Train Survival: I Can Evolve Everything!

"Boss, the energy from the thunder disaster is too strong! We just passed the heavenly fire, the protective barrier doesn't have enough energy, we, we can't break out!"

Central Research Institute

The researchers stared at the warning-filled data on their screens, their whole bodies already soaked with sweat.

Sitting at the front, Anjie stared fixedly at the massive screen ahead.

She curled inward, biting her trembling finger, letting the pain suppress the despair in her heart.

"Do all we can and leave the rest to fate, activate the phase absorption furnace, even thunder disaster is still electricity."

"Absorb as much energy as possible, abandon the outer city districts to reduce load, let Allen's overload—then, run as far as we can... anything's better than staying here!"

No one answered Anjie's orders.

She lowered the bleeding finger, and looked back.

Anjie sighed silently in her heart, then her voice suddenly grew much stronger.

"Snap out of it! This damned world doesn't want us to live, so why should we comply? Without trying, how can anyone say we can't escape?"

"Allen is the most advanced giant beast in the world, why should we give up?"

"Charge out!"

Her voice seemed to possess some kind of magic.

The despairing researchers shuddered and returned to their stations to continue operating the mechanical giant beast called Allen.

Boom——!

The roars were constant.

It was impossible to tell whether it was the giant beast beneath White Snow City moving forward, or the endless falling lightning from the sky.

Sizzle——

Anjie's voice came over the broadcast from the Central Research Institute.

"Inform all White Snow City residents to return home, do not worry, Allen will carry us out of this disaster zone!"

"Please, trust us!"

There was a momentary pause after the plea.

Anjie did not sound as confident as her words claimed.

Still, either the people of White Snow City truly didn't hear, or they chose not to overthink it.

Everyone obediently returned to their homes.

"What is Allen?"

The soldier still stood beside Ye Qiyan's train.

After hearing Anjie's broadcast, his face no longer looked as desperate as before.

"Mr. Ye, Allen is our White Snow City's disaster-avoidance giant beast. To be honest, the world's first disaster-avoidance giant beast was developed by our Central Research Institute, by Administrator Anjie's father."

"After decades of iterative enhancements, all the technology researched was installed onto Allen. You could say our White Snow City is the safest place in this entire world!"

A disaster-avoidance giant beast — the name did fit this world.

"....Mr. Ye, you must have been to many places, right?"

"May I ask you something..."

The soldier hesitated.

"Just call me Ye Qiyan. Actually, I don't even know your name."

"Jin Xia. I'm Jin Xia, but please call me Mr. Ye... so my question is..."

"Of course."

Jin Xia glanced at the shimmering protective barrier, gritted his teeth, and asked in a voice only the two of them could hear:

"You're well-traveled, do you... really think we can escape?"

Ye Qiyan propped his chin with one hand, his other hand gently tapping the table with his fingers.

He watched the overloaded protective barrier, then returned his gaze to the young man named Jin Xia in front of him, smiling faintly.

"Your protective barrier is sturdy. Stopping that lightning won't be a problem."

"Then!"

"Trust your Administrator. She's probably not someone who likes to lie, right?"

"Of course, of course, hearing you say that puts me at ease!"

Jin Xia ran off to share Ye Qiyan's reply with the others.

But that answer was a lie.

The protective barrier covering White Snow City was now in an overloaded state, and even so, stopping the lightning descending from the sky was a struggle.

Since it was overloaded, it had to have a time limit.

After this time elapses, will this layer of protection still be able to withstand the ever-increasing thunder?

"It's starting to look more and more like the thunderstorm weather in the Wasteland, tsk tsk. Could a Plunderer come out next?"

"If that's the case..."

Ye Qiyan's gaze fell on his left wrist, where the device now renamed Life Termination Protocol was strapped again.

"Let's wait and see first."

Time kept passing.

After about an hour, the thunder in the sky had more than doubled in scale compared to the beginning.

The overloaded protective barrier could only barely hold.

Some currents had already entered White Snow City through breaches where the barrier had been damaged and not yet restored.

Central Research Institute.

Anjie had bitten all ten of her fingertips raw.

Blood flowed down between her fingers, staining her pure white lab coat crimson.

On the big screen, the overload timer showed only the last fifteen minutes remaining.

And the range covered by this thunderstorm still stretched beyond sight.

"Sigh..."

Among the researchers, an elderly man with a white beard stepped forward, looking at Anjie with a trace of helplessness in his eyes.

"It's still possible now. Hurry and leave. White Snow City still needs people to remember it... at least you can get away."

Anjie released her jaw without looking at the old man, still staring fixedly at the countdown on the screen, and said in a low voice:

"I'm not leaving. This is the city my father left behind. Even if I die, I will stay here."

"Besides, do you really think something researched from Doomsday Coins can actually carry people away?"

"After so many years, countless people have tried. What were the results? Has anyone escaped this world?"

"This time it's different. The broken locomotive head we found in the disaster zone more than a decade ago, after modification and repair, is nothing like what was made before."

"Now we only need one person to try. If it succeeds, we can..."

"Escape?"

Anjie looked at the old man calmly.

"And if we escape, what then? Isn't the outside world possibly another doomsday?"

"Don't say it like that—"

Beep——Beep!!!

A shrill alarm cut off their conversation.

Anjie rose from her chair, staring at the images on the big screen, a trace of fear appearing on her face.

A sky-blue pillar of light descended from the heavens, intercepting White Snow City's only route.

At the instant it appeared,

all the thunder dispersed outward, forming a prison of lightning.

Countless luminous tendrils surged toward White Snow City.

"What is that thing?!"

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