A Visitor's Guide to the Haunted Town [Infinite]

Updates will be irregular due to work and writer's block, but I'll do my best to finish the story and won't abandon it. Please see the notes and content warnings below the blurb. A Guide to Traveling and Sightseeing on the Catherine First of all, welcome aboard the Catherine! To make your trip more enjoyable and help you get used to the itinerary as quickly as possible, please take some time to read the following rules: 1. This train journey loops between 15 small towns. Your trip will end once you've experienced five of them. 2. Survive in each town until the Catherine pulls into the station again. [Content Warnings and Highlights] 1. The characters have no supernatural powers or awakened abilities. They are ordinary people trying to escape desperate situations. 2. The protagonist is an ordinary person, not a perfect character. In some situations, she will be afraid and hesitate. 3. The events in the towns, including the horror elements, do not reflect the author's personal views! 4. There will inevitably be some plot holes. Updates will be irregular due to work and health reasons. Sorry, I'm just too weak... Reading is meant to be relaxing. If anything in the story negatively affects your mood, you can stop reading right away. [Horror infinite-flow, primarily from the heroine's perspective, escape from eerie towns] Here's a planned story that I don't know when I'll start! Planned Story: How to Become a Horror Blind-Box Designer One day, Chen Mian accidentally opened a mysterious delivery, and from then on, Dorm 209 was plagued by blind boxes that could produce random horror scenarios. [The Fifth Person in the Dorm] A clingy new roommate has moved in. Please take good care of her! Seven days later, will she choose to stay, or take everyone with her? [Ghost Tag] Let's play hide-and-seek on campus late at night! Anyone who gets caught has to become one of them. [Midnight Diners] The way to a person's heart is through their stomach. Fulfill the demands of these diners who arrive under cover of night! A blind box is a toy box whose contents are unknown to consumers in advance, making each purchase a surprise. But after they randomly drew "The Fifth Person Sneaking into the Dorm," "Ghost Tag," "Midnight Diners," "Graveyard Express," and "Outdoor Movie," Dorm 209 had had enough of the distinctive dolls, all with their guts spilling out and bodies mangled beyond recognition. The four of them tracked down the blind-box website, which only briefly opened at midnight, and gave it a piece of their minds. Among all the comments from people plagued by the blind boxes, some despairing and others losing their minds, the four from Dorm 209 stood out. [You Wish]: "The blind box packaging looks uninspired, and the text and logo are laid out horribly!" [Chen's Noodle Shop (No Rush Orders]: "The blind-box selection is too limited, and the copywriting is awful..." [Yoyoyoyozi]: "The blind-box dolls are shoddily made and nothing like the pictures!!" [Acha]: "There's no sense of design. The dolls all reuse too many elements, their silhouettes lack character, and the overall design is cluttered. You just pile on elements and throw colors together at random." A month later, the official blind-box account replied on the website: "We welcome your submissions. Please get in touch with our design department~" Zeng Cha: "So, they're saying, 'If you think you can do better, come try'..." Wang Taotao: "What a lousy company. Can't consumers even offer feedback anymore?!" Chen Mian: "Wait... maybe we really can do it? The four of us studied art. Why not try designing blind boxes?" You Youzi: "...But we majored in animation." Chen Mian: "...Animation and design go hand in hand. We can teach ourselves." Theme: Helping each other, surviving against the odds, escaping alive, and facing reality with a positive attitude