Just when I was furious because of Chen Zaihai's inattention, there was a sudden roar from the woods, which penetrated my heart and stirred the most primitive fear of the unknown. In desperation, we could only flee for our lives, and we didn't know if we ran too fast or the monster behind us was tired, but in short, we finally escaped from danger. Just as I was breathing a sigh of relief, I accidentally tripped over something behind me.

It was a long-abandoned section of railroad tracks, buried so deep by the debris that I wouldn't have found it if I hadn't retreated. Talia seemed curious about the railroad tracks, and hurriedly beckoned us and the engineers to come and clean it out. The engineers worked so quickly that we could barely interfere, and it didn't take long for a large area of railroad tracks to be cleared.

Like the abandoned facilities we've seen before, the rails are old, the original metal tracks are covered with a thick layer of rust, and the sleepers are a mess, and in some places they don't even have any. It can be seen that the railroad track was originally a straight line, but after decades of wind and rain. Expansion and contraction, the railroad tracks that have lost maintenance have completely lost their original appearance. The left half of the track was cut off from the middle, and the broken side was deflected sharply to the right, almost touching the right track.

Seeing this scene, Chen Zaihai and I glanced at each other, and we thought about the ghost train almost at the same time. That was the other day before I had joined Chen Zaihai, and on the same night, during a thunderstorm, Chen Zaihai and I saw a ghost train speeding at different locations. We all thought we were mistaken, but the railroad tracks in front of us showed that things might not be as simple as we thought

Talia saw that the two of us were very wrong, and asked us what we were sick again, as if we had eaten worms, and their faces were green. I saw that there seemed to be no danger around me, so I told Chen Zaihai about my previous experience. After listening, Talia hung her head thoughtfully, as if thinking about something. Chen Zaihai and I on the side didn't dare to speak casually, so as not to disturb her, and the engineers didn't dare to answer casually, and the three of them fell silent for a while.

After about ten minutes, Chen Zaihai may no longer be able to bear this silent atmosphere, and spoke first: "I said Comrade Talia, it's been so long, what are you thinking about?" If you have any ideas, you can say it, everyone thinks together, there is great power in numbers! Don't let me and Lao Su sit here and stare at you. ”

"Lao Su, you said it was raining at that time, right?" As if trying to finally confirm something, Talia looked straight at me.

"Yes, yes, that's right." Being stared at by her so suddenly made me nervous and stammered a little.

Talia continued, "According to you, this is how it was at the time. It's raining, and you're in a thick fog. And are you sure it was a thunderstorm? Not mistaken? ”

I said of course, it's not a three-year-old anymore, so big flashes mixed with so big thunder, I remember it wrong and pull my head off for you!

"Regardless of whether the thing we see is real or not, the existence of railroad tracks here is very strange in itself. This is the hinterland of 100,000 mountains, and I don't know if no one has set foot in it for hundreds of years. It is conceivable how difficult it is to build a railway in such a place, and this kind of project cannot be done without a lot of manpower, material resources and time. The little devil is good enough, build a railway in the forest, Lao Su, do you say they will build a port in a cave? Chen Zaihai interjected.

I casually kicked Chen Zaihai to shut him up, and now I care more about Taria's words, she definitely thinks of something we didn't realize.

"I don't think it's a hallucination, have you ever heard of a video recorder?" Talia continued.

For now, the video recorder is an old thing, but at that time, the way we recorded images was still very backward film, and the video recorder had never even been heard of, and the entire meteorological bureau, and even the whole of China, probably did not have a single such instrument. Looking at me and Chen Zaihe, who were dazed, Hytarya sighed helplessly and began to explain to us.

After listening to it, we realized that there is such a magical thing in the world. A video recorder (or VCR for short) is a video recorder with a movable cassette cassette with a cassette tape used to record sound and video for later playback, and seems to have been invented by the Americans. It seems to us that this thing is no different from a foreign film machine that can make noise, but what does this thing have to do with the ghost train we see?

Talia pulled her hair and told us not to get in the way, which she hadn't thought of at first. But she had seen what Ivan seemed to have one, and out of curiosity she tried to figure out how it was constructed and how it worked. Video recorders were very popular in the United States and Japan at the time, but almost no one knew about them in the Soviet Union and China, but of course. Talia herself didn't know how Ivan got this kind of thing. Although it is rare to see a video recorder for diplomatic reasons, it is not difficult for Talia to find information about it because it is biased towards civilian use.

The basic principle of this thing seems to be called magnetic recording, which is a way of recording information using the properties of magnetism. When storing and using, the information is input and read out through special methods, so as to achieve the purpose of storing and reading out information. Substances such as steel are magnetized and their magnetic properties can be maintained, which is called hard magnetic materials. Hard magnetic materials can be made into permanent magnets and can also be used to record information. The tape tape of the tape recorder is attached to a layer of small particles made of hard magnetic material.

I went to a collective university before I worked, and Chen Zaihai even went to study in the Soviet Union, so I still know that objects can be magnetized. But I didn't expect the Yankees and the little devils to use them to record images.

As if we were afraid that we had not grasped the essentials, he specially explained to us the process of magnetic recording: the process of converting various information into electrical signals that change with time, and then converting it into magnetic recording medium, the process of changing the magnetization of the medium with space is called magnetic recording, and the reverse process is called the regeneration (reproduction) process.

I couldn't figure out what this video recorder had to do with the ghost train.

"I really don't know how you got into this business, you don't have the ability to understand it at all. Listen, now is the key! The train you see is the product of magnetic recording! It actually exists, or it exists. "Talia said." Are you saying that someone recorded the train and deliberately released it to scare us? I didn't expect this VCR to be so big," Chen Zaihai said thoughtlessly.

"It's really a piano to a cow! Is the man sick? It's so hard to scare you two little characters? It's easier for you to crash with one shot, right? Think about the situation around here! The magnetic field is chaotic and the weather is unpredictable, there must be some hard magnetic material that can be used as a magnetic recording medium in the vicinity! Eighty percent of this train was recorded by the nearby magnetized medium through magnetic recording on a night of lightning and thunder. The recent thunderstorm you encountered must have been an opportunity for it to be played again! The fog is the best stereoscopic screen to play it! Talia reluctantly continued.

Preaching, Chen Zaihai and I have caught a little bit of the door. Although we didn't understand the essence of the theory, in general, what we encountered before was only a remnant of the past, not some ghosts and gods, and it was good to know this.

Now it seems that there are a lot of holes in Talia's rhetoric, but it was always better to have an explanation than not to explain it at the time, which potentially gave us a lot of confidence to move on.

Talia seemed to give up on explaining to us, and continued, "Since the train existed, there must be some clues left, and the railroad track is proof." The Japanese must have been using it to transport something for a long time, and we will run out of ammunition and food in a few days, and we can't count on a rendezvous with Ivan. Now the only way out is to follow this track, and if you are lucky, you may find something. ”

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