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

Wang Hu turned the nameplate over.

The headlights shone on it, casting a cold white reflection on the metal surface. The front of the nameplate displayed the old Blue Star Expeditionary Force's supply number, clearly printed with standard chamfered edges. The back had been embossed with lettering using a mechanical engraving needle.

"016 is already fully staffed, so don't count the carriages."

It's not handwritten. It's not a scratch. The tip of the engraving needle is made of diamond, the line width is 0.2 millimeters, and the depth is consistent. It originates from the same source as the engravings on the 009 steel sheet.

He handed the nameplate to Su Yuan.

"The fifteenth one. Every single one is the same."

Su Yuan took it and ran his fingertips over the engravings. The metal burrs had been deliberately smoothed out. The person who engraved it knew that this thing would be repeatedly rubbed against the rail surface, so the edges had been treated.

"It won't let you count." Wang Hu squatted on the outer beam, his flashlight beam sweeping forward, "but every piece of paper is marked 'Full Set'."

Carriage number 013.

Tang Lan put the last tube of frostbite repair gel into the cooling cabinet. The cabinet door closed, and the indicator light on the temperature stabilization circuit turned green. The cabinet temperature was 4.5 degrees Celsius. She turned around and looked at the several injured people in the carriage who were staring at their screens.

"Stop discussing how many carriages there are."

The wounded soldier with a splint on his leg looked up. His lips moved, but he didn't make a sound.

Tang Lan didn't repeat herself. Her hand rested on the release cover, her fingertips against the safety catch. Someone in the corner flipped the wristband over, obscuring the number.

Base 04 control room.

The technician uploaded a diagram of the track structure between stations 36 and 37 to the main screen. On the diagram, station 37 was the standard empty car refitting station for the old Blue Star Expeditionary Force. It had four loading tracks, two refitting lines, and one empty car return chute. The structure was square, and its intended purpose was clearly defined.

"The marshalling yard." The technician tapped his finger on the structural diagram. "It was written in the old dispatching procedures. Empty cars are put into the warehouse here for marshalling, forming trains, and then sent downstream. It is the place that manages the number of cars."

The veteran engineer stood behind him, staring at the recycling bin on the drawing.

"The station that manages the number of trains will tell you, 'Don't count the carriages.'"

The technician didn't respond.

The Devourer advanced at a slow pace of one and a half kilometers. The 012 heavy armored sled pressed against the front rail, and the newly cast military-grade alloy steel hull rolled over the frost. The 009 road sign commemorative hanger swayed slightly in the halo of the headlights, and the three-millimeter spring clicked.

The fan-shaped scanning area of ​​the pre-track material scanning radar extends forward beyond the direction in which the 015 wrecked car disappeared.

Heat marks appeared.

Not just one. There are sixteen sets of tire heat marks.

Consistent track width. Consistent wheelbase. Consistent tire tread width. Wheelset markings from the same model of vehicle body. Uniform heat distribution in heat marks, synchronized rolling rhythm.

But the sixteenth group is different.

The temperature was exactly the same as the other fifteen groups. However, the wheel imprint depth was much shallower. So shallow that the radar needed to increase its sensitivity to read it completely.

It's like an empty train car gliding on the track.

Wang Hu's flashlight beam swept across the set of shallow marks. There were slight scratches on the rail surface, and the width of the marks left by the rubber tire tread was the same as the previous fifteen sets. However, there were no load-bearing marks on the rail surface.

"The wheels are turning." Wang Hu squatted down, running his fingers across the rails. "No car body is pressing down on them."

The data from the sixteenth set of wheel prints is superimposed onto the main screen using a small torch.

"The wheel mark width is 210 millimeters. The compaction interval is the same as the previous car. The heat mark temperature is 42 degrees Celsius. But the rail surface compression under load..." It paused for a moment, "...zero."

"There is no vehicle body," Su Yuan said.

"Yes. The wheelset is spinning and generating heat, but there's no weight on it."

Base 04 control room.

The technician zoomed in on the thermal image. There was no outline of a carriage above the sixteenth set of wheel tracks. No heat source. No metallic reflection. Only four pairs of wheels were rotating on the rails. The rubber tires were worn shiny, and the wheel bearings were running smoothly.

"Wheelset without chassis." The technician's voice was dry.

The veteran engineer leaned closer to the screen. He looked at it for three seconds. Then he cursed.

"It makes you count the carriages. There's no carriage in the sixteenth section at all."

The entrance to platform 37 was illuminated with cool white lights.

It's not a white light. It's not a green light. It's the cold white light from the old Blue Star Expeditionary Force reorganization station. The color temperature is 5,800 K, and it doesn't give off any warmth when it shines on the orbital surface.

The metal sign hangs on the crossbeam at the platform entrance. The printed font is standard, and the font size is consistent with the old dispatching regulations.

"No. 37 empty car marshalling yard. Please have car 001 verify the number of cars according to the procedure."

The broadcast was smooth. No countdown. No guide wheel. No white light decoy. The tone was consistent with the recordings of the old Blue Star Expeditionary Force dispatcher.

"The 016 empty trainset is now fully staffed. Please connect the lead car (001) to the trainset line and complete the car count verification process."

Inside the platform.

Fifteen standard empty carriages were parked on both sides.

The exterior is clean. The wheelset is intact. The couplings are all green. The side doors of each car are closed, and there are no lights inside the windows. There are no oil stains on the chassis, and no rust on the wheel rims.

Following Section 15 is the track surface.

On the track, four pairs of wheels are slowly rotating.

There is no carriage frame. No floor. No couplings. Only four pairs of wheels, spaced evenly, rotating at a uniform speed, sliding forward along the tracks.

Wang Hu shone his flashlight beam. The beam passed through the space above the wheel assembly and hit the back wall of the platform.

"It's empty," he said.

The small torch pushed the scanned data of the platform's material warehouse onto the main screen. The material warehouse was located deep to the right of the platform. The warehouse door was half-open, and the green indicator light was on. Standard car frame frames, coupling cores, isolation compartment panels, and complete outer frames were stacked on the shelves. The specifications were consistent with those currently used on the Devourer. The interfaces were standard. The materials were normal.

"The materials are all genuine," Xiao Huo reported.

At the same time, three gates were lowered in front of the platform.

It's not a blast-proof gate. It's not an isolation door. It's a reorganization door. The door structure is the standard structure of the old Blue Star Expeditionary Force, with an optical scanning array embedded in the door frame. The scanning array is activated, and a red laser sweeps across the front of the Devourer vehicle.

The broadcast started again.

"Verification process initiated. Please have car 001 declare the total number of cars in the current train formation."

pause.

"If verification is refused, the 012 forward sled, the 009 road sign commemorative hanger, and the 014 spare cooling compartment will be deemed as 'unregistered external attachments.' The left-side empty vehicle recovery chute is now open."

The left track illuminates the recycling bin. The bin opening is open. The inside of the bin is illuminated with dim red light.

Carriage number 013.

Someone in the corner asked in a low voice, "What section are we in now?"

The young survivor peered into carriage 005. He instinctively looked at the tail hook. The tail hook was engaged with 013, the locking pin in place. A patch of paint on the outer shell of carriage 005's protective compartment had been scratched off.

Whispers filled the surrounding channels. Someone was counting groups in the Bonebreaker channel.

"First car. Third section. 013. 005. 012, do you count? 009, do you count?" The count stopped halfway through. Because they couldn't count it all.

Tang Lan didn't speak. She raised her right hand. The muzzle was pressed against the white numbered light above the 013 side door. Bang. The light shattered. The plastic cover exploded, and fragments landed on the steel plate next to the wounded soldier's stretcher.

"No one should count the first car."

Her voice wasn't loud, but all the wounded heard it.

The channel fell silent.

Platform 37 continues to be pressurized.

The broadcast began reading the Devourer of the Wasteland plugin item by item. These are not numbers; they are function descriptions.

"Mobile refining furnace. External fuel rack. 014 Backup cooling compartment. 005 Tail anchor compartment. 012 Heavy armor forward probing pulley. 009 Road sign commemorative rack."

Each item was read smoothly.

"All of the above equipment meets the definition of empty car body components. It has been included in the registration list for train group 016."

An assembly arm extends from the right side. The arm slides out from the platform wall. At the end is a numbered lead seal clamp. The jaws open, aligned with the outer shell of the 005 enclosed compartment. The other assembly arm is aligned with the 014 cooling pipe interface.

Tang Lan stared at the fully-armed machine gun. Her finger pressed against the outside of the trigger guard. She didn't fire.

Base 04 control room.

Lu Mingyuan stood up. The chair slid back half a meter.

"It needs to be renamed."

The veteran engineer's hand rested on the control panel. "It doesn't dismantle your carriage. It registers it under name 016. Legal. Compliant. Supported by reorganization procedures. If you refuse, you're refusing a legitimate dispatch order."

The technician retrieved the old regulations for the reorganization process. The items were clearly defined. Each step had a corresponding clause number.

"If the lead car (001) voluntarily declares the number of cars, it will be considered as accepting verification. If it refuses, the unregistered train will be included in the empty car recycling process. Every step is written in the regulations."

The Bonebreaker Channel.

The reporter's voice was hushed. "It's all about legal rules."

The fire control officer from the Slaughterhouse added, "Pursue, mortgage. Stop, verify. It changes the rules at every stop. But every stop is governed by the old Blue Star's own regulations."

Platform 37.

The side doors of all fifteen empty carriages opened simultaneously.

It doesn't open outwards. It rises upwards. The hinges lift the side door, exposing the interior of the carriage.

Each carriage is piled with materials. The lightweight carriage beams have the same cross-sectional specifications as those currently used on the *Desolate*, but with thinner walls and the same strength. Sealed isolation panels have standard interfaces at the edges. Water tank racks are pre-installed with mounting positions for dual water tanks. The medicine cabinet shock absorber mounts are compatible with the existing medicine cabinet dimensions on the 013. The ammunition compartment panels have compartment sizes compatible with external ammunition magazines.

All of them are made with the real best ingredients.

The technician at Base 04 scanned and confirmed that the chemical composition conforms to the standard material code of the Old Blue Star Expeditionary Force. There is no magnetic nanoparticles. There are no pre-embedded wiring. There are no lead-sealed traps.

"The materials are all genuine," the technician reported. "We can get them as long as we integrate them into the reorganization process."

Someone in the Bonebreaker channel gasped.

"If you don't count, you won't get it. If you don't accept it, it will be taken apart."

Wang Hu's flashlight beam swept across the materials. Lightweight carriage beams filled half a carriage. Bundles of sealed isolation panels were stacked. The water tank rack interface aligned perfectly with the lifting lugs of the existing water tank in compartment 005. The dimensions of the medicine cabinet's shock-absorbing base were exactly the same as the bolt holes on the bottom of medicine cabinet 013.

"It knows what we're missing." He tucked the flashlight under his arm and pinched a pinch of lime powder.

Su Yuan didn't look at the materials.

He looked at the set of tire tracks without any vehicle body.

"Sprinkle with powder."

Wang Hu sprinkled lime powder onto the rail surface beneath the fifteenth empty carriage. The white powder settled on the rail surface without moving. Normal settling. No suction. No rewinding.

He sprinkled another pinch on the sixteenth set of wheel prints.

The white powder fell down.

It was cut in half by a horizontal breeze.

It wasn't sucked down. It was pushed half a centimeter to the left by the wind. The dust formed an arc on the track surface, bypassing the center of the wheel track.

"There's wind." Wang Hu's flashlight beam swept across the area. The wind wasn't coming from the platform. It was underground. There were gaps in the tracks. The gaps were so fine they were almost invisible to the naked eye.

Xiao Huo lowered the two magnetic traction trolleys. The trolleys crawled along the rails. The wheel flanges passed under the fifteenth car, no problem. When they passed over the sixteenth set of wheel tracks, the car body swayed slightly.

The car's magnetic base was deflected by half a degree by an electromagnetic pulse.

"There's an electromagnetic coil under the track," Xiao Huo reported the analysis results. "It's not a magnetic trap. It's a wheel pressure simulator. The electromagnetic coil generates periodic pulses to simulate wheel pressure. Combined with the rotation of the mechanical wheel assembly, it fakes a full-strength state where 'the sixteenth section already exists.'"

Base 04 control room.

The veteran engineer suddenly leaned close to the screen, his nose almost touching it.

"It makes you count because the sixteenth carriage isn't even on the train. If you count to the sixteenth carriage, you're acknowledging that the electromagnetic coils and empty wheel frame are legitimate carriages."

The technician displayed a diagram of the wheel pressure simulator on the main screen. Four sets of electromagnetic coils are embedded under the rail, each corresponding to a pair of wheels. The pulse waveforms generated by the coils match the pressure curve of the wheels rolling over the rail surface. If only wheel pressure detection is performed, this system can perfectly fool the sensors.

"The full complement is fake." The technician's fingers tapped on the keyboard. "It uses fifteen empty shells and a simulator to disguise itself as a full complement of sixteen. After the lead car passes verification, the reorganization system will register all the Devourer's attachments under the name 016. Then, the recycling tank will be activated."

His fingers stopped.

"It's not about dismantling cars. It's about renaming it 'recycling'."

Su Yuan tapped the brake valve with his finger.

"012 Pressure Simulation Wheel".

The 012 heavy armor forward-probing pulley pulls out the rail fixing pin. The front end of the protective casing presses into the sixteenth set of wheel tracks. Military-grade alloy steel presses against the rail surface. The pulse of the electromagnetic coil is interrupted by the bottom of the protective casing. The speed of the sixteenth set of wheels drops sharply.

"009 Card Number Slot".

Wang Hu lowered the old push hook at the front of the 009 road sign commemorative bracket. The fractured surface of the cast iron became stuck in the left-side numbering slot. The scanning array of the numbering slot was blocked by the cast iron. The optical scan was interrupted.

"014 Cooling and Stabilizing Pipes"

014 The full-power cooling output of the standby cooling compartment is reduced. The coolant temperature drops to -5 degrees Celsius. Cooling energy is injected into the grouped cooling bus along the parallel piping. 013 The temperature of the medicine cabinet's temperature stabilization auxiliary circuit drops to 2 degrees Celsius.

"005 Sinking Mute Drop".

The young survivor pushed down the control lever. Five tons of counterweight pressed down on the rear of 005. The entire carriage sank into the ground. A piece of the paint on the numbered outer shell of 005 was scraped off by the shock.

The entire train was transformed into a steel ground anchor.

Wang Hu pulled the remote towing and supply boom out of the roof storage compartment. The boom telescopic joint unfolded. The quick-release coupling detached from the protective cover.

"Attach the inspection ring for the sixteenth set of wheel tracks."

The scan data from the small fire is overlaid on the main screen. The outer shell of the wheel pressure simulator has a maintenance ring, which serves as a lifting point for maintenance. The ring is made of standard steel and is embedded half a meter below the rail surface.

Wang Hu fastened the quick-release coupling into the maintenance ring.

Locking pin engagement.

"Eight-cable reverse drag".

Eight steel cables tighten simultaneously. The mobile refining furnace operates at full power. The steel cables taut. The rail surface vibrates. The electromagnetic coil is forcibly pulled out from under the rail. The coil base is connected to the drive shaft. The drive shaft is connected to the mechanical wheel assembly.

The entire set of wheel pressure simulators was pulled out half a meter.

The rail surface cracked. Two deep grooves were dragged across the deformed rail. The electromagnetic coil broke, and sparks flew onto the rail surface.

On the main screen, the full count of 016 jumped.

It jumped from sixteen to fifteen.

All the couplings of the empty carriages in the station stopped simultaneously. The hydraulic locks of the couplings all lost pressure for half a beat. The side doors of the fifteen carriages did not move, but the green indicator light in the materials warehouse flashed once.

Base 04 control room.

The technician removed the "Full Strength Certificate" from the system interface by highlighting it in red. Data flow verification showed that the status of group 016 changed from "Full Strength" to "Group Abnormal".

"Section Sixteen does not exist," he announced. "The full list is fake."

The Bonebreaker channel exploded.

"Using fake train carriages to increase passenger numbers?"

"It makes you admit that the server is full. After you admit it, it changes all your cheats' registration."

"That's fucking sneaky."

Su Yuan didn't look at the empty carriages.

"Refining furnace. Dark gold conduit. Tie the assembly line."

The side of the mobile refining furnace cracked open. Four dark gold conduits protruded. The conduits slid along the rail surface, passed the bottom of the 012 protective shell, and plunged into the assembly line pipeline underground at the platform.

The high temperature melted through the pipe wall. The conduit was then inserted.

The data stream of the reorganization system at station 37 was interrupted. The broadcast audio briefly stuttered.

Su Yuan picked up the walkie-talkie.

"Number 20 ring-type calibration round. Phase-reversal interruption of the numbered pulse."

The external magazine deploys. A calibration round slides into the magazine. The small fire control unit has already calculated the period of the numbered pulse. The frequency is 12.7 Hz. The calibration round is switched to phase inversion.

emission.

A counter-current oscillation spread from the roof of the Devourer. The numbered lead seal clamps on the right-side assembly arm of the platform suddenly jammed. The jaws opened, biting into empty space. The lead seal piece fell from the jaws and landed on the ground.

"The crane arm swept across fifteen empty shell sections."

Wang Hu operated the grabbing claw. The lifting arm swung out from the roof of the Devourer car. The arm crossed the platform, and the claw tip gripped the bottom beam of the first empty car.

One pull.

The bottom beam broke off from the frame bolts. The carriage frame was pulled out laterally. The sound of bolts snapping echoed throughout. The side door hinges flew off. Materials slid out of the carriage.

The crane arm keeps moving, continuing its sweeping motion.

Section 2. Section 3. Section 4.

The space carriages were dismantled section by section. The bottom beams, connecting cores, partition plates, and water tank frames were all removed and rolled into the mobile refining furnace along the receiving rails.

not enough.

Su Yuan switched to the eight-cable control interface.

"Materials warehouse outer frame. Assembly arm. Numbered lead seal pliers. Complete disassembly."

Wang Hu reattached the eight steel cables to the outer frame of the material warehouse. The refining furnace output was pushed up. The outer frame was pulled off the wall. The bolts broke, and concrete blocks fell onto the tracks.

The hydraulic rod of the boom was torn off by the lifting arm. The circuit of the numbered lead seal clamp was melted by the dark gold conduit. All four sets of coils of the wheel pressure simulator under the track were pulled out, and the drive shaft was disassembled into three sections.

The mobile refining furnace roared.

The side slot begins to eject parts.

The first item: Grouping identity isolation bus.

The bus was recast using the remaining parts of the bus piping and numbered lead seal clamps. The bus was connected to the main control room of the Devourer. Its function was not registration, but isolation. If any external system attempted to read the number of grouped sections, the isolation bus would return a piece of encrypted garbled code, neither confirming nor denying, and without reporting the number.

The second item: an externally mounted, individually numbered lock.

Recast using the hydraulic cylinders of the numbered lead-sealed pliers and the empty carriage coupling core. One lock for each external attachment. One for 005. One for 014. One for 012. One for 009. One for the mobile refining furnace. One for the external fuel rack. Each numbered lock has a built-in physical disconnect switch. When an external system requires verification, the lock body automatically disconnects the registration link.

The third item: the actual test module for wheel pressure on the carriage.

The electromagnetic coil and drive shaft of the wheel pressure simulator are recast. The module is connected below the radar. During operation, instead of reading wheel pressure data, it emits fixed-frequency mechanical impact vibrations that sweep across the bottom of the vehicle body, calculating the actual weight and structural integrity through the metal echoes. Any empty wheel sets without a vehicle body are directly filtered out.

Fourth item: 005/014 double-cabin protective compartment outer frame.

The sealed partitions, water tank racks, and overall frame of the empty car body were recast. An additional isolation sleeve was added to the outside of the 005 enclosed compartment. The cooling pipe joints of the 014 cooling car were covered by a protective frame. Dustproof sealing rings were used to cover the interfaces between two cars. No assembly arm could directly contact the car numbering area.

Fifth item: Road sign cart supply compartment.

The material storage frame and the ammunition compartment plates from the fourth empty carriage were recast. The supply compartment is mounted behind the 009 commemorative rack. The interior can accommodate spare batteries, sensor modules, and four miniature signal repeaters for the magnetic pathfinding vehicle.

Wang Hu received the part. The maintenance team installed it.

The group identity isolation bus is connected to the main control room. A new label pops up on Xiao Huo's interface: "Group registration status: Physical isolation".

An externally mounted, individually numbered lock is installed in the 005 housing. A physical disconnect switch test was performed inside the lock; an external scan request was disconnected after 0.3 seconds. The 014 housing's protective cover is fitted with the cooling pipe interface. The interface is blocked by a sealing ring.

车厢轮压实测模块启动。第一次测试扫描扫过整列编组。003、013、005、012、014全部完整回波。009挂架回波正常。轮压数据在实测模块记录中。

Lu Mingyuan pressed the full channel broadcast button.

"Rule No. 37 is hereby repealed. All nineteen consecutive station broadcasts from the 19th to the 37th have been confirmed as misleading, diversionary, or collateral traps. Route 009's accuracy rate remains 100%."

He paused for a moment.

"Driving principles updated. No agreements accepted. No reports of sections not submitted. No registration forms signed. Only the lead vehicle's actual test log is accepted."

The Bonebreaker channel went silent for a second.

Then it exploded.

"Nineteen stations."

"He dismantled the entire reorganization station."

"From now on, no one will ask 'How many carriages are there now?' They will only recognize the list in Wang Hu's hand."

Carriage number 013.

Tang Lan released her hand from the protective cover. The newly installed shock absorber for the medicine cabinet was under the floor of the carriage. The temperature gauge on the stable temperature auxiliary circuit was stopped in the center of the green zone. The aluminum seal of the frostbite repair gel in the cooling cabinet remained intact.

The wounded soldier, his leg in a splint, looked out the window. The outer frame of 014 had just been installed, and the serial number area on the outer shell was covered by a dustproof sealing ring, revealing only the green light of the cooling box.

Carriage number 005.

The young survivor crouched beside the enclosed compartment. The outer frame of the 0514 double-compartment compartment connected 005 and 014. The outer shell of the frame had been freshly painted with a dark gray anti-rust paint. He ran his fingers across the paint. "The system can't read us anymore. It can only tell us which compartment we are from the lead car."

Heavy armor forward probing pulley No. 012.

Wang Hu squatted on the edge of the protective shell. The miniature signal repeaters for the road sign vehicle's supply compartment were installed. The four repeaters were labeled with channel numbers. He patted the outer shell of the supply compartment.

He was clutching the fifteenth nameplate in his palm.

He turned the nameplate over.

The inscription on the back is still there. But he discovered a second layer of marks at the bottom of the inscription.

It wasn't pressed by a diamond engraving needle.

It's a finer knife. The blade width is 0.1 millimeters.

He brought the flashlight closer.

The second layer of traces contained only four characters.

"017 is waiting for you."

Deep within the ruins of Platform 37.

The debris from the under-rail wheel pressure simulator lay piled up next to the recycling bin. The copper wire of the electromagnetic coil was melted into a clump. The broken surface of the drive shaft reflected a cold white light.

A new nameplate popped out from the pile of wreckage.

It's not the 015 supply tag. It's a different kind. It's larger and 0.5 millimeters thicker.

A line of text was sprayed on the front.

"The fully loaded armored truck 017 has entered weighing gate number 38."

Two lines are engraved on the back.

"017 isn't here to deliver goods; it's escorting a live carriage."

"Station No. 38 only weighs the train, not inspects the carriages."

Wang Hu picked up the nameplate. The moment his fingers touched the metal surface, the wheel pressure measurement module of the Devourer's wagons alarmed.

The alarm for Xiao Huo went off in the control room.

"The total weight of the train is abnormal."

Data pops up on the main screen.

噬荒号当前编组：头车。第三节生命舱。013伤员舱。005尾锚。012重甲前探滑车。014备用冷却车厢。009纪念挂架。外加移动精炼炉整体外挂。

Calculated weight: Standard value plus registered external weight. Values ​​within the green range.

Actual weight: 12 tons more.

It's not hanging on the back of the car. It's not pressing against the chassis.

The twelve tons of weight are evenly distributed under the entire train.

It looked like something was stuck to the bottom of the car.