I slay demons and monsters in a bizarre city.

Chapter 39: The Ghost Train, an Infinite Flow Dungeon

The black goat had a blank expression, but his bulbous eyes shone with an unusual light. He held a thread-bound Sudoku booklet in his hand, and his gaze toward Li Changgeng held expectation mixed with a hint of mockery. Although he still addressed Li Changgeng as "Lord Li," the respect he showed last time was different.

The girl who slowly stood up from her seat was named Li Ying. She was the enemy of the Black Goat, as well as the enemy of Octopus Girl and the Nine-Tailed Blue Fox. As for the tabby cat that grew to the size of a tiger, it was an even greater foe of the Black Goat.

The reason why the black goat was more hostile to Li Changgeng was that Li Changgeng cheated on him. When playing Sudoku, Li Changgeng took advantage of the black goat's unfamiliarity with the rules and cheated!
Although Li Changgeng did not discriminate against the black goat for having mental problems, he considered it a "spiritual goat."

"Brother Yang, this guy is about to escape. If he goes to the front of the Ghost Train and finds the driver, then we'll have no chance." The Nine-Tailed Fox was still as beautiful as ever. Her fan was gone; Li Changgeng had taken it. During the game, she didn't know what was going on with Li Changgeng, but he had won against her anyway.

"All I want is my fan, or more precisely, that golden revolver."

"This girl is easy to handle, but this big tabby cat is a bit troublesome! However, foxes and cats have always been mortal enemies. Just thinking about taking this pet cat in and making it my little follower makes me happy, hehe..."

Octopus Girl's gaze towards Li Changgeng sharpened, and she even stuck out her long tongue to lick her bloodied and withered lips.

"This kid even injured my fingers and face, causing me to lose teeth and be disfigured. I will never forgive him! He has the divine essence of the Skull Grim Reaper. Brother Yang, are we unable to touch him?"

Octopus Girl's desire to eat living people is even stronger than that of the Nine-Tailed Green Fox. Being able to eat people with divine status is a kind of divine evolution for her. Although Octopus Girl's divine status belongs to the water element, the divine status of Li Changgeng is not closely related to her divine status.

"It's alright, I can still hold onto the divine power of the Skeleton Death God!" The Black Goat's eyes bulged out in anger. "I trusted him too much. After hearing what you all said, I realized that he's only managed to survive this long thanks to the Saw Demon. I thought he was the chosen one."

These three terrifying and eerie monsters, radiating an evil aura, truly terrified Li Changgeng. With his current strength, Li Changgeng was simply not capable of surviving. His only way out was to enter the engine of the train and find a new place to live.

Despite having the Death God card, the Fengdu Hearse card, and the Golden Revolver, he couldn't summon any of these three items on the Ghost Train.

Li Changgeng's hand was already on the handle connecting the locomotive. He gently pulled the door and felt that it would open with just a little force, allowing him to smoothly enter the locomotive carriage. This was a result of Li Changgeng's previous experience on the train; he could usually enter the carriage from one car to another safely.

But this would mean the end for his sister, Li Ying.

Li Ying's body became increasingly transparent, yet her figure remained remarkably clear, as if she were about to vanish. Li Changgeng recalled the Saw Demon he encountered every time he came to the Ghost Train, who claimed to be from the Mythology Administration Bureau. Could Li Ying be another manifestation of the Saw Demon?

Li Ying stood up completely from her seat and gently stroked the cat's tail.

"With me here, none of you will be able to touch my brother."

"A bunch of idiots and morons. Anyone who disagrees can try. You're all low-level gods, so don't try to act all high and mighty in front of me!"

“You lost this train long ago. You were defeated by my brother, and you still have the nerve to try again? The ancient gods will not forgive you.” Li Changgeng saw that his sister Li Ying’s body was completely transparent. The beating thing was not a heart. Her internal organs were also completely different from what he had seen in common sense. It was like a digital machine, a combination of silicon-based life and carbon-based life.

Blinking, Li Changgeng saw silver gears rotating and binary zeros and ones jumping in Li Ying's chest and abdomen. Li Changgeng was even more confused. What was going on? How did his sister become a half-human, half-machine digital person?

Li Changgeng knew about digital human technology. With the advancement of modern technology and medicine, coupled with people's mastery of the secrets of gene coding, a lot of digital humans have been created. Digital humans are no different from ordinary people. They can eat, drink, defecate, sleep, and have the same human emotions. If there is a fundamental difference between them and ordinary people, these digital humans have a very long lifespan. It is very common for them to live to be over a hundred years old.

However, this explosive development brought about ethical issues for humanity. The children born from digital humans were exactly the same as normal children. As time went on, digital human reproduction technology was forcibly stopped. In 2071, the largest biotechnology company that produced digital humans destroyed a large number of digital humans and stopped developing digital human technology.

The digital human brain is fundamentally different from the human biological brain. The connection between the digital brain and nerve endings is close to perfect, which allows digital human manufacturing companies to control the thinking patterns of these digital humans from a logical level through the network, and even allow these digital humans to enter special realms or situations.

It is extremely difficult for a person to know whether they are a digital human or a regular carbon-based life form. This advanced biotechnology is monopolized by a single company, and testing is incredibly expensive. There is another way to find out if you are a real person: through cruel self-destructive suicide. However, the person is already dead, so knowing this would not be of much significance.

Could it be that his younger sister, Li Ying, is a digital human? Just as the eternal night mist arrived, he fell into a coma. He neither went mad nor died. Li Changgeng suddenly remembered something that had happened before.

His parents took Li Ying abroad for two months for treatment. Li Ying's condition worsened and could no longer be treated in China. At that time, Li Changgeng was still young and did not have much understanding of life and death. Since Li Ying returned from abroad, she has never had any health problems again. Could it be that she underwent digital human fusion surgery?

"I advise you not to struggle." The black goat clenched his fingers, which were shrouded in mist from the octopus tentacles. "I don't hit women, but if you push me to a certain point, I can be incredibly ruthless!"

"Let me show you what ruthlessness is!" Li Ying moved as if a streak of crimson lightning flashed from the spot, and in the blink of an eye, she had disappeared.

Click...

The black goat's right forearm was cleanly severed, and the line Sudoku book fell to the ground along with it.

Octopus Girl and Nine-Tailed Fox were so frightened that they took several steps back.

While the two women were still in a daze, Li Ying had already returned to her original spot, stroking the tabby cat, blood dripping from the dagger, "Black Goat, does it hurt?"

"Li Changgeng is mine, and I'm going to keep him all to myself! Nobody can take his godhood from me! You'd better get out of here right now! Next time, it won't be your arm that falls to the ground, it will be your sheep's head!"

Li Changgeng was a little confused. Judging from Li Ying's tone, something seemed off.

(End of this chapter)