novelraw Chapter 209 Taiko and Bell at the End of the Tunnel
Chapter 209 Taiko and Bell at the End of the Tunnel
Chapter 209 Taiko and Bell at the End of the Tunnel
The train moves forward.
In the silent carriage, there was not even a voice broadcast, and the branches flashed past the dark car window like some kind of monster stretching out its bony hands.
Fengmian and Jiangtang sat on the seats.
"Will this train stop at Fengdu?" Jiang Tang still had a glimmer of hope, "Maybe the train from the southern border to Fengdu is like this, that's it..."
She didn't know how to describe this train.
"Weird." Feng Mian added what she wanted to express.
Only this word is the most suitable for their current situation. On a train with no other passengers, the scenery outside the window is all boring tree branches.
After a while, the train will drive into the tunnel, and then even those branches will not appear again, and the yellow lights in the tunnel will light up outside the window, as if the train is about to leave for the underworld.
Jiang Tang lay on the window of the car, and her fair face was clearly reflected in the window.
She wanted to look at the scenery outside through this car window, but there were always dead branches outside.
The train's route was completely dark, which meant that there wasn't even a single house with a light on.
The journey of more than ten minutes along the way was driven on this kind of deserted road. There were no street lights or other light sources nearby. Except for this train and the tunnel, everything else seemed to be swallowed by darkness.
Feng Mian glanced at the phone: "The signal has been gone since we got in the car."
Jiang Tang pursed her lips, lowered her head and looked at the time: "Yeah, half an hour has passed, and the car hasn't stopped..."
"How about..." She thought for a while, "Shall we smash the door of the cab?"
When they checked the compartment before, they found that apart from the fact that there was no one in the compartment, the driver's cab was also strange, and the door was locked tightly, and they couldn't open the door with the strength of the two of them.
And the glass windows of the cab were also blocked by curtains, so they couldn't see what was going on inside.
Feng Mian tried to break the window, but he didn't know what material the window was made of, it was so hard that he hit it with a ball of fire and only a small piece was blacked out.
At that time, he controlled his ability to prevent the fireball from destroying the entire cab and causing the train to malfunction, so he did not forcefully break open the door of the cab.
Jiang Tang said that the customs may be different in each place, perhaps the trains in the southern border run in such an empty and dark place, and it may not be the practice of Fengdu.
After all, Fengdu itself is a place that cannot be defined by ordinary thinking. It is very special within the four realms, so the trains in Fengdu are a little strange... maybe it is normal?
But it was only a 10-[-]-minute drive, and now it has been more than half an hour. The train has not arrived at the station yet, and it is still moving forward at a constant speed, without any intention of stopping.
Obviously, Jiang Tang's guess was overturned, this is not the train to Fengdu at all.
When they were on the platform before, for some unknown reason, they deviated from the original path. It may have entered a certain enchantment, or it may be other reasons.
In short, they came to an inexplicable platform and boarded a train whose destination was unknown.
No wonder the few passengers who met on the road regarded them as nothing, and when they passed by them, they seemed to be invisible.
Feng Mian thought of the man who ran straight towards him, it seemed that the other party was not too aggressive, but that he really couldn't see himself and Jiang Tang.
This is a train that does not exist in reality.
Now it seems that the only solution proposed by Jiangtang is left - go to the cab to have a look.
I don't know where this train will go if it keeps going like this, hell?
Or it won't stop at all, just keep driving forward for a lifetime.
Feng Mian walked to the cab at the front of the car, and tapped on the door again, but there was still no response, and there was no one inside. He felt that there was a high probability that it was as empty as the compartment.
This car was probably in an unmanned driving state. I and Jiang Tang were the unlucky ones who happened to get on this non-existent train.
He concentrated the ability in his hand, and a huge fireball appeared in the palm of his hand, and then stood more than two meters away from the cab with Jiang Tang, to avoid being hit by flying glass debris after blowing up the doors and windows.
Just when Feng Mian was about to throw the fireball towards the gate, the train stopped unexpectedly.
The fireball in his hand was extinguished, and he turned his head and looked out the window.
The car seemed to sense their thoughts and stopped before he could force the cab open.
The door is open.
Feng Mian and Jiang Tang looked at each other at the door of the cab, the train didn't move, waiting for them to get off the train just like it waited for them to get on the train before.
He got out of the car, followed by Jiang Tang.
The moment they left the train, the train started again and moved forward again.
Feng Mian looked at the dark road in front of him, there was not a single house in the vicinity, and there were no street lights, the only light source was the moon in the sky that was not too bright and was mostly blocked by dark clouds.
There are a few crooked-neck trees on the side of the road, and their branches looked like ghosts in the car just now.
"Look over there!" Jiang Tang pointed to the ground on the side of the road ahead.
Feng Mian followed the direction of her finger and saw a small statue enshrined on the side of the road ahead, and a stone statue [-] to [-] centimeters high was placed on the side of the road.
There are dried fruits in front of the stone statue. I don't know how long these fruits have been stored. When I touched them, I found that they were so hard that they were about to turn into fossils.
He saw a tunnel tens of meters ahead, which was the same as the tunnel that the train passed just now, with yellow light emitting from the tunnel.
Apart from the dark night and ghostly branches, there are only endless tunnels one after another.
"Let's go and have a look."
Fengmian and Jiangtang went to the tunnel.
It was still pitch black at the end of the tunnel.
"Boom boom boom——"
"Ding--"
When we walked to the entrance of the tunnel, the sound of taiko drums and bells suddenly came from the other end of the tunnel. The beating sound was very regular, and the bells sounded very rhythmic, as if some kind of celebration or festival was being held ahead.
He looked at the end of the still dark tunnel: "Let's go over there and see what it is."
Jiang Tang obediently followed him.
When walking to the middle of the tunnel, Feng Mian suddenly felt an uncomfortable feeling of being watched.
This feeling... as if someone has been staring at him from behind.
He turned his head sharply.
!
There was a person standing at the entrance of the tunnel behind him, and Feng Mian didn't know if it was a person.
The guy had only one foot, and looked like a middle-aged man, dressed for work, with a wide-brimmed straw hat on his head to keep out the sun.
He was standing at the entrance of the tunnel, leaning on the wall of the tunnel entrance, looking over here.
Jiang Tang was taken aback by his actions: "What's wrong?"
She immediately turned her head, but she didn't see anything. The figure of the man disappeared in an instant.
It seemed as if what he saw just now was just an illusion.
He pointed to the entrance of the tunnel: "There was someone standing there looking at us just now."
(End of this chapter)