Corrupted Nation

There is only one route for the challenge, and it is still the Orient Express. After the challenge ends, no matter you win or lose, all items on the Orient Express will be restored to their original state.

The train first traveled at 50 kilometers per hour. For about a minute, even in the carriage, it was obvious that the carriage was shaking slightly due to the shaking of the rails. The true form of the Spider Train can be seen from the rear.

Spider Locomotive has a demonic face, two green eyes, and an evil grin. In addition, there are four thick thighs on the left and right sides of the locomotive. It not only slides on the rails, but also accelerates by running on the thighs. There is something similar to a whistle on the top of the locomotive. On the left and right sides of the whistle-like thing are two medium-sized holes. Behind the whistle was the chimney, which was now billowing black smoke.

Maya: "Accelerate, top speed."

Qinglang ran to the front of the locomotive and adjusted the speed. After the speed increased, the distance from the spider locomotive became further away. At this time, the car body shook even more, and the control panel sounded a warning: Danger, danger. After checking, it was found that this section of track is curved, and speeds exceeding 80 kilometers per hour may cause the train to derail.

After learning about it, Maya said: "Adjust to 70."

About 20 seconds later, the spider locomotive appeared again, Maya: "80!"

The spider train continues to approach, Maya: "90."

The spider train is still approaching, Maya: "95."

"It's about to derail." The entire train carriage began to shake violently.

Maya observed for a moment: "Adjust to 80! The minimum speed of the spider train is 95. Shoot."

Lin Wu had been preparing in the bonfire carriage. Hearing Maya's order, he stepped left to the passage door and used his rifle to fire a bullet into the spider train. The distance between the two sides was 200 meters, which was not within the shooting range. However, due to the speed difference, the bullet hit the locomotive and spattered sparks. The spider train was unaware and still pursued it at high speed.

"Hit the eyes."

Lin Wu took aim and fired, and the bullet hit his eye. A long health bar appeared on the top of the spider train. The health bar dropped by about 1% due to the bullet. At the same time, the speed of the spider train slowed down to 70 kilometers per hour. About 3 seconds later, the spider train caught up again.

The rifle was slow to load, and the next shot missed the eye. The spider train quickly approached about 100 meters away. At this time, a large number of spiders jumped out of the two black holes next to the whistle. These spiders were colorful and looked extremely disgusting. They first jumped to the front of the train, and then jumped forward to the rails. Through non-stop bouncing, they quickly approached the Orient Express. During this period, the green bar symbolizing endurance on their heads quickly decreased.

When the platform car was 15 meters away, a spider's green bar was about to bottom out. It shot out spider silk and hit the flat car. Its body was then pulled and jumped onto the flat car. After getting on the flatbed carriage, the spider jumped from the rear of the flatbed carriage to the head of the flatbed carriage. Lin Wu shot it up in the air with a shotgun. The system prompts you to obtain an armor-piercing rifle bullet.

Lin Wu handed the bullet to Maya, and Maya loaded the armor-piercing bullet, aimed for a few seconds, and hit the spider train's eye. The spider train immediately roared, emitting billowing black smoke, and the car body swayed on the rails. Its health was reduced by 5%, and it slowed down to 50 kilometers per hour. It started to accelerate after 10 seconds.

Not every little spider will drop armor-piercing bullets, and Spider Locomotive cannot spray little spiders at any time. During the second pursuit, the spider train did not spray the little spiders, and the two black holes that sprayed the little spiders had a 20-second countdown cooling time.

The spider train approached 100 meters, and a white silk thread spit out from the whistle and stuck to the flat car. The driver Qinglang then reported: "The train is slowing down."

Maya: "100 kilometers per hour."

After a 5-second countdown, a second spider silk spewed out from the whistle and stuck to the flatbed car.

Qinglang reported: "Not only does the speed not go up, it keeps going down." He set a speed of 100 per hour, but the train's speed not only did not go in the direction of 100 per hour, but began to fall back.

Maya jumped from the campfire car to the flatbed car and took out the watermelon knife. A piece of spider silk flew and hit Maya. Maya cut off the spider silk with a knife, and at the same time she fell on the flat car due to the pulling force of the spider silk.

Lin Wu followed Maya and jumped to the flatbed carriage. Holding a dagger, he quickly reached the rear of the car and cut the spider threads clinging to the flatbed carriage. The next second, a spider thread hit Lin Wu. Before Lin Wu could recover, the spider thread pulled Lin Wu away. The spider train opened its evil mouth and swallowed Lin Wu directly.

After swallowing Lin Wu, the spider train whistle made a happy whine, the health bar above its head was full, and then it flew out of the spider silk to grab the flat car. Maya didn't cut the spider silk, but turned around and jumped into the campfire carriage: "Is there a speed limit on the track?"

Qinglang: "The speed limit has been lifted, but the speed cannot be increased."

As the train conductor, Maya gave the order to abandon the flat car, and the flat car separated from the train. The spider train jumped onto the flat car, and black smoke enveloped it and the flat car. At the same time, it also slowed down, gliding on the rails purely by inertia.

Maya tells Sunny to slow down to 30, she needs data.

About a minute later, the spider train that had digested the flat car began to accelerate. Maya recorded the time and let Qingliang run at the highest speed. Now that we have the basic data, all that remains is to complete the challenge.

Maya discovered that the Spider Web Railway was very damaged. Although many sections allowed the highest speed, some sections required slowing down. In the ensuing chase, the Orient Express averaged about 90 kilometers per hour. The maximum speed of the spider train is 95 kilometers per hour.

This is because the Orient Express has a top speed of 120 kilometers per hour, and the average speed of ordinary trains is lower.

Spider train has two axes: small spiders and spider silk. Not sure if there are any other skills.

The challenge was successful, everything was restored to its original state, Lin Wu was resurrected without any loss, and the webmaster awarded the electronic map to the three people. In addition to showing the location of the Orient Express, the electronic map can also display all frogs within 500 meters.

In addition, there is also bad news. The stationmaster told the three people that the total number of spider trains is not 1, but 42. Each of their trains has its own target. After destroying its target, they will transform into patrol trains and cooperate with other spider trains to surround the player's train.

Although the spider track network is large and the track is long, the stationmaster still kindly reminded the three people to pay attention to the spider train patrol.

After bad news comes good news. By injuring the spider train or destroying the little spiders, you may get some props. In addition to armor-piercing bullets, there are also accessories that can be installed in train carriages, such as anti-spider nets. After obtaining the accessories, the conductor can install the accessories when passing through the factory station.

In addition to factory stations, there are many functional stations. Such as the medical station that can make everyone full of blood, the food station that can increase everyone's satiety value by 50%, etc. Looking at the map, the number of functional stations accounts for 10% of all small stations, and the remaining 90% of stations are question marks. Their functions can only be illuminated on the electronic map after passing through the station or using props.

The stationmaster specifically stated that among all the question mark stations, there is a resurrection station, but only players who died on the last day can be resurrected, and previously dead train members cannot be resurrected.

The last and most important point is that the spider train relies on visual pursuit of the player train. To completely get rid of the spider train, you must flexibly use frogs to change lanes. After getting rid of the spider train, you can continue driving safely as long as you are not discovered and targeted by the patrol train.

However, the webmaster also stated that as the event progresses, the rules of the game will change.

At 7:59, the three were teleported back to the train by an irresistible force. At 8:00, the train began to slide, and the 23-hour pursuit began.

Maya spent a few minutes looking at the map, and then planned the route with Qinglang at the front of the car. Confirm that there are no special circumstances and the train will run at the highest speed. The system then releases the first task: find the locator.

When the train left the platform, the evil villain installed a locator. The spider train was relying on the No. 1 locator to guide the pursuit of the Orient Express at full speed. Players must find the locator and destroy it within 10 minutes, otherwise the spider train will appear one kilometer behind the Orient Express.

This is an intermittent continuous mission that occurs every half hour. If the locator can be found and destroyed, the Orient Express will not be pursued for the next 20 minutes. If the locator is not found and the spider train follows the Orient Express, this quest no longer appears. If the Orient Express gets rid of the spider train for more than 30 minutes, or if the locator is successfully removed for more than 30 minutes, this mission will appear again.

Theoretically, as long as the locator can be found every time and all patrolling spider trains are avoided, the Orient Express can complete the journey without any worries. The reason why I talk about theory is because the director of Curtain Station has made it very clear that the rules will change.

The Orient Express has only six carriages, which are very clean and clear. In theory, this task is not difficult. But the three people spent three minutes searching all the carriages and found no so-called locator at all. One possibility is that the locator is hidden inside items such as seats, and careful inspection of places where items can be hidden is required. One possibility is that the locator is not inside the train, but outside it.

Lin Wu went up to the roof of the car through the chimney, but his search was fruitless. Qinglang and Maya carefully inspected each seat but found nothing. There were three minutes left.

Maya asks Qingliang to park the car.

In the last two minutes, Maya and Lin Wu got into the bottom of the train and found a matchbox-sized locator in a groove under the campfire carriage.

The Orient Express arrived safely at 8:30.

25 minutes later, Maya took out the locator from the cushion of a seat in the passenger car.

The Orient Express arrived safely at 9 o'clock.

After another 25 minutes, Qinglang found the locator in the item warehouse.

The mission failed at 10 o'clock. The three of them failed to find the locator hidden in the rope of Maya's backpack. Spider Train No. 1 finally makes its debut.

But it only went on stage for a while, because the next 30 kilometers were all on unlimited speed rails. The Orient Express was suspended at 120 kilometers per hour, and the spider train couldn't even catch a fart.

During this period, the system broadcasts to inform all players that a certain train has been eliminated. Within the first three hours of the event, five trains were eliminated, including the closely related Skyfall and Earthquake.

In response to players trying to find locators by reducing the number of carriages, Sugon launched a new strategy at 11 a.m.: activating the station positioning system. Every time the train passes a station, positioning information will be sent to the corresponding spider train. The spider train will instantly appear two kilometers away and start chasing the player.

Even so, the Orient Express is still very stable. They rely on massive coal and electronic maps, and use 120 kilometers per hour and frogs to repeatedly get rid of the spider train. At this time, Maya had already outlined a figure-8-shaped railway line. This line is about 360 kilometers long, 300 kilometers of which are speed-unlimited. However, the remaining 60 kilometers are divided into two sections, with a speed limit of 60. The good thing is that these two sections are far from the station.

As for the stations, there are not many surprises and scares. On average, we pass one station every 1.5 hours, most of which are ordinary stations with coal-burning and therapeutic functions. Maya discovers changes in site functionality. For example, the first time you pass question mark station A is a medical station. If a spider train passes station A, station A will become a question mark station again. The second time you pass it, it may be a coal-fired station.

Qinglang cooked a pot of salty rice for everyone. The proportions of vegetables, rice and meat were equal, and the taste was quite acceptable. The No. 1 spider train occasionally appeared two kilometers away from the station, but was quickly left behind.

Lin Wu grabbed a salty meal and sat at the passage door of the campfire carriage, his feet dangling on the flatbed carriage. Qinglang leaned to the side, and the two of them looked into the distance while eating and chatting. Qinglang felt a little regretful: "The route has been planned. It seems that this round of the game has come to an end." The activities on the last day were not as exciting as the previous days.

"Shuguang will definitely give us a way to survive, otherwise the hard-core mode will be meaningless." Lin Wu thought of Shadow: "Shadow did not reach Town No. 10 in four days, not necessarily because of strength issues."

Lin Wu said: "Perhaps they learned about the situation in Town No. 10 during the previous mission and did not plan to take on the Salsa mission. As long as there is enough coal and food, they can end this activity like a vacation. Maybe it is coal or Food is in short supply, causing them to stop and search for resources in the wild.”

Lin Wu said: "We came all the way back to Zuoxian to see that the base is still there, but the people are gone." Lin Wu was not sure what happened to Shadow, but he and Maya both believed that there was something wrong with Shadow, otherwise it would not have happened We can’t reach town No. 10 in 4 days.

Maya's voice came from the intercom: "Oncoming car." Pull the whistle.

The other party also blew the whistle, and the two trains collided with each other on the same track and passed through each other's train. This train, named the Shrimp Express, appeared at the rear of the car instantly. A very handsome and gentle middle-aged man at the back of the car raised his left hand to greet Lin Wu and the others.

Lin Wu put down the salted rice, but before he could return the favor, the spider train chasing the Shrimp Express passed through the Orient Express, blocking Lin Wu's sight. Lin Wu said: "It's the first time I've seen a living player today."

Qinglang: "There are 8 trains out of the 42 trains, and there are still 34 trains. It is normal to meet players. But there are three railway tracks here, why did they choose ours?"

"Since we are alive, it means that this railway track is not very dangerous."

At this point, the train slowed down, Qinglang took the intercom and asked: "Maya, is there any problem?"

Maya responded: "There is a spider train one kilometer ahead on Line 1, traveling at about 50 kilometers per hour. It should be a patrol train."

The Orient Express is on Line 3. Maya checked the map and found that in the next 30 kilometers, not only were the three lines not separated, but there would also be an additional Line 4. Spider trains also have shortcomings. They use sight as the standard. As long as they don't surpass each other, the other party cannot detect the Orient Express.

Maya said: "There is a station ten kilometers away. Once we arrive at the station, if we don't speed up, we won't be able to get rid of Spider Train No. 1. If we speed up, we will be bitten by Patrol Train No. 10." Based on the information on the electronic map, she tried to find A suitable solution.

After a while, Maya said: "There is no other way, prepare to engage the enemy."

The Orient Express accelerated and soon caught up with the No. 10 Spider Locomotive. When the two trains passed by each other, Qing Lang and Lin Wu took shotguns and fired randomly to the left. When the distance between the two cars was 100 meters, the No. 10 train roared like a roar and began to pursue the Orient Express at full speed. Unfortunately, it was too late and I could only watch my opponent escape.