Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 341 The Mysterious Mother Nest
The moment Lin Xian saw the humanoid creature, his first reaction was to take action immediately!

He raised his hand and pointed, and the mechanical energy cannon, along with 25 Thunder Falcon drones, simultaneously unleashed pulse beams that shot directly at the monster's distorted face.

call out!
Unexpectedly, the white figure moved extremely fast, shrinking back into the tunnel in the blink of an eye. Dozens of pulse beams seemed to have struck something, producing a cracking sound and sending up dust.

Then, the strange, clattering laughter echoed from the depths of the tunnel, as if luring everyone inside.

Seeing the monster disappear, Ning Jing immediately looked at Ah Bai.

Ah Bai shook his head strangely: "How strange, I feel like we're being watched, but there aren't any particularly obvious markings on us..."

“Perhaps in a place like this, there’s no need for markings at all,” Monica said incisively.

"What do you mean?"

Ning Jing looked at her: "Are you trying to say that this place is inherently a world of dark creatures?"

"How could that be!" Qian Dele immediately retorted, "If we didn't need to mark our positions, wouldn't we have lost them long ago?"

"This is our world."

Lin Xian looked at the tunnel with a solemn expression and said, "It's just been corrupted by the Star Abyss."

"Why did this monster run away without attacking us?" KIKI was filled with doubt at this moment. This was the first time they had encountered a strange creature that ran away, and it didn't even have any markings on its body.

"Go first!"

Without much thought, Lin Xian immediately set off towards the Baicheng Rail Station. The strangeness of Baicheng was beginning to emerge. All they could do was seize the time to solve the problem and get back on the train to escape Xingyuan!
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As soon as they started moving, the signal frequency inside the mecha became unstable. Even though KIKI, Huo Ge, and the others were right in front of and behind them, the communicator was filled with sharp static. Lin Xian, inside the holographic mask, adjusted his breathing and kept his nerves completely on edge.

As they walked through the darkness, the number of 'people' on the streets increased and became more dense.

Lin Xian noticed that these 'people' seemed to be mainly gathering in a certain central area. Realizing this, he immediately stopped, unfolded the original map of Baicheng, and found that the direction of the gathering was the central area of ​​the city.

Baicheng is a mountain city with a relatively long and narrow urban layout. It is backed by mountains to the north and south and wide to the east and west. Except for the city center, most of the buildings are relatively low and old.

From the map, it looks like an eye in the mountains, and the Baicheng Rail Station is located in the eastern suburbs.

But as Lin Xian ran, he felt something was wrong. When Grace came to scout ahead, everything went smoothly. Now that they were coming, they were specifically trying to avoid the sewage treatment plant in the north of the city and take a detour, but the current situation made him vaguely feel that something was amiss.

"Everyone," Monica said as she ran alongside Lin Xian, "we're hearing a lot of sounds getting closer and closer. This is bad."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xian looked down at the densely packed, desiccated corpses staring at them from the street below and immediately said, "Hide inside the buildings! Don't let these things watch us!"

rub!
As he spoke, Lin Xian leaped onto the exterior wall of a tall building, ascended vertically with the help of the booster, and then entered the top floor. All the glass in the building had been shattered and disappeared, standing on the ground like a decaying fish skeleton. The others followed suit and all entered the corridor.

Clang.

Suddenly, several heavy footsteps broke the silence in the corridor. It was pitch black all around. Under the night vision goggles and searchlights, the ground was covered with broken bricks, wall tiles and rubble. This place seemed to be an apartment building, only a dozen stories high. The apartment numbers on the doors in the corridor were completely decayed and illegible. The footsteps echoed.

"Grace, go scout ahead!"

The situation outside was really strange. The more they ran, the more people appeared. With Ah Bai and Monica's reconnaissance, just to be on the safe side, Lin Xian decided to send Grace out first. The group of them would hide in the apartment building to observe the situation.

I understand, you can trust Grace.

Rub rub rub.

Grace instantly adopted a sprinting stance, and with a few crisp footsteps, she quickly disappeared into the dark corridor, heading towards the street outside.

Lin Xian and the others then found an apartment and hid inside.

The apartment's security door was already rusted; with a gentle push, the hinges snapped and fell off, tumbling inside with a thud.

Lin Xian casually created an alloy door to seal it, and then said, "Wait a few minutes, let's see how things go before we take action."

Ning Jing nodded, then gestured to Xiao Qing, who immediately took a knife and went into several rooms to check.

At this point, Lin Xian made several completely sealed iron windows to seal all the windows in the house before turning on a light in the living room.

In an instant, the light dispelled the darkness, and the first thing that came into view was a completely gray living room. The sofa, coffee table, TV, TV cabinet, and wooden floor were all gray except for the shape that could still be seen. All the wall paint and flooring were covered together.

"That was terrifying! How did so many people suddenly appear on the street? I didn't even have time to react."

As KIKI spoke, she reached out and patted a bookshelf next to her. Unexpectedly, the bookshelf crumbled into a pile of rotten fragments, stirring up dust all over the floor.

Qian Dele was also looking at the situation inside the apartment when he turned to Lin Xiandao.

"Is it because they weren't marked that you didn't attack them?"

Lin Xian, who was focused on Grace's information, said, "Those are obviously human corpses."

"The zombies don't mark us, but the monster in that tunnel..."

"Anyway, something's strange."

Lu Xingchen gathered fire in one hand, releasing a warm current that dispelled the chill in the space, and said in a serious tone, "We humans still prefer places with light."

Chen Sixuan, armed with a gun, and Xiaoqing searched the area together before returning to join the others in a discussion.

"Lin Xian, don't you think those fleshy tissues look a lot like the ones from the bottom of Dungeon No. 9?"

Lin Xian nodded: "That's why I'm worried there might be a big monster in this city."

KIKI frowned: "Grace wasn't here when she came a few hours ago, how did she appear?"

“We are currently 8 kilometers away from Baicheng Rail Station as the crow flies. If we can’t get through the city, should we go around the mountainside?” Ning Jing said at this moment, “or should we use KIKI’s flying ability.”

"Team Lin?"

After Ning Jing finished speaking, she noticed that Lin Xian did not respond, so she spoke again.

At this moment, Lin Xian suddenly said, "Ah Bai is right, it's a good thing we didn't fly into the air."

At this moment, Grace had already sent back the image. Because the distance was not far, the information was not compressed or delayed significantly. He immediately shared the image with the others.

"The outside world is teeming with bizarre creatures!"

I'm currently heading east on Elm Street. I've encountered many corpses hanging from cables, and I'm being followed and observed by several 'humans.' Biometrics detects no signs of life.

In the scene, numerous corpses resembling dolls hang from the ceiling above the street. In front of Grace, several strange 'people' who look like human children appear, staring intently at her. Some are crouching on cars, while others are running. But as Grace moves forward, these eerie children quickly shrink back under various cars or into gaps.

Grace's voice came through the communicator, crisp and cold, as if she had no sense of being on a dark, terrifying, and gloomy street.

Seeing this scene, Lin Xian began to feel increasingly uneasy.

"Check the light ahead; if attacked, retaliate immediately!"

Grace understands.

In the dilapidated apartment, the exploration team huddled together, all frowning as they looked at the images in the holographic world.

"They all seem to be people, but they're not people..."

Chen Sixuan said in a subtle tone, "If it were some monsters, their pressure might be a little less, but this is the first time they have seen a city in the Star Abyss. All they have seen are ghostly things related to people, each one more bizarre than the last."

Ah Bai stood quietly to one side, observing the apartment rooms, glancing occasionally towards the door. His face was somewhat cold; he seemed to sense some kind of pacing sound coming from beneath the floorboards, and something eerie breathing deep within the dark corridor…

The door panel that Lin Xian made shut out the light from the small room, while everyone was closely watching Grace's information.

In the pitch-black streets of White City, a silver-black female robot moved swiftly, navigating vehicles and obstacles with precision and elegance, her movements agile and almost silent.

Even so, many 'beings' were watching the robot, and the entire city streets and alleys had a bizarre feeling that seemed empty yet was bustling with activity.

In Grace's system, more and more corpses were hanging in the street ahead, and at the same time, the brownish-red tissue-like objects on the street corner were becoming more and more dense. She noticed this and quickly climbed up a tall building, set up a new signal repeater, and began to climb over the roof.

At this point, her radar scan revealed that many of the surrounding buildings were beginning to be enveloped by this fleshy tissue. Gradually, the rooftops and roads were no longer made of concrete, and the entire block seemed to have transformed into the tissue of some kind of large creature.

After climbing above an office building in the city center, Grace's night vision revealed a dark, deathly city.

The asphalt road was covered by some kind of living tissue. Sticky fleshy membranes writhed on the building surface, like a layer of rotting skin. At the center of the fleshy tissue ahead, the main body of the tissue finally appeared. It was a mother nest made of flesh and blood, so huge that it resembled a large stadium. Its surface was covered with pulsating black blood vessels, and dark purple veins spread like tree roots. The mother nest opened its blood-red maw, like a volcano, and thousands of tentacles rose out, constantly decomposing many human corpses!
At the top of the nest, another, even more distorted entity floated, like a "printer" made of flesh and madness, composed of countless tiny tentacles and cysts, constantly spewing out half-formed monsters. The reconstructed humanoid creatures fell from its bottom, crashed onto the fleshy carpet, and convulsively got up.

Their limbs were dislocated, their heads inverted, their joints twisted at impossible angles, yet they could still walk, crawl, and even utter a sticky, whispering sound, almost like a language. Then, the disintegrated human corpses and the half-formed monsters began to be stitched together. Large amounts of black mist seeped into the monsters' bodies, like some kind of bio-energy medium, rapidly causing these half-formed monsters to mutate, growing spikes, thick armor, sharp claws, and fangs…

Thus, a three-headed spider monster, a white humanoid ghost, a giant black body, a monster crawling upside down...

Various bizarre, hybrid entities were thus 'manufactured' through the decomposition of human corpses, and then crawled into the darkness in all directions.

The eyeballs are mutating and multiplying, the arms are twisting and deforming, the skeleton is expanding, and the muscles are dissolving...

The mother nest had no pattern of generation; it was like an AI generation system that was unrestricted and fed with a large number of disordered keywords, strangely producing a 'result' that had no logic whatsoever.

Countless plumes of black smoke billowed from the gaping maw of the mother nest, like an old-fashioned gas engine running at full power, its black veins spreading throughout the city constantly devouring the corpses of the dead humans.

Grace stood at a distance from the mother hive, trying to send the message back, but the interference was too great, and all the video footage became mottled and distorted.

From Lin Xian's perspective, the scene in the city center was like hell, making one's scalp tingle.

hiss! ! !
In the enclosed apartment building, many members of the exploration team immediately gasped, staring in astonishment at the images that Lin Xian was simultaneously displaying in their holographic visions.

A few seconds later, KIKI exclaimed in surprise.
"My God, so these bizarre creatures were created like this?!"

"I was wondering why these strange creatures were always associated with humans. It turns out they really were stitched together using human corpses." Qian Dele said incredulously, "How did these things even appear on Earth? From some other extraterrestrial civilization?"

Ning Jing's pupils trembled: "It's simply...like a monster factory."

“There’s definitely more than one of these things. They might all be in those Star Abysses, which is why the monsters appeared after nightfall,” Chen Sixuan said solemnly.

Huo Ge remained silent, staring at the mother nest in the image, seemingly somewhat shocked.

"If we solve this problem, will the end of the world not come?" At this moment, the taciturn Xiaoqing suddenly asked this question, which immediately stumped everyone.

"not that simple."

Lin Xian said in a deep voice, "Didn't you notice that those that were stitched together were basically C-level and B-level bizarre entities?"

"How do high-level A-grade, special-grade, and S-grade individuals come about?"

"Not to mention those colossal beasts that stretch for tens of kilometers, covering vast terrains, and occupying volcanoes, deep oceans, and skies—those world-class disasters don't seem to have been created in this way."

Monica nodded: "I think there must be some kind of pattern among these creatures."

"What pattern?" Qian Dele asked.

“Just like humans and other creatures on Earth—insects, microorganisms, animals, and even humans themselves—there are different social classes that control different social resources and means of production,” Monica said analytically. “Isn’t that obvious?”

"I don't think now is the time to discuss this issue," Lin Xian said.
He looked at the situation on the lagging screen and said with a solemn expression, "Those strange entities are coming from all directions!"

Outside the sealed-off apartment, more and more sounds emerged: movement, climbing, countless eerie whispers echoing in the dark alley, and piercing roars reverberating in the darkness. At this moment, everyone in the exploration team held their breath and looked at Ah Bai.

Without a doubt, at this moment, once they are marked, they will be plunged into an endless tide of monsters.

Faced with that mother nest, everyone finally understood why the monsters in the darkness were impossible for humans to kill completely...

At this point, the time had come to 11:04.

Lin Xian watched as the time stopped at 59 seconds again. At that moment, it was as if the time dilation effect around them was stretched out instantly, and everyone felt their breath catch for a moment.

The next moment, the time came to 11:05.

Suddenly, the sounds outside disappeared, and a few seconds later, Grace's voice came through.

The disappearance of the observed target, making it impossible to obtain useful information, may be a visual effect caused by spatial distortion.

Hearing Grace's words, Lin Xian's heart skipped a beat. What was going on? How did they all suddenly disappear? Wasn't it nighttime now?

The sudden situation caught Lin Xian off guard. He immediately instructed Grace to look around. Sure enough, not only the mother nest, but also the human corpses and fleshy tissues that were originally in the street had disappeared.

This strange situation left the exploration team somewhat bewildered.

"What's going on? Is it a hallucination?"

“Strange, Ah Bai said that the aura of those monsters has disappeared.”

"Disappear in the night?" KIKI looked puzzled. "Don't these monsters appear at night?"

The sudden change once again overturned everyone's understanding.

Lin Xian was full of questions. Although he didn't know the reason, the disappearance of the strange entity was good news for the time being. However, out of caution, since Grace was no longer marked or attacked by the strange entity, Lin Xian told her to go directly to the city center where the mother nest was located to investigate first, just in case.

Grace immediately sprang into action, quickly leaping across the rooftop and then jumping down into the street towards what was once the center of the Mother Nest.

Soon, a huge sinkhole appeared ahead, splitting the original city square in two. However, apart from the ground, the surrounding houses did not collapse or break down. At the same time, several armored vehicles belonging to survivors, which looked relatively new, appeared here, but they were covered in blood and there was no one in sight.

Grace quickly scanned the various information reports while awaiting Lin Xian's next instructions.

Just then, a strange and quiet sound of something cutting through the air rang out in the sky above the square, and a black iron spear shot towards Grace Cave at lightning speed.

rub!
Grace, who was carrying out her task, raised her arm and precisely and firmly grasped the iron spear.

[Attack detected. Combat system activated!]

In an instant, several more iron spears flew over. At the same time, the two cars next to Grace seemed to be controlled by some force, suddenly closing in on her and attacking her from both sides!

Grace leaped into the air, flipped her hand, and the plasma pulse ray generator in her wrist instantly activated, slicing open the front of a car and melting the iron spear she was controlling along with it.

But at that moment, a figure suddenly appeared behind her, its mechanical power armor joints exploding with energy pulses. It moved with lightning speed, almost instantly reaching Grace below, grabbing her neck and slamming her to the ground.

Bang!
In an instant, a crater was smashed into the ground. Just when the man thought he had subdued Grace, Grace mechanically turned her head and quickly scanned the man. Then, she burst into the ground with both feet, leaped up and spun around. The shadowy figure felt a tremendous force from the robot under his hand twisting and about to break his wrist. He immediately flashed his eyes, released his hand, and punched Grace in the head.

Grace simply tilted her head to dodge the heavy punch, grabbing the other person's arm and flipping them upside down to pin them to the ground.

But the moment Grace made her move, another strange thing happened. Suddenly, the stones in front of her rose up from the ground and knocked her aside. At the same time, another car flew towards her and smashed Grace into another heavy steel truck, trapping her tightly.

At this moment, the dark figure who had made the move quickly stood up and said in a cold tone.

"What an amazing robot! It must be a brain-level alloy body from the Crimson World, which is much rarer than ordinary ones."

This is a short-haired woman wearing black power armor, with two short swords on her back. She exudes a powerful aura, which seems to be an energy change that can be felt when genetic evolution reaches a certain stage. She is wearing a set of black exoskeleton armor that is obviously some kind of special design, with a red symbol on her clothing.

She seemed to be communicating via intercom; just as she finished speaking, another man's voice came from the air.
"Lan, don't get distracted!"

In the sky, a man dressed in strange power armor with a hood and a Japanese katana at his waist slowly floated down. He raised his hand and waved it, and all kinds of stones and broken metal fragments on the ground floated up and twisted into sharp cones in the air, which then violently blasted towards the car that was pressing down on Grace.

In an instant, these objects shot at the jeep like bullets, shattering all of its armor plates!
Bang!
At that moment, with a cracking sound, a metallic figure sprang up from the wreckage of the train, swept over the roofs of several cars, and rushed toward Baicheng Train Station behind them.

"Trying to run?!" The man in the black hood seemed to have an ability very similar to KIKI's. He leaped through the air quickly and tried to control Grace, but Grace's power was too great, so he drew his red katana from his waist.

Upon seeing this, Ran Amano, who had followed behind, immediately spoke into her communicator.

"Ryunosuke, don't break it! The quantum AI is extremely valuable. It would be best to capture it and bring it to Shinji. We need it right now!"

"Shiori, keep up!"

"it is good."

At that moment, a petite girl dressed in an expensive flight power suit swiftly emerged from the corner and followed behind the two. She spread her arms, and a dark green energy membrane enveloped all three of them, as she spoke.

"This robot still retains some of the aura of the Spirit Transformation Realm, which was left behind by a very powerful superhuman."

"Then it must be a high-ranking member of the Crimson World!"

Upon hearing his companion's words, Ryunosuke, who was flying, put away his katana and used his supernatural ability to grab the surrounding bricks, tiles, and various metal objects in an attempt to wrap Grace up.

As the three were chasing Grace, the girl named Shiori suddenly changed her expression and turned to look at the dark street behind her.

"Enemies are approaching, and they... are very fast!"

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