Chapter 52: Finding the Source of Darkness
After Zhao Chun explained the affairs of the alliance meeting clearly, he embarked on a journey to the north.
Due to the snow and ice blocking the road, whether it is flights flying in the sky, bullet trains and long-distance buses running on the ground, etc., have basically been suspended, so there are not a few people stranded in various stations.
Although after being promoted, Zhao Chun can fly for a short distance like those who have practiced light skills on the water in legends, but it is unrealistic for him to fly all the way from City C to the north to find the source of darkness.
Fortunately, in the past two days, several coal-fired locomotives have been opened to go to the northernmost part of the country through several cities, which were originally the northernmost trains running in the winter of Huoyan Country, and are equipped with a device to melt and remove ice and snow under the front and wheels. It's just that the speed of this kind of car is very slow, only 50 kilometers per hour, from C city to the northernmost city in Huoyan country, there are more than 1,500 kilometers, and the fastest one can be reached in more than 30 hours, if it stops and goes halfway, it is estimated that it will take more than 3 days.
Zhao Chun got a sleeper ticket through the alliance, and now the train ticket is more expensive than gold, and the fare from City C to the northernmost city is more than ten times the normal one, and it is not easy to get, not only does it require a strong background, but also needs to have a good relationship with the railway department. But none of this is important to Zhao Chun, as long as he can reach the northernmost city in the shortest possible time, he can ignore anything else.
The crowd stranded at the railway station in C city can be described as a sea of people, there are only a few slow trains a day, or stay in multiple cities, and the people who can be sent away are naturally extremely limited, with the passage of time, the panic is also spreading, and the station needs a large number of military police every day to maintain order, despite this, there are still people forced to get on the train through some abnormal channels, especially in places where the military and police are not very strict along the way.
This is the second day that Zhao Chun has been on this slow train, and after the train stopped at a station in a city, Zhao Chun's sleeper box has increased to eight people, originally a sleeper box was only four sleepers, and now it has increased to eight people, naturally it cannot be called a sleeper, but can only be called a soft seat.
It is useless for Zhao Chun to protest, because people get the same sleeper ticket, which is the same train and the same location, and the person who can get the ticket naturally has a special channel and a special background, even if Zhao Chun complains to the conductor, it is useless. What's more, at such an extraordinary moment, not only is the sleeper full of people, but the aisles outside, and even the luggage racks and the like are also crowded with people, as for whether there are people hanging on the roof and outside the compartment, he still doesn't know for the time being.
The most embarrassing thing is that due to the large number of people, there is no water and food on the train at all, and only when it is parked at the station, can you get some through the window, although it is as expensive as gold, it still takes a lot of effort to get one, if you can't get it, you can only starve.
If hunger can be resisted for a while, then the problem of urine and urine is even more embarrassing, although the toilet at the junction of each carriage is guarded by the police, and it is stipulated that the toilet can not exceed ten minutes, but there are too many people on the car, and most of them are long-distance passengers, and this toilet is not idle for a minute. Even so, many people still can't go to the toilet, and when they can't hold it back, they can only abandon shame and morality and come up with all kinds of strange ways to solve it.
"Dude, do you know why there is a sudden snowstorm in June?" According to him, his hometown is in the northernmost city, he works as a civil servant in N City, and the reason why he got a sleeper ticket is because a relative works at the station in N City.
"Well, I don't know, maybe it's just an anomalous weather phenomenon. Zhao Chun said perfunctorily, this mustache is very unhygienic, his body is stinky, as if he hasn't taken a bath for a month, he took off a pair of socks and threw them at the head of the bed, the smell of his feet made Zhao Chun almost vomit.
The mustache leaned in front of Zhao Chun and said mysteriously: "I heard that it is because the wizard of the Elephant Clan used an ancient forbidden spell to make a snowstorm fall from the sky to achieve his ulterior purpose. ”
"What? Who did you listen to?" Zhao Chun said in astonishment, and a twelve-level storm also blew in his heart, if such rumors were flying all over the sky, I am afraid that the day when Bati would do it was not far away.
"Don't tell anyone about the inside information of our unit. The mustache was very smuggling, and then he talked nonsense with Zhao Chuntian, and I don't know if he has developed a habit in the unit, as if he is very uncomfortable if he doesn't speak for a minute.
Although Zhao Chun didn't want to open his mouth very much, he didn't want to smell his bad breath, feet, and sweat, but for the sake of him saying such important information, he could only endure it.
"Please, will you two let me go? The berth seat is mine, and it took me three hours to squeeze in through the eight cars in front of me, and now I finally have a place to rest. Zhao Chun and the mustache were chatting, but an eighteen or nineteen-year-old beauty came to the front and raised the ticket in her hand, and she seemed to be very dissatisfied with the mustache's sloppy behavior, and subconsciously pinched the delicate Qiong's nose.
Zhao Chun smiled bitterly and took out his ticket and said: "Our ticket is also this position, and it is full of people, and I don't know where to go......"
But the mustache put away his stinky socks like lightning, and took out a bottle of dream perfume as if he was playing a trick and sprayed it on his body and bed, and then said to Zhao Chun: "Dude, you just let me go, after all, she is a girl, she has never suffered like this, and you are a big man, and it is not good to squeeze in a bed with a little girl, right? The key is that you haven't taken a bath for a few days, and you have a peculiar smell on your body." ”
Zhao Chun heard this, and almost didn't get angry, this guy's face is so thick-skinned, he can be used as a board, obviously you haven't taken a bath for a few days, and your body smells like a toilet, is it good? People are big men, aren't you a man? Are you a woman dressed as a man?
But Zhao Chun had no interest in talking to this kind of person, so he only moved to the side and said to the girl: "The two of us also have tickets, both in the same location, and the journey is too long, it takes three or four days to get to the northernmost city, I can't let it, it's better to be wronged, let's sit together." ”
The girl frowned, obviously a little unhappy, but seeing that the sleeper next to her was also becoming more crowded than the soft seat, she had to take out a handkerchief from her bag, put it on the side of the bed, and sat down gracefully. At this time, although she stopped pinching her nose, she took out a fragrant handkerchief, put it on the end of her nose and sucked it vigorously, as if this would drive away all the stench.
Zhao Chun's heart couldn't help but sigh, women are women, even if they are still young and the environment is so bad, they are still so delicate, they are born to enjoy life!
Just thinking about it, Zhao Chun suddenly felt dizzy, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart, his physique was good, why did he suddenly get motion sickness? Could it be because the environment here was too bad? However, he immediately felt that something was wrong, and the nine people in the same box, except for the mustache and the girl next to him, all fell asleep on the bed.
Zhao Chun was startled, and hurriedly mobilized the mysterious energy heat flow in the wheel sea, letting it fill his whole body, and then pretended to be sleepy, yawned and fell down.
The young girl was relieved when she saw that Zhao Chun and the others had fallen, and said to the mustache: "You are really useless, you have been here for so long and have not succeeded." ”
The mustache said: "I'm a big man, it's not easy to be too obvious, I'm afraid of arousing their vigilance, but the national teacher said that there are several heretics hidden on this train, and if they are allowed to go north, you and I can't afford to take care of it." ”
"Okay, don't talk so much nonsense, quickly take that instrument and test it, and if there is a heretic, kill it. If not, go to the next carriage, there are nearly two thousand people on this train, and with your efficiency, when will it be completed?" said the young girl, who was obviously higher than the mustache.
The mustache took out a device that looked like a mobile phone from his duffel bag, walked to the sleeper on the opposite side, and scanned the two people back and forth with the device, but found no abnormality, and then the next bunk......
And in the process, the young girl did not move, but just sat quietly and watched every movement of the mustache. But Zhao Chun could feel that there was a terrifying energy hidden in this girl's body, which was very dangerous.
Seeing that it was about to be Zhao Chun's turn, at this time, he only heard a "bang", a black object smashed the car window and fell in, and at the same time, there was also the ice and snow in the sky and the biting cold.
The mustache and the young girl who were inspecting were taken aback and hurriedly looked at the object that had been smashed in.
But when he saw the unknown object, a carp stood up, and it turned out to be an old man with a white beard, and Zhao Chun also recognized it, this guy is one of the nine old men in the desperate block, but I don't know if he is the third or the fourth, because these nine old men all look a little similar, if it is not for someone who is familiar with them, it is really not easy to recognize.
The old man was wearing a set of black clothes, and he seemed to have suffered a lot of injuries, and in this short period of time, a lot of blood had flowed on the ground, but in this low temperature, it quickly coagulated again.
"Heresy?" said the young girl and the mustache in unison, but together they pulled out their weapons—the young girl wielded a telescopic dagger with a cold glow, which was obviously not ordinary, and the mustache wielded a folding fan made of stainless steel.
The old man was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that someone was ambushing him in a carriage that he fled casually, and while secretly calling out bad luck in his heart, with a wave of his right hand, a weapon like an iron claw attacked the mustache, because he also saw that the strength of the mustache was weaker, and he could solve one by one.
The mustache's steel folding fan was unfurled, ready to block the old man's iron claws, and at the same time, holding a dagger in his left hand, he silently stabbed at the old man.
But what he didn't expect was that the angle of the old man's iron claw attack was very tricky, and at the same time, the speed was extremely fast, and before the mustache could react, the iron claw had already broken his neck, and the mustache only struggled a few times before falling down.
But the young girl's short sword had also attacked at this time, and although the old man used his iron claws to defend in time, and at the same time turned sideways to avoid the vital point, he was still stabbed in the thigh by the short sword.
This fierce and dangerous confrontation took place in less than half a minute, and it was so fast that Zhao Chun couldn't even react.
"You're still pretending to be dead, come and help. During the fight, the old man obviously recognized Zhao Chun. And he has injuries on his body, and the strength of the young girl is not bad, and he is gradually at a disadvantage.
It's not that Zhao Chun wants to die or anything, it's that he has too little fighting experience and no weapons to use. Now hearing the old man's shouting, he grabbed the sheets from the bed and rolled them up to the young girl.
To Zhao Chun's surprise, driven by that mysterious energy, the speed of the sheet was surprisingly fast, although it did not roll the young girl, but when she was dodging, she hit another bed, and the old man slashed down with one claw, hitting the young girl's shoulder, and tearing off a bloody piece of her clothes.
The young girl stabbed her dagger with a backhand, and while the old man was dodging, she jumped out of the window and disappeared into the vast blizzard in an instant.
The entire battle took less than five minutes, but the danger in it was that life and death could be separated in an instant, which made Zhao Chun see for the first time what a fight between cultivators was......