Armored train in the apocalypse

Chapter 129 Close combat
The man with the ring habitually twirled it, then hesitated, "According to company rules, can we run now?"

The young man's lips twitched. "Run? Where can we run to when they've started fighting?"

"Why don't we reveal our identities? We already said when we came out that life comes first."

"I'm fine, but you got caught on your first mission. Do you think you can still be a data collector?"

"...We might be reassigned. Forget it, let's just stay put. If we get hit by a stray bullet, we won't even have a chance to be reassigned."

Just as the two were discussing, the car door opened.

Seeing that there was no immediate danger outside, some of the bolder individuals and those hoping to gamble for riches rushed out.

There were only a few dozen people at the beginning.

But there were more than 1,500 people in the vehicle in total. With these dozen or so leaders, the people behind them thought they could take advantage of the chaos, and more than 800 people left the vehicle.

Some clever ones wanted to look for opportunities while in the car.

Soon, the first people to get off the vehicle found the old-fashioned rifles of the auxiliary troops, and the remaining people on the vehicle couldn't sit still any longer, so another group got off.

In the end, there were more than five hundred genuinely cowardly ones left.

The two data collectors naturally wouldn't get out of the car, and they had no intention of becoming team leaders.

I'll hang around for a while, collect some data, and then go back.

Who's risking their life?

The man with the ring peered out the car window for a while, clicking his tongue in amazement. "The Steel Council is quite well-off. A squad of over twenty evolved humans, all highly trained soldiers, several with specialties: a Tier 1 'Firearmer,' a Tier 1 'Medic,' and a Tier 1 'Sentryman.' But why are they all from the gunnery lineage?"

The young man climbed onto the windowsill, using his abilities to shield himself from the presence of the two men, and said, "It's cheap, that's all. Besides their guns, who else could sell a complete set of professional potions so cheaply before the apocalypse?"

The man with the ring was taken aback. "How do you know more than I do?"

"After all, I've carried out one more mission than you."

"Oh, but isn't the company worried about being arrested and having secrets leaked under torture?"

The young man thought for a moment and said, "There's no need to worry about that."

The man with the ring looked surprised. "Why?"

The young man looked at him meaningfully, "Where do you think I heard all this from?"

"Your partner told you that?"

"That's not wrong. To be precise, he said it on his own initiative when he was afraid of being tortured. I was listening in at the time."

"...What happened next?"

"I was transferred to another position. Actually, the other party didn't want to know that much, but he said too much."

The man with the ring: "..."

"Don't worry, although the company is very wealthy, it still costs a lot to train a first-level evolver. They won't just kill or abandon us."

The two remained silent for a moment, while the battle outside grew increasingly chaotic.

The Steel Council and the Armed Train fought, the Minions fought the Zombies and the Evolved Beasts, and the Passengers fought the Minions and the Evolved Beasts.

Zhang Tie led his elite soldiers and began to advance frantically towards the armed train amidst the chaos.

They moved around the building like nimble monkeys.

Very fine, light blue beams of light flickered in the sky from time to time, keeping the snipers on the other side from showing their faces.

Stray bullets and pebbles flew everywhere, and the roars and wails of corpses rose and fell.

Everyone was fighting desperately, but the evolved beings had more innovative methods, while the ordinary people had more outdated methods, and He Jie's approach was more brutal.

I've never seen such a chaotic battle.

The man with the ring couldn't help but ask, "The company pays us salaries and supports us, isn't it a bit inappropriate for us to be gossiping like this?" "Didn't your supervisor only choose you because you like watching drama?"

"Huh? And why?"

"I like to hide in a corner and watch the excitement quietly."

"...That's right, that's the money we make, but what I'm concerned about is who will ultimately win between the two sides."

"What do you think?"

The young man threw the question back at him.

The man with the ring considered for a moment, "The Steel Council, although they look a bit disheveled, have hardly lost any of their main evolved beings so far, and their tactics are well-coordinated. The Gunfire lineage evolved beings are also known for their early-game strength."

"The above-mentioned forces speculate that there is a powerful organization behind the armed train, not to mention that there are still some superhumans whose identities we haven't figured out yet."

"His two squads that frequently carry out missions are just makeshift operations, lacking any systematic coordination. They don't even have a single Tier 1 Evolver. And those points exchange systems seem like something an ordinary person came up with on a whim. Many exchange ratios are wrong. Any salesperson from the company could easily ruin them. I suspect that Armed Train isn't a major force, or that only the train conductor comes from a large company and borrowed some models, but the details of management are too rough, like a makeshift operation."

When it came to analysis, the man with the ring looked very serious.

In just a few words, the true nature of the armed train was completely exposed.

"That makes a lot of sense, but I feel that this battle may not be as you describe."

"What's the reason?"

"intuition!"

"You're not a combat profession, so you have absolutely no intuition."

……

Zhang Tie exhaled, took out an observation ball from his tactical pocket, connected it to the monitoring screen, and then threw it out.

The ball hovered in mid-air, and two cameras scanned in a cross shape, quickly observing the battlefield situation and then transmitting the information back to the screen via cables.

Seeing that the sniper on the train was still not targeting him, and that bastard He Jie was still hunting down a few night demons that pounced on the train, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He flipped over and rushed out of the cover, grabbed the observation ball and stuffed it back into his pocket.

He grabbed the light machine gun and ran forward quickly.

Even if no one notices him, he still performs his tactical movements to the highest standard.

After a few breaths.

Zhang Tie hid next to a tiled guardhouse.

At this point, he was less than 300 meters from the railway tracks.

For evolved beings, 300 meters is nothing more than a rapid acceleration.

Stand behind the cover and quickly adjust your breathing.

Soon, his subordinates could be seen in various positions. After exchanging a few hand gestures, Zhang Tie counted down from three in his mind, turned around abruptly, and rushed out.

In an instant, he was like a cheetah hunting on the African savanna, with every muscle in his body mobilized to its limit.

You could even see the bulging veins and wildly pulsating muscles on his neck.

Several other Tier 1 "Sentries," who were also assault troops, launched an attack alongside him from different angles.

Even faster than their physical reactions were the grenades mounted on their assault rifles, which were launched almost the instant they turned around.

"Boom boom boom——"

An explosion suddenly occurred on the vehicle.

A violent, brief tremor came from inside the train, followed by a series of crashing and breaking sounds in the carriages.

(End of this chapter)