Armed Train in the Apocalypse

As the words faded away, there was only the sound of the whistling wind and rustling leaves.

No wait, there was also the crunching sound of someone munching on sunflower seeds.

To the side, Tong Zizhan was eating seeds, glanced up and down at the little girl, and urged, ”And then?”

Tan Yunxi was bewildered, her ears flicked quickly twice, ”What do you mean, ’and then’?”

”Pfft!” Tong Zizhan spat out the shell of a seed, withdrew a foot, and sneered contemptuously, ”With this level, you still want to fool me!”

Hearing Tong Zizhan say this, Gao Yuan’s stiff muscles finally relaxed, and he slowly brought a sunflower seed to his mouth.

Tan Yunxi’s little face was twisted in distress, she said painfully, ”I’m not joking, what I said is... never mind, just consider it a joke, if, just if, I were an undercover, what would you do?”

Tong Zizhan, seeing she wasn’t eating, snatched the seeds back from her hand and, with an experienced tone, instructed, ”To be an undercover, first you need to have an organization behind you, then you must be loyal to the organization, are you loyal to Black Kite?”

The latter shook her head decisively.

Tong Zizhan sneered, ”Then you must have a heartless contact, who doesn’t care about your life and death, just uses empty promises to manipulate you, only reminding you when you’re about to forget your identity: the organization has a daunting task for you!”

Tan Yunxi was shocked, mouth agape, revealing four slightly sharp baby teeth.

Tong Zizhan continued more enthusiastically, with a face contorted in anger, ”Then after you risk your life and complete the task, just when you expect a reward, your performance is seen by the higher-ups and suppressed again, year after year, even becoming a manager from being an undercover. Do you have that?”

Tan Yunxi shrank back, ”It’s not reached that point yet...”

”You’re pretty into the role, then I ask you, what is your task?”

Tong Zizhan snorted coldly.

Tan Yunxi said angrily, ”I’m not joking, I am really undercover, my task is to steal the Crown Pear Tree.”

Tong Zizhan gathered all his expression, stared straight at Tan Yunxi, as if trying to see all her flaws, after a while, clutching his stomach, he burst into laughter, ”Old Gao, this little girl still wants to tease us, if you are undercover, then I am undercover, Old Gao is undercover too! Even the passerby below is undercover!”

Down the corridor bridge, Zhang Qiang was carrying a box while counting members of the Tongzhou Association, planning to report to the conductor at some point. Suddenly hearing this almost made him stumble through the passage.

He sighed in relief hearing the laughter, pretended not to have heard anything, and continued his work.

On the other side, Old Gao was taken aback, but his face remained smiling.

But the two couldn’t laugh for long.

The girl’s normally proud little face was now filled with confusion and helplessness, tears gathered on her delicate chin, dropping down like a sad little beast.

”My mother is still in Black Kite.”

”I wanted to secretly break off a small branch and be done with it, but you two kept waiting here all day, not leaving.”

”Boo hoo...”

”My life is so bitter...”

The girl burst into tears, hugging her fluffy tail tightly, looking extremely sad.

Hearing this reason, Gao Yuan couldn’t hold himself anymore, looking at Tong Zizhan with resentment, ’It’s come to this, see how you handle it.’

The latter’s face turned darker, ’It’s come to this, what the heck can I use to handle it?’

People below turned to look, and upon discovering it was Tan Yunxi crying, the gazes on Gao Yuan and the two grew even less friendly.

The two uncomfortably coaxed her for a while, said all the good things, but the girl was unrelenting, just cried her heart out.

Tong Zizhan hesitated and said, ”How about you break off a bit to complete the task, anyway, the tree is so big, we’ll pretend we didn’t see...”

Tan Yunxi finally reacted, lifted her head to wipe her tears, and said firmly, ”No!”

”Hiss...”

Tong Zizhan’s head suddenly became big.

How could she still be so stubborn at this time?

”You already know I’m undercover, and if the conductor knows, he’ll kill me.”

”Yu Jing said he is ruthless, especially towards the young and old.”

As she spoke, the girl cried out loudly again, the entire space above the Cultivation Pod echoed with her lament of ”My life is so bitter.”

Which directly numbed the two.

If it weren’t for so many people below, Tong Zizhan also wanted to shout out loud, our lives are bitter too!

...

”Then what do you say we should do, godmother please stop crying, even if you want to take the tree away, my brother and I will help you, just mark a path.”

Tong Zizhan said with a somewhat hoarse voice, speaking in a pleading tone.

A pair of fair slender wrists stretched out in front of him.

The girl, with red-rimmed eyes, displayed a face of heroic sacrifice, ”Arrest me.”

Tong Zizhan’s eyelids twitched.

Back to this point again.

Dammit.

...

On the other side, the battle had reached a fever pitch.

The entire small building was leveled by raging forces, the center of the battlefield filled with dust clouds, the surrounding people long fled, squads of City Guard Army were mobilized to join the encirclement, and eventually, the iconic grey-green overcoats of the corps appeared on the battlefield.

Experts and Chen Shan stood on the outskirts, briefing Mountain Goat, who had just arrived, on the situation.

”...that’s basically it, one initial killer, another who joined later, at least the aura of two Tier Two Evolvers inside.”

Mountain Goat raised his hand to interrupt, looking towards the battlefield, ”The command center told me there were four Tier Two Pan Energy reactions here, don’t send in more men, just open fire and sweep.”

”Four?”

Chen Shan exclaimed, his expression turning even more grave.

Pang Ke is still in there.

He hastily conveyed this to Mountain Goat.

The latter frowned, ”What’s a sniper doing in there?”