Chiba had visited Charing Cross once when he was a student at Imperial College London, but the architecture was clearly different from now - the roof of the station in the game was much more ornate than when he went. (In fact, the game's beautiful vaulted roof collapsed in December 1905, only to be replaced with a much more tacky structure and reopened in March 1906.) ）

However, the structure of the platform is still the same, so Chiba has a fairly good understanding of the terrain here.

On the six platforms, only one train was still on the platform.

It's very mysterious... Because of this time, Charing Cross should be more than just this train...

No... It should have been Noah's Ark that artificially removed the trains on other platforms - otherwise there would have been a crowd of people on the platform now. (Trains in Europe are waiting for the train to come at the platform, a bit like our city railway)

At this moment, a group of train workers were throwing something under the front of the train, and white smoke was rising from the front of the train.

Jack the Ripper ran into the train from the nearest carriage - what about the police checking the tickets? Was it because they were taken away by the explosion of the opera house?

At this moment, the air vent at the bottom of the front of the car also began to spew thick steam.

"Let's get in the car quickly!" Qian Yu immediately realized that the train was about to start, and hurriedly said.

Conan, Moriran, and Chiba also rushed into the train through the same entrance before it started.

With a long deflation sound, the locomotive began to move forward slowly, but after advancing more than ten centimeters, it was suddenly pulled again, the connecting ring between the locomotive and the carriage was straightened, and the driving wheels and rails rubbed in place, raising countless gravel. At the same time, a "clang" sounded from the middle of the train.

“！？” Chiba and the others had just entered the carriage through the door, but the originally static carriage was suddenly pushed forward very abruptly, and Mao Lilan was shaken to the ground by the sudden movement - by the way, Conan, who had fallen to the ground, and Chiba, who grabbed a bulge on the side, also fell to the ground.

Qian Yu was a little helpless, but he didn't say anything, because he really couldn't be Mao Lilan and Conan to know that they should pay attention to this.

The era of steam locomotives has long passed, and if it weren't for Chiba's research on steam locomotives, he would never have grabbed the handrail when the steam locomotive started. And Conan and Maorilan are both new generations, and they have not been exposed to steam trains at all.

The steam locomotive itself was not sufficiently powered, so it was impossible to pull all the cars at once that were stationary. Therefore, the steam locomotive had to retreat before setting off, loosening the tight hook rings between the carriages. In this way, the front of the car can pull the carriage one by one – the dynamic friction of the carriage is much less than the static friction.

Therefore, when the train pulls all the cars that can be pulled, it is dragged by the next car, and after a few moments, it can move forward again, and then it is dragged by the next car until all the cars are dragged.

So, every time the train is dragged by a carriage, the train rocks. The tremor just now was because the train happened to be dragged by the carriage where Chiba and the others were, so it was exaggerated enough to shake Mao Lilan and Conan down.

It took a lot of effort for Chiba to climb out from under Conan and Maoriran, and was about to help Conan and Maoriran up, but he heard something from outside the car door not far away.

The voice was so soft that Chiba thought she was hallucinating - or was it an auditory hallucination?

But Chiha's heart drove him to look outside the door.

The closer I got to the door, the more distinct the strange sound became—the sound of something dragging on the ground.

The uneasiness in Qianyu's heart was even worse, and she walked quickly to the door.

They didn't close the door when they came in, but now it was closed—not so much shut, but rather grabbed by someone outside the door, causing the door to open inwards to be closed.

Qian Yu approached the car door and glanced out of the window, and a look of surprise and anxiety immediately appeared in his eyes.

Gray Yuan was clutching at the handrail outside the door, his feet dragging to the ground due to the high speed of the train.

This girl... Why do you have to come along?

"Why are you here?" Qian Yu asked subconsciously, but then realized that he shouldn't dwell on this kind of problem now—he had to pull Gray Yuan Wai up first!

Qian Yu pulled the door back hard, and the gray plain mourning hanging on the door was dragged in at the same time.

"Why are you here?" When Gray Yuan Wai knelt at the door and gasped slightly, Qian Yu said in annoyance.

"Why can't I be here?" Gray Plains raised his head and shot back. "Where do I go, should it be my freedom?"

"Free enough to pick up the train door?" Qian Yu said angrily. "You're sending you to death!"

"I'm willing to send me to death, you care about me?" Gray Yuan was also angry.

"Mourning-chan is probably here because Qianyu-kun is here, so he came here, right?" Behind Qian Yu, Mao Lilan said with a playful expression.

“。。。” Beside her, Conan's eyes narrowed slightly in anticipation, looking at Chiba and Ash Hara—he was guessing what would happen next.

"Not really!" Gray Yuan Wai jumped up like a cat with its tail stepped on, and retorted loudly. "I'm just... It's just that... I'm just trying to catch Jack the Ripper! ”

Sure enough, this was the reaction, and Conan smiled.

So, will Chiba's reaction be the same as he imagined?

"In order to catch Jack the Ripper, I don't even want my life!" Qianyu complained. "Stupid!"

"You're stupid!" Gray Plains glared at Chiba viciously.

Conan covered his face with his hands to hide his smile - every time this happened, the two of them would be very red and red... Although if they were to explain it themselves, they would probably say that it was a red face.

Eventually, Morilan, who had been smiling, pulled Conan out with him. Behind them, Hiroki Zhuxing looked at the two who were arguing with a smile on his face.

While it may be ridiculous to describe a child like them in that word, the two of them ... It's really like a couple who mix every day... They don't look at each other very well, but when the other party is not there, their hearts are empty; The attitude towards each other is not very friendly in words, but the body is very honest...

Looking at Qian Yu and Gray Yuan Ai, who were still arguing, Zhuxing Hongshu smiled and shook his head.

"You two, we should get down to business now, shouldn't we?"

“。。。” There was a sense of relief in the eyes of Gray Yuan Wai and Qianyu, but their expressions were still "I will spare you this time". "Humph!"

Zhuxing Hiroki finally couldn't help it, and while trying his best to empty the air in his lungs and make himself laugh less loudly, he walked into the carriage.