Chapter Two Between Two Points
"I...I won't sit..."
The apprentice was almost crying, his lips trembled and his body was stiff as firewood. With his back facing the silver-gray Phantom Train, he could only see the gradually opened door behind him from the glass of the station sign.
For a moment, Uriel felt like he was going to die.
He tried to pray to Goddess Gaia in his heart, but the praise only read those two sentences. At this moment, Uriel was extremely upset about his slackness when studying in the monastery. He vowed that if he could do it again, he would recite the Gospel with two fingers wideness without missing a word.
"It's useless to recite it. Gaia is already dead." Debra said angrily, "Are you planning to freeze to death at the station?"
“…”
Uriel, who was secretly moving, stopped trembling as if he had been immobilized.
He looked at the reflection in the glass—
A girl in a dark blue plaid dress with white gloves and a maiden beret stood on the platform. Her collar was tied with a crooked badge, and the letters on it had to tilt their heads down sixty degrees before they could read them clearly.
Floating Cloud Train Ticket Checker:dd
"You, are you a human?" Perhaps the girl did not show a terrifying posture, and her words and demeanor were like young girls everywhere, making people feel unprepared for fear of being wary. The apprentice was stunned and felt a familiar feeling.
So he asked tremblingly.
"I? I am a ticket inspector, not a human." As a result, the ticket inspector said in an impatient manner as if he couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence.
She raised her chin, the pearl pendant on her ears shook, and the light brown ends wrapped around her. "Can you get in the car? If you don't get in the car, go to die quickly."
Wait, this is the first time I heard that human beings are a profession... Uriel was stunned by this unroutine answer and repeated rhetorical questions, and stood there at a loss for a moment. He was worried that he would be "dead" the next second when he said the words he refused, but using the thinking of a normal seventeen-year-old apprentice in the laundry shop, he was crazy and would take a suspicious ghost train.
Who knows where it will open? It can't be Nancheng, right?
"South City? So close?" The ticket inspector widened his eyes incredibly. At this time, Uriel noticed that her pupils were light blue. "It's only three miles, you can go back when you walk! Why are you doing so hard? Haven't the Silence School taught you to choose the best option? I just said those people don't do serious things all day long, and Dras asked me to say a few less words..."
Uriel turned his head and looked at her blankly. He didn't know why South City was only three kilometers away from Songbigrad, nor what the Silence School and Dela were, but he was not afraid at all now.
Sister dd was still chattering there.
Is there any terrible existence that disguises itself as a harmless girl, wearing a strange uniform and complaining to strangers on the platform?
Uriel swore that it would be impossible to find a similar evil god in any gospel book with a serious publishing house. Eastman believes in the goddess Gaia, who is a solemn and solemn god, and the corresponding demons are cruel and crazy.
The difference in the styles of the two is too big, and it is really too embarrassing to force him to imagine them together.
But there must be a reason why this strange train stopped here. Even though it may have nothing to do with him, he might as well make an assumption. So the apprentice boldly interrupted, "You... are you going to send me home?"
"Dream! I am a ticket inspector, not a train driver, aren't you afraid that I will drive into the flower bed?"
Debra refused righteously.
...Urier looked at the fountain not far away and decided to accept the explanation "The fountain is not a flower bed."
"Then, why are you..." Uriel racked his brains and couldn't find a suitable vocabulary to describe the situation he is facing now. He pointed to the ghostly strange train, and then pointed to Debra - the girl slapped the back of his hand: "Irregular guy!"
The apprentice feels very innocent.
"Get on the bus. You can't stay at the same stop for too long. After getting on the bus, there will be a flight attendant to explain it to you. Don't waste time here. Aren't you cold?" Debra waved his hand.
"But, this is not a bus to Nancheng-"
"It is indeed not a bus, but it is no problem to send you to Nancheng."
The ticket inspector grabbed the apprentice's wrist and half forced him into the car. Uriel struggled desperately: "Wait... wait! You can't... help!"
While twisting and not cooperating, the apprentice accidentally saw the bell tower. The night became clear after the snow stopped, and the stars shrouded the twelve-scale chassis.
His eyes froze.
There is no difference between the hour here and the whole time when all the pointers are put together.
It was midnight when the train stopped;
He communicated with Debra for a few words, and after a while, it was still midnight.
The clock is still!
After being stunned for a moment, Uriel was dragged into the car. He looked desperately at the gray car door closed and was rudely pressed on the chair by the ticket inspector.
The seats on the train were soft leather chairs, which Uriel had seen on the leaflets of the Kingdom train. However, the train had been shut down because the tunnel collapsed in the Morris Mountains, which caused the only railway in the Kingdom of Eastman to be temporarily unused.
But the apprentice sat on it without any peace of mind. Debra looked like he was tying a roll of firewood that was about to be thrown into the fireplace, and the plaid uniform made him dizzy.
He tried hard to divert his anxiety, so he looked around the carriage-
The neatly arranged seats on both sides of the walls, leaving a large gap in the middle; there was a layer of carpet on the ground, and the two people were trampled with snow-water footprints, which made him feel ashamed involuntarily; the inside of the silver-gray body was smooth iron walls, and it seemed that the workers forgot to paint it with anti-rust white paint.
In addition to the doors on both sides of the car body, there are also large pieces of glass embedded in the iron walls, which are brighter and cleaner than the store windows. The scenery outside is covered by the bright interior scenery, but the apprentice looked around carefully but could not find the lighting bulb.
He thought of the bright light that still existed after the light box in the station went out, and he couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of water.
Ulier believes that no apprentice in a laundry shop has ever had such an experience-the Eastman Kingdom worships the goddess, but people rationally regard it as a pure belief rather than a fact. Demons are illusory and God does not exist in the material world.
The former may appear in someone's heart, sneakily bewitching him into depravity, and then the accumulated darkness will eventually lead to evil consequences - this is human malice.
The latter is loved by people, and the incarnation of virtues and good deeds. When a person worships Him devoutly, he will naturally gain happiness and peace.
And a translucent train that can travel on the road and shuttle the city at midnight? It is not recorded in the Gospels, and Uriel has never heard of similar urban legends.
It is an unknown mystery to humans, and it is a phantom vehicle that never stops when everything sleeps peacefully at night.
In addition to fear, the apprentice felt inexplicably excited, which he felt very exciting.
Beep-
"Welcome to take the Floating Cloud Train, please pass through the corresponding door."
“The train is about to start.”
A pleasant sound echoes in the car, making it difficult to tell the source. If the speaker is not set inside the wall, then there is only the same explanation as the light.
Uriel had never taken the train or paid attention to the railway development of the Kingdom. He vaguely remembered the newspapers of the white-blooded locomotive posted photos of the white-blooded locomotive. It was a few months ago?
But apart from the leather chair, the train seems to have no similarities to the Kingdom train at all. First of all, it does not require tracks; secondly, it can penetrate the statue of the fountain... etc. Is there any connection between the two? Causality?
The apprentice was thinking randomly.
"Okay." At this moment, Debra finally tied her seat belt. She sat down with a strange feeling of satisfaction, right opposite the apprentice. Uriel noticed that she did not tie herself with a seat belt.
"Next, we have three miles to go," said the ticket inspector.
Three miles and seven stops... The apprentice realized that what she was talking about might be a straight line distance.
His heart suddenly started to beat faster.
Immediately afterwards, it seemed as if the handle was pushed to the bottom, which was completely different from the speed reduction when stopping. The front-end wheel turned wildly - the train rushed out of the station like an arrow breaking away from the bowstring.
The pushback feel almost loosened the tight seat belt.
Uriel screamed. He had never felt so exciting, because no bus dared to transport passengers at such an outrageous speed in the city, but tonight he realized this crazy speed that could kill himself on any obstacle at any time!
Fortunately, this car can pass through material things... The apprentice immediately realized this after the first scream that could not be restrained. He closed his mouth in annoyance in the sarcastic look of the ticket inspector.
But suddenly, just as the train's possible engine roared—
Uriel opened his eyes wide, and he watched the seat in front become illusory without warning, followed by the table and wall. The poor apprentice knew nothing about when the glass of the car window disappeared.
The train disappeared.
He bumped into the fountain sculpture at the corner of the street!
The apprentice immediately screamed at the top of his voice. He didn't care about the ticket inspector and struggled with all his might in the air. However, before he could come back to his senses, the sculpture left. When the screams blocked his throat made a sound, Uriel had already passed through countless walls and a pile of things in a strange state of hanging in the air.
He screamed all the way, crossing the three miles from Songbigler to South City, and then fell heavily to the ground. The seat belt had been broken, and the apprentice of the laundry shop was lying on the ground in a daze, his mind buzzing.
His face was facing upward, slightly diagonally facing the ticket inspector's high heels. Debra looked down and saw that the apprentice's pale and swollen cheeks were inlaid with a pair of eyes with diffuse pupils, and blue veins bulged on his neck.
She was startled.
The short journey took a short time, and before Uriel could react, the train had already stopped.
Then the apprentice, who was in a daze, felt a kick in the waist, accompanied by the girl's annoyed and angry growling:
"Have you seen enough?"
After being suddenly drunk, Uriel got rid of the stimulation of the circulating hitting the wall. He blinked his sore eyes unconsciously, and gasped desperately while coughing.
“…”
Haven't seen enough yet?
The poor apprentice was still confused and was thrown out of the car door by the angry Debra.
Uriel lay dizzy on the stone steps. He felt soreness in his waist, but more burning.
Chapter completed!