Back in 1988, transportation was far from as convenient and efficient as it is today, especially when it came to rail travel. The green-skin trains running back then were simply incomparable in speed to the lightning-fast high-speed rail of the modern era. Not only were these old-fashioned trains painfully slow, but they also stopped at every single station along the way, big or small.
The distance from Shangxian to Pengcheng was nearly eighteen hundred kilometers. Covering such a vast distance on a slow-moving green-skin train took over sixty hours—almost a full three days just to reach the destination! Fortunately, through his personal connections, Xiao Baojun had managed to secure a few sleeper tickets. Otherwise, had the group of five been forced to squeeze into a noisy, crowded hard-seat carriage reeking of daily life for three whole days, the ordeal would likely have been more than an ordinary person could bear.
During the lengthy train journey, the five of them spent most of their time eating, sleeping, and taking in the ever-changing scenery outside the window. After enduring the exhausting trip, the group finally arrived in Pengcheng. Dragging their weary bodies off the train, they felt a profound sense of relief the moment their feet touched the solid ground.
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