Free Web NovelChapter 1934: Chapter 1096: Middle-Aged Woman (Part 2)
At the same time, he couldn’t help but secretly feel relieved that it wasn’t him who received the Ghost Train Ticket tonight; Yandeta Chiyoda was probably doomed.
And events unfolded as Yang Xiao had envisioned. As the old train gradually decelerated, Yandeta Chiyoda returned, and this time, she stood unabashedly in front of the middle-aged woman.
In the final gliding phase of the train, Yandeta Chiyoda extended her hand, clutching that Ghost Train Ticket tightly.
Staring at her own reflection in the train window, Yandeta Chiyoda couldn’t help but feel frightened; her reflection had completely changed, her face haggard and ghostly.
Her pupils were gone, leaving only a pair of eerie white eyes—a truly vengeful Fierce Ghost!
However... it all ends here. She would slip the ticket to the person she hated most, sending that damn Hua Country person off the train!
As she slowly slipped the ticket into the middle-aged woman’s clothes, the fear on the woman’s face could no longer be concealed. Yandeta Chiyoda relished this process; it was a form of the most brutal torture, to make Chu Xi experience the deepest despair before death.
As the ticket approached the clothes, the middle-aged woman could no longer bear it. She seemed to want to stand up and flee but was suppressed by an invisible force, making her unable to rise at all.
"Go to hell..." Yandeta Chiyoda snarled maliciously, as if avenging a great enmity.
The next second, as the ticket was stuffed into the woman’s clothes, a scream shattered the eerie silence in the carriage.
The scream also startled both Yandeta Chiyoda and Yang Xiao, who was hiding not far away.
Because the scream sounded familiar to them; it was indeed a woman’s voice, someone they knew.
It was someone who shouldn’t have been here—Ogawa Haruka!
But at this moment, she could do nothing, just like Hirano Yuuhi the previous night, she could only watch as the Half Ghost behind Yandeta Chiyoda awakened, using its two pale, slender arms to crawl onto her back.
Once tangled by the Half Ghost, Ogawa Haruka quickly shed her disguise, reverting to her original form, her face twisted, her body trembling, her terror almost palpable.
This scene had the greatest impact on Yandeta Chiyoda, as she was standing directly in front of Ogawa Haruka. She hadn’t expected Ogawa Haruka to appear here.
When did she get on the train? How did she not notice at all?
"Creeeak—"
The old, corroded train door slowly opened, and outside lay a vague, surreal Mist World.
"Why, why is it like this?!" Ogawa Haruka completely broke down, her voice hoarse and roaring, "Why is it me? No, this is a dream, this is fake, it must be fake!"
At this moment, Ogawa Haruka was like a marionette, uncontrollably walking toward the train door. Yang Xiao watched her step off the train, disappearing step by step into the Mist World.
It seemed that something dawned on her, and Yandeta Chiyoda, who had returned to normal, suddenly turned around, her gaze meeting the upward glance of Yang Xiao in this direction.
With just one look, Yandeta Chiyoda discerned Yang Xiao’s identity.
Confusion, regret, fear... various complex emotions intertwined on Yandeta Chiyoda’s face. She had calculated that someone was hiding in the carriage, but she never expected it to be Ogawa Haruka.
At the same time, Yandeta Chiyoda seemed to realize something, and she moved with difficulty, heading for the door leading to Carriage 5. As the ground beneath her feet shook more and more violently, a train sped along the dark tunnel from behind—it was their original train.
At the final moment of collision, Yandeta Chiyoda finally reached the door behind the connection, and through the glass, she once again saw the old man curled up in the corner of Carriage 5.
At this moment, the old man was just stretching his neck to look this way, his expression filled with puzzlement and confusion, and of course, an unshakeable fear that starkly contrasted with the surroundings.
Yandeta Chiyoda immediately realized that this guy was no Ghost, he was indeed a person, and... definitely not Takagi Reina.
Before she could think further, the light outside the carriage became increasingly intense as the following train rear-ended with a crash.
Under a strong mental shock, the few people on the train all lost consciousness, and when they awoke again, they had returned to their original train.
Yang Xiao awoke in Carriage 4, even his position hadn’t changed; the surrounding familiar passengers from before were still there, as if everything that had happened was just a nightmare.
"Clatter, clatter"
Accompanied by a hurried footstep, the door connecting the two carriages opened, and the moment she saw Yang Xiao, Takagi Reina was so moved she nearly cried; she thought something had happened to Yang Xiao.
But Yang Xiao didn’t have time for pleasantries; he got up and went to Carriage 5, but he found nothing there.
"What are you looking for?" Takagi Reina asked, chasing after him.
Yang Xiao didn’t know what he was looking for either, but based on the disturbance he had heard before, and Yandeta Chiyoda’s actions at the last moment, he confirmed that something must have happened in Carriage 5, something unusual that he did not know about.
"Which carriage were you hiding in?" Yang Xiao asked her, staring intently.
"Carriage 6, the one we previously agreed on." Takagi Reina answered candidly.
"When you first boarded that train, did you hear any strange noises? Coming from Carriage 5?"
Takagi Reina nodded immediately, she remembered it clearly, "Yes, it sounded like something fell to the ground, very clear, I thought it was you causing it at the time."
Upon hearing these sounds, both Takagi Reina and Yang Xiao were worried, speculating that the other was hiding in Carriage 5 to guard against each other.
The train had already exited the tunnel and was slowly stopping at Shirahata Station.
Yang Xiao and Takagi Reina got off the train, and they saw another figure disembark from Carriage 2, not looking back and quickly walking away.
"It’s that old woman Yandeta Chiyoda; if I were her, I wouldn’t have the face to see anyone either." Takagi Reina didn’t hide her disdain.
But at that moment, that wasn’t Yang Xiao’s main focus. He found a secluded spot and recounted all his experiences to Takagi Reina, who was shocked to hear that Ogawa Haruka was on the train.
"How was she on the train? And in the same carriage with you?" Takagi Reina’s first thought was that she was also a spy for Yandeta Chiyoda, just like Watanabe Gou. freewēbnoveℓ.com
Only, Watanabe Gou was more cunning; he didn’t board the train, while Ogawa Haruka was tricked onto it, becoming Yandeta Chiyoda’s Substitute Death.
But this hypothesis was directly overturned by Yang Xiao. First of all, Ogawa Haruka wasn’t a newbie, and she wasn’t foolish; she knew very well what she would face by boarding that train tonight. She wouldn’t get on at all.
Moreover, there weren’t many passengers on this night train. When Yang Xiao first entered Carriage 4, he observed the surrounding passengers and environment. He was certain there was no Ogawa Haruka among them.
Disguise was also impossible, as there were only a few people in total, and Yang Xiao had seen each of their faces; she couldn’t have sneaked in.
If she didn’t sneak in, then today’s situation was troublesome. This meant that even without actively boarding the night train, one could still be drawn into the paranormal events of the Ghost Train.
At the same time, Yang Xiao speculated that perhaps Ogawa Haruka wasn’t the only one who boarded the Ghost Train tonight; she was just unlucky to be chosen by Yandeta Chiyoda.
This can be partly confirmed from Ogawa Haruka’s final cries of despair.
As for Ogawa Haruka’s situation, Takagi Reina knew nothing. After all, she was in Carriage 6, too far away.
The events of tonight brought too much shock to Yang Xiao and the others, leaving his mind in chaos. freewebnoveℓ.com
"What should we do now?" Takagi Reina instinctively treated Yang Xiao as the backbone.
"Retreat first, find a place to rest. Ogawa Haruka was originally supposed to be with Yandeta Chiyoda and Watanabe Gou tonight. I want to see how they explain it tomorrow, now that she’s gone." The task was still ongoing, and Yang Xiao needed to conserve energy for the challenges of tomorrow.
