Armored train in the apocalypse

Chapter 290 Beating to Death
Old Wu is right.

This is the end of the world.

Laws before the apocalypse will no longer be in effect.

Therefore, Su Huan did not pay attention to Lao Wu's first conflict with the meerkat.

It didn't even specify who would be punished; it simply gave them a chance to resolve the dispute.

The only one who suffers in the end is the woman who gets taken advantage of.

but……

None of his business?

Old Wu committed many offenses this time, including using his gun on his subordinates, abusing them, and causing new recruits to desert. If examined closely, there are many other violations as well.

But this is the only one that truly touches the bottom line.

The train should only be run by the conductor, and Su Huan was unwilling and did not want to see such a powerful figure exist.

He Jie's right to boss people around was given to him by the person who gave him that right.

I won't give it to you, you can't take it from me.

This is Su Huan's philosophy: absolute self-centeredness.

The lightning gradually faded, but the despair on Old Wu's face deepened.

If He Jie were to beat him severely, even half to death, he could still survive.

But the train conductor stopped He Jie, which meant that he was going to die here today no matter what.

Su Huan turned around and pulled out a short rubber baton from the officer's back. At first, only He Jie used it to beat new recruits, but after he upgraded it to an electric baton, every officer carried one when training.

Carrying a short stick, Su Huan walked straight to Lao Wu's woman.

Bai Lu showed no mercy, grabbing the woman by the throat with one hand and gagging her with a gun in the other.

Because of suffocation, the woman didn't care about covering herself and tried to pry Bai Lu's arms off with both hands.

Bai Lu only let go when she saw the train conductor walking over.

The woman coughed a few times, then, upon seeing Su Huan in front of her, she hurriedly covered her body, looking like a terrified innocent girl.

Before she could even react to what gesture to make, she saw the train conductor smile and hand her the short stick.

"Go, hit him."

The woman shook her head in horror.

Su Huan chuckled, handed the short stick to the female soldier behind him, and asked seriously, "What about you? You're not scared either, are you?"

The female soldier Wang Ling's lifeless eyes brightened slightly. She deftly tied her torn clothes at her chest, took the short stick, and walked towards Old Wu.

He smacked her on her round head.

"Oh!"

Old Wu didn't utter a sound, nor did he sway his body.

At first, Wang Ling's movements were somewhat slow, but later she became increasingly ruthless, smashing down on the top of the head each time, her eyes fierce like a female leopard.

The atmosphere in the square was eerie, with only muffled whipping sounds.

Blood streamed down Old Wu's face.

"Wait a moment."

Su Huanqing's clear voice rang out, and the female soldier regretfully stopped what she was doing, turned around, and respectfully handed over the blood-stained short stick with both hands.

Su Huan pointed helplessly at Lao Wu's woman, "I mean, hit her."

Wang Ling glanced at the train conductor with a complicated expression, then turned to look at the woman whose face showed fear.

She was the one who tricked and coaxed herself into getting into Lao Wu's bed, and then the two of them abused and threatened her. Whether it was her evolutionary strength or her status on the train, she was far inferior to Lao Wu and Lao Wu. It wasn't that she didn't resist.

But what they suffered was even more severe torture.

I thought I would live like this forever, until I died on a mission, but I never expected that the other two soldiers would defect.

This, in turn, brought her a turning point.

only……

How did the train conductor know all this?

Before she could even think, the woman was kicked at her.

Wang Ling struck down with her stick, her hatred palpable.

The woman screamed and tried to run away, but Bai Lu stopped her and she could only endure Wang Ling's blows.

She wasn't as resilient as Lao Wu; after a few blows, she started crying and begging for mercy.

Su Huan watched all of this calmly.

Old Wu is very cautious in his work; he often does things behind the surveillance cameras.

But the train has no secrets from the conductor.

A week ago, after meeting with Zhang Qiang, Su Huan asked Shu Wei to investigate the two soldiers. Through Su Leiya's profiling and various surveillance videos on the vehicle, on the third day, Shu Wei compiled all the messes Lao Wu had made into a file and put it on his desktop.

Su Huan suppressed the urge and casually asked Shu Wei to investigate the other officers as well.

It has some minor flaws.

However, since it didn't touch on any principles, he planned to wait until He Jie was discharged from the hospital and then hand it over to him for a one-time resolution.

Unexpectedly, desertion occurred only two or three days later.

Su Huan was furious and didn't want to give He Jie any face.

"Report, conductor, I am reporting that Captain Goat has also abused his subordinates!"

A loud shout from the crowd interrupted Su Huan's thoughts.

Looking up, I saw a tall, robust man with a square face and a determined gaze.

A slight murmur rippled through the crowd.

A series of strange gazes fell upon the goat.

Fat Rabbit, Giraffe, and others who were on good terms with the goat glared at the soldier.

"Are you fucking rebelling?!"

He Jie's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and he was trembling all over, like a volcano about to erupt.

He had only rested for a few days, and the army corps was already in such a mess.

He even confidently told the train conductor that he would implement reforms.

But after all that has happened, he himself is too ashamed to stay in that position.

"Colonel He, are you going to protect him?"

Once the soldier understood Su Huan's attitude, he stiffened his neck and stubbornly confronted He Jie.

The goats didn't turn around; they just silently watched the train conductor, waiting for orders.

Su Huan smoothed his hair and couldn't help but chuckle twice.

Goats were naturally included in this survey list.

Goat exchanged all his points for alcohol for a month, then invited White Deer and the others over. After drinking, they played cards, and Goat won all the money from the group of drunkards.

It was indeed wrong to follow the military law before the apocalypse, but Su Huan was too lazy to even mention such an error.

It goes without saying what the soldier was planning.

'Are you all this brave to use me as a weapon?'

Seeing Su Huan laugh, the officers felt a chill run down their spines.

"come here."

Su Huan pointed to the soldier who had reported the goat.

The latter was so nervous that cold sweat broke out on his back, but he still walked out with a dignified air.

He said firmly, "Train conductor."

Su Huan ignored him and turned to say, "Give each of them a weapon. Today is a good day to vent their anger all at once."

The officer distributed the sticks he was holding to five soldiers.

The whistleblower's stick was handed to him by the goat himself.

Once everyone had picked up their short sticks, Su Huan asked the woman lying on the ground again, "Are you going to hit her or not?"

The woman wiped the blood from her face and nodded repeatedly.

Then a bizarre scene unfolded in the square.

A group of soldiers watched as seven men brutally beat Old Wu, who was lying in the middle, with sticks.

The whistleblower initially didn't want to fight. But when he saw Su Huan pull the bolt, he immediately knew he was in trouble and had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow up.

After fighting for a while, even with Old Wu's physique, which was close to that of a first-tier evolved being, he lost consciousness.

Several soldiers who had been abused by him lost their nerve and calmly withdrew.

Only the whistleblower and Lao Wu's woman remained, crying and pounding on Lao Wu's body.

It felt like they were mourning someone in advance.

Old Wu woke up several times in pain, and then was knocked unconscious again.

Even though he was much stronger than the two of them, he didn't dare to resist and could only endure it.

They fired from noon until the searchlights came on.

The two looked like demons crawling out of hell, their disheveled faces covered in congealed, dark bloodstains.

The old man on the ground had long since disappeared, replaced by a shapeless lump of mud.

With a clang, the woman lost her grip on the rubber stick and it flew out of her hand.

The soldiers present all shivered in unison.

Even if you can't see the face clearly, you can still feel those dark eyes staring at you from the corner of your eye!

The meerkat looked at the train conductor as if waking from a dream.

Unlike others, she could clearly see Su Huan's narrow eyes.

There was neither anger nor joy.

Just like the night sky, vast and boundless, calm and undisturbed.

"Alright, that's all for today. Sweet dreams, everyone."

Su Huan uttered his last words of the day.

No one was criticized, and no one was punished.

After his figure disappeared into the train, a series of thuds echoed across the scene as people collapsed to the ground.

……

"June 28th, the wind was gentle."

"I've been mild-mannered for too long, and they still think I've changed my personality."

The desertion incident came to an end with Lao Wu's death, but this punishment, which resulted in only one death, left a terrifying imprint of the train conductor on everyone's mind.

There was no evidence, and no just and righteous trial.

There were only cold and cruel orders.

The new recruits then realized what kind of person the usually lazy train conductor was.

Some people want to know about the train conductor's past.

The regular passengers, however, all remained silent.

The previously somewhat relaxed atmosphere on the train became tense again, and work efficiency improved significantly.

However, this only applies to repetitive tasks, such as the R&D work done by Director Xu and his team. The amount remains the same, with no change.

The track upgrade project, originally scheduled for completion in June, was completed three days ahead of schedule.

Each train track is an astonishing 4.6 meters wide, made from a new material extracted from the sand armor beast. This material has excellent toughness and is even more than half the weight of steel.

That is, less than 10% to 20% of the weight of normal steel.

Since it doesn't contain any metals, it wasn't named like "Blue Steel" or "Armor Steel"; it was simply called "Sand Armor."

Meanwhile, sand armor has also become a major material for bulletproof vests.

After finding an underground warehouse in the abandoned city and sealing up the excess supplies, the armored train left the ruins of Xiahe City and headed north towards Zhijin City.

Trains that already travel very slowly on water become even slower in the storm zone.

Occasionally, a robotic arm is needed to assist with driving.

Moreover, it consumes a huge amount of energy.

The train conductor changed the charging frequency from once every seven days to once every three days.

During this period, He Jie also became ruthless, causing great suffering to everyone in the armed forces, including Yu Yue.

But no one dared to say a word.

The desertion incident resulted in He Jie being demoted from senior colonel to colonel, Goat being demoted directly to second lieutenant, and Fat Rabbit, who was responsible for arranging guard posts, was also demoted to second lieutenant.

It can be said that we have returned to the period before liberation.

However, under He Jie's pressure, everyone's evolution speed was rapid.

The armed corps had a total of seven members who became first-tier evolved beings; they were all veterans captured by the Steel Council.

Based on their combat habits, several officer squads were first formed.

He Jie's adjutant was Second Lieutenant Shan Yang, plus Captain Liang Kuan, and then they randomly grabbed two first-rank sergeants to form a colonel squad.

With his rank, he could certainly assemble the strongest squad.

But then there would be no one left in the other work groups.

He Jie was very restrained in selecting personnel because he needed to consider the balance of combat power.

Qu Hang was in charge of perception and reconnaissance. Based on He Jie's suggestion, he chose Corporal Mongoose as his adjutant, and then added Xiao Ba, who was in charge of fire suppression.

An ordinary "manipulator" would not be suited to this position.

But Xiao Ba is special; as long as he's there, no matter how much firepower the opponent has, it will be suppressed.

Finally, two first-rank sergeants were added.

Yu Yue chose Lieutenant Fat Rabbit as her adjutant, along with Lin Jin and two first-rank sergeants.

Normally, Tong Zizhan and Gao Yuan should be separated, but due to their special circumstances, they are still in the same work group.

Lu Xiao, Jiang Rong, and Miao Qi were assigned to the same work group.

The remaining sergeants were directly assigned by He Jie and formed into seventy-five sergeant squads.

The last two hundred recruits were thrown into the recruit camp, and the second-in-command happened to be free at the time.

After this period of training in the combat group, the second brother has not only developed muscles but also gained a lot of brains.

To be able to stand alone... is unlikely.

However, managing a new recruit would never result in a serious incident like what happened with Lao Wu.

Besides the armed forces, many people in the flight crew have also been promoted to the next rank.

Wan Xing and Lin Xia were the earliest.

The former was promoted to a "Pharmacist" level, while Lin Xia surprisingly promoted to a first-tier "Healing Flame," a rather uncommon profession, somewhat similar to Su Huan's "Electromagnetic Envoy" in his previous life.

One is attack-to-heal, and the other is energy-to-attack.

It resulted in something that was somewhat of a hybrid.

Its unique feature is that it can treat external injuries and stabilize the condition using a gentle flame.

But based on Su Huan's understanding of this profession, it is best suited to treat internal injuries.

It has remarkable effects on some types of frostbite and burns.

Director Xu has two laboratories and three combat teams.

It can be said that an evolutionary wave has begun.

However, this is just the prelude. On the train, Hu Shuo, Xiao Zhao, Huang Hai and others have all reached the stage of evolution, but they do not meet the special conditions for evolution and are waiting for the right opportunity.

For example, Wan Xing's opportunity to become a "pharmacist" was to concoct certain medicines, while Lin Xia's was to heal injuries.

Xiao Zhao's target profession is "mechanical apprentice," and she needs to manufacture a certain kind of machinery to advance in her career.

However, he spends most of his time on administrative work for the research group.

I plan to ask the train conductor for a few days off and participate in Yu Jing's exoskeleton research project to improve my own evolution level.

It is expected that the armed train will usher in its first wave of evolution in mid-June.

At that time, first-tier evolved beings will become the main force of the train.

"It's still a bit slow," Su Huan said, frowning as he looked at the statistics roster.

Shu Wei calmly said, "According to the Black Kite Laboratory's deduction, the world's large-scale first-order evolution wave should occur one year after the apocalypse. Even the top powers will only extend this time to about five months after the apocalypse."

"So much of a head start, and it's only been about five months?"

"They have plenty of time, but limited resources, which can only be allocated to a small number of people. Most of them can only evolve after the apocalypse, so the progress is not much faster than the train, at most about a month."

(End of this chapter)