Shi Deyuan's voice came through the communicator, just in time to interrupt Lin Xian's thoughts.
Upon hearing this, Lin Xian immediately turned around, his eyes flashing with mechanical light. Instantly, all the blackout panels in the Infinity's carriages opened, revealing a barren land of hard soil Gobi desert outside the windows, covered with yellow sand. The entire Joint Train meandered across the land, and through the windows, a small town in the midst of the sandy no-man's land gradually came into view.
The scorching sun evaporated visible heat waves on the wild desolate Gobi, and the distant town resembled the corpse of a camel dried by the wind. The rib-like utility poles were slanted between the dunes, and the broken wires trembled slightly in the heat haze. Looking far away, fields of fruit and vegetable greenhouses littered the wilderness; their black tarps long dilapidated, looking like systematic scars on the earth.
