novel520 Chapter 1357 - 524: Ashen Snow
Chapter 1357 - 524: Ashen Snow
The Infinity train once again assumed the role of the lead train for the Joint Train.In the endless crimson fog, the engines of the Giant Whale 03E heavy gas turbine locomotive and the Dragon-level electric locomotive roared, dragging the Century Train that extended over a hundred kilometers behind them.
These trains were connected end to end, balancing the power output through signal control, speeding across the plains.
The main combat members of the Infinity had returned to the train. Due to track issues and consideration of aerial support, the Sky Dome Train, Silent City, and several air fleets maintained a position at an altitude of nearly two kilometers, accompanying the train as it flew southward.
A few hours later, the anomalies inside the train had been completely contained, and the main structures of the damaged cars had been mostly repaired. The remaining work was carried out by tens of thousands of maintenance and construction drones that made repairs along the way, a task too immense for Lin Xian to handle alone.
These drones primarily helped to strengthen car connections, repair armor shells, and set up Dark Energy Synchronization Devices.
Information had already been synchronized within the command channel, and once these devices were installed, any car team with Level 3 or higher Blood Essence could activate the shield to resist Dark Energy.
On the ground, the train migrated quietly.
But inside each train team, there was a boiling hustle and bustle.
Emergency repairs of equipment, device restoration, assisting the wounded, personnel headcounts, food supply replenishment...
Some teams were completely scattered, unable to find their comrades and family members.
In response, under the command channel’s signal, KIKI utilized the Sky Dome Train and Silent City’s network domains to set up an internal train LAN using internal bandwidth to effectively handle internal communications.
Keep in mind, there were at least two hundred thousand survivors here; this train alone matched the population of a medium-sized city, with thousands of problems to solve. The moment the LAN was activated, posts under every section exploded in activity.
The section with the most activity was the one for supplies exchange.
Food, water, medical resources, weapons, tools, materials—calls for help were everywhere.
"Car 1303 urgently needs antibiotics! Child’s wound infection with high fever at 40℃"
"5L of purified water needed! Pregnant woman severely dehydrated, Train 4812, seeking help from nearby compatriots."
"Fire God Lu Xingchen! One person burned through a kilometer of the Monster Tide (live video footage)"
"Looking for daughter Little Ya, 7 years old, wearing red Hunter Power Armor, lost in Car T7"
"Seeking medic with a ponytail wearing round glasses, provided emergency treatment for a soldier with abdominal through-and-through injury."
"Too many sacrifices in the 13 Iron Guard Brigade, commemorating General Li Sheng!"
"Sword Holder Lin Xian, superpower bridge-building! The backbone of humanity!"
"To the south, to the Sun! We will reach the Polar!"
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In the cockpit of the Infinity, Lin Xian leaned back in his chair, constantly switching communication channels, each filled with urgency and chaos, without exception.
Ahead, an array of drones and the air fleet provided advance terrain alerts. Together with the track lines that had been repaired once before his arrival, the train traveled very smoothly.
Perhaps due to the crimson storm gathering over the North American continent, the Abnormal Bodies in this crimson landscape were noticeably fewer. Besides the endless zombies chasing the train relentlessly, there were more sightings of energy-devouring worms underground and some Hunting Bodies.
[Current Mechanical Heart Level LV.7 (84804/100000)]
[Mechanical Awakening]: Mechanical Lord
Mechanical Devouring: 7 (3380/10000) Increase devouring efficiency
Mechanical Manufacturing: 7 (8560/10000) Increase construction efficiency
What Lin Xian hadn’t expected was the explosive concentration of energy being transformed by the Hell Black Chrysanthemum and Heterogeneous Rubik’s Cube on the Sky Dome Train during this period.
His original plan was to devour some mechanical entities along the way for upgrades, but the battles Chen Sixuan and the Infinity team had fought over such a long time had left him with valuable resources.
This should be a moment of joy, as he was on the verge of reaching Level 8, yet Lin Xian couldn’t find any happiness.
He thought he had already witnessed too much death, but the tragic scenes that unfolded in just a few minutes a few hours ago still left his heart unsettled.
These individuals had survived countless hardships, their willpower strong, having undergone significant evolution. Thousands of train cars linked together, persisting to escape the crimson in such a brutal environment, yet fate, like a ruthless whirlpool, swallowed them in an instant.
Men, women, the elderly, children, fathers, mothers, warriors, comrades, transformed into a boiling sea of blood.
The screams of these incredibly powerful Superpower Users were impotent, unable to create much of a ripple in the endless tide of monsters.
Moreover, they had yet to confront those world-class creatures head-on.
In the Black Star Forge, the rapidly forged Planet Titan silently devoured the earth’s flood; Lin Xian didn’t know if this mecha could ultimately match these world-class adversaries, because, until now, they had yet to truly witness the existence of the Tower People.
And Lin Xian knew very well that those five world-class disasters might not truly be the Tower People.
So when he learned that the entire Heavenly Veil was a device for extracting energy by the Tower People, Lin Xian felt a deep-seated worry.
Therefore, rather than focusing on whether they could defeat those monsters, he was pondering another plan.
This Infinity train, like a Mobile City on tracks, if it could travel to the Far Star via the Black Star Forge’s Space Gate...
Wouldn’t it... be far less painful?
In the carriages behind, it seemed as if everything had returned to the days before Dawn City, with each car’s comrades busy helping each other, and the Sky Dome Train already accommodating tens of thousands of residents living aboard.