The sun slowly rose, dispersing the morning mist.
There are gradually more people greeting passengers on the platform. About every twenty minutes to half an hour, a train full of passengers will enter the station.
Then people on the platform will rush up to find their relatives or friends, shouting excitedly, waving, and hugging.
The New Year is approaching and tourists are returning to their hometowns. Although this era does not have the concept of Spring Festival travel that focuses on the past life, the Shencheng Railway Station is indeed much busier these days than before.
When he entered the station just now, Shu Guan heard the staff complaining that because of the extra trains these days, they almost didn't have time to drink water and go to the toilet.
This situation exists at every station on this long railway line.
Therefore, it is not surprising that trains these days will be delayed for some time.
When Shu Guan heard the conversation among the staff, he knew that his original hope that Rong Miao's train would arrive early was probably in vain.
So when it was nine o'clock in the morning and the train Rong Miao took had not yet entered the station, Shu Guan was not too anxious.
Then time continued to pass minute by minute, and when it was about 9:20, Shu Guan began to pace back and forth, looking up from time to time in the direction of the train entering the station.
By about 9:40, Shu Guan started to get a little anxious.
However, almost all the trains arriving at the station today were delayed. The longest train seemed to be delayed for nearly an hour, so I was anxious but didn't worry about anything.
Then the time came to ten ten. Shu Guan raised his wrist and looked at his watch, pondered for a moment, and said to Zhou Yisheng:
"You continue to wait here, I'll go to the station dispatch room to take a look."
Trains in this era were naturally scheduled manually.
So if you want to know where a train is going now, ask the station master here. He may not know, but the train dispatcher will definitely know.
Shu Guan got off the platform, asked a station staff member, and then found the room where the station dispatch room was located.
The door to the dispatch room is open, and through the window you can see that it is crowded, and there are actually many people inside.
When Shu Guan walked in, he immediately felt that the atmosphere in this room was a little strange. Everyone in the room seemed to have extremely serious expressions, and at the same time they were a little confused.
"That train should have arrived a long time ago. What is going on?"
A middle-aged man in a suit was sternly questioning several dispatchers sitting in front of the phone.
"Stationmaster, we don't know either. Train 192938 passed through Wujiang Station 6 hours ago. Originally... it should have arrived long ago... We didn't know either..."
A dispatcher replied nervously and confused.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier! Send a rail car to check immediately to make sure it doesn't overturn!"
The middle-aged man who should be the stationmaster of Shencheng Railway Station roared angrily.
But Shu Guan, who was standing at the door, now changed his expression drastically.
Because the train 192938 mentioned by the dispatcher just now was the train Rong Miao took.
Shu Guan strode over, walked up to the station master, and asked quickly:
"What happened to train 192938?"
"Who are you? You can't come in here casually. Get out quickly."
The station's expression changed, and he pointed at the door and shouted to Shu Guan.
Shu Guan's eyes flashed.
At this moment, he no longer had time to cover up his identity as a practitioner.
When his spiritual energy flourished, the station master and everyone in the room felt the oppression and fear from the depths of their souls, and no matter what they asked, they immediately did not dare to answer without any concealment.
Shu Guan quickly figured out what was going on.
The first thing I want to say is that trains in this era cannot directly contact the dispatching room of the station, so the method of dispatching trains is that when a train passes the station, the station will immediately call the following stations. To know the whereabouts of the train.
The 192938 train that Rong Miao took had passed the previous station, Wujiang Station, 6 hours ago. Wujiang Station also made a dispatch call to Shencheng Railway Station to confirm this.
The distance between Wujiang Station and Shencheng Station is two hundred miles. According to the speed of train 192938 at 40 miles per hour at that time, it should arrive in Shanghai around nine o'clock, and even if it is delayed, it will not be delayed by more than a few minutes.
But it's already around 10:20, and train 192938 still hasn't arrived yet.
The railway from Wujiang Station to Shencheng Station passes through mostly plain land with gentle terrain, and Shencheng Station is the terminal station, so there is no need to slow down because of the intersection with other trains.
So if train 192938 has not arrived at this time, there must be some accidents on the road.
The dispatcher realized something was wrong and reported the situation to the station manager.
When Shu Guan came in just now, the stationmaster of Shencheng Railway Station had just arrived at the dispatch room and was understanding the situation.
And when the stationmaster of Shencheng Railway Station finished explaining the situation, he suddenly felt a strong wind blowing in the dispatch room, and subconsciously closed his eyes.
And when he opened his eyes again, he found that the young man who just looked at him and made him feel fear from the depths of his soul was gone.
The stationmaster of Shencheng Railway Station was not even sure whether the young man had appeared.
The next moment, he finally remembered the most important thing at this moment.
"Send a track maintenance vehicle immediately to find the accident train 192938!"
He yelled anxiously at his men in the room.
...Don't let anything happen!
When giving orders to his subordinates, the station master of Shencheng Railway Station prayed in his heart.
There were nearly a thousand passengers on that train. If something happened, it would really be a human tragedy.
And because the New Year is approaching, a special train from Jingcheng to Shencheng was specially added. There are many big shots on this train. If something happens, even if he is not responsible, he may be angered. This is the end of his job as the stationmaster of Shencheng Railway Station.
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...Don't be afraid of something happening...
Shu Guan was like a gust of wind, running wildly along the tracks of the Jingshen Railway.
He had already affixed a Thousand Miles of Magic Talisman, but he still used all his strength with every step he took on the ground. The sand and gravel beside the railway tracks turned into fine powder under the soles of his feet, and the surrounding air moved at the extreme speed. It became as thick as water, and where he ran, there were bursts of thunder-like noises behind him.
Shu Guan no longer cared whether this would attract the attention of other practitioners.
His mind was blank now, but his heart seemed to be tightly grasped by fear.
Don't let anything happen to Rong Miao!
He shouted and prayed in his heart, but he didn't know who to pray to.
From Shencheng Station to Wujiang Station, a total of 200 miles, Shu Guan took ten minutes to reach it.
Then along the way, he didn't see a derailed and crashed train, and he didn't even see the figure of train 192938.
Shu Guan rushed into the dispatch room of Wujiang Railway Station like a violent storm and grabbed a dispatcher by the collar.
"Where's train 192938?!"
"...I already passed the station last night..."
So Shu Guan rushed out like a strong wind and ran towards Shencheng.
This time, he ran a little slower, carefully looking at everything along the tracks as he ran.
Then twenty minutes later, Shu Guan ran back to Shanghai Railway Station again.
The track maintenance vehicle dispatched by Shencheng Railway Station had just set off from Shencheng Railway Station and had only traveled ten kilometers.
Shu watched the track maintenance vehicle drive past him. He stood by the railway track, breathing heavily.
It wasn't because of fatigue. Even if he ran thousands of miles at the same running speed, Shu Guan wouldn't be tired.
Shuguan was panting violently at this time, which was just because of extreme nervousness, extreme worry, and extreme confusion.
Where did train 192938 go?
Shu Guan was sure that he had not seen any signs of a train derailing or overturning along the way.
So what happened to train 192938?
Unlike cars, trains cannot leave the tracks and drive somewhere else.
So has train 192938 disappeared?
The question is, how did such a big train disappear out of thin air?
If this question were answered by ordinary people, they would probably be confused.
But Shu Guan is a practitioner, so after ruling out that ordinary people could not make such a big train disappear, Shu Guan immediately thought of extraordinary power.
So who made the 192938th train? To be able to make an entire train disappear must be an extremely powerful Taoist technique. I am afraid that only practitioners above the Nascent Soul realm can do it!
What is the purpose of the other practitioner or practitioners doing this?
For a moment, Shu Guan stood there anxiously and confused, watching the track inspection vehicle fly away quickly.
Naturally, it was impossible for the track inspection vehicle to find the whereabouts of train 192938.
Where did train 192938 go?
At this moment, Xiaoyi's voice sounded in his mind.
"Brother, I was somewhere on the railway just now. Xiaoyi felt like there was a magic weapon there."
Shu Guan was suddenly startled. When he was running along the railway just now, he didn't sense any spiritual energy fluctuations.
"where?"
He quickly asked Xiaoyi in his mind.
"It's like being in a tunnel."
"let's go!"
A few minutes later, Shu Guan appeared outside the entrance of a cave tunnel.
This cave tunnel is about eighty miles away from Shencheng Railway Station.
"Brother, this is it."
Shu Guan then stopped running.
This tunnel passes through the heart of a small mountain. The trees on the hillside above the entrance are quite lush.
Shu Guan had already run back and forth through this tunnel twice and found nothing unusual.
The same is true at this time.
"Xiao Yi, where is the magic weapon you mentioned?"
Shu Guan asked with a frown.
"It's in this tunnel, but it seems to be moving all the time. This is a magic weapon with a spirit. Brother, when you ran through here for the second time, it greeted me, but now I call it again, It doesn't respond anymore, but I can feel it's still here."
Shu Guan's frown deepened, and he slowly walked into the tunnel. The tunnel was extremely dark. There would be no lighting system in a tunnel dedicated to trains.
Shu Guan walked in the dark tunnel, and the surrounding darkness had no effect on him. His eyes shone slightly, and he carefully looked at every inch of the ground and every cave wall in the tunnel.
Shu Guan spent half an hour walking from one end of the tunnel to the exit at the other end.
It can be said that he searched every inch of this three-mile-long tunnel, but he still didn't find the magic weapon Xiao Yi mentioned.
Of course he didn't doubt Xiao Yi. Since Xiao Yi said there was a magic weapon here, then there would definitely be one.
But where is the magic weapon?
And does the disappearance of train 192938 have anything to do with this magic weapon?
Walking out of the dark tunnel, the sunlight from outside the cave entrance was shining directly, and Shu Guan subconsciously raised his hand to block it.
There was a whistle from the front, and a huge train came roaring with white smoke rising from the front.
At this time, Shu Guan had just walked out of the dark tunnel and was standing on the dividing line between darkness and light. The driver of the train may not have seen clearly that there was a person standing at the entrance of the tunnel, nor did he expect that someone would come out of the tunnel, so the train Without slowing down, he rushed straight towards the tunnel entrance.
Shu Guan took a step aside and stood beside the railroad tracks.
The train roared past him, and the violent vortex of air it brought up did not shake his body at all, but it made his hair a little disheveled.
Shu Guan raised his hand to brush the messy hair from his forehead and looked at the train number.
It's not 192938.
Disappointment flashed in Shu Guan's eyes.
The train got into the cave and quickly disappeared into the darkness, leaving only a little light and shadow from the headlights, but that light and shadow quickly disappeared.
Only the roar of the train traveling in the cave could still be heard in the distance, and the rails underfoot were still shaking.
Shu Guan stared at the dark and deep entrance of the tunnel, watching the train pass by before disappearing into the depths of the tunnel. It gave people an inexplicable and confusing feeling that the train was being swallowed by the huge mouth of a monster.
Of course, Shu Guan knew that this was just an illusion produced by people in a trance.
The disappearance of 192938 train was definitely not swallowed up by tunnels and caves.
It was as if his eyes could actually penetrate the darkness and see that the train that had just passed had now driven out of the tunnel at the other end, and was driving under the bright sunshine again, and then disappeared.
Watching the train finally disappear from his sight, Shu Guan felt a strange feeling that something was wrong in his heart at this moment.
The feeling that something was wrong lingered in my mind.
...Why do I always feel like something is wrong?
Shu Guan quickly found the cause of something wrong.
He slowly looked down at his feet.
On the railroad tracks beneath my feet, there was still the trembling feeling of a train passing by.
Then the train that we arrived just now had already traveled far, far away, and the rails should have stopped shaking.
But the tremor of the rails did not stop, and it was not even less severe than the tremor when the train passed just now.
Shu Guan's heart beat violently.
...When I was in the tunnel just now, it seemed that the rails were trembling all the time...
Shu Guan recalled it.
It's just that his attention was mostly on the ground and the cave wall, looking for the magic weapon hidden somewhere, so he ignored this abnormality.
At this moment, because of the reminder from the passing train, he finally noticed that the rails near the tunnel had been shaking slightly.
It was as if there was an invisible train running on it.
Shu Guan slowly raised his head again and looked into the deep and dark tunnel again.
At this moment, he felt that the mouth of this deep tunnel looked like the mouth of a real monster, and it was no longer an illusion.
It's just that a train passed through the tunnel just now, but it was not swallowed up in the darkness.
And I also ran back and forth in the tunnel several times, but no accidents happened.
So why is this happening?
For ordinary people, this is another unexplainable problem.
But for practitioners, they can immediately think of many possibilities.
At this time, Shu Guan thought of several possibilities, such as illusions and formations. Although he could not feel any spiritual fluctuations in this tunnel, the trembling rails already showed that there must be something he could not see in the tunnel. s things.
And there is something in him that is the natural nemesis of these phantoms.
The sharp knife quietly came into Shu Guan's palm.
Shu Guan stood on the dividing line between darkness and light, took a deep breath, and then swung his sword towards the darkness.
The blade sliced through the air, but there was a slight feeling of stagnation in the wrist, as if it had cut something.
The next moment, Shu Guan saw a train passing in front of him.
Of course, this was not the train that passed by just now, but a train that Shu Guan had never seen before.
The speed of the train was very fast, and it quickly passed from one end of the tunnel to the other, disappearing into the light outside the cave at the other end.
Then another train appeared in front of Shu Guan's eyes, which was exactly the same as the one that came out of the tunnel a few seconds ago.
The front and rear of this train are painted with white shuttle numbers.
That number is: 192938.
Shu Guan was shocked. He finally found the train Rong Miao was riding.
I also learned the reason why train 192938 never arrived at the station.
Because this train is trapped in a tunnel, driving from one end to the other, and then starting the process again, as if it will never stop and can never leave this tunnel.
Shu Guan's expression became extremely serious.
Although he found the train, he could not see why it was trapped in the tunnel.
I can’t tell what force caused such a strange scene.
This is definitely not an illusion, nor is it a formation!
"That magic weapon is on this train!"
Xiaoyi exclaimed in his head.
Shu Dian nodded and said nothing.
It seems that the cause of this strange scene must have a lot to do with the magic weapon that has an unknown origin.
When train 192938 once again appeared from the hole at his end and passed in front of him, Shu Guan silently jumped onto the back of the train.
He put his hand on the door handle of the train's tailgate and found that the tailgate was locked from the inside.
Shu Guan exerted a slight force on his wrist, breaking the lock inside, then pushed the door open and walked into the train.
(End of chapter)
