Chapter 146: Extinction of Winter Harbor

When the front of the train plunged into the thick fog and disappeared, everyone gradually came to their senses.

"How could this happen? Where is the car behind?"

"I seem to see Commander Chen in the car?"

"I saw him too. The red clothes are too conspicuous. You can see it at a glance!"

"Why didn't Commander Chen stop to save us?"

"This train doesn't even have a car. How could he take us? He must have run away by himself first!"

"Just now, there seemed to be someone next to Commander Chen... I didn't see it clearly."

"Is it Zhao Yi? If I'm not mistaken."

"..."

Everyone was talking, looking at the front of the train with envy...

"Don't look... Let's go." Boss Xu shook his head, "Commander Chen can't save us. We can only rely on ourselves..."

The whizzing front of the train did not change the fate of everyone. They envied and sighed, and continued to move forward.

At the same time, in the train operation room

"Chen Ling, I think I saw Boss Xu and his friends just now." Zhao Yi rubbed his eyes and spoke uncertainly.

"Oh."

"Don't we give them a ride?"

"It's such a small place, three or five people are already the limit, how can we give them a ride?"

Zhao Yi opened his mouth, but finally fell silent.

"I... I can shrink a little." A subtle voice came from the side.

Zhao Yi looked at the corner of the operating room and saw that the girl was sitting on the ground with her legs hugged, silently shrinking her body together, occupying only a very small space, even smaller than a watermelon.

Zhao Yi couldn't help but feel funny, "No one is getting on the bus now, why are you shrinking so hard?"

The girl buried her head in her knees and said nothing.

Zhao Yi didn't need to drive, and there was nothing to do standing, so he simply squatted in front of the girl and asked softly:

"By the way, I still don't know your name?"

"I... my grandma calls me Ling'er."

"Ling'er." Zhao Yi nodded, "How did you get on the train?"

"My grandma brought me here... Grandma told me to sneak under the train and get into the train without being discovered, and she would pick me up when the train arrived." Ling'er pursed her lips and answered in a low voice.

Zhao Yi fell silent.

According to Ling'er, she and her grandma were both old and young, and it was impossible for them to walk to Aurora City, so the only way was to take this train... And maybe the grandma knew that she couldn't get on the train, so she gave her such a solution. As for her, she was probably shot by law enforcers.

At the station, Zhao Yi lost his father, and Ling'er lost her grandma. Their fates were very similar, which made Zhao Yi feel even more compassionate.

"My name is Zhao Yi. If you have any problems in the future, just come to me!" Zhao Yi patted his chest and said.

Then, as if he had thought of something, he hesitated and spoke again,

"Well... His name is Chen Ling. Sometimes, it may be more useful to find him than to find me..."

Chen Ling did not participate in their communication, but just operated the train seriously. The last time he saw such an antique-level thing was in a museum in his previous life. If there was no operating manual in the control room, it would not be easy for him to make this thing move.

Even so, the train stopped from time to time, until a familiar platform slowly approached after a long time.

"We're here."

Chen Ling jumped off the front of the train, and Zhao Yi followed closely with Ling'er.

They looked at the dead town in front of them. There was no human presence at all. In the faint mist, only the biting cold wind from the frozen sea shuttled through the houses, making a low humming sound.

"Is this Winter Harbor?" Zhao Yi shivered with cold, "It feels much colder than District 3..."

Ling'er seemed to be frightened by the wind, her face was pale, and she held on to Zhao Yi's clothes tightly.

"No one... It seems that this place has also fallen."

Chen Ling frowned slightly, "Be careful, there may be disasters here."

Hearing this, Zhao Yi's face suddenly became a little ugly, and he couldn't help asking, "Chen Ling, what are we doing in this ghost place?"

"Follow me."

Chen Ling didn't answer him, but simply identified the direction and walked forward quickly.

Seeing this, Zhao Yi had no other choice, holding Ling'er's hand and quickly followed. A faint mist drifted in the dim town. As everyone gradually walked into the town, a strong smell of blood penetrated their noses.

Chen Ling's eyes swept over the houses on both sides. There were no signs of violent destruction, and there were no bodies on the road. The whole town was quiet, as if it was asleep...

Chen Ling narrowed his eyes slightly, walked straight to a house, and gently pushed open the door.

Squeak——

As the door opened, the house was also dark. On the bed in the deepest bedroom, a figure lay quietly, with a swollen neck and round eyes, and he was no longer breathing.

"What smells so bad?" Zhao Yi stood at the door and couldn't help covering his nose.

At the same time, he did not forget to stretch out his other hand to cover Ling'er's eyes. Although the body was far away, it was always bad for the child to see it.

"It's sea water."

Chen Ling bent down and rubbed his fingertips gently on the ground. A water stain stuck to his fingertips, emitting an indescribable stench.

Chen Ling pushed open several other doors in succession. The situation was similar to the previous one, and even the way of death was exactly the same. Even the streets of the town were full of this sea water.

Chen Ling's brows were getting tighter and tighter. According to the memory in his mind, he walked along the street to a grocery kiosk and pushed open the closed small window.

A woman's body was lying on the table of the grocery kiosk. In front of her hand was a telegraph device, but a string of information seemed to have not been completely sent before it was strangled here.

Chen Ling certainly recognized her. When he came to Winter Harbor before, he met with the Twilight Society in this grocery kiosk. This woman was also an outer member of the Twilight Society. Before she died, she should have been trying to pass on information to the Twilight Society.

"Do you know her?" Zhao Yi asked doubtfully when he saw Chen Ling's complicated look.

"... I don't know her."

Chen Ling took a deep breath and spoke slowly:

"Something has come ashore from the frozen sea... All the residents of Winter Port should have died in their sleep without any defense."

Zhao Yi was startled, his eyes extended along the main road of the town to the sea deep in the mist. In the extremely quiet environment, the sound of the waves was as clear as someone rubbing sandpaper.

"Then... is that thing still there?"

"It's hard to say." Chen Ling shook his head.

"In short, we should speed up."