Chapter 70: Terror Wolf! Terror Wolf!
Su Huan pinched his chin, “For now, let’s say there are five levels, from D to S grade.”
As for why it’s divided this way, he wasn’t too clear either; anyway, the Steel Council divides it like this.
There are five levels in total; the teams formed by newly absorbed peripheral survivors are D-grade, and then upward is their C-grade basic squad, with five members in total.
But these five people are equivalent to five Lu Xiaos; ordinary passengers aren’t even counted, even if there are a thousand of them.
No matter how many die or get injured, or how many are added, the Steel Council won’t care.
To them, the ones truly belonging to them are just these five people.
So that’s why Su Huan had previously told Lu Xiao, “They are working for you.”
Wanting to bypass the captain who leads them every day to directly gain the loyalty of ordinary team members is a very troublesome and unreliable thing.
Just like a medieval king wanting to bypass his vassals to manage the vassals’ vassals.
Purely a brain problem.
So among those who gained exchange qualifications from Su Huan, the so-called squad members, only Lu Xiao counts.
He only recognizes this one person; if Lu Xiao dies, then this squad has no reason to exist.
Then there are B-grade tactical squads, with twenty people.
A-grade is war-grade, with one hundred people.
S-grade is heavenly calamity-grade, superficially three hundred-person convoys, but actually representing all armed forces of their force going all out, with the logistics system fully stopping production of living supplies, everything oriented toward victory in war.
Lu Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, “Not bad, not too complicated.”
A strange smile appeared on Su Huan’s face.
Not too complicated?
In his previous life, if he hadn’t received perfectly timed care from Lin Jin and advanced to Tier 1 “Electromagnetic User,” he wouldn’t even have made the roster of a D-grade basic squad; he could only be a follower of other evolvers until death.
One zombie can yield one ordinary general energy crystal, and one to three ordinary general energy crystals can create one ordinary evolver.
So low-level evolvers really aren’t worth much.
They are like the bottom layer of bricks and stones in a pyramid, constantly piling up the possibility of something higher-level.
They are the “quantity” in quantity leading to quality change, the massive base, the disproportionately large denominator.
Shuffle, shuffle; if someone goes up, someone goes down.
The apocalypse is ultimately a carnival for a few ambitious people.
But he’d had enough of being the denominator in his previous life; this life he wanted to taste what it’s like to be the numerator.
So far, it looks pretty good.
“Keep it up, I have high hopes for you; rest well tonight, in a couple days there’ll be a chance for you to shine.”
With a fake smile, he brushed them off with a couple words, and the two walked out of the carriage.
The wounded in Carriage 15, after simple treatment, were all carried to the rear carriages, but in this 30-40 degree high temperature environment, Su Huan wasn’t optimistic about their injuries.
What surprised Su Huan was that the woman who had set out alone had returned, bringing back a large bag of two-meter-long grass.
The armored train now had its second D-grade squad captain.
Repeating the previous steps, just as Su Huan was about to go eat, people arrived outside the vehicle again.
Their manner of arrival was very memorable.
……
The originally lush greenery on both sides of the suburbs had been scorched yellow by the high temperature, and in the darkness, only mutated plants rustled as they grew and twisted, climbing onto the cement road surface of the national highway.
Suddenly, a buzzing vibration approached from afar, and two headlights pierced the darkness.
Accompanied by the abrupt screech of emergency braking, “Bang—”
Two shadows like calves were flung off the vehicle, sliding more than ten meters on the ground; their tough fur rubbed against the ground without any wounds.
Shaking their dazed brains, their oil-green eyes locked onto the vehicle again and pounced.
“Accelerate, run it over! Run it over—”
The engine roared and trembled, the tires spun in place, making a sticky pulling sound with the high-temperature ground, like countless charred hands reaching out from underground to drag it.
The car charged forward again, colliding head-on with the oncoming blood hound.
“Boom!”
A violent vibration rang out, and the windshield shattered all over the ground.
A terrified scream came from inside the driver’s cabin.
Soon drowned out by the engines of more vehicles; over a dozen cars rushed over, each surrounded by several shadows chasing and biting.
“Bang!”
The nervous driver suddenly spotted the car stopped ahead, got a fright, jerked the steering wheel, and ended up crashing into the vehicle on the side.
Both cars lost control and flipped sideways, lying across the national highway, triggering more chain car accidents.
The mutated beasts swarmed up, using sharp claws and teeth to pry open car doors and car windows, then dragged the people inside out.
Several-ton sedans were like oversized canned food in front of this pack of beasts.
Rocking unceasingly from the tearing.
The vehicles behind that reacted could only drive into the wilderness on both sides.
The headlights happened to illuminate the armored train sprawled across the railway track.
As well as the faces behind the glass; the driver was first startled, then overjoyed upon realizing they were living people, and frantically honked the horn for help.
The result was that this piercing sound attracted all the mutated beasts in the passage.
“Turn on the roof searchlights.” Su Huan’s calm voice sounded.
Liang Kuan immediately went to carry it out.
“Click—”
Over a dozen high-powered searchlights instantly lit up the entire wasteland as bright as day.
The tragic state of the convoy on the national highway came into full view, and everyone on the train drew in a sharp breath.
Several alpha wolves nearly as big as vehicles stood on the car roofs, their pairs of greenish eyes staring at the searchlights, pupils slightly contracting to adjust; their pre-apocalypse biological instincts made them choose vigilant observation.
Among the vehicles were also over twenty gray wolves the size of calves.
“Terror wolves.”
Su Huan quickly identified these mutated beasts.
Unlike blood hounds, terror wolves didn’t have exaggerated mutations in appearance; they still looked like pre-apocalypse gray wolves, except their overall size had enlarged, surging from medium dog build to the scale of large lions or tigers, with even greater strength.
One slap from a paw would dent an ordinary car door into a large pit, with the A-pillar bent and glass shattered.
For ordinary people without firearms, they were a terrifying nightmare.
They were the mutated beasts fleeing convoys least wanted to encounter.
“Roar…”
Seeing the armored train motionless for a while, the wolf king let out a low roar.
Over twenty gray wolves, led by several sturdy male wolves, dispersed to encircle the armored train.
The driver inside the car was still foolishly honking the horn, sticking his head out and shouting for the people inside to open the door for him.
The next instant, a fanged maw appeared behind his head.
Like a summer watermelon exploding, fresh juice burst open.
The crisp sound made everyone shiver with a refreshing chill.
“Roar roar!”
Like a signal, the wolf pack launched an attack on the armored train.
“Bang bang bang…”
Terrifying impact sounds rang out; passengers near the windows involuntarily stepped back.
Their complexions terrified, terrified…
And couldn’t hold it anymore.
Su Huan looked at the Tier 1 terror wolf outside the explosion-proof net, baring its teeth to bite him.
And returned a malicious toothy grin.
He stretched out one hand and flicked hard on its wet nose, “Little bro, didn’t eat?”
