Traveling through the new apocalyptic era

Chapter 261 Late Night
As time passed and the sky grew darker, people began to feel hunger among a variety of complex emotions.

Passengers who brought snacks began to rummage through their bags and eat their snacks, while passengers who did not bring any food began to walk towards the dining car spontaneously. Some people kept calling the staff, and some people who realized the problem had already come to the dining car and started making advance preparations.

Yin Ling quietly took out bread and water from her bag and quietly finished her dinner with her grandmother. She also swallowed the cold rice she hadn't finished at noon. Although some people around noticed the actions of the grandparents, they were aware of the seriousness of the matter but still had a fluke mentality.
People kept coming and going in the carriage until the last ray of dim light disappeared and the whole world fell into darkness.

The light from the cell phone made the car dim, but it was better than complete darkness.

There was no more food in the dining car, so it was distributed to passengers who came to ask for food. Fortunately, everyone still lined up to get it, and even if someone didn't get it later, there was no big conflict. However, the hungry people began to borrow food and drinks from the passengers around them.

Some were kindhearted while others were indifferent, but the darkness temporarily calmed people's restless emotions. Yin Ling and her grandmother were also asked several times by people who came back and forth to borrow food. Perhaps because they thought that a grandparent and grandchild would be easier to talk to, they were all dismissed by Yin Ling with a word "I've finished eating". These people were just borrowing food with a fluke mentality, and after being rejected, they left in disappointment and did not bother them too much.

Yin Ling got up, carried her schoolbag and went to the nearest bathroom with her grandma. The moment the door opened, an indescribable smell rushed out. The toilet that had not been flushed for an afternoon became a real toilet, which brought back Yin Ling's memories of using dry toilets in the countryside when she was very young. Yin Ling closed the door again with an expressionless face, then rummaged in her schoolbag and took out two masks before letting her grandma go in first.

The grandparents and grandson quickly finished their meal and returned to their seats, looking at the dark night outside. Under the faint moonlight, the shadows of the trees on the distant mountains were connected together, which was quite scary in the darkness.

Sitting back in his seat, Yin Ling did not practice nor sleep, but just closed his eyes to rest. Most people began to sleep, but some people could not sleep and moved around in their seats, trying to find a comfortable position.

I don't know how long it was after, but then a rustling sound came, like a wooden stick chiseling the wall, or like a mouse gnawing on iron sheets, coming faintly from different directions.

Yin Ling felt somewhat familiar with it but was confused for the moment. Just in case, she gently woke up her sleeping grandmother.

"What's wrong, Ling girl?" Li Xiu'e was woken up by the call. She was still a little confused for a moment and spoke vaguely. Her voice was not loud and did not disturb the people in the front and back seats.

"Grandma, do you want to go to the bathroom?" Yin Ling asked in a low voice while listening to the sounds around her.

"I'm not going. Do you want to go? I'll accompany you." Li Xiu'e thought Yin Ling wanted to go but was afraid to go alone.

"I'm not going, grandma. Let me change seats with you. I want to sit by the window for a while." Yin Ling didn't want to go to the bathroom. She just wanted to find an excuse to wake up her grandma.

The two quickly changed seats. Yin Ling looked out the window and could only vaguely hear a sound coming from the edge of the rear carriage. She didn't know what it was, but it didn't seem big, but there were quite a few. Just as she tried to release her perception to explore, similar sounds soon began to be heard from around the front carriage. They seemed to be surrounded by something.

Without having time to think, Yin Ling's consciousness immediately sank into space. After more than ten seconds, he pulled out two brown coats from a pile of things. These coats were made of the skins of exotic animals and had very strong defensive capabilities, much stronger than bulletproof vests. He hoped that he could successfully get through this dangerous night.

Taking advantage of the cold night, Yin Ling put coats on her grandmother and herself. A black ball the size of a ping-pong ball appeared in her hand. At first glance, it looked like an ordinary toy, but in fact it was the world's top black technology. It was a portable weapon made of precious resources obtained from another world and combined with spiritual energy. It could be transformed into a variety of weapon forms with a little spiritual energy. It was the best weapon Yin Ling could wield at this stage.

Yin Ling was next to the window. After a few minutes, she could hear a few soft popping sounds clearly. The source of the sound was outside the window. She stared at the window intently, and soon she heard a rustling sound. Yin Ling couldn't stay calm when she saw the black shadows swaying on the window. It was a mutant plant, with vines clinging to the outside of the car, trying to find a gap to break in.

Yin Ling subconsciously looked towards other windows. Perhaps because they were in an unfamiliar wilderness with mountains looming outside the window, most people chose to draw their curtains. Yin Ling's curtains were half-drawn across the aisle. Even though there was some distance and darkness, Yin Ling's enhanced vision could still vaguely see the vines covering the window.

Even though these mutated vines cannot break through the metal shell of the train for the time being, Yin Ling knows that soon the train will be riddled with holes.

Without thinking any more, Yin Ling directly took out a flashlight from the space. This was a powerful flashlight that she had stockpiled before. It had extraordinary brightness. The moment she turned it on, the entire carriage instantly lit up.

To avoid strong light shining into her eyes, Yin Ling shone the flashlight towards the roof of the car. With her peripheral vision, she could see the vines outside the window. There were only four or five vines just now, but now there were more than ten vines, densely packed together and almost covering her half of the window. She slightly tilted her head to look back, and saw that half of the window on the back seat had almost been covered by plants. The scary thing was that these were not bare vines, but were covered with dense barbs about the length of a thumb nail, just like a thorny rose path.

"what happened?"

"Who turned on the light?"

"Is it dawn yet?"

The sudden light woke up the people who were lightly sleeping nearby. They woke up drowsily and reacted a few beats slowly, and it took them more than ten seconds to find the source of the light.

"Hey, what are you doing? It's so bright, can't I sleep?" A woman two rows behind spoke up, her tone full of impatience and anger at being disturbed in sleep.

The sound was so loud that it instantly woke up everyone around.

"Ling girl?" Li Xiu'e was awakened by her granddaughter. She had just closed her eyes when she was dazzled by the light in front of her. She turned around and saw Yin Ling holding a flashlight and facing the car window with her back to her. For a moment, her attention was focused on the flashlight and she didn't notice the movement outside the window.

"That's right! What are you doing? In the middle of the night!"

"The one in front is talking to you, stop playing dead!"

People started to get angry one after another. The loudest woman at the back spoke, but when she saw that Yin Ling ignored her, she walked over the seat and walked towards them aggressively.

Just when she was about three or five steps closer to Yin Ling, she was suddenly interrupted by a scream.

"Ah! Look! What's that outside!"