Although there were some empty seats, the train car was still fairly crowded.
At first, the car was filled with the sound of idle chatter, punctuated by the occasional wails of a child.
Add to that the rhythmic CLACK-CLACK of the wheels against the rails, and the car was anything but quiet.
However, at some point, those sounds seemed to become muffled, as if covered by a thin veil. Though they still existed, they grew faint and indistinct.
Hu Qi remembered that a balding, middle-aged man in his fifties was sitting beside him.
Across from him sat a young couple.
'None of the three of them had a child.'
'So where did this little girl come from?'
Just then, every sound ceased abruptly, and the car plunged into an eerie, dead silence.
Hu Qi instinctively looked up to see the dim, yellow lights in the car flickering incessantly, as if they might go out at any moment.
In an instant, the once-clean car looked as if it had been abandoned for ages.
