Armed Train in the Apocalypse-Chapter 376 - 252: Problem Solved (Part 2)
Su Huan felt a sudden sense of amazement and deliberately asked those around him, "Is this the line of a hero or a villain?"
Shu Wei and the others: "...?"
Is this really the time for such a discussion?
Shu Wei sighed, "He’s stalling for time."
Su Huan rested his chin on one hand and said blandly, "I know, I’m killing time."
"Arrogant fool, I will make you pay today."
Feeling more divine stones had arrived on the mountain, the Second Priest was overjoyed, sprang up, and pointed at Su Huan, shouting angrily.
Yet the tattered black robe he wore made his words lose momentum.
Su Huan lifted an eyelid and commented, "This line is finally a bit villainous, but this half-baked way of speaking is really off-putting."
A wave of energy radiated from the Second Priest.
In the deep pit, all the deceased bodies began to reassemble under a strange power, as if it were a large-scale corpse stitching competition, though the process lacked visual appeal; whether heads or limbs, as long as they were attached, they were considered connected.
Even Lin Xia, a practitioner of traditional Western medicine with thirty years of experience, had to shake his head at the sight.
Su Huan squinted slightly.
He had recently watched Yu Jing demonstrate this ability, only hers was much more refined.
Yu Jing excelled at both the intricacies of assembling puppets and their agile manipulation.
Through "energy perception," one could clearly sense that these people were just empty shells.
Most of the energy within had dissipated into the air.
In their current state, it’s debatable whether they could even fight an ordinary person.
However, there were some that were formidable.
The Death God, who had been following the Second Priest, exhibited Tier One energy fluctuations.
Just then, Liu Chang, lying in the pit, suddenly let out a painful scream.
He writhed in pain within the pit.
Yet his aura was surging upwards.
The remaining people from New Eden looked over in shock and confusion, but before they could comprehend what was happening, ten or so survivors simultaneously fell to their knees, crying out in agony.
Que’Er’s close confidant instantly reacted, rushing forward to kneel before the Second Priest, banging his head on the ground.
"Priest, I would serve you loyally, I beg you for a way to survive, a way to survive..."
With slanted eyes, he too caught on, enduring the severe pain within him, he kowtowed to the Second Priest.
"If you don’t fight, my way to survive is gone!"
The Second Priest glared at Su Huan with a sinister expression.
Que’Er wanted to lash out in anger, but it was too late, he transformed into a zombie-like puppet.
His entire skin lost its color, turning into an iron-gray shade, crisscrossed with fresh red veins, and his eyes turned black and shiny.
"Looks intimidating, but why does it seem so weak?"
Bai Lu clicked his tongue.
The Second Priest looked at Su Huan, saying through gritted teeth, "If it weren’t for you, once I received the third divine boon and transformed each of them alive, their combat power could at least double. Why would I have to settle for this lacklustre result?"
Su Huan’s eyes shifted, realizing this was the effect of that divine stone.
The priests always existed, and this Second Priest added a divine stone, effectively creating puppet seeds with his abilities.
As long as one ingests them, their life would fall under his control.
The Tier One Third Priest hadn’t ingested anything and wasn’t surprised by the scene, perhaps they had conspired together long ago.
Apart from these ordinary puppets, the Tier One Death God’s transformation was the most dramatic.
After absorbing many divine stones, his muscles swelled rapidly, resembling gray granite, tearing through his clothes, fresh red veins pulsating violently with energy waves, spreading cold and terrifying aura around him.
The mask and clothes on his head fell off.
Revealing a scarred face that was once loyal.
"So Brother Wang Chang didn’t betray us but was turned into a puppet by him!"
In her confusion, Ah Duo exclaimed in horror at this terrifying scene.
Su Huan sank into thought.
He initially thought the High Priest and the horned woman were so confident due to having a fallback plan near the Second Priest.
But he never expected... the fallback to be buried so deeply.
Almost cremated.
If he hadn’t suddenly come to the island, where would they have found the confidence to eliminate the Second Priest and seize control of New Eden?
The Second Priest still somewhat resembled a villain, but what about these two women?
Betting on some absurd prophecy?
Although one shouldn’t hold high expectations for power formed by survivors, this slapdash power grab led the conductor into an unusual silence.
Are other regions like this too?
"This number of people is simply not enough."
Su Huan coldly urged.
The Second Priest sneered, "Come out, my army of Death God!"
The gloomy mountain peak fell silent, over three hundred iron-gray puppets stared fixedly at the figure on the altar.
The Second Priest’s face stiffened.
He again exerted his ability with effort, but the divine stones nearby showed no reaction.
This made him somewhat panicked.
Even if someone was wary and didn’t eat, how was it possible that not a single one of a thousand did?
"It must be your doing!"
The Second Priest shouted in anger and embarrassment, but a trace of ruthlessness flickered in his eyes.
The Death God hidden among the puppets had quietly moved to the front of the formation, taking advantage of the other puppets as cover, pulling out an iron curtain assault rifle often used by the Enforcement Bureau, aiming it at Su Huan on the altar.
"Bang!"
The roar of a heavy sniper rifle rang out.
The bald head of the Death God suddenly disappeared, along with most of its upper body being torn into a heap of flesh by the bullets.
The assault rifle in its hands naturally couldn’t be held, dropping to the ground.
A Tier One puppet, one shot, one kill.
Clearly, in terms of puppet quality, the Second Priest fell far behind Yu Jing.
Her "Bodhi Dao Device" could at least fight autonomously.
And its combat instincts were slightly stronger than her own.
The Second Priest’s puppets were nothing but live targets when not controlled.
Watching his proudest Death God getting taken down with a single shot, the Second Priest was completely stunned, suddenly turning his head around.
He just so happened to see a man in a military raincoat, seemingly ordinary, holding a heavy sniper in his hands, and a girl in a clean white shirt standing behind him.
Qu Hang put away the heavy sniper in his hands, calmly said, "Armed Corps, Major Qu Hang reporting to the train conductor."
With a clatter, dozens of similarly fully armed soldiers surrounded the entire mountaintop, looking coldly at the Second Priest in the center.
The Second Priest looked at them in disbelief.
Every one of them had feedback from the divine stones, yet he couldn’t control them at all.
"Are you looking for this?"
Mountain Goat pulled out a handful of red crystals from his pocket and tossed them on the ground.
The armed soldiers behind him followed suit, pouring out handfuls of red crystals from their pockets.
The densely packed red crystals numbered in the thousands.
"Clap!"
Su Huan snapped his fingers, drawing everyone’s attention.
He smiled and said, "Now all those who participated in the sacrificial rite are here, I say I’m the High Priest, who agrees, who opposes?"
The mountaintop immediately fell silent.
The dead wouldn’t make a sound, and the living didn’t dare.
The Second Priest’s face darkened as if it could squeeze out water.
But with dozens of guns aimed at him, he didn’t dare to say a word more.
"Since there’s no objection, then that’s settled," Su Huan pointed to the roughly three hundred standing corpses in the field and said, "First bury those that need to be buried."
As soon as the words fell, dozens of tongues of fire bloomed from the muzzles.
They systematically slaughtered the puppets in the deep pit.
The puppets howled and began to fight back.
But their fragile bodies were ripped apart by bullets.
Because they had all died once before, although the scene was violent, it wasn’t bloody.
When the soldiers switched to their third magazine, all three hundred puppets fell back into the deep pit.
Under the overwhelming power of the weapons, not a single puppet managed to reach the soldiers.
Standing beside the altar, Ah Duo opened her mouth in bewilderment, just feeling it was all absurd.
Each reversal was beyond her wildest imagination.
Then this guy, whom she had just criticized for being reckless, ascended to the position of High Priest.
The greatest conflict within New Eden ended abruptly.
But New Eden seemed to...
No longer exist.
"No! You are the vanished army!"
Standing alone in place, the Second Priest’s brain suddenly triggered, and he shouted with a mix of confusion and fury.
Suddenly, Qu Hang and the others looked at him with a complex expression.
