Chapter 74: Adding New Blood
Su Huan tilted his head and looked behind Lu Xiao.
Wan Xing and the doctor Lin Xia carried a large bag of bloody things over, with hot blood spilling all over the ground.
“This general energy might dissipate before it can be extracted,” Wan Xing said regretfully.
‘Extract?’
Lu Xiao thought of the evolver classifications that Su Huan had told him about before, gaining a rough impression of Wan Xing’s position on the train.
Su Huan pinched his chin, looking at the bag of steaming hearts, “These are all good things…”
Lu Xiao nearby had flickering eyes.
‘Could this heart be the key to evolution?’
Before he could figure out the connection between the two, Su Huan turned his gaze to him, “You can’t use it now, but you can try giving it to your team members. Eating this thing has about a 40% probability of evolution.”
As soon as the words fell, including the workers who were transporting supplies, all the ordinary people in the area who heard the conversation stopped what they were doing at the same time, staring fixedly at the hearts in the hands of Wan Xing and the other two.
Everyone on the train knew about the existence of evolvers, such as Train Conductor Su Huan, such as the late Gao Zhe, and such as the current Lu Xiao.
Whether it was Su Huan’s eerie method of killing whoever he pointed at, or Lu Xiao and their powerful strength and speed.
They were all existences that ordinary passengers dreamed of.
Now this opportunity was so blatantly right in front of them.
The hearts of all ordinary passengers began to beat.
Lin Xia was also startled, not expecting that what he held in his hands was actually the key item for evolution.
Inexplicably, he thought of secretly gnawing on one just now…
‘I’d die.’
Wan Xing nearby just glanced at him, said nothing, but her eyes clearly conveyed this meaning.
Lin Xia swallowed, reining in his thoughts.
Then he heard Lu Xiao ask, “What if it fails?”
“Of course, turn into a zombie. So this is the craziest evolution method, but the safer methods aren’t your turn yet.” Su Huan shrugged, saying it as a matter of course.
“Is there anyone who wants to try?”
“Me!”
A clear voice came from behind. Su Huan raised his brow and glanced over—it was the woman who studied materials from the crew recruited today.
He had to say, she really had ambition.
But there were only so few talents on the entire train; they couldn’t foolishly gamble on a 40% probability.
He’d rather use these hearts for composting.
He shook his head, “Crew personnel are not included in this. This is welfare for the worker group and combat squads.”
“For the combat squad, do I count?”
Another female voice.
This time, Su Huan recognized who it was without looking.
It was precisely the captain of the armored train’s second D-level squad, the owner of exclusive carriage 18, Jiang Rong.
No matter where the woman went, she carried an old backpack on her back. At this moment, her complexion was calm as she looked at him.
If she hadn’t spoken up herself, Su Huan wouldn’t have noticed her.
Perhaps due to the train’s effect of keeping the best and culling the worst, these women who stepped forward were tougher than the last.
Mentality was also a kind of non-obvious ability.
Su Huan pondered for a moment and persuaded, “As long as you complete one more task, I’ll give you a safer evolution method with over 90% success rate.”
“Thank you for Train Conductor’s kindness, but I want to give it a try.”
The woman spoke politely, but there was a stubbornness in it.
Su Huan gently shook his head and said a strange blessing, “Fine, give it a try then. I wish you rebirth at the starting point of the apocalypse.”
He didn’t know where this phrase came from either; anyway, everyone said it like that.
This phrase came from the wasteland. Every evolution was like gambling with the god of death, so people had all sorts of blessing phrases.
This one was the most widespread.
Although he didn’t know why it was rebirth at the starting point of the apocalypse.
Could it be that every dead person would be like him?
The woman smiled politely, then took a washbasin-sized ordinary terror wolf heart from Wan Xing’s hand, asked about the usage, and went to the side to quietly gnaw on it.
Although the terror wolf hadn’t reached tier 1, the general energy contained in its heart might be even higher than that of the tier 1 blood hound back then.
After all, there were gaps between mutated beasts.
Evolution only narrowed the gap between the two, not absolutely flattening it.
A tier 1 blood hound that had evolved still couldn’t beat a blue whale in the sea no matter what.
Similarly, a tier 1 terror wolf could easily slaughter a tier 1 blood hound.
With a leader stepping up, soon others followed. In total, the fourteen hearts were all divided among the workers and Lu Xiao’s squad before the ordinary passengers even got a turn.
Old San and the others nervously watched from the side.
Su Huan didn’t bother with it. After all, they were just a few newly mutated ordinary zombies; any evolver present could handle them cleanly.
At this time, several vehicles had been dismantled into scraps by Xiao Ba, and various metals had been melted into standard steel plates.
Materials of other textures were scattered all over the ground.
The kid playing with the drone was rummaging for things inside.
‘This guy isn’t scavenging for batteries, is he…’
Su Huan narrowed his eyes. At noon, Yu Jing had directed them to stuff a pile of broken batteries into his room.
He quietly walked behind the other and observed for a moment before curiously asking, “Are you looking for cameras?”
The young man was stunned for a moment. Hearing it was Su Huan’s voice, he quickly replied, “Yes, there are some cameras on the train, but they’re all dismantled from various equipment and inconvenient to modify. The cameras on these vehicles are very suitable—small, concealed, and with more functions.”
Su Huan satisfiedly patted his shoulder.
This kind of initiative was very good.
After another half hour of bustling, the supplies of this convoy had basically been looted clean by the armored train. Seven gunshots rang out from Old San’s side.
Lu Xiao also made two moves.
In the end, out of the fourteen people, five survived.
Jiang Rong became an energizer. The remaining four men were two defenders and two manufacturers.
Su Huan found this result very normal.
According to the patterns counted by the Steel Council, without human intervention, ordinary people had the highest probability of evolving into defenders and manufacturers.
Next were collectors and energizers; the lowest probability was actually manipulators.
Of course, this was just evolution probability, unrelated to strength in each field.
After becoming evolvers, the two manufacturers and one defender said they wanted to join the crew, and Su Huan approved on the spot.
These people had lives and abilities; he wouldn’t hold them back.
The remaining defender stayed in Lu Xiao’s squad—a young man who looked very aggressive.
At this moment, he was glaring viciously at that traitorous defender.
By the time all matters were finished, it was already ten o’clock at night. Su Huan, who hadn’t eaten anything all along, was starving.
At noon, he had only focused on eating Yu Yue and hadn’t had time for bread.
Passing by carriage 7, he saw Huang Hai and Xiao Wang fiddling with “sweet and spicy scallions”—the mutated plant that Lu Xiao had brought back.
He cut off a white fruit and headed straight to the dining car.
Passing by carriage 4, Su Huan stepped back, looking at the scene before him and falling into thought.
A washing machine was working hard.
He saw Yu Yue’s ginger yellow shirt, Yu Jing’s high-waisted jeans, and short sleeve inside it.
Next to the washing machine was a power bank.
The one he had just charged that afternoon.
