Chapter 158: Metal Barrier
The stretcher and the metal on the carriage gradually extended, hanging the unfocused Li Tao on the wall, like an iron coffin.
The youth on the wheelchair had a slender figure, the lines of his shoulders revealing a somewhat gaunt outline under the cotton shirt.
The ruthless iron-blooded methods stunned everyone.
Although Lin Jin hated Li Tao to the point of itching teeth and had even thought about taking him out, that was only “even”!
No one had expected that the youth who shyly smiled at everyone would kill so decisively.
Goat standing at the back had a complex expression, fortunate that Xiao Ba wasn’t around when he was captured.
Although killing wasn’t a big deal, including the row of captives squatting on the ground, after the apocalypse, who didn’t have blood on their hands?
What was terrifying was the decisive mentality.
Lin Jin had hesitation in his eyes, “Didn’t the Train Conductor say he knew a lot of important information?”
“He is important, but Su is more important.”
Xiao Ba calmly finished speaking and turned to leave toward the car door.
“Wait a moment.”
A clear voice came from the direction of the second floor of Carriage 3.
Sister Yu Jing came down the stairs and arrived at the dining car.
She glanced in surprise at the iron coffin on the wall, weighed the lightweight titanium alloy skeleton in her hand, “This thing can make you stand up, but remember, only eight hours.”
A hint of anticipation appeared in Xiao Ba’s eyes, and he waved his hand. The exoskeleton automatically unfolded in front of him.
It was directly worn over the clothes. Although not as agile as skin-tight, under the drive of the motor, Xiao Ba smoothly stood up from the chair. The motor locked, steadily standing in place.
Although Xiao Ba could now stand up relying on his ability, the existence of the exoskeleton made him much more convenient.
“Thank you, Sister Yu Jing.”
Xiao Ba sincerely thanked.
Sister Yu Jing sat down at one side of the long table, removed the Iron Curtain assault rifle grabbed by the mechanical hand at her waist and placed it on the table, loaded a high explosive grenade, crossed her legs, and looked at the row of soldiers in front of her, saying indifferently, “Don’t worry about the train, I have them under watch. The inducer on this grenade was newly made by your Sister Xing Zi. Activating it here, the effect is no worse than the previous one.”
Hearing this, the row of elite soldiers who were captured drew in a cold breath.
Were all the people on this train such ruthless ones?
Others might not know the effect of the inducer, but they had suffered deeply from it.
Before the armored train arrived, they could strut around in the acid rain area, but ever since provoking this group of lunatics, they hadn’t had any stability.
“Do you need Old San and them to accompany you? Or pick two assistants from the crew.”
Sister Yu Jing asked again.
Xiao Ba shook his head, “Lin Jin and I are enough.”
Watching the youth leave, the soldiers all breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Tao’s chance of surviving was still quite high.
Because he had a lot of information and was himself an auxiliary Tier 1 evolver, absolutely a high-value person.
But the timing he was in was too bad.
Su Huan and Xiao Ba both needed to leave the train at the same time. At such a time, they definitely couldn’t let an enemy high-level live on the train.
Killing so decisively also meant cutting off the thoughts of these elite soldiers.
As for whether Xiao Ba had considered so much, no one knew.
“Take the workers to check the train ahead. If there are good things, move them over. The crew has one who can drive a train, no problem, right?”
Sister Yu Jing turned her head to look at the three Old San brothers hugging their guns and glaring covetously nearby.
“No problem!”
……
Jiang Rong and Yu Yue had already met up with the convoy and Captain He’s large family.
It wasn’t that they were particularly in sync; it was simply that the zombies had driven them together.
The vanguard zombie tide was mainly composed of a large number of Tier 1 zombies, with extremely rare Tier 2 zombies popping out unexpectedly, but neither Yu Yue, Jiang Rong, nor Captain He had the ability to deal with a Tier 2 zombie alone.
Don’t think Su Huan killed them so easily; that was based on dual profession approaching Tier 2, plus the physical cheat electromagnetic sniper rifle.
150mm armor-piercing capability, basically breaking armor on hit, and breaking armor meant kill.
Yu Yue was half-squatting on the roof at this time, the 1.8m long electromagnetic sniper rifle’s stock against her shoulder socket, her breathing rising and falling slowly with the crosshair in the scope.
Her “sonic mark” had already locked onto a Tier 2 spine hound blended into the darkness.
Already two vehicles of survivors had been taken out by it.
All one-shot kills.
“Boom——”
A short explosive sound rang out.
The spine hound’s black scale armor gleamed with dark red light under the firelight, with wounds from a rocket launcher hit on its body. Its three-meter tall robust body crashed through the concrete wall, barbed spikes scraping out a tooth-grinding sharp sound.
Yu Yue’s ear twitched slightly, capturing the subtle tremor of the scales opening and closing, a frequency almost like metal resonance.
“Jiang Rong, ten o’clock direction.”
Her voice precisely reached Jiang Rong’s ears through the “shared sound field”.
Jiang Rong, who was charging the electromagnetic sniper rifle, abruptly turned around, guarding behind Yu Yue, and precisely shot a goblin preparing to throw a “dirty bomb” with bullets.
“I need 1.2 seconds to charge. It’s very vigilant now; I can’t aim.”
“Crossfire, three-second suppression!” Captain He’s roar mixed with the sparks from the cigarette butt hitting the ground. Lv1 “dual wield” allowed him to suppress two heavy machine guns while quickly turning the muzzles.
The Woodpecker 12.7 in Captain He’s hands was like two precise semi-automatic rifles.
Easily headshotting those Tier 1 mutated beasts that rushed too far.
The splashing flesh and blood attracted the attention of nearby zombies, instantly roaring and scrambling into chaos, briefly easing the zombie tide’s assault.
The armed soldiers, now gathered over thirty strong, quickly synced targets, the fire lines instantly weaving into a scarlet net.
Shredding the small fries in front of the Tier 2 spine hound.
Jiang Rong held a gun in one hand and placed the other on Yu Yue’s sniper rifle, charging in place of Su Huan.
The converted electrical energy poured along the gun body into the electromagnetic acceleration track, the City Breaker’s dark blue lines lighting up one by one.
The armed soldiers’ barrage precisely sprinkled on the spine hound. 5.56mm bullets could only leave chisel marks on the black scale armor.
But it ignored Captain He mixed in among them.
Taking advantage of its relaxation, Captain He pulled the trigger fully, bullets that could easily tear Tier 1 mutated beasts only blasted a series of blood pits on it.
But it still caused great damage.
“Roar!”
The beast reared up in pain, wanting to leap over and pounce on Captain He on the pickup truck.
Now!
Yu Yue’s lips and teeth burst with high-frequency vibration, Lv3 “sonic affinity” making the air form fatal resonance in the scale gaps.
The spine hound’s fluid movements lagged again for a moment.
And the sniper round projectile had already left the muzzle.
“Boom!”
The cold blue light beam pierced the battlefield again, a small hole appearing on the spine hound’s skull that was extremely disproportionate to its body.
Every hole made by the heavy machine gun was much larger than it.
But it was precisely this small hole that took the life of this ferocious spine hound.
Yu Yue had no time to catch her breath and passed the surrounding battlefield situation to Captain He.
Although they were fighting while retreating, the dense zombie tide had already surrounded them, charging forward relentlessly to consume their limited ammunition.
“Reload! Two Tier 1s at three o’clock!”
Captain He shouted, but saw no movement from those around him, just about to curse.
“Captain He, no more 12.7 bullets!”
Panic appeared on the nearby soldier’s face.
Captain He was stunned for a moment, kicked over the ammunition box underfoot. The empty box clanged, left with only some loose ammunition belts, not a single bullet.
He didn’t dwell on it, threw the two heavy machine guns aside, “Give me the rifle. How many bullets left?”
The soldier immediately replied, “I have half a load of 5.56 submachine gun bullets on me; others don’t have much either.”
Captain He felt a chill down his spine. The entire convoy’s bullets were nearly exhausted, with over a dozen guns already completely silent.
If not for this guy beside him loading for him, even this half load wouldn’t remain.
Although only a bit of headlight illuminated, through Yu Yue’s “shared sound field”, he could clearly perceive the surging zombie tide.
The reason the convoy hadn’t suffered large-scale casualties so far was relying on the firearms in their hands.
Once out of bullets, with just their strength, even self-preservation would be hard.
A single charge from the zombie horde, and the hundred-strong convoy would be engulfed like a small boat in towering waves.
In the distance, some survivors detonated something unknown, a great fire starting to blaze, the Steel Council heavy industrial zone’s night sky dyed dark red by the firelight.
The convoy’s firepower grew weaker. Captain He reduced bullet use, starting to rely on his strong physique to slaughter ordinary zombies.
Only firing when Tier 1 zombies got close.
Even so, he nearly had his guts pulled out by a night demon.
After all, he wasn’t a brute like Liang Kuan who put all his skills into muscle.
In just over ten seconds, the situation reversed, fraught with peril.
Suddenly, a household SUV on the side had its tire bitten burst by a blood hound that drilled out. Although the blood hound was crushed under the wheel, the vehicle had lost control and crashed into the roadside.
“Help!”
“Save me!”
“Captain He, save me!”
Soldiers on the car who recognized Captain He began shouting for help loudly.
But Captain He could only grit his teeth and pretend not to hear.
At this time, let alone just acquaintances—even if Su Huan fell, he’d hesitate.
“Boom!”
The soldiers in the car desperately detonated the bomb, instantly flipping the entire small car, glass shattering.
Zombies howled and charged toward the convoy.
The last sedan was pounced on top by a night demon, sharp claws piercing straight through the sheet metal, stabbing the driver dead. The out-of-control vehicle fell into the zombie horde, gradually piling into a small hill.
In merely a breath’s time, two vehicles of people had died.
Roars, explosions, despair, cries, wails……
All the tragedy concentrated in these short thirty seconds.
Humans without firearms were just tigers with pulled teeth.
Even evolvers were powerless before this absolute numerical suppression.
Fear assaulted everyone’s hearts; some couldn’t bear the horrific pressure and chose to charge into the zombie horde to suicide, drawing angry curses from their vehicle.
In this situation, Captain He’s “firepower specialist” was even more powerless than Yu Yue’s “audio shooter”.
“Careful!”
Yu Yue’s warning came through his ear, an ordinary sniper round knocking down a zombie pouncing from behind.
Unknowingly, in the entire pickup truck bed, only he remained.
All the men who came up with him had been pulled down limb by limb by surrounding zombies, including that evolver soldier.
Looking at the reaching claws and iron-blue palms, Captain He was like a raging brown bear.
Madly jumping around on the pickup, his assault rifle turned into a fire poker swung wildly.
Crackling sounds of bones breaking and tendons snapping unceasing.
Those that could catch up were all agile types; even Tier 1 ones didn’t feel good being stomped or swung at by him.
“Pfft!”
Under the front and rear pincer of two night demons, a hole was pierced through Captain He’s chest. The mother and daughter in the car watched and wailed loudly.
“Bang!”
A huge metal shield spun flying over.
It slashed horizontally into the waist of the night demon on the roof, seven or eight scarlet compound eyes bursting into blood mist. The entire body staggered and was flung off by the pickup.
Liang Kuan leaped over from over ten meters away.
The sheet metal vehicle let out a “boom” tremor, the body sinking sharply. The robust figure blocked in front of Captain He, his fan-like big hand grabbing the night demon’s neck amid its stunned gaze.
His right hand picked up the shield from the roof and chopped down directly.
“Roar——”
The two giant beasts grappled, but Liang Kuan was superior by more than a notch.
At the cost of three blood marks on his chest, he directly cleaved the night demon in two!
A pair of black eyes like a fierce tiger, completely different from his usual taciturn and sullen appearance. Such a ferocious fighting style left even self-proclaimed rough Captain He entranced.
Although grinning in pain, he couldn’t help but low shout, “Damn, that’s badass!”
Liang Kuan single-handedly wielded the over hundred jin shield like using a fly swatter, standing on the truck bed swatting left and right, smashing the pursuing zombies’ heads bloody.
“Support has arrived.”
Liang Kuan said in a muffled voice.
Captain He was stunned, subconsciously listening via the “shared sound field”. Sure enough, he heard creaking metal sounds, like thin streams converging, gradually forming an unstoppable giant wave!
“It’s Xiao Ba!”
Captain He was wild with surprise, ignoring his chest wound, laughing heartily.
The electric wheelchair crushed over the broken concrete road surface, the titanium alloy exoskeleton gleaming coldly under the distant great fire’s reflection.
He reached out and pressed the rusted fuel pipe, the metal twisting and deforming like a living thing, wringing three airborne bird beasts into bloody pulp.
Xiao Ba looked at the massive metal and buildings on both sides, calmly saying, “They’ll arrive soon. We just need to build a defense line here.”
“Good!”
Countless metals flew out from the buildings on both sides, under Lv1 “fortification specialization”‘s command, based on the surrounding terrain, quickly forged into pure metal fortifications.
Like the hand of God, steel frames and beams interweaving and stacking.
Xiao Ba tried to preserve the original shapes of the metals as much as possible to avoid energy waste.
In just a minute, a ten-meter high, one-meter thick metal barrier was completed.
This wasn’t just a simple iron block, but a structurally sound field fortification!
Lin Jin beside him waved his hand, a fire pillar from his palm igniting zombies trying to climb the metal barrier.
The flames spread along the metal positions Xiao Ba had pre-arranged, instantly forming a twenty-meter long fire wall.
“Need… still need three minutes to perfect it.”
The metallic color was rich in Xiao Ba’s eyes. He had just dismantled a full twelve tons of steel structures; at this moment, the entire factory district’s metal skeleton was groaning under the strain.
