Chapter 846: The Shortest Mission Time Limit in History (Part 2)

Chapter 846 -378: The Shortest Mission Time Limit in History (Part 2)

Obviously.

Under such a tight time constraint for the mission, he couldn’t proceed like before, but instead had to switch to a different method:

At all costs, gather intelligence!

Gu Ji maneuvered through the train cars, his eyes like a laser scanner, meticulously inspecting wherever his gaze landed, including any suspicious faces.

Although the setup for this checkpoint was accident disaster.

Almost every crisis, however, had human involvement behind it, like the cruise ship checkpoint, where Ito Meiyu released the Yezo Virus, or the WWII factory checkpoint, which was due to the BASF Factory manager’s mismanagement.

But before Gu Ji could walk from the train’s rear to the front.

The train suddenly started to slow down.

Through the window, he saw a concrete platform and bustling passengers on the platform.

Apparently, the whistling noise that awoke him earlier was the train’s cue that it was arriving at a station.

“Clang!”

As the electric door automatically split open, many passengers queued up with luggage, jostling each other as they disembarked.

Gu Ji followed at the back of the queue.

Sometimes, stepping out of the current environment makes it easier to observe the underlying issues.

Walking on the platform, Gu Ji first craned his neck to scrutinize the station ahead.

In the center of the concrete platform was a two-story flat-roofed building, typical of Middle Eastern architecture, painted white with portraits of leaders and national flags hung on each side of the door, and a blue Persian station sign at the top read “Samed.”

At this moment, the specialization in yellow-grade language came into play.

Gu Ji’s mind suddenly flickered with knowledge of Iran’s geography and history, realizing it was one of the suburbs of Tehran, Iran’s capital, located in the city’s north, about 30 kilometers from the city center.

In fact, the scale of this station was indeed small, equivalent to a small train station in a distant county in his home country.

There were only four tracks in total, one of which had a freight train parked hauling coal.

However, due to its proximity to the capital Tehran.

The passenger flow here was quite acceptable; a group had just disembarked from the train, and many passengers immediately boarded, and even the adjacent parking lot had quite a few vehicles parked.

After all, Tehran is a mega city with a population of over 8.4 million, and is also one of the largest cities in the West Asia region.

Gu Ji quickly refocused his attention back on the train.

After all, as the checkpoint’s initial map refresh point, the likelihood of an accident on this soft-armored train was the highest.

He then randomly found a middle-aged Iranian train attendant on the platform, dressed in a dark blue uniform, with a mustache, and a red nose, bluntly asking, “Excuse me, is today’s train running well, has anything unexpected occurred?”

“Why are you asking this?”

The red-nosed attendant instinctively stepped back half a step, scrutinizing him with a suspicious look.

Gu Ji immediately reacted.

In Iran, people are indeed highly sensitive to “danger.”

After all, the Middle East region has long been plagued by war.

The local people living in this region, without some sense of crisis, might have already been killed by stray bullets, shellfire, and explosions.

“I was just asking casually.”

“Casually? Show me your ID and ticket!”

Unfortunately, this red-nosed train attendant seemed unusually serious, demanding to check his identity right away.

Gu Ji cursed “bad luck” inwardly but still took out his possessions.

Arguing at this point would only waste time.

“Woo—!”

“No problems, right? The train is about to leave!”

Gu Ji pointed at the platform’s whistle signal.

The red-nosed attendant squinted but couldn’t find any issue, so he returned the ID and ticket, “Alright, get on board!”

Gu Ji managed to get back inside the train just before the door closed.

But unexpectedly, the red-nosed train attendant followed him in; it turned out he was the accompanying attendant for this train.

At this moment, he was observing Gu Ji with sharp eyes.

As if saying:

Kid, I’m watching you!

Gu Ji appeared indifferent as long as it didn’t obstruct his intelligence gathering.

Just when he was about to continue inspecting the train headed towards the engine, a sudden commotion sounded from behind.

It was the direction of the train’s rear!

“Albertz, what’s happening at the train’s rear?”

The red-nosed train attendant immediately picked up the walkie-talkie, inquiring a colleague at the rear.

But before a response arrived, Gu Ji saw the distant railcar suddenly crowded with passengers, amidst shrill screams and chaos, frantically rushing towards the front, if it weren’t for their terrified expressions, and eyes filled with panic and helplessness, Gu Ji might have thought it was a zombie outbreak from “Train to Busan.”

“Damn! Kafu, there’s a robbery on the train! Quickly call the train police over!”

“What!?”

Gu Ji and the red-nosed train attendant exclaimed in unison.

“Ah—!”

“Help! There’s a robber on the train!”

“Allah! Run!”

The next second, the crowd screamed in terror, all rushing towards the front cars en masse, plunging the train compartment into chaos, as if the apocalypse had arrived.

“Don’t panic! Sit down! We’ll handle it!”

Red-nosed Kafu shouted loudly, trying to maintain train order, but it was futile.

Those in panic couldn’t hear his words at all.

A mass of passengers accumulated at the car connection, neither they nor red-nosed Kafu could pass.

Gu Ji stared at a pregnant woman with a pale face, using all her strength to make her way over, but she was shoved around by the jostling crowd, struggling to breathe, and an Iranian child got separated from his parents amidst the chaos, his small face filled with helplessness and terror, crying loudly where he stood.

“Damn it! The crowd has blocked the train passage, we can’t get through! What’s the situation now?”

Kafu tried to disperse the passengers while anxiously contacting colleagues at the rear.

“The situation is grim, the perpetrator has taken a young woman hostage, a passenger tried to stop them, and was stabbed, now lying on the floor bleeding!”

“Don’t come near! I have a bomb on me!”

While the colleague described the scene, in the background, suddenly the perpetrator’s shout was heard.

“What? A bomb? Everyone run!”

“Move! Let me through first!”

“Damn it! Don’t push, I’m about to suffocate!”

The nearby passengers who heard the alarm descended into complete despair.

In this state, people were already hysterical, capable of doing anything for survival; in just a moment, some began pulling at surrounding heads, desperately squeezing outward.

Others simply started elbowing the glass connecting the train compartments, attempting to escape by jumping off the train directly.

“Immediately have the conductor slow down, stop, open the doors, and evacuate the crowd, this standoff could lead to disaster!!”

Gu Ji couldn’t bear to watch anymore, so he grabbed Kafu’s shoulder, loudly reminding him in his ear.

“Slow down and stop…”

Kafu stared, repeating.

But there seemed to be no better solution at hand, so he pressed the walkie-talkie, “Conductor, Conductor! This is Kafu, there’s a robbery at the rear, the perpetrator has taken a hostage, currently…”

“Stop dithering! Hand me the walkie-talkie!”

Gu Ji decisively snatched the walkie-talkie, yelling directly, “There’s a bomb on the train, stop immediately…”

“BOOM——!!”

Before finishing his sentence, suddenly a massive explosion erupted from the train’s rear.

Before Gu Ji could react, he saw a surge of blazing flames, like a deluge, engulfing him entirely.

“Woo——! Crackle crackle…”

“Ah! Ah——!”

Gu Ji snapped his eyes open, screaming in a hoarse voice.

“Ah Ming! What’s wrong with you?”

Suddenly, a familiar voice called from across.

Gu Ji stared wide-eyed, gazing at the Persian beauty sitting opposite, hurriedly touching his body and face, finding no injuries.

He.

Had been reborn from death!!