Armored train in the apocalypse

Chapter 173 Showing Off
"Let's keep it for now. We won't lose a few ounces of meat. Does the chick show any signs of mutation?"

Su Huan asked as he walked forward.

“Some of them are growing faster and their muscles are more toned, but to see a clear difference, we’ll have to wait a few more days until they’ve grown a bit more.” Huang Hai opened the car door before Su Huan could.

His assistant, Xiao Wang, is over there raising chicks.

They weren't the yellow clumps I had in mind, but a warm orange color, and each one was about the size of a palm. They blinked their big eyes at the group, showing no signs of shyness.

Su Huan's fingertips were electrified as he gently poked it.

The little chick flapped its wings and glided away.

Hearing the commotion behind them, the hen bristled and flapped its wings as it rushed toward the gate of the bridge.

He glared fiercely at Su Huan.

"That's interesting. We'll have Xiao Ba weld a few cages to limit their activity area and prevent them from causing chaos."

Su Huan smiled.

The chicks have indeed mutated, but they are far from reaching the first tier. Perhaps after a few more iterations, we can raise first-tier mutated chickens, which would provide another stable source of materials.

"By the way, take good care of those two iron-eating trees; they might come in very useful in the future."

After Su Huan finished speaking, he led his men to carriage number 9.

Just as the train conductor was studying the train's next evolutionary direction, the two temporarily formed core teams had already fully unleashed their fangs.

Qu Hang continued to roam outside the convoy, quickly moving between rooftops and buildings.

Without looking down at the position of the convoy below, he firmly locked onto the convoy's direction of travel, always appearing perfectly in front of the convoy to clear away any trouble.

Suddenly, Qu Hang paused, changed direction, and lay prone on the ground.

The sniper rifle behind him also appeared in his hand.

The licking rabbit, who was following closely behind, knew that he had spotted the target. Without making a sound, it quietly squatted down in the corner of the wall to assess the situation and avoid suddenly jumping out to cause danger while Qu Hang was focused on the target.

"The large shopping mall on the left ahead is the nest of mutated beasts. We have been alerted and will encounter them in thirty seconds."

After observing for a moment, Qu Hang put away his gun, stood up, and used the sound of the wind to relay the information to He Jie below.

"Received, continue."

He Jie's deep voice rose from below.

Qu Hang frowned.

This wasn't his ability; it was entirely uttered by that bastard He Jie through sheer force of his lungs.

It could be heard clearly within a radius of several hundred meters.

This could easily expose the sniper's position, and although they were facing a bunch of mindless evolved beasts, this made him feel very insecure.

He gave the licking rabbit a hand signal, stepped onto the edge of the rooftop, and jumped off.

The wind lifted his body, slowing his descent. He rolled over and disappeared into the balcony of another building.

The rabbit behind him didn't have such exquisite skills.

After estimating the distance, he sprinted and jumped across.

Below, in the lead troop carrier of the advancing convoy, He Jie spat out his cigarette butt, gestured to the vehicles behind him to keep moving forward, and then pointed his thick finger at the "Huahan Supermarket" sign ahead, saying, "Park the car at the entrance."

"Yes!"

The soldiers driving the vehicles responded with a resounding clang.

A series of low, warning growls could be heard coming from inside the supermarket.

A giant, black, fanged, meter-tall gluttonous pig sauntered out of the supermarket.

Before they could even see what was happening, they were rammed and thrown into the air by the extended and widened armored personnel carrier.

He angrily tried to get up, but was pinned to the ground by a burst of 12.7mm armor-piercing rounds.

Bullets of this caliber would make even a concrete block tremble, let alone a carbon-based life form, if hit by one.

The Gluttonous Pig, which hadn't even reached level one, died on the spot.

The troop carrier was positioned directly in front of the supermarket. He Jie, with his thick arms supporting the sides of the troop carrier's roof, leaped out and pulled out two heavy machine guns. Without even using the armored vehicle for support, he placed one in each hand against his hip and began unleashing firepower at the charging gluttonous pigs.

Level 2 "Two-Handed Gun" is activated steadily, with shoulder muscles pulsating.

With two chains strangling it, the narrow entrance to the supermarket became a slaughterhouse, filled with screams and cries of agony.

The convoy behind them did not slow down at all and continued to rush forward.

He Jie kept calculating the remaining ammunition for the two heavy machine guns.

He casually tossed the smoking heavy machine gun in his hand to a soldier beside him.

Without him saying a word, two soldiers began to work together to disassemble the scorching hot gun barrel and replace the loaded ammunition belt. At the same time, another soldier had already lifted the prepared heavy machine gun into He Jie's hands.

The four professional soldiers and four heavy machine guns served him the whole time, and the effect was enormous.

A Tier 1 "Firepower Hand" killed two Tier 1 Gluttonous Boars and fourteen ordinary Gluttonous Boars within one minute.

"Clean up the battlefield and dismantle the high-value materials!"

The gunfire ceased, and He Jie gave the order.

Several assault troops rushed out quickly and set up defenses around the area, while the collectors, armed with military daggers, stepped forward to dismantle the evolution beast materials.

Five minutes later, the troop carrier was filled with a pile of bloody tusks, pig trotters, and other materials.

The troop carrier continued forward and caught up with the convoy that was moving slowly ahead.

They had just driven away a swarm of iron-eating trees with flamethrowers.

Two armored personnel carriers are parked side by side.

He Jie leaned halfway out of the car and pulled out a freshly printed paper map, which Xiao Zhao and the others had prepared for him before he left.

Braving the wind, he said in a deep voice, "Old Liang, the car factory has front and back doors. I'm going to the back to catch people later. I need you and Xiao Ba to break in from the front and put enough pressure on them."

Liang Kuan leaned outwards, made out the location of the front gate on the map, and said in a muffled voice, "Understood."

The sound was like two giant rocks colliding, making a loud rumbling noise.

The vibrations made He Jie's chest feel itchy.

Soon, a car manufacturing plant covering a total area of ​​3 square kilometers appeared in front of the convoy.

The once wide driveway was completely blocked by abandoned vehicles, and a tall welded steel gate could still be seen through the gaps.

A one-meter-high steel plate was added to the three-meter-high wall, with the top facing outwards to make it difficult for zombies to climb.

However, such fortifications were no match for first-tier zombies. The real defense was the iron-eating trees planted around the factory area, with piles of scrap metal at the foot of each tree.

It was obvious that they were deliberately lured to the wall.

The overhead cameras followed the convoy's movements, and a warning blared from the loudspeakers: "This is Shun'an First Automobile Manufacturing Plant. Outside convoy, please halt. You are not welcome here. If you proceed, we will take forceful measures..."

"boom!"

The soldier driving the vehicle drew his pistol and precisely deactivated the horn and camera.

"You talk too much!" Liang Kuan sneered from inside the car. "Prepare for battle!"

As soon as the order was given, the convoy suddenly accelerated, but its target was not the iron gate piled up behind the abandoned vehicles in the distance, but rather it headed straight for the wall.

Who's seriously fighting this battle by going through the door?
The soldier climbed out of the vehicle window, attached a grenade to his assault rifle, and fired two shots at the wall in front of him.

"Boom boom—" After a brief explosion, the wall collapsed with a crash, and the iron-eating trees on both sides had most of their branches torn off, crying out as they pulled out their roots and ran to the side.

"Oh!"

Armored personnel carriers, relying on their formidable armor, charged directly into the ruins.

A five-meter-wide portal was forcibly carved out.

The metal barricades behind the wall flew up out of thin air and were then tossed aside. A burly figure kicked open the car door and dragged a metal shield weighing over a hundred pounds toward the building in front.

The entire automobile manufacturing center consists of six long, rectangular factory buildings, perfectly square, situated in the very center, except that they are surrounded by many man-made barriers.

There are still many traces of blood among the crisscrossing fortifications.

An organized ambush took place here, but the bodies were collected by the survivors.

The distinctive crisp sound of gunfire came from the building.

Liang Kuan's burly figure dodged the bullets with agile speed and began to sprint towards the building at the front.

"Oh!"

The shield, weighing over a hundred pounds, was thrown like a boomerang and slammed into the roller shutter window.

Like a tiger unleashed from its cage, Liang Kuan arrived downstairs in the blink of an eye. He leaped into the air and kicked the edge of the metal shield with both feet, tearing through the roller blinds and glass along with the shield, before landing inside the car factory.

The methods used were so violent and outrageous.

This effect was ten thousand times better than He Jie had expected!
Which commander wouldn't like such a tough subordinate?
He Jie was bursting with rage and roared, "Keep up! Keep up!"

As soon as the soldiers got off the vehicle, the scattered firepower upstairs was already pinpointed and eliminated by Qu Hang's sniper rifle. The entire car factory was like a featherless duck, waiting for them to feast on it.

He Jie, carrying two heavy machine guns, led the charge, his face glowing red, and quickly followed the opening left by Liang Kuan.

The battle is going more and more smoothly!

A gasp rang out from the monitoring room of the car manufacturing plant.

"Is this a regular army?!"

At this moment, their focus was still on the scene of the troop carrier rushing into the walled area.

A middle-aged man with a square face stepped forward and carefully examined the last frame of the surveillance footage. He tugged at his shirt collar and said confidently.

"The other side is definitely not a regular army. What regular army has fire trucks following them? Besides, you know how our regular army operates. Charging in without warning? This is definitely a group of thugs. I've seen a lot of armed forces like this when I was doing business in South Asia. Trust me, Lao Yuan!"

The man known as Lao Yuan had puffy eyes, and the cigarette in his hand trembled slightly. "We've been brothers for so many years, bunkmates, how could I not trust you? The problem is, our few guns can't hold them off at all."

"We have to stop them even if we can't. If we let them in, we're all doomed! This is the end of the world, who knows what they're up to?!"

Wan Hao waved his arm and said.

Old Yuan stomped his foot hard, "I'll listen to you. Let's give it another shot. There are over two hundred superhumans in the world. Last night you said you were going to make something of yourself. If you cower in fear when you encounter a hurdle today, what kind of future is that?"

Wan Hao laughed heartily, "Come on, back when there were six of us, I knew you could make something of yourself. This kind of ruthlessness is rare."

Old Yuan shook his head. "Don't make fun of me, you big tycoon. The villas you bought with your mistress combined could buy my factory. If you hadn't come to help me, you wouldn't be stuck here. Sigh..."

Wan Hao waved his hand dismissively, "Don't talk about that—"

A sudden thud from beneath their feet interrupted their conversation.

The entire building was shaking.

Wan Hao frowned. "They might be blowing up the factory. We need to act quickly."

There was a loud knocking on the door.

A worker rushed in, shouting in panic, "General Manager Yuan, General Manager Wan, the people outside have broken in! They even have snipers; they've killed several of our people!"

The two were startled. "They broke in? What are you doing? Can't you defeat so many Awakened Ones?"

The person hurried downstairs and saw a burly man carrying a shield leaping four or five meters high.

He moved about the factory, casually waving his shield.

Their meticulously arranged, several-ton metal vehicle, billowing white smoke, flew backwards.

The fastest of the awakened underlings was running wildly, almost leaving afterimages. Taking advantage of a gap in the big man's attack, he rushed forward with a dagger, only to have his neck locked by a fan-like hand, like a chick struggling in vain.

The man had already fixed his gaze on the two of them.

His eyes gleamed with a sharp light.

The terrifying aura made the two feel as if they had fallen into an ice cave.

"Old Yuan, run!"

Wan Hao roared, unleashing two streams of air that swept towards the man like sharp blades, before turning and running away.

Liang Kuan casually slammed the man to the ground, and the man lost his fighting ability.

If he hadn't stopped, this man would have been smashed into a pile of mud.

Seeing the direction Wan Hao and the other man were fleeing, Liang Kuan took a deep breath and threw his shield directly at the suspension bridge corridor beneath their feet.

"boom!"

The steel plate welded corridor supports were cut off and collapsed with a crash.

However, Wan Hao and his companion were also evolved beings, so they wouldn't be killed instantly by the fall. In the nick of time, they jumped to the other side and fled backward in a sorry state.

"boom!"

The side window was blown open again by a high-explosive grenade.

A group of armed soldiers stormed in, smoke grenades and flashbangs flew in, and then slogans were shouted through loudspeakers.

"Everyone, put your hands on your heads and squat down!"

"Surf the gun and don't kill!"

"Think of your families, don't make a futile struggle!"

The workers were completely bewildered by this attack.

They were just skilled workers, not skilled thugs.

Even the most ruthless bandits would have to kneel before these well-trained elite soldiers.

The same evolutionary ability has drastically different effects on ordinary people and soldiers, not only failing to bridge the gap between them, but instead creating an insurmountable chasm.

Upon hearing the loud and familiar shout, most people instinctively crouched down, covering their heads.

I watched as rows of tactical boots marched past me.

Some workers were so moved that they burst into tears.

"This way!"

Old Yuan tugged at Wan Hao, and the two climbed upstairs.

Having navigated the business world for many years, the two were naturally determined individuals. Once they realized that He Jie and his group were not a regular army, they were single-mindedly focused on resisting them.

Now that resistance is futile, they must choose to flee.

Who knows if they'll be shot after they surrender?

Especially Wan Hao, he had seen this kind of thing before the apocalypse!

(End of this chapter)