Chapter 69: The Second Train

"Lao Su, don't say it, this thing is really exactly the same as our train." Chen Zaihai said to me as he pointed to the dilapidated locomotive.

It's true, I've had this feeling when I came alone before, whether it's the overall feeling of the body, or the tiny details on the surface, it can give people the illusion of going back in time. I know that every now now, I have the illusion that we are back in that cramped cab from time to time.

I think this feeling feels like the two of them must exist more or less, even if it's something produced by the same manufacturer, this resemblance is too much, right? I even saw a few external steam pipes that hadn't completely peeled off, and they were going exactly the same way as I remembered

It would be fun if we went in and found the campfire we left behind. I played a joke on myself, but it didn't take long for me to slap myself in the face. At this time, it is better not to think about these things, after so much experience, I really can't guarantee that there is no bonfire in the cab of this train that we stepped on before

There are so many things that are unreasonable in this hellish place, and I still don't want to add or subtract unnecessary psychological burdens on myself. Boom, just as I was alone in a daze, a loud voice interrupted my thoughts.

When I looked in the direction of the sound, I realized that it was a completely twisted and deformed iron plate, which seemed to have been pried off by Chen Zaihai. I slowly approached the iron plate and began to observe, its surface was very rough, all large and small abrasion marks, which must have been caused by the friction between the fall and the inner wall of the canyon, right?

Anyway, what part of the train is this? Thinking of this, I looked up at Chen Zaihai, who had climbed on the roof of the locomotive alone a few minutes earlier, looking for a place to go in. The normal entrance to the cab was no longer usable, the place was completely blocked by the rubble, and we were helpless against the stones without professional large-scale engineering equipment.

As for the wagons carrying coal in the distance, we also checked them roughly. That thing didn't have anything to care about, and our train was like coal scattered all over the place. And the only difference is the amount of coal. The train seemed to have traveled a very long distance, and even if we could put all the coal we could see back on, it would not be enough to fill half of the coal wagon.

But it confirms the fact that it's not our train at least.

But human sensibilities are often not controlled by reason, and even if we have confirmed it a long time ago, this train will never be the one we are on. But as soon as I looked at it for more than a minute, the strange sense of immediacy crept up into my mind, gradually taking over my heart until I never became aware of anything else.

"It should be good now! Lao Su came up to help! Chen Zaihai's voice for help came from above.

I patted my cheek vigorously with my hand, temporarily banishing the strange sensations out of my mind. There seems to be some progress on his side, so in order to prevent this kid from causing any more trouble casually, I'd better hurry up.

As I described earlier, the train was inclined against the rock wall on the side of the canyon, and the chassis was completely exposed. Having said that, this chassis is not completely sun-sided, and now it has an inclination of nearly 30 degrees to the ground. So the top of the train is still not completely pressed underneath.

And Chen Zaihai was on the exposed part of the roof, and he was doing it all the time. I stepped on the inclined body and cautiously crawled towards him. It was close to the train's smoke extraction system, but now it was a smoke duct, but now there is only a small hole left, and the chimney above has long since flown to where it has gone.

"I'm here, how's it going?" I asked.

The place where I am standing now is still at a very delicate angle to the ground, and if I hadn't found a very ideal foothold, I would have fallen long ago, and I really admire that this guy can stay on this for so long without falling. He was now sapping a shovel, his face was red, his neck was thick, and he was prying something.

When I got closer, I realized that he was actually "hanging" from the outer wall of the train! By the light of the miner's lamp above his head, I could clearly see the rope around the man's waist, the other end of which was tightly tied to a broken iron rod. It turns out that he used this method to fix himself?

"Old Su, you first think of a way to stand firm." When Chen Zaihai saw me coming, he threw me a rope, apparently because he wanted me to "hang" myself like him.

I was going to ask him what he was going to do again, but then he ignored me. I had to look left and right to find a place where I could "hang" myself.

Actually, there are a lot of them around here, and I found at least three of them when I looked at them. The bulges became very noticeable all over the badly damaged train, and I finally chose the safest place to look and tied the rope to it. The half-lifted train shell in that place is very black and metallic, very strong, and it looks very reassuring.

"I said, what have you two been doing up there since just now!" Talya's inquiry came from below.

It occurred to me that I hadn't seen Talia since I got back from the coal truck, so what had she done after that?

Once I had tied myself up, I looked down and asked Talia what she had been up to. The answer was simple, she just went back and looked at the shortwave radio, wondering why she was so interested in it.

Although the penetration of short waves is relatively strong, the corresponding propagation distance is very limited, and I don't think this thing can play a big role in this situation. Even if Ivan did come down, we didn't guarantee that it would have another shortwave radio station, and even if he did, we would have to be very close in a straight line, otherwise this thing would be a scrap iron box.

Talia herself doesn't seem to take my thoughts seriously at all, and she's sure it can't be thrown away. In the distance, I saw the four engineers walking towards us, with the radio in their hands

"Lao Su, have you got it there?" Chen Zaihai looked back at me. He seems to be in a lot of trouble there. Just look at the way he sweats.

"Okay, can you tell me what you want to do?" I'll put aside Talya's question for now.

Chen Zaihai told me that since she came up, she has been looking for an entrance to the inside of the cab, but unfortunately, all the places that can be called entrances are the same as the place blocked by rubble, which is either completely destroyed or blocked by rubble.

There is no way, in the end, he can only choose to open an opening by himself, this job is not simple at all, although there are many openings on the train, there are not many that can accommodate people to enter. Also consider the location, just find one and find that it is a boiler inside.

So it took him a lot of effort to find an ideal opening here, close to the roof of the car, and there were not too many steam lines around it, so it was impossible to run into the power system. He reckoned that below this was the second level of the cab, where there was a coal pusher and brake gates.

The fallen iron plate was the one he had just gotten down from this place, and I leaned over to look inside the opening, and the light from the miner's lamp could barely illuminate the inside, not very clear, it was a mess anyway. Chen Zaihai can do this with only a sapper shovel, which is already very powerful, I can feel that this opening is not so big at all, and now it looks like it is all pried open by himself.

Although the overall structure of this locomotive has become loose and crumbling due to the continuous impact, this workload is not something that an ordinary person can complete casually, and I have to admire this kid's strength.

"That's the case, let's pry the last one together. After working for so long, Lao Tzu was already exhausted to death. He wiped the sweat from his head casually with his cuffs.

Immediately, the cuffs were soaked with sweat, and this guy now thought that he had just crawled out of the water, a whole water ghost. Coupled with his panting appearance, it looks a little scary.

Just as the four engineers came up, I yelled for them to bring me a sapper shovel. When they heard this, they moved very quickly, and not only brought the shovel, but also the people followed. The engineer who came happened to be the same soldier who pulled me on the outer wall of the carriage, and I greeted him cordially and told him what we wanted to do next. He agreed, grabbed the sapper shovel and prepared to pry with us.

That's when I realized that he was just standing on top of it, unlike us, he didn't use a rope to fix his body at all. The professional is different, I sighed in my heart.

This opening happens to be more than one person, I don't know what I hit when I fell, such a thick shell was directly knocked through, and I can clearly see the internal mezzanine. This shell does not seem to be poured as a whole, the interior is not made of pure iron, and structurally it is very similar to the three-proof door that we have seen many times. This is probably designed to reduce weight and increase durability.

As long as one point of such a structure is badly damaged, the whole will become very fragile, and we can hollow it out little by little from the inside, and finally knock it down with a sapper shovel.

Eventually, with the efforts of the three of us, the opening was completely widened to a size where one person could enter and exit freely.

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