Chapter 13 The Train
Ye Daopu City.
This is a countryside with a strong local flavor.
The station where he was located was also very remote, surrounded by ridges and open spaces covered with weeds.
The old train slowly drove over. The commuter train passed by only seven stops and eventually arrived at a station called "Huangwei". The area turned out to be a forest farm. It is said that there were some copper mines around it before, which were abandoned many years ago.
According to information on Yedaopu City’s official website, these railways leading to the Ayao site were built in the early last century.
At first, the trains on this railway line were made of freight. For a period of time, the mining industry was very developed in the area, and workers and mining companies needed to commute along the way. However, these situations are already tomorrow.
Considering that these railways were built in consideration of specific circumstances, they naturally gradually became unpredictable. Later, the local mining industry was no longer good, and freight operations declined and became commuter lines.
This situation is not only reported in Yedaopah City. The private railway trend in Japan was extremely developed during the period of economic rise. However, later, the economy gradually declined, with the reduction of births and population movement to large cities, many private routes were impacted. Routes like this were either cutting budgets or waiting to close the route.
"There are really few customers on this route," he came to the white line position in the platform waiting area with his luggage. Thanks to this, he could clearly see the coming train.
The train slowly entering the platform is a typical private iron freight train, a train with diesel engines as the power source, and is generally called a pneumatic train in Japan.
The train was painted with yellow paint on the outside, and there were some mottled traces in the area, showing a kind of peace of time and a deep evening air.
The car door slowly opened with a "puff" sound, and the ringtone of the car was about to leave was also heard from the platform.
Zhicang quickly boarded the train at winter night. The carriage was a horizontal seat with no other passengers inside. He found a seat and sat down.
At the same time, the girl in a black sailor suit also entered the carriage. The long strip of cloth bag behind her was a bit in trouble, and the suitcase dragged to the ground was also very heavy.
"...that should be a knife!"
Zhicang Dongye just took a look and guessed that the long cloth bag should be essentially a knife.
The girl wearing a black sailor suit and a high ponytail found a seat in the back of the carriage and sat down.
From the very beginning, he guessed that the girl's identity should be a fellow traveler with him.
(The person who participated in the impeachment ceremony could not be an ordinary person. Since this girl is carrying a knife, she must have practiced swordsmanship or kendo...)
With his amazing eyesight, he noticed the girl's right index finger joint and calluses at the tiger's mouth, which was the result of long-term knife grip.
At the same time, Kurosaki Saya also noticed the young man carrying a mountaineering bag.
Out of habit, she secretly observed the other person's physical characteristics, the severity of the pace and the ups and downs of her breathing. This is a habit developed by practicing ancient martial arts and swordsmanship for a long time. In her eyes, the other person's body was only a superficial judgment that it had been systematically trained, and it was a solid body with no fat feeling heavy feeling.
"I don't look like a mountain climber. I seem to have practiced boxing or something in my breathing style. I also take a very stable step. I am undoubtedly a skilled practitioner."
She remembered in her heart what Master Duci, who had taken care of herself for many years before leaving.
"Forging the Forging Academy, Guiwuli Village is not trustworthy..."
"People who participate in the impeachment ceremony are mostly competitors, so it is best not to have too much contact with them."
Because she had such an idea in her heart, she did not intend to have something to talk to the other party, but sat alone in the last row of the carriage.
The train was about to drive, and at this moment, a figure that looked dusty appeared.
"It's so dangerous, I'm almost late."
In a suit, a young man with a cheerful baby-faced rushes into the carriage, his feet wearing leather shoes squeaking the wooden floor. He holds a briefcase in his right hand, loosens his tie with his left hand, and rushes into the carriage with a panic look.
"Catch it, catch it."
Baby Face found a seat and sat down, and breathed a sigh of relief. He looked around and found that there were only three passengers in the car, including himself, with a strange expression.
Zhicang Dongye just raised his eyes slightly and looked at the visitor, but he didn't say anything.
The girl in a black sailor suit sat in the last row, her face was frosty, and her whole body exuded a force field like "Please don't talk to me casually". I'm afraid no one dared to talk to her.
Babyface originally wanted to chat with the two, but when they saw their cold expressions, they had to sit down honestly.
The train drove slowly. As we walked, the tracks began to extend to the mountain. The yellow Chailian train began to make a "clang clang" sound, and the car was shaking a little, but in general, it was still relatively stable. I didn't get much impact when I sat in the car.
It was early summer now, and there was no air conditioning on the car, but because the windows were open and the breeze blew, there was still a little coolness that could be heard.
Zhicang Dongye raised his hand and looked at the time displayed on his phone.
The car was 5:50 when it left.
I walked forward for ten minutes and it was approaching about six o'clock.
The train gradually drove on the narrow tracks on the edge of the inclined surface of the deep valley, and the speed was not particularly fast. Amid the shaking sound of "Empty Dong" he looked at the scenery outside the car window. The route to the "Wild-out" area was very remote. Most of the windows on both sides could see the fields, wasteland, and sparse trees...
Zhicang Dongye took a sip with a coffee can in his hand, thinking that he didn't know how long it would take to stand. Although it was still a quiet rural scenery, it was unknown where he would go in the end. No matter who explained this journey, it would seem strange.
“There is no signal on the phone.”
However, in this remote environment, the lack of signal base stations is not a strange thing. He remembered that his mountaineering backpack contained several novels to pass the time, but Dongye did not intend to take it out to read it.
He stretched his elbows in front of the window and stared out the car window.
After entering six o'clock, the window was covered by night, and the car window reflected the scenery inside the car, giving people a little oppressive feeling.
I don’t know how long after looking at the scenery outside the car window like this, Zhicang Dongye slowly raised his head.
"Huh... it's not a tunnel ahead, right?"
His brows frowned tightly, thinking that he didn't remember that this line needed to pass through a tunnel.
Through the car window, Zhikuang Dongye's eyes could lock in the dark tunnel in front of him, which was like a huge monster with a big open black mouth, and it was the road to the unknown demon realm.
Woo--
The train drove into the entrance of the tunnel and the sound of wind sounded like a sob.
At this moment, the sound of the howling wind in my ears and the sound of the shaking of the car gradually changed from clear to blur, and then slowly turned into a buzzing sound similar to a seal, which gradually became impossible to hear clearly.
Chapter completed!