55: Chapter 55 Upside-Down Corpse Spider

These high-intensity lights, which could normally pierce through several kilometers of thick fog, seemed to be swallowed whole by the surrounding darkness inside this eerie tunnel!

Extending only about ten meters ahead, the light beams grew dim and lackluster, failing to illuminate anything deeper.

For an armored train traveling at over a hundred kilometers per hour, having only ten meters of visibility was no different from being completely blind!

Standing in the control room, Su Xiaoxiao was so frightened that she tightly hugged the account book in her arms, her small face turning pale.

"Train Master... this place is too sinister."

"The light won't even reach out. If there's a large rock blocking the way ahead, won't we just crash and flip over?"

Although Zhang Man had a tough personality, facing such an unknown and oppressive dark environment, she couldn't help but clench her fists, her palms sweating slightly.

"Ling Yi, activate the thermal imaging system and simultaneously start the life detector array."

Su Chen's face was as calm as water as he immediately issued an alternative reconnaissance plan.

He would never allow his train to operate in such a state of 'blind men touching an elephant'.

However, this time, Ling Yi, who was always flawless in her calculations and possessed Silver Supreme-Grade Computing Power, uncharacteristically reported an error!

Ling Yi's perfect virtual holographic projection suddenly began to flicker violently, even emitting a piercing static sound.

"Beep—!"

"Warning! Unknown error detected!"

"Master, there is a Dark Matter Magnetic Field within the tunnel with an intensity exceeding cognitive limits!"

In Ling Yi's originally cold and mechanical voice, a hint of human-like fluctuation and helplessness actually appeared.

"The surrounding environmental temperature is in an absolutely abnormal state. The thermal imaging module has completely failed, showing only chaotic static snow."

"Radar electromagnetic waves are encountering super-strong absorption interference. The life detection range has been forcibly compressed!"

"Current effective early warning radius... only fifty meters remains."

Fifty meters!

As soon as this number was announced, the core female companions in the control room all gasped.

At a speed of over a hundred kilometers per hour, a fifty-meter warning distance meant there wouldn't even be time to pull the emergency brake, let alone fire cannons to intercept!

This Aurora-level danger was indeed no joke.

This was practically forcing all survivors into a dead end!

Just as the women felt a surge of uncontrollable panic and the atmosphere in the carriage dropped to freezing point...

A light laugh, carrying a hint of laziness and confidence, broke the suffocating silence.

Anye stepped out slowly from the shadows behind Su Chen with elegant strides.

As a Demi-human with the S-class [Shadow Stealth] talent, the blood of the night flowed through her bones.

This absolute lightless environment that made ordinary people feel despair was, for her, like returning to a comfortable backyard garden.

In an environment where there was almost no light source...

Anye's heterochromatic eyes—one blue and one yellow—actually emitted a faint, charming green light in the darkness, like a ghost fire!

That light possessed a wild sharpness and an insight that could see through everything.

"Master, those cold machines are unreliable in a place like this."

Anye walked to Su Chen's command chair and naturally leaned her soft, enchanting body against Su Chen's shoulder.

She lowered her head, leaning close to Su Chen's ear, and requested in an extremely seductive voice.

"This darkness is my best home field."

"In my eyes, every trace of shadow and every drop of monster saliva hidden in the corners here is as clear as daylight."

Su Chen turned his head, looking at Anye's cat-like eyes shining in the dark, and a satisfied smile finally curled on his lips.

He reached out his large hand and unceremoniously slapped Anye's incredibly elastic, perky butt, producing a crisp 'smack'.

"I knew raising a little wildcat like you would eventually come in handy."

"Go then, tear open this darkness for me."

"Leave it to me, my greatest Master."

A bloodthirsty smile blossomed on Anye's exquisite face.

Her figure suddenly flashed, and she instantly transformed into a mass of pitch-black mist.

She leaped directly through the vent at the top of the cockpit, landing nimbly on the roof of the high-speed train!

The howling dark wind scraped across the roof's armor like a knife, but Anye remained as motionless as a black statue bolted to the surface.

She held her two high-frequency vibration daggers in a reverse grip, the eerie green light in her pupils flaring up as she stared intently into the pitch-black depths of the tunnel ahead!

The abyss roarer's massive, mountain-like dark gold body was like an enraged beast.

It violently tore through the absolute darkness that seemed to swallow even light, charging forward frantically within the Abyssal Ghost Tunnel.

On the roof.

Anye's graceful and smoking-hot body, like a beautiful statue perfectly integrated with the night, crouched steadily on the cold, hard armor plates.

The fierce wind howled, whipping her long hair which flowed like a black waterfall.

That semi-transparent Optical Stealth Combat Suit clung tightly to her slender waist and breathtakingly perfect curves.

Her looming snow-white skin radiated a fatal temptation in the gloom.

However, at this moment, this Demi-human beauty who would make any man salivate had nothing but pure coldness and killing intent in her blue and yellow eyes.

In her vision, the tunnel that was originally pitch-black was now as clear as day.

This was the source of the Night Vision ability that Su Chen had gained through the feedback of the Monarchs Halo!

This Night Vision, which surpassed the physical limits of carbon-based organisms, could even capture the airflow fluctuations caused by faint breathing in the air.

"Master, two hundred meters directly above you, in the cracks of the tunnel ceiling's rock wall, there are things!"

Anye's slightly raspy and lazy, seductive voice reached Su Chen's ears clearly through the tactical communicator inside his helmet.

"There are many of them, about thirty or so."

"They are about the size of an armored off-road vehicle, and... they are hanging upside down, secreting some kind of disgusting fluorescent green liquid from their mouths."

Sitting in the leather command chair of the main control room, Su Chen heard the report and a cruel sneer curled on his lips.

With one hand, he toyed with Chu Qingxue's soft and boneless white hand, while with the other, he unhesitatingly pressed a red button on the console before him.

"Ling Yi, switch to manual fire control mode."

"Since these little bugs like to hang upside down, I'll personally send them to hell."

Meanwhile.

Inside the Fully Automated Military Industrial Factory at the rear of the train, which was filled with the smell of engine oil and the clanging of metal...

The genius mechanical girl, Ye Qingyu, was wearing a pair of work overalls stained with a few black oil spots.

Her white and delicate little face was flushed with excitement, and she had a lollipop in her mouth.

"Train Master, I've finished taking over the left Twin Vulcan Machine Gun Turret!"

Ye Qingyu's hands moved like butterflies through flowers, tapping rapidly on the complex control keyboard.

"This genius's specially made Blazing Armor-Piercing Incendiary Rounds have been loaded. I'm just waiting for that big-chested Demi-human sister to report the targets!"

Although Ye Qingyu usually acted like a 'lone wolf' out of pride...

When it came to a real fight with real weapons, she was more fanatical than anyone.

After all, being able to personally control the war machines she built to slaughter those ugly mutated monsters—this ultimate violent aesthetic of machinery—made her feel more of a rush than anything else!

"Little wildcat, report the coordinates."

Su Chen's voice was low and domineering, filled with irresistible authority.

"Yes, my supreme Master."

Anye, on the roof, excitedly licked her red lips, her long furry tail snapping straight in the air.

"Twelve o'clock direction, elevation seventy-five degrees, distance one hundred and fifty meters."

"Fire!"

The instant Anye's voice fell.

The two Twin Vulcan Machine Gun Turrets hidden beneath the armor on the abyss roarer's roof suddenly rose from their concealed compartments!

"Buzz, buzz, buzz—!"

Driven by electric motors, the multi-barreled machine guns began to rotate at high speed, emitting a terrifying, teeth-gritting grinding sound.

The next second.

Two meters-long tongues of blazing fire, like two rampaging fire dragons, directly tore through the dead silence of the darkness, licking fiercely toward the void of the dark rock wall above the tunnel!

"Da da da da da!!!"

The deafening gunfire instantly echoed within the enclosed tunnel. The massive recoil even caused the armored train, weighing hundreds of tons, to tremble slightly.

In this ghost tunnel that relied heavily on abilities and intuition, while technology-based radar and thermal imaging had become useless ornaments...

Under the guidance of Anye's cat-like eyes, which were like a full-map vision hack, this was simply a one-sided, pinpoint slaughter!

"Hiss—!"

As the bullets poured out frantically, an extremely sharp, shrill, and scalp-numbing insect scream immediately came from the top of the tunnel!

Those monsters, who had thought they were perfectly hidden and were preparing to launch a fatal ambush as the train passed, finally revealed their ugly and hideous true forms under the storm-like firepower.

They were a group of Bronze Supreme-Grade monsters terrifyingly strengthened by the Scarlet Blood Moon—Blood Moon · Hanging Corpse Spiders!

These mutated venomous spiders were shockingly large, each possessing eight long legs that looked like they were forged from steel and covered in barbs.

Their originally grayish-white abdomens had now turned a nauseating dark red under the radiation of the blood moon, covered with eerie patterns that looked like twisted human faces.

Most terrifying was the fluorescent green venom constantly dripping from their fangs.

Once it touched a living person's skin, it would not only instantly corrode flesh but also produce an extremely strong hallucinogenic effect.

It would make a person watch themselves being eaten bit by bit by these beasts in endless nightmares and fear!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

However.

In the face of the dense, overlapping fire net from Su Chen and Ye Qingyu, these Bronze Supreme-Grade monsters didn't even have time to spray a single drop of venom.

Ye Qingyu's specially made Blazing Armor-Piercing Incendiary Rounds possessed terrifying muzzle velocity and penetration power.

The bullets easily shredded the hard carapaces the corpse spiders were so proud of, then bored deep into their bloated dark red abdomens!

Immediately after, the high-explosive charges and napalm inside the warheads were instantly detonated!

"Boom!"

Massive fireballs exploded one after another at the top of the tunnel, like a grand and bloody fireworks display set off in this dark hell.