Mobile City Travel Guide

Chapter 14 Passing Through the Era

After the meeting, everyone returned to their posts to perform their duties, while Li Xin picked up his binoculars and continued to keep watch.

Once the target is determined, the next step is to find a way to collect supplies. Densely populated areas like villages, towns, or cities are out of the question; you can only try your luck in the wild or explore places like farms.

Before long, everyone made another discovery.

A highway appeared ahead, with a huge "GG" sign standing beside it.

The sign features a giant woman who occupies the entire image. She appears to be a celebrity, with blonde hair, blue eyes, and fiery red lips, wearing a daring low-cut mini-dress that makes her even more striking.

At this moment, she pressed down on the fluttering hem of her skirt with both hands, her face beaming with a smile. This coy and alluring gesture made her even more charming.

As the Spark drove past the GG sign, everyone's eyes remained fixed on it.

"Wow, she's really a beauty. If only I could..." someone murmured.

"Hey, this is a giant. She could crush you with just a roll of her arms," ​​Lu Chen reminded her irritably.

"It would be worth it even if he were crushed to death," someone else chimed in.

Li Xin smiled helplessly and spoke softly.

"Be careful, the road isn't always safe."

As he spoke, he ordered the Starfire to move away from the road and keep as close as possible to the grass or woods in the wild.

The reason is simple: GG license plates only appear in areas with good transportation and dense populations. The road ahead is undoubtedly very unsafe; people are very likely to encounter giants.

His conjecture has been proven true.

Within just two or three minutes, a new situation arose.

Ahead on the highway, a bus wobbled along. It was brightly colored and covered in graffiti and colorful slogans, with various pieces of luggage strapped to its roof.

A deafening rock song was playing in the car, making the air vibrate.

Through the telescope, Li Xin could clearly see the giant inside the carriage.

Some of them wore oversized round sunglasses and sang while shaking their heads, some had exaggerated perms, and some wore headscarves and played guitars, looking every bit like a group of hippies.

As we passed the GG sign, several giants leaned out, whistling and waving their arms at the huge picture of the female celebrity. One of the giants, with an afro, gestured animatedly with his hands, making his companions burst into laughter.

As he continued forward, he saw even more giants like this.

They were all young, with unrestrained hairstyles, makeup, and clothing, some even bordering on overly revealing. The vast majority of these giants were traveling by car, their vehicles piled high with luggage, musical instruments, and cases of beer, or they would share a few rides in modified buses or old school buses.

Those with slightly worse conditions would ride motorcycles, strapping their luggage, musical instruments, and tents all to the back seat.

Some, however, seemed extremely carefree, setting off with just a guitar in hand. Where to go next, what to eat for the next meal, where to sleep tonight... they never seemed to consider such questions, playing their guitars and humming songs as they went.

For some reason, Li Xin felt a little envious—probably because he had no guitar or music, only a dilapidated mobile city and twenty or thirty people who needed to eat.

Along that highway, there are still many scattered houses and even villages. When most residents see this group of passersby, they will close their doors and windows with disgust, and some will even raise their fists and tell them to stay away from their homes.

Further on, I saw two giant children standing in front of a house.

They were about ten years old, a boy and a girl.

The giant boy was wearing a plaid shirt, braces, and orthodontic devices strapped to his legs. He looked somewhat dazed as he carefully took one step at a time, arms outstretched.

The girl next to him was wearing a simple white dress, her ponytail neatly tied, looking every bit the little adult, and was sternly correcting his walking posture.

As several scantily clad female hippies passed by, the boy, who had been walking steadily, suddenly stopped, staring in a daze. The previously fierce-looking giant girl let out a scream and quickly covered her face in embarrassment.

She tried to turn her head away from looking, and then quickly covered the boy's eyes.

As Li Xin watched, he couldn't help but chuckle. He wanted to say something, but a sudden sound shattered his thoughts.

There is a railway not far away.

Two massive, heavy rails lay side by side on the gravel roadbed, the sleepers on them showing signs of age and stained with oil.

The sound came from a steam train that had come from afar. It was completely black, with a tall chimney that constantly spewed out billowing white smoke. The rows of connecting rods on the front of the train made a dull, rhythmic clanging sound as the wheels turned.

The carriage was filled with all sorts of passengers.

Several giants, dressed in top hats and impeccably tailored suits, sat by the window, drinking tea and reading newspapers spread out on their laps.

At the next table sat several young, giant women, dressed in stylish straight-cut knee-length dresses and wearing bowler hats adorned with exquisite feathers, chatting and laughing.

The giants sitting opposite them were close together. They looked like migrant workers from other provinces or immigrants, carrying their luggage with a weary expression, as if they were also cautiously expectant.

In a corner, several giants who looked like miners were playing cards. The cuffs and hems of their coarse work clothes were covered in coal dust that couldn't be washed off, and even their fingernails were black when they held out their hands to hold the cards.

A giant salesman in a flashy suit stood before their table, loudly and eagerly promoting the various novel trinkets inside his briefcase. Unfortunately, his customers were engrossed in a fierce card game and paid him no heed.

There is also a simple bus stop nearby. In addition to passengers waiting for the bus, there are many vendors, mostly children.

These giant children were no more than twelve or thirteen years old, and the youngest looked only six or seven. Most of the boys wore jackets made from old adult shirts that had been altered to fit them, and their trousers were faded and even torn. The girls were slightly better dressed, but not by much; they often wore faded floral dresses with many patches.

They were originally chatting together, but as the train slowly slowed down and pulled into the station, they suddenly surged forward like dandelions scattered by the wind.

Newspapers rolled into tubes, snacks wrapped in oil paper, drinks in glass bottles, local specialties wrapped in handmade paper boxes... the children took out all sorts of things from their bags and bamboo baskets and worked hard to carry them into the carriage.

The adults in the carriage rarely refused them; they would crowd around the windows or lean out to buy their things.

Even the miners who were originally engrossed in the card game joined in. Some of them wanted to pat the child's head after buying something, but they froze when they saw their own hands, which were rough and dirty from years of hard work, and in the end they just smiled silently.

The train didn't stay at the platform for long before it started moving again. The children chased after it, running around like a flock of sparrows startled by the wind.

The adults on the train shook their heads repeatedly, signaling them to stop chasing, some even refusing to give them change. Everyone waved their arms frantically, saying something, probably encouraging and cheering them on, but their voices were crushed by the train's whistle and the clanging of its tracks.

Li Xin and his companions followed the train tracks and saw a church standing in front of them.

It is very, very old and dilapidated, like an old box abandoned in a field. But its architectural outline and reliefs reveal its former glory.

On the deserted stone steps sat a giant old priest.

He seemed to have been there for a very, very long time, so long that the church and he didn't seem like a residence or a subordinate place, but rather like old friends.

The old man sat quietly, occasionally gazing absently at the mottled patterns on the wall, as if looking back at the past and himself.

With a few sharp whistles, the train began to accelerate. Its boilers began to operate powerfully, the connecting rods on the wheels moved rapidly and forcefully, and thick smoke billowed from the chimneys, quickly leaving the church behind.

The giant old priest, who had been lost in thought, was also startled awake and struggled to his feet, supporting himself on his knees.

He knew what it was, but he didn't want to look. He simply turned around and walked back to the church, gently closing the door behind him.

The Spark maintained its distance and slowly drove away.

On the deck, everyone had different expressions.

"It's really surprising. I didn't expect these monsters to be so realistic," someone said.

"Of course, they are human beings." Li Xin said softly.

This is undoubtedly a vibrant and real world, and they, as humans, are merely passersby in this world.

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