Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 332 The Mysterious Python
"I know, let's get the train up and running first!"

The drone above Lin Xian's head was spinning incessantly, its red pulse beams flashing constantly. As he watched the train move forward, he and KIKI rushed back towards the Infinity. The giant snake was stirring up towering waves in the Black Lake. At the speed of the Longshan No. 1 track-laying machine, the entire train could very well be dragged into the water. Therefore, he had to go back and continue building the track for the train to move forward!

We are no longer able to contact Hu Lushou, Lu Zhao, and their convoy of cars using the current communication frequencies, and we don't know their situation.

The situation of the various train convoys along the way was extremely dire. Lin Xian's heart pounded. He was worried about the condition of his team members and was also considering that, in extreme circumstances, he would have to abandon some of the train convoys behind him. He had manufactured all the traction couplers for the train convoys here. If he wanted, he could directly decouple any train. The most likely candidates here were those carriages that had not yet reached the shore and were still in the lake and swamp.

As Lin Xian watched the train slowly move forward, he made plans. If the giant snake appeared, he would have to use the gravitational lens to try to strangle it, even if it meant exhausting his energy. But his primary goal now was to create tracks for the train, otherwise no one would know how many giant creatures were hidden beneath the black lake!

"Where exactly is this hellish place?" KIKI led Lin Xian as they flew along, and the two of them also helped the caravan along the way by killing off some of the smaller monsters, which relieved some of the pressure on them.

Lin Xian glanced at the rapidly spinning compass on his watch, shook his head, and said, "I don't know. This place is even stranger than Yijin City during the polar night. The mountains don't look like mountains, and the water doesn't look like water. I don't even know if this is still Blue Star."

His feeling was not unfounded. Through the power armor's photoelectric system, he could see the distant mountains moving about, the fragments of the bay floating in the air, and the eerie deep blue sky. The sky was starless and moonless. If it weren't for the trees and soil in the forest, Lin Xian would definitely think he had entered another dimension.

"careful!"

Suddenly, a group of dark figures swept in from the black mist in the sky. As Lin Xian's power armor sounded an urgent alarm, KIKI also took action immediately.

With a whoosh, KIKI raised her hand and waved it, and the torrent of silver blades surrounding her surged upwards, crashing into the dark figure.

Lin Xian looked up and was shocked to find a horde of strange insects, incredibly fast, like the speed of a hummingbird, above him. The convoy below was caught off guard, and several of them were bitten off in the ensuing chaos. The monster then used the spikes on its abdomen to pierce the abdomens of the survivors, seemingly injecting some unknown substance.

KIKI's Silver Blade Storm directly shredded and split the swarm of strange insects flying towards the two of them. Sparks flew everywhere in the sky, showing that the insects' skin was incredibly tough.

Woo!
Lin Xian's twenty-two Thunder Falcon drones also took off at this moment, rapidly firing pulse beams to suppress the momentum.

[A high-speed object is approaching on the left!]

The Black Hawk power armor reacted instantly, and Lin Xian's heart skipped a beat. Before he could even see what was in the dark forest, he had already reflexively raised his AT field shield.

Dangdang!
In an instant, dozens of black spikes shot out and struck his force field shield, spewing out a plume of black smoke. KIKI saw this and immediately pushed her psychic shield away.

"Go back quickly!"

The bizarre attacks were increasing, and Lin Xian's heart sank. Under these circumstances, he estimated that the casualties on the entire joint train would be considerable, but all he could do at this moment was to increase the train's speed.

Soon, Lin Xian returned to the front of the car. The area between Longshan No. 1 and the Infinite Queen Mo was already engulfed in flames. It was unclear whether it was because the energy and firepower were the greatest here, or because it was located deep in the forest, but all sorts of strange entities had gathered in this area, making it difficult for even Shi Diyuan, Qian Dele, Monica, Ning Jing and others to breathe.

The Infinite has already fired two rounds of ammunition and entered the reloading interval. Three electromagnetic cannons and several Gatling guns continue to sweep in all directions.

Enemies are everywhere, and defensive lines are everywhere.

Sasa’s Sally is unleashing its full firepower with both a flamethrower and a Vulcan cannon!

"Another giant spider! I hate giant spiders the most! Let me show you!"

Sasha saw the large spider moving quickly in the woods, pressed a button to activate a device on the chest of the Vulcan, and bang!
In an instant, a modified plasma beam fired a high-voltage guide cable that struck the giant spider's abdomen. The resulting burst of a dark blue plasma beam detonated the spider's abdominal cavity, sending a large amount of internal organs and fluids crashing down.

"Yay!!!" Sasha shouted excitedly upon seeing the secret weapon succeed.

On the other side, Da Lou and Liang Lei's assault teams each led fifty men with heavy weapons to establish a defensive formation on both sides of the Infinite, suppressing the dark monsters attacking from the forest. The two of them charged ahead and cut down mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

Meanwhile, the mobile team, consisting of Shu Qin, Lü Chang, and Li Guangwen, along with over twenty agile martial arts experts including Luo Luo and Amin, constantly moved across the front lines, hunting down fast-moving monsters.

Chen Sixuan led her reconnaissance team to guard the roof of the vehicle, using anti-aircraft guns, various sniper weapons, and electromagnetic guns to defend against enemies attacking from the sky.

Anti-aircraft guns and arc pulse cannons continuously shot into the sky, flashing with light, and the air was filled with the tragic feeling of fighting to the death!
Several large vehicle groups ahead were engaged in battle around the Mugen and its tractor.

"Brother Lin, we can't escape at this speed!" Shi Diyuan, transformed into a tiger, pounced on an insect monster from the air and stomped it to death. He then said into the communicator, "This godforsaken place is completely directionless. We have no idea where to run."

call out!
A sonic sword swept past, cleanly severing large swathes of trees and monsters in the forest. Monica responded coldly, "This is definitely not the polar night. We might already be inside the Star Abyss. Look at the sky; even the laws of physics are distorted here."

"Where are all those people from the car convoy? Didn't Boss Hu rush out? Why don't we just charge straight in one direction?!" Qian Dele said at this moment.

"What are you rushing for? We're a train, not a car!"

Shi Diyuan cursed and said, "Do you think you're still driving a car?"

“We’re not without vehicles,” Qian Dele replied. “We have two all-terrain trains, ten base vehicles, and several other vehicles. We can easily carry three or four hundred people away, which is better than them all dying here!”

Upon hearing this, Shi Diyuan frowned and immediately shouted at him, "No, if the other convoys hear this, our defensive line will collapse in an instant. Let's pull the train out first!"

Lin Xian and KIKI had already arrived by fast horse. While speeding up the creation of tracks in front of the two all-terrain tractors, he said, "You're right. The situation is not yet at the point where we need to let a few hundred people run away. These thousands of people must stick together to reduce casualties."

If morale collapses, these team members might be corrupted by darkness due to despair before the monsters are even killed. At that point, the army will collapse like a house of cards and be out of control.

The dark transformation had already caused many casualties, and the Joint Train Regiment was different from the situation of Lao Mo and Hu Lushou. Abandoning all train protection would result in a very low chance of survival, because the spare vehicles did not have any weapons. Moreover, once things got to this point, internal strife would definitely break out among the various train teams. Therefore, Shi Diyuan immediately pointed out the key point and prevented Qian Dele from saying this on the communication channel.

Although he knew that Qian Dele's words were not without reason, when things were in dire straits, this might be the best way to keep some people alive. It was better for a few hundred people to survive than for the whole army to be wiped out.

Lin Xian was rapidly creating the track, his mind racing.

No one expected that after nightfall, the first problem they would encounter would be the suffocating situation of the train tracks disappearing, which restricted all train groups!
So unless Ding Junyi really manages to kill all the strange creatures in this area, the dark marks on their bodies will be reappeared by the next strange creature after each wave is killed, and the cycle will continue. It's only a matter of time before the United Train Group is wiped out.

But compared to killing all the strange creatures, Qian Dele's plan is obviously more practical. At least escaping is the only way to survive, and there is the precedent of Old Mo and Boss Hu. It is much more feasible than staying put and holding out.

After all, who knows if they can kill all the monsters? The combined train's firepower is also limited, and many people were lost at the beginning due to the dark mutation. Now that everyone is going all out, they will run out of ammunition and food in a few hours at most. When that happens, despair will cause the mutation to spread, and they won't even have the means to drive away.

At this time, as more traction trains entered the tracks, this moving line continued to shift deeper into the forest, and the speed increased. The locomotive was changed to the Infinite, while the original Dragon Mountain No. 1 remained in place, relying on its three-kilometer range to support the trains that came in from behind. Several convoys, including Red Rose, also successfully came ashore from the muddy swamp. The track wheels were covered with black mud, and the black soil on the ground was crushed into deep gullies by the trains. A large number of crushed trees became sleepers that were run over by the wheels.

Qian Dele ran swiftly, cutting through the small monsters in front of several convoy formations. His superpower made him extremely mobile, making him very strong in providing support. However, his own defense and power were insufficient to deal with large monsters, so he generally did not venture deep into the Monster Tide Forest.

At that moment, he kicked a crawling black monster to pieces and landed next to Monica, who was constantly using her powers to cut down the fan-shaped monster horde. He looked at his old friend with some surprise.

"At this point, your Queen Mori has a better escape route than we do. Don't you have any ideas about the plan I just proposed?"

Monica glanced back at him: "What, regretting switching from a car to a train?"

Qian Dele smiled nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter. I wouldn't be surprised if I died anywhere in this terrible world. What's there to regret? As for you, I feel like it's not like you if you don't say something."

Monica snorted coldly and suddenly spat out an invisible howling sword at a group of strange flying creatures in the sky. In an instant, ripples appeared in the air, and a large amount of shattered tissue fell down.
"Do you really think I'm so idealistic, immoral, self-serving, and greedy for life?"

"No, that's just a rational analysis of the situation. Besides, your teammates definitely have their own ideas," Qian Dele said in a deep voice.

Monica replied seriously, "They are short-sighted, but I'm not stupid. Just because Boss Hu and the others were lucky doesn't mean everyone is the same. In this situation, following the main force might still give us a glimmer of hope. But running around aimlessly with the dark mark is certain death. I'm not a gambler, and even if I am, I'd rather bet on that person."

"Ok?"

Upon hearing this, Qian Dele followed Monica's gaze to Lin Xian, who was building tracks in the distance. He raised an eyebrow and said strangely, "Hey, heroism? Although I quite like that guy, you don't actually see him as a savior, do you? Or have you fallen for him?"

Monica turned back to deal with the strange tide and said...
"No, this is my intuition..." The close call in Xilan City and the narrow escape in Yijin City, although now they are in another predicament, it is undeniable that if Lin hadn't woken everyone up in Aksai Starry Night to travel and kept them armed and vigilant all the way, the situation might have been even worse. No one expected the tragedy to happen in the daytime. If it had happened earlier, or if there hadn't been that sandstorm, perhaps the United Train could have really escaped being swallowed by this Star Abyss Anomaly.

Monica is emotional, but also rational. In addition, she has her own pride. If she were to leave with the whole team now, the morale of the entire United Train Corps would definitely be thrown into chaos. She doesn't want to become a sinner for some unrealistic fantasy.

Does a queen who has fled still deserve to be called a queen?

But while Monica thought this way, the other teams were already in a state of panic, and the communicators were filled with despair.

"What should we do? The darkness here is invading so strongly, we can't stop the mutation!"

"Too many monsters?"

"Without the tracks, we can't escape this time..."

"Go for it! Don't be a coward!"

"Captain Lin, Captain Shi, please save us..."

"..."

Boom boom boom!
Around the train convoy, the fierce fighting intensified. In the dark forest, endless monsters of all kinds kept pushing everyone's SAN value to its limit. Many people died from unknown attack methods and the sudden changes in their teammates. Seeing this situation, Lin Xian knew that the most urgent task was to stabilize morale, so he said to Shi Diyuan.

"Brother Shi, how about we reroute the tracks around the forest, then make the entire joint train spiral into several circles to form a temporary defensive line?"

Shi Diyuan was sweating profusely; the casualty count on his Longshan No. 1 was steadily increasing. Upon hearing Lin Xian's words, he immediately spoke...

"What, are you going to hold out to the death?"

Lin Xian shook his head: "I just found a giant blue snake in the lake over there. I reckon it might be the most powerful creature in this area. We're in an unknown region right now. Setting up a defensive line will reduce casualties and give us a breather to shrink the battle zone. If that giant snake makes a move, we'll take it down. Maybe we can..."

Lin Xian's proposed solution was a last resort, but the current long, serpentine formation was vulnerable to attack from both sides, and the trains could not quickly disperse into defensive formations like a convoy of cars. So, looking at the temporary tracks that were being constructed, he thought that since escape was impossible, it would be better to make the tracks into a spiral arc. This would greatly reduce the size of the battlefield, increase the density of firepower, and reduce casualties, especially allowing those with superpowers and strong combat capabilities to concentrate.

This idea comes from the previous experience of narrowing the battle zone in Xilan City. Moreover, the train has a high defensive layer. If we go around it twice to resist, the entire battle zone can be reduced to less than two kilometers. Then, it may be easier to deal with so many heavy weapons and combat personnel on the train.

As for dealing with the giant blue serpent, Lin Xian had no confidence whatsoever. Not only was he confident in his ability to defeat it, but he also had no confidence in whether he could get his team out of their predicament afterward.

But now, he had no better solution. Like Shi Diyuan, he did not support abandoning the train and running away. Almost everyone here relied on the train as a shelter for survival. Abandoning it would not only affect their survival, but would also cause great damage to their morale and spirit. Since he had truly experienced the fear brought by the invasion of darkness, Lin Xian could understand the painful changes of those survivors very well. Strictly speaking, the invasion of darkness was the main culprit for the collapse of the entire human society!

Upon hearing this, Shi Diyuan nodded solemnly: "It's a strategy, better than the current situation."

Seeing that Shi Diyuan agreed, Lin Xian immediately told Qian Dele and Monica about the plan. They all approved of the plan, so Lin Xian informed all the convoys of the plan to surround the vehicle and defend it, as well as to kill the giant snake to save their lives.

The other team members were immediately invigorated upon hearing this. In the current situation, as long as someone was leading the way, it meant that the team's core members were not panicking, and Lin Xian's two solutions had appropriately solved two problems.

Everyone agreed that surrounding the vehicles and establishing a defensive line would reduce casualties and increase firepower. At the same time, they could feel the determination of these powerful convoys to unite everyone, which greatly boosted the morale of all the survivors.

However, simply increasing morale cannot completely solve the problem, which is why the plan to kill the giant serpent was proposed. Regardless of whether this plan is feasible or not, it represents a clear hope to these thousands of people. Moreover, these people all came from Xilan City and escaped from the peril of killing the Black Thorn in the Clouds. As long as Lin Xian speaks of it, everyone will instinctively accept this line of thinking.

Having a solution or a way out gives people hope, and once people have hope, their fighting spirit will soar!
Sure enough, as these two plans were passed on, the defenses of the various convoys, which had been gradually weakening, began to heat up again. Countless people seemed to have grasped the hope of survival and began to unleash powerful combat power. The leaders of those teams or the commanders of the squads gritted their teeth and began to constantly adjust the lines and firepower configurations. In addition, more and more trains escaped from the swamp and more and more carriages drove onto the tracks. The will to survive that had been suppressed by the dark monster tide was reignited.

"God Brahma Fire!!!"

After entering the Star Abyss, Lu Xingchen seemed like a different person. Looking at the thick darkness and the endless strange tide, his fire-type ability surged wildly. The Infinity Ring in his hand spun rapidly, and in an instant, a giant, scorching white fireball grew larger and larger in the sky above the dark forest, like a small sun, its blazing light illuminating a huge area of ​​several kilometers.

"If Heaven had not given birth to me, Lu Xingchen, the polar night would have remained forever dark!"

Lu Xingchen soared through the air, the wind whipping around him. He once again uttered the same bold words he had spoken when he first joined Infinite, and with a wave of his hands, he slammed the giant fireball down.

Chi Chi Chi!
The blazing white fireball burned fiercely, with scorching fluid even appearing on its surface. The countless members of the caravan below watched this scene with their pupils shrinking, stunned by the overwhelming power of the attack.

Wow!

"Amazing!"

"Heavenly Fire Descends!!"

"handsome!"

……

boom!
A wave of heat swept in like a shockwave, instantly engulfing an area of ​​half a kilometer. The scorching flames sprayed wildly in all directions, throwing countless strange creatures into the blazing inferno, where they burned rampantly and gushed out corpse oil!

Swish swish!
Meanwhile, on the tractor train's side, hundreds of silver blades spun rapidly around KIKI, transforming into a sword storm. She enveloped herself in a psychic shield, creating a hurricane as she charged directly into the monstrous tide. In an instant, swathes of monsters, along with the forest trees, were sliced ​​up. The giant, transparent worm writhed and sprayed large amounts of eerie, glowing green liquid at KIKI, all of which was blocked by her psychic shield. The spinning blades sliced ​​through the worm's twisted body, instantly cutting it into three pieces. The glowing green liquid inside the worm suddenly exploded, forming a fluorescent fireball in the forest. The sprayed liquid affected all the surrounding monsters, and various eerie cries and scorching, corrosive sounds filled the air!
hum!
Ah Bai's laser beam swept across a vast fan-shaped area like a windshield wiper, Xiao Qing's sword blade slashed through the jungle, reaping the dead, Li Guangwen's explosive punch blasted a deep trench with each strike, and Luo Yang's pulse eye exploded amidst the swarms of insects in the sky...

In a short time, the initial chaos on the entire train quickly disappeared, replaced by order, counterattack, and the courage and belief to survive. These thousands of survivors began to unleash their potential, banding together for survival!
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lin Xian accelerated the production of tracks. He abandoned the track machine and used the tracks that Longshan No. 1 and the various car teams had prepared in Yijin City to assemble and manufacture on-site. At the same time, he also continuously manufactured new tracks through the Mechanical Heart. Fortunately, he had replenished his materials by consuming a lot of carriages before, and the manufacturing difficulty of the rails themselves was extremely easy, so Lin Xian's speed became faster and faster.

Once on track, the Infinity began to accelerate, while the Queen Mo began to return to the rear of the Infinity. The locomotives of the trains further back onto the track began to contribute traction power. With this ebb and flow, the derailed and chaotic train was brought back onto the track.

At this moment, the last two ships, the Parrot and the Ocean, also surfaced from the lake. Apart from those who had drowned, a large number of team members had jumped into the water to survive. In the dark lake, hundreds of people were frantically swimming across, and the lake was filled with an atmosphere of terror and despair.

Because people are being dragged into the water by strange creatures every moment!
The lake was filled with the beams of flashlights and the flash of gunfire. Countless people began scrambling onto the mudflats to return to shore, shouting all the while.

"There's a snake underwater, a very big snake!!"

"It's definitely S-rank!!"

"Run!!!"

"Help! Someone can't swim!!"

On the shore, several teams from the Sailboat and Red Rose convoys were covering their retreat to shore. At that moment, when the last few carriages of the Ocean train were being dragged up, everyone on the shore witnessed a horrific scene.

A giant python with bluish-green scales swiftly coiled around the carriage. The snake was thicker than the carriage itself and its length was unknown. This scene immediately reminded people of the abyssal worms they had once seen in Xilan City.

Snakes are creatures that naturally touch upon people's fears, let alone the enormous creatures in the dark depths of the water.

At that moment, a convoy pulled a small white boat from the truck bed. Several people worked together to lift it into the water, started the engine, and quickly rescued seven or eight survivors who were about to drown. Just as they turned around, a superhuman flying in the sky shouted at them.

"Run!!! The giant snake is coming!"

"Where?!" the people on the boat responded urgently. They had already turned the engine up to the maximum and were heading towards the shore, looking back as they ran, but the lake behind the small boat was calm and there was no movement at all.

But at that moment, the superhuman in the sky shouted a terrifying word at them.

"It...it's below you!!"

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