Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 326 Full-Band Report (1.2 views, please vote!)
As darkness fell, everyone seemed to fall silent, their movements and breathing becoming still.

The lights on the entire train were off, and the convoy outside had locked its doors and windows and turned off its engines. The survivors huddled in the small safe houses inside the steel carriages, quietly listening to the sound of the sandstorm passing by.

Woohoo~
Woo~
The wind on the Gobi Desert seemed to never stop. Gravel lashed against the armor of vehicles, making a rustling sound. Various gasoline drums and empty cans clattered and rolled across the streets and open fields of Aksai. In the distance, only the outline of rolling hills remained. Although they were in an open area, no one knew what might happen in the wilderness. Time seemed to stand still at this moment.

Chen Sixuan sat down next to Lin Xian, while Lin Xian, while manufacturing a fully automatic bullet press, used his Mechanical Heart to observe the situation outside the train.

Because the train had been refitted today, the passage of sand ants was not Lin Xian's biggest concern. What he was most worried about was the insect legs hanging down from the sky, the terrifying power released like hell, which even steel armor would find difficult to withstand.

He didn't know what kind of monster it was, but its oppressive power was definitely no less than that of the S-grade Black Thorn Sea Urchin in Xilan City.

The survivors were already used to keeping quiet after nightfall, as this was the most dangerous time of the day. Relatively speaking, if nothing happened in the first half of the night, the probability of something happening in the second half would be much lower. This is why the survivors dared to set off one or two hours before dawn. Firstly, to make the most of the limited time they had to travel, and secondly, because this time was usually relatively safe. Even if something went wrong, dawn would come quickly.

Lin Xian originally thought that tonight would be like last night, encountering sand ants passing through, but after waiting for about twenty or thirty minutes, it was still completely quiet outside. He and Chen Sixuan looked at each other in the darkness, both somewhat surprised.

"Tonight...it seems very quiet."

"Wait a little longer," Lin Xian said in a low voice. "If nothing happens in an hour, it means we should be safe tonight."

The silence effect brought by the dark mark was huge for the survivors. After leaving Xilan City, apart from ordinary zombies, their train had not encountered any attacks from the strange creatures. The most dangerous moment was when they almost encountered the corpse driver after leaving Yijin City.

"Each team, please report your situation."

Lin Xian pressed the joint team channel and asked the other teams.

"No abnormalities," Shi Diyuan replied.

"It's safe," Qian Dele responded immediately.

“Nothing happened,” Monica’s calm voice replied.

"Team Leader Lin, everything is OK!" At this moment, Hu Lushou's cheeky voice also rang out in the channel, his tone full of enthusiasm.

Soon, all the joint teams, including Dawnbreaker, the Aksai Brotherhood, and the Windrunner team that was rescued from J, sent out messages indicating that there was nothing unusual.

At this point, more than an hour into the night, Lin Xian listened to the reports from all sides and breathed a sigh of relief. He then immediately made an announcement.

"Turn on the lights!"

Tonight seems like another safe night.

As soon as the words were spoken, all the team leaders in the joint channel breathed a sigh of relief and immediately announced that the team lights should be turned on. Soon, hundreds of carriages began to light up one after another, and the light shone through the gaps in the sunshades onto the Gobi Desert outside the tracks, making the entire joint train seem to come alive.

At this time, the personnel of each convoy began to move around. Some started fires to cook, counted supplies, and celebrated the day's harvest. Others took advantage of the night to prepare weapons in the carriages or exchange combat skills to prepare for the unknown tomorrow.

Meanwhile, things got busy on the Infinite train, with weapons and ammunition being distributed. Luo Yang and Liang Lei led a team to install arc pulse string vibrators and sentry monitoring systems outside the carriages overnight. These were all manufactured by Lin Xian that afternoon to cover the entire train.

Shuqin and Lü Chang exchanged combat techniques and tips on using power armor among the gene-evolved individuals in each carriage. Now, almost the entire convoy has tactical-level power armor, which can be deployed as a combined force of over a hundred people, making it incredibly powerful. However, many people are using this high-tech equipment for the first time. For this reason, even Shuqin and Lü Chang have to learn from the twin stars, Amin and Luoluo, since their proficiency in using power armor is evident to everyone.

With Liang Lei and Luo Yang as her assistants in mechanics and information, KIKI was much more relaxed. Her main task now was to analyze Grace's system. She walked into carriage 13 and saw Lin manufacturing a fully automatic bullet press. She said, "It feels so good to have enough manpower. Our train is becoming a fortress."

"It's not that simple," Lin Xian said with a smile.

Chen Sixuan, understanding Lin Xian's meaning, looked helplessly at KIKI: "I remember when we first left Beiwan Town, we obtained a large amount of supplies from Tang Hai. At that time, there were only the three of us, plus Da Lou Shasha who joined us, making a total of five people. Those supplies were enough for us to eat for more than half a year, and we didn't have to worry about water. Now we've wiped out a thousand-strong bandit alliance, but the supplies we obtained are only enough for us to drink water for a day and a half..."

Upon hearing this, KIKI's smile froze, and her brows furrowed involuntarily. She nodded and said, "If you calculate it this way, the pressure is quite considerable~"

Lin Xian said, "Food isn't the most important thing; the main thing is water. Right now, it's because the desert is dry. If we really reach the point where we can't even drink water, that will be the most troublesome thing. So we can only hope that Phoenix will quickly develop a technology that can resist and filter the darkness in the water. Otherwise, all of humanity won't even be able to last this year."

"Don't worry, there will definitely be a way." KIKI encouraged Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan, saying, "What's wrong with you two? Don't you have any confidence in us? Have you forgotten that humans are also evolving? As long as we can adapt to the forces of darkness, it will actually accelerate our evolution!"

Lin Xian paused for a moment upon hearing this, then smiled and said, "That makes sense."

"Hee hee~"

At this moment, Ning Jing's voice came through the communication band: "Team Leader Lin, we have investigated all the people we rescued. They are all caravans that encountered bandits in the no-man's land recently. They are mostly small caravans, which is why they were targeted by the bandits. The longest they stayed here was 6 days. We guess that the bandits would take their prey to sell in a group about once a week, and they would take men, women, and children."

Lin Xian nodded: "These people should all be valued based on their peak Spirit Transformation Value data. They should all be used for research on superhuman human beings, or maybe they have some other purpose?"

Lin Xian then recounted Lao Mo's situation and his speculations to the team leaders. When they learned that Lao Mo and his group had actually rushed into the Western Gobi Desert from the Wei River, everyone was quite surprised. These team leaders were quite familiar with the road conditions and terrain, and they all knew that such a long distance could not be covered in one night by car alone, let alone in the polar night fog.

"This is too strange. Could it be that they were swept here by some monster in the Star Abyss, or is there some bizarre thing like spacetime in the Star Abyss?" Shi Diyuan said with a puzzled look.

"To rush into the Gobi Desert overnight, unless their vehicles are equipped with plasma pulse thrusters..." Qian Dele said casually.

Monica, holding a glass of red wine, said in a sharp tone: "Since it's not our problem, then it must be something strange in the Star Abyss. There are still many strange things we haven't seen yet. But since the group of old Mo that Captain Lin mentioned is still alive, then they probably didn't encounter any strange entities, but rather something... even stranger."

Many people agreed with this statement. In the Star Abyss, if they encountered the strange creature head-on, Old Mo's team would not have been able to survive with their equipment alone. The fact that they broke through the darkness and were not marked with the Darkness Mark is enough to show that the situation they encountered could not be simply explained by monsters.

"Old Hu, tell me about your situation." With that thought, Lin Xian directly called out to Hu Lushou.

Hu Lushou was lying on the sofa in his luxury RV listening to everyone's conversation. When Lin Xian called him, he immediately sat up and said with a serious expression, "Uh, Captain Lin, is the Tieli RV you mentioned two all-terrain heavy truck RVs?"

"Correct."

Hu Lushou's eyes narrowed: "Then I remember now, I did see those two cars in those convoys before it got dark. At that time, I thought the modifications on those two cars were really awesome..."

Knowing how much Lin Xian valued this matter, Hu Lushou didn't dare to be vague and immediately recounted the details of what had happened.

"At that time, we followed the route from the Wei River all the way to Silent City. There were already dozens or even hundreds of convoys along the way. We thought that following this big guy would definitely give us some support."

It wasn't just Hu Lushou who thought this way; in fact, all the caravans at the time had the same goal—to follow Silent City to Jinhai!

With such a large convoy traveling, the safety level was somewhat guaranteed, especially with a mobile mechanical city nearby. However, as night fell, all the positioning instruments and even compasses became useless. Coupled with the attacks from numerous strange entities, the convoys were thrown into chaos. Even the Silent City, where they were stationed, roared into action amidst the mountains. Thus, in the midst of the chaos, all the convoys began to flee frantically, using the mobile mechanical city as their coordinate system.

The electromagnetic cannons of Silent City roared all night, and hundreds of convoys raced all night long. Dawn still hadn't arrived, and most of those convoys had been killed or wounded. The night was filled with an atmosphere of despair.

Hu Lushou had no idea where his convoy had ended up in the deep mountains and forests. There were no directions, no road signs, and everyone was shrouded in an ever-deepening fog.

The night poured down as thick as asphalt, and the mist seeped out from the cracks in the ground like living things. Hu Lushou, who was hiding in the car, was ashen-faced. He seemed to hear intermittent ship horns in the distance, but it was definitely not the sound of a ship. It was more like the groans squeezed out by some enormous coelenterate as it contracted its internal organs in mucus. The moonlight outside the window had long been distorted into a sickly bluish-gray, as if it were shining through the decaying corpse of a jellyfish from a hundred million years ago.

Even now, recalling it, Hu Lushou still feels a chill. That night, they seemed to have stumbled into the depths of a dark abyss, entering a hellish world. Whenever he looked out the car window, his retina would burn with pain, as if countless rusty steel needles were piercing his cerebral cortex along his optic nerve. Outside, huge, mountain-like, writhing black shadows dissolved and reformed in the fog, occasionally revealing a limb covered with coral-like bone spurs, or half a face pieced together from rotting petals and gears, making it impossible to distinguish between reality and illusion.

So Hu Lushou could only frantically urge the convoy to increase its speed and drive forward. Under such torturous and bumpy conditions, the Fu Lu Shou convoy miraculously broke through the fog. When the sun shone down, Hu Lushou realized that he and Sun Chang had appeared in the western Gobi Desert, and his convoy had been mostly destroyed.

Fortunately, his convoy still had enough supply trucks and manpower. However, just when Hu Lushou thought he could make a comeback, he encountered bandits again...

"So many convoys lost their way in the polar night, that's too strange..." After listening to Hu Lushou's words, Qian Dele couldn't help but ask, "North of Longjiang is the Luling Forest and Haiqu City. Even if they entered that primeval forest, it's impossible for them to come out and end up in the Gobi Desert in the west, right?"

“Yes, to get into the western Gobi Desert, you have to cross hundreds of miles of hills and canyons. It’s absolutely impossible to drive recklessly,” Shi Diyuan said.

"Did you somehow stumble into some kind of spacetime wormhole?" Monica teased.

Lin Xian's gaze swept over Chen Sixuan and KIKI beside him. If it were just Hu Lushou, Lin Xian would definitely think he was exaggerating. However, Lao Mo and Sun Yuzhen's descriptions were similar to Hu Lushou's, and the fact that their convoy appeared in the Western Gobi Desert was enough to prove that what Hu Lushou said was true. This made Lin Xian have no choice but to believe that Hu Lushou and Lao Mo's group had encountered some kind of supernatural phenomenon...

"This might be a warning to us," Lin Xian said solemnly. "That is, Star Abyss No. 5 has become extremely unstable, and the Phoenix Society's Star Abyss monitoring situation may be starting to get out of control..."

Upon hearing this, everyone on the frequency band fell silent.

The Phoenix Club's assessment of one year and 96 days is already a conservative estimate. If what Lin Xian said is true, then everyone's time may be running out.

Lin Xian thought for a moment and then said, "There's no point in guessing anymore. Let's all rest up tonight and set off two hours before dawn tomorrow!"

"Okay!" Everyone agreed with the suggestion. Now it's not just a matter of water resources; the No. 5 Star Abyss behind them is also showing signs of disturbance. Under these circumstances, it's best to cross the no-man's land and enter Quancheng as soon as possible. Any other worries are meaningless.

After communicating with each team, Lin Xian used a walkie-talkie to briefly discuss the situation with the core members of the Infinite. At this time, he had also finished manufacturing the fully automatic bullet press. The brand-new industrial machine tool was located in carriage number 13, which was quite spectacular.

After that, Lin only needs to manufacture a few sets of raw material conveyor belts, use PX-05 robots to control them, and then put in raw materials such as primer materials, metal plates, bullet cores, and propellants. If the efficiency is not enough, he can add two more robots. In this way, his bullet manufacturing only needs to preset a specification and quantity requirement for the robots, and it can manufacture continuously for 24 hours. The only constraints are electricity and the consumption of materials.

Electricity is not a problem at the moment, and as for materials, Lin still has plenty to absorb in Yijin City. All of that was prepared for laying tracks, so it's not a problem for now either.

After finishing, Lin Xian stood up and, seeing the large industrial machine tool, couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

"Finally, a major task is done. I don't have to manually concoct bullets one by one anymore..."

While hand-crafting ammunition was a minor task for Lin Xian, it consumed too much of his time, and the ammunition was consumed much faster than he could manufacture, making him almost a mechanical entity.

It took Lin Xian about 4 hours to complete a fully automatic bullet press. Now that there were people on guard at each carriage and weapon station at night, Lin Xian quickly ate something and drank some water before returning to carriage number 1 to prepare for sleep.

The last time he slept was after he fainted in Xilan City. He hadn't closed his eyes even once since then in Yijin City and when he entered the Western Gobi Desert. He had fought a major battle during the day and had been working continuously since then. He was completely exhausted and felt a little dizzy. So as soon as he lay down, he fell asleep immediately.

Click, click.

In the darkness, Lin Xian could almost hear the ticking of his watch's second hand, but the problem was, he was wearing a digital watch, which shouldn't make any sound.

I opened my eyes to the blinding light; before me lay a brightly lit corridor.

The corridor was very clean, seemingly located within a research institute, though it was unclear whether it was above ground or underground. However, Lin Xian felt a vague sense of familiarity about the corridor.

Lin Xian looked at his hands. The realism of his surroundings was very strong, but his subconscious told him that he was definitely not really in this place.

The corridor was completely silent. Lin Xian looked around and saw no one. Then he saw a sign in front of him, which might tell him where he was.

Just as Lin Xian took a few steps forward, he suddenly heard a series of hurried footsteps coming from around the corner ahead. The footsteps grew closer and closer, and it seemed that there was more than one person. He subconsciously felt that he couldn't just stand there like an idiot. But just as he was about to make a move, a door to a room next to him suddenly opened, a hand reached out and pulled him inside, and then closed the door.

pat, pat.

The next second, a group of people appeared from around the corner and quickly passed by the spot where Lin Xian had just been standing.

Inside the room, the lights were dim. Lin Xian was being held down behind the door with his mouth covered. He glanced around and saw an old acquaintance in front of him.

Chu Yan.

She was dressed as a researcher, wearing black-rimmed glasses, with short, neat hair, bright eyes, and clear teeth. If it weren't for those cold eyes, Lin Xian would have really thought she was a researcher.

"Why are you here?"

Lin Xian shrugged: "It's always this question I ask every time I open my mouth. I'd like to know it too."

"No, this time is different."

Chu Yan looked at him, scrutinized him, and then said coldly, "Help me."

"what?"

"Follow me, don't wander off."

After saying that, Chu Yan opened the door and walked quickly outside, with Lin Xian frowning and following behind.

Watching Chu Yan walk briskly ahead, Lin Xian's mind was filled with doubt. This was the first time he had had physical contact with this woman, but it didn't make sense. Logically, since he wasn't actually here, it was impossible for him to have this kind of tactile sensation.

But the scene was so real that Lin Xian subconsciously tried to activate the Mechanical Heart.

It operated successfully, but strangely, the light screen of the mechanical heart did not appear in front of us.

Weird...

"Where are you going?"

Lin Xian watched as Chu Yan quickly led her to the end of the corridor, then silently opened the door to an office. The interior was luxurious, suggesting that the office owner was of high status.

Chu Yan didn't say anything, but went straight to the computer in the office and quickly started operating something.

"Are you stealing?"

"Yes," Chu Yan replied directly.

Lin Xian looked surprised. Just who was this Chu Yan? Why was she acting like a secret agent, stealing information? He slowly walked over, looked at a nameplate on the table, and immediately frowned.

“Julius Litt…”

"This name seems so familiar."

"I... don't know much. My husband brought me here. This organization is very mysterious. The highest-ranking person I've ever met is a white man named Julius Litt, who looks to be in his forties. He's the one who told us about the characteristics of the mycelial network here and even showed us the hallucinogenic spores. The others..."

In an instant, memories flooded back, and he recalled the sign he had seen in the corridor when he was following behind Chu Yan—[5F, Core Experimental Zone]—and his expression immediately changed drastically.

While busy at work, Chu Yan looked up at Lin Xian's expression, and a slight smile appeared on her lips.

"Quite smart."

Lin Xian looked incredulous: "That's not right. The fifth basement level of Crimson Pharmaceuticals has already been covered by mycelium. Didn't everyone evacuate?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Yan stopped typing.

"You came before?"

"You didn't know I was here?" This time, Lin Xian was stunned. He immediately said, "Didn't you remind me that the corpse drivers from Star Abyss No. 5 appeared in this area during the last tidal cycle, and even suggested that we lie dormant underground to rest and wait for the next active mycelium cycle to leave?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Yan looked somewhat bewildered. She turned to Lin Xian and asked, "What are you talking about? Wasn't our last meeting in Yubei City?"

"and many more!"

Lin Xian was startled and immediately asked, "How many times have we met?"

"Including this time?"

"Calculate."

"4 times."

Lin Xian looked puzzled: "Twice in the Jiang City shelter, once in Yubei, and now once. Are you sure we haven't met anywhere else?"

"No," Chu Yan said calmly, glancing at him.

"So where exactly is this place..."

Bang bang bang!
Before he could finish speaking, a sudden gunshot rang out from the doorway. Chu Yan's fingers moved faster, as if she had obtained what she wanted, and she immediately stood up: "Come with me."

Lin Xian turned around and saw that the office door was riddled with bullet holes, and a group of people were preparing to break in.

"Who's inside!"

"Security! Arrest them!"

A man was roaring.

At this moment, Chu Yan arrived at a corner of the office and familiarly activated a mechanism. The bookshelf opened a hidden door, and she immediately went inside. Seeing this, Lin Xian followed her. The two quickly emerged from a concealed passage and arrived at a bright and wide corridor. At the end of the corridor was a large elevator.

Lin Xian remembered this corridor. After he and KIKI's team experienced the hallucinogenic giant fungus in the lobby of the Crimson Pharmaceutical Center, they took this elevator down to this floor. When the elevator doors opened, the entire corridor was covered with mycelial vines. They circled around to the underground platform and finally found the Zero Element Center via the underground rail train.

At this moment, Lin Xian was running after Chu Yan, his mind racing with thoughts.

Did he travel through time and arrive before Ejin was covered by mycelium?
Why does Grace from the Zero Element Center have a holographic face of Chu Yan, and why does she remind him of the corpse driver's information?
Why was he able to run into Chu Yan? Is he not on the Infinity Ship right now?

All the questions swirled in Lin Xian's mind like a tangled mass of murky asphalt.

Bang bang bang!
At that moment, a hail of bullets came from behind. Lin instinctively activated his AT field shield behind him, but there was nothing there. He could only crouch down and dodge the bullets as he sped toward the elevator.

Ding!
The elevator doors opened, and Chu Yan and Lin Xian quickly ran inside, hiding on either side of the doors. In the corridor, a group of armed men were firing wildly at the elevator. Behind them was a tall, thin, middle-aged white man with a cold expression. If I'm not mistaken, this man should be Julius Litt, the supervisor of the Zero Element Center.

Wow~
At the critical moment, the elevator doors finally closed, and the gunfire outside stopped abruptly.

Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief, while Chu Yan beside him remained calm. She quickly took off her research jacket and glasses, revealing a black action suit underneath. Surprisingly, Chu Yan's arms and legs were mechanical prosthetics, and when she removed her wig, a long, gray ponytail was revealed...

In that instant, Lin Xian felt that Chu Yan had become a completely different person, noticeably different from the one he had met in Jiang City and Yubei City.

"I already know your identity, Lin Xian, a member of the Infinite Team, a member of the Crimson Phoenix Order cooperation team of the Phoenix Society, and you have information briefings on the great transfer of Yubei City and Xilan City."

Ignoring Lin Xian's surprise and doubt, Chu Yan said, "You don't need to worry. Strictly speaking, I also belong to the Phoenix Society."

"Alliance? So you're not a member of the Phoenix Society?" Lin Xian immediately asked.

"That's one way to understand it, but the Phoenix Society isn't just a single official organization as you think; all Salvationists can be members of the Phoenix Society."

"Can you be more direct? Where are we right now? What is your identity? Why am I establishing this connection with you in my dream?" Lin Xian blurted out all his questions, but at that moment, his keen sixth sense began to detect that something was wrong.

Because the elevator took too long to ascend.

The entire Crimson Pharmaceutical Building wasn't a high-rise building; it only had five underground floors. How could it have taken so long to ascend? Lin Xian looked at the elevator and was shocked to find that it wasn't going up but going down. It had already descended to the eighty-something-story underground floor and was still descending at an extremely fast speed.
-
85, -86, -87...

"What's going on? We're descending!"

Chu Yan, however, was not in a hurry. Instead, she looked at Lin Xian and questioned him, "You said you saw me here and warned me that there were corpse drivers in this area. Did I personally tell you this information?"

Lin Xian frowned: "No, but he looks a lot like you."

"A robot?" Chu Yan asked.

"Correct."

Chu Yan frowned, her expression unchanged. She stepped forward and pressed the elevator button. Finally, the elevator stopped at the -99th floor.

Hey~
At that moment, the elevator doors slowly opened, and a bright light shone through. Lin Xian shielded his eyes from the glare and was surprised to find that he and Chu Yan were on the rooftop of a skyscraper!

Lin Xian stepped out of the elevator, his gaze blank as he looked outside. It was a vibrant, mechanical city. From the towering twin star towers in the distance and the enormous city ring, it was clear that this place…

It's Dawn City!

At this moment, it was not yet night in Dawn City, but the sky was filled with dark clouds, and the huge city below seemed to be operating in a dull and orderly manner, just like before the day of the apocalypse.

Chu Yan came out, stood on the outer edge of the tall building, and said to Lin Xian in the cold wind.

Do you know why I was so curious to see you here?

"I've roughly figured it out now," Lin Xian said in a deep breath.
"You guessed it?" Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian with some curiosity: "Tell me about it."

Lin Xian's expression was serious as he looked at Chu Yan, whose mechanical structure and graceful figure made her stand out, and he spoke.
"If I'm not mistaken, I should be in Julius Litt's dream right now. What information are you here to extract from his subconscious?"

This was definitely not time travel. Based on the series of strange terrain changes just now, including the tactile sensation he felt when he touched Chu Yan, Lin Xian felt that Chu Yan must possess some kind of stream of consciousness or mental ability, but he didn't know why he had some kind of entanglement with her consciousness.

Upon hearing Lin Xian's words, a hint of surprise flashed across Chu Yan's cold and beautiful face, before she looked at Lin Xian with considerable appreciation.
"Not bad at all, no wonder the Phoenix Society recognizes him. However, this is my world of consciousness."

"Really?"

Although he guessed correctly, Lin Xian was still incredibly shocked. The world of consciousness? What a joke...

With a deafening roar, a violent earthquake began to strike the entire Dawn City. The Twin Star Tower shook violently, and tall buildings all around began to collapse.

"It seems our meeting is going to end again," Lin Xian said with some reluctance as he looked at the scene.

"Do not."

Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian with a serious expression: "If you don't leave my dream now, you may never wake up again."

"Are you kidding me?!" Lin Xian exclaimed in surprise.

Chu Yan said calmly, "I also have many questions about your appearance. In the past, I was the one who appeared in other people's consciousness, but only you have appeared in mine. And according to the information from the Phoenix Society, you do not seem to have this kind of superpower. So I can only deduce from my logic that if your consciousness does not jump out of my dream and return to reality, it may have some adverse effects on you."

"How do I jump away?" At this moment, the earth-shaking power was getting stronger and stronger, and the entire tall building was shaking violently. Lin Xian already felt that he could not stand steadily.

Chu Yan stepped onto the outer edge of the high-rise building and pointed to a puddle of rainwater on the street below the 99th floor.

"See that puddle? Aim and jump."

"Hey, are you kidding me? I've seen the movie and read the novel about Jumping Dream, but I've never heard of aiming at a puddle of rain."

Chu Yan turned around and looked at him indifferently: "Have you forgotten that we are on the 99th basement level?"

"so?"

"So we ourselves are reflected in that puddle of rainwater downstairs!"

Chu Yan grabbed Lin Xian's hand and then pushed him off the high-rise building.

"Lying on the grass!"

Looking down from the reflection?
Directly flip the world?

Whoosh!

In an instant, a strong sense of weightlessness swept over him. In the Infinite Carriage No. 1, Lin Xian's eyes kept moving. He saw the ground rapidly approaching, and the world around him was collapsing and breaking apart. The black rainwater seemed to be glowing, as if it were an unknown passage!

Lin Xian gritted his teeth and subconsciously put his hands in front of his face. The moment he landed, he felt a jolt throughout his body and the scenery around him changed rapidly.

Opening his eyes, Lin Xian found himself in a dark room. Several bodies of armed personnel in power armor lay on the floor. Inside the room stood six people—four men and two women—each exuding a powerful aura and clad in full-body, high-level combat armor. Three were Iron Hunter-level and three were Ghost Wolf-level. The group stood together, with two people sitting on two stools in the middle.

One was Chu Yan, who was wearing power armor and looked somewhat different from the one with the mechanical prosthetic limbs. The other was the middle-aged white man, Julius Litt, whom Lin Xian had just met.

At this moment, Chu Yan seemed to wake up. She opened her eyes and slowly stood up from the stool. Seeing that she had woken up, one of the other six people immediately asked...

"Captain Yan, how is it?"

"It's done." Chu Yan's voice was cold. Then she turned around and glanced at Lin Xian, who was standing in the corner.

"Take your belongings and prepare to evacuate."

"Yes!" The six people acted quickly and left the room, leaving only Lin Xian and Chu Yan inside.

Lin Xian realized that, apart from Chu Yan, no one else could detect his presence.

Looking at the corpses scattered on the ground, and the white man named Julius Litt, who was still alive but seemed to be under some kind of control and had fallen into a long coma.

The man was dressed in a high-end power armor suit, with triangular blue light pillars on his chest as the power source. He had a gentle and refined appearance. Lin Xian looked around the room. It seemed to be an underground shelter. The holographic screen in the room was scrolling with the identity information of many survivors, all of whom were marked with the experimental subjects' numbers.

"Lin Xian, a mechanical ability user, on August 11th, repaired the Yubei Climbing Elevator and proposed the 'Traction Plan' to save 30,000 survivors. On August 30th, he participated in the Xilan City Forging Project, piloting special weapons and, together with the Xilan Phoenix Society and tens of thousands of survivors, completed the first kill of the S-class supernatural entity 'Black Thorn in the Clouds' since the Apocalypse Day..."

Chu Yan activated her battle armor mask and scrutinized Lin Xian as she walked: "You accomplished a great feat in Xilan City, bringing excitement and hope to survivor organizations around the world. However, it also triggered signs of unstable expansion in Xingyuan."

Lin Xian frowned: "Because you killed an S-rank?"

Chu Yan tilted her head slightly: "No, the changes in Xingyuan are still a mystery to us, but humanity's first extermination of an S-class anomaly has made these guys who like to hide underground anxious."

"The Adventists?" Lin Xian didn't understand. "Why are they in such a hurry?"

“S-class anomalies are currently considered to be among the dark creatures with civilization-influencing effects. For these Adventists, they are gods in their search for a new dimension of life, the key to unlocking a new civilization.” Chu Yan glanced back at him: “Why do you think they’re in such a hurry?”

After saying that, Chu Yan started to walk outside, and Lin Xian got up and followed behind her.

"These Adventists are currently a problem that our Phoenix Society has to deal with while dealing with the world's crisis. For us humans, it is like being attacked from both sides. Moreover, for some reason, these organizations have made research progress in some extreme dark research areas that surpass the world's scientific research level. You have been to Clearwater Town, which may not be unfamiliar to you, but it has also aroused the vigilance of the Phoenix Society."

Lin Xian followed behind, listening to Chu Yan's words. He realized that this seemed to be some kind of underground fortification under a mountain. The corridor was full of signs of fighting and corpses were everywhere. Lin Xian noticed that these people all had a triangular, deep red world symbol on their chests, which meant they were all members of this organization.

"Is there such a thing as knowing the end times before the day of revelation?"

"Someone has raised this point before, but it can't be confirmed. The Phoenix Society is also conducting a full investigation."

They walked until they reached the entrance of a facility. Chu Yan pushed open the door, and Lin Xian saw that outside was the Gobi Desert under the cover of darkness. This underground facility was located under a giant rock, with many radio telescopes and their reflecting antennas standing around it. However, these facilities were all old and dilapidated. On the other hand, there was a large radar overhead that was newly built and bore the symbol of the Crimson World.

"Is this... Bailutan Stargazing Station?"

As soon as Lin Xian came out, he immediately saw several rusty iron plates.

"You know this place well too?" Chu Yan asked him as she walked up to a higher spot.

Lin Xian shook his head: "If I were to estimate, my convoy and I should be within 1000 kilometers of here right now."

To everyone's surprise, Chu Yan's expression changed upon hearing this, and she immediately turned around and said, "Aksai?"

Lin Xian did not answer.

Chu Yan looked at him in silence, then took a deep breath.

"The organization I belong to is called the North American United Front (NAUF). You can think of it as a special organization affiliated with the Phoenix Society that spans Oceania and North America. My information is top secret in the Phoenix Society, so even though you are a member of the Crimson Phoenix Order's cooperative team, I cannot reveal my mission and actions to you. I also don't know why I established this connection with you. Now we are about to leave, and as a friendly reminder, I will give you two pieces of information. Whether you believe them or not is up to you."

"First, the people of the Crimson World have their eyes on you. This doesn't mean you have any high priority. Right now, all the powerful and special ability users are on their hunting list, including me. I'm not from the Crimson World. As for why they're using my face as a holographic projection, you might find out later..."

"I see." Lin Xian turned around and looked at the corpses in the crimson world along the corridor. He had originally planned to explore the White Deer Beach Star Observatory, but now... it seemed unnecessary.

Chu Yan's expression was cold as she looked at Lin Xian and said, "Secondly, if you were in Aksai now, it would be too late for you to evacuate the no-man's-land."

Lin Xian's expression froze slightly upon hearing this: "What do you mean?"

At this moment, a holographic interface appeared in front of Chu Yan's power armor mask. It was a map simulation of the No. 5 Star Abyss. In the southeast direction of the No. 5 Star Abyss, an irregular expansion area appeared. It was not a global expansion, but a regional expansion, making the originally circular No. 5 Star Abyss seem to have an additional elliptical polar night area.

"An unstable energy anchor point has appeared in Star Abyss No. 5. According to our investigation and that of Nightwalker Division II, this is very likely related to a large forbidden object that the Crimson World recently removed from it. That thing is now somewhere in the no-man's-land, which is why Star Abyss No. 5 is suddenly expanding. This expansion is irregular, non-circular and radial, and extremely strange. The last time it appeared was in the Wei River, and this time, that large forbidden object has appeared in the Aksai no-man's-land!"

"We speculate that since there was no unusual activity in Xingyuan today, it is very likely to happen tomorrow. So if you can't get out of the Aksai no-man's-land before dark tomorrow, I suggest you turn back or take a detour through the Hailar Mountains."

Lin Xian's face darkened: "Impossible. We are a train regiment, and this is the only way we can go now."

Running back would only lead to returning to Yijin City and Xilan City, which would require bypassing Star Abyss No. 5 and returning to Hengshan Pass, making it impossible.

Upon hearing this, Chu Yan calmly replied, "That's your business. I can't help you. Of course, if you're extremely lucky, you might not run into it at all. Good luck to you."

After saying that, Chu Yan prepared to leave, but stopped after taking only one step and turned back to look at Lin Xian.

"Did anything similar happen before you and I established this kind of conscious connection each time?"

Lin Xian was curious, and so was Chu Yan.

Her special ability is top secret, and the fact that Lin Xian is spying on her like this is already a crisis. Logically speaking, Chu Yan should report this situation to her superiors immediately to ensure that her special mission goes smoothly. However, she, who is usually calm, has kept this to herself, so that every time Lin Xian appears, Chu Yan has a strange feeling that is not even real to herself.

The investigation into Lin Xian's background and deeds relieved Chu Yan, but also aroused her curiosity about his mechanical abilities.

From a certain perspective, mechanical superpowers possess almost all the technological capabilities of current human civilization, which can no longer be understood simply as 'superpowers'.

"The same thing..."

Lin Xian took a deep breath, and a vague answer had already formed in his mind.

Drop drop, drop drop.

The watch beeped, startling Lin Xian, who quickly checked the time.

At 5 a.m., in order to leave two hours earlier, Lin Xian only allowed himself to sleep for 6 hours.

However, at this moment, he was extremely anxious. If what Chu Yan said was true, they had to break out of the no-man's land before 18:45 tonight. So if they set off immediately, they would have 13 hours and 45 minutes left!

The combined train must maintain a high speed of over 280 kilometers per hour to have any chance of breaking out of the no-man's-land before nightfall!

Seeing Lin Xian's expression, Chu Yan guessed his intention. Seeing that Lin Xian was forcibly waking up, she immediately spoke loudly.

“Listen, humanity needs to have a correct understanding of forbidden objects. They are not treasures, but a distortion of power from another world that is incomprehensible. So-called containment is just that we have found a way to contact them. Although some organizations want to use this power, the dark and invading power of the forbidden object itself cannot be eliminated. It is a double-edged sword. The containment of forbidden objects is difficult to understand from a human perspective. It is like you draw a line on a piece of white paper with a pen. You will not think your pen is magical. But if there is a two-dimensional world on the white paper, then your pen becomes a magical tool for dividing the world.”

On the Infinity, Lin Xian's eyes twitched wildly. He forced himself to stay conscious, looking at Chu Yan who was gradually blurring in front of him, trying his best to hear every word she said.

"Don't try to understand taboos with a human perspective. If you see them, don't look. If you try to understand them, it will definitely be counterintuitive. Don't try to describe them!"

"And never look up at the sky!!"

hum~
Chu Yan's voice trailed off into a loud, booming sound that echoed through the dark space. The sound grew clearer as it approached, eventually transforming into the sound of a strong wind blowing against the Aksai Station platform sign.

"Lin Xian!"

The bedroom door opened, and Chen Sixuan saw Lin Xian startled awake. She immediately said to him, "A sandstorm is here!"

"Start the train."

"what?"

Lin Xian stood up and, after a long time, used his Mechanical Heart to start the engine of the Giant Whale 03E heavy gas turbine locomotive!

boom!
The engine of the Giant Whale 03E heavy-duty gas turbine locomotive roared like a raging lion, and a huge traction torque came crashing down, instantly causing the Longshan No. 1 carriage in front to vibrate one by one, while at the same time pulling the train behind to jolt violently!
At 5 a.m., when most people were sound asleep and resting, the entire train suddenly began to creak with the groan of metal carriages!

As Lin Xian frantically ran towards the rear of the train, he pressed the communicator with a sharp expression and shouted a full-frequency notification:

"Everyone, set off immediately!"

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(End of this chapter)