City Z in May is already extremely hot and stuffy, and the drizzle last night did not reduce the heat, but made the air even more humid, making the entire city of Z look like a huge steamer, gasping for air .

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Ding Chiyu stayed up all night with his homework last night. He wanted to sleep until noon, but irritated by the heat, he still woke up helplessly from sleepiness early.

“You are my little pony, naughty and willful, one day I will ride you and sing Jingle Bells…” The sudden ringing of the mobile phone made Dingchiyu’s eyes widen in the anger of getting up. While pouring water, he lazily picked.

As soon as his hazy vision saw the word “Ding Ji” on the caller’s place, Ding Chiyu’s pair of big eyes immediately became energetic, and he didn’t care to straighten out the slightly messy curly hair on his head. Putting the phone to his ear, he complained: “Aji, are you really my brother? You haven’t contacted your cute brother for two whole months, what did you do these days?”

Ding Chiyu didn’t hear Ding Ji’s familiar hearty laughter this time, only three indistinguishable words faintly penetrated into his ears amidst the intermittent rustling sound from the phone: “…save… …help me……”

“…Ah Ji?!” Ding Chiyu, who was not quite sure, immediately put his phone away, and the word “Ding Ji” from the caller clearly and unmistakably came into his eyes.

An unpleasant feeling immediately surged in Ding Chiyu’s heart, but before he could talk to the other party again, his eyes clearly caught a figure in the mirror in front of him: it was empty behind him just now. But now behind him a rabbit-headed human body appeared at some point. On its decent black tuxedo, the blood-red Arabic numeral “4” on the chest was so eye-catching.

Ding Chiyu’s heart trembled, and he instinctively wanted to turn around to confirm, but what greeted him was the rabbit’s mouth that opened suddenly, and swallowed him whole in one gulp…

Dingchiyu only felt the darkness around him, and he was spinning around without distinguishing up, down, left, and right, and his feet that had nowhere to landl suddenly stepped on a solid place like this.

After getting used to it a bit, Ding Chiyu realized that he seemed to be in a strange place when he looked up.

This is an old platform, the stones are covered with traces of years of erosion, under the rusty canopy, there are dozens of figures standing sparsely.

The sky was covered by a thick layer of haze, and the surrounding environment was dark. In the atmosphere of being unable to distinguish between morning and evening, coupled with the looming fog, those figures looked hazy, not to mention their appearance, whether they were male or female. Ding Chiyu couldn’t see it either.

A gust of cold wind blew, and Ding Chiyu, who was only wearing pajamas, couldn’t help shivering. In the swirling mist, those figures were even more faint, like a group of ghosts.

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The feeling under his feet is very solid, and it hurts to pinch himself. Ding Chiyu quickly ruled out the option of dreaming. After a little hesitation, he decided to approach those figures to ask.

The fog was very thick, so Ding Chiyu walked very carefully. Fortunately, the platform was not big, and he soon reached a figure.

This is a pale young man with frozen eyes and looking far away. His suit is stained with mud and blood, and his tie is askew, as if he just had a fight with someone.

Ding Chiyu frowned, but still said politely: “Hello, do you know where this is?”

The young man didn’t seem to hear Ding Chiyu’s voice, Ding Chiyu raised the volume and asked again, the young man withdrew his gaze, turned his head stiffly, and stared straight at Ding Chiyu’s big eyes, repeated vaguely in his mouth: “…what…place…what…”

Is he drunk? Dingchiyu sniffed him carefully, and didn’t smell any alcohol on the young man.

Ding Chiyu felt that something was wrong and left the young man immediately without further delay.

After a few steps, Ding Chiyu came to another figure.

After hesitating for a moment, he decided to try again.

The fat figure immediately realised his approach, and turned around before Ding Chiyu could make a sound.

Ding Chiyu was overjoyed: There should be no problem this time.

But just for a moment, this thought was blown away by the reality: the middle-aged uncle’s facial features were crooked, his mouth couldn’t be closed, blood mixed with saliva, dripping all over the front of his clothes, As if he didn’t notice anything, he smiled dully at Ding Chiyu.

The ghostly smile made the goosebumps on Dingchiyu’s arms surge.

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Ding Chiyu directly gave up the idea of continuing, walked away from the uncle in a few steps, and found an empty space to stand still.

With the unfamiliar environment and the two unusual figures just now, Ding Chiyu has already sensed that something is wrong here.

Could it be that he was sent here by that rabbit-headed man?!

Although all this was unbelievable, Ding Chiyu calmed down quickly. Just as he was about to sort out the context of the matter, a familiar voice rang in his ears: “Chiyu?!”

“Shang Yang?!” Ding Chiyu didn’t need to turn his head, and immediately recognized the voice that had been engraved in his bones long ago.

Turning around, the figure that Ding Chiyu could never forget, really appeared in front of him so clearly.

Shang Yang’s well-mannered facial features revealed a clear and heroic spirit. At this moment, he was covering Ding Chiyu from a position half a head higher than Ding Chiyu, mixed with a trace of astonishment and concern.

“Why are you here?!” Close at hand, the two people asked this sentence almost in unison.

Seeing Ding Chiyu whose shoulders were trembling slightly, Shang Yang immediately realized something, took off his coat and put it on Ding Chiyu carefully, and smoothed out his slightly messy curly hair.

Shang Yang’s body heat immediately seeped into his body from his clothes, Ding Chiyu’s whole body was immediately warmed from inside to outside.

Shang Yang took Ding Chiyu’s hand and sat down on the chair. He didn’t intend to let go, so Ding Chiyu let him hold his hand.

The topic returned to the original question. Facing Shang Yang, Ding Chiyu pondered for a while, and then asked: “Could it be that, brother Yang, you also received a call from Ah Ji?”

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Facing Ding Chiyu’s rhetorical question, Shang Yang’s expression froze for a moment, but in the blink of an eye, Shang Yang’s expression immediately returned to calm: “That’s right.”

“Then, a rabit-headed thing suddenly appeared and swallowed me in one gulp, and i appeared here.” The story Shang Yang told was exactly the same as what happened to Ding Chiyu. Ding Chiyu realized that it seemed that even if you ask Shang Yang, you probably won’t be able to get any more answers.

“Chiyu, is this the first time you have encountered such a thing?” Shang Yang’s next words surprised Ding Chiyu: “Brother Yang, this isn’t the first time for you?”

Shang Yang shook his head slowly but clearly.

“Wait a minute, what happened between you and Ah Ji?!” Ding Chiyu wanted to continue asking, but Shang Yang raised his hand to stop him: “Time is limited, I can only say a few words, the rest of the matter, I’ll tell you when we get out.”

“…Okay.” Shang Yang has this kind of charm, every time Ding Chiyu faces him, he looks powerless.

“What I’m going to say next might sound illogical, but you must keep it firmly in your heart, because it is related to whether we can leave here alive.” Shang Yang emphasized to Ding Chiyu very solemnly.

“Get out of here alive.” Ding Chiyu immediately caught the key point from Shang Yang’s words. Looking at Shang Yang with a serious face, Ding Chiyu realized the seriousness of the matter.

Seeing that Ding Chiyu had no objection, Shang Yang continued: “First of all, this is not the real world; secondly, the things inside, except for us and some of the people involved, are not human beings.”

Even Ding Chiyu, who trusted Shang Yang 100%, suddenly heard such words from Shang Yang’s mouth, and couldn’t help being a little speechless: “…” Are you sure you’re not joking?

Ding Chiyu instinctively looked up and looked around, and then contacted the two figures he saw before, and suddenly felt that Shang Yang’s words were acceptable.

Before Shang Yang wanted to say something, several figures suddenly stepped out of the mist and passed by the two of them.

Shang Yang looked at the feet of several figures, and motioned to Ding Chiyu.

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After Ding Chiyu watched the figures leave, he sighed to Shang Yang, “Damn, that little brother just now is so handsome, he didn’t wear any clothes on his upper body.”

Shang Yang: “…Is this time to joke, please be serious.”

“Brother Yang, don’t worry, he’s still not as temperamental as you.” When Shang Yang gestured, Ding Chiyu had already noticed that there were no shadows of those figures. Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but look down at his feet. Although it was blurry, the shadow was there, so he felt relieved: that’s good.

Before Shang Yang wanted to say something, a long and dull siren sounded suddenly, the original thick fog gradually dispersed, and a train slowly approached from a distance.

The seemingly slow train came to the platform in the blink of an eye, and there was another whistle sound like a death knell. Ding Chiyu couldn’t help covering his ears, but the fog on the platform was swept away like this. Under the heavy haze, the train revealed its true body: an old-fashioned steam train, the carriage seems to be endless at a glance, and the mottled carriage seems to be covered with a thick layer of black material, slowly wriggling.

The moment the train approached the platform, the dead people on the platform were all sluggish, walking, crawling, rolling and dragging, rushing towards the entrance of the carriage.

At the same time as the dead people approached, the black things buckled on the carriage suddenly swelled up and spread out. Ding Chiyu took a closer look, only to find that they were simply countless broken limbs gathered together, The moment dead people approached, they immediately left the outer layer of the carriage and rushed towards the dead people.

The dead people in the front row were immediately torn to pieces by them, and the smell of blood and rancidity immediately permeated the air.

Seeing this scene, Shang Yang and Ding Chiyu couldn’t help being slightly taken aback.

Only then did the dead people in the back realize what they were doing, and they took out joss* paper money from all over their bodies, and threw them into the air.
(T/n: this is a common term used mostly in China. Joss paper money is burnt for the deads to ensure that the spirit of the deceased has sufficient means in the afterlife.)

The broken bodies and limbs of the dead people who were hunting for prey just now settled their movements like this, turned around and walked towards the joss paper money, and the dead people took advantage of this gap and rushed into the carriage.

“Let’s go too.” Shang Yang seemed to have been waiting for this moment, he tightened Ding Chiyu’s hand, mixed in among the dead people as fast as he could, and entered the carriage.

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