Chapter 83: Depart For The Armory!
A pale electric light suddenly flashed inside the off-road vehicle.
The modified off-road vehicle was like a bucking little wild horse, crashing headlong into the train traveling at 80km/h.
The train only swayed slightly, and the off-road vehicle was flung away.
The Butcher chasing laboriously behind saw the small iron box drop right in front of him, and his black-red eyeballs lit up instantly.
There’s such a good thing?!
He immediately lost interest in the departing train.
His thick soles squelching through the rainwater, he dragged half a metal door upside down as he walked over.
Open the box!
……
Su Huan inside the vehicle felt a bit regretful.
If he hadn’t acted so hastily, compressing half his body’s energy—no, even a third—into a fire spear would have directly blasted Captain He into roast chicken mid-air!
But none of that mattered, as long as he could reach this batch of munitions ahead of them.
The “armed” in armored train would then live up to its name.
It wasn’t hard to guess from He Jie’s appearance here that some of the Steel Council’s plans had changed, and whether the New City Plan could unfold as smoothly as in his previous life was uncertain.
But Lin Jin was definitely in the Steel Council; he couldn’t escape.
The train whistled forward, the high-rise buildings on both sides mostly gone, replaced by vast industrial parks and some government buildings, many things not marked on civilian maps.
After another dozen minutes, the acid rain not only didn’t stop but grew heavier, turning from fine rain threads to bean-sized raindrops.
The armored train’s windows were already incomplete, many patched with steel plates.
Now the entire carriage reeked of corroded metal.
Urgent footsteps sounded, and Yu Jing hurried in. “The water tanks in the first ten carriages are full. Should we continue with the rear ones? The acid rain concentration is a bit high; we might need to replace the filter cores.”
Su Huan frowned. “That massive water purifier can’t hold up this soon?”
“It’s the after-added PH adjustment device that needs replacing.”
Su Huan said calmly, “Then replace it. Don’t worry about waste. The purified water outside is all contaminated. What’s in our water tanks now isn’t water—it’s life!”
“To buy their lives, they’ll offer a price that satisfies me.”
“Got it. I’ll open the water tanks in eight carriages total for the crew, construction team, and combat squads.”
Yu Jing answered straightforwardly, but her gaze fell on the scar on Su Huan’s hand, her puzzled eyes turning to the woman before saying nothing.
Su Huan waved his large hand. “Open them, but install a separate water meter for them. Bill by water usage.”
Yu Jing turned and walked out.
Su Huan first circled the cockpit. Xiao Ba and the others were fine; after all, the front of the train had the thickest armor anywhere. A heavy sniper rifle couldn’t penetrate the 30mm armor within a hundred meters.
Let alone a kilometer away.
Then Old San said Lu Xiao wanted to see him, so he hurriedly headed to the rear carriage.
He reaped a wave of exclamations.
Lu Xiao’s eyelids twitched looking at Su Huan’s mangled palm and the deformed bullet.
“So it didn’t hit after all?”
“Caught it barehanded.”
“If you caught it barehanded, I’ll stuff my head under the wheel.”
“Then get ready to get off.”
“?”
The train slowly stopped. Outside was an unremarkable factory surrounded by brick walls.
Lu Xiao was stunned. “You’re not thinking of hard-fighting the army behind with just those few guns, are you?”
Su Huan tossed him the bullet in his hand and said indifferently, “Isn’t there still you?”
Lu Xiao weighed the bullet head in his hand. It was hefty, but absolutely impossible to catch barehanded—even if exhausted, no way.
He could only say Su Huan’s abilities were far more mysterious than he’d imagined.
As for what Su Huan said, Lu Xiao didn’t believe a word. The train conductor’s words were as unreliable as his train, running all over the place.
While talking, Old San and the others carried a pile of boxes from the miscellaneous items in carriage 8 with the crew.
“Heading out on a mission?”
Jiang Rong approached silently.
Su Huan pointed to the boxes behind him. “Mandatory task. There are two hundred raincoats inside; help yourselves. Each squad can claim one fire truck.”
Lu Xiao frowned. “Our squad has 13 people; one fire truck won’t fit.”
“There’s another fire truck; take whichever you want, but bill it.”
“Everyone departs in five minutes.”
……
“Splash—”
Searchlights pierced the rain curtain. The car door opened, and an off-road vehicle rushed down, splashing a circle of rainwater.
Three fire trucks and an SUV followed closely behind.
In the murky rainwater, the convoy advanced into the distance.
The armory wasn’t built beside the railway track but in a military building ten kilometers away.
Not on the map, but the surrounding buildings hadn’t changed much compared to four years later. He could barely recognize the roads from memory.
The armory had high security, two layers total: first the electronic lock, second the blast door’s physical lock.
The former was easy; he could just short-circuit it by hand.
The trouble was the blast door itself—no key.
He didn’t know if the tools on the fire truck could cut through it violently.
In the off-road vehicle, Su Huan bit his finger joint. The faint stinging pain on his palm always disrupted his thinking.
His small gesture was fully seen by Yu Yue in the back seat. Her fingers twisted together anxiously, brows furrowed.
Acid rain-eroded wounds would get infected and inflamed; severe cases even required amputation.
Should she remind him?
Two little Yu Yues argued in her mind.
‘He’s humiliated you so much, and you’re still thinking of him? Shameless!’
‘But he clearly saved me today…’
‘I think you just like singing on his leg, shameless!’
‘I don’t.’
‘He was just casually protecting his plaything!’
‘I-I’m not…’
——
“Maybe bandage it first? Acid rain will inflame the wound.”
After agonizing in the back seat, Yu Yue couldn’t help but speak up.
Her voice was very flat, no emotional fluctuation.
‘This is out of my medical ethics, not caring about him. Right, just like that!’
The woman emphasized this to herself inwardly.
Su Huan glanced at his palm. It was just a chunk of flesh missing; in his previous life, this didn’t even count as an injury. With his constitution, it’d heal in two or three days. But being cared for by a woman felt good.
“Don’t mind such small things. Watch the silencer!”
As his words fell, a bolt of lightning suddenly extended from the front of the vehicle.
It twisted rapidly along the rain curtain, striking the blocking zombie.
The powerful voltage instantly scorched its numb brain, then the off-road vehicle crushed it under the undercarriage.
Under the cover of Yu Yue’s ability and the acid rain, it made no sound.
Because vehicles were scarce in the suburbs, the convoy reached a large courtyard with almost no obstruction.
The three-meter-high red brick wall was eroded by acid rain into a filthy liver-brown.
The off-road vehicle showed no sign of stopping, crashing straight into the metal gate.
Lu Xiao, driving a fire truck, recognized the courtyard upon seeing it, but more doubts surged in his heart.
How did he know this military building had what they needed?
