88: Chapter 88 A Gathering of Powerful Individuals

With the order given.

The abyss roarer, hovering a hundred meters in the air, shuddered violently. The rows of deep blue thrusters at its base instantly erupted with blinding, incandescent white flames. The entire train transformed into a streak of dark gold lightning tearing through the sky, charging toward the endless sea of clouds above with an unstoppable, violent momentum!

Hearing Su Chen's assembly order, all the stunning Valkyries on the train immediately dropped what they were doing and rushed to the main control room on the second floor at top speed.

"Train Master, are we going to fight a big battle? My Steel Body is already thirsty for it!" Wearing that newly optimized [Valkyrie Exoskeleton Armor - Modified], Zhang Man clenched her fists, encased in titanium alloy, until they cracked. Her wild, pretty face was filled with fanatical fighting spirit.

Chu Qingxue remained as cold and noble as frost, but within her ice-blue eyes, terrifying elemental fluctuations of S-grade Extreme Cold Frost constantly flickered. "Wherever the Master's blade points, that is where Qingxue shall freeze."

Wearing a dark purple skin-tight leather suit, An Ye emerged silently from the shadows behind Su Chen. Her nine fluffy black tails swayed lazily in the air, and her heterochromatic eyes—one blue, one yellow—flashed with deadly Nether death rays.

Looking at this group of peerless beauties, who possessed terrifying combat power capable of destroying an entire army, the smile on the corners of Su Chen's mouth grew increasingly arrogant.

"Ladies, what we are about to face this time is no longer those weaklings who only know how to scare people with scrap metal."

Su Chen's gaze swept over everyone like a blade. "We are heading ten thousand meters into the sky to compete with the top-tier, most monstrous elite players on this planet for the biggest cake in the world!"

Hearing the words "global top-tier," the girls showed not a hint of fear in their eyes. Instead, they all puffed out their proud chests, erupting with a sense of pride and confidence that belonged to train no. 0099.

"Qingyu!" Su Chen called out.

"Here! Here! What are your orders, Train Master?" Ye Qingyu, who hadn't yet had time to change out of her white evening gown, hopped over while holding up her skirt, her tsundere little face full of excitement.

"Go to your armory immediately and check the energy storage capacitors of the Thunder Electromagnetic Pulse Main Cannon three times for me! Make sure all the armor-piercing ammunition belts for the Vulcan machine gun turrets are fully loaded to the limit! I want this train to blast any fly that dares to get close into smithereens the very first second we enter the Divine Realm!" Su Chen issued the combat preparation order in a chilling tone.

"Leave it to me! My Mechanical Resonance has long been wanting to show those foreigners what true firepower coverage is!" Ye Qingyu patted her flat chest and promised loudly.

"Ruyan!"

"Master, Ruyan is here~" Liu Ruyan wrapped herself around him like a water snake, her peach-blossom eyes filled with unmelting spring water.

"Your medical carriage must immediately enter the highest state of combat readiness. Extract all the top-level enhancement potions that can instantly restore stamina and stimulate cellular activity, and equip everyone with three doses each! We are going to fight at high altitudes where the environment is extremely harsh, and I will not allow any of you to have any accidents!" Su Chen domineeringly slapped Liu Ruyan on her pert, curvy buttocks.

"Ouch, Master, don't you worry. As long as Ruyan is here, even if everyone has only one breath left, I will be able to snatch them back from the hands of the Grim Reaper." Liu Ruyan gave Su Chen a coquettish roll of her eyes before rushing off to prepare.

Finally, Su Chen turned his gaze toward Su Xiaoxiao, who was hiding in a corner and fiddling with a small abacus.

"Xiaoxiao, you, our newly promoted S-grade scalper, are our secret trump card this time."

Su Chen walked over to Su Xiaoxiao and vigorously ruffled her soft hair. "Once we enter the Cloud Sea Mechanical Divine Realm, use your [Void Trade] to keep a close eye on the top-tier gear in the hands of those foreign players."

"As soon as you spot something good, don't be polite. Just use the useless scrap metal in our warehouse to force a trade with them from afar!"

"This time, I'm not only going to snatch the core of the dungeon, but I'm also going to strip these global elites down to their underwear!"

Hearing this bandit-like plan, Su Xiaoxiao's big eyes instantly lit up like two searchlights, and she nodded frantically like a chick pecking at rice.

"Just you wait and see, Train Master! I guarantee I'll make them leave the Divine Realm in tears!"

Everything was arranged. Su Chen turned around domineeringly and sat imposingly in the captain's chair, which symbolized supreme power.

He looked up through the panoramic explosion-proof glass at the rolling thunderclouds ten thousand meters above, which were drawing ever closer. In his deep eyes burned a raging wildfire capable of swallowing the entire world.

"Let's go, Ling Yi." A wildly arrogant smile curled the corners of Su Chen's mouth, and his voice echoed in the carriage like muffled thunder. "Let us go and meet... the strongest people on this planet!"

...

The massive and slender dark gold body of the [abyss roarer], like an ancient dragon strolling through the clouds, steadily tore through the fierce winds of the wasteland at an altitude of one hundred meters above the ground.

Su Chen leaned lazily on the captain's chair in the panoramic cockpit, swirling the crimson wine in his goblet with one hand. His deep, cold eyes gazed quietly through the huge explosion-proof glass in front of him at the shocking spectacle where the sky and earth met.

Directly below the target coordinate flashing with brilliant golden light on the holographic navigation map, a massive metallic vine, impossible to accurately describe in human language, was rising violently from the depths of the scarred wasteland, piercing the sky!

This metallic vine was hundreds of meters in diameter, its entire body a dark cyan color that had weathered countless years. Its surface was densely covered with countless mechanical patterns the size of houses and thick steel barbs. It was like a heavenly pillar connecting the mortal world to the dwelling of the gods, thrusting straight into the ten-thousand-meter stratosphere where purple thunder rolled.

At the end of the line of sight, the outlines of several massive floating islands hovering above the thunderstorm clouds could be vaguely seen. That was the top-tier dungeon that had driven the world's top players into a frenzy—the [Cloud Sea Mechanical Divine Realm].

"My god... is this really something that humans of the old era could have built?" Chu Qingxue, wearing an ice-blue backless gown, couldn't help but drop her usual cold, noble, ice-goddess demeanor. Her beautiful ice-blue eyes widened slightly, and she covered her red lips gently with her hands, looking up in disbelief at this mechanical miracle that pierced the sky.

"It's simply the ultimate violent aesthetics of mechanical engineering!" Ye Qingyu, the tsundere Chief Mechanic, was plastered against the glass window without any regard for her image. In her big, watery eyes shone a fanatical light bordering on madness, and her little hands tapped excitedly on the glass.

"Train Master, look! The load-bearing structure on the surface of that metallic vine completely defies conventional metal fatigue limits! That must be made of some kind of high-polymer strong interaction material that we currently cannot understand at all! If I could get a piece of it down to research in my armory, I could increase our train's armor defense by another tenfold!"

Watching this group of stunning Valkyries, who were usually accustomed to weathering storms, looking so shocked and inexperienced, the corners of Su Chen's mouth couldn't help but curl into a calm, nonchalant smirk.

He drained the red wine in his glass and handed the goblet to Liu Ruyan, who was standing beside him wearing a tight black cheongsam and rubbing her proud, ample bosom against his arm, intentionally or not.

"Alright, put away that surprised look; don't embarrass our train no. 0099."

Su Chen slowly stood up, his tall, straight figure exuding an invisible, domineering pressure that instantly dispelled the sense of oppression caused by the metallic vine in the carriage.

"This is just a piece of junk relic from the old era. Once I snatch the core blueprints from inside, even building you an interstellar fortress that can fly through space will just be a matter of time."

Hearing this domineering declaration from the Train Master—arrogant to the extreme, yet incredibly reassuring—the girls' originally shocked mood instantly settled down. The look in their eyes as they gazed at Su Chen was once again filled with that unmelting, blind worship and devotion.

"Master is right. No matter if it's gods or ghosts living in the sky, as long as they dare to stand in Master's way, An Ye will tear their throats out with her claws."

In her Nine-Tailed Nether Cat form, An Ye emerged silently from the shadows. She was wearing that seductive, tight, dark purple leather suit, her nine fluffy black tails swaying lazily behind her, and her heterochromatic eyes flashing with a deadly, bloodthirsty light.

Just then, the AI "big sister" Ling Yi on the holographic screen suddenly emitted a cold electronic prompt.

"Reporting to Master, the abyss roarer has officially arrived at the bottom entrance area of the [Cloud Sea Mechanical Divine Realm]."

"According to the life radar and optical scanner, seventeen top-tier armed trains belonging to different global regions have already gathered around the base of the metallic vine."

"These trains are attempting to use various physical climbing methods in an attempt to reach the ten-thousand-meter altitude."

Following Ling Yi's report, the holographic projection screen immediately switched to a high-definition real-time view of the ground below.

Around the base of that massive metallic vine, the once-flat wasteland had now turned into a heavy vehicle slaughterhouse, resembling a world-class arms exhibition.