"Ice!"
Jenkins in mid-air clings to the icy body behind him, and as he falls with it, a steady stream of cold air spills from his hands to the joints between the rails and the wheels, like a light blue light point.
The temperature continued to drop, and the ice between the rails and the wheels appeared more and more frequently. As the forward speed of the train was reduced one after another, it finally came to a sudden stop in less than two seconds, completely freezing together with the track.
At this time, one-third of the car had fallen, and even the front of the car was less than twenty feet away from the ice under the bridge.
The ice archer retracted his bow and disappeared from behind Jenkins. With a high-spirited whisper, the little beast flew out of the shattered space barrier, and after providing Jenkins with a new point of leverage, it disappeared immediately. (Note 1)
Jenkins followed the force of the unicorn, jumped out of the air, and jumped to the top floor of the car hanging in the air.
[Cat's Elegance] Activated immediately, he jumped like a cat on the almost vertical roof of the carriage. A few seconds later, he entered his compartment again through the broken wooden window, and successfully found the chocolate that was struggling with the cotton on the pillow.
It looked healthy, and Jenkins checked its four short legs several times to make sure that it hadn't suffered any fractures or internal injuries from the fall, and he was relieved.
This temporary additional train was not a passenger car, but a "troop carrier" specially used to transport the support team from the Ruen Parish to the northern front. In addition to Jenkins who has a car for one person, other gifted people from various churches also have their own comfortable boxes.
The train was decelerated and stopped by Jenkins without falling to the ground, so this accident did not cause any deaths. It’s just that many people fell hard, and when everyone on the train moved to the other end of the bridge across the river and began to count the number of people, most of them were injured.
After all, it was not early morning, and most of them were still asleep just now.
"Mr. Williams, it's lucky to have you this time."
Jenkins and the people of the Church of the Sages gathered at the left side of the bridge, Captain Ursia said while watching Jenkins help the injured.
For this operation, the Church of the Sages of the Loen Church sent two complete scribe teams, and some logistics support personnel from the cities around Loen also came, and a total of 30 people were gathered to set off. The one who spoke was Captain Yela Ursia, who looked very warm with a big beard, and the other captain was Arianna Sidorov, who was younger and was communicating with the leaders of other churches not far away. Condition.
"this is nothing."
"No, that's really amazing. I happened to be at the window just now and completely saw your actions before you fell to the bottom. That's really amazing..."
The bearded man said in amazement that, like everyone else, he happened to not see the unicorn, but he knew Jenkins' identity as the son of God just like Miss Sidorov.
"It's not my own strength, I just borrowed an item."
Jenkins casually patted the chest of the young man wearing a cotton felt hat, and after a flash of green light, he went to deal with the next wounded.
He didn't know what kind of injuries the wounded he treated just now had. He just let the fractured patients straighten their bones by themselves, and ignored everything else. After all, he didn't rely on sophisticated techniques to heal, but just simply and rudely instilling vitality.
While talking, the two looked up at the train that was frozen on the bridge. I don't know why, after everyone evacuated the train, even though Jenkins didn't continue to use [Ice Freeze] to keep the temperature low, the train was still fixed there, and the ice layer continued to thicken and spread.
In just twenty minutes, the surface of the metal train had completely turned into a clear ice color, shining dazzlingly in the faint morning sun.
The sunlight slanted down on the carriage, and the metal and ice were combined in the most perfect proportion. This scene is actually very suitable to be recorded by oil painting, but no one has time to do it at this time.
"So who, or what, actually froze the tracks?"
Jenkins looked at the icy railway track again. The ice spread far away, and the track seemed to be frozen in ice. This was the reason for the derailment.
This is not a natural phenomenon. Although the temperature is very low now, it is absolutely impossible to exaggerate to such a degree. Besides, apart from the railroad tracks, none of the cables on the bridge, the signage beside the bridge, or even the forest in the distance had such a severe freezing effect.
This must be deliberate targeting, which is easy to figure out.
Although such a bad thing happened, this itself is a well-organized and powerful combat force, so although it suffered an accident, there has not been any reduction in personnel.
In addition to Jenkins, the pastors of [Church of Everything and Nature] and [Church of Earth and Harvest] also have effective treatment methods. Except for a few seriously injured crew members who could not recover immediately due to mental problems, the rest of the wounded did not lose Mobility.
Of course, these are trivial things, and the more important thing is that after gathering the team, Jenkins heard from Captain Ursia and Captain Sidorov that the Chaofan used to temporarily contact the rear temporary headquarters of the Ruen Parish The creation communication device, as if disturbed by an unseen force, is completely ineffective in its current location.
There are 15 combat teams from eight churches and 22 non-staff logistics personnel like Jenkins, adding up to a total of more than 200 (Note 2) bestowers, some of whom have rare long-distance communication capabilities.
But again, these abilities don't work either. According to the woman whose left eye is a purple magic eye. She was able to connect to distant places, but the pictures and sounds she got were distorted and weird, as if she had peered into a distorted abyss.
The current location of everyone is very embarrassing. Judging from the map, it is at least 5 miles (about 8km) away from the nearest town that can be repaired. In addition to the mountainous surroundings, it is not clear whether the road is smooth under the current situation. Even if you want to It is also difficult to temporarily move to town.
In the end, after confirming that it was impossible to directly contact the city with the existing means, the leaders of the church discussed it and decided to send two gifters from the Traveler Church to go back the same way and go to nearby towns to explore and report. It's best to get in touch directly.
But now the frozen train was unusable because the steam furnace was damaged when it fell, and everyone couldn't start and couldn't solve the ice on the tracks, so they temporarily organized a small team to explore the ice ahead. origin.
PS: Note 1: The ice is too brittle to support him jumping so far, so he didn't use [Ice] but called the unicorn.
Note 2: I have revised the previous article. There are not nearly 200 giftees in this team, but more than 200 people.