Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 377 "Subway Waiting Room"

Shortly after Lin Yilin resolved the auditory and visual hallucination incident at the construction site, she used Hong Yijia's connections to take advantage of a material support transportation opportunity from Xixi Keke to Jiangwen Street to bring back the commuter who was rumored to have taken a non-existent subway from Xixi Keke to Jiangwen overnight.

That completes all the requests for that day.

The police and relevant departments are making good progress in apprehending the Xixi Keke underground criminal gang. However, as a large criminal network, it involves many people, and many of them even have legitimate backgrounds.

Shishikoko has never been entirely peaceful, but this earthquake has drawn out too many people.

People like Mo Mang are not the majority in the gray neighborhood.

The underground criminal network is not limited to Xixi Keke; many people have escaped to nearby neighborhoods through pre-prepared channels.

Others found time to board the Zero subway line, then simply missed their stop, not caring where their destination was, as long as they could escape Xixi Keke's pursuit.

The destabilizing effect of Metro Line 0 on the capital city is highlighted in this respect.

In addition to fueling crime, the influence of Metro Zero itself was gradually spreading. Seeing their scheme exposed, the criminal gangs immediately decided to further complicate matters.

Originally, the attitude of the Metropolitan Government and even the authorities was to keep the Zero Subway a secret for the time being, allowing everyone to tacitly treat it as an urban legend.

The criminal gang made a public announcement, letting word get out.

Although their network of connections limited the spread of the news, which mainly circulated among certain agencies and underworld gangs, the general public only felt that the discussion surrounding this ghost story seemed to have increased recently, but there were no other major changes.

However, law firms vary greatly in quality, and many gangs survive in the cracks by looking for opportunities. As soon as they heard about Subway Zero, they flocked to it.

Even though this criminal network was dismantled after this incident, various types of smuggling transactions in the streets and alleys of the area were still difficult to control.

For most of the authorities, this behavior did not cause any real loss, since these things were bound to happen sooner or later as the Zero subway line began operating. However, it was still incredibly disgusting, and they had to spend more manpower to deal with it.

Lin Yilin took some time to visit Metro Line 0 a few more times in the following days, hoping to explore more of what had happened in the past. Unfortunately, it seemed that Metro Line 0 was mainly dealing with trivial matters, and the biggest scene was the impact of the earthquake.

Moreover, after being directly thrown into Jiangwen Street, I haven't encountered such situations again. Even when I went to the earthquake impact site, it was always to some relatively peripheral areas.

Although there were indeed many things that Lin Yilin had not experienced during the earthquake, she was still slightly disappointed.

She then temporarily abandoned her plan to go to subway line zero. As she herself said, even if she is in good health, a normal routine is still the best approach.

The Zero subway line severely disrupted Lin Yilin's normal daily routine.

If you don't gain much, you might as well stay in the office until the wee hours and hang out with Zheng Fan, sleep a bit, and occasionally have a late-night snack when you're feeling peckish.

If all else fails, you can always eat toast.

However, Lin Yilin still keeps up with news about Metro Line 0.

Fried, who should be called "Mr. Sunday Fog" online, went to the Secret Service after visiting the Zero Subway. Afterwards, he started a forum online in the name of the agency.

The forum's name is quite self-explanatory—Waiting Room for Subway Line 0.

This is a discussion forum for passengers who have ridden the Line 0 subway. You must be invited to apply to join, browse information, and participate in discussions.

Passengers can share information they obtain from the Zero subway on this forum, ask others to pay them to view it, and also directly arrange to meet up with others offline.

The forum itself was not formal, but it quickly reached a considerable size. With a reasonably good platform guaranteeing the rules, the forum grew rapidly, and even some areas outside of Xixi Keke joined in.

The fact that the forum could grow so quickly, integrate its members, and even ensure the enforcement of its rules clearly indicates that it has some form of platform backing. While strong control is not possible, a certain degree of integration and guidance can be implemented, establishing relatively favorable rules. If these rules are truly effective and bring significant convenience and benefits even in chaotic situations, they will naturally attract more people.

Finally, it expands to form a relatively stable circle.

That's a good idea.

Thanks to this, Lin Yilin now spends a lot of time browsing the forum every day, looking for valuable information that has been updated daily.

Because she spends money lavishly, she will pay for access to information regardless of whether it is useful or not, and Miss Number One's reputation has unknowingly grown on the forum.

It is worth noting that discussions about a certain "garbled code" in Metro Line 0 have been ongoing on forums for a long time.

From the very beginning, many people have mentioned encountering "garbled text" on some websites. After countless painful lessons, it has been uniformly labeled as "garbled text level" by everyone in the forum.

You can't see the specific shapes of these things, or even distinguish what kind of moves they use, and the moves themselves are all kinds of strange and bizarre.

It's a pure riddle, but it's extremely complex.

If this happens, it means the site is definitely not easy. Although sometimes seemingly casual sites might suddenly display this garbled text, the previous pattern generally holds true.

It's not that no one has ever gone to great lengths to defeat this garbled code; the ticket revenue after defeating the garbled code is definitely higher than that of the station. However, considering the inherent risks, it is still extremely undesirable to provoke it.

If its existence is confirmed, the best course of action is to run away as quickly as possible.

After all, the vast majority of people who get on board are looking for an easy life, not a high-risk, high-reward gamble.

Moreover, due to the "indescribable" nature of garbled text, passengers cannot easily determine what kind of garbled text they are facing.

Sometimes garbled text can seem quite fragile, but other times it feels like it could destroy the world if you put a little effort into it; the difference between its upper and lower limits is huge.

Considering that their average level is quite high, it is hoped that other passengers will not take any chances.

Lin Yilin also follows some forums that specialize in researching garbled characters.

For example, it seems that after obtaining information from Fried, the Secret Agency organized a team to conduct an onboard investigation. Initially, they paid a considerable price, but after that, they gradually summarized some patterns and were not stingy in sharing some of their research and investigation results on the forum.

They were also the team mentioned above that defeated the weaker gibberish team.

The feeling of being treated as a randomly spawning "wilderness boss" by a group of passengers was quite strange, and Lin Yilin kept an eye on it for various reasons.

Fortunately, because of its "indescribable" nature, no one associated these garbled characters with real people; they simply considered them some kind of randomly added harvesting mechanism in the Zero subway system.

Lin Yilin was wary of the possibility that she and Mr. Illusion's other hosts might be exposed, but it seemed unlikely at the moment.

Based on her intensive posting, she discovered that most of the garbled text encountered by those people seemed to be typed by Mr. Illusion on the site.

Furthermore, the logic of the garbled code's actions differs from that of the normal actions. When Mr. Illusion uses his abilities in battle, he does so with a preference and a sense of ritual that is optional, but the garbled code does not.

In addition, its indescribable nature makes it almost impossible to summarize patterns and commonalities through actions and abilities, further obscuring the true identity of the garbled text.

Although the existence of garbled text itself annoyed Mr. Illusion, it was precisely these clumsy forms of expression that prevented the hosts' identities from being directly exposed by Subway Zero.

So, in order to make Zheng Fan happy, even though she was temporarily uninterested in Metro Line 0, Lin Yilin still had to frequently take Zheng Fan on the train to chase after random codes and soothe his mood.

(End of this chapter)