Chapter 477: Test

Under the dazzling sunlight, yellow sand was rising above the vast desert. A locomotive spewing thick smoke pulled a long train along the railway, running all the way to the end of the railway and into the distant sky.

At the front part of the train, in a luxurious carriage near the front, Sister Vanya, dressed in a red nun's uniform, was sitting in her seat with her eyes closed, praying silently for something she did not understand.

Suddenly, the nun who was praying with her eyes closed was startled for a moment, then slowly opened her eyes. She heard the familiar inner voice and couldn't help but murmur.

"Miss Dorothea...can you let me look out the window?"

Muttering, Vanya turned her head to look out the window on her side, and then she saw a small flash on a small rocky hill in the distance outside the window. After using her ability to look carefully, she could see the specific details of the flash.

"That guy over there... looks like an ordinary local. Although he is looking at the train with a telescope, he doesn't seem to be doing anything unusual. His clothes are a little tattered. He looks no different from the local civilians in northern Ukraine outside the foreign residential area in Kankedal City..."

After seeing the bright spots in the distance, Vanya thought so in her heart, and then she continued to watch the locals who were observing her train. Until the train went far away and the locals faded out of her sight, she did not see any unusual movements from the other side.

"The other party didn't do anything unusual... It seems that he is just an ordinary curious local..."

Vanya thought so in her heart, then she closed her eyes and used the form of praying to Akka to convey the information she had detected to Dorothy who was on the same train.

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"Is it just a local in ordinary clothes who is secretly observing with a telescope?"

Dorothy, who was sitting by the window in her own carriage, couldn't help but think again after hearing Vanya's words. At first she thought it was a sniper with a sniper rifle crawling there and sniping, and the reflection was the reflection of the sniper scope. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be just a local with a telescope.

"They didn't do anything unusual from the beginning to the end. They were just watching? They didn't seem to be hostile enemies... Am I overthinking? But telescopes are a bit expensive in this era. The economy of Northern Ukraine is not as good as that of the countries on the main continent. Can the locals, who are dressed in ordinary clothes, afford telescopes?"

Dorothy thought so in her heart. After staying in Kankerdar for several days, she knew the overall economic level of these so-called locals.

Except for the foreign residential area, the rest of Kankedal can almost be called slums, crowded with a large number of northern Ukrainian locals. Almost all of them are in the impoverished poor class, doing the hardest and most tiring work, providing a large amount of cheap labor for Kankedal, a huge port connecting the main continent and northern Ukraine. Their greatest hope is to be able to enter the foreign residential area with better conditions and find a good job serving foreign masters at close range.

Do people like this use telescopes? Although the world has entered the industrial age, it is not at the level of the second industrial revolution. Many commodities are not mass-produced industrially. For example, telescopes are still made by hand in various boutique workshops. Compared with the poor locals in northern Ukraine, the price is quite expensive. Although it is not to the point where they cannot afford it, for them who have difficulty even making a living, telescopes are unnecessary. Except for a few occasions such as exploration, navigation, and war, telescopes are not a necessity.

So the fact that a seemingly ordinary local in Northern Ukraine was holding an expensive telescope made Dorothy a little suspicious, but the suspicion was not too big, because it was very likely that the telescope was obtained by chance, and then he took it out to take a look after accidentally seeing a train in the wilderness.

"I might have simply ignored the telescope as a minor issue under normal circumstances, but in this special situation... it's better to be careful..."

Dorothy thought so in her heart. Based on the special considerations of the special period, she cautiously sent a message to Vanya, asking her to tell her guards to be alert to the environment on both sides of the train. If they found any abnormal situation, they should use the "Wenhai Hangzhi" to inform her. If the situation was urgent, they should immediately use Aka to convey prayers.

After delivering the message, Dorothy temporarily collected the dead bird doll in the sky, and then lay down on the bed in the carriage, intending to take a nap and rest.

After taking a short nap, Dorothy slowly opened her eyes in the gently shaking carriage. She scratched her head and sat on the bed, looking at the scenery outside the window. It was still as desolate as before.

After the nap, Dorothy looked at the time on her pocket watch and confirmed that she had slept for almost two hours. She rubbed her eyes and stretched, then sat down on the new seat by the window. Here Dorothy took out her "Wenhai Hangzhi" to see if she had found anything from Vanya. After opening Vanya's contact page, Dorothy saw Vanya's handwriting on it.

"Miss Dorothea, I have followed your instructions and asked the guards assigned to me by the church to pay more attention to the environment around the train. It is three o'clock in the afternoon when I write this to you. Until then, no one and I have discovered any major abnormalities.

"Although there are no major anomalies, there are still some minor doubts that people are concerned about. For example, the local who observed us before appeared two or three times afterwards. They were watching us from a distance with binoculars like before. Some were one person, and some were two people. All of them were dressed like locals. One of them was holding a pocket watch, looking at the car and the watch, which seemed a bit suspicious.

"For these locals who have been observing from a distance, our guards have been alert to any unusual movements from them, but in the end, they just watched from a distance like before, without any intention of taking action. After our car ran away, they did not think of chasing, so we did not react."

The name Vanya appeared on the page of "The Voyage of the Sea of ​​Literature". Dorothy examined the page in front of her and fell into deep thought for a moment.

"Sure enough, there is something fishy going on. There are more than one person observing from the dark. One or two more appear every few steps. It is obvious that they are not just observing out of curiosity after encountering them by chance. They are clearly spying intentionally. And it is not just one person, but a group of people..."