54: Chapter 54 Global Cataclysm Escalates: Crimson Blood Moon!

Nights in the wasteland were always short and filled with oppression.

The next morning, Su Chen slowly woke up on a large, soft leather bed.

Chu Qingxue and Liu Ruyan were still sound asleep beside him.

Su Chen was just about to get up for a hot shower.

Suddenly.

A piercing alarm, so sharp it made souls tremble, blared across the sky of the entire wasteland without warning!

The sound was no longer the cold, mechanical broadcast the Heavenly Dao System usually used.

Instead, it carried a hair-raising, eerie vibrato, as if one's throat were being squeezed by countless vengeful ghosts!

[Highest Level Global Warning!!!]

[The transitional novice phase of the Wasteland Survival Game has officially ended!]

[Global Cataclysm Event: Scarlet Blood Moon! Officially commenced!]

These three blood-soaked words slammed into the hearts of every survivor like a heavy hammer.

Su Chen frowned and threw off the covers. Without even bothering to dress, he strode directly to the explosion-proof window of the master bedroom.

He looked through the glass at the sky outside.

In the east, where a dim morning sun should have been rising.

The horizon was now completely swallowed by a scarlet light so thick it seemed ready to drip blood!

The sun in the sky looked as if it had been crushed by a giant demonic claw, transforming into a terrifying blood moon emitting an eerie red glow.

The entire wasteland was instantly shrouded in this incredibly oppressive red light.

[Affected by the radiation of the Scarlet Blood Moon, temperatures in all wasteland regions will plummet to minus thirty degrees within three hours!]

[All mutated creatures in the wild will enter a state of endless berserk rage!]

[Monsters will undergo irreversible secondary mutations, and their attributes will be significantly increased!]

[Warning! Among a tiny fraction of mutated monsters, Commander-level Overlords with human-level high intelligence will be born!]

[They will organize monster tides to launch indiscriminate attacks on the trains of all survivors!]

[Dear lost Train Masters, enjoy this crimson feast to your heart's content and strive to survive!]

The eerie vibrato gradually faded from his mind.

Chu Qingxue and Liu Ruyan were also startled awake by the terrifying alarm, running to Su Chen's side in their thin nightgowns.

“Train Master, what... what is this?”

Chu Qingxue looked at the blood-colored world outside that seemed like the end of days, her cold voice trembling for the first time.

Liu Ruyan instinctively hugged Su Chen's strong arm tightly.

Even inside the absolutely safe Level 2 train, the oncoming aura of evil still felt suffocating.

Su Chen squinted, looking into the blood-colored mist in the distance.

The low-level Ghouls that had been wandering aimlessly now tilted their heads back, letting out bursts of shrill, piercing howls toward the blood moon.

Their bodies expanded at a visible rate under the red light.

Hard black scales grew on their originally grayish-white skin, and bone spikes pierced through their backs.

From the distant deep mountains and old forests, several terrifying beast roars echoed, powerful enough to shatter the clouds.

Those were definitely not sounds that Bronze or Silver-rank monsters could produce.

The sun in the sky seemed to have been forcibly crushed by an invisible ancient demonic claw.

In its place was a massive Scarlet Blood Moon emitting an eerie, ominous light.

The entire wasteland was instantly and completely shrouded in this incredibly oppressive and maddening red light.

Inside the spacious and luxurious master bedroom of the abyss roarer.

Even with the top-tier constant temperature air conditioning system running at full power, a faint, eerie chill could still be felt in the air.

Su Chen stood quietly before the explosion-proof window, his lean upper body bare, revealing explosive muscles as perfect as a Greek sculpture.

He held a glass of purified water with ice cubes, his brow slightly furrowed, his deep eyes reflecting the churning blood-colored mist outside.

The temperature was plummeting at an abnormal and frantic speed.

A thin layer of dark red frost had even begun to condense on the edges of the explosion-proof glass.

“Train Master, the weather outside is so terrifying...”

The mature and sophisticated Liu Ruyan, wearing a semi-transparent black lace nightgown, climbed out of the large leather bed.

She walked behind Su Chen on her snowy-white bare feet.

Chu Qingxue also walked over, wrapped in a thin velvet blanket.

She handed a glass of freshly heated mutated tomato juice to Su Chen, her eyes showing a rare trace of worry.

“Listen to the wind outside; the roars of those monsters are completely different from before.”

Chu Qingxue's voice was crisp and pleasant, but it carried a hint of gravity now.

Su Chen took a sip of the tomato juice and shook his head with a cold laugh.

The monster roars coming from the mist had indeed become more shrill, more terrifying, and even carried a hair-raising sense of rhythm.

It was as if a massive army from hell was gathering, singing a battle song before the charge.

Just then, an eerie ripple like water waves appeared in the shadows of the corner of the master bedroom.

Following that, a graceful and seductive perfect body emerged silently from the darkness.

It was Anye, the Orc Assassin who had been reconstructed through Su Chen's Omni-Modification and was completely loyal to him.

Anye wore that extremely tight-fitting semi-transparent Optical Stealth Combat Suit, which perfectly outlined her slender waist full of wild explosive power and her proud bust.

The pair of furry black cat ears atop her head twitched sensitively, and the long tail behind her was pulled taut due to tension.

“Master, the aura of the monsters outside has completely changed.”

Anye knelt on one knee at Su Chen's feet, her heterochromatic eyes—one blue and one yellow—flashing with a serious light.

She tilted her head up and reported respectfully, her voice carrying a unique rasp and allure.

“I just used my Shadow Talent to conduct a quick reconnaissance within a ten-kilometer radius of the train.”

“Affected by the radiation of this blood moon, those low-level Ghouls that originally had no intelligence and only bit by instinct have undergone a terrifying secondary mutation.”

“Their body size has doubled, and hard bone spikes and scales have grown on their skin.”

“Most importantly, I saw with my own eyes that they have actually begun to understand how to form ranks!”

Anye swallowed hard, seemingly still finding the images she had just seen unbelievable.

“Dozens of Ghouls, under the command of several giant elite monsters, formed a tight encirclement.”

“They even know how to look for sharp steel bars and heavy iron blocks in the ruins to use as simple weapons!”

Hearing this intelligence, both Liu Ruyan and Chu Qingxue couldn't help but gasp.

Not only had the monsters' attributes doubled, but they now possessed intelligence and tactical coordination?

For the ordinary survivors on the wasteland who could barely even solve the problem of food and clothing, this was simply a catastrophe!

“They know how to use tools and form ranks?”

Instead of showing any fear, the cold smile on Su Chen's lips widened.

“It seems the Heavenly Dao System thinks the previous elimination rate was too low and is preparing to turn on the meat grinder mode.”

“However, for us, the smarter and stronger the monsters are, the more high-level cores and rare blueprints they will drop.”

Su Chen casually rubbed Anye's silky cat ears and announced with peerless dominance.

“In the face of my absolute firepower and Omni-Modification, any fancy tactics are nothing more than delivering takeout to my train.”

However, just as Su Chen finished speaking.

The global announcement from the Heavenly Dao System, with its eerie vibrato, exploded in everyone's minds once again!

[Global Cataclysm Event: Scarlet Blood Moon has been fully activated!]

[Irreversible distortion of the Earth's magnetic field detected; all surface rail networks have been destroyed or reorganized!]

[Forced route change initiated!]

[The tracks ahead have undergone a forced switch; all surviving trains will be unconditionally led into a new dungeon area: Abyssal Ghost Tunnel!]

[The tunnel is three hundred kilometers long and is a completely enclosed lightless environment.]

[Danger Rating: Extreme Light (Certain Death)!]

[Warning: Magnetic field anomalies exist within the tunnel, featuring supernatural occurrences and sudden crises. Train Masters, please hold your weapons tightly and do not let the darkness consume your sanity.]

Accompanying this announcement, which sounded like a death sentence.

The wasteland earth in front of the abyss roarer suddenly began to tremble violently.

The rusty tracks that originally led straight to the distant plains actually twisted their direction like a living iron python.

Ahead of the tracks was originally a range of towering, continuous black extinct volcanoes.

Now, at the base of the mountain range, a bottomless, massive gap slowly cracked open.

That gap was like the bloody maw of an ancient giant beast, greedily waiting for all prey to throw themselves into the net.

“Woo————!!!”

Under the forced rules of the Heavenly Dao System, even Su Chen could not stop the train's progress.

The abyss roarer sounded its violent steam whistle, letting out a massive roar.

The wheels sparked blindingly against the tracks as it moved uncontrollably toward that terrifying tunnel entrance.

When the train's massive dark-gold locomotive completely crossed the line between light and shadow at the tunnel entrance.

All the scarlet blood-light was instantly cut off outside.

Inside the tunnel was absolute darkness, in the truest sense of being unable to see one's own hand in front of one's face!

That darkness seemed to have a physical weight, pressing down hard on everyone's hearts.

The air was filled with a bone-chilling cold, and the temperature dropped below freezing in an instant.

At the same time, a stench of rot so strong it was nauseating drifted into the carriages through the ventilation system.

That smell was as if tens of thousands of corpses had been piled in a sealed sewer to ferment for hundreds of years.

“Ling Yi, turn on all external high-intensity searchlights.”

Su Chen quickly threw on his black tactical trench coat and strode into the train's main control room.

“As you command, Master.”

The virtual projection of the AI mature beauty, Ling Yi, appeared in mid-air and immediately executed the command.

“Swish! Swish! Swish!”

Several military-grade halogen searchlights with incredible power on the locomotive and sides instantly lit up.

However, an incredibly hair-raising scene occurred.