Green shade, station.
There are several trains parked in the maintenance area.
The outer armor was stained with dried and solidified colorful liquid, and there were also some pieces of meat stuck in the joints of the carriages, gaps in the armor, etc., and the air was filled with a disgusting smell.
This has been cleaned.
Every night when the evening train returns to Lvyin, the maintenance crew has to start repairing the damaged areas on the train.
At the same time, the armor of the train was being cleaned. Some of the demonized beasts wrapped in the train had not yet cooled down, so the train guards easily killed them.
Five days have passed since the Sanctuary incident. The number of people pouring into the green shade from the Sanctuary space began to slow down, and the green-horizontal line once again resumed two flights a day.
The situation is like this. Every time a train travels, it is inevitable that the train will suffer damage. If it is not repaired regularly, small damage will accumulate and turn into large damage, which will affect the performance of the train. At critical moments, it is likely to lead to a car crash and death.
No one dared to take it lightly, and repairs sometimes lasted from night to early morning.
At four or five o'clock, it was still dark, and the vast darkness in the wilderness in the distance made people panic.
The source lights at the train station are bright and bright.
Zhao Ming greeted his comrades who were on duty at the train station, and led the remaining five team members out of the train station, advancing along the railway tracks and crossing the outer area of the city. His figure was quickly submerged in the darkness, with only a few lights shining slightly. With.
The biting cold wind blew by, bringing with it the coldness that penetrated to the bone marrow.
The person with the weakest strength, only one who had awakened to the third level, shivered, tightly wrapped his coat around his body, and opened his mouth to exhale a stream of turbid hot air.
The expressions of Zhao Ming and the other five people remained unchanged. They were wearing tight-fitting combat uniforms with only one jacket on. It looked thin, but it was enough for the five people who had already tempered their bodies.
They are the railway maintenance team.
The five Zhao Mings came from the garrison corps and belonged to the first line of experts, with strengths ranging from the seventh level to the ninth level. Along the railway, there is a distance of one or two hundred kilometers, and we will pass through some level three and level four dangerous areas on the way. Therefore, the maintenance team has a high force deployment to ensure that no accidents occur.
The other person is an awakened person in the railway department and a "professional" in the maintenance team.
Within ten kilometers of the shelter, it is basically equivalent to a safe zone, and the demonized beasts are almost being hunted into protected animals.
As the distance got farther and farther into the area where awakened people were less active, the number of demonized beasts suddenly increased.
Pfft—
Zhao Ming decapitated the demonized beast with a sword, skillfully cut open the head to obtain the source crystal, and kicked the corpse away from the rails.
The tactical helmet he is wearing is like a miner's hat, with a power-adjustable source lamp embedded in it. The light emitted is not very bright, which not only protects the field of vision of Zhao Ming and others, but also does not attract the attention of demonized beasts. .
This was not the first time they had received this task of railway maintenance. Zhao Ming took the lead, with two team members standing on the wings, and the other two behind them, maintaining a speed that was neither too fast nor too slow.
The professional maintenance personnel, riding a wolf puppet, were located in the center of the team. The flashlight beam shone on the railway track, and the pieces of flesh after the demonized beast was run over by the train were clearly visible.
As time passed, wisps of dawn began to appear on the horizon.
There was a banging sound from the front, and a wall of earth appeared in the field of vision of several people.
This is an outpost under construction, close to the railway line. After it is completed, it can be used for awakened people to stay and supply, and to better clean up the surrounding demonized beasts. In the future, a "Green Shade Defense Circle" will be built. This outpost can also be used Changed to a transit station and continued to function.
After passing the outpost, we were about halfway through the journey.
Zhao Ming and others were counting the time as they moved forward.
Demonized beasts generally do not attack the railway tracks, but occasionally they will inevitably run over them with some bad tempers. At this time, they need to stop repairs. Fortunately, they have experienced before the end of the world and cooperated with certain general spells developed by the "Magic Research Institute" , and corresponding props, most minor problems can be easily solved.
"Captain Zhao, there is a problem with the rails ahead."
The maintenance staff who kept their eyes on the problem discovered the problem immediately.
Several people walked forward for more than ten meters and came to the problem area. They saw that the railway track had been broken. The break was not smooth. The fracture zone was more than one meter in front and back.
It's a relatively serious problem.
The train on this line needs to be delayed today.
Zhao Ming frowned, took out the mental communication crystal, and reported the situation to the shelter. He lamented in his heart that his morning vacation would definitely be ruined, and he had to concentrate on observing the broken rails.
"This broken mark does not look like it was bitten by a demonized beast, nor is it trampled or damaged by sharp claws. Instead, it looks like it was torn apart by a huge force."
He thought, looking around cautiously.
The rails are infiltrated with special metal, and their hardness and toughness can reach the level of D-grade alloys. It is not difficult to destroy, but if it is pulled and broken... Zhao Ming doesn't know if he has such power.
But then it felt wrong.
If it was pulled by a huge force, the rails on both sides of the fault zone should be scattered in a serpentine shape. However, in fact, the crossbars under the rails are still intact. The crossbars and sand and gravel are somewhat scattered in the broken section.
Zhao Ming was confused by the wind.
…
The matter was first reported to the Ministry of Railways.
After some investigation, it was reported to the Municipal Ministry. After Chen Haiping learned about it, it spread to Tang Yu's ears.
A total of three broken rails were found on the Luyin-Huiyang Line.
Similar in appearance.
However, it is not just this line. Similar situations have also occurred on several other lines. Even the Green Line, which has the highest security level. It stands to reason that there are very few demonized beasts active in this area. Two or three abyss cracks around them have been suppressed.
But there is still a fault zone.
He had to pay attention to it.
One of the fault zones is located within the territory.
Tang Yu was able to study it in detail, and soon came up with a guess: "The land under our feet is constantly expanding, so...the rails will be pulled to pieces?"
In other words, is the Earth expanding
The Origin Star in its heyday was very huge. Tang Yu studied it and believed that part of the space was folded up and contracted due to silence. Now, with the recovery of Origin Qi, the Origin Star is gradually moving closer to its past.
It should be considered a good thing.
With the opening of the Holy City that day, the concentration of the Earth's Source Qi increased again.
If the source energy concentration of an ordinary planet is 1, then when the apocalypse first broke out, the source energy concentration would have been about 2.5. It has continued to increase since then, to about 7 or 8, and in recent days, it has reached levels of 11 or 12.
The originally sleeping elves will gradually wake up.
Tang Yu had already targeted some places where elves might appear, and would send survey teams to visit them from time to time, hoping to abduct one or two more elves and anchor them in the territory.
Some rare materials may gradually appear on the earth in the future.
It’s just that the earth is expanding, and inspections of railway tracks, city walls, etc. must be intensified.
…
The train was delayed until eleven o'clock and finally departed.
The impact is not that big.
Different from a few days ago, the train is no longer as crowded as a sardine can. Most of the people who take the train to go to other places are senior adventurers who have received commissions. On the contrary, the awakened people who have just arrived in Green Shade have been staying in Inside the shelter, there is no going out.
They all carry a lot of source crystals in their pockets, buy a set of rune equipment, go to the martial arts gym to listen to open classes, enter the training camp to practice and fight... they enjoy it endlessly and feel that they are getting stronger every day.
Perhaps when they emptied their pockets of source crystals, their strength improved, and they hit a bottleneck, they suddenly realized that they entered the money-making mode... and then were harvested again.
But they are also happy.
(There was a dinner party in the evening, so the author’s bacteria was wilting again...)