Chapter 690 Storm
"Run, run!?" Hunter was startled and looked around with suspicion.
"You, where did you hear that? Was it some weird whisper again?"
"Oh, no, that's not it. I heard code."
Ever since Seuss brought Morse code to this world, it has been successfully used in communications.
This code is used for communication in many places that can be seen and heard but are inconvenient to reach.
"How is that possible? I didn't see you bring the comparison chart?" Hunter glanced at Yami. They had been together just now, and Yami didn't even look at the comparison chart.
"Do you really need to bring that thing? You'll remember it after just reading it once." Yami blinked in confusion.
".Okay, where did you hear that?"
"Just now, I heard the intermittent sound of a whistle, and I spelled it out and that's the word."
"Whistle?" Hunter was startled and pricked up his ears to listen, but there was only the whistling sound of the wind outside. No, if he listened carefully, he could hear the faint sound of a sharp whistle.
"Really? No!" Hunter suddenly reacted and his face changed drastically. "This is a wasteland, how could there be a whistle?! I'm afraid it's..."
His heart skipped a beat as he thought of an extremely terrifying possibility.
Is there a train coming up ahead? !
The railway line between Castres and the North is currently a one-way street. Although construction of a two-way track has begun, it is still a long way from completion.
So if a train comes, they don't just pass it by;
Head-on encounter!
squeak----!!!!!
A sharp sound of metal friction was heard.
“Ouch!”
"Wow!"
"Hold on tight!"
The passengers in the carriage were suddenly staggering around, but fortunately most of the luggage had been secured and did not hit anyone.
Unfortunately, the conductor and the Skitarii who had just come out to secure the luggage had just reached the carriage in front, and Yami and Hunter, who had just stood up to secure it, were now standing under a pile of luggage that was about to be secured.
The violent movement of the train instantly caused the luggage above to slide and fall down with a crackling sound!
Yami and Hunter widened their eyes. Neither of them was very good at sports. Their brains reacted instantly, but their bodies couldn't keep up. They could only watch the luggage falling towards them.
"Be careful!" Alvarez rushed over quickly and tried to pull the two apart - not only was he also lacking in exercise, he was also far away, so he couldn't reach them.
But a dark shadow suddenly flashed in front of them.
Bang! Clang!
Things on the luggage rack above fell down, but were all blocked by the figure.
There were a lot of heavy things in the luggage, but the man didn't care at all and looked completely calm.
"Patriarch Ignatius?" Alvarez asked in surprise.
"It's me. Are you all okay?"
Ignati put the luggage in his hands on the ground and turned around.
He had a head full of white hair and his face showed many traces of time, but although he looked old, he still looked like a wall standing in front of them.
The leader of the [Undertaker] lowered his head slightly, and only turned his gaze to the window after seeing that the few people were fine.
"Sudden brake. What happened?"
Only then did they realize that the metal friction sound they had just heard was actually the sound of brakes.
Trains rarely brake so suddenly, which is not only unsafe but also likely to affect the life of the equipment.
The sudden braking and the whistle just now spelled out "Run away".
Hunter swallowed his saliva. He had a very bad guess - was there really a train ahead and was about to hit it?
But just as he was about to express his thoughts, Ignatius suddenly raised his hand, signaling everyone not to speak.
Then he stepped to the window and looked up.
"Patriarch Ignatius."
"There's an airship up there."
"Airship?" Several people were shocked. In this kind of weather, taking a train would be fine, but taking an airship into the sky would be seeking death.
Yami's eyes lit up. "Yes, that should be the whistle of an airship. I don't think it sounds like the sound of a train. If it was a train speeding towards us, the whistle would have a significant Doppler shift."
After he said this, Hunter also showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, only Alvarez still looked confused.
"What is Doppler shift?"
Unfortunately, before Yami could answer, the train shook again, and the wheels under the carriage made a sound of friction against the track.
"Why is it moving again? Wait, is it going the other way this time?!"
Since the railway is a one-way track, there are usually locomotives at both ends of the train. It should be noted that starting a steam engine is very complicated and time-consuming. Starting it immediately after completing an emergency brake can only mean that the engine has been started in advance to heat the water in the steam chamber.
Several people looked out the window together, probably because of the influence of this airship.
The airship in the sky was now closer to the train, and the few people could barely see what was happening on it. Hunter squinted his eyes and stared for a while, then suddenly said, "Something's wrong."
"What's wrong?"
"The steam engines on that airship were all running at full speed, and it was only barely faster than the storm."
"Isn't this just a normal escape from the storm? What's wrong?"
"That's not right in itself." Hunter shook his head. "We're on the train, so it's possible we couldn't see the storm clearly. But the airship is in the sky. Why didn't it avoid the storm when it saw it? Besides, we're walking backwards now, and there's a storm ahead. Logically, the airship shouldn't appear in front of us, unless..."
Hunter swallowed and said in disbelief, "Unless this storm is chasing the airship."
The carriage suddenly became quiet.
Several people had been looking at the airship above, but after hearing Hunter's words, they all turned to look at the storm in the distance.
When they had just looked at the storm, it had been nothing more than dark clouds, wind, and rain.
At this moment, rain, sand and gravel, mixed with trees and various debris, gathered together to form a huge black tornado, like a huge spinning top smashing on the earth, plowing a deep mark on the ground.
"hiss"
Yami was sharp-eyed and saw a whole section of railroad track from the tornado.
Woo——
The sound of the whistle pierced the air and fell into the ears of several people, carried by the strong wind.
The airship was already quite close to the train, and the sound of the whistle was clearly heard by everyone on the train.
The whistle sounds were sometimes long and sometimes short, and many people hurriedly took out notebooks from their pockets to record them.
Hunter didn't check his pockets, but turned to look at Yami.
Yami frowned, listening and translating directly into words.
"Full speed. Forward. The storm is chasing. Us"
Having said this, he suddenly widened his eyes and stopped translating.
"And then? Go on!"
Yami looked up at the airship, a look of shock on his face.
"They want to change direction and divert the storm!"
(End of this chapter)
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