Armored train in the apocalypse

Chapter 248 The Second Priest, is he very strong?

An island in the lake.

The sacrificial ceremony unfolded vigorously amidst the storm, accompanied by the roar of the waves.

Ado stayed by the High Priest's side, watching her with concern.

Recently, due to overuse of her prophetic abilities, her health has deteriorated significantly. Originally fifty years old, she now looks like an old woman.

The high priest calmly gazed at the water's surface.

But with Ado's eyesight, all she could see were the surging, ink-black waves; nothing else.

"High Priest, why don't we go back and sit down?"

"I will wait here for the executor. He will surely appear, riding on dragons, hunting giant whales, draped in countless streams of light, like the God of Thunder..."

As the high priest's words became increasingly absurd, Ado couldn't help but turn her head away.

Suddenly, I noticed something on the surface of the water.

The once empty sea surface was suddenly covered with "water mist," not real fog, but white foam stirred up by the heavy rain.

Its dark blue back cleaved through the turbid waves, like a submerged mountain suddenly emerging.

A colossal whale, so enormous it was awe-inspiring, suddenly leaped out of the water, letting out a roar.

The powerful sound waves swept across the water, making Ado's scalp tingle.

Really coming?!
The second whale cry came, less deep but exceptionally penetrating, carrying a violent killing intent.

Before Ado could react, she saw two bolts of lightning shoot out from the thick fog like chains and slam into the giant whale.

The giant whale let out a painful cry and charged towards the island in the lake.

"he came!"

The high priest suddenly cried out in a shrill voice.

Ado's pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints, and the creature hunting the giant whale finally revealed itself.

It really was a dragon!
Its head is pointed, its body is a cold, hard metallic color, and it releases thousands of electric currents, illuminating the few painted characters on its body.

—Armed train.

Wait a minute...

wrong!

Ado rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn't mistaken; those were indeed the words "Armed Train."

"That's not a dragon!"

Ado quickly said.

Seeing the high priest frown, A'duo quickly said, "There are words on it, Chinese characters!"

The high priest squeezed her arm and said calmly, "Isn't it normal for dragons in the Eastern Empire to have Chinese characters?"

As the giant whale drew ever closer to the shore, Ado had no time to explain and could only forcibly lift the high priest and rush toward the center of the island.

Feeling its injuries worsening, the giant whale desperately used its last strength to propel itself towards the island in the lake.

They hoped to use this to shake off the terrifying pursuers behind them.

"Boom——"

The jagged rocks were scraped away layer by layer by the waves, and the debris mixed into the whirlpools stirred up by the whale's tail, turning the entire area of ​​water into a grayish-yellow mud.

A muffled, thunderous rumble came from the bottom of the lake, followed by an even more terrifying bulge. The water around the entire island suddenly caved in, as if being sucked up by an invisible giant mouth.

After three seconds of silence, tons of lake water surged back, engulfing the edge of the island in the lake between the fangs of white waves.

The body, weighing over a thousand tons, continued to surge forward due to inertia.

The folds of its belly plowed through the reefs, and wherever it passed, the sand and stones boiled like oil in a pot.

The giant whale rolled sideways on the shore of the island in the lake, like a capsized ship, puffing up the ground.

The remaining seawater gurgled out from the gill slits, forming a winding stream beneath him, attempting to carry it away one last time.

But the lightning whip behind it did not break; instead, it became even thicker as it rushed ashore.

A demonstrative siren sounded.

The equally massive armed train extended its front end onto the shore, and a tiny dark figure stood on top of it.

Thousands of lightning bolts erupted around him, eventually converging into two thick lightning whips.

Like an arm extending out, it gripped the giant whale on the shore tightly.

This scene was witnessed by Ado and the High Priest on the shore.

Both of them were so shocked that they were speechless.

However, the two are different in their impact.

Ado never imagined that there were such amazing people in the world who could hunt down giant whales.

In the eyes of the high priest, wasn't this the most direct manifestation of a miracle?
Before Ado could react, she dragged her heavy, wet black robe and ran over, trudging through the muddy ground, heading towards the direction where the giant whale was stranded.

……

"died?"

Standing on the front of the car, Su Huan slowed down the release of the current and asked with slight surprise.

"According to the observations of the people in the vehicle, the giant whale is not dead yet. It is probably trying to get rid of us by this means. We just need to keep watch for a while."

Shu Wei jumped onto the car roof and ran quickly behind Su Huan in the drizzle, replying.

"Do you think it might be waiting for me to get close so it can give me a hard blow?"

Su Huan pinched his chin.

Shu Wei thought for a moment and said, "That's also possible..."

Before he could finish speaking, Su Huan jumped off the front of the car and walked toward the giant whale on the shore.

I feel like I said something pointless.

Shu Wei took a deep breath, jumped out of the car with a blank expression, and followed.

Her job was to be available whenever Su Huan was called, whether he was sleeping or needed, she had to follow him wherever he went.

As Su Huan walked, he directed the people inside the car through Shu Wei.

However, there was nothing to command; from the audio, Su Huan could only hear a chorus of excited howls.

Everyone was excited to have escaped the terrifying vortex.

Especially for the crew who had only recently joined the train, this near-death experience further strengthened their confidence in the armed train.

How long will the train repair take?

Su Huan asked casually.

The factory manager across the tablet pondered, "The damage is 80 percent complete. The train has multiple water ingress points, but Xiao Ba used his abilities to plug them up. The materials used in this part are inconsistent, so it will all need to be disassembled and carefully repaired later. The most crucial part is the supporting equipment on the train and the installation of sensors. Each carriage has at least a hundred sensors, and some important carriages even have several thousand. These things will take a very long time to repair..."

"Shit."

Su Huan cursed.

My mood, which was originally quite good, turned gloomy.

I haven't done much hunting, but I'm spending all my time fixing cars.

"You guys go ahead and fix it." Su Huan finished speaking, looked up, and glanced around at the desolate island where the tide had receded. In the very center stood a small mountain. "This must be the New Eden, right?"

Shu Wei nodded and said, "We have arrived at the center of Jingchao Lake. This is Guanchao Island, a very famous tourist attraction in Ningxi. It seems that its size has shrunk compared to before the apocalypse, which should be due to the rising tide. The New Eden members captured by Captain He came from here."

Shu Wei listed out the important information.

Hearing her reminder, Su Huan also remembered those dozen or so unlucky people.

When he got back, there were only four left.

The whole story is not complicated; it is about the survivors who escaped to Guanchao Island due to the apocalyptic flood.

The island became a melting pot of all sorts of people, and several gangs emerged. Eventually, a sorceress gradually transformed it into the New Eden we know today, incorporating everyone into her ranks.

At first, things were relatively normal; the main objectives were construction and survival.

Later, under the leadership of the second priest, New Eden gradually changed its nature, and a sacrifice was held every once in a while.

The so-called sacrifice was actually a battle royale.

At first, they made excuses and everyone voted to elect the candidates for the sacrificial ceremony, but later it became a matter of several people choosing the candidates.

The dead became sacrifices to please the gods. Those dozen or so people had fled New Eden.

Then, oblivious to the danger, they attempted to rob an armed train that was constructing a cultivation chamber.

Su Huan didn't know how those four were doing now.

It's not that I can't know, it's just that there are too many things to do, and I'm too lazy to ask.

Su Huan jumped over a deep, waterlogged pit, patted the whale's rough skin, and made a clicking sound.

"You run pretty fast, why don't you run another one?"

"Woo-"

As if understanding Su Huan's words, the giant whale let out a short, mournful cry, then suddenly flipped over and slammed down on Su Huan.

"The fly shakes the tree."

A flash of blue light appeared in Su Huan's eyes, like lightning.

Shu Wei frowned and turned to look at the other side, where two women walked towards them one after the other.

……

Half an hour later, Su Huan, covered in blood, sat on a rock with a giant whale as tall as a small mountain at his feet.

The white deer and giraffe held up a water sprayer that had been taken from the train and sprayed it on the train conductor.

Yu Yue gathered Su Huan's long hair, which she had washed clean, behind her back and tied it with a rope.

Shu Wei looked at the two women in front of her with a slightly strange expression.

"You mean you predicted that he would come?"

The high priest, with a solemn expression, began to recite his prophecy, "Treading on dragons, hunting giant whales, draped in countless streams of light, like the god of thunder..."

"That's quite a vivid description."

Su Huan stood up and carefully examined the two of them.

No impression.

Very normal.

Since leaving the acid rain zone, he hardly knows anyone anymore. Those he knew in his previous life are either still around him or have disappeared without a trace.

The one named Ado is clearly a beast-type "Defender," a very ordinary path, whose strength depends entirely on the type of beast-type genes.

To his surprise, A'duo had actually reached the first level.

She alone could easily overwhelm the entire Iron Mountain Refuge.

The so-called high priest should be an evolved being like a "gatherer," similar to a goat, but with a more "mysterious" underlying logic.

If you want to figure it out, you'll have to send it to Director Xu's lab.

He had encountered similar eccentric scavengers in his past life.

His unrestrained use of his abilities quickly turned him into a man in his seventies or eighties.

To be one of the few who can die of old age in the wilderness.

Because no reason could be found, this ability gradually became a taboo in the wilderness.

Now he could guess to some extent that the limitation of such "prophet" abilities might lie in "basic attributes." If certain attributes are insufficient, life force must be used to compensate for each use of the ability, which leads to premature aging.

Su Huan asked with interest, "And then, what do you plan to do after you find me?"

The high priest wore a holy smile. "Only you can lead us out of this catastrophe that will destroy the world."

The white deer muttered to the giraffe beside her, "She seems to have good taste."

The giraffe's lips twitched. "You actually believe that her eyeballs are half-blind, practically blind?"

"I trusted the train conductor."

Su Huan frowned, stood in front of the high priest, and waved his hand from side to side.

The latter maintained his smile, saying, "I'm not blind yet. You may not believe me, but time will tell."

"What will that prove? That I've become your savior?"

Su Huan said indifferently.

The high priest's voice suddenly turned serious, "I can recommend you to be the new high priest, but you have a lot to do before that."

Upon hearing this, A'duo's expression changed slightly.

"But the ceremony has already begun, we don't have that much time..."

As she spoke, Ado's gaze remained fixed on the armed train floating beside Guanchao Island.

She wasn't a savage; she naturally knew what such a large vehicle represented.

Strong personal strength and influential background.

Perhaps the high priest's premonition was correct; this person was capable of resolving their current crisis, though it deviated slightly from the prophecy.

She did want to defeat the Second Priest, that's true, but she didn't want to change her master.

She wants to control the entire New Eden!
"Has the ritual begun?"

Su Huan seemed to have thought of something interesting and whispered something to Yu Yue.

The latter turned and ran toward the train.

"Alright, tell me about your situation. How many people are on the island, and what their strength is. Let's talk as we walk."

Su Huan walked forward as if he were the host.

Shu Wei and her two bodyguards dropped the water pipe and quickly followed.

The high priest paused for a moment, then followed.

"My child, I know you are very capable, but you need to face many difficult trials, and these trials will all be..."

That damned "charlatan-style" way of speaking made Su Huan's hands itch.

His main purpose was to salvage the data center and do some repairs. He had a lot of things to take care of in the car and didn't have time to play religious games with them.

He grinned, "Get to the point."

Seeing that he was about to lose his temper, Ado quickly spoke on behalf of the high priest.

“If you want to become the High Priest, you have to face the Second Priest and his ilk. I suspect that the Third Priest has secretly sided with the Second Priest.”

Su Huan's emotions calmed down slightly. "How many people are there in the Second Priest's office?"

More than three hundred people.

"Such a big island, and only a little over three hundred people?"

"Only those who have been blessed by God are considered human."

Ado said.

Su Huan suddenly realized.

Combining the previous information, the details of this New Eden were instantly understood.

The so-called sacrifice is actually "raising Gu," which involves cultivating evolved beings through mutual killing.

Driven by the threat of death, or by killing mutated beasts or zombies in the process, one has the opportunity to become an evolved being. After all, the conditions for becoming an evolved being are not complicated; it simply involves being exposed to high concentrations of omnipotent energy.

Although New Eden's methods were somewhat crude due to its lack of understanding of the underlying reasons for evolution, it still achieved its goal.

Three hundred evolved beings is no small number.

In their past lives, many small communities couldn't gather enough people.

Even though the method to become an evolved being is not difficult.

However, this crucial information is always in the hands of a minority.

"Here's the question: how many of you are there?"

“Thirty-odd.” Ado gritted her teeth. “But not all of them are trustworthy. They may have already sided with the Second Priest, so you are in a very difficult situation now.”

Is the situation very difficult?
The giraffe and the white deer in the back were struggling to suppress their laughter.

Su Huan glanced at her.

The two women seemed to have tacitly agreed that he would become the worthless priest of their New Eden.

"The Second Priest, is he very strong?"

(A 100 RMB red envelope will be sent to the group tomorrow.)
(End of this chapter)