Chapter 149: Su Huan, You Should Die
He was of course not woken up by the Little Chef.
He just wasn’t completely dead yet.
Literal meaning, dead, but not completely dead.
What surprised him was that Yu Yue in front of him had already promoted to Tier 1.
Before he could carefully check, he heard the thunderous sound of wings flapping coming from the sky.
Su Huan suddenly grinned, his bloodstained teeth stark white and piercing.
“Be careful!”
Yu Yue only had time to warn once.
Under the gaze of countless eyes.
The figure standing on the water surface was engulfed by a sky-covering flock of crows, followed closely by an 85mm cannonball landing in the crow flock.
“Boom——”
The violent blast wave battered the flesh and blood, and Su Huan could clearly feel every change in his body, with endless general energy sweeping in like a storm.
Genes that would take thousands of years to evolve rapidly reorganized and changed under the stimulation of general energy, with skill upgrades as easy as drinking water.
New skills were also generating at a frighteningly fast speed.
lv4 “General Energy Conversion” — lv5 “General Energy Conversion”
lv3 “High-Energy Compression” — lv4 “High-Energy Compression”
lv1 “Energy Shaping” — lv4 “Energy Shaping”
lv3 “General Energy Perception” — lv4 “General Energy Perception”
lv1 “Combat Factor” — lv3 “Combat Factor”
……
lv1 “Super Speed Nerves”, lv1 “Grappling Specialization”, lv1 “Dynamic Vision”, lv1 “Energy Cycle”……
The newly generated skills naturally triggered a new combination.
lv3 “Combat Factor” + lv3 “Grappling Specialization” + lv1 “Super Speed Nerves” = lv1 “Fighter”
No extra general energy crystals, no painful promotion.
The awakening and upgrading of all skills happened spontaneously.
Su Huan finally experienced the genius feeling that Lin Jin had, but there was no joy in his heart.
Because what he got was not the Lin Jin template, but the Gao Zhe template.
Due to the stimulation of death, his body had entered a state of rapid evolution, with massive genes iterating every minute and every second, and his genes could no longer bear it, rapidly heading toward collapse.
With the assistance of “Dynamic Vision” and “Super Speed Nerves”, Su Huan’s world seemed slowed down by hundreds or perhaps thousands of times.
His senses were somewhat confused now, and he couldn’t tell the difference.
He could see the Black Crows around the metal bullet head exploding into a cloud of blood mist out of thin air, then being compressed and burned to nothingness by high temperature.
‘Can’t hold on’
‘Maybe I should run away……’
The sluggish nerves gave two answers.
The violent energy erupted without any conversion, forming a thick barrier between his body and the cannonball.
The energy storage heart was compressed to the extreme.
His body dodged to the side with all its might.
Firelight and black feathers rose instantly, and the black pillar pouring down from the sky instantly collapsed.
Everything happened in an instant.
In the shocked gazes of everyone, that miracle of evolution in the new era was engulfed by the cannon fire of the old era.
Ten thousand crows wailed in grief, the zombie horde roared.
The Steel Council’s defense line was completely breached, the soldiers lost command and fled for their lives, the entire position descended into chaos.
“Goodbye, Su Huan.”
Li Tao turned and left without any reluctance, but in the next moment, a faint crackling sound came to his ears.
He whipped his head back to look, only to see at the center of the explosion, the sparse Black Crows torn apart by firelight and thunder, just like a gap torn open in the sky.
“Why…… are you still not dead?”
Li Tao murmured in confusion.
A streak of blood tears slid inexplicably from the corner of his eye, his ability had taken in too much information, but he couldn’t analyze or judge it.
He bit his tongue tip hard and closed his eyes.
Blocking out that incomprehensible information, he quickly analyzed the second target, and moments later, Li Tao, with stubbornness in his eyes, walked alone toward the armed helicopter that had already been prepared.
The entire Steel Council had only two helicopters, one was Wang Yi’s, and the other belonged to Executive Director Li Wangchuan.
But the one used the most was him.
When going upstairs, seeing the man coming face-to-face, Li Tao was stunned, “Dad.”
Li Father saw his son’s gloomy complexion and immediately delivered a heavy slap, grabbing his collar and roaring, “It’s over, the Li Family is completely done! I told you not to listen to your uncle, he’s just a gambler! You two bastards gambled away the entire Li Family!”
Li Tao looked at his red-faced, thick-necked father, and only then remembered that his father was no different from those mediocre directors.
He pulled away Li Father’s hand grabbing his collar and said calmly, “The zombie tide has already broken through the defense line, the New City Plan is done for, the Steel Council is done for too. Wasting any more time and none of us will escape.”
Even if he was just a Tier 1 Collector, his strength was not comparable to that of an ordinary person like Li Father.
Li Father staggered, just about to get angry, but upon hearing Li Tao’s words, he panicked instantly, his mind going blank, and he hurriedly looked at his son in front of him again, “Where do we escape to?”
Li Tao wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, repeatedly straightening his wrinkled collar.
The idea in his heart grew firmer.
‘Only if Uncle survives does the Li Family have any hope of turning things around.’
“The ground is full of mutated beasts and zombies, we can only escape by helicopter.”
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Su Huan’s world returned to normal time flow.
Bad news, the cannonball still hit the ground.
Good news, it didn’t hit him square in the face.
It exploded about three meters away from him.
All the energy in his body was released clean in that instant, offsetting the peak pressure from the explosion.
The water waves lifted by the explosion instead became the first barrier, but even so, the pressure of over a hundred megapascals still made the shrapnel’s initial velocity as fast as bullets.
Su Huan was hit by six pieces of shrapnel, gaining several through-and-through holes.
But this level of injury was just icing on the cake for Su Huan’s current state; it was Zhong Cheng floating up beside him who was truly unlucky, left with only half his body lying at the edge of the pit, staring at Su Huan with deep confusion in his eyes.
“Can’t even an 85mm cannon kill him?”
He Jie on the front of the train voiced what everyone was thinking.
It wasn’t that he hoped Su Huan would die, but that was a direct hit from an 85mm cannon!
Damn it, buddy!
Even if you don’t die, you can’t just stand there stiffly, right!
Liang Kuan jumped down to start the train, and the armored train, no longer restrained by the engineering vehicle, burst forth with new vitality again, the clanging sounds ringing out slowly but firmly.
The crows dove down again, trying to devour that human stained with the scent of inducing agent, but in the next instant, they were riddled with high-explosive gunfire, feathers flying everywhere.
Flames followed closely, roasting them into roast chickens one by one.
Like building structures in a game.
Steel flew up out of thin air, clanging as it was shaped by invisible hands into railway tracks, laid out in front of the train.
Su Huan stepped on the roof of the underwater engineering vehicle, carrying the City Breaker step by step to the shore.
A bubbling voice sounded at his feet, like the resentful curse of a ghost from hell, “Su Huan, you destroyed this city, you should die.”
Su Huan finally lifted his eyelids, looked down at the horrific Zhong Cheng, and tugged at the corner of his mouth, “New City Plan? I guarantee this land will stay lively until next year. Who lives here doesn’t matter, but this is just the beginning…”
Zhong Cheng followed his gaze to the end of the extending railway tracks, further north.
That was the Steel Council Headquarters where ten thousand people had gathered!
Zhong Cheng finally understood where Su Huan’s confidence came from—this madman didn’t care if the train could break through the defense line at all; he had long prepared to drag the entire battlefield into hell!
If I die, let the floods rage!
The great earth shook, countless mutated beasts and zombies and even more things were rushing this way.
But he was already powerless to stop it.
The gates of the New World had already closed to him.
“How are you?”
Yu Yue carefully held Su Huan’s body, the icy touch making her heart sink repeatedly.
Su Huan’s gaze lowered, looking at the woman’s concerned eyes, feeling a bit uncomfortable; he didn’t know whether to reply that he was fine or terrible.
Clearly, the Train Conductor used to say such things without hesitation before.
Was it fear?
He couldn’t say.
“Get on the train!”
Liang Kuan’s burly figure leaped down from the speeding front of the train, a hundred-plus-pound alloy shield whistling as it spun through the air, slicing in half a blood hound trying to sneak attack Su Huan!
Liang Kuan’s appearance broke the frozen atmosphere.
Rejecting Yu Yue’s support, the Train Conductor wasn’t weak to that extent yet.
The promotion to “Fighter” hadn’t healed his injuries, just made his body even stronger, so the same heavy injuries on such a physique would feel lighter.
With a light leap, he landed on the front of the train.
Now, even without general energy, he could punch He Jie into a bear.
Anyone could tell the Train Conductor’s mood was off, no one bothered him, only the steady iron rain sounded, helping the Train Conductor clear those annoying birds and beasts.
The armored train traveled on the railway tracks, crossing the deep pit of the Steel Council.
Tens of thousands of zombies surged forward, filling the streets and alleys, millions of mutated beasts and zombies jammed into this narrow county town, survivors and Steel Council soldiers letting out fearful wails.
Sparse Tier 2 zombies and mutated beasts began to appear, heading toward the advancing train.
Beneath the acid rain clouds were countless mutated beast birds circling and diving toward the train, only to be torn into chunks of minced meat by supernatural abilities or gunfire.
Ahead was the Steel Conference Headquarters at the end of the railway tracks.
Behind was the “New City” submerged in the zombie tide.
And the Train Conductor sat in this apocalyptic scroll painting, lost in a daze.
Enjoying this collapsing world, and his own collapsing self.
The speed of gene collapse was far faster than he had imagined, like a burning log; perhaps tonight, perhaps the next moment, he would burn out completely and become a Butcher like Gao Zhe.
‘A Dual Domain Butcher approaching Tier 2?’
‘Seems pretty badass.’
The Train Conductor thought this way when he was suddenly interrupted by an armed helicopter rising in the distance.
His narrow eye corner carried confusion.
The helicopter was only about a kilometer away from him; did these guys really think he was dead?
Before he could figure it out, the City Breaker electromagnetic sniper rifle was already set up, one leg kneeling, the scope already locked on the slowly rising helicopter.
“Energy Cycle” is the core ability of Tier 2; it allows energy in the body to no longer be confined to the heart, but to form a cycle within the body, creating an energy vortex that “slowly” gathers external energy.
Of course, this slowness was only compared to “Energy Storage Core”.
After a great battle, Su Huan felt his internal energy capacity had expanded again; though still Tier 1, in terms of total general energy in the body alone, he should surpass most Tier 2 Controllers, only outdone by Tier 2 Energizers.
With a light heartbeat, the projectile was already propelled out by two electromagnetic accelerations.
Electric ions left a ghostly light trail in the air.
The armored helicopter’s armor was directly pierced by this shot, spewing smoke as it plummeted downward.
Li Wangchuan in a bulletproof vehicle tried hard to stick his body out the window, but was pulled back by the bodyguard behind him.
“Xiao Tao…”
The helicopter crashed to the ground, but was blocked by buildings.
But the Train Conductor had no intention of letting them off so easily.
Five fingers inserted into the long hair in front of his forehead, high temperature and steam intertwined, the moisture in his hair evaporated dry, and Su Huan used the same method to wipe over each of the through holes on his body.
The sound of roasting flesh sizzled.
Five minutes later, the Train Conductor re-entering the carriage had returned to his usual appearance.
Except for his somewhat pale complexion.
Facing everyone’s complex expressions, Su Huan raised an eyebrow, “You didn’t already pick a new Train Conductor while I was filling the pit, did you?”
No one answered Su Huan; he had told an unfunny joke.
“Su will always be the Train Conductor.”
The youth’s voice from the corner was firm and clear.
Xiao Ba never thought Su Huan would lose, let alone die.
Everyone turned to look.
Su Huan was stunned, then smiled.
“Next is the time to collect the spoils of war.”
“Liang Kuan, head north out of Changli, follow the Qing Steel line marked on the map, it’ll lead directly to a heavy industrial zone.”
“Understood.”
“He Jie, go check on your comrades, gather any you can along the way.”
“Got it.”
Su Huan then removed the shattered Scavenger Exoskeleton from his body.
It was crippled in one clash with Zhong Cheng, yet he could still stand in place against the aftermath of an 85mm cannonball thanks to this thing.
“Yu Jing, give me another new set, no need for functional upgrades, just like this one.”
“Professor Ma, take your students to check the train’s damage.”
“Xiao Ba, watch the railway tracks; there shouldn’t be any breaks behind, but prevent mutated plants from damaging them, keep a close eye.”
“Lin Jin, get ready to see your sister tonight.”
“Old San, the zombie horde outside is a bit noisy, take people to hold them off.”
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