[The new season you are about to enter is: hail season!]
"H-hail season?"
Bai Luoying stared at the notification in bewilderment.
Although she had mentally prepared herself for this and expected Train World's seasons to be downright bizarre, this was something else.
Wasn't hail season taking things a little too far?
Would hail fall from the sky twenty-four hours a day once they entered this season?
If that was all there was to it, it didn't seem particularly hard to accept.
After all, which Train Conductor who had made it this far didn't have some genuine ability?
Surely a little hail couldn't pose any threat to them?
The Train Conductors in the Chat Channel were chattering away as well.
"Hail season??? As in chunks of ice falling out of the sky?"
"You really think a season in Train World would be as simple as you imagine?"
"Why do I suddenly have a bad feeling now that you've said that?"
"Buying bulletproof glass and titanium alloy steel in bulk. Message me if you have any!"
Lu Xingyuan naturally noticed that message too and raised an eyebrow.
It seemed he wasn't the only one with sharp instincts.
The instant the announcement appeared, he had zeroed in on hail's defining trait-its tremendous capacity for physical destruction.
A fist-sized hailstone falling from several thousand meters up could hit the ground at 150 kilometers per hour, with kinetic energy approaching that of a handgun bullet!
But this was Train World. How could anyone judge its natural disasters by ordinary standards?
A hailstone the size of a small car crashing down from the sky was entirely possible.
People could shelter inside trains or stations to avoid the hail.
Trains couldn't.
They could only travel along their designated tracks.
When the hail came down, they