Chapter 4: "Endless Pitch Black Track"
There was a tear in the head, and it felt no stranger.
The eyelids were weak, forcing Guan Tianxiang to entangle with fear in the pitch black.
Qianqin...... Qianqin...... There was dead silence in all directions, and horror permeated all sides.
What the hell is going on...... A few minutes faded, Guan Tianxiang opened his eyes vigorously, but his eyelids did not belong to him as if he did not obey.
It seems that the sense of hearing and vision is completely lost, and the most real thing I feel at the moment is the burning pain in my head...... The head should have hit a hard spot earlier...... However, the body does not feel serious skin trauma, and the paralyzed limbs still have a sense of touch, which is already the most comforting good news for Guan Tianxiang.
Gradually, Guan Tianxiang consciously lay on a certain plane.
Rubbing his hands on the surface, he gradually determined that it was the floor...... Tram car floor.
His mind suddenly cleared up for seven minutes, and Guan Tianxiang recalled the terrifying encounter in his memory, but he was unable to integrate it for a while.
Everything is completely out of the ordinary, but it is naked and true...... Guan Tianxiang sighed, sat up with his hands on the floor, and touched his eyes with both hands—ahh Originally...... Guan Tianxiang has always been open-eyed.
It is only because the surroundings are too dark that the dark environment creates the illusion of "not opening the eyes".
I vaguely remember that I participated in a dark experience called Dialogue In Darkness in Cheung Sha Wan with my best friend during the summer vacation, groping in an absolutely lightless environment.
The situation is not much worse than it is now, the difference is that the air is full of weirdness.
Tram...... Where did you go? How can there be no light outside the window? Guan Tianxiang stroked his aching head, supported the hard object next to him that should be a seat, and supported his body.
Only then did he stand up straight, dizziness eroding his thoughts, Guan Tianxiang fell to his seat in embarrassment, and his waist bore the brunt.
"It hurts...... Hu ...... "As an anemic patient, Guan Tianxiang feels dizzy and dizzy intermittently, so he needs to take pills regularly.
Guan Tianxiang hurriedly touched the back pocket of his school pants, took out a pack of pills, took out one and stuffed it into his mouth.
Even so, the tearing headache is not immediately eliminated.
After coming back to his senses, Guan Tianxiang breathed in the cramped air, scanned the black and hazy directions, and his thoughts gradually became clear.
Guan Tianxiang remembered that he and Qianqin took the last train from Paomati to Zhucheng at 00:39, but when the tram arrived at Zhucheng Bus Terminal, the tram kept moving forward...... Rail ...... that shouldn't be there Strange passengers who don't move like wax figures...... Curled up at the bottom of the chair, Qianqin in a strange posture...... No...... How could that be Qianqin...... In the end, happening, what, things.
With a dry throat, Guan Tianxiang couldn't help but wonder how long he had been lying on the tram.
At the moment, the train is stationary, there is no sound in the carriage, and the dripping of time seems to stop for a moment.
Guan Tianxiang kept touching the plastic chairs and iron pillars around him to confirm that he was in the front of the upper car.
What about other passengers? What about Qianqin? Where are they? Guan Tianxiang immediately took out the Iphone5 from his pocket, but no matter how he pressed it, the screen still didn't light up.
Oops, there is no power at this time...... The battery level of the mobile phone seems to be less than 20% at M time, but Guan Tianxiang didn't pay attention to it.
Damn the battery, I'll go back tomorrow and replace you with a Nokio 3310.
If you could go back...... You can't sit still, you have to figure out the situation.
Guan Tianxiang stood up tiredly, touched the chairs on both sides and walked to the corridor.
Guan Tianxiang relied on his sense of direction alone and stumbled towards the staircase connecting the lower floors.
It's only a few steps away, but it's like walking for a long time...... Is it a fearful relationship – "poof, poof, poof, poof, poof." Even though it was pitch black, Guan Tianxiang knew that his face was pale.
The sound of collision lasted regularly for several seconds, slower than the other, and the distance from Guan Tianxiang was farther and farther.
Sky...... Just now I kicked a hard object with my right foot...... caused that thing to slide down the stairs...... It must not have been a very heavy object, at least there was no pain in the right foot...... Guan Tianxiang held his breath and cautiously stepped to the highest raircase.
Guan Tianxiang stepped down the stairs in one go, and when he reached the last level, the soles of his shoes suddenly stepped on something.
Guan Tianxiang leaned over and swept the floor with his hands...... Well, Guan Tianxiang seems to have found what he kicked down just now...... Hard rubber texture, long strip ...... Suddenly, the front of the car lit up, and the sudden light made Guan Tianxiang goosebumps, and his back was cold and paralyzed.
No...... It was the front of the car that was illuminated, because of a ray of light from the thing.
Guan Tianxiang looked at the flashlight in his hand inexplicably, and just pressed the switch unintentionally.
It's weird.
How can a flashlight be resting on the ground for no reason? Who left it behind? But which passenger will carry a flashlight? Or, is the flashlight for the tram driver? However, let's put these issues aside for now...... Guan Tianxiang grabbed the flashlight in his hand and shone around, just praying for the flashlight to have enough power at the moment.
The pale yellow light shone indiscriminately in the lower compartment, and Guan Tianxiang quickly confirmed that there was no one in the lower seat.
Guan Tianxiang trembled and walked to the driver's seat - the driver's seat was empty.
Fortunately, Guan Tianxiang was worried about what bloody pictures the flashlight would shine on...... If it's like the movie at the moment, there should be a bloody corpse lying in the driver's seat, right? After some inspection, there were no people or corpses in the carriage, not even blood, or signs of struggle, everything was in order...... It seems that Guan Tianxiang is the only one left on the last tram, and the other passengers are nowhere to be found.
Guan Tianxiang shone the flashlight light on the glass on the side of the car, but he couldn't shine anything outside the car at all, except for the rampant pitch black...... It's weird.
Where is this place? Is it the suburbs of Bay Area West? Or is it the original Zhucheng Jixi Street? Since the tram can only travel on certain tracks, it is theoretically impossible for it to travel very far.
However, even in any part of the West Bay Area, with the level of light pollution in the Bay Area, every night is dyed with a chemical orange and red, how can there be no light outside the window? Countless pieces of information appeared in my tense mind, and in the end, there was only one sentence left: Don't guess blindly, I must get out of the car first.
Guan Tianxiang touched his painful head with his left hand, held a flashlight in his right hand, and walked to the front of the car.
Guan Tianxiang subconsciously took out his wallet, and instantly smiled bitterly...... Teenager, you are too young, do you still think that everything is normal at the moment? Is it okay? Guan Tianxiang crossed the Baidatong machine, and the folding door was open.
Does that mean that all the passengers have fled? Guan Tianxiang was suspicious, the flashlight illuminated the scene outside the door, and none of the previous speculations seemed to survive.
The gray-black walls, the gray-black hard floor, seem to be made of cement.
The ground is flat and the rough surface is covered with gravel.
Guan Tianxiang hesitated slightly, then stepped on the ground and left the small compartment space.
I thought to myself, if this is the destination of the tram, what kind of place will it go to? And why would it do that? Before leaving the carriage, the chill quickly seeped into the school uniform.
Guan Tianxiang just stood by the car door in amazement, everything was unexpected.
It's a hot summer day, but at the moment it's 14 or 5 degrees Celsius...... The air outside the car is very cramped, and it doesn't look like the outdoor road in the west of the Bay Area...... It feels more like an enclosed space...... It's suffocating.
This is certainly not a suburb, not an urban area of Zhucheng.
So in the end, where is Guan Tianxiang...... Guan Tianxiang hesitated for a moment, and finally spit out a sentence: "Is there anyone here?" Unexpectedly, what he heard next made Guan Tianxiang completely creepy.
"Is there anybody...... Is there anyone who ...... Is there anyone who ...... Is there anyone who ...... Is there anyone who ...... Is there anyone ......" echoed Guan Tianxiang's question, which was incalculably large, and seemed to have spread far, far away...... There was no answer.
Guan Tianxiang shone the flashlight in front of the tram, and then turned to shine in the opposite direction...... The blood spread to his limbs, his paralyzed legs stiffened as stones, and his thoughts were paralyzed in an instant.
“Are you kidding me?” The same sentence lingered in his mind, but he couldn't soothe the fear and stunned all over his body.
Both sides...... It was a dull tunnel with no end in sight, and the ground was two parallel endless railroad tracks.
I've never heard of this shady tram section in Zhucheng.
Of course, the Bay Area Trolley runs on the ground and does not go through tunnels...... What's more, it's a giant tunnel with no exit? When, why and by whom was this tunnel built? Where is it? Guan Tianxiang gasped and shone a flashlight on the bottom of the front of the tram, and the white words "137" on the black paint came into view.
The last train No. 137 carried Guan Tianxiang and Qianqin to this weird tunnel.
Somehow, the number "137" is already ominously weird...... Is Guan Tianxiang too careful? Guan Tianxiang inspected the unmanned tram next to him.
According to Guan Tianxiang, the No. 137 tram belongs to the ordinary fourth generation, with a height of 4.57 meters, and the tunnel is much higher than the roof, that is, at least 7 meters.
This tunnel is somewhat similar to the train tunnel of the subway, but due to the higher body of the train, the shape of the tunnel is higher and narrower.
The tunnel is a purgatory made of solid cement, and since there is no study of the tunnel, Guan Tianxiang suddenly cannot tell the year when the tunnel was built, maybe yesterday, maybe the last century.
At the top of the tunnel are thick cables, not unlike the tram cables you see in the Bay Area every day.
The passage is only one-way and only about 4 meters wide.
At first glance, the walls are full of normal tunnel facilities, such as the overhead lights and the ventilators on both sides, which of course have not been activated, making the place a serious lack of light and oxygen.
It's suffocating.
Guan Tianxiang pondered his next move.
Perhaps, the other passengers fled in the direction of the rear of the tram? If they are really "people", this is definitely a reasonable speculation, because the tram is coming from Zhucheng, and the direction of the rear of the train should be Zhucheng, that is, the original tram section.
Therefore, if you follow the track and go all the way to the rear of the train, you should be able to return to the Stacks Street Terminus next to Hongdu Phase 3! What's more, Guan Tianxiang didn't know where the front of the car was leading - his intuition shouted, it was definitely not the place where the living should go...... All in all, Guan Tianxiang had to try to walk in the direction of the rear of the car.
Then, Guan Tianxiang remembered her.
"Xiaoqin? Violin? Guan Tianxiang's voice echoed in the tunnel, and the volume was slightly noisy, if she was here, it was impossible not to hear it.
Ten seconds passed in a flash, and the air was still filled with damn silence, not even the sound of dripping water or wind could be heard.
Maybe...... Qianqin has already fled in the direction of Zhucheng, right? Or is she not on the tram at all? After hesitating for a moment, Guan Tianxiang finally took the first step and trekked in the direction of the back of the car.
The sound of footsteps echoed in the tunnel for a long time, and it was still dark ahead, so that Guan Tianxiang couldn't imagine how far away the end was from him.
My mind is blank, and my mind just keeps saying: go forward, go forward.
There is only one way, and what can be done except to go forward.
It's suffocating.
The feeling of the moment is completely like walking in the carless and unmanned Hung Hom Undersea Tunnel, but it is bleak, unreal and chilling, and for a moment Guan Tianxiang even thinks of hell.
Many years ago, I read a short story by Li Bihua about the subway station after leaving Tsim Sha Tsui Station, the subway stopped at the cross-harbour tunnel failure, and the passengers in the car had to walk back to the ground through the dark tunnel.
But after all, it was just a novel, and it turned out that when I really experienced a similar atmosphere, the sense of oppression completely overshadowed reason.
The dark grey walls of the surrounding tunnels are stained and lack proper cleaning.
A light turned off and bundles of wires passed by, but Guan Tianxiang felt that he was walking repeatedly on the same road...... Perhaps this kind of thinking is too surreal—the accustomed dead silence of "pop, pop, snap......" is suddenly cut through wantonly, and the mind has never been so tense.
The sound came from the rear, and it was preliminarily judged that the source of the sound was dozens of meters away from Guan Tianxiang, and the original sound should be only once, and the rest was all repeated echoes.
The voice sounded familiar, but Guan Tianxiang couldn't tell what it was.
The light swayed with the hand of the flashlight, revealing the heart that had been eroded by fear...... In this tunnel, Tianxiang is not alone.
Ten seconds passed, and the cold tunnel returned to dead silence, as if it had always been silent.
Guan Tianxiang stood there like a wax figure, hesitating whether he should turn back to examine the source of the sound.
But what if Guan Tianxiang looked back and unfortunately saw something dirty.
Guan Tianxiang couldn't figure out what was hidden in this tunnel...... when the strange sound of "pop, pop, pop......" continued, Guan Tianxiang suddenly remembered what it looked like.
Clapping.
Does that mean there are other survivors in the tunnel? Could it be Qianqin? "Little ...... Violin? Guan Tianxiang couldn't hold back his voice, and in retrospect, how could Guan Tianxiang have the courage at that time - the courage to lure the wolf into the house.
"Papapa, pa, papa......" is not ...... No...... No.
Guan Tianxiang completely regretted it, and regretted it with fear.
If the other party is goodwilled, how can they continue to clap their hands regularly, but do not directly respond to the question...... "Bang ......" meaningless high-five, what does it mean? Fear invaded the cold skin, Guan Tianxiang pulled out his legs and turned around and ran wildly, breathing even faster than his heartbeat.
That's not normal people, absolutely not.