Deep in the Living

Chapter 368 Coins
Someone had painted the tungsten filament bulb red, so that the light that came through appeared an unusually bright red.

It's not just a matter of light.
When this bright red falls on the surface of the skin, it is as if covered by a layer of red curtain, and one can even taste the blood.

The team just passed through the corridor of waiting room No. 4 and stopped at the same time.

Even Youzhen, a doctor, immediately assumed a strange fighting stance, with his five fingers hanging in front of him as if they had no bones.

If the areas I had walked through before were all deserted, then the situation in front of me was completely the opposite.

The entire waiting room was packed with people.
Luo Di also thought of a word he had seen in a movie, "Spring Festival Travel Rush".

The paint-chipped wooden row chairs were filled with passengers, all of whom were dressed relatively simply. Many of them had woven bags with the word "urea" printed on them piled at their feet.

But all the passengers here buried their heads, or to be more exact, "folded" their heads. Their faces were all folded into their chests, and their bent cervical vertebrae were almost broken.

This dense scene is even more terrifying against the backdrop of red light.

But Rody did not observe these people for a long time. Instead, he looked deeper, to the end of the waiting room.

Different from the three waiting rooms with green lights before,
The end here is open, with a passage leading directly to the train platform. This connected structure means that the train station can be further explored.
Perhaps you can arrive at the platform and take a train to other corners or even deeper areas.

Although the exploration for newcomers this time is limited to the railway station area, it is still meaningful to learn about it in advance if you can find the connection.

However, it would be a bit troublesome to get to the ticket gate from their current position.

Waiting Hall No. 4 is not just crowded.

The design here is very unreasonable.

The benches ran through the entire space, leaving no passage for walking. This meant that if they wanted to get to the other side, they had to step over these "passengers".

"Let's go in and have a look."

As the team officially set foot here, the broadcast in the waiting room No. 4 sounded:
≮Passengers, please note that the train to ** (electromagnetic interference sound) will start ticket checking in fifteen minutes≯
However, amidst the loud broadcast, there was also a less clear voice:

≮A fake ticket user is mixed in, seriously affecting the public security of the railway station. Please find and kill him before the ticket inspection begins and punish him. The passengers' tickets are in their pockets, so you can check them at will. They will be happy to cooperate. ≯
Yu Ze heard it very clearly, and he even took out a whole stack of yellow talismans from his waist.

Just when he was about to make a move, Rody suddenly pressed his shoulder.

"Yu Ze~ Since there are still more than ten minutes left, let's go through the normal process and search the pockets of these passengers one by one. If you can't find it, use your own tricks."

"Don't you mind the trouble, fellow? Or do you have any other intentions?"

"I want to experience the same fear I felt at the window again.

I always feel that direct contact with the entity of fear like this can deepen our feelings about it. After multiple contacts, perhaps our understanding of fear can be enhanced, which may be helpful for our future exploration of corners.”

Yu Ze smiled slightly and collected all the talismans.

The two men, one on the left and one on the right, began to check the passengers in the waiting room.

Youzhen still did not participate, she just stood in the middle and watched the two people involved in the incident.

……

Just as the broadcast said.

Passengers' tickets are all in their pockets, most of them even in their breast pockets, and can be taken out with just a pinch of the fingers.

However, the act of taking the tickets will bring Rody into close contact with the passengers. Some passengers will remain law-abiding, but some will not.

The passenger was still burying his head a second ago.

By the time Rody took the ticket out of his breast pocket, the man's neck had twisted and his head turned around.

What was revealed was a face full of blood holes, which was still moving slightly under the light.

The moment they looked at each other, Rody even felt that his face had become like this under the red light, and waves of fear penetrated from his face into his body.

But Rody was not afraid.
Instead, he showed a somewhat morbid smile.

The long-lost feeling of fear made Rody particularly excited. For some reason, he liked this feeling very much.

As a murderer, he even subconsciously learned this expression of fear, perhaps he could use it in subsequent hunts.

Even the fear he unleashed had a corner effect.

Compared to Luo Di who was checking tickets excitedly,
Yu Ze was much more reserved. He had no extra expression on his face. He just checked normally with one hand, and held a talisman in the other hand. The inspection was over.

Luo Di and Yu Ze reunited.
What can be confirmed at present is that all passengers have tickets, and the tickets look the same, with no obvious signs of counterfeiting.

There were only three minutes left, not enough time for them to compare again.

Just when Luo Di was about to ask Yu Ze to take action, the latter smiled faintly and whispered:

"You do it, or should I?"

Luo Di immediately understood what Yu Ze meant. He had already found the holder of the fake ticket, but he deliberately did not alert the enemy.

"If you find it, you can handle it."

"alright."

Among the hundreds of passengers crowded in the waiting room, one of them seemed to sense something. His body began to wriggle and strips of black substance began to spread from under his feet.

These dark substances are abnormal manifestations of the fear entity, which can spread to other passengers and manipulate their internal bodies.

At this time,
Talismans fell one after another.

There was also the ringing of bells,

These talismans did not fall on the "target", but on the passengers around him, sticking firmly to their heads.

When the black substance invaded the bodies of the passengers who were affixed with talismans, it could not be controlled and was suppressed by some kind of golden energy.

"rise!"

A voice came at the same time as the bell sound.
The passengers with the talismans suddenly stood up like zombies.

The target trapped in the middle tried to escape, but was instantly pierced through the body by the outstretched arms and torn into pieces.

These travelers with talismans affixed to them seemed to have greater strength and were faster, and were completely under Yu Ze's control.

End it all lightly.

The lights in the waiting room returned to their normal green.

Youzhen was completely stunned. This was not a newcomer at all; he was a strong man who had experienced real killing in another world.

She still pretended to be calm, stepped forward immediately, and placed her index finger on Yu Ze's temple to remove the little bit of fear entity remaining in his body.

"How amazing! Your special operations team is truly the most powerful department in the Investigation Bureau."

Just then,
A huge shadow suddenly appeared behind her.
Not only that, the shadow even enveloped all three members of the team.

Both Luo Di and Yu Ze had already made gestures to draw their swords.

But the next second,
Ding Ding Ding ~
Six coins fell down and were caught by Yu Ze who reacted quickly.

The shadow is not a threat.

Instead, it was a tall figure in security uniform, his entire face emitting green light, and the coin was given by him.

After giving the reward, the security guard turned and left, disappearing in the green light.

≮The fake ticket user has been executed and the reward has been issued. Ticket inspection in the No. 4 waiting hall has begun. Passengers are requested to line up and pass through the ticket inspection. ≯
When everyone's attention turned from the security guard back to the waiting hall, all the benches there disappeared.

The passengers who were sitting with their heads folded before have now stood up one by one and even raised their heads.

Their faces were no longer full of bloody holes under the red light.

Instead, it became a smooth face without any facial features, with eyes and mouth randomly drawn with a green highlighter.

The passengers have lined up in a long queue.
The pair of plastic arms also appeared again at the wicket.

"Keep exploring."

Rody had taken control of the team's conversation without anyone noticing, and led everyone to the end of the queue.

(End of this chapter)