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【Carriage No. 2 Game Rules:

Pair up and play Rock-Paper-Scissors. Winners gain 1 point, losers lose 1 point, and a draw gives each player 1.5 points. After 10 rounds, players will be ranked, and the last-place player will be eliminated.

If all players have the same score, they may freely choose to move forward or backward.】

As soon as the rules were announced, Su Baiye sent a match request directly to Wang Luo.

Even if Su Baiye hadn't, he would have been paired with Wang Luo anyway. The other two clearly had a grudge and went straight for each other, the air thick with tension.

Wang Luo explained in a low voice, "I've played a round with them before. I can't believe we ran into them again. What a coincidence."

A coincidence? Probably not...

Su Baiye was lost in thought. He found it hard to believe that they could meet so coincidentally on a train as massive as the Lost Train.

Wang Luo explained that the man from Carriage No. 3 was named Fang Lin, and the other was Tang Ruyu.

Fang Lin had been the winner of the previous round, while Tang Ruyu had been eliminated. The two already had bad blood between them, and now, as enemies meeting again, their eyes were red with fury as they immediately started fighting.

Tang Ruyu sneered, "Fang Lin, we meet again. You must have spent quite a few Points in Carriage No. 3, huh?"

Not to be outdone, Fang Lin shot back, "You bastard Tang, how did that Poisonous Water taste?"

Their words were like daggers, the hostility palpable.

Hearing this, Tang Ruyu's face turned as black as charcoal. He gritted his teeth and said, "Fang Lin, you dare to raise the stakes? Let's add a wager!"

A wager?

Prompted by this, Wang Luo quickly explained, "You can add wagers in a Multiplayer Game. The terms are set by the players, but they have to be reasonably fair."

The Lost Train wouldn't recognize outrageous bets, so they wouldn't be enforced.

Wang Luo's words drew the attention of the other two, who only then noticed Su Baiye's presence.

"Oh, a newbie?"

If he weren't a newbie, there would have been no need for Wang Luo to explain so much.

Fang Lin nodded at Wang Luo, offering some encouragement. "Wang Luo, you'd better step up. You'll always be a newbie until you reach Carriage No. 3."

Wang Luo nodded quickly in response. Fang Lin had been relatively good to him, proactively sharing a lot of information.

Tang Ruyu wasn't so kind. With his explosive temper, he'd pick a fight with anyone and everyone.

Tang Ruyu snorted, clearly looking down on Wang Luo.

Fang Lin and Tang Ruyu started arguing about the wager again, completely ignoring the other two.

*Something's not right with these two...*

An idea formed in Su Baiye's mind. He beckoned to Wang Luo. "Brother Wang, come here. I need to tell you something."

Wang Luo was confused. What was so important that it had to be whispered? Even so, he leaned in.

In a voice only the two of them could hear, Su Baiye said, "After clearing an odd-numbered carriage game, all entrances and exits open up. But you can't leave until the game is complete."

Wang Luo froze for a moment. What did that mean? You could not only choose to move forward, but also backward? That's not right. Who would willingly choose to go back?

The games have a cost. In Carriage No. 1, you basically have to throw lives at it. And while I don't know what the game in Carriage No. 3 is, it surely can't be simple. Why would anyone choose to go back?

【You have shared a piece of common-quality information with Player 'Wang Luo'. Points +2】

【You have shared a piece of rare-quality information with Player 'Wang Luo'. Points +10】

Seeing the notifications, Su Baiye's suspicions were confirmed. He sneered inwardly. *Just as I thought!*

Su Baiye said bluntly, "Those two are working together."

Amidst Wang Luo's confusion, Su Baiye shared his theory. "Tang Ruyu must have some special ability that gives him an advantage in Carriage No. 1, allowing him to get through without spending too many Points."

"Huh?" Wang Luo was even more bewildered. How could those two possibly be working together?

"The reason is simple." Su Baiye cut straight to the point. "According to the rules of the Carriage Game, Fang Lin had no reason to come back here. When something is this out of the ordinary, there must be something fishy going on!"

You can't leave an odd-numbered carriage until the game is finished. You only move backward from an even-numbered carriage if you fail. But moving back from an odd-numbered one is a conscious choice! And Fang Lin chose to go back instead of forward. That's obviously a problem.

Wang Luo was confused. "But what's in it for them?" He couldn't figure it out. There had to be some benefit to going back and forth between carriages, right?

"You and I are their biggest benefit." Su Baiye didn't mince words. "Do you think the rule of law exists here?"

Wang Luo froze, not answering the question. He understood Su Baiye's implication.

Tang Ruyu and Fang Lin were clearly veteran players who knew each other, and they had gone to great lengths to end up in the same carriage game as two newbies...

If the Lost Train operated on the law of the jungle—survival of the fittest, where the strong prey on the weak—then Su Baiye and Wang Luo were the weakest at the bottom of the food chain! They were the targeted prey!

"If I'm not mistaken, they've both been to Carriage No. 3. They've used the Point Exchange to get abilities and information far beyond what a novice has. The games further ahead are probably too difficult, so they turned back to farm Points from newbies here..."

Su Baiye said calmly, "Of course, it's also possible I'm just being cynical and misjudging them."

But as he said it, Su Baiye himself shook his head. *These guys are bad news...*

To put it plainly, what Fang Lin and Tang Ruyu were doing was camping the newbie village, stomping on players in a low-ranked lobby.

Most top players wouldn't stoop to this; dragons and tigers have their pride. But preying on the weak is what hyenas love to do.

After hearing Su Baiye's analysis, Wang Luo found he couldn't refute it. He accepted it deep down, and a chill ran down his spine.

The Lost Train will only make you die a few more times, but what the players are after is your Points! This isn't just stealing Points, it's stealing your Revival Coins!

Wang Luo asked himself, if he were stuck on one of this train's levels for too long, might he one day walk the same path?

Snapping out of it, Wang Luo had more questions. He asked in a low voice, "Why didn't they rob me last round?" "Why did Tang Ruyu go to Carriage No. 1?" "How are they planning to rob us?"

Su Baiye shook his head slightly. He had too little information to know the answers.

Tang Ruyu retreating to Carriage No. 1 was also strange. Was it to create a pincer attack?

But the most pressing matter now was how to avoid being cornered by these two hyenas...

Meanwhile, Fang Lin's ears twitched as if he'd heard something. He didn't speak, but his voice appeared in Tang Ruyu's ear, tinged with complaint.

"Those two newbies have figured it out. Your acting is still too sloppy. You gave us away too easily."

Tang Ruyu replied in the same way, "What's there to be afraid of? So what if they figured it out? Can they escape? If the Service Group hadn't gotten in the way last round, I would've robbed Wang Luo long ago! Why wait until now? If you ask me, since there's no Service Group here, why bother acting! We were planning to rob them openly anyway! Neither of them is leaving until they hand over 500 Points each!"

Just as Su Baiye had guessed, both of them had been to Carriage No. 3. They had used Points to exchange for supplies and abilities, receiving a major power-up, yet they chose to turn back and prey on newbies.

Fighting those stronger than you is a privilege of the gifted; punching down is the choice of the masses.

This enhancement allowed them to easily crush newbies. Take the private chat channel they were using right now—exchangeable for 100 Points, a godsend for team games, and a must-have on the Lost Train's shopping list for new players.

A fierce look crossed Tang Ruyu's face. "I spent 400 Points on Poison Resistance and bought the Dice of Gambling Madness specifically for robbing people. It'd be a waste not to use them!"

Each carriage on the Lost Train is a separate space. To get matched together, it's best to enter the same carriage at the same time. Fang Lin had a special method to pinpoint their location using the room number.

With his Poison Resistance, Tang Ruyu could clear Carriage No. 1 at a minimal cost. As for the game in Carriage No. 3, Fang Lin had played it so many times he could clear it with his eyes closed.

Fang Lin didn't quite agree with Tang Ruyu. If they could trick the points out of them, that would be best, as it would cause fewer problems later. But since the newbies were already on guard, it was better to just rob them outright—clean, simple, and hassle-free.

Fang Lin sighed, a hint of resignation in his voice. "At the end of the day, you need Points for everything to survive on the Lost Train. And newbies start with 1000 Points but have no way to protect themselves... Isn't that just forcing us to rob them?"

A man is not guilty, but his treasure is his crime.

This was a moment every newbie had to face.

Unless you were extremely lucky and ended up in a carriage with three other newbies, getting waylaid and robbed was unavoidable.

If you have to blame someone, blame your own bad luck!

Fang Lin drifted into his memories, muttering to himself, "They get resentful when their Points are stolen, but that's because they're too short-sighted to see the bigger picture. In the hands of newbies, those Points are a complete waste. Only in our hands can they be used to their fullest potential!"

"Once we're stronger, we'll make the Lost Train a better place. When the environment improves, they'll benefit too. What's there to complain about?"

Such shameless words came from his mouth without a trace of dissonance; he clearly believed his own twisted logic from the bottom of his heart.

Fang Lin shook his head as he spoke, recalling the past. "Besides, when I was a newbie, I had hundreds of Points stolen from me too! I'm not robbing them; I'm just taking back what was owed to me!"

Having been caught in the rain, he wanted everyone else to get a taste of it too.

Tang Ruyu said playfully, "I never knew until today that Fang Boss, who's already robbed people of tens of thousands of Points, was such a stickler for fairness."

"I'm just collecting a little extra interest, that's all," Fang Lin said coolly.

The two fell silent.

Tang Ruyu's gaze drifted to Su Baiye. For some reason, the kid gave him a feeling of being out of place. It was strange, but he couldn't quite put his finger on why...

*I hope this one isn't too tough to handle.*

Tang Ruyu's eyes darkened as he thought to himself, *After this job, I'll have enough to break even. Then I'm done!*