Chapter 578: Being a Naughty Child in Troubled Times 41
Chapter 578: Being a Naughty Child in Troubled Times 41
It's okay to help with work in the same village, but no one would want to leave their hometown and go to the provincial capital.
Gungun did not treat them unfairly. He gave them enough severance pay so that they could build houses and buy land, which made the relationship between master and servant worthwhile.
I originally thought I wouldn't be able to sleep. After all, the train is unstable and noisy, and they can't possibly block all five senses. If something happens, they won't be able to notice it. So, besides feeling dizzy, my ears also suffered a bit.
Unexpectedly, the swaying made them dizzy. In addition, they got up early in the morning and swayed on the mule cart for more than two hours. It was the afternoon when people liked to take a nap, so they finally fell asleep in a daze.
"Boom—squeak—"
There was a loud noise, followed by the train shaking violently and the harsh sound of wheels rubbing against rails.
Because the train stopped suddenly, the people lying on the bunk beds rushed forward due to inertia and were squeezed together in an instant. Xiao Yun and others were not spared.
"Ouch! What's going on? Get up quickly, you're crushing me~"
"what happened?"
"what happened?"
"Why did the car stop?"
"Was there a loud noise just now?"
In an instant the carriage became noisy and chaotic. People who were drowsy were woken up immediately by the brakes, and people who were standing in the aisle and chatting quietly bumped into each other.
Everyone got up and looked out the car window, some even stuck their heads out.
Xiao Yun and the others followed everyone, but they also released their spiritual consciousness at the same time. They saw that the second to last carriage at the back had already fallen to the side of the track along with the last carriage. Flickering flames shot out from the gaps between the iron sheets, indicating that it was the one that had just made the explosion.
Xiao Yun felt a little embarrassed. He had just said that no one would attack the train, but now it happened, and it happened while they were riding on it. He couldn't accept this no matter what.
Fortunately, the following carriages were carrying cargo, so there should be no casualties.
Just as he thought of this, Xiao Yun was slapped in the face again. He saw that the door of the carriage that was tilted sideways was opened from the inside, and five or six burning men crawled out. They jumped down while screaming, and when they jumped to the ground, they began to roll around, trying to put out the fire on their bodies.
It was the staff on the train who ran over and covered them with quilts, thus putting out the fire. However, those people were still lying on the ground wailing, and they had no strength to get up.
At the same time, huge flames broke out in the carriage, accompanied by billowing smoke. It was obvious that there were flammable materials inside.
Xiao Yun probed inside with his spiritual sense and found that it was actually cloth and cotton. This stuff is indeed flammable, but it will not explode, so the loud noise just now should be someone setting off a bomb.
I just don't know why the other party blew up that carriage. Could those be military supplies?
Through the window you could see the raging fire over there. The entire carriage had been engulfed in flames. Fortunately, the conductor reacted quickly and pulled out the pins connecting the carriages at the first opportunity. That's why only the two rear carriages derailed and overturned. There was also a certain distance between them and the front carriage, so at least the entire carriage wouldn't be burned down.
Of course, forget about expecting someone to put out the fire. There are no fire extinguishers and no water around, so if anyone goes there, it will just cause more trouble.
However, the train attendants did not just stand by and watch. After carrying the burned people to the front carriage, they took shovels and started shoveling dirt from the roadside. Then they filled the front of the burning carriage with the dirt and shoveled the grass on both sides to prevent the fire from spreading with the wind. They created a simple isolation zone.
Xiao Yun suddenly thought of something and quickly extended his spiritual sense into each carriage, starting to search each carriage one by one, trying to find any suspicious people or whether any of them had been placed with explosives.
You won’t know until you see it. It’s shocking. People in the back carriages are squeezing into the front carriages, as if the front carriages are safer.
But there are already enough people in the front carriage, and now it is even comparable to the Spring Festival travel rush in later generations.
Xiao Yun roughly observed the expressions of those people. Most of them looked terrified and worried. Some of them were brave enough to stretch their necks to look outside like them.
Of course, there were some who remained calm and collected, but the ones who lowered their hats and walked towards other carriages were obviously not right. It was obvious that there was something wrong, and they were dressed in the classic spy style.
Xiaoyun wanted to sigh. It was like wearing a nightgown and covering her face in broad daylight. It was almost as if I was a bad guy written all over my face.
Xiao Yun locked onto them with his spiritual sense, but did nothing. Instead, he followed them, wanting to see their purpose and whether they had other accomplices.
It was soon discovered that they first stayed in the three middle carriages, and one continued to move forward and had reached the third carriage. Was he going to the control room in the front?
The train has stopped now. Going to the control room can't mean driving the train away, right?
Xiao Yun left a wisp of spiritual consciousness to stare at him, then probed into the control room in front, used his spiritual consciousness to cover the entire control room and scanned it, and then found a large box of guns, ammunition and explosive packs!
That thing was buried in the coal pile next to the boiler. Of course, the explosive pack wouldn't explode unless it was ignited.
Judging from the marks on the ground, the pile of coal should have been twice as much before. The guns and ammunition were buried in a place where there was just a thin layer left that would soon be exposed. Even the timing was calculated.
It seems that the opponent's ultimate goal is here, and they are deliberately creating chaos to disrupt vision.
Xiao Yun put those things together with the spy into the space, and then asked Gun Gun and Bai Qiu to hold her body while her soul returned to the space.
The man had been knocked unconscious by himself and was lying on the ground. The little wolf was sniffing him with its nose.
The little wolf is the cub of the alpha wolf. It has grown very big now, even bigger than its wolf father. Xiao Yun used to go into the space and hold it in her arms, which made it dislike staying in the woods with the wolf pack. Xiao Yun also indulged it and let it stay in her ice crystal palace.
So this wolf was not only raised by her to be smooth and sleek, but also had become intelligent and able to practice cultivation. Xiao Yun handed it over to A Yuan for instruction, and believed that it would be able to transform soon.
"Boss! You finally came in. I haven't seen you for several days~"
As soon as the little wolf saw Xiao Yun, he no longer paid attention to the things on the ground and started circling around her.
He learned the name "Boss" from A Yuan and the others. Xiao Yun felt that it was inconvenient to call someone "Master" in public as it would easily attract attention, so the name "Boss" was generally used throughout history.
"Be good~ Wait until we get to the provincial capital, and I'll take you out to play then."
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