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

The air pressure inside the Devourer's carriage was almost solidified.

Wang Hu's heavy breathing was particularly clear beside the main control panel. His right hand, covered in blood scabs, was gripping the edge of the secondary gun's firing lever tightly, his knuckles bulging and the veins on the back of his hand standing out.

In the searchlight beams ahead of the chariot, a headless, broken piece of metal stood on a rusty beacon tower, its shattered longsword pointing directly at the windshield of the Devourer.

"Commander, shall we fire or not?" Wang Hu gritted his teeth, his eyes fixed on the monster.

Su Yuan stood in front of the control panel without turning around. He raised his left hand, spread his fingers, and pressed down on Wang Hu's shoulder, which was exerting force.

Without any unnecessary movements, he simply uttered two words coldly.

"Don't move."

Wang Hu's movements froze.

Su Yuan's gaze was extremely sharp, scanning inch by inch the tattered edges of the armor. There was no high-dimensional radiation, no killing intent. This simply didn't fit the hunting logic of a deep-space monster. More importantly, the high-dimensional crystals embedded in the monster's chest cavity were flashing at a very strange frequency.

"Small fire, high-frequency radar scan, capture the waveband inside its chest cavity," Su Yuan decisively issued the order.

The blue light bar on the console moved rapidly.

The cold, synthesized voice of Xiao Huo rang out in the deathly silent carriage, unusually accompanied by extremely subtle electrical noise.

"Commander. No offensive weapon wavelengths were detected in the high-dimensional crystals within the target's chest cavity."

"The crystals are flashing at a high frequency, with fixed intervals between frequency jumps and a highly regular alternation of long and short tones."

Su Yuan stared at the waveform that appeared on the screen, his voice deep: "Decipher it."

The system's computing power instantly reached its maximum. Xiao Huo's computational matrix rapidly analyzed these fluctuating signals. The red warning boxes on the large screen disappeared, replaced by rows of scrolling green codes.

That wasn't a whisper used by the Deep Space Matrix for brainwashing. It was the oldest Morse code from before the Great Cataclysm of Old Earth.

Everyone in the carriage was staring at the screen. Veteran Li Daikui, clutching his still-bleeding ribs, took two steps forward, his eyes wide open.

The code was forcibly translated into human language.

One character after another popped up in the center of the screen, without any fancy layout, just a cold and desperate statement.

[Password.]

Long live humanity!

[Identification code verification.]

[Fleet Zero. Highest Alert Sentinel.]

The carriage was eerily quiet. The only sound was the faint whirring of the life support system.

That was a sentry post that humanity lost thirty years ago outside the gates of the solar system. A pioneer not even recorded in historical records.

The headless horseman stood there. That body, which should have long since decayed, had stood there for thirty years, supported by a few pieces of high-dimensional crystal crammed into his chest cavity. He had no eyes, but he still used his broken sword to verify every target that approached this space wall.

The verified command was sent back via the public frequency of the Devouring Wasteland.

Outside the window, the headless knight's right arm, raised high above his head, suddenly stopped. The mechanical hand tightly bound to his wrist loosened.

Click.

The rusted broken knife shattered into countless iron filings in the vacuum environment, scattering in all directions.

Immediately afterwards, the headless knight's leg armor began to weather away. From bottom to top, the mutilated body, which had endured countless days and nights with an extremely obsessive will, finally shed all its defenses after completing its final guard duty.

The armor disintegrated. The body turned to ashes.

A handful of ashes silently spread through the cold starfields of the Kuiper Belt, only to be swallowed up by the darkness of the universe in an instant. Only an ancient mechanical hard drive, its casing riddled with bullet holes and dried black blood, remained, slowly drifting out from the debris, freed from the pull of gravity.

Li Daikui's eyes were red-rimmed, and the dozens of Xuanwu Company remnants behind him bit their lips tightly, no one speaking.

Su Yuan's fingers moved rapidly across the control panel.

"Hydraulic arm, extend forward. Depressurize the isolation chamber. Contain."

The armor at the front of the vehicle cracked open, and two thick mechanical arms extended out. The mechanical claws, normally used to violently tear apart the skeletons of behemoths, moved with extreme gentleness. In the vacuum environment, they performed an incredibly precise gripping motion, smoothly delivering the tattered hard drive into isolation chamber zero.

The hatch closed. Air pressure was restored.

Su Yuan unplugged the data cable and plugged it directly into the external port of the main control panel.

There were no deep-space virus intrusion alerts, nor the cumbersome firewall password locks of the old-fashioned military. This most primitive storage device simply displayed the content directly on the big screen.

Large swaths of black-and-white static crackled and hissed. The image distorted violently a few times before freezing.

The background is a burning command center of a warship. The flames cast a crimson glow on the edges of the screen, and the red alarm lights flash and spin wildly. In the center of the screen, a man appears.

He wasn't wearing any protective exoskeleton; he was only dressed in an old uniform soaked in blood and engine oil. The skin on his left cheek had been completely ripped off, and his eyeball was gone, leaving only a dark, bloody hole. His right eye was bloodshot, staring straight at the camera.

The video quality was very poor. The man coughed violently, spitting out a mouthful of blackened pieces of internal organs, and casually wiped his mouth with his filthy sleeve.

"This is the flagship of the advance zero fleet of the Human Expeditionary Force. I am the supreme commander, Qin Tie."

His voice was hoarse, like sandpaper being rubbed. There was no fear, no hysteria, only a calm that showed he had completely accepted life and death.

Upon hearing this name, Li Daikui's body jolted violently, and he slumped forward onto the control panel, his knuckles clenching until they turned white. It was the name of the pioneering general from the Pangu Project files, the one whose entire army had been wiped out thirty years ago.

Qin Tie's only remaining right eye gazed at the newcomer through the screen.

"If someone can see this hard drive in the future, it proves that the Earth hasn't been completely devoured by these bastards."

"Tell those cowards in the defense line that our Zero Fleet has not been completely wiped out."

He grinned, revealing a mouthful of teeth stained red with blood.

"The first wave of monsters released by the mothership was far too numerous. The defenses simply couldn't hold. We proactively cut off the warp engines that would allow us to retreat."

"Three thousand eight hundred battleships. One million seven hundred thousand soldiers."

"We rammed all the warships into it. With the corpses of the dead and the wreckage of the warships, we built a door for Earth right here. We nailed down the first wave of the Mother's advance remnants."

The screen shook violently with the explosion. A steel plate crashed down from the ceiling of the command center, but Qin Tie didn't even flinch.

He leaned closer to the camera. In his only remaining right eye, a profound despair finally appeared.

"The defenses held. But we failed."

"The Great Wall has been deeply contaminated by the deep space virus. All the corpses, all the hibernation pods, have been parasitized."

"We are turning into monsters."

He suddenly raised his voice, his tone so shrill it sent chills down one's spine.

"The entire Zero Spark has been mutated!"

"Listen up! Later fleets! Never come near here!"

"Fire! Open fire with the main guns and blast us to pieces! Flatten this Great Wall!"

"Don't let monsters return to Earth with our faces on their backs!"

The power to the screen was completely cut off. The screen fell into a deathly darkness.

The control room was deathly silent. The words from the video resonated deeply within everyone's minds. Thirty years ago, Earth hadn't even built a proper defensive wall. The first group to venture out of the solar system used 1.7 million lives to forge a wall of flesh and blood here. Then, they were trapped within the Great Wall they built themselves by a deep-space virus, mutated into monsters.

Wang Hu exhaled heavily through his nostrils, his eyes fixed on the black screen, the muscles at the corners of his eyes twitching violently. Tang Lan leaned back in her seat, her fingers tightly gripping the trigger guard of her heavy sniper rifle. Many of the remaining soldiers behind Li Daikui knelt on the ground, burying their heads deep in their chests, their shoulders heaving violently.

Su Yuan stared expressionlessly at his reflection in the screen, his fingers lightly tapping twice on the control panel. There was no trace of emotion, only a growing, simmering anger in his eyes.

In the corner, Jiang Yu, who had been huddled up wrapping his broken bones with bandages, suddenly let out an extremely distorted scream.

"ah--"

Jiang Yu collapsed to the ground, his back arching in a terrifying curve. His right arm, the arm made of living metal, instantly went out of control.

Dark red metallic veins surged wildly, and the metallic outer layer shattered. Sharp alloy spikes snapped back, mercilessly piercing his own thigh and abdomen. Blood instantly stained the deck crimson.

"They're awake!"

Jiang Yu gripped the ground tightly with his only remaining left hand, his eyes bulging outwards, his pupils shrinking to the size of pinpoints. He struggled to lift his head, his fingers trembling as he pointed towards the Great Wall of Space directly in front of the car window.

Everyone's eyes immediately turned towards that direction through the windshield.

The surface of the Great Wall, so vast it stretched across the entire star field, was now filled with the colossal remains of millions of beasts, originally nailed to the wall by thick, black metal spikes. At this moment, they all began to writhe in a bizarre manner.

This wasn't a muscle spasm; it was an undulation like breathing. The metallic rock layers on the surface of the Great Wall began to secrete large amounts of viscous, dark red biomass, tightly enveloping the shriveled corpses.

This is not a giant mound of stars in space. This Great Wall, built with the lives of 1.7 million heroes, is a parasitic hibernation nest spanning hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

Boom!

A massive rock formation on the left edge of the Space Wall collapsed with a deafening roar. Countless tons of debris, weighing tens of thousands of tons, were ejected outwards.

Amidst the rubble, a massive interstellar battleship burst forth from its seal.

The ship's design clearly reflects the rugged style of the old Blue Star's industrial civilization, with thick reactive armor and a massive array of turrets. On the bow, one can still faintly see a few corroded and pitted Chinese characters: Suiren.

But this battleship has completely changed its appearance.

The once smooth armor surface was now covered with countless dark red fleshy sacs. Each sac throbbed wildly, and when it burst open, it revealed deep-space compound eyes dripping with mucus. The battleship's command island had long since been forcibly replaced by a massive mass of twisted biomass.

The main gun barrel of the Suiren slowly rotated. Without any prior energy gathering based on higher-dimensional laws, the mechanical transmission inside the turret emitted a piercing grinding sound. The massive muzzle was locked firmly on the Shihuang, hovering outside the Great Wall.

A pure dark matter kinetic energy bomb. The ultimate physical weapon for humanity in the old era to fight against deep space.

A flash of light erupted from the muzzle. The beam of light struck the Devourer almost the instant it fired.

boom--

The Devourer suddenly sank. Sparks erupted from the surface of its Star Core Annihilation-class black-gold armor. The armor wasn't penetrated, but the shockwave from this purely physical kinetic energy bombardment passed directly through the external deflection array.

The vehicle's alarm blared and red lights flashed. Li Daikui and several veterans who hadn't managed to grab the anchor bar were thrown into the air by the force, crashing heavily onto the roof and then onto the floor.

"Physical shield pressure is rising!" Little Fire reported rapidly. "The enemy has not used any conceptual weapons; it's all physical attacks!"

Tang Lan was not thrown overboard; her body was secured to the firing position by the safety harness. The massive stock of the heavy sniper rifle pressed against her shoulder, and a specially designed high-powered optical sight, peering through the gaps in the armor, directly locked onto the biomass-replaced island superstructure of the Suiren battleship.

The magnification was maximized. The lens pierced through the murky, viscous biological membrane.

Tang Lan's pupils suddenly contracted, and her index finger on the trigger twitched violently.

"Commander..." Tang Lan's voice trembled, "The island superstructure is full of people."

Through the sights, there were no Deep Space Creatures piloting the Flint. Instead, hundreds of original Expeditionary Force soldiers were hanging upside down, their bodies brutally stitched together with dark red flesh-and-blood tubing. Their limbs were severed, and the tubing replaced neurons, connecting them to the warship's various fire control consoles and engine pushrods.

Their brains have been forcibly taken over by the parasitic organisms, but the deep-space monsters have retained their consciousness.

On their half-mechanical, half-flesh faces, eyes were wide open, real tears streaming down their cheeks. Mouths were agape, facial muscles spasming in extreme pain, groaning silently. They stared intently at their bodies, manipulating the warship's main cannon, bombarding the war chariots from their homeland with each shot.

Wang Hu removed his hands from the secondary gun control panel, dug his fingers into his hair, and slammed the edge of the control panel, creating a dent.

"Damn it!" Wang Hu's eyes were bloodshot, and veins bulged on his forehead. He turned and roared at Su Yuan, "Commander! Inside are living ancestors! How are we supposed to fire?!"

The idea of ​​these veterans, who crawled out of piles of corpses, personally bombarding the martyrs who had endured thirty years of torment and fired cannons with tears in their eyes is enough to tear apart anyone's sanity.

Su Yuan shoved open the anti-accidental touch cover on the main control panel and gripped the main cannon charging lever tightly with his right hand. There was no pity in his eyes, only a rage colder than deep space.

"Fuck you!"

Su Yuan shouted, his voice drowning out all the alarms in the car and making everyone's eardrums ache.

"They're puppets possessed by monsters!" Su Yuan slammed the charging lever to its limit. "They're heroes! Heroes shouldn't be treated like dogs, led around by the neck by these deep-space scum!"

He turned his head sharply, his gaze sweeping over Wang Hu and Tang Lan, and gave the order decisively.

"Fire from all cannons. Let's give our ancestors some dignity!"

Wang Hu's body jolted violently, and his bloodshot eyes widened instantly.

"To give our ancestors some dignity!" Wang Hu wiped the cold sweat and blood from his face, slammed his hands back onto the secondary gun control panel, and pressed the fire button firmly.

Tang Lan inhaled a large breath of cold air, the crosshair of the heavy sniper rifle was firmly locked onto the thickest nerve connection pillar in the center of the island superstructure, and she pulled the trigger without hesitation.

The Star Core Refining Furnace roared deafeningly. The energy patterns on the exterior of the black-gold armor instantly blazed brightly. The "Abyss Wall-Breaking Piercing Ram" at the front of the Devourer's chassis lit up with a dazzling purple-gold light.

Su Yuan completely ignored the dark matter shells that the Suiren was firing again and stepped on the propulsion pedal.

The Devourer transformed into a raging purple-gold meteor, streaking a straight path through deep space as it crashed through the oncoming barrage of fire.

"Fire!"

The main cannon and six secondary cannons fired simultaneously. A blazing high-energy plasma beam, mixed with a conceptual armor-piercing projectile, slammed into the hull of the Flintship before the Devourer could even strike. The seemingly indestructible first-generation heavy armor was torn to shreds by the main cannon. Tang Lan's specially designed sniper bullet precisely pierced the biomembrane, severing the nerve trunks within the island superstructure that sustained the suffering of those predecessors.

With unstoppable momentum, the Devourer crashed through the wall and plunged directly into the main reactor area on the side of the Flint.

Rumble.

A blindingly large fireball exploded at the edge of the Space Wall. The immense kinetic energy and internal explosion combined to create the massive wreckage of the Suiren battleship, which was brutally blasted in two by this cataclysmic physical impact.

The broken metal frame folded outwards, and burning fragments and charred flesh sprayed in all directions. Those souls, imprisoned for thirty years, finally vanished in the flames.

The Devourer burst out of the flames of the explosion, its black-gold armor still dripping with molten metal from the enemy ship.

Before the veterans inside the vehicle could even catch their breath...

Suddenly, countless wounds appeared on the surface of the Great Wall, where the massive, writhing carcasses of millions of beasts lay scattered and twisted.

Massive amounts of dark red flesh and blood, emitting a pungent, foul stench, cascaded down the Great Wall like a waterfall. Driven by the rules of deep space, this flesh and blood disregarded the resistance of the vacuum and surged wildly towards the two burning sections of the Suiren's wreckage.

The flames were forcibly extinguished by the torrent of blood and flesh.

The nauseating sound of bones piecing together carried into the carriage along the electromagnetic spectrum. The two sections of the battleship's wreckage, which had been completely blown apart, were being pieced back together at a visible speed by countless pieces of flesh and blood.

This was no longer a warship. The metal armor was crushed and replaced by biomass, and the warship's keel bent downwards, sprouting countless thick mechanical limbs. The island superstructure had been completely transformed into a gigantic head covered with tens of thousands of compound eyes.

A mutated god, tens of thousands of meters tall and half mechanical and half flesh and blood, stood up abruptly on the edge of the Great Wall of Space.

The space around the aberrant creature underwent extreme distortion and folding. Its immense mass brought about a terrifying change in the gravitational field, making the Devourer seem like a flying insect hovering at the feet of a giant elephant.

Inside the VIP carriage.

Bound to the restraint chair, Ji Yun struggled violently. The eerie blue data in her right eye swirled wildly, fighting against the interference from the deep-space wavelengths. She opened her mouth, her voice shrill and filled with extreme fear.

"Su Yuan! Retreat! It incorporates the underlying concepts of the Deep Space Matrix!"

The veins on Ji Yun's neck bulged as he stared intently at the parameter readings of the monster on the screen.

"It's 'immortal'! It possesses the rule of absolute regeneration! Its flesh and blood are connected to the entire Great Wall. Conventional firepower can't kill it! Even if you blast it into molecules, it can reassemble!"

Tens of thousands of compound eyes of the mutant simultaneously locked onto the Devourer, its massive limbs raised high, their tips condensing a dark red death beam powerful enough to obliterate space. The immense pressure penetrated the armor, making the air inside the vehicle stagnant.

At the control panel, Su Yuan didn't touch the warp drive that could create distance. His legs were rooted to the spot, and he looked up at the overwhelming monster on the panoramic screen, his eye muscles twitching, forming a ferocious arc.

"To hell with immortality!"

Su Yuan roared. The sleeve of his left arm exploded under the extreme energy expansion. The "cloud" mark branded on his skin emitted a purple light that shot into the sky, its dazzling light overshadowing the external searchlights.

Su Yuan swung his right hand back. The Blade of Judgment was in his hand.

With a flick of the blade and without hesitation, Su Yuan plunged the black longsword, imbued with the paradox of higher dimensions, into the core high-dimensional interface slot of the main control panel. He gripped the hilt with both hands, channeling all his computing power directly into the chariot's central processing unit.

"Absolute rule definition activated! Target concept altered."

Original concepts: Immortality and absolute regeneration. New concept: Absolute logical deadlock!

A purple, high-dimensional force field erupted outwards in a spherical shape, centered on the Devourer. The wave of concept erasure sliced ​​through the darkness of deep space.

Without slowing down, the Devourer roared to its limit, braving the purple paradox field, and crashed straight into the dark red shield directly in front of the aberration.

The moment the purple force field touched the dark red shield, it was like cutting butter with a hot knife. The higher-dimensional laws that maintained the shield's operation, upon encountering the forced alteration of logical deadlock, caused the internal code to fall into an infinite loop.

The shield collapsed and disintegrated on the spot. The ramming horn of the Devourer pierced directly through the mutated creature's chest core.

The colossal, godlike aberration emitted an electromagnetic wail that was impossible to decipher. Its wildly proliferating flesh and indestructible mechanical limbs, having lost the support of the underlying logic of "immortality," caused the self-replication process of its internal cells to completely malfunction.

The colossal creature, tens of thousands of meters tall, froze in space, then began to collapse rapidly outwards from the hole it had been pierced. Its bones turned to sand, its flesh to vaporize. In a mere few seconds, this monstrous creature, a figure of utter despair, vanished into dust in a completely illogical end, leaving not a single drop of blood behind.

The purple light dissipated, and the Devourer hovered in the dust.

The radar detector emitted a very clear ding sound.

At the core of the monster's annihilation, a crystal the size of a fingernail fell. There was no trace of dark red deep-space pollution, nor any violent high-dimensional radiation. The crystal emitted a pure, starlight-like white light in space, appearing extremely abnormal in this malevolent star field.

The refining furnace's conduit popped out instantly, unleashing a negative pressure suction that forcibly sucked the white crystal into the furnace cavity.

Data connection established. Xiao Huo's analysis was completed almost instantly, and the cold, synthesized sound was unusually accompanied by a tremolo.

"Commander. This isn't the monster's true form. It's also harmless. The material structure analysis is complete, this is..."

"This is a drop of antidote that the predecessors of Fleet Zero extracted from the extreme torment and deep space pollution within the Great Wall over thirty years, using their indomitable souls and the blood and bones of their compatriots."

"This is the prototype of an antidote for higher dimensions!"

The train carriage was filled with utter shock. Those soldiers, forgotten at the edge of the universe, whose bodies had been parasitized into monsters, had endured thirty years of suffering to forge the only spark to fight the Mother.

Before we could even process this fact, we were already in the deepest part of the Great Wall of Space.

In the abyss, a dark realm impenetrable even to light, tens of millions of crimson single eyes lit up in succession. The entire million-kilometer-long Great Wall of Space began to tremble violently like never before.

A "deep space stargate" spanning millions of kilometers is being forcibly constructed. Black lightning, tearing through dimensions, flashes around the gate frame.

On the control panel, the countdown numbers, symbolizing the arrival of the Deep Space Mother, plummeted. Red light flashed.

Countdown: 71 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds.

The stargate for the final battle was forcibly opened in the heart of the Great Wall, a million kilometers away. The high-dimensional pressure behind the stargate crashed down as if it were a tangible force, and the black-gold armor of the Devourer emitted a series of ear-piercing twisting sounds.

Su Yuan gripped the hilt of the Blade of Judgment on the control panel with one hand, the purple light emanating from his left arm growing increasingly blinding under the pressure. He stared intently at the gate from which darkness was pouring out, and slammed the engine push lever to its limit. The chariot's exhaust trailed a ghastly white streak in space.

"Come on." Su Yuan coldly stared at the countless blood-red single eyes on the screen, his lips moving slightly.