65: Chapter 65 Crisis at the Broken Bridge

At this moment.

The global cataclysmic event, [Scarlet Blood Moon], had reached its most peak and terrifyingly violent stage!

The wasteland sky, which should have been floating with layers of radiation clouds, had completely vanished at this point.

In its place...

...was a massive, scarlet blood pool that looked as if it were hanging upside down from the nine heavens!

The bloody light was so thick it seemed ready to drip at any moment, shrouding the entire world in a layer of appalling oppression and madness.

The temperature had dropped to a critical point of extreme cold, enough to instantly freeze an ordinary person into an ice sculpture.

And at the end of the line of sight in front of the train...

...lay a majestic, old-era cross-sea and cross-river bridge, tens of thousands of meters long, supported by countless thick steel cables and giant piers.

A name filled with an aura of despair flickered on the system panel—[Bridge of Sighs].

Beneath the bridge was a bottomless, abyssal river churning with eerie black waves.

But what truly made one's scalp tingle and even their breathing stop was not the bridge's precariousness.

It was that at this very moment.

On this ten-thousand-meter-long Bridge of Sighs.

Densely packed and overlapping like a black-red tide, hundreds of thousands of Blood Moon Mutant Beasts were actually crowded together!

These violent monsters, which had undergone a second irreversible mutation under the Blood Moon radiation, were massive in size with blood-red eyes, letting out deafening and terrifying roars.

They crowded and trampled each other, turning the entire bridge into a literal meat-grinder slaughterhouse.

What was even more fatal and caused the deepest despair was...

...that in the very center of the Bridge of Sighs, between those two towering main piers...

...a large section of steel tracks, hundreds of meters long, had been forcibly torn and twisted into a pile of scrap metal by an unimaginable, terrifying force!

And the culprit responsible for all of this...

...was an ultimate nightmare as massive as a small mountain, hanging upside down from the highest main steel cable of the cross-sea bridge.

It was a [Silver Peak Grade BOSS: Blood-Winged Demon Bat], with a wingspan a full hundred meters wide, its entire body emitting a suffocating scarlet mist!

From its massive mouth, which looked like an abyssal black hole, poisonous saliva capable of melting steel was constantly dripping.

A few kilometers in front of the bridgehead, over a dozen heavy-armored trains of various designs were forced to stop, connected end-to-end on the rusted tracks.

These trains were all the vehicles of top-tier players from other areas of the East China Region, those at the very peak of the pyramid.

Usually, these Train Masters were all-powerful, invincible local overlords in their respective areas.

But at this moment, facing this boundless, inexhaustible Blood Moon beast tide, they were like trapped beasts in a quagmire, undergoing a desperate struggle where death seemed better than life.

Glows from various colored abilities, the hot tongues of fire from large-caliber machine guns, and the thick smoke from rocket launcher explosions intertwined into a tragic portrait of war above this defensive line.

"Hold on! Everyone, hold on!"

A bald Train Master with bloodshot eyes stood on the roof of his car, waving a giant flaming sword and crazily hacking at the Mutant Hyenas trying to climb onto the carriages.

"My energy shield is about to bottom out! Who has extra Junior Cores? Lend me two for an emergency!"

A heart-wrenching cry for help came from another train, but in this desperate situation where everyone was struggling for themselves, no one could spare a hand to rescue him.

The reason these top-tier trains were stuck here, unable to move forward a single step, was not just because of the massive beast tide.

It was also because, between those two towering main piers in the middle of the bridge, a large section of fine steel tracks hundreds of meters long had been artificially torn apart!

The broken steel gap was like an unbridgeable chasm, firmly choking the life path for all the trains.

And the culprit who dealt this fatal blow was hanging upside down from the highest main load-bearing steel cable of the bridge.

It was an ultimate nightmare as massive as a small hill—the [Silver Peak Grade BOSS: Blood-Winged Demon Bat]!

Its pair of massive fleshy wings, which spanned a full hundred meters when unfurled, were like two blood-colored scythes that blotted out the sky, their surfaces flowing with a suffocating dark red poisonous mist.

This terrifying giant beast, possessing absolute air superiority, used its scarlet vertical pupils—like searchlights—to coldly and playfully look down at the human ants struggling for their lives on the bridge.

From its massive mouth, which looked like an abyssal black hole, large pools of thick, pungent venom dripped from time to time.

Once this scarlet venom landed on the bridge's steel plates or the trains' armor, it would instantly make a "sizzle sizzle" corrosive sound, melting the hard metal into shocking, large holes.

Not only that, every few minutes, this Silver Peak Grade overlord would open its bloody maw and release a visible ring of terrifying ultrasonic shockwaves.

The low-level players swept by the ultrasonic waves, even if hiding inside the carriages, would have blood oozing from their seven orifices and faint away on the spot.

At this time, inside the main control room of the [abyss roarer].

Su Chen was sitting grandly in the wide leather command chair, coldly watching the tragic scene outside through the high-strength explosion-proof glass, which looked like a living purgatory.

On his handsome and resolute face, there was no trace of the fear or panic an ordinary person should have; instead, a flicker of fanatical light from the joy of finding a worthy prey shone through.

Chu Qingxue, wearing that semi-transparent white silk nightgown, sat obediently on her knees by Su Chen's left leg.

Her pair of slender, jade-like hands were very gently massaging the rock-hard muscles on Su Chen's thighs.

Liu Ruyan had half her body draped over Su Chen's shoulder, her incredibly proud and full snowy peaks pressing unreservedly against Su Chen's back.

Her jade fingers, painted with bright red nail polish, picked up a clean, Mutated Purple Grape and delicately fed it into Su Chen's mouth.

In this absolutely safe steel fortress, where even the air was filled with an ambiguous fragrance, the scene of the meat-grinder outside with flesh and blood flying seemed like nothing more than a holographic disaster movie.

"Train Master, the tracks ahead are broken. I'm afraid we're going to be blocked on this Bridge of Sighs too."

Liu Ruyan spoke with a breath like orchids, her soul-hooking peach blossom eyes carrying a hint of not-so-sincere worry, because she knew that as long as this overbearing man was here, he could hold up the sky with one hand even if it fell.

Just then.

Ye Qingyu, who had been in the bottom-level arsenal frantically crafting bullets, ran up the alloy stairs quickly.

The genius mechanical girl was currently wearing her pocket-filled work overalls, her fair and exquisite little face still stained with a cute black oil mark.

She had a strawberry-flavored lollipop in her mouth, and her lively big eyes, which seemed to contain a sea of stars, burned with a fanatical stubbornness that refused to admit defeat.

"Train Master!"

Ye Qingyu rushed to the front of Su Chen's command chair, her hands pressing on the leather armrests, her youthful and beautiful face almost touching the tip of Su Chen's nose.

"I just checked with the Panoramic Detector; the gap in the torn-off tracks is about three hundred meters long."

She bit her seductive, pink cherry lips, her tone revealing absolute confidence in the mechanical field.

"As long as you can win this genius half an hour of absolute safety and provide enough high-strength Titanium Steel Plates weighing two tons..."

"...I can use my S-grade talent [Mechanical Resonance] to forcibly reshape a temporary track in the air across that gap that can support our train's weight!"

Hearing Ye Qingyu's grand words, the girls around couldn't help but gasp.

One had to know, that was under the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of violent beast tides, while also facing the potential venom bombardment from that Silver Peak Grade BOSS overhead at any time!

To run to the edge of the exposed broken bridge to perform high-intensity mechanical repair work in such a desperate situation was simply dancing with the Grim Reaper.

However.

Looking into Ye Qingyu's clear eyes filled with fanatical faith, the corners of Su Chen's mouth slowly curled into an extremely arrogant and overbearing sneer.

He suddenly reached out his large, plier-like hand and grabbed Ye Qingyu's fair and smooth chin, forcing her large eyes to look directly at him.

"Good!"

"As expected of the Chief Mechanic I, Su Chen, hand-picked. You've got guts!"

Su Chen let out a loud laugh like the roar of a dragon or tiger, and the absolute confidence in that laughter instantly dispelled the last trace of heavy atmosphere in the carriage.

"Since my little wildcat has the interest, then today, this Train Master will set up the most magnificent stage for you all."

"And while I'm at it, I'll let those hicks ahead, who are being beaten into a retreat by a few mutated wild dogs, see for themselves what a real dimensional reduction strike is!"

Su Chen let go of Ye Qingyu's chin and suddenly stood up from the leather command chair.

His full one hundred points of mental power erupted at this moment like a boiling ocean, instantly enveloping the entire massive dark-gold train.

"Ling Yi!"

"Immediately cut off all conventional power output circuits of the junior steam boiler!"

"Transfer all system-level permissions to that new baby I just devoured and fused in the Underground City!"

Su Chen's eyes narrowed slightly, his voice cold and full of majesty like a judge from the nine hells.

"Fully activate for me—[Silver Peak Grade: Nether Stealth Engine]!"

"As you command, my crazy and great master."

In the AI lady Ling Yi's cold, mechanical synthesized voice, a rare hint of human-like fanatical tremor could be heard.

And on the tragic battlefield in front of the bridge.

Those dozen or so top Train Masters, who had been pushed into a desperate situation by the beast tide and whose final energy shields were on the verge of shattering, were sinking into deep despair.

The regional chat channel was filled with their crazy roars of unwillingness and despair.

"It's over! It's completely over!"

"My machine gun tower has jammed, and I'm out of bullets. These beasts are about to bite through my cockpit!"

"Is the top combat power of our East China Region all going to fall today on this godforsaken Bridge of Sighs?!"

"I'm not willing! I just leveled up to a Level 10 B-rank Awakened!"