The time soon came to around two o'clock in the afternoon, and the sunshine outside the high-speed train window was still bright.
Wang Zhifan was sitting on a seat by the window. He looked away from the mobile phone screen in his hand and glanced at the mountain scenery that was quickly sweeping back outside the window.
At this time, the high-speed train he took was far away from Dongjiang City and was traveling in a relatively sparsely populated land, so the surrounding scenery gradually became more magnificent.
Suddenly, Wang Zhifan felt a little hungry, so he reached his hand under the seat, took out a bag of instant noodles from his personal space in a relatively discreet manner, and began to open the bag to eat.
This bag of instant noodles was still in stock when he was collecting supplies at Cataclysm Dungeon. The supplies he collected that time were still not bottomed out after he consumed them several times. There were still a lot of instant noodles, a few cans, a few bottles of water and a few bottles of wine left.
Originally, from the perspective of safety, Wang Zhifan did not plan to eat this kind of food in the real world, because he was a little concerned about whether the food produced by Cataclysm Dungeon contained any mutated viruses. But just now he searched on Player Forum and found that many players had done this kind of thing, but there are currently no problems in the real world, so he does not need to worry about it.
Eating instant noodles made from replicas and browsing the bustling Player Forum on the phone, Wang Zhifan was ready to take the high-speed train to Golden Forest City in comfort.
But accidents always happen unexpectedly. Just when he was in a calm mood, the high-speed train he was riding suddenly started to brake and slow down, and then quickly stopped on the driveway.
"Huh?"
Wang Zhifan suddenly felt a little confused. He looked away from the mobile phone screen and found that the other passengers in the carriage also had very surprised expressions. They didn't understand why the high-speed train stopped at this place. It was a standard place with no village in front and no shops in the back. There was no reason to stop at all.
"Conductor! What are you doing?! Why did the train stop suddenly?"
Some hot-tempered passengers immediately started shouting.
"Why did you stop the car?"
"How strange!"
"Did something happen up front?"
Other passengers also expressed doubts.
Just when the passengers were feeling a little unstable, the announcement in the high-speed train finally sounded, "Dear passengers, there is a temporary glitch on the road ahead. The maintenance crew is working hard to repair it. It is expected to be completed within half an hour. Please wait patiently on the train."
The female voice on the radio was calm and steady, full of reassuring persuasiveness. Soon the mood of the complaining passengers in the carriage stabilized, but some people still couldn't stop complaining.
"Hey! What a bad luck. I took this high-speed train just to rush for time. Why did it suddenly encounter a breakdown?"
"It's okay, it's only half an hour."
"Haha, it's half an hour. Believe it or not, we won't be able to leave in an hour."
Wang Zhifan did not join in the discussion among the passengers in the carriage. He continued to eat instant noodles and look at his mobile phone. When encountering this kind of thing, he had no good solution.
But just when he was about to wait patiently, he suddenly raised his head and looked out the car window. Outside the car window, in the distance in the direction of the current high-speed train, he seemed to have sensed something just now, and there was more than one thing.
"Monsters? Why would a group of monsters appear near here?"
Wang Zhifan suddenly became alert. Apart from being attacked by a hairy monster on the way back to the rental house some time ago, he had never encountered a monster in reality except in the Ash Domain zone.
"Is there a Ash Domain around here? Or is it a Solidified Ash Domain?"
He immediately deduced the possible reasons for this situation. According to his knowledge, the appearance of monsters in the real world must be related to Ash Domain, and monsters that can run into reality can only appear from Solidified Ash Domain, because monsters that are not in Solidified Ash Domain definitely cannot come out.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Boom boom boom boom~ Just as Wang Zhifan was thinking, he heard bursts of gunshots coming from outside the car window. These gunshots were not very loud because they were a bit far away, but they could not be ignored as long as their hearing was normal.
"Listen! There are a lot of gunshots outside!"
A passenger in the carriage soon exclaimed at the noise.
"What's going on? We Xia Kingdom are still fighting somewhere?"
Another older passenger suddenly showed a look of confusion on his face, with a hint of fear in his confusion.
"That's it! I'm afraid the train we're on is being targeted by gangsters! I guess the train police are fighting against the gangsters!"
A male passenger suddenly slapped his thigh and said with a sudden expression.
"No! Is there anyone who dares to rob a train in this day and age?!"
Some passengers obviously couldn't believe the man's speculation and shook their heads with slightly anxious expressions.
The discussion in the carriage gradually showed signs of getting out of control, but before the mass panic really emerged, a male flight attendant opened the door and entered the carriage to inform the passengers about the situation.
"Please don't panic! The gunshots outside are from hunters in the nearby mountains driving their livestock. Our train is currently safe. It won't take long to resolve the problem and start again."
The flight attendant's explanation sounded dubious at first, but when the passengers saw the other person's calm look, they soon calmed down, and then they began to rush to ask him for more detailed information.
At the same time, several hundred meters in front of the stopped high-speed train, near the high-speed railway, three young men with guns were shooting dozens of tall red-skinned monsters with double horns on their heads.
These monsters came from the nearby mountains and fields. Some of them jumped over the guardrails of the high-speed railway and were wandering on the railway. The three young people were now giving priority to dealing with the culprits that caused the high-speed railway to stop.
"You bitch! Stop fucking running around! Come and BATTLE with Grandpa if you dare!"
A young man with yellow hair holding a shotgun was chasing several running red-skinned two-horned monsters on the railway while shouting to attract the monsters' attention.
Not far from him, two teammates, a man and a woman, were dealing with monsters in other directions. They quickly aimed and fired, constantly moving to avoid the monsters rushing towards them, and they could accurately hit the target every time they pulled the trigger.
But these monsters are thick-skinned and there are a lot of them. It will take some effort for them to clean them all.
But it was as if the words of the yellow-haired young man had suddenly taken effect. Suddenly, the monsters that were either fleeing or fighting seemed to be immobilized in an instant. They no longer fled in all directions, but all moved like ice sculptures staying in place, maintaining various postures.
The three young men were surprised to see what was happening, but before they could observe further, the bodies of these monsters collectively turned into tiny pieces and scattered in the air.