Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 379 Infinite Recruitment Plan
"Very simple?"

Looking at the dark, empty tunnel ahead, with the subway train speeding along, Lin Xian said, "Aren't you imagining my mechanical abilities to be far too amazing?"

Jian Xuwei said, "The Dawn City main control core is an iteration of the earliest AI intelligent control [Heart of the Galaxy]. Its computing power is second only to Phoenix City and Shinji Mochizuki. It is no surprise that such a core is under strict protection in the Star City underground city. It has a huge subsystem and cooling system. To control it, one must face the Federation's most elite armed forces."

"Then why did you say it was simple?"

“Relatively speaking,” Jian Xuwei said calmly, “at least for you, many mechanical protection issues can be ignored.”

“We can’t just charge straight in, can we?” KIKI walked over and then looked at Lin Xian: “There’s something else I’ve always wondered. Phoenix wants you to control the main control center. To what extent exactly does that mean?”

"Based on the situation, it certainly won't be under control for long."

Qian Dele said, "The Phoenix Society needs time to dismantle Dawn City's defenses. I'm also wondering, even if you take control of the main control, what will you do next? The Federation isn't stupid. Once the alarm sounds, you'll be a prisoner in less than 5 minutes."

Lin Xian stared intently and said, "Once we enter the city, there will be someone to meet us. This operation is not something we can do alone. If I'm not mistaken, Silent City, Zen Pass, Qingbo, Tianwei, and Yongcheng Port are all making moves. What the Phoenix Society is trying to do is actually to prevent some people in Dawn City from becoming desperate and turning against their own people."

"Zhou Mingyuan?"

“Not only that,” KIKI said. “Didn’t they say that the Crimson World might be lurking within Dawn City?”

"Correct."

Jian Xuwei nodded: "So we need to be careful."

"Then what about your Silver Star?" Lin Xian asked her. "If we move the Silver Star now, the Federation will definitely know it's you who's behind it."

"Don't worry, the Silver Star is just a vehicle. As long as my people are safe, this issue won't affect our main purpose of entering the city," Jian Xuwei said calmly.

Lin Xian opened his mouth, thinking that this woman was really open-minded. The Eternal Silver Star was arguably the most futuristic train vehicle Lin Xian had ever seen besides the Sky Train. She must be really rich. However, Jian Xuwei had already cooperated with Lin Xian and joined the Sky Train, so there was indeed some guarantee in terms of doomsday vehicles.

Wow.

The small railcar sped along the subway line, and after about ten minutes, it turned out from a secluded section and slowly came to a stop in a backup maintenance depot.

"We're here. The main line is just ahead. Underground transportation isn't allowed in Dawn City right now, so that area is completely blocked off. But we've dug a tunnel so you can get out from the platform." The driver was a sharp-eyed young man named Ke Zai, the guide sent by Jian Zeyang. He stopped the train engine and opened the carriage door: "Captain Jian, Captain Lin, I'll take you there."

"it is good."

The group then walked off the platform in the cold, dark tunnel and along the roadside maintenance passage. The flashlight beams illuminated the tunnel walls, which gradually widened from narrow to wide, and a stuffy, musty smell filled their nostrils.

After walking for a while, rows of overturned subway cars began to appear in the huge tunnel, with rusty cars piled up in layers, along with a large amount of metal debris, gradually blocking the tunnel completely.

Lin Xian jumped onto the roof of an oil tanker and shone his flashlight into the distance. He saw that the area in front of him was completely sealed off by mountains of metal piles, and the innermost part seemed to be completely welded shut by reinforced concrete and steel frames.

"Dawn City has a very developed underground transportation system, but strange entities can easily appear in the dark. Therefore, the Federation sealed off all underground tunnel systems a long time ago. They are all made of high-strength concrete several meters thick and precast armor plates, and they are sealed very tightly." Ke Zai walked to a secluded corner and moved a metal billboard aside. A hissing sound echoed from the passage, deafeningly loud. At this moment, there was an abandoned refrigerator under the billboard. He opened the refrigerator door and found that there was a passage that people could pass through!

Upon seeing the passageway behind the refrigerator, KIKI's eyes lit up: "Wow, that's quite secluded!"

Ke Zai smiled and said, "This wasn't originally set up by us, but now it's a private channel for our alliances."

As he spoke, he nimbly slipped inside, and Lin Xian and the others followed. They discovered that it was a passageway carved out from various metal debris, winding its way through carriages and cabinet doors, turning and twisting until a gray cement wall appeared in front of them. Only then did Lin Xian realize that they had come through that pile of debris.

A small hole had been cut into the cement wall, and it was dark inside, big enough for a person to crawl through.

"How did they drill holes in such a thick defensive wall?" Qian Dele frowned as he looked at it.

“Low-level monsters and zombies are difficult, but not so difficult for humans,” Ning Jing said. “Superpowers, robots, anything is possible, even just ordinary automated tools can be dealt with as long as it takes time.”

“That’s true,” Lin Xian said. “So if the strange entities knew about human behavior, it would be even more troublesome for us.”

As they spoke, Ke Zai led the group out of the low tunnel. Once outside, the tunnel was covered by a large area of ​​barbed wire. He gestured for them not to move, then picked up a communicator.

"Oil Sparrow, Oil Sparrow, please respond."

"what happened?"

“There are biosensors and infrared networks here,” Lin Xian said. He had just been preparing to act a few seconds ago when he noticed that Ke Zai was already making some kind of contact, which meant that someone inside was probably there to meet him.

But after waiting for more than ten seconds, there was still no response.

"What's going on? The communication shows it's working fine..." Ke Zai was on high alert. Just as he was about to try to contact his companions again, two violent pulse beams suddenly lit up from the distance, accompanied by a shrill sound.

"careful!"

In an instant, Lin Xian raised his hand and used the AT field shield. With a "poof" sound, flames exploded in front of him, and Ke Zai next to him screamed in pain as his shoulder was pierced and he was sent flying backward.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh, the next moment, even more intense gunfire rang out in the distance, and the men's expressions immediately changed.

"move back!"

Lin Xian's hands crackled with electricity, and the AT field shield expanded several times in an instant. At the same time, KIKI had already made her move, using her psychic waves to lift all the barbed wire and barricades into the air, suppressing the firing lines and pushing them towards the darkness. Bang bang bang, in an instant, countless pulse rays blasted the barbed wire and barricades in the air, sending sparks flying.

At that moment, the gunfire suddenly stopped, and a loudspeaker voice rang out from the darkness in the distance.

"Intruders, this is the Dawn City Night Patrol. Please surrender and submit to inspection. If you do not cooperate, we will kill you in accordance with federal law!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xian frowned, thinking to himself, "This is too unlucky. I was caught as soon as I came in. How could it be such a coincidence?"

"The night patrol team is heavily armed; we need to be careful," Jian Xuwei said cautiously, her power armor now covering her face.

"Shall we make a move?" Ning Jing clenched her fists and stepped forward, a powerful aura surrounding her.

"Lin Xian, what should we do?" KIKI asked at this moment.

Lu Xingchen, standing to the side, held a fire in his hand as a precaution. If it were a strange entity, he would have already used a fire fist to attack it, but they were facing Federation personnel, and they were on an infiltration mission. Without Lin Xian's permission, he did not make a move.

"Two options: either retreat or kill them all." Lin Xian's face darkened.
"Please disarm and cooperate with the investigation," the voice called out again.

"Don't make a move yet," Lin Xian whispered to KIKI. "Wait until I make a move and see how many people there are."

“Mm.” KIKI nodded.

Lin Xian then pretended to raise his hand, but did not withdraw the AT field, causing everyone to gather around him. At this moment, he quietly absorbed and controlled all the monitoring and detection equipment within a range of several hundred meters in the passage.

He glanced sideways at Ke Zai lying on the ground. Shiori was treating him. Luckily, he reacted quickly, otherwise that direct hit would have definitely killed the young man.

At this moment, a blinding light shone in the passage ahead, and several attack drones, their lights blazing, flew in and surrounded Lin Xian and his group. Accompanied by footsteps, a group of people emerged from the darkness, all of them warily pointing their guns at Lin Xian.

These people were all dressed in advanced power armor and carrying arc pulse guns. Upon seeing this, Lin Xian and the others put on their power armor masks.

The leader, who wasn't wearing a helmet, had a fierce look on his face, and the thuggish scars on his face seemed out of place against his official police power armor, which symbolized justice. The leader's gaze swept over Lin Xian and his group, and he said coldly...
"Hey, hey, hey, who are these guys? They're all wearing high-end power armor. Looks like we're on a roll tonight. If you're so rich, why are you using a smuggling route?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xian immediately asked, "Is it a fine?"

"A fine?" Upon hearing this, the leader chuckled and nodded, "Yes, of course there should be a fine."

As he spoke, he immediately pointed his gun at Lin Xian's face and shouted, "Disarm all of you from your power armor and tell me where your transport trucks are parked?"

Upon hearing this, Jian Xuwei, Monica, and the others behind Lin Xian all changed their expressions slightly. Their eyes met, and they instantly sensed something amiss.

"Can't you understand what I'm saying!" Seeing that Lin Xian and the others were unmoved, the leader's face darkened, and his voice carried a hint of anger.

Lin Xian then asked, "How many of you are there?"

"what?"

"Oh, don't get me wrong, we brought a lot of stuff." Lin Xian said seriously, "We're afraid there won't be enough for you."

"..." The scarred man paused for a moment, then his expression turned cold.
"Are you kidding me, you bastard..."

Before he could finish speaking, KIKI next to Lin Xian pinched together with two fingers, and an invisible force instantly squeezed all of the dozen or so people together. Their power armor creaked and twisted, and sparks flew everywhere.

"A mutant?!"

The scarred man reacted extremely quickly. The moment he was controlled, his eyes turned red, and his whole body erupted with powerful blood energy fluctuations, along with the power feedback from his power armor. He immediately prepared to break free of his restraints.

At that moment, all the drones surrounding Lin Xian went out of control and crashed to the ground. At the same time, a white drone flew quickly over the group of people!
"Thunder Prison" drone!

Whoosh! Sizzle!
In an instant, a dazzling electromagnetic burst erupted, instantly stunning everyone.

"I thought you were going to kill them all." Monica asked curiously, seeing Lin Xian and KIKI swiftly deal with the dozen or so people. "Do you think they're from the Night Patrol and you're worried they'll cause trouble?" Jian Xuwei asked, sensing Lin Xian's thoughts.

Lin Xian took a deep breath: "But this group of people doesn't seem to be law enforcement officers; they seem more like robbers."

“They probably have information synchronization devices on them. Whether you kill them or not, they’ve probably already been discovered,” Qian Dele said, stepping forward at this moment.

Sure enough, just as Lin Xian and his team dealt with the group, a burst of gunfire suddenly erupted from the tunnel in the distance, but it wasn't aimed at Lin Xian. Accompanying this were various powerful airbursts and the screams of a group of people.

The group immediately realized that a battle was taking place ahead, but the battle did not last long; less than half a minute later, the noise completely subsided.

Before long, even before the person could be seen, a familiar, cheerful voice rang out.

"It's better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early. Just a few minutes ago I was wondering if these night patrol thugs were planning to take over the Konggu Station. I didn't expect it to be true."

Jiang Yun walked with a brisk pace, followed by Ren Huiyan and a group of clearly heavily armed and formidable individuals who emerged from the shadows. He looked at Lin Xian and said...
"Long time no see, Captain Lin."

When his men saw the group of unconscious people in front of Lin Xian, they all suddenly raised their guns and fired, killing them all.

"I knew it was you." Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief and looked behind Jiang Yun: "Won't you get into trouble by killing the Night Patrol members directly?"

"The night patrol is in disarray," Jiang Yun said. "Do you think these people are here in the middle of the night to diligently patrol?"

“The night patrol teams responsible for this area have all taken bribes from us,” Ren Huiyan said beside Jiang Yun. “There’s some unrest in the city right now, and some people are trying to take advantage of the chaos. There are night patrol teams here, as well as thugs disguised as federal agents, killing and robbing people everywhere.”

“People are dying every day in Night City now. Apart from the inner city and some core areas where large caravans reside, other places are not very safe.” As Jiang Yun spoke, he walked to the scarred man’s side, turned his head away with his foot, and revealed a ferocious wolf head tattoo behind his ear.

"It's the Blood Wolf Gang again. This group originally robbed their way into Dawn City, and the Night Patrol Power Armor they're wearing was probably stolen. But they've really bitten off more than they can chew this time."

Lin Xian frowned: "Is the city this chaotic? Ha, if I had known, I wouldn't have been so polite to them."

“Exactly.” KIKI looked at the Blood Wolf Gang members on the ground with displeasure: “I didn’t dare to use too much force, for fear of killing them all.”

Ren Huiyan looked at the group of people whose power armor had been deformed, then looked at KIKI with a slightly surprised expression.

“It’s alright, the surveillance cameras in this area are all offline. We’ve already…” Jiang Yun looked up at the corridor, wanting to say “surveillance cameras,” but found the walls completely bare, not even a wire left. He hesitated for a moment, then looked at Lin Xian: “This…”

"Just in case," Lin Xian said.

"Team Leader Lin is cautious," Jiang Yun said approvingly.

After saying that, he looked at Ke Zai behind Lin Xian and immediately said to his subordinate, "Xiao Mo, arrange for treatment."

"Ok!"

Several people immediately stepped out from the crowd and helped Ke Zai up. Jiang Yun also said to Lin Xian, "This is not the place to talk. Come with me first."

Afterwards, the group left through a hidden passage on the platform. At 1 a.m., in the rainy night, a strange smell permeated the old alley. Apart from one or two pink bar lights flashing, telling passersby that there were still a few brothels with singing and dancing.

Raindrops condensing on the power lines fell on the metal lid of the trash can, creating an unsettling rhythm.

Foul stench, stillness, eeriness.

The roadside was lined with awnings set up by survivors. Apart from the patrolling guards, the streets were deserted at 1 a.m. after Vice Chairman Zhou Mingyuan announced a citywide curfew.

In the old town, a cramped residential building was lit up with dim, cold lights on each floor, making it look very crowded. A large number of armed vehicles filled several blocks. This entire building was the base of Jiang Yun's convoy. There was a specially modified room on the roof. Jiang Yun brought Lin Xian and his group here and introduced it to them.

"It's safe here for now, but I know you didn't come here to visit the night market. Well, there's not much to see in Dawn City anyway. In a month, we won't see the dawn anymore, and it will truly become a city of night."

After saying that, he looked at Lin Xian, smiled, and extended his hand to Lin Xian: "I almost forgot, it's a pleasure to work with you."

Lin Xian shook hands with him: "I thought you had already evacuated the city ahead of time."

"I had that idea, but I guessed you might go into the city, so I stayed behind to meet you. And here we are."

"Jiang Yun, how is the situation now?" Jian Xuwei asked.

"Fortunately, at least on the surface things are still relatively stable."

Jiang Yun's expression was stern as he said directly, "However, the Night Patrol Team and the City Defense Guard Battalion are currently under high pressure. Curfew is the simplest measure. Once there is an attack by a mutated population or a Red Human Ghost, there will often be large-scale deaths, but most of the deaths are caused by the blast of fire."

"Indiscriminate sweeping?" Lin Xian frowned.

"More or less," Jiang Yun said. "The Federation is on edge, and the residents in the city are on edge. Although Zhou Mingyuan has temporarily suppressed the events in the Crimson World, many people now feel that something bad might be about to happen..."

"why?"

Jiang Yun pointed north.

"The Phoenix Society?"

"Yes."

"The presence of the Zhentian Ship there is an absolute pressure on Dawn City. Regardless of whether the Phoenix is ​​here to clean up the Adventists or for some other purpose, it has given the people in the city a signal that something big is about to happen in Dawn City. Moreover, the pressure on water resources caused by the invasion of darkness is increasing, so unless Dawn City is completely sealed off, it is impossible to stop people who want to evacuate."

"This is only the first day; it'll probably be even more lively tomorrow," Jiang Yun said. "It's evening now, so things have quieted down a bit."

"Do you know where Dai Li will be?" Lin Xian asked at this moment.

"know."

Lin Xian checked the time: "How far is it from here?"

“I received a message from Chairman Jian in advance, but it won’t be easy for so many of you to operate at night.”

Jiang Yun glanced at Lin Xian, then went to the window and pointed to the layered cyber city jungle under the rainy night. In the sky, various police and surveillance floating robots slowly patrolled by.

"This city has three million surveillance cameras, over four thousand patrol airships alone, and countless police drones and attack drones of all types, so..."

"Unless it's an emergency, I suggest you act during the day."

Lin Xian looked at the vast urban jungle outline outside and took a deep breath: "Okay, accepting advice is a good quality."

"So, we've already completed our mission for tonight?" Monica leaned back on the sofa, legs crossed, and sighed, "I thought there would be other activities once we got to the city."

"Jiang Yun, tell Team Leader Lin about the team's situation," Jian Xuwei said. "From now on, he will be in charge of all the league's scheduling."

"Don't be so polite."

Lin Xian waved his hand directly: "You guys should handle the arrangements and coordination. The situation is a bit unclear right now. We don't know what the Federation and the Phoenix Society will do next, so it's better to keep a low profile for now."

Jiang Yun smiled and said, "Actually, it's similar to when we were at Yubei Airport. We're all people who have come together in times of crisis. There are 26 car teams here, big and small, with as many as eight or nine thousand people and as few as a hundred. The ones that can be merged have been merged together, but each car team is self-managed. You don't need to worry about the food, clothing, shelter, or resource allocation of these tens of thousands of people. It's just that in the face of the apocalypse, everyone needs a general direction. Because many people recognize the Phoenix Society, the Crimson Phoenix Order car teams are generally very influential. Both Chairman Jian and I are, and as for Team Leader Lin, your influence is even more obvious. These people are all united because they want to hold onto the Phoenix Society through you."

"That's right."

Qian Dele sat back down: "It's all because of the information blockage caused by the Dark Invasion, coupled with the Dark Mark, that it's difficult for large-scale organizations to develop. Eight or nine thousand people is already a huge number, and the management cost is not small. This kind of alliance-style large-scale march is reasonable."

He looked at Lin Xian as he spoke: "But if Lin Xian wants me to join your team and work for you, I'm willing, which would save me the trouble."

“I agree,” Monica said.

"Jiang Yun, we killed so many people in the tunnel, won't that cause problems?" Ning Jing, who was always cautious, asked at this moment.

"No, I've already had someone clean it up. Besides, the night patrol team doesn't have the energy to focus on that area right now," Ren Huiyan said. "So there's no need to worry about it."

"correct."

At this moment, Jiang Yun, holding his phone, walked over from the window with great interest and showed it to Lin Xian and Jian Xuwei.

"You might find this news very interesting."

Lin Xian and the others all turned to look, and their expressions changed slightly. Jian Xuwei frowned in surprise, while KIKI's eyes widened.

The screen displayed a post from the Dawn City intranet forum, and the post's title was...
"Infinite Train Recruitment Project—Mechanical ability user Qin Feng recruits apocalyptic powerhouses to join the Eternal-class armed train Silver Star, hurtling along a 32-kilometer-long orbit around the stars!"

Lin Xian was stunned for a moment, then muttered a curse under his breath.
"Grass……"

(End of this chapter)