94: Chapter 94 Alliance Invitation

"Hahaha, hahaha!"

Natasha suddenly sat in the pile of scrap metal, disregarding her image, tilted her head back, and burst into a wild, incredibly hearty laugh.

There was not a hint of resentment in this laughter; instead, it was filled with the mutual appreciation of someone who had finally found a kindred spirit in the wilderness, someone truly submitting to a genuine powerhouse!

"Good! Too good! Simply excellent!"

Natasha shook her numb right arm indifferently and stood up abruptly from the ground.

She strode over to Zhang Man, and to the shock of everyone, she took the initiative to reach out her left hand and gave Zhang Man's sturdy shoulder a heavy pat.

"Chinese woman, your strength is even more charming than the fiercest raging bear of Siberia!"

Natasha's eyes flashed with undisguised admiration and submission.

"In my life, the people I admire most are those whose fists are harder than mine!"

"Today's match, I lost! And I am convinced of my defeat!"

Having said this, Natasha turned around without hesitation and retrieved the half-bottle of century-old premium vodka she had wagered.

She walked up to Su Chen, lowered her usually proud head slightly, and with both hands, respectfully presented the bottle, which exuded a strong aroma of alcohol, to Su Chen as if it were an offering.

"Mysterious Chinese Train Master."

Natasha looked at Su Chen's cold, unruffled face, her tone carrying an unprecedented weight and reverence.

"Your woman has already proven to me with her strength that you, train no. 0099, possess the absolute qualification to dominate this Divine Domain!"

"I accept my loss; this bottle of wine is yours."

"And."

Natasha looked up, a sincere smile of cooperation appearing on her wild and beautiful face.

"If you don't mind."

"For the upcoming exploration of the Divine Domain, on behalf of the Winter Legion, I hope to form the strongest alliance with you true powerhouses!"

Su Chen looked at the Russian beauty standing before him, slightly bowing her head and offering the premium vodka with both hands, a meaningful curve tugging at the corner of his lips.

He didn't actually dislike Natasha's personality—straightforward, believing in the supremacy of absolute power, and never dragging things out or reneging when she lost.

The wasteland was full of treacherous villains who couldn't afford to lose and would launch sneak attacks from behind.

A straightforward violent maniac like Natasha, who would submit to you as long as your fists were hard enough, actually seemed somewhat "cute" in a rare way.

Su Chen's long, fair fingers drew out casually from the pocket of his tactical trench coat, steadily taking the half-bottle of century-old premium vodka that radiated a strong alcoholic scent.

"I will accept the wine."

Su Chen held the bottle in one hand and flicked the side of it, emitting a crisp glass sound.

A sense of composure and arrogance unique to a superior flashed in his deep, cold eyes.

"As for the matter of an alliance..."

Su Chen drew out his tone slightly, his gaze sweeping over Natasha's expectant, wild face.

"We, train no. 0099, have never needed any form of alliance or protection."

"In this world, the power that could make me, Su Chen, consider an alliance has yet to be born."

Hearing Su Chen's extremely arrogant and almost merciless rejection, no anger flashed in Natasha's eyes.

Instead, she found the overbearing, king-like aura radiating from this Chinese man to be damnably charming!

"However..."

Su Chen changed the subject, his tone revealing a touch of nonchalance.

"Since you know the rules, then in this Divine Domain, as long as your Winter Legion does not block my path, I don't mind letting you follow behind and pick up some scraps."

In Su Chen's eyes, the Winter Legion was nothing more than a group of slightly stronger ants.

Their much-vaunted heavy firepower coverage was nothing compared to his [Thunder Electromagnetic Pulse Cannon] and [Void Assassination].

However, having free labor behind him to help clear out some small fry could save him quite a bit of trouble.

Hearing this disguised "permission to follow" from Su Chen, Natasha immediately grinned, revealing a hearty smile.

"It's a deal! King of China!"

Just as the two had reached this subtle understanding, a series of extremely harsh, grating sounds of mechanical friction and metal twisting suddenly came from the direction of the giant metal vine at the edge of the white jade square.

"Creak... Boom!"

Accompanied by a cloud of thick black smoke and the pungent smell of engine oil rising into the sky, a battered, super-heavy tracked train with several titanium alloy mechanical spider legs completely twisted and deformed crawled onto this floating island ten thousand meters in the air like a dead dog, looking incredibly miserable.

There was no doubt.

This was the Star-Spangled Banner train of the Freedom Alliance that had been battered by the anti-gravity plasma wake created by the abyss roarer's vertical takeoff during the climb, nearly resulting in the destruction of the train and the death of its passengers!

When the train came to a stop, the severely deformed alloy door of the command cabin was violently kicked open from the inside.

William, his face covered in soot and sporting a head of scorched curly hair, jumped off the train in a rage, looking as if he had just escaped from a refugee camp.

His magnificent major's uniform was now torn into rags, covered in disgusting engine oil and vomit.

He panted heavily, his bloodshot, azure blue eyes staring like a viper at the dark golden floating train that loomed high above like a god in the distance, and at the tall, upright figure of the Chinese man standing in front of the train.

"Damn Chinese monkey! Cunning bastard!"

William roared crazily in his heart, his back molars nearly shattering from the pressure.

"He must have intentionally hidden the anti-gravity chassis technology! He just wants to see me make a fool of myself in front of the world's elites! This unforgivable heretic!"

William's self-esteem was completely trampled into the mud at this moment, but when he saw Su Chen standing with that crazy woman from the Winter Legion, Natasha, and seemingly having reached some sort of understanding, the anger in his eyes was instantly suppressed by a deep sense of wariness.

"Su Chen... and Natasha..."

William gritted his teeth, secretly clenching his fists.

Though arrogant, he was not stupid.

His pride and joy, the Freedom Alliance fleet, had suffered heavy losses during the climb to this ten-thousand-meter altitude.

Now, only a few dozen auxiliary trains had managed to crawl up, and their state was also miserable.

If he were to face these two monsters at the same time now, he would definitely be torn to shreds on the spot.

"I'll let you enjoy yourselves for a while."

William suppressed the anger in his heart, tidied his ragged clothes, and led his shaken soldiers, slinking off toward the other side of the square, deliberately keeping his distance from Su Chen and Natasha.

As time passed, more and more of the world's top trains, relying on their respective trump card survival technologies, struggled one after another to reach the summit of this white jade square.

But without exception, these overlords who usually called the shots in their respective regions had all their pride and confidence shattered instantly upon seeing that [abyss roarer] floating in mid-air without even any wheels.

They could only avoid the area where Su Chen was located from afar, their eyes filled with awe and fear.

Seeing that most people had arrived, Su Chen had no intention of continuing to stand in the cold wind on this square.

He turned around, leading his harem of stunning Valkyries and the mighty Winter Legion, who were content to act as his underlings, and walked toward the complex of mechanical buildings shrouded in thick fog deep within the floating island.

The interior of the Cloud Sea Divine Domain was even more magnificent and deathly silent than imagined.

Everywhere were mechanical spires from the old era reaching up to a hundred meters in height, and the ground was scattered with countless ancient mechanical wrecks that had been abandoned for who knows how many eras.

The group advanced about ten kilometers.

The mechanical mist ahead gradually dispersed, and a massive inner city gate, entirely forged from dark golden divine metal and standing over a hundred meters tall, lay before everyone like an insurmountable chasm.

This was the only path to the core area of the Divine Domain, where blueprints of golden grade and above—as legend had it—were stored!

However.

When everyone saw the behemoth lying in front of that city gate, even the world's top players, who had seen countless life-and-death battlefields, couldn't help but gasp, feeling a bone-chilling cold rush straight up their spines to their scalps!

It was a terrifying metal monster, fifty meters tall, like a small mountain!

Its massive, long body took the form of a majestic lion, but it possessed a cold, dignified human head like that of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh!

Even more despair-inducing was that, on its back, it grew a pair of giant mechanical wings completely pieced together from sharp alloy blades, with a wingspan exceeding one hundred meters!

[Ding! Warning!]

[Detected the appearance of the Divine Domain inner city guardian—Mechanical Sphinx!]

[Grade: low-tier golden grade BOSS!]

[Status: Absolute Charged Guardian Mode!]

[Characteristics: The entire armor is forged from ancient immortal divine metal, immune to 99% of conventional physical and elemental damage! Its eyes can fire high-temperature destruction beams that can instantly melt main battle tanks! Flapping its mechanical wings can whip up a level-12 physical cutting hurricane!]

Listening to the piercing alarm of the Heavenly Dao System ringing in their minds, all the Train Masters fell into a deathly despair and silence.

"A low-tier golden grade BOSS... Good heavens, is this meant to be a suicide mission for us?"

"Immune to ninety-nine percent of damage? Then what's the point of fighting! Even if you stuffed a nuclear bomb into its mouth, it would probably only make a sound!"

Those top players with slightly weaker strength had completely lost the courage to fight by now, and some even began to have weak knees, wanting to turn around and run away.

However.

Just as this sense of despair was spreading, behind the crowd, in William's azure blue eyes, a burst of near-manic greed and the light of a high-stakes gamble suddenly erupted.