Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 406 Creations of the Gods
After navigating the waves, the Infinity train entered the deep sea along the ocean section of the circumpolar orbit. The weather was clear today, and the ocean resembled a liquid blue plain. Sunlight was like molten gold foil splashed on the surface of the water. Tiny spots of light floated on both sides of the giant sea-based orbit, as if the train was running over a starry river studded with diamonds. Occasionally, flying fish would leap up, their silvery bodies tracing parabolas in the air before suddenly plunging into the unfathomable deep blue.

Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan sat in the driver's cab. Because there was no traction device, the train could only move on the track by its own power and needed to rely on radar and the train operation system to detect the condition of the track.

After sailing from the continental shelf into the deep sea, the color of the sea surface turned deep blue. Lin Xian looked to the right of the orbit and saw that the sea level and the horizon were obscured by a black curtain like a storm. He knew that was the edge of Star Abyss No. 8, and it was also the fault zone of the deep ocean ridge.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Xian was still a little nervous. He was afraid that the giant track would suddenly break and the steel train weighing thousands of tons would fall directly into the deep sea.

Although he has upgraded the Infinity's various carriages with deep-sea compartments and underwater propulsion systems, he does not want to operate a submarine in the deep sea unless absolutely necessary.

Wow~
The Infinity was like a long steel dragon speeding along the ocean track. Everything was calm and peaceful. Several hours later, only the sky and the deep blue below remained, seemingly without end.

Fire, who had been called in to let out some fresh air, set up a deck chair on the roof of the Mugen train, wearing sunglasses and leisurely looking at the sea in all directions, while Ryunosuke sat cross-legged in front of him, his gaze focused.

Both of them are capable of flying and can make rapid maneuvers immediately in case of an emergency, so Lin Xian called them out for some fresh air.

Not long after, Chen Sixuan in the cockpit noticed that a layer of sea fog was gradually rising on the sea surface and the weather was starting to darken. At first, she thought it was an approaching storm, but the weather detection system of the Infinite did not detect a storm, as if the sea fog was just a localized spread.

Soon, the sea fog thickened, and the surrounding light became dark. Lu Xingchen, who was on the roof of the train, slowly sat up, took off his sunglasses, and his expression became serious.

"Brother Lin, the weather is unpredictable. This kind of dense fog might cause evil spirits to appear in broad daylight."

“I’ve already slowed down,” Lin replied via communicator.

Sitting cross-legged on the roof of the car, Ryunosuke used his supernatural ability to unleash countless tiny grains of sand, which hovered within a range of hundreds of meters around the Mugen. These grains of sand acted like his sensory radar, and he could immediately become alert if they even slightly touched anything that came near.

"This fog is appearing rather strangely," Chen Sixuan said to Lin Xian in the cockpit. "It reminds me of the fog spiders in Beiwan Town."

Lin Xian nodded: "Me too."

Viola controlled hundreds of flying drones to conduct reconnaissance ahead in a cyclical information chain. At this moment, Lin Xian received a response.

[No abnormalities detected on the track ahead; approaching Takow deep-water port; no living organisms detected at present.]

Metal detectors have revealed severe corrosion on numerous structures in the deep-water port.

"We've arrived at the deep-water port..."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xian said in a deep voice. Soon, in front of him, the sea fog, like a shroud, slowly peeled away from the sea surface, revealing a giant steel outline.

Four drilling platforms stand in the leaden-gray seawater, in the center of which is a steel deep-water port with an area of ​​more than two square kilometers. Originally a cargo transshipment port in the orbit around the star, it now resembles a steel graveyard. As the Infinity slowly slows down and enters, one can almost hear the wailing sound of rusted steel under the ripples of the seawater in the distance.

Numerous suspended corridors, like the spine of this section, are draped with spiderweb-like cables, and various large cranes hang crookedly in mid-air, as if they will fall into the abyss at any moment.

Before even entering the port, Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan discovered a large number of burned mechs, fighter jets, abandoned trains, and countless dead corpses on the platform. The corpses were completely dried and rotten, with only withered faces remaining inside the power armor masks. In addition, the drilling platform and various parts of the port were covered with the rotting corpse tissues of various bizarre creatures, which had also been dried for a long time. It seemed that some kind of fierce battle had taken place here, and now the place was deathly silent.

[A blockage was found on the tracks leading to the port ahead; no large-scale damage was observed on the tracks.]

At this moment, Viola's voice came through, and Lin Xian immediately instructed, "Viola, deploy the drones to clear the obstacles, inspect the tracks, and patrol the entire deep-water platform."

Viola understands.

Woo~
In an instant, thousands of drones took off, with attack drones flying to inspect drilling platforms and cargo ports, while engineering drones began clearing the debris piled up on their tracks.

"Lin Xian."

Just then, KIKI's voice came through: "The sonar system has detected something below the port."

"Ah Bai and Shiori sensed it too," Ning Jing's voice came through.

"Check it out, pay attention to the dark markings," Lin Xian instructed.

"it is good!"

Ning Jing, along with Shu Qin, Lü Chang, and others, immediately began the search.

Sea fog blanketed the deep-water port, making it resemble a lone steel boat floating on the ocean, both tranquil and eerie. Seawater flowed slowly between the platforms, shimmering with the iridescent colors of oil, and waves occasionally crashed against the rusty pillars, producing hollow echoes.

Lin Xian opened the cockpit and, dressed in power armor, he and Chen Sixuan stepped onto the deep-water port. Under the fog, visibility was greatly affected, with a range of less than ten meters.

Under the radar and electro-optical scanning of the power armor, the outlines of various objects in the fog were revealed. The entire port platform was desolate, with various dried and rotting corpses everywhere.

What caught Lin Xian's attention was that the guns scattered all over the place hadn't been touched, including the supply trains and aircraft, and large amounts of remaining supplies could still be seen in the overturned carriages.

"Has no one been to the port? It looks like it's been at least two months," Lin Xian said, frowning.
“I asked Jiang Yun, and he said that since the Star Abyss anomaly started, many Doomsday Trains have stopped entering the ocean track. During the battle of Dawn City, they mostly headed towards the Dawn Center. It’s probably because the Phoenix Society stopped using this track, and the ocean section wasn’t maintained, so those trains didn’t dare to go out to sea,” Chen Sixuan said.

Lin Xian nodded. Indeed, ordinary doomsday train teams usually choose the safer land route. If Lin Xian didn't have the Sky Train, he wouldn't have easily stepped into the Pacific Ocean.

After observing their surroundings, Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan walked towards the cargo platform's supply warehouse, with KIKI's voice coming from high above through their earpieces.

"Lin Xian, I looked from above. This place is completely shrouded in sea fog. It seems to have been abandoned for a long time. Moreover, judging from this situation, there must have been some strange creatures that have appeared here before."

"Be careful." Lin Xian glanced at the corpse of a huge winged creature that had crushed half of a supply warehouse not far ahead, and cautiously said, "Protect Shiori and watch out for the sky."

"I know."

In carriage number 3 of the Infinite, Ding Junyi, who was focused on her research, noticed that the blood vine was slightly twisting its roots. Each blood thorn seemed to be carrying a crimson light. She immediately went over, activated her supernatural power, and sensed the changes.

Ding Junyi immediately frowned and called Xiao Yuan over.

"Xiaoyuan, look."

Xiao Yuan walked up and saw that the blood vine was turning and curling its tender shoots in a certain direction at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon it reached the edge of the cultivation chamber.

"Director Ding, it seems like the plants are exploring in some direction."

“I noticed it too.” Ding Junyi immediately picked up the blood vine cultivation chamber, went to the window and rotated it. Sure enough, as soon as she rotated it, the blood vine began to slowly move the direction of the tender shoot, still clinging to the edge of the transparent chamber. Then the tender shoot began to grow rapidly, making a squeaking sound.

"To the southeast, there might be..."

"what!"

Before Ding Junyi could finish speaking, Xiao Yuan let out a scream. Ding Junyi turned her head and saw that Xiao Yuan had covered her mouth and was pointing in horror towards the platform outside the train window. Both of them were shocked when they looked over.

On the port platform where the Infinite was docked, a figure appeared silently in the thick fog. The figure was similar to a human but extremely tall, at least three meters tall, with feet like sheep's hooves arched backwards, and long, thin hands hanging down. Most strangely, its head was a triangular opening, like some kind of flowering plant, with a crimson center. The triangular head was staring motionlessly in the direction of Ding Junyi, sending chills down one's spine.

rub!
In an instant, a golden flash appeared, and the door of car number 5 opened. Da Lou, Luo Yang, and the others rushed out one after another. When Xiao Yuan's voice came, Qian Dele had already used his speed to arrive immediately. He spotted the strange humanoid creature at a glance and launched a powerful kick without saying a word.

But when he swept his foot across, the monster seemed to twist in the air for a moment, then shrank away instantly, leaving a strange, winding afterimage as it disappeared into the depths of the thick fog.

"Where are you going!?" Qian Dele saw that this thing was not fast, but when he kicked it, he completely missed. He immediately felt strange and found it hard to find. When he saw the afterimage disappear, he immediately flashed after it.

"Luo Yang, you guys guard the car, we're going to go check it out!"

Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan had already arrived. The two were extremely fast, activating their power armor's mobility mode and quickly traversing the port ruins. At the same time, KIKI flew over from the sky with Shiori.

"Lin Xian, Shiori said she couldn't sense any fluctuations in that thing's spirit-dispelling value!"

"Let's see if we can figure out what that is." Lin Xian sped up. Having fought against strange entities for a long time, he had long been experienced. No unusual activity should be ignored. If it wasn't dealt with decisively, it could very well bring big trouble later.

A golden flash streaked past, and in an instant, Qian Dele appeared on the cantilever of the deepwater inlet of the drilling platform, stopping with a puzzled look on his face.

Lin Xian arrived with several others and asked Qian Dele, "What happened?"

“That’s strange. It’s not fast, but I can’t catch up with it no matter what I do…” Qian Dele bent down and said with a slightly somber expression.

"Viola!"

【I am here】

"Have you locked onto the target location?" Viola leaped down from the height, landing lightly beside Lin Xian. She quickly scanned the entire deepwater area with her scanner and replied promptly, "Unable to lock onto; no signs of life detected."

"How could that be? So many of us saw it." Chen Sixuan frowned slightly, her eyes searching around, but everyone had lost sight of the target.

KIKI descended from the sky with Shiori in tow, and she took out the Spirit Power Detector and spoke.

"It wasn't marked with a dark symbol, and there were no disturbances around. We encountered a similar situation in White City, Lin Xian, do you remember?"

Lin Xian nodded. He knew that KIKI was referring to the white figure they encountered in the tunnel in White City. It quickly disappeared without marking the team, a behavior that seemed completely different from the supernatural entity.

"Lin Xian."

At this moment, high in the sky, Ryunosuke arrived with Ding Junyi and Xiaoyuan. Ding Junyi was carrying the cultivation pod of the blood vine and said to Lin Xian...

"Underwater!"

"I gonna go see."

"Wait!" Lin Xian called out to Ryunosuke, looked at the dark seawater below the deep water entrance, and said, "The fog is too thick, it's not safe underwater. Viola, send 10 underwater vehicles to search."

【OK】

Woo!
In an instant, Lin Xian summoned ten small yellow underwater vehicles, which quickly descended from the deep water entrance and, under Viola's control, immediately turned on their lights and began searching.

KIKI watched as the submersibles sank deeper and deeper into the sea, and said...

“That thing didn’t attack us, and it ran away as soon as we chased it. Could it be some kind of scout from a supernatural entity?” She said, looking at Lin Xian. “Wasn’t that Black Thorn in the Clouds in Xilan City a scout for the No. 5 Star Abyss Overlord?”

“That’s possible.” Qian Dele nodded. “It’s normal for monsters to have different roles, which means we’re being watched.”

Chen Sixuan said cautiously, "But the purpose of the Cloud Thorn in Xilan City is to mark the entire city with level 5 markers. Since dark creatures use markers to identify targets, why weren't we marked, even at level 1?"

"Anyway, this thing definitely isn't from Earth." Lin Xian then looked at Shiori: "Shiori, have you ever encountered this kind of situation in Silent City before?"

Shiori shook her head, paused, then immediately nodded and whispered, "The situation is a little different, but we've encountered it before. However, we didn't chase after it because the monster seems to run away if it's seen..."

【Target found.】

Just then, Viola suddenly responded: [The submersible has detected a large amount of strange biological activity at a depth of 121 meters. Please be extremely careful.]

Viola's words immediately made everyone's hearts tighten, and Lin Xian quickly asked, "Is it that monster from earlier?"

No, the submersible detected a large number of unusual deep-sea creatures exceeding 50 meters in length, but so far it doesn't seem to have caused any disturbance.

"What does 'not making a sound' mean? They're not coming towards us?"

Viola turned around and, through a relay, projected the underwater scene onto Lin Xian in a holographic display, then spoke.

No, it seems these creatures haven't discovered us yet.

Lin Xian and the others looked over, and their expressions immediately changed, a chill running down their spines.

Beneath the dark ocean, countless bizarre creatures with long squid tentacles and human-like torsos float upright in the deep water. Their heads resemble those of some kind of transparent snakefish, and their skirts slowly sway. Hundreds and thousands of them drift together with the ocean currents, motionless, like a forest hanging upside down in the deep sea.

Upon seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but gasp. The terrifying sight sent chills down their spines, and a sense of deep-sea terror permeated the air.

"So many bizarre creatures..."

"Are they asleep, or..."

“It’s probably because the Black Tide hasn’t arrived yet, and hasn’t entered its activity cycle,” Ding Junyi said. “Or maybe they can’t detect our presence because we don’t have the Dark Mark.”

"Director Ding." At this moment, Xiao Yuan pointed to the culture chamber in her hand and said, "The blood vine seems to be stagnant."

Ding Junyi looked over and saw that the blood vines that had been growing and extending had now curled up again, and the vines that had grown out had also retracted. She immediately looked at Lin Xian.

"Disappeared."

"Let's leave quickly." Lin Xian immediately said to everyone, "The clearing is complete. We'll leave Deepwater Port and head to Haiyan Island right away. I don't feel safe here. I'll feel more at ease once we get to the island."

Everyone understood and then set off.

Lin Xian called Ning Jing and Huo Ge, who were on patrol, to quickly return to the Infinite and prepare to start it up. On the way back, he casually transferred a crashed but undamaged space fighter into the Black Star Forge to devour.

Just as he was about to board the train at the freight station platform, Lin Xian's mechanical heart suddenly roared violently, and the intense energy surge made him shudder.

"what happened……"

Lin Xian stopped and pressed his hand to his chest. The Mechanical Heart had returned to calm, but he had clearly felt it overload uncontrollably for a moment.

At this moment, Lin Xian turned around and suddenly noticed that among the pile of desiccated corpses on the cargo unloading platform with its special metal plate structure, there was a palm-sized crack, as if it had been pierced by some sharp claw, but there were no traces of the impact of a large, strange object around it.

And this location is exactly where that strange humanoid creature was just now.

Lin Xian subconsciously walked over, his gaze becoming increasingly uneasy, because the metal plate at the edge of the crack was under high-intensity tension. In the detection sensors of his power armor, the edge of the metal plate showed a higher temperature than the surrounding area. So Lin Xian squatted down, turned on the light, and looked into the palm-sized crack. After seeing what was inside, he couldn't help but shrink his pupils, and an incredulous expression appeared on his face.

The crack was more than 10 centimeters deep, and at the bottom of the crack was a metal object shaped like a die, covered with a lot of rust powder and iron filings.

Lin Xian was surprised because he discovered that the crack seemed to have been made by the thumb-sized metal cube. Moreover, upon closer inspection, his power armor monitor showed that the metal die was at a higher temperature than its surroundings, and it seemed to be undergoing slight friction.

"What is this?"

Lin Xian raised his hand and created a metal clamp, preparing to pick up the thing. After all, to be able to smash such a deep hole in the metal floor of this freight station, it wasn't just a matter of kinetic energy; it also required extremely high hardness. You must know that freight stations in the orbital system are used to carry tens of thousands of tons of cargo, and they are definitely not made of ordinary metal plates. Even if an armor-piercing bullet could make a hole in this material, Lin Xian didn't know if it could go this deep, but a bullet could never maintain such a shape as this cube-shaped metal die.

But when Lin Xian reached out to grab it, he found that he couldn't pick it up at all. So he made dozens of metal wires to wrap around it and tried to lift it up, but no matter how hard Lin Xian tried, the metal die did not budge.

At this moment, Lin Xian finally realized that something was wrong.

"Lin Xian, why aren't you getting in the car yet?"

KIKI called him from the car door. Lin Xian turned around and waved to KIKI: "Hey girl, come here."

KIKI flew over, looking puzzled.

"What's wrong"

Lin Xian immediately pointed to the metal die in the sinkhole: "Use your telekinesis to take it out."

"what……"

Upon hearing this, KIKI glanced at it and immediately channeled her psychic power. However, the air suddenly trembled slightly in the next instant, and KIKI missed on her first attempt. Her expression showed slight surprise. She looked at Lin Xian and then at the dice. She immediately became serious, and her eyes flashed with supernatural light, completely enveloping the metal dice.

rub rub!
A piercing tearing sound came from the ground, and then the metal die slowly floated up thanks to KIKI's powerful ability.

"Lin Xian," KIKI said to Lin Xian with an extremely serious expression, her eyes flashing white light, "Do you know how heavy this thing is?"

"At least a thousand tons!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xian's eyes widened in surprise, and he immediately looked at the metal die floating in the air, feeling a chill run down his spine.

This metal die has a volume of only 1 cubic centimeter, yet it has a mass of 1,000 tons, which is almost 1% of the density of a neutron star. Without extreme gravity, how could a metal of this mass possibly exist on Earth?

Moreover, it maintains an absolutely smooth cube shape.

Most bizarrely, the numbers on the dice are marked in circles on it, as if it were a divine creation playing an absurd and whimsical joke on humanity...

(End of this chapter)