Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 353 Star Abyss Transmigration (10,000 words, 2 chapters combined)

Reason and fear were locked in a fierce battle. Lin Xian forced himself to regain his composure, and the eerie sounds in the surrounding darkness seemed both distant and close at hand. Thunder, roars, and turmoil were like the end of the world. But all Lin Xian could hear was his own heartbeat and the sound of breathing inside his power armor visor, like breathing inside a spacesuit.

call……

call……

On the holographic panel, vital signs flashed, the situational awareness system issued an alarm, and the radar screen was filled with blood-red dots. The armor's weapon system currently only had the palm cannon and pulse ray left. Lin Xian did not carry any other weapons or drones. He was alone, hiding in the shadows of the corner of the rooftop, with only the blinking electromagnetic gun in his hand.

But in the eyes of those strange beings, Lin Xian, who had been marked, was like a high-temperature heat source in the dark night, attracting an endless stream of strange beings from all directions, leaving him nowhere to hide.

"Only 5 kilometers to reach the destination!"

"Quickly treat Brother Huo's injuries."

"Lin Xian, Lin Xian, can you hear me?"

"Team Leader Lin!"

"Brother Lin, we've been waiting for you!"

"The bunker convoy is almost here."

"Look, what's that behind Silent City?"

"It's definitely an S-class anomaly. Have all the S-class anomalies in Star Abyss No. 5 come here?!"

A familiar voice came through the communication frequency. Lin Xian did not respond, but stared intently at the progress of the rendezvous point, while counting down the rotation time of the Merlion statue.

Crack! Crack! Crack! The rooftop door was torn open by some kind of sharp claws, and some kind of huge creature slowly climbed up the outer wall, revealing a ferocious and terrifying outline in the darkness.

In the final minute, all three groups entered the designated plains area. The convoy slowed down, the combined train braked, and the silent city, which blotted out the sky, came to a sudden stop with a deafening roar.

The time has come!

Lin Xian felt as if time itself had slowed down. He held his breath, watching the giant Merlion on the screen slowly turn towards him. He picked up the Blink Electromagnetic Gun, rolled out of the shadows, and then leaped into the air. All the thrusters of the Black Hawk Power Armor unleashed powerful thrust, and at the critical moment, he flew into the air through the claws and jaws of countless bizarre creatures. In that instant, Lin Xian had already completed his aim!

Bang!
A row of azure arcs lit up on the electromagnetic pulse gun, and a high-energy acceleration sound erupted. The silver bullet instantly burst out eastward with enormous kinetic energy!

At the same time, Lin turned around in mid-air, his eyes fixed without hesitation on the rotating Merlion statue.

At that moment, Lin Xian clearly saw that the once majestic lion face now exuded an incredibly eerie aura. The power armor's system flickered and then shut down again. The mask's emergency system automatically activated, and Lin Xian looked into the lion face's eyes...

It has no eyes.

Where the eye sockets should have been, there were only two pitch-black vortexes, bottomless, like rifts leading to another world. Lin Xian's retina reflected those black holes, and inside the black holes... something was looking back at him.

System restart successful

[Driver's heart rate abnormality detected!]

Heart rate 160

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.

But Lin Xian can't see any of these things anymore!

Lin Xian's eyes were instantly shrouded in bloodshot veins, and his vision began to disintegrate. The outline of the ichthyosaur was distorted, and the stone surface peeled away like rotting flesh, revealing the writhing black blood vessels inside. Its mouth slowly opened, as if emitting a silent shriek beyond human comprehension. His eardrums did not vibrate, but the sound exploded directly in his brain, like ten thousand rusty steel needles stirring his nerves.

Heart rate 180

[Heat loss warning! Heat loss warning!] The power armor's alarm system kept flashing.

In an instant, Lin Xian felt his physical body being disintegrated by another dimension. Black viscous liquid seemed to surge from his throat, and his vision was filled with blood vessels. The figure of the fish-lion giant magnified infinitely in his eyes. It was no longer a statue, but a living mountain made of rotting flesh and blood. Every breath it took exhaled a foul-smelling mist.

Heart rate 200

[Common-mode frequency is about to lose connection]

Lin Xian tried to hold onto his last shred of reason, but he underestimated the power of fear emanating from the colossus. Coupled with the fact that he had expended too much energy, he suddenly felt everything go black and lost consciousness. The blood red in his eyes gradually turned grayish-white.

Dying?

He felt a chilling sense of impending death.

But at that moment, a mechanical buzzing sound suddenly rang in my mind.

Ugh!!!

The voice was incredibly familiar; it was…

The mechanical heart is at work!
*Buzz!* As Lin Xian fell into the center of the bizarre tide, a faint ionization surged through his body. His mechanical heart suddenly erupted automatically as he was on the verge of death. This ionization was like the energy bursting from an AED defibrillator, instantly jolting Lin Xian's mind and allowing him to grasp a sliver of clarity!
Ugh!
Just as the overwhelming, grotesque creatures with their claws and gigantic maws were about to devour him, *whoosh*!

In an instant, Lin Xian vanished from the strange tide, leaving a cloud of dust in the air.

The next second, he heard the sound of high-speed airflow whistling in his ears. When Lin Xian opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was the huge bow of the Silent City, with hundreds of bright searchlights shining.

At the same time, the giant Merlion statue that had been floating above the sewage treatment plant suddenly disappeared, and Lin Xian appeared immediately afterward, still using that powerful force of fear to firmly lock him in place!

But at that moment, Shinji Mochizuki on the transport ship and Kiki and the others on the Mugen saw this scene!
"Lin Xian!" KIKI shouted and rushed out at high speed.

Meanwhile, on the transport ship, Senju Shun and Ryunosuke also flew out of the transport ship.

"Director Ding!" Lin Xian's mechanical heart roared wildly as he flew through the air, managing to suppress the boundless fear under his control. At this moment, it was as if even his emotions had subsided. Upon seeing the giant statue that had teleported in, he immediately shouted to Ding Junyi through the communicator.

"it is good!"

At this moment, Ding Junyi in carriage number 3 immediately activated her superpower, recklessly sending a green wave of energy into the silver dragon's 100,000-fold maze!

puff~
The white and purple flower buds seemed to contain some strange power. Under Ding Junyi's urging, they burst open. In an instant, a faint sound like a bubble bursting rang in everyone's ears. The sound was as light as a bubble and as heavy as a bell.

Then, a burst of intense light, like a supernova explosion, shone brightly between heaven and earth!

It wasn't light, nor was it brightness. It was more like ripples from some dimension breaking through the darkness and dispersing the dust. In an instant, everyone felt as if the white light in front of them was about to blind them and tear their retinas. Everyone reflexively closed their eyes and covered their eyes.

Suddenly, the entire Wangshankou Plain was bathed in daylight. The mountains and grasslands, the dust-filled sky, the United Train, the bunker convoy, and the Silent City all seemed to be shrouded in a crystal ball of light. Beyond this crystal ball, the distant sky and horizon were filled with all sorts of ferocious giants. Terror descended, and the monstrous abyss demons that blotted out the sky, barely revealing part of their serpentine bodies, were enough to make people feel an oppressive force like that of ants.

Seeing this, Shinji Mochizuki's nano-pupils narrowed slightly, and he murmured, "A dimensional void? Just as I thought..."

At this critical moment, KIKI, who flew in, used her telekinesis to grab Lin Xian and take him away from the direct radiation range of the Merlion statue. At the same time, under the control of Ryunosuke, Senju Shun directly replaced Lin Xian and began to observe the Merlion statue head-on.

"Qian Suxun, hold on for three minutes!" The moment Lin Xian flew away, he shouted to Qian Suxun and the other person who were rushing towards him.

"It's nothing," Qian Suxun replied in his usual nonchalant tone.

As Qian Suxun gazed at the awe-inspiring scene that seemed to have changed the world, he looked at the bizarre colossus without any fear in his eyes. Instead, he was filled with a kind of excited anticipation.

"Yoruichi, let me see the pain you've endured!"

Wow!
The next moment, Senju Shun's pupils shrank, and his eyes instantly turned blood red. Ryunosuke behind him had a stern expression. His power armor was constantly monitoring Senju Shun's vital signs. If Senju Shun died, he would immediately take his place.

He and Qian Suxun are the two with the strongest mental strength in the core team of Silent City, so they must fight with their lives on the line!
At this moment, Lin Xian was taken aboard the transport ship by KIKI, and Shiori immediately used her purification power to drive away the fear power on Lin Xian's body.

Rumble!
As the dimensional bubble disappeared, just after Qian Su Xun re-observed the Merlion statue, a thunderclap inexplicably appeared on the vast Wangshankou Plain. It was unclear whether it came from the sky or the ground, but the air itself trembled!

Then, the once bright horizon of Wangshankou Plain began to collapse without warning. At the edge of the horizon after the light disappeared, the tide of night collapsed like a cavitation bubble after a hole in the sea disappeared. Thick darkness surged up from the distance of the horizon, like a giant wall of liquid asphalt more than a thousand meters high, rushing back towards the entire center at a speed that exceeded the laws of physics!

This scene made everyone hold their breath for a moment.

With only 3 minutes left in the ebb tide, they must willingly be swallowed by the collapsing dark tide before the high tide arrives to complete their spatial transfer!
Unable to escape, unable to struggle, cars, trains, and the silent city all came to a halt at this gathering point, awaiting their impending engulfment.

Some closed their eyes, some held their heads, some gripped their weapons tightly and gritted their teeth to persevere. Everyone's heart was pounding as they watched the enormous tidal wave outside the window rapidly approach.

"Two minutes!!"

As the dark wall drew ever closer, all the frenzied sounds suddenly vanished. The dust and trees on the ground lost all shadow the instant darkness touched them. The mercury column in the thermometer inside the carriage plummeted, and frost formed on the stainless steel forks in the dining car as the temperature dropped drastically!

Ka Ka Ka Ka
The train frequencies that had been in constant communication suddenly started spewing strange noises, and all the electronic equipment on the trains and cars, including the power armor systems, were experiencing strange power surges and extremely unstable signals.

Space collapsed, time expanded, and all sorts of distorted scenes tore everything apart. On the Infinity, Toto stared wide-eyed at the scene outside that looked like the world was about to be swallowed up, her little face deathly pale.

She saw the vast, silent city, after being swallowed by the dark tide, stretched infinitely, with even the light distorted and transformed.

"One minute!"

Ding Junyi looked at the disappearing flower clusters on the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes, and calmly waited for the tide to come.

Buzz!

The earth trembled violently, as if the Star Abyss Overlord was angrily responding to the Star Abyss Phenomenon. This sound simultaneously triggered the roars of billions of strange entities, and everyone was marked with a level 5 mark, but they vanished instantly when the tide swallowed everything!
Just a second before the inner tide was about to occur, the Union Train, the Bunker Convoy, and even the massive Silent City all mysteriously vanished from the Lookout Pass Plain. Space flickered and stagnated. Within White City, the Mother Nest emerged, and an even denser array of bizarre entities surged forth like a traffic jam, causing White City to boil over and countless newly stitched-together monsters to descend into chaos.

The colossal, towering, building-like crimson centipede lost its target. The next moment, a sudden explosion erupted within the city, and a 'mountain range' covered in spikes descended, its long, ridge-like legs slamming down, instantly obliterating countless streets.

Within the colossal sky, the giant, coiling serpent slowly swam its massive body. Earthquakes erupted in the mountains surrounding White City, landslides occurred, and waters surged. Spatial turbulence and upheaval began to erupt throughout the entire Star Abyss No. 5!

At this moment, above the Luling Forest, three transport ships from the Crimson World are still carrying out their 'guidance' mission.

"Seventh traction operation, No. 1689, ready for deployment!"

Chi~
Another drone is preparing to take off.

But at that moment, alarms suddenly sounded on the three transport ships, and along with that, countless strange creatures in the dark forest below began to riot abnormally.

"what happened?!"

"We have been marked by darkness!"

"Impossible, radar detection..."

boom!
Suddenly, without any warning or energy fluctuations, a giant aerospace city with a diameter of over 15 kilometers appeared, instantly occupying the low-altitude area of ​​the forest. The three transport ships did not react at all; the people on board did not even have time to cry out before they all crashed into the edge of the Silent City. The titanium alloy hull of the transport ships shattered instantly, and the multi-layered deck structure and power room inside were compressed and detonated in a fraction of a second, turning into a silent fireball. Then, countless fragments slid down along with the edge of the Silent City's bow and fell.

These three transport ships were like three flying dragonflies colliding with a 100-ton heavy truck traveling at 200 kilometers per hour on the highway, instantly melting into the windshield...

"What the heck?!"

On the main bridge of the Silent City, the observation helmsman, responsible for controlling the course and speed, had just recovered from the terrifying tidal surge.

Where are we?

Did you just bump into something?

Is it a speed bump?

"This godforsaken place has speed bumps, they look like some kind of flying machine!"

"How was I supposed to know? He just suddenly appeared!"

"Quickly conduct a self-check of the entire ship's central systems, and activate the drones to inspect the external structure for any damage!"

"Drone detected debris from the damaged ship!"

"Where? Repair it quickly!!"

"It's beyond repair, it's under our tracks..."

"It's over, innocent people have been affected..."

"They seem to be from the Crimson World!"

"Power up the engine room!"

In the dark forest of the polar night, the silent city's barrage of fire illuminates the sky, and the polar night is torn apart by artillery fire!

The Silent City unleashed its full firepower, the close-in weapon systems weaving crimson fire across the night sky as the entire city roared toward the edge of the polar night.
At this moment, on the edge of the polar night in Luling, the riots of these ordinary strange entities did not cause much trouble for this mechanical fortress. This mobile steel fortress was carving out a path to survival with an absolute crushing force.

The massive mobile city tracks flattened the ground and used temporary traction tracks to guide the Combine train and all the bunker polar vehicles into this mechanical city.

In less than twenty minutes, Silent City rushed out of the edge of the polar night and appeared in the canyon on the north side of the Luling Great Forest at dusk!

Under the dim, setting sun, the gray-white forest seemed out of place with the world, as an endless tide of darkness slowly swallowed it up.

"We just encountered the mission team guiding the second colossus in the Crimson World. How lucky! It seems they only need a few more guidances to trigger the Abyss Riot." Shinji Mochizuki said to Lin Xian from inside the transport ship.

"Your dimensional cavitation disaster is more powerful than I imagined; it has even blocked the tracking of level 5 markers and ichthyosaurs."

“We have an old saying, ‘Everything has its counter.’” Lin Xian’s gaze was deep. At this moment, he inexplicably recalled what the hidden program in Grace’s system had suddenly said to him on the night he activated Grace.

[In...in beyond dimensions...no...don't try to understand it within your own dimension. The power of the dark world must possess a resonance effect, or perhaps...communication can be achieved through the same matter!]

A myriad of thoughts surged through Lin Xian's mind. In the last second of the inner tide, everyone successfully completed the spatial transfer, creating an unprecedented and perfect escape!

"It's a pity, it's been ground too finely, so we can't get anything out of it," Shinji Mochizuki said.

Lin Xian shook his head, his expression cold: "It's alright, this should just be a mission team. I have plenty of time to play around with this Crimson World. Aren't they developing bio-engineering technology and mechanical empowerment? Perfect, I don't have any other special skills, so I'll just 'polish' their technology in this area."

The Aksai no-man's-land Star Abyss Devouring, the White City Cleansing, the Human Experiments—although according to that fat Zhou Lei, the Crimson World wasn't targeting him with all this, every wrong has its perpetrator, and Lin Xian urgently needs mechanical upgrades, including the Jin Hai train renovation and upgrade plan. These projects might all be inseparable from the Crimson World's natural technological treasure trove. Speaking of which, Lin Xian is quite interested in the flesh-and-blood implant technology. Now that he and Silent City have reached the same conclusion, it's only natural that he wants to cause trouble for the Crimson World.

After all, compared to devouring abandoned cars on the roadside, what could be more profitable than devouring high-tech equipment from the Crimson World?

“We took the complete backup of their White City Research Institute and also obtained the Dark Corrosion Cells. Combined with my research in the Star Abyss, we may soon make a leap forward in the field of Dark Invasion.”

Shinji Mochizuki turned around and looked at Lin Xian with a calm expression. He sensed the anger in Lin Xian's words, but still spoke in a gentle tone.
"Lin, you've done me a huge favor. How can I possibly thank you?"

Lin Xian looked out the porthole of the transport ship at the huge sky city under the setting sun, raised an eyebrow and said, "Then you'll have a lot to thank me for."

……

The thousands of survivors of the Union Train were now filled with excitement. After experiencing endless despair and near-death experiences, everything at this moment was like a dream, making everyone ecstatic and indignant!

Some people knelt on the ground and kissed the metal floor, some hugged complete strangers and wept uncontrollably, some shouted, and some cheered.

"We...we really survived?"

At first it was a cautious probe, but as the situation gradually became clear, it turned into a hysterical scream. The despair that had been suppressed for several endless nights in the abyss of stars was now transformed into boiling blood. Even the emergency lights on the roof of the car were shaken by the sound waves and flickered.

"Oh my god, I can see the sunlight!"

"Cool!!!"

"We're so awesome!"

"Haha, that's because Captain Lin and Silent City are awesome!"

Silent City is not simply "a city," but a vertically layered, colossal mobile fortress. Its overall structure is based on the modular design of interstellar warships, but its scale far exceeds that of most industrial creations in human history.

Even though the Silent City II, which can accommodate over 100,000 people, has not yet returned, the scale of this Silent City is unimaginable. The entire main city is divided into four main structural areas with a total of over 86 decks. The upper deck, the Cloud Zone, is where the command center, the main bridge, is located. Located on the top floor, it is a hemispherical holographic command center with a real-time holographic projection of the entire city floating inside. Hundreds of tacticians, navigators, and energy controllers work here, but the core control is actually operated by Shinji Mochizuki alone.

Then there's the research and academy area, Shinji Mochizuki's "ivory tower" set up in the apocalypse. It has its own ecological dome, where genetically modified crops are grown. It also houses an advanced research institute, encompassing almost all human scientific research disciplines and various laboratories. Various bizarre entities, dark research, forbidden objects, and disaster plants are all located here. Shinji Mochizuki openly promotes the digital life project in Silent City. Many senior scientists, core technical personnel, and other survivors who have joined Silent City have begun to regularly store their consciousness memories. This is both a recognition of the technology and an expectation under the apocalypse, hoping that even if they cannot escape death, they can one day survive like Shinji Mochizuki in a new life form of mechanical consciousness.

At least, there's no need to worry about pain and darkness.

The middle deck is the docking area of ​​the Silent City, City Two. As the core of the city, it is a steel metropolis built entirely according to the urban model of a high-level civilization. However, it was not originally built for the apocalypse. The Mochizuki family had long-term considerations in building City One and City Two separately. The main city is essentially an aerial combat mothership, and this design allows City Two to avoid the impact of war. The Star Abyss Disaster has been enough to prove the correctness of this design.

The lower deck is the energy core of Silent City, a Titan-class nuclear fusion reactor that powers the entire city. Combined with the four floating cities and the backup power core, Silent City has a total of six cores, which is quite powerful!
At the same time, this area is also the main automated industrial zone of Silent City, with nearly 70% of the industrial categories manufacturing production lines, armories, military production lines, and assembly lines constantly assembling new ammunition and combat robots.

The lowest level is called the Basic Resources Zone, which stores all the basic raw materials and survival supplies for Silent City. It is also the main area for waste disposal and recycling. All urban garbage, sewage, and even war-damaged machinery are sent here, where they are decomposed, smelted, and transformed back into resources.

The combined train pulled into the berth on the lower deck, which has a dedicated vehicle parking area that can accommodate hundreds of aircraft and tens of thousands of cars.

Shinji Mochizuki parked Silent City in a flat, fertile field, preparing to return Silent City II to the main city so that everyone could enter the city to rest. At the same time, he invited the core members of the United Train to the upper level. However, Lin Xian was too tired. Now that he had escaped from the Star Abyss, he planned to get a good night's sleep. If he met Chu Yan, he would exchange information with her.

Now that the Union Trains are protected by the behemoth that is Silent City, Lin feels as if a huge burden has been lifted off his shoulders.

He returned to Carriage Number One of the Infinite, took a shower, and looked out at the dozens of trains and hundreds of survivor vehicles parked on the deck of the mechanical city. He lay down on the bed and let out a deep sigh of relief.

There are no orbital crises, no Star Abyss Overlords, no S-class anomalies, no dark invasions, no Red Human Anomalies, no mutations, no need to worry about ammunition or travel.

He didn't even want to look at the time. Since Jiang City, Lin Xian had never felt so relaxed.

Chen Sixuan, KIKI and the others knew that Lin Xian was exhausted. No one bothered him. The team members in each carriage were in high spirits. Lin Xian let them follow Qian Suxun and the others to do their own thing. As soon as he lay down, endless exhaustion overwhelmed him and he fell into a deep sleep.

A drop of cold rain fell on his forehead. He opened his eyes and saw a tall, beautiful figure above him, arms crossed and looking down at him. The rain slid down her mechanical arm to her elbow, which was equipped with a high-frequency blade and a jet, and then dripped down.

Chu Yan.

She looked at Lin Xian, who was leaning against the corner of the rooftop wall, with a slightly strange gaze, and then spoke.

It was a little blurry at first.

However, Lin Xian seemed to immediately guess the three words from her lip movements.

It's you again.

Lin Xian stood up, glanced around, and immediately realized that they should be in a certain city.

A light rain was falling from the sky, the remnants of neon lights soaking in the rain of the eternal night. Holographic billboards flickered occasionally, projecting phantoms of goods that had long since disappeared. He turned his head and looked out from the high-rise building at a huge and dilapidated industrial city. At this moment, several core areas in the city were still lit up, looking like survival zones surrounded by survivors or the Federation, while in the other dark areas, the streets were filled with all kinds of zombies wandering around.

For some reason, Lin Xian felt a sense of kinship when he saw those zombies with rotting faces, green skin, and sharp claws.

Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian with a strange expression: "You escaped from the Star Abyss?"

"You know again?"

"You usually only go to sleep after the crisis is over."

"How can this be called sleeping?" Lin Xian looked at her and said helplessly, "I still have to carry out missions with you even when I'm asleep."

Chu Yan glanced at him: "It's your consciousness that's connected to me. I didn't ask you to do that. Your presence might even affect the secrecy of my mission."

Lin Xian opened his mouth, but then didn't know how to respond, so he closed his mouth.

To be honest, Lin Xian couldn't confirm Chu Yan's organization or identity, nor could he trust her. However, the subtle connection between the two made it necessary for them to understand each other's backgrounds. These few communications had the implication of testing each other.

Seeing Lin Xian remain silent, Chu Yan immediately spoke up.

"Don't bother me"

Lin Xian leaned back, trying to calm his mind: "I don't want to either."

Chu Yan didn't say anything, but leaped out, the thrusters blasting out a vortex as she sped through the city's night sky. At the same time, signals from her teammates kept coming from all directions.

But as soon as she landed, Lin Xian's figure reappeared in a corner not far away, like a stubborn leech that she couldn't shake off. Chu Yan frowned slightly, her mood somewhat complicated.

As a psychic, Chu Yan can control all thought processes, including her own consciousness and emotions. However, this connection with Lin Xian is a major headache for her. Coupled with the special nature of her mission, she has to find a way to solve this controllability problem.

Chu Yan switched the communicator to silent mode and then said to Lin Xian.

Aren't you curious about why we have this state connection?

Lin Xian closed his eyes and said calmly, "Curious, and then what?"

He had originally guessed that the connection with Chu Yan's consciousness only occurred after the emergence of the gravitational lensing ability, and the experience of dimensional bubble in the Star Abyss, including seeing Chu Yan's face after creating a black hole using gravitational lensing, further confirmed this to him.

But as for why this phenomenon occurred, and why it was Chu Yan, Lin Xian had no idea.

Chu Yan glanced at the time and then said to Lin Xian, "Five minutes. Let's exchange information and see if we can figure this out."

Lin Xian opened his eyes and looked at Chu Yan: "Okay, then tell me first, why are you in my house?"

“You’ve been lying low in Jiang City for so long, tracking down the floating giant corpse of World-Class Creature No. 02, you should have noticed something, right?” Chu Yan said directly. “In addition, your shelter once experienced high-density fluctuations in Spirit Aura, which is also the reason for my investigation.”

Lin Xian frowned slightly upon hearing this, and Gao Dang's spiritual energy fluctuated. Could it be referring to KIKI?

"It's my turn to ask. What ability did you use to cause our consciousness to intersect?" Chu Yan asked in a stern voice.

"It's a kind of, uh..."

Lin Xian didn't know how to describe it, so he simply said, "I call it... a gravitational lens."

Upon hearing this, Chu Yan's expression immediately changed.
"What did you say?!"

Seeing Chu Yan's expression, Lin Xian looked puzzled and seemed to have guessed something. He stood up and looked at her, saying, "I said, my ability is called Gravitational Lens."

"Impossible!" Chu Yan frowned, looking at Lin Xian with a scrutinizing gaze: "How could you use such a weapon?"

"Weapons?" Lin Xian asked instinctively upon hearing the other party's tone.

Chu Yan's gaze lingered, and she stopped speaking. She looked at Lin Xian in silence, her expression becoming somewhat complicated.

"Mechanical ability, it seems your ability is quite special."

"Thank you." Lin Xian was already surprised by what she said, but judging from her attitude, he was also taken aback. It turned out that Chu Yan also knew how to use gravity lenses, and it didn't seem to be a superpower, but rather some kind of weapon.

Could it be that all the skills I gained from my Mechanical Heart are essentially mechanical weaponizations?

Thinking of this, Lin Xian gasped. Research and development center, preparation factory, decomposition center—it all seemed to have a traceable origin. However, Lin Xian was also quite curious about what Chu Yan's organization did, that it possessed such weapons.

But now, Lin Xian, who had just experienced a series of encounters in the Star Abyss, such as spatial transfer, time dilation, flashing bullets, and dimensional bubbles, suddenly found it reasonable. Even the Crimson World had achieved a level of scientific advancement that represented a leap in civilization from the Star Abyss, so perhaps the organization Chu Yan belonged to, including the Phoenix Society, must have also mastered quite a bit.

Chu Yan took a deep breath, not pressing further, but instead looked at Lin Xian warily before speaking.

"According to regulations, we should probably ask you to come back and investigate you thoroughly, but I don't think I want to do that right now."

"Are you afraid your organization will arrest me and investigate me?"

Chu Yan shook her head: "Perhaps, but I'm also very curious. Given your journey from the Star Abyss, including your past deeds, the Phoenix Society should have contacted you long ago, but..."

She lowered her eyes and said, "Okay, let's keep this communication going, and hopefully you're trustworthy."

Lin Xian smiled faintly: "Don't worry, I belong to the human camp."

Chu Yan gave him a meaningful look, then turned on her communicator: "Operation begins."

In an instant, she started up on her own and sped through the shadows of the city. A dozen minutes later, she arrived at a place on the outskirts of the city, a military base surrounded by high walls and pulsed electric grids, which was now shining with blinding searchlights.

Lin Xian, following Chu Yan's consciousness, also appeared on the high wall of the watchtower. When he looked into the base, his gaze suddenly sharpened!
Large white searchlights, like operating lights on an operating table, illuminated the center of the military base, where a bizarre corpse lay!
A colossal torso, at least 500 meters long, lay across the base's plaza. Aside from its torso, which retained some semblance of integrity, most of its tissues were mangled beyond recognition. Its head, chest, and abdomen were riddled with wounds from countless bombardments by human firearms, the dense array of blast holes a stark reminder of the monster's brutality. Its knee-length black claws were covered in scorched earth and blood, and its torso even contained missile debris and aircraft fragments. A single glance was enough to tell that the human forces had paid a tremendous price to destroy this monster!
This bizarre and gigantic creature possesses an absolute S-class strength. Its torso resembles a mummified corpse, with sharp, jagged bone spurs on its shoulders and back like mountains. Its head has no eyes, only a gaping maw. Several huge holes have collapsed in its chest, with the muscle fibers at the edges curling up like withered vines, revealing a dark cavity inside, as if something had been forcibly ripped out from within!
At this moment, in the square, the massive remains and fragments were being moved in piece by piece by armed transport planes and various cranes. The entire military center was filled with a pungent, stench. Below, countless workers wearing gas masks were busily working in the darkness.

Seeing this, Lin Xian looked shocked. Chu Yan, who was standing next to him, saw Lin Xian's expression and spoke in a low voice.

"This is the 14th S-class creature that attacked Dawn City last night. It was named the Gray Mist Giant. More than 30,000 people were killed or injured in the city before this guy was finally killed. It is the second S-class creature that humans have killed since the Battle of Westland City."

"Even with such strong firepower, Dawn City still lost more than 30,000 people?" Lin Xian exclaimed in surprise upon hearing this.

Xilan City and Dawn City are not the same thing at all. The former is an abandoned industrial city on the western frontier. In terms of city size, it can only be classified as a small city, and the total population of the city is less than 8. In terms of firepower, it is far inferior to Dawn City.

Upon hearing this, Chu Yan said in a deep voice, "First, Dawn City has too large a population. The outer city outside Dawn One Wall alone has more than a million people, and the old city has more than three million. This doesn't even include the inner city and the underground city. Second, you underestimated the destructive power of an S-class. According to the battle report, it possesses a defensive force field of the dark dimension, which renders energy almost ineffective. Even the ultra-high temperature plasma cannon can't penetrate it..."

"How was that resolved?"

Chu Yan's gaze swept over: "They're being worn down. There's no way to break through that crimson defensive force field yet. The only good thing is that this defense isn't infinite or a biophysical surface. But even without that force field, this guy's flesh and tissue defense is so strong that low-powered kinetic weapons can't penetrate it. Only materials at the level of tungsten-titanium armor-piercing projectiles can break through it."

Lin Xian's expression turned slightly serious upon hearing this. Just as he was about to ask something, a large transport ship carrying a huge claw bone whizzed overhead. On the transport ship, there was a striking triangular prism symbol!

He immediately frowned: "The Crimson World? What are they up to?"

Chu Yan shook her head and looked down at the military base: "We and the Phoenix Society also want to know."

Lin Xian turned his head at this moment, and suddenly, a black aura shot into the sky. The huge S-class behemoth, as big as a mountain, stood up strangely at this moment. Its terrifying head with ferocious fangs seemed to be collapsing towards him like a mountain falling down. It kept magnifying in his eyes, forming a strong visual impact. Lin Xian felt a cold breath, and the hair on his body stood on end. The sinister skeleton and fangs were reflected in his pupils!
"hiss!"

In carriage number 1 of the Infinite, Lin Xian sat up with a start, his eyes blank. After a long while, he realized that what had just happened must have been a hallucination.

Meanwhile, outside, the entire Silent City was emitting a tremendous roar, the sound waves shaking the heavens.

Lin Xian immediately stood up and opened the sunshade. He was shocked to see that the docking port on the upper deck was opening rapidly. In the starry night, a magnificent and imposing floating city with dazzling lights was suspended in the air, ready to connect with the main city!

Silent City - City Two!

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