Chapter 54: Crossing Mo Jiang, Crisis
“If you don’t eat, I’m going to eat it.”
Su Huan unhesitatingly picked up a large piece of crab meat from the pot and put it in his mouth.
The crab meat that had been stewed for an afternoon was tender and juicy, melting into delicate fragrant oil with a slight press of the tongue tip, sliding down his throat.
The fresh and fragrant hot steam took root in his stomach.
Old San looked at Su Huan’s face shrouded in hot steam, gritted his teeth, and said to the brothers on his left and right, “Hurry up and eat. If you don’t eat now, you’ll be eaten by others later.”
After speaking, he picked up the rice bowl and started eating heartily.
It had been a long time since he had eaten steaming hot food. Once he opened his mouth, this instinctive hunger couldn’t be stopped.
Zombies, fishy smells, all were thrown to the back of his mind.
Old San ate ferociously, as if he wanted to swallow his tongue.
Old Da and Old Er hesitated for a moment, then also picked up the bowl and chopsticks.
“Where will the train go?”
Hearing this, Huang Hai and the others also looked up at Su Huan. This was what everyone who got on the train cared about most.
“In two hours, the train will rush out of Mo Jiang City, then cross Mo Jiang and head north. It’s cold there, with few heavenly calamities, and easier to survive,” Su Huan said.
Yu Yue, hearing the two words “Mo Jiang” beside him, inexplicably felt a palpitation, the sound of cold scales sliding on the ground rippling in his memory.
It made her shiver all over.
She subconsciously looked at Su Huan and happened to see the slightly eerie smile on his face.
“That’s the ‘Mo Jiang’ we’re going to cross over its head.”
“Can’t we go around it?”
Su Huan smiled but didn’t speak.
Mo Jiang spanned three provinces. By the time they went around it, the people would already be fully cooked.
……
Inside the eleventh carriage.
Wang He lay on the floor, the wheels under his feet transmitting dense vibrations, just like rolling over a dense watermelon field.
Piercing howls surged from all directions.
Like cold leeches, layer by layer wrapping around everyone.
Viscous blood mixed with shredded flesh seeped in through the window gaps, the fishy stench overpowering the body odor in the carriage.
“Wang Tou, will the train flip over?” A voice suddenly rang out.
Wang He knew who it was just from the voice. Back when they were working in the factory, the two of them didn’t get along.
Now that he had become the head of over a hundred workers, that guy looked at him even more unfavorably.
“You know better than me how heavy a standard steel plate is. These carriages of ours are armored carriages. How could they possibly flip?”
His mouth spoke calmly, but hearing the muffled bangs from the carriage from time to time, his heart was also drumming.
What the hell was it that could dent a 1.5cm thick steel plate into a large pit?
“That’s not certain. We’re in the center of Mo Jiang City now, with a full seven million people. Even piled up, they could bury the train!”
That voice said coldly.
The workers around who heard this had their breathing become heavy.
The more Wang He thought, the more uneasy he felt. In anger, he directly took off his stinky shoe from his foot and threw it at his face, cursing, “If you can’t speak properly, then shut up!”
That person was not polite either and kicked the broken shoe back.
“No, with the train’s weight, once it really gets going, zombies aren’t a problem. And I just checked; we’ve already passed Mo Jiang South Station, proving the train conductor has a way to avoid other trains.”
A clear and logical analysis instantly attracted the attention of everyone in the carriage.
The workers looked over. It was the young man who got on today. Though dressed ordinarily, he seemed to have quite an aura.
Seeing everyone looking at him, this person didn’t flinch and said in a deep voice, “But from the direction of travel, we’re heading to Mo Jiang Bridge. That’s the real crisis.”
“Crisis? What crisis?”
Immediately, a worker asked.
They couldn’t figure out what crossing the bridge had to do with them.
The man continued, “I was trapped in the company before and discovered that besides zombies, a large number of animals also mutated. Our company had a girl who often fed stray cats, so there were especially many stray cats in our area. Just downstairs from our building, there were thirty-four that frequently appeared, and six of them turned into terrifying mutated beasts.”
The people around had flickering eyes.
Besides the workers here, most were escapees and naturally knew how tough mutated beasts were. Those things were far more dangerous than zombies.
This man could slip out from under the noses of six mutated beasts, so he was no pushover.
“In other words, the probability of mutated beasts is about one in six. Though my data isn’t accurate, you can use it as a reference. How many beasts are in Mo Jiang…”
“Hiss…”
Everyone immediately drew in a sharp breath.
The water surface of Mo Jiang was a great river over a kilometer wide!
How many fish and aquatic animals were in there?
Even if the ratio was widened to one in ten, or even one in twenty, it was still a terrifying number.
Wang He hesitated and asked, “But even if the fish in the river evolve, they’re still fish. Can they threaten the train on the overpass?”
The man shook his head. “Based on my observation, those cats didn’t evolve flight ability, but who knows…”
“Damn, who knows what kind of monsters this goddamn world has bred.”
“Even if fish can’t fly, what if they bring down the big bridge…”
Thinking of the train crashing into the monster-filled Mo Jiang, everyone suddenly felt their hair stand on end.
“Forget it. Let’s see how the train conductor chooses.”
“Choose what? No matter how capable he is, can he carry the train and fly over Mo Jiang?”
Wang He’s fellow worker sneered.
The train suddenly shook once, and everyone fell silent at the same time.
……
“December 21, 35°C-41°C”
“He died. He accomplished nothing.”
“The time isn’t very accurate anymore. The high temperature seems about to erupt at any moment.”
Su Huan pondered for a long time and wrote these two sentences in his logbook.
Hearing no sound outside for a long time, Su Huan opened the steel plate a bit.
With a clatter, viscous flesh and blood fell into the carriage from the gap, but what really made him frown was the fishy hot steam, like a sauna furnace splashed with a basin of water, erupting in even fiercer heat waves.
“Can you hear anything?” Su Huan asked Yu Yue, who was cleaning up the kitchen nearby.
“The water surface is very quiet. The sounds under the water surface are very noisy, like various seasonings mixed together, hard to distinguish specific flavors,” Yu Yue thought and said.
“Mm.”
Su Huan spread his palm. The tier 1 general energy crystal on it had been consumed by more than half.
His eyes lit up slightly, and he swallowed the last piece as well.
He turned to look at Old San, who was holding a gun and staring at the outside movement nearby. “There are oil drums at the back of the train. Get one to the second floor of the sightseeing carriage. Also, bring me a grenade from the fire truck. I remember there are still quite a few.”
Old San took two brothers and went out.
Huang Hai and the young man looked at Su Huan.
“You two… go to the cockpit and bring food to Liang Kuan,” Su Huan said.
As for Yu Jing, she had already picked up the pliers and gone to fix the water pipe before Su Huan could say anything.
