Chapter 165 Discovery and Being Discovered
Winter has been here for a long time, but spring is still far away.
The train stations are set up from northwest to southeast, and are less than five stations away from the southernmost station in G City on the mainland.
Jiang Qian didn't find any useful information along the way as the train traveled, but she did see a lot of beautiful western scenery.
The sunset in the desert, the steep snow-covered mountains, the turquoise frozen lake like a mirror, the vast grassland, the misty forest covered with rime... Every scene was a view she had never seen before.
However, most of these beautiful scenery are covered with thick white snow. Although they are still beautiful and magnificent, they have lost some of their unique charm.
It is already the end of February. The Beginning of Spring has long passed and the Waking of Insects is coming soon, but the land is still covered with ice and snow, and snowflakes are falling from the sky from time to time.
Judging from the current situation, even in this different world, the "prophecy" said by the system is still being verified step by step.
Jiang Qian raised her head from the information, looked out the window and saw that it was still white, and sighed.
Winter has been here for a long time, but spring is still far away.
Fortunately, the crops grown in the ecological carriage have matured and were harvested and stored last week under the organization of Professor Nie. This is the most exciting good news in the past month.
Jiang Qian plans to trade part of the harvested grain with the rescue team, and use the remaining half to supply the dining cars of each train.
However, speaking of the food trade with the rescue team, Jiang Qian suddenly remembered that it had been a long time since the last large-scale food trade with StarCraft, and perhaps they could discuss doing it again.
As Jiang Qian thought about this, she raised her hand and rubbed her aching neck. She had been looking down at documents for a while, and her shoulders and neck were sore.
After pressing it a few times, the soreness was relieved a little for a short time, but it came back again not long after.
Huang Liping saw her shaking her neck and grimacing, so she said, "I told you not to stare at your phone or the screen in the car all day. Now your neck hurts, doesn't it?"
Jiang Qian rubbed her neck, "I also want to find useful information as soon as possible."
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Ever since the official media announced that the disaster caused by the rampant bacteria might be man-made, Jiang Qian also found time to tell her family about the things about the interstellar space and the system that she had been hiding from them.
The other members of the Jiang family also realized that the changes in their bus were the result of interstellar technology transformation.
Also because they knew in advance that the disaster was suspected to be man-made, under the impact of this explosive news, the fact that the train system traveled through time and space from the future interstellar era did not cause much waves in the minds of other members of the Jiang family.
They didn't care at all about what Jiang Qian had concealed from them before, and didn't feel angry at all about not being trusted.
"It's good that they didn't tell us. For things like this, the fewer people who know, the less risk there is. After all, what if we accidentally tell someone while chatting one day?"
"My whole family's lives were saved by the system. Otherwise, we would have been washed under the bridge during the evacuation. Although the system had been hiding it from us before, it really didn't do anything to harm us. On the contrary, it has been helping us all the time."
Speaking of the interstellar history that the system had told, the Jiang family also supported Jiang Qian in looking for information in the system's database.
"Now that we know the future, we must avoid any disasters that can be avoided. We must do what we can, otherwise we will regret it later!"
In order to allow Jiang Qian to concentrate on finding information, Jiang Weimin has been taking over the driving of the train whenever it needs manual operation.
Jiang Qian also knew the care and sacrifice of her family, which made her want to achieve something even more.
Huang Liping also knew what she was thinking, but still advised, "I told you a long time ago, do what you can. Information is important, but your physical health is equally important."
Seeing her daughter's drooping face, Huang Liping couldn't bear to nag her any more. "Okay, take a good rest today. This is a good opportunity to take a bath and let the bathhouse master give you a good massage."
Jiang Qian sniffed herself and felt that it was time to take a shower, so she found some clean clothes and took her toiletries to the carriage where the public bathroom was.
Although there are bathrooms on both sides of the carriage where their dormitory is located, everyone still prefers to go to the newly opened bathhouse on the train. They always feel that washing in the big bathroom is cleaner and more comfortable.
Jiang Qian took a shower first, and then asked the bathroom attendant to scrub her whole body. After rinsing herself clean, she went to find someone for a massage.
The masters in charge of the massage were recruited by the train working group. They came from various bases and were all blind masseurs with good skills. After massaging her whole body, Jiang Qian felt that all the fatigue accumulated in half a month was gone.
When I was walking out of the bathroom carrying toiletries and dirty clothes, I ran into an unexpected person coming out of the men's bathroom next door.
"Young Master Chen Qi?"
Jiang Qian looked at the person in front of her in surprise, "When did you come to this car?"
As an old passenger on the train, Chen Jing'an had lived on the train for several months and knew almost everyone there. Although Jiang Qian was not as familiar with him as the two boys from the Wu family, she had also said a few words to him.
The last time they met, Chen Jing'an was still traveling back and forth in coastal cities on Line 2. When the stations for Line 3 began to land, Jiang Qian heard that he had not yet found his fifth brother.
Now that people appear here, could it be that they have seen people before?
Jiang Qian was guessing secretly in her heart, but when she looked down, she saw the old man standing next to him.
The old man's hair was completely white. Although he was not short, his body was obviously hunched. At this time, he was being supported by Chen Jing'an.
Chen Jing'an didn't expect to see a familiar person as soon as he walked out of the bathroom, and was even teased.
He was a little surprised to see Jiang Qian, but still replied, "I just got from Line 1 to Line 3 not long ago. How about you? Sister Qian, what have you been busy with recently? I haven't seen you since I got on the train."
"Well, I've been feeling a little unwell lately, so I haven't been out." Jiang Qian made up an excuse and turned the conversation to the old man next to her. "Is this the old man?"
"Yes, it's my grandfather."
After Chen Jing'an finished speaking, he smiled and introduced his grandfather, "Grandpa, do you remember Master Huang who made delicious pancakes that we met on the dining car before? This is Master Huang's eldest daughter."
Although Jiang Qian didn't know what the Chen family did specifically, she had heard of this famous entrepreneur from City A. She admired and respected an old man who had built such a large business from scratch.
Facing the old man's gaze, she, as a junior, was the first to greet him, "Hello, Mr. Chen!"
The next second, Jiang Qian was swept by the old man's slightly cloudy but still shrewd eyes, and she unconsciously straightened her back.
A few seconds later, she felt the old man withdraw his gaze and heard the slightly hoarse voice.
"Hello to you too. I heard Xiao Qi mention you before. You really are a good kid."
Jiang Qian didn't know what Chen Jing'an had mentioned about herself to this wise old man. She smiled and said nothing, and talked about other topics.
The three of them walked along the corridor towards the exit of the carriage while talking. From Chen Jing'an's words, Jiang Qian finally understood why Chen Jing'an came to this car.
"...We asked Grandpa to come before, but he refused. Now, because it's too cold and it's inconvenient to go up and down the mountain, everyone at the Xishan base in City A has been relocated to the two bases below the mountain. There are too many people, and there aren't enough houses at the base down there. That's why he's willing to come and stay on the train with us. He even specifically requested to stay on Line 3, saying he wants to see the beautiful scenery of our motherland one last time before he dies..."
Jiang Qian had previously heard the two boys from the Wu family talk about Mr. Chen's reluctance to live on the train, but she was still a little surprised when she thought that the train they were on was Line 3, simply because the trains on Line 3 were different from the trains running on the other two lines.
The three trains on Line 1, including two on Line 2, offered not only standard cars, sleeper cars, and family rooms, but also spacious family suites. Jiang Qian even had a luxury car specially prepared for Watasha on Line 2. However, on the western trains on Line 3, the best room was the family room she used as a staff dormitory.
Jiang Qian didn't expect that Mr. Chen, the head of the family who founded the family business, would actually live in that small room with Chen Jing'an. The surprise on her face was almost overflowing.
The change in her expression was so obvious that it could not be hidden from the eyes of the Chen family's grandfather and grandson.
Mr. Chen met many people who knew him along the way, and many of them were surprised by this. They knew what Jiang Qian was thinking without waiting for her to explain.
"In this world, we are no more than eight feet tall, and a bed to sleep on is enough."
Old Master Chen had endured hardship in his early years, so he didn't have high expectations for living conditions. To him, anywhere was fine. Instead of spending so many crystal cores on a large room, it would be better to save them and buy something more important.
“It’s a good thing to endure a little hardship when you’re young.”
Chen Jing'an had obviously heard the old man's thoughts a long time ago. Hearing what the old man said, he curled his lips helplessly at Jiang Qian.
Jiang Qian knew little about Mr. Chen and didn't know what he was thinking, but since he said so, she no longer considered adding more comfortable carriages on this train.
When they reached the door of the carriage, the two parties parted ways and Jiang Qian returned to the train lounge.
During this time, Jiang Qian had been staying here most of the time, searching for information, and rarely returned to the dormitory. It just so happened that the dining car had been busier recently due to the increase in stops on this line, so the other families sharing the same carriage hadn't noticed her absence.
Jiang Qian put the clothes she had changed into the basin and was looking for laundry detergent in the cupboard when the small icon in her mind suddenly began to flash violently again.
Jiang Qian paused, still feeling a little nervous subconsciously, but perhaps because she had experienced this kind of situation too many times recently, she quickly calmed down.
"Xiao Ling, what's wrong? Did something happen?"
The system remained silent, continuing to flash as if it had crashed. After a long while, the frequent flashing finally stopped.
The next second, a frustrated child's voice suddenly appeared in Jiang Qian's mind.
【Qianqian, you've been discovered! 】
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