Chapter 136: The Gap
Yu Jing pulled up several interfaces on the screen, then pointed them out to Su Huan and said, “The thing we consumed the most in this battle was 7.62 rifle ammunition, but the battle time wasn’t long, so we only used about two thousand rounds. According to the ammunition depot monitoring system made by Professor Ma and the others, it tracks precisely which people received the ammunition. For example, all of this 14.5 anti-aircraft machine gun ammunition was used by He Jie, a total of five crates, five hundred rounds.”
In addition to the information Yu Jing mentioned, there was also the collection time, pictures automatically taken by the camera, and short videos.
There was also the remaining ammunition inventory nearby.
However, the current interface was very rudimentary, just piling all kinds of data together, looking like system parameters written by a third-rate web novel writer, a dense mess that made one’s scalp tingle.
“In addition, we lost four drones. The train has twelve pieces of glass damaged, and three pieces of armor with large areas damaged waiting for repair.”
“Ordinary passengers lost 214 people, 1403 remaining.”
Su Huan raised his hand to interrupt, “Wait, I remember it was over fifteen hundred before, right? How did it drop by over two hundred to just over fourteen hundred?”
Yu Jing’s phoenix eyes curved up slightly, with a hint of strangeness, “Steel Council’s servant soldiers came aboard, scrambling and arguing to surrender, and some people said these were captives they obtained and wanted to exchange for points.”
After speaking, she waved away all the screens and switched to the surveillance footage inside Carriage 19.
As soon as it switched over, she saw Old San viciously smashing a man to the ground with his gun stock, glaring his eyeballs and cursing, “The train conductor said ‘soldier’! ‘Soldier!’ Not these ragtag servant soldiers like a motley crew. You didn’t even see the enemy’s regular troops, and you’re thinking of exchanging for points? Exchange my ass!”
Old San and the others had also seen quite a few big scenes following Su Huan, and had grown extremely fast.
After being prompted by He Jie, in the monster carriage up front, he might just be an insignificant little supporting character, but placed among the ordinary people in the back, he was a wolf among a flock of sheep!
His ferocious aura stood out like a crane in a flock of chickens.
The man looked at Old San, saw Zhang Kai and the others holding their guns and standing behind him with cold smiles, then looked at his own side where no one was left—his companions who had just been demanding an explanation had all nearly fled to Carriage 20—and his heart suddenly went empty, his tone weakening.
“…This, this isn’t fair. We also got off the train to fight, we just didn’t see the enemy’s ‘soldiers’.”
Old San sneered, “Never seen ‘soldiers’? Seen Brother Xiao?”
The man hesitated and nodded, not knowing what he meant.
Old San pointed seriously to the carriage ahead, “You should be fortunate. Lu Xiao took the whole team to capture one heavily injured ‘soldier’ and two died on the spot, including him, with two more seriously injured, still under treatment now, won’t be out of bed for three days at least.”
Shock flashed in the eyes of the people around.
The tactical squad’s carriage was relatively close to them, and the scene of Lu Xiao being carried back was something they saw with their own eyes.
They originally thought he had been under intense fire and surrounded in a fierce exchange with people, but it turned out a group of them ganged up on one person and got beaten into serious injuries.
“You’re… you’re joking, right? Brother Xiao is an evolver.”
Someone murmured in disbelief.
If even the seriously injured ‘soldiers’ were this ferocious, how did the train take them out?
What kind of enemies was the armored train facing now?
And that mysterious train conductor many newcomers hadn’t even seen, just how strong was he?
The rear passengers could obtain too little information.
Lu Xiao was the strongest they could come into contact with: powerful strength, speed, and his ferocious evolver subordinates.
Some even thought Lu Xiao was a powerful contender group competing for train conductor.
But from the bits and pieces Old San revealed, it felt completely different.
Old San sneered, “Bullshit! I’m an evolver too. Although I couldn’t beat Lu Xiao one-on-one, with my four guns, I could wipe out his eight-man squad! At our level encountering Steel Council’s ‘soldiers’, even just one, and we’d be wiped out!”
……
“Pretty self-aware.”
Su Huan chuckled lightly from behind the surveillance.
Yu Jing continued, “According to Hu Shuo’s statistics, a total of 47 servant soldiers came aboard, including 3 evolvers. Because we suspect they are Steel Council spies, we didn’t let them join the crew. Should we deal with them?”
“No, keep them.”
Su Huan refused decisively.
Yu Jing showed no surprise at all. The train conductor had three hobbies—lying, scheming against people, raising internal ghosts.
Who knew if it was pure malicious fun or making full use of them.
But she felt it was both.
Unless absolutely necessary, Su Huan wouldn’t deal with them.
“The rest is that passengers hope the train can fully open points exchange, and after observation, the rear passengers have formed new groups.”
“Finally, the gains. We gained little from this battle, just a few sets of equipment, and two armored personnel carriers that can carry 8 people, defense against 7.62 armor-piercing rounds. Unfortunately, they were pierced by He Jie’s machine gun, repairs will take some time, and there’s no matching weaponry on the train.”
Su Huan rubbed his chin. He didn’t care much about the gains in this aspect; the two personnel carriers were a complete surprise.
The real gains were Qu Hang and Goat.
These were both good seedlings certified by the apocalypse. As long as cultivated a bit, they were sure to deliver results.
Most crucially, this counted as taken from the enemy.
One add one subtract, the effect was much greater than just battle gains.
As for fully opening points exchange on the train, not for now.
This was a result of Su Huan’s deliberate suppression. The main way the train maintained stability currently was violence.
Before Xiao Ba and the other core members reached Tier 1, Su Huan absolutely wouldn’t allow over a thousand evolvers to appear in the back.
Core members formed the head—crew, construction team, tactical squad formed the middle—remaining passengers formed the tail. These three layers of hierarchy were something Su Huan had thought deeply about: one layer suppressing the next, no changes in the short term.
Even if changes were needed, it would be after the gaps between each layer stabilized.
Before stability, Su Huan would rather leave those over a thousand in the back alone. Whether they formed new groups or killed each other, it didn’t matter.
Anyway, when needed, he just needed to “plow” the place once.
Even now, he would rather let Old San and them work a bit harder than draw rear passengers to form a train guard team.
Because that would lead to a large batch of people “over-leveling,” making the tactical squad’s existence very awkward.
Su Huan wanted to maintain the delicate balance inside.
He could easily turn ordinary passengers from “0” to “1,” and could barely turn the tactical squad and crew from “1” to “2,” but there was no way to turn Xiao Ba and them from “2” to “3.” So before Xiao Ba and them underwent a qualitative change, the passengers would be firmly suppressed in the back.
Even if having over a thousand more evolvers would be a rapid boost for the train overall, he wouldn’t do it.
This was class, even greater than the whole.
So no matter how anxious the rear passengers were, it was useless; he could only stew in his own heart.
Of course, they could also rush to their deaths; Su Huan wouldn’t stop them.
