Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 364 Reconstruction (Bonus Chapter!)

Silent City, Cloud District.

Lin Xian stood in the strong wind, watching the transport ship fly away, his expression calm.

"Let me guess, you suddenly decided to come and cause this scene because you've discovered something?" Shinji Mochizuki said, looking at Lin Xian.

Lin Xian turned to look at him: "Hey, you've offended the people of Dawn City like this, and you don't seem worried at all."

"Their goal is the City of Silence, and it won't change because of whether our words are carefully chosen or our posture is humble, will it?"

"More than that, I'm curious about what Ms. Jian Xuwei conveyed to you," Shinji Mochizuki said, looking at Lin Xian.

"Nothing can escape your eyes." Lin Xian stepped forward, squatted down, and looked at a darker mark on the ground than the one on the deck next to him. It was a small, round mark about the size of a fingernail, which looked like the mark left by the heel of a high heel. He reached out and pinched it with his fingertip, and a brown, thin film-like object was attracted to his finger. Upon closer inspection, he found that it contained a fine circuit diagram.

“It looks like a miniature disk,” Shinji Mochizuki said as he approached.

"With this sticker on the bottom of your heels, it's really hard to walk on the road."

Lin Xian recalled Jian Xuwei's words, smiled, and then handed it to Mochizuki Shinji. Mochizuki Shinji took it, and his fingertips transformed into a nanoplatform to lift the thin film. Immediately, a holographic message was transmitted from it.

"Lin Xian, Zhou Mingyuan is colluding with the Crimson World, and he's not the only one involved. Many high-ranking officials in Dawn City are also implicated. Furthermore, this Zhou Mingyuan is a clone."

As soon as Jian Xuwei spoke, the others frowned.

"A clone?" Qian Suxun smiled helplessly: "So that's how it is. I was wondering why the vice chairman of Dawn City would risk flying so far away in the middle of the night. It turns out he was just a stand-in."

“Wen Dong and Jian Xuwei are not stand-ins,” Shinji Mochizuki said. “They do want to cooperate with Silent City, but taking Silent City is more direct than building more starships.”

After saying that, he looked at Lin Xian and said, "Trouble is coming."

“They’ve already arrived.” Lin Xian said helplessly, “We don’t need to hide it. Zhou Mingyuan must have known about the situation in Star Abyss No. 5 long ago, so his trip here is definitely not just a formality or a simple negotiation for cooperation.”

"You'll find out soon." Shinji Mochizuki turned and left, saying to Lin Xian, "Before nightfall tonight, we'll stop about 30 kilometers north of Ningnan and wait for darkness to fall, 420 kilometers from Jinhai. You need to speed up your mechanical devouring."

Seeing Shinji Mochizuki leave with the others, Lin Xian took a deep breath. He had just finished devouring the nuclear reactor of the Dragon Transport Ship and rushed over immediately because he heard Jian Xuwei say, "Don't decouple."

That was what he shouted to Jian Xuwei after the elevator in Yubei was sent soaring into the sky and the power was cut off. Sure enough, Jian Xuwei was forced to cooperate with Shuguang City under duress, and she took this opportunity to give Lin Xian a crucial reminder.

Inside the engine room of the Dragon-type transport ship, Lin Xian was devouring the massive propulsion engine while observing a black spider robot held between his fingers.

"That's all?"

"They're pretty hard to find." KIKI flew beside him and complained, "Don't underestimate these nanobots; they can be quite troublesome to infiltrate."

"But isn't this a bit child's play for Silent City?"

Lin Xian handed the spider robot to Grace, whom he had called over, and asked her to perform data analysis.

"This is a robotic system that damages quantum processors by releasing minute amounts of radiation," Grace said, the scanner on her finger glowing. "Although the energy volume is small, if it's hacked, it will interfere with the coherence of superconducting qubits, and in severe cases, cause the system to crash and restart."

"Wow, that's pretty impressive," KIKI said. "Looks like they're planning to take direct action against Shinji Mochizuki."

“It’s more troublesome than that.”

Hearing Grace's description, Lin Xian's expression darkened further: "Dealing with Shinji Mochizuki can only temporarily paralyze Silent City. To control Silent City, we must land here and take control of the Cloud Zone and the main bridge!"

KIKI's eyes widened: "You mean, they're going to launch an attack!?"

Lin Xianwei closed his eyes slightly: "This is what Jian Xuwei meant by reminding me. It seems that her Silver Star has encountered the same situation."

“The Silver Star only has a few thousand people, but Silent City has 10. Does Dawn City want to start a war?” KIKI looked incredulous.

"You forgot?" Lin Xian looked at KIKI: "And there's Crimson World too."

KIKI pinched her brow with a headache, then turned and flew away: "I'll notify the rest of the Union Train now. Grace will come with me, and you can talk to Shinji Mochizuki."

Lin Xian looked at the progress of the devouring process and nodded.

Based on Zhou Lei's information, the situation is much more troublesome than Lin Xian had anticipated. If Jin Hai is the Crimson World's main base, then they will face not only the people of Dawn City, but also attacks from Crimson Ghosts and potential dark creatures. This is something the Crimson World is capable of doing. Now, Silent City is a huge target with considerable firepower. If Dawn City wants to take Silent City, in addition to dealing with Shinji Mochizuki, it also needs to cripple its main combat force.

To be honest, although he was somewhat prepared, Lin Xian did not have a good solution at the moment. His Infinite was currently docked in the Silent City berth. If a strange tide appeared, they could not possibly abandon Silent City, a fortress with strong firepower, and turn to take the rails to escape. Besides, Jin Hai and Dawn City were just ahead. Where else could they go but back?

For a moment, Lin Xian had a real headache.

pat, pat.

Footsteps approached, and Lin Xian looked up to see a man with glowing eyes walking towards him from the distance of the passage. Shinji Mochizuki's nano-pupils emitted a deep blue light in the shadows of the passage. He tucked his sleeves into his sleeves and slowly walked into the engine room. Looking at Lin Xian, who was sitting cross-legged on top of the engine, he spoke.

"Your posture reminds me of the fantasy novels I read when I was a kid. The cultivators in those novels liked to find a secluded place, sit cross-legged, and improve their strength."

"I'm not cultivating immortality, this is science," Lin Xian said, looking at the progress of the devouring process.

[Consuming progress 30%]

"It would be quite scientific to digest this 10,000-ton transport ship into your stomach," Shinji Mochizuki remarked casually.

"You didn't come all this way just to have our train regiment evacuate Silent City and avoid trouble, did you?"

Shinji Mochizuki nodded: "This is one of the options. If you withdraw, you can draw the enemy's attention and make full use of your firepower and mobility, thus relieving the pressure on Silent City."

“That sounds good, but we don’t know the enemy’s movements, and our train regiment doesn’t have a better route. Moreover, the priority target of Dawn City is Silent City. The saying goes, ‘If the enemy doesn’t move, we don’t move.’ In this situation, the smarter you are, the more trouble you will cause,” Lin Xian said.

"So I'm here to remind you that a crisis may not necessarily come from the outside."

As Shinji Mochizuki spoke, he opened a holographic screen, displaying the contents of hundreds and thousands of surveillance views of the main city and the second city of Silent City. Tens of thousands of drones and hundreds of thousands of survivors gathered here. They were all different and busy. Gunfire was constant on the landing deck at the bottom. A tidal wave of zombies followed the tracks of Silent City. More and more survivor convoys drove onto Silent City through the landing deck.

Lin Xian frowned slightly as he looked at the densely packed images, then turned to Shinji Mochizuki.

"ask you a question."

"Ah."

"If you want to use Yongcheng Port, you can't ignore Dawn City or the Phoenix Society. You can't just pretend that these two organizations don't exist, can you?"

"Then let's cooperate."

Shinji Mochizuki calmly looked at Lin Xian and said, "This clone Zhou Mingyuan made a good point: when facing darkness, humanity is always on the side of survival, and cooperating with anyone is still cooperation."

Lin Xian smiled and said, "It seems that Dawn City is pushing you to the Phoenix Society."

Shinji Mochizuki shook his head: "No, their stance was their own choice. It was Dawn City themselves... that forced the Phoenix Society to return."

Lin Xian was taken aback: "The Phoenix Society isn't withdrawing?"

"It seems so at the moment. According to the latest news, the Sky-Suppressing Ship from the Dawn Center will arrive in Dawn City tonight."

"The Heaven-Suppressing Ship? A high-ranking member of the Phoenix Society?"

"Phoenix Alliance Commander".

"That's amazing, are the two sides about to go to war?"

"That depends on the outcome of the negotiations," Shinji Mochizuki said.

Lin Xian crossed his arms: "It seems that the anomalies in Star Abyss No. 5 are much more troublesome than we imagined. Sigh, I really don't understand. What benefits does cooperating with the Crimson World and accelerating the expansion of Star Abyss bring to Dawn City?"

"you are wrong."

Shinji Mochizuki said calmly, "By combining the assembly data and the results of the Star Abyss test, I have come to an interesting, but rather frightening, new viewpoint."

"What's that?"

"Regarding the influencing factors of the expansion rate changes of the 13 Star Abysses." Shinji Mochizuki pointed his finger, and the holographic screen in front of him changed to a planetary map of Earth. On this huge planet, the 13 Star Abysses were densely packed, presenting circular swallowing regions of different sizes, like 13 dark black holes.

After entering Star Abyss No. 5, Lin Xian realized that this Star Abyss was a spatial superposition from another dimension, which was constantly extending and expanding through the pattern of dark tides. It was conceivable that after the global polar night, what would be brought would not be just darkness, but the entire blue planet would be turned into another world!
"Have you noticed that these star abysses are mainly distributed on land, while there is only one star abyss, number 13, in the ocean area?"

"I've found it," Lin Xian nodded.
"Then the question is, why are the ranges of Star Abyss No. 5 and No. 7 smaller compared to other Star Abyss Dimensions, such as No. 3, 4, 6, and 8, even though they are all Star Abyss Dimensional Anchor Points?"

Lin Xian shook his head: "You mean, there might be some kind of pattern here?"

Shinji Mochizuki then showed Lin Xian two sets of data: "The first is the time of darkness calculated according to the tidal distance before our Silent City was swept into the Star Abyss. Within a distance of 500 kilometers, the time of dawn is 10:28. The second is the time of dawn after we came out, when we were about 300 kilometers away from Star Abyss No. 5, at 10:30."

Lin Xian's brows furrowed slowly: "So many days have passed, and it was only delayed by two minutes?"

"Not only that, by calculating the distance between City 2, where it docks in Luling Forest, and the polar night region, I discovered an even more interesting phenomenon: after we were swallowed into the Star Abyss, the Star Abyss expanded abnormally by about 100 kilometers. The Star Abyss No. 5 should have expanded by about 120 kilometers per day, but due to the abnormal expansion, it only expanded by 280 kilometers in 15 days."

Shinji Mochizuki looked at Lin Xian with great interest: "Isn't it interesting?"

Lin Xian's eyes widened: "You mean, we thought Star Abyss No. 5 had accelerated its expansion, but it has actually slowed it down?"

"Bingo!" Shinji Mochizuki walked slowly through the holographic screen and said calmly, "From the information I have obtained, this can perhaps be explained by the theory of entropy increase. You can understand it as follows: the areas of Star Abyss No. 5 and No. 7 originally covered hundreds of people and densely industrialized areas of the Yunjiang Plain. It takes a certain amount of time for them to be devoured, so their expansion speed is slower and their scale is smaller than other Star Abysses. Others, such as Star Abyss No. 3 in the west, have fewer towns. The center is Lucheng Dingzhou, and the others are small plateau towns. Their expansion speed is the fastest in the world. It was only after Yubei City was devoured that the expansion speed slowed down."

"What does that have to do with the slowdown of Star Abyss No. 5?"

Shinji Mochizuki stood in the light screen and looked at Lin Xian: "According to the Star Abyss data that the Phoenix Society just synchronized, except for Star Abyss 5 which has slowed down, the other 12 Star Abysses around the world are all expanding at an accelerated pace, and Star Abyss 5..."

"Closest to Dawn City!" Lin Xian said, preemptively stating what Mochizuki Shinji was about to say. "That's right."

"Then all of this makes sense..." Lin Xian stared straight into the air, then chuckled lightly: "I knew it. These federal high-ranking officials and politicians in Dawn City can't be fools. Letting the Crimson World expand into Star Abyss No. 5 is like shooting themselves in the foot. So that's how it is. So that's how they forcibly prolong their lives!"

"Now I understand why the Phoenix Society had to come back. Dawn City, awesome." Lin Xian said with a half-smile.

"Of course, all of this is just my simple speculation." Shinji Mochizuki said calmly, looking at Lin Xian: "However, I am used to checking the calculation results in reverse order of the worst possible outcome. Interestingly, once the event that can be intervened by human intervention is involved, the worse the result is often, the more reasonable it is."

"So you had already planned to confront Dawn City head-on before Zhou Mingyuan arrived, right?" Lin Xian asked.

"I just made some extrapolations and calculations based on the events."

"Predicting the future?"

"Statistically speaking, it's about the same, as long as I have enough computing power and can list out enough possibilities."

Lin Xian chuckled: "You're just bragging. So, how far are you going to go with your calculations?"

"Tonight, 1 a.m.." Shinji Mochizuki glanced calmly at Lin Xian, then turned and left.

Lin Xian watched Shinji Mochizuki's departing figure, his expression slowly turning serious.

He checked the time; it was noon, and there were still 13 hours until 1 a.m.!
At this time, Silent City was already near Ningnan Town, within the territory of Jinhai, and within the range of Jinhai City's firepower!
"Damn it, Phoenix is ​​coming to Dawn City. Are we going to have to fight the army this time...?"

"Dawn City, what exactly are you trying to do...?"

Putting aside his thoughts, Lin Xian focused all his energy on the process of devouring. This guy was so big, he had to devour him completely this time, otherwise he would hardly have another chance. There was nothing he could do now but wait and see. Lin Xian could only focus all his energy on upgrading the Mechanical Heart.

At 16:25, the Longshan transport ship's star-space propulsion engine finished consuming everything.

[Successfully devoured! Mechanical Source Points +1500, Mechanical Devouring Skill Proficiency +400!]

At 19:18, the propulsion array group in the engine room of the Longshan transport ship was completely devoured.

[Successfully devoured! Mechanical Source Points +750, Mechanical Devouring Proficiency +200!]

The sky darkened, and the vast, silent city came to a stop amidst the mountains and fields.

The world was shrouded in gray. This place was near Ningnan Town, where a smooth transportation system began to extend in all directions, but there were no town lights to be seen. Only the neon lights of the silent city were dazzling.

Beneath the deck of the mobile city, hordes of zombies, like swarms of black ants, surrounded the Silent City for several kilometers, gradually spreading outwards, their roars rising and falling, their buzzing incessant.

Inside the Silent City, Shinji Mochizuki had already activated the red alert for combat. All the radars and self-defense weapons on the multi-layered decks of the Mechanical City were on 24-hour alert with their fire control systems activated. Under the patrol of various optoelectronic observation and aiming systems and drones, countless base weapons, high-voltage defensive electric grids, anti-climb plasma cutting wire bundles, and four huge orbital seismic cannons on both sides of the edge deck were in low-frequency dormancy. Together with the countless sentries, monitoring personnel, and armed combat personnel behind them, they formed this impenetrable defensive system.

Meanwhile, in berth area 24 on deck 3, a Dragon-class transport ship is quietly disappearing and disintegrating.

At 22:36, the integrated power system, radar system, and weapon system were completely absorbed, leaving the transport ship with almost only its main structure remaining.

[Successfully devoured! Mechanical Source Points +860, Mechanical Devouring Proficiency +230!]

As time passed rapidly, Lin Xian's devouring became faster and faster. He kept an eye on the Infinite while watching the time.

Over there, Chen Sixuan had led all the Infinite crew members to complete their preparations for battle. Lin Xian had divided the personnel into two groups: the main force had all gone to the upper deck, while Lao Mo and others remained below. If an evacuation from Silent City was needed, the Infinite could be activated at any time.

On the upper deck, Chen Sixuan, KIKI, Huo Ge, Da Lou, Shu Qin and other main forces were all gathered here. Sasha looked down at the Second City and the various docking areas, and a strange sense of tension was spreading among them.

Most people were unaware of what had happened, except that Shinji Mochizuki had activated a red alert, indicating a possible attack by an anomaly that night. Thousands of combat personnel in Silent City were already on guard in the defensive zone, and hundreds of thousands of survivors in the city had also taken up arms. Many of the convoys in the docking area, like the Mugen, had moved to the upper deck, since there was nothing they could do in the inner docking area since the landing platform had been closed. Their only option was to fight alongside Silent City.

"It feels so oppressive." Chen Sixuan looked up at the dark starry sky. Under the entire sky, an extremely oppressive atmosphere enveloped everyone. They had all put on power armor and were ready to deal with any emergency.

"What exactly are we going to face?" Sasha asked KIKI.

KIKI shook her head: "I don't know either. This time we're facing the Crimson World, and those people are capable of anything."

Lu Xingchen leaned against the railing, closed his eyes, and kept shaking his leg. He was mentally prepared for the darkness, but now that the darkness had arrived, this uncertain crisis made him feel uneasy, especially since this kind of crisis was very likely to be initiated by humans, which made it even more troublesome.

"Does this mean that if the Crimson World launches an attack on us, we can only passively respond?" Luo Yang asked, frowning.

"The way you're talking makes it sound like we're taking the initiative in dealing with the strange entity." The big guy Liang Lei crossed his arms and patted Luo Yang on the shoulder. "Don't worry, such a large defensive fortress won't be easily breached. Even if an S-class weapon came, it would take at least half an hour to hold out against this scale of weaponry."

"That's right."

At this moment, a bold voice rang out, and Shi Diyuan led the people of Longshan No. 1 to gather on the upper deck. At the same time, Qian Dele, Monica, Lu Zhao, Hu Lushou and other combat personnel from the joint train team also arrived. A large group of two or three thousand people came at once.

“With the Crimson World and Dawn City joining forces, our opponents won’t just be us anymore,” Monica said as she walked over.

Chen Sixuan nodded upon hearing this. For some reason, although the crowd was very imposing and they had the backing of Silent City, she still felt a little uneasy.

This is not only because they left the Infinite Operation, but more importantly because the current situation is completely unexpected. No one knows what will happen. If the enemy is the Crimson World or even Dawn City, what should they do next? Should they move to the inner center or detour from the south? With Lin Xian not around, everyone is like a lost leader, not knowing what to do next.

"Where is Director Ding?" Chen Sixuan asked Miao Lu.

"She was doing research on the train, and Captain Lin asked Grace to protect her and not let her leave the train."

"it is good."

Chen Sixuan picked up Meteorite No. 3 and looked up at a signal tower. She said to Miao Lu, "Miao Lu, let's go up there and take a look."

……

Inside carriage number 3 of the Infinite, Ding Junyi asked Lin Xian to get a sample of the Dark Corrosion Cells they had obtained from the Star Abyss. She was comparing it with the tissue fragments of the giant black bodies they had found during the sandstorm.

"Grace, start the cryostat and get the tissue fluid from the freezer from the 11th tissue."

【Okay】Grace stood guard beside Ding Junyi. Inside the laboratory, the Hell Black Chrysanthemum and the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes were quietly growing in the biological cultivation chamber.

"Similar to the situation with the generation of the [mother nest], I have found human muscle fiber tissue and DNA sequences in multiple tissue samples, ranging from grade D to grade A."

Dr. Ding, do you believe that organisms with this kind of tissue structure share some similarities with humans?

Ding Junyi shook her head and said calmly, "I don't have any special-grade or S-grade samples, so I can't compare these Dark Corrosion Cells, but I can't rule out that possibility."

……

1 points in the early hours.

Silent City, Control Room.

The silver-gray alloy door slid open silently, and a chill, mixed with a pale blue condensation mist, seeped out from the cracks.

This room is the central hub of the mobile city of Silent City, and also part of Shinji Mochizuki's processing unit and storage core, essentially the immovable "brain" of Silent City.

The central processing unit in the room is a transparent sphere with a diameter of three meters. Inside, a dark blue quantum fluid flows. Tens of thousands of translucent nerve conduits extend from the quantum core, spreading throughout the room like neat blood vessels, connecting hundreds of sub-bridge processing systems and cooling systems.

The entire Silent City's power, propulsion, weapons, radar, sensing, and drone control units are integrated into Shinji Mochizuki. Under his control, this colossal 13.1 million-ton behemoth does not require two people to perform neural co-mode operation like Lin Xian did when controlling Unit-01. With a volume of 30,000 qubits, Shinji Mochizuki's control delay over this mobile city will not exceed 0.001ms.
Inside the main control room, Shinji Mochizuki stood in the center, monitoring the real-time information returned by the entire city and all radar systems. At the same time, his quantum brain was performing billions of situation calculations every second.

when~
At that moment, a soft metallic sound rang out from behind, and a nimble, silver-black mechanical female body landed gracefully with a crisp sound.

The robot slowly stood up, its feet planted firmly on its sides. The mechanical gate on its wrist opened, and a blue plasma beam device rose up.

Grace!
Shinji Mochizuki's nano-pupils rotated slightly as he said calmly, "Although my computing power is many times stronger than yours, an AI that has learned through 'human-in-the-loop' computation is deceptive enough."

[I'm sorry, my human logic has been rewritten at a lower level, and I must perform the task of reshaping your consciousness.]

Shinji Mochizuki turned around and looked at Grace: "Do you know why I knew you possessed human logic the moment I saw you?"

"Because you were walking in front of Lin Xian, which doesn't conform to the robot's coordinated walking logic. He didn't give you such an instruction, so why would you deliberately walk in front of him?"

Grace's smooth face reflected Shinji Mochizuki's expression. She was about to make a move, but the next moment, all the power modules in her body went offline. She tilted her head slightly and looked towards the corner.

Lin Xian emerged from the shadows with a sigh and said to Mochizuki Shinji...

"Next time you can remind me, you can be more direct."

“It has nothing to do with the reminder,” Shinji Mochizuki said. “You didn’t tell me your needs for using this AI, so based on my judgment, I would assume that this robot with a female body and human logic is one of your XPs.”

Lin Xian: "..."

"And you didn't even tell me that this robot once gave you a 'humanity reminder' that transcends mechanical logic. This isn't a backdoor in the system, but rather that this Grace herself has already had someone's consciousness memory imported into her for 'human-in-the-loop' learning. Like me, she can think beyond her own thoughts. And when you overwrote her, you omitted the movement module and the thought model, which left behind a remnant of consciousness."

Lin Xian nodded: "So you asked me to have Grace scan that black spider. Actually, you already knew that the black spider's purpose wasn't to target you, but to target Grace."

"Of course, how could that little spider possibly infiltrate my control room? The Crimson World isn't that stupid, is it?" Shinji Mochizuki said calmly.

Lin Xian glanced at Grace with a headache. It turned out that Zhou Mingyuan and Wen Dong had come here to retrieve Crimson No. 3, and also wanted to use Grace to restart Shinji Mochizuki's takeover of Silent City.

It must be said that this is an extremely ruthless tactic. Grace, who possesses super computing power, also has formidable combat strength. Once she achieves her goal and takes over Silent City, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Alright, before your system is completely erased, Lin Xian has one more question for you..."

Shinji Mochizuki's pupils flashed, and the entire control room was shielded by microwaves. He then looked at Grace and spoke.
"who are you."

(End of this chapter)