Chapter 132: The Sun
Xiao Zhao connected an old playback device to the train’s internal and external speakers, then hesitated and glanced at the excited Train Conductor.
“Are we really playing music?”
Su Huan gave him an affirmative look.
“Click”
Pressed the switch.
“Fold a thousand paper cranes, tie a red ribbon, may kind people have good luck every day~”
A high-pitched voice came from the speaker.
“Click”
Xiao Zhao hurriedly pressed pause, somewhat awkwardly looking at Su Huan.
The device was too old; it didn’t even display the song titles.
Su Huan raised an eyebrow, his eyes brightening. “Not bad, but it feels a bit off.”
Xiao Zhao quickly pressed a few buttons on the device, trying to skip these somewhat inappropriate music tracks.
“Click click click——”
Various sounds had just started when they were cut off, sounding like a jammed tape recorder.
Seeing a hint of impatience on the Train Conductor’s face, Xiao Zhao gritted her teeth and, as if resigned to her fate, stopped on one song.
“Who~ is my groom…”
As soon as this line played, Xiao Zhao shuddered in fright. Just as she was about to switch it, she saw Su Huan clap his hands.
He pointed at Xiao Zhao and praised to the people nearby, “This is talent!”
“Last time at the Logistics Center, I thought highly of this kid!”
Yu Yue’s curved eyebrows furrowed; she knew Su Huan had unique tastes, but she hadn’t expected them to be this… peculiar.
“This one it is, no need to change!”
Steel Blinds isolated the acid rain and chaotic battlefield, with bullets occasionally hitting the Vehicle Armor, producing clinking sounds.
Accompanying the train’s start, it was like a movie, frames being left behind one by one.
Human voices, roars, wails, and curses mixed together.
The movie’s soundtrack grew increasingly high-pitched, overpowering all the noise.
Steel Council soldiers, Servant Army, passengers on and off the train, the two Collectors, Li Tao in the helicopter, Lu Xiao struggling under Lin Xia’s butcher knife, and even the Mutated Beasts and zombies within a three-kilometer radius on both sides of the Railway Track were all stunned by this massive sound source.
They blankly watched the Armored Train slowly and steadily head toward Changli County.
“Don’t make me look around anymore, don’t make me guess every day!”
“Who is my groom?!”
“I am your groom!”
The high and resolute voice tore through this gloomy and oppressive world, casting a comical tint over all the brutal fights.
The passengers and zombies chasing behind the train seemed even more like embellishments in this movie.
“Aren’t we being a bit too flashy?”
He Jie, sitting on the escalator, suddenly spoke up.
Provoking on the battlefield is the most meaningless thing. Although Su Huan had a lot of malicious fun, he wouldn’t do anything pointless.
But he didn’t understand what benefit there was in the train being so ostentatious.
This wouldn’t deal an effective blow to the Steel Council and would even attract more unnecessary trouble.
Su Huan twirled the hair on his forehead, his eyes full of cold intent. “We need to be flashy to attract attention, don’t we?”
“In five minutes, it’ll be our time to counterattack.”
He Jie, sitting on the stairs, had a gleam in his eyes.
……
Five minutes later, as the train passed a small platform, three off-road vehicles rushed down from the Carriage. Using the rain curtain and the platform’s cover, they merged into the buildings.
Meanwhile, the train continued playing music and moving forward slowly.
He Jie drove the off-road vehicle like a rampaging kangaroo, but Su Huan in the passenger seat was as steady as if rooted to the chair.
He lounged there lazily, not even buckling his seatbelt, showing no sign of movement no matter how much the vehicle jolted.
Su Huan had the car window open, letting acid rain threads pour in, carrying a metallic tang onto his hair.
His right fingertip toyed with a Tier 1 General Energy Crystal. With each rotation of his fingers, the crystal diminished slightly.
In the back of the vehicle sat Yu Yue and Xiao Zhao. The other two vehicles carried Old San and his team, as well as Jiang Rong’s squad.
The rest had been left on the train by him.
Su Huan’s goal was to find Lin Jin and obtain some information about the truth of the Apocalypse from the Steel Council.
It had never been about causing trouble for the Steel Council from the start.
Though from the Steel Council’s perspective, it looked about the same.
These subtle gaps created an information gap.
Li Tao thought Su Huan’s goal was to destroy the company’s New City Plan, but that was at most a side effect.
Now, with a core member like Li Tao right outside, just capturing him would settle it, right?
“We can’t go any further. There’s a soldier on the second floor of the fast food restaurant ahead, and at the next street corner, there’s a freshly dead Butcher. There should be their people nearby.”
Xiao Zhao said while manipulating the drone.
He Jie, driving, sharply turned the steering wheel and pulled the handbrake. The off-road vehicle skidded sideways into the gap between two roadside vehicles, looking as if it had always been parked there.
The two vehicles behind followed suit, disguising themselves as scrapped vehicles on the roadside.
He Jie looked at Su Huan. “What is the combat objective?”
Su Huan gazed at the helicopter hovering in the distance, a light smile on his face. “Of course, take them all out. Should we put your future son-in-law first or last?”
“Click!”
He Jie didn’t answer. He pulled out a standard military iron-spine light machine gun from behind, racked the gun bolt, flames burning fiercely in his eyes.
Good, morale is high!
……
Goat felt his calves cramping and quickly turned and rushed into the nearest building.
The words “Jinghua SPA Club” in large white letters were printed on the building.
Goat rushed straight up the stairs to the second floor. The glass partitions were all shattered, leaving only dim rooms. On the ground were several corpses long dead, indistinguishable as zombies or humans.
His gaze swept across the cluttered indoors, not lingering on the counter, but heading into the pitch-black small room.
The silenced handgun fired several rapid shots.
After confirming the few remaining male and female survivors in the room were dead, he relaxed against the doorway, straining to straighten his calves.
Suppressing the imminent spasm in his calves.
But this only alleviated the physical discomfort. In this silent space, the mental pressure intensified even more.
He Jie that old dog being alive was one thing, but he’d even betrayed the city, making all their tactics unusable. Even the slightest scheme would be immediately spotted by him, and countered.
He had originally been with his squad, but He Jie that old dog had led a group and forcibly scattered them.
If not for his evolutionary ability leaning toward route-finding and quick escapes, he’d have ended up like his other two teammates, sieved on the spot.
And that damned anti-materiel electromagnetic sniper rifle—long range, silent, and pinpoint accurate, like it was cheating.
They’d already suppressed all the sounds they could make to the limit.
How was he still discovered by that sound-type Manipulator?
Once plunged into darkness, unable to perceive outward, people start looking inward and overthinking.
His training made him very aware of why this was happening.
But massive consumption of stamina and energy made it hard for him to control his mind.
Suddenly, he heard footsteps from outside.
The footsteps were deliberately lightened, but in the silent environment, that extremely faint noise couldn’t escape an Evolver’s ears.
Goat held his breath and activated visual analysis.
Suddenly, a bright light appeared in front of the room’s only window.
Like a little sun illuminating his world.
[There’s one more chapter tonight, making up for yesterday’s]
