22: Chapter 22 Zhao Yuxin's Vicious Scheme

Watching Chu Qingxue's back as she fled in a panic, Liu Ruyan couldn't help but chuckle.

"Train Master, you really like to bully Qingxue."

Liu Ruyan's curvaceous body rubbed gently against Su Chen, her tone carrying the coquettishness of a mature woman.

"Qingxue is cold on the outside but warm on the inside; if you really want to eat her, you have to be gentle."

"Oh?"

Su Chen lowered his head, looking at the ripe beauty in his arms, a wicked smile curling the corners of his mouth.

"Listening to you, it sounds like you want me to put all my energy into her?"

"That won't do."

Su Chen's large hand unceremoniously kneaded her slender waist, causing Liu Ruyan to let out a soft cry.

"You haven't finished your work as Chief Researcher yet."

...

Just as the front carriages were peaceful, even filled with romantic bubbles.

At the very back of train no. 0099, in that labor carriage filled with the smell of sweat and various debris, a vicious conspiracy was brewing.

The light here was dim, and the air was turbid.

It was piled with all kinds of scrap metal picked up from outside and uncleaned monster remains.

Zhao Yuxin, who was responsible for cleaning toilets and the outer armor, was curled up in a dark corner.

She used to be the vice class monitor of the dance department, a rich kid from a well-off family who was sought after wherever she went.

But now, her hair was greasy and knotted like weeds, and the clothes she wore, once considered brand-name, had turned into rags of indistinguishable color.

Her once pretty face had become sallow and thin due to long-term hunger and heavy labor, and even ugly chilblains had grown on it.

Opposite her, her two former followers—Li Jiaojiao and Wang Li—were huddled together, trembling, looking at her with terrified eyes.

"You two idiots, what are you looking at!"

Zhao Yuxin lowered her voice, glaring at them viciously like a venomous snake.

Her bloodshot eyes burned with chilling jealousy and resentment.

Why?

Why could that hypocritical bitch Chu Qingxue be the Chief Steward, living in a spacious and bright soft sleeper every day, eating fresh mutant vegetables, and even going to the Train Master's master bedroom to take hot showers?!

Why could even that green tea bitch Lin Momo, who only knew how to act cute, gain Su Chen's favor and be named an official flight attendant?!

And she, herself, had to be in this foul-smelling utility carriage, scrubbing the toilets of the lower-class people every day, and if she was a little slow, she would get whipped by that tomboy Zhang Man!

I am not reconciled!

I want to destroy everything!

I want to let that arrogant bastard Su Chen watch helplessly as the train he worked so hard to build is snatched away by others!

Zhao Yuxin took a deep breath, and with trembling hands, reached into her sour-smelling bosom.

Then, she carefully took out a palm-sized, pitch-black metal device.

[Miniature Signal Transmitter].

She had secretly snatched this from the corpse of a sports student who had been strangled while she was cleaning the train's outer armor earlier.

That sports student should have been a communicator under Wang Meng.

Although this thing was small, it could connect to the regional public channel within a short distance and send anonymous coordinates and short text messages.

A crazy, cold smile curled on Zhao Yuxin's sallow lips.

She had already inquired clearly that in this East China Region, besides Su Chen, there were several other large Train Masters with terrifying strength.

As long as she sent the accurate coordinates of train no. 0099, as well as the details that the train possessed a large number of high-level blueprints, and even mutant ecological carriages and four stunning beauties, to the public channel.

She didn't believe those greedy wolves wouldn't be tempted!

"Go to hell, Su Chen."

Zhao Yuxin's fingers trembled as she pressed the power button of the signal transmitter.

A faint blue light lit up on the screen instantly.

"As long as I press this send button, you will all die!"

Zhao Yuxin was shaking with excitement; she could already see the miserable scene of Su Chen being besieged by those powerful Train Masters and finally kneeling on the ground to beg for mercy.

However, just as her finger was about to touch the send button.

"Bang!"

A loud noise shook the entire utility carriage.

The heavy iron door, which had been tightly closed, was kicked open violently from the outside!

"Ah!"

Zhao Yuxin screamed in fear, and the signal transmitter in her hand almost fell to the ground.

She looked up in horror toward the door.

Through the dim light in the corridor.

She saw a few faces that she hated to the bone, yet felt fear from the depths of her soul.

Chu Qingxue, Zhang Man, and Su Xiaoxiao, who was pushing her glasses with a cold sneer on her face.

Behind them followed several girls from the combat team, holding refined steel short blades and looking murderous.

"Zhao Yuxin, you toilet-scrubbing bug, you've got some nerve."

Su Xiaoxiao walked in with a cold sneer.

She held that little notebook in her hand, looking at Zhao Yuxin in the corner with eyes like she was looking at a dead person.

"You actually dared to hide loot behind our backs and even attempted to send the train's coordinates?"

"You... how did you know..."

Zhao Yuxin's face turned pale instantly, her lips trembling violently, unable to even say a complete sentence.

She had clearly done it very secretly; even her two followers didn't know what she had hidden.

"How did we know?"

Su Xiaoxiao curled her lips in disdain.

"Did you think your little movements while cleaning the armor could be hidden from the [Wasteland Monitoring System] personally set up by the Train Master?"

"Not to mention, you've been acting sneaky these past few days; even Xiao Zhang, who is responsible for handing out steamed buns, could tell something was wrong with you."

"With that pig brain of yours, you still want to fight the Train Master?"

Hearing the words "Monitoring System," Zhao Yuxin's psychological defense collapsed instantly.

She knew she was completely finished.

"No... don't..."

Zhao Yuxin was terrified; she slammed the signal transmitter behind her back and turned to run into the depths of the debris pile.

"Still want to run?"

Zhang Man snorted coldly, like a leopard descending a mountain, and rushed over violently.

She grabbed Zhao Yuxin's greasy hair and dragged her back like she was holding a chick.

"Slap!"

A crisp, loud slap sound exploded in the utility carriage.

Zhang Man backhanded a heavy slap, fiercely hitting Zhao Yuxin's sallow face.

This strike was powerful, spinning Zhao Yuxin half a circle on the spot and throwing her heavily to the ground.

A few blood-stained teeth flew out of her mouth, and half of her face instantly swelled up like a pig's head.

Zhang Man was quick-witted and stepped on Zhao Yuxin's wrist, forcing her to let go and snatching the miniature signal transmitter.

"Sister Qingxue, look, it's this thing."

Zhang Man handed the transmitter to Chu Qingxue, who was standing aside with a blank expression.

Chu Qingxue took the transmitter and glanced at the vicious message already edited on it, and a bone-chilling killing intent surged in her cold eyes.

In this doomsday, the train's coordinates and background were the most core secrets.

Once exposed and attracting a siege from those desperate criminals, they would all be doomed!

This vicious woman actually wanted to drag everyone on the train down with her for her own ridiculous jealousy!

"Monitor Qingxue! Sister Man! I was wrong! I was really wrong!"

Zhao Yuxin ignored the sharp pain in her face, scrambled up, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed frantically towards Chu Qingxue and Zhang Man.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Her forehead hit the cold iron floor, making a dull sound, and soon the skin broke and blood flowed.

"I was blinded by greed! Please, for the sake of us being classmates, let me go this one time!"

"I won't dare to do it again! I'm willing to scrub toilets every day, I'm willing to be a beast of burden for the rest of my life!"

Zhao Yuxin begged with tears, her humble and pitiful appearance completely different from the bossy rich-kid style she had in class.

The two former followers in the corner, Li Jiaojiao and Wang Li, were scared out of their wits when they saw this scene.

"Monitor Qingxue! We didn't know anything!"

"It was all Zhao Yuxin's doing! We have nothing to do with her!"

The two scrambled to the corner, desperately trying to distance themselves from Zhao Yuxin, fearing they would be implicated.

Chu Qingxue looked coldly at Zhao Yuxin, who was kneeling and kowtowing frantically, without a hint of pity in her eyes.

Having experienced so much life-and-death fighting, she was no longer the naive girl who would be kidnapped by so-called "classmate feelings."

In the doomsday, mercy to a traitor is a crime against everyone on the train.

"Tie her up."

Chu Qingxue's voice was cold and emotionless, like a high-and-mighty Ice Queen, issuing the judgment order.

"Tie her tight with the thickest steel wire."

"Plug her mouth and bring her to the Train Master's master bedroom."

"This matter must be handled by the Train Master personally."

...

Su Chen sat on the soft leather sofa in the master bedroom.

The faint scent of body wash still lingered on him, and he held a cup of freshly purified warm water, his expression lazy and cold.

Outside the door of the master bedroom, the corridor was densely packed with people.

Dozens of girls on the train, whether from the combat team, logistics team, or reconnaissance and support team, were all urgently summoned.

Everyone's face carried undisguised tension and awe, and the entire corridor was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

And at Su Chen's feet, Zhao Yuxin was tied up with thumb-thick steel wire, thrown on the expensive carpet like a twisted worm.

Her once proud, carefully maintained face was now swollen, and dried blood still hung at the corner of her mouth.

"Wuwuwu..."

Zhao Yuxin's mouth was stuffed with a dirty rag, and she could only make indistinct whimpering sounds.

She looked at Su Chen, who was looking down at her, in horror, tears mixed with snot constantly gushing out, washing out two comical gullies on her dirty face.

"Take the thing out of her mouth."

Su Chen said faintly, his voice not loud, but clearly audible in the quiet master bedroom.

Zhang Man immediately stepped forward and mercilessly yanked the rag out of Zhao Yuxin's mouth, pulling out a few strands of her hair in the process, making her gasp in pain.

"Train Master... Su Chen... Brother Su Chen!"

As soon as her mouth gained freedom, Zhao Yuxin begged desperately as if she had grabbed the last straw.

"I really know I was wrong! I was momentarily confused!"

She struggled desperately, trying to get close to Su Chen's legs, but was stepped on the back by Zhang Man, unable to move.

"Su Chen, we were classmates! Before the apocalypse, I even borrowed your class notes!"

Seeing that the hard approach didn't work, Zhao Yuxin began trying to use past ties for moral kidnapping.

"You can't be so heartless! We attended classes in the same classroom; do you really have the heart to kill me?"

Hearing these words, the girls listening outside the door flashed a hint of disdain in their eyes.

Even the girls who used to suck up to Zhao Yuxin felt she was disgusting.

What time is it now, and she's still bringing up those old things from before the apocalypse?

In this world where even biological brothers might draw knives on each other for half a biscuit, that insignificant classmate friendship was cheaper than toilet paper.

"Classmates?"

Su Chen gently swirled the water cup in his hand, a cold and mocking arc curling on his lips.

He slowly stood up and walked in front of Zhao Yuxin.

In those deep eyes, there was not a trace of temperature, only disgust as if looking at trash.

"Zhao Yuxin, have you stayed in this utility carriage for so long that your brain has also been flushed into the toilet?"

Su Chen looked down at her, his voice like a cold wind from the nine hells.

"I didn't kill you directly because of your repeated provocations before; that was already the greatest mercy I gave you."

"I let you scrub toilets, do hard labor, and provided you with water and leftovers to survive."

"But what about you?"

Su Chen suddenly bent down, pinched Zhao Yuxin's swollen chin, and forced her to look up.

"For your own pathetic jealousy, you actually wanted to send the train's coordinates to those wolves outside who eat people without spitting out the bones!"

"You wanted to drag dozens of women on the train who trust me and follow me to be buried with you!"

Every word of Su Chen was like a heavy hammer, smashing fiercely on Zhao Yuxin's chest, and also on the heart of every girl outside the door.

"No... it's not... I didn't mean to kill everyone, I just wanted to target you..."

Zhao Yuxin was completely terrified by the killing intent in Su Chen's eyes and argued incoherently.

"Target me?"

Su Chen sneered as if he had heard a funny joke.

"Without me, without this train, you people would have long since become the feces of those monsters outside!"

"My train doesn't need trash, let alone a venomous snake that will stab me in the back at any time."

Su Chen threw her hand away and disgustedly took out a wet wipe to wipe his fingers.

"Since you like the outside world so much and think those Train Masters outside are better than me."

"Then I will fulfill your wish."