The route to Cape Shavar was the only way for Sidney to travel south to Farol - the vast Hengduan Mountains prevented the railway route from elsewhere, a story that Marin had read from a tech hunter's book.

Someone had found a cave left over from the primordial era before the Great Apocalypse, enough to run on a train.

The only problem is that the caves are so deep that there are a lot of spirits in them, and even some completely deformed humans.

Ghouls.

It's the name given to them by tech hunters.

Because these humans have no skin, they are like wild beasts, they can walk on all fours, and they will attack tech hunters - they have completely lost their sanity and intelligence, and they are only pure beasts.

More often than not, they're called living corpses because of their biological similarity to ghouls, but tech hunters have caught living corpses in family units, gendered, and even able to give birth to cubs.

It sounds like the world should have been overwhelmed by such monsters for a long time, but they rarely make it out of the mountains, and spirits, chaos, and living people are hunting them.

Or to fill your stomach, or to get a few more booty, or just to survive.

These living corpses can sometimes be seen on the Shawar headland, and they will chase the train, but the front of the train is usually completely covered, and the car usually only uses metal boxes to store the goods, and the living corpse will not gain anything.

This time Marin's carriage fills the void, and Marin sees the living corpse as the train is about to leave the headland.

It looks like a beast seen in the depths of that era of destruction.

Supposed to be the poor beings of the Age of Apocalypse, they have completely lost their minds.

Marlin didn't make a move, Lilim and Kloss used their muskets to deal with the group of living corpses, its body was able to resist the round lead bullets used by the front-loading guns a hundred years ago, but they could not resist the flat-headed bullets fired by the new rear-loading muskets, the rifling gave these bullets the most accurate trajectory, and the two girls used them to shoot seventeen living corpses, and two more escaped from the battlefield screaming.

The train continues along the coastline, and Marin is able to see some small villages from time to time.

According to Faye, these villages are a gray area on the border between Sidney and Farol, and most of them are fugitives who wash their hands on gold plates, fugitive slaves who can't pay rent, and some unlucky people who have fled for some reason (usually killing someone who shouldn't have been killed).

They build villages in places that neither country wants to manage.

Later, the Mage Tower and the Engineering Guild made a contract with them, they were responsible for maintaining the railroad tracks in the area where the village was located, and the Mage Tower and the Engineering Guild gave them a rightful name, as well as providing materials and supplies, and the two sides could be said to have hit it off.

So the train doesn't stop, it keeps going until it enters the territory of Farol.

As for whether there will be villages thinking of grabbing a sum, it's simple, they only need to face a very cruel reality - if they have a life to make money, is there still a life to spend.

The Mage Towers and the Engineering Guild Joint Operations Team have always been world-leading in their efficiency in hunting down those with bad intentions.

Therefore, the road was safe and sound, and Marin also noticed that some children in the village would play by the railway, and when they saw Marin and others, they didn't seem to feel surprised, maybe sometimes there were people walking on this road with carriages.

When Marlin meets children, he will throw some boxes of small snacks down, maybe because he has survived in these ghost places since he was a child, most of these little guys can catch the snack box, and if they don't catch it, it will be fine, Marlin will wrap the box with psionic energy and let them fly towards the little ones.

After four days of walking on this straight road, Marin finally saw the big corner of Cape Shavar - from here was the city of San Pedo in Farol, and when the train stopped at the station, a messenger from the Wizard's Tower stepped on the train, and he brought a new message to Marin, and the reconnaissance team of the Wizard's Tower noticed Marin's kindness, and they informed the upper echelons, who in turn sent a message to Marin through the Wizard's Tower in the city of San Pedor.

The meaning is simple, don't show too much of your generosity.

After all, most of those villages are problematic, and the simplicity of the people and the viciousness of the people are sometimes only one step away.

Sometimes, even the children are problematic, and they even band together to steal very little cargo from the train—mostly specialties that are easy to store, not much land, and the Mage Tower sometimes turns a blind eye.

Marin thanked the messenger for the message.

Although he wasn't too worried about someone picking up the train—after all, they had beaten even living corpses running on all fours, and there was no reason why they couldn't even beat a robber running on two legs.

But in any case, it is better to have a friend remind you than to have an opponent watch the joke.

The train was resupplied and renovated here, and Marin took the girls on a tour of San Pedeau, an old town that was the first stop after the train arrived, but according to the local church members, if there were so many living corpses in the mountains, they would descend in droves, and the villages would go to sea or take refuge in San Pedo.

The living corpses will sweep through the surrounding area, eat everything they can eat, and then begin to lay siege to the town driven by hunger.

This is because the train also passes through an area similar to the urn city before entering the city, with two large gates in front and back.

"But don't worry, the rebellion of the living corpse is usually about once every six years, and it is less than five years since the last riot." The young people of the church comforted.

Marin wasn't too worried about this - running with the fire should be the stupidest action of living corpses in the world, they are living creatures after all, and since they are living creatures, they will be powerless for a moment.

After a night of rest in San Pedeau, Marin boarded the train with the girls with the newly purchased ingredients.

The train left the city and continued south.

At the same time, the railroad is starting to move away from the coastline, which will become very gentle for the rest of the journey, which is necessary to prevent the spirits in the sea from rushing up and engaging in a big drama with the train.

What's more, the spirits in the Raging Sea are basically chaotic and distorted.

However, without the scenery from the sea, Marin was also very pleased with the scenery of the train as it traveled on the plains - although it was the season of late spring and early summer, the wheat fields on both sides of the railway still showed the beauty of the farmers' hearts in front of everyone.

From time to time, groups from the Goddess of Harvest Church can be seen walking through the wheat fields.

"That's why the Goddess of Harvest is so popular." Faye will always sigh happily with Marin about this.

Marin was convinced.

After all, the people are for food.