World Refresh: I Knew the Inside Info Ahead of Time
Chapter 90: Chance Encounter with the Fallen Queen
How to obtain the other two hidden rewards?
The system intelligence provided the method to acquire hidden rewards, but finding the wild boar mask train attendant who steals food and the demon mask train attendant who disguises as humans wouldn't be easy.
The latter disguises as humans, so how could they be distinguished?
Randomly grabbing people from other carriages to report them?
That definitely wouldn't work.
By comparison, the wild boar mask train attendant would be somewhat easier - searching carriage by carriage would eventually yield results.
Li Xuan called over Huo Lingling and informed her about the wild boar mask train attendant and demon mask train attendant matters.
"Understood?"
Huo Lingling nodded, "Understood, find the wild boar mask train attendant, don't alert them prematurely, catch them when they steal passengers' food, and also find the human disguised by the demon mask train attendant - they enjoy reproducing with humans."
Yun Xiuzhi complained, "The demon mask person has disguised as humans, how are we supposed to catch them?"
Huo Lingling raised an eyebrow, striking a cute pose, "Is there a possibility that someone as beautiful as me would attract the demon mask person to approach me first? There aren't many women on this train whose looks can compare to mine. They bathe less frequently - how could they match my fragrant, soft body?"
Yun Xiuzhi expressed surprise, "Eh~ you've become smarter."
Huo Lingling proudly lifted her pure white chin and puffed out her chest, "I've always been clever!"
"What if the demon mask train attendant prefers men?" Yun Xiuzhi suddenly changed the subject.
"Isn't Li Xuan here? He's not bad looking." Huo Lingling said.
Li Xuan rubbed his temples, hoping the demon mask train attendant had cleanliness obsessions and would deliver themselves to his doorstep.
"Let's establish a code phrase. Whether the demon mask person disguises as you or me, whoever wants to communicate should use the code phrase first."
"The code phrase will be..." Huo Lingling didn't speak it aloud, instead reaching her hand under Li Xuan's shirt and writing several characters on his stomach with her finger.
"The code phrase is 'what's one plus one,' answer 'your dad's dead.'" Li Xuan said expressionlessly.
Huo Lingling made an OK gesture, "Good! Let's split up to find the wild boar mask train attendant!"
Li Xuan and Huo Lingling would search for the target attendants, while Yun Xiuzhi stayed behind to watch over the Chinese Alligator.
Li Xuan passed through carriage after carriage, attracting numerous gazes. As everyone knew, the higher grade your ticket, the more carriages you could traverse.
Different grade carriages were randomly interspersed, meaning if your ticket grade wasn't high enough, after passing through several carriages you might be blocked by higher grade carriages and unable to proceed further.
An hour quickly passed, and Li Xuan still hadn't found any trace of his targets. Along the way, he'd encountered men and women intimately communicating in corners, but upon closer observation, couldn't determine if they were train attendants.
Li Xuan found a train attendant and bought a pack of beef jerky, holding one piece to chew while walking, storing the rest in his pocket with half protruding out.
He deliberately exposed them to lure the snake from its hole.
When he reached a standing ticket carriage, many survivors noticed the beef jerky in Li Xuan's pocket, swallowing saliva. Someone stealthily approached, reaching to steal it.
The survivors in the carriage watched quietly, nobody alerting Li Xuan.
Li Xuan seemed to have grown eyes on his back - snap! His finger struck the thief's hand.
Hiss~
The thief gasped sharply in pain, lifting his hand to see the back swollen red with a very distinct finger mark.
A single finger had done this to him!
Such tremendous strength!
The thief immediately abandoned his scheme, retreating into the crowd.
Li Xuan said nothing, continuing forward. Every carriage he passed through had someone attempting to steal his beef jerky, seated ticket carriages being no exception.
Unconsciously, Li Xuan reached carriage number one hundred eight. Entering, he discovered it was an ordinary hard sleeper carriage.
Walking inside, familiar faces appeared before his eyes.
Huo Shuangshuang, Su Letian, and An Chun were all in the hard sleeper carriage.
"How did you get here?" Huo Shuangshuang inquired.
Su Letian and An Chun glanced at Li Xuan, not recognizing him immediately.
The last time the two had met Li Xuan, he'd been in giant beast form throughout, never having personally seen Li Xuan's human form.
"Looking for someone." Li Xuan said.
"Who? Need help?"
"No need, I can handle it." Li Xuan refused.
Huo Shuangshuang didn't insist, nodding, wanting to find conversation topics but unable to think of any, sitting dumbly on the bed.
An Chun, who occupied the bunk above Huo Shuangshuang, cautiously asked, "Giant Beast Big Brother? Is that you?"
"It's me, long time no see." Li Xuan admitted.
He was no longer the person who needed to conceal his identity - now he wasn't afraid of exposure.
An Chun was overjoyed, "It really is you! How have you been recently? Has searching for supernatural characteristics been going smoothly?"
Li Xuan sat down to chat with An Chun. Having walked for several hours, he was tired too.
"Not bad, and you?" Li Xuan asked knowingly.
An Chun looked gloomy, sighing deeply, "Not good, very not good. Su Letian has gone mad."
Su Letian from the neighboring bunk poked his head out, "I'm not mad."
"If you're not mad, why would you create so many people identical to your wife?" An Chun couldn't help retorting.
"As long as I have many wives, my wife won't die, and I won't lose my wife." Su Letian's lips curved upward, his smile appearing perfectly normal yet giving people an extremely distorted feeling.
Li Xuan patted An Chun's shoulder, expressing belief in her.
What Su Letian was doing was too insane. The third version demon possessing Su Letian went berserk while absorbing memories, suffering mental collapse and becoming a monster.
What kind of figure was the third version demon! Creating techniques with possession effects showed they belonged to the strong sequence even in the martial arts version!
Such a major figure actually went mad from Su Letian's memories!
An Chun was also unlucky - liking Su Letian but being betrayed by him, then forcing herself to contact Su Letian after awakening her ability, leading to mental collapse.
Her talent wasn't bad - A-grade ability Fallen Touch, capable of growing into a king-grade ability user.
"After returning, you could change to another base, like the Black Bear Survivor Base in City G. With your abilities, you could achieve great things there." Li Xuan suggested.
After the train returned, the second version update wouldn't be far off. The strongest ability user at Black Bear Survivor Base was only B-grade.
An Chun's A-grade talent was sufficient to become the Black Bear Base's new base leader. With an A-grade ability user joining, Black Bear Base's safety would increase significantly.
An Chun looked deeply at Li Xuan, believing he wouldn't randomly recommend a base. Perhaps Black Bear Base was a good choice.
"Alright, I'll consider it carefully."
Su Letian was unconcerned, showing no intention to persuade her to stay.
He didn't yet know he was about to miss out on a girl with A-grade talent.
"Are you hungry? My treat." An Chun said.
"I still have beef jerky." Li Xuan reached toward his pocket.
Missing! Several pieces of beef jerky were missing! Only one piece remained!
They hadn't been missing when he entered the hard sleeper carriage, but after chatting briefly with An Chun, they'd disappeared.
Who took them?