Chapter 156: The Train Conductor Loves Your Surprise
“It’s very dangerous outside. I’ll take you away.”
Zhang Min unconsciously softened her tone.
She had a feeling of being completely seen through by the girl. The last time she felt this naked was in front of Su Huan.
Her heart was up and down as she waited for a response. She finally understood what those big brothers she had teased back then felt like.
“Mm.”
The girl reached out her hand, white as if glowing.
Zhang Min breathed a sigh of relief, took the girl’s delicate palm, and even the burning hatred in her heart lessened a lot.
She took the girl onto the vehicle behind, because the truck cockpit was very large, both of them squeezed into the passenger seat.
“How do you feel?”
The man in the driver’s seat asked.
Zhang Min looked up and saw that he was asking the girl behind her.
The girl shook her head and quietly sat in the cabin behind the driver’s seat. The man also breathed a sigh of relief.
The vehicle started, and the engine hummed.
“You seem to be very afraid of her?”
Zhang Min suddenly asked.
The man stared nervously at the rearview mirror while whispering, “I’m afraid she’ll die!”
“Hm?”
Zhang Min raised her eyebrows. Her ability told her that what the man said was true.
“The Gene Primordium will continuously generate abilities, like a burning torch, with only three to five years of lifespan. This is even with using a large amount of potion to maintain it. It could be now, or the next moment, death from being unable to bear the continuously generated abilities.”
Even though he deliberately lowered his voice, it could still be heard at such a close distance.
The girl who heard she could only live three to five years showed no reaction at all.
Zhang Min looked at the girl in the rearview mirror, a trace of imperceptible pity flashing in her eyes. “Can’t it be stopped?”
“Stopped?” The man sneered. “The Gene Primordial Agent is essentially an activation potion. After that, it’s the body’s spontaneous activity. Unless death, it can’t be stopped at all. It can only keep evolving.”
“Keep evolving, doesn’t that mean it can keep becoming stronger?”
A gleam flashed in Zhang Min’s eyes.
The man hurriedly said, “You can’t. That thing must be used by Dual Domain or even more domain evolvers. Ordinary evolvers will only suffer gene collapse.”
Hearing him say this, Zhang Min gave up the idea.
Next, neither of them spoke. The man drove the heavy-duty truck wildly, crushing anything in the way directly. Zhang Min personally saw him crush a seriously injured security personnel and two company employees.
Quite ruthless.
But the smoothness only lasted for a while. Because of the mutated birds and beasts, the road directly to the north was blocked, so they could only head east.
Various speed-type mutated beasts and zombies had already surged into the heavy industrial zone.
The higher the tier, the faster they ran. Those that could reach their position in a short time were basically tier 1 and above mutated beasts or zombies.
The Steel Council’s resistance never stopped, but it was already very weak, turned into scattered point-like firepower points in the vast industrial zone.
“Sizzle—”
The man jerked the steering wheel, and the front of the vehicle suddenly twisted to the side.
In the flash of lightning, Zhang Min grabbed the right handle, kicked off with both feet, and climbed out through the car window.
A skinny figure over three meters tall stood on top of a small car, its reverse-jointed legs slightly bent, the car under its feet crushed like a paper box, shattered.
Blood-red eyes with black locked onto Zhang Min, surging malice coming head-on.
Tier 2 Jumper!
Almost instantly, Zhang Min judged the strength of the zombie in front of her.
No wonder he didn’t even dare to collide.
She tried to absorb the opponent’s malice, but gave up this futile idea moments later.
In her perspective, the Tier 2 zombie’s malice seemed endless. After absorbing just a bit, she felt a stuffy sensation in her chest.
However, thanks to the expanded negative emotions, the wound on her arm began to heal rapidly, and her mind became even calmer.
Using the absorbed negative emotions as a trigger to detonate the jumper’s emotions.
Then she flashed back into the carriage. “Run fast!”
Behind her came the furious roar of the jumper. The next moment, the entire vehicle shook violently, as if bearing a huge monster. The frame collapsed, wheels flew off.
The entire heavy-duty truck disintegrated from the undercarriage while moving, sliding forward by inertia.
The vehicle chassis rubbed violently against the cement ground, sparking intensely, and heavily crashed into a building by the roadside.
Instantly, the vehicle flipped over, the world spinning.
Zhang Min was flung hard against the deformed car door by inertia, the sharp pain of broken ribs making her vision go black.
Through the broken car window, she saw the jumper’s rotten claws tearing open the iron sheet, its blood-red blackened nails less than ten centimeters from her eyeball.
“Am I going to die…” As this thought emerged, the armored train’s slowly closing car door seemed to gradually appear before her eyes.
Su Huan stood at the light-shadow boundary, a mocking cold smile on his lips.
Hatred stirred her internals like a poison-quenched dagger—she hadn’t yet seen that man kneel and beg for mercy with her own eyes, hadn’t yet peeled off his arrogant flesh piece by piece.
The jumper’s roar suddenly became distant.
In a daze, she heard the trembling hum of the railway track. That sound pierced through the zombie tide’s roars like an ice pick stabbing into chaotic consciousness.
She was actually hallucinating…
How could the armored train come here? Even if it did, so what.
Just a small survivor organization.
Even the Steel Council suffered this disaster. Even if they came, what could they do?
“Shh…”
The silver-haired young girl suddenly pressed her bleeding shoulder.
In the other’s gem-like pupils, Zhang Min saw her own distorted reflection, and further away—
Silver lightning splitting the night!
The silver heavy motorcycle roared tearing through the night curtain, its engine roar overpowering the zombie tide’s roars.
Su Huan had a carbon fiber composite long saber clenched diagonally in his mouth, blood threads from his teeth sliding down the blade spine.
Violent lightning around him tore hunting rainbows in the air.
It wasn’t that he wanted to show off, but he had to drive while carrying the person in charge of the high tower laboratory, with no hand left to hold the saber.
The mechanical arm mounted on the exoskeleton was now helping him hold the electromagnetic sniper rifle.
Moreover, he could no longer control the energy in his body, causing the flashy phenomenon of lightning overflow.
“Hold on tight.”
Looking at the overturned heavy truck a hundred meters away, Su Huan let out a low laugh from his throat, the long saber in his teeth trembling.
Three blood hounds pouncing from thirty meters away were instantly entangled by lightning serpents.
Directly pulled to the front of the motorcycle by the lightning whip.
The front of the motorcycle crushed over without slowing, the two-ton heavy motorcycle turning into a silver meteor, smashing the three tier 1 blood hounds into dents and explosions. Flesh and bone fragments smeared a stinking fan-shaped trajectory on the front armor bumper.
Su Huan flung Director Xu over his shoulder, barely avoiding a pounce from a night demon.
The tier 1 Fighter’s battle-hardened combat skills let him easily seize the battle opportunity. Like instinct, he took the long saber from his mouth and swung.
In an instant, flesh and blood splattered.
The Tier 2 Jumper by the overturned truck had already locked its gaze on Su Huan, knees slightly squatting.
“Pa!”
A cold shot from who-knows-where made it stagger.
From the pickup truck roof across a block, Yu Yue calmly pulled the gun bolt, searching for the next existence threatening Su Huan.
Although interfered by Yu Yue, the jumper still successfully jumped with its powerful physique.
At the moment of jumping, a bolt of lightning spread to its feet.
lv5 General Energy Conversion’s general energy conversion instantly converted half of Su Huan’s output general energy into surging current, spreading in the area within ten meters.
Lightning shot up from the ground, converging into a power grid in the air five or six meters high.
In that instant, only dazzling lightning bolts could be seen shuttling through this space.
Su Huan threw the old man out, abruptly twisting the motorcycle and sliding close to the ground.
Suddenly, a cracking sound came from deep within his body, like the crisp ring of spring ice river breaking—subtle yet deafening.
His originally fluid movements suddenly had a slight stutter.
lv1 Super Speed Nerves disintegrated, the Fighter profession completely destroyed.
A touch of blood red appeared in Su Huan’s pupils at some point.
“Sizzle—”
The jumper leaping a hundred meters high landed brazenly in the lightning zone.
And facing it was an electromagnetic sniper rifle already poised and ready!
A dark blue light beam pierced the sky.
“Bang!”
The delayed crashing sound rang out.
The heavy motorcycle’s slide slowly came to a stop.
He never planned to fight the Tier 2 zombie in close combat anyway, so whether the Fighter was affected or not didn’t matter much.
It was just the negative effects of gene collapse making his vision black out intermittently.
“The Gene Primordium and Gene Primordial Agent are both on this vehicle!”
Director Xu, with just some scrapes, said standing by the overturned truck.
But what interested Su Huan more was the familiar face pinned under the vehicle chassis.
Dragging heavy steps to the heavily injured Zhang Min’s side and squatting down, he touched half of her tender face.
Spitting out the already bitten-deformed knife handle, his blood-stained lips curved into a ferocious arc.
“The Train Conductor really likes your surprise.”
Behind him was a hundred meters of lightning-scorched earth, ahead was the vacuum zone where the zombie tide panicked and retreated, like a blood path split open by the Thunder God’s whip.
(End-of-month summary: Zero absences this month, daily 15k words, total 200k updated. Not comparable to the big shots, but not shameful. The latter part was really unsustainable, plus the climax took some brainpower, always thinking about plot arrangements for better presentation, so updates slowed. Today including this chapter is over 7k words.)
