Touching her chin, Dorothy thought to herself that what she wanted to know most now was what the purpose of this group of people was.
"No matter what they wanted to do, they didn't come here just to watch the trains run, and they're not children. But if they had bad intentions, they didn't do anything dangerous from beginning to end. They just watched silently, without any signs of taking action."
Dorothy was thinking this in her heart. Although she felt that the group of people were very suspicious, she could not attack them just because of her suspicion. Now the whole train was moving forward, and she did not have time to track them to see what they were trying to do. But if she left them alone, Dorothy would not be able to feel at ease.
'Hiss... Think about it carefully, what are these guys trying to do by observing the train from a distance? If they want to spy on the special envoys, then they are too far away. At that distance, they can only see the train running in the distance, but it is impossible to see the contents of the carriage. It is impossible to spy on the intelligence.
'Unless they possess some extraordinary abilities or items that I don't know about, and can obtain information from the car from such a long distance, I really don't know what they can see from there. But if they really have such abilities or props... then there are too many people who can use them. There are people peeping secretly at every distance. Do they all have this ability?
'Or maybe I am overthinking things. Maybe they don't have any extraordinary abilities. It's just that they can get the information they want by just looking at the train from a distance. And it's not enough to look at it once. They need to look at it multiple times, once at a certain distance.'
Leaning back in a chair, Dorothy was looking at the scenery passing by quickly outside the window while she was deep in thought. As she was thinking, she felt more and more that the latter assumption was more likely. In other words, she thought that these suspicious guys didn't want to know much information, and they only needed to see the train from a distance every once in a while to get it.
So, what kind of information meets these conditions? What kind of information can be seen at a glance?
After sorting out her thoughts, Dorothy immediately continued to think along this line, and soon after, a possibility came into her mind.
Dorothy in the carriage turned her eyes to the table, where there was a thin booklet with an iconized locomotive drawn on the cover and a title written in Faroese.
Desert Arrow Visitor Guide
Looking at the manual on the table, Dorothy picked it up and opened it. She looked at it casually and found that it was a brochure that focused on introducing the luxury train Desert Arrow. Desert Arrow was the train she was currently riding.
Desert Arrow is a luxury train built by the Kankedal Train Company. It is specially used for the upper class people from the main continent to travel. It is a well-known project of the Kankedal Company. In order to show off in front of the church, they took the initiative to offer this train to the special envoys so that the church's special envoys can travel to Addis in the most comfortable environment.
This manual introduces all aspects of the Desert Arrow, from the locomotive model, production year, average speed... to the various entertainment activities in the train cars. The scenery along each line is clearly recorded, and the specific time required from one station to another, etc. are all recorded clearly. Most of the information about the entire Desert Arrow can be found in this manual. This manual is not unique, but each compartment has a copy.
This manual is a promotional material, which means that the information on it is completely public and can be easily found if one wants to. If that group of suspicious locals really want to know some basic information about Desert Arrow, they should be able to find it easily without having to spy on it at a distance.
They do not obtain information about Desert Arrow from public sources, but instead turn to on-site observations. This means that public information is of no help to them. The reason is simple: the current Desert Arrow has been reorganized.
Because of Vanya's request, the original Kankedal high-speed luxury train was directly reorganized. After removing many entertainment carriages, more freight carriages were added to transport large amounts of supplies to relieve ordinary people in Addis. In other words... the parameters of the reorganized Desert Arrow are completely different from the original Desert Arrow, and the original information cannot be used at all. One of the parameters that has changed the most is probably the speed.
'Those suspicious guys arranged people to observe us at intervals along the railway. I'm afraid they wanted to measure the speed of the Desert Arrow. They arranged observers at different points and recorded the time when the Desert Arrow passed the points. Then they could calculate the speed of the Desert Arrow. The more points they arranged, the more errors could be eliminated and more accurate numbers could be obtained.
"In theory, the speed data of all running trains are public, including the Desert Arrow. It is easy to find and there is no need to measure it specifically. But the current Desert Arrow is different. The original Desert Arrow was a tourist luxury passenger express, but the current one is a mixed passenger and freight train. A lot of freight cars have been added to the back, carrying a lot of supplies. This has led to a significant drop in the speed of the Desert Arrow. The Desert Arrow, which was originally expected to reach Addis in two days, may be delayed by one or two days due to this large-scale weight increase.
'So will it be delayed for one day or two days? No one knows. The Desert Arrow has never been transporting so much cargo before. All the supplies were collected quickly from all over Kankedar in a short time. They were loaded into the carriages without even having time to be weighed. This means that no one has a definite idea of how long it will take for the Desert Arrow to reach Addis with such a heavy load. Anyway, due to the war, there are no other trains running on the railway to Addis except the Desert Arrow. The Desert Arrow can take as long as it wants.
'Therefore, if you want to know the speed of the Desert Arrow in this situation, you can only do a temporary measurement on the spot.
'Because this is a special train for the church's special mission, and there are no other trains running on this railway, all the train stations along the way, no matter who controls them, are strictly blocked and only serve this train, so these guys can only find a place far away from the railway and watch from afar.'
Dorothy thought so in her heart as she looked at the scenery passing by quickly outside the window. At this time, she already had a complete idea in her mind to explain the actions of those suspicious locals.
'Due to Vanya's suggestion, the Desert Arrow was temporarily reorganized. Because a large amount of cargo was added after the reorganization, the speed of the Desert Arrow was greatly reduced. The time to arrive at the destination was at least one or two days different from the original expectation. Some guys could not accept such a large error, so they needed to temporarily measure the speed to obtain the current average speed of the Desert Arrow, so as to know the approximate time of the Desert Arrow arriving at a specific location and eliminate the possible error of more than one day.
'After knowing this time, what will the group of people do? '
Dorothy continued to think, and at this moment she silently turned her gaze to the table, looking at the brief map of northern Ukraine in the train manual, and the border of the Kingdom of Adus.
At this moment, a Chinese place name buried in her memory of her previous life had emerged in her mind, "Huanggutun".
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