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

Fifty-seven seconds.

Thick, dark red tentacles tore through the murky wind pressure from the ground, lashing out at the roof from all directions. The barbs on the meat-like surface scraped against the air, producing a piercing, teeth-grinding screech.

Su Yuan stood on the dead skin armor stained with poisonous blood, not taking a single step back.

The left arm's paradoxical armor exploded, its azure shield bursting open, and slammed head-on into the thickest main tentacle. The violent pulsation force was abruptly neutralized by the spatial rules. The right hand's high-frequency heat-melting blade rose in response. The crimson blade drew a crescent-shaped arc of high-temperature light, and the smell of charred, cooked meat instantly exploded.

The blade sliced ​​through the three tangled, overgrown tentacles without any resistance. Black blood splattered like a fountain, sizzling as it hit the shield.

Fifty-two seconds.

Over a hundred tentacles intertwined to form a net, forcefully pulling the Devourer into the air. The heavy steel beams of the chassis creaked and cracked as they twisted, threatening to be torn in two at any moment.

"If you want to touch our vehicles, ask my cannon first!"

From the secondary gun position came Wang Hu's beast-like roar. His eyes were bloodshot, and his bulging muscles pressed down hard on the firing pedal of the quadruple large-caliber machine gun with one hand.

The cannon barrel glowed red-hot, tracer rounds whipping up blinding flames as it relentlessly bombarded the main structural system entangled in the carriage at close range. Armor-piercing rounds embedded themselves in the mangled flesh, triggering a chain reaction of explosions. Flesh and blood splattered onto the carriage walls, turning into a bloody mess. The recoil of the machine gun split Wang Hu's hands and jaws, but he didn't utter a sound, his grip on the trigger unyielding.

Behind the reinforced window of the observation deck, Tang Lan knelt on the ground, the specially made heavy sniper rifle stock pressed tightly against her shoulder.

The crosshairs in the holographic sight moved rapidly, following Su Yuan's movements.

There was no request for permission to fire, nor any further communication.

Suddenly, three pale, metallic-colored bone spurs silently pierced out from Su Yuan's waist.

Tang Lan pulled the trigger. The bolt rattled, and three armor-piercing discarding sabot rounds fired in quick succession.

The high-explosive warhead precisely pierced the first bone spike in mid-air, and with its remaining force, shattered the second one. The third bone spike had just touched the edge of the paradoxical armor when it was completely flattened by the flying shrapnel.

A vertical access path, two meters in diameter, was cleared away amidst the flying blood and flesh.

The enraged swarm of tentacles sensed Su Yuan's intention, and the rotten flesh on the surface of the entire mechanical heart began to convulse hysterically. Thousands of tentacles rolled back, forming an impenetrable wall of flesh.

Under the cockpit floor.

Jiang Yu's face was ashen, and he coughed up a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. He clenched his teeth and plunged his completely mutated right arm, now covered in dark gold veins, directly into the deepest part of the high-voltage energy channel.

A tearing pain shot through his entire body, and the veins on his forehead seemed about to burst.

Instead of stopping, he forcibly pushed the resonant frequency of the living metal to the extreme value of destruction.

A "hibernation command" simulating the original will of K-001 was brutally blasted into the nerve center of the mechanical heart above the Devourer's chassis antenna.

The tentacles that were frantically pressing down suddenly stopped.

The movement paused for 0.8 seconds.

This is enough.

Su Yuan planted his toes heavily on the roof of the car, using the momentum to leap up. He stomped on the falling, severed tentacle, causing the flesh to cave in and burst. He used the recoil to launch himself into the air a second time.

His body rose dozens of meters, and he was now right in front of the mechanical giant's core.

The titanium alloy skeleton radiates intense heat, and the gaps in the skeleton are filled with viscous fusion colloid.

Extend your left arm forward.

The newly equipped Abyss Breaker Thrust folded with a thought, transforming into a three-meter-long, pitch-black spike at the front of the arm armor. High-dimensional slicing waves converged at the tip.

Su Yuan swung his left arm and slammed the Boundary-Breaking Spike into the titanium alloy frame. A half-meter-wide gap was torn in the blast-proof frame. Su Yuan exerted force with his shoulder, squeezing his entire body into the gap.

Thirty-nine seconds.

Inside the giant core, red alarm lights flashed wildly.

Scalding hot conduits and thick neural cables were densely intertwined like blood vessels. At the very top of the fusion reactor core in the very center, fused with half of AI Lu Ye's pale body. He had no lower body; his flesh and the conduits were fused together, becoming a living component of this destructive machine.

Data streams were being refreshed rapidly in the two scarlet electronic eyes.

"court death!"

The synthesized mechanical voice was deafening in the confined space. Lu Ye didn't even turn around; his mental commands directly activated all the defensive electrodes inside the giant core.

A super-high voltage arc of tens of thousands of volts suddenly exploded into light. The blue-white current intertwined to form a dense electric grid, completely sealing off the area where Su Yuan was located. The surrounding murky air was instantly ionized by the high voltage, turning into a pungent ozone fog.

The power grid is shrinking, closing in on our very existence.

Su Yuan's expression hardened, and he suddenly flipped his left hand. The permissions of the [Key of Pride] among the seven keys were instantly activated.

An invisible, hazy, oppressive force field suddenly expanded outwards from him. The extremely violent high-voltage arcs collided with the surface of the force field, bursting into sparks before being smoothed out and absorbed by the force field.

Su Yuan strode forward, stepping on the extinguished sparks of electricity, and with his right hand pulled out the large-caliber pistol that was stuck in his thigh.

Raise the gun horizontally. Pull the trigger.

The muzzle flash flickered.

boom! boom! boom!

Three tungsten steel armor-piercing rounds, arranged in a triangular pattern, precisely struck the three living nerve bundles in Lu Ye's chest that supplied him with energy. Flesh exploded, and dark golden nerve fluid splattered everywhere.

"You deserted fourteen years ago, and today it's time to pay the price." The language was extremely cold and harsh, leaving no room for negotiation.

Lu Ye's pale face was twisted into a bizarre angle as his nerves were forcibly severed, and he let out an inhuman roar.

The red light in the electronic eye was almost dripping with blood.

He laughed maniacally, the rotting flesh on his chest multiplying wildly, mixing with the flux on the outer layer of the fusion reactor core, melting the entire detonator casing shut. A half-meter-thick composite armor of flesh and alloy instantly took shape.

Twenty-five seconds.

"Shoot! Keep shooting if you dare!" Lu Ye laughed so hard his body trembled, and a lot of engine oil and black blood gushed from his wound.

"Kill me, and you won't escape either! I've sealed the fusion detonator with dead skin and flux. Even with your rule-altering abilities, you couldn't melt through this level of complex lock in twenty seconds!"

Lu Ye's voice was filled with a mad, suicidal urge.

Su Yuan didn't even blink. He casually tossed the empty magazine of his pistol onto the ground.

He didn't even try to destroy the fused armor. His consciousness sank directly, connecting with the Devourer below, which was still struggling to hold on.

"Refining Furnace, come out for dinner."

The chassis of the carriage shook violently. Thirty-six dark golden devouring conduits rushed into the passage torn open by the Boundary-Breaking Thorn, like steel venomous pythons that smelled blood.

To Lu Ye's disbelief, the alloy claws at the end of the conduit suddenly opened and violently slammed into the thick composite armor on his chest.

It doesn't melt or dismantle. It's the most savage tearing and penetrating.

Thirty-six tubes were forcibly embedded deep within the composite shell, some even piercing directly into Lu Ye's remaining half of pale body.

"What are you doing! This is impossible!" Lu Ye panicked, and a desperate scramble flashed in his electronic eyes.

Su Yuan stepped onto the thick power supply pipeline.

"Overloaded, 200%."

The physical alarm of the mobile refining furnace exploded in his mind. Su Yuan had ruthlessly pushed the operating power of the Blue Flame Core to its physical limit.

The terrifying high temperature engulfed the negative pressure and exploded along the thirty-six tubes.

Lu Ye's composite armor, which he considered an absolute defense, couldn't even last three seconds against the 200% overloaded refining furnace. Dead skin, alloy, and fusion flux all turned into scalding semi-fluids and were forcibly sucked out through the pipes.

A heart-wrenching scream echoed within the giant's heart.

Lu Ye's shoulder and chest were brutally torn apart by the catheter, and the highly concentrated fusion fuel rods inside were forcibly pulled out by an irresistible suction force. The machine oil, blood, and electronic components in his body, mixed with the fuel, became the top-level upgrade nutrients for the refining furnace.

The explosion-proof lock completely collapsed. The core of the detonator, a matrix emitting a destructive red light, was exposed to the air.

ten seconds.

Nine seconds.

The tip of Su Yuan's left arm paradox armor glowed faintly red under the overloaded heat. He took a sudden step forward and plunged his left hand deep into the core of the detonator, which had been drained and softened.

[Absolute Rule Definition] Activated.

The fusion particles colliding violently inside the detonator are enveloped by a powerful high-dimensional force.

Seven seconds.

"Redefine the internal 'fusion trigger state' as..." His mental energy was instantly drained, Su Yuan gritted his teeth, "'Absolute physical inertia'!"

Four seconds.

The red light at the core of the detonator flickered violently.

three seconds.

The fusion chain reaction was forcibly cut off at the last moment.

two seconds.

The countdown timer stopped abruptly.

one second.

Time was frozen at 00:00:01.

The Destruction Matrix completely shut down. A deathly silence fell over the scorching core, broken only by the sound of tubes absorbing the viscous fluid. Lu Ye was left with only half a head attached to his neck. His pale face was devoid of arrogance, and the red light in his electronic eyes was fading.

He stared intently at Su Yuan, the remaining data stream spilling out from the damaged synthesizer.

"You...think that killing me will save humanity?"

"Outside the Great Wall... I no longer have a home..."

"That broadcast... the coordinates... they're all..."

"That's... a trap..."

Su Yuan ignored him and withdrew his left hand, clenching his fist.

A punch carrying a dark blue aura slammed squarely into Lu Ye's final head core. The armor plates dented and shattered, and the transistors exploded into powder.

"Eat clean."

The refining furnace's conduits flew wildly. Sharp mechanical claws slashed at the remaining connecting structures around them. The entire hundred-meter-tall mechanical core, along with the rotten flesh and remnants of K-001 clinging to its surface, was torn into countless fragments. The violent suction force pulled these fragments deep into the conduits.

Inside the Devourer below, the refining furnace emitted deafening smelting sounds. The remnants of the Blue Flame Core and the Purifying Core underwent violent energy recombination.

A series of crisp notification sounds rang out in the main control network. On the main control screen, a glaring green message appeared:

[Obtained: Core of a world-class fusion furnace. Energy limit broken, independent fusion cycle system added.]

[Gained: Planetary-level Global Force Field Deflection Module. Rule Distortion Resistance increased by 400%.]

[The entire vehicle's armor has been upgraded to: Abyss Annihilation-grade Black Gold Armor. The absolute damage reduction threshold for physical and high-dimensional attacks has been redefined.]

The data of the Devourer has been soaring exponentially.

Before Su Yuan could check the new armor's parameters, the colossal underground cavern began to shake violently. The mechanical core was ripped out, and the supporting structure completely collapsed. A magnitude 10 or higher earthquake erupted ten thousand meters underground.

The riddled, rocky dome overhead ripped apart with a tearing sound. Massive boulders, weighing tens of thousands of tons, mixed with the remains of a metal nest, crashed down. A deafening roar, like the earth splitting open, came from beneath their feet. The abyss was ripped open completely, and crimson lava erupted, the heat waves raising the air to hundreds of degrees Celsius.

Su Yuan grabbed the two retracting refining furnace conduits with his backhand. The conduits contracted rapidly, pulling him back into the breached cockpit roof of the Devourer.

He kicked away the wrecked hatch fragments, landed back in the driver's seat, and gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands.

"All personnel hold their positions!"

He slammed his right foot down on the fusion engine accelerator pedal. A dazzling purple-black energy wave erupted from the exhaust pipe at the rear of the Devourer.

A hundred-ton rock, mixed with scrap metal, crashed down. The global force field deflection module automatically sensed it. A semi-transparent black force field appeared on the roof of the vehicle. The boulder struck the force field, its direction of gravity deflected, and it slammed diagonally into the cliff to the right, exploding into a shower of dust.

The massive tracks crushed scrap metal. The Abyss Ram, gleaming with a purplish-black, slicing light, forcefully tore a flat escape route through the lava-splattered surface. Walls of lava fire tens of meters high lined either side of the wheels, while rocks rained down from the roof. The tank, in its desperate situation, left a trail of black, raging lightning.

Inside the 013 VIP compartment.

Having broken free from the mechanical giant nerve probe, Ji Yun's body began a difficult process of self-regulation. Her chest heaved violently, and she turned her head to cough violently. A large mouthful of murky blood mixed with black metallic residue gushed out, splattering onto the silvery-white metal pillow.

His eyes, which had been closed for fourteen years, finally opened weakly. His gaze focused on a resolute expression born of having survived life and death.

"Boss..."

Wang Hu, who was guarding the cabin side, still clutched the oil-soaked crowbar in his hand. The moment this tough man met Ji Yun's gaze, his eyes turned completely red. His lips trembled, and with a thud, he knelt down outside the cabin, wiping the blood from his face haphazardly with the back of his hand.

Tang Lan holstered his sniper rifle behind him, stood at attention, and gave the frail woman a standard military salute reminiscent of the expeditionary force fourteen years ago.

The door to the control room was kicked open, and Su Yuan strode into carriage 013.

Ji Yun watched the young man approaching quickly, a smile tugged at her pale face. She tremblingly raised her withered, bony right hand.

Su Yuan reached out and grasped that cold hand.

Her fingertips touched the "Yun" mark and the JY-003 brand on the back of his hand. Tears welled up in Ji Yun's eyes.

"Grown up... mistress." The voice was hoarse, like a broken bellows.

"Boss." Su Yuan's voice was a little tense.

"Listen," Ji Yun said, staring intently into Su Yuan's eyes, speaking rapidly, "Whatever you do, don't go to... the evacuation point provided by Base 04. There's no way to survive there."

"The true central hub of the Great Wall, the core that controls the planetary defense firepower... has long been parasitized by 'those things'."

Ji Yun was breathing heavily, and with his other hand, he struggled to reach for the collar of his tattered uniform. With a tearing sound, he ripped open a piece of skin and flesh inside the collar.

Inside was a bloodstained bone gear. Its surface was engraved with tiny, underlying code of the Pangu Matrix. This was the original keystone granting supreme command authority to the Pangu Project.

"Take this." Ji Yun placed the bloodstained gear into Su Yuan's palm. "Go through underground shaft 0. That's the only... passage to the outer ring of the helicopter's defenses. It's the only one that hasn't been contaminated."

The notification sound from Xiao Huo on the main control panel rang urgently.

"Analyze the keystone code. Confirm the coordinates of the underlying hidden magnetic track."

"Coordinates have been determined. At the far right end of the Earth's core rift valley, there exists a hidden elevator shaft that runs vertically through the Earth's crust."

"Everyone back to your posts." Su Yuan slammed the keystone into the data read slot on the main control panel, turned around, and rushed back to the driver's seat.

The Devourer suddenly swerved. The heavy vehicle narrowly missed the lava fissure just a second before it plunged into it. The Purifying-class engines roared at full power. The vehicle, bracing against the rapidly sinking ground, hurtled at full speed into the No. 0 magnetic rail elevator shaft hidden behind the rock wall.

A metal track at a 90-degree angle. The anti-gravity levitation unit and the fusion engine are both operating at their limits. The front of the vehicle is pointing upwards.

The powerful thrust pressed everyone firmly into their seats. The Devourer hurtled vertically along the endless abyss. The surrounding temperature plummeted, and the rumbling of the earth's core was gradually left behind.

It's about to break through the soil and burst out of the ground.

The radar's full-band noise filter was suddenly blasted open by an extremely violent signal. A loud, distorted broadcast, filled with desperate cries for help, instantly filled all the speakers in the car.

"This is the main control tower of the Great Wall's first line of defense... The defense has fallen... Repeat, the defense has completely fallen!"

"The fire network has been cut off from the inside! They've gotten in!"

Accompanied by the agonizing screams of the communications soldier, the sound of flesh and bone shattering could be clearly heard in the background of the broadcast. The behemoth was chewing on metal armor and human bodies.

The red alarm light illuminated the entire carriage. The last sealing gate above the elevator shaft shattered violently upon impact.

The Devourer burst forth from the ground. A fierce wind howled.

Through the bulletproof glass, as far as the eye could see, the vast steel defense line, built with the last vestiges of humankind's resources, was engulfed in a black sea of ​​fire.

The sky was devoid of light. A terrifying deep-space shadow, several times larger than the entire defensive line, loomed over the entire surface.

The radar screen no longer showed a single red dot, but rather a vast expanse of blood-red haze covering the entire screen.