"A strong nation starts with strong transport, and railways lead the way..."
"China's railways serve the people..."
But what if the rails became a girl's skirts, and speed and obsession thundered through her wheels? When steel arteries awaken into spirits, are they pioneers of a great transport nation, or prisoners of century-old obsessions?
The red signal lights at Wenzhou South Station, the phantom of a misaligned track at Rongjiawan, the Ice Demon curse on the Chenzhou section... Every scar points to the bloody truth behind the birth of the Train Maidens.
These mechanical bodies, forged from steel bones and memories, must ultimately confront the cruelest paradox in China's railways:
The rift between fast and slow: the flagship G1 on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway and the public-service slow train 5633 on the Chengdu-Kunming railway fight over the energy of the railway network. The fast train claims international dominance, while the slow one bears the burden of serving the people;
The cycle of life and death: blood-red switches devour Train Maidens as they mend time and space. Only Qingying, CRH2-139E, is willing to guard the forbidden place forever, tempering the memory of an accident into an ironclad rule for protecting the people;
When the "Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal" railway network becomes a battlefield of schemes, and the CF600 prototype massacres the old Train Maidens in the name of the "future," Qingying grips the gear engraved with "China's railways serve the people." "The glory of China's railways isn't at the end of the tracks. It's in every millimeter bearing the warmth of human beings. The warmth in the wheels is the warmth of humanity!"
Waving their signal flags beneath a starry sky crisscrossed by high-speed and slow trains, the girls fight for the future of China's railways...
All aboard!
P.S. [A technically detailed story with a wild imagination]
Safety statement: The anthropomorphized train concept is by no means intended to trivialize historical disasters. It uses bodies of steel to carry humanity's reverence for safety. Please do not use "Train Maiden" to refer to railway equipment in any real-world setting.
Although I was a little confused, I still feel pretty good about it. The main threads I can see so far are as follows: Suppression of restricted areas Problems with the Sino-foreign mixed-race agreement Conflicts between branches All in all, it's still a memorable experience.
How should I put it? The only thing that feels inadequate now is probably Cha Ji's infighting.
There are actually novels written by train fans