The Heartthrob Guide: Dodder of S-Class Sentinels

Chapter 201 The Train Driving into the Abyss

Lin Nan noticed that most of the people in the carriage had fainted.

Only a few people are like her, still conscious, but unable to move their bodies.

The little boy next to her was laughing and talking to her one second, and the next second he fainted and lost consciousness.

The ability to invade someone's mental landscape in an instant without anyone noticing requires a mental strength even stronger than hers.

Has a variant appeared?

But how could a train with protective measures be hacked so quickly?
"Anomaly detected! Anomaly detected!"

At this moment, the carriage door was opened, and the two sentries that Lin Nan had seen earlier, despite their severe headaches, forced themselves to walk in.

"An alien invasion has occurred, and the source has not yet been identified. Please remain seated and do not move around. We are preparing to activate Level 3 protection!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than the moving train shook violently, and another bright red protective shield appeared on top of the transparent one.

Each carriage has a public address system, which is turned on at this time, emitting unidentified sound waves.

The feeling of powerlessness that Lin Nan had felt throughout her body vanished the instant the sound wave rang out.

She struggled to get up from her seat and examined the little boy's brain. Fortunately, he had only fainted and showed no signs of infection.

"Madam, are you still able to move?" Seeing that she was the only one in the entire carriage who could get up, the sentry, panting, moved to her side and said, "Could I do you a favor?"

"Yes, please go ahead."

"Because our energy is limited... Level 3 protection can only cover a portion of the carriages. The VIP carriages are the safest... The further back the carriages are, the weaker their protection becomes. If you find any mutated humans in the carriages behind, please make sure to lock the carriage doors. Here is the key."

The sentry seemed to be struggling, his speech was broken and intermittent. The fact that he was still able to be here was entirely due to his A-level mental strength.

He shakily pulled a key from his pocket and gave it to Lin Nan, then struggled to get to the next carriage.

The train continued its clattering journey, and Lin Nan noticed that the color of the clouds outside the window was gradually fading, and the night was spreading rapidly like ink. If it weren't for the real mental pressure in the air, Lin Nan would have thought that he was just feeling ordinary drowsy.

The train has entered a polluted area in the wild.

There's something dirty in the car.

[It's a very high-level, mutated species of the mental type.]

The vines gradually realized what was happening and began to emerge from the mental landscape.

Lin Nan kept extending her vines outwards, but the moving train was too restrictive for her. She had only managed to crawl out of a few carriages when she encountered patrolling sentries again. With nowhere to hide, she had no choice but to retreat.

As the last rays of light faded outside the window, the train emitted a metallic, distorted whistle. A gigantic, terrifying human face hung upside down in the night sky, and the wasteland on either side of the tracks transformed into a writhing, black carpet of flesh, covered in mangled fangs.

vomit--

Lin Nan didn't dare look out the window. She tried to draw the curtains, only to find that hers had already been torn to shreds during her struggle with the burly man. The train seemed to be driving over piles of corpses; limbs, blown off the train, constantly flew past the window, some swept away by the wind to unknown distances, others stuck to the protective shield, a bloody mess. This couldn't go on; otherwise, once the shield's energy ran out, everyone on the train would eventually become mutants.

She has to do something, but how?
"Help...help!!"

Just then, screams suddenly erupted from a carriage not far behind. Some able-bodied passengers were already peering back through the doors. After seeing what had happened, their legs went weak: "It's over, it's over! People in the carriages behind have already been infected and turned into mutants."

"Lock the door! Lock the door! What are you all standing there for! How unlucky! We ran into an alien species on this trip!"

"Don't let those people get over here. Our carriages are well-defended. As long as we hold on, we can survive!"

"Exactly! We spent so much money on train tickets just to prevent those regular seats from getting into our area at times like this!"

"..."

With repeated urging, the doors to all the VIP rooms were tacitly closed.

Lin Nan's carriage was the second to last of the VIP carriages. Looking back from their door, they could see ordinary passengers frantically banging on the VIP carriage door outside the carriage behind them.

All the sentries on the train were mobilized. Lin Nan, with his keen ears, heard the roars of wild beasts and the sounds of naked combat coming from the rear of the train.

The last carriage had been hit by some unknown force, creating a large hole. Wild, fishy winds rushed into the carriage, carrying with them countless unknown, blood-red spores. These spores stuck to anyone they encountered, and those unfortunate enough to be chosen quickly absorbed them, transforming into expressionless and extremely aggressive monsters...

"Damn it, I'm in the VIP carriage, let me through!" The burly man, who had been pushed to the back of the carriage, frantically pounded on the closed door of the carriage above him, cursing as he did so. There were other surviving passengers around him who were also hoping to find safety in a carriage.

But the passengers inside the safe compartment would never agree to that; opening the door at that moment would be tantamount to sending themselves to their deaths.

So everyone who could move rushed to the car door to hold it open, but the big man was just too strong. It was only a matter of time before the car door cracked after being smashed like that.

"Everyone here, go to the front carriage!" At that moment, a sentry decisively opened the door of the third-to-last carriage, allowing everyone to take refuge there.

After everyone had passed through, he called to the control room: "Control room, control room, discard the last carriage, hurry up!"

But the people in the control room didn't respond to him for a long time—

The sentry had a vague, even more terrifying premonition, but the situation before him left him no time to think. The penultimate carriage, led by the burly man, was successfully breached. With their influx came a deluge of crimson spores—

The faint sound waves coming from the radio were no match for this powerful mental pressure. The sentries were almost collectively disturbed, collapsing to the ground with headaches and unable to get up.

This time, they're coming for them!

If they are also infected, then—

Before losing consciousness, the sentry pressed the call control room button again. This time the communication was connected, but what came from inside was—an even more terrifying sound of flesh being devoured…

it's over...

This was the sentry's last thought.

(End of this chapter)