Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 230 The Burnt Past ([-]): Hope Train

'What is her relationship with him?Why do you obey him now and behave differently after arriving in the empire? '

Wishing to look at the picture gradually emerging in front of her eyes, she was thoughtful.

Perhaps only by continuing to read can we get clues to answer these questions.

As the fog in front of him gradually dissipated, a new picture appeared.

The sky was overcast that day, the air pressure was very low, and it seemed that it was going to rain soon.

Under the dim light, on the brand-new train station platform, Chen Yan was wearing a crappy suit that could be seen as a countryman at a glance, and a pair of large leather shoes that were clearly worn, although they were bright, standing close to the track. position, hands and feet cramped.

Surrounded by passengers who are in a hurry and about to embark on a long journey, the cracks in the gravel on the railway track in front of them are empty except for new weeds——

The train hasn't arrived yet.

Everyone had anxiety and hesitation on their faces, and so did Chen Yan.

Hope to see all this from Chen Yan's third-person perspective, and immediately understand that this is the memory of [Chen Yan is going to take the train to the Imperial Academy for further study at Shenzhou University].

'The sequence of memories I saw, did not occur in the normal chronological order. '

'The first memory I saw was [The military disaster just happened on Baihuyuan, Dad discussed with Chen Yan and decided to study abroad].

The second memory is [Before the military disaster, Chen Yan sensed the danger and asked her younger sister to protect her husband].

The third memory, which is the scene in front of me, is [After the military disaster has happened for a while, Chen Yan is about to leave by train].

According to the chronological order of events, it should have been

[Second memory: before the military disaster]

→

[The first memory: The military disaster just happened]

→

[The third memory: after a period of time after the military disaster].

But the memories did not appear in [chronological order].

The reason why the memory that appeared in front of my eyes is the way it is now is because for the memory fragments of the world, the more impressive the memory, the higher the position in my mind, and the higher the chance of being seen at a glance.

That is to say, for Chen Yan, the most impressive memory is the conversation with his father—it was the conversation that made him recognize certain facts of the world, and it was the conversation that made him make The decision to study abroad was made. '

Wish continued to watch the world in front of Chen Yan from a third-person perspective.

A moment later, a piercing siren sounded in my ears.

The huge steel monster puffed out clouds, and with the screeching buzzing sound of the wheels crushing the rails when braking, it appeared in the sight of the passengers——

The huge locomotive made of brand new steel was much bigger than Chen Yan imagined.

The entire locomotive is composed of a huge horizontal cylindrical steam engine and the drag rail wheel set under the steam engine. The words JF2 are painted with white paint on the bottom of the steam engine—that may be the model of this steam engine.

At this moment, on the top of the front section of the steam engine, the pointer of the disc barometer, which was smoked with a layer of black soot and became less clear, slowly rotated due to the decrease in the pressure of the steam engine room.

The thick black smoke from the chimney behind the disc barometer also gradually decreased, until when entering the train station, the pungent smell of the smoke could already be tolerated by the people on the platform.

Chen Yan and all the passengers looked forward together, until the next moment when the train came to a stop, the passengers scrambling for the first place suddenly became a mess.

The conductors yelled: "The train will leave when everyone is on board! No need to be overcrowded!"

No one believed such nonsense. The provincial capital train station had a bad reputation in the whole province. Everyone knew that the train tickets they issued indiscriminately exceeded twice the passenger capacity of the entire train.

In other words, if you get on the bus late, you will definitely not be able to get on the bus.

People knew about it, so they scrambled to get in the car.

The railway station also knows this, so they say "the train will leave when everyone is on the train", just to leave the unlucky ones who didn't get on the train.

It was only after Chen Yan came to the station that he found out about it from people's discussions.

He also heard from people chatting that the tickets for this train had been suspended for more than half a month—and the ticket in his hand was clearly bought by his father two days ago.

He thought of the smug expression on his father's face when he said to him, "I saw them put the red stamp of the train station on the ticket with my own eyes", and he felt very bitter.

Dad, most of my tickets are fake...

But even if it is a fake ticket, it is issued by the train station.

If passengers with counterfeit tickets are not allowed to board the train, the business of selling counterfeit tickets at railway stations will be impossible in the future.

That's quite a lot of money.

People scrambled to get on the train, from the crowded doors, from the open windows, some even climbed to the roof from the pipes between the cars, and then descended into the cars from the maintenance escalator on the roof——

In any case, as long as you take the ticket, enter the station, and get on the bus, you can leave this dangerous land of chaos and embark on a journey to a safe place.

Chen Yan hates traveling with a lot of luggage. The only thing she carries with her is a suitcase containing the admission letter of the Imperial Chinese University in Tiantian and a set of clothes. Luggage passengers have a natural advantage.

He squeezed into the car, found a seat at random, and was wondering why the car was so crowded, when a radio sound came from his ears:
"If you take an express train, you need to add an express fare. The express fare is added according to the class of the car. It is calculated as a third-class car. The second-class car will double it, and the first-class car will double it."

He was stunned for a moment, and looked at his ticket—the corner mark on the upper right corner of the ticket was the word "three"—he suddenly realized that it was a sign of a third-class carriage.

The third-class carriage in front of me was crowded and overcrowded. Most of the people in the car had hostility on their faces, and fights for seats also happened from time to time.

But to Chen Yan's surprise, the seats next to and opposite him were always vacant.

After waiting for half an hour amidst doubts, puzzles and apprehensions, the train started with the sound of a piercing siren.

The surrounding passengers still ignored the empty seat beside him.

In a daze, Chen Yan glanced at the gradually receding scenery outside the window.

In the next second, a voice that sounded familiar, but felt that it had completely changed its "feeling" came from my ear.

"elder brother."

Chen Yan turned his head and saw the girl sitting opposite him at some point.

This time, the paralyzed expression disappeared from her face, and there seemed to be light in her eyes.

Suddenly, a strange thought flashed in Chen Yan's head:

She also seems to have "opened up".

The girl spoke again, and Chen Yan heard the news he least wanted to hear for the second time.

"I didn't protect sir."

(End of this chapter)