The city.

Xu Biewen stood on the balcony, looking at the skyscrapers in the city at the foot of the mountain and was fascinated.

"Are you worried?"

Fang Nian walked out of the living room behind him.

This is Fang Nian's villa. After helping to deal with Meng Feizhou's body, Xu Biewen was invited to Fang Nian's family.

Hearing Fang Nian's voice at this moment, Xu Biewen did not look back, but still looked at the city at the foot of the mountain: "You said... why did the train let us return to the real world this time?"

Fang Nian handed Xu Biewen a cup of coffee and leaned against the balcony.

"Do you think this is the real world?"

He looked at the city below the mountain with a deserted look.

“Isn’t it?”

Xu Biewen held the coffee, a little puzzled.

"Do you remember the date we got on the bus?" Fang Qingsheng asked.

"December 9, 2025." Xu Biewen said without any hesitation, "That afternoon, I heard the sound of trains in the underground garage, and called to notify you, and then..."

"Which day did we go back when we got off the bus this time?" Fang Nian asked again.

Xu Biewen seemed to have thought of something, and he said in disbelief: "2026...August 27."

Fang Nian tasted a sip of coffee and looked at Xu Biewen sideways: "To be precise, it was at 1:05 p.m. on August 27, 2026."

"This is the time when Duan Xu, Bai Feiyu, and Wang Yuli get on the bus."

Fang Nian's voice is a bit complicated.

Xu Biewen shook his head in disbelief and murmured: "Why is this happening? Why do we use the time they got on the bus as the starting point to return to reality... Is it because they are the most recent group of people who got on the bus?"

"This is possible." Fang Nian smiled and looked at the bustling city at the foot of the mountain.

"But... there is another possibility."

"What is it?" Xu Biewen's subconscious mind was telling him that Fang Nian's next sentence might break his worldview, but he still couldn't suppress his curiosity.

Fang Nian closed his eyes, took a deep breath of the fresh air in the mountains, and said: "Their time is the effective time for real flow, and our... is false, solidified, and useless time for the ending that has long been determined."

"Impossible!" Xu Biewen shook his head immediately, but his hand holding the coffee cup subconsciously tried to force, "If it's really what you said, then we, the train, and even the world are just a game? We are all NPCs, only Duan Xu, Bai Feiyu and the dead Wang Yuli are players?"

"It can be understood like this." Fang Nian did not deny the metaphor of Xu Biewen. Instead, he said with interest, "You, me, the train, the world, although they all exist and time is also flowing, but these are all relative to you and me. For NPC, the game world is the real world, and you and I cannot detect abnormalities. For players, the logic and ending of a game have been finalized. The background setting of the game is ten years, twenty years, one hundred years, or ten thousand years, because the real time flow is calculated from the moment the player enters the game. Do you think... does this look like our current situation?"

Xu Biewen was stunned by his words, but then Fang Nian continued: "And... I discovered something very interesting. After some people got on the bus, they were erased by the so-called real world in front of them, while others... still exist in the framework of the real world. Why is this?"

Xu Biewen remembered something, and he replied: "I have heard about this matter. If you die in the train world, you will be completely erased by the real world. Is that true?"

"This rule does exist, but... even if some people are not killed in the train world, they are erased by the real world." Fang Nian said something unexpected to Xu Biewen.

"No way?" Xu Biewen looked at Fang Nian in a daze. He suddenly realized that he did not know Fang Nian as he imagined.

"Of course, for example... Meng Feizhou." Fang Nian's voice gradually lowered.

"After returning to the real world, the first thing I did was to check everyone's real identities."

Xu Biewen suddenly felt a little chilling on his back.

He knew that Fang Nian was telling the truth. With his background, it would not be difficult for him to find out his real identity as long as Fang Nian remembers his name and appearance.

"Interesting things happened. In addition to the dead passengers in the train world, several people were wiped out by the real world, including Meng Feizhou." Fang Nian seemed to be speaking up, and did not notice that Xu Biewen's expression became stranger.

"I was wondering...will it be because we are indigenous people of this world, and they are players who come in as a certain identity? But... they don't have relevant memories. After getting on the car, it means that their game has begun. The identity used to play is naturally not important. Biewen, don't you think it's scary?" Fang Nian looked up at the sky, his eyes as if piercing the sky, looking at some unknown place. "I can always feel that there are pairs of eyes staring at us."

"So... is this the reason why you killed Meng Feizhou?" Xu Biewen suddenly spoke.

Fang Nian did not react at all. After a long time, he seemed to breathe, turned his body and looked at Xu Biewen: "I can't hide it from you."

"But... can you tell me how you noticed it?" Fang Nian asked curiously.

Xu Biewen looked down at Fang Nian's hand and suddenly laughed: "You have had a habit since you were a child."

Fang Nian also looked at his hand and asked, "Oh?"

"When you are lying or wanting to cover up something, your thumb will always be subconsciously hidden in your palm." Xu Biewen slowly raised his head and looked at Fang Nian's eyes. "Before you woke up from your dream, until we confirmed that Meng Feizhou was dead, your thumb was in that state."

"Actually... you've woken up long ago."

Xu Biewen looked at him with complicated eyes.

Fang Nian stared at his hand in a daze.

Until then, he always thought he was perfect.

Unexpectedly...

Fang Nian smiled helplessly.

He turned his back, leaned against the balcony railing, raised his head toward the sky, and said, "There are three reasons to kill him, two of which are optional, and one...is inevitable."

"Can you tell me?" Xu Biewen asked.

"Of course." Fang Nian squinted his eyes, as if the sun was too dazzling, and he seemed to not care.

"My consciousness is guiding me to find a knot, a knot that depicts some strange pattern. Meng Feizhou's knot has always been mysterious and powerful, so I want to see if it is in his hands." Speaking of this, Fang Nian shrugged, "What a pity, his ghost teeth are not that knot."

"The second reason, as I said just now, Meng Feizhou is very strange. He has not died in the train world, but has been erased from the real world. He must have something different from us. I want to know... If he really dies, what changes will happen to the real world. Unfortunately, he does not seem to be an important person."

The chill in Xu Biewen's heart became stronger and stronger. Fang Nian seemed to have no intention of hiding anything from him at all, but this attitude made Xu Biewen a little shaken.

At this time, Fang Nian gave the third reason, the reason he said... that he had to kill Meng Feizhou.

"The third... do you still remember those bloody words when you were on the train?" Fang Nian's voice became more serious.

Xu Biewen nodded subconsciously: "Remember, there are our names and the names of the missions."

Fang Nian shook his head, and an unconcealed look of fear appeared on his face: "In addition to those, I also saw other things. In my eyes, my name was not blood-red, but black, and... another line of black text appeared on the wall. The line of words told me that my identity was... explanation."

"Solution?" Xu Biewen never expected that when the train issued a mission, there was actually a hidden message, "What is the solution?"

"I don't know," Fang Nian took a sip of coffee, "but the words told me that my mission was different from the same group of passengers. It was not to survive for three days, but to kill everyone, or...at least one person."

Fang Nian whispered: "After three days in the mental hospital, I can sense the specific location of the ghost. Relatively speaking, I am very safe, but if I cannot kill a person as required to the minimum, I will be erased."

Speaking of this, Fang Nian smiled: "It just so happened that Meng Feizhou's suspicion had already attracted me, so I chose him."

Xu Biewen looked at Fang Nian in disbelief: "Is this...really?"

Fang Nian did not answer this sentence. In fact, based on Xu Biewen's understanding of Fang Nian, he also realized that Fang Nian did not lie. On the contrary, Fang Nian was particularly frank today.

but……

Unlike the "solve" of the identity of ordinary passengers, this is simply a time bomb buried among humans!

Fang Nian seemed to notice what Xu Biewen was thinking. He slowly walked into the living room with a coffee cup: "I think... there is also a 'solve' in the other two groups who are the same identity as me, but I don't know, would they choose to kill only one or all... get the reward?"

"Reward?" Xu Biewen looked at Fang Nian's back in surprise.

Fang Nian stopped, turned around, and looked at Xu Biewen meaningfully: "The reward for killing everyone is quite generous. Unfortunately, with you here, I can't kill all the members, so I'd just kill one."

Xu Biewen's heart trembled. Fang Nian's words...although it seemed to emphasize his importance.

But... Xu Biewen suddenly felt a strong sense of anxiety in his heart.

He took a deep breath and suppressed the thoughts that made him frightened.

Do you want to notify those two groups of people?

Xu Biewen had just had this idea, but at this moment, Fang Nian's voice suddenly came:

"You... don't be troublesome."

...

Xiaojia Town, villa.

Shu Wenan suddenly laughed when facing the powerful Qin Nianbing and Bai Feiyu.

He gently hugged Zhongqiu into his arms and looked at Meng Yue: "There are no other sex here except me, which means... you can die."

His voice was very soft, but what he said made Qin Nianbing, Bai Feiyu and Meng Yue feel cold in his heart.

They finally realized that Shu Wenan didn't want to deliberately murder Wu Shenxing, his goal... has been everyone from the beginning!

Shu Wenan hugged Zhongqiu, turned his head and looked at Bai Feiyu: "Miss Bai, I have nothing to explain, because... my position is completely different from yours."

He looked down at Zhongqiu, kissed her forehead, and whispered: "I am the one who knows... Only if you all die can I have hope..."

Without saying anything, he raised his head and looked at Bai Feiyu and the other two calmly:
Chapter completed!