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The red sand desert receded outside the car window.

It's not the bumpy, shuffling motion it used to take.

It was pushed aside by the Devouring Wasteland.

The four wheels rolled over the hardened sand, which cracked first and was then crushed into dust by the third, 013, and 005 vehicles trailing behind. Dark golden jets of smoke emerged intermittently from the exhaust tailpipes, with short flames and high pressure, each expulsion creating a low-lying ripple in the sand behind the vehicle.

No one spoke in the driver's cab.

After the core of Zhenshan was connected, the voice of the Devourer changed.

The old engine's original groaning was still there, but there was now a lower, more subtle vibration beneath. It was silent, yet it pressed down on the chassis. Every few seconds, the screws on the edge of the dashboard would wiggle outwards by half a turn, only to be tightened back in by Wang Hu.

Wang Hu sat in the passenger seat, his right hand still wrapped in the charred glove cloth. He didn't look out the window, but stared at the newly welded power bypass pipe at his feet.

The tube wall is red.

The color is uneven.

"Boss, pipe number three is hot again."

Su Yuan did not turn his head.

"Open the cold spring valve to level twenty."

Wang Hu reached out and turned the valve.

A stream of cold spring water entered the bypass cooling jacket, the red color of the pipe wall was pushed down a bit, and then immediately floated up from the bottom.

Xiao Huo typed rapidly on the console.

The core of Zhenshan is operating in parallel for the first time.

The spindle torque exceeds the design limit of the old frame by 347 percentage points.

The stress in the front beam weld continued to rise.

It is recommended to reduce the vehicle speed to below 40 km/h to complete the break-in period.

Su Yuan glanced at it.

Current speed: 112.

He kept the accelerator steady and didn't slow down.

Wang Hu's lips twitched when he saw the screen.

"It recommends forty."

Su Yuan said, "There are hunting dogs behind us."

"The hounds can't catch up."

"Just because you can't catch up doesn't mean nobody hears you."

Wang Hu shut up.

After those words were spoken in the car, Tang Lan's voice came through channel 013.

"Track temperature of No. 013 is too high, No. 005 is stable. Wounded personnel secured. Qin Yan woke up once, didn't speak, only typed two words."

The little torch translation popped up.

Don't stop.

Tang Lan paused for half a second, then said, "He fainted after he finished knocking."

Su Yuan looked at the red sand ahead.

"Let him live."

Tang Lan replied quickly.

"I tried my best. But he can't take any more shocks now."

Su Yuan did not reply with "okay".

His fingers landed on the edge of the old terminal and tapped it twice.

Xiao Huo immediately reduced the car's speed from 112 to 106.

It's not slowing down.

The jet flow rhythm was adjusted by half a beat, making the swing amplitude of No. 013 smaller in the latter part.

In the third section, the old mechanic's voice came in.

"In the third quarter, all twelve sleeping soldiers remained stable. The cup holders didn't jump. The 005 stern anchor was still riding the momentum of its final stage and didn't swing."

On the other side of the tail gate, the young survivors were counting off.

"The stress on the right beam of No. 005 is 22. The external temperature of the isolation box is normal. The Great Wall access stopper has not been moved. The silencer is severely worn, but it can still hold."

Wang Hu turned his head and glanced at the rearview screen.

Trailer number 005 brought up the rear, with isolation boxes, dry sandbags, lead sheets, and old rubber mats hanging under the outer beams. These makeshift additions were blackened by the barren sand and gravel, with white scratches showing at the edges.

It was originally a tail anchor.

Now it's become a strange thing called ballast, vibration isolation, noise reduction, and anti-drag.

Wang Hu stared at it for two seconds and then muttered a curse under his breath.

"This convoy is getting less and less like a car as it's being towed."

Typing on low heat.

Archived: Temporary overload grouping.

Lead vehicle: Devourer of the Wilderness.

Middle section: Third life support module.

Rear section: Wounded soldier No. 013's combat compartment.

Rear section: No. 005 silent ballast baggage car.

New power source: Zhenshan super-heavy core.

Structural integrity: Continued high-intensity combat is not recommended.

Just as Wang Hu was about to laugh, a row of gray dots suddenly appeared on the radar on the left side of the main screen.

It's not a hunting dog.

The gray dots move more steadily, at a slower speed, but are widely dispersed.

Pull out the area map with the small torch.

Eighty kilometers ahead.

Elevated interchange No. 07.

One of the outer ring supply depots of the Old Blue Star Expeditionary Force.

The essential connecting section leading deep into the Great Wall.

Within radar coverage, only half of the elevated hub's outline remains. The other half is buried under red sand, with broken steel pillars protruding at angles from the sand's surface.

Su Yuan stared at the patch of gray dots.

"Identification".

Xiao Huo accessed the remaining database of the hunting dog navigation center and found an old file.

Magnetic storm harvester.

Cluster of heavy machinery in waste disposal area.

Functions: Remove the old-era power core, recover high-energy components, and forcibly dismantle unauthorized trainsets.

Danger level: Extremely high.

Main armament: heteropolar magnetic field anchor cable, hydraulic brake support, core extraction boom, high-temperature resistant shell.

Note: It is not recommended to bring the original engine near the site.

After reading it, Wang Hu's face darkened.

"They only eat the core."

Tang Lan saw it too.

"Lead vehicle, we just swallowed the core of Zhenshan, and the power system hasn't stabilized yet. Should we take a detour?"

Xiao Huo quickly provided a new image.

Alternative routes: None.

The No. 07 elevated interchange is a necessary station for those heading deep into the Great Wall.

The detour distance exceeds 300 kilometers, and fuel, cooling, water supply, and the condition of the wounded are all unavailable.

Wang Hu picked up the wrench and placed it next to the passenger seat.

"Then let's fight."

Su Yuan remained silent.

He amplified the output curve of the core of the mountain-suppressing system.

The curve is still shaky.

It's not that it's unstable, it's that it's untamed.

The old chassis of the Devourer is devouring the heart of an ultra-heavy locomotive. Bolts, beams, drive shafts, wheelsets, cooling jackets—every part is protesting in its own way.

A faint metallic scraping sound came from under the control panel.

Ga.

stop.

quack.

Wang Hu lowered his head.

"Front beam?"

Typing on low heat.

There is a minor crack in the weld on the left side of the front beam.

Crack length: 4 mm.

Su Yuan pressed the accelerator down a little more.

The car was traveling at 110 km/h.

Wang Hu looked up.

"Add more if it's cracked?"

Su Yuan looked at the sand dune line in the distance.

"Let it crack where it needs patching."

Wang Hu understood.

They didn't work out in a safe house.

They hone their skills in battle.

If something can't hold up, take something from the enemy and use it to fix it.

The ruins of the No. 07 elevated interchange are already visible.

In the distance, amidst the dust storm, a row of broken viaduct piers rose from the ground. Where steel platforms should have stood, half had collapsed into a slope, while the other half was supported by several old cranes. Black mechanical shadows moved beneath the cranes.

The four platforms were the first to appear.

They emerged from the back of the dunes, low and wide, with six tracks mounted on their chassis. The front of the hull lacked a gun muzzle, featuring only two thick firing arms. Black anchor cables were wrapped around the firing arms, the anchor heads wider than an adult's chest, with eccentric magnetic field stabilizing rings along their edges.

The first harvester truck's roof light came on red.

The second, third, and fourth units are separated, flanking from both sides.

They do not broadcast.

No warning was given.

The launch arm simultaneously presses down.

boom.

Four heavy-duty hydraulic anchor cables pierced through the sand and dust.

Two locks were placed towards the front beam of the Devouring Wasteland.

Two anchors are positioned around anchor 005.

Wang Hu shouted.

"Anchor cable!"

Su Yuan did not turn the steering wheel.

The first anchor cable was driven into the new armor on the right side of the Devourer's front beam, the magnetic ring lit up, and the metal of the entire front beam was immediately pulled outward. The second cable cut in from the left, the anchor head biting into the temporary support frame on the outside of the Mountain-Suppressing Core.

The two anchor cables behind are even more formidable.

One rod passed over the rear of No. 013, bypassed the casualty compartment, and directly engaged the lower right beam of No. 005. The other rod penetrated the outer beam of No. 005 and locked onto the reinforcement bracket above the isolation box.

All four harvesters braked simultaneously.

Their hydraulic supports beneath the chassis pierce the sand layer, and the opposite magnetic field unfolds.

The Devourer suddenly stopped.

All the fasteners in the carriage were tightened simultaneously.

The water in the third cup holder was lifted up by half, but the old mechanic pressed it down again.

Tang Lan pressed down on the brake lever.

"Number 013 is under tension! Tail beam 27!"

The young survivor fell onto the tailgate of vehicle number 005, and the first thing he said when he got up was to report his number.

"Outer beam #005, 28 meters! The isolation box didn't fall!"

Wang Hu grabbed the handrail and slammed his shoulder against the car door.

"They want to kill us!"

The screen is completely red when the flame is low.

Braking by opposite polar magnetic fields.

Magnetic lock on the front beam.

Tail anchor magnetic lock.

The risks of overloaded trainsets continuing to operate under dual-end braking are as follows:

1. The motor burns out.

Second, the main drive shaft was cut.

Third, the front beam is torn.

Fourth, tail beam No. 005 detached.

It is recommended to immediately unload the tail anchor, reduce power, and wait for the magnetic lock to decay.

Tang Lan immediately spoke up.

"Don't cut 005."

Su Yuan looked at the screen.

"Nobody's cutting it."

Further into the wilderness, several modified vehicles belonging to roving warlords were parked on the top of the red sand dune.

They had been drawn here by the commotion at the exit of Base 04. Seeing the Devourer dragging its three sections out of the base, no one dared approach. It wasn't until the Magnetic Storm Reaper appeared that anyone set up their binoculars again.

A warlord with a gray cloth wrapped around his face squatted on the roof of the vehicle and chuckled softly.

"It's over."

A soldier nearby asked, "Didn't that vehicle just swallow the giant core?"

The leader put down the binoculars.

"Swallowing it won't help. The Magnetic Storm Reaper specializes in stripping old cores. Once the anchor cable is locked, the larger the core, the more deadly it becomes. If it dares to increase its force, the axle will break first."

In the remaining observation space of the high-dimensional dark web, the wounds on the young elder's face had not yet healed.

He lay sprawled before the wrecked interface, watching the Devourer Ship being secured by four anchor cables, and a slight twitch appeared on his lips.

"This time it's not the rule."

Someone nearby asked, "Isn't he best at physics-based tensile strength?"

The young elder stared at the hydraulic supports of the four harvesters.

"Magnetic braking is not a regular brake. It locks in the stress on the metal. The more the car struggles now, the faster it cracks."

On the edge of the wasteland, some old equipment still connected to AM relays transmitted images to various places with shaky movements.

Some people remained silent.

Some people shook their heads.

Someone whispered, "It's too heavy."

Inside the Devourer, the crack in the front beam jumped from four millimeters to nine millimeters.

Wang Hu looked at the numbers, his hand already touching the welding torch.

"Boss, should we get some more?"

Su Yuan's fingers pressed on the core output lever of the Zhenshan.

"Pull it first."

Wang Hu looked at him.

"Who should we pull?"

Su Yuan pushed the output to 120.

For the first time, the core of Zhenshan roared at full power or higher on the wasteland.

The driver's cab floor sank down.

It's not that the vehicle's weight has changed.

The moment the torque is injected into the wheelset, the entire bike grips the ground.

The four wheels snapped into the hardened red sand layer, crushing the gravel on the outer side of the front wheels into powder. The third section, No. 013, and No. 005 at the rear were straightened by the coupling. The four magnetic storm anchor cables instantly stretched into black lines, and the magnetic rings on the cables lit up to their maximum brightness one after another.

The hydraulic supports of the four harvesters, which were originally embedded in the sand, began to move backward.

The first one only slid half a foot.

The second one slid one meter.

The left support of the third unit was pulled directly out of the sand, bringing with it a large piece of condensed sand crust.

The fourth unit, furthest back, was biting the tail beam of unit 005. It attempted to apply reverse pressure, locking all six tracks on its chassis and inserting its support brackets deeply.

The Devourer continued forward.

It's not about breaking free.

It's about dragging them along with you.

The ground was plowed open by the supports of four harvesters. Black, hard rock beneath the red sand was scraped out, and trenches stretched all the way back. Hydraulic oil sprayed from the base of the first harvester support, only to be dispersed by its dark gold exhaust flames.

Wang Hu gripped the passenger-side armrest and looked at the rearview screen.

"They moved."

Tang Lan's voice came from number 013, accompanied by short, labored breaths.

"Tail beam 29, not broken. 005 is helping us pull the rear cable off course. Don't move it."

The young survivors gritted their teeth and counted off.

"Outer beam No. 005 is at level 30. The isolation box is normal. The lower right support is deformed, but it can still hold its position."

Typing on low heat.

The front beam has a 15mm crack.

The core temperature of Zhenshan is rising.

The spindle torque is stable.

Four harvester hydraulic supports overloaded.

Su Yuan stared at the leader of the harvesters.

"Wang Hu, prepare the left front robotic arm."

Wang Hu immediately flipped from the passenger seat to the side control position.

Which one should we arrest?

"Lead the way."

"Demolish or crash?"

"First, break open the engine compartment."

At the top of the desolate hill, the warlord leader picked up his binoculars again, the gray cloth on his face blowing against his mouth in the wind.

He saw four harvesters being towed away by a broken-down truck.

No.

It's not a broken-down car.

The thing had its front end lowered, and dark golden high-pressure exhaust gas spewed from its exhaust pipe. It towed three sections of the train behind it, with four anchor cables taut over it, but not nailed down. It dragged the Reaper away by the roots.

The leader paused for a long time before speaking.

A soldier nearby asked, "Boss?"

He shoved the binoculars back into the soldier's hands.

"Make a note of this. Next time you see this car, don't block the way."

In the high-dimensional dark web, the young elder sat up, propped up by the broken wall of laws, blood seeping from his wounds again.

He saw the first harvester's support frame stretched into a bow.

The second magnetic ring overheated and shut down.

The third track rolled back, its own transmission gears biting the chassis, creating sparks.

The young elder remained silent.

The old elder next to him suddenly coughed, spitting out a little black blood.

"Absolute power."

The young elder turned his head.

The old elder had his eyes half-closed.

"No concept. No rules. Just that you can pull better."

The first harvester began to change direction.

It abandoned the brakes, attempted to swerve to the side, and used the anchor cable to cut the front beam of the Devourer.

This is the angle that Su Yuan and others were looking for.

"Exhaust gas pre-guided."

Wang Hu pulled down the mechanical valve.

The exhaust pipes at the core of the town were temporarily diverted, and the dark golden high-temperature exhaust gas was diverted from the rear section under the vehicle to the front beam bypass, and sprayed towards the front corner of the vehicle along two newly welded heat-resistant pipes.

The front corner of the car was burned and turned dark red.

A warning popped up on the screen.

Fatigue of materials used in impact corners.

Sustained high temperatures for more than nine seconds will cause structural delamination.

Su Yuan said, "Three seconds is enough."

He turned the steering wheel.

Without slowing down, the front wheels sliced ​​through half the width of the vehicle on the sand.

The side profile of the lead harvester had just taken shape when the front of the Devourer was already close to it.

The two cars were misaligned.

The front beam's impact corner pressed against the side panel of the Reaper's engine compartment.

The high-temperature exhaust gas first softens the outer antimagnetic armor.

The dark gold conduit popped out from under the front beam of the Devourer.

The first one went in.

The harvester's shell made a muffled sound.

The second pipe penetrates the hydraulic oil main.

The third pressure pump unit pierced into the engine compartment.

Wang Hu grinned at the control panel.

"They're inside!"

Su Yuan pressed his palm down on the old terminal.

"Physical recycling".

The original devouring logic at the bottom layer of the Devourer was activated.

There was no notification sound.

You do not have permission to confirm.

The barbs of the conduit unfolded, and the hydraulic oil in the Reaper's power compartment was pumped back along the dark gold pipeline into the Devourer's temporary oil storage tank. The polymer antimagnetic armor plates were forcibly torn off by the robotic arm and dragged piece by piece to the sides of the vehicle.

The engine speed of the first Reaper suddenly dropped.

It wanted to pressurize, but the power pump was already running dry.

Wang Hu grabbed the welding torch and rushed to the side compartment with two maintenance workers.

The sandstorm blew in, stinging my face.

On the other side of 013, Tang Lan saw them open the side hatch and her eyes twitched.

"Wang Hu, are you welding while the vehicle is in motion?"

Wang Hu fastened his goggles.

"Once they stop, they'll tear us apart."

After he finished speaking, he leaned half his body out of the side cabin.

The robotic arm hurled the first antimagnetic armor plate onto the left side of the Devourer's hull. Wang Hu braced his knee against the edge of the plate and ignited the welding torch. Sparks were drawn diagonally by the vehicle's speed, flying behind before being swallowed by the red sand.

The maintenance worker crammed in old bolts, clamps removed from the hound remains, and remaining support bars from the outer shell of the town.

It's not a deluxe edition.

As long as it can hold on, that's fine.

A plate was welded together.

Connect the second board.

The third plate directly covers the cracked area of ​​the front beam.

The stress curve of the front beam was drawn out using a small torch.

Crack propagation has stopped.

The antimagnetic outer shell is partially formed.

The interference from the opposite polar magnetic field decreased by 22%.

Su Yuan continued to drag it.

Seeing that the lead harvester had been sucked dry, the second harvester immediately disconnected its anchor cable and prepared to retreat.

Su Yuan didn't give it a chance.

"Left anchor cable reversed."

Wang Hu was still welding the side compartment and couldn't operate the equipment.

A young survivor shouted from the tailgate of vehicle number 005, "I'll do it!"

He rushed to the temporary control box at the stern and pulled the auxiliary cable winch that had been transferred from No. 005. The Reaper anchor cable that had originally secured No. 005 at the stern was now engaged in the opposite direction. The ballast weight of No. 005, combined with the semi-locked anchor of No. 013, prevented the anchor cable from loosening. Instead, it went around under the stern boom and veered at an angle.

The second harvester had just broken off at the front when it was pulled laterally by the anchor cable at the rear.

Its right track is off the ground.

Tang Lan seized the opportunity.

"Push number 013 half a space."

Push the No. 013 track gently.

The second Reaper was pulled to the side and rear of the Devourer.

Before the robotic arm could retract, it grabbed its launch arm.

Hydraulic arm to hydraulic arm.

The harvester tried to retreat.

The core damage dealer of the Devourer has been boosted by half a beat.

Click.

The second launch arm was ripped off by the roots.

The magnetic rings, cables, and hydraulic cylinders inside were all exposed.

Typing on low heat.

Recyclable component: Heterogeneous magnetic field stabilizing ring.

It can be used for antimagnetic shell compensation.

Su Yuan said, "Demolish it."

Wang Hu replied from the side cabin.

"dismantle!"

The robotic arm dragged the launch arm to the roof of the vehicle. Two maintenance workers used a cutting gun to cut open the tail end of the hydraulic cylinder, and Wang Hu reached in and pulled out the magnetic ring fixing shaft, his gloves burning hot. He didn't let go, but instead slammed the magnetic ring into the pre-reserved gap in the new armor on the left side of the Devourer.

"Lock!"

The maintenance worker used a clip made from an old hound's claw to secure the magnetic ring.

A small flame was immediately connected.

The antimagnetic outer shell is 31% intact.

Magnetic lock interference decreased by 46%.

The third and fourth harvesters finally reacted.

Instead of being dragged individually, they dispersed to both sides, attempting to pull the Wasteland Ship formation into three segments at an angle.

The third section of the coupling is subjected to upward force.

The old mechanic cursed in the channel, then lowered his voice.

"The third coupling is at 28! Pulling it any further will damage the bottom beam!"

Tang Lan said coldly, "Number 013 will finish last, so the third quarter won't be too difficult."

She adjusted the brakes on vehicle 013 to between semi-lock and slip, the old rubber pads muffling the track friction noise. Vehicle 013 then swayed backward, taking over the rear-end pull of the third section.

The 005 tail anchor was pulled to the right by the fourth harvester.

The young survivor knelt on the tailgate, his face covered in sand.

"Outer beam #005 is 31.5 ohms! It can still hold!"

Su Yuan glanced at the angle behind him.

"Wang Hu, the right rear armor is still missing a few pieces."

Wang Hu understood.

"The fourth one is on him."

Su Yuan stepped on the gas.

The Devourer no longer travels in a straight line.

It spun a large arc to the right, carrying the entire troop. The third harvester was forced to turn as well, its hydraulic supports plowing furrows in the ground. The fourth harvester, still biting 005, was just about to pressurize when the Wilderness Devourer's arc dragged it to the inside of its rear.

Number 013 took advantage of the situation and loosened the grip by half a grid.

The weight of the tail anchor No. 005 is applied downwards.

The fourth harvester was dragged from the outside to the inside, its chassis sliding sideways.

Wang Hu stood at the side cabin door, watching the Harvester approach.

"It's been delivered to your door."

The robotic arm is thrown out.

It's not about grabbing the engine compartment.

It's about grabbing its right side armor edge.

After the robotic arm gripped the Reaper, the vehicle swayed, and the fourth Reaper was completely ripped open on the side. The antimagnetic plate, along with the internal skeleton, was torn off and hung on the robotic arm.

The fourth chassis lost lateral support, its tracks got caught in its own support frame, the whole vehicle flipped halfway over, and was then dragged along by the anchor cable to continue rolling.

Wang Hu threw the piece of armor towards the direction of No. 005.

The young survivor recoiled in fright, then immediately lunged forward to grab the securing cable.

"You should have told me before you threw it this way!"

Wang Hu roared back, "Just catch it!"

The first antimagnetic plate was added to the outside of the right beam No. 005.

The second piece presses down on the support frame above the isolation box.

The third piece covers the stress point of the tail hook.

Xiao Huo updates simultaneously.

The antimagnetic protection of tail anchor No. 005 has been formed.

The interference from the tail magnetic lock decreased by 63%.

The stress in the tail beam decreased to 26.

Tang Lan watched this series of changes, her finger pausing on the brake lever for half a second.

She suddenly smiled.

very short.

"Is this what you call fighting a war?"

Xu Shen sat next to the wounded, his face still pale.

"That's called tearing down someone else's door while running."

Qin Yan was awake, her eyelids half-open.

He stared at the power curve of the Devourer on the screen, his lips moved, but no sound came out.

Xu Shen moved closer.

Qin Yan tapped his knuckles twice.

Xiao Huo Translation.

It is learning to guard the mountain.

Xu Shen was stunned.

"Who?"

Qin Yan tapped the inkstone again.

Devourer of the Wilderness

Xu Shen looked up at the main screen.

The output curve of the Zhenshan core initially fluctuated wildly. It's still fluctuating now, but the frequency of the fluctuations has begun to overlap with the idling rhythm of the old engine of the Devourer.

It's not the core of the town that's pressing down on the car.

It is the Devourer that is grinding the core of the Mountain-Suppressing System into its own skeleton.

The first Reaper has been emptied, and its power compartment has collapsed.

The second launcher lost its launch arm and was dragged into the third launcher.

The third ship attempted to detach from the cable, but was interfered with by the newly installed antimagnetic shell on the front beam of the Devourer, and the anchor head could not be unlocked.

The side panel of the fourth unit was torn off, and the tail anchor cable was turned into the tow hook of No. 005.

All four Harvesters went out of control.

At that moment, an even louder sound of tracks came from deep within the ruins of the No. 07 elevated hub.

Behind the sand dunes, a larger mechanical matrix slowly emerged.

It is three times larger than a regular Reaper. Twelve tracks flank the vehicle, with a core extraction tower mounted in the center. Instead of grappling hooks, the tower arms are topped with rotating magnetic rings. The inner side of these rings is covered in tiny teeth, clearly designed to bite open the outer shell of an older core.

The flame immediately turned red.

The parent entity of the magnetic storm hunting swarm.

Functions: Unify Reapers, Core Stripping, Magnetic Field Suppression.

Danger: Extremely high.

After the mother unit appeared, the anchor cables of the remaining three harvesters simultaneously taut. They did not attempt to retreat but instead voluntarily made themselves fixed points.

The parent magnetic ring is started.

All the small, unsecured metal parts inside the Devourer vehicle jumped.

Wang Hu's wrench was sucked toward the car door, and he grabbed it.

"This thing needs to be pulled out from the core of the mountain!"

The small fire's screen turned a dark red.

A strong external magnetic field locked onto the core of the town.

The core support frame is lifted under stress.

If the magnetic ring is continuously irradiated for more than fifteen seconds, the temporary parallel structure will be stripped away.

Tang Lan's voice turned somber.

"How do we get the lead car?"

Su Yuan looked at the mother's body.

The main tower arm is pressing down.

The rotating magnetic ring is aligned with the front of the Devouring Wasteland vehicle.

The core of the Zhenshan engine hummed softly in the engine compartment, and sparks began to fly from several temporary weld points on the support frame.

Wang Hu cursed, "It really can suck!"

Su Yuan said, "Let it suck."

Wang Hu turned his head.

"What?"

Su Yuan reduced the core output of Zhenshan to seventy.

The speed of the Devourer has decreased significantly.

The pulling force of the mother magnetic ring immediately increased, and the connection point of the dark gold conduit began to heat up. From the outside, it looked as if the Devourer was being dragged down little by little by the mother ship.

The anxiety that the remnants of the warlord forces in the distance had just felt returned.

Someone whispered, "It's over, the mother has emerged."

The gray-cloth leader did not reply.

He stared at the Devourer in his binoculars.

He no longer dared to draw conclusions.

In the higher-dimensional dark web, the young elder's fingernails dug into the ground.

"He's reducing the power."

Someone nearby said, "Can't hold on any longer?"

The young elder did not answer.

He noticed that the dark gold conduits beneath the front beam of the Devourer hadn't retracted; instead, they were dragging along the ground, one by one. The barbs at the tips of the conduits were slightly open, and, concealed by the sand and dust, they were extending towards the lower edge of the mother magnetic ring.

The mother body pressed forward another ten meters.

The rotational speed of the magnetic ring increases.

The Devourer's hull was pulled forward.

Wang Hu gripped the handrail, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the catheter had reached below the mother's body.

He suddenly understood, and a smile spread across his face.

"Boss, you fish for it."

Su Yuan didn't look at him.

"It came by itself."

The tension of the parent magnetic ring reaches its peak.

One of the outermost temporary bolts on the core support frame of the Devouring Wasteland Town broke off.

In that instant, Su Yuan pushed his output to 130.

The low hum from the heart of the town turned into a heavy roar.

The front wheels of the Devourer suddenly gripped the ground.

All the dark gold conduits tightened simultaneously.

It's not about energy extraction.

It is inserted into the base of the mother magnetic ring in the reverse direction.

The first power supply wire harness that penetrates the magnetic ring.

The second pipe was inserted into the tower arm hydraulic main.

The third core oil passage is embedded in the center of the mother chassis.

The mother's magnetic ring was still spinning, but it was being pulled even closer by its own attraction. It thought it was pulling out the core of the mountain-suppressing structure, but in reality, it was sending its own core extraction tower into the conduit range of the Devourer.

Su Yuan spoke.

"Reclaim the parent body."

The small fire did not trigger a warning.

It directly labels all detachable parts.

Magnetic ring housing.

Antimagnetic composite board.

Tower boom hydraulic assembly.

Twelve sets of track wheels.

High-pressure oil pump.

Main cooling box.

Wang Hu led the maintenance crew out again.

"Remove the ferrite core first!"

The robotic arm grips the main tower arm, and the torque output from the Zhenshan core is transmitted along the front beam. The main tower arm is bent, the rotating magnetic ring is stuck, and the internal teeth bite into its outer ring.

crunch.

A section of the magnetic ring cracked.

Wang Hu inserted the cutting gun and severed the two main cables. Taking advantage of the vibration of the main structure, the maintenance worker pried off the antimagnetic plates from the magnetic ring shell piece by piece and passed them back to the robotic arm.

The 013 side has also made some moves.

Tang Lan instructed two soldiers who were still able to move to open the side compartment and use steel cables to hold down the armor pieces that had been dragged close to the mother body.

"Don't touch anything that's electrified. Only pull the ones with green labels."

Little Fire marked the partitions on their screens.

Green, detachable.

Yellow, can be disassembled after cooling.

It's red, and it will explode if you touch it.

The young survivors pulled on the auxiliary rope at the rear of 005, working together to pull out the cooling box on the side of the mother ship.

He had only pulled it half a meter when the cooling box got stuck.

"It's stuck!"

Wang Hu turned around and roared, "Loosen it by half a step, then pull it again!"

"If you loosen it, it'll shake off 005!"

Su Yuan said, "Number 013 will be the last one."

Tang Lan replied, "Received."

Unit 013 was partially stabbed to death, while Unit 005 was stabilized. The younger survivors pulled again, and the cooling tank was forcibly dragged out of the mother ship's side compartment, along with a long string of pipes and supports.

The mother structure began to self-destruct.

A row of red lights illuminated inside the vehicle.

The flame is low and red.

The high-pressure oil circuit is overheating.

The mothership core will enter a deflagration.

Countdown: Nine seconds.

Wang Hu looked at Su Yuan.

"It's never all going to be demolished."

Su Yuan said, "There's no need to dismantle it all."

He pressed the front beam of the Devourer to the left, and the mechanical arm gripped the outer shell of the mothership's core module.

"Tear it open."

Wang Hu and three maintenance workers simultaneously pressed down on the conduit base.

The robotic arm exerts force.

The outer shell of the mothership's core module was torn open. Inside, there was no complete core, only a magnetic storm control assembly and a hydraulic mainframe, all encased in a thick antimagnetic layer.

Su Yuan didn't wait for it to explode.

All the dark gold conduits were inserted.

Hydraulic oil, high-pressure coolant, and the metallic materials of the magnetic ring stabilizing coil were brutally sucked away by the Devourer. Unabsorbable debris was dragged out by the barbs of the guide tubes and thrown under the vehicle, where it was directly crushed by the rear wheels.

Three seconds left on the countdown.

The parent combustion did not occur completely.

It lacks oil.

Lack of cooling.

Assembly lacking magnetic ring.

There was only a muffled sound from inside, the vehicle body expanded half a circle, and then collapsed. The twelve tracks lost synchronization, the first six tracks rolled to the left, and the last six tracks twisted to the right, the entire chassis twisted into a pile of scrap metal on the spot.

The remaining three Reapers lost their integration signal.

The first machine was already empty.

The second machine collapsed on top of the third.

The fourth vehicle was being towed by anchor number 005, with only half of its chassis remaining.

Su Yuan did not let them stop behind him.

"Clear the road."

The Devourer is accelerating.

The anchor cables, dragging the wreckage of the mother ship, were straightened, and the scrap metal tumbled on the red sand before crashing into the remaining three Reapers. Sawed armor plates, broken hydraulic arms, and fragments of magnetic rings were scattered all along the way.

Wang Hu welded the last antimagnetic plate onto the crack in the front beam and tapped it twice.

"The front beam is now complete."

Updated by Xiao Huo.

Antimagnetic casing integrity: 72%.

The crack in the front beam has stopped propagating.

Tail anchor antimagnetic protection: 68%.

The stability of the Zhenshan core parallel connection has increased.

Powertrain break-in progress: 34 percent.

New components: magnetic storm mother hydraulic cooling box, opposite polarity magnetic field stabilizing ring, antimagnetic composite shell, and twelve sets of spare track wheels.

The overall quality of the formation has improved.

It is recommended to recalculate the braking distance.

Wang Hu looked at the last line and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"It also recommends braking."

Tang Lan heard it too.

"Can we stop now?"

The veteran mechanic interrupted in the third quarter.

"Even if you can't brake in time, you still need to have brakes. Don't laugh, I'll fix it for you later."

The young survivor lay by the tailgate of No. 005, his face covered in black oil and red sand.

"Number 005 is still alive. Two layers of anti-magnetic plates have been added to the outer beam. The isolation box was untouched. The sound-absorbing weights are almost worn off."

Su Yuan said, "Retrieve the original track plates and replace the sound-absorbing pins."

Wang Hu immediately turned around and shouted, "Did you hear me? Dismantle the main track plates! Don't take the thin ones, take the inner, thicker ones!"

The maintenance crew at the rear dragged the track plates from the wreckage of the geomagnetic storm mother structure toward the direction of 005.

The car is still moving.

The welding torch was still making a sound.

The red sand was rolled to both sides by the wheels.

The Devourer was like a mobile shed, charging forward, welding along the sides, and towing from behind, with the enemy's wreckage becoming its shell as it moved.

The remnants of the warlord's forces watched this scene from afar, and no one uttered a sound.

The gray-clothed leader put down the binoculars, turned around, and got out of the car.

The soldier asked, "Sir, aren't we going to watch anymore?"

The leader climbed into the driver's seat.

"I'm not watching anymore. Let's go."

"Shouldn't we scavenge some of the wreckage?"

The leader turned around and glanced at him.

"Go pick it up. Remember not to let that car see it."

The soldier immediately shut up.

In the high-dimensional dark web, the young elder watched as the Magnetic Storm Hunter Swarm's mother body was dismantled into scrap metal, and his lips moved a few times.

In the end, he only managed to utter one sentence.

"Using war to sustain war."

The old elder had his eyes half-closed and spoke very softly.

"It's not about winning."

The young elder looked at him.

The old elder coughed.

"It was heavier after the injection than before."

In the footage, the Devourer, dragging the third section, 013, and 005, continues its descent towards the 07 elevated hub. A layer of dark gray antimagnetic shell has been added to the exterior of the vehicle, its edges still radiating heat. The front beam has been reinforced with the original armor, and antimagnetic plates have been added to the outer beam of the tail anchor. Several sets of magnetic rings are temporarily fixed to the roof, cooling boxes hang from the side compartments, and newly modified silencers are dragging beneath the chassis.

It is not intact.

It's covered in patches.

But every patch comes from the enemy it just destroyed.

The No. 07 elevated interchange is getting closer.

Where the platform should have stood, the steel beams were broken in a row. The elevated track rose from the sand and then disappeared in the middle. Several old crane towers leaned to the side, their booms dangling towards the ground.

The small torch radar is switched to close-range scanning.

There are no new Reaper signals ahead.

There were no hunting dogs.

There is also no conventional heat source.

Wang Hu wiped the sand off his face.

"Is it clean now?"

Tang Lan was not relaxed.

"Don't rush. A place like No. 07 can't just be left with a bunch of Reapers."

Su Yuan looked at the main screen.

The outline of the platform area in the scanned image is somewhat incorrect.

The edges of the steel structure are not straight.

They are moving.

very slow.

It looked like something was crawling along the surface of the steel beam.

Small fire zooms in on the image.

The platform floor, bridge piers, and crane bases were all covered with a layer of dark silver substance. It didn't reflect light and had tiny pores on its surface. These pores opened and closed, releasing black dust.

It is swallowing a broken steel beam.

It's not corrosion.

The edges of the steel beam softened first, then were covered by a dark silver substance. The covered portion disappeared, and new protrusions grew on the surface. These protrusions continued to spread outwards, covering the next section of the steel beam.

Wang Hu leaned closer to the screen.

"Metallic fungi?"

Typing on low heat.

Sample similarity: Unknown.

Metal-active proliferation was detected.

Weak biothermal activity was detected.

Residual pollution from the old Great Wall was detected.

Outside the No. 07 elevated hub, the living metal coverage rate is 64%.

Warning: You have entered a high-risk pollution area.

The car slowed down.

It wasn't Su Yuan who stepped on the brakes.

The ground is starting to soften.

The old track surface beneath the red sand was covered with a dark silver substance. When the tires ran over it, they didn't feel the sinking sensation of ordinary mud, but rather the resistance of metallic fibers. These fibers clung to the wheel treads, only to be torn apart by the newly connected core torque of the mountain-suppressing system.

A deeper silver-gray was revealed through the torn seam.

Xiao Huo popped up another line of text.

Living metal is attempting to attach to the wheel.

It is recommended to stop contact and establish an isolation layer.

Wang Hu looked at Su Yuan.

"It will climb up if you park."

Tang Lan whispered in channel 013, "It will continue even if we don't stop."

Su Yuan looked at the platform ahead.

The main entrance to the No. 07 elevated interchange is gone.

Instead, there was an undulating, dark silver ground.

In the distance, a platform sign is still stuck on it at an angle, with only half of the old characters remaining on the sign.

Elevated interchange No. 07.

The Great Wall is deeply connected.

Below the sign, dark silver metallic fungus was devouring the last pillar. Inside the pillar, countless tiny tubes were exposed, through which black liquid flowed.

Inside the driver's cab, the power curve of the Zhenshan core jolted again.

This time, it's not overload.

It's the vibration transmitted back by the sensors under the car.

Wang Hu looked down.

On the inside of the front wheel, a small piece of dark silver layer was stuck to the edge of the newly installed antimagnetic shell.

The thin layer is climbing up along the bolt.

Zoom in on the small torch.

The thing had tiny metal wires extending from its threads, tentatively reaching towards the energy-conducting tube at the core of the mountain.

Su Yuan raised his hand.

"Flame nozzle, low angle."

Wang Hu pulled the valve.

A jet of dark golden exhaust gas sprayed past the inside of the front wheel.

The thin layer first curled up, then contracted, and finally detached from the threads, falling to the ground. It didn't die immediately. After landing, it crawled two centimeters towards the wheel, where it was crushed by the rear wheel.

On the small fire screen, the new warning overwrites the old one.

Living metals exhibit a retreat reaction to high temperatures.

There is an attraction response to the core energy-conducting tube of Zhenshan.

The pollution frequency partially overlaps with the lesion samples inside the Great Wall.

Qin Yan opened her eyes on stretcher number 013.

He heard the prompt.

His fingers tapped intermittently on the edge of the stretcher.

Xiao Huo stopped translating halfway through.

Xu Shen lowered his head and approached.

Qin Yan tapped it again.

Don't let it touch the key.