Abyss Express

Foreword:

[No one can live on wages! ]

[——Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev]

[Part ① Invisible Lover]

Jason's reaction to Jiang Xueming's ridicule was very strong.

He told Diamond and Meteor to check in, then pulled Xueming into the room and started roaring.

"What do you mean? What were you talking about?"

Jiang Xueming silently put down his luggage, told the story that Diamond had told before, and finally re-read the epilogue.

"Our contact said that he and you are old acquaintances. The Wendy Mills in your heart does not exist at all. Our secondary mission target is the hallucination in your mind."

Jason gritted his teeth, his eyes were red, and his hair was almost standing on end with anger.

"How is it possible? Don't you believe me? Even you want to lie to me? It's impossible! This is Diamond lying! He doesn't want me to go to RSH to seek death again! He is so selfish, he just wants me to live a good life. "

Jiang Xueming: "Then I believe you."

Jason only had doubts in his eyes: "Really?"

Jiang Xueming: "You know what kind of person I am. I seldom talk nonsense. If you think Wendy is still alive and she is real, then I will believe what you say."

Jason hesitated, his expression changed again and again, as if he was also doubting himself.

"So... except for my investigative mission."

Jiang Xueming immediately interrupted: "We will continue to look for her. We want to see people when we live, and we want to see corpses when we die. Since the corpses are gone, we will find a way to hold a psychic ceremony. If she becomes a spiritual disaster, at least you can see her." one side."

Jason frowned and smiled angrily: "You can fucking talk."

Jiang Xueming: "Thank you for the compliment."

The wind and snow outside the window gradually weakened, and there was only the movement of the floor heating and the air purifier in the simple room.

After Meteor opened the room, he knocked on the door and called Xueming to rest.

Before leaving, Xue Ming and Jason asked about the upcoming itinerary.

"Leader, how much free time do I have?"

"We're leaving in twelve hours."

"Where are you going?"

"Pavlov Engineering Station, this is the first station leading to RSH. It is a high-voltage substation. There are still people guarding it. We need to exchange information with them and ask about the spiritual disaster concentration and madness index in the area."

"how to get to?"

"Driving there, I spent a lot of money and asked someone to transport two Hummers. Can you drive?"

"no problem."

Jason wanted to say a few more words, to have a heart-to-heart talk with Jiang Xueming, but he couldn't—

—There was so much time just now, so much silence.

His memory is so clear, every smile of Wendy Mills is vivid in his memory.

He really wanted to ask Jiang Xueming for advice, and there was a moment of self-doubt in his heart.

Since he returned to the Albert Research Station, these strange and familiar people and things have brought him back to three years ago, and the thing that has not changed is——

——Whether it is the owner of the Red Nail Inn, or Diamondnov, or other people who fear him, respect him, and know his deeds.

Without exception, they all believed that Jason Megan broke into RSH's outpost three years ago alone.

If it weren't for this experience, where did these strong Slavs feel awe of Jason?

Xue Ming didn't give Jason an extra chance, and left directly——

——He is not good at dealing with twisters, if he doesn't want to speak up, he can stay in his next life and make it clear.

He wanted Meteor to go back to his room to sleep, but he knocked on the door of the little waiter Katyusha himself.

I saw the door of the timid girl's house opened, as if she was frightened by the unruly people in this poor mountain, saw Jiang Xueming's face clearly, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiang Xueming stood in front of the door and didn't go in.

"Ask something."

Katyusha nodded: "You ask, is it about my husband?"

Jiang Xueming: "What happened to his ex-girlfriend? Have you ever found out?"

Katyusha thought for a while, hesitated in her heart, and finally spoke slowly.

"I'm not sure, but the boss said——When Mr. Jason joined the Abyss Railway System, Polarizer Sextant didn't assign him a waiter."

Jiang Xueming: "The meaning of this is that Wendy Mills is really a dummy? She never existed?"

"No, it's not." Katyusha shook her head, with fear in her eyes: "According to the passenger logs at the station, there is indeed such a waiter in our system, and it is always connected with Mr. Jason's mission records." The hooks are all right."

Jiang Xueming: "Oh, did Jason bring his childhood sweetheart here for a ride?"

"That's not what it means. All in all, it's very mysterious." Katyusha squinted her eyes and didn't know how to describe it for a while. She searched her head for a long time, trying to find an appropriate metaphor.

"Jiang Xueming, the person Mr. Jason thinks about day and night, does exist, but it doesn't exist—as far as the driving log is concerned, all the records of the two of them three years ago were written in two ways, two completely Various audio recordings, as well as well-documented videotapes and photographs."

"There is still a video?" Xue Ming was surprised: "Then does she exist or not?"

Katyusha took out a photo from her pocket, which was a photo of Jason Meghan with his fellow team members in the secret library.

Xue Ming carefully looked at the people in the photo. Jason was very young at the time. He had no nasolabial folds on his face, and he didn't have such ruthless eyes. , as tall as him.

"This is."

Katyusha talked about Jason's past.

"Mr. Jason is able to control twenty-four lapis lazulis because of his special psychic talent. He has outstanding inspiration and keen observation skills, and he is fully capable of working as a train fireman, but he is unwilling to join the train crew. These partners are Jason. Mr.’s classmates at the Galahad School of Magic. And the one next to him, Wendy Mills, came to the station with him and directly entered the waiter system. The waiter can still be found in the electronic file."

Xue Ming: "He was so handsome when he was young?"

Katyusha pursed her lips and focused on the key points: "Who hasn't been young? Let's talk about it. Wendy Mills is definitely not a phantom in his head. This waiter really exists in the railway system of Nine Realms Station. There are even records of more than one emergency call bell operation."

"I know this." Jiang Xueming straightened his mind: "This eldest sister disappeared during the mission of calling the bell urgently."

Katyusha: "Yes, think about it. Mr. Jason is just a passenger, he can't work two jobs, and it's impossible for him to dress up as a woman and become two people due to schizophrenia."

Jiang Xueming: "How much do you know about RSH three years ago? What happened then?"

"It's a β-level secret, I know a thing or two - when the BOSS talked about this matter, there was only one requirement for Mr. Jason. The task, even if another VIP came. But Mr. Jason was unwilling to help the Soviets, and it was not until Ms. Wendy was summoned by the emergency summons that Mr. Jason reluctantly came to this sad place." Katyusha spoke for her employer, with a clear standpoint: "Think about it from the standpoint of Mr. Jason—his country, his family, his lover, these tragedies are all related to the Soviet Union, and it is impossible for people to repeat them in one place. Falling down so many times, can he afford to provoke him or hide? But Ms. Wendy did not refuse this call, so Mr. Jason went crazy for three years until he met you as a hunter. I feel sorry for him. After I entered the station, the first employer that BOSS and I arranged was him. I came from the same place as him, but the blood flowing in my body is not the same. I can speak his native dialect, but he put me As a stranger. He didn't ask my name until recently, which shows how deeply he has stereotyped Cossacks and Slavs."

"Understood. Take a good rest." Jiang Xueming asked these things clearly, but his doubts became more: "I'll see you in twelve hours."

[Part② Uninvited Guest]

The wind and snow gradually stopped, and the condensed water in the underground cavity gathered in the man-made water channel of the Soviet Palace along the winding spiral tunnel. It was purified and sterilized by the water circulation system, and waited for the floor heating and production activities to turn them into hot steam and fly up again. The midair turned into wind and snow again.

The two teams were at the end of the East Avenue, and Anonymous's partners were fully armed and boarded the armored vehicle.

The feeling of revisiting the old place is terrible. For Jason, this trip is like having a major operation in the atrium three years ago. Now the stitches have to be removed.

The people from the Red Nails Hotel came to see them off, and the fat-headed resident workers had fake smiles on their faces, hoping that these distinguished guests would come again.

Jason complained to Xue Ming in a low voice.

"Look at this group of worthless bastards, they are all fakes."

Xue Ming: "I'm not familiar with the place, can you explain it to me in detail?"

Jason dragged Diamond into the car and decided to take this little friend with him.

"They bully Diamond every day, because Diamondnov will not fight back, and will not show his sharp teeth to these cowards who have been poisoned by poison gas. Just hearing my name, they think I am a warrior who returned from hell, Just a quick glance can scare them so much they can't even hold a fake gun."

Xue Ming: "These people seem to call themselves Soviets?"

Jason: "That's why they are fakes - now the BOSS doesn't need them to carry out production activities, and they are just eating and waiting to die every day, but whenever anyone wants to escape from this city, they will immediately become socialist pioneers, talking about all kinds of things. A mystical vocabulary."

Diamond watched the crowd getting farther and farther outside the window with lingering fear, and finally heaved a sigh of relief.

"They call me a traitor!"

Jason: "Yes, traitor."

Diamond added: "They wanted me to hang up a banner and parade through the streets, saying that I was a thief who was a remnant of corruption and couldn't live on my salary."

Jason: "Yes, thief."

Diamond pursed his lips full of grievances: "But, they don't do any work themselves. They only need to help the people in the scientific research station to resist spiritual pressure every day. Why do they attack me? Hurt me? I just want to do more Well, get some more money."

Jason rolled his eyes: "Maybe you're not a child of the Soviet Union. You're a child of Russia."

"Are they from the Soviet Union? Are my fellow workers from the Soviet Union?" Diamond didn't understand: "But before they were born, there was no Soviet Union anymore."

Jason started the car and ended the topic.

"Shut up - half of the power of your mouth is given to your body, and it's not up to me and Wendy to rescue you."

Diamond obediently stuck to the seat and fastened his seat belt, and Xue Ming sent Brother Dai a bulletproof helmet.

Two Hummers flashed their flashing lights in front of the mountain road to signal, and Jason and the driver of the other car, A Ling, gave thumbs up, and then began to lead the way as the car in front.

In the other car, the atmosphere is much more relaxed.

Specifically - a carnival of two VIPs.

It was their first time in this goddamn son of a bitch backwater.

Along the dark and steep mountain road, there is no means of communication, no terrain detection equipment, no specific mission instructions, no detailed information about the enemy, and almost all teammates are dragging oil bottles, little treasures who are looking for death across levels.

All this made Su Ling extremely excited.

The colossal statue of the Palace of Soviets behind him is getting farther and farther away, and the arm of the giant of science is soaring to the sky.

The road ahead is hidden in thick black mist, and the ultra-ancient fossil forest leaves only flat round tree stumps buried deep in the stones, from which the petroleum gas and poisonous gas seeping out can kill people.

There are still more than 160 kilometers away from the Pavlov substation.

After crossing two mountains, they have come to the deepest place that human beings have explored.

From the Albert Research Station to here, the 16-kilometer complex mountain range is far away.

All that's left is a piece of wet soil mixed with chiral molecular highly toxic sludge.

The rubber tires left several shafts in this wilderness, and a waterfall fell from the Elephant Trunk Mountain in the far distance, crashing into the extremely dense Dead Sea. The rumbling sound of water was like the breathing of some giant.

The abnormal electric field environment makes this road change again and again.

From time to time, phantoms in the fog can be seen outside the car window.

What the hell are those things?

Jiang Xueming couldn't explain clearly, couldn't figure it out.

It's like in the blue and black smoke, you can still see invisible phantoms one by one. If you push the fog away, even if he has inspiration, he can see the ghosts in the world.

But these out-of-phases produced by the abnormal electric field are recorded in this wilderness just like the afterimages left by the thunder when the creatures move here.

Fortunately, there is also an official road here, which is a road created by tens of thousands of tons of sand and gravel after decades of natural settlement.

It can only pass one car at the same time, Xue Ming knows that these gravels are the ballast arranged in advance for the construction of the railway. It's just that it's already deserted before the sleepers and steel rails can be put on.

The bogs on both sides of the road looked softer and more dangerous.

Occasionally, one or two shapes of human faces can be seen, under the reflection of the car lights, floating on the sludge. When their facial features see the light, they immediately open and close, distort and deform, turning into a pair of palms, and then disappear quickly No, very afraid of light.

Jason honked his horn vigorously, and kept reminding the cars behind not to get stuck in these quagmires. The rubber tires couldn't stand this harsh environment, so he had to walk back to the scientific research on foot with only his two legs and the supplies on the car. Standing is almost impossible.

At this moment, a flexible white light curtain hung on Jason's car.

It comes from Su Ling's spiritual body, from the phoenix.

The voice of the driver of the rear car, A Ling, came from the radio station.

"I heard it! I heard it! Don't press it! It's so noisy!~"

Jason was surprised and delighted: "You still have this ability? Why didn't you use it sooner?"

"So you're still from Beijing? Why didn't you speak human sooner with this language talent?" A Ling first teased Jason's accent, and then explained: "Maintaining the communication between the two vehicles consumes a lot of power. , I don’t need money for stones?”

With this light curtain as a traction marker, Jason also confidently moved forward and continued to lead the way.

It's just that in the other car, the attitude of the two VIPs shaking their heads while singing and dancing made him a little confused.

Right now, right now—

——Behind the Great Waterfall of Elephant Trunk Mountain, in a low and dirty pit-mouth cave.

A man squatted halfway behind the black mud flow, raised his binoculars, and followed the light source of the wilderness plain to look out.

He wears a pressure-resistant diving suit with a jet-black coating of hydrophobic nanomaterials, a gold-and-red carriage and a sun.

He picked up the sniper rifle.

It's an M24 bolt-action rifle.

Then put it down again.

Because he finally saw clearly that the people in the car seemed to be wearing heavy Russian armor, even the co-pilot of the car in front was also wearing a steel helmet.

These unknown intruders may affect the salary king's hunting of dead giants and capture of undead runes.

He just took a few more glances, and immediately put on the lanyard and hook rope, going back to his companion to deliver the news.

At the same time, Xue Ming, Teacher A Ling and Teacher Xia Xia all looked in the direction of Elephant Trunk Mountain at the same time.

Just now, there was a cold, vicious, foul-smelling spiritual pressure rushing over.

Although it is very weak, it is almost insignificant compared to the concentration of spiritual disasters in the wilderness.

Xue Ming said: "I feel that someone is watching us."

A Ling said: "It's a man, the relative distance is 1,400 meters, he ran away."

Xia Xia said nervously: "He wanted to shoot, and a kind of evil thought rushed over, like a burr in a shoe, which hurt my sole."

Xue Ming asked: "Is it the salary king?"

A Ling replied: "Definitely not. Judging by the spiritual pressure, it should only be considered firewood - at this stage, such an organization calls itself [Stairway to Heaven], and only individuals that start to burn and release light and heat to the outside world can be called [Salary King], that is a completely different kind of Reiatsu, and it is completely different from this kind of hide-and-seek rats."

Xia Xia's translator translated: "It's the minion of King Salary, a follower, who is here to keep watch."

When Mr. Jason heard the conversation between the three on the radio, he was surprised from ear to ear.

Jiang Xueming has a keen sense of inspiration, he knows it.

But the two VIPs can even sense whether they are male or female, how far away they are, and what they want to do to the vehicle. This is too outrageous.

Jason didn't believe in evil, he wanted to try it too, and was just about to put on the lapis lazuli bracelet.

Xueming and Katyusha immediately covered Jason's right hand in gear.

Diamond kindly advised from the side.

"Don't, don't, don't! Don't! Brother! Brother! It won't happen!"