Chapter 45 The First Journey

"One minute left until departure..."

When the first crisp shattering sound came, Huang Liping thought she was hallucinating, but when the subsequent shattering sounds continued to come, even if Huang Liping was slow-witted, she knew something was happening.

She put down the wool and the unfinished sweater in her hands and hurriedly woke up the other people in the house.

"Wake up, everyone! Something happened!"

The panicked shouting woke up all the sleeping people. Hearing the sound, Jiang Qian turned over and sat up from the bed, and quickly walked to the window.

In another carriage separated by a door, Qi Hang, who was sleeping, was also woken up by Liang Jing.

He opened his eyes drowsily and was about to ask what happened when he heard a loud noise not far away, as if something had fallen to the ground.

Following the sound, they saw the crowded shadows in the originally empty waiting room across the platform.

In an instant, both of them understood what had happened and their faces changed drastically.

The glass door at the station entrance was broken by zombies!

Qi Hang looked at the shadowy figures in the waiting hall and said in a trembling voice, "Brother Liang, what should we do?"

Last time, the glass door on the platform was broken, and they hid in the dispatching room for a week before coming out. Now the door to the waiting hall is also broken. The waiting hall is full of zombies, and they can't get into the dispatching room. What should they do?

We were about to leave, with only a dozen minutes left before departure, so why couldn’t the glass door in front hold open a little longer?

The zombies that broke through the door were about to come over, and Liang Jing was also very panicked.

There were only railroad tracks near the station, and it was empty everywhere. There was no place to hide. Are they going to die here today?

Liang Jing thought pessimistically.

At the doorway leading to the platform across the hall, more and more figures were moving around. Liang Jing gritted his teeth, knowing he had to make a decision quickly.

Go out? Or stay?

Staying here could certainly provide shelter for a while, but this car didn't look as strong as the door to the waiting room, and it was unknown how long it could protect them. If this car was also breached, they would be trapped!

So should we really go out? Go out into the open, where there's no shelter or refuge, and escape along the endlessly stretching railway?

In an instant, many things flashed through Liang Jing's mind.

But he didn't hesitate. After a brief hesitation, he made a quick decision and shouted at Qi Hang, "Go check the back door and see if you can close it. Let's hide inside first!"

"good!"

Qi Hang was stunned for two seconds and then took action immediately.

One of them ran to the front door of the carriage, and the other ran to the back door, trying to find the door switch.

The zombies that suddenly poured into the waiting hall seemed to have finally discovered the exit to the platform. They abandoned the corpses of their fellow zombies lying in the hall and rushed towards the fresh flesh and blood.

The first zombie passed through the ticket gate and arrived on the platform, followed by the second, the third...

It seemed as if in the blink of an eye, many more zombies appeared on the platform, and at this moment, the two had just arrived at the train door.

The zombies, trying to find fresh flesh and blood, locked onto their target and staggered towards them.

Liang Jing didn't have time to think about it. His eyes quickly swept across the area near the door. "Where's the switch? Is there a switch? Where is the switch?"

He searched frantically, afraid he'd missed something, so he lowered both hands, his palms constantly following the path his eyes had taken.

"Where is it? Where is it exactly? Where's the switch?"

There was nothing different on the smooth train wall, not even a protrusion that looked like a switch. Looking at Qi Hang on the other side of the door who had not found it yet, Liang Jing's heart gradually grew cold.

Seeing the zombies getting closer and closer, but still unable to find the switch to close the door, he had to give up the idea of ​​hiding in the car.

He quickly left the front door, picked up the two people's backpacks as he passed the seats, and ran towards the back door where Qi Hang was, which was farther away from the zombies.

Since I can't hide, I can only run!

As they were getting closer and closer to the back door, Liang Jing was about to hand Qi Hang his backpack and tell him to leave quickly when he saw the door that he had been unable to find the door to open just now slowly close.

With an emergency brake, Liang Jing stopped at the rear door of the train. He looked towards the front door he had just left, only to see that the door, which had been wide open just a moment ago, was now closed, just in time to lock out the zombies that were chasing him.

The doors at both ends of the carriage were closed, and it was temporarily safe inside.

Liang Jing put down the backpack in his hand and let out a long sigh.

He leaned back in his seat, looked at Qi Hang, and asked, "Did you find the switch? How did you close the door just now?"

But Qi Hang, who was asked by him, was also confused. "I don't know either. It just closed suddenly!"

Liang Jing: "Where did you last touch?"

Qi Hang spread his hands and said, "I didn't touch anything. I saw the zombies coming and was about to tell you to leave quickly."

The two men looked at the closed car door and the zombies roaring and screaming at them through the window glass, their hearts still beating wildly.

"It was a close call!" Qi Hang wiped the sweat from his forehead and sighed, "Luckily the car door was closed in time, otherwise..."

He looked at his surroundings through the window and shook his head.

The railway is surrounded by walls or barbed wire. When a group of zombies are chasing them, where can they run to in such a hurry?

Liang Jing also nodded in agreement, agreeing deeply with it.

"We're really lucky." But his frown remained. "There are still thirteen minutes until one o'clock. I wonder if this car can still move, and how long it can last?"

The thirty-meter-long carriage was almost completely filled with zombies. The ten windows on the side facing the station waiting hall were also filled with the hideous faces of zombies.

The Jiang family gathered in the cab, watching the surveillance footage of the rear compartment on the large screen on the left and the zombies outside the window. They were anxious and kept urging, "Dongzi, are you still not ready? When can we leave?"

Not long after being awakened by Huang Liping, zombies swarmed onto the platform. Jiang Qian knew that she could not resist them with just a few people, so she closed the door immediately and prepared to leave.

But there was no news from Jiang Dong, who had entered the driver's cab a long time ago, and the train remained stationary.

With every passing second, the zombies outside became more and more violent, constantly hitting the car with their bodies.

Although the train was there, they could hardly feel the force of the impact inside the car, but if the collision happened too many times, they were worried that the car would not be able to withstand it.

Jiang Dong was sweating profusely and was in a panic.

"It's almost done, it's almost done, don't rush me, I'll get anxious and forget it again!"

Jiang Qian looked at Jiang Dong and asked everyone else in the family to leave, leaving only her and Jiang Weimin in the cab.

Glancing at the chaotic platform, she patted Jiang Dong's shoulder and soothed him, "Don't be nervous, take your time."

Jiang Dong took a deep breath and nodded. His panicked mind calmed down, and the driving process steps emerged in his mind one by one.

He checked the dashboard step by step according to his memory, but when he finally slid the joystick, the screen in front of him suddenly flashed and a voice prompt sounded in the cab at the same time.

[Sorry, there are still eleven minutes until the scheduled departure time. To protect the interests of passengers and in accordance with the management regulations of the Interstellar Train, the train cannot depart in advance. Please wait until the designated time to proceed.]

The gentle mechanical female voice repeated itself twice before everyone in the cab realized what was going on.

I couldn't help but curse in my heart.

Can't you drive ahead of time for the sake of the passengers? Must you be on time?

But now the passengers are on the bus, if we don’t leave now, they might be buried here!

What a bullshit rule!

Jiang Dong turned around and looked at Jiang Qian, "When is your scheduled departure time? Can it be changed?"

Jiang Qian had already opened the system page, but found nothing that could be modified.

"It has been confirmed and cannot be changed."

"Then what should we do?" Jiang Dong looked outside. More and more zombies were surrounding them. "Are we just going to wait here?"

"Is there any other solution?" Jiang Qian was also annoyed.

I thought it was going to be a very smooth day, but who knew such an accident would happen just ten minutes before departure.

She looked at the zombies outside that kept hitting the car body and windows, and sighed, "We can only wait. Keep an eye on the time. When the time is up, we will leave immediately!"

Huang Liping and others who were kicked out of the cab saw her coming out of the cab and hurriedly asked, "Why don't you leave?"

Jiang Qian briefly explained the situation, looked at their panicked expressions, and reassured them, "Don't worry, this car has a certain degree of protection. It will only take a dozen minutes, and they won't be able to get in."

But having said that, just in case, Jiang Qian still took a hoe from the side.

…

In the back carriage, Liang Jing and Qi Hang looked at the scene outside the window with uneasiness in their hearts.

The glass door of the waiting hall was so thick that the zombies broke it easily. The glass of this car doesn’t look that thick either. How long can it last?

They held weapons in their hands, their hearts beating fast as the zombies banged against the glass, fearing that any window would be weak and would be broken directly.

One minute, two minutes... They watched the zombies crashing non-stop, but not a single crack appeared on the train's glass, which looked thin and fragile.

The two people who had been maintaining a fighting posture relaxed a little.

As time passed by and the departure time was getting closer, the two of them even had the mood to chat and laugh.

Qi Hang took out his phone from his pocket and took a look. "There's still one minute left before departure. This car is so magical, maybe it can really take us away from here."

As soon as he finished speaking, the digits representing minutes on the screen turned to zero.

The next second, a push from bottom to top came from under my feet.

Liang Jing and Qi Hang watched as the zombies that had blocked the windows tightly suddenly slid down, and the dazzling sunlight shone in through the windows again.

The white wall outside the window gradually turned into green branches and leaves, then quickly turned into a distant view of houses, and finally only the blue sky remained...

Liang Jing and Qi Hang looked through the window at the high-rise buildings in the distance. After looking at each other, they couldn't help but exclaimed.

Even though they thought the train was unusual before, because they saw it at the train station, they never imagined that the train could actually fly.

【Author’s words】

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