Armed Train in the Apocalypse

The pale neck was very elegant, but the scene of it being gripped by a hand was violent.

Wan Xing murmured weakly, ”We’re doomed, I told you he would crush you...”

Su Huan frowned, unraveling Yu Jing’s ponytail, his five fingers like knives as he examined every inch of her scalp, behind her ears, and neck.

To the bewilderment of the two, with a ”swish,” he unzipped the tight-fitting suit.

His fingertips ran along the collarbone, heart, and ribs, all the way down; after checking the front, he moved to the back, spine and coccyx... He didn’t miss a single bone on Yu Jing, squeezing each one.

Even Wan Xing could see what he was doing by now, with a thoughtful look in her eyes.

”My body hasn’t mutated,” Yu Jing explained helplessly.

A crimson hue appeared in Su Huan’s pupils at some unknown time, like two clusters of fire immersed in an icy pool, inching over her skin, up to her brows and lashes.

In a past life, he had seen plenty of flesh evolutions: bone overgrowth and flesh mutation were considered normal; there were some with multiple organs and limbs, a mere glance could drain one’s sanity. If changes were purely external, it was nothing.

Back then, aesthetics were extreme, and the pursuit of power reached a pathological level.

As long as you were strong enough, even growing eyeballs all over was considered beautiful.

But this evolutionary direction was unstable.

By the end of the evolution, it was all about the ecstasy of flesh; forget humanity, even logic was devoured by the flesh.

In a past life, he had witnessed Qu Hang execute a rampaging ”Maker” who was eating colleagues alive.

It took five shots from an electromagnetic sniper rifle to kill it.

After witnessing the scene where a headless mass of flesh charged at the crowd, Su Huan decided he would never team up with a ”Maker” on the flesh path again.

If it could survive without a brain, what exactly was driving it daily, something other than a brain?

An internal traitor was a thousand times better than those who touched the taboo.

Seeing Su Huan’s increasingly dangerous gaze, Yu Jing explained, ”Perhaps my path is different from the purely flesh route you mentioned.”

Su Huan tilted his head, catching the sight of ”Zhao Kuo” approaching from the corner of his eye.

”What skills did you use to evolve?”

”Level 3 ’Pervasive Erosion’ + Level 2 ’Mechanical Specialization’ + Level 1 ’Devour Recast’”

The first two skills were traditional skills of a ”Mechanical Apprentice,” which was the path Su Huan initially wanted Yu Jing to take. The latter was the key.

”How did you awaken this skill?”

This skill indeed differed from those of flesh evolvers, which slightly reassured Su Huan.

”Initially, it was refined from materials in zombie bodies,” Wan Xing explained from the side.

Su Huan’s eyes flickered for a moment before he retrieved the memory from his mind.

”The Tier One material for synthesizing the ’Defender’ gene serum?”

”Yes, and then I researched in that direction, thinking it highly feasible, so I had Wan Xing assist me. My breakthrough determined the future upgrade limit of the train, so I was a bit anxious, but fortunately, I indeed paved a new path.”

Yu Jing looked at Su Huan with a calm gaze, with a kind of tranquility.

Besides mechanics, she had never cared about anything else.

Su Huan patted her shoulder disdainfully, ”The first half of the sentence is for the train’s sake, which I can barely accept; the second half sounds a bit pretentious, which I can’t quite accept.”

Yu Jing raised an eyebrow, a faint ”well” character emerging on her forehead.

”This is indeed a completely new path, one that won’t cause my own flesh to collapse.”

”A new path?” Su Huan turned to face the man-weapon Zhao Kuo, ”This is your solution? Replacing yourself with a puppet?”

”Exactly!”

Yu Jing’s eyes filled with a gleam of excitement.

”Although I abandoned a Level 1 ’Material Fabrication’ skill, the new profession not only doesn’t affect me but also greatly enhances combat power.”

Su Huan hit back mercilessly, ”When he was alive, I carbonized his body; you can only use a small portion of the flesh. Even if you integrate some mechanical structures, it barely reaches the level of a Tier Two Evolver in strength and speed. To be exact, you probably can’t match any Tier Two Evolver; the advantage is it has no fear of death, can surprise, the downside is you’re still weak as a chick.”

”You only got half right, but the space here is too small to verify, let’s go to the deck.”

With that, Yu Jing stood by the outer wall, the [Engineer-I] exoskeleton on the carriage seemed to be pulled, wearing itself on without any auxiliary functions.

Su Huan concentrated slightly; he could feel it was a pervasive energy fluctuation, not just simple mechanical drive.

”Then I won’t go...”

Wan Xing said from the side.

Su Huan nodded slightly.

”Later, go tell Old Hu, you and Yu Jing both get a week’s salary docked.”

”I was just assisting.”

”A month.”

Wan Xing opened her mouth but said nothing more, only her footsteps out the door were a bit heavier.

Su Huan and Yu Jing arrived on the deck, followed by ”Zhao Kuo.”

Fine rain drifted in the sky, either acid rain or water with normal acidity and alkalinity.

The rain was blown at an angle by the wind.

Waves upon waves slapped the train.

Like an isolated island in the sea.

Only when some structures stubbornly poked above water could one decipher traces of human existence here.

Su Huan waved to form a large energy barrier, repelling the rain, ”Didn’t expect you two to get along quite well.”

Yu Jing gave him a meaningful look, ”The reason you don’t see this side of Wan Xing is that she considers you a boss. During work hours, there naturally won’t be much emotional expression.”