Chapter 32 Upgrade Completed
"Let's get ready to go up the mountain."
Although they were supposed to gather in half an hour, everyone was already very anxious after being trapped on the mountain for so many days. Within ten minutes, a car arrived on the road in front of the Jiang family's house.
Twenty minutes later, almost all the cars had arrived and formed a long line on the road out of the village.
Jiang Weimin held Jiang Weibing's hand, tears in his eyes. A thousand words finally came down to one sentence: "Be careful on the road."
Jiang Weibing's face was also filled with reluctance. "Are you really not going together? Sixth brother, it's so dangerous for you and your family to go alone. I suggest you just follow us first, and you don't have to go into the city with us. Once we get to the base, maybe there will be other ways to contact Ren Ru's family. How can we rest assured if only your family goes to City N?"
Jiang Weimin shook his head. Since it concerned the lives of his daughter and the entire family, he couldn't tell the truth to his cousin. He could only advise them not to worry too much.
"The sooner we find them, the better. Don't worry, our family will be careful. There are quite a few of us who have settled in N City. Maybe we can meet others who are also going to N City to look for their relatives, and then we can form a companion."
Jiang Weibing knew he couldn't change their minds, so he stopped talking. "Then you should be careful on the road. It's good to have companions, but you should always be wary of strangers."
"Don't worry, I know. As for you, Brother Weiguo is gone, so take care of yourself too. After you find Xiaohui and Xiaoyao, let the young people do what they can. You're not young anymore, so don't try to be so arrogant... We're the only two left in our family, and I don't know if we'll ever have the chance to see each other again in this lifetime."
"My brother..." Jiang Weibing burst into tears as he spoke. "He and his wife were always thinking about Xiaohui when they were alive, but they never got to see him until they died."
Jiang Weimin still felt sad when he thought about the death of his cousin and his wife, but he could only pat Jiang Weibing on the shoulder.
"It will be fine."
After waiting for a few more minutes and making sure that all the families in the village who wanted to leave had gathered, Jiang Hongbing asked everyone to get in the car. As soon as the car in the front row started, the cars in the back row followed closely.
The cars drove farther and farther away until they disappeared from sight, and the people left behind stopped waving their arms.
A feeling of emptiness filled everyone's heart. Although there was no obvious difference, the whole village seemed to be more spacious and quiet.
"Let's go, old man."
An old voice woke people from their loss. Jiang Weimin looked in the direction of the voice and saw the old couple next to him walking towards a fully loaded tricycle next to them.
He asked in surprise, "Uncle Geng, Aunt Geng, what are you doing?"
The old lady with white hair heard the voice, turned around and smiled, "We are getting ready to go up the mountain."
"Go up the mountain?" Everyone in the Jiang family was surprised.
"Yes," the old lady said with a smile, "before we came down the mountain, we made an agreement with the old masters in the temple to stay with them. There are wells and fields on the mountain. As long as we work hard, we can have something to eat."
Everyone else in the temple went down the mountain, leaving only the old master and the cook, who was a five-guarantee household and had no children, and decided to stay on the mountain.
"But, there are only four of you old people. What if zombies appear..." Jiang Weimin still felt that the mountain was unsafe.
But the old lady didn't care. "It doesn't matter. The mountain has been cleared before. As long as we block the bridges on both sides, they won't be able to get through."
The old lady glanced at her husband and said, "Besides, we are almost eighty years old. We have lived enough in this life. If we really can't make it, then we die. We are already content."
After hearing what she said, the Jiang family didn't know what to say.
The old lady waved at them casually and patted the old man on the shoulder. The next second, the tricycle slowly drove away.
They were the only family left in the entire village.
Suddenly everyone around me left, and the quiet atmosphere made me uncomfortable.
Jiang Qian was depressed for a few minutes until she saw the bus parked at the door of her house, and then her mood cheered up again.
She whispered her plan to her family.
Huang Liping opened her mouth wide, "Upgrade now?"
Jiang Qian nodded. "Now that everyone in the village has left and we're the only ones left, it's a good time to upgrade."
Jiang Dong also agreed. "I support the idea of upgrading early so we can use and enjoy the car sooner. Besides, if the upgrade changes are too big, we will definitely need to familiarize ourselves with the car before driving it on the road. So the sooner we upgrade, the better."
Jiang Dong's last words touched everyone's heart, "Then let's upgrade!"
After the discussion, Jiang Qian opened the system page and pressed the button to confirm the upgrade.
And the next second after she pressed the button, the car in front of her suddenly emitted a soft light.
The golden light was not dazzling, but it was like a barrier, tightly wrapping the bus inside and blocking all prying eyes.
Jiang Qian looked at the amazing sight before her and was glad that she hadn't pressed the upgrade button immediately. Otherwise, this earth-shattering sight would have been discovered long ago.
The light lasted for about half an hour before gradually fading. As the light faded, the Jiang family finally got a clear view of the modified car.
"This is?!!!"
"Fuxing?!!!"
It’s no wonder they were amazed, because the changes in the car before them were so huge.
It was originally just a shabby flat-head bus, but what appeared before our eyes was a beautiful car body shining with silver light, full of technology.
Its front and rear ends are pointed, extending to the middle body in a beautiful streamlined shape, making it look particularly like the high-speed rail "Fuxing".
Jiang Dong's eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to touch it. When he wanted to touch it a second time, his hand was knocked away by his mother.
"Have you washed your dirty hands? You're just touching them?"
"I washed it," Jiang Dong explained, resisting the urge to touch it. He looked at the train in front of him and exclaimed, "What a cool train!"
After Jiang Dong became an adult, he took a driver's license and worked as a passenger transport driver with his father for three years. He only moved to the city to do business after he had children so that they could go to school.
He likes cars and the feeling of driving fast.
"Sister, can this car be opened?"
Jiang Qian had just recovered from her shock and said, "Yes, it should be possible, right?"
She looked at the car body and found an invisible door near the right front of the car.
Jiang Qian walked forward and was about to figure out how to open the car door, but she found that the door in front of her opened automatically.
Jiang Dong couldn't help but whistle, "Wow! It's so high-tech? Automatic sensor door?"
Huang Liping couldn't help but rub her temples at his flustered behavior, then rapped him hard on the head. "How old are you? Be more steady."
Jiang Qian didn't expect the new car to be so advanced. She got in the car and the others behind her followed in. When they saw the scene inside, they couldn't help but exclaimed.
“Isn’t this too big?”
Although the original bus had a large interior space, it was only nine meters long. The length of the modified bus they had just seen from the outside had not changed much, so they thought the inside would be the same. However, they did not expect the actual situation to be completely different from what they imagined.
They looked in surprise at the spacious carriage on their left after entering the door.
Jiang Dong's throat rolled over, "Wow, this must be more than 20 meters."
The long carriage wasn't completely empty; the floor was filled with the things they had previously placed inside. However, the bus was once packed with stuff, but now it only took up less than a third of its space, making the carriage's spaciousness noticeable.
The family walked in curiously and looked around the carriage, but found nothing unusual.
The carriage seemed to be as big as they saw.
"Is this a fourth-dimensional space or something? This place is too big."
Jiang Dong kept exclaiming, "The original carriage was too small. Now it looks like we can fit more stuff in the car."
He stretched out his arms, trying to get a rough measure of the carriage's size.
But in the next second, I heard Jiang Qian report a set of data.
"The height is 4.2 meters, the width is 3.4 meters, and the actual internal length is 35 meters."
Jiang Dong lowered his arms. "So there's data. Is there anything else?"
"Yes." Jiang Qian adjusted the 3D image of the car she had just found on the system interface. "The bathroom is opposite the door, and the driver's cab is on the right."
Jiang Dong walked quickly into the bathroom and saw that there was a faucet. He turned it, but no water came out.
He couldn't help feeling a little disappointed, but he also felt it was normal, so he closed the door and went out.
Inside the carriage, Jiang Qian was still introducing the renovated train. "This is the rest area for the train crew. There are power sockets at both ends of the carriage. In addition, there is also a socket in the train cab."
As she spoke, she pointed to the locations of two sockets in the carriage and led everyone to the right.
The door of the cab also opened automatically when she approached, which was very smart.
But after the door opened, she was no longer in the mood to pay attention to how smart the door was. Everyone's attention was attracted by the cab in front of them.
There was a chair placed at the tip of the front row of the car, and in front of the chair were a bunch of complicated-looking buttons and dashboards.
"Luckily we've upgraded. Even driving isn't something you can learn in a short time." Jiang Dong said, then looked at Jiang Qian, "Sister, did you give me the operating instructions for your system?"
Jiang Qian was just about to look for it in the system when she saw the large screen in the cab light up, and then the train operating instructions appeared on it.
Naturally, the others also saw it. Jiang Dong rubbed his hands excitedly, "Hey, there really is such a thing."
Seeing that he was quite interested, Jiang Qian gave him the task of studying the operating manual.
"Let's go research other places and think about what to bring back. You should study hard."
Jiang Dong patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I will study hard and strive to learn it as soon as possible."
Jiang Weimin, who was standing next to him, looked at his son with a smile, but there was a hint of loss in his eyes.
The children grew up and gradually no longer needed him.
【Author’s words】
High-speed rail is really cool! This chapter is based on the design of high-speed rail.
Thanks for the support, the next chapter should be on Thursday.
There is a short story that I have always wanted to write. I stayed up late to finish it two days ago and have put it in the author's column. It is called "Coward". I don't know if those of you who like this non-CP short story like to read romantic short stories. If you are interested, you can go and take a look.
I guess that article will be added to the short story library, a new short story library launched by Jinjiang, in a while. I don’t know what the situation is, but I’ll submit this one after I’m ready to understand the rules and test the waters.
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