54: Chapter 54 Ruthless Selection: Twin Sisters

The voice was ice-cold, devoid of even a trace of former classmate camaraderie.

In the cruel meat grinder of the apocalypse, Lin Xiao had long since crushed that pathetic bit of kindness into dust.

He was now the King, high above the rest.

And this once-arrogant campus belle kneeling beneath his wheels now had to fight for the mere qualification to be a dog at his feet.

Hearing Lin Xiao's merciless words,

Chu Yuxun's frail body shuddered violently.

She looked up, peering through a vision blurred by tears and mud at the man who seemed like a demon god.

She knew this was the only chance she would have in this life to survive.

If she missed it, she would become a plaything for the thugs in the refugee camp tonight, or perhaps even a piece of rotting meat in a pot tomorrow.

"I... I have a talent!"

Chu Yuxun shouted desperately, as if grabbing onto her last life-saving straw.

"I've awakened a talent!"

"It's a C-rank talent, [Overall Management]!"

She struggled to straighten her back, displaying her meager value to Lin Xiao.

"I can help you manage resources, I can coordinate the logistics consumption of the train, I can do data analysis..."

"Back at school, I was the Student Union President! I've managed large-scale events with thousands of people!"

"Class Monitor Lin, I'm very useful! Please, take me with you!"

Chu Yuxun's voice was filled with humility and pleading; she even deliberately puffed out her chest beneath her tattered clothes, trying to use her last bit of feminine capital to increase her bargaining power.

Unfortunately,

her proud resume as "Student Union President" sounded like a massive joke to the current Lin Xiao.

"Coordinate resources? Data analysis?"

Lin Xiao let out a disdainful sneer.

He pointed at Luo Yao, who was wearing tactical glasses beside him, and then at the gentle and mature Shen Man in her hip-hugging skirt.

"My train has pre-war military-grade artificial intelligence performing coordination at millisecond speeds."

"My logistics are personally handled by a top-tier head butler who has awakened healing abilities."

"Your mere C-rank trash management talent isn't even worth an abacus in this LV.5 mobile fortress of mine."

Lin Xiao's words were like a sharp knife, ruthlessly piercing the last shred of pride in Chu Yuxun's heart.

She slumped onto the ground in despair.

It was true.

The man was driving a nuclear-powered train; what did he need a Student Union President who only knew how to do superficial paperwork for?

Seeing Chu Yuxun's utterly defeated state, Liu Ruyan, standing to the side, felt more refreshed than if she had drunk an ice-cold soda.

"Class Monitor, since she's useless trash, let's just leave her be. Let her fend for herself on this wasteland."

Liu Ruyan spoke in a deliberately coquettish tone, clinging to Lin Xiao's arm.

"No! Please, no!"

Chu Yuxun was shaking with fear; she lunged forward again, death-gripping the massive metal tracks of the Black Iron.

"I can do anything! I can endure hardships!"

"I beg of you, Great Emperor Lin, I really don't want to die!"

Watching this former 'inaccessible flower' have her self-esteem completely crushed underfoot, a hint of playfulness flashed in the depths of Lin Xiao's dark eyes.

"Since you can do anything, then I'll reluctantly give you a chance."

Lin Xiao looked down at her from his height, exhaling a thick ring of smoke.

"The train's external armor needs someone to wash it."

"The dry latrines in the bottom carriage need someone to scrub them."

"And in the future, when insects are killed, someone will need to gut them."

"You'll be assigned to the handyman group. Start from the lowest level as a toilet-cleaning worker."

Lin Xiao's voice was horrifyingly calm.

"My rules are very simple."

"On my train, status is earned with your life and your value."

"Do well, and I'll reward you with a mouthful of leftovers; do poorly, and you'll be thrown directly off the moving train."

"Great President Chu of Shencheng University, do you accept this position?"

Cleaning toilets? Gutting insects?

Hearing these words, Chu Yuxun's stomach churned.

Once upon a time, she was a pampered young lady who would carefully protect even her manicured fingernails!

However,

when she turned to glance at the refugee camp thugs who were staring at her with green, predatory eyes filled with lust,

her whole body shuddered.

"I accept... I accept!"

"Thank you, Commander Lin! Thank you, Master, for taking me in!"

Chu Yuxun knelt on the ground, kowtowing until her forehead thudded against the earth.

Her former pride, dignity, and reserve were completely transformed into dust upon the wasteland in that moment.

"Take her down. Take her to wash up first; don't let her stink up my carriages."

Lin Xiao waved his hand, as if shooing away an annoying fly.

Liu Ruyan smiled triumphantly and immediately ordered two female soldiers forward to drag Chu Yuxun toward the rear of the train like a dead dog.

Having dealt with Chu Yuxun, Lin Xiao's gaze returned to the chaotic refugee camp.

At this time,

the refugees had fallen into a frenzied slaughter just to fight for the twenty spots to be 'car washers' on the train.

And deep within this chaotic crowd,

a burst of extremely harsh cursing and a woman's scream caught Lin Xiao's attention.

"Damn it! You little bitch, I gave you face and you threw it back at me!"

A local thug, standing 1.9 meters tall with a face full of scars and a black dragon tattooed on his arm, slapped a girl to the ground.

He was originally the bully of this refugee camp.

Seeing that the Black Iron was only recruiting young women, he knew his hopes of getting on the train were shattered.

Thus, evil grew in his heart, and he decided to have his way with the two most beautiful girls in the camp before he died.

They were a pair of twin sisters.

They looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old.

They were wearing tattered pre-war JK uniforms they had picked up from somewhere.

Though their clothes were filthy, they couldn't hide their exceptionally outstanding looks and their unusually hot, well-developed figures.

Beneath the ruined pleated skirts were two pairs of legs that, though covered in mud, were still fair and slender.

Because their clothes were torn, large patches of snowy-white skin were exposed to the air, further stimulating the nerves of the surrounding thugs.

"Sister! Sister, are you okay!"

A girl with a cute, soft appearance and a tear mole at the corner of her eye cried out as she threw herself onto the girl on the ground.

This was the younger sister, Bai Wei.

And the one on the ground was the older sister, Bai Zhi.

In contrast to the younger sister's weakness and tendency to cry,

Bai Zhi's eyes held a coldness and determination like that of a lone wolf.

Even though blood had been slapped from her mouth, she still protected her sister behind her, tightly clutching a sharpened piece of rusty iron.

"Don't touch my sister!"

"Whoever dares to come over, I'll kill them!"

Bai Zhi gritted her teeth like an angry lioness cub, staring death at the approaching thug.

"Oh? Quite spicy, aren't you?"

The thug licked his lips with a lewd grin, his eyes full of brutality.

"Even if I can't get on that train today, I'm going to taste what twins are like before I die!"

He suddenly reached out with his massive, fan-like hand and grabbed Bai Zhi's half-torn uniform collar, intending to drag her away by force.

*Rip!*

The fabric over Bai Zhi's chest was torn wide open, revealing the edge of her black underwear and a startlingly deep, snowy-white cleavage.

"Ah! Let me go!"

Bai Zhi swung the iron piece desperately, but it was easily snatched away by the thug.

Just at this critical moment,

*Beep!*

Inside the command room of the Black Iron, an extremely rare purple high-energy light suddenly flashed on the tactical radar screen in front of Luo Yao!

"Class Monitor!"

Luo Yao reported excitedly to Lin Xiao outside the train via her headset.

"I've scanned extremely rare high-level energy fluctuations from those twins!"

"It's an A-rank Symbiotic Talent!"

"Talent Name: [Soul Bond]!"

Hearing the words 'A-rank Talent',

Lin Xiao, who was smoking at the front of the train, suddenly narrowed his eyes.

On this wasteland, those who could awaken a C-rank talent were one in a hundred, and B-rank was already at the level of a regional overlord.

A-rank? That was absolutely as rare as phoenix feathers or unicorn horns!

Not to mention it was the rarest type: a symbiotic talent!

"Luo Yao, give me the specific attributes."

Lin Xiao ordered in his mind while locking his gaze onto the pair of sisters struggling in despair below.

"Class Monitor, this talent is insane!"

Luo Yao quickly analyzed the data sent back by the radar, her voice trembling slightly with excitement.

"This is a top-tier combat talent with bi-directional effects!"

"Once bound, fifty percent of all physical and mental damage the older sister receives will be automatically transferred to and borne by the younger sister's body!"

"And in return!"

"As long as the younger sister receives healing in the rear, or consumes recovery potions,"

"the healing amount she receives will be instantly fed back to the older sister on the front line with a 200% critical multiplier!"

Upon hearing this explanation,

Lin Xiao's brain, enhanced by genetic fluids, instantly began operating like a supercomputer.

"The older sister tanks the damage, and the damage is transferred to the younger sister in the back."

"As long as the younger sister is kept alive by chugging the life potions I exchange, or by receiving Shen Man's top-tier healing,"

"that massive amount of healing will be doubled and fed back to the older sister in front..."

Lin Xiao took a deep drag from his cigar, and a cruel, excited grin suddenly curled on his lips.

"What kind of twins are these?"

"They are clearly an 'Absolutely Immortal Berserker' custom-made for me by exploiting a system bug!"

As long as Shen Man, the super healer, was there, this pair of twins would be an undying perpetual motion machine on the battlefield!

They were the perfect candidates for 'Death Soldiers'!

Seeing that the suicidal thug was about to drag away his designated death soldiers,

Lin Xiao's gaze instantly became bone-chillingly cold.

He slightly raised his right hand and made a gesture toward the area below the carriage.

"Xiao Tang."

Lin Xiao's voice wasn't loud, but it carried an unquestionable death sentence.

"Clear the field."

*BOOM!!!*

The moment Lin Xiao finished speaking,

accompanied by a terrifyingly loud roar,

a lithe and sexy figure leapt directly from the roof of the Black Iron, over ten meters high, like a cannonball!

Without needing any mecha assistance,

Zhao Xiaotang, who had already entered the ranks of Level 2 Mutants, relied on her terrifyingly extreme physical strength.

With a heavy *thud*, she smashed down right in front of the local thug.

The hard Gobi ground was forcibly smashed into a two-meter diameter web-like crater by her legs, as if a meteorite had fallen!

Dust flew everywhere.

When the smoke cleared,

Zhao Xiaotang slowly stood up.

Today she was only wearing a tight black sports tank top and camouflage shorts.

Her bronze, wheat-colored skin shimmered with an explosive luster under the sun, and her abdominal lines were deeply etched on her tight waist with every breath.

She was as wild as a leopard and as manic as a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

"You... what kind of monster are you?!"

The 1.9-meter-tall thug looked at this beautiful woman who only reached his chest, but felt as if he were facing an ancient beast.

His legs went weak with fear, and he subconsciously let go of Bai Zhi.

"You dare touch the spoils our Class Monitor has set his eyes on?"

Zhao Xiaotang cracked her neck, producing a series of tooth-aching bone pops.

In her wild, large eyes, there flickered an extreme thirst for slaughter.

"This head of yours, I'll be taking it!"

Before her voice even faded,

Zhao Xiaotang's body instantly pulled into an afterimage that was hard for the naked eye to catch.

Too fast!

The speed of a Level 2 Mutant was something these ordinary refugees, who couldn't even get enough to eat, could never react to.

The thug didn't even have time to scream.

Zhao Xiaotang's small hand, clad in a half-fingered tactical glove, was already like a steel pincer, death-gripping his face.

Then,

under the terrified gazes of hundreds of refugees,

Zhao Xiaotang's terrifying monstrous strength—enough to lift a train rail with one hand—erupted!

*Squelch!*

It was like squeezing a ripe watermelon until it popped.

Without the slightest pause or obstacle,

that massive, scarred head was actually... crushed by Zhao Xiaotang's single hand!

A mixture of red and white filth erupted like a fountain into the sky, splashing all over the ground.

And that headless corpse even swayed in place for a moment before hitting the sand with a *thud*.

Silence.

A deathly silence.

In the entire refugee camp, whether standing or kneeling, everyone was like a duck being squeezed by the neck, unable to make a sound.

Too brutal!

Was this woman who came off the train even human?!

"Ah!!!"

The younger sister, Bai Wei, who was closest, was directly terrified by this bloody scene and screamed, shutting her eyes tight and shaking all over.

As for the older sister, Bai Zhi,

though her face was equally pale, she bit her lip hard and pulled her sister into her arms, her cold eyes staring unblinkingly at the murderous Zhao Xiaotang.

She knew that on this wasteland, power was the only truth.

Just then,

the sound of steady, powerful footsteps came from not far away.

*Tramp, tramp, tramp.*

Lin Xiao, wearing his pitch-black tactical trench coat and with a cigar in his mouth, walked slowly toward the twin sisters like a tyrant inspecting his territory.

Zhao Xiaotang immediately withdrew her violent demeanor and obediently stepped behind Lin Xiao, looking very much like a most loyal hound.

Lin Xiao looked down at this pair of top-tier sisters slumped on the ground.

Even for someone like him, who was used to seeing beauties like Su Qingqian, he had to admit at this moment

that the twins' looks and figures were absolutely at the level of 'kingdom-toppling beauties'.

Especially the contrast of their identical looks but completely different temperaments—one cold and the other soft—held a fatal attraction for any man.

"You... what do you want to do..."

Bai Zhi looked up at this man who held the power of life and death.

Though her body was trembling with fear, her gaze remained like that of a stubborn wolf cub.