74: Chapter 74 Northern Military Region - Long Chen

"So you're Su Chen, the Master of train no. 0099? The one being hyped up in the regional channel like some god for forcing your way through the Bridge of Sighs?"

Long Chen tilted his arrogant chin slightly. Without even a basic greeting, he spoke with the forceful tone of a superior giving orders to a subordinate.

"Your train's defense is barely passable, but in the face of our military district's systematic iron torrent, it's nothing more than a slightly larger tin beetle."

"Now, I am formally notifying you in my capacity as the Supreme Commander of the Northern Military District."

"This plain area leading to the Scarlet Fortress has been fully taken over by our military district and designated as a Level 1 Military Forbidden Zone."

Long Chen gently swirled the red wine in his goblet. His gaze seemed to pierce through the screen, locking directly onto the Blood Clan Duchess, Serena, who was standing tensely behind Su Chen.

"Open your doors immediately and hand over that female vampire NPC in the black lace dress on your train."

"Our military's Research Department has confirmed that she carries an ancient, dangerous technological potion that poses a severe threat to the safety of human survivors and could alter the regional power balance."

At this point, the corner of Long Chen's mouth curled into a cold smile that he considered tolerant and full of charity.

"Seeing as it hasn't been easy for you to flee all this way, as long as you obediently cooperate and hand over the target NPC..."

"As compensation, I can show mercy and make an exception to incorporate you and your train into our ranks."

"With your meager strength, under my command, I can let you serve as a battalion commander in the Vanguard Regiment. From then on, you'll have the protection of the regular army and will never have to live in fear like a stray dog on this wasteland again."

"This is the greatest blessing you'll ever encounter in your life. Why aren't you kneeling to show your gratitude?"

Listening to Long Chen's sanctimonious, high-and-mighty, and frankly brain-dead charitable remarks...

The entire main control room of the abyss roarer fell into a very eerie silence.

Su Xiaoxiao pushed up her black-rimmed glasses, looking at Long Chen as if she were looking at a world-class idiot who had just escaped from a mental asylum.

Liu Ruyan couldn't help but cover her mouth and giggle, her proud, full peaks trembling with her laughter.

"Oh my god, Train Master, is this little Young Marshal brother in the costume a clown sent by the heavens? He actually wants you to be a battalion commander charging at the front for him?"

Liu Ruyan's mocking and charming voice was transmitted without reservation through the communication microphone to the command room on the other side.

The Blood Clan Duchess Serena, who had been standing behind Su Chen, also had a flash of bewilderment and disdain in her dark red eyes.

Though she was proud, she was someone who had personally experienced Su Chen's terrifying, kingly pressure—like that of an ancient demon god.

This boastful human warlord wasn't even fit to carry Su Chen's shoes, yet he dared to so arrogantly threaten this absolute overlord?

Su Chen didn't get angry immediately. He even quite leisurely pulled a premium cigar from the old era out of his pocket and lit it.

There wasn't a ripple of irritation in his deep eyes; instead, there was only a coldness and violence as if he were looking at a dead man.

He slowly exhaled a thick cloud of blue-green smoke. Across the holographic screen, as if looking at a death-seeking jumping clown, he let out a laugh of extreme anger.

"Incorporate me? Make me your battalion commander?"

"How many years has it been since the Qing Dynasty fell? You, a petty warlord, are still here playing role-play?"

Su Chen flicked the ash from his cigar. His low and supremely domineering voice was like a resounding slap, striking Long Chen hard in the face.

"Just because of those piles of scrap metal you have lined up outside? They're so close to falling apart that even a museum would find them a waste of space."

"Who gave you the courage to stand in front of Su Chen's train?"

"While I'm still in a relatively good mood, take your rabble and get out of my sight immediately. Otherwise, this plain will become the collective mass grave for your Northern Military District today!"

Su Chen's words were like steel needles soaked in venom, each word piercing the heart, instantly tearing Long Chen's proud regular army dignity to shreds!

"Presumptuous!"

Long Chen's face, which had been maintaining an arrogant sneer, instantly turned ashen. He slammed the goblet in his hand onto the ground, his eyes burning with a raging fire.

"You death-seeking parvenu, you are openly provoking the supreme dignity of the entire Northern Regular Army!"

"Since you refuse the easy way and choose the hard way, then today, this Young Marshal will let a bumpkin like you, who watches the sky from the bottom of a well, see what a true military-tech dimensional strike looks like!"

With a roar from Long Chen, he cut off the communication screen.

Immediately following that.

On the wilderness about five hundred meters in front of the abyss roarer, accompanied by a deafening roar of diesel engines and the ear-grating sound of grinding tracks.

Five massive, old-fashioned heavy tracked mechas, five to six meters tall and wrapped in thick composite armor, slowly emerged from the enemy camp like five mobile steel fortresses, lining up directly in front of the train!

The arms of these mechas were not only equipped with large-caliber rotary cannons, but their shoulders also carried two ferocious-looking anti-armor rocket pods.

In the eyes of the Northern Military District's player-soldiers, these five heavy mechas were their invincible kings of land warfare, the ultimate killing machines used to suppress all resistance!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The five mechas took heavy strides, intentionally stopping less than two hundred meters from the train. They aimed their dark cannon muzzles at the driver's cab of the abyss roarer, attempting to use this pure sense of military pressure to force Su Chen into a total breakdown and surrender.

"Reporting to the Young Marshal! The heavy mecha squad is in position and can blast that scrap heap of a car into junk at any time!"

From the enemy's regional public channel came the arrogant request for battle from the mecha pilots.

However.

Sitting in the main control room, Su Chen looked at the five old-fashioned mechas in front of him—which in his eyes didn't even qualify as scrap metal—and didn't even have the interest to activate the Thunder Electromagnetic Pulse Cannon.

Using a Level 2 train's premium main gun to blast such things would be a massive waste of the precious high-level energy in his storage space.

"Compete in technology? Playing 'iron torrent' with me?"

Su Chen stubbed out the cigar in the ashtray, his mouth curling into a cold smile of extreme brutality.

He didn't even turn his head, simply snapping his fingers casually at the group of stunning Valkyries behind him who were already unable to suppress their desire for battle.

"Zhang Man."

"Take a few sisters down and stretch your limbs."

"Let these bumpkins, who treat trash as treasure, feel with their own flesh what true peak individual combat technology is!"

Hearing the Train Master's slaughter directive, which sounded like heavenly music...

Zhang Man, who had been holding back a stomach full of fire, saw a bloodthirsty and cruel smile instantly bloom on her small face full of wild beauty.

"By your command, my Matchless Overlord!"

Zhang Man did not hesitate to reach out and press the armor activation core on her chest.

"Buzz—!"

Accompanied by a heart-palpitating sound of high-frequency energy charging.

The originally dark-silver exoskeleton armors on Zhang Man and the four core Combat Team girls behind her, including Chu Qingxue and Lin Momo, instantly underwent a magnificent Transformers-like restructuring!

This was the upgraded version—valkyrie exoskeleton armor - modified—custom-built for them by Chief Mechanic Ye Qingyu. She had integrated the experience from the Battle of the Bridge of Sighs and utilized newly acquired Titanium Steel Plates and High-order Energy Cores!

The new version of the armor not only improved defense by three whole tiers but also added miniature Anti-gravity Hovering Thrusters to the back and legs!

"Sisters, the Train Master said to dismantle those piles of scrap metal into parts!"

"Strike!"

With Zhang Man's shout, the top hatch of the panoramic explosion-proof glass in front of the main control room suddenly opened.

Five graceful and hot figures, radiating a lethal faint-blue light...

Like five Vengeful Valkyries descending to the mortal realm, they leapt directly from the roof of the train's second level, over ten meters high!

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The five stunning girls landed on the wilderness ground in front of the train in a perfect superhero landing pose, even stamping ten deep craters into the hard rocky ground.

This visually impactful scene was clearly transmitted back to Long Chen's command room via optical radar.

When the soldiers and generals of the Northern Military District saw that Su Chen had actually sent out five women with enchanting figures, wearing seemingly thin sci-fi armor, to face their proud five heavy tracked mechas...

The entire enemy camp instantly erupted into a deafening burst of arrogant laughter.

"Hahaha! Is that guy Su Chen scared out of his mind? He actually sent five chicks out to die?"

"These women's bodies are quite nice, but it's a pity their brains don't work. If they get stepped on by a mecha, I doubt you'll even find an intact piece of meat!"

"Young Marshal, this is simply an insult to our regular army. Please allow us to fire and tear these vases to pieces!"

Looking at the five girls on the screen, whose sizes didn't even reach the mechas' knees, a cruel sneer flashed in Long Chen's eyes. He gave the extermination order without hesitation.

"Crush them. Let that Su Chen see the price he must pay for his stupidity!"

Receiving the order, the five heavy mechas immediately let out a scalp-numbing roar.

They didn't even bother to use their cannons, directly opening up full throttle. Like five moving small mountains, carrying a terrifying, unstoppable momentum, they crushed toward Zhang Man and the others!

Five-meter-tall heavy-duty mechas against five beautiful girls less than 1.75 meters tall.

This desperate and absolute disparity in size made everyone think that a tragic, bloody mess would occur in the next second.