Chapter 85: Popping the Lid

Dalou’s expression darkened. He immediately swung his gun to the other side, opened the window, and aimed at the skinny monkey’s back in the darkness, letting loose a full magazine.

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat!!!

Who would have thought the skinny monkey was incredibly agile? Coupled with the rapid running speed from his insectoid legs, he weaved quickly through the mountain forest. Dalou’s machine gun fire was already inaccurate, and the bullets kicked up a cloud of dirt, rocks, and snow behind him, failing to hit him at all.

The skinny monkey wore a crazed grin, shouting toward his convoy as he ran.

“Hahahaha, Boss! Just one guy and two hot chicks! The rest is all supplies!! Quick, grab it! If you’re late, there won’t even be soup left!!”

His words were highly inflammatory, instantly sending the convoy’s marauders into a frenzy.

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat! Rat-a-tat-tat!

With the first shot fired, the marauder convoy began to open fire in full, spraying toward Dalou’s position.

A hail of bullets came flying, striking with bangs and clangs, sending sparks flying. Dalou and Shasha could only quickly retract their guns and take cover.

Countless car headlights and searchlights illuminated the train in the dark night.

Seeing Dalou suppressed by their firepower, the crowd grew even more frenzied. Some people floored their accelerators and charged toward the train, gun barrels constantly sticking out of windows and firing at the train.

“There are only three of them!”

“There are a lot of supplies on the train!!!”

“Kill that guy.”

Clang clang clang clang…

Countless bullets hit the Infinity’s steel armor, creating crisp vibrations. But the train was like a fortress; ordinary bullets couldn’t do any damage at all.

But these people didn’t care. Their eyes seemed to have turned red. They just needed to suppress Dalou with firepower and then find a way to get close to the train.

Many of the charging vehicles began to circle around. Some charged over, trying to steal the armored car, and some even raised Molotov cocktails.

The apocalyptic marauders began to besiege the train!

…

On the other side, in the dark Car 1, Lin Xian paced back and forth. It was completely silent around him.

The well-proportioned, headless, red-clad female ghost stood to one side in her three-point bikini, her head on the floor constantly watching him walk back and forth.

“Frequency… frequency.”

Suddenly, he stopped, looked up at the ceiling lights of the car, and his heart stirred.

He remembered the lights from before.

There was one thing that didn’t seem to be affected by this strange frequency.

And that was his Mechanical Heart!

Flicker, flicker~

Lin Xian took a deep breath and tried to flash the lights twice, then waited for a response.

A moment later, the lights indeed flashed twice again.

Outside, a storm of bullets raged, but Chen Sixuan, seeing the flashing lights, immediately guessed Lin Xian’s intention and also switched the lights on and off twice.

In that instant, Lin Xian watched the lights above him flicker, and he felt tears welling up in his eyes.

It had to be my Teacher Chen…

“If the lights can flash, then the simplest method is… Morse code!”

“Let me think, AM07, AM07. Forget the 0, just AM7. Teacher Chen will definitely understand.”

Chen Sixuan was a university teacher and was familiar with railway knowledge. She should have some knowledge of international light signals.

Lin Xian tried hard to recall. “Light-off means long, light-off means short, with a one-second interval. Then it should be…”

.━ / ━ ━ / ━ ━ . . . /

And so, Lin Xian began to operate his Mechanical Heart to flash the lights.

First, three short, three long, three short, to signal for help and indicate to the other party that he was using light signals.

…

On the Infinity’s side, a great battle was underway.

Bang bang bang!

Dalou braved the hail of bullets and continuously returned fire through the window.

“Brother! There are too many of them!”

Lou Shasha shouted, firing another grenade out the window.

Boom!

The grenade hit the front left engine hood of a small pickup truck dead on. With a loud bang, the engine and tire were blown apart. The entire vehicle flipped over from inertia and rolled down the hillside, the fate of those inside unknown.

Rat-a-tat-tat, clang clang clang!

Countless bullets poured in. As the firepower intensified, the few people on the train realized that this was a sizable marauder convoy.

By now, several vehicles from the advance party had already reached the front of the train. A dozen or so marauders with eager eyes ducked out of their cars and spread out. Some ran toward the front of the train, while others ran toward Car 5 and the armored car.

These marauders began to use all sorts of methods to try and open the train doors. The area around the train’s rear ramp was already crowded with people, with all kinds of steel pipes, crowbars, and machetes. Someone even pulled out a tow hook and a chainsaw from an off-road vehicle. Everyone was frantically waiting for the moment the door would be opened.

“Don’t be afraid, everyone! There really are only three of them!”

“We’ve hit the jackpot.”

“Let’s grab the cars at the back first!!”

The firepower from the train clearly didn’t pose much of a deterrent to these red-eyed marauders. Some were even still shouting provocations.

At this moment, a dark figure in the marauder convoy suddenly leaped sideways onto the roof of a moving vehicle. Then, with a powerful stomp, a huge force erupted, directly caving in the car’s roof. The person shot up high like a cannonball.

Thud.

The dark figure landed on the roof of the Infinity and, raising a fist, slammed it down on the roof.

Boom!

Under the immense force, the top armor only showed a very small dent. Seeing this, he was immediately somewhat surprised. It seemed the armor of this train was not just ordinary steel plate.

Failing in one strike, this person rushed toward the rear of the train, preparing to open the hydraulic ramp!

“Brother, it’s a metahuman!”

Hearing the huge commotion on the roof, Shasha and Dalou immediately realized.

Thud!

The person rolled on the roof, landed at the rear, and then knelt on one knee. He formed one hand into a palm, which condensed into a hard, black metallic skin, and then thrust it into the gap between the ramp and the car!

Screech!!

In an instant, sparks flew. His skin was actually harder than steel plate. He was actually trying to defeat a hydraulic press with his bare hands.

The man pulled the hydraulic ramp open a crack, inserted his other hand at the same time, and then intended to use both hands to forcibly pull the hydraulic ramp open.

But the power of the hydraulic ramp was not so easily pried open. So he just held that crack open and shouted to the rear, “Zhu Laosan, get the tow hook!”

“You got it!”

Another skinny monkey with a scorpion tail shouted, pulling a metal tow hook from the front of several cars, preparing to hook the ramp directly and use the pulling force of several vehicles to pull it open.

Bang bang bang!

At this moment, a stream of bullets shot out from the gap. Dalou, below, was holding a machine gun and spraying at him. Only then did he see that the person on the roof was a middle-aged man with a full beard. This bearded man just turned sideways, his whole body turning a grayish-black color. The bullets hit his body as if hitting metal and were deflected away.

“Brother, not bad aim.”

The bearded man grinned sinisterly, the force in his hands increasing. “I’m here to pop the lid on this turtle shell of yours!”