Armored train in the apocalypse

Chapter 261 Roll On, Armored Train!

All the armed soldiers, including the officers, slept until the afternoon of the next day, only getting up to work when the sun was already setting.

Gunfire echoed all night on Guanchao Island.

Taking advantage of the clear night before the rain, Han Kexin led a group of survivors to convert the resort hotel in the middle of the crater into a refuge overnight.

She was a flight attendant in the same batch as Hu Shuo, but because her architectural skills were too niche, she was never given important responsibilities.

Hu Shuo has become the chief flight attendant, while she can only do odd jobs.

I showed off my skills when we were building the Shun'an outpost, and that's how I gained a foothold.

To become a Level 5 flight attendant, specializing in designing and leading architectural work.

"Flight attendant Han, we've finished here. Could you come over and check it out?"

A foreman shouted from afar.

Han Kexin put an apple-flavored hard candy under her tongue, turned to say goodbye to the third supervisor, and hurriedly left.

The third brother sat on the top of the building, waving his hand with a smile, "Don't worry, with your third brother here, no one dares to slack off."

"Third Brother, your eyes are practically popping out of people's bodies."

A mocking voice came from behind.

The third brother didn't need to turn around to know who he was. On the entire train, his status was average. The only one who could call him Third Brother and make fun of him was that kid Zhang Kai.

Back when they were at the logistics center, the four of them were constantly being tormented by He Jie, which forged a deep friendship between them.

Although the train conductor is nominally the "fourth brother," Zhang Kai is actually the fourth brother in reality.

"Nonsense, do you think I'd look at you if not the girl?"

"My mom can't do it."

Zhang Kai walked over and sat down next to the third brother.

The third brother gave him a disgruntled sideways glance and said, "If you're so bored, go rub against a tree. Why are you wasting your time here?"

"Don't try to be like the train conductor. He's handsome and has a domineering and authoritative air about him. You're acting like you're going to burst into my room and kill me in the middle of the night."

They were all brothers who had fought side by side, and after a few words, Lao San (Old Third) sensed that there was something more to his words.

Composing himself, he asked, "What's wrong?"

It was still dark, but there were no dark clouds. The sky was an elegant blue, which made the two rough men look somewhat gloomy.

"...I want to get off the bus."

After hesitating for a while, Zhang Kai said.

The third brother paused for a moment, then pulled him back by the shoulder. "Aren't you going north to find your mother?"

Without the light of day, Zhang Kai's expression became even more gloomy.

He lit a cigarette, the embers flickering.

"Third brother, it's been four months."

"Nonsense, I have..."

"My mother is so old, she couldn't hold on any longer."

Zhang Kai's voice was not filled with pain, but rather with a sense of relief and peace.

The third brother scratched his head in frustration. Although he was the smartest of the three brothers, he was the best among the worst. His parents had passed away early, and he was not good at dealing with emotional issues.

If the eldest or second eldest child has a little tantrum, a beating will fix it.

But Zhang Kai...

"How about we give it another try?"

"It's just self-deception."

The third brother glared with his bull-egg-like eyes, "Trying to outdo your third brother with your fancy words!"

"It's useless."

Zhang Kai sighed.

"Coward!"

"It's no use cursing me."

The third brother snatched the cigarette from his mouth, took two quick drags, and said with a cryptic expression, "Have you decided where to run off to?"

"What are you running for?"

Zhang Kai turned his head suspiciously.

"Nonsense. It's one thing for ordinary passengers, but you've at least made your mark with the train conductor. Getting off now is practically running away!"

The third brother said coldly.

Zhang Kai suddenly realized, "That's not how it is. You know Wang He, right? That foreman from before got off the train when we were building the Shun'an base. Now that we're going to build a base in Guanchong, I feel that the train conductor needs to keep one of his own people here. Could you mention it to the train conductor for me and see if that works?"

The third brother's expression relaxed.

"If that's the case, it's quite possible. But what are you doing staying here in the middle of nowhere?"

"There has to be an end point, so why can't it be Guanchao Island..."

"Stop giving me that flowery talk, speak plainly."

"I'm scared."

Zhang Kai gazed at the distant sky, where a sliver of red light appeared.

First it spread across the water, then it sped past the trains and piles of logs on the shore, flowing into the ring mountain and turning the construction site and the mountains behind it a vibrant red.

……

"Woo..."

As the train whistle sounded, the armed train departed Guanchao Island amidst the joyful and sorrowful gazes of a crowd.

Besides Zhang Kai, there were about twenty people left, half of whom were from the flight crew and half from the armed forces.

Many people in the armed forces initially came for good treatment, but He Jie's grueling training directly broke the spirits of some.

The weakest among them are all evolved beings, capable of killing, and possessing a resilient spirit.

But He Jie's approach is truly perverse.

When a person's physical strength and willpower are completely worn down to the limit, they stop caring about many things.

They just want to end it all.

Give them a night's rest, a night's battle, and enough time to make a choice.

In addition, there are more than a thousand survivors. Most of these people were plundered in Guanchong City. They originally had nowhere to go, but now that they have a safe island, they are naturally satisfied.

The people at Tieshan Refuge naturally wanted to go home first.

On the train, I can also help the train conductor catch up on the work schedule, as there has been a significant shortage of materials, ammunition, military uniforms, and other supplies recently.

Because it was necessary to link Guanchao Island and Tieshan Refuge, Old Man Tie left his second son, Qi Zhendong, on the island.

"I didn't expect you to stay."

Qi Zhendong turned to look at A Duo beside him.

Ado isn't particularly beautiful, but her animalistic transformation gives her a wildness and agility that most women lack.

Ado said calmly, "If people from your Iron Mountain Refuge can stay, why can't we in New Eden?"

"There is no New Eden anymore."

Ado habitually touched the horns on her head, looked directly at Qi Zhendong, and said, "Even though the priests aren't here, you're no match for me!"

Qi Zhendong sneered, crossed his arms, and unleashed the aura of a first-level "Manipulator" without reservation, with thousands of rays of light blooming from his shoulders.

Old Tie is nostalgic, but he's not stupid.

Those who lived through that era understand better what the gun truly meant.

So the entire shelter was almost entirely focused on one person, Qi Zhendong.

Unfortunately, the speed was still a bit slow. When Su Huan arrived, Qi Zhendong had not yet reached the first level.

Finally, a few days before his departure, he broke through to become a first-tier "Radiant Apostle".

But against an armed train, a Tier 1 is pretty useless.

Even the name and main function were told to him by the train conductor himself.

"We shouldn't be enemies."

After a moment of silence, Ado spoke.

Qi Zhendong remained unmoved. "That depends on your own choice." Although the armed train had planted many spies in the shelter, there was nothing wrong with having that title. The train would not interfere with the Qi family's reconstruction of Guanchong. On this point, the old man Tie and the train captain had reached a consensus.

There is no fundamental conflict of interest between the two.

But he didn't expect that the train would also leave this woman from New Eden behind.

The reason the train didn't want Ado was simple: her abilities weren't worth studying, and the train already had enough of an unsociable Tier 1 ability user.

"Don't worry, I won't cause trouble unless someone provokes me."

Ado took one last look at the train, now just a tiny black dot on the water, before turning and leaving.

'The High Priest went astray. As a modern person, abandoning technology and machinery was his biggest mistake.'

'To fight oneself with faith, and to fight the world with machinery—perhaps this is the only path to Eden.'

……

Su Huan sat on the trunk of a crown pear tree in the cultivation chamber, squinting slightly as he looked at the logbook, half of which was illuminated by the sunlight.

He wasn't surprised that Qi Zhendong was promoted to the next level.

The first-order evolution wave arrived a year after the apocalypse, but before that, there were also some exceptionally talented evolvers.

The Qi brothers might be one of them.

A qualitative change resulting from a quantitative change is nothing special.

What truly surprised him was the other party's profession: a first-tier "Radiant Apostle".

The orthodox gospel system and his "perpetual motion cardinal" are of the same origin, both belonging to the cult of mechanical gods.

"I wonder if the Cult of the Machine God can still grow into a major force after causing trouble in this lifetime."

Su Huan closed his journal and jumped down from the crown pear tree.

"Bang" sound.

It landed in front of Xiao Zhao.

The latter nodded in acknowledgment, then strode quickly down into the cultivation chamber.

There was a faint sound coming.

"...Second inspection of supercomputing hardware, trial run of cooling system."

Su Huan walked forward along the passage of the cultivation chamber and saw that everyone else had work to do, while he was the only one who could wander around. He immediately felt much more fulfilled.

Before he could even savor this hard-won moment of comfort, Shu Wei quickly stepped closer to him from behind and whispered something.

"The supercomputer is starting up, and the voltage may be unstable. You need to stabilize it."

"Grass!"

……

"On April 28th, the water was raging."

"The supercomputer is the brain of the armed train, but this brain occasionally suffers from insufficient blood supply."

While writing, Su Huan suddenly felt the notebook in front of him float up. He quickly grabbed it, but before he could even catch his breath, he found that his buttocks were also floating up.

Then everything in the room that wasn't fixed began to float.

"Warning from the control tower: The waves are too high and the armored train is about to overturn. All crew and passengers are to immediately stop what they are doing and hold onto something fixed in the surroundings..."

The broadcast came late.

Lightning crackled from Su Huan's hand, firmly attaching various objects to their original positions.

"Boom——"

Huge waves crashed against the car body and were transmitted into the passenger compartment.

Su Huan sighed.

Now he finally understood why other factions were unwilling to maintain a permanent presence in the storm zone.

In just twenty days, the armed train encountered two major storms, resulting in varying degrees of damage to the train body. One of the internal batteries was even twisted off, making it a miracle that the voltage could remain stable.

However, the factory manager and others also gained a lot of car repair experience in the process of dealing with the flooded area.

The flipping motion just now not only doesn't damage the car body, but also helps to reduce the force on the car body. This is the latest research and development achievement of the factory manager and others.

There was a knock on the door.

Secretary Shu Wei came in, put some small items that had fallen over back in their place, and then handed her a piece of paper.

"The uniforms for the armed corps and combat teams have all been issued, and the development of the new exoskeleton has made progress, but it will still take time before mass production. Professor Ma's communication device has been reduced to the size of a walkie-talkie. Then there are separate reports from the flight attendant Lao San and He Jie from the armed corps..."

Su Huan's eyelids twitched as he looked at the large pile of documents in Shu Wei's hand.

"Couldn't those two bastards say this while they're eating?"

Shu Wei said in a cold tone, "They said there were too many things to explain in a sentence or two, so they wrote a formal report."

Su Huan was surprised, "The third brother wrote a paper report?"

"Nonsense, ghostwritten."

"..."

How far is it from Xiushui City?

"It's about 100 kilometers, and we should be able to get there by dawn tomorrow."

After Shu Wei finished speaking, she held the documents in both hands, letting them hang naturally at her thighs.

Although the atmosphere was somewhat quiet, after the last incident, Shu Wei felt a strange connection with the train conductor.

Even if we remain silent together, it won't feel as unbearable as it did before.

The train conductor tilted his head and saw the clock on the wall. "It's ten o'clock. Time to eat. Let's put these tasks aside for now."

Having become accustomed to the train conductor's style, Shu Wei showed no surprise and said calmly, "You had breakfast at seven o'clock and then morning tea at nine o'clock."

"That means I worked for a full three hours. I know you're going to say I included my meal time, but every order I gave concerned the lives of everyone on the train, so the mental strain was immense. Uh, why are you locking the door? Why are you unbuttoning your clothes? Are you hot...?"

Shu Wei took long strides, unbuttoned the top of her collar with one hand, walked directly in front of the train conductor, and shut him up from above.

Her cool expression vanished instantly, and her light gray eyes trembled slightly.

"If talking nonsense makes you feel a little more at ease, then I think this method will too."

"Acting on one's own initiative".

Su Huan stammered.

"Boom——"

The train started tumbling again.

At eleven o'clock, the train conductor walked out of the room looking refreshed, but this time his secretary was not following closely behind.

A tall, burly man was already seated inside the dining car, the large solid wood chair beneath him resembling a child's seat.

At this moment, Liang Kuan was holding an empty military can, and under He Zhenzhen's direction, he used his fingers to pinch out beautiful folds.

Several such canned food jars were already placed next to it.

He Jie was on the opposite side, busy with the same thing.

Upon seeing Su Huan, He Jie exclaimed in surprise, "You actually sat inside until eleven o'clock today. I thought you went up a tree to enjoy the breeze."

Su Huan glanced at the murky waves outside the window and snorted coldly.

I sat down on his orange cat sofa.

The orange cat blanket had clearly been washed by Yu Yue; it had a faint fragrance and a sun-kissed scent.

A boy's body odor as a child is usually determined by his mother.

The flavor of a family is determined by the flavor of its mother.

Kids are just like that.

As he grew up, he became like his wife, leaving nothing behind in the house except for a faint stench and the heat of hormones.

Women are strange; they can leave their own scent wherever they go.

Bedding, clothes, sofa, water cups...

Su Huan really liked the sunny vibe, so he would sit here whenever he had free time.

I can rest assured.

"What childish things are you doing?"