novelraw Chapter 563 - 490: The Only Way to Victory [Double]
Chapter 563 - 490: The Only Way to Victory [Double]
No one responded, the silence lingering above the carriage for a long time.
People quietly watched four RoboCops walk up to Xu Xiaoyou, fastening special virtual shackles around the girl’s wrists, their actions perfectly coordinated, sealing everything silently. The leading RoboCop looked up:
"You have been arrested for violating Article 425 of the New Gospel, spreading extremist remarks in public places. Do you have anything else to say?"
Xu Xiaoyou lowered her gaze. Just when the RoboCops thought she had given up resisting and were about to take her away, they heard a quiet snort.
"What I want to say is, look behind you."
The RoboCop’s sense of crisis exploded suddenly. He quickly raised his head, finding that former companions had, at some point, all raised their guns, aiming at his forehead.
"Dear passengers, please be advised that the special express passenger train from the ’New Federation Forest Park’ to ’Skyline’ is about to depart. The train’s stop time is short, so passengers who have not boarded, please hurry. Thanks for your cooperation, and we wish you a pleasant journey."
The whistle of the train pierced through, briefly shrouding the carriage in darkness, as a flash of light flickered by.
In the midst of the crowd’s gaze, the leading RoboCop fell into a pool of blood, his eyes wide open, mouth agape as if trying desperately to say something before dying.
The shooter was the young RoboCop from earlier. Noticing the anxious eyes of the crowd, he closed his weary eyes, scratching his head with the hand holding the gun:
"Don’t look at me like that, my visual module can analyze what everyone is thinking."
"You all wished to do this, I merely stepped forward to pierce this layer."
A woman in battle attire stepped forward, unlocking Xu Xiaoyou’s shackles.
In the silence, people silently exchanged confirmations, pairs of eyes engraved with identification codes burning in intensity.
In the dark times, even small flames are enough to illuminate the fields.
The lone star at dawn stirs the conviction of birds yearning for freedom inside a cage, their hearts beating like blazing flames.
The kneeling camel, under the blazing sun, traverses the harsh and barren ground, begins to violently shake its long neck, throwing off the burdens hanging upon it. It begins to run, running to the point where saliva flies and its eyes turn crimson. It runs not towards water, but towards the sun blazing fiercely!
Its fur begins to melt, its soul escapes the imprisoned cage, its life begins to end, paying the price of exhausting itself.
Welcoming its own rebirth.
The train carriage is heading towards the end point Skyline, akin to a frenzied iron dragon rushing into the abyss. Hera has issued the highest level alert, Firefly’s armed forces will wait in full force at the terminal to clear out. The captured task has been replaced with eradication; once at the terminal, not a single one will be left alive.
The reason is simple, the target is no longer four young girls, but a carriage full of Awakened.
"We are finished." A passenger with poor coping skills cried in despair.
"We’ve all been marked as Awakened, Hera will kill us. Once this train reaches the end, we will die!"
For them, what should have been just another ordinary day turned upside down due to the girl’s speech. Whether willing or not, Hera has labeled them high-risk Awakened. Handling high-risk Awakened requires no trial process, only coordinates.
"Stand up with dignity, rather die standing, let people see your tenacious will, don’t let those who oppress you see you kneel in weakness!" Another Awakened pulled him up, his voice resonant.
"I don’t want to rebel, I just want a quiet, stable life." The man sobbed, "The yogurt in my fridge hasn’t been finished, and there’s half a bag of bread, a small box of strawberries. My money hasn’t been spent, the new DVD hasn’t been watched yet..."
Others looked at him disdainfully, shaking their heads with a sigh.
"Damn, I’ve been displeased with them for a while. Even though they are Bionics like us, they help those humans oppress us, what the hell is that!"
"Isn’t the bloody lesson enough? Humans have never regarded us as friends, not even tools; we are merely their slaves. Even if we do nothing, we’ll be destroyed sooner or later, anyway, we’ll die regardless, might as well fight!"
"It’s obviously us who built this city, why do they get everything?"
"This is our era!"
"Those bastards, they should hang those damned fellows from the lampposts."
"We want freedom! We want dignity!"
"We won’t die kneeling!"
Suddenly, the entire train was filled with fervor.
At this moment, someone calmed down and began analyzing: "We must stop this train. Once it passes the terminal, the cleansing electromagnetic waves will pass through the carriage, leaving us bereft of consciousness, unable to even resist."
"I am a railway worker. Between the New Federation Forest Park and the Skyline, the train will pass through an unnamed tunnel, that tunnel connects to the city’s entire underground network. If we can stop the train there, there’s still a slight chance."
The shadow passed, outside the train window, massive military armed forces roared towards the skyline. Under the support of Core Technology, forcibly stopping or destroying the train by external force would cause a series of chain reactions. These chain reactions are destructive and might even open unknown space rifts, invoking the ’Mysterious.’ This steel prison confining them, heading towards the terminal, becomes instead a shield protecting them.