Armed Train in the Apocalypse

Su Huan asked.

Hu Shuo said seriously, ”There really is. If she hadn’t told me your original name was Su Li, I would still be unsure.”

”Who?”

”Yu Jing.”

Thinking of that woman who always looked at him with an inquisitive gaze, Su Huan was momentarily dazed, ”How does she know?”

Could it be rebirth as well?

Hu Shuo’s expression was peculiar, ”Because she saw your ID.”

Su Huan: ”...”

He remembered that he seemed to have boarded the vehicle with his ID card, but later he had no idea where it went. After all, it was the apocalypse, and he was killing every day without a moment’s rest. Who had time to worry about a lost card?

Su Huan rubbed his brow speechlessly and suddenly asked, ”By the way, senior, what was your original name again?”

Hu Shuo, with some nostalgia, said, ”Ji Ran, ’Ji’ as in season, and ’Ran’ as in natural. It’s been so long since anyone called me by that name, it’s a bit unfamiliar.”

”Then why Hu Shuo?”

”You’re asking in such a hurry, of course it’s nonsense Hu Shuo.”

The two men laughed again.

After reminiscing, Hu Shuo got down to business, ”Fu Lanshan from Deep Blue Data, Ge Mian from Dragon Gate, Cheng Zhan, Ah Duo from the Mechanical God Cult, and Song Zhiyue from Iron Pine Forest Camp are all here, along with a bunch of others waiting to see you. When do you plan to handle it?”

Su Huan was silent for a moment, every one of those nouns carried a heap of memories, some even had entanglements spanning several lifetimes, just thinking about it gave him a headache.

He irritably waved his hand, ”No rush, let them wait for now. I’ve only been back a day, right now I just want to spend time with my family and talk to my friends.”

Hu Shuo agreed, ”That’s how it should be. The people on our train are still in line, I’ll let them wait, but there’s one thing I’d like to ask you?”

Looking at the solemn face of his old senior, Su Huan had a vague premonition, ”Between you and me, just speak directly.”

”Now that you know everything, what do you want to do?”

If someone else asked this question, Su Huan might not even bother thinking about it, but he vaguely remembered that his first internship was given by this old senior in front of him, and he taught him the skills to survive.

It was indeed a friendship spanning several lifetimes.

He had to answer the question, and answer it seriously.

Fortunately, the answer had already become extremely clear over the course of three years; he wanted to end this catastrophe that caused countless people to shed blood and tears, to end this endless cycle.

So the answer could be blurted out without hesitation.

”I wish to complete the golden chalice, to mend the heavens.”

...

Cultivation Pod, Biological and Mechanical Testing Laboratory.

Ever since human experiments were opened, Yu Jing’s presence in the train meetings had become rare, and matters regarding the production of exoskeletons were all handed over to Zhou Qing and Tan Yunxi and others by her.

At the beginning, the laboratory was still mainly focused on mechanical research, but later she cleared everything out. All the staff set up shop next door for mechanical development and manufacturing, while the laboratory was entirely taken over by Yu Jing alone.

At this moment in the laboratory, the walls were no longer smooth metal surfaces, but slowly trembling fungus carpets and flesh and blood. Various metal parts piled up like garbage under the edges of the fungus carpet, resembling towering mounds of corpses. And in the very center of the room, a huge cocoon was suspended, faintly revealing a human silhouette curled inside.

Beneath the cocoon was a giant energy pool, similar to the one under the Tianze Alumni Association back then, only it was now filled with so many things by Yu Jing, it was a dark amber color.

A pair of white tender feet crossed at the edge of the energy pool, and as you look up along the smooth and round long legs, the entire upper body was immersed in the energy pool, raven black hair dancing in the liquid, eyebrows occasionally relaxing and sometimes furrowing tightly.

Pale red splendid patterns climbed wantonly along the woman’s perfect curves, gradually covering most of her body.

At the moment the door to the laboratory was knocked, an invisible ripple spread through the liquid, and two puppets, turning their backs to the energy pool, fell headfirst to the ground, the flesh and blood on their bodies seeming to gain its own consciousness, growing wildly, with an eye sprouting on the left shoulder, and before it could open, it was punched hard by an arm sprouting from the right shoulder.

In the midst of the struggle, the massive body of the Four-armed Fierce Ghost melted like a candle, its bones losing all support, and the metallic parts of its modification clattering to the ground.

Within a few breaths, the two puppets had turned into indistinguishable pools of flesh on the fungus carpet.

Before the pools could spread, the flesh struggled again, like countless evil spirits fighting within, vying for control over the body.

The flesh struggled to stand again, regrowing bones, limbs...

The two puppets silently reverted to their original form, with no visible difference in appearance, but their aura had undergone a significant change, their tier jumped from Tier Two to Tier Three!

And the woman quietly opened her eyes, her face remained as enchanting as ever, but there was an added weight and somberness in her pitch-black pupils.

The woman instinctively stretched out her hand to stroke the man’s chin.

”What, feels like a dream?”

Su Huan asked with a smile.

”I never dream.”

Yu Jing mumbled as her wrist climbed up to the man’s neck, pulling him into the energy pool.

Standing at the door, Hu Shuo turned a blind eye to the bizarre scene inside and even very naturally closed the door.

For a long time, the two floated up, Su Huan lay back by the pool, squinting as he looked at the cocoon above, ”Xiaoxi’s condition is much more stable than when I left, were you able to do this without reaching Tier Four before?”

”By chance.”

The woman also climbed out of the pool, and as her long hair left the viscous liquid, it instantly became light and dry, cascading over her like a waterfall.

”Lin Xi’s condition reached its limit a year ago, at that time, the concept of flesh-and-blood mechanical life was also not perfect, making her stuck at this point, constantly in a state of slumber.”

Though Su Huan didn’t know exactly what transformation this was, he could feel Lin Xi’s various stats slowly increasing, a sign of evolution.

”You’ve done very well.”

Su Huan said sincerely.

Yu Jing was somewhat surprised, pulled the fungus strands to tie up her hair, and said blandly, ”That doesn’t sound like something you would say.”

Su Huan pretended to be cold, ”Then what should I say? Or should I ask, who are you to me?”

The woman stared into Su Huan’s eyes and slowly leaned forward, ”I am your Knight.”

Another hour passed, the former god, now the train conductor, was very satisfied with the Knight’s combat power, but beyond combat power, the Knight’s loyalty was more worth appraising, he was determined to visit frequently in the future.

While lazily enjoying the Knight’s dressing service, he asked, ”So you saw some scattered images because of evolution?”

Yu Jing replied coolly, ”Yes, every time my ability increases significantly I see some images, the most during advancement.”

Su Huan looked thoughtfully at the pink rule patterns on the woman’s body. At the moment he entered, Yu Jing naturally broke through to Tier Four ”Iron-blooded Brahma Aspect,” mastering the rule of ”Flesh and Blood,” not by relying on a Rule Stone but through self-comprehension like Lin Jin.

Su Huan speculated that perhaps it was this particular rule that allowed the woman to retain some memory in the cycle of rebirth.

Rules are a part of the world, it wouldn’t be surprising if Yu Yao used these rules to allow the world to rebirth, some loopholes are not unexpected.

But if this is the case, those powerful figures who once mastered rules might also experience a similar condition.

Su Huan soon left behind these matters that had no fixed evidence, there was one thing he had always been preoccupied with.

Grabbing the woman’s hand that was helping button him up, Su Huan’s lips formed a subtle smile, like a dangerous beast, ”I’m not very good at math, there’s something I hope Yu Shuo can help me calculate, why was Su Yan and Su Li’s birth so much later?”