For a moment, Bai Yiquan seemed to see the pale headlights of the Z375 empty train, filling the fog of the entire space-time tunnel, and the ancient carriage that slowly jumped out of the fog. But in the next second, it was just the blink of an eye, and everything was calm, and what was in front of me was still the featureless wall, and the wall was the featureless gap. After the gray putty falls off, only the broken stone bricks remain.

The space-time tunnel "α" seems to have never been connected, and the previous moment was more like an illusion.

However, the ancient humming sound still echoed in Bai Yiquan's ears, and it took about twenty seconds before it slowly faded away. He looked at Ani in surprise, Ani's face was expressionless, but Fang Hua and Fang Yuan's faces were unusually pale, even covering the gray wall.

That's not a delusion. Bai Yiquan can be sure.

"You guys, all of you?"

Ani and Fang Hua didn't speak, Fang Yuan swallowed the saliva stuck in his throat, and nodded with difficulty: "It seems that I am not the only one who has seen it." ”

"What do you see?"

“Z375。 Fang Hua took the cigarette in his mouth, and the hand holding the lighter trembled slightly, until the flame ignited the cigarette, and his face looked a little better, "It won't be wrong, that's Z375." Twenty-three years ago, I had dealt with it so many times that I would never admit it. ”

"But why is this happening?"

"It is clear that the 'α' tunnel has not completely failed. At least just now, it did connect with the world, albeit briefly. Fang Hua said slowly, "The space-time tunnel is not the same as the tunnel of this world, only when the train is about to arrive at the station, the conductor will open the connection between the tunnel and the world. If it weren't for that, the space-time tunnel wouldn't have been able to appear in any of the worlds, as it was built in a space-time rift. ”

The flesh on Bai Yiquan's face trembled unconsciously: "What you just said is that the conductor will establish a connection between the space-time tunnel and the world?"

Fang Hua nodded: "In the vast majority of cases, this is true. ”

"But you said it yourself, the Z375 has disappeared for twenty-three years, and in this case, the conductor is still alive? Hey, hey, no creature can live without eating or drinking for twenty-three years, right? Could it be that there is food on the train that can last twenty-three years? Don't it be a whole box of compressed dry food?"

"Even if there were a truckload of compressed dry food, the water would not be enough. Fang Yuan replied to Bai Yiquan's complaint seriously, "Therefore, this assumption cannot be established." ”

"Of course I know it's impossible! Dude, don't you want to be serious with me?"

Fang Hua spit out the cigarette in his mouth and said softly: "It's still the same sentence at the beginning, we don't know what happened to Z375 from beginning to end." Judging from the docking of the 'α' tunnel with this world just now, the Z375 is still speeding in the space-time tunnel, and it is likely that it has been driving for a full twenty-three years. ”

The atmosphere was instantly depressed. A train that has been running for 23 years, no matter how you think about it, it makes people feel a little chilled in the bottom of their hearts.

"Is this kind of thing really possible?" Bai Yiquan couldn't help but ask.

"Maybe. ”

Unexpectedly, it was Ani who answered him. Everyone turned their eyes to Ani, and she was expressionless: "The kinetic energy required by the space-time train comes from divine power, that is, as long as there is a continuous supply of divine power and a sufficiently long space-time tunnel, the space-time train can continue to run." ”

Bai Yiquan was stunned: "How do you know this?"

"When I'm not reading, I occasionally flip through the academy's textbooks. Ani said calmly, "It's basic common sense. ”

Good basic common sense. Bai Yiquan was very speechless, a lynx who drank milk and ate bread in the villa every day, and could not go out for half a year, but the "housegirl" could naturally say the knowledge that even he didn't know. Originally, Bai Yiquan still regarded him as a native girl in the countryside, but now it seems that Ani's knowledge still crushes Bai Yiquan in many aspects, which makes him feel very shocked.

However, when he thought that Ani had been in [THIRD] for many years, Bai Yiquan was much relieved.

"Then what should we do next?" Bai Yiquan looked at Fang Hua, "If the space-time tunnel is not connected to this world, even if the Z375 travels for another twenty years, we can't do anything." ”

"That's true, but since the 'α' docked with the earth station again after twenty-three years, there should be no more than one or two dockings. Fang Hua said slowly, "Although this is just my guess, I do think that the 'α' tunnel will dock with the earth again, and the Z375 will also leave the space-time tunnel like last time, and stop in this place, just like twenty-three years ago." ”

Bai Yiquan didn't know what to say. According to the old man's meaning, he seems to be planning to wait for a long time, but he can't, he finally has a holiday, and the New Year is coming in two months, Z375 doesn't come for a day, can't he leave for a day? When he thought of waiting for a strange time and space train in this weird basement on Chinese New Year's Eve, he felt a little hairy.

And he shuddered even more when he thought of the car body in the photo that seemed to have been "gnawed" by locusts. Ye Zhifan once told him that there are not only time and space trains in the time and space tunnel, but also some "dead" souls. Although Ye Zhifan didn't explain too much, the bloody face posted on the window really became a lingering nightmare in Bai Yiquan's life.

"Don't worry, we won't keep you here. Fang Hua comforted, "We'll put a monitor here after we leave this time, and we'll contact you as soon as the Z375 reappears." Of course, if it doesn't show up, we will pay the previously negotiated remuneration. ”

This time it was Bai Yiquan's turn to be a little embarrassed. You can get so much money for nothing if you don't do anything, and Rao is thick-skinned like him, and it's not easy to accept it calmly.

"And that's not all. Ani spoke again, "We can try to contact the Temporal Authority to find out more about Z375, at least to get a list of the passengers on that train, as well as the time it departs and the exact time it will arrive in this world." There are also detailed information about the conductor, as well as whether there is a way to open the connection between the space-time tunnel and the world station in addition to the conductor, and finally what the hidden dangers of the space-time tunnel were in the first place. These are things we can do instead of just waiting for that train to show up again. ”

Bai Yiquan was stunned. Fang Hua and Fang Yuan were also a little stunned.

This girl who was clamoring to eat mung bean cake half an hour ago, and who looked harmless to humans and animals, is now capable like a senior white-collar worker. No, it shouldn't be said to be capable, it should be said to be sharp, as sharp as a sharp knife.

Bai Yiquan couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you afraid?"

"Why are you afraid?" Ani looked at Bai Yiquan with some strange eyes.

Well, aren't girls always afraid of weird things?

"I was told that all the fear in this world comes from ignorance and weakness. Ani said calmly, "If you are knowledgeable and strong enough, there is nothing in the world that can make you fear." ”