Chapter 125 125 Chapter - Core Platform
125 Chapter - Core Platform
At this moment, Bai Cheng had successfully arrived at the first hostile Station marked on the detection platform.
Bai Cheng was quite surprised to see this completely open-air Station, which lacked a triangular canopy, for the first time.
She couldn't remember how many Infinite Marauders were specifically inside the Station; after Zi Yuan and Scarlet Flame's massacre, it had long since become a dead zone.
But one thing was certain: there weren't as many Infinite Marauders inside the Station as there were in the previous encirclement of her.
Bai Cheng guessed that the reason there were so few people in the Station was that they had all been dispatched to encircle her and the other Pioneers.
She was currently leading Zi Yuan in searching inside this fortress-like Station, trying to find some useful supplies.
"Miss, it smells so bad here," Zi Yuan said, walking ahead, her delicate brows furrowed.
"This Station isn't as imposing as it looks from the outside," Bai Cheng said, also covering her nose ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) and mouth with a look of disgust. "The interior is practically a junkyard."
The corridors were filled with everyday trash, and the air was a mix of sweat, food, and moldy smells, which, after high-temperature evaporation, now combined with the scent of blood, was truly nauseating.
Moreover, these guys were essentially no different from the Infinite Marauders Bai Cheng had previously killed in the Dark Forest or Muddy Swamp.
Aside from the staff being stronger, their survival supplies were even less abundant than those of the previous Infinite Marauders due to the terrain.
After only casually looking at a few rooms, Bai Cheng had completely lost interest in the place.
"Let's just finish looking around, it won't take much time," she sighed, continuing to walk forward.
The interior of this Infinite Marauders' Station was actually not small; the bottom housed their train Station, and the various areas upstairs were clearly delineated.
The overall layout presented a spiraling, upward cylindrical structure, with a very compact interior.
Bai Cheng had never seen such a Station before; it was like a crowded slum.
She couldn't help but wonder, "Is the system really trying to reclaim the Stations originally belonging to Survivors that were occupied by the Infinite Marauders?"
This Station looked more like a survival shelter built only a few years ago.
Soon, Bai Cheng and Zi Yuan arrived at the very top floor of the building.
One of the rooms was locked and centrally located, and even the door was made of iron; she suspected it was the room where the leader resided.
Bai Cheng signaled with her eyes, and Zi Yuan immediately cut the lock with a single slash and kicked open the door.
As expected, inside was a bedroom that looked slightly better than the other rooms.
But that was all.
"I shouldn't have had any expectations for these paupers..." Bai Cheng turned away in disappointment, but her peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of what appeared to be a piece of paper on the table.
At first, she didn't think much of it, but then it suddenly occurred to her: where would paper come from in this world?
She immediately stepped forward, picked up the paper from the table, and unfolded it; inside was a draft of a map.
The center was a square, surrounded by a total of 24 smaller triangular icons forming two circles, 6 inner and 18 outer.
And between these icons, several isosceles trapezoid patterns were drawn in red pen, with a few clouds added above them.
"Is this a drawing of a volcano?" Bai Cheng's mouth twitched; it was indeed quite abstract.
Although it was drawn very roughly, she could still vaguely make out that these icons represented the Infinite Marauders' Stations.
And it seemed their current mission as Pioneers was to first destroy these dilapidated, fortress-like Stations on the periphery, and then advance together towards the central location.
This trial seemed quite tedious.
But on second thought, Bai Cheng felt as if these Infinite Marauders were protecting something.
If only she could go directly to the central location, Bai Cheng believed that with her strength, she could easily resolve them.
Holding the map, she and Zi Yuan quickly returned to the train on the bottom floor.
"Miss, there's a notification," Scarlet Flame, who was guarding the train, immediately said.
Bai Cheng was startled and immediately stepped into the train, looking at the screen on the control panel.
At this moment, several messages were displayed on the screen, and a crimson crystal had appeared on the desktop.
"What is this?" Bai Cheng picked up the crystal to examine it.
Zi Yuan, behind her, immediately warned, "Miss, it contains a violent energy, extremely unstable, and could explode at any moment."
Bai Cheng's eyes narrowed at her words, and when she looked at the information on the screen, she already had a clear understanding.
【Congratulations on successfully capturing an enemy Station! You have received a reward: one random life-type blueprint!】
【You will also receive a fixed item 【Explosive Energy Crystal】. Please use it to destroy the enemy Station and unlock the coordinates to the Core Station!】
"In short, this thing is a bomb," Bai Cheng said, weighing it in her hand, immediately losing interest in it.
At the same time, she looked at the detection platform beside her and found that it no longer displayed information about the next Station.
Undoubtedly, the system was forcing her to use the item in her hand to blow up the Station.
Destroying this Station with Scarlet Flame's ability would be no problem, but it seemed the item couldn't be saved.
Bai Cheng could only choose to use it, and a prompt appeared on the screen.
【Please place it in the center of the Station. It will detonate after a five-minute countdown. Please leave the Station immediately!】
Bai Cheng extended her hand, and Scarlet Flame actively took it, responsible for placing the Explosive Energy Crystal, while she also started the train.
Soon, the train slowly drove out of this steel fortress, and Scarlet Flame followed closely behind.
The information on the detection platform had now been updated.
【Proceeding to the enemy Core Station, distance: 240km】
"Core Station..."
Clearly, the system used different names for these two Stations, and Bai Cheng had just looked at that abstract map.
"Could this Core Station be one of the eight Stations in the inner circle?"
If three outer Stations corresponded to one inner-circle Station, then was this Core Station the only way to the central city?
Bai Cheng seemed to have discovered the pattern of the Infinite Marauders' Station distribution.
In any case, if she could find a way to get close to that central city, this trial should end very quickly.
"I should be the fastest, right?" Bai Cheng muttered, but then immediately shook her head. "No, Nian Nian's side is the fastest."
The train's speed increased, and the scenery on both sides rapidly receded.
The sky was growing darker; Silent Night was coming.
Boom—! An explosion occurred at the Station in the distance behind them, and flames shot into the sky.
At the same time, on the other side, a long train was also heading towards the same Core Station...
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