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Main material warehouse No. 23.

When the headlights of the Devourer swept in, the beam of light cut two white streaks in the empty warehouse.

There were no lights. There were no announcements. Not even the system alerts that would have sounded at the previous stops.

The shelves were arranged in six rows, neatly arranged from left to right. They were empty. Every single shelf was empty. There wasn't even a speck of dust; the rails were so clean they reflected light.

The metal sign at the entrance was illuminated again and again by the headlights. "Inventory has been moved. Please find it yourself." Below it, the hand-carved words were even more crooked—"The wall moves."

Xiao Huo lowered his ears by half an inch.

"Station temperature 17 degrees Celsius. No heat source. No mechanical operation. No magnetic field fluctuations." It displayed the data in the sidebar of the main screen. "Completely empty station."

Wang Hu leaned forward from the passenger seat, staring at the shelves.

"Main material warehouse, completely empty?"

Su Yuan did not slow down. The Devourer glided into the station at a speed of forty kilometers per hour, maintaining a semi-locked position with segmented braking. 013 and 005 followed, their wheels rolling over the clean rails, the sound echoing in the empty depot.

Bottom right corner of the main screen. Three green dots are still running on the downlink branch track. The feed from the first three magnetic homing trolleys keeps updating; the spacing between the scratches on the 009 steel plates on the track has increased, and the first trolley has already traveled 700 meters. The gray marker for the fourth trolley is still in its old position—320 meters deep. Offline.

The Devourer's speed decreased to fifteen, and it ran over the third row of shelves.

"Pinkish-gray".

Wang Hu picked up the lime bag and flipped it over onto the outer beam.

The first handful was sprinkled on the top of the first row of shelves on the left. The fine white powder fell on it, didn't stop, and slid down along the surface of the shelf. When it reached the bottom crossbeam, it continued to move along the base of the crossbeam, sliding backward along the ground.

It's not falling downwards. It's moving towards the rear of the car.

The second handful was sprinkled on the floor at the bottom of the right-hand shelf. The moment the powder hit the ground, it began to move, flowing along the floor and towards the base of the wall.

They are in the same direction.

Wang Hu squatted down and looked at it for two seconds. He loosened his hand from the lime bag and patted the ground.

"Don't leave the powder on the shelves." His voice came back from the outer beam. "Keep it close to the wall, towards the back."

The little fire was already running data. The claw drew three lines on the console.

"The wall structure is abnormal."

It switches to close-up scanning. Cross-sectional views of the two side walls pop up on the main screen.

Outer layer – standard concrete cladding. 12 cm thick. Normal.

The inner layer is abnormal.

Behind the concrete cladding, spaced thirty centimeters apart, is a row of toothed rails. These rails connect to the wheel assembly below. The heat spots on the wheel assembly are faint but present—it had just been in operation. The toothed rails run parallel to the main rails, extending from the front of the warehouse deep into the rear.

The internal structures of the two walls are completely symmetrical.

Each wall is over 1.8 meters thick.

It's not a wall. It's two rows of heavy flatbed trucks parked facing each other, covered with a layer of concrete.

The small torch scan image is placed in the center of the main screen.

"The interior of the wall contains a synchronous gear rail, driven wheel assembly, load-bearing beams, and material rack fixing points. Both sides of the wall can move along the main rail direction."

Tang Lan took a breath in Channel 013.

"Is the wall a car?"

Su Yuan turned his gaze away from the hand-carved characters on the main screen.

"The wall is moving," he said. "It's not a warning of danger. It's about the location of the materials."

The inventory wasn't emptied out. The inventory is still inside the wall.

The AM relay channel was silent for two seconds. The communications officer for the Bonebreaker opened his mouth halfway through a sentence and then closed it again.

In the control room of Base 04, the veteran engineer zoomed in on the cross-sectional diagram and placed his finger on the gear rail.

"Mobile walls. Old-fashioned military concealed storage. Supplies were hidden inside movable wall structures, with the outside made into a stationary structure, so that unknown people would think it was an empty warehouse."

He paused for a moment.

"But this system is designed to work with other systems. It couldn't have been modified by 009 alone."

The technician added in a low voice, "009 just saw through it."

The Devourer stopped in the middle of the warehouse. Speed ​​reduced to zero. All segmented brakes engaged.

Half of the white light came on.

It's not fully lit. The front row of lights on the top of the warehouse only illuminates the left half, leaving the right half dark. The light stops shining on the second row of shelves, leaving the rest of the area in darkness.

The loudspeaker then came on.

"The current status of train 001 has been detected as overweight."

Neutral system sound.

"The current total load exceeds the design load-bearing capacity of the No. 23 main material warehouse by 427 percent."

"Carrying the following non-standard loads—"

"Carriage No. 005, the last anchor car, is carrying prohibited quarantine items."

"Mobile refining furnace. Non-standard add-on."

"External nuclear fuel rack. Excess reserves."

It paused for half a second.

According to Article 9 of the Great Wall Inner Ring Warehouse Management Regulations, illegally fully loaded vehicles are not allowed to enter the deep warehouse area.

Please uninstall the following items and then reapply—

"One, No. 005, the tail anchor car."

Second, the mobile refining furnace.

Third, external fuel rack.

As soon as the words were spoken, both walls moved simultaneously.

It's not a slow, horizontal movement like a "moving wall." It's closing inwards.

The concrete surface cracked, and pieces fell down. Heavy-duty pushers protruded from the cracks in the inner layer of the wall, their short, powerful hydraulic arms ending in silver-gray magnetic baffles.

Both the left and right walls are pressed inwards simultaneously.

The roadway began to narrow.

The pusher is not fast, but it has a long stroke. It pushes the beam inward by two centimeters per second.

The newly reinforced outer frame of No. 013 made its first cracking sound.

Tang Lan's hand pressed on the brake lever. "We squeezed in."

In direction 005, the young survivor desperately held onto the protective compartment. A thin layer of mist—low-temperature condensation—covered the outer wall of the lead-boron reserved compartment.

"Tail beam 25," he announced. That's more than five jumps higher than the previous 19.6.

On the external fuel rack, the pressure relief lock pointer jerked to the edge of the yellow zone. The three fuel tanks wobbled on the rack.

The AM relay channel is unusually quiet.

No one spoke on the Bonebreaker. No one spoke on the Slaughterhouse.

Control room of Base 04. The technician projected the real-time stress diagram onto the large screen. The pressure curves of the two push beams on both sides rose at a constant speed, overlapping with the stress of the No. 013 outer shell, the stress of the No. 005 tail beam, and the pressure limit value of the fuel rack.

All the curves are climbing.

The technician said in a low voice.

"This isn't a warehouse. It's a car clamping machine."

The veteran engineer didn't correct him. Because he was right.

Inside the driver's cab, Su Yuan shifted his gaze from the pusher beam to the base of the left wall.

As the wall pressed inward, a hollow groove was revealed at the bottom left side. A green light was lit at the opening of the groove.

The broadcast followed.

"The lead vehicle has refused to unload. A lightly loaded fast passage route is now available. Please switch to the empty lane on the left to bypass the deep storage area and pass directly."

The green light indicates stability.

The width of the empty slot is just enough for the Devourer to pass through alone—if you remove No. 013, No. 005, and all the external attachments.

Wang Hu glanced at the green light from the outer beam and grabbed the last handful of powder from the lime bag.

撒。

The dust fell onto the ground at the entrance of the empty trough. Without lingering, it was immediately sucked in, three times faster than before.

"It's suction again." Wang Hu's voice was flat. "The gear track is down behind the wall."

The empty slot is not a channel; it's a feed inlet. Once inside, it's pulled away by the gear train.

On channel 013, Tang Lan's left hand remained pressed against the brake lever, never letting go. Her right hand rested on top of the tow hook protective cover.

I didn't touch it.

In direction 005, the young survivor's hand was still pressed against the hull. The tail boom reading was 25.4. It was rising. But he didn't see the release cover.

Nobody touched that thing.

Su Yuan only said one sentence.

"The wall isn't a road, it's goods."

The beam pusher continued to close. The two side walls were still half a meter from the outer wall of the vehicle. The deformation sound of frame 013 became more frequent, and a faint metallic squeaking noise came from the channel.

Su Yuan removed his right hand from the steering wheel.

"Wang Hu. Inkjet printer locator."

Wang Hu jumped down from the outer beam and took three steps back to the driver's cab. He grabbed the handheld inkjet printer locator on the right side of the control panel.

"Wall base. Left side. Between the third and fourth pushers. Mark."

Wang Hu climbed over.

The beam pusher was still squeezing inward. He squeezed sideways through the gap between the Devourer's hull and the beam pusher, aligned the inkjet locator with the base of the left wall, and snapped a white mark.

The moment the marker was sprayed on, something was revealed in the cracks of the concrete surface.

A steel cable end.

Material binding cable. Half of it protrudes from the gap in the internal cross-section of the wall, squeezed out by the stroke of the beam pusher. A label with an old expeditionary force stamp hangs at the end of the cable – "Heavy-duty beam/batch 073".

The material is actually inside the wall.

The front-mounted road sign retrieval claw extends from the front end of the outer beam. Three prongs engage the end of the steel cable. Pull gently.

The cable head extended a longer section, connecting to the fixing point of the material beam behind it.

Xiao Huo is simultaneously running another set of data.

It extracts the characteristics of the moving wall's geared wheel speed and superimposes them with the spacing and rhythm of the steel plates that 009 places on the downward rail.

The waveform overlap rate between the two sets of data is 83%.

"The rhythm of the moving wall transporting materials is highly consistent with the spacing of the 009 road sign placement." The comparison image of the small torch is displayed in the side bar of the main screen.

"The spacing of the steel plates deployed in 009 is not random. It marks the transport step length of the moving wall."

Someone on the AM relay channel gasped.

Control room of Base 04. The veteran engineer leaned out of his chair.

"009 anticipated the pattern of the wall's movement at Station 23." He tapped his finger on the table. "It used the spacing between the steel plates to tell the people behind it how the wall was moving."

Lu Mingyuan didn't speak, but his eyes narrowed slightly.

The pusher is less than forty centimeters away from the outer wall of the vehicle.

The deforming sound of the outer frame of No. 013 turned into a continuous creaking. Tang Lan's voice cut in, short and steady.

"The exoskeleton can still withstand it. But what about 005—"

"Twenty-six tail beams," the young survivor continued.

Su Yuan did not look at the empty slot for the green light.

"Eight-cable cable".

Wang Hu has returned to the control stick.

All eight cable outlets were released simultaneously.

The steel cable was thrown out not forward, not backward—but to the sides.

The first cable is secured to the base of the hydraulic arm of the second pusher on the left wall. The second cable goes around the base hole of the fourth pusher. The third cable hooks onto the exposed guide wheel shaft of the toothed rail below the left wall.

The three lines on the right are arranged symmetrically.

The seventh cable is swung forward and hooks onto the load-bearing beam of the warehouse entrance door frame—the current anchor.

The eighth cable was thrown backward, and the external fixed stake of the No. 005 silencer was caught—as the rear anchor.

Eight cables were stretched into a net.

Simultaneously.

Prefabricated rail sections, fully loaded with rail-locking modules, popped out from under the vehicle. The four rail sections were inserted into the ground anchor holes on both sides of the main rail. The Devourer was nailed to its original position.

Channel 013. Tang Lan didn't wait for Su Yuan to speak.

"Half-hugging to death."

The brake lever was pressed down.

Direction 005. The young survivor lowered the silencer three inches.

The rear anchor is locked.

"Pull," Su Yuan said.

Wang Hu pulled the scroll.

All eight cables are tightened simultaneously.

The sound of metal bending exploded simultaneously from both sides. It wasn't the car body bending—it was the wall bending.

The hydraulic arm of the beam pusher was pulled outwards by the cable head. The hydraulic pipe bulged. Half of the weld on the first hydraulic arm cracked.

The left wall stopped after being pulled by three cables. It didn't stop operating—the rack was still rotating, but the wall was physically locked in place, causing the wheels to slip on the rack. Iron dust sprayed out from the base of the wall.

The right side is symmetrical.

All six cables are under stress simultaneously. Each one is vibrating.

But the wall stopped.

The deformation sound of the outer frame of No. 013 broke.

The tail beam reading (005) started dropping from 26.1. 25.8. 25.5.

The hydraulic system of the beam pusher was still pressurizing. The pump noise grew louder. But the steel cable absorbed all the inward pushing force, converting it into lateral vibrations transmitted to the car body. The segmented brakes of the Devourer were firmly gripping the rails, and the entire car trembled slightly but remained stationary.

Wang Hu looked up from beside the winch control lever.

"Do you want some wall paint?"

"tear."

The crane arm is fully extended. The three teeth of the gripper clamp onto the edge of the concrete cladding on the left side of the wall, which has been torn by the steel cable.

Pull it outwards.

The outer layer of concrete, 1.8 meters thick, was completely ripped off. The fragments hit the rails and broke into three pieces.

The back is now visible.

Rows of heavy-duty beams. Each beam is over fifteen centimeters in diameter. They are standard parts from the old Expeditionary Force, with a gray-green anti-rust primer on the surface.

Behind the heavy-duty beams are anti-pollution panels. A stack. Eight layers high. The old plastic wrap hasn't been removed.

Further on. Wide-gauge wheelsets. Four sets. Brand new. Bearing seals still intact.

At the very end—boxes and boxes of unopened old Expeditionary Force materials. Military green metal boxes, with clear markings on the sides. The steel cables were intact.

Everything is inside the wall.

The internal structure of the right-side wall is symmetrical. It uses the same materials.

Wang Hu stared for two seconds. A cigarette butt twirled around the corner of his mouth.

"Main ingredient warehouse".

He patted the wall.

"The entire wall is a warehouse."

The broadcast suddenly changed tone. The speaking speed doubled.

"Structural damage detected in the main material warehouse No. 23! Inventory integrity threatened!" "Initiate inventory self-destruct and removal procedure!"

The two moving walls simultaneously changed direction. They stopped pressing inward and began to move backward.

The rack and pinion reverse. The wall, dragging all the materials, slides deeper into the warehouse. Direction—downhill main road.

From the darkness behind the wall came the sound of gears meshing, and from deeper within, the whirring of a traction motor starting up.

The materials are about to be towed away.

At the same second. Bottom right corner of the main screen.

The location marker for the fourth scout vehicle that lost contact flashed.

It wasn't signal recovery. It was the reappearance of the engagement sound spectrum at that location. Heavy. Slow. Coming from the direction coming up from deep within the downlink track—closer now. Less than eighty meters from the downlink junction.

Little Fire's ears perked up.

"The unknown vehicle continues to ascend in reverse. The moving wall is transporting materials in its direction."

Su Yuan did not look at the point of light.

He did not chase the wall.

"Slide rail. Wall opening."

The lifting boom swings back. The rapid whole-station material collection slide rail extends from the auxiliary hook, with three sections of arc-shaped slide rails interlocking and lying across the path of the moving wall as it retreats.

The wall hit the sliding rail. It stopped.

It didn't stop—the bottom wheels were stuck due to the curved guide structure of the sliding rail. The moving wall's gear rail was still rotating, but the wheels were slipping on the curved surface of the sliding rail, causing the entire wall to sway from side to side but not move.

"Receiving box".

The four side cables of the eight-cable reverse-draft winch simultaneously loosened by half a beat and then tightened, pulling the left wall sideways by half a meter towards the material collection rail. The quick-release material collection frame popped off from the secondary hook of the hoisting arm and hooked onto the first row of heavy-duty beams on the wall section.

The materials began to be extracted.

It wasn't pulled out one by one. It was dragged together as a whole row, tied together with steel cables. The receiving frame rolled the first batch of six heavy-duty beams, along with the binding cables, into the bucket area of ​​the refining furnace.

Dark gold conduit cutting and binding cable, dismantling heavy-duty beam.

The right-side wall was also blocked in the same way. The second set of receiving frames was then attached, and the material began to be pulled.

The anti-pollution panels were pulled out one by one from the inner layer of the wall. All four sets of wide-rail wheel sets detached from the wall fixing frame and rolled along the material receiving slide rail to the side of the external bucket of the refining furnace.

Those old expeditionary force material crates—they were so well-preserved. The refining furnaces weren't unpacked; they were simply piled onto the expansion racks of the heavy-duty material warehouse.

The mobile refining furnace is operating at full power. The furnace opening temperature has been raised to 950 degrees Celsius.

The side slot begins to eject parts.

Group 1.

Lateral compression armor. Steel salvaged from the hydraulic arms of the mobile wall's pusher and the outer concrete frame was recast into thick side protective plates. They are not attached to the vehicle body, but rather hung on pre-drilled points on both sides of the outer beam, leaving an eight-centimeter gap between them and the vehicle shell. The next time something is pushed laterally, it will pass through this armor first.

Two maintenance workers crawled out from under the vehicle, took the wall armor, and hung it on the outer beam. Locking pins inserted into holes. Four bolts. One on each side.

The deformed skeleton on the outside of No. 013 hadn't been repaired yet, but the wall armor covered it first. The deformed area was contained by the outer hard shell, preventing further deterioration.

Tang Lan peeked out of car window number 013. She didn't say anything. She loosened the brake lever slightly.

Second Group.

Expansion layer for heavy-duty material warehouse. The fixing points of the material racks inside the movable wall were removed and melted down together with the excess rack sections to form a double-layer rack base. The racks were then hung on the outside of the heavy-duty warehouse, doubling its capacity.

Wang Hu stacked the unopened boxes of old Expeditionary Force supplies one by one. Fourteen boxes. All covered.

Group 3.

Moving wall rack and pinion reverse drag device. This device is made by removing the rack and pinion drive wheel assemblies from under the moving walls on both sides and installing them in reverse at the rear of the Devourer's undercarriage. Purpose—When encountering a platform structure similar to rack and pinion drive, it can engage in reverse, converting the opponent's thrust into the Devourer's traction.

When Wang Hu tightened the last fixing bolt of the anti-drag device, he got his hand covered in grease. He wiped it on his trouser leg.

"If anyone pushes me in the future, I'll use this to drag them backwards?"

Xiao Huo ignored him. He was welding the fourth group.

Wide-gauge obstacle-crossing wheel flanges. The bearings of the four sets of wide-gauge wheel sets are retained as a whole, and the wheel flanges are widened and thickened before being installed in the reserved positions on the rear chassis of the "Devouring Wasteland" vehicle. When encountering wide-gauge sections or damaged rail surfaces, the widened wheel flanges can sit on the edge of the rail surface without falling off.

The last group.

009 Road Sign Tracking Repeater. This thing is small. The signal repeater antenna of the magnetic pathfinding vehicle was removed from the road sign recovery drone cabin, and a signal amplifier recovered from the internal circuitry of the mobile wall was installed. It was then soldered to the highest point on the roof of the Devourer vehicle. The effective repeater distance was increased from 300 meters to 1.2 kilometers.

The signal strength of the three scout vehicles that were still running jumped immediately.

The stress in the 005 tail beam decreased to 18%.

After the outer frame of No. 013 was covered by the wall armor, the deformation sound completely disappeared.

The pointer of the external fuel rack pressure relief lock has moved from the yellow zone back to the middle of the green zone.

The small torch's final state is displayed on the main screen.

"Materials collected at Station 23 have been recovered. The Devourer's material reserves have increased—" It paused for a moment. "The increase is significant."

The color of station number 23 on the main screen changed from red to gray.

Gray. The color of an abandoned platform. Already demolished.

The AM relay channel was silent for four seconds.

The communications officer from the Bonebreaker spoke first. His voice was different than before. There was no hesitation.

"Number 23 - is empty."

The slaughterhouse adjutant added a comment.

"Lead vehicle confirmed. Marked gray."

Base 04 control room.

Lu Mingyuan leaned against the counter. He tapped his finger on the table.

"It's been completely emptied out."

The veteran engineer didn't respond. He stared at the recycling list of moving wall gear remnants on the main screen, his gaze landing on the last line—things sifted out from the gaps in the gears during sorting in the refining furnace.

A line of old inkjet printing.

The coding was done using an industrial-grade inkjet printer on the side of the gear train. The characters are clear. It's not the same tool used as the old note 009 left at station 19, but the content format is the same.

The small torch sprays the coded content onto the main screen.

"Recycling wheel number 24, don't chase the car, grab the wheel."

The AM relay channel died for another two seconds.

Then the person who modified the map on the Bonebreaker made a move. He changed the marker for station 24 from the default white to yellow—to be verified.

A note was added next to it.

"Information source: 009 road sign (embedded code in the rack rail component). Priority: Same as the lead vehicle's actual measurement."

This is the first time someone has voluntarily marked a platform according to the rules of the Devouring Wasteland.

The Slaughterhouse Fire Control Officer added a message at the bottom of the channel.

"The system prompts for platforms 19 through 23 are all inconsistent with the actual situation. The information on the 009 road sign has not been misleading to date."

He didn't say much, but his meaning was clear.

Don't trust the broadcast. Trust the actual measurements. Trust the 009 road sign.

As the Devourer departed Station 23, the newly installed armor plating on both sides of the vehicle reflected a cold light under the remaining white lamps. Fourteen unopened crates of materials were stacked on the expanded, heavily loaded cargo hold. The tracking relay antenna on the roof stood erect in the shadows.

On the main screen, the green dots of the three exploration vehicles are still running on the downward track.

The first transmitted image showed new content. It wasn't scratches anymore. It was steel sheets—piled up neatly on one side of the rail. A dozen or so sheets were stacked together.

The recovered 009 road sign steel pieces were not destroyed. They were collected and stacked on the tracks by the unknown vehicle traveling in the opposite direction.

Heading forward. Towards station 24.

The small torch zooms in on the scene. A metal strip is pressed down on top of the pile of steel sheets; the strip has engravings on its surface. The camera of the first scout vehicle focuses for two seconds.

The lettering is different from that on the 009 steel plate. It's thicker and heavier. It wasn't engraved with a sharp needle; it was pressed out with a blunt object.

"It's not 009's handwriting." The comparison result was projected onto the side of the main screen by the small torch. "Different engraving tools. Greater force. Same batch of steel sheets, two different handwriting styles."

The words on the metal strip were read aloud one by one.

"009 has passed the 24th. The turn is over."

Wang Hu stopped smoking his cigarette.

"The wheels are all gone?"

No one can answer.

The Devourer's main rail speed was brought back to 60. In the darkness ahead, Station 24 had not yet revealed its outline.

At this time.

The newly installed 009 road sign tracking repeater on the roof lit up briefly.

It wasn't a signal from the scout vehicle. It was another signal.

Faint. Intermittent. Frequency characteristics—the fourth magnetic pathfinding trolley.

The one that went missing.

The signal lasted only 0.7 seconds before it was cut off. But one frame of the image was transmitted back during those 0.7 seconds.

The small fire pulls the image out of the relay's cache and displays it in the lower right corner of the main screen.

The footage is shaky. It's dark. The angle is off—the camera on the fourth car is tilted upwards.

In the video, the car is suspended in mid-air.

It didn't fall. It was hanging there.

A giant hook occupies two-thirds of the top of the image. The hook is more than twice as thick as the main hook of the Devourer. The small car is caught in the hook's tip and suspended below it.

Side view of the hook.

It is engraved with a number.

Industrial-grade etching. Deep trenches. Clear cuts.

011.

Wang Hu tightened his grip on the armrest.

Little Fire stared at the number. Its claws remained stationary on the control panel.

Tang Lan's breathing paused for a beat on channel 013.

In direction 005, the young survivor couldn't see the main screen, but he could sense the silence of everyone in the carriage.

The image disappeared. The signal was lost again.

In the bottom right corner of the main screen, the marker for the fourth exploration vehicle changed from gray to red.

Status: Captured.

Captured person number: 011.