The 012 heavy armor's forward-propelled pulley pressed down on the front rail, and the rail fixing pin engaged in the old lock hole of main beam No. 31. The ram lowered, and the newly cast protective shell sealed half of the rail surface.

The wrecked 009 car hangs on a memorial rack, its broken bracket facing upwards, and the three-millimeter spring remains silent for more than forty seconds.

Three hundred meters ahead.

The dummy 013 backup medical vehicle was reversing, with two cold white medical lights on at the rear. The headlights were off. The lights flashed intermittently, illuminating the new tire tracks and still-wet oil stains on the rails.

The small torch scans the data and pushes it layer by layer onto the main screen.

Medical cabinet. Cooled medicine box. Stretcher lock. Seismic brace.

The medicine cabinet maintains a stable temperature. Inside, there are hemostatic agents, anti-infective injections, nerve pain relief patches, and frostbite repair gel.

The registration code is all green.

No one spoke in the 013 wounded soldier compartment. The newly welded heavy armor plate blocked most of the observation window, leaving only a narrow slit. Through the slit, one could see the black lettering on the rear of the fake 013 vehicle.

Several wounded soldiers lifted their heads from the stretchers. One of them, with a brace strapped to his chest, stared at the green health code list on the screen and his throat bobbed.

Tang Lan's hand rested on the brake lever. She didn't look at the people in the carriage, but stared at the stress distribution diagram of the trainset on the control panel screen.

From direction 005, the voice of the young survivor came right on time.

"Tail boom 15.8. Cabinets normal. Seals untouched."

No one responded.

In the control room of Base 04, the technician pulled up the supplies list, his fingers hovering over the keyboard. He turned to look at the veteran engineer.

"The medical supplies registration is genuine."

The veteran engineer didn't respond.

Lu Mingyuan stood in front of the screen, his brow furrowed.

The fake 013 continued to reverse. The rear tie rods slowly opened, and four white connecting arms extended from inside the side doors. The ends were fitted with soft medical latches, with tiny metal pins on the inside of the latches.

Cold white lettering lit up on both sides of the walls of Zone 31.

"Priority medical transportation."

The loudspeaker came on.

Tang Lan's voice.

"The 013 casualty pod has exceeded its damage limits; seriously wounded personnel must be transferred immediately."

In carriage 013, the wounded soldier with a chest brace gripped the edge of the bed. The person next to him tried to hold him down, but withdrew his hand halfway through.

The broadcast continued.

"The backup medical vehicle has been reinforced with outer armor. The medical cabinet has a green code. The cooling medicine box has a green code. The stretcher lock has a green code."

"Please put casualty pod 013 into docking mode."

A white sign appears on the right track. 005 Contamination Temporary Storage Track.

Two magnetic rails rise from the floor seam on the left side, directly opposite the two support legs of the mobile refining furnace base.

The fake 013 reverses and decelerates. The rear connecting hook is fully deployed. The connecting arm extends towards the side door of the real 013.

The broadcast changed its message again.

"Continuing to drag the 013 will result in the death of the wounded."

Someone spoke in a low voice from inside number 013.

"How about... we transfer the seriously wounded first?"

The carriage became even quieter.

Tang Lan drew her gun from her side. The muzzle rested on the handrail next to the detachment cover. The position wasn't directly in front of anyone, but everyone could see it.

The man shut his mouth and looked down at his knees.

Su Yuan didn't look at the list of medicines. He was looking at the dust trail left by the fake 013 wheel.

"Wang Hu".

"exist."

"Powder gray. Tap the rails. Apply wheels to the two small carriages."

Wang Hu picked up the bag of lime and ran along the outer beam. He sprinkled the first handful of lime powder below the fake 013 coupling. The white powder didn't spread after landing; it moved laterally along the rail surface and was absorbed by the gap under the coupling.

Wang Hu squatted down and tapped the outside of the fake 013 reverse track with a wrench.

when.

There are layers in the echo.

Move forward twenty centimeters and then tap.

when.

There are movable parts underneath.

Two magnetic trolleys slid along the track, one on the left and one on the right, disappearing under the wheels of the fake 013. The small torch relayed the footage to the entire channel.

There are dark silver cool spots on the bottom of the seat. There is no human heat source behind the medical cabinet. Twelve sets of fine needle-like structures are arranged in two rows, with the tips all pointing backward.

The frequency of the small torch is marked.

"The first group has identified the wristband of the wounded soldier, number 013."

"The second group has locked onto the Great Wall certified insert residual wave."

"The third group has locked onto the shielding layer of the second right compartment of compartment 005."

"Groups four through twelfth, pinpoint the unknown biological tissue, condensate, and the wounded's blood oxygen levels."

In carriage 013, several wounded soldiers who had been staring at the medical kit sign slowly withdrew their hands.

Tang Lan didn't move the gun. She stared at the main screen, her face even colder than before.

The comparison image of the small torch is enlarged. The internal structure of the fake 013 is noticeably misaligned after overlapping with the standard drawing of the old medical vehicle. Behind the normal medical cabinet are oxygen pipes and emergency power lines. On the fake 013, there is a row of identification pins. The stretcher lock is not for securing the wounded, but for locking the wristband. The cooling medicine box is covered with a thin layer of dark silver conductive plates, with the wiring leading to the rear coupling.

"It's not about saving lives."

Xiao Huo's voice came from the channel.

"It recognizes people, keys, and prohibited items."

Wang Hu pressed the flashlight down onto the fake 013 tire tracks. The tire tracks retreated backward from under the outer armor frame of No. 31, following the same direction as the road markings left by 009.

Simultaneously adjust the angle marked on the steel plate previously (009) using the small fire.

"The wheel rim indentations are in the same direction. The fake 013 isn't here to pick up the wounded. It's reversing to guide the real 013 into the 32nd disinfection line ahead."

In the control room of Base 04, the veteran engineer cursed.

"Using real medicine as a hook."

The person who had just suggested transferring the seriously wounded to another hospital no longer looked up.

Lu Mingyuan spoke.

"Prioritizing medical care is listed as an incentive rule."

Fake 013 stopped going backwards. It stopped.

The taillights changed from cool white to alternating red and white. Four connecting arms on the side of the vehicle suddenly extended, crossing the tracks and grabbing the true 013 side door. Simultaneously, the bottom magnetic rail pusher beam pushed against the 005 enclosed compartment. The current in the left-side refining furnace rail increased, expanding the magnetic attraction range by half a meter.

The broadcast system in Zone 31 has resumed using the old cassette tape audio.

"Connection refused. Forced medical transfer to be carried out."

The white connecting arm moved quickly. The first one had already been attached to the genuine 013 side armor, and the soft locking buckle at the end opened, revealing the fine needle holes inside. The needle began drilling into the armor seam.

The 005 enclosed compartment was pushed out half an inch by the pusher. The young survivor's voice tightened.

"Tail beam 15.8 - jump to 18.2".

The outer side of the mobile refining furnace is blued by magnetic flux.

Lu Mingyuan was about to give orders for remote support.

Su Yuan spoke first.

"It's not about saving people, it's about taking attendance."

Everyone in the channel heard that sentence.

There was a two-second silence in carriage 013. Then someone asked in a low voice.

How does it know which one is the heaviest?

No one answered.

Su Yuan didn't wait for a reply. He stared at the angle between the reverse trajectory of fake 013 and the intersection of the 009 road sign and gave the command.

"012 presses the front rail."

The 012 heavy armored car advanced half a meter forward, and the rail-fixing pin popped into the old lock hole of the No. 31 main beam. The newly installed protective shell pressed down on the front rail, and the ram head lowered, blocking the path of the fake 013 to continue its retreat.

"009 card left guide groove".

Wang Hu lowered the old push hook at the front of the 009 road sign commemorative bracket. The bracket tilted slightly, and the width of the 009 wrecked vehicle just met the guide groove on the left side of the fake 013 reverse wheel flange.

The reverse path of the fake 013 was blocked from both ends. The connecting arm was pulled off course for the first time, and the needle only scraped off a piece of new nail clippings.

"Eight cables are used to hang the outer armor's lugs."

Eight steel cables were simultaneously launched. Four were attached to the outer armor lugs on the roof of the dummy 013 vehicle. Two were attached to the pre-fabricated holes along the lower edge of the side armor. Two were routed around the medical light bracket at the rear of the vehicle and secured to the rear outer armor locking beam.

"Tang Lan".

"exist."

"True 013 half-hugs to death."

Tang Lan pressed down on the brake lever. The True 013 car body sank slightly, and the tires gripped the rails.

"005 Sinking Mute Drop".

The young survivor pushed down the silencer control lever. A five-ton counterweight pressed down on the tail of 005, forcing the pusher into the ground.

Su Yuan activated the segmented braking array. All the rail pins snapped into the old locking holes, and the heavy-duty brake claws gripped the rail surface.

The entire formation—012, 009, Devourer, Section 3, 013, and 005—became ground anchors.

The fake 013's connecting arm was still straining. The latch was gripping the side plate of the real 013's new heavy armor, and the needle was drilling into the armor seam. But its body was held in place by eight cables, the pusher could not move the 005, and the magnetic clamp could not clamp into the refining furnace to prevent the armor from being stolen.

Fake 013 attempted to sever the connecting arm and escape. The latch was halfway loosened—

The bolt heads of the new heavy deck of the True 013 fit perfectly into the groove inside the lock.

The connecting arm can't be retracted.

In the control room of Base 04, the veteran engineer leaned closer to the screen and muttered a curse under his breath.

"It got caught on its own needle."

The fake 013 paused for two seconds.

Then a series of mechanical unlocking sounds came from under the car.

Twelve rows of dark silver identification pins popped out from under the car, tips pointing upwards, aligned with the chassis of vehicle 013. The pin array began to store energy, ready to transmit a wristband reading pulse remotely.

A small fire alarm popped up on the main screen.

"Identification needle pulse charging. Expected to fire in four seconds. Coverage area: all carriages of True 013."

Su Yuan didn't use the refining furnace to bombard the medicine box.

"Small fire. Round 20, accurate firing. Half-beat reverse phase."

"receive."

The calibration cartridge is connected to an external speaker. Half-second frequency, inverted output.

hum.

Low-frequency vibrations spread from the roof of the Devourer vehicle. The rhythm of the identification pin array under the fake 013 vehicle was disrupted. The energy storage indicator light flashed twice, and the pulse transmission was delayed.

two seconds.

Su Yuan stared at those two seconds.

"Wang Hu. Crane arm. Tear open the side door."

Wang Hu was already in the crane boom control position. The crane boom was fully extended, and the grabber gripped the upper edge of the right outer armor side door of the dummy 013. The hydraulic pump was pressurized.

laugh.

The side door hinge broke. The entire outer armor side door was torn off by the lifting arm, revealing the complete structure of the medical cabinet and identification needle array inside.

"Dark gold conduit. Only cut the identification needle mother suture and the condensate guide plate. Leave the medicine cabinet untouched."

The dark gold conduit of the refining furnace extends. Two conduits precisely cut into the interior of the fake 013. The first conduit cuts along the direction of the identification needle's main line, completely cutting off the power supply circuit of the twelve-row needle array. The needle tip retracts, and the energy storage lamp goes out. The second conduit cuts along the condensate guide plate, and the dark silver guide plate peels off from the outside of the medicine box, curling into waste material that falls into the collection box.

The medical cabinet remained untouched. The cooling medicine box remained untouched. The hemostatic agents, anti-infective injections, and frostbite repair gel were all in their original positions.

Inside the fake 013, the "passenger shadows" had lost their condensate support and collapsed. The lead-lined humanoid figures lay deflated on the seats, and the magnetic needles inside were scattered all over the floor.

Wang Hu peeked out from the outer beam.

"Another lead-lined sleeve."

He switched the crane arm to gripping mode and secured it to the outer armor lugs on the roof of the dummy 013 vehicle. All eight cables simultaneously engaged.

The fake 013 vehicle was dragged laterally off the track and pulled under the No. 31 empty outer armor frame.

The refining furnace is started at full power.

The dark gold guide tubes are first cut off from the wheel assembly. The connecting shafts of the four axles and eight wheels are cut in sections, and the wheel assembly is detached from the chassis and rolls into the furnace along the receiving slide rail. The base of the connecting arm is cut off, and the four white robotic arms are detached from the true 013 side armor and dropped into the feeding frame. The identification needle array is removed in its entirety, the busbar and needle body are separated, the needle body enters the furnace, and the busbar is left as conductive material. The military train outer armor is removed as a whole and sent into the refining furnace side slot.

The medicine cabinet was lifted out intact.

The crane carefully lifted the two medical cabinets and three cooling medicine boxes from the dummy 013 shell and placed them on a temporary bracket outside the side door of the real 013. The cabinets were intact. The medicine boxes were at a stable temperature. The aluminum seals on the frostbite repair gel were unbroken.

Su Yuan didn't let the refining furnace touch the medicine cabinet.

"The medicine cabinet delivered genuine 013. Tang Lan counted it."

Tang Lan released her grip on the brake lever and walked to the side door. Together with the two able-bodied survivors, she carried the medicine cabinet into carriage 013. It contained thirty-six vials of hemostatic agent, twenty vials of anti-infection injections, forty nerve pain relief patches, eighteen vials of frostbite repair gel, and three cooling medicine boxes, all with green temperature readings.

Tang Lan finished counting, and her voice came through the channel. It was a bit calmer than before.

"Medicine cabinet connection complete. All health codes are green."

The fake 013 was dismantled down to its empty shell. The refining furnace melted down the wheel assembly, connecting arms, identification pins, military train armor, medical locks, and lead sheaths.

Su Yuan distributed the castings on site.

The first item. The internal medicine cabinet in the heavy armor medical cabin. The shock-absorbing base of the medicine cabinet is cast using the same material as the fake 013 earthquake-resistant support frame and welded next to the original medicine cabinet slot inside the real 013. When the medicine cabinet is placed on it, the shock-absorbing springs absorb the vibrations during travel, preventing the medicine bottles from shaking and breaking.

The second item is the anti-identification wristband shielding layer. The fake 013 identification pin busbar is remelted into a thin shielding mesh and lined the inner wall of the genuine 013 carriage. Afterwards, when an identification pulse sweeps in, the wristband and blood oxygen data cannot be read.

The third item. 013 side door anti-needle lockplate. Fragments of the fake 013 connecting arm latch were cast into an anti-drill plate on the outside of the side door, covering the armor seam. Needle-like structures can no longer drill in.

Fourth item. External cooling cabinet for medical supplies. The temperature control module of the fake 013 cooling medicine box was removed and connected to the outside of the real 013, forming an external cooling cabinet. Extra medicines can be placed outside, without taking up internal space.

Wang Hu and his team received the parts. The welding torch sprayed blue arcs. The bolts were screwed into the pre-drilled holes.

On the right and rear sides of the heavy armor plate of True 013, there was an additional layer of shock-absorbing medicine cabinet base, shielding mesh, and needle-proof chainmail. From the outside, 013 appeared to be thicker than before it entered Warehouse 30.

Base 04 control room.

Lu Mingyuan stood up.

The AM relay channel went silent for a second.

Then the communications officer from the Bonebreaker spoke first.

"Fake medical vehicle number 31. Rules ineffective. Supplies cleared."

The slaughterhouse fire control officer then confirmed.

In carriage 013, Tang Lan retrieved the last batch of hemostatic agents from the medicine cabinet. She unsealed the needles and walked to the first wounded soldier with a chest bandage, inserting the needle.

As the medicine was being administered, the man's fingers loosened from the edge of the bed.

Second shot. Third shot.

The breathing rates of several seriously wounded soldiers began to decline. They were no longer as rapid.

Tang Lan whispered a message.

"Medical pod 013 has recovered to 31%."

The voices of the young survivors followed.

"Seal 005 remains untouched. Tail beam 16.4".

Wang Hu removed the fake 013 tail plate from the wrecked shell. The painted side of the black number "013 Backup Medical Vehicle" faced outwards and hung it on the gray trophy rack on the right side of the Devourer. It was placed alongside the other empty platform nameplates that had been removed earlier.

Su Yuan did not linger.

"012 continues to press the front rail. The entire train moves forward."

The 012 heavy armor forward sliding block pulled out the rail pin and slid forward. The 009 bracket wobbled slightly, but the three-millimeter spring still didn't click.

The Devourer followed. Section 3. Number 013. Number 005.

The formation drove out of Zone 31. The empty armored frames on both sides retreated into the darkness.

There are no station signs ahead. Direction 32.

Xiao Huo's radar scanned two hundred meters ahead.

"Entrance to disinfection line #32. No white light."

Su Yuan glanced at the main screen.

There are no lights at entrance number 32. There is only a row of three sprinkler doors, standing side by side above the track. The door frames are made of stainless steel and are polished to the point of being reflective. The sprinkler heads are facing downwards, densely packed, and without a trace of water.

It's abnormally clean.

Xiao Huo had just connected the data from the fake 013 medicine cabinet to the real 013 system. The medicine cabinet's serial number, batch number, and temperature records were all synchronized to the main screen.

When the last item was completed simultaneously, a soft sound came from the bottom of the medicine cabinet.

The aluminum seal on a tube of frostbite repair gel popped open on its own.

The aluminum cap was flipped over on the medicine cabinet shelf, and the gel tube was tilted half an inch. There were no puncture marks on the tube opening. The aluminum cap had been pried open from the inside.

A thin steel sheet slid out of the pipe opening.

Wang Hu leaned over the outer beam to look. The steel sheet was the same size as the road sign steel sheets that 009 had previously deployed. The thickness was the same. The force of the engravings was the same.

He used pliers to remove it and flipped it over to reveal the engraved side.

Four words.

Don't let the spray touch the blood.

The 012 heavy armor advance pulley has moved to within two meters of spray gate number 32. The rail pin pops out and bites into the rail surface.

Water vapor began to condense on the stainless steel frame of the sprinkler door.

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