The "Survival on the Train" game has bugs, it's really laggy!

As soon as Qin Yan uttered the words "Don't let it touch the key," everyone in the driver's seat turned their attention to the screen under the car.

After being crushed by the rear wheels, the dark silver layer twitched twice in the red sand. It had no blood or flesh, but thin threads extended from its broken edges, continuing to crawl into the wheel tracks of the Devourer.

Wang Hu cursed, his hand already gripping the flame nozzle valve.

"This thing has its sights set on missile defense systems."

The text on the small fire screen jumps around very quickly.

Living metal attracts target: Zhenshan core energy conduction tube.

Secondary targets: Great Wall certified inserts, denial-of-service isolation boxes, and original engine interfaces.

Qin Yan lay on stretcher number 013, his complexion even worse than before. Xu Shen pressed his hand back under the blanket and whispered, "Stop banging. If you keep banging, you'll really die."

Qin Yan didn't listen and tapped the edge of the stretcher with his knuckles again.

Xiao Huo Translation.

The key must not get wet.

Wang Hu looked at Su Yuan.

"Boss, should we retreat half a kilometer and spray the outer casing?"

Su Yuan did not back down.

He gazed ahead at the No. 07 elevated interchange. Dark silver living metal covered the platform ruins, and thin pipes hung from beneath the steel beams, dripping black liquid onto the tracks. With each drop, new metal wires sprouted from the track surface.

The third section, No. 013, and No. 005 were all attached to the back of the Devourer. The wounded, the sleeping soldiers, the escort boxes, the denial devices, and the three water tanks—not a single one could be lost.

Retreating half a kilometer is not safe.

It's about getting that thing to catch up along the old tracks.

Su Yuan raised his hand and pushed the core preheating rod of Zhenshan over the yellow zone.

The small fire immediately turned the screen completely red.

Zhenshan core preheating red zone.

Current parallel stability: 34 percent.

The front beam welds are not strong enough to withstand pressure.

It is recommended to prohibit full-power jetting.

Wang Hu's lips twitched as he looked at the line of text.

"It can make its own suggestions."

Su Yuan pushed the preheating rod all the way down.

A heavy tremor emanated from the core of the town. The newly repaired antimagnetic plates on the chassis trembled violently, and several new bolts simultaneously emitted white smoke.

The exhaust sound of the Devourer has changed.

It was no longer spewing out intermittently, but instead pushing outwards against the ground.

A dark golden, high-pressure jet swept diagonally forward from under the vehicle, grazing the edges of the front wheels, energy channels, and antimagnetic plates. The living metal that had just climbed onto the wheel hubs hadn't even had a chance to cover the threads before being compressed into white smoke by the high temperature.

The white smoke carried a pungent, acidic smell.

Wang Hu raised his hand to cover his face.

"It vaporized."

Xiao Huo will update immediately.

High-temperature jet is effective.

Living metals retreat.

The temperature of the core energy-conducting tube in Zhenshan rose.

Su Yuan stepped on the gas.

The Devourer's front end slammed down, its four wheels biting fiercely into the dark silver rails. The living metal tried to entangle itself in the wheel grooves, but was torn apart by the torque of the Mountain-Suppressing Core. The torn metal wires were caught by the wheels and then scorched into black slag by the jet of energy.

Tang Lan's voice came from channel 013.

"On the lead vehicle, the antimagnetic plate that was just replaced on the right side of vehicle 013 has been corroded by acid mist. The thickness has dropped by three millimeters."

"Stay close."

"Following up."

Tang Lan didn't ask any more questions. Track 013 was pressing down on the old rail, and the tail anchor 005 behind it was dragging heavily. The lead sheet outside the isolation box was darkened by the red sand, but it was still stable.

The main gate of hub 07 appears ahead.

That gate, originally a heavy-duty gate for the Blue Star Expeditionary Force, with at least three layers of locking beams, is now encased in living metal, turning a dark silver color. The gate panel is covered with dense holes, from which black powder spews out, as if it's giving the entire platform a breath.

Lu Mingyuan's voice came from the control channel of Base 04.

"The lead train, there's a connecting platform behind that door, don't ram it. Its locking beam might still be connected to the hub's load-bearing structure—"

Su Yuan didn't wait for him to finish speaking.

The core output of Zhenshan has been increased to 110.

The front beam emitted a tooth-aching groan.

Wang Hu's expression changed, and he grabbed the handrail.

"The left side of the front beam has cracked again!"

The small fire simultaneously displays the data.

Crack length: 21 mm.

The front beam is partially twisted.

Collision risk: Extremely high.

Su Yuan stared at the gate.

"Jet guide".

Wang Hu pulled down the mechanical valve.

The dark gold high-pressure jet flowed from under the vehicle into both sides of the front beam. The newly welded heat-resistant pipes glowed red-hot, and the temperature of the impact point surged upwards.

The living metal on the gate receded first, revealing the old Blue Star steel beneath. The next second, the Devourer crashed into it.

boom.

The first door panel was torn open by the front beam.

The second layer of lock beam broke in the middle.

Before the third thick plate could fully bear the force, it was pierced by the torque injected by the core of the mountain-suppressing structure, and rolled inward along with the living metal.

The entire main gate exploded inwards.

Black powder, iron filings, and acid mist rushed into the hub. The front of the Devourer train crushed the broken door and rushed into the platform, followed by the third car, car 013, and car 005, which successively ran over the deformed threshold.

Wang Hu glanced back.

"This door used to be able to stop fortified vehicles, right?"

The veteran engineer replied in a hoarse voice over the channel, "It can block three stations."

Wang Hu grinned.

"Not really right now."

No one laughed for long.

Red lights illuminated inside the hub.

It wasn't an alarm light, but a dark red heat emanating from the holes in the living metal. The maintenance berths on both sides of the platform were covered in acid mist, and the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground came from under the crane towers.

A mech emerged from the fog.

It was originally supposed to be a guard post for the expeditionary force, a four-legged heavy-duty chassis, a double-armed hydraulic shear, and a spray canister hanging on its back. Now, its cockpit is covered in dark silver fungus, its outer shell is full of holes, and the openings are constricting, spewing out grayish-white acid mist.

The second one.

The third station.

More Corruptor mechs emerged from the depths of the platform. They were silent, made no announcements, and only the creaking of metal joints. With each step, they left trails of acid beneath their feet.

The flame is low and red.

Corruptor mechs.

Parasitic state: Deeply covered by living metal.

Armament: Strong acid spray, hydraulic shears, corrosive traction rope.

Armor type: acid-resistant ceramic composite layer.

Tang Lan immediately connected.

"Case 013 is under threat on its right. The casualty compartment cannot avoid it."

As soon as he finished speaking, the three Corruptors simultaneously raised their arms.

The strong acid jet passed through the black powder and hit the right side of No. 013.

The antimagnetic plate, freshly removed from the magnetic storm's host structure, instantly changed color, blistered on the surface, and emitted white smoke around the welds. The edges of the patch resembled melted wax, flowing down the vehicle body.

Screams of the wounded came from cell 013.

Some people were choked by the acid fumes and coughed violently. Some shouted "It's leaking!" and others tried to pull off their seatbelts, only to have Tang Lan shoot them down, shattering the warning lights above their heads.

"Sit back down!"

The small fire unit simultaneously reports the numbers.

The antimagnetic plate on the right side of No. 013 has failed.

Armor margin reduced to zero.

The coupling is affected by corrosion, resulting in a decrease in strength.

The tail end of the third section was affected by acid mist.

Tang Lan's voice tightened for the first time.

"First car, eat one more round, number 013 will speak up."

Wang Hu grabbed the hydraulic shears.

"I'll go fix it."

"No board."

"The enemy has it."

Just as he was about to rush out of the side cabin, Su Yuan raised his hand to stop him.

"Peel it first."

Wang Hu stopped.

Su Yuan reduced the core output of Zhenshan from 110 to 80, and cut the exhaust rhythm into three short segments.

The vibrations of the Devourer became very strange.

It's neither accelerating nor decelerating.

The wheels pressed against the old rails, and each exhaust sent high-frequency vibrations into the rails through the axle. A dense, fine hum came from the platform floor, like countless metal needles jumping beneath it.

On the small screen, the orbital amplitude curve was stretched upwards.

High-frequency resonance is established.

Transmission medium: old Blue Star steel rails, platform load-bearing beams, and contact points on the feet of the Corroder mech.

As soon as the first Corroder raised its hydraulic shears, the living metal layer on the machine's surface suddenly began to shake.

It's not the entire mech that's shaking.

The parasitic layer and the metal skeleton are out of sync.

Dark silver fungus clung to the ceramic armor, vibrating at one frequency, while the old mecha skeleton inside vibrated at another. The two sides were abruptly misaligned, with black lines cracking along the edges.

Click click click.

Large patches of fungal layer detached from the mech's shoulder and fell to the ground, revealing the acid-burnt ceramic composite armor underneath.

The second and third units also started to peel.

Several Corroders attempted to retreat, but the movement of their four-legged chassis caused even more severe vibrations, peeling the parasitic layer off their legs and exposing the acid tank pipes directly.

Wang Hu understood.

"Peel it!"

Su Yuan didn't look at him.

"Get the board."

Wang Hu led two maintenance workers out of the side compartment.

The Devourer, in motion, brushed past the first crippled Corruptor. Wang Hu leaned half his body out of the vehicle, hydraulic shears gripping the ceramic plate on its shoulder; if they couldn't cut it, he'd switch to a grappling hook.

The mech was still alive when the hydraulic shear arm slammed into the side compartment.

Wang Hu dodged to the side, his shoulder slamming into the door frame, sparks grazing his ear. He then shoved the thermally broken shaft into the exposed acid pipe.

The pipeline burst open.

The Corruptor's body was sprayed with its own acid on half of its body, causing it to freeze in mid-air.

"drag!"

The robotic arm gripped the ceramic composite plate, and the core of the Zhenshan system applied a slap, tearing the entire plate off along with the bolts.

Wang Hu roared, "Connect the right side panel for number 013!"

Two soldiers on Tang Lan's side opened the side window and caught the composite board that was being thrown at them with a steel cable. The acid fumes were still burning the vehicle body, but they did not retreat, and their gloves remained on even as they smoked.

The veteran mechanic yelled into the third channel, "Don't press the life pod line against the edge of the pallet!"

Tang Lan said coldly, "I can see it."

The composite plate was applied to the right side of wound number 013.

Ignite the welding torch.

The sparks were pulled back by the vehicle's speed, and crackling sounds emanated from the acid mist. A second and third ceramic plate were then attached, directly covering the antimagnetic patch that had been melted by the strong acid.

Updated by Xiao Huo.

The acid resistance protection on the right side of No. 013 has recovered to 27%.

Forty-three percent.

Fifty-eight percent.

Acid mist penetration into the casualty compartment decreased.

Tang Lan stared at the screen, and only then did her shoulders relax a little.

"We can still hold on."

The Corruptor mechs continued to charge.

Su Yuan didn't stop. He kept the exhaust rhythm in the high-frequency range, making the entire old platform vibrate. Large sections of the parasitic layer peeled off, exposing the mecha's skeleton, which Wang Hu and his team used as a mobile material warehouse.

The hydraulic shears were removed and hung on the side of No. 013 as an external support.

The ceramic plate was pried off to repair the tail section of the third section.

After the acid tank was emptied, the outer shell was replaced with the outer baffle of the No. 005 isolation box.

The number of Corruptors deep within the Nexus dwindled, while the patches on the Devourer increased.

In the distant AM relay footage, the observers on the edge of the wasteland were initially waiting for this unit to be chewed up by the acid. But when they saw Wang Hu running while dismantling mechs and then welding enemy armor onto his own vehicle, the channel went silent for a few seconds.

On the slaughterhouse, the fire control officer leaned over the old terminal, his throat dry.

"Are they fighting a war, or buying goods?"

The adjutant stared at the screen.

"They're all the same."

In the high-dimensional dark web, the young elder watched as the Corruptor mechs were stripped of their materials, his face devoid of mockery.

The afterimage beside him whispered, "Is living metal susceptible to resonance?"

The young elder stared at the old tracks beneath the wheels of the Devourer.

"It's not fear."

He gritted his teeth.

"He made it fight against its own skeleton."

The central area of ​​Hub 07 gradually comes into view.

After the acid mist dissipated, everyone saw a giant piece of equipment standing at the deepest part of the platform.

Buried beneath the elevated load-bearing layer, its main body resembles a black vertical furnace, surrounded by more than a dozen heavy-duty pipes. The furnace wall bears the Blue Star Expeditionary Force's number, its base is embedded in concrete and steel beams, and its top features an array of robotic arms that have been de-energized.

A quick sweep of the flame and the words immediately changed.

The Expeditionary Force's Automated Refining Furnace.

Functions: battlefield recovery, alloy recasting, vehicle repair, and ammunition material refining.

Status: Hemiparasitic.

Living metal coverage: 29 percent.

The internal advanced alloy formula remains.

Su Yuan looked at the furnace.

"slow down."

Wang Hu was still welding ceramic plates in the side compartment when he heard those two words, and his hand paused.

"Now?"

Tang Lan was also brought in.

"Lead vehicle, the Corruptors behind us haven't been cleared yet. Slowing down will get us surrounded."

Lu Mingyuan's voice became more urgent.

"That's a fixed, heavy facility, with its base buried three meters deep, and the pipelines connecting it to the entire load-bearing structure. You can only connect it to the power source; you can't take it with you!"

The veteran engineer chimed in, "It's not a carriage! There are no trailers! There's no mobile chassis!"

Su Yuan looked at the pipes around the refining furnace.

"Who said I wanted to link up?"

There was a moment of silence in the driver's cab.

Wang Hu wiped the acid fog off his goggles and grinned.

"Got it. Demolish the house."

A long list of risks popped up on the small screen.

Forcibly dismantling fixed facilities will cause the hub structure to collapse.

The self-destruct mechanism of the refining furnace is unknown.

Living metals may cause reverse contamination along energy interfaces.

It is recommended to detour through the central area.

Su Yuan turned off the suggestion.

"Main winch".

Wang Hu handed the welding torch to the maintenance worker next to him, then turned and rushed to the front beam operating position.

The main winch cable, trailing sparks, lashed out. The first hook missed, slamming into the refining furnace shell and bouncing off. Taking advantage of the moment, the Corruptor mech pounced from the right, its hydraulic shears aimed straight for the cable.

Without waiting for orders, Tang Lan fired a series of short shots from the side cannon of No. 013, hitting the mech at the knee and deflecting it.

Wang Hu launched his second hook.

The hook bypasses the outer reinforcing ring of the refining furnace and gets into an old maintenance hole.

"Hang on!"

Su Yuan manipulated the dark gold conduit to extend.

This time, the conduit didn't pierce the enemy's power compartment, but instead aimed for the refinery's energy interface. The interface was encased in living metal, and as soon as the conduit approached, dark silver filaments rushed forward, attempting to entangle the barbs.

Su Yuan pushed the core preheating of Zhenshan up again.

The dark gold jet swept past the conduit, causing the living metal to shrink by half an inch.

The first catheter is inserted into the interface.

The second puncture pierced the cooling outer pipe.

The third tube bypassed the parasitic layer and pierced directly into the power supply well at the bottom of the refining furnace.

A prompt for old BlueStar format suddenly popped up on Xiao Huo's screen.

External power backflow was detected.

The automatic refining furnace self-destruct protection program is about to be activated.

Equipment lifting lock: Not released.

Base safety pin: locked.

Lu Mingyuan shouted into the channel, "Don't backfeed! It'll explode!"

Su Yuan pushed the core output lever of Zhenshan to 120.

It's not smoking.

It is irrigation.

The Devourer reversed its recent ingestion of the Mountain-Suppressing Core Power and poured it into the old control chain of the refining furnace. The entire refining furnace shook violently, and the maintenance lights that had been dormant on the furnace walls for many years lit up one by one, only to explode one after another.

The ground began to lift.

It is not a hub launch.

It was the self-destruct lifting program at the bottom of the refining furnace that was forcibly activated. That program was originally intended for wartime abandonment, where the core equipment would be pushed out of its base and then destroyed by explosion.

Su Yuan prevented it from exploding.

He just wants it to lift.

The small fire is refreshing rapidly.

The self-destruct lifting procedure has been initiated.

The blasting link was short-circuited by an external conduit.

Base safety pin overload.

Living metal enters the catheter in reverse.

Wang Hu looked down and saw a layer of silver-gray creeping up the outside of the dark gold conduit.

"It's on the tube!"

Su Yuan said coldly, "Pfft."

Wang Hu pulled down the low-angle nozzle.

The dark gold high-pressure exhaust gas swept past the duct. The living metal was heated and curled up, but did not completely recede. They had clearly targeted the energy frequency of the mountain-suppressing core, and even though they were being burned, they still tried to penetrate the interface.

Qin Yan suddenly struggled on stretcher number 013.

Xu Shen held him down.

"Don't move!"

Qin Yan didn't look at him; her fingers were tapping rapidly.

Xiao Huo Translation.

Don't let it go through the third pipe.

Wang Hu looked at the screen. The third conduit was directly connected to the power supply well, and further in was the parallel system of the Devouring Logic and the Mountain-Suppressing Core of the Devouring Ship.

He gritted his teeth and grabbed a piece of acid-resistant ceramic plate that had just been removed.

"I'll go cover the pipe."

"return!"

Tang Lan shouted into the channel.

Wang Hu had already rushed out of the side cabin.

In the acid mist, he stood on the makeshift footrest on the outside of the front beam, hanging precariously from the front of the vehicle. The jet of gas made the air tremble, and the living metal on the duct was crawling back along the barbs.

Wang Hu pressed the ceramic plate against the outside of the third conduit.

sizzle.

The edges of the ceramic plate were simultaneously eroded by the high temperature and acid fumes, and black smoke billowed from his gloves. He didn't let go; instead, he used hydraulic nails to secure the plate to the outside of the conduit base.

"It's sealed off!"

Xiao Huo will update immediately.

The third catheter was contaminated and crawling was interrupted.

The self-destruct lifting procedure continues.

Safety pin breakage rate of refining furnace base: 17%.

Thirty-nine percent.

Sixty-two percent.

The ground in the central area of ​​the hub bulged up.

Steel beams arched out from beneath the dark silver covering. Living metal was torn apart, and copious amounts of black powder spewed from the holes. Several Corruptor mechs pounced on the refinery base, attempting to cut the conduits with hydraulic shears.

Su Yuan switched the exhaust rhythm back to high frequency.

The track vibration started again.

The parasitic layers on those mechs were instantly peeled off, and those that weren't completely peeled off lost control of their movements, slipped, and crashed into the gaps in the refining furnace, where they were crushed by the broken base.

No one was calling out to Lu Mingyuan anymore.

In the control room, all the survivors stared at the main screen.

They saw a hastily assembled, wrecked vehicle, towing three damaged sections, pause briefly amidst the horde of living metal and corrosive mechs, before strangling the heart of the entire hub with steel cables and conduits.

The old engineer's lips moved.

"He's not connecting."

The technician standing next to him couldn't get a word in edgewise.

The veteran engineer stared at the rise curve.

"He's pulling it out."

A series of loud popping sounds came from the bottom of the refining furnace.

One of the foundation piles broke.

The second one.

The third one.

The entire No. 07 hub began to tilt. A section of the elevated beam crashed down from above, landing to the left front of the Devourer, where it was pushed aside by the newly installed antimagnetic shell on the front beam. The stern of No. 005 swung violently, and the young survivor slammed his head against the door frame, got up, and continued counting.

"Tail beam #005, 28mm! Isolation box normal! Right second compartment untouched!"

Tang Lan pressed down on the brake lever.

"Number 013, stay with the car, don't let it get strained in the third quarter!"

In the third section, the old mechanic crushed the sleeping soldiers' chair locks one by one.

"Water bottle stable! Life pod stable!"

Su Yuan looked at the refining furnace in front of him.

"Full power".

Wang Hu had just climbed back from the front beam, and his gloves were already half torn.

"At full power now, will the front beam survive?"

Su Yuan pressed down on the old terminal with his palm.

"If they can't survive, then we'll give them a makeshift cure."

Zhenshan Core Full Power.

A heavy roar erupted from the engine compartment of the Devourer. The front wheels gripped the rails tightly, which were covered in living metal, the outer layer of the tires torn apart by silver threads and dried by the high-temperature jets. The vehicle lurched backward, then lurched forward violently.

The main winch cable is stretched into a black line.

All the dark gold conduits were tightened.

The outer shell of the refining furnace emitted a low, deforming sound.

The ground cracked.

The automated refining furnace, weighing thousands of tons, was forcibly pulled from the hub's foundation. The three-meter-deep base, along with steel bars, pipes, concrete, and residual metal, was unearthed, and electrical sparks exploded along the fracture, illuminating the entire central platform.

The Corruptor mech was overturned by the shockwave.

The living metal covering lost its power supply and shrank significantly, exposing the rusted old track underneath.

Wang Hu stared blankly for half a second as the giant furnace was dragged to the right side of the Devouring Wasteland.

"It's really out."

There was no response from Tang Lan.

Inside Unit 013, several wounded soldiers forgot to cough, staring intently at the refining furnace suspended above the ground on the main screen. Those who were screaming just moments ago were now only panting.

The small fire pops up the mounting scheme.

Right-side heavy-duty external mounting position: Temporarily available.

Materials: Antimagnetic outer shell of the mother body, corrosive ceramic plate, and support strip for the mountain.

The refining furnace is fixed by a steel cable tripod, a conduit for power supply, and a tail anchor for counterweight.

Su Yuan: "Hang up."

Wang Hu grabbed the welding torch.

"Everyone, move to the right!"

Maintenance crew, veteran mechanics, and the still-functioning soldier from Unit 013 all rushed to their operational positions. Steel cables were swung out one by one, looping around the outer ring of the refining furnace and securing them to the temporary support frame on the right side of the Devourer.

Number 013 is partially locked in place, with its rear section pinned down.

The 005 tail anchor is under pressure to the left, offsetting the heavy load shift on the right side.

The refining furnace slammed into the right-side external mounting position of the Devourer.

The entire car tilted half a foot to the right.

Xiao Huo flashed three lines of red text.

The load on the right side is overloaded.

The frame is twisted.

The tail anchor counterweight is effective.

Wang Hu stood at the side cabin door, his knees braced against the support bars, sparks from the welding torch hitting his goggles. As he welded, he yelled, "Give me two more ceramic plates! Thick ones! Not the acid-soaked ones!"

The young survivor's voice came from the side of Number 005.

"The stern anchor is engaged! The veer to the right has decreased to four degrees!"

Tang Lan: "Number 013, add a counter-attack."

Su Yuan did not wait for the fixation to be completed. He connected the power supply pipe of the refining furnace to the bottom of the Devourer.

This is not swallowing the core.

This is a hanging device.

The automatic refining furnace was forcibly powered by the Zhenshan Core, causing the old internal conveyor chain to creak. A few seconds later, a row of dim green lights illuminated the Blue Star Expeditionary Force emblem on the furnace wall.

Switch between small and large screens.

The automated refining furnace was temporarily connected.

Function recovery: battlefield material sorting, alloy recasting, and automatic repair fluid circulation.

Internal recipe being read.

Blue Star Expeditionary Force Advanced Alloy Formula: Residual intact.

Wang Hu had just finished welding the last outer bracket when he heard the sound of liquid flowing inside the vehicle.

It's not cold spring water.

It is a flow of heavier metal.

The side pipe of the refining furnace opened, and a silvery-gray repair fluid flowed into the hull of the Devourer along the temporary pipeline. It flowed over the cracks in the front beam, the edges of which first glowed red before being filled with the new alloy. The rough welds were covered, and the previously raised steel sheets were pressed back in.

The front beam cracks have been eliminated.

The strength of the right-side support frame has increased.

The wound repair fluid was introduced into the right side of wound No. 013.

The third section seals the corrosion layer at the tail end.

Reinforcement of the outer beam of tail anchor No. 005.

The update was halfway through when the text paused for half a second.

The overall strength of the vehicle body has increased.

The stability of the Zhenshan core parallel connection is 56%.

Powertrain break-in progress: 49 percent.

New module: Mobile refining furnace.

Temporary formation definition updated: Mobile Arsenal.

The only sounds in the driver's cab were the operation of the Zhenshan Core and the refining furnace.

Tang Lan looked at the wound on the right side of No. 013, which had been filled with automatic repair fluid. The weld that was dripping acid just now was now covered with a new alloy, and the surface was so smooth that it didn't look like a temporary repair.

She raised her hand and touched the still-warm inner wall, then immediately withdrew it.

"This thing..."

The veteran mechanic stared at the new alloy patch next to the cup holder in the third quarter, unable to utter a curse for a long time.

In the control room of Base 04, the veteran engineer stood in front of the screen, his shoulders stiff. The value of the Devourer on the radar kept rising, surpassing all the light vehicles, heavy vehicles, and fortified vehicles recorded in Base 04's history.

The technician reported in a low voice.

"The quality of the lead vehicle has improved."

"Protection measures have been increased."

"Self-healing capability integrated."

"The refining furnace is consuming the remains of the Corruptors."

No one replied.

Lu Mingyuan stared at the moving signal on the screen, which featured a giant refining furnace on the right and three carts trailing behind it, and his Adam's apple bobbed.

"They removed the heart of hub number 07."

The survivors behind him remained silent.

Because on the main screen, Hub 07 has already begun to collapse.

After the refining furnace was removed, the central load-bearing layer lost its support. One after another, the elevated steel beams collapsed, the crane tower smashed through the platform, and the living metal covering layer was crushed into large patches of dark silver mud.

The remaining Corruptor mechs attempted to pursue the central area but were buried by the collapsed load-bearing beams. The acid mist was dispersed, and the black powder surged to the top of the platform before falling back down through the breach.

Su Yuan did not turn around.

"Speed ​​up."

As Wang Hu fastened the last safety chain, he shouted, "The refining furnace isn't completely locked yet!"

"Lock it while running."

Wang Hu cursed, but still managed to fasten the second chain.

The Devourer, carrying the giant pendant on its right, rushed towards the inner ring exit of the hub. The Mountain-Suppressing Core was operating at full power, and the recycling chain inside the refining furnace began to turn. The crushed remains of the Corruptors along the way were drawn into the furnace mouth through the conduits, turning into pieces of new alloy patches and spare materials.

The wheel ran over the edge of the collapse, and the right-side refining furnace slid past the broken beam, creating a large amount of electric sparks.

Follow up in the third quarter.

Number 013, follow.

005 gave one last jerk, and the isolation box on the tail anchor almost hit the collapsed steel pillar, but was blocked by the newly added anti-magnetic plate.

The young survivor, lying on the tailgate, his face numb from the shock, was still reporting.

"Item 005 is still there! The quarantine container hasn't been touched! The second compartment from the right is normal!"

Tang Lan said coldly, "Sit back down after you finish reporting."

He immediately sat back down, still gripping the stress gauge on the tail beam.

The exit gate of Hub 07 was half collapsed. Su Yuan didn't go around it, but directly smashed open the broken gate.

The Devourer rushed off the platform.

Behind them, the entire elevated hub collapsed inward. The dark silver living metal, deprived of the refining furnace's power supply, was crushed into the ground by the falling steel beams. When the last crane tower fell, it crashed next to the main rail, just two meters away from the end of crane 005.

The wind was blowing in from the inner ring road.

It's not the wind from the red sand desert.

It was a cold wind from deeper within the Great Wall, carrying the smell of rust.

AM relay transmitted the video.

On the edge of the wasteland, the Slaughterhouse, the Bonebreaker, the Nighthound, and all other terminals that could still receive the old frequency bands all saw the same signal.

The Devourer, dragging the third section, No. 013, and No. 005, with an uprooted automatic refining furnace attached to its right side, charged out of the wreckage of the No. 07 elevated hub.

The car body has been patched with acid-resistant ceramic.

The front beam is covered with an antimagnetic composite shell.

The refining furnace on the right was still spitting sparks, and the automatic repair fluid flowed through the pipes across the vehicle body.

The fire control officer stared at the screen for a long time before finally managing to squeeze out a sentence.

"Did they dismantle the platform?"

The adjutant corrected him.

"The heart was removed."

The commander stared at the rapidly rising power and protection readings without sitting down.

"Don't call them abandoned train carriages anymore."

The communications officer asked, "What's it called?"

The commander remained silent for a moment.

"It will change its name itself."

In the high-dimensional dark web, after the young elder finished reading about the collapse of Hub 07, the muscles on his face twitched twice.

The afterimage beside him whispered, "He demolished the Great Wall Deep Subway Station."

The old elder had his eyes closed and spoke in a very low voice.

"Dismantle one station, replace one train."

The young elder stared at the Devourer on the screen.

He's not trying to pass a test.

No one responded.

He finished the sentence himself.

"He's taking things from the Great Wall and putting them on himself, one by one."

The Devourer entered the inner ring of the Great Wall for docking.

The surrounding space narrowed. The walls on both sides were made of old Blue Star armor plates, covered with thick rust. Red lights, which had been dim red before, were now lit up at intervals overhead.

The small torch activates the long-range radar.

The tracks are blocked three kilometers ahead.

Five kilometers, the congestion worsened.

Eight kilometers, still congested.

Wang Hu stared at the scanned image.

"What is something so long?"

The radar chart is rendered layer by layer.

The tracks ahead were littered with countless pieces of wreckage.

The Train Hound chassis, scrapped carriages, Corruptor mechs, broken crane booms, old Expeditionary Force armored vehicles, the same model of Zhenshan locomotive shell, and a large number of mechanical skeletons whose names I don't know.

They piled up into a graveyard stretching for several kilometers, completely blocking the inner ring main rail.

The rusty red lights turned blood red one after another.

The screen suddenly froze.

It's not a malfunction.

It captured a low-level signal.

The signal source is in the center of the mechanical graveyard.

Numbering format: Pangu Project.

Low-level identification: No. 001.

Wang Hu's smile vanished.

There was no response from Tang Lan either.

Su Yuan looked at the main screen.

Deep within the mechanical graveyard, an old device buried in the wreckage was striking out a very soft code at the exact same frequency as the bottom layer of the Devourer.

Click.

Click.

Click.