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

The armory's dome collapsed during the massive earthquake.

Tens of thousands of tons of boulders, mixed with twisted steel skeletons, crashed down on the Devourer like a steel rainstorm.

"Clear the obstruction!"

The last trace of fear in Tang Lan's eyes was replaced by determination. She returned to her position, raised her gun, and aimed it at the largest piece of fallen debris.

Wang Hu let out a beast-like roar, turned around and was about to rush towards the 012 forward sliding block, wanting to use its tens of tons of weight to force its way through.

"Don't move."

Su Yuan's voice pierced through the roar, icy and chilling.

Instead of retreating, he took a step forward, and the paradoxical armor gauntlet on his left arm, which shifted between reality and illusion, flashed with light.

Su Yuan raised his left hand and spread his five fingers towards the torrent of collapsing boulders.

"Paradoxical Pretense".

The next second, a horrifying scene unfolded.

All the boulders that were hurtling towards the Devourer came to a complete stop three meters away from the vehicle.

It was as if they had crashed into an invisible, non-existent wall. Sound, kinetic energy, gravity—everything was stripped away in an instant and vanished into thin air.

The 10,000-ton ruins hung eerily in mid-air.

Inside the control room, you could hear a pin drop.

"Walk."

Su Yuan withdrew his hand.

The hovering boulder crashed down, but only landed on the open ground where the Devourer had just left, kicking up a cloud of dust.

The Devourer emerged unscathed from the armory ruins.

Wang Hu stared intently at the intermittently appearing gauntlet on Su Yuan's arm, swallowed hard, and was so shocked that he couldn't utter a single word.

At that moment, all the broadcasts and lights in the maintenance station went out simultaneously.

A chilling, dark red light, like viscous blood, surged from all directions of the maintenance station, replacing everything that had been there before.

A powerful energy pulse swept across the entire station.

The "concept suppression field" generator on the outer shell of the Devourer emitted a sharp wail, and its power instantly dropped by thirty percent.

The thought of "Blue" screamed in Su Yuan's mind with unprecedented panic and trembling.

"She succeeded! She awakened the 'first corpse'! That wasn't a key, it was the guardian of the 'lock,' the first failed product contaminated by the 'lock'—JY-001!"

JY-004's barely suppressed, wildly joyful laughter could be heard over the public channel.

"Can you feel it, 'Number Seven'? This is true power! Everything in the maintenance station will be mine!"

The video feed came through.

In the center of the fourth node of the maintenance station, "Tomb of Bones," a huge humanoid figure made entirely of grayish-white bone slowly stood up.

It has no facial features; its smooth face has only a deep crack running through its skull.

The JY-004 train stopped in front of it, like a believer worshipping his god.

Then, JY-001 raised his hand.

Its target is not Su Yuan, but JY-004, which is right next door.

JY-004's laughter stopped abruptly.

"What are you doing? I woke you up!" she roared in a mixture of shock and anger.

Ignoring her question, JY-001 opened its palm, and a grayish-white energy instantly enveloped JY-004's train.

A scene that made your teeth ache appeared.

On the JY-004 train, the indestructible dark golden bone spurs that had just grown from the wreckage of K-002 withered and weathered at a visible speed, peeling off like sand sculptures.

"No!"

JY-004 let out a defiant roar, the crimson vortex in her pupils spinning wildly as it clashed with JY-001's grayish-white energy.

Her prized "fusion" power was like a natural enemy in front of JY-001.

"It's devouring... the concept of 'life'!"

In the corner, Jiang Yu clutched his one arm in pain. Under the energy radiation of JY-001, the living metal vessels on his arm began to show signs of petrification.

Qin Yan's code reader was struck at a high speed, like burning.

Xiao Huo immediately translated: "JY-001's ability is 'Concept Termination.' Any concept it identifies will be stripped away and reduced to nothingness. It is currently stripping away JY-004's 'Fusion' concept!"

A three-way battle erupted instantly.

JY-004 was forced to turn all its guns around and bombard JY-001 frantically in order to buy itself time to escape.

The maintenance station, which was indiscriminately irradiated by JY-001's energy, saw countless abandoned sentry turrets and defensive facilities go out of control, their red lights flashing erratically, and they indiscriminately firing at any moving target in the surrounding area.

"Activate weapon system access," Su Yuan seized the opportunity amidst the chaos and decisively ordered, "Take over all turrets in zones three, six, and nine. Target: JY-004."

"Give it some dignity."

JY-004 was suddenly attacked from both sides.

She was caught in a pincer attack from both the maintenance station's turrets and JY-001, resulting in large sections of the train's armor being torn apart, leaving her in a sorry state.

"JY-007! I'll remember you!" Her venomous curse echoed throughout the channel.

"An opportunity!" Blue's thoughts echoed again, carrying a hint of composure. "JY-001's target isn't us; it's retrieving the 'concept' of all the keys! We must gather the permissions for the remaining four nodes and activate the 'formatting protocol' of the maintenance station to reseal it! The third node is the 'logic hub,' guarded by JY-006's 'scales of truth'!"

Su Yuan piloted the Devourer, navigating through gunfire and chaos, heading towards the "Logic Center" marked on the map.

Along the way, he operated the refining furnace, fusing the Paradox Armor Gauntlets with the JY-series frequency jammer to forge a "Paradox Beacon" that shimmered with contradictory light.

The Devourer arrived at the logic center.

Before me was a giant scale made up of countless light paths, with "True" engraved on one end and "False" on the other.

A cold, mechanical voice rang out: "JY-006's Trial: Offer up an absolutely true 'lie' or an absolutely false 'truth' to balance the scales."

Su Yuan glanced at the scales, then at the "Paradox Beacon" in his hand, and a smile crept onto his lips.

He didn't ponder any philosophical questions; he simply tossed the beacon into the center of the scales.

Just as the beacon was about to touch the scales.

In the distance, the gray-white giant that was chasing JY-004 suddenly stopped all movement.

Its massive head suddenly turned towards Su Yuan.

On its smooth face, the crack slowly opened, revealing a bottomless void.

A cold will, comprised of countless overlapping voices and belonging to no single individual, resounded throughout the entire maintenance depot.

"I...smell...the smell of 'mistake'."