Armored train in the apocalypse

Chapter 159 Saving one is better than nothing

The roar of car engines and the howls of zombies drew closer at the same time.

Leading the pack was a heavy modular troop carrier, about 7.8 meters long, 3 meters wide, and weighing 18 tons. Two halves of zombies were hanging in front of the vehicle, making it look like a runaway tank.

With its armor capable of protecting against 7.62mm armor-piercing rounds from all directions, it fought its way through the horde of zombies!
"Xiao Ba, Su Huan is in that troop carrier up ahead!"

Yu Yue's voice came into my ears.

The boy's heart tightened, and his pale fingertips traced the air. Suddenly, the steel frame of the cooling tower in the distance collapsed, blocking all the zombies pouring out from the side street.

Watch out for what's above you!

Lin Jin's warning rang out simultaneously with the sound of something cutting through the air.

More and more mutated birds and beasts were chasing after them from the front of the zombie horde. They spotted Lin Jin and his companion and swooped down with shrieks.

"Qiang Qiang..."

More than a dozen steel bars flew out and slammed into the wall in front of the two people, forming a makeshift step.

Hachi stood up, supporting himself on the wheelchair with both hands, and manipulated the exoskeleton, walking step by step toward the steel barrier.

Steel was pierced through the boy's head, forming an indestructible cage.

Lin Jin's flames precisely poured into the mutated bird's eye sockets through the gaps in the metal mesh, and the raging flames instantly burned its feathers.

Amidst the piercing cries of agony, the two combined their abilities to tear through the horde of beasts, creating a narrow, deadly path that stretched straight up the high wall.

Meanwhile, the metal barrier beneath their feet continued to be built, and Xiao Ba put all the fortification knowledge he had learned from He Jie into practice.

Shock absorption, pressure resistance, stability, impact resistance...

The clanging of metal was incessant.

Xiao Ba completed his most complex ability manipulation to date, removing the steel beams of the entire machine repair shop and constructing a metal dam to block the zombie horde.

Lin Jin understood and leaped onto the metal barrier, unleashing flames directly in front of him.

Flames swept out in a fan shape, scorching the zombies that pounced on the troop carrier into charcoal, while the outer armor only got slightly hot.

"How is Su Huan?"

Xiao Ba looked down at the horde of zombies chasing the vehicles and asked worriedly.

Yu Yue: "He used gene-based agents and is currently in a coma. There is someone who may know about his situation. I can help you connect with him."

As Director Xu sat dejectedly in the troop carrier, he heard a three-dimensional world constructed of sound gradually appear in his ears, and his eyes widened in shock.

'The fact that the voice manipulators of the armed train can achieve this level of voice sharing is terrifying.'

'It seems that the strategy of using a vacuum barrier to deal with her was correct...'

Otherwise, there would be no chance of victory at all.

A slightly immature boy's voice came from behind. Director Xu "looked" in the direction of the voice and "saw" Xiao Ba standing on the metal barrier. The metal frame was like a cage, and the boy stood in the middle of the flames, with mutated beasts rushing in one after another.

Everything was incredibly vivid, but the colors I imagined were very faint, almost black and white.

Director Xu looked back at Su Huan and said with a complicated expression, "He was previously in a state of genetic collapse, which is an irreversible disintegration. But just now he used the gene agent to make his body enter the genetic evolution stage, which is also an irreversible generation. He is now like a paradox. I don't know whether he will become a second-tier killer or a gene prototype."

"Where is my sister?"

Lin Jin's slightly anxious voice rang out.

Director Xu paused for a moment, then subconsciously looked at the only woman in the carriage, the original gene, Lin Xi, and asked, "Your sister?"

"Brother, I'm in the car too, it's safe."

Lin Xi, who was sitting in the corner, suddenly opened her mouth to respond.

"Okay! You guys go over there quickly, leave this to us!" Lin Jin said excitedly.

Hearing his sister's voice made him feel much more cheerful.

The metal barrier opened its doors, and the off-road vehicle roared past. The Night Demon, charging from the side, crashed into the metal wall with a "bang," howling as it got up and tried to squeeze through to continue its pursuit. However, a dozen steel spikes instantly fell from the wall, all from a height of over ten meters. Using their momentum, they easily pierced the Night Demon's tough flesh and slammed it into the ground.

The first-tier Night Demon brandished its claws, struggling to cut through metal after metal, but the falling steel spikes kept increasing, and soon it was turned into a whimpering hedgehog.

Its scarlet eyes stared straight up, but its head was fixed in place by steel spikes, and its neck was twisted.

Four or five survivors' vehicles followed closely behind the SUV, while more zombies were blocked by the metal barrier.

Xiao Ba had just started trying to kill it, but since he hadn't reached Tier 1, his skill activation speed and strength were far inferior to Lin Jin's, and killing a Tier 1 Night Demon wasted a lot of time.

They were only tasked with stopping the zombies, leaving the killing of them to Lin Jin.

Finally, the pickup truck carrying Liang Kuan and He Jie crashed through the metal barrier, and the makeshift city gate slammed shut.

"I'll go upstairs and check on Xiao Ba."

Liang Kuan, who was on the truck bed, gave He Jie some instructions, threw the shield onto the top of the wall, and then bent his knees and jumped up from the spot.

"Oh!"

The speeding pickup truck stumbled, and the burly figure leaped to a height of four or five meters. Stepping on the metal steps left by Xiao Ba, he jumped again and climbed to the top of the wall. He pulled out the metal shield embedded in the wall and looked down.

The pursuing zombie crashed into the iron wall, its head bleeding profusely.

The walls trembled violently, but they withstood the first wave of impact.

Lin Jin's flames transformed the metal wall into a wall of fire, raging against any zombies and evolved beasts that dared to climb it.

Whether it's ordinary zombies serving as foundation stones at the base of the wall, or first-tier zombies like Night Demons and Jumpers, anyone who dares to climb the city wall will have their limbs burned off instantly.

This is Lin Jin's flame.

Nothing special, just that it burns really hard.

However, the high-intensity use of the ability had greatly depleted Xiao Ba and Lin Jin, especially Lin Jin, whose face was even paler than Xiao Ba's at this moment.

The evolved beasts watched the zombies charging into the flames with predatory eyes, while a terrifying horde of zombies surged and spread further away.

"Everyone has already gone there, evacuate quickly."

Liang Kuan said in a muffled voice.

Lin Jin breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this and gradually cut off the energy supply. The flames on the wall quickly went out; the more fiercely they burned before, the faster they disappeared now.

All that remained were the reddish metallic walls and the smell of burnt protein.

A sudden wave of dizziness washed over him; it was the first time he had expanded the "high-temperature barrier" to such an extent.

"it is good."

Just as the three were preparing to leave, the sound of a vehicle came from behind the wall again.

Xiao Ba and the others turned around in confusion.

Groups of survivors could be seen fleeing from all directions in various vehicles, each with a bunch of frantically biting evolved beasts and zombies hanging on its body.

The entire Steel Council, excluding the 50,000 to 60,000 survivors on the periphery, had a core population of nearly 20,000 residing in the heavy industrial zone.

But the zombie horde was too fierce, breaking through the defenses almost instantly and swallowing tens of thousands of people.

Apart from those on the top floor who already knew the news, almost no one escaped.

The few hundred people in front of us may be the last survivors.

"Damn it! When did a wall appear in front of us?!"

"Drive faster, we're being caught!"

"boom--"

The first car crashed into the wall, creating a dent a meter deep, with the front of the car sticking out from the other side of the wall.

The evolved beasts, already poised to pounce, stepped forward and pulled out the survivors from inside the vehicle. Piercing screams and wails filled the air.

Other vehicles were forced to stay in traffic, with metal walls in front and a raging horde of zombies behind.

There is no escape.

More and more zombies began to surround the vehicles, the windows shattered, and several gunshots rang out in a chaotic manner. An even more terrifying aura came from the end of the street in the depths of the night.

Yu Yue's "shared sound field" was still present in the ears of the group.

From the heavy footsteps, one could almost see the terrifying five-meter-tall figure of the Tier 2 Butcher, dragging a huge metal club as he approached.

Xiao Ba stared blankly at the tragic scene below.

Liang Kuan squinted and glanced at it, showing no emotional fluctuation, and reminded him again.

"We should go."

Just then, a sharp voice came from inside a car.

"Mom, it's gnawing on my leg—"

In an instant, each vehicle transformed into a steel hedgehog, riddling the zombies and evolved beasts piled upon it with holes.

Liang Kuan turned his head and saw that Xiao Ba's eyes had turned a cold, metallic color.

He sighed, "We brought this disaster upon ourselves; they will not be grateful to us."

"Saving even one is a good thing."

The rising black smoke from the charred corpse obscured the boy's eyes, making it impossible to discern his emotions.

The earthquake trembled, hundreds of tons of metal were ripped from the surrounding buildings, and buildings collapsed one after another. The roar drowned out the gasps of surprise from Liang Kuan and Lin Jin.

The first-tier profession that had been troubling Xiao Ba for so long, "Metal Construct," was finally achieved.

The desperate survivors discovered a new portal opened in the metal barrier.

……

As the troop transport vehicle arrived at the northern freight station, Su Huan slowly opened his one black and one red eye.

Two diametrically opposed states within the body create a strange balance.

The collapsing genes and the rapidly generated genes canceled each other out.

With the slow beating of the heart, the omnipotent energy flows gently throughout the body. If you want to use some skills with your fingers or other parts of your body, you no longer need to draw energy from your heart.

The previously disintegrated "Fighter" class has been restored. All three skills of the main class "Energy Storage Core" have reached level 5, "Universal Energy Perception" has reached level 5, and "Energy Cycle" has reached level 3.

These two skills are linked to the main class, so they are relatively stable.

In addition, there are some miscellaneous skills, like asteroids orbiting a star, which will randomly disintegrate every once in a while, but can be used until then.

For example, "cell regeneration," "infrared vision," "iron bones," "energy multiplication," etc.

At this moment, Su Huan used lv1 "Infrared Vision" + lv5 "Universal Energy Perception" + Yu Yue's "Shared Sound Field" to see Xiao Ba standing on the metal wall blocking the second-tier killer.

Despite his influence, Xiao Ba is still Xiao Ba.

Upright and clear-cut.

'Tch, these people are really lucky...'

Su Huan's lips curled up.

The remaining 30% of his omnipotent energy, under the "energy multiplication" effect, turned into electricity and gathered on the roof of the car. Under the horrified gazes of the surrounding survivors, the flickering arcs of electricity were gradually compressed into a deep blue liquid spear, the tip of which was aimed at the metal wall.

The next instant, from Yu Jing, Wan Xing and others inside the train on the platform, to Jiang Rong and Yu Yue on the train, and then to Liang Kuan and Xiao Ba on the metal barrier, everyone saw a bolt of lightning coming from the north.

In an instant, the sky and the earth were as bright as day.

It stands in stark contrast to the burning heavy industrial area.

When they saw the lightning, the area within a radius of several hundred meters centered on the second-tier butcher was enveloped in a thunderstorm.

On the train, Tong Zizhan looked at the distant lightning and flames, his voice hoarse, "This power and range... has it already reached the second tier?"

Gao Yuan swallowed hard. "The intensity isn't quite enough, but how did he pinpoint the target from 500 meters away, and how did he throw it so far? This clearly involves more than one ability."

"The train conductor has a secret."

"Let's play it safe for a while and not get promoted. If we get promoted too high, the company will get suspicious."

"Wasn't it you who confessed first?"

"You haven't given enough information?"

The two fell silent immediately.

Standing atop the metal barrier, Xiao Ba looked at the second-tier killer who was under hard control, and a look of surprise flashed in her eyes. "Su, you're awake?"

Su Huan's slightly mischievous voice reached their ears.

"You've had your moment in the spotlight, why aren't you running away? Are you addicted to playing the hero?"

"I do not……"

"Lightning can't kill this thing, Liang Kuan, bring them back quickly."

Xiao Ba scratched his head shyly, and seeing the second-tier butcher struggling through the lightning below, he quickly closed the metal barrier and walked down the wall.

But before he could take two steps, Liang Kuan picked him up by the big hand.

Lin Jin was also grabbed and jumped down the ten-meter-high iron wall, one in each hand.

He casually grabbed Xiao Ba's wheelchair and strode towards the North Freight Station, his speed no less than that of a speeding pickup truck, and even surpassing it in obstacle courses.

Seeing the three of them return, Su Huan breathed a sigh of relief.

He caught a glimpse of the survivors around the freight station out of the corner of his eye, but the exhaustion from excessive energy consumption made him too lazy to pay them any attention.

"A train fully loaded with supplies was discovered on the platform. It consists of ten cars, with the locomotive being a TS-20000, a diesel-electric dual-mode freight locomotive capable of hauling up to 20,000 tons of cargo. It is currently being linked with an armed train."

Yu Jing's calm voice suddenly broke in.

Su Huan raised an eyebrow in surprise, glanced at Director Xu at his feet, and roughly understood what was going on. He sneered.

"The rest is up to you. Try to leave within ten minutes."

"receive."

After Yu Yue cut off others from listening to him.

Su Huan twisted his body, and a dull thud sounded from his body as if bones were rubbing together, like stones colliding.

He straightened the fractured bone, then coughed and spat out a mouthful of blood.

There was a rustling sound nearby.

A wide black sleeve appeared above Su Huan's chest, and five fair fingers clenched into a fist. Just as he was wondering what was going on, a warm sensation came from his skin.

The muscles under the skin are itchy.

Su Huan raised an eyebrow.

Healing skills?
It's unclear whether it's from the manipulator's or the collector's perspective.

This isn't a newly evolved skill.

Director Xu gave Lin Xi a deep look, never expecting that this seemingly innocent girl had hidden so much.

(More tonight, today's goal is 10,000)
(End of this chapter)