Armored train in the apocalypse

Chapter 128 Cannon Fodder? I have one too!

Without any hesitation, Qu Hang rolled over and hid directly in the bedroom.

Suppress your heart rate and breathing to the lowest possible level.

Three breaths passed, and the excruciating pain from his right arm and chest felt like a gaping maw biting down on him. Even though he was trained, he couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.

The veins on his forehead bulged, and a suffocating feeling made him realize something was wrong. He forced himself to reach out and touch the wound, which was numb with pain.

Uncontrollable muscle spasms.

However, he also assessed his injuries: the bullet had entered through his right armpit, tearing his right lung, fracturing his right arm, and causing varying degrees of damage to the surrounding soft tissues.

He quickly sealed off the leaking air from his chest cavity and then slowly controlled the air to fill his lungs, which had been compressed by the pressure difference.

Although the bleeding was more intense, the feeling of tightness in my chest was relieved considerably.

Before bandaging the wound, use your abilities to convey a final message.

"The enemy has an electromagnetic anti-materiel sniper rifle with an electric arc paralysis effect. Its attack range is over three kilometers. The user is the leader, Su Huan. Aries has been severely injured and has withdrawn from the battlefield!"

……

Zhang Tie's face turned ashen when he heard the weak voice carried by the cold wind.

They were thinking of fighting the enemy head-on, but they couldn't even break through.

It's bad enough that that bastard He Jie is still alive, but he's on the other side, and a heavy machine gun is pinning down the tanks so they can't even get close.

With 14.5mm armor-piercing rounds, its effective range is almost comparable to that of an anti-materiel sniper rifle.

Now even the strongest sniper in the team, Tier 1 Aries, has been taken down by the enemy with a single shot. What's the point of fighting now?

Although he was also a gunner, his caliber was nowhere near that of the enemy.

Who in their right mind would carry an anti-aircraft machine gun into battle?

Even if you could carry it, you couldn't carry many bullets.

But now this awkward problem has arisen. Zhang Tie doesn't dare to show his face. For "firepower hand" evolved beings like them, the recoil of light and heavy machine guns doesn't exist. Even when firing in bursts, they can maintain an extremely high hit rate. Moreover, He Jie's grooved armor is hidden inside like a turtle shell, and the recoil is absorbed by the thousands of tons of train. He only needs to aim.

Zhang Tie glanced back at the armed helicopter still circling ten kilometers away and said sternly.

"Have the remaining snipers aim at He Jie and take him out first!"

"Five hundred guards will go around to intercept the train from the front, creating an opportunity to break through!"

……

As the train moved along the tracks, He Jie kept adjusting his output angle, initially with a hint of anger.

Watching him single-handedly beat more than twenty people, hey, that felt so good!

Their training on the island was more about individual combat than teamwork. You wouldn't say they were enemies, but their relationships were definitely not harmonious, with only a few having some friendship.

Therefore, He Jie felt no psychological pressure when he attacked his former colleagues.

As soon as anyone dared to show their face, he would fire several bullets at them.

No matter how thin-skinned and dilapidated a car is or how solid concrete is, a 14.7mm armor-piercing round sweeps through it like a demolition, causing explosions, shattering, dust rising, and buildings gradually shaking and collapsing.

The aging and breakdown that would normally take decades to occur can happen in just a few seconds of pulling the trigger.

It felt like being a creator god who controlled time.

"Whoosh—Bang!"

A bullet, traveling at supersonic speeds, struck the armor outside the machine gun position with tremendous force, as if tearing through a thick stream of water.

He Jie instinctively shrank his head.

He was very familiar with that voice; his team had previously had anti-material snipers, usually called heavy snipers, who used 12.7mm armor-piercing rounds.

After I recovered, a thin layer of sweat appeared on my neck.

After surveying the surrounding armor and finding not a single bullet crater, I instantly felt more alert.

Even 12.7mm is not see-through!
This is what real warfare looks like!

He finally understood why Su Huan was always smiling. The sense of security brought by the best armor and the largest caliber would make anyone smile!
His elite soldiers, who were once on par with him, were crushed by the hail of bullets and fled in panic, but they had no way to retaliate.

"Boom!"

The armor was hit twice more.

Nothing happened.

He Jie grinned maliciously, looked at his old comrades who had shown their faces, and unleashed a steady barrage of fire.

Like playing whack-a-mole, you hit them one by one without them making a sound.

She was seething with rage, determined to kill that bastard Qu Hang here, so he wouldn't go back and harm her daughter.

……

Inside the carriage, Su Huan held the soft Yu Yue in his arms, but he could clearly hear Qu Hang tightening the bandages and even the sound of him injecting adrenaline into himself.

The message conveyed by the wind naturally did not escape his ears.

Su Huan narrowed his eyes. This old boss was indeed a perennial member of the Steel Council. He hadn't died in four years and was doing better and better.

That level of alertness is truly impressive.

"This gun has an effective range of five kilometers and can penetrate 150mm of armor, but it's useless against multiple layers of concrete walls. Find a new valuable target as soon as possible."

Su Huan's hand swept across her back, casually patting her shapely buttocks, and instructed, "The charging backpack is in the storage compartment; go get it yourself."

Yu Yue felt the heat on her ear, her cheeks flushed, "Okay, I'll do it myself."

Seeing that she was alright, Su Huan removed his hand from the gun and walked towards the second floor of carriage number 3.

Compared to the chaos on the other side, Su Huan was able to leisurely make arrangements, which was the advantage of playing on home ground.

Upon reaching the second floor, the third brother, along with Zhang Kai and a few others, were already squatting on the ground, guns in hand.

He would cautiously peek out from time to time, observing the situation outside.

Seeing Su Huan walk straight up like that, the third brother became a little anxious, "Commander, they have snipers!"

Su Huan waved his hand dismissively, "They can't penetrate armor. I came up here mainly to warn you..."

Before he could finish speaking, a series of crackling sounds hit the train's armor.

Bullets rained down on the vehicle's armor. Looking out the windows, a large group of auxiliary soldiers carrying old-fashioned rifles appeared on both sides of the tracks, using infantry fighting vehicles and buildings to fire at the train on the tracks.

Each of them was dressed differently, clearly survivors taken in by the Steel Council during this period.

Because the train moves very slowly to clear mines, and because of its large size, very few bullets miss.

But after fighting for a while, the auxiliary soldiers also realized something was wrong.

"How come this metal casing is so thick? A bullet hitting it just leaves a white dot."

"Idiot, break the window! Break the window!"

"You're the idiot! You couldn't even shoot through the window. The hole above was made by a heavy sniper rifle from behind. It has nothing to do with us!"

"The heavy machine gun on the roof has turned around! Huh? Huh?! Huh?!!!"

"That's a damn anti-aircraft machine gun, used to shoot down planes! Run!"

"Boom boom boom——"

He Jie's gun barrel was utterly inhuman. He stood on the front of the vehicle, at a height of over five meters, and when facing these auxiliary troops, he was no longer firing from above, but from below!

A proper execution-style shooting!

The scalding hot shell casings bounced wildly, accumulating a thick layer on the deck, but they couldn't burn He Jie's thick skin.

Where bullets passed, waves of blood flew, and various severed limbs were no longer distinguishable, blown to pieces into indistinct clumps of flesh and blood mixed in with the dust. The so-called armored personnel carrier was nothing more than a sturdier toy in front of the anti-aircraft machine gun, and within three to five seconds, it exploded with a deafening roar.

The wails of the auxiliary troops were drowned out by the rain of iron.

He Jie squinted, the cigar in his mouth burned to the end, the smoke he exhaled mixed with the gunpowder smoke.

Every bullet finds its target, with almost no bullet wasted.

With the level 2 "ballistic correction", ordinary people have no chance to dodge.

You can say goodbye to your body, which you've lived with for many years, without even feeling any pain.

In the blink of an eye, he single-handedly slaughtered five hundred of his servants.

The death toll exceeded 100, and the number of seriously injured exceeded 100.

Life, under the firearm, is nothing more than a number that is rapidly diminished.

The remaining enemies then faced zombies and evolved beasts surging in from all directions.

It's important to understand that this war involves not only humans, but also these ever-watchful predators all around!
The train was getting slower and slower, and soon Su Huan heard the driver's report.

The drone used for mine clearance was shot down by a sniper.

Xiao Zhao asked if they should change to a third one.

Su Huan decisively refused. Although there were still quite a few drones in the warehouse, it wasn't worth wasting them, so he ordered them all to be removed.

External observation relies on cameras fixed to the vehicle body.

The rain of bullets outside was almost entirely reduced to sporadic stray bullets, which were completely ineffective against the upgraded composite armor.

Let alone soft glass that can withstand armor-piercing projectiles.

It can't even penetrate the outer 15mm layer of Tier 1 light armor.

Su Huan stopped the third brother and the others who wanted to stick their heads out to fight back.

"The enemy sniper hasn't been suppressed yet, what's the rush? Are you in such a hurry to die?"

"Yu Yue, connect me to Professor Ma's student, the one called Little Box."

"Ok."

Flight attendants.

A girl wearing a gray zip-up jacket suddenly opened her eyes. Her previously dim eyes regained their luster. The magnetic voice that suddenly appeared in her ear still made her a little flustered.

It took me a moment to realize what was happening.

Are you the train conductor?

"I am Su Huan, the train conductor. Your teacher is at the front of the train. Do you remember what I told you before?"

"remember."

"Based on the characteristics of the person I told you about before, go and see where he is."

"receive."

The girl's eyes once again took on the look characteristic of a collector. After a moment, she said hesitantly, "Train conductor, I haven't found that person's location. They should be outside my perception range."

Su Huan breathed a sigh of relief upon receiving the news.

It seems Lin Jin isn't among these 500 servants. If Lin Jin were to be killed by He Jie with a single burst of bullets, things would get really messed up.

The girl named Little Box was one of the collectors who stayed at the logistics center with Wan Xing last time.

The girl was very tall, and her temper wasn't as strange as Yu Jing's.

She has a quiet personality and is also beautiful.

The key point is the awakening of an ability called "topological perception," similar to an animal's intuitive alertness to foreign objects within its territory, but this ability is more complex and abstract.

It can use a girl's knowledge to search for the quantity of certain elements and then determine whether the target is within her "territory".

This was the first time Su Huan had encountered such a mystical ability.

It gave him a big surprise.

The difficulty of finding Lin Jin has been reduced once again.

Su Huan pondered for a moment and then began to issue orders to his various departments.

"Yu Yue, suppress the enemy sniper."

"it is good!"

"Professor Ma, Xiao Ba, get ready. The enemy evolved beings are coming soon. Be prepared for battle."

"understand!"

"Xiao Zhao, equip the drone, but don't send it out; instead, conduct close-range detection of landmines."

"receive."

"Liang Kuan, keep driving, but slowly. Even just inching forward is fine. As long as you keep moving, they'll be the ones in a hurry!"

"understand!"

"Other non-combat personnel, return to your rooms."

"Then pass on what I'm about to say to all the passengers in the back of the train."

"Killing an enemy evolved soldier will reward you with captain privileges and 200 points. Capturing one alive will reward the entire team with becoming evolved, a D-grade weapon and ammunition pack, and 500 points. Killing the enemy commander will additionally reward you with a general-purpose exoskeleton, Scavenger-I, and 1,000 points. Capturing the enemy commander alive will reward you with five exoskeletons, matching light weapons, and 3,000 points!"

Since ordinary people can't get this kind of reward anyway, Su Huan doesn't mind setting the price a little higher.

How can someone be a leader if they can't even draw a perfect picture?
Seriously, when it comes to the number of cannon fodder, who has this train conductor ever been afraid of?
……

There was a brief commotion in the back of the car when Su Huan's voice was heard, but it quickly subsided under the suppression of several leaders.

Halfway through the conversation, everyone was already breathing heavily, and when the last sentence was finished, a cheer erupted from the back of the carriage.

Although they didn't know how strong the evolved beings outside were, how fierce the enemy's firepower was, or that the commander was still flying in the sky, they knew how important captain's authority was. It represented survival, power, violence, supplies, women...

And through word of mouth among many passengers, points have become a bargaining chip that can be exchanged for anything!

Not to mention ordinary passengers, even Lu Xiao's eyes turned red.

The two of them only learned about the existence of exoskeletons from the exchange list and tried it out themselves. The effect was outstanding, but even the most ordinary exoskeleton was priced at 500 points!

Exoskeletons had undergone numerous iterations long before the apocalypse, and even the civilian versions had moved beyond the bulky, frame-like form that was worn on the body.

After the train was modified, these exoskeletons became more functional, without changing their weight, but were better suited for combat.

While it doesn't provide protection, it can increase a person's workload limit.

If such a thing existed, it would provide tremendous assistance in both transporting supplies and combat.

Even if knocked down by a zombie, it is possible to stand up with the strong support of the exoskeleton.

This time, the highest reward was a whopping five sets!

But not everyone was so excited.

The two data collectors were stunned when they heard the rocket explode.

The two stared at each other.

Who just said that a fight is definitely not going to happen, and that the two forces are cooperating?

What kind of collaboration is this?

War drills?

(End of this chapter)