Chapter 62: Will Etched Above The Era!
Hearing Su Huan’s words, everyone’s eyes simultaneously flashed with a trace of palpitation.
Yesterday afternoon, the temperature suddenly soared to over fifty degrees, and the onboard air conditioner began to fail.
That sudden burst of high temperature was like being trapped in a ghost wall, enveloping from all directions. They didn’t even know which way to run, their chest cavities desperately breathing in air like boiling water.
And this was still under the condition that they had already run thousands of kilometers ahead of time.
In that instant, everyone understood what Su Huan meant by “worse.”
If they had still been in Mo Jiang City or even Wen’an City at this time, they would probably have already become desiccated mummies by now.
It wasn’t until last night, when the train approached Qingchuan Province, that the temperature dropped again.
“South of Qingchuan Province… are there no living people left?”
Qi Xiao Ba asked softly.
Su Huan shook his head. “Don’t be so pessimistic. People aren’t fools. We ran, others will run too. In the middle of winter, with the temperature rising at such a bizarre speed, it will definitely cause widespread panic and escape.”
“But there are also many people who won’t choose to escape, right.” Xiao Ba said it as a statement, with a faint trace of regret.
“You have reasons to escape, others have reasons not to. When making choices with insufficient information, it’s not based on reason and logic.”
“Then what is it based on?”
Yu Jing was quite interested in this topic and interjected with a question.
“Luck.”
Su Huan said indifferently.
If Liang Kuan hadn’t wanted to go north to find his daughter, he wouldn’t be on the train.
If Su Huan hadn’t taken control of the train, he wouldn’t have coincidentally met Qi Xiao Ba.
If the three brothers hadn’t happened to board the fire truck, they wouldn’t have been tricked by Su Huan onto the train.
If Yu Jing and her daughter hadn’t boarded the day before Su Huan finished his preparations to recruit more people, their outcome wouldn’t have been any better than the women who came after.
“Many things cannot be changed by personal will, but—” Su Huan then tapped the table and said seriously, “That’s the era of the past. When you step onto the path of evolution, your influence on this era will grow stronger and stronger. Eventually, one day, you will be able to imprint your will upon this era!”
The clear and firm voice echoed in the carriage.
This time, everyone could tell that Su Huan’s words contained no hint of jest, just like stating a fact.
If Su Huan had said such words before, everyone might have had their own thoughts.
But at this moment, looking at him, everyone simultaneously recalled the scene of crossing Mo Jiang that night—the contending dragon, flesh and blood and steel, explosions and wild laughter, everything as gorgeous and spectacular as an epic.
The three brothers, who had some resentment in their hearts before, directly became Su Huan’s loyal fans after that night.
Their favorability shot up several levels.
This was the meaning of Su Huan bringing these people on board. Yu Jing and the others were smart people. Although their attitude toward Su Huan had subtly changed, they each kept it hidden, not as direct as the three brothers’ feedback.
“Pa”
Su Huan snapped his fingers.
“We’ve escaped the high-temperature zone and have a chance to catch our breath, but that doesn’t mean we have time to waste. Next, we’ll encounter more survivors. The armored train plan must be pushed forward vigorously. Collecting various materials, food cycle, weapons and ammunition, fine-grained management of passengers in the rear carriage—these are all things to do next.”
“Yu Jing, starting with you, report the progress of these two days.”
After a simple summary of the big picture to give them an idea, Su Huan handed the floor to them.
Yu Jing pondered for a moment and said, “The first ten carriages each have four tons of water tank and one ton of fuel tank installed, all completed. All water tanks are connected to the water purifier, and a pH adjustment device has been added to the end of the water purifier. The fuel tanks are stored independently, connected to the sprinkler head, and I’ve added some incendiary agent inside, which can be used as a flamethrower.”
“The Tier 1 light armor from the last research, I’ve pushed it to the extreme. Weight is 60% lighter than steel, impact resistance, tensile resistance, high temperature resistance, and other properties are all one level higher than steel. But when it reached this 60% critical point, it was like hitting a barrier, hard to improve further.”
“Then I fused White Snake’s snake skin with metal, but there was no progress. Then I fused the butcher’s fat with metal, forming a special material.”
As Yu Jing spoke, she took out a palm-sized transparent glass-like material.
Su Huan really couldn’t recognize this thing. The texture was very strange, somewhat like skin material, smooth to the touch.
“This material has excellent light transmittance, and is extremely resistant to puncture and impact. The only drawback is that it’s not heat-resistant; it softens and melts above three hundred degrees.”
Yu Jing explained.
Su Huan was surprised. No wonder he hadn’t seen it in his previous life. The advantages were outstanding, but the drawbacks couldn’t be ignored. Even if some force researched it, it couldn’t be mass-produced.
Otherwise, if the car was left outside for too long, it would all melt under the sun.
But this was normal too; manufacturers couldn’t have stable output every time.
It was normal to occasionally get some strange materials.
“Have you tried fusing it with glass?”
“Trying it now, maybe results tomorrow.”
“Good. What about Wan Xing?”
Su Huan’s gaze turned to Wan Xing, who had no presence beside him.
The woman carried a faint scent of disinfectant, and her body temperature seemed a few degrees lower than others.
“One Tier 2 General Energy Crystal, two Tier 1. Also, White Snake has been disassembled. Some materials are with me, some with Yu Jing.”
Her fair fingertips pressed on the crystal and pushed it to the center of the table.
Looking at the General Energy Crystal with two layers of reinforcement marks, Su Huan’s brows relaxed, with a trace of realization.
‘So it’s Tier 2. No wonder it was so fragile.’
Seeing that White Snake Desert River’s body at the time, Su Huan thought it had entered Tier 3.
He thought he could use some external force to temporarily force it back.
After all, their goal was to cross the river, not to fight to the death here.
But as soon as they clashed, he felt something off.
Mutated Beasts aren’t like humans with all sorts of bizarre abilities. Their evolution direction is singular: the ultimate physical body, especially vitality, completely crushing humans of the same level.
Such a ferocious big snake went down in one move.
Even if he was already a Tier 1 Evolver at the time, plus the power of the gasoline grenade explosion, it was impossible to one-shot a Tier 3 mutated beast.
At most, injure it a bit and stun its brain.
But unexpectedly, it was one-shot.
Now, not to mention the materials on the snake, just this one Tier 2 General Energy Crystal was a huge gain.
[Results are out, PK failed, can prepare for shelf, but word count is a bit low, planning to write more free chapters, so shelf in April, coincidentally quit job that day, so daily 10k after shelf]
