"You must be out of your mind to want to become a nun!" Li Fei looked at Yan Jiayu with the eyes one would use to look at a madman. Still kind-hearted?
But the elderly and He Yang quickly agreed, and the female student followed Professor Han's lead. With Professor Han's nod, the others were a minority, and the few could not outvote the many.
Professor Han and Li Fei stood on either side of the door, with Xu Huo opening it.
The man pushing the wheelchair was tall and large. He stood still, pushing the wheelchair forward slightly, "Her legs aren't working well. She won't make it through the night in Third-Class Seat. Can you take her in?"
The young woman in the wheelchair was pale, thin, and timid. She hadn't recovered from the shock of the past day and night, and her eyes were filled with fear when she looked at Xu Huo and the others.
"Are you siblings?" Xu Huo bent over and lifted the hem of her nightgown. Indeed, her legs were somewhat deformed.
"No," the man did not stop him.
"No way!" Li Fei was the first to object. Even though the person in the wheelchair appeared frail, he couldn't take that risk. "What if she's a 'Bloody Player'?"
The young woman reacted, "I'm not a 'Bloody Player'..."
Perhaps thinking of the scenes she had witnessed, she couldn't finish her sentence and started to retch.
Xu Huo stepped aside, "Come in."
The man did not step into the carriage but merely pushed the wheelchair inside.
The young woman looked back at him. The man didn't say much, didn't even give her a glance, and turned back to Third-Class Seat.
Without waiting for him to finish, Xu Huo pulled the wheelchair to the side and yanked Li Fei by the collar towards the door, slamming it shut, "Now the number is just right."
Li Fei was furious, desperately pulling at the door and cursing nonstop. However, Xu Huo just held the door handle, staring at him expressionlessly.
Professor Han felt this was not right and was about to say something when Yan Jiayu also ran over to hold the door, asserting seriously, "We're reasonable people here. Agree, and we'll let you in."
Xu Huo tugged at the door and found her strength surprising, so he let go and stepped back.
As players from Third-Class Seat lunged forward, Yan Jiayu quickly pulled Li Fei through the door gap, slamming the door shut again, separating the 'Bloody Player' outside!
Sitting on the floor of the carriage and gasping for breath, Li Fei was a mix of fear and anger, staring at Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu with dead eyes.
Yan Jiayu glared, "Are you going back on your word?"
Li Fei was about to retort but, catching sight of Xu Huo coldly eyeing him from the side, swallowed his words and turned his head away, "If she really is a 'Bloody Player'... it won't be me who regrets it."
With Li Fei's earlier behavior as a cautionary tale, the middle-aged woman dared not say anything and silently found a place to sit.
Xu Huo waited for a while and, hearing no announcement of a rule violation, finally pushed the wheelchair to the window and asked, "What's your name?"
"Wang Xiaohui." Wang Xiaohui clenched her fists and placed them nervously beside her knees. "I'm not a 'Bloody Player'."
"I know," Xu Huo said, "I'm not responsible for protecting you, Second Class Seat has bloodthirsty players too, so be careful on your own. By the way, how many players are left in Third-Class Seat?"
Wang Xiaohui hastily replied, "Including me, seven."
Xu Huo nodded.
Yan Jiayu handed her a pack of compressed biscuits, "Are you hungry? They have been soaked with bought water."
Wang Xiaohui, with tears in her eyes, stuffed them into her mouth, "You guys are really kind."
The time that followed passed quickly, as they established a night watch schedule. After everyone had taken turns visiting the restroom, they returned to the carriage once more.
This time, Professor Han and the female student were guarding the front door, while Yan Jiayu and Li Fei guarded the rear door.
The rear door wasn't much of an issue, the main concern was the front door, so Professor Han blocked it with tables and chairs in advance, and instructed the other players, "No matter what happens, do not turn on the lights, not even your cell phones, they must be turned off today."
"I see that violating the rules doesn't really bring any punishment, so there's no need to be so wary," the woman with heavy makeup glanced at Wang Xiaohui.
"What if it affects the rewards for completing the game?" Professor Han said seriously, "Just because there's no punishment now doesn't mean there won't be later. Tonight, I'll be the one watching the switch, and Liu Jia, you stand a little to the side."
The female student Liu Jia glanced at the switch and stepped back, her expression tense.
Xu Huo paid attention to her movements, frowning and glancing outside the window again.
"Except for those guarding the door, can everyone else sit in the middle seats?" Professor Han looked around at everyone, "That way, there's some buffer distance between us."
Maintaining distance was actually a precaution against bloodthirsty players launching an attack.
"Aren't there three bodies in the carriage?" He Yang said coldly, "Isn't it much more convenient than attacking others?"
All players had this subtle idea; using the dead to keep everyone safe until they get off the train was considered the best outcome.
The woman with heavy makeup moved to sit aside, and Xu Huo chose a position diagonally opposite her, with the middle-aged woman and the old man sitting at an adjacent table.
Wang Xiaohui didn't know who to trust and subconsciously moved her wheelchair closer to Xu Huo.
"Mr. Xu..." Just before the lights were to be turned off, Liu Jia suddenly spoke to Xu Huo, "Be careful," and she glanced at the woman with heavy makeup.
Because of Chen Yi's actions, others simply thought she was concerned for her savior and paid no mind, but Xu Huo confirmed something—that last night, the female student must have "seen" something.
At first, he thought Chen Yi was a bloodthirsty player, but the fact that he attacked him first last night indicated that he wasn't. It would have been easier for him to attack Liu Jia.
Both the seemingly frail old man and the melon-seeded face woman in the same carriage were attacked.
Chen Yi's targeting him could have been part of playing the game itself, to earn a higher score from the rewards.
Liu Jia's scream wasn't because she was being attacked, and now by specifically warning him to be careful, she was actually hinting that the woman with heavy makeup was a bloodthirsty player.
The woman with heavy makeup didn't act like a bloodthirsty player; at the start of this journey, she even reminded other players to keep the game's secrets. Initially, Liu Jia had a good impression of her, but after the light was turned on today, she kept her distance from the woman.
The melon-seeded face woman had three different-sized wounds on her body. Excluding the square-faced man and Li Fei, the old man who was by the door at the time, the nearby woman with heavy makeup, and Yan Jiayu, who moved silently in the dark, were all very suspicious.
These three people were highly suspect, and Liu Jia's hints might not be true. Setting aside the matter of the bloodthirsty players for the moment, Xu Huo looked at the two people guarding the light switch; they were too tense. Professor Han was also emphasizing the rules yesterday about turning off lights and mobile phones, but it was not like his current state of high alert, which came about after they exchanged information today.
"Did you also see something outside the window?" he suddenly asked.