Armored train in the apocalypse

Chapter 141 Encounter
In Wan Xing's field of vision, a miniature Yu Yue avatar appeared on the edge of the smart glasses, flashing continuously, indicating the other party's presence.

He sealed the reagent in his hand completely before looking up as if nothing had happened.

Looking at Yu Yue's cautious demeanor, I subconsciously thought of my mother who ran an orphanage. Although the two had completely different personalities, they both had a comfortable quality that made people feel at ease, like a quilt that had been thoroughly dried in the sun, soft and warm.

Wan Xing asked gently, "Is there something you need?"

Yu Yue was startled awake and looked at the test tube in her hand with a hint of fear.

"Is this what attracted that snake in the first place?"

Wan Xing shook her head. "This attracts zombies."

After a brief chat, Yu Yue walked to the back and saw Jiang Rong charging the engine in carriage number four.

Since Su Huan wasn't in the car, the task of supplying energy was assigned to her.

Huang Hai is incubating the newly laid eggs, and from what he says, the eggs seem to have undergone some mutation.

My daughter was fiddling with those mechanical skeletons in carriage 19.

Everyone has something to do.

But it was completely different from when Su Huan was around; everyone seemed to be carrying some kind of burden in their hearts.

Stifling.

……

The battle outside the car continued, and although it was intense, it seemed to have fallen into a strange balance.

Armed trains brazenly began constructing railway tracks amidst the encirclement.

The metal bullets were melted into molten iron and poured into the pit to harden the road surface. Strands of metal flew out from the buildings on both sides and turned into metal sleepers, which were more sturdy and durable than stone sleepers and wooden sleepers, and had a higher load-bearing capacity.

The corrected rails rumbled back to their original position, fusing into the metal ground.

This time, even cannonballs can't shake it!

On the newly repaired tracks, the armed train once again stubbornly pushed forward, propelling itself forward at a snail's pace with sandbags piled up like small mountains at the front.

Every now and then, a loud bang was heard.

The interceptor lock broke and bounced back.

The artillery fire and bullets on both sides were no longer the enemy, but more like encouragement and motivation for him.

It seems the Steel Council has run out of options to deal with the train.

Li Tao had thought the same thing an hour ago, but now he had long since discarded those messy and discouraging thoughts. Looking at the rail engineering vehicle, four or five large engineering vehicles, and several cannons in front of him, Li Tao was filled with a huge sense of astonishment.

This is not a rocket launcher or an anti-aircraft machine gun, but a proper 85mm direct-fire cannon capable of penetrating 150mm of armor at 1000m.

Although the model is quite old, no one can ignore its power!
Even an armed train that rampages across the territory is nothing more than a lamb to the slaughter under cannons of this caliber!
Before the apocalypse, he tried everything but couldn't get his hands on a real cannon, not even one that had been obsolete for decades.

Unexpectedly, my uncle managed to get his hands on several mining vehicles without saying a word; each tire alone is over four meters tall.

Each one weighs over 300 tons; even compared to a train, they can be called steel monsters!

Various parameters flashed through his eyes. Li Tao thought of his uncle's teachings, adjusted his glasses, and concealed the glint in his eyes.

But there was still a hint of doubt in her tone, "Uncle, you were prepared all along?"

Li Wangchuan stood calmly by the window, looking down at the massive weapons lying in the rain below. "When you first encountered the armed train, I had already ordered people to start collecting engineering vehicles."

Li Tao was stunned, "Uncle, how did you know they would...?"

“I don’t know!” Li Wangchuan unbuttoned his wrist. “I only know that an unknown force has appeared in Yijin that could potentially threaten my plans. That’s enough for me to make some extra preparations. Never give the initiative to others.”

A glint gradually appeared in Li Tao's eyes. Since he had made this preparation long ago, the fact that he pretended to be unprepared in the office was just to show the group of directors. The armed train was not his uncle's target in the first place. He wanted to use this incident to completely take back the power of the directors!
The failed interception with his own team might even be part of a planned operation!
Following this line of thought, Li Tao suddenly understood everything and couldn't help but complain, "I thought I was the person you trusted the most, but I didn't expect that I would even kick your nephew into the pit."

Li Wangchuan finally smiled. His nephew had been close to him since childhood, and most importantly, he was smart, so he had always kept him by his side to train him.

Youyou said, "This is nothing. You sat in the helicopter the whole time and never landed. Chairman Zhang lost twenty people and was kicked out of the game, but you came back without any problems. Don't you know why?"

"Because I have an uncle who is an executive director."

The uncle and nephew looked at each other and smiled.

Li Wangchuan gradually composed himself, looked down at the dozen or so armored cars parked downstairs with their entourages, and said with a faint sigh, "You have to learn to appropriately hand over the initiative to others."

"Uh, that's not what you said last time."

Li Wangchuan didn't care at all, "I changed it because I needed it."

Li Tao stared in disbelief at his uncle, who dismissed his words as if they were nothing, but he also seemed to understand something.

"Go and prepare. Don't rush. Let the prey go a little deeper."

"To what extent?"

"When all three lines of defense have been breached."

Li Tao nodded and was about to leave when his uncle's secretary walked in. Her black business suit accentuated her stunning figure, and neither her hairstyle nor her clothes were messy, exuding a sharp and aggressive aura.

They nodded to each other and passed by.

Li Tao paused, then turned around.

The secretary said, "Three minutes ago, someone broke through the defense line in the southeast and entered Changli County."

……

As the instigator of the war, the great troublemaker train conductor is now sitting in an off-road vehicle that has circled around half of the county.

The wind and rain tore at his long hair, sending it flying out of the window. Su Huan lay lazily on the car window, watching the deafening roar of the battle in the distance, his gaze as calm as a still lake.

He drew attention to the front of the train, then led his men quickly through the county town to find Lin Jin.

This was his operational objective.

Of course, if he had the chance to get some other benefits from his former employer, he wouldn't hesitate.

Before leaving, he had clearly explained the combat objective to Liang Kuan and the others: make a big commotion, and if things seemed amiss, simply turn the rear of the vehicle into the front and run away.

The main force fighting the Steel Council has never been the armed trains, but the suppressed hordes of corpses in the county town.

As long as this balance is broken, they'll be busy.

When they rushed in, they already saw several groups of corpses rushing towards the battlefield.

"did you find it?"

Su Huan returned to the car and asked calmly.

The girl named Little Box in the back seat opened her eyes and shook her head solemnly.

Su Huan turned his head to look at the goat, whose forehead was covered in cold sweat and whose eyeballs seemed to be covered with a thin film, without any light. Sensing Su Huan's gaze, the goat said, "I'm looking too, but I haven't found any signs of burning that you mentioned."

"Drive to the most dangerous area."

"what?"

The goat paused for a moment.

Su Huan rubbed his chin, looking at the chaotic street ahead, "Drive to the place you think is the most dangerous."

The goat gritted its teeth, jerked the steering wheel, and charged toward the nearest horde of corpses.

Su Huan grabbed the electromagnetic sniper rifle with his left hand and opened the car door directly in the fast-moving vehicle. Acid rain poured in and was spread out by the cold blue electric arc.

With one hand gripping the frame, he flipped himself onto the SUV.

The exoskeleton suction cups beneath his feet firmly locked him to the roof of the car. ...

A kilometer away, two disheveled figures were frantically fleeing. Eerie roars came from the buildings on both sides. One after another, dark blue figures used all four limbs to climb up the buildings. As they moved, eighteen scarlet compound eyes under their armpits were revealed, locked on the two people below.

"Oh!"

A first-order jumper landed on the street in front of the two.

A zombie dragged a small electric scooter backwards from behind, its fat face full of bloodthirsty smiles, while ordinary zombies poured out from the left and right sides.

"I'll attack from behind!" The scout gritted his teeth, loaded the last grenade, and fired it backward.

With a loud bang, the horde of corpses was blasted open, and severed limbs crashed into the buildings on both sides.

But even more zombies surged up.

At a glance, the entire street was teeming with zombies.

The scouts began firing, their lone gun muzzles flashing in the rain, killing the zombies that charged at them. The crisp sound of the gun barrels gradually became muffled in the rain, and the scouts were sinking deeper and deeper into despair.

A zombie riot broke out in the neighborhood, with a large number of Tier 1 zombies rushing out at once, catching the team off guard and leading to an unexpected battle.

Three people, including the captain, were killed on the spot, but at the critical moment, it was the new recruit behind him who saved him.

Thinking of this, the scout instinctively turned around.

Suddenly, I felt a wave of heat rush past my ears, and a ball of flame flew past with a long tail of flame. It landed without a huge explosion, like willow catkins, on the zombie in front of me, and then began to burn in the acid rain.

Everything was quiet, without a sound, but the flames burned at an astonishing speed.

From the moment it landed until it engulfed his entire body, it only took about three seconds. The dozen or so zombies in front of him that were covered in flames were roasted into charred corpses!

After taking a few steps, it collapsed weakly to the ground, its charred remains scattered everywhere.

Even after watching it several times, the scouts couldn't help but be stunned.

"Run!"

Lin Jin called out to him and continued running forward.

The scouts quickly followed, and when they passed the street corner, they saw that the first-level jumper had become a charred corpse.

He didn't even know when Lin Jin had done it.

A glimmer of hope appeared in his eyes.

Suddenly, a Night Demon pounced down from a nearby building. The scout only had time to shout before he saw the area around Lin Jin instantly distort, steam rise, and an orange-yellow flame erupt, violently repelling the Night Demon's claws.

"right!"

The scout quickly observed the situation, then raised his gun and fired a burst at Night Demon.

Lin Jin also took this opportunity to escape.

The two of them went into an alley on the right. There were tall buildings on both sides, with shops below, selling everything from convenience stores and grocery stores to hardware stores and braised meat shops. There were a few scattered zombies inside, but they were all ordinary zombies and did not pose any obstacle to the two evolved individuals.

But as they rounded a corner, they both froze in place.

A dozen or so bloodhounds were gnawing on something in a mutton soup restaurant, their faces covered in blood. Hearing the noise, they all raised their heads and sniffed around curiously.

Then his crimson gaze locked onto the two of them simultaneously.

The lead bloodhound stepped out, its dark red muscle texture exposed to the acid rain, and suddenly shook itself.

It clearly doesn't like this environment.

But that doesn't mean he'll give up the delicious food offered to him.

Just then, the frenzied howls of the corpses came from behind. The bloodhound realized that someone was trying to steal its food and immediately began to howl.

One by one, they rushed out of the mutton shop and headed straight for the two of them, like streaks of blood-red light.

A horde of rampaging zombies surged up from behind, trapping the two of them in the alley.

The walls are covered with agile night demons, the ground is filled with zombies and bloodhounds, and various evolved zombies are watching us menacingly from both sides...

The barking of dogs and the howling of corpses blended together in an instant.

The three sides are locked in a fierce battle; some are fighting for the meat, while others are simply after it.

The flames burned brighter and brighter in the rain, even threatening to roll back.

The surrounding zombies became the best firefighters, risking their lives and rushing into the flames one after another.

The scout, carrying a bloodhound, detonated a bomb, tearing a gap in the tight encirclement.

He stumbled and fled into a mutton soup shop by the roadside.

Unexpectedly, I saw someone I knew.

The servant soldier comrade who said he had to go home and left him a crystal that would change his fate before leaving.

However, he is now lying on the ground with his stomach ripped open.

He was still clutching that old-fashioned rifle tightly in his hand.

Lin Jin remained silent for a moment.

He could feel that he didn't have much strength left in his body. He used his last bit of strength to burn the corpses on the ground to ashes. He found a slightly cleaner chair and sat down. Looking at the predators rushing in from outside the door, his eyes were no longer filled with fear. He just sighed softly.

"Everyone has family..."

He let the remaining flames burn his body, and a sharp pain instantly climbed up his arm. It was a burning sensation more unbearable than being cut by a knife. His stratum corneum gradually cracked, and his flesh was dehydrated by the scorching flames, gradually drying out and cracking.

For some reason, the flames that burned the zombies so quickly burned them, but burned themselves much more slowly, barely reaching their shoulders at this moment.

Surely it can't even spontaneously combust?

The pain contorted his face, and time seemed to slow down at that moment.

Even the distorted, blood-red maw of the bloodhound at the door became extremely clear; he even had time to see the flesh and blood on its fangs.

'I never thought I'd end up feeding the dogs...'

Lin Jin vaguely thought of it.

Suddenly, a blue beam of light shot past his eyes, tearing the entire world into a cold hue.

The ferocious bloodhound was torn into two pieces like a piece of paper.

Lin Jin was stunned for a moment, as if his heart had cracked open, and a trickle of water flowed out from it, then turned into a raging river!

An overwhelming sense of ecstasy appeared on his face.

It felt as if something inside his body had been broken, and the flames that had been harming him subsided.

It felt as if countless things in the air were rushing towards his body.

With a wave of his hand, towering flames shot into the sky!

It echoes the successive cold blue beams of light in front of us.

With a look of trepidation and confusion on his face, Lin Jin walked out of the mutton soup shop and then witnessed a scene he would never forget.

At the other end of the street, a crazy SUV was speeding around, almost jumping up and down.

No matter how the SUV crashed into it, a figure in a black shirt stood on the roof like a nail, holding a sniper rifle. Behind the scope, the corner of his mouth was slightly upturned, and a cold blue light once again burst from the muzzle of his gun, like the whip of the Heavenly Emperor, tearing a gap in the rain.

(Lin Jin)
(Su Huan)
(End of this chapter)