Chapter 51: They Want To Harm You!
Liang Kuan strode toward the front of the train, and Su Huan picked up the two submachine guns on the ground.
He handed one to Old San and said seriously, “It seems we brought the trouble back. If you have anything you want to ask, we’ll talk later. Staying alive is the most important thing.”
Old San looked at the gun he handed over, his expression stunned for a moment, then he grabbed it and muttered viciously, “Sure enough, you’re a black-hearted guy. You haven’t even given us a single meal, and now you want us to risk our lives for you!”
“I’ll treat you to river crab stewed tofu when we get back.”
The train underfoot trembled lightly. Su Huan laughed loudly, turned around, and walked toward the rear, completely exposing his back to Old San’s muzzle without any hesitation.
Yu Jing and the other quickly followed.
Old Da and Old Er, the two brothers, hesitated as they looked toward Old San.
“What do we do?”
Old San said irritably, “What do we do? Sell our lives, of course!”
Su Huan heard the footsteps coming from behind him, and the corners of his mouth turned up.
Of course, this was just the first round of testing.
“How many passengers have returned?”
“We lost one hundred twenty old passengers, but there are many new passengers today, a total of one thousand and two, among whom more than twelve have abilities in undergraduate-level engineering or science majors, but two workers died from the heat today.”
Yu Yue behind him immediately picked up the roster and replied.
Su Huan paused his steps, his heart suddenly tightening. “Died from the heat?!”
“Yes, died from high temperature.”
Yu Jing took over the conversation.
Su Huan’s face flickered with uncertainty. It seemed Mo Jiang City was no place to stay at all, but the first phase plan for the armored train was still far from complete.
They lost one carriage on the road and added eight new ones, making a total of forty-nine carriages now.
And only fifteen had steel plates installed in total.
At least two-thirds short!
“How far are the zombies?”
“The small groups are less than five hundred meters away, numbering over a hundred, but I’ve heard zombies within the three-kilometer radius gathering toward us, including ahead on the railway track.”
“How many?”
After Su Huan asked, he saw Yu Yue remain silent for a long time. He glanced at her—her complexion was frighteningly pale, her body trembling slightly. If not for holding Yu Jing’s hand beside her, she probably couldn’t walk.
“…At least ten thousand.”
Su Huan gritted his teeth and took a deep breath. “As long as we get through tonight, we can completely leave this high-temperature zone.”
“If you want to live, hurry up!”
The car door opened, and a wave of scorching heat hit them in the face.
Su Huan even felt a moment of suffocation.
He suspected the temperature at that moment had risen to forty degrees, but he had no thermometer at hand to confirm.
The group moved quickly.
Yu Yue followed behind Su Huan on alert, reporting the zombies’ distance to him at any time.
Yu Jing directed the workers to load various tools and materials onto the train.
Xiao Ba opened the rear door and roof of the luggage carriage to make it easier for the three brothers to drive the fire truck up. Accompanied by the increasingly close corpse roars, even the workers who hadn’t gone out knew something big was happening.
Even though they were all dizzy from the heat, none dared to slack off even a little.
Compared to the other passengers, they just had to work to eat, without risking going out to find supplies—their treatment was already much better.
Even those who were initially a bit unhappy inside felt a slight sense of superiority seeing those former little bosses and white-collar workers desperately fighting for a bite of food every day.
But it was still too early to form a new class.
……
The setting sun was like blood, the last trace of orange-red afterglow fading from the diamond-shaped grid of the carriage’s explosion-proof net.
The armored train was already assembled to forty-seven carriages, just short of the two carriages dirtied by zombies.
Originally, there were three cars full of zombies on the train, but after the last night demon attack shattered the carriage doors, Su Huan worried about problems and killed all the zombies on the train at once. On the road, they only cleaned one carriage.
A small portion of the zombies were extracted for materials by Wan Xing; the rest, overly rotten, were all discarded.
Anyway, those things weren’t valuable. When needed, he could just issue a task for passengers to catch them.
Hmm, maybe he could specifically set up a task system by then.
Su Huan thought of it inexplicably.
“There’s still a hundred meters!”
Yu Yue’s voice was uncharacteristically sharp.
Su Huan stood in the last carriage, narrowing his eyes.
“Buzz!”
Searchlights were set up on the roof, and dazzling white light swept over both sides of the railway track. A nimble figure leaped onto the fences on both sides, its scarlet pupils dilating slightly against the light.
It spread its hands, revealing eighteen densely packed eyes.
The searchlight swept over, and one after another night demon leaped onto the fence.
But they didn’t attack the train immediately.
Instead, like soldiers on the eve of a great battle, they awaited the horn of the offensive.
Rolling corpse roars rose from all directions, echoing layer upon layer in this land where the sun had set.
The metal fence nearby suddenly toppled. The searchlight swept over, exposing two tall butcher figures, with countless densely packed heads writhing behind them.
Su Huan glanced at them and directly turned to walk toward the front cars.
The armored train underfoot slowly emitted rhythmic clanging sounds.
Like the horn of war.
The terrifying corpse roars reached their peak at this moment, and the fences dozens of meters around the train collapsed with a boom.
Five butchers pushed trucks forward to crush, countless ordinary zombies surged past them, piling toward the train one after another. The zombie tide launched its attack on the train!
“Boom—”
The truck crashed into the last train carriage, and the tempered glass shattered explosively.
A cry of alarm came from in front, and the body fell toward the other side.
Su Huan caught the staggering Yu Yue with one hand, raised his right hand to block the flying glass fragments, his feet rooted like stakes without the slightest sway, and he walked forward very steadily.
Sharp explosive sounds rang out incessantly.
Sharp claws occasionally pierced through the thin iron skin of the green-skinned carriage from above.
Su Huan infused energy into the train underfoot, activating the hydrogen energy carriages embedded in the armored train.
With four boosts of kinetic energy, the carriages that had been starting slowly immediately picked up speed.
Most of the night demons and ordinary zombies trying to drill into the carriages were flung out at once.
But even more crowded in from both sides of the railway track.
Su Huan’s pace was unhurried, and the compact submachine gun [Hummingbird-9] in his hand instantly spat out three bursts of armor-piercing rounds.
Killing several ordinary zombies that had luckily squeezed in.
Entering the penultimate carriage, Su Huan flipped his hand to close the carriage bridge door, with high temperature surging in his hand.
The door lock melted, completely sealing it shut.
“Bang!”
A night demon crashed right into the door, its scarlet eyes meeting Su Huan’s.
The glass in front was quickly clawed by the other, developing terrifying cracks.
Su Huan switched the submachine gun to full-auto mode and, the instant the glass shattered, poured all the remaining 22 rounds of 5.56 armor-piercing rounds from the magazine into its skull.
The firelight illuminated Su Huan’s calm-to-deathly-still face.
Looking at this face, Yu Yue’s initial tension gradually eased. She hugged his arm with both hands, half-hanging on him as they walked forward.
Various chaotic pieces of information poured into her ears.
Suddenly, one sentence made her stop in her tracks.
Su Huan felt the tug on his arm and turned back to look at her in confusion.
“They want to harm you!”
