Armored train in the apocalypse

Chapter 322 Should we join the train?
The cold-faced young man before me had a murderous intent surging in his eyes.

"kill him."

A sandstorm arose, sweeping towards Zhijin in a massive, overwhelming manner.

Su Huan narrowed his eyes, then smiled faintly and extended his hand. "A good deal. I agree."

Zhongyou decisively grasped the train conductor's hand and said in a deep voice, "When do we make our move? He won't stay in Zhijin for long. Once he returns to headquarters, even if you're strong, you might not be able to catch him."

Su Huan used the momentum to stand up and crossed paths with him. "Now."

Zhong You stood there, stunned. In the brief moment of their collision, he saw a faint pattern appear on Su Huan's body, like a pattern of flowing energy, only it was embedded in the human body, making it more complex and mysterious.

Especially the lines around his heart; just looking at them gave him a suffocating, dizzying feeling.

'So this is the third tier...'

Zhong You's expression was complicated, and he suddenly asked, "Aren't you afraid I'm bluffing?"

"Then I'll kill you too."

"gone."

……

In the underground laboratory, the assistant suddenly said, "The data has been packaged and sent back to headquarters. Mission accomplished."

"You shall evacuate as planned."

Number 1's voice came from the innermost room.

Without saying a word or carrying anything, the two assistants put on the exoskeleton in the corner and walked out.

Inside the room, Number 1 stared at the repeatedly updated file in front of him and muttered to himself, "The probability of Zhongyou believing it is no more than 10%, so the probability of him returning to the scene is more than 90%, the probability of him directly attacking the train conductor is no more than 30%, and the remaining 70%... is that he came to kill me."

"Based on Su Huan's behavioral logic, there's a greater than 70% chance he'll be searching for the laboratory's location, and subsequently, the headquarters..."

"This means I have two more opportunities to obtain third-order data."

"We need to further provoke Chung-yoo."

……

The three walked across the rooftop, with Zhongyou occasionally throwing out a ball of water to smash the heads of any zombies blocking their way.

This time, Su Huan only brought Yu Yue with him, leaving He Jie and the others to clean up the battlefield.

Despite everyone's opposition, there was no way to change the outcome; the train was run by the conductor's absolute authority.

Su Huan also needs an experimental battle to figure out the boundaries of his combat skills and abilities.

The third-tier profession was much more complex than he had imagined. The first-tier profession had three skills, and even if you played them in a fancy way, there were only seven combinations. You didn't even need much training; you could easily activate the three skills to achieve your goal just by relying on your instincts.

Slightly more complex ones, such as "Static Swamp" and the advanced "Thunder Pool," require a certain amount of training and creativity.

But by the time he reached the third-tier "Fusion Furnace," there were seven basic skills alone, plus the five skills of the second-tier "Fighting Expert." This change was so complex that he needed to use his brain to sort it out.

The energy within him had become so abundant that he himself could not find a reference point and it was difficult to estimate.

The acceleration of gene origin and gene breakdown has not disappeared.

However, because of this promotion, his genetic damage was repaired a little. What was originally a large hole has now become a small hole, but it is still collapsing.

It was like an angel and the King of Hell fighting over something. The saw was held to his neck. The King of Hell thought he should die and pulled him away, while the angel thought he should live and pulled him back. The effect of the Crown Pear was like the adrenaline injection given to him when he was about to collapse.

In this complex state, the third order adds many more variations and possibilities.

In the past, his understanding of universal energy was that it was just a kind of energy, without distinction, only quantity.

However, in his current perception, there are different factions among the general energy sources. For example, the general energy in the bodies of Yu Yue and Zhong You beside him is different from that in the air. He can easily absorb the general energy in the air, but he cannot directly absorb the general energy in their bodies.

But when they used their universal energy to drive a certain skill, Su Huan had a feeling that he could pay a price and do some minor tricks...

"Snapped!"

The water balloon gently landed on the zombie's face, blowing away the sand and revealing a young, iron-gray face.

The young zombie was not satisfied with the perfunctory face-washing service and roared as he charged at the three of them.

Zhong You suddenly stopped, his surprised gaze falling on the unranked zombie. He tentatively activated the scattered clean water on the ground, and a thin curtain of water enveloped the zombie's head.

With a clench of five fingers, it was instantly crushed.

Then it manipulates the clean water to separate from the turbid blood.

He quickly sensed something was wrong; what he usually did with a casual wave of his hand was now exceptionally difficult, requiring more focus and energy.

However, under the careful manipulation of the second-tier "Frost Abyss Guardian", the purified water was still separated out.

The inexplicable resistance disappeared.

Su Huan, standing to the side, had a deep look in his eyes. The amount of psychic energy surging from Zhong You's body had increased, and even if he shook the body with all his might, he couldn't break the balance. However, he also figured out the limit of this interference and gave up on wrestling with him.

"What's up with him?"

Yu Yue looked at Zhong You's actions with some confusion and subconsciously took the sniper rifle into her hand, but she did not hear any suspicious sounds.

Su Huan withdrew his hand, letting the water sphere fly into Zhong You's hand, and shrugged, "Maybe he's just not up to the task."

Upon hearing Su Huan's words, Zhong You turned around abruptly, his eyes filled with shock. "You did this?"

Su Huan clicked his tongue lightly.

Can I tell you that?

He picked up Yu Yue, who was listening attentively, and jumped towards a tall building in the distance. He covered a distance of more than 20 meters, and stepped on the edge of the windowsill. The weathered concrete crumbled instantly, but the figure had already leaped up against gravity. Each step was precisely placed on the outer edge of the window, less than 10 centimeters away, as if walking on flat ground on the building that was 90 degrees vertical to the ground.

Inside, zombies discovered them and surged toward the window one after another, but could only watch in despair as Su Huan's shoe soles fell off the high-rise building.

Even a Tier 1 Night Demon is slower at crawling on buildings than him.

If they're really blocking the way, a single high-temperature bullet will easily take them down.

The high-temperature bombs that were only used to roast the skulls of ordinary people six months ago have now become quite useful.

Zhong You glanced deeply at Su Huan's retreating figure and quickly followed.

As a second-order "manipulator", it is difficult to jump more than 20 meters from a standing position, but it is still possible to sprint.

The three quickly passed through the horde of zombies and arrived at the edge of Zhinan District.

The location here is very delicate. If you go a little further north, you will cross the river and enter the city. If you go south, you will run into the front line of the war.

Three hundred meters away is a large shopping mall, and below is the tallest building in the vicinity, an office building with more than twenty floors, enclosed by a glass curtain wall, making it impossible to count how many floors it has.

Just as the group landed on the rooftop, an electronic voice rang out from there.

"You have let Cao Yong down."

Upon hearing this voice, Zhongyou's body stiffened abruptly, his fair skin visibly turned red, and his eyes became bloodshot.

"I will kill you!"

Su Huan looked at Yu Yue in his arms, who then jumped down and pulled out an electronic device from the corner. The device was very simple, consisting mainly of a large speaker and a battery, and contained energy fluctuations, which should be energy crystals.

Su Huan took it. "Hello, is this Director Number 1?"

The loudspeaker was silent for a moment, and just when Su Huan thought the loudspeaker had no sound receiving equipment, Director No. 1's reply came from inside.

"How does it feel to advance to the third rank?" Su Huan narrowed his eyes. "Great. We came here for no other reason than to thank you for the gift you gave me last night. Today, I plan to give you one in return."

After crushing the small device, he scanned the surroundings with his senses and, finding no other general energy fluctuations, turned and asked.

Are you sure you didn't cross the river?

“I’m only sure he’s in a few blocks nearby, but I don’t know his exact location. He’s with more than three second-tier evolved beings.” Zhong You’s voice was cold, but he still managed to control himself.

"I don't have any search abilities, and he'll definitely block out sound. How can three people find his exact location?"

Su Huan glanced at the horde of corpses below and shook his head, saying, "No need for that."

Where is the quietest place with the fewest zombies?

Yu Yue, who was standing nearby, thought for a moment and pointed out five locations, which were not far apart and all within one kilometer.

"Then there's no need to waste time."

Su Huan stretched out his right hand and snapped his fingers amidst the two men's puzzled gazes.

Beneath the shirt, the peculiar patterns reappeared, and the energy that had been suppressed within his body slowly began to move, surging along the energy circulation route he had created during the second stage. Moreover, the speed was faster and the route was more complex. During this movement, the general energy in the air seemed to go crazy and drill into his body.

Then, driven by the omnipotent energy within his body, he instantly broke through the blockade left by the matriarch and injected it into the most complex heart, which is the "energy storage core".

Under Zhong You's solemn gaze, three seconds slowly passed, but nothing happened...

Su Huan had already turned and run away with Yu Yue in his arms.

Although Zhongyou was puzzled, he followed along. After running a few dozen meters, he heard a rumbling sound coming from underground, and he turned around abruptly.

The entire neighborhood was as if it were being lifted up by the back of a giant beast. Concrete and steel bars shattered and rolled up like fragile eggshells. Asphalt roads twisted into waves, cars were tossed into the air like toys and disintegrated in the blazing white flames, and blocks of buildings began to collapse.

A fiery dragon burst forth from the crack, licking the glass curtain wall of the skyscraper, turning millions of panes of glass blood red.

The shockwave swept across like a giant, transparent wall, causing glass curtain walls of office buildings to peel off in large pieces, turning into a sharp rain of diamonds.

Three hundred meters away, the roof of the shopping center was completely ripped off, the steel frame snapped like withered branches, and the smiling faces of celebrities on the billboards twisted into screams in the flames.

The blast wave had a range that definitely exceeded one kilometer!

'Is this even human?!'

Zhong You's icy expression cracked inch by inch. He knew that Su Huan had become a third-tier cultivator and had witnessed the battle from the shadows. However, the explosion was blocked by the matriarch, and the affected area was only a few hundred meters. Not many buildings around the area collapsed.

Those who know this recognize it as an evolutionary ability; those who don't might think a little boy had been thrown down!

'Is a third-tier rank really that much stronger than a second-tier rank?'

'If I reach the third tier, Uncle Yong probably won't...'

A somber expression settled on Zhongyou's shocked face.

……

Inside the underground laboratory.

The red alarm blared wildly, reflecting a face so calm it was devoid of any humanity.

Number 1 sat naked in a chair, connected to it by various data cables. In front of him was a huge monitor, and as the images on it went black one by one, data streams flashed wildly in his eyes and were then transmitted out by the transmitting device on the chair.

The laboratory was a temporary conversion with very low strength, and only the most basic defensive measures were taken.

Naturally, they could not escape such an explosion.

A huge crack appeared in the wall, and white light shot out from the crack, destroying everything in the room.

Number 1, sitting in the chair, was like a melted candle, with most of his body and head disappearing in an instant, revealing various sophisticated mechanical and electronic components.

The indicator light on the chair, which signified the transfer, also stopped working completely at that moment.

The soil surged in, and the entire laboratory was physically wiped out.

……

Su Huan, who was running wildly, stopped and stood on a building at the edge of the explosion zone to admire his masterpiece.

Although its power is not comparable to a nuclear bomb, or even an atomic bomb, Su Huan was quite satisfied with its destructive force.

And this is not the maximum release.

The farther away he was, the harder it was for him to trigger this "fusion." It felt like squeezing two repulsive magnets; the farther apart they were, the harder it was to force them together. Conversely, the closer they were, the easier it was to trigger. And the easiest place to trigger it was inside his body.

This is the true meaning of "fusion furnace".

The "energy storage core" is his heart, the "circulating vortex" is inside his body, and his entire being is the "fusion furnace"!
This is the foundation upon which an "energy provider" stands!

It's definitely not some lousy power bank.

Su Huan looked down and suddenly noticed that Yu Yue's face was pale. "What's wrong with you?"

Yu Yue braced herself against his chest, shifting her ear slightly away, and hesitated as she looked at Su Huan's increasingly eerie face, saying, "The voice inside you... it scares me a little."

Su Huan glanced at his wrist; the number on it had remained stuck at "0000," either because it was damaged in the battle or because it had exceeded its limit.

In short, it malfunctioned.

However, the fact that his current magnetic field can even affect Yu Yue, who is at the first level, is truly a problem.

Massive panic will occur wherever you are.

This kind of instinctive fear is not something that can be easily overcome.

Zhong You followed, covered by a thin layer of water shield, his tone complicated, "I didn't expect the difference between the third and second tiers to be so great."

Recalling some information from his previous life, Su Huan sighed, "The third tier is a hurdle; it's the limit that humans can reach."

Zhongyou's lips twitched as he looked at the city behind him, which looked like it had been bombed, and he suppressed his strong urge to complain.

'Besides looking like a human, what else about it resembles a human?'

"Could it be that you're the only one who's a little different?"

Zhongyou asked.

"The transaction is complete, and this is the price."

Su Huan said calmly.

Zhongyou took a deep breath, suppressing his curiosity and desire for power, and stubbornly remained silent.

Su Huan continued, "We can make a new deal."

Zhongyou's eyes lit up. "What do you mean?"

"Can you tell me where Black Kite's headquarters is?"

Zhong You sighed and shook his head, saying, "If I knew, I wouldn't need you to ask. The key is that I don't know either. We usually enter different branches. Only in extremely special circumstances will our senses be blocked and we be sent to headquarters. Perhaps Shu Wei, who is with you, knows."

Su Huan hissed regretfully, thinking that he should have asked Mr. Shu a few more questions.

As the third director, I must know.

Then, just as Zhongyou was about to turn around, he asked again, "Do you want to join the armed train?"

(I'm so sorry, I ate some local snacks yesterday and said, "It's sour." The old man said, "It's a specialty." I was skeptical, but I ate a few more bites, and yes, it was sour. Tonight, I suddenly had a stomachache for more than two hours. It wasn't a severe pain, but it was a persistent one, and I only recovered in the early hours of the morning.)
(End of this chapter)