Death Train

The burly man beside Tu Ran couldn't help but praise her. "Xiao Tu, you're pretty clever."

Tu Ran made a shushing gesture.

The burly man immediately covered his mouth with both hands.

Tu Ran lowered her head to check the time.

Mitner Square was almost there.

Tu Ran felt the vehicle beneath her feet slowing down.

Through the glass on both sides, she saw Mitner Square's lights blazing bright as day, with warning tape cordoning off the entire square.

At this hour, Mitner Square would normally be at its liveliest, but now it was dead silent.

The tram slowed further, and Tu Ran spotted three mech vehicles.

As they continued forward, she saw a fully armed contingent of Executive Department guards and Pioneers.

They carried rifles and had formed a circle around Mitner Square.

Their muzzles were trained on this train.

The scenery outside the window stopped moving.

The train finally came to a halt.

Some of the carriages began to shake.

Because they had seen the humans.

They started slamming against the carriage glass with reckless abandon.

The guards and Pioneers waiting outside, already prepared, felt their scalps go numb at the sight of the aberrants densely plastered against the windows.

They had been ready to clock out, and some were even on leave.

But they had suddenly received a red emergency alert from the Federal Government.

Infectious aberrants had appeared, capable of infecting humans directly through wounds, spreading and mutating at an alarming speed.

And this kind of infectious aberrant had appeared on a train.

What's more, this tram was the busiest route in the Federation.

The Federal Government notified all Pioneers on leave to gather at the Federal Center within half an hour, pack their gear, and head straight to Mitner Square.

Meanwhile, the Executive Department guards who were about to leave work were also forced into overtime by the sudden emergency.

At this terminal station, they had to wipe out every last aberrant on this death train.

Not a single one could slip through.

At the outermost edge of the Mitner Square cordon, a temporary emergency team assembled by the Medical Department stood by.

They would carefully screen the survivors to ensure no aberrant slipped through.

Inside the carriage, the broadcast came on.

The broadcast had been handed back from Xie Xu's communicator to the Federal Government.

"The doors to carriages two, three, four, five, six, and seven will now open. We will be firing indiscriminately at the aberrants. Survivors hiding in these six carriages, do not come out. I repeat, survivors hiding in these six carriages, do not come out."

As the broadcast ended, the doors of those six carriages opened simultaneously.

The aberrants found their exit in an instant and poured out in a swarm.

They thought they were heading toward a feast, but they had no idea what was waiting for them.

The moment the first aberrant stepped out of the carriage, the first gunshot rang out.

In the empty square, that gunshot resonated with chilling clarity.

After an hour of silence and stillness, Mitner Square erupted into chaos.

Gunfire exploded, one volley after another.

Countless bullets locked onto the aberrants surging out, piercing their bodies and riddling them like sieves.

Blood sprayed and flew, aberrants howled and thrashed.

Even after falling, they still crawled forward.

Every single one of them charged straight into the bullets.

And every single one of them collapsed halfway.

Corpses piled up higher and higher, soon blanketing half the lawn of the square.

The aberrants emerging from the carriages gradually dwindled.

Half an hour later, they were completely gone.

Pioneers and Executive Department guards immediately split into six squads to sweep through the carriages.

They captured three aberrants alive that had been trapped in the restrooms.

After confirming there were no other lingering aberrants in the carriages, the broadcast sounded again.