Abyss Express

The next afternoon, Xue Ming boarded the return train alone.

He didn't take the high-speed train back, just because he still had plenty of time to meet his old friends on the Lantern Festival, and changing to the ordinary train would add three hours to the journey. Moreover, the railway station in Hengyin City is very close to Pingyang Agricultural University, but the high-speed railway station takes an extra 40 minutes by car. In this way, it is better to take the train home.

When parting, Xiaoqi was reluctant to part, just like her name "Zijin", when her sweetheart wanted to travel far away, she immediately turned into a giraffe, watching Xueming go further and further away.

After boarding the train, Xue Ming found a seat and slept, and got off just in time when he woke up.

When I arrived at Hengyin Railway Station, it was already 11:20 in the evening. The cold weather around the Spring Festival made this city on the 45th parallel north latitude beautiful and freezing.

When he leaned against the car window and saw the familiar platform and the bustling crowd in the waiting hall, a feeling of familiarity and strangeness came to his heart.

This is the place where Xue Ming grew up, no matter how far he travels to the ends of the earth, he still misses this hometown occasionally.

It's not that he misses his childhood and his parents, because his childhood experience was not a good thing, and his parents were not good people.

It's the city that shaped him—made him who he is today.

He took out a turtleneck woolen sweater from the suitcase and put it on, picked up the miscellaneous things in the smell of instant noodles, and was hurriedly asked to get off by the flight attendant.

Walking towards the exit of the station, you will see a fast food restaurant on the side of the road. The menu has not been changed for almost ten years, and it always seems to be lined up in two rows beside the road full of traffic and dust.

Even though they are trying their best to give off a strong aroma of chili and garlic, Xue Ming dare not eat at this level of roadside stalls.

Going further outside, you will see taxi masters gathered in twos and threes acting as roadblocks, wanting to pull people to kill customers, and generally do not accept orders for short distances. This kind of customers are usually donkey friends who are not familiar with the place of life. If you really take them to the city for a 20-kilometer detour, and then go to Ruyun Mountain, they probably don’t know anything about it, so they can only pay and eat. Dumb loss.

Xue Ming coldly dealt with these hooligans and bullies who lined the road to greet him, while going out, preparing to call an online car-hailing car, and go back to Brother Ye Bei's milk tea shop for the night.

Unexpectedly, when the taxi drivers saw Xue Ming taking out his mobile phone, they immediately became unhappy. They all looked cold-eyed, had no good temper, and yelled in their mouths.

"Young man, stop yelling about online car-hailing. If you yell, we will take the order."

"Inside the train station, outside cars can't get in."

"Come on, where are you going? It's all the same price."

Regardless, Xue Ming turned off the phone's light source, headed out, and prepared to go to the main street of the shopping mall before calling a car.

After getting away from the crowd, he finally felt relieved. While waiting for the online car-hailing car, he saw the hotel and card shop on the side of the building, and looked at the bright red headlight sign of the train station.

The pressure of this city on his inspiration is so heavy——

——It is very poor and small. In order to compete for quality, time, and money, people can't wait to sharpen their heads and go to the place where money is made.

In the antique market on one side of the square, all the big glass slags are sold. Customers often take out their mobile phones and find a lot of small commodities of the same style made in Yiwu. Can't be handed over.

It turned out that there were college students who sold sneaker cleaners and the drivers formed a huge network to sell them in turn. Later, the small vendors who sold shoes and shoes were wiped out by the beautiful city rating.

Occasionally, aunts and uncles in their 40s and 50s can be seen standing in front of the fake mobile phone shop next to the train station, asking people if they want to go to the video hall to watch a movie, and the movie they watch is naturally not a serious movie.

According to Big Brother Ye Bei, this city is much more chaotic than Hong Kong, which has the nickname of Little Gotham in the East. It is very primitive, barbaric, and a big town like the Wild West.

Xueming can still remember what Big Brother Ye Bei said——

——As far as the elder brother’s personal experience is concerned, he has seen human piles buried in unfinished buildings, murders in the wild in scenic spots, inexplicable murders in old cadre buildings, and children and daughters of new micro-business MLM partners to entrap old fathers .

To Xue Ming, these things are indeed more terrifying than the demons and ghosts in the underground world——

——Compared with the various means of making money in the surface world, armadillo hunters steal people's logs, grab people's pyroxenes, and steal panacea. Occasionally, hunters who are merciful and do not harm newcomers can be regarded as the clean stream among criminals.

The densely packed shops are crowded in the prime location, and a little farther away is the dilapidated demolition building with sky-high prices. Three hundred meters away in a straight line is the school for the children of the Diesel Machinery Factory. So convenient, their price is only 50,000, and no one cares about it.

The divorce rate of adult males over 40 years old is over 80%, and those under 40 years old usually go out to work and are not in their hometown.

From the post-60s to post-00s, everyone's hobby is to go to the mahjong parlor to play cards, and then give the shop owner a commission of 8 to 12% of the betting money.

In Xueming's WeChat circle of friends, there is still news that an old classmate's cousin has an appointment to play mahjong with someone. The girl is only nineteen years old.

He could vaguely remember that the biggest dream of his adoptive mother's human trafficker was to open a card shop and collect money on the floor, without having to work hard.

Growing up in this environment, it's no wonder that both Xiao Qi and Meteor think that Xue Ming is a very mature boy who is not angry and arrogant, like a cold blade.

A message came from the phone——

——The online car-hailing order was cancelled.

He looked at the vehicle information and order messages, and then looked in the direction of the train station. The drivers gathered together, squatting in the cold wind and smoking, looking at this disobedient young man viciously, with revenge on their faces cheerful smile.

Xueming didn't speak, he just picked up his bags and walked towards the colder Yumingjiang Bridge, deciding to go further to call a car - he couldn't afford to mess with these local snakes, so he had to hide.

It would be great if they competed with them for reason. There are so many people fighting against him. It is a waste of time and energy, and you have to lose money if you do it.

Starting from Guangming Road, walking to the cinema bridge of Yuming River, you can see the empty ghost building next to the elevated ramp. We pay attention, check the news of the past few years, and we can also see the bizarre and outrageous story of the ghost-fire family rushing out of the bridge and flying into the sixteenth floor of this happy town at night.

Since then, the owners have put their houses up for sale and dare not live here again - you can trust the developers, but you can't believe that Batman will fly out of your bedroom window after ten o'clock at night Come in.

Besides, 20 meters outside the window is the bridge with the busiest traffic in the city. After ten o'clock at night, it is like a big truck party. The national standard diesel exhaust and all kinds of manic horns will become the best music for bed companions.

Going forward, it is the Yuming River Bridge built in the Soviet era. It is divided into two roads, one large and one small. The small one was designed and built by Soviet engineers. Lane of the new bridge.

The original old bridge has a height limit and weight limit, and only some motorcycle battery cars can be used. However, the 16-kilometer straight road of the new bridge has become a guillotine for chasing boys at night. It attracts hundreds of people from the local area. lovers.

Xueming remembered that he used to take this route when commuting to and from work in the battery factory. The second shift started at 12 o'clock in the evening, and the first shift ended at 12 o'clock in the evening. The handsome boy who met two hot girls fell on this road, sparks flew everywhere, his head was broken and his blood was broken.

Usually a handsome boy can continue to be handsome after a fall, and a beautiful sister may only have to see you in the next life after a fall. When it comes to impact resistance, a biker is always better than a car. When facing a dump truck with a hot temper at night , In which posture to land on the ground, the chance of survival will be greater.

This is also why Xue Ming treats Bai Lu so cautiously.

He was very afraid that Bai Lu would become such a person. He worked so hard and wanted to live so much, and he didn't want Bai Lu to squander the stable life he had struggled so hard to survive.

In his world, dump trucks took the most lives in the first 21 years of his life. Therefore, Xueming has always believed that dump trucks have a kind of divine power, which is beautiful and cruel, and unbelievably powerful. Over the years, people killed by dump trucks on this road can almost form a reinforced company—but still Someone took the initiative to send his head under its steel wheel, this is what makes it difficult to understand.

He walked on the sidewalk of the New Bridge, watching all directions and listening to all directions. His alert posture was much more standard than that of Fort Chaderton. Scattered saloons snaking their way home with their drunken owners home, snaking across the open road.

Occasionally, I saw one or two motorcycles speeding past and coming. After running the 32-kilometer round-trip straight, I heard the vehicles rushing over the speed bumps deliberately installed by the road administrator. They leaped high, and when they landed, the floor and the asphalt road sparked—the drivers roared, and the hot girls screamed.

All this was too chaotic for Xue Ming, four motorcycles rushed out to the west bank of the Yuming River in the same lane, the little sister in the back seat took another look at Xue Ming, immediately grabbed the rider in the front seat and shouted loudly.

"Look! Look! He's good-looking! Go back! Let me take a closer look!"

Jiang Xueming heard clearly, and his hands and feet were quick. He climbed over the guardrail, and before the locomotive turned around, he jumped to the railway maintenance corridor under the bridge and hid.

He didn't want to say any more words to these boys and girls--I'm afraid it would cause trouble.

But there was an even more enthusiastic shout from above——

"—He was still here just now!"

The little girl's voice is very high-pitched, like a Douyin Internet celebrity clip sound, which is very harsh and can be heard far away.

"I didn't lie to you! Didn't you see it too? The sidewalk is so empty at night, and he's the only one!"

"Is that the devil?" the female rider yelled, "Don't scare me! He won't jump into the river, will he?"

"Found it! He hid below!"

Xue Ming looked up, and there was a height difference of more than three meters. The little girl with blond hair was already lying on the fence, looking down curiously.

"Hey! Pretty boy! Can you add a WeChat account?"

Xue Ming ignored it and continued walking forward.

The little girl immediately yelled in a rough voice: "Stop when you are told to stop! Are you that rude? Didn't your parents tell you! Hearing people say hello! Respond respectfully!"

Xue Ming still ignored it, and continued to move forward.

The little girl immediately started climbing over the fence: "Hey! I'll come down and catch you right away!"

The integrated engineering design of the road, bridge and railway has made the road surface into the shape of a T-pillar. It is basically impossible to turn over into the railway from the T-head——

——Jiang Xueming clung to the triangular reinforced steel girder of the railway with his spiritual body and spiritual silk to climb into the maintenance passage. This little girl's desire to follow is probably a dream, unless she has taken drugs and drank alcohol. fatal thoughts.

If you forcefully climb over the guardrail, you will only crash into the icy Yuming River.

Xue Ming finally ignored it, he thought the girl was just joking and trying to show off her prestige.

He has seen this kind of young people a lot. In high school and junior high school, there were many such students who were not so clear-headed. For some inexplicable reasons, they made an appointment to fight with friends. If he went back to the dormitory to sleep in dejection, at most he would say a few harsh words so that he could make another appointment next time.

Over time, ordinary students will naturally think that these people are individuals with status, background, and special divine power when they see this kind of big scene of holding a knife.

Ten seconds passed, and the shouting and cursing on the bridge became louder and louder, but there was no sound of the little girl falling into the water calling for help, Xue Ming was a little disappointed.

"Go on! I'll see where you can go!"

"We have a car! You go out of Furong Road and walk to the opposite side of Guangming Street. I know the bus stop! You will come out from there!"

"Hi! Your WeChat ID today! I'm going to fix it!"

Xue Ming raised his head and asked, "How old is my mother?"

The little girl followed outside the guardrail and said, "Sixteen years old!"

Xue Ming: "How's your academic performance? Do you have a boyfriend? How many followers are there in Xiaohongshu? Do you have more than four digits of followers on Weibo? What did you get from the New Year's card pool?"

The little girl was so angry that she almost fainted, babbling and screaming.

She asked her companion to leave the matter alone—it had risen to the point of a personal vendetta.

Immediately afterwards, I saw the girl put her foot on the fence and turned outwards, she couldn't bear the stimulation at all.

Xue Ming gritted his teeth and looked sullen, first threw the suitcase onto the bridge deck, stepped on the aluminum alloy anti-rust platform as a rock climbing point, grabbed the exposed concrete of the top beam, and climbed onto the sidewalk.

The girl has not recovered this time, the liquid foundation on her face was frozen off by the cold wind blowing from the river. Under the dim street lamp, she saw a big black box falling to the ground, and people also turned up .

It's just that Xue Ming didn't speak, and continued walking forward with the suitcase.

This bridge is two kilometers long, and it takes about ten minutes to walk.

The little girl had been following behind Xueming, suddenly became quiet and indifferent, and stopped talking.

The older sister of the rider was crawling along the sidewalk, not knowing what to say for a while.

Seeing that the bridge approach ramp on the west bank was getting closer and closer, the little girl was so anxious that she began to sweat. She felt that after spending so much time and effort, this big brother was about to slip away.

So she said rashly: "I"

Xue Ming should use Hengyin dialect: "I'm not happy to meet you."

The little girl immediately became happy: "Oh! Are you a local? That's easy to say! Why haven't I seen you on this road before?"

Xue Ming: "Hengyin has a population of 8 million, one more than me is not too many, and one less than me is quite a lot."

Little girl: "You speak well! You are very cultured."

Xueming: "."

Little girl: "What's your name? Do you have a girlfriend? Can I be your girlfriend? I'm very beautiful! This is my TikTok account, and many people like me! I don't use beauty. of!"

Xueming: "."

Little girl: "Do you use Douyin? How about I take a video for you now, I'm sure many, many people will like it"

Xue Ming: "I don't need many people to like me."

The little girl pursed her lips: "Weird, do you know that you can make money by filming this! I have moved out a long time ago, as long as I stand in front of the camera for thirty seconds and do nothing, I can earn hundreds of dollars. !"

Xueming: "Very good."

Little girl: "Hey! Very good."

Immediately afterwards, her face changed, "Are you perfunctory me?"

Xueming: "It's pretty good, there's no perfunctory."

The little girl asked: "Are you looking down on me?"

Xueming: "Nothing."

The little girl: "Then can you tell me your name? Let's chat slowly on WeChat, and I'll send you a photo. You call me wife, and I call you husband! You really look good!"

Xue Ming turned around and nodded with a smile: "I'm rushing back to celebrate the Lantern Festival, I'm sorry."

It doesn't matter if you don't smile, the hearts of the two girls will melt when you smile.

That commercial smirk was practiced countless times by Xue Ming, and it was prepared for the vicious customers who wanted to pick and choose when buying offal.

Its attack power is extremely strong, it is range damage, real damage.

The little girl stammered: "That, that, that, that, I asked my sister to take you back?"

The little sister stammered: "You sit behind me and face each other"

Jiang Xueming slapped himself on the face.

"Hold!"