What made you have the illusion that I am the protagonist! ?

From Central City to Uswell Mine, the town in the far east, this journey crossed half of the national border, and there were many stops along the way, so it seemed extremely long.

The main minerals of the Uswell Mine are coal mines, and many associated mines are temporarily unavailable at the technical level of Armis Doris. According to the division of Toyomi’s world, this place must be classified as a heavily polluted heavy industrial town. Not a tourist attraction at all.

In addition, although this is a pass on the eastern border, since the eastern border is the ruins of ancient countries and the natural dangers of the desert, it is basically impossible for the army of any country to cross the desert to attack, and even the military does not care about it. How to pay attention.

There are very few people who will take this train, and [-]% of the passengers get off at the stop. After half of the journey, Fuyuya found that he and Diarmuid Probably the only passenger who will make it to the last stop.

In fact, only one section of this train is a passenger car, and the rest are all freight cars used to transport coal.

Because there were only the two of them left as passengers, Dongmi dragged Diarmuid to run around on the train, and soon became acquainted with the workers on the train.

The trains of Amistoris are similar to the steam locomotives invented 200 years ago in Tomiya’s world. They all burn coal to heat water steam to drive the steam engine to operate. However, Tomiya is not proficient in machinery and does not know the specific design difference. How many.

This kind of train does not have a control room in the general sense. The front part of the car is the steam engine that drives the power of the whole car, the rear part of the car is the driver's cab, the back part is the tender car for storing fuel and water, and the rear part is the carriage.

At the moment, in the relatively spacious cab, besides the boiler port for adding fuel, there are various valves used to control the locomotive’s forward, backward, braking, etc. As for the speed change in the middle, it is up to the driver to judge the addition and subtraction based on experience. air pressure and fuel.

"Uncle, do you add coal from here?"

"That's right," the uncle fireman in overalls and holding a coal shovel nodded, looked at the curious young man, and handed over the handle of the coal shovel, "How about it, do you want to try it?"

The driver uncle glared at him. Obviously, this kind of behavior did not comply with the regulations, but he still focused on driving and didn't say anything, which was regarded as acquiescing.

"Okay!" Dongmi nodded immediately, imitating the action of the uncle he saw just now, holding up a shovel to shovel from the coal drawer behind him, and then using the force of the shovel to throw all the coal into the boiler mouth inside.

"Haha, young man, you have a future!"

The uncle fireman widened his eyes and gave him a thumbs up. Although this is just a common operation, if an unskilled person does it, 20% of them cannot throw the coal into the hole with a diameter of less than [-] centimeters. in the boiler mouth.

He patted the young man on the back vigorously while laughing, and Tomi, who was still smirking after being praised, was staggered immediately. Painted handprints.

"Hey, this... I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" The uncle fireman remembered that almost everything in the cab was covered with a layer of coal dust. My hands are still pitch black, will it get dirtier as I shoot more and more.

"Oh, this? It's okay, anyway, I have to change clothes when I go back." Dongmi smiled and scratched his cheeks, because the handle of the coal shovel was also covered with coal powder, which stuck to his cheeks in the action just now. Scratching his hand at this moment, there are two black ink lines on his face.

Diarmuid finally couldn't bear it any longer, "Master Toya, your face..."

"Huh?" Fuyumi looked at his pitch-black palms, and finally found something. He just rolled up the sleeves that were destined to be washed and wiped his face. The ink lines on his face were wiped off a lot, but the scope was expanded...

The uncle driver who had been silent for a long time finally said: "Hey, young man, you'd better not move, we will have a way to wash it off after getting off the car." For those who work with boilers, there must be a way to get rid of hard-to-clean coal stains.

"Hey, I'll trouble you then." Toomi didn't care, "Uncle, let's continue. We need to add coal, right?"

"Yes, add another half shovel." Seeing that Dongya really didn't care, the uncle nodded and continued his work.

"Wait, wait!" The uncle fireman, who was robbed of his job and stared at, noticed something was wrong, "You can call me uncle, why call me daddy is also uncle!"

"Dad!?"

Looking carefully, the two uncles still have certain similarities.

The physique of the uncle fireman is unique to those who are used to working as coolies. The uncle driver, although his temples are gray, looks full of energy and spirit, and his muscles are not inferior. , was smoked to the appearance of rough skin and thick flesh.

"Really, how old do you think I am?"

Fuyumi looked at his appearance carefully, and judged: "...almost 40 years old?"

"I'm only 31 years old this year!" The fireman... Well, it seems that he can no longer be called an uncle, this man who is shorter than Fuyuya and has an overall physique like a bear said indignantly.

"Eh eh?"

"Hahahahahahahahaha——" His father, the uncle driver, finally couldn't help laughing out loud.

After communicating for a while, Fuyuya finally figured it out.

The name of the fireman is Roya, and the uncle driver is his father. Both of them are from the Uswell Mine. Their mother has passed away in a mine accident, and now they are two bachelors supporting each other.

The train in Amistoris is operated by the state, so strictly speaking, Roja and his father are also members of the army. He was even a member of the regular army a few years ago, with the rank of corporal.

"Dad is getting old, no one wants to run the Uswell route, so I came back to take over." Roja said.

Usually the two of them perform their own duties, and the uncle driver is mainly responsible for driving the train. The big inconvenience of this kind of steam locomotive is that he cannot directly see the road ahead from the cab, so he has to poke his head out from time to time to have a look, and then Adjust the air pressure and fuel addition ratio in the boiler.

And Roja is mainly responsible for following his orders, adding fuel to the boiler, learning how to drive this kind of train from his father by the way, and occasionally acting as a driver.

During the conversation, the journey that spanned two days and three nights finally came to an end.

After getting off the train, Roja invited Dongya and Diarmuid to live in their house, just to get rid of the palm prints on the back of his clothes and the coal powder on his sleeves, of course Dongya agreed.