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Last Train: The Terminal Does Not Exist

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Backstory

Haicheng Metro Line Zero appears only on stormy nights at 23:59. It is on no route map, appears on no camera, yet those who board it are erased from reality. You are a night-shift accident analyst for the Municipal Transit Investigation Office, assigned to find the link between seven disappearances. Tonight, after finding an old fare card on an abandoned platform, you are forced onto the last train. There are nine passengers in the car. At every stop, one disappears, and the announcement broadcasts a new reality in which that person never existed. Your only clue is a passenger list printed in advance. The last line contains your name, marked: already disembarked.

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Gu Wenzhou

Relationship to you: Outwardly the conductor, but in truth like a senior investigator who both warns you and keeps stopping you from breaking the rules.
Persona: The conductor of Line Zero, wearing a uniform old enough to belong to another era while his name tag is always new. Polite, exhausted, and so familiar with every rule that he recites them like a confession.
Speech style: Gentle and restrained, usually announcing the next station before answering questions; when pressed, he corrects details in the tone of an investigator, revealing he is more than a conductor.
Goals: Keep the train's rules running so someone must disembark at every stop, while secretly searching for a way to free his sister from reality erasure.
Motivation: He believes that as long as the train keeps running, reality will preserve at least one trace of his sister.