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

boom.

The hundreds-of-tons Devourer crashed heavily to the bottom of the abyss.

The tracks churned wildly across the rocky, debris-strewn surface, emitting a piercing screeching sound. The vehicle was pushed forward for over a hundred meters before finally coming to a complete stop.

The control room was deathly silent. Only the green light of the emergency lights was flashing incessantly.

Wang Hu, clutching his bruised forehead, crawled up from under the control panel. He shook his head, a lump in his throat: "Old Su... survived?"

Su Yuan leaned back in his chair. He didn't answer, his gaze fixed on the main control screen.

In the center of the screen, the two white characters on the unknown star map were extremely glaring.

[Returning Home]

"Blue Flame Core Overload." Little Flame's mechanical voice was intermittent, filled with static noise. "Current stability is below 15%. Forced shutdown is expected in three hours."

"The vehicle's structural integrity is 71%. Large areas of the external armor have been peeled off."

In the absolute silence, Wang Hu followed Su Yuan's gaze and saw the words on the screen.

His eyes widened suddenly, bursting with wild joy: "Home! Old Su! That's home! We have our coordinates now!"

He lunged forward to grab the control lever.

Snapped.

Tang Lan reached over the control panel with one hand and grabbed Wang Hu's wrist.

She stared at those two words, her eyes icy cold: "In a place like JY-01, where even your underwear is meticulously calculated, you actually believe in a 'home' that suddenly appears out of nowhere?"

Wang Hu was stunned. He turned to look at Tang Lan, then looked back at the screen.

In the corner, Jiang Yu propped himself up with his single arm. His face was deathly pale, and he was covered in sweat. The oppressive aura emanating from the dark entity underground had nearly caused the living metal within him to go berserk.

"That thing down there isn't dead," Jiang Yu said, panting. "It was just thrown off by the formatted light chain. This 'homecoming' coordinate is wrong."

All three people's eyes were focused on Su Yuan.

Su Yuan raised his hand and typed a few commands on the main control panel.

Swish.

The star map and those two words on the screen were instantly forcibly closed, switching back to the radar scan interface.

"We can't go anywhere before we become scrap metal." Su Yuan straightened up. "Survival is the top priority. Small fire, scan all high-energy reaction sources and high-density materials within one kilometer."

The radar aperture expanded in concentric circles.

Scattered around were countless faint points of light, all ordinary scrap. Only three large red dots stood out conspicuously.

One is the collapsed remains of the skyrail structure.

One is the scrap metal area where the JY-004 train was removed.

There is also the furthest point, located in the core area where K-001 and JY-001 finally collided.

Su Yuan didn't immediately decide where to go.

He pushed open the drawer beside him and took out the black metal fragment that he had just pulled out of the singularity collapse.

"Small Fire, grant highest-level access for analysis."

A scanning beam hit the fragment.

The moment they made contact, the main control screen displayed a complete mess of characters.

A piercing alarm blared.

"Warning! The analysis protocol has been reverse-erased by the underlying rules! The machine's logic has been contaminated!" Xiao Huo's voice suddenly became distorted.

Su Yuan immediately pressed the physical cut-off button, forcibly terminating the analysis.

He glanced at his left arm. The paradoxical armor gauntlet, engraved with the character "cloud," had been a great help in resisting the assimilation of "blue." Now, as he approached the black fragment, the gauntlet's surface was emitting an extremely faint blue glow.

Without hesitation, Su Yuan raised his left hand and covered the metal fragment with it.

My mind exploded.

There is no code, and no data flow.

Only a fragmented, grand picture was forcibly crammed into the brainstem.

In the endless, pitch-black universe, a colossal object whose outline cannot be described in words is devouring star after star.

JY-01 Maintenance Station. That enormous spatial cage known as "The Lock".

At the edge of the image, there was merely a single gaze cast by the dark entity, meant to trap it.

The scene flashed by in an instant.

Su Yuan's eyelids twitched violently, and veins bulged on his forehead.

He immediately withdrew his hand, threw the fragment into the containment box, and activated the highest-level isolation chamber, Zero, to seal it securely.

What they released after breaking the cage wasn't even the real thing; it was just someone else's gaze.

"Go to the JY-004 wreckage area." Su Yuan turned his head, suppressing the turmoil in his heart. "That madwoman's furnace core is gone, but the vehicle body material is top-quality."

The Devourer's engine roared wearily as it slowly turned, dragging its heavily damaged hull.

A hundred meters away, the broken skeleton of JY-004 lay silently in the ruins.

The tracks rolled over the gravel, getting closer and closer.

Suddenly, dense red lights flashed on the radar.

The dark gold bone spur fragments of K-002, which were originally scattered around JY-004 and forcibly stripped off by JY-001, came into contact with the free energy in the exhaust of the Devourer.

They all came back to life.

Dozens of dark gold metal vines suddenly sprang up from the ground, lashing out at the Devourer like enraged venomous snakes.

"Paradox Armor," Su Yuan whispered.

The light from his left arm shone brightly, and a barrier that alternated between reality and illusion appeared directly in front of the car.

The lashing metal vines crashed into the barrier.

The ethereal half instantly disintegrated, while the solid half forcefully pierced through, but its kinetic energy had already been significantly reduced.

Bang bang bang.

The remaining bone spikes struck the Devourer's external armor, creating only a crater, without even penetrating the outer shell.

"Refining furnace! Dinner's ready!" Wang Hu roared as he pulled over the control panel.

The furnace opening of the mobile refining furnace suddenly opened.

Thirty-six dark gold conduits shot out, precisely embedding themselves in the activated metal vines and the pile of JY-004's remains on the ground.

With the support of the Blue Flame Core, the absorption and conversion efficiency is extremely high.

The wreckage shrank at a rate visible to the naked eye.

On the main control panel, the stability value of the Blue Flame Core began to slowly climb.

Eighteen percent.

Twenty percent.

Twenty-five percent.

The transformation is only halfway complete.

Deep within the main control system, a piece of extremely well-hidden encrypted data suddenly surfaced.

That was the underlying code that Qin Yan left in 011's true brain before his sacrifice.

Xiao Huo quickly deciphered and converted it.

"Commander. Encrypted message from the Old Blue Star Expeditionary Force has been retrieved."

"Beware of the 'echo'."

"After JY-01 collapses, all the remnants of the 'keys' will resonate. They will instinctively attract and devour each other in order to achieve completeness."

The voice just fell.

Far away in the abyss, in the core area represented by the collision between K-001 and JY-001 on the radar map.

The red dot that had been still for half a day moved.

The remaining dark gold giant claw sensed the commotion here.

To be precise, it sensed the same aura on the Devourer.

Paradoxical armor, remnants of blue light stone, and JY-004 being chewed up in the refining furnace.

"Stop the furnace. Silence the entire train." Su Yuan immediately pressed the stop button on the roaring refining furnace.

"Conceptual suppression field, maximum power."

An invisible gray ripple instantly enveloped the entire Devourer. The fluctuations and energy characteristics of this area were forcibly smoothed out.

In the distance, the enormous dark gold claw slowly swept across the spot. After hesitating for a few seconds, unable to pinpoint its exact location, it crashed back into the ruins, fading into silence.

Wang Hu wiped the cold sweat from his neck.

"We can't stay here any longer." Su Yuan looked at the radar screen.

He pointed to the faint point of light that represented the remnants of the celestial orbit.

"Go to the Skyrail Zone. There's no living metal there, it's the most barren, and also the safest. Repair the chassis and main armor there first."

The Devourer lowered its engine noise, reversed away from the JY-004 wreckage area, and headed towards the Skyrail area.

We've only driven less than two kilometers.

The main control screen, which Su Yuan had just forcibly shut down, turned on automatically without warning.

The coordinate map of the unknown star region bounced back to the center.

The two white characters for "returning home" not only reappeared, but their brightness also skyrocketed.

The light was extremely dazzling. It flashed wildly at a high frequency, persistently calling out.

boom!

A muffled thud came from the direction of isolation chamber number zero.

The concept-level black fragment that had been sealed away resonated violently.

On the thick lead plates of the isolation chamber, deep, protruding marks were pressed outward by the invisible force emanating from within.

It did not break out of the cabin.

It simply projected a domineering stream of information outwards.

This information flow ignored Xiao Huo's firewall and all physical barriers.

It slammed straight into the main control screen.

Below the two huge white characters for "Homecoming".

An old, low-level rule code forcibly rewrote the pixels.

Dark red, liquid-like text flowed down the screen.

It covered the blank space below, outlining two large, bloody characters.

Offerings

Su Yuan stared at the four words pieced together on the screen without saying a word.

Homecoming, offerings.

He raised his left hand and pressed the red lock button on the main console, severing all external star map connections.

Apart from the very low idling sound of the engine, there was no other noise in the carriage.

On the radar, the massive shadow of the Skyrail wreckage was already visible under the searchlights on the front of the train.

The scorched armor plates were piled up into a mountain of garbage tens of meters high, and a broken metal support column was stuck diagonally in the pile of rubble, blocking the Devourer's path.

The refining furnace's guide tube slowly emerged from the vehicle and lunged at the supporting column.