309 Homecoming Train (Thirteen)
◎Don't collectively summon some evil god again◎
Before the train arrives at the station, no one holding a ticket can get off the train. This is an absolute rule.
Even though Lin Xiaofeng and the other three were crawling on the roof, they did not actually leave the surface of the train, but Zhu Ning's action required him to briefly separate from the train in mid-air.
This process is very thrilling because you don't know whether you will be swallowed by the train.
Moreover, if people want to jump from A to B accurately, it is best if both locations are stationary. Now they have to jump from one moving point to another, and the terrain of the destination must be higher.
Not jumping hard enough or jumping too far are both undesirable, as they can easily lead to crushing yourself to pieces.
Zhu Ning made this decision after considering all the circumstances. The front of the car was the safest, and she would not bravely rush to the back of the car alone. She had to get to the front of the car quickly.
The shortest distance is from the front of the car to the rear, and there is Qi Xueliu on the opposite side who can provide support.
After Zhu Ning jumped, Qi Xueliu was the first to react. She was a mind controller and knew that this ability could control herself. Zhu Ning was able to stand on the front of the car because he used his mind to hold himself still.
Zhu Ning needs to control her body in mid-air, and Qi Xueliu must support her, otherwise this will not succeed.
Qi Xueliu was cursing in her heart. She always received orders and carried them out quietly. She had a plan for sudden situations, but she had never seen anything so sudden. Zhu Ning didn't even know her, but he gave her his life.
Zhu Ning has two special abilities that are very suitable for the current situation. One is anti-gravity, and the other is mind control. The former has no precision, while the latter can control precision.
In fact, Zhu Ning was taking a gamble. If you asked her what the chances of winning were, she would definitely say 100%, because every gambler thinks he or she is the winner.
Zhu Ning's body jumped up from mid-air. As she had guessed, after her body was away from the train, she heard a swish sound, as if something suddenly attacked from behind.
Zhu Ning couldn't see behind him, but the three people opposite him could see more clearly. When Zhu Ning jumped, something like a frog's tongue rose into the air. It looked very much like the soft body of an apple snail. For a moment, the specific shape could not be seen. Only a sticky soft thing with two tentacles grew on it.
If you have some basic knowledge of snails, you can recognize that under the tentacles are the brain and nerves, and below that is the glottis.
People who often eat snails can even identify where the stomach and sex glands are.
The three of them were ignorant and could only sigh that this thing was so slimy. They were actually in a snail shell, and the wheels of the train were the gastropods of the golden apple snail.
Snails were supposed to crawl slowly, but after merging with trains, they formed a new species.
The water ghosts in the car were all passengers like them. The apple snails were silently laying eggs inside. The water ghosts killed people as if they were offering treasures to it, and used the corpses as a breeding ground.
Zhu Ning violated the train rules. The pathfinder dog that tried to get off the train and those who talked inside the train were punished by something. They never saw what the punisher looked like.
At that time, inside the train, the punisher usually took the nearest material, but now outside the train, it seems that the train itself has finally been inspired to catch people.
This iron carriage has a hard shell, and the soft-bodied creature squirmed. The moving train suddenly began to shake, and the body of the train turned slightly to the right. One side had deviated from the track, pressing all the weight to the right side.
Originally, the three of them were tied together and hung on the car like a wire. Now that it was swung like this, Lin Xiaofeng, who was hanging at the back, was the most vulnerable.
Lin Xiaofeng reacted faster this time and was not so passive. She grabbed the rope with one hand and immediately stretched upwards with the other hand. At the same time, she jumped hard and just bumped into Pei Shu who was trying to pull her.
After having experienced at least two contaminated areas, she and Pei Shu had some tacit understanding. Pei Shu and Lin Xiaofeng's arms were fastened like buttons, and he suddenly pulled Lin Xiaofeng onto the roof of the car.
With a loud bang, Lin Xiaofeng didn't know what fell off her body and was run over by the train. She soon disappeared from sight. If Lin Xiaofeng had been slower, it would have been her who was run over.
Pei Shu thought that Zhu Ning's jump seemed to have activated the contaminated area, and the car was so angry that it was about to vomit.
Qi Xueliu didn't have time to care about them. She was looking at Zhu Ning opposite her wholeheartedly. At that moment, she forgot that she was on a train and threw all the water and grass behind her.
It seemed like she was playing a game with Zhu Ning. She was Zhu Ning's teammate. They were on the court and the whistle had already blown.
The shadow of a huge creature loomed behind Zhu Ning. Zhu Ning did not look back, and his eyes were only on Qi Xueliu opposite him.
When doing dangerous things, narrowing your focus to one point can help calm your mind.
Zhu Ning's situation is more like playing a game, where she needs to jump from one point to another. Generally, games allow players to die and respawn multiple times, find a suitable starting point, and then pass the level. Unfortunately, she doesn't have one, so she can only fight hard.
She calculated the time to jump and would rather jump late than early. If she jumped late, the worst that could happen was that she would fall behind in the car behind, but if she jumped early, she would easily be crushed to death by the train.
Zhu Ning vaguely felt that she was fighting against something: gravity, the powerful rules of the train, and the pollutants behind it. Every cell in her body was being pulled by different forces, and she was about to split into four.
Qi Xueliu wondered what kind of extreme sport this was. There was only one rope, and now none of the three of them could use it.
Logically speaking, even if the three of them formed a new human rope, they would still be able to hold Zhu Ning back, but the three of them did not have such strong physical fitness. Qi Xueliu used her mind to untie the ropes of the two people here, freeing up a section of rope.
The biggest goal now is to catch Zhu Ning. They all cooperated very well. Pei Shu was probably pulling Lin Xiaofeng to find a new fulcrum. Qi Xueliu had no time to look and swung the rope out with her mind. She had to get closer to Zhu Ning.
With a swish sound——
The rope was like a snake moving in the air, infused with Qi Xueliu's consciousness. After being thrown out, the rope straightened and connected with Zhu Ning.
It only took a few seconds in total. The job was thrilling and meticulous. Qi Xueliu felt that she had lost a few years of her life. In this situation, she was not nervous at all. She had a good psychological quality for mind control and was particularly open-minded.
Even if Zhu Ning fell to his death today, what could Qi Xueliu do?
Zhu Ning's body was getting closer and closer. Pei Shu felt pessimistic. She jumped too far to the side and was heading towards the front of the car, but her body would probably fall on the 5th car.
The most useful thing in this car is the mind. Pei Shu and Lin Xiaofeng were of no help. The train tilted and they were thrown to the other side. They couldn't see clearly, but they saw Zhu Ning's figure disappear, just like the sun setting.
The rope that was thrown out quickly retracted, and Qi Xueliu was unsure. She heard a bang, which should be the sound of a person's body colliding with the iron sheet.
The huge tentacles have arrived, and because the distance is close, they are also covering Qi Xueliu's head. Qi Xueliu is a little nervous. This thing may be the rule side. It is covering the air like a mountain, and they are just ants.
Once it falls, it will be crushed.
But the huge tentacles just hung in the air for a moment, as if they hadn't found their target, and quickly retreated.
Qi Xueliu didn't see how the tentacles appeared, but she saw clearly how they moved backward. The black door of the last carriage at the rear of the train opened. It really looked like a snail shell. People who like to eat fried snails also suck out the snail meat from this position.
Now the shell opened a crack, and the tentacles retracted like a rope.
Qi Xueliu saw this at the aquarium when she was a child. After the snail meat retracts, the small "lid" at the bottom is closed. Sometimes it is not closed tightly, and some snail meat will still wriggle on the edge.
Qi Xueliu particularly enjoyed staring at snails and shellfish for a second. It was a bit strange to be caught in it, but she didn't expect that it would be even more strange to see a train retract its limbs with the human eye.
The Homecoming train withdrew the penalty, probably because it determined that Zhu Ning had not violated any rules, as Zhu Ning had not left the train.
The overturned train swayed and reconnected with the track. The turn quickly disappeared, and the Homecoming became straight and became a normal train again.
Qi Xueliu was immersed in watching the apple snail curl up when she remembered to go check on Zhu Ning. The rope was taut and Zhu Ning must have grabbed it, but she didn't know whether he was dead or alive.
Qi Xueliu looked away and saw Zhu Ning hanging on car 5, holding the rope with one hand, his body pressed tightly against the roof, motionless as if dead.
Qi Xueliu was wondering whether to inform Lin Xiaofeng that your captain seemed to be dead, but she didn't know if Zhu Ning had sensed it. At this time, she raised her hand and pulled the rope.
Qi Xueliu could only resign herself to her fate and pull the rope back. Why had she been so unlucky since meeting Zhu Ning? Her promotion and salary were gone, and after leaving the wall, she became a wanted criminal. When she tried to return, she found her car was gone.
She wanted to get a ride but encountered some conspiracy. Sometimes she was revived and sometimes she was an investigator. She followed the ride in a daze and almost thought she was going to die here.
After finally finding a way out, she was forced to work for Zhu Ning. She had been exploited by the Federation before, but never so thoroughly.
Pei Shu and Lin Xiaofeng also climbed up to help, otherwise Qi Xueliu would get more and more angry and easily throw Zhu Ning out.
Zhu Ning was pulled up, and Qi Xueliu tied up all four of them with ropes.
Zhu Ning's hair was disheveled and he looked like he was half dead. Without even raising his head, he stretched out a hand.
Qi Xueliu looked at her in confusion. Lin Xiaofeng, who was close to Zhu Ning, reached out and patted her palm. Pei Shu was the second to pat her.
Several of us were exhausted and filming listlessly. Is this the time to encourage each other? Do we think that if we just touch the team spirit, we can save the world?
Qi Xueliu wanted to kick Zhu Ning down, but Zhu Ning kept his raised hand, so she had to reluctantly move forward and touch it.
Zhu Ning lowered her hand only after the touch. She must have been extremely tired. She had been tense all night, and the jump just now must have drained a lot of her energy.
Next up was Lin Xiaofeng, who took the lead. She was very strong and dragged four people forward. In fact, she should have come earlier, but unfortunately, the car was overturned as soon as Lin Xiaofeng climbed onto it.
After a few steps, Lin Xiaofeng dragged the four people down. She was a little hesitant. Should they really get into the car? There were rows of people kneeling inside, which looked terrifying. Was that the way out of the contaminated area?
And how can we get in? Does Lin Xiaofeng have to tear open another hole?
Zhu Ning turned over, and Lin Xiaofeng saw that her head was bleeding. It must be that she scratched something sharp when she jumped over. This was a train, and bumps and collisions were no joke.
In fact, Zhu Ning's mind was in turmoil, and she felt as if her brain had been beaten into a pulp. She moved almost instinctively.
Qi Xueliu looked at her curiously. Zhu Ning asked Lin Xiaofeng to lower herself a little. Qi Xueliu thought several times about how Zhu Ning should score the goal violently.
But Zhu Ning just gently placed his hand on the car door, and the edge of the door shook and opened by itself.
Those who didn't know would have thought Zhu Ning was the train conductor and had the train keys. Zhu Ning felt that the Homecoming Express was very reasonable. The ticket didn't say that the doors couldn't be opened while the train was moving, so Zhu Ning opened them reasonably.
She was the first to climb in and waited until there was no danger before letting others down.
This was much more spectacular than what Lin Xiaofeng saw from outside the window. The parking space for one car had been removed, so the people kneeling inside were arranged in neat rows, like a cemetery made by humans.
They all wore clothes from the old world, so they were definitely from the old world.
There was a black, unidentified stick-like object stuck around everyone's neck. Zhu Ning took a closer look and had no idea what it was. It looked very much like the lines of a polluted area. The last time Zhu Ning saw something similar was in Area 103. When the apocalypse came, the first thing to fall was the black line.
The black line passed through the roof and the neck. The person sitting on his knees had his fingers crossed, like someone meditating in a martial arts drama, with his hands cupped into a bowl shape. The other end of the black line passed through his hands before piercing the car floor.
There was no blood on the edges of the wounds, whether on the hand or the neck, and they looked very clean.
The corpse had not rotted, and there were no apple snail eggs, as if it was still in the state before death.
There was a lot of dust inside the car, and there was also dust on the bodies of these people. Their facial features were covered, and everyone looked the same.
The front of the car looks like a forbidden area. There is no sign of invasion by water ghosts or apple snails. No wonder the notebook says the front of the car is safe.
What is this for? A sacrifice? Or a spirit summoning?
Zhu Ning thought that this was related to the Revival Society, which sounded very weird. Maybe they were collectively summoning some evil god again.
After summoning the evil god, Zhu Ning could only lie down.
Zhu Ning was still trying to recover and try to put her mind back into place. She felt so dizzy that she felt sick.
Pei Shu did not lose any strength and took on the investigation task, looking around. He walked very carefully, for fear of disturbing any danger.
Pei Shu always felt that this was very strange, as some of the people here were wearing uniforms from the old world.
They walked outside the wall and needed to be able to identify various items from the old world, similar to "archaeology." Some of them were wearing the uniforms of the Dream Sky Rescue Team, but some wore medals on their shoulders, like the "demon hunters" of the past.
The pollution did not happen overnight. Before it became a wasteland, there were already demon hunters on this land to deal with some strange events.
It is not clear how many specific agencies there are, but Pei Shu knows a job title that is very similar to Huo Wenxi's, called abnormal event handler.
Pei Shu took a quick look. Since there were countless fallen ashes, he could tell there were four people with special abilities, which was a lot in that era when talents were scarce.
There may be more in the car, and we will do an inventory later. These are Pei Shu’s seniors, and they are also the group of people who can most easily obtain information related to the old world.
Pei Shu typed on the secondary brain for others to see: There is something here.
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