Armored train in the apocalypse

Chapter 253 Solving the problem
Ado stared blankly at the scene before her, as if the grenade had just hit her brain and was still buzzing.

A cold wind carrying the stench of blood blew by, and black smoke reeking of gunpowder billowed in.

Ado was startled and looked up at the figure on the altar, her heart filled with a great sense of confusion.

"Is this enough blood?"

The brain has lost its ability to think, leaving only a mouth repeating meaningless questions.

"why?"

Su Huan rested one hand on the back of the chair, turned his body slightly to the side, and glanced at the watch on his left wrist.

The watch had been stopped for a long time, but fortunately he wasn't really looking at it.

"My time is very precious. You won't be able to finish by the time it gets dark."

"But everyone's dead..."

She began preparations after the high priest prophesied the arrival of the agent.

For this reason, he even refused to become one of the four priests.

She wanted to wait for the Agent to arrive, assist the Agent in fighting against the Second Priest, and after defeating the Second Priest, she would become the Agent's most trusted person, take over the Second Priest's position, and lead New Eden to a larger world outside.

This story is bound to be very complicated, and it will definitely be very difficult in the early stages.

But in the end, it will become an epic of the new era.

But she never expected the turning point in reality to come so suddenly and so tragically.

Three hundred people, with a loud "boom," were mingled with the soil on the island, becoming worthless filth and waste.

All the stories, the struggles, and even the second priesthood were blown to smithereens.

It's like the house has been burned down before the card game even starts.

They hoped to attract a savior, but instead attracted a killer.

A sense of emptiness and bewilderment arose spontaneously.

Faced with all this, the high priestess became much calmer. Perhaps she had already "seen" the fragmented scene in the prophecy, or perhaps her cloudy eyes had long since lost their ability to see.

Shu Wei glanced at A Duo with pity.

It's delusional to think that the train conductor can play by their rules; they don't even consider how wide their own river is, or whether it can accommodate this dragon crossing the river.

Based on her current understanding of Su Huan.

All he cared about was the armed train and his own goals; he paid little attention to anything else.

They're even so lazy that they don't bother to make choices.

This is an extremely obsessive and serious person. He is neither arrogant nor self-deprecating, but he is absolutely obsessive.

In the face of such fanaticism, even one's own life must take a backseat.

From the moment he arrived on the island, Su Huan probably didn't pay any attention to this so-called New Eden, let alone the High Priest or the Second Priest. If it weren't for the altar temporarily catching his interest, the Second Priest would already be leading more than two hundred people to kneel and pay taxes.

But now...

It can be considered that it has been watered.

"Should we call the experts on the train to test the effectiveness of the altar?"

"Call Director Xu and the others over. The concentration of polystyrene in the air is very high right now."

Su Huan finished speaking, his gaze falling on the edge of the deep pit.

A figure staggered to his feet.

Dark red ice crystals flakeed off his jacket, and his backpack had a tear at some point. He instinctively reached for it, but ended up wobbling and falling to the ground like a three-year-old.

After being thrown, Liu Chang finally regained some clarity of mind.

When he saw the meerkats coming up, he hid at the edge of the crowd, and it was this caution that saved him.

He survived thanks to his abilities and a bit of luck.

Although his head was still spinning, after glancing at the unharmed figures on the altar, Liu Chang felt that lying down wasn't so bad.

But this was intolerable to the second priest.

Having received divine grace twice, making him a first-tier evolver, he naturally wouldn't die so easily.

Thanks to the abilities of his trusted confidants and the protection of Death, he survived.

However, his right hand was blown away somewhere.

But what truly turned his face pale was not the massive blood loss, but the meaning behind that grenade launcher.

That's a power that survivors absolutely cannot wield!
There were also Old Wu and the mongoose hiding behind the other side.

Clearly, the other party was prepared.

Could this be the High Priest's backup plan?
The second priest stared intently at Su Huan, who remained composed on the platform.

His voice was hoarse, like a zombie's dry roar, as if his vocal cords were about to snap.

"who are you?"

Faced with the Second Priest's questioning, Su Huan raised an eyebrow and said calmly, "High Priest, doesn't it seem like it?"

As they were talking, more than a dozen people emerged from the pit one after another.

After all, they are all evolved beings, so it's normal for them to have some survival skills.

The second priest glanced at the crowd who had stood up and saw the silent third priest, which reassured him somewhat.

He secretly activated his abilities and felt the responses coming from the foot of the mountain, which boosted his confidence.

As long as the ritual is not over, he has not lost!

He still has a slim chance to turn things around!

While calculating, he manipulated Death to absorb the scattered divine stones.

The second priest said with a gloomy expression, "To become a high priest, one must not only have strength, but also gain the approval of two-thirds of New Eden. Only those of high moral character and prestige can become high priests."

After he finished speaking, he saw that Su Huan did not reply.

Feeling puzzled, I looked up and saw Su Huan counting people on his fingers.

He muttered to himself, "I have two here, and you have sixteen there. That means if I kill you down to the last one, I can become the High Priest?"

Because they didn't keep their voices down, even Liu Chang, who was lying in the pit, could hear them.

Everyone's heart felt cold.

The second priest quickly said, "Do you think you have victory in your grasp?"

Su Huan was surprised and specifically asked those around him, "Is this considered a righteous character's line or a villain's line?"

Shu Wei and the others: "...?"

Is this the kind of issue we should be discussing now?
Shu Wei sighed, "He's stalling for time."

Su Huan rested his chin on his hand and said casually, "I know, I'm just killing time."

"You arrogant fool, I will make you pay the price today."

Sensing that more divine stones had already been brought up the mountain, the second priest was overjoyed. He stood up abruptly, pointed at Su Huan, and roared angrily.

However, his tattered black robe made his words sound rather weak.

Su Huan raised his eyelids and commented, "This sentence finally sounds a bit like a villain's, but this ambiguous way of speaking is really uncomfortable."

A wave of energy emanated from the second priest.

Inside the deep pit, all the dead corpses were being pieced together by a strange force, like a large-scale corpse-sewing competition, except the process lacked much of an entertainment value. Whether it was a head, arms, or legs, they were simply shoved together and that was it.

Even Lin Xia, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner with thirty years of experience, would shake his head in disbelief.

Su Huan narrowed his eyes.

He had recently seen Yu Jing demonstrate this ability, only hers was much more refined than his.

Whether it's the details of the puppet's assembly or the puppet's agile manipulation, Yu Jing is far superior.

Through "universal perception," one can clearly sense that these people are all empty shells.

Most of the body's energy diffuses into the air.

In his current state, it's questionable whether he can even fight an ordinary person.

However, there are some formidable ones as well.

The Grim Reaper who had been following the Second Priest displayed a first-order universal energy fluctuation.

Just then, Liu Chang, lying in the pit, suddenly let out a painful howl. He writhed in agony in the pit.

His aura, however, continued to rise.

The survivors of New Eden looked over in surprise and disbelief, but before they could figure out what was happening, more than a dozen survivors knelt down at the same time, letting out painful howls.

The confidant with missing ears reacted instantly, and suddenly knelt down before the second priest, kowtowing deeply.

"High Priest, I'll serve you like a slave, please spare my life, please spare my life..."

The man with the droopy eyes also realized what was happening, and despite the excruciating pain in his body, he kowtowed to the second priest.

"If you don't fight to the death, I won't have a chance to survive!"

The second priest stared at Su Huan with a ferocious expression.

The man with missing ears wanted to curse, but it was too late; he had been turned into a zombie-like puppet.

His skin lost all its color, gradually turning into an iron gray, with crisscrossing bright red lines appearing on the surface, and his eyes became dark and shiny.

"It looks intimidating, but why does it seem so weak?"

The white deer smacked its lips.

The second priest glared at Su Huan and said hatefully, "If it weren't for you, once I obtained the third divine grace, I could have refined them one by one, and their combat power would have at least doubled. Why would I be stuck in this limbo, neither good enough for anything!"

Su Huan's eyes darted around; it seemed this was the effect of that divine stone.

The ritual has always existed, and then this second priest added a divine stone, which was actually a puppet made by his own abilities.

The life of anyone he eats will be under his control.

The first-tier priest didn't eat, nor was he surprised by this scene; perhaps the two had already conspired together.

Aside from these ordinary puppets, the first-tier Death God underwent the most dramatic changes.

Having absorbed many divine stones, his body muscles suddenly swelled, like gray granite, tearing his clothes. Bright red lines rolled with violent energy fluctuations, and a cold and terrifying aura spread in all directions.

The mask and clothes on their heads fell off.

His face, covered in scars, revealed an honest and kind countenance.

"So Wang Changge didn't betray us; he was just turned into a puppet!"

A bewildered Ado gasped in shock at the horrifying scene before her.

Su Huan fell into deep thought.

He had assumed that the high priest and the woman with horns on her head were so confident because they had a backup plan hidden beside the second priest.

But I never expected... that the backup plan was so well laid.

All that's left is cremation.

If he hadn't suddenly arrived on the island, where would they have gotten the confidence to kill the Second Priest and seize power in New Eden?
The second priest has a somewhat villainous air about him, but what about these two women?

Are they betting on that bullshit prophecy?

While one shouldn't have too high expectations for the forces formed by the survivors, this makeshift power grab still plunged the train conductor into a long-lost silence.

Is it the same in other districts?
"This number of people is not enough."

Su Huan urged him coldly.

The second priest sneered, "Come forth, my army of death!"

The gloomy mountain peak was silent, with more than three hundred iron-gray puppets staring intently at the figure on the altar.

The second priest's face appeared somewhat stiff.

He tried his best to unleash his power again, but the divine stones that were so close at hand did not react at all.

This made him a little flustered.

Even if some people were wary and didn't eat, there are thousands of them, how could there not be a single person who ate?
"It must be you who did this!"

The second priest roared in anger, but a ruthless glint flashed in his eyes.

The Grim Reaper, hidden among the puppets, had quietly moved to the front of the group. Using the other puppets as cover, he pulled out an Iron Curtain assault rifle commonly used by the law enforcement agency and pointed it at Su Huan on the altar.

"boom!"

The roar of the heavy sniper rifle rang out.

Death's bald head suddenly disappeared, and most of his upper body was torn into a pile of minced meat by bullets.

He couldn't hold onto the assault rifle anymore, and it fell to the ground.

A first-tier puppet, one shot, one kill.

Clearly, the Second Priest was far inferior to Yu Jing in terms of puppet quality.

Her "Bodhi Dao Artifact" can fight on its own.

Moreover, her fighting instincts are even stronger than her own.

The second priest is a sitting duck if he's not controlled.

Seeing his most prized Grim Reaper shot dead, the Second Priest was completely stunned and turned around abruptly.

I happened to see a man wearing a military raincoat. He looked unremarkable and was holding a heavy sniper rifle. Behind him stood a girl wearing a clean white shirt.

Qu Hang put away his heavy sniper rifle and calmly said, "Armed Corps, Major Qu Hang reporting to the train conductor."

With a whoosh, dozens of equally armed soldiers surrounded the entire mountaintop, coldly staring at the second priest in the center.

The two priests looked at them in disbelief.

Everyone has feedback from the divine stone, but they just can't control it.

"Are you looking for this?"

The goat pulled a handful of red crystals from its pocket and threw them on the ground.

The armed soldiers behind them followed suit, each throwing handfuls of red crystals from their pockets.

There are thousands of densely packed red crystals.

"Snapped!"

Su Huan snapped his fingers, drawing everyone's attention.

He smiled and said, "Now that everyone involved in the ritual is here, who agrees and who disagrees when I say I am the high priest?"

The mountaintop fell silent.

The dead don't make a sound, and the living dare not make a sound.

The second priest's face was so black it looked like you could wring water out of it.

But with dozens of guns pointed at him, he dared not utter a single word.

“Since there’s no objection, then it’s settled,” Su Huan said, pointing to the three hundred or so corpses standing in the field. “Let’s bury those that need to be buried first.”

As soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen tongues of fire burst from the muzzle of the gun.

They were strangling the puppets in the deep pit in different areas.

The puppet roared and began to resist.

But his fragile body was torn apart by bullets.

Because they had all died once, the scene was violent, but not bloody.

When the soldier changed to the third magazine, all three hundred puppets fell back into the deep pit.

With superior weaponry, not a single puppet managed to reach the soldiers.

Ado, standing beside the altar, opened her mouth in bewilderment, feeling nothing but absurdity.

Every twist and turn exceeded her wildest imagination.

Then this guy, whom she had just criticized for being rash, took the position of high priest.

The greatest struggle in New Eden has come to an abrupt end.

But New Eden seems to be...

No more.

"No! You are the vanished army!"

The second priest, standing alone in place, felt his brain cells tingle and roared inexplicably.

In an instant, Qu Hang and the others looked at him with complicated expressions.

(End of this chapter)