Song Yuting, Gao Yushan, and Huang Jingzhe all looked curiously at the train station.
They had no idea why this train station was located within a military base.
"Why is the train station inside a military base? Ji Jianxiu absolutely refused to say,"
"Didn't Ji Jianxiu just say that everything here is confidential?"
"Sigh, there are so many people here. Are they all going abroad to study?"
"There seem to be over five hundred people."
"Why is there no signal here?"
"This is a military base. It's normal for mobile phones not to have a signal."
Song Yuting, Gao Yushan, Huang Jingzhe, and twenty other university students from Caiyun Province had arrived on the same flight, so they were sitting together. Behind their row of seats were university students from another province in Longguo.
When the departure time displayed on the screen above the waiting hall showed thirty minutes remaining, the students participating in the study abroad program finally arrived.
A student in the waiting hall surveyed the entire area and said, "There are 789 students participating in the study abroad program here."
Another student next to him remarked, "789 university students going abroad to study? Your mathematical talent is still so high."
"It's just using simple counting."
...
While waiting, Song Yuting, Gao Yushan, Huang Jingzhe, and the other university students watched train after train pass by the platform. The waiting hall was on the same level as the platform, so they could see the trains passing through the glass windows.
When the time remaining until the train's departure was fifteen minutes, a broadcast sounded throughout all the waiting halls in the train station.
"All units, attention. We will enter passenger mode in five minutes."
As the voice sounded, ticket inspectors began to appear at the previously empty ticket windows.
If Yuan Liguo were here from last time, he would have marveled at how much less time there was.
With thirteen minutes left, a passenger train stopped at the platform closest to the waiting hall.
By the time ten minutes remained, all the ticket inspectors in the occupied waiting halls were in place.
At this point, the gates at the ticket windows opened. The ticket inspectors opened the gates.
The university students in the waiting hall, carrying their luggage, began to queue through the ticket gates.
Upon reaching the platform, they found that some passengers from other waiting halls had also arrived on this platform.
Among the people nearby, a quarter were soldiers in uniform.
Besides those in uniform, the most numerous were people in work clothes. These people in work clothes clearly appeared to be construction personnel.
The 789 university students were assigned to several adjacent carriages. They boarded the train and began to store their luggage.
In less than three minutes, all passengers were on board, but some people were still struggling to stow their luggage ten minutes later.
Song Yuting, Gao Yushan, and Huang Jingzhe naturally sat in three seats side-by-side.
As their train prepared to depart, another passenger train entered the adjacent platform.
After all, there were still many passengers waiting for trains in the other waiting halls.
The train soon started moving.
But sitting inside the train, they couldn't see any scenery. The surrounding views were blocked by the sheds.
When the train entered the hollowed-out mountain cave, the university students were amazed by the military equipment inside.
"So much new equipment."
"Why is this equipment placed here?"
"Isn't this a train track? What are military equipment doing here?"
"Didn't you see them setting up a blockade there? But why is there a blockade here? It's just a train."
Amidst the conversations of these young university students, the train suddenly passed through a gate. The scenery outside the train window changed abruptly. First, there was a vast building complex, and beyond that, numerous buildings. In the distance, there was a blue sky.
In the carriage where Song Yuting, Gao Yushan, and Huang Jingzhe were, they could still see many trucks driving on a distant road.
A university student exclaimed, "What's going on? It feels like we've entered another world!"
In fact, Song Yuting, Gao Yushan, and Huang Jingzhe felt the same way. It was as if the train had entered another world.
The sky in the distance felt completely different.
At this moment, a convoy drove past on a nearby road. The convoy was transporting dinosaurs, and these dinosaurs even poked their heads out of the carriages.
Immediately, the university students in several carriages where students were located erupted in exclamations.
"What is that?"
"Is it a monster?"
"It can't be a monster. Look, those trucks are transporting them."
"That must be an animal. When did Blue Star have such animals?"
"Could it be a genetically engineered animal?"
"..."
At this moment, a broadcast from the train announced the conductor: "Ladies and gentlemen, what you see are dinosaur creatures. Those who have never seen them will certainly be surprised. But don't be alarmed. These dinosaurs are common animals in this dinosaur world. This world is the dinosaur world planet. That's right, this planet is not Blue Star. The train has just crossed a portal and arrived in this dinosaur world. In this dinosaur world, our Longguo's Otherworld Development Department is also present. The dinosaur world is undergoing massive development."
"I know you are eager to see such marvelous creatures as dinosaurs, but this train is heading to another world."
The train shuttled directly through this cluster of buildings and soon arrived at another diverging track, and then into another massive building poured with thick concrete.
The train passed through another portal and arrived in a magic world.
The portal to the magic world was also enclosed by a newly constructed, massive semi-circular hall.
After exiting the hall containing the portal, there was still a cluster of buildings. But unlike the previous one, many of the surrounding buildings were military structures. In the distance, there were many radar installations. In the sky, many fighter jets were flying.
"The environment around here has changed again."
"Have we entered another world again?"
"It was truly magical when the train passed through that portal. We instantly arrived in another world."
"Is it really another world? This is truly astonishing."
But as they passed through that portal, everyone felt an immediate and complete change in their surroundings.
The train finally stopped at a train station platform tens of kilometers away.
"The train has arrived. Passengers may now disembark," a staff member announced as they entered the carriage.