Doomsday Life Simulator System In A Zombie Apocalypse World Update Era-Chapter 114: Hidden Dangers Lying Deep Within The Train Survival World
{Old MacDonald: If this old man is not mistaken, that train should have been encountered by us due to the Extreme Event. Do you want me to call my flock of chickens and let them attack the train outside?}
[Seeing the message sent by Old MacDonald, you immediately replied.]
{Zayne: No need to waste your chickens, I’ll deal with them using the turrets.}
[After replying, you immediately went to the locomotive. Unlike before, when it was cramped, the locomotive now had a bigger area inside, so Jade, Scarlet, and you easily went inside and stayed.]
[The locomotive was where the manual controls and engine of the train were located. Using your Train Conductor Authority, you checked the scenery outside by train by expanding your senses as well as using your Initial Platinum rank Spirit attribute.]
[As you looked outside, you saw that there was indeed a train aside from yours in the endless barren wasteland.]
[Due to its inferior speed, it was already overtaken and was already really far away from your train.]
[Because of that, you had to manually control the train to go back.]
[Although you did attempt to make a U-turn and head back, you were still surprised that it worked since trains could normally only go straight in the endless, barren wasteland.]
[Even with manual control, you could at most control the train to go left or right, but not backwards. Now, you could use it to go back and pursue the train that was left behind by your Zenith Train.]
[’Interesting. Is this the work of the Random Train Encounter Extreme Events? It even changes the underlying rules of the Train Survival World.’]
[’However, it did make some sense considering that it will be difficult for some higher-level trains to pursue weaker ones since the higher-level ones have trains with greater travel speed.’]
[’The only question left is if it’s truly possible to travel back. Or I’m only allowed to since there are two trains now, and now the movable distance is decided by the slowest train.’]
[In other words, you wanted to test if you could let Zenith go even further back from that train.]
[It didn’t take long for you to catch up to the train. It only had four carriages and one locomotive, so it was merely a Level 4 Starter Train.]
[As soon as you caught up to it, you didn’t attack it yet, and instead, manually controlled Zenith to go further back than that train.]
[However, just as you let Zenith reach the distance that was previously covered by that train, you could no longer let Zenith move further back.]
[-Ding!]
{You have traveled back to the Endless Barren Wasteland! Please return within 10 seconds, or you may not want to find out why you shouldn’t!}
[Receiving that notification from the World Will, you used your Hint Prompt on it and wanted to find out why.]
{Hint Prompt: The Endless Barren Wasteland isn’t truly endless. Rather, it represents the past, present, and future. The future of all Train Conductors is to move forward from the past and keep on traveling in the present.
Going forward means that you’ll have a bright future. However, going backward means that you’ll regress and bad things will happen.}
{Hint Prompt: To maintain the feeling of endlessness of the barren wasteland, the World Will naturally pay an enormous price when constructing the endless barren wasteland. Because of that, one of the restrictions imposed was that while going forward would have an endlessly bright future, going backwards would mean a damned regression.
Regressing doesn’t naturally mean a true regression of going back to the past. While you’d indeed go back to the past, it’s a forsaken and rejected past. Being in such a timeline would mean that you are already in a rejected past, your existence will soon be rejected, and you will no longer exist.}
{Hint Prompt: Moreover, some of the Wild Gods are residing in the forsaken past. While not all of them, those that are truly powerful have been slumbering in the forsaken past.
Anyone who enters the forsaken past, unless they’re at a certain rank above Crystal rank, any living being who enters the forsaken past will die just by being near the presence of such powerful Wild Gods.}
[Reading those hint prompts, while you did attempt to use the Hint Prompt (Gold) talent to find out more about it, it still surprised you that it did work.]
[You had expected your Hint Prompt talent to fail due to your weak power rank. But it seemed that for a gold-grade talent, Hint Prompt was one of the stronger ones.]
[’To think that’s the truth. It seems I’m still weak. Even my real-world body is only at Platinum rank, and my simulation self is already catching up to it. Yet, Platinum rank is way too weak when compared to the Wild Gods slumbering in the forsaken past.’]
[Breathing a sigh of world weariness after discovering just how small you are in the grand scheme of things, your gaze became solemn as you decided, ’No matter what, I must become stronger or else I can’t protect Jade and my train crewmates from such threats.’]
[You never felt this much helplessness in your first doomsday life simulation since the Global Ocean Survival World didn’t have any apparent dangers. Moreover, even if there were hidden ones like what you discovered now, the past you didn’t have the Hint Prompt (Gold) talent.]
[Because of that, even if there were extreme horrors that lay deep within the Global Ocean Survival World, you were oblivious to them, unlike in this case.]
[Without any hesitation, you drove the train to travel just beside the Level 4 Starter Train.]
[Looking at it, your gaze became cold and indifferent, ’For the sake of my train crew and myself, I don’t care who is inside. But they’ll have to die and become the stepping stone of our growth!’]
[Knowing the dangers that lay hidden deep within the Train Survival World, you became more extreme in adhering to everyone other than your train crewmate as NPCs.]
