297 Homecoming Train (I)
What is this?
After the kneeling figure was carried out, another figure appeared on the screen. This time it was a child, also kneeling on all fours. Then came a third woman, and a fourth, a burly man...
The tracks kept making a clattering sound, and the shadows of people continued to appear. The people undergoing security checks did not leave in time and were stuck in a traffic jam ahead, making a clattering sound as if their luggage was piled up together.
Do some creatures go through the security gate and some go through the security machine?
Zhu Ning quickly looked away. This thing was too mentally polluting. The frames of the images seemed to still remain on the surface of her eyeballs.
Zhu Ning grabbed Lin Xiaofeng and told her not to look. Pei Shu and Qi Xueliu also saw it, but neither of them said anything. This security checkpoint was very strange. Zhu Ning had nothing on her, so it was normal for her to pass the security check.
But Qi Xueliu and Pei Shu still had several guns and some weapons on them, and the security check showed that they had passed. So what exactly was the security check checking for?
The four of them were silent for a while. Pei Shu raised his hand and pointed at the ticket. Normally, after security check, one should go to the ticket gate and wait.
Their ticket gate was at 12B. The entire ticket hall was gray and rows of cold iron chairs looked like a row of graves. They walked into a deserted cemetery.
This was the most desolate train station Zhu Ning had ever been to. There were only four of them in the entire station.
They found a seat and sat down, as if they were just ordinary passengers on the bus. It was clearly an abnormal environment, but because they tried so hard to pretend to be normal, the four of them looked like ghosts.
Normally, when waiting for the train, the companions might chat while getting bored, and given their current situation, they should start discussing the rules of the train, but strangely, no one spoke. Since sitting on the chairs, they seemed to have merged with the environment and become part of the station.
There is a huge clock hanging in the station. It is now 11:40 pm. Ticket check will start 15 minutes in advance and there will be another five minutes before the queue is opened.
These five minutes felt particularly long. Zhu Ning held the red ticket in her hand. Her name was displayed on the ticket, which gave her an intuition that even if she regretted it now and wanted to escape, she could not do so. As long as she had bought the train ticket, she had to ride the train.
The other three were also studying the tickets, trying to find loopholes in the rules. Lin Xiaofeng had been mentally preparing himself.
bite--
At 11:45, the gate at the ticket gate suddenly opened. The sound startled all four of them. Lin Xiaofeng looked up suddenly and saw the moment the gate at the ticket gate ejected. It was as if a monster blinked and its eyelids twitched.
The four people stood still, staring at the gate. People have instincts, and their instincts told them that there was danger ahead, so they didn't move their limbs.
Zhu Ning was the first to stand up. The station was so oppressive that even she felt a little nervous.
The other three were looking at her. Zhu Ning was the most resilient. She walked through the turnstile cautiously, as if she had stepped over a line and thought she would be cut into pieces.
But the danger did not happen. It seemed that passing through the turnstile was a simple matter. However, after she passed through, someone suddenly bumped into her shoulder from behind.
A passenger passed by her, and an invisible switch was turned on. Zhu Ning saw countless pairs of feet at once. The station was suddenly crowded with people, and they were all around her.
They were all travelers in a hurry, and Zhu Ning, standing still, seemed out of place.
Those people looked like normal humans, without scary faces or extra octopus tentacles, but because they were too normal, they seemed abnormal at this moment.
Zhu Ning was stunned for a moment before he realized the problem. No one spoke, as if these people were all mute, or speaking would bring some bad luck.
No wonder Zhu Ning and the others fell silent after entering the station, as if some invisible pressure was forcing them to bow their heads.
It seems that in addition to the rules written on the ticket, there are other invisible rules.
They are walking into the belly of pollution, and the pollution will definitely find ways to assimilate them. This journey will definitely be very dangerous.
The other three also passed through the turnstile, and this time everyone saw that there were more than just four passengers boarding the train at Yinshan Station from beginning to end.
Pei Shu's frown never relaxed. This bus was definitely more dangerous than the bus he had taken before.
Zhu Ning actually felt a little regretful now, and could only bite the bullet and go down. Sure enough, a green train had stopped.
The car body was mottled, not sure if it was red rust or blood.
The sudden crowd had already boarded the bus and were expertly finding their seats, so the four of them had to keep up.
Zhu Ning planned to send Lin Xiaofeng to the car first. She winked at Pei Shu, meaning that he should take a look at Lin Xiaofeng when the time came.
Pei Shu made a gesture, meaning that he understood. None of them spoke, and they could only communicate through gestures. Everyone explored the rules and information of their own carriage. The carriage No. 9 in the middle of the train was the dining car.
They agreed to meet in the dining car after they settled in.
Zhu Ning got on car 15. The car was particularly crowded and there was no air conditioning, only electric fans.
The car was filled with a disgusting smell of cigarettes and disinfectant. Zhu Ning found Lin Xiaofeng's bed. There were six people sleeping in one room, with bunk beds and a table across the middle. There was no door, and it was so crowded that you could touch the bed next to you if you raised your hand.
Lin Xiaofeng's bed was the top bunk, so she had to climb up the iron rack in the corridor and pass by two beds before she could reach her seat.
When Zhu Ning arrived, the other passengers had already laid down. They didn't say a word and lay quietly in their seats. Because it was night and the lights on the train were turned off, Zhu Ning couldn't even see their faces clearly. Everyone looked blurry to him.
This type of train is too old. In Zhu Ning's era, high-speed trains were already very popular, and few people would ride a real green train.
Lin Xiaofeng didn't take off her shoes; outside the wall, it was safer to wear a full protective suit. She climbed up the iron pole under Zhu Ning's watchful eye. She had intended to appear independent, but as she passed the middle bunk, she spotted a pair of feet.
The man was covered with a white quilt, with a pair of grayish-white feet exposed. Lin Xiaofeng had seen dead people and monsters, but at this moment, he was staring at a pair of stranger's feet for no reason, and he actually got goose bumps on his back.
The feet were facing her.
She was so frightened that she almost slipped down the stairs. She swallowed her saliva, wanting to reassure Zhu Ning, and climbed up with her head held high.
Finally she climbed onto the top bunk. It was too cramped to make a three-tiered bed in such a small space. As a child, she couldn't even sit up straight on the top bunk and could only lie down.
She lay on the white sheets as if in a narrow coffin.
Lin Xiaofeng took a while to adjust. Fortunately, she did not have claustrophobia. She wanted Zhu Ning to leave quickly. The ticket showed that he had to sit in his designated seat. If Zhu Ning stayed here, it might be against the rules.
Lin Xiaofeng wanted to stick her head out and tell Zhu Ning that she was settled, but when she turned around, she suddenly saw the eyes of the man opposite her.
His head was exposed, with the white quilt neatly covering the center of his neck. His neck was turned stiffly, his face was purple, and his eyeballs seemed to be about to pop out, as he just stared straight ahead.
The distance between them was only half a meter, and he could pull the person down with just a stretch of his hand.
Lin Xiaofeng's heart was pounding, and the man didn't blink. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. After a long time, she reached out her hand and made an OK gesture to Zhu Ning.
When Zhu Ning left, he made sure that everyone else was quiet. Although it was weird, he had no choice but to leave. Zhu Ning didn't bring a helmet and mouthed "I'll be back later."
Zhu Ning left after she finished speaking. Lin Xiaofeng listened to her footsteps and felt as if she had been abandoned and buried in a deep grave.
Lin Xiaofeng couldn't ignore the eyes on the bed opposite, so she turned around and faced the wall. Suddenly, her pupils shrank and she saw pink eggs in the cracks in the wall.
…
Zhu Ning went to car No. 16. Pei Shu had already settled down in the lower bunk. Zhu Ning gave him some instructions before going to his own car.
Her seat was the farthest away, in car 18, and her bed was the worst, the middle berth, which was neither as spacious as the lower berth nor as private as the upper berth.
Her side was not fully occupied, as Zhu Ning was the only passenger.
Zhu Ning climbed onto her bed. As soon as she lay down, the carriage shook violently, and then she heard a roar. It was already 12 o'clock, the door closed, and the Homecoming train started.
Zhu Ning was lying on the bed, and the middle bunk could see the outside world through the window. Soon the sign of Yinshan Station was left behind, and the train slowly drove out of Yinshan City.
The last train of Line 1 that Zhu Ning had taken before was said to be moving, but in fact it was circling in one place. But the Homecoming Train was really moving, and with the clanging sounds, their positions had changed.
Is this a pollutant-producing vehicle? It’s pitch black outside the window, the passing city is dark, and the car only has night lights on, which is not bright.
It was not until Zhu Ning saw a signal tower and remembered that she had contacted Huo Wenxi from it that she truly realized that she had left that damn place.
Zhu Ning looked at his position. Such a narrow space really looked like a coffin.
Zhu Ning lay down and studied the ticket. There were very few rules on it, and she couldn't find any more information after reading it over and over again. Pei Shu said that she could arrive safely if she followed the rules, but the problem was that she didn't know all the rules.
Should I find a chance to explore? Or should I just lie back and wait until the station arrives?
The notebook is still on Zhu Ning, and now is obviously not the time to open it.
The green train was made of iron. Zhu Ning placed her palm against the iron sheet of the carriage. She was very skilled in using this ability. She still remembered the first time she used it in the beehive. The metal veins expanded and she could uproot the entire building, but the metal veins that should have expanded did not expand.
Zhu Ning frowned. She could only feel the small piece of iron under her palm. She vaguely felt that there was a force resisting her. She could not control the entire car.
It is indeed a pollutant outside the wall.
Zhu Ning withdrew her hand, gave up the idea of violently crushing the train, and tried to use the God's perspective. This ability also worked, but she could only see the carriage she was in, and the other carriages were hidden in the chaos.
Only unknown things can't be seen, but Zhu Ning has been on other trains, so it can't be unknown. Did the Homecoming Train shorten Zhu Ning's visual range?
That's not right. Each carriage should be independent. Although there are doors that you can pass through on the surface, they are actually not connected at all.
This is troublesome. The space on a moving train is actually hidden.
Zhu Ning wanted to sit up and get out of bed to find Lin Xiaofeng, when suddenly she felt something strange on the back of her neck, as if she had touched something very wet.
Zhu Ning didn't have time to feel her bed just now, but now she saw that her bed was actually very ordinary, with only the standard train-issued pure white bed and pillow. At this moment, there were some pink particles on the pillow, which were crushed by Zhu Ning.
What's this?
Zhu Ning touched it and found that the pink particles were tightly clump together and a bit firm. Because he was not wearing protective clothing, he touched it directly with his fingers and it felt sticky.
Zhu Ning lifted up the pillow and was stunned. The bottom of the pillow was densely packed with pink particles.
She was so scared that she got goose bumps. Zhu Ning carefully lifted the gap in the bed. Not only under the pillow, but also in the gaps between the bed and the carriage, there were pink particles everywhere. The moving train had been invaded by these pink particles.
This looks like... apple snail eggs?
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