Chapter 1 Passengers on the Black Train
Woo –
With a loud roar, a C-class black train numbered N-U590 slowly left the site of Mosha City.
The sound of the collision between the rails and the train was like a thunderclap, constantly hitting Song Yin's brain, he opened an eye slit and turned his head slightly.
Outside the car window was an endless sea of sand, the heat scorched the earth, several beast skulls were exposed in the scorching sun, and two dried human corpses next to them snuggled together, looking like a father and daughter.
Behind the sand dunes next to the corpse, there were the ruins of a building more than ten stories high, the severely sandy walls were slowly peeling off, and several glass windows were still intact, reflecting the dazzling light, and behind the windows, you could faintly see a few pairs of dark red eyes staring indifferently at the humans in the carriage.
Song Yin changed his posture, and his eyes swept over the three passengers beside him one by one.
Sitting diagonally across from him was a curly-haired girl in her twenties, with healthy wheat skin, thick and sexy lips, red lipstick, narrow and long, and charming eyes.
"Can't wait?"
She tilted her head and smiled in a way that could be a seductive smile.
Song Yin stretched his waist, and his simple eyes, which were almost wooden, stayed on the girl's face for a second, and then turned to look at the fat man on the other side of the aisle.
The fat man wore a pair of myopic glasses, a well-cut sky blue suit, a white shirt and a black tie, and held a very rare Parker pen in his hand, sketching on the newspaper, and every thirty to forty seconds he would push his glasses with the tip of the pen, probably sensing Song Yin's gaze, bowing his head and smiling, the pen in his hand was slightly frustrated.
Opposite the fat man was a little girl, who looked to be eleven or twelve years old, but she was dressed very old, wearing a half-cut sleeve with a red flower and green bottom. She leaned on the edge of the window with her head propped up, her right index finger tapping rhythmically on the glass, as if it were a tune.
Song Yin retracted his gaze, put his hands behind his head, shook his legs, showed his big white teeth, and said with a smile: "There are still three days, what's the hurry." ”
"There are only three days left, I have to make some preparations in advance, and then let you run, and I have to wait for another year, my wife and I don't have so much time to spend on you."
The little girl stopped beating the tune and turned her head, with a quirky smile on her innocent, unremarkable looking face.
The passengers who heard her talk all turned their heads and looked at the little girl with an old-fashioned voice, as if she had been blown into a gong by a hurricane in the wasteland, and then quietly left the carriage.
Song Yin leaned his head over as if no one was around, stretched out three fingers and twisted them, "Ninth Mother-in-law personally took action this time, could it be that I have raised the price again?" How much has it gone up? ”
The little girl named Ninth Mother-in-law raised one palm and flipped it back and forth twice, comparing it to twenty.
"Two hundred thousand...... Tsk, I'm impressed by the price. ”
Song Yin smacked his lips and admired, and in an instant, the original harmless face of humans and animals seemed to have been turned on a certain switch, becoming weird and crazy, and the whole person seemed to be injected with a new soul. He pulled out a dagger and threw it on the roof of the car, sticking his neck out as it fell.
Seeing that the tip of the knife shining with metallic color was about to stab him in the neck, the expressions of the three mothers-in-law remained unchanged, but there was a faint expectation in their hearts, if they directly cut off Song Yin's neck this time, the three of them would be able to take what they needed without much effort, and this result would be perfect.
It's a pity that the picture they were expecting didn't happen, when the tip of the knife was only half a centimeter away from the carotid artery, Song Yin's head was tilted, and the dagger grazed his neck and pierced directly into the gap in the wooden floor.
"Or ...... What if I commit suicide? There are nine mothers-in-law, I'm afraid I will be in a catastrophe this time, it is better to end myself with my own hands, and I can donate the 200,000 yuan to the Green Cross to earn a good reputation, right? ”
"So want to die?"
The curly-haired girl raised her eyes and turned her body to the side in the direction of Song Yin, "My sister will naturally fulfill your wish in three days, and then I will dig out your little heart and feed it to the dog, hehe, little madman, don't cry." ”
The black nail polish on the ten fingernails flashed as if she had received some kind of command as she spoke.
The fat man put down the pen and paper, stretched out a finger and shook it in front of the curly-haired girl, "Little sister, his body is mine, you can't touch it." He grinned, a sly smile disguised as silly, unpretentious, and fleeting on his face, revealing a mouthful of yellow-black teeth smoked by polluted water and inferior tobacco.
"Beer, drinks, mineral water, melon seeds, peanuts and eight-treasure porridge, come, put your legs away......"
As the two spoke, the train salesman floated up to the curly-haired woman with a dining cart like a ghost, pulled out a yellow card from his pocket, and stretched it out in front of her pupils before she had time to reminisce about it.
The curly-haired woman's beautiful eyes seemed to be frozen. The sound of the card became a nightmare for her journey.
"Yu Feifei, a resident of Penglai City on the eastern continent, identity number: PL843025234V, received a yellow card warning for threatening passengers on this train with language, and accumulated two yellow cards in total, and the remaining one, will be permanently expelled from the passenger list after collecting three times."
The black train is the only means of transportation in the post-apocalyptic world, and the train salesman is a direct employee of the Central Garden City Human Security Protection Association, who can exercise the right to evict passengers in the event of verbal abuse, threats, assaults, etc.
In other words, as long as Yu Feifei says one more word, she is very likely to be expelled from the car immediately.
Although the threat coefficient from mutated creatures in the ninety-one regions of the Eastern Continent is not high, because the temperature remains at sixty degrees Celsius all year round, the water source and vegetation here have long been exhausted, and there are no nutrients for the human body at all.
"Damn it." After the salesman pushed the dining cart out of this carriage, Yu Feifei immediately cursed in a low voice, "When have the rules of the black train been revised again?" ”
"Just a few days before you got in the car."
Song Yin answered her question with a smile.
The ninth mother-in-law secretly scolded 'idiot', the fat man pushed his glasses, and both of them ignored her.
The black-skinned train rumbled past the city of Mosha, and at noon the next day, it stopped at the platform of the green arsenal, and the gentle voice of the train announcer woke up the sleeping people.
"Dear passengers, the train has stopped at the green arsenal platform, passengers who get off the train should bring their luggage and wait at the exit of the carriage in turn. As the last city on the eastern continent to connect the road to recovery, the Green Arsenal is the ancient capital of civilization in the East and the origin of new human beings, with rich mineral resources and a livable climate and environment......"
The Green Arsenal is the only major city in the ninety-one regions of the Eastern Continent that produces radiation protection devices, and it is only separated by an abyss from the Four Seasons Hot Springs, the first city in the south.
But this abyss has a lot of origins.
When the apocalypse came, meteorites containing radioactive materials fell into human cities, causing glaciers to melt, mountains to collapse, and climate disorder...... The vast majority of humanity died in that catastrophe, and there are less than 50 million people left on the entire planet, who have lived for twenty years under this abyss.
In the past 20 years, some humans who are physically able to resist radioactive materials have acquired various magical abilities, and with these abilities, they have been able to survive.
Later, people named this abyss - the road to recovery, which has a profound meaning.
When a new apocalyptic world is established, when some people are forced to leave the road of recovery, the black train that maintains the operation of the entire planet becomes the last safe haven for people.
The world poisoned by plagues, radiation, mutated organisms, climate and environment and other factors has not many places for humans to live for a long time, and the central garden city and the road to recovery that everyone yearns for, ordinary people with abilities can't enter at all, unless they get a pass like Song Yin.
However, it is not easy to obtain the pass, you need to complete various bounty missions distributed by the central garden city, and after completing the task, you will get 1 to 5 points, collect 100 points, and pass the identity authentication of the Society for the Protection of Human Security to get a pass to the road to recovery.
These tasks are not easy for the many humans who survive in the apocalyptic world, so riding the black train once a year, spending thirty days safely, and having plenty of food and water is the most enjoyable time they enjoy after eleven months of inhuman life.
The purpose of Yu Feifei's trip is the pass on Song Yin's body, and as for the 200,000 bounty, it belongs to the ninth mother-in-law, and biology professor David Mi has already booked a complete corpse in advance.
The Green Arsenal is the last stop on the Eastern Continent, and travelers who have not received the Southern Continent Pass and have been on the board for thirty days have to get off here.
The moment the car door opened, a pungent smell of sulfur came to the face, and in the turbid air, several mutant species were already squatting at the exit of the station, their barbed tongues licking their chapped lips, and the foul-smelling saliva dripped on the ground, corroding several small black holes.
In the distance, on the heat-shrouded plains, a swarm of mutant mosquitoes the size of a cattail fan seemed to smell the scent of humans and flapped their wings and flew towards the station.
Several human races that have been aberrated during evolution, on all fours, crawling towards the black train, have lost their human intelligence, and their appearance has become closer and closer to mutated creatures with the change of time, only the head still retains some characteristics of human times.
A young girl, apparently frightened by the mutated creatures outside the train, clung to the door handle, crying and fussing.
"I don't want to get out of the car, I don't get out of the car, I have money, I have a lot of money, please, don't get me out of the car."
The flight attendant was used to this kind of scene, so he was unmoved, holding an iris scanner and waving it in front of her.
"Jiang Xiaoqi, a resident of Mary Sue Castle on the Eastern Continent, identity number: MS324857312V, boarded this train at the Ancient Locust Tree Station on the Eastern Continent, which lasted twenty-five days, and the Southern Continent issued a green card, none, and the Western Continent issued a green card, yes."