Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 333 Closing the Line!

boom!
A deafening roar echoed from the direction of Black Lake. Lin Xian and the others, who were rapidly constructing the railway tracks, immediately turned around and saw a huge black shadow rising into the sky from the darkness. At the same time, a chorus of terrified cries came through the communication channels.

"Giant Serpent!!"

"Run!"

"Definitely S-rank!"

Hearing countless shouts coming from the communicator, Lin Xian felt a chill. Not only him, but everyone else also saw the shadow of that behemoth. A tremendous sense of oppression arose, making it hard to breathe.

If it really is an S-class, Lin Xian obviously doesn't think he can take it down with just his gravitational lens. In Xilan City, it took tens of thousands of people, the city's defensive base firepower, the 7th Survey Corps, and a Unit-01 to take down an S-class scout. And now they only have a few hundred train cars and a few thousand people.

Therefore, their only option left was to quickly gather firepower and establish a defensive line. Meanwhile, as long as Lin Xian tested the survivors from the rear carriage with the Dark Mark, he could determine the monster's level.

The more critical the moment, the less room there is for chaos to occur.

"What a huge creature! We're probably in big trouble this time."

Standing on high, Shi Diyuan's gaze was sharp, his tone low, and unusually pessimistic.

"drink!"

Ning Jing punched a twisted monster that crawled up from under the car, sending a massive shockwave crashing down. She then landed next to Shi Diyuan and said gravely, "The battle line must be shrunk immediately, or we'll be eaten up along the way!"

Shi Diyuan nodded and immediately led his men up a tall treetop. Under the cover of several people, he began to direct the retreat of the various convoys.

The convoys that had been retreating and running began to have a clear direction after being directed.

As the temporary tracks for the tractor unit were built deeper and deeper, Lin Xian continued to construct the tracks while the drones above his head automatically responded and observed the surrounding terrain. He adjusted the curve of the tracks directly along the large tract of forest that Huo Ge had burned down. The mechanical heart was turned to its limit, and a track fell on each of his left and right hands. Beside him was the escort formation composed of the assault teams 1 and 2 of the Infinite. KIKI and Huo Ge were fighting in the sky, and 1130 on the train had already emptied its fourth round of ammunition. As soon as the tracks were laid, Lao Mo, whose face was still bruised, led a group of engineering team members to help with the foundation setting and then the iron wheels of the Infinite rolled forward again.

In the dark forest, artillery fire raged, and flames burned all around. From the flames and the depths of darkness, all sorts of bizarre creatures kept emerging. On the Infinite, the light of the Hellish Black Chrysanthemum flickered. As the entire regiment suppressed the firepower, the dark mark gradually weakened, but as more bizarre creatures emerged, the mark was pushed back and hit again, and the pressure of the fierce battle increased step by step.

Finally, all the submerged carriages of the Ocean and Parrot were brought ashore. Large amounts of black water flowed out of the flooded carriages, along with various aquatic monsters that had crawled into them—large and small, alien insects, black leeches, and countless bizarre centipedes. The remaining people from these two convoys had already retreated to the rear carriages with the Red Rose and other convoys.

"Use flamethrowers to burn these things to death!!"

"We're almost at the assistant's protective circle, everyone hold on!!"

Hundreds of people surrounded the train, firing continuously as they retreated. Several superhumans who rushed into the jungle to fight the strange creatures were killed after only a few rounds. The main fighting force of the two convoys had been almost completely wiped out, leaving only a few dozen survivors, making them practically extinct.

"Brother Huo, KIKI, the damage at the rear of the vehicle is too great. The monster horde might rush in and push outwards!"

"Understood!" Upon hearing Lin Xian's words, KIKI and Huo Ge began to press backward. The trains behind the joint convoy were constantly collapsing, which could easily lead to a chain reaction. This momentum had to be stopped before a defensive line could be formed.

Shi Diyuan also realized this, and immediately asked Ning Jing to take Xiao Qing and others to provide support. Meanwhile, A Bai stood on the roof of Longshan No. 1, releasing laser beams under the protection of a group of guards.

Each time the dark red laser beam swept across, the pressure on that defensive line would decrease dramatically, making it a formidable weapon of Longshan No. 1!
The convoy that was shrinking behind them had both trains basically lost power and were paralyzed. The outside of the carriages was covered with all kinds of aquatic plants and strange tentacles, which looked quite terrifying.

With a thunderous roar, a sound of boiling mud and water crashing and exploding echoed through the swamp. All that could be seen was a giant shadow in the distance, crushing trees and felling forests like a mountain, charging towards them. Its blue scales gleamed with a cold light, and its enormous, twisting body instilled great fear and a sense of oppression. In the darkness, under the gunfire of the crowd, all that could be seen was a gigantic maw filled with countless sharp teeth crashing down.

"Be careful!!"

"It's that snake!"

"Fire at full power!"

"Rocket launchers, prepare!"

Boom! Boom! Boom! In an instant, all the firepower of the convoys behind rushed towards the black giant shadow that was attacking. Countless explosions and flashes of light and shadow broke out. Only then did everyone see the mouth of the abyss serpent. Hundreds of scarlet eyes, arranged from large to small, were on the serpent's head. Those eyes gleamed coldly, and everyone who saw them couldn't help but feel a chill down their spine. Many people's minds went blank for a moment, and even their mental state began to go haywire.

Don't look into its eyes!!!

"fire punch!"

KIKI and Huo Ge's voices suddenly rang out in the sky. In an instant, a crimson fire descended from the sky. At the same time, an invisible psychic wave directly engulfed Lu Xingchen's high-temperature flames, causing them to explode and spin. In an instant, a raging hurricane was created. The burning fireball transformed into a high-temperature flame and merged into the hurricane tornado, forming a crimson fire tornado with a diameter of hundreds of meters and a height of hundreds of meters!
This wasn't the first time the two had used this move together. It amplified the range and temperature of Brother Huo's fire to a terrifying level. Instantly, a huge fire tornado illuminated almost the entire sky above the dark forest. The intense heat devoured all the trees within a range of hundreds of meters, and a large number of bizarre creatures roared and twisted inside.

The giant blue python's head was swallowed by the fire tornado. The intense heat made it feel threatened, and suddenly its body, covered with blue scales and strange coral spikes, swept out, unleashing a shockwave that carried countless dark wisps of energy, forcefully pushing the fire tornado back towards the train.

Upon seeing this, KIKI immediately put down all her silver blades, used her telekinesis to push forward with both hands, and tried to withstand the fire tornado.

At this moment, Ning Jing and Xiao Qing arrived at full speed from both sides of the fire tornado. Both of them were wearing power armor. One on the left and one on the right, their leg thrusters worked in a cycle, leaping and bounding through the trees, and they actually rushed directly in front of the giant snake, attacking the top of the snake's head head-on.

"drink!"

Ning Jing used all her strength, raised her right fist high and punched the scales under the jaw of the giant blue python. The force of the punch shattered the hand armor of its power armor. The punch hit the giant blue python and instantly created a dark red blood pit about two meters in diameter, and the scales burst inch by inch!

Meanwhile, Xiaoqing's jet-propelled grappling hook pierced a twisted coral spike on the snake's head. She swung over quickly, reversed her grip on the spear blade, and slashed down from the snake's head, sparks flying and lightning flashing. The alloy-forged spear blade hummed as it was shaken, tearing through scales and flesh.

However, the giant python was simply too large. The two men's attacks, which were at the level of shattering iron and cutting steel, did not seem to cause much trouble for the giant snake. On the contrary, the black mist it kept spewing out carried a lot of invasive power, causing the members of the Dragon Mountain Squad who came to provide support to retreat one after another.

cluster!
At this moment, Lu Xingchen burst out of the fire tornado at high speed like a fiery meteor, his gaze sharpening as he looked at the giant blue serpent below, whose body, even with only a segment of its body visible, was already over a kilometer long.

"Demon, take this Heavenly Fire!"

Buzzing, the infinite rings spun rapidly, and blue flames continuously swirled into his hands. Lu Xingchen grabbed his right hand with his left, and a ball of high-temperature flame condensed on his right hand.

"Divine Blazing Sword!"

Lu Xingchen pointed his right hand like a sword, accelerating the flames in a spiral motion. In half a breath, he unleashed a high-temperature fire sword tens of meters long, with a blue-white flame core, spewing out countless Mach rings.

Then, boom!

A huge sonic boom exploded.

The fire sword shot towards the snake's head in an instant, piercing through the giant snake's jaw and leaving a scorched hole. He immediately controlled the fire sword to move, but the huge recoil force propelled him into the air. At this moment, KIKI used her superpower to grab him. Lu Xingchen then steadied his right wrist and flicked his sword finger, sending the fire-spraying sword slashing fiercely towards the snake's head!

Unexpectedly, the moment the giant blue python was injured, dozens of eyes on its sides burst forth with crimson light. Immediately afterward, the coral thorns on the snake's body spewed out a large amount of red smoke. The smoke, as if alive, twisted into a thin shell covering the snake's body. When Lu Xingchen's fire sword cut into it, it was completely motionless, and even the temperature disappeared at that moment.

"What is this? A defensive shield?" KIKI was dumbfounded when she saw this. No one could understand the strange situation. It didn't seem like it was blocked, nor did it seem like it was hit. The high-temperature flames disappeared as if in an instant.

At this moment, a terrifying scene unfolded before everyone's eyes: the giant blue python was now enveloped in a thick crimson mist, its enormous body slithering through the dark forest, looking like a bizarre and ferocious creature that sent chills down everyone's spine.

"Retreat!" Seeing that the attack had no effect, Ning Jing immediately called Xiao Qing to retreat. At the same time, KIKI also pulled Huo Ge and retreated quickly.

Hua Hua Hua~
At this moment, the giant crimson smoke serpent began to meander forward, bypassing the tracks of the Union Train and wandering towards the distance of the forest. It seemed as if it regarded the entire Union Train as prey destined to die, lurking around and preparing to deliver a fatal blow.

Seeing this, KIKI knew something was wrong and immediately said to Lin Xian.
"The giant snake was trying to surround us."

"I see!"

Lin Xian's drone was now scanning in all directions, its brain and mechanical heart operating at high speed. As the defensive formation shrank, the visibility of the black fog was sufficient to bring every situation on the battlefield into its field of vision.

"Keep an eye on him, and immediately close the line!"

Meanwhile, Chen Sixuan and Sun Yuzhen had already arrived at the rear of the vehicle formation with Hell Black Chrysanthemum.

"Lin Xian, they've all been marked with Level 4, so they shouldn't be Level S!" Chen Sixuan shouted into the communicator.

At this moment, Chen Sixuan's words undoubtedly brought Lin Xian, Shi Diyuan and the others a little relief. Human judgment may be wrong, but the concentration of the Dark Mark will never lie. No matter how this level is defined, it seems that the giant python in the blue lake is definitely not at the level of the Black Thorn in the Clouds. In this battle, they may really have a chance to survive!

At this point, Lin Xian, who had been building the tracks all along, finally outlined a circular track area. However, he did not complete the circle. Instead, he had the Longshan-1 track-laying machine lay the inner ring in the opposite direction from the beginning. This way, as long as the combined train was disconnected from the middle and pulled by the Longshan-1 towards the inner ring, the double-layered train base could be quickly formed, saving half the time and preventing the entire circular base from becoming too large.

As expected, the trains split into two intersecting, arc-shaped sections, quickly forming a spiral train formation. The weaker and more heavily damaged convoys were pulled to the inner ring, while the main force and the most heavily armed convoys were on the outer ring. As a large number of people retreated into the center of the train formation, the two trains acted like an iron barrier, providing a tremendous sense of security to the thousands of survivors behind them. After they closed in, the area inside, which had been burned by flames, became a temporary resting camp in this terrifying night. All the threats and strange tides then began to unfold around the several-kilometer-long circular train formation.

Because the Ocean and Parrot trains had been completely destroyed and the carriages were filled with all sorts of strange creatures, for safety reasons, Lin Xian directly detached and abandoned the two trains, which consisted of more than thirty carriages, and then began to devour the living carriages for material replenishment.

After the flooded carriages were swallowed up, countless waterlogged supplies and the strange creatures hiding inside leaped out and were quickly killed by the survivors who had gathered around and were waiting in ambush. The supplies were then picked up and distributed by the remaining members of the two convoys and then loaded onto the other convoys' vehicles without hesitation.

In this situation, the convoy members were no longer distinguished from each other, and they all staked their lives on the same front. Lin Xian also received material supplies at the same time.

After the temporary double-helix formation of the combined train was established, hundreds of train cars interlocked like a mechanical dragon, and the advantage of the human group began to emerge!
"All convoys will defend designated areas. Those with power armor and genetically evolved individuals and those with superpowers will be at the front, while other combat personnel will stay in the rear. Be sure to clear aerial targets!" Lin Xian shouted.

"The logistics personnel are salvaging supplies and hiding in the camp. Each convoy is moving ammunition to the front line, and the weapons are being loaded in a cross-loading manner!"

"Luo Yang, lead your men to set up a high-voltage arc wall!"

"understand!"

Luo Yang immediately led a team to begin their operation.

"We'll help too." The technicians from the other teams responsible for building the defensive traps also sprang into action.

Whoosh! Monica's whistling sword sliced ​​a deep trench in front of a position, then she ordered her men, "Light the fire trench!"

"Yes!" Her subordinates were also quite experienced.

A golden flash hurtled along the outer edge of the line. Qian Dele, his face covered in bits of flesh from some unknown creature, said coldly, "Xiao Meng, thermite grenade!"

Bang!
Napalm and thermite iron waterfalls burned into an incandescent inferno, scorching the front of the defensive line with blinding light. The fiercely burning trenches greatly reduced the monsters' offensive from the dark forest.

All the rooftop guns, machine guns, and missiles were turned around and directed towards the outer perimeter of the line. In just over an hour, the survivors quickly regrouped from their panicked fear of death and formed a line. Once the hundreds of trains had formed a circular line about 7 kilometers in diameter and 2 kilometers in length, the survivors had something to lean on.

The elite combatants fought fiercely on the front line under the powerful firepower of the vehicle-mounted weapons, while other support teams climbed onto the roof of the vehicles to operate machine guns and cannons to suppress the strange monsters coming from the dark forest. Anti-aircraft guns and various air-launched machine guns fired densely into the sky. This circular defensive line began to establish a defensive stronghold, suppressing the strange creatures of all sizes that rushed out of the forest hundreds of meters away with a metal storm!
"Damn it, I don't care who you are, as long as you're carbon-based, there's nothing I can't smash with my 12.7mm gun!" After the morale was boosted, a burly man holding a Gatling gun stood on the roof of the car and shouted angrily.

"Brothers, hold on! They can't break in!"

"Quickly carry the wounded inside!"

"Use the incendiary tubes to set that entire hillside ablaze, to prevent them from climbing up!"

On the front line of the Infinite Zone, Sasha piloted the Vulcan and stood at the forefront, while Lou Lianglei led the core force of the assault team to neatly protect all twenty-seven carriages of the Infinite.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!!!" The Vulcan cannon roared, and explosions kept erupting. Sasha was becoming more and more adept at piloting the mecha. The group of rough and tough guys in the assault team were all incredibly surprised to see this young girl piloting the mecha at the forefront.

"That girl is great!"

Inside the front line, all the internal staff of dozens of convoys urgently set up camp transport lines. A large number of wounded soldiers and rescued supplies were carried into the carriages for treatment. All convoys were transporting ammunition to the front line. No matter which direction, as long as someone shouted that they were out of bullets, people from the rear would bring them up. Many young boys and girls were also busy helping to carry supplies and picking up every bullet casing on the battlefield.

Boom boom boom.

Above this circular steel line, anti-aircraft guns, vehicle-mounted howitzers, anti-aircraft guns, railguns, 1130mm anti-aircraft guns, rocket launchers, and missiles formed a dense crossfire network, tearing the night sky into a tattered ribbon of crimson and eerie blue. On the outer perimeter of the line, all those wearing Ekin City power armor and various powerful superhumans were either wielding heavy machine guns and plasma flamethrowers or using high-energy cutting weapons to directly confront the strange monsters charging at them.

beep!
On the Infinity, 1130's roar blasted a large number of bat-shaped monsters swooping down from the sky into a rain of minced meat.

Lin Xian was constantly dismantling and devouring the carriages of the Ocean and Parrot. His current goal was mainly to solve the problem of materials for manufacturing ammunition. The fully automatic bullet press was running wildly, and the collected bullet casings were quickly gathered and put into the manufacturing process. All around him were deafening gunshots and roars.

Along the several kilometers from the lake to the front line, at least 500 people on the Combined Train had been killed in less than two hours, demonstrating the sheer brutality of the encounter.

However, after the train formation was established, the casualty figures began to stop, as the powerful firepower suppressed those strange creatures in the night within a hundred meters of the train formation.

By this time, everyone had gradually recovered from the fear of the rampant darkness. The strange creatures in this dark forest were not numerous, but rather unpredictable. The large number of unknown, large strange creatures and the tiny monsters that were difficult to defend against caught the survivors of the United Train off guard. The bizarre venom and gas, the unpredictable attack methods—all the strange creatures here were something that Lin Xian and the others had never encountered before. This was not a matter of level at all.

Even a C-level anomaly poses a significant threat when faced with unknown attack methods.

Another reason why casualties did not escalate was the 1000 sets of Lone Wolf S tactical power armor, with its high-tech battlefield situational awareness system, radar system, and defensive capabilities. This gave each convoy a group of combat personnel capable of holding off the first wave of attacks, which is why the deaths did not occur like an avalanche.

Lin Xian's side has now become the core of the entire defensive line [production base]. He is like a mobile spring, continuously supplying the firepower output of thousands of people.

Countless bullets, materials, explosives, and electric fences were manufactured in batches. Li Yi and Lao Mo led a group of internal staff and children in the car to transport them to the front line. Xiao Tian and Xiao Le, the two children, worked very hard, as if they were not frightened by this world full of dark monsters at all.

Even five-year-old Duoduo was crawling on the ground with a group of children, picking up the scalding hot bullet casings that had slipped off the roof of the car and skillfully putting them into the small bucket in her hand.

Lin Xian's expression was complicated when he saw this scene. These children were too young, and he really couldn't bear to let them leave the carriage to do such things in this environment. Just as Lin Xian was about to ask Li Yi to call the children back, he frowned for some reason.

Despite the severe invasion of darkness here, it seems that not a single child has experienced any abnormalities; the most serious symptoms are fainting and vomiting.

Are children's mental strength stronger than adults'?
The thought only flashed through Lin Xian's mind for a moment. At that moment, Chen Sixuan's voice came through the earpiece: "Lin Xian, that giant snake is getting closer!"

Lin Xian jumped up. The reason he didn't immediately join the battle was that he was manufacturing ammunition while waiting for this guy to appear. He immediately called on the strongest ability users in the team: "KIKI, Huo Ge, Qian Dele, Monica, Brother Shi, Sister Ning, call Ah Bai, let's work together to block that giant snake!"

Success or failure hinges on this moment. Lin Xian doesn't know if he can kill all the strange creatures in this boundless dark forest. As long as the giant snake covered in crimson smoke surrounds them, none of them can escape the fate of being marked with a level 4 mark and annihilated.

　Asking for a monthly ticket~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)