System: My Doomsday Train

Chapter 1014 385: Unyielding Unto Death!

"Starting today, I am resigning from my position as the leader of the Star Arrow Civilization. You can choose the new leader yourselves. Ai will assist you with the transition."After saying this.

He left the conference room without looking back.

All his pride, dignity, and achievements throughout his life collapsed at the moment when the Human Civilization rejected his surrender. He had worked hard his entire life, and just when he thought he had achieved success, he realized he didn't even have the right to surrender.

This overwhelming sense of defeat and the crushing weight of the future made it impossible for him to continue in his position.

He once thought he was the protagonist.

But later he discovered that he was merely a side character, one that wasn't even qualified to speak with the protagonist.

He couldn't accept any of this.

After the old man left.

Everyone in the conference room turned their gaze to the former leader of the Rough Civilization. Among the people in the conference room, only this person had interacted with Chen Mang before, and he had built a good rapport, making him the most suitable candidate to lead the Star Arrow Civilization.

"... Uh."

The middle-aged ex-elder of the Rough Civilization looked around at the gazes, his eyelids twitching. He understood what everyone meant, and after pausing for a moment, he spoke: "Raise your hand if you agree for me to be the new leader of the Form Civilization."

"Swish, swish, swish."

It was passed unanimously; everyone, including Ai, raised their hands.

Among these people, only Ai understood the terrors of Human Civilization the most. Ai had simulated the war's outcome between the two civilizations; the Star Arrow Civilization had a 0.00001% chance of victory, a negligible chance based on the unexpected death of the leader of the Human Civilization.

After all, the entire war power of Human Civilization existed on a single train. If the Train Captain of that train was defeated, Human Civilization would naturally collapse. However, speaking of it as an easy task, executing such a decapitation plan is of extreme difficulty.

Just like that.

The meeting ended.

The former elder of the Rough Civilization silently walked out of the conference room, feeling immensely fortunate that when leaving the Rough Civilization, Chen Mang had given him a human with a "Sacred Arrow" talent to lead them through the bloodline wormhole.

After returning to his clan, he hid the existence of this human.

Otherwise, it would have been wiped out.

And this meant he might be able to establish a good relationship with Human Civilization because of this event. If it had been wiped out at the time, things would have been very troublesome now.

Just as he walked out of the conference room.

He urgently looked at his assistant nearby and whispered quickly, "When we return, make sure you treat that human well. Where is that human now?"

Although he had given such a command.

Sometimes, commands from superiors become distorted during execution. Previously, some discrepancies were overlooked, but he didn't want any discrepancies this time.

"In the safe house, eating well and sleeping soundly every day."

"Good, good, good, elevate their treatment to the highest level."

"Understood."

The assistant naturally understood the seriousness of the issue at this moment.

...

And at this time—

Inside the Fixed Star Train compartment.

Qiuya forced a smile as she stood in front of Chen Mang and spoke with a bit of difficulty, "Master Mang... I know my father's temperament, we Insect Race would rather die than yield, he cannot possibly surrender."

"Can you please, for my sake... spare the Insect Race Civilization?"

"Shh."

Chen Mang frowned and interrupted Qiuya, "First, the Insect Race can surrender; didn't you surrender and join the Fixed Star Train back then?"

"Second, I'm merely asking him to surrender, not exterminating his entire race, why talk of sparing?"

"My father's character is such that he'd rather die than yield; he cannot surrender."

"Then just let him die; surely he can't be proclaiming to be rather dying than yielding, but in actuality not wanting to die, right?"

"I..."

Qiuya helplessly turned her head, hoping her husband Zhang Yi would say something. She had married Zhang Yi long ago; he was the elder of the two brothers who loved eating roujiamo and moving things.

But knowing her purpose for meeting Master Mang, Zhang Yi refused to come, even preparing for a divorce.

One side is family affection.

One side is love.

She was caught in between, unwilling to let go of either side.

Though she hadn't seen her father in a long time, her mind occasionally flashed with her father's imposing face and accounts of his heroic past, bringing tears that fell involuntarily as she kneeled, her voice trembling.

"Master Mang..."

"I beg you to spare my father. He really can't surrender; I don't want to lose him. Can't there be a happy ending?"

"The Insect Race Civilization could pose no threat to the Human Civilization."

At this moment—

The voice of Ai resounded in the train compartment.

"A spatial warp has been detected nearby; it is a Insect Race Mother Ship quickly approaching. The ship has disengaged its Energy Shield and is not outfitted with any Firepower Accessories. A message has been sent from the ship's leader, requesting to board and confer."

Ordinarily, no civilization in the universe could detect the position of their train.

But they had sent out a civilization broadcast, unintentionally revealing their location.

"Finished."

Qiuya, her voice shaking with emotion, said, "He can't bear the humiliation and came to fight. Master Mang, I beg you, you can destroy the entire Insect Race Civilization; could you spare my father's life?"

Soon.

The train compartment door slowly opened.

A voice was heard even before the person had entered.

The cheerful laughter of a middle-aged man quickly filled the space. Soon, a middle-aged man accompanied by two attendants walked into the compartment, speaking in clearly imperfect and accented common language with a smile.

"Seems like I arrived just in time."

"I hurried as much as I could, feeling that surrendering through a civilization broadcast seemed insincere. So, I brought all the resources of the Insect Race Civilization to surrender in person."

"Although Human Civilization generously only requires seventy percent."

"I feel that in celebrating the coronation of the universe's most magnificent new god, offering merely seventy percent isn't enough; a full hundred percent is the proper gesture!"

The middle-aged man took a deep breath, without any hesitation, looking at Chen Mang seated on the chair, knelt on one knee, and solemnly handed over a storage bag, speaking hoarsely, "The current Mother Empress of the Insect Race Civilization, specially comes to congratulate the new god's coronation and formally surrenders to Human Civilization, hoping to become the most faithful vassal race in the future!"

The process was seamless.

Almost as if rehearsed multiple times on a stage, incredibly smooth.

After the words were spoken.

The train compartment suddenly fell into silence.

After a long while.

Still kneeling beside, Qiuya turned to her father, familiar yet unfamiliar, her eyes full of disbelief and confusion, trembling, "Dad? What are you doing? Weren't you someone who'd rather die than yield? How... how could you surrender just like that?"

In her heart.

Her father would never surrender, regardless of how powerful the enemy was, never surrender.

In her memory, her father was always stern; when had he ever been so jovial?

"Qiuya?"

The solemn kneeling Insect Race Mother Empress noticed her kneeling daughter for the first time, instantly surprised and excited, "Why are you here? Did you come to surrender on behalf of the Insect Race Civilization too?"

"I thought I was the fastest, but you were even faster! I always knew you were the most outstanding successor of the Insect Race Civilization!"

"..."

Kneeling there in confusion for a long time, Qiuya suddenly felt that all the pleading she had done to Master Mang was for meaningless things, realizing her father feared death far more than she had thought.