57: Chapter 57 Lin Chuan Makes His Move, Crushing the Rules
Inside the carriage.
The lights were dim, flickering fitfully.
Chen Feng discovered that the carriage was full of people.
Moreover... these people all looked "normal."
They wore all sorts of clothes; there were salarymen in suits and leather shoes, women in neon-colored dresses, and even men wearing ancient samurai armor.
Smiles graced their faces as they conversed with one with another, as if they were on a pleasant journey.
But upon closer inspection, one would notice something off.
Their skin was as pale as paper, devoid of any trace of color.
Their eyes, furthermore, were hollow and lifeless, just like... moving corpses.
Inside the Rebirth Temple, Lin Chuan watched all of this through Chen Feng's perspective, his heart tightening.
Because on the illusory panel in his consciousness, not a single information prompt had popped up!
This was exactly the same as when he had first encountered that Mysterious Old Man.
Lin Chuan thought to himself.
The source of the Pink Mist spreading out from Neon Country was definitely an extraordinary, great horror!
"If I let that Mysterious Old Man clash with the source behind this Pink Mist... what would happen?"
A bold idea suddenly popped into Lin Chuan's mind.
However, he quickly abandoned this crazy notion.
Relying on the blood-red handprint on his chest, he could indeed summon that Mysterious Old Man under certain specific conditions.
But the consequences were uncontrollable!
A slight lapse in caution could even drag him into eternal damnation!!
While Lin Chuan's thoughts were racing, ten lines of blood-red text abruptly appeared before Chen Feng, who had just stepped into the carriage:
[Rule One: Do not open your eyes after the lights go out.]
[Rule Two: Do not speak to passengers wearing red clothes.]
[Rule Three: When the train passes through a tunnel, you must maintain absolute silence.]
[Rule Four: If a passenger seeks help from you, please do not refuse, but do not agree either.]
[Rule Five: The Conductors are your friends; please obey their arrangements unconditionally.]
[Rule Six: Half of the rules are fake!!!]
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[Rule Ten: Those who survive until the final station can receive the Blessing of the "Great Dominator," and even... promote to taboo!]
Looking at these ten rules, Chen Feng only felt his scalp go numb.
Ten rules, half of them fake.
This was a guaranteed death trap!
"Little friend..."
Just as Chen Feng was carefully studying the rules.
A middle-aged woman holding a baby suddenly approached him.
She wore a floral dress that had faded from washing, and the baby in her arms was wrapped in a red cloth, its face obscured.
"Can you help me hold the baby?"
"I want to go to the restroom."
Her voice was very gentle, her eyes filled with entreaty.
But Chen Feng felt a bone-chilling coldness.
Because he saw that beneath the baby's red cloth, drops of black blood were seeping out.
He remembered Rule Four: If a passenger seeks help from you, please do not refuse, but do not agree either.
This rule itself was a paradox!
Neither refuse nor agree?
How was that possible?!
Furthermore, there was a fifty percent chance this rule was wrong.
"Please show your ticket!"
Just as Chen Feng was hesitating.
A Conductor wearing a deep blue uniform walked over.
His face was stiff, a weird smile hung on the corners of his mouth, and his eyes stared straight at Chen Feng.
"If you cannot produce a ticket, you will be thrown off the train."
Facing the Conductor's demand, Chen Feng's breath hitched slightly!
Because Rule Five said: The Conductors are your friends; please obey their arrangements unconditionally.
Now, he was simultaneously facing demands from a Conductor and a passenger!
If he reached for his ticket, he couldn't hold the baby, which meant refusing the woman.
If he held the baby, he couldn't reach for his ticket, which meant disobeying the Conductor.
This was a dead end!
No matter what he chose, he would violate a rule!
Of course, Rule Six also said that among the ten rules, half were fake!
He might not necessarily die.
But trying to judge and reason his way to a slim chance of survival was clearly impossible!
"Damn it!!"
Chen Feng's mental state was on the verge of exploding.
Cold sweat poured down his forehead.
Most fatally, the two A-rank Abnormalities inside his body had crashed!
Even the Supernatural Dagger in his hand was suppressed by some kind of rule power, completely turning into an ordinary dagger.
While Chen Feng was caught in a dilemma.
"Heehee..."
The baby in the woman's arms suddenly let out a shrill laugh.
That laughter was sharp and piercing, like nails scraping across a blackboard.
"Hurry up..."
The woman's face also began to distort, the corners of her mouth faintly splitting open.
"If you don't help me hold the baby... then... then...!!"
As she spoke, the woman's voice became increasingly venomous.
The Conductor also took a step forward, the ticket puncher in his hand flashing with a cold light.
"Please show your ticket!!"
Two terrifying rule powers simultaneously locked onto Chen Feng.
At this critical moment.
"amitabha buddha!"
A Buddhist chant boomed within Chen Feng's mind.
Immediately following that.
A wisp of taboo rule, using Chen Feng's body as a medium, instantly erupted!
Boom!!!
Accompanied by a slight tremor in the Void Realm.
An illusory, sky-covering Black Buddhist Hand condensed out of thin air.
Within the palm of that Buddhist hand, Chaos churned, as if countless resentful evil spirits were roaring inside.
Bang!!
The Buddhist hand descended.
The woman holding the Ghost Baby, along with the Conductor demanding the ticket, were instantly flattened to the ground.
Their Physical Bodies exploded, black blood splattering everywhere, staining the surrounding seats red.
"This..."
"My Buddha!!"
"It's My Buddha!!"
Looking at this scene, an indescribable surge of excitement and fanaticism welled up in Chen Feng's heart.
"Disciple kneels in thanks for My Buddha's salvation!!"
Thump!!
Chen Feng knelt directly on the ground.
If Lin Chuan's rule hadn't descended just now, there was no telling how ugly his death would have been.
At this moment, the originally noisy crowd in the carriage instantly fell silent.
All the "passengers" turned their heads, staring fixedly at Chen Feng.
Those eyes were filled with fear, wariness, and a hint of... sinister resentment.
But not a single "person" dared to step forward again.
Lin Chuan's palm strike just now had completely intimidated these eerie existences.
Inside the Rebirth Temple.
Lin Chuan withdrew the power he had projected onto Chen Feng.
"This train... is quite interesting."
When he activated the rule to suppress that Conductor just now, Lin Chuan had sensed a faint aura of taboo from him.
"It seems there really is a great horror hidden behind this train."
Thinking of this, he conveyed another will to Chen Feng:
"Chen Feng, do not panic."
"This Seat is with you..."
"Go and scout everything out for This Seat."
Lin Chuan comforted Chen Feng.
His move this time was not only to save Chen Feng.
But more importantly, to use Chen Feng as bait to uncover the true background of this train.
At the same time, it was to gather more information about the 'Pink Mist of Neon Country.'
After all, that thing was continuously spreading towards the Great Xin Dynasty.
Lin Chuan had a faint premonition that if it wasn't curbed, it would eventually cover the entire Dongsheng Continent!