Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 136 Nectarine

Accompanied by the whistle and roar, the Nectarine drove into the train platform.

This is a train with a retro appearance. It is also the first train built by the people of this world after the aliens shared their technology. Although it has undergone several generations of updates, it has always retained the original appearance of Nectarine.

There were only a few passengers waiting for the train, and Duan Mingyuan and his two companions were the first to board the Peach.

The ticket checking process went extremely smoothly, and the uniformed staff smiled and wished them a pleasant journey.

This made Duan Mingyuan worry about the security situation in the court.

Just now, the friendly staff member personally put the most wanted criminal in this star region onto the train.

The three-person carriage is located at the front of the train and is reserved for visiting royal family members and envoys from outer space. There is even a wine rack in the carriage, which is filled with obviously expensive wines.

Ning Ruyue was filled with emotion at the spacious environment.

When she left the court, she did not take such a luxuriously decorated train. Instead, she wrapped herself in a blanket and moved to many places before finally escaping from the court without being noticed.

Jiu Yue did not feel any difficulty in adapting. She arranged her luggage, chose her bed, and studied the menu on the table. The train provides three meals a day. In order to adapt to the eating habits of people from different planets, the food on the Pineapple is said to be directly supplied by a universe-level catering company.

It's all free.

As a little fox from the mountains, Jiuyue has never enjoyed royal treatment.

She had great respect for the word "free".

Duan Mingyuan studied the passenger manual.

The journey takes one day and one night.

It actually doesn't take that long at the speed of the Nectarine, but in order to ensure the secrecy of the journey, the length of each journey is decided by the train conductor himself, with the shortest being two hours and the longest being one day and one night. The specific time of the journey will only be known after the passengers have checked their tickets and boarded the train.

They just happened to randomly get the longest time this time.

After boarding the train, passengers' external communication devices are cut off, and the train is equipped with a secure internal network system for passengers to handle work affairs.

"It is said that this is to prevent the killer from knowing the time in advance and setting an ambush along the way."

Ning Ruyue followed suit and picked up the passenger manual. She pressed the button near the window according to the instructions in the manual, and the scenery outside the window suddenly turned into the starry sky. After pressing it again, it turned into the seabed. After switching back and forth several times, it finally stopped at the winding circular mountain road, which reminded her of the time when she was still in the academy.

"The environment outside the window is a virtual image. Passengers cannot actually see the outside. The interior of the carriage is completely closed. It is said that many celebrities have been assassinated on the Nectarine..."

"To be exact, 67 people, including two executives of One World."

As soon as the sound entered the carriage, it brought a strong smell of gunpowder. The person who came in was more than two meters tall and had to turn his body sideways to enter the door.

His dress style seemed to come from another era, with a heavy black leather windbreaker and white silk gloves. He looked at the three people with an aggressive gaze before he stretched out his right hand to Ning Ruyue and said, "One-Eye, the 41st conductor of the Nectarine."

"You still have both eyes, why are you called One-Eye?"

September raised her hand obediently to ask a question.

"This was the name of the first conductor. He lost his left eye in an explosion, and subsequent conductors inherited his name."

The Curse of the One-Eye (Blessing).

Ning Ruyue turned to a page in the train manual and handed it to Jiuyue quietly like a student doing small movements in class.

This page records the anecdotes on the Nectarine.

40 out of the 37 subsequent train conductors lost an eye for various reasons. Some people believe that this is a curse left on the Nectarine by the first generation of train conductors, but others believe that it is a blessing, because no matter what dangerous situation they encountered, the conductor survived until his retirement or even the day he died of old age.

One-Eye saw the little act and said, "I still have 13 years and 42 days until I retire." He still had plenty of time to lose an eye in an attack.

"Uh, I'm not cursing you."

Ning Ruyue felt a little guilty.

This is a strange anecdote about the Nectarine, but it is not funny to the conductor who may lose an eye in the future.

The one-eyed man didn't care about it and continued the previous topic, "Every train conductor is carefully selected. Since the Nectarine's existence, there have been 317 assassination attempts, it has been blown up 5 times, and 17 universe-level wanted criminals have been born."

"…Your train is actually a murder train, right?"

September complained quietly.

Ning Ruyue awkwardly tried to smooth things over, "But most of these happened when the court was first established, right? It's much safer now."

She had heard the story of the Nectarine when she was a child.

There are historical reasons for this. The war had just ended and the political situation in the court was not yet stable. Many assassins from the civilian population refused to submit to the court and planned one assassination after another.

The targets are mostly dignitaries in the court who bow to the outside world, and among them are also employees of world companies visiting the court.

But the one-eyed man did not respond to her words, "This place is as dangerous as a murder train. Especially you, Your Highness, there are many people who want to assassinate you, but I can assure you that as long as you strictly abide by the rules in the manual, you will be safe before getting off the train."

"Eh? Are you saying there's a killer on the train?"

"We cannot rule out this possibility. Even if we enter the court, we cannot take it lightly."

The one-eyed man said, "Among the guards who escorted you away, there was a close friend of mine. I originally suggested that you leave the court via the Nectarine, but was rejected."

Ning Ruyue didn't know how to respond for a moment.

The guards who escorted her out of the court had all died, and it happened so long ago that she could not remember their names at all.

"It's Wang Xu."

The one-eyed man said, "We have received intelligence that members of Wangxu have been trying to infiltrate the court. They are likely already on this train."

After explaining the potential threats, One-Eye turned around and left in style.

This seems to be his style of doing things, speaking directly and acting decisively, but it is easy to leave a bad first impression on people.

Ning Ruyue was worried, but when she turned around, she saw Jiuyue and Duan Mingyuan who seemed fine.

"teacher……"

She was worried. "The conductor said that there might be members of Wangxu sneaking on the train."

"Yeah, I heard it."

September responded without even looking up, she had made an important discovery.

All aliens actually eat chicken.

This fully demonstrates that chicken has the potential to become the hard currency of the universe.

"It's Wang Xu's killer!"

Seeing that Jiu Yue didn't seem to realize the seriousness of the matter, Ning Ruyue emphasized, "They are universe-level wanted criminals with a bounty of more than seven figures offered by the company!"

(End of this chapter)