The Deathline Shift

[Infinite Flow] [Mild Horror] [No Female Lead] [No System]

People say the Abyss Train only carries one kind of passenger:

Those who harbor an obsession and can never move on in the real world.

"No one saw them alive, and no body was found."

Those eight words became a prison that kept Shen Che trapped for ten whole years. He never imagined that the price of breaking free would be boarding a never-ending train of terror.

Midnight fog, an eerie freighter, rules that kill on contact... Here, death isn't the end. It's the kindest release.

A ghost-infested ocean freighter, endlessly repeating rules of death, a bloody truth buried deep underground... Every stop is a past that cannot rest in peace.

And as Shen Che returns alive from one stop after another, he gradually discovers that

The seemingly unrelated departed souls and the obsessions buried in the past all appear to point to the same truth...

Content warnings: The protagonist is an ordinary person. No special items, no arrogant dragon-protagonist, and no blowing up dungeons or similar setups.