Armored train in the apocalypse

Chapter 156 The train conductor really liked your surprise.
"It's dangerous outside, I'll take you away."

Zhang Min unconsciously softened her tone.

She felt completely exposed to the girl; the last time she felt so utterly vulnerable was in front of Su Huan.

With her heart pounding as she waited for a response, she finally understood how the guys she had lured back then felt.

"Um"

The girl stretched out her hand, which was so white it seemed to glow.

Zhang Min breathed a sigh of relief, took the girl's delicate hand in his, and even the burning hatred in his heart lessened considerably.

They got into the car behind with the girl, and because the truck cab was large, they both squeezed into the passenger seat.

"how are you feeling?"

"I asked the man in the driver's seat."

Zhang Min looked up and realized that the question was being asked of the girl behind her.

The girl shook her head and quietly sat in the cargo bed behind the driver's seat, and the man breathed a sigh of relief.

The vehicle starts, and the engine hums.

"You seem very afraid of her?"

Zhang Min suddenly asked.

The man nervously stared at the rearview mirror and whispered, "I'm afraid she's dead!"

"Ok?"

Zhang Min raised an eyebrow; her abilities told her that what the man said was true.

"The gene originator will keep generating power, like a burning torch, with a lifespan of only three to five years. This is even with the use of a large amount of drugs to maintain it. It may die now, or it may die the next moment because it cannot bear the constantly generated power."

Even if you try to lower your voice, you can still hear it at this close distance.

The girl, upon hearing that she only had three to five years to live, showed no reaction whatsoever.

Zhang Min glanced at the girl in the rearview mirror, a hint of regret flashing in her eyes. "Couldn't it have ended?"

“Terminate?” The man scoffed. “The gene serum is essentially an activating agent. After that, it’s the body’s spontaneous activity. Unless you die, it can’t be stopped. It can only keep evolving.”

"If we keep evolving, won't we just keep getting stronger?"

A glint of light flashed in Zhang Min's eyes.

The man hurriedly said, "You can't use it. That thing can only be used by evolutionaries with dual or even more domains. Ordinary evolutionaries will only suffer genetic collapse."

Hearing him say that, Zhang Min gave up the idea.

Neither of them spoke after that. The man drove his heavy truck recklessly, running over anything in his path. Zhang Min witnessed him run over and kill a seriously injured security guard and two company employees.

That's ruthless.

But their success only lasted a short while. Because of the mutated birds and beasts, the road directly to the north was blocked, and they had no choice but to move eastward.

Various speed-type mutant beasts and zombies have flooded into the heavy industrial area.

The higher the rank, the faster they run. Those who can reach their position in a short time are basically mutated beasts or zombies of rank one or above.

The Steel Council's resistance never ceased, but it had become very weak, reduced to scattered points of fire throughout the vast industrial area.

"Thorn-"

The man jerked the steering wheel, and the front of the car suddenly swerved to the side.

In a flash, Zhang Min grabbed the right-side handle, pushed off with both feet, and squeezed out of the car window.

A slender figure, three meters tall, stood on the roof of a small car, his legs slightly bent at the ankles, the car beneath his feet crushed to pieces like a cardboard box.

His scarlet, black eyes locked onto Zhang Min, and a surge of malice washed over her.

Second-order jumper!
Almost instantly, Zhang Min assessed the strength of the zombie in front of her.

No wonder they didn't even dare to bump into it.

After trying to absorb the other party's malice, Zhang Min gave up on this futile idea after a moment.

From her perspective, the malice of the second-tier zombie seemed endless; after absorbing just a little, she felt a tightness in her chest.

However, thanks to the surge of negative emotions, the wound on my arm began to heal quickly, and my mind became increasingly calm.

The absorbed negative emotions are used as a trigger to ignite the jumper's emotions.

Then he darted back into the carriage, shouting, "Run!"

The Jumper roared furiously from behind. The next moment, the entire vehicle shook violently, as if it were carrying a colossal beast. The frame collapsed and the wheels flew off.

The entire heavy-duty truck suddenly disintegrated while in motion, and rushed forward due to inertia.

The car's chassis sparked violently as it rubbed against the concrete ground, then crashed heavily into a roadside building.

In an instant, the car overturned, and the world spun around.

Zhang Min was violently thrown against the deformed car door by the inertia, and the excruciating pain from her broken ribs made her vision go black.

Through the broken car window, she saw that the Jumper's rotting claws had torn through the metal, and the scarlet, blackened nails were less than ten centimeters from her eyeballs.

"Am I going to die...?" The moment this thought crossed her mind, she seemed to see the slowly closing door of the armed train gradually appearing before her eyes.

Su Huan stood at the boundary between light and shadow, a mocking sneer on his lips.

Hatred churned within her like a poisoned dagger—she hadn't yet witnessed the man kneeling and begging for mercy, nor had she yet sliced ​​away his arrogant flesh piece by piece.

The roars of the jumpers suddenly seemed distant. In a daze, she heard the hum of the vibrating rails, a sound that pierced through the roar of the horde of corpses, like an ice pick piercing her chaotic consciousness.

I'm experiencing auditory hallucinations...

Why would an armed train come here? And even if it did, so what?

It was just a small survivor organization.

Even the Steel Council has suffered such a disaster, so what can they do even if they come?
"Shh..."

The silver-haired girl suddenly pressed down on her bleeding shoulder.

In the other person's jewel-like pupils, Zhang Min saw her own distorted reflection, and beyond that—

A silver lightning bolt that cleaves through the night!
A silver heavy motorcycle roared as it tore through the night, its engine roar drowning out the howls of the zombie horde.

Su Huan had a carbon fiber composite longsword clenched between his teeth, and blood trickled down the spine of the blade.

The violent lightning around him tore long rainbows through the air.

It wasn't that he wanted to show off; it was that he had to drive while carrying the head of the Tower Lab, so he simply didn't have a hand to hold the knife.

The robotic arm attached to the exoskeleton is now helping him hold the electromagnetic sniper rifle.

Moreover, he has lost control of the energy within his body, which is why the lightning is overflowing in such a spectacular way.

"Hold on."

Looking at the overturned heavy truck a hundred meters away, Su Huan let out a low laugh, and the long knife between his teeth trembled.

The three bloodhounds that pounced from thirty meters away were instantly entangled by the lightning snake.

He was directly pulled to the front of the car by the lightning whip.

The front of the vehicle rolled over the three Tier 1 Bloodhounds without slowing down. The two-ton motorcycle turned into a silver meteor, smashing them into a dent and exploding. Flesh, blood, and bone fragments left a foul-smelling fan-shaped trail on the armored front bumper.

Su Huan swung Director Xu over his shoulder, barely avoiding the attack of a night demon.

His first-tier "Fighter's" honed combat skills allowed him to easily seize opportunities in battle, and as if by instinct, he drew the long sword from his mouth and swung it.

In an instant, blood and flesh flew everywhere.

The second-tier jumper standing next to the overturned truck had already locked his gaze on Su Huan, and his knees were slightly bent.

"Snapped!"

A shot from who-knows-where caused it to stumble.

Across the street from the pickup truck roof, Yu Yue calmly pulled the bolt, searching for the next threat to Su Huan.

Despite Yu Yue's interference, the jumper still managed to take off successfully thanks to his powerful physique.

The moment it jumped, a bolt of lightning spread to its feet.

The level 5 "Universal Energy Conversion" instantly converted half of the universal energy output by Su Huan into a surging current, which spread out within a radius of ten meters.

Lightning bolts shot up from the ground and then converged into an electric grid five or six meters in the air.

In an instant, all that could be seen were streaks of blinding lightning traversing this space.

Su Huan threw the old man out, then abruptly swerved the car around, skimming along the ground.

Suddenly, a cracking sound came from deep within my body, like the crisp sound of a glacier cracking in spring, subtle yet deafening.

The originally smooth movements suddenly became slightly choppy.

The level 1 "Super Speed ​​Nerve" has collapsed, and the Fighter class has been completely destroyed.

A hint of blood red had appeared in Su Huan's pupils at some point.

"Thorn-"

The jumper, who leaped 100 meters high, landed recklessly in the minefield.

But what they faced was an electromagnetic sniper rifle that was already poised to fire!

A beam of pale blue light pierced the sky.

"Oh!"

A long-delayed thud was heard.

The heavy motorcycle gradually came to a stop.

He had no intention of engaging in close combat with second-tier zombies, so whether or not he was a "fighter" didn't make much difference.

However, the negative effects of the genetic breakdown caused his vision to go black intermittently.

"The gene source and gene agent are both on this vehicle!"

"I just scraped my skin," said Director Xu, standing next to the overturned truck.

However, what interested Su Huan more was the familiar face trapped under the car.

Dragging his heavy steps, he knelt down beside the seriously injured Zhang Min and touched her soft, tender face.

He spat out the knife handle, which he had already chewed out of shape, and a ferocious smile curled at the corner of his bloodied lips.

"The train conductor really enjoyed your surprise."

Behind them stretched a hundred meters of scorched earth littered by lightning, while ahead lay a vacuum where the horde of corpses had retreated in terror, like a blood-red path cleaved open by Thor's whip.

(End-of-month summary: I took no leave this month, updated 15,000 words a day, and updated a total of 200,000 words. Although I can't compare to the big names, it's not shameful. I just couldn't keep up towards the end, and the climax was a bit brain-draining. I was constantly thinking about how to arrange the plot to present it better, so the updates were a bit slower. Also, including this chapter, today's update is a little over 7,000 words.)
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