Chapter 138: Roller Coaster
The group returned to the car again, and Cooper didn't see Yelena's figure, but he had already guessed something, so he didn't ask more.
"I still know that when I come back, hurry up and help me and the little girl move those broken pieces of wood to the carriage!"
Draenor quickly reacted, there was no time to relive the previous scene, and the first priority was to find a way to retreat down the mountain and turn around for Periara.
He turned his head to look at the bare stump in front of him, where Cooper and Jeanne had cut down three giant sequoia trees in less than two hours after they left, and the maze of rings could be seen in the cut marks left by each tree's breaking.
The trees here are thirty or forty years old, right? If it could be made into furniture, it would have sold for a lot of money, but now Cooper has to be thrown into the stove as firewood and burned to ashes.
Draenor laughed at Uncle Dwarf's extravagance, but if they didn't, they wouldn't be able to get the train moving out of the dense forest.
"Don't be stupid, haven't you rested enough?" Cooper smacked Draenor on the back and picked up his axe and walked towards another tree.
Just as the dwarf swung his axe again and was about to slash at the perfect trunk, Jeanne suddenly rushed forward to stop him, "Stop! Three is enough, and indiscriminate felling will invite disaster! ”
It was clear that Cooper was unimpressed by Jeanne's fuss, and he didn't believe in the nonsense that "nature has a soul", but after glancing back at the trees that had been cut down, he finally put down his axe.
"Okay, okay, what a daughter of nature! Anyway, if I cut it down, my waist will break, and it seems that these trunks are enough for us to toss for a while. ”
After losing a few cars at the back, the train had less room for cargo, and the only thing that could rest the crowd was the one with eleven barrels of wine and a few folding beds.
Cooper walked over to the severed trunk and straightened his back with his hands, the crunch of bones grinding against Draenor five meters away.
Draenor took the axe from Cooper's hand, cut one of the trees into countless pieces of firewood, and then turned and followed Jeanne to cut the remaining two trees into four sections, which were tied to the top of each carriage with twine.
"That's enough firewood to burn Pyara, right?" Vicheric tossed the last piece of firewood into the coal crate and said to Cooper.
"It's a good thing, it's different from coal, it looks like a lot, but it's actually half water. If it's not enough, you can't bring more, let's take it one step at a time! ”
Cooper filled the stove with a few handfuls of firewood, and when the pressure gauge was close to the orange zone, he quickly pulled back the handbrake and jerked the handle on the other side back.
Once again, the train was steaming, and Draenor felt a jolt under his feet, and the scene around him began to slowly move away.
"This thing also has a reversing function?" He felt the speed of the train going backwards faster and faster, and quickly ran to the back of the carriage and closed the iron door.
"Haven't you heard of such a gadget as a reversing machine? Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and hold on! The 'Roller Coaster' show is about to begin! Cooper chuckled wickedly, pulled the twine and tied his body to the guardrail of the combustion chamber.
The center of gravity of the train gradually tilted, and Draenor quickly grasped the window frame so that he would not be thrown out of the carriage due to inertia. Vicchily and Jeanne clung to each side of the door, their grips holding their hands almost simultaneously.
The surging weightlessness sent Draenor's adrenaline pumping, and on the other side of the track lay a bottomless valley.
The entire track sloped nearly thirty degrees along the hillside, and the acceleration of gravity combined with the original power of the locomotive made the whole train speed towards the base of the mountain like a giant eagle swooping towards its prey.
Everything in the carriage slid down at an angle, and Draenor quickly reached out to catch the fluttering felt hat so that it wouldn't fly out of the window.
"Whew!"
He felt the stomach acid rushing into his mouth, but he couldn't spare his hands to cover his mouth, the wind blowing from the side made him unable to open his eyes, and the intense feeling of dizziness made it difficult for him to control his breathing.
"Click, click......"
The iron wheels spun rapidly on the tracks, and the carriage reversed with a noise that was almost on the same beat as Draenor's beating heart.
"Click, click, click......"
The terrifying "fall" lasted for nearly thirty minutes, and the rhythm of the orbital noise finally stabilized, and the wind blowing in his ears slowly subsided, and Vikily looked back at the hills that had gone away, and this time finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Draenor! We're about to get back on track, ready to get off the bike and manoeuvre the switch lever...... Draenau? ”
Draenor held the window frame with one hand and held out his index with the other to indicate that Vickili could wait for a moment. He finally reached the limit of his patience and threw up violently by the window of the car.
"Ahem...... Uh, Cooper! Can't you old thing make this thing slower? He held on to the shelves beside him, and finally straightened up, stomach acid still churning in his stomach.
"It's too slow for a while, it's too fast...... Of course not! If you pull the handbrake on the way downhill, the whole train will flip into the valley. ”
Uncle Dwarf shouted with a wicked grin, pulling a jug from a drawer and handing it to Draenor.
"How? Have you experienced a thrill like never before? Cooper asked, turning to the two girls.
"It's okay, it's still a little slower than me." Vicilico reached out and brushed her windswept curls a few times.
"To be honest, it's really interesting." Jeanne smiled with one hand on her chest and the other over her mouth.
"No, I'm a well-known veteran driver in Kadewa!" Cooper laughed proudly across his waist.
This kind of stimulation should not be encountered again as much as possible in the future. Delaeno thought to himself, it was the first time he had seen someone praise him like this, and he couldn't afford to pause, he quickly uncorked the kettle and swallowed a few sips of water, as if this would temporarily relieve the nausea caused by motion sickness.
The train recoiled backwards along the route it had come, and finally returned to the intersection in less than two hours.
Draeno climbed out of the carriage by holding on to the window frame, ran to the device on one side of the track and moved the switch lever to the other end, the gears slowly moving, and the tracks in front of the train were merged into the straight road.
Cooper released the handbrake once more, reaching out and pushing the lever back into place.
With a violent shaking, the train started moving in the direction it was supposed to go.
Finally regaining his composure, Draenor quickly lay down on the folding bed and squinted his eyes to enjoy the peace he had not seen for a long time.
"Blue-haired boy! Honestly, isn't this feeling really enjoyable? Ten minutes later, Cooper's voice came out of the combustion chamber again.
Unwilling to recall the feeling of being dizzy before, Draenor covered his eyes with one hand and waved the other perfunctorily into the air.
"I've seen enough, but if you can give me some gold next time, maybe I'll be able to try again."
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