"May 12th, sudden gusts of wind."

"To become wealthy, there are three ways: plunder, plunder, and more plunder!"

The supplies provided by Black Kite were sporadic, but they kept coming in waves.

Su Huan was very trustworthy, releasing one or two people each time a batch of supplies arrived. In the end, only the girl in the black dress, Tan Yunxi, whom he had pinched on the cheek, was left.

"Conductor..."

Tan Yunxi looked at Su Huan, pitifully.

Sitting on the train carriage, Su Huan wore sunglasses and crossed his legs. He tore open a bag of chips with a rip, munching as he spoke, "Feelings aside, business is business. A few words won’t erase such a large amount of supplies, what are you thinking?"

"But my uncle has abandoned me."

Tan Yunxi looked so aggrieved, she was about to cry.

Su Huan sat up abruptly, his sunglasses slipping down to his nose in surprise, "What do you mean, left you?"

The still-swollen-faced Bai Lu limped forward a step and whispered, "Conductor, we’re the ones holding the hostage."

Tan Yunxi quickly said, "Conductor, what if I joined the armed train crew?"

Su Huan lay back in his chair, sighing, "After all the jobs we’ve pulled, this is the first time the goods have flopped. You’re leaving the conductor with no face..."

The young girl, despite the pressure, still smiled beautifully, thinking about her family’s words.

Before the armed train’s influence expands, it’s better to latch onto someone powerful, rather than rely on familial connections at Black Kite for a petty position.

"Conductor, I’m very capable. I studied weapons systems and engineering, artillery system design, and guided weaponry all at once. The [EM-4 Armor-Piercing Spear] you confiscated was developed by my uncle as a Pan Energy weapon."

Upon hearing this, the eyes behind the sunglasses narrowed with seriousness.

"How old are you?"

Tan Yunxi lifted her fair chin proudly, "Sixteen."

Su Huan’s eyelids twitched, similar to Lin Xi, and his tone was unfriendly, "Have you gone to college?"

Tan Yunxi immediately reacted, hurriedly explaining, "I haven’t been to college yet, but I really studied those subjects. I started learning about them when I was in middle school..."

Su Huan’s eyes flashed with a hint of doubt and he beckoned, Bai Lu leaned his head close, "Conductor, I’ve heard this is called a genius!" 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

"Genius my foot, did you ever go to college?"

Bai Lu got anxious and mumbled, "Conductor, why look down on people? I was a legitimate graduate student at a prestigious university, straight from undergraduate!"

Su Huan was greatly surprised, looking at Bai Lu’s bruised and swollen face, "You did undergrad and postgrad together? You graduated normally?"

Bai Lu scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed, "My advisor said the path wasn’t for me, so I joined the military, but I’m not joking. My advisor’s kid, just in fifth grade, was already experimenting with us. Although we were not highly advanced, that kid knew a lot. It’s just different when you have access to educational resources from a young age..."

Su Huan stopped listening and turned around, grabbing Tan Yunxi’s soft white hand and giving it a hard squeeze.

"Welcome to the armed train!"

The young girl’s cheeks flushed slightly, and she responded in a voice as soft as a mosquito.

...

"May 14th, sudden gusts of wind."

"Thick fog arises, the first person to fall will grow new eyes on their body. The train travels through buildings without doors or windows. Little people rush about the city building, farming; giants guard, driving away malicious outsiders..."

A train fully loaded with supplies departed from Yanbei Pass, under countless watchful eyes, heading north, its wheels making a creaking noise as it rolled towards Zhijin City further north.

As a vast nation spanning north and south, Donghuang’s territory was extremely vast.

Zhijin was merely at the center.

The division of the Doomsday Twelve Zones wasn’t equal, according to the information from Donghuang Heavy Industry. The country had nine large areas: high temperatures, acid rain, floods, storms, spores, gravity imbalance, plant craze, extreme cold, and eternal night.

The military didn’t disclose all disaster types, and the extreme cold was already considered a forbidden zone for humans.

Some speculated that after eternal night, there might be other disasters, but the location was pushed to the Arctic Uninhabited Zone. Any further and you loop back, spatially unreasonable.

Some guessed the remaining three disasters were zombies, Evolution Beasts, and Pan Energy.

But Su Huan knew that Pan Energy was the root cause of all these changes. Grouping it with other disasters felt strange; there must be a better explanation, but they hadn’t discovered it yet.

However, Black Kite’s game console is really nice, playable without internet.

While others were desperately seeking survival resources, this group of wealthy individuals had already started pursuing mental satisfaction.

As he pondered, Shu Wei, holding a stack of documents, walked in.

Su Huan frowned, pretending to be deep in thought, raising his left hand to stop her from approaching.

Shu Wei stood still, quietly waiting.

"...That prophecy is really strange, why would people float in the air, and what’s with the thick fog?"

Perhaps feeling a bit pretentious, Su Huan murmured to himself.

"Maybe there’s insufficient information. Once these matters are handled, I believe you will become much clearer, at least you won’t accidentally project the game to the entire train again. I’m worried that your gaming skills might cause unnecessary concern for the passengers."

Shu Wei put down the documents in her hand and helped Su Huan disconnect the whole train’s projection function.

Thanks to the funding from Black Kite, the armed train’s once-simple onboard computers now matched pre-doomsday levels, especially since a supercomputer hung behind the Cultivation Pod, even surpassing them in some respects.