Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train-Chapter 874 - 364: Ants_4

Wen Hui’s gaze flickered with tension, her knuckles turning white as she clenched them unnaturally, trying to conceal her panic.

"Do your job, Miss Wen." Julius said blandly as he looked at her, "Your loyalty to the organization will earn you and your family the deserved reward."

"It’s an honor."

It wasn’t until Julius turned off the holographic communication that Wen Hui took a sharp breath in the empty office space, slowly calming down from the previous suffocation and unease.

The entire office seemed filled only with the sound of her breathing and heartbeat. She walked to the window, staring silently at the massive No.1 Underground City, her eyes flickering constantly, pondering something unknown.

Clack, at this moment, the door suddenly opened, and she turned sharply, shouting sternly

"Who!?"

Behind the door, a young man with an arrogant face and wearing power armor poked his head in, and Wen Hui breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing him.

"I’ve told you, don’t come into my office without business."

The young man, indifferent, entered uninvited and brazenly picked up an ornament from the desk to play with, saying, "I just ran into Second Uncle, he said he saw that Wen Qi in Silent City. My cousin truly has a big life, encountering a corpse chaser in Yijin City and surviving, and even escaping from Star Abyss No.5, amazing. Why don’t I have such amazing telekinesis superpower?"

Waving his chin towards Wen Hui, he added, "Mom, does Deep Red World have any research on transferring or capturing abilities? I also want to have the ability to fly, something with fire, electricity, the natural system is so awesome." Li Jian said, clenching his fist, his skin briefly flashed with strange scales, "My C-level ability is pretty lousy."

"There is." Wen Hui glared at him unkindly, "Digital life, fungal consciousness, replicants, pick one."

"Pah!"

Li Jian instantly spat disdainfully, "Digital life replicants, that’s someone else, nothing to do with me. Only fungal consciousness has some potential, but even if it works, I wouldn’t want to swap bodies with someone else, especially if it’s a woman."

"That’s why I told you, don’t think about these useless things." Wen Hui looked at him seriously, "What supernatural powers, what evolution, it all means nothing. How long can this world continue to exist, surviving is the key. Don’t look at Zhou Mingyuan’s group so invested in Deep Red World, I don’t care at all, digital life, fungal consciousness immortality, human evolution, all are delusions, breaking through the Sky Veil and escaping Blue Star is more practical."

"Then why do you work for Deep Red World? By what you say, you should be more in favor of Chu Zhaonan’s Far Star Plan, right?" Li Jian plopped himself onto Wen Hui’s desk, tossing the ornament up and down, laughing as he spoke.

"Do I have a choice?!"

Wen Hui crossed her arms, turned to look out the window at the underground city, and said in a low voice, "If I hadn’t used the resources of the Wen Family to go with Deep Red World, the Wen Family would have been divided up by now. The reason I can have this status in Dawn City is because of this identity, isn’t it?"

She continued, "The two factions of the Federation, surnamed Chu, want to save human civilization by fleeing Blue Star, while surnamed Zhou wants immortality and absolute power, and neither cares about the lives of these millions of people. Underground city? So much cost was spent just to build a one-thousand-meter-deep tomb, which cannot solve the dark invasion, just a futile waiting for death."

Li Jian found it hard to believe, "We won’t be following Deep Red World for some consciousness rebirth, right? I don’t want to become a monster!"

Wen Hui glanced at him and said, "I let you join the Breaking Curtain Plan, and yet you go off training superpowers and underground fighting every day. This is the end of the world, even if your shoddy superpower upgrades, you’ll still be stomped to death by S-Class eventually!"

"Come on, that plan’s test ships have already crashed dozens of times. Am I still your own son for you to send me to my death?" Li Jian swallowed hard, blurting out, "And besides, even if we wait until breaking the curtain is successful, there’s no rush to leave on a large starship, right? We also have the Sky Dome level; why insist on taking the Vanguard, it’s a suicide mission!"

Wen Hui glanced at him with a look of incompetence, "It’s not that simple, Chu Zhaonan letting his own son take charge of the Breaking Curtain Plan, do you think he’s a fool?"

"Chu Jing is in charge but doesn’t necessarily have to go on the Vanguard." Li Jian sneered, "They’re just putting on a front, oh, Chu Zhaonan sacrifices his son for human civilization, I spit on that, hypocrite. Do you believe, if Chu Jing really dares to board the Vanguard, I’ll write my name backward!"

Wen Hui glanced at him irritably, shook her head and said solemnly, "No, I don’t think so, I have a hunch that all plans may not be what we think, nor are they subject to our will."

Li Jian frowned, "Are you saying, Deep Red World doesn’t trust you, or is hiding something from you?"

Wen Hui sneered, stepping forward, "For Deep Red World, we are just pawns for them to use. They don’t care about Chu Zhaonan’s Far Star Plan or Zhou Mingyuan’s immortality ambitions, cooperating with Dawn City is all for gaining resources, and to achieve their goals, Dawn City is just a nursery for them to realize a new human civilization. Even if the whole world except them dies, they wouldn’t care!"

Li Jian showed a deep consideration, a bit nervous, he asked

"Mom, does this mean there is going to be a war?"

"Where did you hear that?" Wen Hui asked.

Li Jian shrugged, "It’s all over the city, saying the global Star Abyss is rapidly expanding, the Phoenix Society is coming to rescue Dawn City refugees, those not entering underground city either run away or wait to die."

Wen Hui’s eyes flashed with a complex expression. She wanted to say more but held back, saying in a concentrated voice, "For the time being, there probably won’t be a fight, at least... not with humans."

After saying it, she glanced at Li Jian, "That Sky Dome level, some main structure sections have been built, the hull outfitting is complete; the remaining main parts are the weapons system and starlight gravity ring, as for other transport carriages, they don’t matter. Tell your second uncle even if the Star Port is destroyed, it’s crucial to preserve this train. With this thing, even if the Far Star Plan fails, we can still cross the Pacific Ocean through Star Orbital, and if the Sky Veil opens, we can ascend and escape, finding a chance to survive, understand?"

"I understand, always prepare a backup plan, Zhou Mingyuan is unreliable, Deep Red World even more so." Li Jian nodded solemnly, then frowned, "But aren’t we overthinking it, the Phoenix Society might not even capture Jin Hai in a short time, Silent City and a bunch of shrimp soldiers driving a train, surviving the night is still in question, why worry about Jin Hai?"

Hmph.

Wen Hui sneered, "The world is just a huge ramshackle stage, don’t think Deep Red World is that powerful. They’re just a bunch of mentally unstable fanatics. Yijin Zero Element Center and White City Research Institute were effortlessly taken by that Lin Xian, even Deep Red No.3, Dark Erosion Cells, and all sorts of research data were scooped up. Although I admit, Deep Red World does have an advantage in researching dark creatures compared to other organizations, but ultimately, they’re just a group of pathetic wretches who think donning a bizarre skin makes them worship dark creatures as gods, wagging and begging. So what I worry about isn’t Silent City, nor Deep Red World, but the risks their conflict might bring to Jin Hai and Dawn City, risks that cannot be avoided, facing the true terror of the Dark World, we are ants..."

"And so are they!"