Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 330 Devouring
"Don't look, run!"

Lin Xian's words resounded like a thunderclap in Shi Diyuan and Ning Jing's earphones. At that moment, everyone in the cockpit of Longshan No. 1 felt as if the temperature inside the cabin had dropped by 10 degrees Celsius. After realizing what had happened, Shi Diyuan broke out in a cold sweat and immediately pressed the window closing button on the control panel, closing all the cockpit windows.

"Speed ​​up, rely on the drone and car navigation, and don't look over there!"

The moment Lin Xian saw the statue, he recognized it as the Merlion of Lion City, which had been swallowed by Star Abyss No. 5 on the day of the Apocalypse. Therefore, it was impossible for that thing to appear in the no-man's land of the Western Gobi Desert, especially in such a bizarre way.

The floating colossus, the distorted light, the lion's eyes gazing at the tears of blood—when the human brain tries to comprehend this image at first glance, it's as if billions of pieces of redundant information bombard the neurons, causing one to begin to waver in their own existence, as if their spirit is being corroded by the visuals.

This feeling was completely different from when Lin Xian saw the silver bullet; it truly seemed like an object from another dimension.

Rumble!
In an instant, a thunderclap suddenly rang out across the vast, uninhabited wilderness. Whether it came from the sky or from underground, it was impossible to tell. The already tense atmosphere in the joint convoy instantly made everyone's hearts jump to their throats.

The system is currently detecting the driver's vital signs.

[Vital signs are good, heart rate... body temperature...]

[Common-mode system enabled]

A flash of light appeared before my eyes, the system restarted, a progress bar loaded, and various subsystems such as motion, defense, radar, situational awareness, and life support appeared one by one on the light screen interface.

With a series of quick movements, Lin Xian immediately shut off all the sunshades on the train. His heart pounded wildly. Just then, the colossus seemed to turn around and 'look' at the combined train. It was expanding infinitely as it moved away, as if the surrounding space was collapsing in its direction!

Lin Xian realized what was happening and immediately rushed towards carriage number 2 while pressing the communicator and shouting.
"Everyone, do not look to the left of the train!"

Upon hearing Lin Xian's words, the leaders of each team of the United Train were all startled and hurriedly relayed the message to their teams.

"No way~"

Inside the Fu Lu Shou RV, Hu Lu Shou, who had been on tenterhooks, turned pale. He quickly pulled down the curtain next to the window, but then realized he was on the right side and quickly pulled it back up. At that moment, he looked south into the no-man's-land and gasped in shock.

"Lin Xian, look!"

In the information center of carriage number 2, KIKI stared wide-eyed at the screen in front of her. The images on the screen made her mouth agape in surprise, speechless.

Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan rushed out of the carriage one after the other, only to see a horrifying scene on the monitor screen.

To the left of the train stretched the vast Gobi Desert, its surface a rust-red hue under the setting sun. But to the right, to the south, the horizon seemed to collapse without warning. Just moments before, the expansive Gobi horizon was bathed in a blinding gold, but now a continuous tide of darkness surged forth, like an overturned pool of ink. Thick darkness billowed up from below the horizon, like a massive wall of liquid asphalt, over a thousand meters high, pushing across the entire Gobi Desert at a speed that defied the laws of physics!

The darkness was not pure black; deep within it and in the tides, there seemed to be an iridescent glow, like an oil spill. The air suddenly became sticky and viscous, and all the light on the horizon was stained a sickly emerald green by the darkness, sweeping wildly across the sky and the ground.

"What...what is that?" Chen Sixuan covered her mouth and asked in an incredulous tone.

"That's the fucking Star Abyss No. 5!!!"

Lin Xian immediately felt a sudden explosion in his mind. Without even thinking, he frantically activated the Mechanical Heart, accelerating the power of the Giant Whale 03E heavy gas turbine locomotive, the Mighty Dragon-class locomotive, and the Ring Star 10A locomotive to their limits. In an instant, all the engines and motors of the Infinite roared and roared. The enormous torque caused all the drive wheels of the train to tear out flashes of orange sparks. Instantly, a huge impact force propelled the Dragon Mountain No. 1, pulling the train behind it to begin a violent acceleration!
"Everyone, speed up! Run!"

Empty!
As the Longshan No. 1 was being pushed forward, huge metallic rattling sounds emanated from each of the carriages. At the same time, everyone in the convoy also discovered the terrifying black tide in the south. Cold gasps, curses, and exclamations rose and fell on the communication frequency. In an instant, all the trains accelerated to their maximum power, no longer caring whether the northern track had been under maintenance or was damaged, and all began to operate at maximum power.

250KM, 300KM, 350KM, 400KM! !
With a whooshing sound as it cuts through the wind, this steel dragon in the wilderness is accelerating violently, with gusts of yellow sand rising from the Gobi Desert. The 15-kilometer-long combined train, carrying the extreme power of an industrial behemoth, is rushing forward at top speed!
Meanwhile, the Fulu Shou team, the Dawn team, the Aksai Brotherhood, and other car teams were filled with shouts and curses both inside and outside their vehicles.

“Run, run!!”

"Speed ​​up!"

"Throw away the unwanted weights, charge!"

"It's over, it's over..."

"Shut the fuck up, drive properly, watch where you're going!!"

At this moment, Lu Zhao, the leader at the front, immediately shouted into the communication channel: "Maintain formation, don't panic, don't drive out, follow the car in front!"

The Gobi Desert may appear flat, but it is actually full of jagged rocks. Only the road surface that has been manually compacted along the tracks is the smoothest. With the help of a clearing vehicle leading the way, this convoy of hundreds of vehicles can maintain its maximum speed. If they lose their composure at this point, it will definitely be a chaotic mess with vehicles crashing and people dying.

Lu Zhao's words immediately dispelled the thoughts of those who wanted to break out of the traffic to overtake. Everyone watched the train accelerate away and could only hold their breath and chase after it along the tracks.

On the train convoy side, all twenty-two train teams were on high alert. The trains' power was at its maximum, and even the concrete sleepers on the Gobi Desert tracks were trembling. Meanwhile, the darkness in the south was like a tsunami, gradually widening and towering from what began as a single black line.

The once clear sky was also swallowed by the darkness, like a giant dark wall that enveloped the world and kept pushing towards the train.

On Longshan No. 1's side, Shi Diyuan was unusually sweating profusely. He was looking at the dark sky on the monitor and the driving radar at the same time, his fists clenched tightly.

"So this is the terrifying sight that the Star Abyss is pressing down on us!" Ning Jing's expression was also extremely solemn. At this moment, everyone on Dragon Mountain No. 1, including her, felt an immense crisis.

"Damn it, it's still more than an hour before it gets dark." Shi Diyuan frowned.

"You can't calculate it that way. We were actually quite close to Star Abyss No. 5; we escaped from Yijin City by barely touching the edge of the polar night," Ning Jing said.
"Then how come Star Abyss runs faster than Polar Night? Isn't that..." Shi Diyuan was about to say something strange.

But what is normal for them right now?

At this moment, Qian Dele's voice came through the communication channel: "That darkness is spreading very quickly. I estimate that it will be 'dark' in no more than an hour."

"Is it called 'darkness' in the Star Abyss?" Monica said coldly, "Give up all illusions. It's impossible for us to advance into Spring City before dark. We haven't even seen the edge of that tide yet."

In carriage 2 of the Infinite, KIKI and Luo Yang and others from carriage 12 were doing calculations. The computer screen displayed an image of the horizon taken using optical information to identify the sky.

"How is it?!" Lin Xian asked anxiously.

"Still calculating!" KIKI's fingers kept moving, while at the same time Luo Yang sent a message.

"Optical measurements suggest the expansion speed should be around 220 kilometers per hour, meaning it would only take half an hour to reach us, but the edges on both sides are too blurry..."

Lin Xian remembered that Chu Yan had said that the situation of the Wei River was an irregular expansion of Star Abyss No. 5. In other words, it was not the entire Star Abyss with a diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers that was advancing, but a part of an irregular area. So although the tide looked like it stretched to the horizon, it was not. If it was advancing in a near-circular manner, then the arrival of the tide would not be a vertical wall. So if they were escaping along the tangential direction, as long as they could determine the speed and edge of the dark giant wall, they could calculate whether they could escape.

"Clap clap clap," KIKI said urgently, "At our speed and direction of travel, unless the Star Abyss's expansion area is no more than 1000 kilometers in diameter and its depth is no more than 350 kilometers, we have no chance of avoiding it."

Lin Xian's expression darkened upon hearing this. He shared this information with everyone, but even so, it all sounded overly optimistic.

“Monica is right. Give up on illusions. In the worst-case scenario, we will be swallowed by the Star Abyss in half an hour. So we can only fight and run, just like when we entered the sandstorm this morning.”

"Half an hour is barely good news; at least we have time to prepare," Qian Dele said.

“Besides, compared to what Lao Mo and Boss Hu encountered before, the fact that we’re traveling on the tracks is good news,” Monica said. “At least we won’t get lost.”

"Where are Boss Hu and the others? Have they caught up?"

"The communicator still has a signal, so it shouldn't be too far."

Just as he finished speaking, Hu Lushou's intermittent signal came through the communicator: "Hey guys, if we can't break through, why don't you slow down and wait for us? If we encounter a monster tide, we can all concentrate our firepower so we don't get separated."

"Who knows what we'll encounter? Driving a little further might allow us to get out of there sooner, so why slow down?!" Shi Diyuan immediately said, "Just keep driving. At this speed, we won't fall behind by much even after another half hour!"

Upon hearing this, Hu Lushou's face fell, and he slapped his thigh, ready to curse.

"Oh no, oh no, we're going to become cannon fodder..."

Sun Chang, standing to the side, calmly advised him, "They can't slow down for us, but they're right. Right now, we can only run as fast as we can along the track. As long as we don't get lost, we were able to break through last time, and we definitely can this time too."

Hearing Sun Chang's words, a glimmer of life returned to Hu Lushou's mournful face. He gazed at the colossal, dark wall of light on the horizon outside the car window, and gritted his teeth as he spoke.

"Damn it, if I were piloting a Dragon-class transport ship, I could have just used afterburner and rushed out of there. I wouldn't have to suffer like this."

Sun Chang gave him a cold glance.

"Have you forgotten how your transport ship crashed?"

Upon hearing this, Hu Lushou immediately shuddered, swallowing back the words he wanted to say, and could only sit there praying with a sullen expression. On the Infinite side, everyone who could wear power armor had already donned it. Shu Qin and Da Lou, along with their people and the PX-05 robot, were carrying boxes of ammunition to each carriage. Even Lu Xingchen, with a grim expression and on high alert, stood by the carriage in his power armor, watching the darkness approach, his eyes blazing with fury.

“KIKI”.

In carriage number 2, Lin Xian had KIKI put on a set of power armor as well: "Anything can happen in the Star Abyss, and your psychic shield may not be able to withstand everything."

KIKI nodded and obediently put on a set of Lone Wolf S power armor. She said optimistically, "Actually, I've wanted to wear it for a long time, but sometimes I find it too troublesome."

“The motion unit is useless, but at least the radar system and defensive armor will still be useful to you,” Lin Xian said.

"That's true."

Chen Sixuan walked over and said, "Raise the weapons and turn on the fire control radar in advance. The system reacts faster than a person."

"Okay." KIKI immediately took action, raising all the electromagnetic cannons, 1130s, anti-aircraft cannons, and automatic Gatling gun turrets from the roof of the train. At the same time, the arc pulse vibrator and the electric blade armor on both sides of the train were also activated, and the entire Infinite entered the fully unlocked combat mode.

"Report your situation from each carriage." Lin Xian looked at the massive, dark wall that was constantly approaching and obscuring the sky, and pressed the communicator to speak.
"Carriage 21, Liang Lei, Da Zhou, ready, Captain Lin, don't worry." Liang Lei, weapon in hand, his skin now metallic, stood ready for battle.

"Carriage 17, everyone is ready," Li Yi's voice came from inside.

"Carriage 15, our men are ready." Li Guangwen, clad in power armor, took a deep breath.

"Lolo and Amin are both in carriage 14!"

"Carriage 12, Luo Yang and Xiao Bai are both OK, the weapon fire control radar is online!"

"Carriage 9, Shu Qin, Miao Lu, and Lü Chang, stand by!"

"Huo Ge and I are both in carriage number 6, so don't worry, Xian Ge."

"Carriage number 3, this is Xiaoyuan, I'm with Director Ding!"

"Carriage 20, Sally is ready." At this moment, Sasha had already sat in the fully armed Sally in carriage 20, with the six-axis mechanical arm attached to the mech behind her, ready to be activated at any time to go out of the carriage for combat.

In carriage number 2, Lin Xian, Chen Sixuan, and KIKI, all dressed in armor, exchanged knowing glances.

"Let's go to the cockpit."

"Ok!"

Lin Xian called Chen Sixuan, and the two of them, still working together, headed towards the cockpit of the Infinity.

"About 50 kilometers left!"

Shi Diyuan's voice came through the communicator, and everyone tensed up!
At 17:29 PM, on the vast Gobi Desert to the south, a massive black wall, piercing the horizon, surged forward with a raging dark storm. At this distance, one could almost see all sorts of bizarre dark distortions within it. It wasn't pure black; it was more like an annihilation tide from another planetary body, completely occupying the space between heaven and earth. At this moment, the high-speed United Train had the orange-red sunset on its left and a dark wave like a cosmic beast on its right. The black, viscous storm curtain twisted wildly, silently swallowing the sand dunes, rusty signal towers, and wind-eroded rocks it passed by.

"20 kilometers!"

Dangdangdang!

The ground, the dust, the tracks—everything was trembling. The entire sky was darkening. In front of Longshan-1, the Gobi Desert was no longer visible; only a black curtain of water thousands of meters high, like a fault line in the world, stretched out before them!

"10 kilometers!"

The wind howled, and the train wheels crashed together, creating countless sparks, and the sky and earth changed color.

When the dark wall was only three kilometers away from the train, all the frenzied sounds suddenly disappeared. The gravel beside the tracks lost all its shadow the moment the darkness touched it, as if its three-dimensional coordinates had been removed, flattening into two-dimensional ghostly shadows like paper cutouts. The mercury column in the thermometer inside the carriage plummeted, frost flowers condensed on the surface of the stainless steel forks in the dining car, and the temperature dropped sharply!
Ka Ka Ka Ka
The train frequencies that had been in constant communication suddenly emitted strange static. The voices of Lin Xian, Shi Diyuan, Monica, Qian Dele, and others became a jumbled mess, making it impossible to hear anything clearly. It was as if hundreds of millions of people were crying and howling in the dark. At the same time, all the electronic equipment on the train, including the power armor system, was experiencing strange power surges and extremely unstable signals.

Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan stood in the cockpit, their pupils fixed on the terrifying black curtain that blotted out the sky and swallowed everything outside the porthole!
"Xingyuan..."

"coming!"

When the black sky, like a fault line in the world, swallowed the entire land, everything seemed to be silent. Everyone immediately realized that their senses had been disconnected—sight, hearing, touch… everything was directly shattered by a surging force, as if it were disintegrating itself, and everything ceased to exist.

Lin Xian tried to open his eyes, but he felt that he had no eyelids and no eyes.

He wanted to shout, but it seemed he couldn't feel his mouth.

He reached out to find Chen Sixuan, but forgot where his hand was.

So, Lin Xian tried to activate the mechanical heart.

hum~
A mechanical roar gradually became deafening in the void. He heard it; it was the first time he had ever heard the roar of his own mechanical heart.

is that true?

As his vision gradually formed, Lin Xian felt that his field of vision had become incredibly wide, as if his eyes had bulged out of his face and turned into fish eyes, making his vision extremely strange.

At this moment, he was still standing in the cockpit of the Infinite. Darkness had climbed up the windows, and outside the glass was no longer the Gobi Desert, but a boiling void. He tried to look into that void, but found that the Longshan No. 1 in front of the porthole seemed to be gone. The carriage was entering the center of the iris of a giant eye. The pupil was a wormhole that was constantly collapsing and expanding. The iris texture was actually countless inverted Towers of Babylon, with the spires piercing the war remnants of different historical periods: medieval ironclad warships, atomic bomb mushroom clouds, cyborg prosthetic limbs... And the train was still rushing forward under the action of inertia, like a photon being sucked into a black hole, carrying the last stubbornness of steel civilization, rushing towards the end of the unknown dimension.

Call ~
Call ~
The second sound he heard was his own breathing. He heard his nasal cavity breathing rapidly inside the power armor's visor, like an astronaut drifting into the endless abyss of the universe, filled with despair and loneliness. But he couldn't see his own body at all, nor could he see any information about the power armor.

This was the first time Lin Xian had ever seen such a bizarre and surreal scene. At that moment, Chu Yan told him, "If you see it, then don't look. If you try to understand it, it will definitely be counterintuitive. Don't describe it, don't try to explain it..."

He felt a chill run through him and quickly closed his eyes to try and engage his senses, trying to avoid falling into the abyss of the universe.

At that moment, he finally felt a force in his limbs and body, and at the same time, various noisy sounds seemed to come from the depths of darkness, getting closer and closer.

Beep beep, beep beep~
[Hypothermia warning, hypothermia warning...]

Woo~
In an instant, the beeping of his watch, the alarm of his power armor, and the roar of the Giant Whale 03E heavy gas turbine locomotive pulled Lin Xian back to reality.

Boom boom boom!
The next instant, a strong sense of weightlessness suddenly came to my brain, followed by the feeling of falling to the ground!
air!
With a loud bang, Lin Xian felt as if the train had completely derailed and fallen somewhere, but that didn't make sense. The vast Gobi Desert was a flat road, so how could he feel weightless?

But reality left him no room for doubt. When all his senses returned, Lin Xian realized that the entire cockpit of the Infinite had tilted, and the metal connection between the front and Longshan No. 1 was making a piercing twisting and breaking sound. The cabin was filled with the roar of an air crash.

As the headlights of the Giant Whale 03E heavy-duty gas turbine locomotive flickered, Lin Xian saw the Longshan No. 1 carriage ahead tilted high, and deafening screams and shouts began to come through his headphones.

"what!!!"

"what happened!"

"The train carriage has cracked open!"

"what!……"

Snap! Just then, someone grabbed Lin Xian from behind. He turned around and saw that it was Chen Sixuan, who was clinging to the railing. She shouted, "Lin Xian!"

Lin Xian grabbed her hand and immediately activated the mechanical heart to start the train engine. The roar of the motor immediately rang out, but then Lin Xian realized that all the drive wheels were spinning in the air and the train was not on the track at all!

Empty! Empty! Empty!

The sound of metal rumbling kept coming from the rear carriage. Lin Xian immediately grabbed the porthole and created a small drone outside the car. It took off quickly. Finally, as the drone's view rose, Lin Xian saw an extremely terrifying scene.

The entire combined train derailed completely. The cars of the Ryuzan No. 1, including the Infinite, and the Queen Mo and the Joker trains behind it lay crookedly across the black ground. They hadn't overturned, but many cars were twisted and deformed. The lights inside the cars were flashing and connecting. All the cars, like the Infinite, experienced power surges in their electrical systems.

Strangely, the train was surrounded by a dense, dark forest, with many trees broken by the train and torn branches sticking out from the windows, looking rather menacing against the thick, dark night.
Lin Xian took a deep breath and immediately manipulated the drone to ascend vertically. However, as the viewing angle rose, the drone's camera became dim and cloudy. He could only see the trains behind him lying haphazardly in a dark forest, with lights flickering for several kilometers until the end of the darkness.

Looking at the footage from the drone, Lin Xian's expression turned serious, and he immediately said:
"This...is not the Gobi Desert of the West!"

In the dark forest, strange noises, other than those from the train, seemed to be echoing from the depths of the woods. A piercing roar reverberated in the darkness, for terror was imminent and the eeriness was about to descend!

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