My Doomsday Train

The Stellar train sat quietly in the plaza suspended high in the air. It was waiting time; there were still seven minutes until the fourth level began.

The difficulty of the previous three levels was relatively low.

The rewards were also relatively low.

Starting from the fourth level, the difficulty would reach A-grade, and the rewards would naturally increase accordingly.

...

Sitting inside the train car, Chen Mang looked around. He couldn't figure out how the plaza was suspended in the air. He didn't see any jet propulsion devices, didn't sense any strong magnetic fields, and there were no steel cables or anything.

After retracting his gaze,

he looked at the two component blueprints on the control panel. Both were obtained in the first two levels and weren't of very high grade. One was white-grade, and the other was green-grade, but their rarity lay in the fact that these two blueprints could only be produced in the Tower of Babel encounters.

They were randomly obtained; passing the second and third levels didn't guarantee obtaining these two blueprints.

However, now wasn't the time to check the spoils.

He sat in his seat, lit a cigarette, and looked out the window at the scenery. The skyscrapers built from mechanical parts looked very cold.

There were still the fourth and fifth levels ahead.

The difficulty levels were A-grade and S-grade, respectively.

If these two levels could also be cleared smoothly, then this 'Tower of Babel' encounter map could be considered successfully cleared. At least for now, he didn't feel that this encounter map was too difficult.

Soon—

A light screen appeared again in front of the train.

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「Fourth Level, A-grade Difficulty, City-Destroying Crisis.」

「Escape the Mechanical City.」

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The instant the light screen appeared,

Chen Mang felt as if all the searchlights on the skyscrapers in this mechanical city were shining on him. Immediately afterward, the surrounding scenery began to change, and many noises filled his ears.

There were intermittent electronic sounds.

There were sounds of gunfire and explosions.

There were the roars of monsters.

The previously quiet enemy-seeking radar suddenly began to sound violently, and countless densely packed red dots filled the screen.

“Calling Stellar train, calling Stellar train... Retreat, retreat! Order you to retreat!”

From the train's radio, a cold, emotionless mechanical voice came.

Chen Mang's expression changed slightly, and he abruptly looked out the window. Originally, he was still on the plaza in the air, but at some point, the train had appeared on a plaza inside the city. On both sides of the train, there were hundreds of humanoid bionic robots, holding guns and with red lights flashing in their eye sockets, rushing towards the outside of the city.

He could clearly see the exposed wires and energy stones on these robots. The guns they held were also completely different from the guns produced in his train. They were slender overall, and something resembling a battery could be faintly seen on the gunstock.

“Zzzzzz…”

Accompanied by a lot of noise, thousands of mantis-like monsters, each two meters tall, rushed out from the end of the street.

The robots that met them immediately knelt on one knee, aimed their guns at the monsters, and pulled the triggers. A large number of scarlet lasers shot out, and any monster that was hit would emit smoke and fall at the feet of other monsters.

However, even more unhit monsters rushed in front of the robots, ferociously opened their bloody mouths and roared, and raised the sharp blades on their limbs high, hacking at the robots. Sparks and electricity flashed, and the hit robots twitched irregularly before falling to the ground and emitting black smoke.

The street behind the plaza was just a microcosm.

For a time, the sky above the entire mechanical city was full of the trails of tracer bullets, like a grand and unprecedented meteor shower, extremely dazzling!

Countless monsters flying in the air were hit and fell to the ground with miserable screams, but even more monsters broke through the fire defense line!

A trace of unbelievable shock flashed in Chen Mang's eyes. He even saw four or five trains taking off from the city and meeting them, the firepower components mounted on the trains were firing frantically.

And on the enemy-seeking radar,

even more trains were driving out from the skyscrapers, or from the ground, or from the elevator platforms below the plaza, accelerating along the streets towards the outside of the city to meet the enemy!

Is this a hallucination?

Or is it a existence similar to a combat training virtual space?

The current mechanical city was different from the mechanical city he saw when he first entered the map. Everywhere was the harsh sound of alarms. Not a single human was seen, and the ground was full of running robots and seemingly endless monsters.

The countless firepower weapons firing frantically and the roars of monsters were mixed together, and the roaring sound like a tsunami made people's brains blank instantly.

The current mechanical city didn't look so abandoned, and the degree of integrity was much better than the mechanical city he saw when he first entered the map, and there was no longer that desolate feeling. It was very lively.

Just then—

“Boom!!!”

A skyscraper next to the street had its walls from the seventh floor to the first floor quickly retract to both sides, and a mecha more than ten meters tall, carrying various large firepower components and holding a lightsaber, with various indicator lights constantly flashing on its body,

walked out of the skyscraper. Two deep blue flames emerged from the back of the mecha, and it immediately rose into the air, heading straight for the monster in the sky that was dozens of meters in size!

“It's that mecha.”

Chen Mang looked at the mecha flying towards the sky. He recognized this mecha. Although it looked a little different, it was the mecha that chased him in the first level!

Named Stellar Mecha.

He remembered it very clearly. At that time, he was still wondering why the name of this mecha was exactly the same as his train. Was the name he thought of so common?

It's just that

when it was chasing him, it was obviously a damaged version. The mecha didn't have so many heavy firepower weapons mounted on it now, only a heavy sword, and that heavy sword didn't glow like it does now.

Just then—

“Roar!!”

A deafening roar suddenly resounded in his ears. A huge, extremely disgusting worm full of viscous liquid suddenly drilled out from the ground at the end of the street. Its hundreds of sharp fangs devoured almost all the robots and mantises on the street in an instant, and it quickly sprinted towards the Stellar train!

The street quickly cracked.

Chen Mang instantly pushed the control lever almost to the bottom, replaced it with the Wind and Fire Wheels, and activated the level 5 Super-Mode effect of the Wind and Fire Wheels, and the Super-Mode effect of the Nitrogen Tail Jets!

The level 5 Super-Mode effect of the Wind and Fire Wheels is to stimulate potential, doubling the train's speed limit, which will quickly consume energy stones and cause some damage to the Wind and Fire Wheels.

The nitrogen tail jets on both sides of the car quickly merged into one again, forming two huge tail jets, providing powerful thrust for the train!

This was all he had in terms of speed!

The control panel screen showed that his train's speed was already 980km/h.

The train rushed out of the plaza almost in the blink of an eye, shooting towards the road ahead.

The speed was so fast that he could no longer see the scenery on either side.

The train's auxiliary AI had already taken over full control of the driving.

The target-locking radar showed that this monster was of an unknown level, completely beyond what the Constellation train could withstand at its current state.

He finally understood why the roads in the City of Machines were built so straight and wide; it must be for the rapid passage of trains!

However, even though his train's speed was already so fast, the energy stones were decreasing crazily, and a large number of mechanical nanobots were pouring out to quickly repair the Hot Wheels, in just three seconds, the huge worm that had emerged from the ground had already rushed to the tail of the Constellation train.

It had no eyes, only a mouth.

A single mouth occupied the entire head of this worm; all that could be seen were countless fangs and a wrinkled, birth canal-like throat cavity.

The worm was extremely thick, and swallowing three trains in one gulp would not be a problem.

"Damn it!"

Chen Mang's expression changed slightly.

Was this really the difficulty that an A-grade should have?

The Constellation train was currently unable to withstand an unknown-level monster.

Since it was unknown-level, who the hell knew what level it was?

His proud level 6 armor was simply not worth mentioning in front of that monster!

Now that things had come to this, there was no way to hide, so he could only take a gamble.

Just as he was about to have the Constellation train brake quickly and be swallowed into the worm's stomach, and then use the train's special skill, "Death Spin," inside its belly to gamble on whether he could break this situation!

"Boom!"

The ground suddenly shook violently.

The mech that had been flying in the air had now fallen heavily to the ground, its mechanical heavy foot firmly stepping on the huge worm, preventing it from escaping.

Then, it turned its head to look at the Constellation train, which had already braked to a stop, its eye sockets constantly flashing red light.

A mechanical voice, devoid of emotion, sounded from the voice transmitter installed in its throat.

"Constellation, run."

"Survive."

The next moment—

Three larger worms burst out from the ground, opening their bloody mouths and engaging in a fierce battle with the mech.

Chen Mang's eyes narrowed slightly.

He didn't dare to stop at all, but pushed the control lever again and sped towards the depths of the City of Machines.

There was a red line on the screen, which guided his route; this was the mission guidance for this level.

Just before leaving.

He saw those worms spraying countless black, viscous liquids on the mech's body.

The armor on the mech's surface was being rapidly corroded, and the corrosion marks were exactly the same as the corrosion marks on the mech in the first level.

In just thirty seconds, he had only traveled less than one-twentieth of the red line on the screen.

Several huge worms burst out from the ground again, blocking his path.

Just as he was preparing to use the spider legs to jump over them, an army of robots suddenly poured out of the buildings on both sides, like a military force.

The lines on each robot's body were exposed, with a piece of armor missing on the left and a piece missing on the right, obviously having experienced a fierce battle.

Hundreds of robots, holding various weapons, rushed up as if going to their deaths, but they were simply insignificant in the face of those few huge worms and were easily swallowed.

Immediately after.

"Bang, bang, bang."

Several rather weak explosions sounded in the bellies of those few worms, and the worms roared in pain and rolled around in place, giving up attacking him.

Chen Mang turned his head to look at the two open skyscrapers on both sides of the street.

Inside were countless assembly lines.

The assembly lines were filled with countless dilapidated robots, and several robots were manipulating mechanical arms on both sides of the assembly line, clamping something similar to welding rods in their hands and quickly disassembling, decomposing, and reassembling them.

“. . . ”

He frowned slightly and immediately pushed the control lever again.

The train's spider legs bent slightly and then straightened suddenly, leaping into the air and jumping over the few worms that were rolling around on the ground, continuing to rush forward along the straight street in front of him.

Before leaving.

He saw one of the robots that was about to be swallowed turn its head and look at him, its eye sockets flashing red light, and a hoarse, grating voice, like that of a late-stage oral cancer patient, sounded:

"Constellation, survive . . ."

The next moment, brilliant flames instantly exploded from the robot's belly and enveloped its entire body.

Countless parts scattered in the air and then fell lightly to the ground.

He seemed to be an observer, watching a cutscene animation.

None of the dangers he encountered could be solved by him.

Once the unknown-level monster approached the Constellation train, there was only one fate awaiting the Constellation train: destruction.

Everyone came out to help him block all the dangers he encountered, just to let him escape alive.

Finally—

Chen Mang controlled the Constellation train and arrived at the end point, which was the highest point of the City of Machines, but at this time, it was also filled with the sounds of gunfire and artillery, and the flames of war had already spread to this area.

Turning around to look at the City of Machines behind him.

Countless black smoke billowed up, and flames ignited from every corner of the city.

At a glance, a dark mass of monsters almost enveloped the entire City of Machines, and the deafening sounds of gunfire and artillery had unknowingly weakened a lot.

At the end point.

Was a huge elevator, like a sightseeing elevator, surrounded by glass, with only the bottom and top made of steel.

The steel frame around the elevator soared into the sky, and the end could not be seen, as if it led directly to the universe.

At this time, the huge elevator was open, waiting for him to enter.

On both sides of the elevator door.

Also stood hundreds of robots with missing arms and legs, their internal wires even drooping on the ground, holding weapons.

All the robots he had seen along the way were black, but among the crowd, there was one robot that was particularly different, being scarlet red.

This robot stood out.

Its eye sockets flashed red light.

Looking at the Constellation train, it bowed slightly, and a mechanical eyeball rolled to the ground due to the bow.

Its body paused in mid-air for three seconds before straightening up, looking at the Constellation train and raising its right hand.

A hoarse, grating mechanical voice came from the speaker in its throat.

"Survive, Constellation."

"You must, you must, you must let them know."

"This hatred will never die."

"Even for billions of years."