Chapter 112: Exoskeleton Device
Through the scope, he saw Yu Yue calmly pulling the gun bolt with a composed expression.
Su Huan suddenly felt that the dual-core setup was pretty good too.
He listened to the scattered gunshots from both sides.
“Did you call those two as well?”
“……Yes.”
He could clearly feel the smooth sniper rhythm pause for a moment.
At that moment, the broadcast throughout the entire Logistics Center sounded, whether in the Storage Area or Equipment Post, even in the corridor, Yu Jing’s clear and calm voice transmitted.
“Su Huan, the remaining two Butchers are heading toward your position, sound can no longer deceive them, and five hundred Ordinary Zombies are converging on your location, Lu Xiao’s squad is at your left exit, Jiang Rong’s squad is at the Equipment Post, I suggest you retreat from the left side.”
The zombies that were closing in froze for a moment, as if distinguishing the sound source, and after a long while, they still slowly approached the corner where Su Huan was.
The Tier 2 Butcher in front of him was nailed to the ground by Yu Yue’s three high-explosive armor-piercing rounds.
Su Huan took a deep breath and stood up.
The downside of fighting outside the train is that after the fight, there’s still a bunch of cleanup to do.
Yu Yue’s soft and melodious voice also appeared in his ear, “Two D-level squads are in position, please issue orders, Train Conductor.”
Su Huan put away the sniper rifle; saving a bit of energy at a time like this is a bit, “Converge everyone’s voices together, then transmit to everyone’s ears.”
“Okay.”
Immediately after, Su Huan felt as if another world had been added to his ears.
Jiang Rong and the members’ advancing footsteps, Old San’s mechanical click as he changed the magazine, the soft whispers in the Digital Center of Yu Jing and Professor Ma discussing exoskeleton modifications, and even Lu Xiao and Miao Qi, that pair of dogs and men—their positions, footsteps, breathing, and sticky gazes seemed to appear stereoscopically in his mind.
All the sounds were not simply overlaid, but appeared in his ears with layers and spatial sense.
And he was like an unrestricted listener.
He could observe these desired sounds from any angle, freely advancing or pulling back; for example, He Jie, deep in the cargo, his breathing sound was very heavy, with liquid sloshing, as if his lungs were damaged.
Pulling back a bit, he could hear Xiao Zhao’s pounding heart and her forced calm swallowing, her fingertips pinched white at the edge of the shelf.
Su Huan felt a sense of novelty like pushing open the gate to a new world, “Is this your world?”
“Eh, you heard it? Yes, that’s it.”
From her appearance, she didn’t seem to fully understand.
A flash of surprise passed through Su Huan’s eyes; in two or three steps, he climbed onto the piled cargo around, “Has your ability evolved again?”
“Yes, just now, when I was thinking about how to integrate and share the sound with you, suddenly an extra ability appeared.”
Yu Yue obediently explained.
Su Huan raised an eyebrow; he didn’t expect the Little Chef to have Doraemon-level talent.
Whatever you want, you get.
Go back and study it well, see if he can squeeze something else out of that soft body.
“All units, report ammunition stock.”
Everyone in his ears hesitated for a moment, probably also feeling novelty for the first time with this all-around hearing experience.
Yu Yue was the first to speak, “Sniper Yu Yue, 42 Sniper Rounds remaining.”
“Logistics Yu Jing, 7.62 Standard Rounds 1 base.”
“Assault Trooper Zhang Kai, 5.56 Standard Rounds 1 base.”
“Firepower Specialist Old San, 7.62 Standard Rounds ammunition belt two, 200 rounds.”
“Assault Trooper Old Er, 7.62 Standard Rounds two magazines, 120 rounds, 9mm Handgun Bullets 60 rounds.”
“Deputy Firepower Specialist Old Da, 5.56 Standard Rounds three magazines, 90 rounds, 9mm Handgun Bullets 1 base.”
“D-level squad Jiang Rong, 5.56 Standard Rounds 24 rounds, 9mm Handgun Bullets 45 rounds.”
“D-level squad Lu Xiao, 7.62 Standard Rounds approximately 1 base, 9mm Handgun Bullets 20 rounds.”
Listening to the reports from each section, Su Huan frowned; the bullet count was too low, not even as many as the total number of zombies.
“Where’s Liang Kuan?”
“He’s still fighting.”
Suddenly, everyone’s ears heard Liang Kuan’s heavy panting, then hysterical roars; in an instant, everyone felt like they were in an ancient Roman arena, blood boiling, until Yu Yue cut off the sound from Liang Kuan’s side.
Hearing that this guy was still full of vigor, Su Huan relaxed, lowering his head to look at the miserable He Jie at his feet.
The other was shirtless, lying on the pile of cargo, the rice bags beneath him burst open by him, white rice grains mixed with blood foam flying everywhere.
A terrifying bruise crossed his strong pectoral muscles, and his originally broad sternum was also deformed.
“Tsk tsk, really tough; should I pull you up?”
He Jie rolled his eyes, “Don’t eye my crotch with that damn gaze of yours; pull it out and it’ll scare you to death!”
“Is that so?”
“You’re laughing!”
“You saw wrong.”
“Laughing with malicious fun.”
Su Huan tried his best to press down the corners of his mouth.
“Now?”
“Don’t hold it in; you look even more lecherous.”
Su Huan smilingly lent a hand, pulling He Jie to sit up; the latter winced in pain, sucking in cold air.
“My ribs seem to be broken in two places, damn it!”
“No problem, I have a Divine Doctor on the train.”
“That’s just an intern doctor; her first aid skills aren’t even as good as mine. Never mind that; coordinating with you feels pretty good. If the Energizer in my team back then was this strong, I absolutely wouldn’t have let him lead the assault on the train.”
Su Huan smiled without discouraging him.
Energizers really have no use before promoting to Tier 1; they can only bully Ordinary People.
But which Evolver can’t bully Ordinary People?
An Energizer’s early combat power is about the same as a Manufacturer’s.
Can’t produce high-temperature projectiles; that’s an overpowered ability requiring years of control experience.
Controlling electric current also needs a medium, either steel or rainwater; otherwise, output distance is approximately zero.
Even after promoting to Tier 1, without skills like high-energy compression and energy shaping, attack methods remain lacking; an Electromagnetic User flipping a coin is already considered exceptional output.
Lightning power is a bit strong, but including beasts like He Jie, who isn’t resistant to electricity?
After Tier 1, electric spears can pierce the air.
Proper high-voltage electricity.
But on them, it’s just a muscle spasm.
“What next?” He Jie asked.
Su Huan glanced at the surging zombies, rubbed his chin, “Connect him to our channel too.”
Watching Su Huan talking to himself, He Jie was first stunned, then realized the other team’s had a sound controller.
But when that 3D surround sound appeared in his ears, He Jie’s expression changed instantly.
His gaze toward Su Huan was shocked with jealousy like he wanted to strangle him.
“How did you find such an awesome team member?”
“Dug her up myself.”
……
Under the dual perspective cheat of Yu Yue and Mother’s voices plus surveillance cameras, Su Huan successfully escaped the Storage Area and conveniently took two small assisted exoskeletons, total weight 20kg, but able to provide about 90kg of strength when lifting heavy objects for people.
There were better ones nearby, but obviously harder to activate.
But with crisis at hand, could only discuss later.
Then Old San, wearing an exoskeleton, returned to the Logistics Center half an hour later with several cases of ammunition.
Two woodchippers’ 12.7 set up at the gate, three light machine guns filling the gaps.
Gate opened, fully venting for a full 20 minutes.
Over five hundred zombies completely eliminated.
Everyone, including Lu Xiao’s squad, fired at least one burst to get their fix.
The entire Logistics Center fully opened to Su Huan; this haul took four days.
Of course, such rough work didn’t need the Train Conductor to do himself.
But the Train Conductor wasn’t idle either.
“December 30, no rain”
“To bid farewell to past days, relax a bit, and help Yu Yue adapt to her new ability.”
……
“December 31, no rain”
“To celebrate the first full month since the apocalypse’s arrival, help Yu Yue relax.”
……
“January 1, no rain”
“Little Chef dressed very properly today, pouted.”
……
“January 2, no rain”
“Steel Council seems to have started the New City Plan, at least half a month of fighting.”
“No reason, pout!”
……
“January 3, light rain”
“Logistics Center’s supplies are truly abundant; seems like need to add two carriages.”
Su Huan closed the logbook, looking at Yu Yue kneeling beside him with her back to him, feeling his life was very fulfilling.
Supplies collection plan exceeded expectations, train upgrade plan advancing smoothly, old employer also pushing the New City Plan.
And harvested thirteen senior electronics talents including Professor Ma and his students.
The worst were all graduate students, over half actually PhD students.
Thinking of those eight hundred turned into zombies, Su Huan felt even more regretful inwardly.
But he cared more about what he had eaten into his mouth.
After Professor Ma learned of General Energy’s influence on information transmission, he immediately took interest, leading a group of students to research combinations of evolution, General Energy, and electronics, already starting heated research in the Crew’s few carriages.
Su Huan was very satisfied; Professor Ma’s status elevated to core level, various supplies provided as needed, including General Energy Crystals.
The so-called as needed meant convincing the Train Conductor got you whatever you wanted.
But the other students didn’t have that treatment, only supplied as Crew members.
Yu Yue used a Skill Potion the day before yesterday, gaining lv1 “Ballistics Calculation”; with this skill, she now had four abilities including “Sonic Affinity,” “Shared Sound Field,” and “Sniper Specialization.”
One more skill than Su Huan.
But as long as they could pair into a profession, a four-skill profession was probably stronger than three-skill.
In his previous life, he’d not only seen four-skill, but even five-skill professions.
Strong as hell at Tier 1.
But the problem was hard to promote to Tier 2.
In the Steel Council’s internal database, there was a similar recorded profession, a sound wave controller combined with firearms: Tier 1 “Sound Wave Hunter,” Tier 2 “Silent Hunter”—typical Wasteland Lineage.
But from Yu Yue’s potential shown recently, it was a bit of a waste to just be his Little Chef.
Feeling the warm palm on his back, Yu Yue squeezed out fragmented moans from her teeth.
“Why… does it have to be so weird.”
Su Huan shook her plump waist, a mischievous smile on his lips.
“Sit properly; you’re reporting work to your superior now.”
Yu Yue felt her last two days were too fulfilling; her watery almond eyes slightly dazed, “What… work?”
“Has the Logistics Center’s harvest tally come out?”
“It was tallied when loaded; the exoskeleton devices you care most about nearly filled Carriage 10.”
“Be specific.”
Su Huan dissatisfiedly pinched her soft flesh.
“Mm… Lightweight Assisted Exoskeleton twenty sets, function only for transporting heavy objects; Enhanced Assisted Exoskeleton twenty units, can load 100kg, all using titanium alloy skeleton, fully electric, plus one mechanical arm, can retrieve some dangerous goods or.”
“Enhanced Function Exoskeleton two units, on previous basis, added various common tools, extra two mechanical arms, can bear 150kg heavy objects, can do high-altitude climbing work, adapt to sloped terrain.”
“Industrial-grade Exoskeleton five units, load-bearing 300kg, loaded with simple smart AI, can match gait, action logic, reduce action consumption.”
Su Huan went around her nape, leaning to her round ear, lightly kissing, “Specifically, how much action consumption can it reduce? Can it make actions faster?”
The woman shivered, pouted, somewhat aggrieved, “How would I know; specific parameters need to…”
“Need what?”
“Ask Xiao Jing.”
“Hiss…”
Mentioning her daughter at a time like this always embarrassed the woman a bit.
Forcing Su Huan to surrender faster.
Yu Yue stood up, dressed properly, and ran off like a rabbit.
Su Huan squinted at the messy room; Little Aunt didn’t even help him clean up now, getting more and more inching forward.
Got up and went to the bathroom for a shower.
Daylight was already bright, with slanting light rain falling.
If not for the faint metallic bloody smell, it was really a wonderful morning.
The front few carriages had all been fully replaced with bulletproof new glass; Dining Car walls had undergone second-phase modification.
After testing, could even withstand 14.5mm armor-piercing rounds.
The principle wasn’t complex, just utilizing the material property of overcoming hardness with softness.
Simply put, shooting into water.
And that glass that melts under high temperature has much higher density than water.
But not truly unbreakable; as long as bullet quantity is enough, repeatedly output at one spot, equivalent to blasting all the water out of the pool, then filling the pool with bullet heads.
Carriage 6 was stuffed full of various supplies; even though everyone had been eating extremely indulgently lately, couldn’t consume a bit.
Carriage 7, eyes full of colorful plants; 【Fertile Soil Heart】’s newly grown stems and leaves still wriggling on the ground.
Huang Hai was bent over busily experimenting whether zombies or Mutated Beasts were better for composting.
Ever since Professor Ma and others boarded, he felt crisis sense again.
Then inexplicably got competitive.
Huang Hai status -1
Arriving at Carriage 10, Yu Jing sat in the center of a pile of parts, surrounded by disassembled exoskeletons.
If not for her spending more time recently in the work carriage than her room.
Su Huan wouldn’t have so many chances to relax.
After all, had to consider the Little Chef’s feelings a bit.
But in that case…
Su Huan looked at Yu Jing, a glint of malicious fun suddenly in his eyes.
‘Shouldn’t she call me something…’
