From Qiu Ya's perspective, the moment the conductor grabbed the woman, it was as if her soul had been sucked right out of her. She slumped into her seat, completely motionless.
The man with the dyed yellow hair was stunned by this sight. He bent down to check on her, and upon realizing she wasn't faking it, he immediately reached out to pinch her philtrum to revive her. "Conductor! She's fainted! Is there a doctor on the train?"
But the conductor—the monster—stood motionless. In Ye Chuan's eyes, the creature had already devoured the woman. She was gone, leaving behind nothing but a pitch-black blob in her place.
"Guji, guji..." The monster flexed its tentacles and slowly lumbered away.
Yellow Hair stood there and pulled out his phone to call for help. However, there was absolutely no signal on the train. No matter how many times he tried to dial, it was useless.
"Is that lady going to be okay?" Qiu Ya asked, looking worried as she watched the scene unfold. "That yellow-haired thug is really too much!"
Ye Chuan didn't reply. He was puzzled. The woman had been consumed by the monster, yet the yellow-haired man was completely unharmed. The train rules forbade arguing, but perhaps only one person gets killed for the infraction?
He couldn't quite pin down the Guji monster's behavioral patterns. Given its ability to infinitely regenerate, Ye Chuan couldn't do much against it for the time being. Besides, the creature seemed to regard him as one of its own.
The atmosphere was strange. Yellow Hair kept trying to make calls, and eventually, he walked over to Ye Chuan and Qiu Ya. "Hello, do you have a phone? Mine has no signal. Could I borrow yours to make a call?"
He was unexpectedly polite. It was completely at odds with his thug-like appearance.
"M-my phone doesn't have a signal either," Qiu Ya stammered, clearly a bit afraid of the yellow-haired man. She pulled out her phone and waved it to show him; the screen indeed displayed "No Signal."
"That's a problem," the man muttered. "I can't reach anyone... and I'm stuck on this weird train."
He decided to leave the carriage, seemingly to look for the train staff. However, once he left, he didn't return.
Ye Chuan wasn't sure if the yellow-haired man had been killed by the rules or "Guji-ed" by the monster.
"I'm completely in the dark here," Ye Chuan sighed. There were too few clues about this train.
He decided to go out and take a look.
Ye Chuan stood up. Beside him, Qiu Ya asked curiously, "Little brother, where are you going?"
"To take a leak," Ye Chuan said without looking back.
"Do you need me to help you?"
"You..." Ye Chuan looked at Qiu Ya with disdain. Was there something wrong with this woman's brain? Even if he looked like a five or six-year-old, he wasn't at the age where he needed help going to the bathroom, was he?
Shaking his head, Ye Chuan left the carriage.
The layout of the other carriages was virtually identical, as if stamped from the same mold. Ye Chuan observed as he walked. Knowing that the train cars shifted randomly, he planned to walk all the way to the end in one go to see if he could find any valuable clues.
The air was thick with the stench of rot. Ye Chuan continued forward. After an indeterminate amount of time, he suddenly spotted a familiar figure ahead.
The Guji monster.
"Guji... guji... guji..." the monster gurgled. Ye Chuan noticed an arm dangling from its body; it seemed to be in the process of digesting something.
"Is that..."
Yellow Hair?
Clearly, he had violated the rules. The yellow-haired man hadn't escaped death after all. Acting alone was inherently a high-risk behavior.
"Kin... Gu-gu..." The monster noticed Ye Chuan. It squirmed towards him, the arm still dangling from its body, making for an exceptionally gruesome sight.
Ye Chuan frowned. Just as he was about to try and insta-kill the creature again, he felt something under his foot.
Hmm?
Ye Chuan bent down curiously and discovered a small booklet.
Flipping it open, he let out a surprised noise.
A police badge?
Whose was this?
Why was it here?
Ye Chuan examined it. When he saw the photo inside, he froze. It was a familiar face.
Yellow Hair!
"Yellow Hair is a..." Ye Chuan looked at the photo, then recalled the man's appearance. The ID didn't look fake.
So, the woman who had argued with him, that agitated woman... what was her identity?
Ye Chuan looked at the Guji monster in front of him. It squirmed, extending a hand towards him. "Guji... eat... for you... kin..."
Ye Chuan felt a wave of nausea.
Before he could speak, a voice came from the carriage behind him. "Ah, Miss Conductor, there you are."
Ye Chuan turned around and found Yellow Hair standing right behind him.
Huh?
Wasn't he eaten by the Guji?
Ye Chuan glanced at the arm on the Guji monster, then at Yellow Hair's arms. They were different.
"Excuse me, how long until the next stop? Is there no doctor on the train?" Yellow Hair asked the monster.
"Guji, guji~"
"Alright, I understand," Yellow Hair said. He seemed about to explain something and patted his pocket, only to find it empty.
"Huh?"
"Are you looking for this?" Ye Chuan handed the police badge to the man.
"Ah, yes! Thank you, little brother. I can't believe I dropped it. I'm so careless," Yellow Hair said.
Ye Chuan simply asked, "Are you... undercover?"
Given the man's outfit, Ye Chuan felt that being a plainclothes officer was the only reasonable explanation. Otherwise, who would dye their hair bright yellow and dress like a gangster while on duty?
"Yeah." Yellow Hair reached out and patted Ye Chuan's head. "Listen, kiddo, I'm on a very important mission."
"That woman is a criminal."
"But I couldn't just ignore her when she fainted... Huh, that's weird. Why can't I remember some things?"
After saying this, Yellow Hair turned and walked away.
Ye Chuan watched his retreating figure in silence.
"Guji... gu-gu..." The Guji monster beside Ye Chuan started making noises again. Its tentacles flailed, the disgusting slime nearly brushing against Ye Chuan's face.
"..." After a moment's thought, Ye Chuan decided to follow Yellow Hair.
He wondered if it would lead him back to the carriage he had just come from.
"Guji..." The monster followed him.
"Don't follow me," Ye Chuan commanded as soon as he noticed.
"Kin... okay..."
Upon hearing Ye Chuan's words, the monster waved its tentacles a few times and obediently stayed put.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?
