113: Clearing Youshan County

Lu Yang accepted Xiao Xin's plan.

After simple modifications, dozens of heavy-duty yunfeng drones, each carrying a Harvester Individual Grenade Launcher, quickly took off from the Xinhuo Train.

Each of these heavy-duty yunfeng drones had three Harvester Individual Grenade Launchers fixed to its underside with iron frames, and they used extra-large magazines with a 14-round capacity.

Upon reaching the airspace above Jinmao Tower, they aimed at the target area and first launched three rounds of Explosive Flame Bullet.

Blazing flames instantly enveloped the entire Jinmao Tower area, and the rolling heat waves were comparable to a fire scene in the hottest days of summer.

However, the burning effect of the Explosive Flame Bullet was not as good as expected.

As a thick, greasy, unidentifiable yellowish-brown oil secreted from the flesh walls, the burning flames quickly extinguished as if they were water without a source, losing their fuel support.

Only a charred, foul, and dirty residue remained, gradually being replaced by a new keratin layer.

Lu Yang watched the images transmitted by the reconnaissance drone with a poker face and ordered: "The PLZ Vehicle-Mounted Self-Propelled Howitzer will continue to shell the Flesh Mountain. The Harvester Individual Grenade Launchers mounted on the drones will fire a round every 10 seconds, targeting those fleshy tumors that resemble water tanks."

On the energy flow monitoring screen on the other side, with the continuous assault of the Xinhuo Train,

it was clear to see that the energy transmission from beneath the Jinmao Tower was intensifying.

Lu Yang narrowed his eyes, consciously manipulating Xiao Xin to aim the PLZ Vehicle-Mounted Self-Propelled Howitzer at the Flesh Mountain and unleash a rapid volley.

The ensuing explosions directly obliterated the dozens-of-meters-high Flesh Mountain, turning it into a barren white expanse.

And under the continuous scorching of the Explosive Flame Bullet, below the Jinmao Tower, many flesh tanks finally couldn't withstand it and were completely ignited.

The thick, greasy oil that was originally used to extinguish fires became an excellent accelerant.

Once ignited, it spread rapidly, igniting all the Flesh Mountains in the entire area around the Jinmao Tower, and the blazing flames transformed into new fiery peaks enveloping the Flesh Mountain.

In an instant, the entire Youshan County Town was filled with a charred, meaty aroma.

This drew countless survivors out of their hiding places, wanting to enter the Flesh Mountain.

But then an invisible shriek enveloped the entire Youshan County Town.

When the invisible shriek appeared, the psionic shield on the Xinhuo Train vibrated violently, and its energy reserves dropped by 39% in the blink of an eye.

Lu Yang could perceive the emotion conveyed by that invisible shriek—pain, so much pain!!!

The place with the most intense energy fluctuations was also beneath the Jinmao Tower.

Under the influence of the invisible shriek, those survivors who had just emerged from their hiding places and hadn't taken many steps fell straight down, their eyes rolled back, appearing as if their brains had been severely stimulated and couldn't bear it.

Lu Yang ignored them and instead had the heavy-duty yunfeng drones drop another batch of enhanced Explosive Flame Bullet, making the fire at Jinmao Tower burn even fiercer.

This fire burned for a full day and night.

Before gradually extinguishing.

The original Flesh Mountain was burned to ashes, leaving behind only grayish-white crystals resembling rock candy.

They looked unremarkable but emitted a nauseatingly sweet smell.

During this time, Lu Yang had already driven the Xinhuo Train around to the eastern district of Youshan County Town, where the Evil Puppet Humanoids were most active.

"Respected Train Captain, the main body of the Evil Puppet Humanoid has been detected. Should bait be deployed to lure it to the designated area?"

The so-called bait consisted of some survivors the Xinhuo Train encountered after entering Youshan County Town.

There were over a hundred of them.

All of them had actively sought out the massive Xinhuo Train after seeing it.

Lu Yang did not immediately allow them on board but arranged a temporary resettlement site.

Having struggled to survive for so long in an environment like Youshan County Town, Lu Yang couldn't be sure of their current composition.

Some people looked like humans, but their hearts were more like ghosts than actual anomalies.

Lu Yang had detected several instances of cannibalism using reconnaissance drones.

Some individuals even routinely used human leg bones, after being stripped clean, as back-scratching tools.

So, after discovering them, Lu Yang only distributed a few pieces of coarse bread and a bottle of water to each person.

Then he immediately sent people to lead them to the temporary resettlement site to rest, and dispatched reconnaissance drones to monitor their actions in real-time.

For those who attempted to snatch others' food, Lu Yang did not send anyone to stop them, but merely recorded it.

Then, based on each person's behavior, an internal assessment was conducted.

Lu Yang had informed them in advance at the resettlement site about the possibility of using them as bait to capture anomalies.

And promised there would be no casualties.

With a Level 6 Main Guardian Statue, Lu Yang now eagerly awaited the main body of the Evil Puppet Humanoid to come, so he could suppress it once and for all.

But he didn't expect this to cause quite a commotion among the survivors.

Some even tried to incite other survivors to cause trouble on the spot, and their legs were directly broken by fully armed Train Police Officers and thrown out.

Of course, Lu Yang also did not stop those who wished to leave.

If they were unwilling to undertake the bait mission, they could leave the temporary resettlement site on their own.

Many chose to leave, with less than thirty people ultimately willing to trust the Xinhuo Train and cooperate with the bait operation.

To create a commotion, Lu Yang sent people to move an LCD TV from the Xinhuo Train and played a doomsday redemption movie for everyone.

Although many had no interest in watching the movie, with fully armed Train Police Officers guarding them and the Xinhuo Train parked nearby, many gradually relaxed.

Then, they heard the neat footsteps from the street corner, like an army forming ranks.

Leading the way was a tall figure riding a mud horse. Behind it followed orderly teams, ten people in a row, ten people in a column.

Every hundred people formed a phalanx.

There were six phalanxes in total, front and back.

All of them were anomalies.

However, only the main body of the Evil Puppet Humanoid was Level 3; there were quite a few Level 2 ones, about one-tenth, which were Evil Puppet Humanoid remains.

The rest were all Level 1 anomalies, the Transformed Mud Puppets.

There was a faint gray line linking all the mud puppets to the main body of the Evil Puppet Humanoid.

At this moment, numerous mud puppet anomalies gathered together, like an ancient battle formation.

Even more terrifying, above the numerous mud puppet army, there was a gigantic anomalous black shadow somewhat similar to the main body of the Evil Puppet Humanoid.

It was dozens of meters tall.

Wielding a black halberd.

As if it were the true main body of the Evil Puppet Humanoid.

Then, in the next second, it was captured by the Main Guardian Statue placed in the center of the temporary resettlement site.

It was trampled underfoot by the Main Guardian Statue and sixteen small Guardian Statue clones that flew out from the Xinhuo Train.

It received the same treatment that the Level 4 anomaly Wu Mazi had once experienced.

There was no room for struggle whatsoever.

And after the main body of the Evil Puppet Humanoid and its army avatar were captured and suppressed by the Main Guardian Statue, the remaining Evil Puppet Humanoid remains and Transformed Mud Puppets suddenly became like true clay sculptures.

Standing motionless in place.

After a while, the main body of the Evil Puppet Humanoid clay sculpture was completely crushed by the numerous Guardian Statues.

The remaining Evil Puppet Humanoid remains and Transformed Mud Puppets suddenly began to move again.

However, less than a second after they started moving, one Transformed Mud Puppet after another suddenly disappeared from their original formation.

Finally, only 60 Evil Puppet Humanoid remains were left, subjected to a Cinnabar Bullets baptism by the Kuangfeng I Light Machine Guns already placed around them.

Some Evil Puppet Humanoid remains tried to escape, but just as they were about to flee to the side, they were captured and suppressed by a small Guardian Statue clone.

Then, several Train Police Officers would quickly rush over and stab them full of holes with cold weapons, long spears coated with peace talisman ash.

They died even faster than the Evil Puppet Humanoid remains receiving the Cinnabar Bullets baptism.

After about a quarter of an hour of this.

The entire Evil Puppet Humanoid legion was completely cleared out.

Meanwhile, at the temporary resettlement site, the survivors who witnessed all of this suddenly and silently shed tears.

They had never imagined that one day, someone would truly be able to rescue them from this urban cage filled with the shadow of death.

After clearing out the Evil Puppet Humanoid legion.

The next task was very simple.

Lu Yang opened a dynamic sound system in the center of Youshan County Town, one kilometer away from Jinmao Tower.

Broadcasting recruitment announcements in a loop.

Recruiting survivors who had not committed evil deeds and were willing to follow the Xinhuo Train to leave, to mine at the Level 3 Copper Ore Collection Point and the Level 3 Copper Ore Collection Point.

During work, each person would receive three pieces of coarse bread and a bottle of drinking water per meal, two meals a day.

Within just a few hours, most of the willing survivors were attracted.