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

Wang Hu's gaze was fixed on the rearview camera, his throat dry.

"Old Su!"

His voice changed tone.

Just as the Devourer gained a brief respite, a red dot suddenly lit up deep within the dark golden giant hand that represented death, in the previously completely silent 020 core.

A red dot the size of a pinhead.

Su Yuan immediately switched the screen to the main control screen and zoomed in.

The red dot is not simply a light.

It's flashing.

With a vibrant rhythm, again and again, like a newborn heart.

"Frequency...match." Xiao Huo's voice squeezed out from the speaker, carrying electrical noise, "Completely consistent with the final stage pulsation frequency of the K-001 source crystal."

The temperature in the main control room seemed to have dropped by more than ten degrees.

Su Yuan picked up the dark red stone on the control panel.

It felt cold and heavy to the touch, with no trace of energy fluctuation.

He was deceived.

downright.

The message K-001 sent before its death was a trap in every word. It wasn't a plea for mercy, nor was it a revelation of the truth; it was guiding Su Yuan to personally craft a perfect coffin for it—a 020 core stripped of the "Warden's" will, leaving only its powerful functions.

Su Yuan destroyed the prison, releasing an even more terrifying beast.

"Don't let it close..."

Su Yuan's fingers tightened, the cold, sharp edges of the stone digging into his palm.

K-001 does not refer to K-002's palm at all.

It is a closed loop of will transfer and core integration.

At the bottom of the abyss, the newly repaired dark gold giant hand suddenly trembled.

The movements were no longer the slow, purely instinctive repairs they had before.

It lifted up, precisely and powerfully.

The five giant fingers slowly spread open, and the 020 core in the palm, flashing with red dots, was like a newly born demonic eye, coldly "staring" at the Devourer from hundreds of meters away.

It did not attack immediately.

K-002's massive body spun around, slamming its shoulder into the abyss's rocky wall.

Boom!

A deafening roar echoed as a massive amount of rock and metal debris collapsed from above, crashing down and precisely blocking the passageway through which the Devourer had come from.

It wants to catch a turtle in a jar.

"Full power, charge!"

Su Yuan threw away the stone and returned his hands to the control panel.

Without further hesitation, the Devourer turned its engine onto another, steeper and narrower old Blue Star maintenance ramp.

The Abyss Heavy-Duty Tracks unleashed unprecedented grip, and the hundreds-ton vehicle began its arduous yet resolute climb up the nearly 70-degree rock face.

During the ascent, Su Yuan retrieved the gray spike he had obtained from the wreckage of JY-007 from the shielding compartment.

This is the only countermeasure.

"Modify the refining furnace, using it as the core, to forge a concept suppression field generator!"

The instruction has been issued.

With most of the refining furnace's power diverted, the Devourer's ascent speed visibly slowed down.

"Old Su, that thing's coming up!" Wang Hu was sweating profusely as he watched the giant hand getting closer and closer in the rear view. But he didn't question it. He turned around and rushed to the rear cabin, personally guarding the refining furnace and watching the casting process.

K-002 caught up.

Its attack method has changed.

Instead of crushing with a giant finger, dozens of slender, dark gold metal tentacles extended from the fingertips, like cold scalpels, precisely piercing the track connections and joint modules of the Devourer.

It intends to dismember the Devourer on the spot.

Tang Lan controlled the train cannon, firing precisely in bursts and severing three tentacles, but more tentacles surged out from K-002's body, one after another.

Just as a tentacle was about to pierce the power shaft of the third track wheel, Jiang Yu, who was in the corner, suddenly let out a muffled groan, and the veins on his one arm bulged.

"Left rear! Under the third track wheel!" he shouted hoarsely.

The living metal within his body could faintly sense the attack intent of a higher-level being of the same origin.

Su Yuan flicked his wrist, causing the vehicle to shift sharply to the right by half a meter.

laugh--

The metal tentacles scraped against the edge of the tracks and pierced the rock wall, leaving a bottomless hole.

Almost simultaneously, a brand-new square device emerged from the outlet of the refining furnace.

Wang Hu picked up the equipment and rushed back to the main control room, shoving it into the reserved slot.

Su Yuan pressed the start button.

An invisible gray ripple spread out instantly from the Devourer.

Within the force field, K-002's incredibly precise tendril movements froze, becoming sluggish and chaotic.

The newly formed K-001-Warden's precise control over K-002 was severely disrupted, and advanced commands seemed to be downgraded to vague instincts.

Its attacks reverted to clumsy slapping and ramming.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Devourer unleashed its full power, broke free from the entanglement, and plunged into the middle layer of the abyss, a huge maze of debris formed by the fallen structure of the Sky Orbit.

The roar of K-002 was temporarily left behind.

Suddenly, a cold voice, mixed with O020O synthesized audio, filled all the channels, carrying a hint of mockery.

"Number Seven, my dear brother. You think this is the end of it?"

"The real purpose of the JY project is to provide seven keys to a single lock. And I will be the sole owner of that lock."

Su Yuan was deeply shaken, but his face remained expressionless.

Key? Lock?

As he drove the train through the twisted metal maze, he rapidly pondered the meaning behind the other person's words.

On the radar screen, a huge signal source representing K-002 was hovering around the perimeter of the maze, seemingly searching for an entrance.

Inside the maze, countless tiny red dots lit up; these were the mutants created by the combination of K-002's leaked tissue and high-tech waste from the Skyrail.

The troubles of the Devourer are far from over.

The alarm went off without warning.

Three hundred meters ahead, a high-speed moving object appeared on the radar.

A black, menacingly designed armed train suddenly emerged from behind a pile of warship wreckage, blocking the path of the Devourer.

Its front was painted with a blurry number.

JY-004.

A cold female voice came through the public channel, carrying an unquestionable arrogance.

"JY-007, hand over the remains of the 'Suppressor' and the 'Key,' and I might let you die a quick death."

"Or, you can choose to become my 'shield' and shield me from that big guy."

A three-way standoff.

Following K-002, there was JY-004.

Just as the atmosphere in the control room froze to freezing point, the dark red stone that Su Yuan had placed on the control panel, which had been completely lifeless, began to heat up slightly after the JY-004 train appeared.

A faint wisp of blue light, completely different from the previous one, slowly seeped out from inside the stone.