondered for a while, and the small torch of the oath floating beside him floated into the newly-appeared carriage first: "The only way to know is to keep going."

The three stepped into the 17th car that did not exist in the real Northland Express.

The decoration here is obviously more elegant than the last carriage of the Northland Express. There are simple panels on the walls. In the open compartment, there are faded red leather sofas and dusty carpets on the floor.

However, the interior of this carriage is obviously much older than the previous carriages.

And the decoration style is also obviously different.

"It's indeed another train." Sean nodded slightly.

Connect different trains in series?

The structure of this spiritual world seems to be a little special.

But what is the point of doing so?

A picture appeared in Sean's mind——

The passage connected by the carriages of different trains is like an exceptionally deep cave with no end in sight...

God knows what's hidden inside.

The musty wind was like the breath of a dying beast.

An ominous breath came from the dark corridor ahead.

Sean added some "fuel" to the torch of the oath—he increased the output of spiritual power, and the golden fireworks dispelled the ominousness, allowing the three of them to move forward with peace of mind.

After passing through more than a dozen empty carriages again, Sean stopped again.

He looked at the next car lit by the torches—clearly, again, not the train they were on.

"Sure enough, trains are connected together!" Moonlight suddenly felt a little creepy, feeling that everything in front of him was like a trap, "Xiao, what does this mean?"

Sean stared straight ahead, the carriage of the third train: "Remember the smoke scar on the carpet on the Northland Express?"

Moonlight suddenly realized that due to excessive nervousness, she had overlooked this detail.

Sean turned his head and said, "In the dining car just now, there was that cigarette scar."

Sean recalled that he looked at the ugly smoke scar like a devil's eye in front of the leather shoes by the light of the torch.

"That is to say..." There was a trace of fear in Yueguang's eyes, and his dry throat made him swallow, "Is the original carriage we are in now?"

Sean nodded, "That's right.

"In order to transfer those people here, an identical space was 'recreated' in this spiritual world, replacing the original carriage, and transferring the people in the carriage over."

Moonlight's eyes widened: "... More than one train... That, that is to say...

Sean agreed with him: "The disappearance happened more than once!"

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Whenever the chorus of "Auld Lang Syne" sounded in a certain car, and due to various reasons, such as power outages, entering tunnels, or simply turning off the lights, and lack of lighting...

In this weird spiritual world, the entire train will be reproduced, and then the people in the chorus carriage will be transferred to the spiritual world.

It can be known from the clothes of those "diners"—

Some of the people who were transferred here became food piled on the dining table...

Some were twisted into monsters.

After Yueguang cleared everything that was happening at this moment in his mind, his face was full of incomprehensible expressions: "Why? Why is it set up like this?

"Turning missing people into monsters, or into food... what's the point?"

This question also made Sean frown.

Delving deeper into the question raised by Moonlight, this is indeed the weirdest part of the whole thing—

If this spirit space was the work of the wraith, then everything that happened here would have an explanation: the wraith is such a twisted thing.

However, it is obvious that such a "common" but infrequent entry scenario can be set up: no light plus the chorus "Auld Lang Syne"... Such a thing does not seem to be something that Wraith can do.

What exactly is the meaning and purpose here?

With such doubts in mind, they continued to walk deep into the "train".

After continuing on for ten minutes and crossing two trains again, Sean noticed something.

"Did you find out?

"If you look at the Northland Express as the front of the train...

"The farther you go to the rear of the car, the older the cabin gets."

Moonlight and Olivia looked around at this moment, and found that the decoration style of the carriage they were in at the moment was indeed a bit outdated...

It's like a car from ten years ago.

"Maybe..." Sean whispered, "The oldness of the carriage, like annual rings, shows the birth date of this strange place..."

Sean stared straight ahead, wondering where the end of the road was.

They continued through car after car, seeing increasingly outdated, antiquated decor...

Not only that, but the outside of the car window is getting darker and darker.

Sean had to continue to increase the spiritual power supply of the torch to illuminate the same area as before.

They went on, on and on, passing through one carriage after another that was getting older and older.

Suddenly, Sean, who was walking in the front, stopped.

Moonlight looked at Xiao En's back suspiciously, and wanted to ask what happened, but saw Olivia beside her, staring forward with a pair of crystal red eyes with surprise.

What's wrong? what happens?

Feeling a little panicked, Moonlight glanced over Sean's shoulder~lightnovelpub.net~just one glance, and he was stunned.

The scene ahead seemed to make Sean forget that the vibrating card reminded him—

This is a very old-looking carriage, the iron wall of the carriage is painted dark green, the wide back seats occupy the space clumsily, and there is a unique smell in the carriage.

It seems that the place is covered with thick dust because it has been dusted for too long—these are not worth mentioning, after all, they have already passed through dozens of carriages, and it is already a little strange.

And what shocked Sean and his party at this moment was...

The fire illuminated a row of seats not far ahead, and in that seat sat an old man in a gray suit.

He is like an ordinary train passenger, closing his eyes and resting his mind during the boring journey.

He was breathing evenly and had apparently fallen asleep sitting up.