Screaming Cycle (Infinite Flow)Ch4 - Maglev Rail Accident

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Ji Dong only had time to give a short cry in his heart before he fell on the ground face-down and slid a full meter away due to inertia.

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Feeling a little dazed, he staggered to get up with the help of his hand, only to feel a sharp pain shoot up his arms.

But he didn’t have time to care about his injury now. He picked up the fallen broomstick and swatted behind him without even looking. tKhMLD

“Wow!”

There was a man’s scream, followed by a locally distinctive shout, “You’re in big danger!”

The other side hurriedly held the broom that Ji Dong was using to swat at him.

“Are you blind? Can’t you see me?”

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Only then did Ji Dong saw the young man who had just knocked him down.

The man appeared to be in his late twenties; he had a huge forehead, a large nose, a wide mouth, and neatly trimmed hair. Although his temperament was a little erratic, he was undeniably an attractive guy who fit the traditional aesthetic criteria.

He was approximately the same height as Ji Dong, but his shoulders were twice as broad. He wasn’t overweight, but had a brawny build. All the tendons of his body were encased in a coat, the elastic fabric of his coat bulging, with the chest muscles threatening to break out of the front of his t-shirt.

Ji Dong deduced that he was probably a wrestler based on the build of his body. Tj0k9m

The man held Ji Dong’s broom in one hand, and the other hand rubbed his shoulder that had been hit hard. He said angrily, “I was kind enough to pull you away from danger, and in return I got beaten by a broom!”

Ji Dong had a teammate whose ancestors were from Sichuan and Chongqing as well. They had a good friendship. They’d been sleeping on the upper and lower bunks for two years, so he was used to his teammate’s dialect accents. As a result, he could understand the man’s words clearly.

Through the other person’s remarks, he gathered that the man was not malevolent and that he had abruptly attacked him just now because he was ‘saving him.’

So Ji Dong took back the broomstick that was still placed on top of the man’s head. vPNTgZ

“Who are you?”

He looked at the muscular man in front of him warily.

“I’m…”

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He stopped talking.

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Ji Dong took two steps forward, picked up the gold coin next to the side pocket of the suit from the ground, and raised it to him, “This is just a coin.”

The man’s face showed obvious embarrassment. He raised his hand and scratched his cheek, “I just thought it was…”

He switched to Mandarin, but still had a clear Sichuan-Chongqing accent.

“Did you think it was the kind of dragonfly that burns people to ashes?” Ji Dong asked. dm35zI

“Ah, your clothes…”

The man noticed that Ji Dong was dressed up tightly, and he had an epiphany, “You also encountered that stuff, right?”

Ji Dong nodded with a serious expression…

“Let’s stop talking here.” He pointed his finger at the door of the Walmart supermarket behind him, “Let’s go in first.” AhYKPZ

 

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Although Ji Dong didn’t know what had happened in this city, it was obvious that all the changes had happened very suddenly. s0j85u

Because, despite the fact that all of the people had vanished, the city remained in order. The revolving door of the store was open. He stretched out, pushed it, and walked right in.

This reminded him of the children’s books such as “Ten Unsolved Mysteries of the World” that he had read when he was a child, which often contained two classic mystical themes, ‘ghost ship’ or ‘unmanned village’.

In these stories, the passengers on a boat or some villagers suddenly disappear without warning and no one knows where they vanished. When people found the boat or village, they would find that everything inside remained the same as if someone was living in it, even though there were only two mouthfuls of bread and unfinished coffee on the table.

Ji Dong felt that the situation he was experiencing now was very similar to those described in such stories. It was also an empty city, with disappeared residents, but the appearance of the city had not been destroyed, and it was startlingly complete. rNbAkL

“Not bad, little brother.” The sturdy man also followed.

He looked around and patted Ji Dong on the shoulder. “It’s a good plan to come here to find supplies!”

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Ji Dong wasn’t bothered by this familiar attitude.

He raised his hand, showing his elbow. FpSmRA

His arms had been scratched on the jagged ground concrete coated in dirt and sand when he had fallen just now.The sleeves and skin of his elbows had been scratched.

“I want to change clothes first.”

The man nodded. Looking around, he quickly found a sign pointing to the clothing area on the second floor.

“Come on, let’s go.” He tugged at the front of his t-shirt, “This shirt is too small, so I will change clothes too.” Kl9TYV

The clothes sold by Walmart were so popular that they were uncharacteristic, but Ji Dong and the muscular man were not picky. As soon as they chose a long-sleeved hoodie, they didn’t even need to go to the dressing room. They just took off the old clothes and changed into the new ones.

“What, you’re a teacher?”

Ji Dong exclaimed after hearing the muscle man’s self-introduction, “If you didn’t mention it, I would have assumed you were a fitness instructor!”

Hearing this, the strong man raised his eyebrows and looked at Ji Dong, and replied politely, “You are so thin and yet you are a professional athlete. Isn’t it even more surprising?” DHnU1I

Mo Tiangen, twenty-seven, was a native of Shancheng. He worked as a biology teacher in a local high school.

The two exchanged each other’s identity information, changed their clothes, and unanimously decided to go to the catering and food area to find something to fill their stomachs.

While walking, Mo Tiangen said to Ji Dong, “I’ve actually seen you before.”

Ji Dong turned to look at him, opened his eyes, and looked quite surprised, “You have seen me? Where?” L0gpry

“I recognize your tomato scrambled egg sweatshirt.”

Mo Tiangen nodded, “You were on that maglev train before, right?”

“What!?”

After hearing this, Ji Dong was shocked. jCLxwS

He cried out aloud, “It turns out that you are too—”

 

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

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Although Ji Dong didn’t know how he had arrived at this empty city of ashes, he clearly remembered the last thing he’d experienced before he lost consciousness.

He was a reverse bow athlete, taking part in both team and individual events. He was also the captain of the men’s national youth team.

He was not the greatest on the team during weekday training, but he played the most consistently every time he took the field.

Due to his natural talent and the results of his childhood training, Ji Dong was particularly suitable for this field and was quite good at playing against the headwind. When the score lagged, he often recovered the number of rings bit by bit with his stable play, which put great pressure on his opponent. YWCsrQ

According to his teammates, as long as their captain Ji Dong was on the court, it was as if they had a pillar of support, which would naturally bring a sense of stability to the whole team.

In fact, ever since Ji Dong had become the captain of the men’s national youth team, everyone in the team had indeed achieved better results in various events year by year.

Four days ago, Ji Dong and his teammates won the team gold medal in the World Youth Championship. This was also the best result their National Youth Team had achieved in the World Championships in the past ten years.

Just when they were returning home with honor, they encountered a sudden accident on the way from the airport to the training center. 4uEzMv

At that time, the National Youth Team members, including Ji Dong, as well as two coaches and a team doctor, were sitting in a maglev rail car.

This maglev train car was shorter than the subway train. The length of the train was about the same as that of three buses connected end to end. The average speed was about 100 kilometers per hour, which was much faster than the cars running on urban roads.

Since they could only travel along the established track and couldn’t frequently stop, they couldn’t replace the status of ordinary buses. However in terms of safety, maglev train cars were much higher than most other travel modes.

However, this maglev train car, which claimed to have never been in an accident since it was placed into operation, abruptly halted while passing a sea-crossing bridge and subsequently derailed. The entire train car crossed the rail track and eventually crashed over the guardrail. Most of the car’s body hung outside the guardrail, leaving only the support at the tail stuck by the broken guardrail, dangling head down into the sea. ec2TXp

At that time, Ji Dong and his teammates were in the middle of the rail car.

Luck was not on his side. When the car derailed, he was sitting on the window-side and was smashed against the glass window. The back of the front seat had been distorted by the collapsed baggage rack and had toppled directly on him. He almost couldn’t feel his lungs. In addition to the excruciating agony, he temporarily lost consciousness.

When he woke up from the pain, he found himself hanging upside down in a messy carriage in an upturned position. As long as he looked down, he could see the rippling sea below through the broken front window windshield.

Later, Ji Dong found that the reason why he hadn’t fallen was because his waist was caught by the deformed back of the front chair. 3IyOcn

When he noticed his unfavorable situation, his first thought was that it was over. It seemed that his life was about to end.

But at that moment, Ji Dong heard a familiar cry for help.

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He followed his sound and found that the source of the voice was the youngest teammate on the National Youth Team.

The child was fortunate. When the car derailed and collided with the railing, the bow bag he was carrying was just horizontally trapped on the back of the chair, so he was suspended in mid-air like clothes on a hanger, preventing him from falling directly into the sea. mFdnUv

Even though they were teens, they had a significant body size, and the smaller player had nowhere to support his body weight. His weight of more than 120 kilos was supported by a single strap, making him feel as if he was going to be ripped in half from his shoulder.

In extreme pain and on the line between life and death, the boy was about to collapse.

While crying, he stretched out his hand, trying to catch onto something so that he wouldn’t fall, but it was all in vain because as soon as he moved, a tearing pain would shoot up from the place strangled by the shoulder strap, which made him even more frightened.

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Translator's Note

a recurve bow is one of the main shapes a bow can take, with limbs that curve away from the archer when unstrung. A recurve bow stores more energy and delivers energy more efficiently than the equivalent straight-limbed bow, giving a greater amount of energy and speed to the arrow. A recurve will permit a shorter bow than the simple straight limb bow for given arrow energy.For moreInfo-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurve_bow

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12 comments

  1. I see now, it is Chongqing dialect hahaha. Did he manage to save the boy?

    Thanks for the chapter. 🎐🌠

    • No its correct. I am not a physics person but remember the train after accident is not positioned in normal gravitation and a gravitation can double our weight…