Chapter 654 - 312: Curtain Call Station_3
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Since leaving Town No. 10, the Eastern Train had faced many hardships, dwindling down from five to three people. Short-staffed, they spent their days dealing with Fortress agents and their nights exhausted by nightly tasks. That night was their best sleep until they were awakened by the automatic driving system announcing that they were 10 minutes away from Curtain Station. The time was 7:20 AM on the seventh day.
Though Curtain Town was small, with a similarly modest station, it boasted a plethora of train tracks, dozens of them, running tightly together. Between the tracks lay a complex network of switches. By moving these switches, it was possible to transfer the train onto an alternate track.
The stationmaster NPC locked everyone in for 10 minutes, introducing the new operations like a tutorial for beginners. Now, at the driver’s console, there were two new buttons, one on the left and another on the right. Press the left button when you need to switch to the track on the left; when approaching a junction where two tracks crossed, the train would follow the left track. If there were only two tracks to choose from, you had to choose either left or right; otherwise, the system would make a random selection for you.
Next, the stationmaster began to introduce the story background.
Curtain Town was the last town under the control of the Final Human Sanctuary. The villain, infuriated after learning that the ten special agents he had dispatched to kill Sasha failed, unleashed his ultimate weapon: the Nuclear Spider Train.
The news left Lin Maqing, Maya, and Lin Wu stunned into silence.
To understand the name, one must break it down: "nuclear" indicating its powerful drive and unlimited energy storage, "spider" referring to the zombie spiders, and "train" being just that, a train.
Lin Wu tried to understand, asking, "There’s a train engine coming to chase us, and this engine is either a spider or controlled by a giant spider?"
"You could think of it that way."