Tree Shade, Station.
Several trains were parked in the maintenance area.
The outer armor was stained with dried and solidified colorful liquid. Some pieces of meat were stuck in the carriage connections, armor gaps, and so on. The air was filled with a nauseating smell.
It had already been cleaned.
Every day when the evening train returned to the Tree Shade, the train maintenance staff had to start repairing the damaged areas on the train.
At the same time, they cleaned the train armor. Some of the demonic beasts wrapped by the train were not yet cold, so the train guards slaughtered them.
Five days had passed since the Sacred Realm incident. The number of people pouring into the Tree Shade from the Sacred Realm space began to slow down. The Green-Horizontal Line once again restored two trains a day.
Even so, the train inevitably suffered damage every time. If it wasn't regularly repaired, small damage would accumulate into large damage, affecting the performance of the train. At critical moments, it was likely to lead to the destruction of the train.
No one dared to underestimate it. Sometimes the maintenance lasted from night to the next morning.
At four or five o 'clock, the sky was still dark, and the vast wilderness in the distance was frightening.
The source lights of the train station were bright.
Zhao Ming greeted his comrades who were on duty at the train station and walked out of the train station with the other five team members. They walked along the tracks and crossed the outer city area. Their figures were quickly submerged in the darkness. Only a few spots of light flickered slightly.
The biting cold wind blew, bringing a bone-chilling coldness.
The weakest person, who was only a triple awakening, shivered and wrapped his coat tightly around his body. He opened his mouth and exhaled a turbid hot breath.
Zhao Ming's group of five's faces remained unchanged. They wore tight combat suits inside with only a coat. It looked thin, but it was enough for the five people who had tempered their bodies.
They were the railway maintenance team.
Zhao Ming's group of five came from the garrison corps. They belonged to the experts with strength ranging from the seventh to ninth awakening. Moving along the railway, there was a distance of one or two hundred kilometers. On the way, they would pass through some level 3 and 4 dangerous areas. Therefore, the maintenance team's force configuration was higher to ensure no accidents.
The other person was a hunter from the railway department, a "professional" in the maintenance team.
Within ten kilometers of the shelter, it was basically equivalent to a safe zone. The demonic beasts had been hunted into protected animals.
As the distance grew farther and deeper into the area with less hunter activity, the number of demonic beasts suddenly increased.
Puff –
Zhao Ming beheaded the demonic beast with his sword and skillfully cut open its skull to take the spirit stones. Then, he kicked the corpse away from the tracks.
The tactical helmet he wore was like a miner's hat. It was embedded with a source lamp that could be adjusted. The light emitted wasn't very bright. It not only protected Zhao Ming and the others' vision but also didn't attract too much attention from the demonic beast.
It was not the first time they had received this task. Zhao Ming took the lead, with two team members standing on either side, and the other two bringing up the rear. They maintained a speed that was neither fast nor slow.
The professional maintenance staff rode a wolf puppet in the middle of the team. The beam of the flashlight shone on the tracks. The pieces of meat of the demonic beast that was crushed by the train were clearly visible.
As time passed, rays of light began to appear on the horizon.
Bang! Bang! Bang! A wall of earth appeared in front of them.
This was an outpost under construction, close to the railway line. After completion, it could provide shelter and supplies for hunters to better clean up the surrounding demonic beasts. In the future, when the "Tree Shade Defense Circle" was built, this outpost could also be converted into a transit station and continue to play its role.
After passing the outpost, they were about halfway through the journey.
Zhao Ming and the others moved forward while calculating the time.
Demonic beasts generally didn't attack the tracks. But occasionally, it was inevitable that they would run over the tracks with a bad temper. At this time, they needed to stop for maintenance. Fortunately, with their experience before the doomsday, combined with some general spells developed by the "Spell Research Institute" and the corresponding props, most of the small problems could be easily solved.
"Captain Zhao, there's a problem with the tracks in front."
The maintenance staff who had been staring at the tracks immediately discovered the problem.
They walked forward for a dozen meters and came to the problem area. They saw the section of the tracks had broken. The fracture was not smooth. The fracture zone was more than a meter in front and back.
It was a relatively serious problem.
Today, the train on this line needed to be delayed.
Zhao Ming frowned and took out his spiritual power communication crystal to report the situation to the shelter. He lamented that his morning vacation would be ruined. He had to concentrate on observing the broken tracks.
"This fracture mark doesn't look like it was bitten off by a demonic beast, nor is it a trace of trampling or claw damage. Instead, it looks like it was forcibly torn off by a huge force."
He thought and looked around vigilantly.
The rails were infiltrated with a special metal. Its hardness and toughness could reach the D-grade alloy level. It wasn't difficult to destroy. But if it was pulled apart … Zhao Ming wasn't sure if he had such strength.
But then he felt something was wrong.
If it had been pulled by a huge force, the rails on both sides of the fault zone should have been scattered like a snake. But in fact, the crossbar at the bottom of the rails was still intact. It was only the broken section where the crossbar and gravel were scattered.
Zhao Ming's mind was in a mess.
… …
This matter was first reported to the Ministry of Railways.
After some investigation, it was reported to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs. After Chen Haiping learned about it, it was passed to Tang Yu's ears.
The Tree Shade – Huiyang Line found broken rails in three places.
They looked similar.
However, it wasn't just this line. Several other lines also had similar situations. Even the highest safety level, the Green-Terminal Line. It was reasonable to say that there were very few active demonic beasts in this area. Two or three cracks of the abyss around it had been suppressed.
But there was still a fracture zone.
He had to take it seriously.
One of the fracture zones was located within the territory.
Tang Yu was able to study it in detail and soon had a guess, "The land under our feet is constantly expanding, so … the rails were pulled apart?"
In other words, the earth was expanding?
The Planet of Origin in its heyday was very huge. Tang Yu had studied it and thought that part of the space was folded and shrank because of silence. Now, with the recovery of the source energy, the Planet of Origin was gradually approaching its former size.
It should be a good thing.
On that day, with the opening of the Sacred City, the earth's source energy concentration rose again.
If the source energy concentration of an ordinary planet was 1, then at the beginning of the doomsday, the source energy concentration was about 2.5. Later, it continued to grow, about 7 or 8. In recent days, it reached the level of 11 or 12.
The originally sleeping elves would gradually wake up.
Tang Yu had locked on some places where the elves might appear. From time to time, he sent the Survey Corps to walk around, looking forward to abducting one or two elves and hanging them in the territory.
Some rare materials may gradually appear on the earth in the future.
It's just that the earth was expanding. Patrols such as rails, city walls, etc., must be strengthened.
… …
The train was delayed until 11 o 'clock and finally left.
The impact wasn't big.
Unlike a few days ago, the train was no longer as crowded as a can of sardines. Most of the people who took the train to other places were senior adventurers who had received the commission. On the contrary, the hunters who had just arrived at the Tree Shade Shelter had been staying in the shelter and didn't go out.
They all had a lot of spirit stones in their pockets. They bought rune equipment, went to the martial arts school to attend public classes, entered the training camp to practice, fight … they were never tired. They felt they were getting stronger every day.
Perhaps when they emptied the spirit stones in their pockets, or when their strength improved and fell into a bottleneck, they would suddenly enter the money-making mode … and then be harvested again.
But they were also happy.
(There's a dinner party in the evening, so the author wilted again …)
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
