Chapter 108: Industry, Agriculture, And Medicine United Convoy
“There’s danger ahead!”
Su Huan’s stepping foot paused, his pupils slightly dilating.
In that instant just now, two voices reached his ears, one was Yu Yue’s voice, and the other was a young male voice.
Because they were too synchronized, he couldn’t distinguish the sound source right away.
Looking to the left and right, he saw He Jie and the others staring at the surveillance camera above the corner.
“There are survivors with unknown allegiance.”
He Jie said in a low voice, then shook his head with extremely small amplitude, signaling that the other party could not be trusted.
“Having survivors is not a bad thing. When out and about, you need to make more friends. It’s because your killing intent is too heavy that you’ve ended up in this state.”
After teasing He Jie, Su Huan bit the soft flesh on the side of his mouth, revealing an expression that carried a bit of vigilance and some resilience, and walked toward the surveillance camera below.
“Who are you people? Employees of the logistics center?”
He Jie was grinding his teeth in place out of anger, but upon hearing Su Huan’s question, he showed a thoughtful expression again.
He could become the captain of a B-level team not just because of his strength. If Su Huan’s question was only half-asked, the other party’s first reaction would be vigilance.
But Su Huan directly gave the other party a two-choice question. As long as the other party wasn’t someone with extremely heavy wariness, they would respond based on this context.
“No, we are… survivors from outside.”
Sure enough.
Next, He Jie watched with his own eyes as Su Huan gained the trust of the survivors behind the surveillance camera through a conversation.
But he couldn’t see any trace of acting on Su Huan. All his expressions were genuine, including the tension facing unknown survivors and the subtle emotion of a trace of surprise.
Because they were close, he felt it very clearly.
‘Perhaps… he’s not deceiving them.’
He Jie thought inexplicably.
A minute later, Su Huan also walked back and told everyone the information he had obtained.
“The logistics center has a lot of zombies?” Old San was stunned for a moment. “What nonsense are these people talking? Who would gather at the logistics center when they’re idle?”
Su Huan ignored him, and Yu Yue’s voice came into his ear.
“It’s true. Many zombies are gathered inside the logistics center, but they’re too dense to distinguish the number.”
Yu Jing suddenly spoke up and asked, “Then where is the exoskeleton we need?”
“According to them, the exoskeleton is in the equipment maintenance port, forming a triangular layout with the storage area and sorting area, and they are in the digital command center on the second floor of the building behind.”
Faint gunshots had already sounded outside, but the building’s interior had excellent sound insulation, sounding like fine rain falling, indistinguishable.
Su Huan thought for a moment and had Yu Yue go outside to find the digital command center’s building.
Then, following the prompts from the surveillance camera, they headed toward the digital center from the interior.
The entire logistics center was not just a few neat and tidy large warehouses, but one main and four auxiliary large buildings, with many attached buildings around the main building. Though not too complex, it gave Su Huan and the others space to maneuver.
Everyone was on the first floor of the main building, but the gate leading inside was closed, with stairs on both sides.
Following the prompts, everyone went up the stairs on both sides and entered the interior through the small door on the side.
The moment the door opened, noisy corpse roars surged into their eardrums. Roars of various tones echoed repeatedly in the vast space, like coarse gravel rubbing against their ears, extremely uncomfortable.
Everyone held their breath and looked down intently.
The logistics center was extremely large. Honeycomb shelves and ring-shaped double-layer sorting lines crisscrossed, dividing the entire space into multi-layered sections with a strong sci-fi feel, and the ground overall sank down by two meters, likely a design to reduce noise.
Various adjustable-height hydraulic platforms were arranged radially, stereoscopically crossing with the heavy truck access paths.
Many of the cargo below had been opened, with traces of household waste around. Some robots were stalled in the middle of shelves, like someone had suddenly pressed a freeze-frame key, still maintaining their working state, and all drones had returned to their positions.
Filling the spaces between the cargo were wandering zombies and white corpse pupae one by one.
A butcher was carrying a shelf, leading a group of ordinary zombies in a battle game with a goblin. Most of the chaotic noises came from them.
The butcher gripped an arm-thick steel pipe and swung it forward, directly bursting the tumor thrown by the goblin, with sticky juice splattering his face.
The surrounding ordinary zombies went mad and rushed toward the butcher.
The first two were directly knocked over by the butcher, stomped into meat paste with a big foot, but more and more came after, piling up a mountain of
But not all zombies were interested in this game.
For example, the Tier 1 Jumper right in front of them liked to hop back and forth between different platforms, like playing an extreme game, and inexplicably ended up approaching the area around Su Huan and the others.
Su Huan pressed down He Jie’s muzzle, “Let him come over.”
Just as the Jumper landed and its black-red eyeball locked onto Su Huan and the others, a cold blue electric arc instantly struck the sole of his foot. His crouched reverse-joint knee was like it was locked in place, completely unable to spring up.
Waves of burnt smell emanated from his body.
He Jie looked at Su Huan’s eyes flickering with electric light, and immediately his whole body muscles tensed up.
Clearly recalling some unpleasant memories.
Su Huan didn’t hesitate for a moment, stepped forward to steady the other’s head, one hand glowing red, and like poking tofu, directly inserted it into the jumper’s brain.
From beginning to end, the other party showed no sign of resistance whatsoever.
He Jin walked to the side, looking at the zombie whose muscles were all scorched, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, “Is the power of your electric current this strong?”
Su Huan glanced at him, “You should be fortunate that many people came in that day, otherwise just you alone, I guarantee you’d steadily eat a full belt of 14.5.”
Because the ground underfoot was pure metal structural steel plate, the energy consumed just now was not much, less than one-tenth, just a bit more than firing one shot.
In one-on-one battles, Su Huan only had two situations: able to control or unable to control.
Control it and it’s an instant kill; fail to control it and you’re instantly killed.
Anyway, they’re all carbon-based lifeforms—whoever you strike gets paralyzed.
Su Huan’s gaze turned toward the surveillance camera in mid-air. After entering here, the survivors stopped making sounds.
According to the plan, they should make noise on the other side to attract the zombies’ attention.
However, he was waiting for someone else.
After three breaths, a slightly panting voice came into Su Huan’s ears, “I’ve already found them, they’re hiding on the third floor, there’s a corridor between it and the main building, but there are zombies wandering inside.”
A warm smile appeared in Su Huan’s eyes. Except for the water, Little Aunt really hadn’t disappointed him.
“Clear them out, show off your presence.”
“Good!”
No sooner had the words fallen than, in the diagonal place, a strange tone rose from the broadcast.
“Rakshasa Country, twenty-six thousand li to the east”
“Crossing seven rushes over the scorching sea, three inches of yellow mud~”
All the zombies in the entire logistics center fell silent in that instant, only that exotic accent lingered melodiously. The butcher struggled out from the zombie horde, letting out an excited mad roar, like pouring a bowl of cold water into a pot of hot oil—the entire storage space instantly boiled over.
Countless shadows hidden in the darkness ran toward the place where the sound came from.
The number of Tier 1 Zombies alone exceeded ten, and the dense number of Zombies throughout the entire Logistics Center made one’s scalp tingle.
Similarly hard-controlled for three seconds, Su Huan gave a thumbs-up to the surveillance camera in mid-air.
“Good taste.”
He led the few people quickly jumping toward a sorting line, following the sorting line, crossing over several platforms, and climbing to the third floor.
He opened the side door, and pairs of black-red eyes looked over.
“Damn, sorry for the disturbance.”
Su Huan threw two grenades as an apology, closed the door, and counted to three.
A vibration came from behind the heavy metal gate.
He opened the door and let He Jie charge in first. Sounds like a woodpecker pecking at a tree trunk rang out from behind the door. Old San and the other two followed closely behind.
By the time Su Huan entered again, he could only see stumps all over the ground.
“Run forward, there’s a passage on the right that leads directly to the Digital Center.”
The surveillance camera in the upper right corner transmitted the initial male voice.
Su Huan had no time to respond to him. He rushed through the dozens-of-meters-long corridor and happened to see the last zombie in the passage fall with a sound. Shattered glass scattered over the corpses lying in disarray.
……
A fierce argument was taking place in the room.
“As you can see, they are very strong. They didn’t attract disaster and even cleared out the zombies outside!” Xiao Zhao said, pointing at the surveillance footage on the screen.
“Then if they’re so strong, why would they be so kind-hearted as to come save us?”
“They should be here looking for supplies. Saving us is just incidental.”
“Heh, anyone who sees so many zombies at the Logistics Center would retreat, wouldn’t they? None of the supplies outside are harder to obtain than here. They’re probably just like the Mojian Mutual Aid Convoy people…”
This person was curled up in the corner of the wall, a trace of cold, mocking indifference on his thin face.
“You——”
Xiao Zhao was exasperated.
“Bang bang bang”
The old man knocked on the table, waiting until everyone’s gazes were all on him, then sighed and said.
“Although you are Old Jiang’s students, I am fellow disciples with Old Jiang, so you are also fellow disciples. Old Jiang entrusted you to me, hoping that for the sake of this bond, you can stick together and live on well.”
The several students around had slight changes in their complexions, but they didn’t feel much about the old man’s words.
“When I was little, it was cold over where my family lived. Not to mention relatives, even neighbors without blood relation had to huddle together.”
“If we really can’t hold on, with the help from left and right neighbors, we can still survive.”
“Your era is different now; no matter how hard it gets, you won’t starve to death anyway, but the world has changed now.”
The old man’s tone wasn’t intense; instead, it was mild and gentle. It didn’t sound like an academic big shot educating a student, but rather like an elder reminding his own child.
Xiao Zhao had some uneasy premonition in her heart, and several sensitive girls were already sobbing softly.
“Don’t cry, children.” The old man put on his glasses and smiled gently. “Xiao Zhao, in a bit the teacher will go out to check things for you. If the teacher dies, then don’t open the door. You’ve seen it—people are actually much more terrifying than zombies.”
Xiao Zhao’s mind trembled, “Teacher, how can we let you go…”
The old man waved his hand. “I’ve lived for sixty years. Besides your teacher, no one cares about these old bones of mine. You’ve only lived a few days, and you haven’t tasted the flavors of the world yet. Maybe your parents and family are still alive. Leave yourself some hope and live well.”
“Xiao Zhao, you are the senior brother, take good care of them.”
After speaking, he pushed open the door and walked out.
“Creak——”
Just as Su Huan was thinking about what method to use to gently break open the room door, the room door at the end of the corridor opened by itself.
An old man with graying temples but a spirited demeanor walked out, wearing an ordinary plaid shirt. That refined temperament clearly wasn’t something a pair of glasses could bring.
The old man’s gaze swept over the corpses on the ground once, as if searching for something.
After lingering for a moment on a zombie of similarly advanced age, he looked up at Su Huan and the others, his gaze passing over He Jie in front and locking directly onto Su Huan. “Hello, we are survivors from the Industry, Agriculture, and Medicine United Convoy.”
Hearing this term, Su Huan was momentarily stunned.
Back then in the high-temperature zone, he had been thinking fondly of this group of high-quality talent.
In the end, on the road they not only didn’t encounter them, but even didn’t encounter the main force of the Mojian Mutual Aid Convoy.
Could it be that the wings of this butterfly flapped too hard?
“Professor Ma?”
A slightly surprised voice from behind called out the old man’s name.
The old man adjusted his glasses, then noticed there was also a pretty girl behind, his tone somewhat hesitant, “Do you know me?”
Yu Jing nodded. “At an academic conference last year, you were talking with my teacher at the time, and I was eating nearby. My teacher is Lu Cheng.”
Professor Ma was a bit confused at first, but he immediately reacted upon hearing Lu Cheng’s name.
“I remember now, you’re the one Little Lv mentioned… that… that……”
“Spendthrift child.”
Seeing Professor Ma pause for a moment, Yu Jing immediately knew what was going on and calmly continued.
A relaxed smile appeared on the old man’s face. “He said you broke a lot of his equipment, but he thinks you have special talent. I don’t know about your teacher… Never mind, never mind. It’s dangerous outside. Come in quickly.”
With Yu Jing as the communication bridge, the two groups quickly established initial trust. At the very least, the friendliness on the old man’s face wasn’t fake.
He Jie narrowed his eyes, shouldered his anti-aircraft machine gun, and squeezed through the room door, deliberately opening the room door wider to let Su Huan behind him see the situation inside clearly.
A group of people entered the room.
Su Huan immediately locked his gaze on the large screen in the middle of the Digital Center. Just this one big screen was six or seven meters long, and the various flashy surveillance cameras made his eyeballs light up.
The best thing he lacks most on the train is exactly this.
If they could move the equipment from the Digital Center back, the information terminal of the Armored Train would be set up.
After chatting for a moment, they got down to business.
“You just said you’re from a convoy, right? How come there are only a dozen or so people?”
Su Huan looked at Professor Ma and asked puzzledly.
Professor Ma looked at the scattered students around him, a trace of bitterness flashing across his face. “You saw those zombies in the main building when you came up, right?”
Su Huan thought of that Tier 1 Jumper he had instantly killed with one strike.
He didn’t seem to be wearing the Logistics Center staff uniform.
His thoughts flashed like lightning, instantly understanding the causes and effects.
His eyes carried a hint of gravity, “How many evolvers are in your convoy?”
