Doomsday Train, I went crazy by hoarding billions of items.

Chapter 112 Paro Island and the City of Eternal Night

Jiang Ran was initially worried that this newly produced journal would also be blank, just like the previous ones.

Fortunately, perhaps because it was never obtained by a player, the contents of the journal were not erased.

However, this notebook is significantly different from the previous notebooks of the Chosen Ones.

The journal is very thin, with only three pages excluding the cover and back cover.

The first page shows the floating island that Jiang Ran just left. It's drawn with some unknown material, and the entire island and city look extremely three-dimensional and realistic, like a real scene shrunk countless times. Even the flashing neon lights are clearly visible.

Jiang Ran could almost see the city in operation through the parchment.

But she soon realized that this was not her imagination; rather, when she focused her gaze entirely on the parchment, the city appeared infinitely larger in her eyes.

She could even clearly see the giant steel eggs scattered throughout the city.

Beside the waterfall at the very edge of the island, three small words are written: Paro Island.

A straight beam of light pierced through the center of the island and connected the top and bottom of the parchment. Jiang Ran turned to the second page with a feeling of unease.

It's like a beam of light continuing from the previous page, but the center of the beam lands on a city built on water.

Similarly, as long as Jiang Ran concentrates her gaze, she can see every detail of the city with unparalleled clarity.

Countless identical little houses floated on the water, each marked with a number on its roof.

Beside the cabin, a network of crisscrossing suspension bridges extends, intertwining to form a huge net.

At various connection points of the network, tower-shaped buildings stand, resembling some kind of sentry post.

A closer look reveals that each room, including the bottom of the suspension bridge, is equipped with a levitation device, and yellow-green lights flicker on the dark water, like fireflies in the night.

Jiang Ran then realized that there seemed to be no sunlight in this city.

The city is noticeably smaller than Paro Island.

The pillar of light at the very center of the city replaced the eternal source of light, but its reach was ultimately limited. Thus, the lights on the houses and at the base of the suspension bridge became the only remaining sources of light.

In areas where the sea surface is slightly visible, all that can be seen is deep, dark water and some strangely shaped aquatic plants that look like several strands of kelp growing together.

Beside the largest tower, the same handwriting bears the three words: Eternal Night City.

Although the two blueprints were not connected, Jiang Ran could inexplicably imagine that whenever the residents of Eternal Night City looked up, what they saw was not the sky, but the oppressive Paro Island.

Jiang Ran's previous curiosity about where the waterfall on Paro Island ended was now answered.

Paro Island and the City of Eternal Night...

Jiang Ran's eyes flashed with contemplation.

These two cities, seemingly opposite sides of the same coin, are just as she had previously considered, and their issues go beyond simply "the gap between the rich and the poor."

But if this is the end of the train journey, were the residents of these two cities also players?

How did the players in Eternal Night City end up in this state?
Jiang Ran turned the page again.

On the last page, there were only a few lines of very messy writing.

"Those who have abandoned their faith are destined to rot in this desolate sea."

"The 'gods' who have defiled everything still stand high above, looking down upon all living beings."

"I'm not convinced!!!!"

The final exclamation mark was so forceful it almost pierced the reader's vision. Jiang Ran stared at the words "disqualified person," wondering what exactly "disqualified" meant.

But what is certain is that the residents of Eternal Night City are the so-called disqualified people.

Could the deity that taints everything refer to that big eye that's adept at manipulating players through mental pollution?

Speaking of which, Jiang Ran suddenly became curious: was the golden ant she encountered in the first instance also a resident of Paro Island?
During her brief visit, Jiang Ran did not see any creature other than humanoid.

Except for... that pile of silver eggs of some unknown material.

It seemed that the giant pillar of light connecting the two cities was a source of some kind of power, but when Jiang Ran fell along the pillar of light, what she absorbed was not the power of faith that she thought it was.

The power within that pillar of light was even purer.

But where does this force come from?

Are there other cities on Paro Island?

I subconsciously turned the page again, only to find the back cover was left.

However, on the bottom right corner of the back cover, there was a line of very small text.

"Control the heart, and you control Paro Island."

What exactly is the heart?
Jiang Ran sighed, closed the journal, and rubbed her forehead wearily.

The good news is that we finally know what kind of weird place Palo Island really is.

The bad news is that the doubts surrounding her have not only not been completely resolved, but have actually multiplied.

This is probably what they mean by "the more you know, the more you realize you don't know."

Jiang Ran, who originally just wanted to get revenge and try to survive to the end, suddenly found that her goals seemed to be constantly being forced to change.

The Divine Chosen Ones' Notebook said that "the gods bestowed blessings upon them, allowing them to reach Paro Island." Were those seemingly peaceful but actually fake residents that Jiang Ran had seen before the Divine Chosen Ones?

Comparing the contents of the two notebooks, Jiang Ran felt that Paro Island was not its property to Big Eyeball.

It's more like Paro Island existed first, and then, for various reasons, the Big Eyeball appeared.

and many more……

Jiang Ran suddenly started thinking about a question.

Could those big eyes have hatched from those strange eggs?

In Zhezhou's words, he implied that there might be more than one "god" on Paro Island.

Players who want to enter Paro Island need not only qualifications, but also "divine favor".

Could this so-called divine favor be exactly what the disqualified person lacks?
After all, the disqualified man said that he was banished to the City of Eternal Night because he had betrayed his "faith"...

Slowly sorting through the true and false, chaotic news, Jiang Ran tried to integrate them into a clearer narrative.

The four manuscripts we have obtained so far seem to be written by authors representing different positions.

So what is the difference between those who are rejected by the gods and those who are despised by the gods?
Or perhaps, the so-called "divine aversion" is actually just being rejected by one of the gods, which happens to be the most powerful god at the moment.

Jiang Ran's fingers gently caressed the delicate parchment.

If the big-eyed creature is one of the gods, could the golden ant also be a similar being?
And what about those strange creatures in the explorer's notes? Could they all be a branch of the so-called gods?
In that case, what is the purpose of this endless doomsday train?