Chapter 40: Earth Ghost
Black pus sprayed out.
The tumor in the emaciated palm bounced up and down.
The left hand extended forward pointing at the train, slowly moving along with the direction, while the right hand stretched backward. Because he was hunched over, his eyes strained upward to clearly see the train’s direction.
With a whooshing sound, the reverse-jointed arm threw the meat ball in its hand.
“Bang!”
The tumor smashed onto the train, and in an instant, a mass of brownish-green pus burst out, completely covering the side glass.
The surrounding metal armor began bubbling with crackling sounds.
However, at the corrosion speed of a Tier 1 Earth Ghost, it might not even penetrate the 15mm steel plate in a week.
Not to mention that the armor thickness on the front of the train even exceeded 27mm.
But the biggest characteristic of this thing is its disgusting nature. That pus not only corrodes but also has an information marking effect.
To humans, it smells like a foul odor, but to zombies, it’s equivalent to a signal flare.
“Hey, look what I found here—delicious food! Come eat quickly!”
It can cause a small zombie tide within a range of dozens of meters.
The best way is to quickly wash it off with a water cannon or sprinkle some dry powder to neutralize it.
In his previous life, he dealt with this Tier 1 Earth Ghost the most. For others, this zombie capable of ranged attacks was very disgusting, but his profession at the time was Electromagnetic User.
He could accelerate small things like steel balls or coins to supersonic speeds.
Hitting these fragile Earth Ghosts was like one after another.
But there were times when he slipped up too.
Thinking of some bad memories, Su Huan’s complexion was frighteningly gloomy. “Ignore him. When Xiao Ba comes over later, just kill him directly!”
Right now, he hadn’t formed a specific profession yet, so he couldn’t precisely manipulate electromagnetic force.
However, some usage techniques remained, so Su Huan directly fired high-temperature energy to reduce manipulation of the medium.
The downside was high consumption and small range.
Soon, a large wave of zombies surged from the front. Leading them was unexpectedly a Tier 1 Butcher, dragging a long-dead Tier 1 Skull Crusher as a weapon.
On his mountain-like fat body, two small eyes emitted the purest malice.
“Zombies kill each other too?”
Ever since smashing one last time, Liang Kuan was no longer afraid of these blustering evolved zombies.
After all, what he was driving underfoot was a several-thousand-ton steel giant beast.
Even if a real dragon crawled out of the water, it would have to give way to the charging armored train.
“The Butcher’s trait is to find weapons. If there’s no suitable weapon around when it breaks its cocoon, it grabs another zombie. This unlucky one was conveniently caught by him.”
Su Huan looked strangely at that Skull Crusher. Its muscles were huge and strong, with hands like watermelon-sized hammers.
It was originally a very ferocious zombie, but now its head was smashed, and its upper body was worn down to just a large mass of flesh and blood.
If he remembered correctly, in his previous life, there was a legendary Butcher that particularly coveted the dual hammers of Skull Crushers, so at every stage, it would kill one of the same tier to use as a weapon.
It couldn’t be this one right in front of him, could it?
“Su, are we going to fight?”
Qi Xiao Ba’s clear voice came from behind. The youth seemed to have regained his fighting spirit.
Pulling back his thoughts, Su Huan nodded solemnly. “Liang Kuan, prepare to ram them. Stop after hitting the leading Butcher. Xiao Ba, clear out that annoying Earth Ghost on the wall. Be careful to hit its back.”
“Got it!”
The instant Liang Kuan pushed the throttle to the bottom, the entire train seemed to transform into a roaring steel giant beast.
Qi Xiao Ba’s gaze turned to the Earth Ghost chasing the train on the fence. His pupils were completely dyed with liquid metal sheen.
Su Huan took a deep breath, gripping the remaining Tier 1 General Energy Crystal in his hand. The tungsten steel ramming horn buzzed and trembled due to the infused azure electric arc.
“Don’t accelerate! There’s a train on the tracks 500 meters ahead!”
Yu Yue’s voice clearly reached everyone’s ears from the second-floor observation deck.
Su Huan frowned and stopped infusing energy into the engine. “500 meters—can we stop?”
Liang Kuan grunted, “No problem!”
When the wheels crushed over the foremost ordinary zombie horde, the sound was like thousands of rotten tomatoes bursting at once.
Dark red blood plasma splattered in a fan shape onto the 15mm composite armor. The explosion-proof net instantly became covered in shattered organs. Half a zombie’s head was stuck at the edge of the observation window, its hollow eye socket congealed with greedy fierce light, becoming the first annotation to this bloody scroll painting.
The instant the Butcher swung the Skull Crusher corpse toward the front of the train.
“Sizzle—”
Tens of thousands of volts of high-voltage electricity surged into the Butcher’s body along the ramming horn, burning its fat body with scorched white smoke.
It was directly stunned stiff, then deeply impaled by the ramming horn.
Bright yellow fat splattered all along the way.
The zombie horde of about a hundred was plowed open like wheat waves by the steel. Severed limbs traced parabolas in the air, and the blood mist stirred up by the ramming horn refracted rainbows in the sunlight.
“Bang!”
Another disgusting tumor directly smashed onto the front car window. This time mixed with Butcher blood and Earth Ghost pus, the view ahead was completely obscured.
The armored train emitted a sharp buzzing sound and began braking.
Qi Xiao Ba extended his finger and grasped in mid-air. A explosion-proof net on the side suddenly flew out, turning into a huge metal net that scooped up the Earth Ghost.
The metal wires contracted rapidly, directly mincing the hunched figure into a pile of meat paste.
“Hiss—”
The train finally came to a stop, but without a real-time electronic map for reference, Su Huan didn’t know how far it was from Mo Jiang City South Station.
“Buzz…”
The lights in the driver’s cabin turned on, and the air conditioner sped up.
Su Huan frowned at the sight of the glass completely smeared with filth ahead and instructed, “Xiao Ba, finish off that Butcher with one more hit. Ignore the ordinary zombies. Old Liang, come with me.”
He then walked toward the dining car behind, just in time to see the Yu Jing mother and daughter who had come down.
Su Huan opened his mouth and said, “Yu Jing, today you’re in charge of connecting the dining car water tank to the front of the train. Then hook up the high-pressure water cannon to ensure we can flush the car windows anytime.”
“Okay.”
Yu Jing was stunned for a moment, then glanced at the flesh and blood hanging on the explosion-proof nets on both sides and nodded.
Walking into Carriage 2, Wan Xing sat beside a huge table. Besides the carriage lights, several particularly large desk lamps were lit, all shining on the table in the middle.
And on the table was the river crab that Su Huan had casually brought back that day.
Wan Xing was using a dagger sharpened from Night Demon Claws to meticulously dismantle its shell.
Seeing Su Huan and Liang Kuan approaching, she asked puzzledly, “Are we going out on a task?”
Su Huan shook his head. “You don’t need to. Just keep collecting materials. Have you extracted the General Energy Crystal from this river crab?”
“Mm,” Wan Xing nodded her chin toward the Tier 1 General Energy Crystal on the edge of the table.
Su Huan’s face lit up with joy.
Counting this one, they had obtained three Tier 1 General Energy Crystals. Two more and lv2 General Energy Conversion could be upgraded to lv3.
Perfectly, there was still a Butcher and an Earth Ghost outside the train.
