Armored train in the apocalypse

Chapter 161 I Want to Build a City
Li Wangchuan stared at the mess before him, his eyes filled with deep emotion.

Seeing him like this, a hint of heartache flashed in the eyes of the woman who was used to being expressionless.

Only she knew how long the man in front of her had been plotting for the Steel Council, only to have his years of hard work go up in smoke. However, looking at the desolate man in front of her, she felt a little smug.

I took a step forward quietly, looking at the overlapping shadows on the ground, my heart pounding with panic.

"Let's just burn it down. It's much cleaner now."

Li Wangchuan said calmly.

The woman's eyelids trembled slightly as she watched the once spirited man become so desolate. A feeling of a hero's downfall welled up inside her, like watching her faith crumble, the sky collapse, and everything fall apart. "Don't do this..."

Li Wangchuan looked down in surprise at the hands wrapped around his waist.

“I don’t like this feeling,” the woman said, hugging her arm tighter. “You can’t lose.”

No one can win all the time.

"But you can't lose, and you can't admit defeat!" The woman's voice was low and hoarse with sobs. "Li Wangchuan, you don't know how much I admire you. Ever since we were in school, I've taken countless exams and defeated so many people to get to where you are. I don't like this feeling of a hero's end."

Li Wangchuan chuckled, gently placing his hand on the soft hand at her waist. "But no one can lose forever."

"Ok?"

Hearing the shift in his tone, the woman lifted her head from his shoulder.

It has a faint watermark on it.

"Is that suit ready?"

"I brought it with me. It was the formal suit you wore when you were working at Qinggang. But why did you bring that suit?"

Li Wangchuan raised an eyebrow in surprise, "You know that too?"

The woman's eyes held a hint of pride. "I've watched every single one of your videos, without exception."

Li Wangchuan withdrew his gaze from the distance and said with a hint of reminiscence, "Back then, I made a bet with Xiao Tao that if one day I recognized him as someone who could take over my job, I would give him this suit. We'll go to Xincheng to burn it for him in a bit."

"New City?"

“I want to build a new city there, a new city that is more magnificent than the original plan, including the heavy industrial area under my feet, which I will rebuild as well.”

Li Wangchuan's voice was calm, but carried an undeniable firmness.

Just like in countless videos she'd watched of people making important decisions, she was full of confidence and high spirits.

The woman's eyes shone like stars. "I will always be with you."

……

January 12th, light rain turning to sunny.

"The train conductor is preparing to face a new disaster."

The train rattled along, and the valiant train conductor lay in the newly added medical carriages in the No. 6 reserve carriage and the No. 7 farm carriage.

After leaving the heavy industrial area, the train traveled north for about 100 kilometers before stopping at a certain place.

I had a good two-day rest.

During this period, the main adjustment was to the layout of the carriages, separating the ten carriages that Director Xu planned to escape, along with a 10,000-ton locomotive, and incorporating them into the armed train.

Because changing the serial numbers is quite troublesome, these carriages are named independently according to their functions.

For example, the medical carriage under our feet has much more advanced equipment than the old-fashioned green carriages.

After a vote, it was placed next to the farm carriage. Patients can occasionally stroll around the botanical garden to relax, but they have to be careful not to get tripped by the newly grown wiregrass.

The train conductor has his own carriage, but the workers are currently constructing a second floor.

The constant clanging and banging was so annoying, so I moved in for a couple of days.

Upon returning that day, Su Huan underwent a check-up. According to Director Xu's professional assessment, the train conductor had about a year left to live, much shorter than Lin Xi's four years. After all, Lin Xi could delay gene generation using the previously prepared medication.

However, Su Huan's current problem is that the rate of collapse is a bit faster than the rate of generation.

To sustain life, one must continuously evolve, but evolution requires more energy and accumulation, as well as certain conditions necessary to sustain life.

Regarding energy, the train conductor could still offer some insights, but the reserves had been exhausted.

The train conductor's abilities are now approaching the second tier, far surpassing those of his previous life.

As for maintaining life, that's even more difficult.

Although he and Lin Xi are both genetic prototypes, they are fundamentally different. The medicine prepared for Lin Xi is to delay gene generation. If Su Huan uses it, he will die from gene collapse that very night.

Even if the tower laboratory were intact, it would be difficult to formulate a suitable medicine for Su Huan, let alone on a train with cramped space and incomplete equipment.

However, the train conductor himself was not so pessimistic.

Problems that can't be solved in this life can only be found in the past life.

As the saying goes, the one who tied the knot must untie it. Before his defection, the last major mission he participated in was "Operation Crown Pear".

The location is Wangjiang Peak in the north of Qingchuan Province, which administratively belongs to Guangren City, a city famous for its mooncakes.

There was a mutated crown pear tree on it. Su Huan didn't know the specifics, but at the time, many forces were vying for this tree. There were several small-scale clashes, and he didn't know what agreement was reached to divide it up. Then, the Steel Council produced an expensive life potion.

Its value is about the same as cultivating a second-tier evolver.

The train conductor guessed that the source was in this tree, so he planned to go to Wangjiang Peak to take a look.

Anyway, I can still live for another year, so what difference does it make where I go to have fun?
The atmosphere inside the medical van was very harmonious. Nurse Yu Yue was cutting canned pears into smaller, more palatable pieces and feeding them to Su Huan with a fork.

Changli County is famous for its pears, so Director Xu's supply wagon inevitably had a lot of canned pears in it.

Lu Xiao was lying on the hospital bed next to her, and Miao Qi was maintaining firearms beside him.

Of course, he has to pay for medical services.

Yu Yue would occasionally exchange a few words of sniping tips with Su Huan and Miao Qi across them.

The two surprisingly got along very well.

The third bed was empty, and the patient on it was sitting next to the fourth bed, using a military dagger to slowly slice a can of luncheon meat in his hand, his cutting technique both delicate and rough.

The hard metal box and the luncheon meat were cut into thin slices, which He Jie used a dagger to feed to Qu Hang.

The irritable man revealed an unusual tenderness. "Eat! Why aren't you eating? I'm feeding you myself, and you won't eat. Who else do you want to feed you? My daughter? Or my wife?"

Qu Hang stared at the blade gleaming coldly beneath the slices of meat, his lips twitching. He glanced to the side and saw Su Huan and Lu Xiao watching the spectacle with glee, so he could only open his mouth helplessly.

Fortunately, He Jie was quite composed, and no bloodshed occurred.

Luncheon meat with its thin metallic edges is really hard to swallow!
"Captain He, you're injured too. Why don't you go back and lie down?"

He Jie sneered and subconsciously reached for a cigarette, but then remembered that Su Huan had forbidden it, so he had to give up.

It wasn't that the train conductor was concerned about his injuries; the guy's injuries had almost healed. He was staying here entirely because of Qu Hang. He used to smoke only one pack of cigarettes a day, but since moving in with Qu Hang, he's increased it to three packs a day, only smoking them without inhaling them.

Qu Hang was almost smoked to death; if Su Huan hadn't come, he would have had to endure He Jie's secondhand smoke.

However, it's too difficult to get rid of a Tier 1 Evolver by inhaling secondhand smoke; even inhaling stronger smoke won't help.

Footsteps echoed down the corridor, and soon the car door handle was turned open.

"The doctor is coming to make rounds."

He Jie stuck the dagger into the luncheon meat and threw it on Qu Hang's bedside table, giving him a warning look before quickly jumping back onto his own bed.

By the time the person came in, the blanket had already been put on.

(End of this chapter)