Superman Termination Manual - Chapter 73

Chapter 73 – 062 Instance 7 Boss Battle (Part 2)
[Warning: The battle against Boss “Mad Train Conductor” has commenced. All players, engage with all your might!!!]

Ke Mingye crouched down, his face upturned as he intently observed the dark train that rushed out from the tunnel.

To clear this instance, they had to kill the train’s conductor.

The conductor was located in the driving cabin at the front of the train.

To get close to him, they first had to figure out a way to climb to the top of the train, then bypass the group of gunmen and swordsmen on the roof, before descending into the carriage through a narrow opening from above.

Finally, they needed to rush from carriage five all the way to carriage one and into the driver’s cabin to finish off the powerless Boss, the conductor.

The real difficulty of this instance lay in how to get inside the train. The “Mad Train Conductor” seemed to be the Boss, but actually had no combat capability.

“The train is coming!”

Fan Quan dashed over, taking shelter behind one of the thick pillars on the platform, and reminded the others, “Quick, get behind the pillars!”

“Take cover first, don’t get shot!”

Qing Meng hunkered down behind another platform pillar, as she spoke.

“I know,” Ke Mingye gasped, quickly taking cover behind another thick pillar along with Ju Zipi.

The four watched the train speed past the tunnel from the east, as the ragged “passengers” standing on the roof raised their muskets, continuously firing at them.

Muzzles flared with shots that struck the pillars, scattering sparks and flashes of light.

The blistering wind roared past the cheeks of the four players.

Then, accompanied by a weird laughter, the train entered the tunnel on the northeast side.

Yet, though it seemed to head into the distance, the next moment, the train emerged from another unconnected tunnel, appearing on the southeastern side of the square platform.

Ke Mingye silently watched this scene unfold.

Just as Fan Quan said, each time the train entered a tunnel, it would emerge from one of the other three tunnels in a set pattern, cycling on the tracks to the north, south, east, and west of the platform.

It was as if they were trapped in a Mobius Strip-like world.

The four quickly shifted their positions to the other side of the pillars. With their backs against the pillars, they evaded the fierce barrage from the passengers’ muskets on top of the train.

Sheets of gunfire rained down like a torrent, but they failed to touch the players, only leaving fierce black marks on the pillars.

In barely four seconds, the mad train once again charged along the tracks and into the pitch-dark tunnel.

“Which tunnel will it come from?!”

Qing Meng peeked out from behind the pillar and shouted toward Fan Quan. The night before, when the two had entered the instance, Fan Quan had already memorized the train’s travel pattern.

Without a moment’s hesitation, Fan Quan loudly replied to her, “The same one, it will burst out from the tunnel it just entered!”

“If you lie to me, you are dead!”

Qing Meng dropped to a knee, raising the barrels of her two Desert Eagles, her gaze fixed on the entrance of the southwest tunnel.

Simultaneously, she activated the skill “Aggressive Focus”, significantly increasing her hit rate with all forms of attack for one minute.

In her pupils, reflected the entrance to the southwest tunnel, while strings of rushing data swirled, overlapping to form a bizarre world of light and shadow.

Then, with the thunderous sound of the engine and the bright glare of the headlights, the train shot out from the tunnel.

Well-prepared, Qing Meng aimed her guns at the roof, the setting sun casting a reddish tinge on the silvery gunmetal. At this moment, she pulled the triggers.

“Bang! Bang! Bang!”

The successive gunfire, like windows being battered by a storm, sent lead-colored Magnum bullets flying from the barrels unrelentingly, tearing through the twilight mist and sweeping toward the gunmen on the roof.

Ignoring the recoil, Qing Meng’s fingers continuously squeezed the triggers.

Her cheeks were lit a fiery red by the muzzle flash, her eyes unblinking, bright as torches, her light blue ponytail wavering like the tide in the scorching wind.

In less than three seconds, all eight gunmen on the roof were wiped out, but the remaining bullets were precisely deflected by the knife-wielding “passengers”.

This was not something humans could do.

According to the system settings, the thirteen swordsmen on the roof could not be taken down by ranged attacks, so Qing Meng’s bullets only worked on the other eight gunmen.

But this was enough, as dealing with the swordsmen was the job of another two team members, and that was the real show.

The next moment, the train rumbled into the tunnel on the southeast side, and the world briefly fell into silence.

Seeing this, Fan Quan didn’t hesitate to shout, “The train will appear next at the northwest tunnel.”

“Got it!”

Upon confirming the train’s next appearance from Fan Quan, Ke Mingye immediately dashed from behind the pillar with Ju Zipi.

The former lowered his arm and shot a thick web towards the pillar on the southwest side of the platform, pulling on the strand to leap off the ground and swing diagonally upwards into the sky;

The latter released a constant stream of water from his fingertips, which gathered in his hands to forge a wave-crafted longsword, and then into clusters of waves that flew around his body, providing an invisible buoyancy that allowed him to soar into the air!