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"Your journey is decided by the gods."
Zhou Baiyu mulled over these final two sentences, pondering their significance.
The train conductor said:
"The places I can go to are more distant than the ones you are summoned to, even closer to the future. But all this is premised on having a passenger."
"The train seeks destined passengers, the spirit of the train will appear in the dreams or hallucinations of some. It will tell these people where to board. And I will pass through these places, picking up those fated to be on the train."
"I might travel from 2.15 to 2.14 or perhaps from 2.15 to 2.16... Who knows, the train needs a master, and while I am the master of the train, it's our passenger who decides my and the train's final destination."
"Do you understand what I'm saying?"
The train conductor looked at Zhou Baiyu with a rather friendly gaze.
Zhou Baiyu more or less understood.