Deadly Game: Almighty Boss’s Guide to Making Money

Chapter 1265. Midnight Return (5)

Lin Xi immediately took out her ticket and flipped it over.

There was also a line of small characters on the back, but the color was very light and could not be noticed at all without careful observation—Shadow Owner: Mu Xiaobei.

"Everyone, take a look at the back of your tickets!" Lin Xi shouted.

Everyone took out their tickets, and sure enough, each ticket had a corresponding name on the back.

And these people are all their names in the game.

"What does this mean?" Quan Quan asked, holding the train ticket. "The owner of the shadows? Does that mean our shadows belong to someone else?"

“No.” Guo Yuelang said thoughtfully. “Su Xiao’s diary says that the cloaked people are collecting shadows, and the names on the back of the tickets should be our own names. In other words, this train is recording our shadows, and once the shadows are taken away, the tickets will become invalid, and we will disappear.”

He paused, then pointed to a sentence in the diary—"Don't let the cloaked man capture your shadow."

"The shutter sound in the darkness just now was most likely the cloaked man taking pictures of our shadows. If it captures our shadows, it will steal them away, just like Su Xiao did."

Lin Xi looked towards the connection between the carriages and saw a faint red light shining from there, as if it were leaking from a crack in the door.

Just as she was about to get up, Yu Chen suddenly grabbed her: "I'll go check on things. You stay here and protect everyone."

“I’ll go with you.” Guo Yuelang stood up as well, taking a folding knife from his backpack. “It’s safer with two people.”

Yu Chen nodded.

“I’ll go with Xin Xin!” Li Chun said. “Let’s teleport there.”

He hasn't returned to his seat yet.

Lin Xi recalled the speed at which spring had just begun and spoke softly.

"Brother Lichun, do you have a teleportation skill, or are you using an item?"

Guo Yuelang's note only had his name on it, not his skills.

"Skills," Lichun said.

Lin Xi nodded.

Then don't worry.

In such a tense dungeon, skills are more necessary; if items are used, there will definitely be more than five.

Guo Yuelang and Lichun instantly teleported to the connecting area between the carriages.

The red light was coming from the next carriage.

Lichun glanced inside and her pupils instantly contracted.

In the next carriage, the walls were covered with photos, each showing the shadow of a passenger; some shadows were complete, while others were incomplete.

In the middle of the carriage, the person in the black cloak was standing in front of the window, holding a DSLR camera, aiming it at the shadow in the window, ready to take a picture.

Even more terrifying, the train conductor was standing behind the cloaked man, holding a black cloth bag in his hand, which seemed to contain something that was constantly wriggling.

Guo Yuelang obviously saw it too.

If it hadn't been stopped, probably no one in that carriage would have survived.

The two looked at each other, and just as Lichun was about to move, Guo Yuelang grabbed her arm.

Guo Yuelang shook his head at Lichun.

Li Chun paused for a moment, then suddenly remembered something and nodded to Guo Yuelang.

Are the two of them performing a pantomime?

They seem to have a great understanding.

—Have they met before?
—I've seen you before, but I don't remember.

—I don’t remember, but many players have seen it.

—You'll have to ask the viewers in Lichun and Xinxin's live stream for that.

—It seems really good to watch.

—With such a hectic schedule, you still have time to ship couples?

—I politely declined. Lichun and Xinxin are not a good match.

—Although Lichun is not ugly, he is not handsome either.

Neither of them moved, but both looked toward that carriage.

The man in the cloak had already taken several photos, but the people in the carriage didn't seem to notice anything amiss.

They didn't know what he was filming, but since he wasn't filming them, no one asked. "It seems the situation in that carriage is different from ours," Lichun said slowly. "No one has disappeared yet because they blocked the shadows outside the window, so everyone is quite calm."

"Aren't there any players?" Guo Yuelang frowned slightly.

No sooner had he finished speaking than several people suddenly rushed up to the cloaked man and the train conductor.

A dagger pierced the man's heart.

At the same time, another person snatched the bag from the train conductor's hand.

Screams erupted from the carriage.

“Someone has disappeared,” Lichun said in a low voice. “Because those people blocked the shadows of many others when they rushed over.”

"But the train conductor and the man in black are blocking everyone's shadows, so everything should be fine," Guo Yuelang said.

"I wonder how many players are left," Lichun said, looking ahead.

Guo Yuelang also looked at his live stream.

On Linxi's side, everyone in the carriage was fine; everyone looked serious, and no one was moving around in the carriage for the time being.

However, if the train doesn't reach its destination, something will still happen.

It's impossible for everyone to avoid using the restroom.

Back then, unless you crouched down or walked very fast, you wouldn't block other people's shadows.

Lin Xi and Huang Jingjing were also watching the live stream.

—Holy crap, there are over fifty people missing.

—120, now only 30 left, that's scary.

Are all those people newbies? How come they were eliminated so quickly?
—Even for someone who isn't a novice, this was caught off guard; it was too fast.

—Yes, when I'm on a bus, my favorite thing to do is look out the window.

--Me too.

—I saw two players crawl under the lower bunk to sleep, hahahahahaha.

—Did you not violate any taboos?

--No.

—Hahahaha, that's a good idea!

— Quite cute.

—A fight broke out over there.

—What happened?

Lin Xi wanted to continue watching, but Guo Yuelang and Lichun had already teleported over.

"Has something happened over there?" Lin Xi asked.

Guo Yuelang recounted what had happened.

"But it was no use. The men in black couldn't be killed with ordinary tools. The train conductor's bag was gone, but another one would appear."

“As long as the train doesn’t stop, we probably won’t be able to get through customs,” Huang Jingjing said.

“There aren’t many players left,” Bai Yueming said. “Should we continue?”

“If we don’t continue, we’ll still be helpless if we go back into this dungeon,” Lin Xi said. “We have to find the key to clearing it!”

"I don't care anyway," Bai Yueming shrugged.

Just then, a "click" sound was heard.

Bai Yueming immediately turned around.

The girl who took the first photo was holding an instant camera, with the lens pointed directly at them.

Behind her stood a figure in a black cloak.

"What are you doing!" Bai Yueming shouted sternly.

In an instant, Lichun (the beginning of spring) teleported away and snatched the girl's camera.

A strange smile curled at the corners of the girl's mouth.

“I just want to help you. Look, there are your shadows in the camera, and there are his shadows too. As long as we can photograph him, we can find his weakness.”