56: Chapter 56 The Ghost Train of the Past

Under this saturated fire bombardment, over thirty massive [Blood Moon · Hanging Corpse Spiders] were directly blown into a sky full of flying minced meat and burning severed limbs.

Before that nauseating green venom could even land on the train's armor, it was completely evaporated into harmless blue smoke by the high temperatures.

"Awesome!"

Ye Qingyu's excited cheer, sounding almost like her voice was breaking, came through the communicator.

"Train Master, Big-Breasted Sister's eyes are ten thousand times more useful than our academy's most advanced quantum radar!"

"That burst of strafing just now felt even better than drinking three bottles of chilled 'Fat House Happy Water'!"

Dark Night, hearing this praise from the roof, twitched her black cat ears smugly, but her tone remained one of absolute fanaticism toward Su Chen.

"This is all power bestowed upon me by my Master."

"Any filthy bugs attempting to harm Master in the darkness will be nailed to a pillar of shame by my gaze in advance!"

And so, inside this peril-filled Abyssal Ghost Tunnel, known as the 'Ten Deaths, No Life' zone...

The [abyss roarer] was like an overlord taking a leisurely stroll in his own backyard.

With Dark Night's precise early warnings—which were like having a map hack—and Su Chen's violent, unsolvable absolute firepower...

All sorts of disgusting monsters hiding in visual blind spots, attempting to launch sneak attacks, were ruthlessly torn into minced meat before they could even get within a hundred meters of the train.

The journey was safe and sound along the way.

Meanwhile, inside the master bedroom...

The two great beauties, Chu Qingxue and Liu Ruyan, were snuggling close to Su Chen's sides.

Liu Ruyan's long, straight, sultry legs, clad in black silk stockings, were resting wantonly across Su Chen's lap.

With her delicate hands, nails painted red, she peeled a mutated grape just harvested from the ecological carriage for Su Chen while complaining coquettishly.

"Train Master, the smell in this tunnel is truly awful; even the air conditioner's filtration system can't block that stench of rotting corpses."

"Once we get out of this hellhole, you have to reward me with a nice hot bath. I want to be in that big bathtub, in your favorite position..."

Liu Ruyan's soul-hooking peach blossom eyes shimmered, hinting suggestively with a sultry gaze.

Su Chen chuckled and was just about to give this vixen's slender waist a squeeze...

Suddenly...

The [abyss roarer]'s massive, heavy body actually shuddered violently without any warning!

This wasn't because it had run over a rock or a monster's corpse.

Rather, it was a terrifying tremor as if the surrounding space and magnetic field themselves had undergone a bizarre distortion!

At the same time...

The warm-toned lights inside the carriage began to flicker and flash wildly.

"Zzzzt... Zzzzt..."

While everyone was still in a state of shock and uncertainty...

The train had already traveled a full hundred kilometers deep into the ghost tunnel.

On the dark, silent tracks ahead, which had been completely devoid of light...

Suddenly!

An extremely eerie, hair-raising, pale green ghostly light flared up without warning!

That wasn't light emitted by any technological lighting equipment.

It was like the cold ghost fires rising from endless mass graves, fueled by countless bones of those who died with grievances!

"What the hell is that?"

The usually audacious Zhang Man was currently standing before the explosion-proof glass of the second-floor panoramic living area, gripping a high-frequency oscillating bone blade.

But when she saw that rapidly approaching green ghostly light, a trace of shock and unmaskable horror appeared on her wild little face.

Along with the appearance of that green ghostly light...

An extremely shrill wail, seemingly capable of piercing a living soul, followed the bone-chilling draft of the tunnel and reached everyone's ears clearly.

The sound was a mixture of men's desperate screams, women's sharp sobbing, and even the ear-piercing cries of infants!

In this claustrophobic and oppressive space, this sound was more mentally taxing than the roar of a hundred Silver-rank mutant beasts.

Then...

Under everyone's incredulous gazes...

A behemoth slowly emerged from the green ghostly light!

It was a dilapidated old train covered in dark red rust, its design looking centuries more primitive than even the oldest steam trains of the old era!

This train made no sound of friction from its wheels, nor did it have the roar of a steam boiler.

It was like a weightless ghost.

Its entire body was enveloped in a layer of blazing green ghost fire.

Every broken window was packed with distorted, pale ghost faces wailing in agony!

What made it even more desperate...

Was that this eerie green ghost train was currently traveling on the exact same single track as the [abyss roarer].

And it was charging head-on toward Su Chen's train at a terrifying speed that completely defied the laws of physics!

"Train Master! Watch out!"

On the roof, Dark Night, who had been responsible for early warnings, showed such a solemn expression on her beautiful face for the first time.

Her heterochromatic eyes—one blue, one yellow—stared fixedly at the ghost train as she shouted urgently.

"My eyes can't see through it! It has no physical life aura at all; it's a mass of pure death energy!"

Su Chen's deep eyes narrowed sharply, and his originally lazy posture instantly became as oppressive as a leopard about to pounce on its prey.

He pushed away the two women in his arms, strode to the control console, and gripped the brake lever tightly with both hands.

"Ling Yi, perform an emergency scan and analysis immediately!"

"What the hell is this thing?!"

The virtual projection of the AI lady Ling Yi flickered more violently at this moment than ever before.

On that originally flawless, cold mechanical face, a string of red danger warning codes actually flashed for the first time.

"Beep—!"

"Warning! Highest-level paranormal warning!"

Ling Yi's piercing voice, carrying a strong sense of anthropomorphic fear, boomed throughout the control room.

"Encountered an unspeakable special spiritual vehicle: [Old Days Ghost Train]!"

"This train is a super mutant formed from the mixed resentment of countless survivors who died tragically in the abyss tunnels and Blood Moon radiation!"

"Danger! Extreme danger!"

"This ghost train is completely immune to any form of physical collision or conventional technological thermal weaponry!"

"System judgment: Our [Gale Abatis Armor] cannot provide any substantial obstruction against it!"

"Once it penetrates the hull..."

Ling Yi's voice paused, her virtual eyes filled with a desperate turbulence of data.

"It will directly drain the life force and souls of all living beings inside the train, turning them into new ghost faces in its carriages!"

The freezing wind inside the [Abyssal Ghost Tunnel], enough to freeze bone marrow, howled wildly.

At this moment...

Even the [abyss roarer]'s thick and sturdy Dark Iron-grade armor could not block this soul-piercing chill.

On the tracks ahead...

That [Old Days Ghost Train], enveloped in pale green ghost fire, was hurtling toward them at a terrifying speed that defied all physical laws!

The piercing, shrill ghost wails, a mixture of the desperate cries of countless men, women, old and young before their deaths...

Were like thousands of rusty steel needles stabbing into everyone's eardrums and central nervous systems.

What made it even more hair-raising...

Was that as the distance closed...

Through the shattered windows of the ghost train...

Everyone could even clearly see those pale ghost faces squeezed and distorted inside the carriages.

They were staring with eyes full of malice, greed, and an extreme thirst for fresh life.

Staring fixedly at every person inside train no. 0099!

That gaze was like a stray dog that hadn't eaten for weeks suddenly seeing a piece of fresh, dripping fatty meat.

"You ghost-playing thing! Get lost for this Head Manager!"

Inside the main control room...

As the train's internal affairs Head Manager and also the Combat Team's sub-DPS, Chu Qingxue...

Her cold and beautiful face was now filled with unprecedented solemnity and fury.

This dance department campus belle, usually as proud as an iceberg snow lotus, would never allow any monster to defile her beloved home.

What's more, in this home, there was that domineering man who had made her completely fall and lose her heart.

"S-rank Talent — [Extreme Cold Frost]!"

Chu Qingxue gave a delicate shout, and her originally clear black-and-white eyes instantly turned into a pure ice blue.

She pushed her hands forward violently, and the bone-chilling energy element within her surged out like a volcanic eruption!

"Crack, crack, crack!"

Accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of ice freezing...

In front of the [abyss roarer]'s massive and violent locomotive...

A massive transparent ice shield, three meters thick and over ten meters wide and long, formed instantly in just half a second!

This ice shield was not only indestructible, but its surface even shimmered with extreme cold air capable of freezing the soul.

Even if a heavy truck loaded with explosives hit it at two hundred kilometers per hour, this ice shield could instantly freeze it into a pile of cold scrap metal!

However...

A scene occurred that was so desperate it even made one's breath hitch!

"Woo————!!!"

The pale green ghost train let out a mocking, shrill whistle.

It didn't show even the slightest sign of slowing down.

Even the ring of burning green ghost fire around its front didn't produce a single ripple.

Just like that, in a bizarre manner that completely ignored any laws of physical collision...

It directly and without any obstruction passed through the massive ice shield Chu Qingxue had condensed!

"This... how is this possible?!"

Chu Qingxue's ice-blue eyes shrank suddenly, and her beautiful face instantly turned deathly pale.

The S-rank elemental defense she was so proud of hadn't even managed to delay the opponent for 0.1 seconds!

Physical defense was useless!

Elemental defense was also directly bypassed!

What kind of completely unreasonable monster is this?!