chapter 27
Jiang Li really couldn’t take it anymore.
After all, she wouldn’t get hurt herself.
She simply stood up, grabbed the empty beer bottle from the table, and smashed it against her own head with a loud crack!
In an instant, blood spurted out.
The wound was healing rapidly, but it still bled quite a lot before it closed.
Jiang Li held her head, blood streaming down the bridge of her nose.
She pretended to be in terrible pain, screamed, and then collapsed into her Seat, faking a faint.
Watching the live stream, Jiang Lianlian’s pupils shrank.
She didn’t even have time to dodge – suddenly, a stabbing pain shot through her head!
Blood flowed down her forehead.
Jiang Lianlian’s face was covered in blood, and she blurted out a string of curses:
“Fuck you, you bitch! What the hell is wrong with you? Why smash my head out of nowhere?! Damn it…”
“You little brat, my life… is a life too…”
The pain was so intense that Jiang Lianlian’s eyes rolled back and she fainted.
She collapsed stiffly at Li Jie’s door.
Jiang Lianlian had originally planned to stake out here and wait for Li Jie’s return.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Li Jie came back, he saw Jiang Lianlian lying in a pool of blood.
Startled, Li Jie grabbed his phone and called the police right away.
The live stream on Jiang Lianlian’s tablet was still playing.
On the screen, the little girl sitting opposite Jiang Li screamed in fear, “Ah! This big sister is bleeding!!”
With the little girl’s loud shouting, all the doctors and nurses in this Carriage who had been about to go to the Dining Car stopped in their tracks.
One doctor and three nurses in this Carriage hesitated for a moment but in the end all chose to stay.
However, the medical staff from other Carriages heading toward the Dining Car could not be stopped.
Jiang Li didn’t save many people, but she did everything she could.
In the pitch-dark Carriage, the doctors and nurses were all shocked by the amount of blood on Jiang Li’s face.
Without a flashlight, they had to treat Jiang Li’s wounds and bandage her up by feel in the darkness.
Jiang Li herself was actually fine, so it wasn’t appropriate to keep pretending to be unconscious.
She judged the time was about right and woke up on her own.
When she came to, a nurse was watching over her.
The nurse’s eyes lit up with joy. “You’re awake!”
Jiang Li nodded and thanked them, “Yes, thank you. You saved me.”
The nurse waved her hand dismissively. “Don’t mention it. I’m just glad I could help you with my skills.”
“We’ve prepared some medicine and gauze for you. We’ll come change your bandage when it’s light tomorrow.” The nurse took out a bag and handed it to Jiang Li.
Jiang Li gratefully took it. “Thank you.”
“If you ever feel down, you can talk to me. Don’t do anything foolish by yourself,” the nurse reminded her with concern.
“Alright,” Jiang Li nodded.
Seeing Jiang Li’s mood was stable, the nurse finally returned to her own Seat.
The doctors and nurses present in the Carriage didn’t know what Jiang Li was really up to.
They simply thought Jiang Li was a patient and that they had saved her with their own hands.
But the viewers in the Live Streaming Room, watching from the outside, had all guessed what Jiang Li was actually doing.
Jiang Li was using her own life to save those kind-hearted people!
Though in reality, Jiang Li was using Jiang Lianlian’s life to save others.
Just like that, everyone suddenly felt a deep respect for this young girl, Jiang Li.
Jiang Li’s actions won her countless fans.
It was at this moment that a sharp-eyed netizen suddenly slapped his forehead, realizing something shocking!
He quickly sent a Bullet Screen:
“Friends, don’t you think some people on this Train look familiar?”
As soon as he said this, people immediately chimed in.
“It’s an Aberration. I noticed someone in there who looks exactly like my mom from twenty years ago. But my mom has been missing for twenty years.”
-“Upstairs, I noticed that too during the day! I thought I was just seeing things…”
-“By the way, do you guys remember the Train disappearance case from twenty years ago?”
-“I was just born twenty years ago, so I’m not sure.”
-“I’m not sure either.”
-“I know. That year, I had just turned eighteen. My mom specifically warned me not to wander around, saying that over two thousand people had disappeared together.”
“…”
The netizens all got goosebumps.
It was only now that they realized just how strange this incident was!
That missing Train had appeared in the Strange Tale World…
And the people inside were exactly the same as they were twenty years ago!
This world had truly gone mad.
Some netizens had already started crying.
Because the people Jiang Li stopped were the very family members they had missed for twenty years!
Jiang Li had saved their loved ones.
At this moment, Jiang Li was completely unaware of the discussions in the outside world.
Right now, she was fully alert.
Because that child… he had arrived!
He came, singing a Nursery Rhyme-
“Mud Doll, Mud Doll. A Mud Doll~~~”
As soon as the child’s voice sounded, the rustling conversations on the Train gradually quieted down.
The child’s ethereal voice continued:
“…It has those eyebrows, it has those Eyes, the Eyes never blink~~~”
That haunting child’s voice spread through the pitch-black Carriage.
Each word of the lyrics, like bacteria, burrowed into people’s ears.
“Mud Doll, Mud Doll, a Mud Doll…”
“It has that nose, it has that mouth, the mouth doesn’t speak~~~”
The child sang as he walked.
He enunciated slowly, his soft, childish tone especially eerie in the darkness.
When Jiang Li heard the song, her scalp tingled instantly!
The fifth Train Rule:
[No matter when, if a child singing a Nursery Rhyme appears, immediately lower your head and cover your ears!]
Jiang Li immediately lowered her head and covered her ears.
The child’s singing grew closer, the sound extremely penetrating.
After Jiang Li blocked her ears, she could only hear a faint trace of the song.
But she still felt her arms beginning to show slight mutations.
Jiang Li planned that as soon as the child left, she would have to drink Honey Water immediately!
Fortunately, she had stocked up in advance.
This time, the child’s influence was immense.
Basically, wherever he passed, everyone’s Pollution Level worsened.
At this moment, the Train was speeding across the wilderness.
Some people whose Pollution Level was quite severe seemed to go mad, directly opening the nearby window and jumping out.
Among them was Tang Shuang.
The Train was racing through the wild.
These people’s bodies slammed into the mud, blood mixing into a mess, turning them into real Mud Dolls.
“…It has that nose, it has that mouth, the mouth doesn’t speak~~~”
The scene before her was truly terrifying.
Jiang Li’s heart clenched tightly.
A great many people died this time.
In Carriage No. 07, where Jiang Li was, nearly a third of the people had jumped out.
One Carriage meant exactly forty lives!
The whole scene was too tragic to look at…
After the child left, Jiang Li finally slowly released her painfully blocked ears.
She quickly took out a cup of Honey Water and drank it down.
After drinking, her Pollution Level indeed lessened considerably.
And at that moment-
A Train Attendant in a white shirt and Black Vest walked over.
“Ms. Jiang, congratulations on successfully upgrading to the Sleeper Carriage. Please come with me.”
Following behind the Train Attendant was Xia Xiaoqiang.
Xia Xiaoqiang smiled and greeted Jiang Li, “Sister Jiang.”
She had taken advantage of the free time to return to Carriage No. 04 to fetch her backpack and check her phone messages.
There, she found a message from her father, Xia Guofeng.
The first was to tell her that he had transferred two hundred thousand yuan to her card.
He told her to use the card without worry and to go directly to a Train Attendant in a Black Vest to upgrade to a Sleeper Carriage.
The second was to remind her that when upgrading to a Sleeper Carriage, she must bring Jiang Li along.