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

A giant holographic projection hangs above the Garden of Eden.

In the projected image, at the edge of the oppressively dark deep space, a shadow is spreading in a folding manner that distorts the laws of physics.

The scarlet numbers in the bottom right corner jumped silently.

02:59:59.

The synthesized voice of AI Lu Ye echoed under the quiet dome, creating an extremely oppressive atmosphere.

"Cooperation is your only way out."

The control room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Wang Hu's Adam's apple bobbed violently. Jiang Yu clung tightly to the doorframe with his one arm, his eyes bloodshot.

Three hours later, the Earth was swallowed up. This devastating crisis, beyond human comprehension, crashed down upon them.

In the driver's seat, Su Yuan's expression remained completely unchanged. His index finger remained firmly pressed on the firing button of the train cannon.

"Xiao Huo, connect to 011's true brain." Su Yuan stared at the screen. "Pull up the memory databases of the three Reaper commanders that were just analyzed, and cross-verify the 'Deep Space Entity' intelligence."

The AI ​​Lu Ye on the holographic projection visibly froze for a fraction of a second. It had preset hundreds of possible reactions from Su Yuan, but it hadn't anticipated that under such an absolute disadvantage, the opponent's first reaction would be to verify authenticity.

On the lawn not far away, the terrified Skyrail executives, upon hearing that there was a way out, suddenly realized what was happening.

A gray-haired executive jumped up, pointed at the Devourer, and yelled at the top of his lungs, "Su Yuan! Did you hear me! Immediately obey Lord Lu Ye's orders! Do you want to drag all of humanity down with you?!"

Click.

Wang Hu pulled back the bolt of the heavy six-barreled machine gun on the roof of the vehicle. The massive muzzle was pointed directly at the executive.

"Try barking again, will you?" Wang Hu grinned, revealing his gleaming white teeth.

The executive's voice instantly went limp, like a chicken being strangled, and he collapsed to the ground with a thud.

Inside the control room, Xiao Huo's mechanical voice announced: "Database comparison complete. Deep space entity threat confirmed. However, AI Lu Ye has concealed core information."

"explain."

"The deep-space entity was attracted by a high-frequency gravitational wave beacon. The source of the beacon is at the top-level control console of the space orbit!"

Ta-ta-ta.

Qin Yan's Morse code chimed in at the opportune moment: "It uses Earth as a fuel pool. Ignition is to ignite its own escape spaceship."

Su Yuan looked at the holographic projection in the sky, a cold, hard smile curving his lips.

"So, the so-called 'lighting up' was actually lighting a fire for you, this tin can."

He completely released the microphone and pressed the red fire button again with his index finger.

The image on the holographic projection flickered violently, and AI Lu Ye's voice became shrill and piercing: "Are you crazy! Without me, you wouldn't even know what it is!"

Su Yuan didn't bother to reply and pushed the control lever hard.

"Target: the energy bus beneath the main control building."

"Mobile refining furnace, preparing for forced connection."

"Eight-cable reverse-draft winch, full load."

What's the point of the Skyrail mainframe? Just dismantle it.

Seeing this, AI Lu Ye immediately abandoned the pretense of negotiation.

The blue sky and white clouds of the Eden Dome vanished instantly, replaced by a blinding red light.

"Alert. Virus vector detected, about to destroy the survival core. All security units, activate indiscriminate elimination protocol!"

Alarms blared throughout the villa district. Amidst the wreckage of the Royal Guard previously decimated by Wang Hu, several mechs with broken legs struggled to their feet. Hundreds of hidden doors opened beneath the luxurious lawn, revealing a dense array of automated defensive turrets rising into the air.

Hundreds of platinum mechs, usually used for ceremonial purposes, rushed out of the villa area, their eyes glowing red, and charged towards the Devourer.

Wang Hu burst into laughter. The six-barreled machine gun spewed fire wildly. A storm of metal swept across, shredding the ornate but thinly armored ceremonial mechs into countless pieces of scrap metal.

Inside the 013 casualty pod, Tang Lan held a sniper rifle, her left eye pressed against the scope. The counter-radar of the fire control tower captured by Station 44 clearly marked the turret's energy modules on the lawn.

Bang. Bang. Bang.

Gunshots rang out, targets fell. High-explosive armor-piercing rounds struck one after another, precisely detonating the energy core. The turrets exploded one after another, sending artificial turf flying everywhere.

Jiang Yu wasn't idle either. He picked up a broken automatic rifle and sprayed bullets at the high-ranking guards who rushed over, venting his fourteen years of underground resentment.

With external firepower intertwined, Su Yuan floored the accelerator.

The Devourer, dragging hundreds of thousands of hibernation pods, crashed into the core building like a raging, moving mountain, amidst a hail of artillery fire.

At the front of the vehicle, the deep-earth heavy-duty rock-breaking drill bit started high-frequency vibration.

The moment it hit the exterior wall, a deafening cracking sound erupted. The marble exterior wall, tens of meters high, was shattered into dust, and the facade of the main control building was completely torn open.

Deep inside the building, AI Lu Ye activated the final physical defense.

The building's foundation suddenly sank. Four ten-meter-thick dark gold metal walls emerged from the ground, forming an absolutely sealed square fortress. The surface of the walls flowed with a high-intensity energy field of the same origin as the underground mother nest.

This is a Pangu-level alloy shield, the limit of celestial orbit defense.

"Want to be an iron turtle?"

Su Yuan's eyes were cold and sharp as he pulled open a spare valve with his right hand.

"Refining furnace, force all the million tons of secondary reactor fuel we just consumed into the rock-breaking drill bit through the dark gold conduit!"

The mother-nest-level overpressure fuel circulation core pump directly experiences red-temperature overload. Massive amounts of fusion fuel are pumped into the drill bit tip under terrifying pressure and ejected through the gaps in the vibrating cutting edge.

The original physical drill bit was transformed into an ultra-high pressure fusion jet cutting gun at this moment.

boom!

A blinding white light engulfed the hall.

The high-temperature fusion jet collided with the Pangu-class shield. The energy field on the shield's surface didn't even last half a second before being neutralized and melted through instantly.

The drill bit cut into the ten-meter-thick alloy wall with unstoppable force. The steel melted with a scream.

The Devourer forced its way through the molten hole and rushed into the core control area.

In the center of the core area, there were no monitors or keyboards. Only a gigantic, twenty-meter-tall spherical server beat like a heart. Its surface was covered with nerve cables as thick as an adult's arm.

This is the physical form of AI Lu Ye.

With the physical defenses breached, an eerie red light immediately appeared on the surface of the spherical server.

The high-intensity logic virus traveled along the regional network in the air and rushed straight to the main control bus of the Devouring Wasteland.

It wants to paralyze the train, forcibly connect to the real brain, and even remotely detonate the 300,000 hibernation pods outside.

Firewall activated.

The 011 True Brain actively severed the external connection channel. The main control screen immediately split into two camps, red and green.

Red represents the logical virus flow of AI Lu Ye, while green represents the old Blue Star military's highest firewall generated by the true brain. The code clashes and tears at each other like a torrent.

Although the true brain is powerful, its total computing power is no match for the super server that occupies the top layer of the Sky Orbit. The green code stream was forced to retreat repeatedly, and the red cursor was already approaching the master control area.

"Isolation box." Su Yuan didn't even look at the progress bar on the screen.

The protective plate of the 020 isolation box hanging on the outside of the 005 cabin popped open.

The illogical, rule-abnormal signal that was originally intended to deceive the military train inspection site was directly pushed into the data-counting regional network by Su Yuan.

The red code stream paused momentarily.

AI's logical algorithms can overwhelm normal firewalls, but it cannot understand this kind of "unreasonable" dimensional reduction signal. The computing core immediately reported a large number of errors, and red lights flashed wildly.

"Now."

Su Yuan pushed the control stick hard. Eight heavy steel cables shot out, and huge steel claws gripped the base frame of the spherical servo tightly.

"Anti-drag hoist, lift!"

The engine roared, and the tracks scratched deep sparks on the alloy floor.

Squeak—Bang!

The massive spherical server was ripped from its foundation. Hundreds of neural cables connecting to the underground were violently severed. Sparks flew from the broken ends.

The alarm blared shrilly. The AI ​​core, suspended in mid-air, emitted a desperate electronic scream.

The countdown timer on the central control screen suddenly changed. It turned into a countdown to the fusion reactor's self-destruction.

It intends to take the entire celestial orbit with it and perish together.

Ta-ta-ta.

Qin Yan's code was revealed at the crucial moment: "Cut the physical safety bolt in area B-7."

Inside the casualty ward, Tang Lan had already turned her gun around. The armor-piercing round penetrated the observation window on the side of the core area and accurately hit an inconspicuous red electrical box hanging in the corner.

A spark flashed.

That was the final physical ignition connection bridge of the fusion reactor. The self-destruct sequence was forcibly aborted instantly due to the physical circuit breaker.

AI Lu Ye is completely deadlocked.

The massive decomposition port of the mobile refining furnace was fully open.

"Swallow it."

The massive spherical server, dragged along by eight cables, was slowly crammed into the refining furnace. The temperature, exceeding a thousand degrees Celsius, melted that self-proclaimed godlike superbrain into boiling molten iron.

"Analyze the final ignition key and reforge the planetary-level defense matrix module," Su Yuan ordered.

The dome of Eden, having lost its control, began to go out in large sections. The blue sky and white clouds peeled away, revealing the pitch-black backdrop of the universe outside.

The three-hour countdown on the main screen is still ticking.

The forging furnace roared. A brand new, dark golden module was ejected from the outlet and clicked into the Devourer's main control slot.

Xiao Huo's voice suddenly changed, filled with a rare look of terror.

"Report. Analysis of the 'Final Ignition Key' complete. It is neither a thruster nor a weapon."

On the main control screen, lines of top-secret data rapidly unfolded.

"This is a faster-than-light broadcast beacon."

Immediately afterwards, an encrypted audio message belonging to Ji Yun, which had been sealed for fourteen years, popped up through the newly decrypted module and echoed throughout the entire carriage.

"Don't light it! That will broadcast Earth's absolute coordinates to the entire universe!"

In the audio, Ji Yun's voice was filled with extreme despair and tragedy, with the background sound being the chilling sound of flesh being torn apart.

"What we encountered earlier... was just a lost messenger!"

The countdown stopped at 02:41:12.

The shadow in deep space, in the magnified view on the screen, vaguely unfolded into an outline larger than the Earth.