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

The Devourer was tossed and torn apart like an out-of-control leaf in the turbulent spatial currents.

Three minutes later, with a deafening crash that shattered bones, the chariot slammed into the solid ground.

The inertia pressed everyone firmly against the walls and seats, and a series of metallic, groaning sounds erupted from inside the carriage.

"Full vehicle self-check." Su Yuan's voice rang out amidst the violent jolts, calm and undisturbed.

The small fire emitted intermittent mechanical sounds, interspersed with electrical pops.

"Armor... 47% damage rate... Blue Flame Core remaining power... 62%... External radar... all modules physically destroyed."

The final impact nearly shattered the Devourer.

Wang Hu got up from the ground, spat out a mouthful of blood, and punched the deformed bulkhead.

"Damn, I survived."

Outside the car, all was deathly silent. There was no wind, no light, only endless darkness.

Su Yuan turned on the physical searchlight, and two pale beams of light pierced the darkness, illuminating the scene beneath the vehicle.

It was a wide track.

The sleepers are rusty, but each one is marked with a clear JY logo.

The experimental track of the old era.

The beam of light stretched into the distance, and scattered beside the track were numerous fragments of torn white hazmat suits, as well as some metal nameplates whose writing was so corroded that they were illegible.

This place is like a graveyard that has been forgotten for fourteen years.

A sense of oppression seeped into everyone's bones along the cold railway tracks.

Just then, Jiang Yu let out a painful groan.

The dark gold veins on his one arm bulged again, and his entire arm trembled violently as if it were on fire.

"Ahead..." Jiang Yu's one eye was fixed on the darkness three hundred meters ahead of the track. "There's something... something like those three stones."

The searchlight beam immediately swept over.

In the darkness, a huge, completely sealed metal cabin sat silently.

The surface of the hull was also engraved with the JY logo, but at the weld seams along the edges, a faint purple mist was seeping out.

The mist flowed along the ground, and wherever it passed, the hard alloy steel rails were rusted silently as if they had been splashed with concentrated acid, turning into pools of viscous molten iron.

The corrosion rate is several times faster than any waste liquid encountered before.

"Small fire, analyze the fog."

"Analysis failed. No known chemical components were detected. High concentration of 'betrayal' concept residue was detected."

Wang Hu cursed and began to put on the exoskeleton.

"I'll go take a look."

He had just pushed open the car door when one foot stepped onto the track.

A sudden change occurred.

The ground on both sides of the track suddenly cracked open, and twelve thick metal pillars rose up with a roar, their tops emitting blinding electric light.

High-voltage plasma.

What's even more chilling is that each plasma column is bound with an iron chain to a corpse that has been melted by the plasma and reduced to a charred skeleton.

The remains were still in the posture of struggling before death, and without exception, their charred hand bones were tightly clutching half of the identification plaque belonging to the JY-007 crew.

"Watch out!" Tang Lan's warning rang out in the channel.

Twelve plasma beams shot out at the same time, not targeting Wang Hu who had stepped out of the car, but precisely locking onto the hull of the Devourer.

This defense system only attacks targets that have key access.

Su Yuan swung his left arm horizontally, and the dark blue light screen of the Paradox Armor instantly opened, forcefully blocking the first volley of fire.

The light curtain trembled violently, and the power of rules contained in the plasma was frantically impacting the logical structure of the shield.

"cover!"

Tang Lan fired continuously from the high ground, and the specially made sniper bullets successively severed the power supply lines at the bottom of the three plasma columns.

A gap has appeared in the fire support network.

Under cover, Wang Hu pounced on the door of the test chamber like a cheetah.

There were no keyholes on the hatch, only a palm print scanner covered in dried blood.

A line of small print next to it reads: "Requires authorization from all members of the JY-007 crew."

Before Wang Hu could even bang on the door, a crackling, old-fashioned broadcast suddenly rang out from inside the test chamber.

A hoarse male voice, filled with endless resentment, roared.

"JY-003...you damned traitor!"

"You stole all the data! You killed us! And you still want to come back for the last thing?!"

The voice just fell.

boom!

The heavy hatch was blown open from the inside by a tremendous force.

A five-meter-tall monster, pieced together entirely from the metal plates of the test chamber and the skeletons of the old crew members, roared as it charged out.

Inside its chest cavity was a crystal that emitted an eerie purple light.

The fourth key, the key to betrayal.

"traitor!"

The golem's eyes flashed red, ignoring Wang Hu who was right in front of it. Its huge bone claws tore through the air and went straight for Su Yuan in the driver's cab behind it.

It concluded that Su Yuan was the one who stole the privileges, JY-003.

Su Yuan's pupils contracted, and the light of the Paradox Armor was pushed to its limit.

However, the golem's bone claws were shrouded in a dense purple mist. The moment they came into contact with the shield, the power of the concept of "betrayal" caused the Paradox Armor's rule-altering ability to briefly malfunction.

Stab it!

A hole was torn in the shield.

Su Yuan, along with his seat, was thrown backward thirty meters by the tremendous force, slamming hard against the rear wall of the main control room.

His left arm was slashed open by a bone claw, leaving a deep wound that exposed the bone, and blood instantly stained the armor.

Inside the paradoxical armor, the "cloud" mark suddenly became hot.

A very dim, semi-transparent phantom of Ji Yun flashed past behind Su Yuan.

She gave the crazed golem a salute that had long been abandoned and belonged only to the 011 crew.

The golem's attack suddenly froze.

"etc!"

Despite the excruciating pain from the rampaging living metal inside him, Jiang Yu rushed to Su Yuan's side, ripped open his collar, and revealed the identification tag belonging to the communications soldier of the 011 crew.

He tapped the car body in front of him three times with his finger.

That was the bugle call rhythm of the old Blue Star expeditionary force.

The red light in the golem's eyes flickered violently, and the venomous roar from the broadcast stopped. In its place, an experimental record that had been sealed for fourteen years was played.

"...JY-003 betrayed the crew, killed all members, and stole the core key...faking it as an experimental accident..."

"...He sealed away our remnants of souls, condemning us to eternally guard this place and suffer the torment of betrayal..."

The truth came out.

Overwhelming resentment led to the wrong target for revenge.

The golem slowly turned around, and the purple light within its chest dimmed.

With its last ounce of strength, it dug the "Key of Betrayal" from its own chest and handed it to Su Yuan.

"Kill...all...traitors..."

Su Yuan took the key.

On the conceptual star map, the fourth base suddenly lit up.

[The Key to Betrayal (Returned to its Rightful Place)]

[Current authority level: Arbitrator candidate (4/7)]

[Gained new ability: Rule judgment exemption].

The golem completed its final mission, its massive body collapsing into a pile of broken bones.

A small storage disk rolled out from the broken bones.

Before anyone could even catch their breath.

A violent spatial tremor came from the entrance to the rift that had just been breached.

A pale, bloodless, half-bone hand forced its way in.

agent.

The skeletal hand opened, and a slender bone nail shot out from its fingertips, grazing past Wang Hu's helmet and embedding itself in the steel rail behind him.

That section of rail, along with the rust on it, was instantly and completely erased from this world.

At the same time, countless black gravity threads, thinner than a hair, spread out along the rock wall of the fissure.

The false king has also caught up with them.

"Walk!"

With a loud shout, Su Yuan slammed the engines of the Devouring Wasteland into full power, plunging headlong into the purple mist ahead.

Visibility was less than three meters in the fog.

The car radio turned on automatically without warning and began playing a recording of a dying test subject's plea for help from fourteen years ago.

"Don't look back...please don't look back..."

"It's behind you...it's been following you..."

"ah--!"

Wang Hu subconsciously glanced back.

There was no one behind.

But his eyes instantly became bloodshot, as if his most painful memories had been triggered. He picked up the machine gun and started firing wildly at the empty rear carriages.

"Get out of here! All of you, get out of here!"

Battlefield PTSD.

"Calm down!"

Su Yuan activated the newly acquired Key of Betrayal.

An invisible field of immunity emanated from him, dispelling the fog within a ten-meter radius.

Countless translucent, distorted figures drifted through the mist.

A lingering shadow of cowardice.

They dare not attack; they only repeat the fear of dying over and over again, amplifying the most vulnerable parts of anyone's heart.

Tang Lan closed her eyes and, relying on a sniper's absolute memory of space, calmly reported out coordinates one by one. Gunshots rang out, driving back several afterimages that tried to approach the vehicle.

Jiang Yu is unaffected by this mental pollution because he has living metal in his body.

He got out of the car to scout ahead and found a person huddled in a tattered hazmat suit in the corner of an abandoned gas chamber deep in the fog.

A living person.

The other party was the observer from the 007 crew back then, who hid here for fourteen years using a fully sealed storage compartment.

His mental state has completely collapsed.

Upon seeing Jiang Yu, he was terrified and tremblingly pulled out a crystal that emitted an earthy yellow light from his pocket, shoving it into Jiang Yu's hand.

The fifth key, the key to cowardice.

"Don't kill me... Here's the key... Please, don't tell JY-003 I'm here..."

The survivor hadn't finished speaking.

A black thread of gravity silently pierced through the mist and wrapped around his waist.

"No!"

Su Yuan reached out to grab it, but only managed to grab half of the 007 identity tag, which was torn apart and stained with blood.

The man who had lived in fear for fourteen years was dragged directly into a miniature gravitational singularity in mid-air by the false king and instantly torn into nothingness.

The key fell onto the track.

Wang Hu rolled over and pounced, grabbing it tightly in his hand.

The Key to Cowardice (now in its place)

[Current authority level: Arbitrator candidate (5/7)]

[Gained new ability: Fear Dispel].

Su Yuan activated his new ability, and the surrounding mist and afterimages were swept away.

At the end of the misty zone stands the JY core observation tower, completely sealed off by dark gold living metal.

Jiang Yu's arm trembled again.

"Inside... the sixth key... and... Commander 011's signal!"

At that moment, the 011 True Brain, which had been in deep hibernation, suddenly spoke a very faint sentence on the public channel.

"Watch out... the person in the tower is... my former co-pilot..."

"He was...contaminated by...K-001..."

After that, the real brain signal went silent again.

Without hesitation, Su Yuan manipulated the refining furnace to spray out a high-temperature jet, burning open the tower door.

In the center of the tower, on a throne-like seat, sits a skeleton dressed in the uniform of the co-pilot 011.

The skeleton was covered with wriggling, dark gold living metal.

When it saw Su Yuan, it actually laughed.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time, 'key'."

"Give me everything you have. I'll kill those two useless guys outside for you, and then we'll go back to Earth together and become the new gods."

Tang Lan's sniper scope was locked on the skeleton.

"The bullet holes on the uniform are from the trajectory of the 011 tank commander's sidearm."

The skeleton's laughter stopped abruptly, replaced by a sudden burst of rage.

"Shut up!"

All the living metal inside the tower transformed into deadly spikes, swarming towards Su Yuan.

"You are not him." Su Yuan activated the Fear Dispelling Technique, his mental pressure repelling all the metal spikes. "The co-pilot died fourteen years ago while covering Ji Yun's retreat."

"You're just a piece of trash left behind by K-001."

The disguise was exposed, and the remnant soul went completely mad.

It fused with the metal of the entire tower, transforming into a ten-meter-tall metal giant.

Su Yuan transferred all the permissions of the five keys into the Paradox Armor on his left arm.

One punch.

It only took one punch.

A large hole was blasted into the giant's chest.

Su Yuan took out the crystal that shimmered with silvery-white light from the cave.

The sixth key, the key to arrogance.

The Key to Pride (now in its rightful place)

[Current authority level: Arbitrator candidate (6/7)]

[Gained new ability: Absolute suppression of living metal].

The entire living metal of the tower degenerated into molten iron the instant the key was returned to its place.

At the top of the observation tower, a huge star map lit up.

The location of the last key pointed to the deepest part of the test site.

An abandoned old JY launch pad.

At the same time, the proxy doll broke through the fog, its skeletal hand already grasping the base of the observation tower.

The false king's gravitational field is pulling the entire metal frame of the tower inch by inch toward collapse.

"Prepare for battle!"

Wang Hu piled all the high-explosive bombs at the stairwell. Tang Lan laid booby traps. Jiang Yu directed all the remaining liquid nitrogen toward the tower door.

Su Yuan manipulated the refining furnace to melt the remaining metal from the entire observation tower into a massive, one-time-use railgun.

The cannons were aimed at the two terrifying beings chasing from below.

"Fire!"

The moment the giant cannon unleashed its destructive beam.

On the top floor of the observation tower, the old screen that had long since stopped working suddenly lit up.

On the screen, a young man wearing the uniform of the JY-007 train commander appeared.

That face was exactly the same as Su Yuan's.

At the bottom of the screen, a line of blood-red text slowly scrolled.

"Don't go to the launch pad."

"You are the last key."

At the same second, the JY-003 brand on the back of Su Yuan's neck suddenly became hot, as if it were being pressed down by a red-hot branding iron.

Outside the vehicle, the attacks of the proxy and the false king suddenly stopped the moment they came into contact with the cannon fire.

The whole world, all sound, disappeared.