Abyss Express

"What's in the suitcase?" 9527's tone gradually turned cold, and his expression became pale.

Chief Nanami's voice became weaker and weaker: "Nanami can't tell. It's related to Class β secrets."

"That's good!" Seventh Brother quickly got out of the car and pulled Jiang Xueming and Bu Liuxing out of the car—to ask the two passengers to avoid these sensitive topics for the time being.

She took another suitcase from Xueming's hands, and returned to the car with two "bait bombs", closed the doors and windows, and had a relatively private environment.

Immediately afterwards——

——9527 began to talk about the roulu words at the station, followed the procedures, and showed his ID.

"I am a waiter at the Nine Realms Station of the Abyss Railway General Administration. My job number is 9527. This is my ID. Ms. Chaoxiang Nanami, I request to share information with you to unlock the procedure——according to the regulations of the station, the same level When you ask your superiors to unlock information, you need to show your ID card, passenger ID card, employee ID card and Braille security card without reservation. As a waiter at the station, I have made two formal requests to you, asking you to show Own papers. This is my ultimatum."

[Name: Bai Zijin (QingQing·Bai)]

[Age: 21 years old]

[Position brief title: Nine Realms Station Staff, Transferred Waiter]

[Staff specific information: Ms. Bai Zijin was born in Shanwei and lived with her father since she was a child.

Her mother used to be a passenger, went to the business school for further study, and is still doing some small business at the trade transfer station of the Seventh Transportation Department. The husband and wife used to get together less and stay away more. When Zijin was seven years old, his parents divorced because of the vastly different family environment and career.

When Ms. Bai Zijin was fifteen years old, she embarked on a journey of searching for her relatives alone, and her supernatural inspiration led her to find a ticket. She was a clever little ghost with outstanding talent and vicious methods, and she successfully completed the investigation task.

The thing that gives me a headache as a BOSS is that no matter how powerful the panacea in the world is, it can't heal the rift in a family.

Ms. Zijin's mother had reorganized her family in the underground world long ago, and when she saw her daughter, she didn't have a good face.

This hot-tempered little girl began to make trouble in the Seventh Traffic Bureau. She changed her name to Bai Qingqing, and found a job as a newsboy nearby, providing people with half-truth and half-fake gossip, and also likes to steal things.

In the underworld's motley faction, she has very deep connections-she has gone to great lengths to get that arrogant mother to look at her once, even if it uses some unconventional violence.

She directed and acted on her own, and set fire to the shops on two streets with her friends, and asked people from the fire department to help put out the fire, and when she rescued her biological mother from the fire like a hero, she successfully got the answer—the woman seemed to be only Concerned about her new husband and another child.

After this operation, Ms. Bai Zijin also successfully sent herself to the land reclamation team. As a tainted witness, she found many illegal and criminal armadillo hunters for the station, as well as bad guys who secretly sold hallucinogenic drugs and contraband.

In the desolate underground depths, she worked with the engineering team to build various infrastructures. During the four years of her sentence, she performed very well and completed the basic courses of high school and university.

The rich experience in the underground world allowed her to learn multiple languages, and by the way, she took an IELTS test.

When she went home to visit her father occasionally, she was also accompanied by the former armed employee 3301, and there was no sign of violent resistance to the law.

After a rigorous evaluation, we finally decided to let this young girl take up an important position as a waiter. After all, the network of contacts she built in the Seventh Transportation Department is too complicated. It is very dangerous to let her stay away from the jurisdiction of the station and regain the freedom of passengers. matter. Maybe one day I can see her continue to play with fire with her former friends.

She has gone through three [transformations], and has the contact information of eight VIPs. One of the VIPs and the accompanying attendant once personally taught Ms. Bai Zijin how to use pyroxene and sticks correctly——according to the VIP log investigation report we received , that's [DATA EXPUNGED] and [DATA EXPUNGED].

To this day, she still works as a waiter at Nine Realms Station. ]

[Hello, if you see this ID, please treat this waiter well, it means that she has completely let go of her guard against you, or has performed an information unlocking procedure on you—be sure to be honest about all the information you know Inform the experienced and savvy waiter. ]

[Although she looks a little lazy, the long-term confinement life after becoming a waiter, mobile games have made her unmotivated. ]

[But I have to remind you that Ms. Bai Zijin is not a very talkative person, don't try to deceive her, she has heard more lies in the underground world than you can imagine. ]

After showing the staff certificate.

9527 immediately took out the security card.

[Subject: Bai Zijin]

[Polarizing sextant review result]

[Verification time: July 19, 2024]

[Inspiration: Out of spec]

[Spirit: A+]

[Combat Skill: Out of Specification]

[Crazy Index: A]

[Will to Survive: Out of Specification]

[Intracranial Contraband·Spiritual Calamity Concentration: 78%]

9527 put away the card, took out the phone and turned on the recording function, and ordered in Japanese: "Give me all the clues you know, including the information on this suitcase, and your employee ID, and tell me honestly."

"All of them?" Nanami licked her dry lips and teeth, feeling coy in her heart.

9527 clasped his hands together, began to study the two suitcases, and explained casually: "There are no other passengers here, so you don't have to worry about the things involved in the confidentiality agreement. The purpose of the summoning bell is to help the passengers solve their problems. I It's here to help you, not to fix you."

Nanami took out two large iron boxes from her clothes, which were her annual inspection and security check cards over the years, as well as the employee's updated and iterated certificates.

"Then let me think about it."

"Think slowly, don't say something wrong, don't say something wrong."

"Well, Master Waiter, you give me a very warm and handsome feeling, although you are so much younger than me"

"No small talk during working hours, thank you."

The armed employee hesitated for a while, and finally said, "Actually, I'm not Nanami, I'm Jessica."

I didn't understand 9527. What I said was endless and hard to understand.

"Expand these two names and explain them in detail."

This rabbit-tooth cherry blossom girl pointed to the suitcase with a complicated expression: "The real Asaka Nanami is in this box. I am her sister, and my name should be Jessica."

9527 was stunned for a moment——

—she wasn't ready, not ready to open the box. Although I have thought of some things before, I haven't had time to confirm them yet.

Jessica handed over her employee ID and security check card, which were two large iron boxes. From 1990 to today, all the documents are stored inside.

The date of the last security check was July 14, 2024, not long ago.

After handing over the things, Jessica breathed a sigh of relief, like handing over a time bomb.

"The Death Puppet Agency was originally not called by this name. Waiter, this matter should start from the initial accident—as you mentioned just now, I will also tell you about the content of the confidentiality agreement."

9527 looked out of the window——

——The two passengers sat obediently on the edge of the curb, motionless, very self-conscious.

"Go on, I've recorded it, and the inspection agency at the station will make a judgment based on the actual situation. Don't worry."

Jessica nodded, recalling the beginning of the story.

"A long, long time ago, this place was not called the Death Puppet Agency. It had another name called [Ancestor's Palace]. Do you know the history of this city? Waiter?"

9527 shook his head: "I never heard any rumors about this place when I was a child. It seems that the station's secrecy work is done very well."

Jessica pointed to the runes on the outer road, and the city lights further away.

"This was originally a huge group of relics - the city was built on the relics, and it was called [Ancestor's Palace]."

The city seemed to be breathing, and under the old ultraviolet headlights, the majestic mountains and the deeper foundation stone buildings were illuminated.

"There are runes here, which is a very magical power. Earlier, the Soviet Union and NATO have been competing for the right to develop here-many, many people, under the recommendation of the General Administration of Railways, came to settle here.

There are passengers and ordinary people. According to different identities, the station will arrange different positions, and the information obtained is very limited and has been kept in a state of secrecy. When Nanami and I were born, we were already the third generation of baby boomers. It was 1971. "

When 9527 heard this, he suddenly raised his hand to interrupt: "In other words, you are actually fifty-three years old this year?"

"Yes - I am [a desperado] too, just different from the people in the family building of the ironworks." When Jessica talked about this, her emotions were very stable, and she even pressed her hand on the hand-shaped steel plate of the madness index , to prove his innocence: "I am sober."

"Tell me the reason." 9527 saw the real age of Jessica/Nanami on the employee certificate, and his eyes stayed on the [Age: Unconfirmed] column.

"Nanami and I are of mixed Japanese-Russian blood." Jessica told the truth: "We are a pair of abandoned babies. We were thrown into the steel furnace and burned to death in the workshop of the Shiliuban Iron Works."

"Why?!" 9527 suddenly became emotional.

"Because mom and dad don't want us." Jessica said according to the work records of the uncle on duty in the factory: "They are not from the same work unit. They have different countries and different languages. During the chaotic Cold War period, in order to To relieve the psychological pressure of not being able to see the sun for a long time, to have fun and find someone to sleep with, it was a complete accident that my mother could give birth to us—at that time, abnormal phenomena had already begun to appear in this palace.”

Jessica recalled the past, recalled the story of growing up with Nanami and her two sisters in the cadre building of the ironworks, and told all about it.

"According to my uncle and aunt, before we were born, there would be an earthquake every half a month around the palace - a lot of supplies could not get in, and the newly repaired railway system would be paralyzed by the earthquake. medical supplies.

Uncles, aunts and others said that our mothers may have missed the best time to take medicine to induce labor, and did not dare to report this Japanese-Russian mixed-race newborn with their respective organizations, so they wanted to give birth to us and throw them into the steel furnace Destroy the body so no one will know - and they won't be punished. "

9527 was silent, she felt very uncomfortable - this reminded her of her biological mother.

When Jessica described these things, she was very, very calm, but the colder her tone—like Brother Seven's coldness when she heard Xue Ming narrate the past, the more sad it made her.

Jessica quickly waved her hand, skipping over these insignificant things, and talked about the business of [ancestor's palace].

"That kind of earthquake lasted for twenty years, like a heartbeat, like the heartbeat and breathing of a huge mountain. It wasn't until the station developed stronger materials and railway structures that this relatively closed city began to open to traffic stably. ——So Nanami and I volunteered to go to the station and find a formal job. The people of Jujuban Iron Works raised us, and the two of us wanted to do something for them, whatever. At least"

Speaking of this, Jessica gritted her teeth and clenched her hands: "At least let us feel that it should be better for us to come into this world than turning into steel and turning into steel, just a little bit, just so so, just a little bit."

9527 hugged this "little girl" who looked young but could be her mother and her grandmother, and hugged her tightly in her arms, she could feel the unwillingness of gnashing her teeth.

Jessica didn't shed tears, but her eyes became watery, and the dark blood that belonged to the outlaws scattered in her eyes, revealing the brown eyes of Slavic blood again. The mottled and messy golden and black hair on her head made her look like a delicate doll at the mercy of fate, a dead puppet.

"Master waiter, Nanami and I are going to Skydome Station in London—" Jessica dug out the earliest security check card from the iron box, "—we don't have much inspiration, no, BOSS doesn't want to let We ride for money and don't want us to go anywhere else, we're not discouraged at all! Not at all! Because BOSS is a good cat! It says."

Speaking of this, Jessica became happy.

"It says our blood tastes of iron! To be armed employees! To protect the men of the ironworks!"

"Nana and I are learning guns! Da da da da! da da da da! I'm very happy!"

"but."

There was a sudden silence in the car——

— Only the sound of Jessica sobbing remained.

Tears wet 9527's skirt and tie.

"But the disaster is coming." Jessica buried her head in Seventh Brother's chest, and whispered in a low voice: "The disaster is coming. I didn't use the disaster to come. Everyone is still preparing for the new year—— Nana and I There were two people working in shifts, and suddenly the sky fell."

"More than forty firefighters from the entire Seventh Division ran into the street, and they shouted—there's an earthquake! There's an earthquake!"

"Then I ran to the street to see that the two blast furnaces in District 4 and District 7 rolled out, molten iron flowed into the cracked ground, and many chimneys fell down. I was so stupid that I forgot to escape."

"I also heard sirens and people shouting loudly. Someone went to the royal court of the ruins and was stealing runes. I don't know where that royal court is, and I don't know much about runes. That's not what I, an armed employee, should do. Knowing things—the last thing I saw was that the big water tower collapsed and buried me, I think I'm going to die, right?"

9527 rubbed Jessica's hair, and replied softly: "Well, you're still alive."

"It's half dead." Jessica raised her head, turned on the tactical flashlight, and showed the wounds on her neck. They were originally hidden in the hair, and it was difficult to detect the flat cut: "Since that day, there have been no earthquakes, nor There are no new disasters. People bury the dead in the ground, and there will be corpses crawling out, and I crawled out-many people are afraid of me, but Nanami is not afraid of me, I was smashed into a pile of mud, There's only one head left, Nanami said, now I can't see anyone, so give me the body."

"Jessica is not for you, but for your use." There were faint words from the suitcase.

"Yeah! I lent it to me!" Jessica cheered up, and told 9527 about the BOSS: "The people from Tianqiong Station are here, and they don't care about us. We pester the BOSS and call it every day." Call, tell it our story. It cries once a day, every day, a good cat can’t see this kind of thing, and then gave us a head transplant operation in a big way! Good cat! LuckyDA☆ZE! It’s doing a good job ! It's well done!"

Jessica picked up the suitcase and shouted energetically: "We change every six months and take turns as bait bombs! This way we can protect each other well. We are Jessica! We are also Nanami!"

"Can't the panacea cure your injuries?" 9527 regretted it as soon as he asked - according to the boss's temper, if there are such a pair of little sisters harassing on the phone every day, the panacea can cure the disease , it has been cured a long time ago, this cat can hold a grudge, and will never stay overnight.

"It's useless." Jessica was depressed: "I'm afraid the BOSS also wants to know what Rune is, and also wants to control this terrifying and great power. It made us half-dead, as if everything stopped at the moment of the disaster." No, all life in this city is left on December 31, 1990. The panacea is useless—only the head replacement operation is performed on us every six months, and the BOSS has spent a lot of effort, The equivalent it proposes is requiring us to watch the stations for fifty-five years."

"Will you not be affected by this weird rune?" 9527 asked about the situation in the community: "The creatures in this family building cannot escape, but you can"

"When Nanami returns to this body, she will return to her original body. Occasionally she will be unhappy, and she will be taken back by Luen." Jessica explained: "But I won't, I want to , it should be that after this body has been replaced with a head, Rune can no longer recognize us."

"Boss wants you to continue to be the safety officers of the passengers. It's a good idea." 9527 was thinking about whether to tell Jiang Xueming all these things.

——This place was originally a desolate ancient ruins, because Rune became a bustling metropolis, and eventually became a city of the living dead.

Judging from Jessica's memories, someone once came here to steal the power of Rune, and wanted to steal this mystery that even the BOSS could not control for their own use, and this terrible natural disaster happened.

The later confidentiality agreement was also to protect the passengers, preventing them from having evil thoughts and touching these ancient mysterious creations.

Just at this time--

—— Nanami in the suitcase spoke.

"I want to read the manga Jessica, I heard you said that a passenger brought the latest "Chibi Maruko-chan" here."

That voice was very weak.

"Okay! I'll show you!" Jessica immediately opened one of the suitcases.

Inside the box was a complete head, wrapped in various shock-absorbing stuffing—Jessica and Nanami looked exactly the same.

It’s just that Nanami in the box is listless, has lost the support of the cardiovascular system, and her brain has been in a state of disability for a long time when she is working—it seems that another box contains Jessica’s body that was crushed into flesh due to a natural disaster .

Seeing this scene, the sentimental Seventh Brother suddenly cried out for no reason—like an air defense siren.

The beauty of Nana in the box seemed to trigger a long-standing memory, and she woke up for a while.

"Another earthquake!?"

"It's not Nanami, it's the waiter who is crying." Jessica opened the comic book, and hit the flashlight on the roof of the car, letting the strong light diffuse down, so that it would not be so dazzling, illuminating the title page of the comic book.

"Why is it still "Taro Tomita" this time? It's 2024, why are the surface people and passengers still reading this?" Nanami felt bored after reading the title of the comic book: "Forget it Forget it. Don't read it, I will continue to sleep, and call me good night if I have something to do."

"Good night." Jessica closed the lid of the box, turned her head, and took out her handkerchief, intending to comfort the young waiter 9527.

"Don't cry, don't cry! Don't cry! Don't be sad!"

Seventh Brother just kept sounding the alarm, almost crying until he was breathless.

"[ALL IN ALL·All in all], this is what I want to tell the waiter." Jessica emphasized while wiping Brother Seven's tears: "Although everyone is not very good now, not as lively as before , They find that the things in their hands are not good, they get old and broken, and they often turn into monsters and go crazy."

"But waiter, can you please, don't erase the runes of the family building of the Sixteen-Fan Iron Works. After the disaster, many people want to rebuild the city, as if nothing happened."

"We live as usual, we exercise as usual, we find clothes as usual, we work hard, we eat, and we spit out the life we ​​ate."

"It's like Chef Enrique, and other chefs are getting better and better. The food they make is very, very delicious! I will often bring them ingredients, but I can't bring live things in, because living things It may increase the concentration of spiritual disasters."

"Aunt Li sweeps the floor in the corridor, and the cleaning speed is getting faster and faster. Things are often broken. I promised her and kept bringing her new cleaning tools."

"Everyone, everyone who took care of me, everyone who raised me, and my best friend, my own sister"

9527 grabbed Jessica's clothes, wiped his nose and tears vigorously: "Stop it, don't say it, don't kill me!~I can't hear these words!~~"

"Whether it's Skydome Station, Nine Realms, or Reykjavik's Jushan Station, they won't send new supplies here." Jessica said worriedly: "The ping-pong bats in their hands! , the tennis racket is rotten, and occasionally I buy some back, so that they can be happy for a long, long, long time without turning into monsters. But I only have one person, and I can’t bring so many, and I can’t keep buying and buying, but also Some people want to smoke, and I like to smoke too, but cigarettes are so expensive at the trade transfer station, and I can’t go to the ground to buy them, and the BOSS won’t let me go—no one else will help me, only passengers will come occasionally.”

Speaking of this, Jessica looked at the two "little guys" on the curb outside the window.

"Mr. Bu Meteor, he was the first person to bring so many delicious and fun things, and even brought me cigarettes. Other passengers like Mr. Jiang Xueming also like to bring some strange explosives. But..."

Speaking of Jiang Xueming, Jessica was still very happy.

"They are very good-looking, really good-looking, and they can also make brooms. Aunt Li must like them very much, LuckyDA☆ZE!"

"So I would like to ask the waiter." Jessica turned to something serious, and petitioned Brother Qi: "Don't deduct my salary, I will work very hard and continue to buy things for them, and I won't let them hurt the passengers. Passengers listen to me, don't run around, don't talk nonsense, there will be no danger - don't let the lights of this building go out forever, okay?"

Seventh Brother then asked: "Didn't you tell the boss about these things?"

"We have troubled the BOSS many, many times. I am afraid that a good cat will gradually become a bad cat because of these things. It's like bad moods are contagious." Jessica drooped her eyelids, looking listless: "I Wanting to do what we can, we thought that just one community would take out both of our little brains, and it must be very hard work for a good cat to manage so many stations and so many people.”

"Yeah!" Seventh Brother just breathed a sigh of relief, seeing Jessica's pear blossom and rainy expression, he almost started crying again. "Don't worry! I can't just sit idly by! Wait a minute."

Following Seventh Brother's gaze, Jessica followed.

"What's that?"

On the edge of the window, there is a disposable paper cup.

It was the sample that Jiang Xueming chose for the takeaway packaging of the future coffee shop—it used cotton thread to pierce the bottom plate and hung it on the car window, just like the paper telephone receiver we played with when we were young.

The other end of the cotton thread was held in Jiang Xueming's hand.

Two young men were sitting on the edge of the curb, holding the receiver - Bu Liuxing was holding a large roll of toilet paper, not knowing what to say, and kept wiping away his tears and nose.

Hearing Ah Xing's faltering voice, "Such a comparison, my mommy really loves me."

Jiang Xueming kept silent, but said something to the paper tube when he heard that there was no movement in the carriage.

"Seventh brother, I'm sorry."

Nine Five Two Seven quickly cut off the recording, fearing that Jiang Xueming's voice would be recorded, and then sent the entire message back to the station.

She grabbed the paper tube and was very angry: "You are playing with fire! Employer! Don't be discovered by the BOSS! Eavesdropping on secrets will go to jail, and I will even sit there. I don't want to become a sexy pure prison style with you! !"

"But according to the situation you described." Jiang Xueming had some idea in his heart: "If you want to solve this problem effectively for a long time, I'm afraid you can't handle it alone."

Seventh Brother kept scratching his head: "Then you have a solution?"

"I'm a living person. According to what Officer Jessica said, I want these residents to continue to live without going crazy. Isn't this my professional field?" While writing and drawing in his notebook, Jiang Xueming said to the paper tube: "Please Seventh Brother find something and bring it here. As for the expenses, just deduct from my account. I should be causing trouble to Chief Jessica." gone."

"What are you going to do?" Seventh Brother didn't even open the car door. She felt that talking in paper tubes was very ceremonial and romantic.

"That's my β-level secret, how can I tell you casually? Miss Bai Zijin, oh, I'm sorry. Maybe you prefer me to call you Miss Bai Qingqing." Jiang Xueming pulled hard: "Hang up first, we have something to meet chat."

——The cotton thread of the paper tube snapped.

Xiaoqi saw Ah Xing's pink cell phone covered with double-sided tape in a dark corner above the carriage, and was also on a Bluetooth video call, and took pictures of everything just now.

Xiao Qi blushed all of a sudden, remembering the embarrassment she had just shed tears. It must have been ugly crying.

"The little clever ghost."