Hou Morong cried with genuine emotion, her tears touching and moving, but Wen Wen was not foolish enough to believe her entirely. At least, the corpse-like stench emanating from him gave Wen Wen a very bad feeling.
However, what was certain was that everyone on this train harbored a certain obsession, a desire to see the deceased in this subway.
But did this train truly possess such an ability? If it could indeed bring the dead back to the world, then what was the point of obscuring the carriage with white mist?
Perhaps the white mist was some kind of hallucinogen, capable of making people see what they wished to see.
Yet, this couldn't explain the letters distributed to everyone, which managed to make so many believe with all their hearts. At least the handwriting in them was undoubtedly that of the departed.
"If this train is truly a special containment item, perhaps it can indeed allow one to see the departed loved ones..."
Wen Wen sighed. The anomaly had not yet arrived, but his heart had already begun to stir.
If being in this carriage allowed one to see departed loved ones, then perhaps Wen Wen could also see the person he wished to see.
"If I could apologize in person... that wouldn't be bad either."
In this subway, time seemed to lose its meaning. The scenery outside was always the same within that one minute, and the clocks only ticked back and forth within that minute.
But Wen Wen could still roughly estimate the time through his own heartbeat.
Approximately an hour had passed when the white mist in the front carriage gradually dissipated. The passengers in the carriage had all collapsed on the ground, unconscious.
Some wore smiles, while others looked terrified. One passenger even stood up, stretched, and cast a strange glance towards their carriage; that gaze was utterly unlike that of a human. Su Dan Novel Network.
Wen Wen narrowed his eyes slightly: "Supernatural cases that don't result in death are truly quite gentle, aren't they? But why do I feel... this is much more bizarre than being life-threatening?"
The carriage door was firmly locked by some unknown force, and white mist began to spray from the ventilation outlets, just like in the preceding carriage.
Wen Wen quietly activated his black body, using his internal superpower to isolate all the surrounding mist, and simultaneously activated his warehouse administrator name tag to prevent mental influence.
As the white mist filled the entire carriage, a strange monster appeared before Wen Wen's eyes.
This monster was draped in a tattered white robe like a bedsheet and suddenly appeared in the center of the carriage, floating in mid-air.
Its head resembled that of a hairless deer, the part above its mouth was bright red, while the part below its mouth was pale white. Its body was like withered branches, but its fingers and toes were excessively long...
"You are..."
Before Wen Wen could finish speaking, the monster's white robe fluttered, and all the white mist was sucked into the robe. Wen Wen and the others were also engulfed by the mist and drawn into the robe.
A strange sense of weightlessness enveloped Wen Wen. Only a pale hue filled his vision. After a few seconds, Wen Wen felt his feet touch solid ground.
Opening his eyes, Wen Wen found himself still in the carriage, but the subway had stopped, and the doors had opened.
Outside the doors was a station in the middle of the subway, but the station had no color other than black, white, and gray. The air was filled with a faint gray mist, and the ground was covered with gray shore flowers.
A cold mechanical voice sounded from the subway: "The subway will stop at this station for twenty-four hours. Please return to the carriage before departure..."
After speaking, the lights on the subway dimmed, seemingly urging everyone out of the carriage.
Wen Wen frowned: "Twenty-four hours? But the previous carriage was only sealed for a little over an hour. Could that monster control time?"
"And the environment here is also problematic. I feel somewhat familiar... Is this the Gray Mist Layer?"
"If we are in the Gray Mist Layer, perhaps it really is possible..."
As Wen Wen pondered, the man in the raincoat had already taken the lead, running out of the carriage and sprinting through the flower bushes, shouting as he ran:
"Where are you? I've come to find you. I brought the food you like. This time, we will be together forever and never be separated again..."
The high school student and the two nurses also stepped into the flower bushes, all wanting to find something here.
"Although you didn't get a letter, you should still look. You should be able to find the person you want to see when the time comes. This is a very magical place," Hou Morong said, walking over to Wen Wen.
"How do you know I can find them?" Wen Wen asked softly.
Hou Morong chuckled and said, "I received my letter the day before yesterday, but I came to see it yesterday in advance and met the person I wanted to see."
Wen Wen frowned and said, "People who have entered here usually don't remember what happened, and they undergo certain changes..."
"You know these things, you truly are from the Hunter Association..."
Hou Morong chuckled and then said to Wen Wen, "But it doesn't matter who you are. I will tell you everything I want to know, and I hope you can help me then."
"Those who leave here normally will not retain memories of this place, but that only happens after 'resolution.' And my business with him is not yet resolved."
"What is 'resolution'?" Wen Wen immediately asked.
"Revenge achieved, wishes fulfilled, inner knots untangled... perhaps that's all. I need to go find him first. I don't need him to do it for me."
After speaking, Hou Morong also began to search among the flower bushes.
"I don't need him to do it for me... that statement is rather interesting."
Watching the searching crowd, Wen Wen felt a flicker of strangeness in his heart. He leaped into the air, soaring to the highest nearby point to survey the surrounding terrain.
Although he also felt a strange longing, Wen Wen knew what he should do most. He couldn't be deceived by the surface appearances here.
He had seen many seemingly sacred monsters, but those monsters had never done anything good.
As he watched, Wen Wen noticed something amiss. A few hundred meters away from the subway station, he could see some distorted shadows, but those shadows wouldn't approach the subway station's vicinity.
If those shadows were real, then this was indeed the Gray Mist Layer, and the area around the subway station was a uniquely sectioned-off space.
He tried to fly up. When he reached a few hundred meters high, he touched a barrier.
"It seems this should be a spherical space with a diameter of about a thousand meters. Not only can things from outside not enter, but the flow of time also seems different from the outside."
Just as he was about to fly down, Wen Wen suddenly stopped in mid-air and fell into thought as he looked at the ground.
"The arrangement of these shore flower clusters is strange, just like..."
"Peel the fur off the deer's mouth upwards and spread it on the ground!"
Wen Wen remembered clearly that the monster that had sucked them in only had the part above its deer-like mouth that was bright red!