47: Small electromagnetic railgun

"Da da da da,"

"Da da da da,"

"Whoosh—"

"Rumble—"

"Whoosh—"

"Rumble rumble—"

Twenty li northwest of the San Dao Town ruins, at the three-way intersection of Er Dao Ridge and Yi Dao Ridge.

Thousands of zombies surged towards the Xinhuo Train like a tide.

The sudden regional timed clear dungeon, although it triggered a super-large zombie horde of over a million, it wasn't solely targeting the Xinhuo Train but was centered around the San Dao Town ruins.

Moreover, trains were fleeing in all directions at this time, causing the zombies to form small clusters.

Ten minutes ago, after killing the fat zombie, Lu Yang, without much effort, broke through the first zombie cluster blockade with the powerful firepower of the Xinhuo Train.

Then, following the predetermined route, he fought and traveled all the way to the three-way intersection of Er Dao Ridge and Yi Dao Ridge.

This was the only way to the Northwest Plain area.

Although all three forks led to the plain, they went to different places.

The left one led to Rulian County, the middle one to the Qinghe City ruins, and the right one to Songyang County.

These three forks initially made no difference to Lu Yang, as he had no fixed destination; he just needed to break out of the super-large zombie horde's encirclement as quickly as possible.

Otherwise, continuing to fight and travel like this, even if the Xinhuo Train had acquired ample resources from the previous Train Assembly, without replenishment, there would inevitably be a moment when they ran out.

After all, in a short period, the Xinhuo Train's resource reserves had already consumed several thousand copper.

Although the overall resource reserves were still above the safety line, the regional timed clear dungeon would last for three days.

No one knew if they would encounter more difficult situations later.

They still had to be frugal with their usage.

So, after carefully observing the zombie situation emerging from each fork at the intersection, Lu Yang ordered Xiao Xin: "Drive towards the Qinghe City ruins; this fork has the fewest zombies and can save a lot of ammunition."

Receiving the Train Captain's command, the Xinhuo Train immediately adjusted its direction and drove into the middle fork.

The middle fork's road standard, built before the disaster, was a Level 1 road, and the road hardening was very well done.

However, after the apocalypse, in a short time, it became overgrown with weeds.

Over a thousand zombies blocking the initial section of the road were cleared by dozens of high-explosive grenades, coupled with the cutting of the Level 5 saw chain train blades, falling like grass, easier to kill than pigs.

After all, pigs would run away, while these zombies just gathered towards the train.

To save some ammunition, the Xinhuo Train moved in an S-shape, maximizing the power of its saw chain train blades, cutting with unbridled pleasure.

Even mutated zombies, which posed a great threat to other trains, were useless against the Xinhuo Train, which was entirely armored with Level 3 train steel.

As for those obviously threatening guys, they were pinpointed and eliminated by the giant Repeating Ballista at the first opportunity.

After a round of clearing, not only were the zombies on the road ahead completely cleared, but the Train Magnet also retrieved a dropped blueprint—[Multi-functional Expansion Platform (Blue)].

[Multi-functional Expansion Platform]

[Quality: Blue]

[Construction Cost: 500 units of Level 1 Iron Mine]

[Construction Effect: Provides additional modularly loadable space for the train.]

From the blueprint demonstration, this thing looked like a one-meter-square iron box, but when expanded, its area could reach tens of square meters.

This platform could be custom-designed.

It could be used for Train Police to fight on, to place Repeating Ballista, or Kuangfeng I Light Machine Guns, etc.—anything that required space.

The characteristic obtained after upgrading to Level 5 was "Rapid Expansion."

When needed, the Multi-functional Expansion Platform could expand in 1 second.

Most conveniently, weapon vehicle accessories installed in the expanded state could be retracted together when the Multi-functional Expansion Platform was retracted, turning into a one-cubic-meter iron box pendant, greatly saving train space.

When expanding, they would expand together, and it would not affect the functionality of the installed weapon vehicle accessories at all, full of black technology.

Lu Yang built a Level 5 [Multi-functional Expansion Platform], and after understanding its functions in detail, he withdrew his gaze from it.

Then, he eagerly clicked on the message prompt from the [Strongest Train Captain System].

"Congratulations, Train Captain, you have completed Level 2 Train Captain Mission Two: Kill 1000 Level 2 zombies. (1075 / 1000) (Completed)"

"Mission reward can be claimed. Would you like to claim it?"

"Claim! !"

Each previous [Strongest Train Captain System] mission reward had brought Lu Yang quite a surprise.

So he was very much looking forward to claiming the mission reward.

As for why Mission Two was only completed now, the reason was quite amusing.

Because most of the zombies in the first wave of the zombie horde were Level 3, killing them did not count towards mission progress.

In the mission calculation, only killing Level 2 zombies of the corresponding level would count towards progress.

That's why Lu Yang had been diligently clearing the Level 2 zombies blocking the road earlier.

After a lot of effort, he finally completed the last task of the Level 2 Train Captain mission.

Before this mission was completed, even if the Xinhuo Train had already been upgraded to Level 3, it would not have been able to refresh the Level 3 Train Conductor mission.

However, after claiming the blueprint reward for Level 2 Train Captain Mission Two, Lu Yang was momentarily preoccupied.

Staring at the blueprint in his hand, he was practically drooling.

[Small Electromagnetic Railgun]

[Quality: Purple]

[Construction Cost: 500 units of Level 2 Iron Mine, 500 units of Level 2 copper.]

[Construction Effect: Can build a Small Electromagnetic Railgun with extremely long range and terrifying penetration. (Long charging time, huge energy consumption, can cause damage to anomalies, current buildable quantity 0 / 2.)]

This was the first time Lu Yang had seen a weapon blueprint with a limited construction quantity.

And the blueprint clearly listed many drawbacks.

Such as long charging time, huge energy consumption, etc.

But its effects were astonishing: extremely long range, terrifying penetration, and ability to cause damage to anomalies.

With these few keywords, the Repeating Ballista on the train instantly went from being a darling to a nuisance.

Lu Yang eagerly built one.

Its overall shape looked somewhat cartoonish.

The rear part was a thick, round electromagnetic accelerator, and the front was a dozen-meter-long barrel.

It was entirely silver with distinct patterns.

A Level 1 Small Electromagnetic Railgun required fifteen minutes to charge, had a range of 30 kilometers, and a projectile muzzle velocity of 7-8 km/s.

It came with an exclusive ammunition box containing 18 strong magnetic shells specifically for the electromagnetic railgun.

According to the blueprint data, it could penetrate three train carriages of the same level head-on.

Note, it was head-on penetration.

This meant that if the Small Electromagnetic Railgun was upgraded to Level 3, any train on the Donglin Plain, if hit head-on from the front of the train, could be torn apart all the way to the third carriage.

Generally speaking, the most important things on a train were in the first few carriages.

If the first three carriages were destroyed, even if the Train Captain of that train miraculously survived, the train would be severely damaged.

It was terrifying to the extreme.