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Chapter 509 Giant Python
The train traveled through the Star Ring Ancient Battlefield area for several hours. The number of passengers on the train gradually decreased. Bai Ma Tombstone finished his exercise, sat in the back seat, closed his eyes, concentrated, and practiced regular breathing exercises to strengthen his internal organs.

Claudia and Reyes, feeling a bit sleepy, each crawled into their safety sleeping bags to replenish their energy—they were equipped with magical shields and would wake up immediately if danger was detected.

Wanli Fengdao yawned, leaning his head against the car window, his eyes reflecting the light of the shopping app on his phone screen as he selected diapers.

"For disposable diapers, I recommend those made of super absorbent polymer resin."

Li Sheng inadvertently caught a glimpse of the light reflected in Wanli Fengdao's eyes and gave him a thumbs up, "Absorbs and locks in water, preventing backflow."

"This is for my child, okay?"

Xiao Dao Ge rolled his eyes. Since people are most vulnerable when excreting, many players do indeed stockpile a large number of adult diapers to cope with the script missions.

He flipped his phone over and showed the order to Li Sheng.

In addition to diapers, there are also pure cotton seamless onesies, PPSU baby bottles, building block toys, cat trees, chew sticks, and furniture anti-collision stickers.

Judging from the size of the bodysuit, it should be designed for children under one year old.

"Being a parent is really tough. I bought a lot of furniture anti-collision stickers back then,"

Li Sheng sighed empathetically, then pointed to the fast-sleeping Hui Yu, "But it's no use. The refrigerator, the solid wood coffee table, the marble dining table, and the slab TV cabinet were all smashed within a few days."

Are the furniture bumper stickers in your home used to protect your furniture?

Wanli Fengdao's eye twitched. His marriage and children with the catgirl he had abducted from another world were already well-known on the forum.

Besides admiration and envy, there was also skepticism.

The mortality rate of the chosen ones in the killing field is higher than that of mercenaries. As a product of the combination of humans and catgirls, Wanli Fengdao's child is three-quarters human and one-quarter extraordinary, and is born with a higher probability of being selected as a chosen one.

The killing field won't talk to you about the law protecting minors; children will still be selected without exception.

Thinking of this, Brother Knife put away his phone with a touch of melancholy and suddenly asked, "If I remember correctly, Ant, you possess the ability to reassemble bodies at the rule level?"

"correct."

Li Sheng, quick-witted as lightning, immediately guessed what Xiao Dao was thinking, "You want me to help strengthen your child? Or something else?"

Wanli Fengdao paused for a moment and then said, "Is it possible to separate the body from the brain, cryopreserve the body, and physically connect the brain to a computer server?"

"Theoretically, it is possible."

Li Sheng nodded. "But are you sure?"

Brother Xiaodao worries that he might die mysteriously in the killing field one day, and he is even more worried that his child will be selected as a chosen one in a few years.

If Li Sheng's body and brain were separated, with his body remaining in a child's form while his brain continued to grow and develop mentally in a virtual world created by a computer server, perhaps this method could be used to "trick" him into escaping the killing field.

"I just said it casually, don't take it to heart."

Wanli Fengdao slowly shook his head, just about to change the subject, when suddenly the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end, and his eyes sharpened.

The sword he wore at his waist, named "Dragon Slayer," also sensed something and emitted a series of hums from its simple scabbard.

Following his gaze, Li Sheng looked out the window and saw a faint blue light in the far distance.

The Star Ring Ancient Battlefield is vast and empty, with some areas exhibiting spatial distortion effects. The train has jumped over it many times, and the blue dot suddenly appeared in the cosmic background after one of those jumps.

Li Sheng initially thought the blue dot was a stationary asteroid and didn't pay much attention to it until he observed it closely and confirmed that the blue dot was indeed magnified by 30%.

Even though the green train was always facing away from the light strip, the light spot continued to grow larger, which could only mean that the thing was continuously following behind the train, slowly closing the distance.

"Everyone wake up!"

Wanli Fengdao tapped the table with his sword sheath, and the white horse tombstone suddenly opened its eyes, simultaneously waking Claudia and Reyes from their sleep.

Li Sheng removed the noise-canceling earplugs from Hui Yu's ears and lifted her up. The latter mumbled, "What happened?"

In the distant vacuum of space, a large, regularly shaped rock floats, clearly the platform where the green train will stop.

Whether it spotted the platform or realized that the passengers had noticed, the blue light suddenly brightened and accelerated to catch up with the green train traveling at 700 kilometers per hour. Only then could the passengers finally see the true form of the blue light.

It was a colossal python composed entirely of complex metal machinery, over a kilometer long and 35 meters in diameter, with a hollowed-out exterior that allowed one to clearly see its intricate and precise internal mechanical structure.

The so-called blue lights are actually the plasma exhaust flames from the engine inside the python's body.

The giant python was clearly heading towards the green train. As the distance between them rapidly closed, the right-side window was completely blocked by the python's enormous body, which was ten times the diameter of the carriage.

Boom!
Before anyone could react, Gray Rain suddenly flew up and stuck to the right wall of the carriage like a gecko.

All unsecured metal objects in the carriage, including but not limited to beverage bottles, mobile phones, and spoons, also went out of control and stuck to the walls.

"The magnetic field of the magnetic confinement device."

Li Sheng took a deep breath. The unit of magnetic field strength is written as T, Tesla, 1T=10000G, G is Gauss.

The Earth's magnetic field strength is 3G at the equator and about 7G at the North and South Poles. The intensity of superconducting MRI is 1.5T or 3T.

The giant python's magnetic field strength was 25T even at a distance. Considering that its slender body maintained a serpentine, writhing posture during flight, the most likely explanation is that the mechanical python possessed a magnetically confined nuclear fusion engine.

It can fuse light atomic nuclei such as hydrogen, deuterium, tritium, and helium into heavy atomic nuclei, heat the plasma working fluid, and eject it backward at high speed.

Li Sheng had contact with two people who possessed the technology of controlled nuclear fusion engines. One was a mad scientist in a wheelchair, the Oracle, or rather, Lynn.

The other is Dr. Noah, who was instilled with knowledge by the ancient gods and made a grave mistake, killing eight billion of his fellow humans.

However, neither of them was able to use nuclear fusion technology with ease. They couldn't even miniaturize nuclear fusion reactors, let alone abandon the toroidal structure and directly confine high-energy particles with magnetic fields like the mechanical python.

(The mainstream devices in the field of magnetic confinement nuclear fusion are tokamak and stellarator. The former is a perfectly symmetrical toroidal device, while the latter is a twisted spiral donut, which is also a type of twisted toroidal device. Both are toroidal and essentially prevent particles from escaping by using a closed magnetic field.)
In other words, the technology contained in the mechanical python far surpasses that of Dr. Noah.

Thoughts flashed through Li Sheng's mind. The green train itself came from the battlefield and was not subject to magnetic fields, but the metal spoons and forks inside the train were violently scraping against the glass windows, causing the windows to crack slightly.

"Quickly into the Poké Ball."

Li Sheng took out an electronic pet egg and threw it at Gray Rain, who immediately shouted, "Holy crap, no!"

The suicide note indicated that Li Sheng might die in a train carriage, and there was no gray rain around, so she thought that as long as she was there, she could reduce the probability of Li Sheng's death.

However, the suicide note is not necessarily accurate, and seeing that the car window was about to crack, Gray Rain was still put into the electronic pet egg.

Woo!
At this moment, the train sounded a loud whistle and slowly stopped next to the stone platform. The instant the doors opened, the mechanical python suddenly extended countless flexible mechanical arms of various functions and shapes, reaching into the carriage and slaughtering all the passengers along the way.

In the twentieth carriage, passengers resembling jellyfish-like atmospheric creatures were torn in two by a chainsaw.

In the tenth carriage, a passenger with a large stomach had his navel inserted by a robotic arm, causing an internal explosion that shattered him into fragments.

In the fifteenth carriage where the players were located, hundreds of robotic arms surged in from both the front and rear of the train. The White Horse Tombstone, facing the front of the train, unleashed a barrage of punches with the force of a storm.

Facing the rear of the vehicle, Wanli Fengdao did not draw his Dragon-Slaying Sword due to the interference of the magnetic field. Instead, he released sword energy through the scabbard to sever the mechanical arms that were surging like a tide.

Reyes, busy peeling away tattoos, exclaimed in surprise, "Wait, this mechanical python isn't a passenger."

Before the question could even be uttered, a mechanical arm hidden in the shadows suddenly transformed into the shape of an electromagnetic cannon, firing a metal projectile shaped like a steel needle.

The steel needle traveled at seven times the speed of sound, instantly piercing Reyes' skull and shattering his head.

The immortality field took effect, and the scattered skull fragments flew back on their own, along with the brain matter, and were restored to Reyes's head.

The anti-entropy effect of this force field was so powerful that he could clearly recall the feeling of his head exploding the moment it did.

"Why am I the one who has to die again?!"

No one paid attention to Reyes's cries. The mechanical python quickly realized the existence of the immortality field and immediately changed its strategy. It used its numerous mechanical arms to bind the hands, feet and waist of the White Horse Tombstone and Wanli Fengdao, dragged her out of the carriage and threw her into the vacuum of space.

This situation is just like when Li Sheng threatened the Mushroom King and others before—passengers will still die once they leave the immortality field of the green train.

(End of this chapter)