Chapter 18: Tier 1 Zombie
“Keep accelerating!” Su Huan’s voice, infused with the sedative’s effect, pierced through the darkness.
Liang Kuan’s hand gripped the control stick tightly, veins bulging on the back of his hand, the dashboard’s fluorescent light illuminating his sweat-bead-covered bridge of nose in alternating shades of light and dark.
The train began to charge violently into the zombie tide.
The train wheels emitted creaking sounds, mixed with the boiling corpse roars entering the driver’s cabin, gnawing at everyone’s nerves.
The zombies blocking the front of the train were like clay, scooped up by the scoop board, then squeezed onto the ramming horn, and finally parted to both sides, blood splashing like a violent rain on the tempered glass.
The zombie tide piled up on both sides of the car window, one ferocious terrifying face after another greedily pressed against the window, staring intently at everyone in the carriage.
Yu Yue clutched her daughter’s arm, trembling, not even daring to lift her head.
Wan Xing also bit her lower lip tightly, staring ahead of the train.
Su Huan showed no reaction to any changes around him, doing only one thing: converting the general energy in his body into high-voltage electricity to provide new power to the train.
“Bang!”
The train let out a massive tremor, its speed finally picking up, the zombie piles accumulated on both sides suddenly collapsing and being flung behind.
The carriage immediately filled with a chorus of exhales.
But Su Huan’s complexion remained unchanged, staring dead ahead at the railway track.
A massive sole of foot stepped on the railway track, excess fat drooping from both sides of the sole of foot, directly touching the sleeper.
The figure slowly turned around, two massive pectoral muscles like piled-up granite, but below was a huge belly almost hanging down to the thigh, a height of two meters sixty looking only slightly shorter than the train front.
A metal component detached from engineering equipment dragged upside down in his hand emitted clanging sounds.
Like a small mountain blocking the way, the black-red eyeball eyed the accelerating train front rushing toward it with interest.
No intention of dodging, the corners of the mouth nearly split to the ears.
The terrifying smile silenced the cockpit once again.
“That……what thing is that?”
Wan Xing asked in a trembling voice.
“Tier 1 zombie, butcher.” Su Huan’s voice carried no affection, cold and hard like a stone.
“Liang Kuan, ram it.”
“Understood!”
Liang Kuan gritted his teeth and pushed the speed to maximum.
Su Huan pulled out ten general energy crystals from his pocket, clenched them tightly in his ten fingers, a flash of madness in his eyes.
If he remembered correctly, upgrading lv1 general energy conversion to lv2 required exactly 10 corpse embryo-level general energy crystals.
lv2 general energy conversion efficiency reached 20%, equivalent to the outputtable energy instantly doubling!
No matter how formidable the butcher was, it was merely muscle, bone, and blood spurred by general energy.
He refused to believe otherwise today.
A train approaching 100 km/h speed, plus the front armor over 30mm thick and the ramming horn, couldn’t kill this damn thing!
The general energy crystals in his palm were melting at a visible speed; he could clearly sense those cool energy streams climbing up along the spine, exploding into billions of tinier energy factors at the medulla oblongata.
The originally dormant genes began to unwind and reorganize.
——Forming the evolution map unique to the energizer.
lv1 general energy conversion —> lv2 general energy conversion.
In an instant, Su Huan felt something restricting him shatter with a boom, and the familiar sense of fluency from the past returned somewhat.
His eerie gaze pierced through the bloodstained glass, colliding with the crimson in the giant zombie’s eye sockets.
Neither gave an inch!
The accelerating train shook again, its speed surging wildly, roaring as it charged at the butcher while crushing the zombie tide!
The butcher roared madly, raised its arm, and swung the dragged metal component in a full circle, smashing down violently at the train front.
“Boom——”
From high altitude looking down, at the instant the little giant collided with the steel dragon, the iron gray skin wrapping muscle and fat was squeezed like a ball by the train front, reaching its limit in a mere moment and bursting apart, bone fragments mixed in splashing onto the train front.
The intense metal collision sound made Su Huan momentarily dazed; he froze for a second before realizing he was still on the train.
And the train beneath his feet continued humming forward, the clanging sounds like victorious war drums.
Light and joyful!
Su Huan’s mouth couldn’t help but grin to its widest.
No carbon-based lifeform could withstand the impact of tens of thousands of tons of steel; any zombie blocking his path would be crushed by the steel dragon underfoot!
……
The passengers in the rear carriages were the first to be startled awake.
Because the steel plates only reached the tenth car, they enjoyed the zombie tide’s window-pasting wake-up service.
The green-skinned carriage was even knocked clanging by zombies.
Only when the train accelerated and shook off these ordinary zombies did the rear passengers recover from despair, kneeling on the ground one by one praising the Lord, praising the gods and Buddhas in the heavens, and hurling the most vicious scolding at the train conductor.
As for the train’s close encounter with the butcher, to these passengers it was just a minor jolt.
The vibrations transmitted layer by layer to the rear carriages had less shocking effect than the initial corpse roars.
The carriage was pitch black, various miscellaneous items colliding and making a cacophony of sounds.
The tattooed man little ghost crouched on the chair, ranting madly from his mouth, “That damn surnamed Su only welded steel plates to the tenth car, ignoring everything behind.”
“Only caring about himself, not giving a damn about our lives, day after day risking so much to collect supplies for him, while he sits in the air-conditioned carriage eating gourmet food and playing with women, treating me like a dog, I fucking…”
“Rip——”
The shrill sound was masked in a vibration.
A sharp claw quietly pierced in from the side, through the ribs, directly stabbing the heart.
The little ghost’s eyes widened, mouth opening, blood flowing uncontrollably.
Across from him, Dog Brother’s complexion was grim, unaware that the little ghost opposite him was already dead.
He thought the other had just tired of cursing and was catching his breath.
……
The train sped low-key through the night at 70 km per hour.
On the black iron-colored steel plates were large patches of crimson bloodstains, with zombie limbs carelessly left behind from time to time, caught in the explosion-proof net gaps or on the steel plate anti-collision bars.
But this instead added a touch of iron-blooded temperament to the armored train, like a steel tough guy just stepping off the battlefield.
In the carriage, Su Huan’s calm voice sounded.
“Liang Kuan, check the train’s various functions. Yu Yue, check the details of the train front everywhere, see if the explosion-proof net is damaged, if the tempered glass is broken.”
“Yu Jing check the dining car, Wan Xing check the sightseeing carriage, and by the way go to the second floor to see if anything is clinging to the roof.”
That person back then said it was a pile of corpse pupae, but the one blocking the front just now was only a single butcher.
Perhaps there were other tier 1 zombies following behind.
Besides power types like the butcher, zombies had many evolution methods, including some that could catch up to the train.
Su Huan casually picked up a mobile phone from the dining car rack.
He inputted a bit of power supply to turn it on, using the faint light from the lock screen to carefully check every corner inside the car.
Although in his memory, there didn’t seem to be any zombies that could penetrate 12mm steel plates.
But caution had become a habit.
