53: Too hard! It hurts.

Recalling the scene where he met her before, Luo Chen chuckled and said, "No! Who gave you that confidence! I was getting takeout. Who the hell has time to like you! I've had several girlfriends, and every single one of them was prettier than you."

"I'm asking you now, did you open the treasure chest, and did you take anything from inside?" Luo Chen asked coldly, pointing the gun at the woman's head.

Seeing Luo Chen pointing the gun at her head, the woman realized that the man in front of her was not her simp.

She immediately panicked and quickly said, "No! I just opened it and looked; I didn't take anything."

"Didn't take anything! Alright! I believe you." Luo Chen nodded.

The woman's face lit up with joy, and she quickly nodded, saying, "Really! I'm not lying to you, I really didn't take anything."

A meaningful smile appeared on Luo Chen's face. He grabbed the clasps on the woman's back and lifted her up.

"Ah! What are you doing? Too much force! It hurts so much!"

The woman screamed loudly. Seeing Luo Chen carrying her towards the treasure chest, she immediately panicked.

Her body shook frantically, trying to break free from Luo Chen's grip.

Seeing that it was no use, she shouted loudly, "Darling, come save me!"

Luo Chen glanced around, pushed the woman in front of him, and used the gun to push open the lid of the treasure chest.

There was some resistance, so Luo Chen pushed harder.

Bang!

A loud bang came from the treasure chest.

Luo Chen's figure flashed, and he was already several meters away. The 30m/s speed brought by his second awakening allowed him to easily escape the blast radius.

The violent impact instantly collapsed the bed beneath the treasure chest. The treasure chest fell to the ground unharmed, its lid completely blown open by the explosion's shockwave.

Luo Chen wiped the bloodstains from his face and looked at the explosion site.

The treasure chest lay on its side on the scattered bed boards, its contents completely exposed before him.

Aside from scattered bloodstains, there was nothing else.

Luo Chen was slightly disappointed. He hadn't seen the core, so he would have to find someone else.

The woman's upper body was blown to smithereens by the huge impact, landing in front of the cabinet, her upper clothing falling to the side. A Spade Q tattoo on her abdominal remains was exposed.

"You just watched your dog get blown up?" Luo Chen glanced at the other cabinet.

A tall black man walked out of the wardrobe, kicked the woman's corpse aside, and spread his hands, saying,

"If she's dead, she's dead. She was just a toy to me; I can find a bunch more anytime."

"I don't think I can beat you. But you can't kill me either; as long as you dare to make a move, I'll drag you down with me."

The black man shook another grenade in his hand, his finger on the pin, ready to detonate it at any moment.

"I didn't expect you, a foreigner, to speak Xia Kingdom language so well? You must have put in a lot of effort!"

Luo Chen looked at the grenade in the black man's hand and changed the subject with a smile.

"Hot damn, I'm a Xia Kingdom citizen now. I've been in Xia Kingdom for ten years and have your green card. You Xia Kingdom people pay me to study here, and there are free beautiful women; I've already fallen in love with Xia Kingdom."

"Right, right! Since you're also a Xia Kingdom citizen, then tell me if you took anything from the treasure chest, okay?"

Luo Chen nodded expressionlessly, playing along with him. He needed to make the black man lower his guard.

"Hmph! I won't tell you. You yellow people are all liars. There was a Little Japanese Devil before who said he had beautiful women for me to play with, tricked me into merging Trains with him. Then he locked me in here and ran off himself."

"Little Japanese Devil, possible! They're best at sneak attacks."

Luo Chen discovered a piece of information: although the game stipulated that players couldn't harm each other, it didn't restrict trapping them in a certain place. This meant that in the future, he could potentially trick other Vice Train Captains to their deaths.

Hearing Luo Chen's agreement, the black man's emotions became a bit agitated. He paused, then continued,

"But seeing as we're both Xia Kingdom citizens, I can join your Train. As long as you give me beautiful women to play with, I can do many things for you?"

Feeling the black man's vigilance drop, Luo Chen no longer intended to entangle with him:

"Do what? Pick cotton?"

After he finished speaking, while the black man was momentarily stunned, Luo Chen's figure flashed, appearing in front of him.

With a swipe of the fruit knife in his hand, the fingers holding the pin fell to the ground.

After snatching the grenade, Luo Chen kicked the black man flying.

Without the threat, it became much simpler. If he hadn't been afraid that the black man would die and he wouldn't be able to get the location of the treasure chest items, he would have killed him long ago.

"Give you an inch, and you take a mile. Since that's the case, I can only give you an unanesthetized surgery."

Luo Chen put away the grenade, came before the black man, and prepared to extract a confession.

"Luo Chen! Are you alright!"

Luo Wan Ning and the other women ran in, glanced at the black man on the ground, and asked Luo Chen with concern.

"I'm fine! This guy took the things from the treasure chest and even wanted to play with my women. I'm going to make him see some red."

Luo Chen explained, then stepped on the black man's chest and began his interrogation.

He didn't care at all that the women were still standing by. Besides toys, he didn't have the leisure to raise a few useless flowers.

In this game, to survive, one always had to see some red.

Two minutes later, Luo Chen successfully extracted the location of the items inside the treasure chest, and also some other useful information.

It turned out that after they discovered a treasure chest had suddenly spawned on the bed last night, they took everything out of it.

And using the grenades inside, they set up a trap, intending to blow up the Train Conductor who came to open the treasure chest.

As long as the Train Conductor died, the woman's Memory Envoy, the Tamperer, could capture the Train Conductor's soul.

This way, they could control the Train Conductor's soul and re-occupy a Train. (In this book's setting, memory = soul)

Most importantly, he also received a piece of information: the Memory Envoy, the Tamperer, could also tamper with others' memories.

Luo Chen immediately thought of Chen Yujun's experience and the deceased Train Conductor Su Jinxuan.

This meant that there was still one or even two Memory Entities on his Train, and that Train Conductor Su Jinxuan's Envoy was also a Memory Envoy, a Tamperer.

Luo Chen felt a vague unease; this kind of thing beyond his control made him very uncomfortable.

However, he currently had no other effective methods. As long as the other party didn't show themselves, his current means couldn't find them.

Fortunately, the other party hadn't done anything to harm the Train, and their abilities seemed unable to control people beyond their strength.

This relieved Luo Chen quite a bit.

As long as it didn't affect him, coupled with his monitoring of everyone, any potential dangers could almost all be avoided.

Luo Chen jumped slightly and indeed found a package of items wrapped in a black plastic bag on the ceiling.

Opening the bag, there was a yellow core, 4 train coins, and 32 star coins inside.

Putting them away, Luo Chen called everyone to start collecting supplies... "Luo Chen, hurry up, there's a chicken coop behind the house with 25 chickens in it."

Under the eaves, Ning Yingxue shouted loudly towards Luo Chen.

Luo Chen was delighted by the news. He threw the cable in his hand onto the truck and quickly ran to the back of the house.

Arriving at the back of the house, Luo Chen indeed found a chicken coop enclosed by green wire mesh.

Inside, 25 chickens were leisurely pecking at the dirt on the ground, looking for worms to eat.

And near the corner of the wall, there were three chicken nests made of dry straw, each containing seven or eight eggs.

Further out, there were also two snakeskin bags labeled "Zheng Xiaozhu Feed."

Luo Chen opened the snakeskin bags; they contained a mixture of corn and rice, which should be grains used to feed the chickens.

Chicken feed was also available.

"Go call them over; let's catch the chickens together." Luo Chen said to Ning Yingxue.

Ning Yingxue heard him, turned around, and went to the front of the house to call people.

Luo Chen looked at a puddle of water not far away, and it dawned on him; she must have seen it when she came over to relieve herself.

Then Luo Chen stepped over the fence and entered the chicken coop to catch chickens.