Volume 4 Chapter 39: The Big Explosion

Rapid footsteps suddenly broke the silence at the carriage door.

“Damn it, too late!” Dean David’s gaze passed over the broken door opening and saw the floor of the carriage littered with corpses of the Allied Forces. The old man held the unconscious Leo under his arm and cautiously stepped into the carriage.

Leo had now returned to his normal size. Although his interference filled Dean David with anger, the old man still restrained his hatred and chose not to kill this patriot.

“Eh, this is…” Dean David’s eyes were quickly drawn to a female corpse in the carriage.

“Gerthard!” He immediately noticed the blood-written words beside the female corpse. The pointer in his pupils suddenly jumped, and flames of fury instantly filled the old man’s heart. “He actually broke his promise, such deception… a person like this…”

David’s teeth chattered. In over a hundred years of life, he had never felt such anger toward any enemy. The old man hesitated for a moment, then formed his hand into a blade and stabbed it into the sheet metal floor. He cut out the metal piece with the blood writing and held it in his hand.

Exiting the carriage, Dean David lightly tapped his toes on the top of the railway gun and leaped toward the next carriage. As he passed over the massive railway gun, the powerful Vector King felt an inexplicable unease, as if he had fallen into some kind of deadly trap.

Dean David still hadn’t encountered that devilishly evil German sniper by the time he entered the carriage where the scientists were.

“Dean, you’re back?” The Fairy Tale Maidens gathered around the old man. As Dean David stepped into the carriage, Indiana Jones also entered at the same time.

“You… is the fight over?” The moment Dean David saw Doctor Jones, the unease in his heart reached its peak.

“Yes, the Germans retreated. We must immediately protect the scientists and jump off the train. I estimate they will blow up the train very soon!” Doctor Jones said nervously.

“Can’t we just disconnect the front few carriages? Then the explosion won’t affect us here!” Irene asked softly. She was the most quick-witted one in the Fairy Tale Girls Team and immediately offered her suggestion.

“We already tried that when the Germans were jumping off. But, I just feel…” Jones frowned tightly. As the superpowered being with the sharpest Perception in the Justice League, he, like Dean David, faintly sensed a deadly danger.

“Not good, it’s that railway gun carriage!” The pointer in Dean David’s pupils spun wildly. For the first time, a look of horror appeared on his calm old face.

“Go!” The faces of all the superpowered beings of the Justice League turned pale. Indiana Jones roared at the other superpowered beings behind him, “Protect the scientists and jump off the train!”

The superpowered beings of the Justice League reacted quickly. They rushed swiftly to the scientists, each picked up one person, and lunged toward the train windows.

“No, we are already old. Take the younger scientists instead!” Dr. Oppenheimer smiled faintly and refused the Indiana Jones in front of him. He tossed the isolation bottle containing Uranium-235 at his feet to Jones.

There were limited superpowered beings on the train, so it was impossible to take all the scientists. Oppenheimer and several old scientists chose to stay behind.

“Listen to the Doctor. The Manhattan Project is finished. It’s time for us old folks to pay the price for the ‘Big Bomb’!” The old scientist sitting opposite Oppenheimer smiled and raised the red wine in his hand. “Old friend, it seems we won’t have a chance to argue about the merits of communism and capitalism anymore!”

“Hehe, Edward, we can still discuss the radiation issues of nuclear fission and nuclear fusion in heaven!” Oppenheimer winked humorously at this Dr. Edward Taylor.

“Haha, Doctor, we built such a destructive big bomb. We’re definitely not going to heaven!” Dr. Taylor laughed heartily, his laughter filled with helplessness.

“Yes, you’re right, Edward!” Oppenheimer sighed regretfully, raised his glass, and drank it all in one go.

“Eh, where is Dean David? The Dean didn’t get off the train…” The Fairy Tale Maidens who had jumped off the train suddenly turned pale as they ran swiftly, looking back in horror at the military train behind them.

“Too late. If this old man doesn’t stay behind, I’m afraid no one will survive!” Staring at the intense flash erupting before him like a small sun, the five pointers in Dean David’s eyes spun madly, turning into a deep, dark black hole.

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“Boom!” A bright orange mushroom cloud slowly rose over the mountain forest.

Tall trees in the forest area were uprooted and thrown into the air by the blazing fierce wind. The thousands of degrees high temperature quickly turned these trees into charcoal. Countless tiny ashes were first swept up to over a thousand meters high, then fluttered down towards the mountain forest like an endless rain of ashes.

The location where the armored military train had been was now a massive crater hundreds of meters in diameter. Under the black soil, one could vaguely see dark red internal combustion sources. Twisted steel wreckage could be seen scattered over several square kilometers around. Apart from occasionally exploding burning objects, the land was silent, with no signs of life.

“Cough, cough!” Suddenly, intense coughing came from under a broken tree stump. Accompanied by the rising stump, a dusty, soot-covered figure struggled fiercely to climb up. On the face, blackened by ashes into a “black person’s” face, a pair of light gray pupil eyes were revealed.

“Where is… this place? Hmm, I remember… Damn Joey, there’s even temporary amnesia from a concussion. No wonder he pulled back!”

Qin Lun shook his dizzy head. His ears were still ringing, and he couldn’t hear his own words clearly. The muffled sound seemed to come from beyond the heavens. He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and slowly pieced together the fragmented memory pieces in his mind. Only after five or six minutes did he recall everything that had happened before.

Joey’s plan was successful. Before the operation began, Captain Bock had given each member of the Gentlemen Alliance several blocks of yellow explosive, intending to distribute explosion points throughout the entire train.

Among the seven carriages of this Allied armored military train, the middle carriage was the twin-mounted 380mm railway gun. What did a 380mm caliber railway gun mean? It meant a skinny young boy could crawl into the barrel. The shell, standing upright, was over a meter tall and weighed almost a ton.

This railway gun carriage stored a large number of 380mm high-explosive shells. The entire turret was a fully enclosed structure. After the military train was attacked, the gunners inside the railway gun immediately sealed the entrances and exits. Even the connection between the gun barrel and the turret was blocked by steel plates.

The external armor of the railway gun averaged 560mm thick. It couldn’t be broken through by human strength, and even the Gentlemen Alliance could do nothing about it. The slightly thinner gun barrel couldn’t be climbed into by the tall, burly German special forces soldiers. The armor plates even restricted the infiltration of the Queen of Sandstorm. It could be said to be the only carriage on the armored train that didn’t need to worry about being attacked.

Unfortunately, despite such tight Protection, Joey still found a weakness. The “Dissector” threw several blocks of yellow explosive marked by Bock into the gun barrel. Using the paratrooper captain’s directional demolition ability, he remotely controlled the explosion of the explosives, causing the large number of high-explosive shells inside the railway gun to detonate sympathetically.

The fully armored railway gun instead became the largest conventional bomb, sending the entire military train to the west heaven.

Joey’s plan was very risky, completely a mutually destructive approach. If Bock set off the explosion too early, the Gentlemen Alliance and the Hydra Corps likewise couldn’t escape the blast range. If the explosion was set off too late, the Justice League would also protect the Allied scientists and escape.

In fact, as members of the Gentlemen Alliance and the special forces soldiers of the Hydra Corps began jumping off the train one after another to disengage from the fight, the Justice League immediately realized the Germans wanted to blow up the train. They almost simultaneously took countermeasures.

Unfortunately, the Justice League had one difference from the attackers: the Gentlemen Alliance and the Hydra Corps were either superpowered beings or elite special forces soldiers. Their physical fitness was worlds apart from that of the elderly Allied scientists. In the time it took the special forces soldiers to jump off the train and run a hundred meters away from it, those Allied scientists probably couldn’t run even ten meters.

Not to mention, the resolute Skorzeny also ordered Captain Bock to set off the explosion early. At that moment, not only the Justice League and the Allied scientists, but even the superpowered beings of the Gentlemen Alliance were still within the explosion range.

Actually, the power of this explosion was beyond everyone’s expectations. Within a hundred meters of the railway gun, all objects, including steel, were turned to dust. The explosion shockwave indirectly extended to a kilometer away, sweeping everyone into it, including the initiator Joey. The only difference was the extent of their injuries.

“Is anyone else alive?” Qin Lun asked fearfully in the Team Channel.

“Cough, cough, Joey Foster, you bastard!” A weak response from Grant came through the Team Channel.

“Boss Joey, we’re okay!” Following Grant’s words, Lin Feng also spoke up.

Qin Lun lifted his head and sighed softly towards the sky raining black ashes. Since Lin Feng was okay, then Little Lian and Lili should also still be alive. He didn’t explain to everyone that he wasn’t Joey. He estimated that even if he explained now, the others wouldn’t believe him anyway!

“We need to find Skorzeny and Madame Monica as soon as possible. I don’t know how many of them survived!” Qin Lun sighed and said faintly.

After Joey’s plan began, the Apostles in the temporary team were the first batch to jump off the train. The other Gentlemen Alliance members and the Hydra Corps jumped off and retreated one after another. Probably few of the last batch to retreat survived. As for the Justice League and the Allied scientists, only heaven knew.

“Oh my god, look at that main branch storyline ‘Heracles’ Hydra’! Before we jumped off the train, the Mission Completion Rate was only 38%. Now it has skyrocketed to 72.2%…” Lin Feng suddenly exclaimed in the Team Channel.

“Probably either important characters mentioned in the mission died, or that key item was destroyed by this big explosion!” After a moment of silence in the Team Channel, Grant happily summarized.

“Two bosses, should we go back and take a look? The Allied Forces probably didn’t have many survivors. Maybe we can increase the Mission Completion Rate a bit more!” Lin Feng said hesitantly.

“No, we can’t go back anymore!” Qin Lun decisively vetoed.

“Can’t see that you really aren’t afraid of death!” Grant chuckled sarcastically. “Let’s withdraw. This completion rate is already the limit!”