Armored train in the apocalypse

Chapter 220 Survivors

By the time the battlefield was cleaned up, it was already dusk.

Golden light gently soothed the dilapidated city, and amidst the rippling water, the [Alpine Hammer] slowly pushed aside the debris.

The noise attracted the zombies on both sides of the building. Hasty footsteps sounded, and they peeked out from behind the broken windows, but before they could even let out a roar, they were shot in the head by a sniper on the train.

Occasionally, a few escaped the net, only to be instantly killed by a large drone equipped with an assault rifle.

If there are any rare Tier 1 zombies, put them on the deck, and Xiao Ba and the others will harvest them.

Yu Jing and the boss led the manufacturing team to break down materials on the deck. Excess flesh and blood were picked up by the robotic arm and thrown into the water, where they disappeared in no time.

The robotic arm was fitted with a spray nozzle, which rinsed away the bloodstains on the deck, making it clean immediately.

Gunshots, ripples on the water, sunset... the joy of the harvest is breathtaking.

Su Huan sat cross-legged on the hood of the car, while Shu Wei stood three meters behind her, dressed in a black business suit. However, the suit was chosen by Yu Yue according to her daughter's figure, and it was a little tight around her chest.

The white deer and the giraffe, each holding a gun, pretended to be guarding the train conductor on either side.

After this period of trial, Shu Wei's identity as secretary on the train was stabilized.

There is some factor related to the night shift, but it's not absolute.

The position of secretary is too important. The train conductor values ​​ability more. If Shu Wei is not up to the task, she will still have to work shifts, but she will still be kicked out if necessary.

However, so far she's doing very well.

She maintained a comfortable distance from everyone, and all the flight attendants, including He Jie, gave Shu Wei positive feedback.

To his surprise, Shu Wei and Yu Yue maintained a pretty good relationship.

Perhaps it was the tacit understanding formed during that period of rotating shifts, but Su Huan didn't want to break it for the time being.

Four up, three down, seven days and seven nights, exactly forty-nine. The train conductor's lost essence could be refined into a great medicine.

The two women were not only fine, but their complexions had also improved considerably.

Seeing that the surrounding high-rise buildings were no longer so dense, Su Huan said calmly, "Are we almost out of the city?"

Shu Wei glanced at the map displayed on the tactical tablet and replied crisply, "Yes, we will be leaving Guanchong City in twenty minutes."

Thanks to Professor Ma's busy work, her tablet has been connected to the train system and database, and can communicate with the train as long as it is within a one-kilometer range.

However, the armed train does not have the capability to independently produce such tablets, so the only device in the entire train capable of wireless communication is the one she has.

As for the communication equipment on their six exoskeletons, it is still under modification.

Shu Wei's fingers, which were tapping the tablet, suddenly stopped, and a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes.

With his back to her, Su Huan asked calmly, "What's wrong?"

"According to the command center's detection, more survivors have appeared ahead."

"Again?"

Su Huan's eyes were dangerous.

“Based on close-up observations from the drone, this time it’s real.” Shu Wei quickly pulled up the footage and handed the tablet to Su Huan. “The other party is trapped in a high-rise building outside the city. They should be survivors from Guanchong City.”

Su Huan took the tablet. Perhaps because it had been held in the woman's arms for a long time, it carried a faint scent of cedar and bitter orange.

I glanced at it and saw a residential complex of about thirty stories, with a total of four buildings, facing each other in pairs.

Because of its high elevation, the number of floors submerged was not large, with the worst flooding occurring at around five floors.

The floodwaters have receded somewhat and are now only up to the third floor.

Many survivors gathered there, waving at the drone in mid-air.

"Finally, we've spotted a living person! Are there still large deep-sea worms underwater?"

Su Huan asked one more question.

Although that thing doesn't pose much of a threat to the train, being pulled off the train and held there for ten days or half a month would still be quite a hassle.

“There is one underwater, similar to the one we encountered before. The energy fluctuations are very weak and pose no threat to the train.”

"Let's change our route and go take a look. I'll also pick up something from Director Xu's place while I'm at it."

……

As the afterglow faded, a sudden gust of wind stirred the water, causing it to ripple.

Something unknown was hidden in the deep, dark water, and every now and then, a piece of debris floating on the surface would fall into the water.

Li Han, on the sixteenth floor, glanced out the window and then looked back. The hunger in his stomach had long since turned into a numb emptiness. He could neither feel hunger nor the presence of his stomach. His limbs felt heavy, and no matter how long he slept, his eyelids were always drooping.

The sound of a door being kicked open echoed down the corridor, instantly waking Li Han.

He struggled to climb up from the balcony and walked towards the door. Before the other party could kick it, he opened the security door in advance.

A group of six men carrying batons and long knives walked down the corridor. The leader was a man with a messy beard and a sinister look in his eyes. Although he was empty-handed, his waist was bulging.

As they walked, the group kicked at the door next to them, shouting, "Get out here, everyone! Brother Lei has something to say. If anyone doesn't come out, we'll come knocking and we'll break your legs and feed them to the zombies!"

Li Han didn't dare to meet the eyes of that group of people, lowered his head, and stood silently inside the house with the door open.

"Hey, Brother Lei, this one is quite sensible."

A tall, burly man tapped Li Han's shoulder with his baton.

Chen Lei's sinister gaze swept over Li Han like a steel knife, but finding nothing amiss, he continued walking forward.

The guy with the baton peeked into the room, made sure there was nothing of value, and then shoved Li Han hard. "We'll be going up to the top floor later. Don't keep Brother Lei waiting."

"clear."

Li Han said weakly.

Once the group had gone upstairs, Li Han finally looked up, his tired eyes filled with icy hatred.

Although the flood came somewhat suddenly, the residents of the Nanshan Highlands were located on higher ground, and most of them were unharmed except for the lowest few floors.

Because of the Chinese people's habit of storing grain, his own family's food supply was enough to last a year.

Although there was some chaos at the beginning, there were a lot of survivors in the community. Several evolved individuals organized the residents to form a temporary neighborhood committee, which carried out tasks such as hunting zombies and distributing supplies, which brought a lot of order to the whole building.

They even established contact with the building next door.

A rope was strung at a slightly lower point to exchange goods.

But things didn't stay peaceful for more than a few days. A terrifying monster appeared in the water, its vines extending more than forty meters out of the water and instantly pulling people down.

No sooner had this incident passed than Li Han was awakened by a scream in the middle of the night.

After a careful inspection, they discovered that zombies had somehow entered the building across the street and were slaughtering the residents inside. Even those hiding inside their rooms were not spared.

Forced into a corner, the crowd jumped out of the windows into the water and disappeared one by one into the dark flood.

No one swam over.

That night, the entire building fell silent as if by unspoken agreement.

After this incident, Li Han stopped participating in the neighborhood committee's activities.

Anyway, he has plenty of food at home, and with these supplies, he can survive as long as he doesn't go out.

As a result, a while ago, a group of vicious people appeared out of nowhere, overthrew the neighborhood committee formed by the residents of the community, killed several evolved individuals, and then started opening cans from house to house.

Without using any tools, the 10-centimeter-thick security door was opened in an instant.

Even the evolved members of the neighborhood committee couldn't do this. And they had guns; the residents of the entire building were suddenly lambs to the slaughter.

Li Han dragged his stiff legs upstairs. There were already quite a few people climbing up the stairs. Luckily, his home was on the sixteenth floor, so he only needed to climb halfway.

After finally reaching the top floor, his vision blurred from days of hunger, and he collapsed into a corner.

The doors to the top floor rooms were wide open, and through the windows, it was clear that it was already completely dark outside.

He wasn't sure if it was his imagination, but he thought he heard the sound of boats passing by downstairs.

Li Han inwardly mocked himself, thinking that even at a time like this, they were still clinging to the hope that someone would come to rescue them; they must have been blinded by hunger.

"No shouting! Anyone who dares to utter a sound will be thrown off the building, you hear me?!"

The person inside shouted, and the entire hallway fell silent.

Inside the room, Chen Lei's gloomy gaze fell upon the drone hovering outside the window. "When did those lunatics get such advanced equipment?"

The thin middle-aged man standing to the side looked up and pondered, "They may not be from New Eden; they could be foreign forces."

"Do you think the foreign forces might be..."

The gaunt man's lips twitched slightly. "He's definitely not from the organization. Even if he were, so what? The world is in such a mess."

Hearing his words, Chen Lei felt much calmer.

Just as he was about to speak, his gaze, which was fixed on the window, suddenly froze, and he exclaimed in horror, "What the hell is that?"

Two bright beams of light tore through the darkness like swords, shining across several blocks and more dazzling than torches in the pitch-black world.

The gaunt man stared in astonishment at the enormous creature approaching from the window. "They actually brought the ship in?"

As the armed train drew closer, the two men, now on higher ground, finally got a clear look at its overall design.

Two rows of gray-white heavy industrial windmills sandwiched a large deck, crowding the main road below. The lit windows of the windmills stretched from the ground floor to the distant buildings, seemingly without end.

The sci-fi-like scene left everyone upstairs stunned.

"If we get on this boat, we can go back!" the thin man said excitedly.

"Go back?" Chen Lei's face contorted with excitement. "If we can seize this, we can start our own business. Why would we need to go back?"

"Take it?"

The thin man looked at Chen Lei in bewilderment, then at the massive size of the armed train and the shadowy figures inside the windows.

Are you out of your mind?

Six people, and you think you can take down such a big guy?
With that little pistol on your waist?
Whether or not someone is willing to take a ride depends on their willingness.

"I think Brother Lei is right. If we can seize this thing, we won't have to live in fear anymore. We can load up the supplies, get a few pretty girls, and then we brothers can do whatever we want!"

Another person suddenly chimed in, his eyes gleaming.

The thin man was shocked.

There's always a phoenix chick within three steps of the sleeping dragon.

If he dares to say it, you dare to agree?

Are you out of your mind?
Fortunately, the other three did not respond, which made the thin man feel much better.

The thin man hesitated, "Brother Lei, how about we try to make contact first? If the situation allows, we'll take it from him; if not, then forget it..."

Chen Lei patted his shoulder, a sinister greed gleaming in his eyes. "Don't worry, didn't the six of us take down all these people in this building? As long as we can take down the person in charge, the rest won't dare utter a sound!"

"Watch it!"

……

Inside the armed train, at the locomotive control tower.

Su Huan took the bracelet from the secretary. "Did Director Xu say how to use it?"

"It has a magnetic attraction, so it will automatically adhere to your hand when you pat it. It doesn't need to be charged and will absorb the energy that dissipates from your body surface on a daily basis."

"Snapped"

Su Huan slapped the black bracelet onto his wrist.

He turned to look at the people around him, "How is it? Is it working?"

Shu Wei's eyes showed a hint of surprise. The moment Su Huan put on the bracelet, his entire demeanor softened instantly.

If the original Su Huan was a tiger, even if he did nothing, just standing there, he would continuously emanate a powerful biomagnetic field, and you could feel his strong presence without even looking at him.

That power and beauty attracted those around them at a genetic level.

However, once the bracelet was put on, that biomagnetic field was disrupted.

It's like suddenly transforming from a tiger into a deer; the animal still exists, but the instinctive, genetic drive disappears.

Shu Wei nodded. "The effect is very good. At least the sense of threat has disappeared."

Su Huan turned to look at Yu Yue, who was fully armed and carrying a sniper rifle, and asked, "What do you think?"

Yu Yue tilted her head. "He's still pretty handsome, but not as addictive as before..."

Addicted...

Su Huan grinned, thinking he shouldn't have asked her.

Through the panoramic screen at the front of the car, you can see a group of people waving down from the building.

He was shouting something.

Xiao Zhao translated, "Train conductor, the people upstairs would like to invite you upstairs."

Su Huan raised an eyebrow. "Let him come down."

Xiao Zhao quickly called out through the megaphone, and after a moment, frowned and reported, "They insist that you go up."

Su Huan turned to look at Yu Yue, "What's the situation with those people upstairs?"

"No good intention."

"Oh, have He Jie negotiate with them and bring the person down for me."

five minutes later.

Chen Lei led six gaunt men to kneel in a row on the deck of the armed train, each with a grenade stuffed in their mouth.

Li Han and other survivors knelt behind.

Armed soldiers, fully armed, stood in rows on the left and right, coldly watching the crowd, with all safety mechanisms on their guns disengaged, ready to execute at any moment.

He Jie walked around the deck a few times and lit a cigar.

Seeing the hatch open, he quickly went over.

"They got physical?"

"How could that be? Only anything over 20mm counts as rough work. This is at most a gentle approach. When it comes to manners, who on the entire armed train understands it better than me, He Jie?"

He Jie exhaled a smoke ring and said smugly.

Su Huan walked onto the deck, glanced at the six people, and smiled, "I am not very capable, but I am the train conductor of the armed train. Which of you is in charge?"

(End of this chapter)