306 Homecoming Train (10)
◎Why does she know what's outside the wall?◎
Zhu Ning couldn't find a new idea for a while, so he was bored and had nothing to do but observe ghosts.
The water ghosts looked very strange, and when they stood together, they had a sense of old-fashioned horror. She watched for a while and found that the dead predators had not transformed into ghosts. The water ghosts were all the same kind of people from beginning to end.
If what Chen Qihang's notebook said was true, these water ghosts fell to the bottom of the river and their bodies were loaded onto the car.
In other words, the number of water ghosts will not increase disorderly?
There were as many water ghosts as there were corpses brought up that year, at least there was a total number.
Zhu Ning studied the dead predators again. They did not turn into ghosts, but apple snail eggs slowly grew on their bodies. Therefore, water ghosts only kill people, and after killing people, they become food for apple snails. That is why these two creatures can coexist peacefully on the Homecoming.
Zhu Ning understood this, but couldn't figure out what it was for. She wanted to get more information, so she looked at her notebook. Normally, she needed the consent of her teammates to open the notebook, but there were no teammates around at the moment.
Zhu Ning carefully opened the notebook, ready to be on guard against any strange events that might happen next.
But the contents of the notebook disappeared, leaving it blank. Zhu Ning was stunned. The notebook she opened in the Mold City was also empty.
At that time, she thought that the notebook could not display anything in an unpolluted area, but this time it was empty again.
Does it burn after reading? Or maybe it's not that complicated. Notebooks are alive, and living things have their own tempers.
Each time it presents something selectively, it displays more if it is happy and nothing at all if it is unhappy. It lets whoever it wants to see see it.
Zhu Ning was a little disappointed. She had wanted to get some new clues from the notebook, but there was nothing. Was he unhappy that she wanted to take a shortcut, so there was not a single word in the notebook?
She recalled the contents of her notebook.
The apple snail incident occurred in car 22, which is the rear of the car. I have seen car 19 myself, and it was full of water ghosts.
She had never explored the section between bus 19 and bus 22 and had no information about it.
Exploring the way forward, the car that went the farthest was car 4, and then it was blocked by water ghosts. She also had no idea where the car ahead was.
Why does the notebook say the front of the car is the safest? Is there anything there that can guarantee her safety?
Pei Shu said that the safest place in the contaminated area is the escape route, through which one can leave the contaminated area. Could it be that the front of the car is the escape route?
The Resuscitation Society is looking for an urn, so what is the investigator looking for?
It was such a headache. I couldn't find the key to breaking the deadlock, and none of the doubts were resolved. I gained a new ability from the Resurrection Society, but this feeling of being swallowed up was very uncomfortable when I recalled it.
What’s the next step?
Zhu Ning guessed that this might be a desperate situation. She was sitting in a train full of ghosts, with water stains flowing slowly, only one meter away from her.
But Zhu Ning didn't move. She felt very bored, like a lonely traveler on a train bound for an unknown destination, drifting with the flow.
There is no way out.
Killing Huangsha and gaining mind control only makes you die slower. Where is the way to survive?
Zhu Ning supported herself on her knees, gritting her teeth. Her mouth was full of the taste of blood, and she felt like a ghost.
The water stain was getting closer and closer, reaching out silently like a devil's claw. If Zhu Ning wanted to die, she could just touch the water stain, and those water ghosts would kill her quickly and well.
Ten centimeters, five centimeters, the murderous water spread out, and a ghost's finger fell out of it.
Two centimeters, Zhu Ning stood up and took two steps back.
If you know you will die, then it’s better to die slowly. Every second you live counts.
Zhu Ning's thigh muscles hurt whenever she moved. She held onto the carriage. The water stains on her body seemed to weigh tons, making her walk slowly.
Driven by the desire to survive, she would find another dry place before the water stains reached her. Zhu Ning walked towards the next train. There were no ghosts here, only a fishy stench.
Golden apple snails were spreading inside the carriage, making it seem as if the carriage was pink. Without Pei Shu, Zhu Ning couldn't burn the eggs of the golden apple snails.
She found a clean place to sit again. There were no teammates to give her fresh air. Her nerves ached so much that she couldn't sleep, so she could only close her eyes and rest.
Take a rest. When she was in school, she would go to sleep when she encountered a problem she couldn’t understand. When she woke up, she probably still didn’t understand it, but at least she slept.
The Homecoming train did not announce the stop when it arrived, so she should have kept her eyes on the outside to avoid missing her stop, but she was a little tired and at her limit, so she had to rest for a while.
Zhu Ning closed her eyes. She could feel a water ghost watching her not far away. Countless hands were trying to climb onto her body. The silk threads on her body unfolded, spread, and grew.
The blood-red vines intertwined in the air. It was because he had unfolded his thoughts, otherwise ghosts would have emerged from his flesh and blood in the next moment.
Zhu Ning's way of resting was very special. She carefully felt the threads of her thoughts. This was the first time she had seen this thing, and she even wanted to show it to Lin Xiaofeng. It was very beautiful, and if it grew big enough, it would be spectacular.
Gradually, Zhu Ning's breathing slowed down, slower and slower, and soon, her breathing almost disappeared, and she completely merged with the train.
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Qi Xueliu breathed a sigh of relief. She could no longer see anyone farther away. Zhu Ning seemed to sit there for a while before standing up and leaving.
Qi Xueliu knew that her other teammates were worried, so she turned on her secondary brain. Even without an internet connection, the typing function was still usable. She typed two words: alive.
Pei Shu felt relieved after hearing this. If Zhu Ning died on the Homecoming, he would be considered a sinner who killed the true God, and Huo Wenxi would definitely kill him.
Qi Xueliu continued typing: Gone.
Because of the water ghost blocking their way, Zhu Ning couldn't meet them. This decision was right. Now they could only save themselves.
To put it nicely, it's called self-rescue; to put it bluntly, it's called waiting to die separately. There's no other way. This car is too difficult to drive. Not only Zhu Ning, but they were also trapped by someone cutting off the front and rear. Although the front of the car is safe, there is no way to go.
The glass windows were broken and there was no way to repair them. With it raining so hard, it was only a matter of time before the entire team died.
They also began to retreat, and could only get as far as car 4, where there were also water ghosts.
After thinking about it, they decided to rest in the dry area of car 4 because it was closest to the rumored front of the car and relatively safer.
A few people sat down in silence, but they were not in the mood to communicate even with their secondary brains. They had nothing to say. No one had any insights into the situation, and the boss Zhu Ning was not there.
Qi Xueliu smiled bitterly. This was really like getting on a pirate ship and there was no way off. After getting off, they would definitely go their separate ways.
Time on the bus passed both quickly and slowly. Soon the Homecoming bus stopped at the station again. It stayed there for ten minutes, but no one got on. It left immediately when the time came.
Lin Xiaofeng sat on the ground hugging her knees, wondering what had happened to Zhu Ning.
Pei Shuze looked out the window. Qi Xueliu couldn't guess what he was thinking. She originally wanted to ask who gave her the news, but this question was difficult to explain. She couldn't finish typing it out in a short time, so she was too lazy to ask.
Amid the rumbling sound, Pei Shu's thoughts drifted away. He actually suspected that the front of the car was the way to escape, but the problem was that they couldn't get through, so he had to think of something else.
Every investigator has redundant information in his or her mind, mixed with both true and false. Normally, they don’t verify the truth, and only try when they are desperate.
Pei Shu thought carefully about the source of the news. He guessed that if he could finally get off the car, Zhu Ning would definitely come to ask him. As a subordinate, he should make a performance report in advance.
The most important thing is not to take the blame, at least explain it clearly.
If the Homecoming was so dangerous, under normal circumstances, the news that would be spread would definitely be that the train was in danger. How come Pei Shu got the information that it could take you to the station?
Moreover, both the predators and investigators knew about it and got into the car prepared to die. Isn't the difference between this and the information Pei Shu received too big?
Pei Shu didn't have a computer in his head, so it was difficult for him to search his memory for a piece of news without any prompts.
Pei Shu stared out the window while thinking, afraid that they would miss their stop. Pei Shu didn't recognize the next few stops and could only watch the platform pass by.
Because he was too aimless, Pei Shu's mind became a little blank and he almost fell asleep.
The train stopped at the same abandoned station again. Pei Shu happened to recognize it. It was also one of the boarding points he knew, Qihe Station.
As if a single point led to a whole, an old memory in his mind was suddenly evoked, vaguely, but when he remembered who the speaker was, he broke out in a cold sweat.
Pei Shu is not afraid of death. After he developed mental problems, his brain often spasmed, his perceptions became extremely strange, and his normal emotions became extremely chaotic.
It had been a long time since he had felt such an obvious sense of excitement, and it even made him forget that the water ghost was getting closer.
Pei Shu learned about this from Liu Yu.
He was a little shocked when he got the answer. This was not a suitable information provider. He sighed again that he actually got the information from Liu Yu.
Liu Yu is the eldest daughter's mother. Lu Yuan calls herself Liu Niannian when she goes out to commemorate her biological mother Liu Yu.
Pei Shu actually knew Liu Yu for a long time. To be more precise, he had known Liu Yu unilaterally for a long time, but Liu Yu might not remember him.
It was because of this relationship that he chose to work as a running dog for the Lu family after he finished his work as an investigator.
Pei Shu's thoughts drifted further and further away, recalling his childhood.
He is an android. When all androids are created, various information will be input into them, and then they will be trained at a designated location and sent to a certain breeding camp. A breeding camp can be understood as an incubation workshop or an orphanage.
But in fact, it is even worse than traditional orphanages. Pei Shu was trained as an investigator. Their camp believes in the survival of the fittest. It is extremely common for children to bully each other, and it is not uncommon for them to be maimed or killed.
Growing up in a foster camp, one needs to have the ability to survive on one's own. Either one has to be strong enough, smooth enough, or lucky enough.
There are investors behind every foster camp. Several chaebol families like to carry out charity projects in this way, and the external publicity looks particularly good.
The Lu family is a particularly traditional family. In Pei Shu's opinion, it is even a bit feudal, with men being superior to women. The women of the Lu family appear glamorous on the surface, but in fact they have no status.
Liu Yu is responsible for the Lu family's charity publicity and often visits their orphanage.
Other chaebol wives usually just come for a formality, take photos, and post them on social media, but Liu Yu is different.
She stays for a week each time she comes. During this week, she eats and lives with the children, attends classes, observes the children's growth, chats with them, and even provides psychological counseling.
Many specific scenes emerged in Pei Shu's eyes. Liu Yu was very beautiful. They said that Liu Yu was a natural person and her beauty was innate, a gift from God, different from their products processed on assembly lines.
When Liu Yu appears, she will attract a lot of people's attention. No matter boys or girls, all children will look at her. She wears a simple dress and a wide-brimmed hat. There is always a smile on the corner of her mouth, as if she can listen to anyone talking.
The children do not simply gaze at her because of her beauty, but rather look at her with a strong yearning.
Those are the people from God's kingdom, people whose every detail is so perfect, whose homes float in the air and who live without touching the ground. Yet, such people would actually come down and listen carefully to what their products say.
They are all children and do not have any hatred towards the people of God's Kingdom, they only think they are beautiful.
Pei Shu's memory became more and more vivid. Several children were wearing white shirts and were sitting neatly, unlike their usual wild behavior. Pei Shu was one of them, and he couldn't even get a seat in the last row.
Liu Yu sat in front of them, nodding and smiling, speaking gently, as if the air around her was cleaner.
"You are the future investigators," Liu Yu said with a smile, "and you will represent humanity beyond the walls."
"I don't want to be an investigator, I want to be an astronaut." A child replied.
Investigators have to go through layers of screening, and it would be good if one out of a hundred children in this group can come up with one, but this child is even more imaginative. Human exploration of the universe has long stopped.
The profession of astronaut has disappeared for more than 80 years and will never reappear in the future.
A little girl raised her hand and asked, "What's it like outside the wall?"
"Outside the wall," Liu Yu seemed lost in her own memories, her tone still gentle, "outside the wall is beautiful and interesting."
This was different from what they had been taught. Someone immediately retorted, "Isn't it said that the most dangerous place is outside the wall?"
They receive training, and their superiors allow them to bully each other and unleash their wildness, all in order to increase their survival rate outside the dangerous walls.
Why did Liu Yu say that life outside the Great Firewall is beautiful and interesting?
Liu Yu didn't get angry after being refuted, and said slowly: "You will know after you get out."
Some children scoffed at this statement, thinking it was a pie in the sky painted by adults that they would realize was fake when they grew up. But some children, like Pei Shu, truly yearned for it.
He walked out of the wall out of curiosity and experienced countless dangers, but he also saw interesting and beautiful creatures outside the wall.
Liu Yu explained, but the child didn't believe her and started yelling for her to explain more. "What exactly is interesting about it? Can you tell a story with details? Details!"
A few children were not satisfied and said, "Tell me a story."
"Let me think about it," Liu Yu said, giving two examples. Pei Shu had forgotten them, probably because they were insignificant. Seeing the children's lack of interest, Liu Yu spotted a model train on the ground and said, "There's a train that can take you to your destination. If you get lost, you can ask it to take you back."
Someone asked: "There are pollutants outside the wall. Are trains also pollutants?"
They have all taken theoretical courses and have a general idea of what is going on outside the wall.
Liu Yu seemed to find it amusing to play with the child and said, "Yes, it's pollutants."
"You're lying again. Then where do you think this car came from?"
"There's a timetable. Let me think about it," Liu Yu said. "The closest station to the North Wall is Yinshan Station. I forgot the next one, but it's probably about five or six stops away, and it's Qihe Station..."
Pulled out of his imagination, Pei Shu's face was as pale as paper. In front of him was Qihe Station, and the old license plate was quietly hidden in the night.
I remember Liu Yu mentioned a few more sites, but Pei Shu only remembered part of them.
He was still immersed in shock. It was actually Liu Yu who told him the story of the Homecoming.
Pei Shu had forgotten this matter for too long. It was mixed up with other miscellaneous things, and he almost thought it was the basic knowledge he had learned. It was like you might recite a certain ancient poem, but you would not think of which teacher taught it or in which class you learned it.
The little story Liu Yu told casually back then was true. Pei Shu really got on the train at Yinshan Station, and the train was really moving.
Why did she know what was outside the wall? Had she ever been outside?
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