Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 340 'Human'

Although he had made preparations, the sudden movement in the darkness still made Shi Diyuan's expression darken. He looked in the direction where Lin Xian and the others had left, and their figures quickly disappeared into the darkness.

At first, they mistook the distorted darkness for a kind of black mist, but now everyone understands that it was a visual blur caused by the expansion of spacetime over short distances.

Being in such a place, you can feel the enormous distortion of space and time with the naked eye for several kilometers around, giving you a sense of oppression as if the whole world is extremely unreal.

"Prepare for firepower!"

On the Infinite side, Luo Yang, Shu Qin, and the others all stood on the roof of the train. The G3 electromagnetic railgun and 1130 were all raised. Sasha, driving the Sally with its ammunition loaded, also stood in front of the train line. Everyone was on high alert.

The surrounding dark forest was filled with constant earthquakes and eerie currents, but the view was obscured by the distorted black mist, making people feel uneasy. The only thing that could be seen was the huge mountain ridge in the distance.

"Look!"

Just then, someone shouted, "That mountain!!"

Instantly, everyone's gaze turned to the strange, enormous mountain range to the west, and they discovered that the 'mountain' had twisted into a solid entity, its edges completely separated from the outlines of the surrounding mountains.

At this point, it was clear that the 'mountain' was not a 'mountain' at all, especially after seeing several huge, ridge-like spikes twisting and rising into the air.

Everyone realized that it was an enormous, unknown, dark creature.

In an instant, the entire train line fell silent. Everyone seemed to hold their breath. Shi Diyuan transformed into a tiger, and his tiger eyes slowly focused, emanating an immense sense of oppression that swept over everyone!

More and more spikes began to appear, and then the outline of the huge 'mountain' gradually rose, resembling a giant worm with thousands of long legs, and began to slowly move in a certain direction.

"Holy shit, this bug is bigger than a mountain!"

For a moment, someone in the joint convoy exclaimed in surprise.

"Have they discovered us?"

"It...it's not moving in our direction."

Is that direction the center of the Star Abyss?

"My God, that's terrifying!"

Drop drop drop.

Shuqin's power armor radar scanned the area, then she quickly said in the channel, "Everyone calm down, no creatures have been detected approaching!"

"Don't fire!"

At this moment, Da Lou and Liang Lei, leading the two assault teams, also calmed the anxious atmosphere among everyone.

Under such extreme pressure, if someone were to become fearful and fire first, things could go terribly wrong.

Panic quickly spread throughout the various train convoys.

Shi Diyuan's voice rang out on the public channel: "Everyone, stay calm. Our front is safe. Don't be impulsive. Wait patiently!"

The captains of the dozen or so teams came to their senses and began to control their panic.

"Don't be afraid! Stay calm!"

We're safe now!

"Take a deep breath, take a deep breath!"

After more than ten minutes, the panic across the entire front was finally brought under control. And after the train line remained unattacked for some time, the core leaders of the convoy, including Stiefon, breathed a sigh of relief.

"The convoy is safe for now. Brother Lin, how are things going for you?"

Shi Diyuan immediately contacted Lin Xian, and after a slight delay, Lin Xian's voice rang out in the captain's channel.

"So far... everything is going smoothly."

On the other side, the exploration team flew rapidly over the Dark Forest with KIKI's superpower. The spatial distortion caused by time dilation seemed to make them inhale the viscous world into their nasal cavity, causing a tearing pain in their heads. According to the vital signs information of the power armor, everyone's heart rate had exceeded the limit.

Without the protection of the heterogeneous Rubik's Cube, the intense environmental pressure and the encroaching darkness made it difficult for them to breathe.

Meanwhile, in the desolate forest and terrain below, shadowy figures kept moving about. Surrounded in the middle, Ah Bai was breathing rapidly over the channel: "13 o'clock, 9 o'clock, 16 o'clock..."

"very many!"

"Have we been flagged?"

"No……"

"accelerate!"

KIKI activated her psychic power to its limit, carrying everyone at high speed. Ning Jing and the others held their breath. 85 kilometers was not a long distance for flying, but the faster the speed, the stronger the discomfort became.

Except for Grace.

The current environment continues to pose a deadly threat to human health, which the outer armor cannot withstand. Prolonged mission stays are not recommended.

In the darkness, Lin Xian also noticed the problem. The feeling of terror he had experienced since being swept into the dark tide in Aksai was constantly pressing on his nerves. He knew that others must feel the same way.

Upon hearing Grace's reminder, Lin Xian's mind raced with calculations.

The most important part of the current plan is the connection design between the Silent City superconducting levitation magnetic anchor array device and the White City rail line. Once these two points are resolved, the joint train line can be started immediately.

Therefore, Lin Xian wanted to head straight for Baicheng Rail Station to scout the terrain and also check for clues about Hu Lushou and his group. Only by solving the connection plan for Baicheng Rail Station could he be considered one-third successful.

Lin Xian intends to avoid that eerie giant statue, and if necessary, he will arrange for a non-living entity like Grace to investigate it.

The elite team already had some of the highest peak ability indices among these thousands of people, but even so, Monica, Qian Dele, Ning Jing, and the others all had solemn expressions, clearly the severe physical strain had put pressure on them.

"Grace has scanned this path and detected no dark creatures. We're also remaining silent. As long as we don't encounter them head-on, we should be fine..."

Lin spoke in the current frequency band, trying to ease the somber atmosphere.

Ning Jing responded, "Ah Bai is keeping a close eye on our situation. If a marker appears, we must stop immediately, deal with the anomaly, and prevent it from snowballing."

“That makes sense. If a few thousand people cause a strange tide like before, we won’t even have anywhere to run.” Qian Dele said.

With a buzzing sound, twenty-five Thunder Falcon 2000 drones rotated in a circle behind Lin Xian, resembling a red arc of light against the black night sky. Lin Xian, dressed in Black Hawk armor, had various parameters displayed in the holographic vision before him.

"We're almost there. We're now more than 40 seconds behind the train position."

While flying, Lin Xian was also manufacturing relay signal devices and drones for transport and deployment, connecting the route between White City and Silent City, and also for emergency situations.

KIKI, holding onto the group with her psychic shield, flew rapidly. Among everyone, her mental strength was arguably the strongest, yet her face remained pale. She led the group over several mountain ridges. At this moment, the surroundings began to flatten out, with mountain roads and scattered buildings appearing. In the radar range of everyone's power armor, a small town with numerous buildings was nestled in the valley in the distance ahead.

"We've arrived at Baicheng."

"Wait!" Ning Jing suddenly called out to KIKI.

"Ah Bai sensed something was amiss ahead."

"Let's stop first," Lin Xian said.

Ahead, a thick black fog obscured the view, and rows of abandoned, dilapidated houses came into view. Upon hearing this, KIKI immediately controlled everyone to slow down and then landed slowly.

Unlike the chaotic and dilapidated cities they had experienced before, the black asphalt road was much cleaner than other post-apocalyptic cities. Apart from dust and what seemed to be mist seeping from the ground, there was nothing else.

The abandoned vehicles that fled, the scattered suitcases, the dead bodies—none of them exist.

The entire city seemed to freeze the moment the star appeared. All the green plants and trees withered and decayed. Lin Xian stood on the ground and felt an icy chill rise up from the ground. He looked at the dark street in front of him and vaguely felt that something was there.

"What were you found? And where are they located?" Lin Xian asked.

Ah Bai pointed to the sky: "It just disappeared again, it's in the sky."

"My observation system has not detected any unusual creatures. Should I go and investigate?" Grace asked at this moment.

Lin Xian shook his head. If it was about scouting, Grace had already detected it when she arrived. Although Grace had extremely high computing power, it didn't mean she could detect the strange entity and the dark aura.

"Be careful, we're not robots, those ghostly things can see us," Monica said seriously.

Chen Sixuan picked up the Meteorite No. 3 and peered up at the higher ground of the street, then shook her head: "I didn't see anything, but it would be a bit risky for us to go in directly like this."

“But there’s no point in us staying here if we don’t go in,” KIKI said, arms crossed. “Do we have any other options now?”

Xiao Qing, who was usually quiet, stepped forward and spoke.
"Listen to... Ah Bai."

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at Ah Bai, who was wearing power armor.

Lin Xian's eyes narrowed slightly. He nodded and walked towards Ah Bai, saying, "Alright, from now on, we will all use Ah Bai as our perspective. Unless the radar can directly detect us, we will pretend we can't see him."

Ah Bai, this humanoid dark aura detector, is even more useful than Hell Black Chrysanthemum. Hell Black Chrysanthemum can only sense the marks that have been placed on its body, while Ah Bai can observe the situation in a certain area in advance.

Ah Bai deserves a great deal of credit for the extremely high survival rate of over a thousand people on Longshan No. 1. Therefore, Lin Xian has chosen to focus his actions around Ah Bai.

Ah Bai nodded: "Some strange things suddenly appear and disappear, not like they are active, but..." He thought for a moment and found an adjective: "flickering".

Lin Xian then gave Grace the order: "Grace, lead the way."

【OK】

"We'll follow behind. As long as we're not marked, we won't worry about it. Let's get to Baicheng Rail Station first."

"Ok."

"understand!"

Everyone understood at that moment. After Grace started moving, she tiptoed towards the darkness ahead, while the others surrounded Ah Bai and followed behind Grace, entering the streets of White City.

Lin Xian controlled 25 Thunder Falcon drones to follow and wait on the perimeter of the squad. As the footsteps of the group sounded, echoes continued to appear in the dark, empty streets, so quiet that it was as if the whole world had only them left.

As the lights swept across the street, many shops remained open, but all the signs were decayed, the paint peeling off and the contents illegible. Inside the shops, including the clothes, everything was rapidly decomposing into some kind of gray, filamentous substance.

“This situation is extremely unusual. Even if more than 10 years have passed, the textiles should not have deteriorated to this extent.”

Ning Jing swept her flashlight across a clothing store. The rows of women's clothes were almost all just pieces of grayish-brown fabric hanging there, giving her the illusion that even with a flashlight, the world was colorless.

So she immediately looked at herself and realized that her judgment was wrong.

"It's definitely not going to work to understand this with common sense," Qian Dele said over the communicator. "No matter what we see next, we have to look at it with a mindset that breaks through conventional wisdom."

Lu Xingchen followed behind Lin Xian and KIKI with a stern expression. He looked around at the darkness warily and then felt the Infinity Ring on his wrist. For some reason, after wearing this thing, he could hear many strange noises.

It felt like thick, viscous blood was flowing, like a rotting esophagus was breathing; everything made him uneasy.

"Brother Lin."

Lu Xingchen was about to tell Lin Xian about the strange thing he had sensed, but at that moment, Ah Bai suddenly stopped, and everyone else stopped in their tracks.

"What's wrong, Ah Bai?" Lin Xian asked.

Ah Bai stood there, looking around in a panic, before nervously saying...
"Watch out, there's a monster!"

"where?"

As they spoke, everyone began to gather their formation and looked around at the surrounding streets and alleys.

No matter how you look at it, all you see is a dark, empty street with nothing in it.

There wasn't even a sound of wind; everything seemed as if time had stood still.

Lin Xian stood there, wondering why he had such thoughts. Then he looked at the timer system under the holographic panel of the Shadow Armor.

10 points.

Lin Xian wondered if he was seeing things, but for some reason, the 59 seconds after the 34th minute seemed like a long time had passed.

He stared at the unchanging number 59, his pupils contracting slightly, as an extremely terrifying and bizarre feeling suddenly overwhelmed him.

In an instant, Lin Xian gasped for breath. At the same time, he heard other people's voices coming through the communicator in his ear, but these voices seemed to be stretched out in that one second.

59.

59.
00.
Suddenly, the numbers started to change, and the time came to 10:35.

'ha……'

Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief, but at that moment, everyone, including him, felt a chill run down their spines as a strong sense of fear washed over them.

Because at that moment, the previously empty and dark street where they were suddenly...
It's packed with people!

Lin Xian, KIKI, Huo Ge, Chen Sixuan, Ning Jing, Xiao Qing, A Bai, Monica, and Qian Dele all had their pupils shrink immediately, as countless figures appeared strangely around them in that instant.

There were people everywhere—in front of me, beside me, behind me, in the middle, and all around me.

It was as if all the people who had died in the Star Abyss in White City had appeared on the streets. These people were emaciated, as if all their blood had been drained, with black holes in their eyes and their mouths wide open in extreme tearing. They stood beside them with an extremely terrifying and horrifying appearance!
A woman with a rotting face stood directly in front of Lin Xian. Through the mask of the Shadow Power Armor, he could even see the dried-up flesh and blood in the empty eyes of the female corpse.

The entire team was stunned by what they saw, and they all held their breath for a moment.

Suddenly, the once empty street was filled with 'people', whose clothes were almost completely faded. These 'people' stood there quietly, without moving.

They did not attack Lin Xian and his group, nor did they make any noise.

At this moment, Lin Xian looked down and discovered that many black, blood vessel-like networks had appeared on the ground, connecting each corpse. At the same time, many brownish-red tissues resembling tumors had appeared in the surrounding streets and alleys. This immediately reminded him of what he had seen in Dungeon No. 9, and he knew something was wrong.

"Ah Bai," Lin Xian asked Ah Bai, "Have we been marked?"

"No!" Ah Bai replied immediately, his voice trembling with fear.

KIKI whispered, "What do we do now? These things don't seem to attack us?"

"Did you burn them?" Huo Ge asked.

Lin Xian suddenly remembered something: "Grace!"

【I am here】

“We’ll plan a new route and bypass this street.”

Clearly, the current situation is a new one that was triggered after Lin Xian and his group arrived, which is definitely related to the fact that they are alive. At this moment, Lin Xian's first concern is the Dark Mark.

Turn right in 150 meters.

"action!"

At Lin Xian's command, everyone quickly began to rush out of the strange 'people' group, guided by the route information synchronized to Grace's holographic panel on the power armor.

At this moment, as they left, all the 'people' standing in place simultaneously began to turn around, facing the direction in which the crowd had left.

"These corpses must be controlled by some kind of strange entity. This place might be the territory of a high-level strange entity!"

Lin Xian rushed up a building and then, along with a group of people, sped across the rooftop. As he observed the surrounding streets, he shared his assessment.

"It gave me a real fright. These things appeared suddenly, just like it got dark," Qian Dele said, still somewhat shaken.

Upon hearing this, Ning Jing immediately replied, "Dark Tide, but it's always night here!"

"Isn't the Dark Tide and the Night the same thing?" KIKI asked nervously as she flew through the air.

“Possibly!” Monica offered a conjecture: “I guess, perhaps by combining the current expansion range of Star Abyss No. 5 with the timing of the tides, we might be able to calculate some correlation?”

Lin Xian shook his head: "We don't know the situation outside right now, but this is one explanation."

rub!
The Black Hawk Armor's propulsion system surged forward, propelling Lin Xian up a tall building. He looked down at the street below, where countless black corpses were all raising their heads, their black, hole-like eyes 'watching' their movements.

Lin Xian felt a chill run down his spine. There was no way out now, so he could only speed up his escape.

At this moment, Lu Xingchen, who was flying through the air, hovered in front and pointed to the street in another direction, saying to Lin Xian...

"Brother Lin, I noticed something seems to be watching us. I wonder if it's just my imagination."

Lin Xian and the others immediately stopped on a rooftop and looked in the direction Lu Xingchen pointed.

They discovered that it was a highway tunnel, which is not uncommon in a mountainous city like Baicheng.

Upon hearing Huo Ge's words, Lin Xian immediately became alert.

"Abai?"

Unexpectedly, Ah Bai shook his head: "I...I sensed danger, but there was no dark aura."

Everyone's gaze fell upon the dark, empty tunnel, which resembled a semi-circular abyss.

Lin Xian's expression darkened, and he immediately picked up his flashlight, turned up the power, and shone it over, but it was still pitch black.

He moved the flashlight away and said, "This place is too strange, we should..."

"Lin Xian!" At this moment, KIKI suddenly called out, interrupting Lin Xian.

Immediately, she shone her flashlight over as well.

In an instant, a huge white humanoid creature appeared in the tunnel, its entire body almost filling the tunnel, and its terrifying face was twisted like the night.

Kakakka~
It sounded like a chilling laugh, and the humanoid creature quickly retreated back into the tunnel.

This scene instantly sent a chill down everyone's spine!
　Asking for a monthly ticket~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)