Five girls set off on a graduation trip, clutching three yellowed tickets for an obscure train they’d bought at the last minute. The words “Everday Station” were barely legible on the stubs. No such station existed in the real world, but none of them suspected the tickets were invitations to their deaths.
When the train plunged into impenetrable black fog, the carriage lights dimmed, and a hoarse announcement echoed through the empty aisle: “Welcome to the first instance, ‘The Blood-Red Inn.’ Survivors may proceed to the next stop. Those who fail will become part of the instance.” Beyond the windows stretched a bottomless darkness. Beads of blood seeped from the corner of the table and trickled along the wood grain. Only then did they realize their youthful trip had become a gamble for their lives.
One paranormal instance followed another: the red-clad innkeeper from the Republic era wandered the corridors with a bloodstained cleaver, while mutated students pounded on the classroom doors at the haunted school… Every instance concealed deadly rules. Betrayers were swallowed by the inn’s bloody murals, while those who fell behind would be trapped in the fog forever. Lin Wei used psychology to unravel the logic, Su Xiao fought off monsters with her fists and feet, and Chen Yue and Li Xue clung to each other, taking blows for one another. When selfish companions became bloodstains on the wall, the alliance between the four girls became the only light on the last train.
As Lin Wei touched her blurred reflection in the train window, she suddenly understood: what they had to escape was never the instances. It was the rusted, man-eating train itself, forever racing through a fissure in time.
The train whistled again in the dead of night. The entrance to the next instance glimmered with a cold light.
“At the next stop, who will be left behind? And whose name will appear on the next ticket?”
It's so confusing. How many keys are there? The first copy has been looking for keys. How many times have I collected three keys? Zhao Man's writing was too shaky. He was timid to death at the beginning, and then he kept trying to kill himself and added some special actions to Xiao Shenyi. He thought there would be some special settings, but then he died so easily. The author explained that human nature is complicated 🤦