Armed Train in the Apocalypse

Sneered at once, ”Understood.”

...

The remaining management members left one after another, and Su Huan still sat on the sofa.

He wasn’t thinking about the Four Nations entering the territory, but rather Ding Hui’s earlier silence and the similar things he noticed in He Jie and others. Although he still had not fully understood them, he tried to feel them in his own way.

”It’s already the end of the world, why do they still stay there?”

The naive voice, tinged with some bewilderment, brought Su Huan back to his senses. After pondering seriously for a moment, he replied, ”It’s like the train has to go north.”

”Then why does the train have to go north?”

Susan mustered up the courage to ask this long-held question.

Su Huan was taken aback for a moment; how should he explain?

Should he start from Qi Tieshan’s entrustment, the great battle of the Steel Council, or the helicopter flying over Mojiang?

This question was very complicated to explain; he couldn’t say exactly which reason compelled him to go north.

Or perhaps it was all the reasons combined, forcing him to go north.

He didn’t know how to pour out these heavy, bloody, and crazy things to a fourteen-year-old child.

His pitch-black eyes lowered, ”It’s me who must go north.”

”Then we all must go north!”

Susan’s eyes sparkled, carrying a kind of determined resolution.

Su Huan smiled, ruffling her hair, and let out a light chuckle.

This scene fell into Yu Yue’s eyes, and the latter’s apricot-shaped eyes filled with gentle fantasies, as if immersed in honey, radiating a gentle maternal glow all over.

Shu Wei, however, frowned and quietly said to Yu Jing, who was about to turn and leave, ”I always feel like there’s something off about him.”

”Hasn’t it always been like this?” Yu Jing’s emotion was indifferent, her expression as flat as a robot’s.

”Do you know something?”

Shu Wei squinted slightly.

”A child gets to know this world starting with specific people.”

Leaving this inexplicable sentence behind, Yu Jing went back to her work.

...

As Lin Xia pushed Ding Hui to the war room, the two people wrapped in the Fungus Carpet were also carried in by He Jie personally.

Piercing screams even echoed out from the highly sealed carriage.

Soon, a blood-stained He Jie emerged from the carriage, and the entire Armed Corps entered combat readiness, with staff beginning to inspect the weapons on the train, while a jeep quietly left the train, heading toward the edge of He Shui.

There were only two people in the car, Liang Kuan’s burly frame almost filled the entire driver’s seat. If the seat hadn’t been specially adjusted by the manufacturing team, it wouldn’t have supported his build. The passenger seat was placed very low, with a person almost lying on it, with his two feet arrogantly propped up on the dashboard.

All four windows wide open, the cold wind howled into the car.

The two of them, however, chatted casually about trivial matters as if nothing had happened.

”It’s really not necessary to be so anxious, they’re having a harder time than me.”

Liang Kuan spoke in a muffled voice, his heavy chest rumbling loudly, no quieter than the engine.

Squinting, Su Huan looked at the fading light on the horizon, the orange-red glow gradually seeping away from the edges, the world without light became real and plain.

After a while, he nonchalantly said, ”Still, those days when we two partnered up were more comfortable. You drove, I killed; you carried bodies, I cooked. There weren’t so many messy things.”

Liang Kuan didn’t continue this topic, chuckling and said, ”Come to my place, I’ll personally make a nice meal for you to taste.”

”Your level of train fast food is forgettable, it’s a waste of ingredients.”

”Then let my daughter cook for you, her cooking skills are much better than mine.”

”Old Liang, how old is your daughter again?”

Liang Kuan suddenly fell silent, then cautiously asked, ”She’s twenty-one this year, why do you ask? She already has a boyfriend.”

Su Huan raised his chin, ”Is he more handsome than me?”

”I haven’t met him, but probably not as handsome as you, but that’s not important. As long as she likes him, if it weren’t for the apocalypse, I would have been preparing her wedding when I returned.”

”Getting married so early?”

”Aren’t you also from Changbai? In our place, if you don’t do well in school, what else is there to do if not get married? Freezing to death alone at home, no one would know...”

Perhaps because there were only two people in the car, Liang Kuan started talking more.

From talking about his daughter to discussing hometown, then the work environment, and eventually onto the current apocalyptic situation, before somehow veering into history.

”...You’re wrong. Let me tell you, damn, there’s a pit ahead!”

”Boom!”

”Didn’t you say you wouldn’t go off-road?!”

”It’s been a while since I touched the steering wheel, feeling rusty.”

”Forget it, see if you can start the engine again.”

”Seems broken...”

In the midst of his enthusiasm, Su Huan could only curse as he got out to check, only to find the car indeed broken, with two of its wheels flown off and the suspension completely shattered.

Staring at each other, Su Huan was the first to question, ”How much do you weigh now?”

Liang Kuan murmured, ”Still four hundred and two, hasn’t changed.”

”You’re four hundred and two?”

”Kilograms.”

”Case solved.” Su Huan held his forehead, ”I’m about the same now, around four hundred, the two of us together weigh 1.6 tons, no car could bear us going off-road with that weight.”

”So what do we do now?”

Just as Su Huan was about to answer, he suddenly gazed further away. Liang Kuan followed his gaze but, lacking perception, could hear nothing but wolf howls and see nothing outside the headlights’ coverage.

But in Su Huan’s perception, over two hundred kilometers away, there appeared two energy fluctuations. It was like two large fish fighting in the water, churning the whole surface, with waves spreading out; to Su Huan, it felt like a huge flashbang thrown in the night.

Red leaves like blades hadn’t even touched them before Su Huan flicked them away with a wave of his hand.

Before mastering the rules, forming an energy barrier relied purely on technique, with poor effectiveness and high consumption.

But for Su Huan now, energy was something even more familiar and easier to mobilize than his own hands.

”What’s the matter?”

Liang Kuan asked.

”Someone’s advancing to Tier Three, really fast.”

Su Huan sincerely marveled.

Knowing his own situation was unique and impossible to replicate, even someone like Lin Jin with innate talent couldn’t achieve this speed, those reaching Tier Three now were exceptional amongst humans.

Judging by direction, it might even be Lian Jin, that guy.

”Impressive, but we’re going to have some trouble.”

Liang Kuan drew his shield from the car’s back seat, eyeing the woods beside the road, as the wolf howls came closer.

Only then did Su Huan realize that he had become prey to a pack of Fearsome Wolves, the size of the pack was similar to what he encountered in the High Temperature Zone, but the intensity far exceeded it, with three Tier Two Fearsome Wolves.

”Old Liang, have you ever ridden a wolf?”

Su Huan’s dark eyes gleamed in the night.

Somewhat hesitant, Liang Kuan looked at the Fearsome Wolves, each three meters tall, surrounding them, and said, ”Is this possible?”

”We’ll know if we try.”

A flash and piercing howls abruptly tore through the night, leaving behind a pack of stunned wolves, while two wolf-riding silhouettes sliced through the night sky, with a series of wild, carefree laughter echoing through the darkness.

...

West of Donghuang Heavy Industry.

The ground was torn apart by enormous fissures, like a shattered jigsaw puzzle, scattered with floating debris like rubbish in the air.

The once recognizable city was reduced to ruins, littered with destroyed combat vehicles and large-scale artillery and equipment that couldn’t be moved in time.

The center of the battlefield had turned into a black crater over a hundred meters in diameter and seven to eight meters deep.

A huge brown bear, towering six meters high, lay in the center of the pit, blood continuously gushing from its mouth and nose, pooling at the bottom, emitting scorching heat that baked the surrounding air warm.

The terrifying pressure was almost tangible, dragging everything down, visible or invisible, with only the sound of the gushing blood like spring water.