Chapter 471: Chapter 469: Setting Off North (End of Month Request for Monthly Votes!)

Qin Lan seemed to have something very important to tell Chen Xin, but she was interrupted just as she was about to speak, so she didn’t get a chance to say it.

Chen Xin intended to find another time to ask her, but the train soon arrived at a station where the 20 long cars behind were detached, and they, along with the disaster victims on board, were to be taken by other engines to resettlement places.

The nuclear-powered train where Chen Xin was located was also reorganized, with four more carriages added, topped with supplies, and headed directly north.

Originally, Qin Lan was supposed to go north with Chen Xin, but for some reason she didn’t, and instead, she and her Titan were unloaded with the freight carriage to return to the research base.

This puzzled Chen Xin, but at Qin Lan’s insistence, Chen Xin agreed to her request to go back.

After all, Qin Lan’s reason was quite normal: her Titan had some malfunctions during the previous disaster relief work and needed to be sent back for repairs.

Without her Titan, following Chen Xin north wouldn’t be of much use, so there was no need for her to go to Siberia.

So, after the train was reorganized, Chen Xin continued north, while Qin Lan and her Titan were sent back to the research base.

As for the newly organized four carriages, one was an armed carriage, one was a maintenance carriage, and two were troop transport carriages.

The reason for the troop transport carriages was that they were heading to Siberia.

That place is a famously cold and harsh land, where even before the disaster, most of it was still primal forest and wilderness.

And throughout Lucia’s history, there’s always been a tradition of exiling criminals to that land.

From the Decembrists to old nobility, purged criminals, prisoners of war from the Patriotic War, though most of that land is wilderness, it also houses many poachers, criminals, local indigenous people, and wild animals.

Additionally, during the Suyia era, many idealistic people came to this land wanting to build their homeland and develop this vast and fertile land.

But with the disintegration of Suyia, Lucia could no longer continue the development of Siberia, and these idealists either left or drowned in their former ideals, struggling on this land until they lost hope and chose death.

In Chen Xin’s memory, he remembered reading a report that there was a small city in Siberia originally built during the Suyia era development of Siberia, and back then it was prosperous and beautiful, though the environment was harsh, people were full of hope.

However, with the disintegration of Suyia, it gradually became desolate, and people living there gradually lost hope, spending their days accompanied by vodka, living decadent lives, numbing themselves with alcohol.

It was said that people there would drink until they were completely drunk every day, then not return home, but find a cold place to sleep on the snow.

If they didn’t wake up the next day, they were lucky to have frozen to death in their sleep, not having to continue living a hopeless life.

If unlucky and they woke up again, they’d continue getting drunk and find a colder place to repeat the process.

Besides, it was once an important weapon testing ground during the Suyia era, and no one knows how many things Suyia hid on that vast land back then, even current-day Lucia doesn’t know.

They only know based on their information that Suyia once tested a large number of weapons and verification technologies on that land, built so many secret bases that they themselves couldn’t count, and left a vast number of military equipment.

Heading to such a place without enough manpower and weapons wouldn’t work.

Even now, Siberia is colder and less suitable for human survival than ever.

As for bringing engineering maintenance carriages, it’s to prepare for the things mentioned in the received document.

After all, that stuff was built before the disintegration of Suyia, and even if Suyia’s technology was reliable, it’s been over thirty years since Suyia’s disintegration; no matter how well-preserved, it still needs inspection and repairs to possibly get running again. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Although for Chen Xin, with just a system upgrade, he could completely renew those things.

The train headed north all the way, the speed not particularly fast, after all, it was extreme cold, and there was snow and ice on the tracks; going too fast, even a train, risked derailing.

This also made the entire journey somewhat long.

According to the information he got from asking the train crew, it would take four to five days within the Flame Country, and another four to five days after leaving the country.

Considering potential issues along the way, and the fact that the former capital, Imperial Capital, had been flooded by seawater, and the original route was no longer viable, requiring a detour through Jiang Province to leave the country, entering Lucia through Kazakhstan, this trip might ultimately take two weeks to reach its destination.

Chen Xin wasn’t too concerned, after all, there was food and drink on the train, the carriage prepared especially for him was very comfortable, and there were others on the train too, so it wasn’t boring.

As for choosing other ways to get to Siberia, it was almost impossible, even before the disaster, the main way to get to Siberia was by rail.

Moreover, they were going to a Suyia-era secret military base, and besides a secret railway also built during the Suyia era, there was only a simple military airport, long abandoned and unusable.

Taking a train there was the only feasible option at present.

If it were before the disaster, this route’s scenery would be considered quite good.

From the Southwest of Flame Country to the Northwest, then entering Central Asia’s Kazakhstan, finally arriving in Lucia’s Siberia, the landscape along the route would change with the rising latitude, offering excellent natural scenery to admire.

But now, outside the train window, it was pitch black, with only a little illumination from the train window’s light on the snow, revealing nothing else.

This made the journey somewhat dull indeed.

However, compared to being stuck in a bunker underground, being able to travel by train crossing the Ancient Mountains and Rivers was still a very meaningful thing.

Even if there wasn’t much scenery to see along the way, guessing their location and imagining what their surroundings looked like as the train moved along was still an interesting pastime, enough to while away the spare time during the journey.

Moreover, everyone on board had a lot of work to do along the way, so it wasn’t really boring or dull.