Chapter 124: Mine Sweeping
“January 7th, no rain”
“The weather is nice, suitable for visiting relatives.”
The armored train, which had been parked outside the Smart Logistics Center in Dongping City for many days, finally started up.
The front of the train and the eight distributed hydrogen-powered train carriages exerted force simultaneously, accompanied by a hysterical whistle sound.
The several thousand tons of double-decker train pressed down on the railway track, making it creak, with dull “bang bang” sounds that made people’s hearts race with fear.
The loosened screws on the steel rail, soaked by acid rain, just popped out and were immediately pressed back by a powerful force, the screw and nut melting and fusing together, and the originally somewhat twisted railway track was straightened.
“Buzz——”
An iron plate on the front of the train unfolded to both sides, and a medium-sized drone pulled a line along the railway track and flew forward.
The images and information captured by the high-definition camera on the drone were all transmitted to the screen in front of Su Huan. With just a swipe of his hand on the screen, he could see the situation ahead on the track clearly, and Su Huan nodded satisfied.
Then he turned and left the room, heading to the driver’s cabin.
Besides his Carriage No. 1, there were screens in the driver’s cabin and dining car, and in Carriage No. 12, Professor Ma’s students were watching a bunch of them.
No need for the train conductor to watch personally, but he had other tasks.
Walking to the front of the train, Liang Kuan, who had just recovered from serious injuries, was sitting in the driver’s seat driving, Xiao Ba was still sitting in the corner nearby, Professor Ma and Xiao Zhao were installing a projector next to him, and He Jie was watching from the side, his cigar in his mouth almost chewed into bubble gum.
Seeing Su Huan, He Jie nervously rubbed his hands, “Isn’t this too rushed? Should we prepare a bit more?”
Su Huan gave a skin-deep smile, “You’re the one in a hurry to fight, you’re the one who needs to prepare, or how about you do it, Train Conductor?”
He Jie anxiously rubbed his forehead and said no more.
Last night he asked, and Su Huan directly said they were going to hit Changli.
Asked about the time, tomorrow.
Among everyone, he was the most anxious and also the most worried.
On one hand worried that Su Huan wouldn’t fight his old employer, on the other hand worried that Su Huan couldn’t win.
He was so conflicted that he didn’t sleep all night.
Su Huan ignored him and closed his eyes to silently absorb the general energy crystal.
About twenty minutes later.
“Train Conductor, there’s a situation ahead!”
The general energy around Su Huan suddenly fluctuated.
Within a breath, faint energy overflowed from his mouth and nose, spreading out like a thick fog, passing through the carriage armor, over the fence concrete, covering a range of ten meters around Su Huan.
As long as it encountered objects carrying general energy, it would rebound rapidly in an extremely short time.
The information attached to it would also be received by him.
lv2 “General Energy Perception” — lv3 General Energy Perception.
A sharp braking sound rang out, and the train, already traveling at low speed, slowly came to a stop.
Su Huan opened his eyes and looked up at the screen hanging on the carriage wall. About three hundred meters ahead on the railway, a heavy truck lay horizontally on the track like a city wall, its front rolled to the side, the carriage overturned sideways, more than a dozen vehicles crisscrossing and flipped over here, their metal shells wrinkled like waste paper, stacked more than five meters high, glass and debris scattered on the ground, glistening after being washed by acid rain, like sequins on a stage.
(ai can’t adjust it properly, make do with it)
Under Xiao Zhao’s control, the drone gradually rose higher.
The full view of the entire intersection was revealed.
From the center of the accident at the railway intersection, looking to both sides, dozens or hundreds of cars were jammed at the intersection, stretching almost several kilometers out.
Red boxes quickly circled the zombies wandering in the footage, densely packed, almost covering the screen.
Seeing this, Xiao Zhao quickly adjusted a few times, hiding the red boxes on the screen.
Su Huan placed his hands on Liang Kuan’s seat, looking at the horrific car accident on the screen, and asked indifferently, “Was this the road we took on the way here?”
“No, turning around is troublesome, I took another route, this one can also get back to Changli County.”
“Heh.”
Su Huan sneered.
After all, he’d survived the apocalypse for four years, he’d seen countless car accident scenes, how had he never seen a car accident stacked five meters high at a railway crossing?
His old employer had really gone to great lengths to prevent him from returning!
But today, he was determined to go back and properly visit his old employer.
“Any other anomalies?”
Su Huan said this to Xiao Zhao.
“According to our detection, there are no landmines or the like.”
Xiao Zhao said affirmatively.
“Mm, Xiao Ba, check the railway track.”
“Railway track intact, minor deformation, I’ll fix it if we get closer.”
Xiao Ba answered clearly.
“Liang Kuan, ram through it!”
“Understood!”
The train accelerated again, the thick pointed cone directly piercing into the container heavy truck, flipping it open amid the rumbling vibrations.
The cars stacked on top fell down, smashing onto the front armor, then bouncing to the sides.
Under the train’s violent charge, it easily tore open a path and sped away.
Su Huan’s general energy perception remained active, checking for anomalies on the railway track. With the Steel Council’s temperament, this journey absolutely wouldn’t be stability.
……
At the border between Dongping City and Jinzong City.
In a small building beside the railway, two shirtless men and a neatly dressed woman were playing poker in the living room.
One of them was none other than the former leader of the Mojian Mutual Aid Convoy, Wang Fei.
The room was fairly clean, and on the coffee table besides snacks and poker, there were two old-fashioned rifles just like Lin Jin’s, casually tossed aside.
“Pair of twos! Hurry up and play, don’t dawdle!”
Wang Fei roughly threw two cards onto the woman’s chest, making a crisp slap.
The woman fell silent, tremblingly throwing out four fives, observing their complexions, “Bomb, is that okay?”
“Oh ho, you have a bomb! Sure, of course, don’t make it seem like we’re forcing you.”
“Then straight, I’m out.”
The woman tossed her cards down.
Wang Fei was stunned, glanced at her cards, then at his own, and slammed them face black onto the table, “Damn it! These cards suck!”
After cursing, he took off a piece of clothing.
The woman carefully shuffled the cards nearby, listening to the two chat idly while drawing cards.
“Gotta hand it to Fei Ge, I thought it was a tough job, but it’s so easy. They’re fighting to the death in Changli, while we just squat here with food, drink, and fun.”
“I told you to come and you didn’t want to, now you see how good this gig is, right?”
Hearing his flattery, Wang Fei’s gloom from being imprisoned and stripped of power dissipated a lot.
Although the convoy’s leadership was gone, having witnessed the Steel Council’s overwhelming strength, Wang Fei had no intention of running away.
His convoy only had a few thousand people, while the Steel Council had now gathered tens of thousands of survivors, with guns, cannons, and evolvers.
If he could get a position in the Steel Council, wouldn’t that be much better than his small convoy?
And that bitch Zhang Min, thinking she could escape him by joining the Steel Conference.
He didn’t believe that he, an evolver, couldn’t outdo her.
And that damn armored train, once he made it big, he’d take it down too!
“Just don’t know how long this job will last, that train stayed in Dongping City for a week.”
“It should be soon… what the hell kind of crap cards are these?!”
Wang Fei slammed his cards on the table again, snatched the cards from the woman next to him, and took a quick look, “Fuck, she has both kings and four twos, no point playing anymore.”
The woman gave an awkward smile.
“Hey, Fei Ge, do you feel like the ground is shaking a bit?”
The man sitting opposite asked hesitantly.
Wang Fei sneered, “Train passing by, what’s the big fuss——Holy shit!!!”
“Train!!”
