A train was ultimately just a means of transportation, mainly intended to make travel between two places more convenient.
The elves, including Carter and Jeni, had mainly wanted to try it out for the novelty of it. Since they had never ridden one before, they had always been eager to give it a shot, which was how today's whole affair had come about.
Unfortunately, they had no great desire to return home. After riding the train once and satisfying their curiosity, every one of them still preferred taking a vacation in the city to play rather than returning to Elf Forest.
Meanwhile, the seeds of "curiosity" had also taken root and begun to sprout among the elves in Elf Forest.
Traveling between the two places had indeed been inconvenient before.
Unless Great Zhou sent vehicles or goblin airships to pick them up, the elves of Elf Forest would have needed a very long time to reach Great Zhou's border on foot.
There was also another crucial point: before this, no one had said that the residents of the two sides could travel freely between them.
Thus, during that period, even though the elves living in Elf Forest missed their children who had gone to work in the big cities of Great Zhou, they had had no way to go and see them directly.
But things were different now.
Riding Great Zhou's train, they could reach the border railway station in just thirty minutes one way. In the elves' eyes, that travel speed was practically inconceivable.
Although the problem of transportation had been solved, most of the elves still had their doubts.
After all, the younger generation who yearned for Great Zhou's cities, and were willing—even eager—to venture out, had already gone to work in Great Zhou's cities.
Those still remaining