Chapter 398: Departure (I)
The neighbors who were supposed to say goodbye also greeted each other at noon, with envious looks in their eyes, and the members of the town were half aborigines, half from outside. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info has also been to other cities, and most of them want to move out of the small city at some point in the future.
The station is much the same as it used to be, because so few people come back or leave now, so much so that the staff here don't even shovel the snow in front of the station, just sit in their rooms. The time for the realignment of the empire will be more than a month away, and it will be a long time before it is ready.
The snow is not pure white and has a somewhat grey feel. As we approach the end of the year, the factories in the town are showing more and more unmatched vitality.
After buying the ticket, Kasia and the others sat on the hard chairs and waited. There was a printed timetable on the billboard next to it, but the train didn't arrive on time. It was more than an hour late, and the white-painted train slowly stopped at the edge of the platform with a rumbling sound. The locks on the iron fence are all broken, and you have to wait until the re-column comes, and there will be no one here in normal times.
As Kasia and the others walked over, several strong men dressed as attendants stepped down from the train with iron rods, as if to knock off the frozen ice on some parts of the train.
Most of the seats on the train were still empty, and the number of people was so sparse that you could count them at a glance. The railway line in the border region does not have several trains throughout the year. The timetable at each station is in half a month or a month. And the trains that stop in these places are not expected to be full of customers or anything, and the money to maintain their operation and maintenance is all out of the Empire. This is probably the only place where the Empire can be praised. At least aside from the use of airships, the Empire really allowed the railroad lines to crawl the entire country.
This is Lilia's first time on a train, and she came here by train a few years ago. But at that time, she was still held in her mother's arms, and her eyes did not open for long.
Everything around her may be new to her, and so is the scenery outside the window when the train starts. Constantly moving, his eyes sparkling, half-kneeling in his chair, his hands clinging to the window to look at the rapidly flowing scenery outside. A snow-white landscape, and the smaller and smaller shadows of the peaks of Mount Lilac can be seen not far away.
The town was soon surrounded by the white landscape that surrounded it, and it disappeared from Kasia's view. For some reason, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
Lilia looked at the unchanged scenery outside, and after an hour or two, she was completely tired. Now I am curled up in a chair and fall asleep, my long eyelashes move from time to time, and I don't have to think much about what quiet age.
Mother was in a similar state on the side, resting on the soft chair with her eyes closed. There is always something strange on the train, and it has the power to make people sleep.
Kasia couldn't rest, and she couldn't calm down. Take out the book and look at it, it's not a good choice at this time. I brought a few books back, but they were still lying in Kasia's suitcase, and not a page had been turned by Kasia. During the few days I was waiting for the snow to stop at home, I couldn't read a single line. When I take out the book and open it, my eyes do transmit the contents of the book into my brain continuously, but the meaning of those words cannot be thought about.
This state of affairs continued in Kasia's body until the train carried him and his mother and sister through the small half of the empire to a prosperous regional city.
The sound of the whistle woke everyone who was sleeping on the train, and Cassia, who was in a false sleep, opened her eyes when the train slowed down, put her luggage down in advance, and waited for the train to stop.
Outside, a considerable flow of people could be seen, and lamps connected to electricity were hung high above everyone's heads, emitting a cold light. There was a thin layer of steam floating on the ground, gushing out from under the train. The temperature here is nowhere near as cold as in the town, and not even a single snowflake has yet fallen.
Lilia's eyes were wide open, and things like electric lights attracted all her attention, and even if her eyes hurt for a while from the bright light, she had a misty glare after looking at it for a long time. But for her, it was probably the first time she had seen such a strange lamp. Picked up by her mother and walked outside the station, Lilia also kept trying to reach out and touch the electric light overhead, but the height difference was too much, it was not a height that could be reached by stretching out her hand, and the last wave of her little hand could only catch air.
The place where Kasia got off the train is the terminal of this train, it is in a region called Messiria, and in terms of the prosperity of development, it is certainly not as good as some areas along the coast of Manoma and the Endless Sea, but it is only about half a level behind. And it is not known for its high industrial development, and the main part of the Messirid region is a vast plain, and it is rare to see a bulge on the horizon. It is mainly developed in agriculture, and is one of the main producers of grain, vegetables and fruits of the empire, without the cold feeling brought by metal objects, and has a natural warmth. Although now Kasia only feels the gloom of winter. However, the cultivation technology of agriculture was also vigorously developed by Avalon at some point in the history of the Empire, and the approximate time was when the Empire was researching tranquilizers. Many greenhouses were built on the plains for cultivation, which ensured that even in winter, the output of grain and vegetables to the rest of the empire would not drop much.
In addition, one of the affiliated schools of the seminary, the branch of the Imperial School of Biology on agricultural research, has also established a branch school here, which is considered one of the best schools in the Messelia region. In the future, there are plans to let my sister go to this school, Kasia has done research, and the Imperial Biology School is one of the few schools in the empire that has less to do with the seminary and the military school. The rest of the educational environment was not out of touch with the Empire, and all the resources it needed were available. In addition to these reasons, there is probably another important factor in choosing to house her mother and sister Lilia here, which is that it is also much closer to Mano Malay. Compared to a small town, the distance has been reduced by almost half.
With a lot of regions and cities in mind, Kasia finally chose such a place that was more or less far away from the machine.
When I walked out of the waiting room, it was only 2 p.m. Outside, there is a row of limousines parked in an orderly manner. Beckoning a limousine to come, Kasia dropped her luggage and told the driver the destination she had researched beforehand.