Chapter 59 From Moscow to Vladivostok (seeking a monthly pass)
The protective cover looked like a long hair-shaped shell. It tightened immediately after meeting the time turner, and fit tightly on the hourglass surface of the time turner. Hermione hung the chain of the converter around her and Tom's necks, and turned
She picked up the little hourglass. While turning it, she carefully observed the changes in the protective cover.
Every time Hermione turned around, the protective cover expanded a little outward. After Hermione turned 170 times, the protective cover expanded to the extreme, and it seemed that it would explode in the next second.
"Stop!" Hermione stopped. The next moment, the scenery in front of them became blurred, and everything around them turned into a familiar mosaic shape. By the time they landed, they were already a week ago.
"Not bad for a week's vacation!" Hermione rubbed her hands, as if she wanted to whistle, but held back.
"A week..." The length of time touched her, and she remembered something.
"It seems that among the tasks issued by the guild, no one has taken up the investigation task of the Trans-Siberian Railway, right?"
"Probably not yet, I can take it - it's still a C-level mission, and you can be promoted after completing it." Tom recalled that the mission had been pending for a while, and it seemed that no one had taken it.
"And it happens to take a little more than six days to make a trip." Hermione thought that it would be better to take the opportunity to complete this task for it during the vacation. A week's vacation is rare, and if they don't do it this time, they will have to wait until Christmas
.And by then, the task may have been completed by others.
Of course, the most important thing is that riding this railway is a form of vacation in itself. The Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok is the longest railway line in the world, with a total length of 9,288 kilometers. It takes a long time to complete the entire journey.
150 hours. Of course, there used to be a longer railway line than that - the railway line from Kiev, Ukraine to Vladivostok, with a total distance of 11,085 kilometers and only one ticket. Unfortunately, this line has been discontinued with the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It is worth it
It should be mentioned that the second-ranked trunk line is the railway line from Moscow to Pyongyang, with a total length of 10,267 kilometers - it is also out of service. It is also a specialty of the Soviet Union.
More importantly, when taking the train, you can also enjoy the scenery along the railway line. The scenery in Siberia is impeccable: endless vast steppes, glacial canyons covered with snow. When the sun rises in the early morning, the train will look like
It's like chasing the sun, and when the sun sets, it has the illusion of driving on gold.
Hermione couldn't help but feel excited as she thought about Siberia and her experiences on the railway.
If your heart beats, take action. For ordinary people, the distance between London and Moscow is simply the ends of the earth. Only the state secrets from Downing Street can reach Moscow quickly. Apart from this, everything else takes a long time and
energy.
But this distance is nothing to wizards. Tom and Hermione first quietly returned to the dormitory and took some belongings, then went to the principal's office, found Fox, and exchanged Fox for a pound of snake meat.
Help and let it fly to Moscow with the two of them. Recently, Dumbledore didn't know what he was doing and was always away from the office. Fortunately, he didn't change the password for the entrance, otherwise Tom would still have a lot of trouble if he wanted to come in.
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Soon after, Tom and Hermione appeared on the streets of Moscow. Their destination was Yaroslavl Station, one of the largest train stations in Moscow and the starting point of this mission. Strictly speaking, it is called
The Trans-Siberian Railway, the Asia-Europe Continental Bridge, runs from east to west and can even start from Hamburg, Germany. But if you really want to get “one ticket to the end”, you can only choose Moscow as the starting station.
But they couldn't go directly to the train station. After they were "teleported" to Moscow via Phoenix, they first went to the bank to exchange a batch of rubles - these days, people who exchange pounds for rubles at the official price are simply synonymous with fools.
The behavior of the two Toms attracted quite a lot of strange looks.
Even when they left the bank, there were still a few people following them silently, until they were led to the corner by Tom and took a few confusion spells before they stopped.
Along the way, only the word "depression" can best describe the scenery that Tom saw. The once prosperous capital of the Red Empire was now in shambles. Although the magnificent buildings were still there, there was only an empty shell left.
.The streets are full of graffiti, broken wine bottles, sleeping drunkards and small vendors carrying all kinds of sundries. Occasionally, passers-by walking through the streets also wrap themselves up tightly, as if they can’t even say a word.
I don't want to talk to these vendors.
Hermione had no such concerns. She looked curiously at the small items in the arms, baskets, and stalls of the street vendors: wine, wine glasses, candlesticks, radios...it seemed like they had everything.
"It looks very interesting. Is this a flea market?" She asked Tom with interest, "So this is what Moscow is like... What's the long queue over there?"
Tom didn't reply. He knew the origins of these vendors very well - maybe a few years ago, they were teachers, engineers, and workers, but now, they all took to the streets, set up street stalls, and became "flexible employees" for the
Russia's "street stall economy" has contributed a lot. He also understood that this so-called "flea market" was not opened with the theme of "saving". The theme here was "survival". He pointed at Hermione
Looking in the direction, I saw a long dragon.
"Bakery." He just glanced at the packages in the arms of the people leaving at the front of the queue and understood what they were waiting for.
"Then the bread in this store must taste very good," Hermione said with a trace of yearning in her eyes, "It's a pity that we don't have that much time..."
There was a look of love in Tom's eyes, and he stroked Hermione's hair.
"What's wrong, you suddenly touched my head?" Hermione slapped Tom's hand off her head and complained with some dissatisfaction, "My hair is going to be messed up!"
"Nothing, it's fine." Tom took Hermione's hand and squeezed it, feeling the soft and warm touch.
What a pure and innocent child who knows nothing about the world! Tom felt a little emotional that Hermione still saw a little less.
The two of them, Tom, had already left, but the queue in front of the bakery was still moving slowly until a woman in a trench coat walked up to the window.
She was wearing a decent woolen coat, covering most of her face with the collar and hat. She bent down and looked into the bakery's small window and asked in a low voice: "Is there any more bread?"