Player Reload-Chapter 591 - 516: Titan Python

The train traveled across the Star Ring Ancient Battlefield area for several hours, and the number of passengers on board gradually dwindled. White Horse Tombstone finished his exercise, sitting in the back seat with his eyes closed, concentrating, and rhythmically breathing to train his internal organs using the breathing technique.

Claudia and Reyes were feeling drowsy, each crawling into their safety sleeping bags to replenish energy—equipped with a magic shield, they would be immediately awakened upon detecting danger.

Wanli Sealed Blade yawned, his head leaning against the window, eyes reflecting the glow of a shopping app on his phone as he picked out diapers.

"For diapers, I recommend polymer absorbent resin material,"

Li Cheng inadvertently noticed the reflection in Wanli Sealed Blade’s eyes and gave a thumbs up, "absorbs and locks in moisture, prevents back seepage."

"These are for my child, okay?"

Brother Xiao Dao rolled his eyes. Since people are most vulnerable during excretion, many players indeed stockpile large quantities of adult diapers to cope with script tasks.

He flipped his phone to show the order to Li Cheng.

Aside from diapers, there were also cotton seamless onesies, PPSU material bottles, building block toys, cat climbing frames, teething sticks, and furniture corner protectors.

Judging from the onesie model, it should be prepared for a child under one year old.

"Being a parent is truly hard work. I also bought quite a few furniture corner protectors back then,"

Li Cheng sighed empathetically, casually pointing at the soundly sleeping Gray Rain, "But they didn’t help much; the fridge, solid wood coffee table, marble dining table, rock panel TV cabinet were all broken in just a few days."

? Are your furniture corner protectors meant to protect the furniture?

Wanli Sealed Blade’s eye twitched, having already gained fame in the forum for marrying a cat girl brought back from the Otherworld and having children.

Along with admiration and envy, there was also skepticism.

The death rate of Summoners in the Killing Field is even higher than that of Mercenaries, and as a product of the union between humans and cat girls, Wanli Sealed Blade’s child is three-fourths human and one-fourth extraordinary creature, naturally being selected as a Summoner at a higher probability.

The Killing Field doesn’t care about minor protection laws; children are selected indiscriminately.

Thinking of this, Brother Xiao Dao pensively put away his phone and suddenly asked, "If I remember correctly, Pifu, you have a body-splicing ability on the rules layer?"

"Yeah."

Li Cheng’s mind raced, instantly guessing Brother Xiao Dao’s intentions, "Do you want me to help enhance your child? Or something else."

Wanli Sealed Blade hesitated for a moment and said, "Is it possible to separate the body and brain, freeze the body, and physically connect the brain to a computer server?"

"Theoretically, yes."

Li Cheng nodded, "But, are you sure?"

Brother Xiao Dao worried that he might die suddenly in the Killing Field one day. He was even more worried about his child being selected as a Summoner in just a few years.

If Li Cheng separates the body and brain, keeping the body in a child’s form while letting the brain grow and develop in a virtual world created by a computer server, he might "cheat" the Killing Field.

"...just a thought, don’t take it seriously."

Wanli Sealed Blade shook his head slowly, just as he was about to change the subject, suddenly felt a chill rise at the back of his neck, and his eyes sharpened.

The sword named [Dragon Slayer] hanging by his waist also sensed something and began to hum within its plain scabbard.

Li Cheng followed his gaze outside the window, only to see a faintly glowing blue dot in the extreme distance.

The Star Ring Ancient Battlefield is vast and open, with some areas having spatial disruption effects. The train jumped and warped several times, and the blue dot appeared in the cosmic background after one such jump.

Li Cheng only thought the blue dot was a stationary asteroid and didn’t care much, until now observing carefully and confirming that the blue dot had indeed enlarged by 30%.

As the Green Train kept moving away from the light band, the light dot continued to grow, only proving that the entity was trailing behind the train, slowly closing the distance.

"Wake up, everyone!"

Wanli Sealed Blade knocked the table with the scabbard, White Horse Tombstone’s eyes opened abruptly, and Claudia and Reyes awoke simultaneously from their sleep,

Li Cheng also removed the noise-canceling earplugs from Gray Rain’s ears and picked her up. She mumbled dazedly, "What’s happening?"

In the cosmic vacuum ahead, a large, regularly shaped rock floated, clearly the station where the Green Train was supposed to stop.

It was unclear whether it had discovered the platform or realized that the people on the train had already noticed it, but the blue light point suddenly brightened and accelerated toward the Green Train, which was traveling at 700 kilometers per hour.

Only then did everyone finally get a clear look at the true nature of the blue light point.

It was a massive mechanical serpent, entirely composed of complex metal machinery, over a thousand meters in length and 35 meters in diameter. Its exterior was openwork, allowing a clear view of its intricate and precise internal mechanical structure.

The so-called blue light point was actually the plasma tail flame from the engine inside the serpent’s body.

The serpent was clearly heading straight for the Green Train. As the distance between them rapidly decreased, the serpent’s massive body, ten times the diameter of the train carriage, completely obscured the right-side windows.

Bang!

Before anyone could react, Gray Rain inexplicably jumped up and, like a gecko, stuck to the right-side wall of the carriage.

All unfixed metal objects in the carriage, including but not limited to drink bottles, cell phones, and dining spoons, lost control and were sucked to the wall.

"The magnetic confinement device’s magnetic field."

Li Cheng took a deep breath, noting that the unit of magnetic field strength is T, Tesla, where 1T=10,000G, G being Gauss.

The Earth’s magnetic field strength is 3G at the equator, about 7G at the poles, and 1.5T or 3T for superconducting MRIs.

The magnetic field strength of the serpent, even at this distance, was 25T. Considering its flying, sinuous movement similar to a sea serpent, the most likely explanation was that the mechanical serpent had mastered a magnetic confinement fusion engine,

capable of fusing light atomic nuclei like hydrogen, deuterium, tritium, and helium into heavier nuclei, heating the plasma medium to expel it at high speed.

Li Cheng had encountered two people capable of controlled fusion engine technology: one was the mad scientist Oracle, known also as Lynn, seated in a wheelchair.

The other was Dr. Noah, who had been imbued with knowledge by the Ancient God and had made a catastrophic mistake, killing eight billion human beings.

But neither of them had been able to wield fusion technology with ease. They couldn’t even miniaturize a fusion reactor, let alone discard the toroidal structure and directly use magnetic fields to contain high-energy particles like the mechanical serpent.

(In the domain of magnetic confinement fusion, the mainstream devices are the tokamak and the stellarator. The former is a perfectly symmetrical torus, while the latter is a twisted helical doughnut, also a twisted ring. Both are toroidal, fundamentally using closed magnetic fields to prevent particle escape.)

In other words, the technology contained within the mechanical serpent far surpassed Dr. Noah.

These thoughts flashed through Li Cheng’s mind in an instant; the Green Train itself came from the killing field and was unaffected by the magnetic field, but the metallic dining spoons and forks inside the carriage scraped violently against the glass windows, causing them to faintly crack.

"Get into the Spirit Ball quickly."

Li Cheng threw out the Electronic Pet Egg towards Gray Rain, who quickly shouted, "Oh hell, no!"

The Suicide Notebook had shown that Li Cheng might die in the train carriage without Gray Rain around, so she thought that as long as she was present, it could reduce the probability of Li Cheng’s death.

However, the Suicide Notebook might not be accurate; seeing the window glass about to shatter, Gray Rain was still sucked into the Electronic Pet Egg.

Boo!

At this moment, the train let out a loud whistle and slowly approached the stone platform. As the train doors opened, the mechanical serpent suddenly extended countless flexible, multifunctional mechanical arms that reached into the carriage, slaughtering all the passengers along the way.

In the twentieth carriage, jellyfish-like atmospheric creature passengers were torn in half by chainsaws,

In the tenth carriage, a Fat Belly passenger had a mechanical arm inserted into its navel, exploding from within and blasting into pieces.

In the fifteenth carriage, where a group of players was located, over a hundred mechanical arms surged in from the front and rear of the train. White Horse Tombstone faced the front of the train, punching with the speed and momentum of a storm.

Wanli Sealed Blade faced the rear of the train; due to the magnetic field interference, he didn’t draw the Dragon Slayer Sword but instead released Sword Qi from its sheath, cutting through the mechanical arms pouring in like a tide.

Reyes, shedding his tattoos in shock and uncertainty, shouted, "Wait, this mechanical serpent isn’t a passenger..."

Before the word "is" could leave his lips, a mechanical arm hidden in the shadows suddenly transformed into the shape of an electromagnetic gun, ejecting a needle-shaped metal projectile.

The steel needle traveled at seven times the speed of sound, instantly piercing through Reyes’ skull, blasting his head apart.

The Eternal Life Field took effect, with the scattered skull fragments and brain matter flying back to reassemble Reyes’ head.

The effect of this Eternal Life Field was so powerful that he could distinctly recall the sensation of his head exploding at that precise moment.

"Why is it always me?!"

No one paid heed to Reyes’ lament.