The Sorcerer's Manual
Chapter 972

Heartless Gun Bullet, Undead Alchemy

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Boom!

As the Canaan roared through the station, the heavy side panel of a carriage suddenly tore free from the high-speed train at 350 kilometers per hour. A staff member observing on the platform had a flash of providence and threw himself forward, just in time to feel a suffocating gale sweep over his head. The next instant, an ear-piercing explosion rang out behind him, shaking his bones soft.

The carriage side panel, at least six meters wide, flew out like the scythe of the God of Death, tumbling along the platform with its momentum and scraping out showers of sparks. It flattened signboards, smashed a load-bearing pillar apart, and finally slid all the way onto the tracks on the other side. If he had been even a moment slower just now, he would already have become a smear of red mud across the platform.

Huge mass plus huge speed was the most tyrannical violence, yet the still-shaken staff member glanced at the torn-off carriage side panel and discovered traces even more terrifying.

He had thought the carriage side panel had been forcibly sawed off by the bandits with something like an electric saw, but the fracture on the panel was not smooth at all. Instead, it showed deformation and twisting caused by enduring excessive kinetic energy.

How was that possible?!

The staff member knew very well that the Canaan had been traveling at high speed the whole time and had not suffered any external attack, so the source of the damage could only be inside the carriage. In other words, someone had dismantled the carriage from within!

But this was a high-speed train set. Forget childish things like being bulletproof and explosion-proof—the quality requirements for a train body were that it had to remain intact even if it overturned

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