Planet of Sand and Oasis of Iron

Chapter 74 74. When foreign enemies attack, we can face the problem together

The battle in Node City is very important, and Sefer must rush back immediately, but the current situation, from the perspective of "event", seems more interesting.

Both trains were on guard against each other. In their perception, there was only one doomsday train in this world, and that was theirs.

This is the first time in recorded history, and it is also a first that no one can accept.

Why is there another car? What is the purpose of their existence? If they exist, will the station have less supplies?
Resources are already quite scarce, and when another train is discovered, many problems become clear without words.

The troops stationed at the orbital stopovers may know about this but have been unwilling to give out any information for generations - or even worse, they are taking both ends of the pie!

Is this why those stationed at key sites haven't boarded the trains for generations?
Countless thoughts were circulating in the two quietly parked cars. Neither side knew what the other was thinking and could only sit calmly on the car body and wait.

The automatic system began to repair the two vehicles. They had also been attacked by many monsters on the way here, and many compartments were already in tatters.

These numbers poured onto the two car bodies, and when they were about halfway through the repair, they suddenly stopped.

No notification.

No follow-up.

So the battle began.

No one knew who fired the first shot. In this station with no garrison personnel and no mechanical monsters, the two vehicles opened their armor and deployed all the combat personnel and combat units on the vehicles.

Cypher did not follow the movement immediately. When he was asked to enter the platform and the tracks that were used as trenches, he said that there was something wrong with his body and he was temporarily unable to move and needed to check himself.

The excuse was all too plausible, and the situation was so tight that the staff were too busy to handle anything else. Those who climbed over the platform, using the tracks and various facilities as cover to attack each other, were confused, but their hands did not stop.

The ground crew also went to fill the line, and the only one left in the hangar was Sefer...

But he couldn't relax for too long, because the other party suddenly released a machine, and the moment it came out, it went straight towards Cypher, but the paint job looked... a little familiar.

He immediately started the machine, and the pipelines connected to various parts of the machine for inspection and maintenance were broken one after another. He also left the car at the same time, and then sprinted to the outside without hesitation.

The machine followed immediately, and the weapons in both hands roared. The firepower that only a two-legged machine could wield swept across. No matter how many people hiding in the tracks were killed on the way, at least the threat was indeed moved outside.

The sound of gunfire and the cold wind blowing into the solemn and icy waiting hall instantly turned it into a plain of ice and snow.

Seifer dodged repeatedly, and when he was at a suitable distance, he suddenly opened the communication: "I am No. 4 of the train defense team. To avoid harming innocent people, please state your name!"

"I'm No. 5 in the train defense team. Go ahead, only one train can survive..."

This familiar voice immediately made Sefer react.

When he first entered this vision, the guy named Marshall was so anxious to find someone to eliminate the command body of the mechanical monster. Perhaps he also knew something.

Even with his indifferent attitude, he did not question his identity at the first time. Could it be that he had already known that there was another train in this world?

The Doomsday Train is always moving, but there are two of them, never meeting, never converging. And yet the supplies are split into two outputs... Who set this up?
After several rounds of fighting in the snowstorm, Cypher still didn't fire. This silence infuriated his opponent: "What's wrong? Where's your weapon? Why are you so cowardly to choose to fight here?!"

"...Actually, I'm T59."

"What did you say?"

Although I don’t know what the current time is, only NO.5 comes out to fight, which means that the opponent has no other machines that can be dispatched.

Give it a try, and it seems to have some success.

"You disappeared for so long, but you turned out to be the spy in that car who knew about our existence in advance?!" It was a bit of a misunderstanding, but it didn't matter. Cypher adjusted the body's posture: "That's not the case. If you have patience, you can listen to me..."

'Beep-beep--'

The body's early warning system suddenly screamed, and Seifer immediately adjusted his posture and retreated, while No.5 also took a defensive posture at the same time.

A crimson beam of light streaked across from a distance, cracking the ground. The beam that penetrated the ground even evaporated the ice, causing it to shatter and collapse.

In the hazy frost and snow, clusters of black shadows emerged from the thick snow. This time, when they condensed into an overwhelming stream of metal, they did not care whether they were stepping on the tracks.

"This isn't right... These things have never been near the terminal! Their logic has changed!"

Number 5's voice was filled with fear, and he spoke without pause: "If you are the number 59, then show your selflessness from before... help the train."

The better you perform in the vision, the higher your returns will be.

Seifer was silent for a few seconds. "Okay, I'll take this commission."

"I've told you before, I'm a mercenary. As long as there's compensation, any mission is negotiable."

There was a little laughter from NO.5, and the two men immediately turned back. When they reported the situation outside, the people on the two trains had already lost themselves in the fighting.

The entire hall was littered with the bodies of stormtroopers, explosives and weapons scattered all over the floor, and even the piles of bunkers that were everywhere were filled with corpses...

But no one cares. They only know that if the other car is still there, the repair will not be completed, and the entire maintenance process will be stuck. Will their own car stop here forever?

The news brought back by the two men stunned the two sides who were fighting for a moment, and then continued to fight bloody battles with each other, and no one was willing to give in.

Soon they had to temporarily cease fire, because not only the two machines were on warning, but the remaining firepower points near the periphery were also on warning at the same time... Yes, it was true that the enemies on the opposite train were worrying.

But the enemies that are about to pour into the hall are even more dangerous. They don't care at all what the organic matter in front of them is.

Reluctantly choosing to temporarily put aside the threat, the people in the two cars abandoned the meaninglessly consumed corpses and returned to the cars to redeploy their defenses. At this time, Cypher's machine naturally moved towards the next door.

So much so that the ground staff here called anxiously: "NO.4! You're going the wrong way!"

"I didn't go the wrong way. I said I was No. 4 because I inherited the previous call sign. I accidentally got on the wrong bus. You won't blame me, right?"

After disconnecting the communication and not caring about the reaction of the person on the other end, as Cypher's body slowly walked to the side of the train, NO.5's voice was filled with some difficult to describe emotions.

"You...really not a member of that side?"

"I just got on the wrong bus. Didn't I tell you I'm a mercenary? Isn't it natural for me to choose the option that's beneficial to me?"

Cypher's voice was subtly amused. "You guys are more familiar with this side. Since we're talking about defense or special operations, don't you see that I'm missing something?"

No.5 understood instantly, and he said without hesitation that the machine that Cypher had used before did not have a new pilot yet.

Compared to the...hard-to-describe thing he is driving now, the performance of that machine will definitely be far superior after it is repaired.

For Sefer, this thing has almost no disadvantages except that it cannot be driven outside the vision.

It's much more advanced than the machines used by various mercenaries I've seen before... It's a pity that I can only try it in visions.

(End of this chapter)