The "Survival on the Train" game has bugs, it's really laggy!

The atmosphere in the hall plummeted to freezing point.

The remnants of the Xuanwu Company had just heard the screams of 300,000 people being drained like biological batteries from the black box, and were still in shock from the collapse of their faith. They had guarded this place like wild dogs for fourteen years, thinking they were protecting the last embers of hope, only to find it was just a cannibalistic grave.

"Everyone, check your seatbelts and get in the car," Su Yuan's cold voice cut in from the communication channel.

Nobody moved.

Xuanwu knelt repeatedly on the metal floor, stained with slime and blood, his eyes fixed on the large hole in the dome burned through by the plasma cannon. After the three enormous black shadows in the sky disintegrated, a new alert popped up on the main screen.

The Skyrail Home Port, a 70 million-ton floating fortress, is freefalling towards the Great Wall defense line at Mach 12. Countdown: 14 minutes.

"Company commander, they're calling us from the vehicle," a soldier with a missing left arm said in a hoarse voice.

"What are we going up there for?" The company commander's voice was wooden, his eyes terrifyingly empty. "We've guarded this place for fourteen years, creating a graveyard of three hundred thousand people, and now this graveyard is going to be smashed down. The defense line is gone, the towers are gone, and we'll all die here."

Su Yuan sat in the driver's seat, his face as cold as the frozen depths of the sea. He raised his hand and immediately cut off the public channel, keeping only the internal combat channel open.

"Wang Hu, get out of the car. Drag him up."

The car door burst open with a bang. Wang Hu, holding the six-barreled heavy machine gun upside down in one hand, jumped directly off the two-meter-high forward slide. His several hundred pounds of weight slammed onto the alloy floor, splashing water everywhere.

He rushed to the company commander of Xuanwu Company in three strides, grabbed the man by the tattered collar, and lifted him up like a chick.

Snapped!

A powerful slap landed squarely on the company commander's face, the crisp sound echoing through the hall.

"You fucking accept your fate?!" Wang Hu's eyes widened like saucers, spitting all over the company commander's face. "You'd rather die in the truck! What kind of skill is it to play dead down there? Only the living have the right to collect debts from the dead!"

The company commander was knocked to the side by the blow, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, and the emptiness in his eyes was finally replaced by a trace of life.

"Get the hell out of here!" Wang Hu shoved the company commander violently toward the open side door of the Devourer. He then turned to the remaining soldiers, "What are you all standing there for? Waiting for me to slap you one by one?! Get in the truck!"

Dragging her bloodied and mangled right leg, Ji Yun stumbled to the outside of the Devourer's cockpit, one hand gripping the doorframe tightly, her knuckles white from the force. Most of her body was still submerged in blood as she looked up at Su Yuan.

"Put me back in the base." Her face was deathly pale, her voice trembling. "The Martyr's Agreement didn't secure energy allocation authority, and the Celestial Orbit is still performing purification. The system is still vying for my supreme decision-making power. Put me back in the main control slot; I can stall for three minutes!"

Su Yuan didn't even look at her, and directly pushed away her hands that were clinging to the door frame.

"Let go."

"That's death!" Ji Yun clung on desperately, blood dripping from her fingers onto the control panel. "I sent you away back then so that one day you would be able to refuse my orders. Is this the time for you to refuse?!"

Su Yuan finally turned his head and looked at her.

"You have no right to order me around now."

Su Yuan slammed his foot into the hydraulic control valve of the chassis. The valve emitted a sharp hiss as it exhausted air, and the heavy, explosion-proof door slammed shut. The door clamped onto Ji Yun's arm, the knuckles making a dangerous cracking sound. Su Yuan reached out and grabbed her tactical vest, roughly pulling her into the vehicle.

Bang! The car doors were locked shut.

The data stream from Xiao Huo rolled wildly on the main screen, with green code cascading down the screen like a waterfall, finally condensing into a line of glaring red text.

"Boss, the traction anchor isn't capturing the outer shell of the spacecraft!" Xiao Huo's voice was extremely tense and mechanical. "It's the 'mass anchor' at the bottom of the homeport. The system is set to force a binding; if we forcibly deactivate the traction anchor now, the spacecraft will immediately lose attitude control, and its descent speed will double. A 70-million-ton thing crashing down at Mach 12 could crater the Earth!"

Su Yuan gripped the main control pusher tightly with both hands. "Keep it. Use it to connect to the bottom-level propulsion matrix of the Skyrail. If it crashes down, we'll climb up this invisible network cable and dismantle it from the bottom."

No sooner had he finished speaking than a terrifying roar came from above.

That wasn't a sound; it was a gravitational disturbance that descended upon the canyon before the celestial orbit could even exist. The foundation of the hall began to tremble violently, and the hard rock layers and Pangu-level alloy produced a teeth-grinding friction, with the sounds of fatigue and fracture echoing incessantly.

"The right rock wall has collapsed!" Tang Lan shouted into the communicator.

On the right wall, three long-destroyed spare heavy gun turrets, along with dozens of meters of rock, were forcibly uprooted by the chaotic gravitational field. Thousands of tons of scrap steel and boulders crashed down on the Devourer below.

"A blind spot to the right, you can't avoid it!"

Su Yuan's left hand moved like a blur on the control panel, precisely typing out a string of code. The "Skyrail Gravity Traction Anchor," which had just been reforged in the refining furnace on the roof of the vehicle, emitted a dazzling ring of dark purple light.

"Gravity recoil!"

Visible dark purple ripples swept across in a fan shape. The three turrets, each weighing several thousand tons, seemed to have crashed into an invisible spring wall less than ten meters from the vehicle. The spatial structure was briefly rewritten in that instant. The turrets were suddenly subjected to an extremely powerful lateral thrust, their trajectories abruptly deflected. They grazed the black and gold skin of the Devourer and crashed into the abyss deep in the canyon.

The deafening roar caused the Devourer to shake violently, but the control tower and the convoy remained unscathed.

Xiao Huo immediately pulled up the internal 3D structural diagram of the Skyrail homeport. In the diagram, the highlighted red area representing mass resembled a thick blood vessel, running from the top of the Skyrail all the way to the bottom, and the tip of this blood vessel pointed directly to the energy center deep underground of the Great Wall defense line.

"It's not out of control," Xiao Huo reported quickly, his mechanical voice unusually grave. "The mainframe is allocating 70 million tons of structural mass. It's concentrating all the weight on one point, pressing it down into the Great Wall's underground. It's searching for the main grounding point of the defense line!"

Su Yuan's eyes turned sinister. "It intends to use the Great Wall Matrix's energy pool as a shield, smashing it straight through."

He yanked the lever. "Everyone sit tight. We're going to climb up the overhead rails in the opposite direction to dismantle the anchor point."

Inside the train carriage, the remnants of the Xuanwu Company, who had just been pulled onto the train, were divided on their points.

"Company commander, you can't go!" A veteran with a broken leg cried out, his eyes bloodshot. "The defense line can't be lost, and the main control tower still needs someone to defend it! That's our lifeline!"

"Defend my ass!" another younger soldier roared. "If 70 million tons of metal were to crash down from above, how many seconds could this damn tower withstand it? Company commander, fight them! Go up there and fight those bastards!"

Company Commander Xuanwu wiped the blood and grime from his face, glanced at the several seriously wounded soldiers panting in the corner, and then looked at the main control tower hall outside, which was already teetering on the verge of collapse.

He suddenly reached out, ripped off his company commander's epaulet, which was so worn it was unrecognizable, walked up to Ji Yun, and slapped it into her arms.

"You have access to the defensive hatch in this tower. Leave the wounded behind. You take them into the rescue cabin." The company commander stared intently into Ji Yun's eyes. "Anyone who can breathe and fire a gun, get in the vehicle with me."

Ji Yun's lips moved, but she didn't speak, clutching the epaulets tightly in her hand.

No one hesitated. The remaining soldiers unleashed a final frenzy, recklessly shoving ammunition boxes, fragmentation grenades, and the newly captured high-frequency vibration knives onto the Devourer.

The engine roared, unleashing a blazing plasma tail flame. The Devourer violently smashed through the rubble, like a maddened beast, plunging out of the canyon and charging at full speed towards the looming darkness.

The gravity anchor on the roof of the vehicle firmly locked onto the extremely smooth lower edge of the home port.

As the dark purple gravitational cable fully connected to the orbital matrix, the immense pressure of 70 million tons, following this invisible gravitational line, was frantically fed back to the train's physical structure within a fraction of a second.

bang-

The entire chassis of the Devourer suddenly sank downwards. The heavy-duty suspension emitted a terrifying metallic groan, as if it were being pressed down by a pair of giant hands.

On the main control screen, the value representing the integrity of the vehicle body plummeted like a waterfall, dropping from 85% to 67%.

"It's too heavy!" Wang Hu, struggling to breathe in the passenger seat, gripped the handrail and roared, "Those two rickety carriages attached to the Xuanwu train have terrible load-bearing structures! They're cracked! Boss, cut them off to reduce weight!"

The Xuanwu Company Commander's hoarse roar immediately came through the communication frequency.

"Fuck you! Carry all the machine gun ammo belts to the front vehicle! Push the riot shields off the vehicle! Move the heavy weapons forward!"

Inside the train carriage, soldiers with broken arms and legs were frantically hauling hundreds of pounds of military equipment onto the front vehicle, biting with their teeth and pushing with their shoulders. Their faces were contorted from the extreme effort, but not a single one of them complained.

"Not a single one of my men can stay here and get smashed!" The company commander leaned against the car door, panting heavily, and pressed hard on the communicator.

Wang Hu glanced at the straggling soldiers in the rearview mirror, desperately moving ammunition, and spat out a mouthful of saliva. "Damn, a bunch of lunatics."

He turned his head away and didn't mention cutting the carriage again. Instead, he turned the hydraulic auxiliary support of the front vehicle to its maximum.

In a dark corner of carriage 013.

Jiang Yu squatted on the ground, his right arm, parasitized by living metal, convulsing wildly. The dark gold veins beneath the skin bulged high, as if thousands of insects were tearing and crawling inside.

The screen of the tactical tablet on his wrist was flashing wildly, and the activity level was jumping around like crazy.

1.2%, 3%, 9%.

The living metal is excited. It is resonating with the neural frequencies of the behemoth overhead.

Suddenly, as if struck by a heavy hammer, a fragmented image exploded in Jiang Yu's mind.

It wasn't the nauseating deep-space bacteria beneath the main control tower, nor the terrifying pool of blood crammed with the mummified corpses of 300,000 people. Instead, it was rows upon rows of cryogenic chambers, hundreds and thousands, densely packed together. Completely sealed, their hatches covered in a thick layer of white frost.

Most importantly, there were faint signs of life flashing inside those cabins.

"Su Yuan..." Jiang Yu endured the excruciating pain of his brain being torn apart, his clothes instantly soaked with cold sweat. "Those up there... aren't they all dead? There are still some alive."

Instead of shouting on the public channel, he gritted his teeth and shoved the data cable into the physical interface on his right arm, sending the blurry image directly to Xiao Huo.

The small fire's data stream was immediately split and connected.

"Weak signal received." A strange pause appeared in Xiao Huo's usually monotone, mechanical voice. "Heartbeat confirmation from the cryogenic chamber. But... Boss, there's a problem. These heartbeats are all at the same frequency, with an interval error of less than 0.01 seconds."

Xiao Huo dragged the strange, straight-line-like electrocardiogram onto the main screen.

Su Yuan only glanced at it.

"Mark the coordinates. The route remains the same."

"What if it's a real person?" Wang Hu swallowed hard in the front seat.

"Whether it's real or fake, we'll find out once we go up and dismantle it." Su Yuan gripped the lever tightly with both hands, which was violently shaking under the weight, his eyes cold. "Even if it's the Jade Emperor blocking our way, we'll run him over."

Ji Yun was strapped to the child safety seat behind the passenger seat. She stared at the uniform heart rate curve on the screen, feeling as if she had fallen into an ice cave, her whole body stiff.

"This is the crew life support agreement..." she murmured to herself, her voice so soft that only she could hear it.

Fourteen years ago, to ensure the brains of the expeditionary force remained dormant in the extreme environment of deep space, she personally wrote this low-level code. This was a life-saving program, so why is it appearing here in such a bizarre way now?

The second line of defense for the Skyrail homeport has been activated.

Suddenly, thousands of blood-red alarm lights lit up on the massive, black metal plate overhead, which blotted out the sky and was larger than several cities.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of abandoned maintenance cabins that were originally fixed to the outer edge of the track suddenly detached.

These maintenance cabins had no power system; they relied entirely on the gravitational acceleration of their descent from the orbiter to transform into hundreds of solid iron weights weighing tens of tons, crashing down on the Devourer below with terrifying shrieks like a storm.

"Air defense!" Su Yuan shouted.

Tang Lan kicked off the bulletproof hatch on the roof, leaning half her body out of the car. The gale almost blew her away, but she remained as steady as a mountain, the butt of her heavy sniper rifle firmly against her shoulder. Her eyes never left the scope, and she didn't even blink.

boom!

The first shot. A maintenance module at the very front slammed into the air, its attitude control valve pulverized by the large-caliber armor-piercing round. The module instantly lost its balance in mid-air, tumbling sideways before crashing into another maintenance module beside it, exploding in a shower of sparks.

boom! boom! boom!

A barrage of shots rang out, and spent cartridges rained down on the car roof. Tang Lan was like a cold-blooded killing machine, each shot precisely disabling a control valve.

Wang Hu wasn't idle down there either. He manipulated the two massive claws of the forward-moving pulley, firmly hooking onto two hulls that were already crashing down on them with no way to avoid them. The hydraulic arms emitted an overloaded hiss as he roared and swung them outwards, forcibly changing the trajectory of the tens of tons of iron weights.

The enormous reaction force caused the train to shake violently, and the tracks scraped against the ground, creating blinding sparks.

"Refining furnace, suck!"

Su Yuan slammed his palm on the control panel. The furnace door of the mobile refining furnace roared open, and the thirty-six dark gold conduits, like enraged giant pythons, swallowed the shattered and thrown debris whole.

Inside the furnace, the black flames rolled back, and a few seconds later, six dark, hot metal spikes suddenly shot out from the slag discharge port.

"Drive the gravity thruster in!"

The robotic arm grabbed the long spike and, propelled by the electromagnetic acceleration rail, plunged it fiercely into the thick armor surrounding the space rail. Using the recoil from the spike, the Devourer, like a ferocious armored spider, gripped the outer track at the bottom of the space rail, withstanding the devastating first physical impact.

The refining furnace roared again, but this time, what came out of the slag outlet was not a weapon, but a palm-sized bone plate that was pitch black but shimmered with strange red patterns.

The small flame immediately switched to scanning.

"Hardware coding confirmed. This is the 'load calibrator' of the Sky Orbit mainframe." Xiao Huo spoke extremely quickly. "It can modify the list of targets identified as 'inefficient loads' by the system. Boss, we can remove the Xuanwu Company brothers from the elimination list to avoid them being targeted by the mainframe's purification weapons."

"Read it out." Su Yuan slammed the bone plate into the physical reading slot.

A long, densely packed list instantly appeared on the screen.

The temperature in the entire control room plummeted to freezing.

The list of inefficient load removals included not only the Xuanwu Company that had just boarded the train, but also the Great Wall's first main control tower, all underground defense settlements, and even the coordinates of all remaining life reactions on the surface.

The space orbiter isn't cleaning up any inefficient loads. It's wiping the entire surface of the Earth, along with all living things, clean it completely.

Ji Yun yanked off the seatbelt and stumbled toward the control panel, pressing her hand firmly against the recognition area of ​​the detector.

"I'll override the instructions! I still have basic permissions!" She bit her lip until blood flowed down her chin.

The mainframe's reaction speed far exceeded her expectations. The authorization wasn't granted at all; instead, a massive stream of data was poured into her neural interface.

The main public screen flickered instantly, and after a period of violent image fluctuation, a top-secret surveillance video from fourteen years ago appeared.

The surveillance footage shows Ji Yun when he was young.

Her face was as cold as ice, and she held a sealed, frigid container in her hands. Inside the container was the true brain, representing the Great Wall's absolute authority. She locked the true brain and turned to walk towards a control panel filled with pipes.

His fingers flew across the keyboard, typing out a forged defection command.

"Defection induced, complete." Ji Yun said coldly on the screen, "Activate JY-003."

The scene shifts. What appears is Su Yuan's young, expressionless face from fourteen years ago.

The carriage was deathly silent, with only the dull mechanical sound of the train climbing the tracks.

The remnants of the Xuanwu Company stared intently at the big screen, then turned to look at Su Yuan, who sat in the driver's seat, his back like an iron tower.

This isn't some worthless deserter. This is bait, tailor-made and deliberately thrown out of the defensive line by those in power.

The truth came so nakedly and cruelly. Ji Yun's schemes from back then, along with the lives of these 300,000 people, were thrown out at everyone by the high and mighty Sky Orbit mastermind, like a rag.

Click.

A crisp, clear click of a pistol being cocked rang out from the back of the carriage.

An old soldier from the Xuanwu Company had bloodshot eyes and his facial muscles twitching violently. He held an old-fashioned kinetic pistol straight against the back of Ji Yun's head.

"Those 300,000 lives, and the lives of these brothers below, were they all part of your plan?" The veteran's voice was hoarse, like sandpaper grinding. "You've been playing us for fools all along?"

Several hot-tempered remnants of the army nearby also suddenly drew their high-frequency oscillating blades, the blades emitting a low, buzzing deathly hum.

Tang Lan's figure flipped off the roof of the car like a ghost. She didn't even aim her heavy sniper rifle properly. The thick wooden stock drew a powerful arc in mid-air and slammed into the veteran's wrist with perfect accuracy.

*Crack.* A dull thud from a wrist contusion.

The veteran winced in pain, his pistol slipping from his hand and falling to the ground. He gritted his teeth and refused to back down, his eyes red as he glared at Tang Lan. Tang Lan remained silent, her gaze icy, and kicked the pistol away.

Ji Yun did not resist, nor did she even turn around to look at the gun pointed at her. She just stared blankly at herself from fourteen years ago on the screen, as if her soul had been ripped out.

"I participated in Project JY." Ji Yun's voice was dry and devoid of any moisture. "I once naively believed that the Celestial Orbit could preserve the last spark of humanity. But I swear, I never authorized it to use living people as fuel."

The veteran was about to launch into a tirade when Su Yuan's voice suddenly came from the front.

The voice was soft and devoid of any emotional fluctuation, yet it was like a block of ice being smashed into a pot of boiling oil, instantly suppressing all the restlessness.

"Make a note of the debt." Su Yuan didn't even turn his head, his hands leaving afterimages on the control panel. "If the celestial rails crash down, none of you will have anywhere to pay your debts. If you want to kill her, wait until this iron lump stops."

He slammed the Enter key.

"Little Fire, disguise the Devourer's signal as a space orbit maintenance unit."

The disguise program takes effect immediately.

The flashing red lights turned a soft green. The Devourer violently smashed through an outer layer of defense netting and successfully cut into a heavy-load maintenance track at the bottom of the homeport.

Seven minutes remain until impact.

"Entering the maintenance gate ahead," Xiao Huo's mechanical voice prompted. "The mainframe requires the upload of the maintenance personnel's physical identity verification."

Ji Yun's biometric authentication was cancelled by the mainframe fourteen years ago, so it can't be uploaded at all.

Just then, Jiang Yu, who was in the corner, suddenly let out a low, inhuman roar.

His parasitized right arm completely lost control and slammed violently onto the control panel beside him. The dark gold living metal beneath his skin, like an enraged venomous snake, instantly pierced his skin and plunged directly into the system's data interface.

drop.

A piercing sound rang out.

Two lines of eerie green text popped up on the main screen: [Repairman JY-011, identity confirmed. Access granted.]

Jiang Yu let out a heart-wrenching scream.

The moment the living metal inside his body came into contact with the interface, it seemed to receive some kind of command and began to spread wildly throughout his flesh. The dark golden threads traveled upwards from his right arm, piercing through muscle fibers, and spreading towards his heart and chest at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Jiang Yu bit his lip hard, blood dripping from his chin onto the deck. He gripped the floor tightly with his only remaining left hand, his nails curling up.

"Don't worry about me... keep going!" His voice was completely distorted by the pain, but he shouted with all his might.

Su Yuan's eyes turned cold, and without any hesitation, he switched commands directly on the control panel.

"Refining furnace, disconnect the pipes!"

Several extremely thin, dark gold tubes were precisely shot into the carriage from the rear of the vehicle, violently piercing Jiang Yu's right arm and instantly activating a super-strong negative pressure suction.

A large mass of tangled, dark golden metallic substance was forcibly ripped from his body. Deprived of its metallic support, his flesh collapsed instantly, and Jiang Yu's vision went black as he lost consciousness.

The extracted living metal mass was still twisting violently in mid-air when, without warning, a mechanical female voice, extremely stiff and even carrying electrical noise, suddenly came from the loudspeakers inside the carriage.

"Maintenance technician JY-011 refuses to dismantle the home port."

Xiao Huo's data stream is being compared against waveforms.

"Boss, it's an observation record from thirty years ago that went missing. This living metal fragment inside Jiang Yu's body has preserved the memories from that time. The system recognizes it."

Su Yuan's gaze was ashen. Just how many long-standing, stale blood debts remained hidden within this damned port?

The massive hull of the Devourer crashed through the gate and officially entered the maintenance zone at the bottom of the Skyrail.

The temperature outside the car window dropped sharply. White frost began to condense on the bulletproof glass.

There were no lights in the maintenance bay. Only the headlights of the Devourer pierced the darkness like two sharp swords.

Under the lights, tens of thousands of cryogenic chambers, densely packed together, hung on the alloy frames on both sides like a giant honeycomb.

Some of the cryogenic chambers were severely damaged, with the doors wide open and the interiors completely empty, except for a few frost-covered neural interfaces swaying in the wind.

However, another part of the cabin was sealed tightly by thick, living metal like a cocoon.

Suddenly, a very faint, rhythmic metallic knocking sound came from the left.

Ding, ding, ding. Clang, clang.

Three long and two short. An emergency report from the Old Blue Star Expeditionary Force.

The sound came from a row of low-temperature iron shells completely sealed with metal.

Ji Yun lunged at the side window as if electrocuted, pressing his face against the cold glass and staring intently at the metal shells.

"Someone's here! Stop the car! Stop and save them!" She turned and yelled frantically at Su Yuan, her eyes bloodshot.

Su Yuan didn't loosen his foot on the accelerator for a moment. The massive Devourer roared past the cryogenic chambers at top speed.

"Keep the firepower down." Su Yuan's voice cut like a knife through the carriage, cold and ruthless. "Small fire, record coordinates. Lock the external oxygen valves on those compartments. Keep moving forward."

"Those are living people! They're calling for help!" Ji Yun's voice trembled with tears.

"If you stop the car now, we'll all be crushed to death by the overhead rails here." Su Yuan didn't even turn his head, his gaze fixed on the bottomless track ahead.

The mainframe clearly realized that the so-called "repair unit" was traveling in the wrong direction.

The last remaining faint emergency lights in the maintenance area were instantly switched off. Utter darkness descended.

In the darkness, countless lifeless, eerie green electronic eyes lit up one after another.

Those were the old-fashioned "purification and maintenance units" that were equipped with the Skyrail thirty years ago. These mechanical bodies resembled giant spiders, carrying no thermal weapons, only industrial-grade high-frequency oscillating cutting blades and heavy-duty machine tool dismantling arms. They did not attack humans; their programmed instructions had only one purpose: to dismantle all metal contaminants not belonging to the internal structure of the homeport.

Like a black tide, they surged from the metal frame from all sides, frantically climbing along the tracks towards the rear of the Devourer.

A piercing metallic cutting sound erupted instantly, sparks flying everywhere. The outer armor of the last half of the carriage, carrying some supplies for the Xuanwu Company, was forcibly torn open by more than a dozen maintenance units within seconds, leaving a huge gap.

"Wang Hu, take some men to guard the rear of the car!" Su Yuan ordered coldly.

"Leave it to me!" Wang Hu grabbed the heavy machine gun next to him and kicked the blast door connecting the carriages.

The remnants of the Xuanwu Company followed closely behind. In their hands were arc guns, crudely modified from parts of the skyrails they had found along the way and their own weapons.

There were no unnecessary instructions, no pre-battle mobilization required. In this desperate situation, all actions were driven by the instinct for survival.

Wang Hu stood at the rear of the wrecked vehicle, the six-barreled machine gun roaring like a wild beast. A dense hail of bullets instantly reduced the first wave of over a dozen maintenance vehicles to flaming scrap metal.

"Fire!"

The remaining soldiers fired their arc guns in unison, and blinding blue high-voltage arcs exploded in the dark maintenance area. Blue electric grids leaped wildly among the machinery, and the old-fashioned maintenance units that only knew how to dismantle were short-circuited and collapsed.

They forcibly built an insurmountable line of firepower at the rear of the Devourer's Vessel with their own flesh and blood.

After breaking through the long maintenance zone, the Devourer finally plunged into the core area of ​​the lowest level of the Sky Orbit.

What appeared before me was neither a complex mechanical gear set nor a massive nuclear fusion propulsion engine.

It was a transparent cryogenic chamber, twenty meters high, standing in the very center of the hall.

Inside the cryogenic chamber, there were no machines, but rather a gigantic human nervous system.

There was no flesh or bone. Instead, there were countless thick, cable-like nerve cords connecting a brain that had mutated and swelled to its extreme.

Thousands of blue-glowing control lines extend from this neural body, penetrating the cabin and connecting to the 70 million-ton space orbit structure like a spider web.

The strangest thing is that the frequency of the faint brainwaves emitted by the neurosome is exactly the same as the acceleration of the falling orbiter.

"This was the original master controller of the Skyrail..." Ji Yun stared at the monster, his body turning ice-cold, his blood seemingly frozen. "After the disappearance of Captain 011, he was the only one granted full-domain access. But he should have died thirty years ago!"

Just then, the huge neural body immersed in the cryogenic liquid suddenly opened its tightly closed eyelids, which had degenerated into slits.

Two murky white beams pierced through the deep cold liquid and directly struck the Devourer.

Two huge red dialog boxes suddenly popped up on the main control screen. These two lines of code were incompatible and flickered wildly, directly causing the system to freeze.

Left side: [Command - Stop falling.]

Right side: [Command - Accelerate and crash into the Great Wall.]

"System logic deadlock!" Xiao Huo's voice was filled with the sharp, grinding sound of data overload. "Boss, both commands passed the highest-level biometric authentication! And... one of the commands that requested a collision, the underlying signature parsed, is Ji Yun's physical password!"

Ji Yun stared intently at the screen, his face turning ashen.

"I left a secret order fourteen years ago: 'Space Orbit Collapse Sealing Blockade,' to prevent anyone from escaping Earth with the space orbiter! But I didn't trigger it at all!"

Someone is using her old authority to forcibly take control of this home port.

"Refining furnace, disconnect the pipes on both sides." Su Yuan didn't listen to any explanations and was too lazy to waste words.

Thirty-six dark gold conduits, like dragons emerging from the sea, plunged directly into the dense network of control lines surrounding the cryogenic chamber. He didn't care who issued the command; he wanted to physically tear this damned system apart.

However, the moment the dark gold conduit touched those pipes...

The tens of thousands of cryogenic chambers suspended on the surrounding skeleton suddenly emitted a blinding red light from their originally dim indicator lights.

The faint, uneven banging for help had disappeared. In its place came the synchronized heartbeats of tens of thousands of people.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

This frequency is exactly the same as the crew life support protocol that Ji Yun designed fourteen years ago.

The mainframe's extremely shrill, loud electronic synthesized voice exploded throughout the core area.

"The adjudicator has been detected returning to its position. Execute final payload handover."

The feeling of weightlessness that had been driving them wildly downwards suddenly disappeared. The gale subsided, and the alarm stopped sounding.

The 70 million-ton suspended home port was abruptly and defied the laws of physics, hovering less than 300 meters above the Great Wall defense line.

Followed by.

Click. Click. Click.

The doors of tens of thousands of cryogenic chambers simultaneously sprang open from the inside. White, frozen gas poured down like a waterfall.

Rows of people in old uniforms walked straight out of the white mist.

Their eyes were all open. Their chests were heaving.

However, the life detector on Xiao Huo showed that their cerebral cortex activity was zero.

They do not have autonomous brainwaves.

Inside the cryogenic chamber, the massive neural body stared at Su Yuan in the cockpit.

What rang out from the loudspeakers around them was Ji Yun's voice from fourteen years ago, a voice so calm it was almost cruel.

"Su Yuan, give me the key."

"The celestial orbit will no longer fall."