Chapter 55: Where To From Here? Fight For The Dragon!
Everyone had left, and Su Huan turned his gaze to Yu Yue.
He saw the tips of her ears twitch lightly. She looked up and said, “Someone from behind is looking for you.”
“Ah?”
Su Huan was stunned for a moment, then realized she meant the carriage behind.
‘This doorbell is really far away…’
He lifted his foot and walked toward the back. At the carriage bridge connection of Carriage 10, he saw a lean and upright man about the same height as him, both over 1.8 meters. Through the glass, Su Huan felt like he was looking in a mirror.
Both had sharp-edged features, but the other’s temperament was more refined and fierce, while he was more aloof.
And he was a bit younger.
“You only have three sentences.”
Su Huan said calmly through the door.
“I’m a Navy veteran, strength-type evolver, Mo Jiang native familiar with the terrain.”
The man didn’t waste words and straightforwardly stated his value.
He placed his hand on the door handle and twisted it hard, deforming the metal door handle.
Proving he wasn’t lying.
“Click—”
Su Huan opened the door and glanced at the deformed door handle and the man’s perky butt. His complexion softened.
Valuable, and from the looks of it, his brain was sharp too. He was willing to spend a little time on this kind of person.
“Say what you have to say. My time is tight.”
“Next up is passing the Mo Jiang Bridge, right?”
“Right.”
The man told him his guesses from inside the carriage.
Su Huan nodded in agreement, already thinking in his mind how to arrange this talent.
But he didn’t show much emotion on his face. “And then?”
The man hesitated for a moment and said carefully, “I’m not trying to seize your train. The upcoming journey is too dangerous, and I want to help you make some tactical decisions. Don’t worry, I’ve received rigorous professional training in this area—absolutely reliable.”
Su Huan’s complexion was odd. The last one planned to take it by force, and this one was trying to outmaneuver him?
You’ve had rigorous professional training? I’ve endured four years of brutal elimination.
“You’re not also called Zhe or something, are you?”
The man was stunned for a moment. “My name is Lu Xiao. Lu from continent, Xiao from brave cavalry.”
Su Huan nodded. “I’ve remembered you, but now’s not the time for you to shine.”
Lu Xiao frowned. He couldn’t understand why, despite his sincerity, Su Huan was still so stubborn.
Was the authority of a mere train conductor really more important than life?
Su Huan saw his defiance and sincerely explained, “This kind of big scene requires the train conductor. You can’t handle it.”
Lu Xiao took a deep breath to suppress his impatience. “I hope the train conductor will consider my suggestion. I’ll be waiting here in Carriage 10.”
Su Huan waved his hand. “Then wait. Remember to restore the door handle for me.”
He turned and left.
……
If the world’s rivers were seen as dragon veins, then this cross-river bridge was like chains lying across the water surface.
Accompanied by the clanging sounds, a mechanical steel dragon drove onto the overpass.
The hot wind it stirred dispersed the cotton-like fog on the water surface. Under the clear moonlight, the terrifying face of the entire great river was revealed to everyone in the train.
The murky Mo Jiang water surface surged with tens of thousands of floating corpses, rising and falling with the current. Pairs of scarlet eyes all turned toward the train on the overpass.
In the sightseeing carriage, Yu Yue nervously pinched her fingertips. “Something’s coming…”
“Mm, I saw it.”
Su Huan’s eyes stared at the murky water surface. Far away at thirty or forty meters, a turbid giant wave surged up, crashing a massive wave onto the Mo Jiang Bridge, making even the armored train tremble.
The water wave crashed down, pressing hundreds of zombies into the water.
But what truly shocked him was the white giant tail in that giant wave.
As thick as a water tank.
It was the White Snake Mo Jiang, which he had encountered once at the water plant!
Seeing this terrifying momentum, Su Huan fell silent for a moment.
This snake had probably stepped into Tier 2.
His general energy conversion was still at lv2. He had absorbed four Tier 1 general energy crystals, and his energy compression was still at lv1, having only absorbed around five ordinary general energy crystals.
Still far from Tier 1 profession “Energy Storage Core.”
“Convoy leader, the oil drums have been moved over.” The three brothers laboriously carried the oil drum to the second layer.
“Move them to the front of the train.” Su Huan pointed outside the sightseeing carriage, then looked at Yu Yue beside him. “Go downstairs and get me the heart of that blood hound.”
Yu Yue nodded instinctively, took two steps, then felt something was off.
Blood hound’s heart.
Wasn’t that the evolution path for Bloody Resonance?
Her thoughts flashed like lightning, instantly illuminating her chaotic mind. She abruptly turned around. “You want to evolve?”
Su Huan raised an eyebrow and said teasingly, “Yo, why is Aunt Yu suddenly so smart?”
“Didn’t you say that method is very dangerous?”
“Evolution is inherently madness.”
“But isn’t there a safer…”
Su Huan impatiently waved his hand. “It’s just a backup in case. Hurry up and go.”
Yu Yue’s fingertips turned white from clenching. Seeing his impatient appearance, a sour feeling inexplicably rose in her heart.
Her mind involuntarily extended outward, deducing.
What if it really came to the point where evolution was necessary?
If Su Huan turned into…
No, she was just an oppressed passenger. Why worry about him?
Yu Yue knocked her forehead.
Why was she acting like Stockholm syndrome?
But then she thought again.
Su Huan was a bit fierce and bad usually, but except for that one time, he hadn’t done anything excessive to her or her daughter.
Other passengers could curse him as a cold-blooded brutal bastard, but she probably didn’t have the right.
She was even somewhat complicit to a certain extent.
The little chef bit her lower lip, her eyes showing confusion. She dazedly got the blood hound heart from Wan Xing and went up to the second layer.
But the scene before her made her heart tremble.
Under the stark moonlight, thousands of silver scales floated on the water surface, tearing at the zombies. The already murky river water turned into clumps of dark filth.
When the tens of thousands of floating corpses had all disappeared, led by a white snake like a flood dragon, thousands of water beasts charged toward the cross-river bridge.
Like the legendary serpent that had cultivated to success, crossing the waters eastward to enter the sea and shed its form to become a dragon!
The river surface roiled with turbid waves, carrying stumps and severed limbs crashing into the bridge pillars.
“Boom—”
Yu Yue was frightened into closing her eyes, feeling the world spinning, then falling into the water.
But after a while, she didn’t feel suffocation. When she opened her eyes, she saw Su Huan’s unkind face.
“I thought you were scared to death.”
He helped her steady herself, took the heart from her hand, opened the door, and walked toward the front of the train.
“Don’t follow. The wind and waves are strong tonight; it’s easy to sweep you away.”
Old San and the others finished moving the oil drums and hurried back, all sweating profusely but pale-faced.
Clearly, they had also seen the scene under the bridge.
As Old San passed, he grabbed Su Huan. “Old Four, what are you doing?”
Su Huan tilted his head, looking at the white giant python winding up the bridge pillar in the distance. The corners of his mouth grinned, revealing sinister white teeth.
“Fight for the dragon!”
