Chapter 20: Cardinal Perpetual Motion
Qi Xiao Ba was stunned for a moment, then said firmly.
“I choose the second one!”
Su Huan’s mouth revealed a satisfied smile. Eighth Master, a fifteen-year-old disabled youth, could survive the apocalypse and protect a bunch of people, relying on more than just a saintly heart.
“Remember, use thunderous means to carry out merciful deeds!” Su Huan returned to him the evaluation others had given Eighth Master in his previous life.
Qi Xiao Ba was stunned, silently reciting this sentence in his heart and falling into contemplation.
Su Huan stood up, restrained his smile, “Tonight it’s shift duty. Wan Xing, you go to the front of the train. By the way, tell Liang Kuan to reduce speed. According to the plan, turn from the Wen Shi line to the Mo Jiang City line, and keep an eye on water plants and zombie horde movements everywhere.”
Wan Xing glanced at Xiao Ba, then got up and left.
Su Huan turned to Yu Jing and her daughter, “Xiao Ba and I will guard the first half of the night. When the time comes, I’ll come call you.”
The two were about to leave when Su Huan suddenly remembered and called out, “Right, bring me another chair.”
Only then did the mother and daughter leave.
Su Huan took two canned peaches from the shelf and tossed one to Qi Xiao Ba.
The youth instinctively wanted to refuse, but Su Huan directly opened the can in his hand and stuffed it into his grasp.
“Eat some food, and the general energy recovery speed will also increase.”
Qi Xiao Ba was stunned for a moment, took the small fork, and slowly took a bite.
The tender and smooth texture made the youth’s eyes light up slightly, and his actions sped up considerably.
Su Huan smiled to himself. That Xiao Ba loved canned peaches was something he had learned by chance.
It was just that supplies were scarce in the apocalypse, let alone this top-grade canned fruit. Most of them he had distributed to the children.
“There’s an order to eating canned peaches. The first bite must sip the canned juice…”
Su Huan patiently explained.
Before long, Yu Jing and her daughter brought over a chair, and also brought his sniper crossbow.
Su Huan lay on the chair, holding the sniper crossbow, listening to the rhythmic clanging sound by his ear, and narrowed his eyes.
This sound of movement was far more reassuring than dead silence.
……
Of course, Su Huan was not entirely idle either.
In this state, if his brain didn’t think about something, he’d fall asleep in a moment.
What he mainly thought about was the issue of his own evolution path.
Once the main ability, that is, general energy conversion, reached lv3, he could consider profession matters.
Different skills paired together, plus suitable gene potions or stimulation from special conditions, could allow an evolver to form a profession.
At this point, the evolver was also called a Tier 1 professional.
Combat power was about the same as a Tier 1 zombie locked outside the carriage.
Either higher or lower, mainly depending on personal combat proficiency.
Evolvers mostly relied on general energy, zombies on mutated flesh, so some said zombies were another evolution path.
Regarding energizers’ evolution paths, Su Huan held several important pieces of information.
So he was tangled up in that.
One was Deep Blue Data’s research and development, Tier 5 named “Blazing Sun Patrol Angel”, biased toward large-scale combat and energy bursts, a deterrent weapon for large forces.
But he only had the evolution potion synthesis methods for Tier 1 to 3 in this path.
The latter two tiers were locked by Deep Blue Data, hard for outsiders to glimpse.
There were two more: one that could only reach Tier 2, “Light Energy Explorer”, and one that could reach Tier 3, “Pill Cauldron Guest”.
Because the potions were developed by different companies, there were huge discrepancies in naming.
These two were strong in functionality, but with no follow-up professions developed, they couldn’t be chosen.
The only complete one in his hands, from Tier 1 to 5 evolution path, was called “Perpetual Motion Hub”. According to what that madman told him, once this evolution path reached Tier 5, the evolver themselves would become a perpetual motion machine, possessing infinite general energy.
This was researched by Mechanical God Cult people, and no one had verified it yet.
If it was developed by Deep Blue Data, Su Huan wouldn’t even think twice and would go for it directly.
But Mechanical God Cult that bunch, their danger level was second only to those playing with taboos.
A group of mentally ill people with major brain issues, firmly believing they weren’t sick was already dangerous enough, and even more terrifying was that they did research and development!
This was where Su Huan was tangled.
The Tier 1 profession of “Perpetual Motion Hub” was “Energy Storage Core”. The conditions weren’t too complex: lv3 general energy conversion + lv3 high-energy compression + lv1 energy shaping, and absorb all the general energy of a Tier 1 zombie during the evolution process.
Of course, the later conditions weren’t absolute.
If he had a Deep Blue Data bracelet, he could monitor his own energy level, and evolve when it reached “10” units.
Now unable to accurately monitor, Su Huan estimated his energy was still insufficient.
Just operate according to this condition.
From Tier 1 “Energy Storage Core”, this evolution path seemed quite reliable.
How about… giving it a try?
A knock on the door interrupted Su Huan’s dangerous thought.
He looked up and saw Gao Zhe’s gloomy face through the gaps in the three door locks.
“Open the door.”
Su Huan stood up and said leisurely.
“Click click—clang!”
A series of mechanical sounds rang out.
Qi Xiao Ba unlocked several locks, the door was pulled open, and the No. 6 storage carriage was fully exposed before Gao Zhe.
Looking at so many supplies in front of him, Gao Zhe’s complexion grew even uglier, and he tossed the Night Demon corpse in his hand onto the floor.
He said coldly, “Already killed it. In the future, I board without needing a train ticket.”
Su Huan looked at Gao Zhe’s severed left arm, then at the Night Demon underfoot whose head was beaten into a mushy mess, and drew in a sharp breath.
Melee combat killing a Tier 1 zombie—this was some iron-blooded war god?!
He hurriedly grabbed a medical kit from the shelf, walked forward, and said with an enthusiastic smile, “The armored train will sincerely serve Mr. Gao from now on!”
The two were practically within arm’s reach, but looking at the smile on his face, Gao Zhe felt like he had no way to strike.
His intuition told him that in this situation, making a move on Su Huan would only lead to death.
He gave Su Huan a deep look and took the medical kit from his hand.
He squatted down on one leg, picked up the 50 cm long steel bar from the ground, and limped back to the rear carriage.
The numerous workers reverently made way for him.
Whether Su Huan or Gao Zhe, both were existences they couldn’t provoke. It was just that the former inspired more fear, while the latter could help them fend off terrifying zombies, so he commanded more respect.
As for the train that helped them fend off even more zombies, that was the train’s merit—what did it have to do with that Su guy?
Su Huan watched Gao Zhe’s figure gradually vanish into the darkness, a trace of pity in his eyes.
Relying on a short stick to beat a Tier 1 Night Demon to death.
Such a fierce person hadn’t been heard of in his previous life—probably down on his luck, fallen in some corner.
“Close the door.”
The iron door shut, and the door locks were secured layer by layer.
Su Huan had a feeling of becoming the villain, backstabbing the hero and sealing him away.
But no choice, reality was this cruel.
In the short term, Su Huan couldn’t let him come to the front carriages.
Absorbing such a fierce person into the team—forget anything else, Su Huan himself wouldn’t sleep soundly.
Energizers were truly too weak in the early stage. Before becoming high-level evolvers, they could only rely on the train underfoot.
Liang Kuan, Wan Xing, Yu Jing, Yu Yue—they each might have their own value.
But the most important common point was that none of them posed a threat to Su Huan.
The only one, Qi Xiao Ba, was someone he knew inside and out.
In the short term, this would be his standard for choosing team members.
