Chapter 35: Born Bad Seed
This section was all cement road, so it was easy to drive on. The trouble was the weedy area between the roads after the rain, which was muddy and damp.
Su Huan was mainly afraid that things like bloodthirsty vines would puncture the wheels.
Chaotic thoughts flashed through his brain. Running quickly in thirty-plus degree high temperature, it felt like there was a fire burning in his chest cavity.
For some inexplicable reason, Su Huan lifted his head and looked toward the side of the street.
Nothing could be seen clearly on the dark building, but he could feel a fierce killing intent staring at him!
‘Gao Zhe!’
By the time this thought flashed through, half a piece of sharp threaded steel was already hidden in the night, shooting toward him.
But Su Huan was not one of those negligent guards. The instant he saw Gao Zhe, he had already drawn his handgun and fired at the opponent while crouching low to dodge.
“Bang—”
The threaded steel pierced the pickup truck’s side car window and directly embedded into the passenger seat.
But this also caused Su Huan’s five return shots to all hit the wall.
The battle happened so suddenly that Wang He and the others only heard a series of explosion sounds and had no idea what specifically had happened.
“Screech—”
Several vehicles braked to a halt at the same time, leaving only everyone’s heavy breathing sounds in the silent darkness.
“I can’t hear his sound.”
Yu Yue hurriedly said.
Su Huan glanced at the shattered car window glass, stood up, and calmly said, “You just stay back. No need to come over.”
“The train conductor still has the mind to care about a woman at a time like this, heh heh…”
Gao Zhe’s voice echoed repeatedly from inside the dark building. Although he was laughing, it sounded like a lone wolf gnashing its teeth and roaring.
Su Huan bared his teeth and smiled, “I didn’t expect that you could actually survive the mutated beast tide.”
“Worthy of being the train conductor. While others are still fighting desperately over a little food, you’ve already started using the apocalypse’s rules.”
Gao Zhe’s voice carried sincere admiration.
Su Huan narrowed his eyes, recalling Gao Zhe’s earlier strike. Both the force and the timing control were chilling.
“You’ve grown fast too, so fast that it’s keeping me up at night. Why don’t you come out, and we have a good chat? My gun has no bullets left.”
His tone was sincere and frank, not like enemies who had been fighting to the death a second ago, but like two friends chatting idly.
“Heh, the bones of the batch of people who got on the train with me are about to grow grass.”
“Without me, they’d still grow grass.”
“Do you know how many people were in that water plant?”
“Hu An said there were over forty.”
“All dead.”
“Mm.”
“I killed them.”
“Mm?”
Su Huan raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Yu Yue behind him quietly walked over and pointed to a spot on the second floor. The window was broken, pitch black, and nothing could be seen clearly.
Su Huan waved his hand to shoo her away.
The opponent hadn’t moved at all, which he could tell.
“So Hu An is dead too, right?”
“What do you think?”
Su Huan’s smile was faint.
He moved silently toward that direction.
Upstairs.
Gao Zhe leaned against the low wall behind him and awkwardly took out a cigarette from the cigarette pack with one hand, holding the filter tip over his head.
“Light it for me.”
Su Huan downstairs paused in his steps.
After a long while with no movement, that cigarette stayed there waiting.
A long time later, a high-temperature projectile flew over.
A trace of smile finally appeared on Gao Zhe’s tense face. He took a gentle puff, and the red glow lit up his face. Terrifying black patterns covered most of his facial skin, eerie and intimidating.
Gao Zhe exhaled a smoke ring and softly called out.
“Su Huan”
“Mm?”
Su Huan’s faint response came from downstairs. The two were very close, very close, just one up and one down.
“You’re fucking a natural-born villain!”
“Heh”
Gao Zhe suddenly sprang up and threw down the thing wrapped in his clothes, but what entered his view was a huge burst of light.
“Boom—”
The explosion shattered the wall, masking the crisp sound of bullets leaving the chamber.
In the darkness, a series of heavy footsteps sounded upstairs, and the people downstairs quickly took off their jackets.
Retreating more than a dozen steps, Su Huan didn’t even look as he took saline solution from the package at his waist and rushed it over his body.
After a while, feeling no abnormality, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He chuckled lowly and cursed, “A defender, and you’re playing with poison now.”
Liang Kuan held the sniper crossbow nearby and hesitated, “Should we chase?”
Su Huan waved him off. Earlier when the light was bright, he had seen clearly that Gao Zhe was poisoned, probably done by a mutated beast in the river.
Plus he had been hit by one of Su Huan’s shots. Even if he escaped, he probably wouldn’t last.
Moreover, to break through that broken wall, a lot of energy in his body had been consumed. Chasing a defender into narrow terrain would be insane.
“Let’s go, head back as soon as possible!”
Because the pressure left by White Snake Desert River was still there, the group quickly returned to the train.
The water purifier was nearly five meters tall. To place it in the rear carriage, they would have to break open the roof, so they simply put it directly in Sightseeing Carriage No. 2, occupying part of the second floor space.
Although it was deviating further and further from Su Huan’s initial plan.
But it was still a good choice.
The moment the water purifier was officially placed in the carriage, the big stone in Su Huan’s heart finally settled.
With the water purifier, the train would no longer have to worry about water.
A processing capacity of 10m/h—forget drinking, even if everyone on the train took a bath every day, it would be no problem.
“Boss Su, the job’s done.”
Wang He nearby interrupted Su Huan’s thoughts. Looking up, more than twenty men were drenched in sweat, as if they had been fished out of a water tank.
Su Huan had seen their performance. Although Wang He would haggle with him, when working, he didn’t slack off at all. They were honest men who gave it their all. Later, when the water purifier couldn’t be loaded onto the carriage with the forklift, they lifted it up together with the forklift.
Su Huan turned and gave a few instructions to Liang Kuan.
Soon, he and Yu Yue carried over several boxes.
Su Huan said to Wang He, “One bucket of instant noodles, two bottles of beverages, and five compressed biscuits per person. This is extra reward for your twenty men. As for what I promised you before, it all counts.”
Hearing this, Wang He smiled, “Thanks, Boss Su.”
Su Huan continued, “Don’t rush off. In a bit, pick a few more workers to install the water purifier overnight. Meals are provided for the workers too.”
Wang He quickly agreed.
As for supervising, he left that to Yu Jing and the others; he wouldn’t bother with it.
Back in the room, he stripped off the sticky clothes.
He used up all the remaining purified water reserve at once, filling the entire bathtub.
Su Huan, covered in sweat, slowly sank to the bottom.
Feeling the cool liquid enveloping his entire body, his somewhat groggy brain from the high temperature gradually cleared.
He slowly sorted out the events of the day, carefully reviewing them.
With a “splash”.
Su Huan emerged from the water and picked up the logbook beside the bathtub.
He wrote down words with a bit of moisture.
“December 20th, evening, 29°C—34°C”
“I seem to have become the villain role in a novel”
—”Train Conductor Logbook”
