Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 444 Infinite Proliferation
At 2:35 p.m., the sky above Haiyan Island was completely covered by dark clouds, a storm was raging, the sea around the island was surging with waves, and the air was filled with an unfamiliar, fishy smell, as if it were not in a world of living people.

At low altitude, a suspended black train broke through the gale and crashed onto the outer tracks of the old military base on the outlying island with a dull thud, sparks flying and dust billowing up.

"so close."

Looking at the fluctuations on the car's radar, Chen Sixuan said with lingering fear, "There must have been something in the sea watching us just now. Luckily... the marker was cleared in time."

“There’s no longer a day-night cycle here; those things can appear anywhere,” Lin Xian said. “And they’re so densely packed. If we’re not careful, it won’t just be a simple monster horde hunt.”

The gates of the abandoned military air-raid shelter opened, and the Infinity slowly sailed into the submarine base along the original supply transport route. The roar of its engines awakened the dust that had accumulated over the years, echoing in the vast cave.

"Are we going to spend the night on this island?"

Behind them, Monica walked into the cockpit, looked at Lin Xian and said, "I've known you for so long, and this is the first time I've seen you so uncertain."

Lin Xian shook his head: "We've entered the hunting grounds of the strange creatures, and there's even a world-class lurking one. I really don't have a better plan to get everyone out of here right now."

“Perhaps you’re too nervous.” Monica’s gaze slowly shifted from Chen Sixuan to the front, watching the empty supply track gradually move into the mountainside. She said, “Even if the volcano erupts or the tsunami submerges us, it’s just another inescapable crisis. Since the day of the apocalypse, we’ve been living on the brink of life and death. Is there any difference between now and before?”

Upon hearing this, Chen Sixuan raised her eyebrows slightly and then said, "I agree. There's always a way out. We've encountered so many desperate situations, and I believe we can survive tonight too."

Lin Xian nodded, remained silent for a moment, and then smiled faintly.

"That's a great attitude, okay~"

After speaking, he called Viola over. Viola quickly walked across the carriage to the driver's cab. At this moment, Lin Xian began to give instructions.
"Viola, you are in charge of setting up a defensive line at Searock Prison with all the drones and equipment of the Falcon Squad. Also, have all of Ryan's men retreat down there."

Chen Sixuan looked at him: "All resisted by robots?"

“Yes.” Lin Xian said decisively, “The key is not resistance, but purposeful cleanup.”

Lin Xian scrutinized Viola and analyzed, "With so many bizarre entities surrounding the island, leaving people to resist is pointless. Being marked will only become a trigger. Therefore, Viola's task is to ensure that some of the wandering monsters cannot enter the underground base below, if necessary..."

Lin Xian's gaze turned cold: "Destroy the passage between Haiyan Prison and this base, and bury us alive underneath!"

Viola tilted her head slightly, then replied, "I understand your deployment requirements. I'll arrange it immediately."

After saying that, he immediately turned around and took action.

“Hmm,” Monica said, “That’s not bad. Maybe we can have a peaceful night.”

Rumble!
No sooner had the words left his mouth than a violent tremor suddenly struck. Dust and smoke fell wildly from the old supply tracks, the lights flickered, and a deafening blast of air filled the Infinite!

"earthquake?!"

"It should be Mount Garan." Lin Xian frowned. The earthquake lasted for about half a minute and did not cause much damage, but its duration and intensity were significantly higher than before, which was not a good sign.

"It looks like that underwater volcano is on the verge of erupting." Chen Sixuan looked at Lin Xian: "Didn't you say that this place is also on a volcanic crater?"

"Correct."

Lin Xian nodded: "It's just a geothermal well, but it should be on the same mid-ocean ridge volcanic mountain range as Mount Garan."

Seeing the smoke and dust in the tunnel slowly stop falling, Lin Xian took a deep breath and continued to drive the Infinite along the passage deeper into the tunnel. Soon he arrived at the passage gate marked with nuclear radiation. Just as Lin Xian used his mechanical ability to remotely activate the gate, a burst of scalding hot air suddenly gushed out. That heat immediately evaporated the water vapor on the Infinite!

This place is buzzing with excitement!

Lin Xian's expression darkened slightly as he started the train and entered through the passage. The light ahead gradually turned crimson, and the track slowly passed along the edge of the hot well of the huge Deep 3 geothermal core device. Through the porthole, they could see the huge passage below. The crimson magma light greatly enhanced the brightness of the entire geothermal well. Before even getting off the train, Lin Xian and the others had already felt an astonishing heat.

“As the activity level increases, the drill bit and implanter of this device will shut down or even break down when they reach a point where they can no longer withstand the pressure. As a result, the heat sources deployed in several sea areas around Haiyan Island will disappear,” Lin Xian said. “That’s the trouble.”

"So it's confirmed that without this thing, the monster would attack Mount Garan, causing a dormant volcano to revive?" Monica asked.

Lin Xian sighed: "I don't really care whether the abnormality of the Garan volcano is related to the activity of the strange entities, or about the nonsensical experiments the Foundation is conducting."

The Infinite train pulled into the cargo loading and unloading platform of the nuclear submarine base. Lin Xian stopped the train, then turned and walked towards the rear carriage, saying to Monica...

"But one thing is certain: as long as this device is there, we're fishing; if this device is gone, we'll be standing on top of a natural bait, and even without the dark marker, we won't be able to escape."

Lin Xian walked through the carriages and arrived at carriage number 3. He did not see Ding Junyi when he entered the carriage. Instead, he saw her in carriage number 4, where she was busy with something next to a few tomato seedlings. Just as he was about to ask her something, he noticed that the small flower on Ding Junyi's head was swaying gently and emitting a faint light of some kind of supernatural power.

Lin Xian couldn't help but move closer, and the next moment his gaze suddenly sharpened. He saw that on the tomato seedlings in front of Ding Junyi, many tender green vines of some kind of melon had appeared. They were climbing and twining rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and under Ding Junyi's control, the tips of the vines suddenly sprouted some extremely sharp blood thorns. The vines were like human hands, growing and deforming at an extremely fast speed. After sticking to the walls of the cultivation chamber, they instantly covered and spread the chamber walls, completely blocking out the light!

"Your plant-based superpowers have developed this quickly?" Lin Xian asked.

"Actually, what you saw was only a small part." Ding Junyi had noticed Lin Xian's arrival long ago, but she seemed very grateful that Lin Xian did not interrupt her. At this moment, after wandering around, the vines suddenly began to shrink and wither, releasing a large amount of light green aura. Ding Junyi raised her hand and a dark green bud grew out of thin air in her palm, quickly absorbing the light green aura.

Seeing this, Lin Xian was quite surprised. But the next moment, Ding Junyi did something that caught him off guard. After absorbing the light green aura, Ding Junyi suddenly turned around and blew a breath at Lin Xian. Lin Xian felt a cool breeze like mint on his face, and then his vision began to blur, his ears rang, and Ding Junyi's beautiful face kept appearing in front of him.

He shook his head, and after a few seconds, his mind returned to normal. Lin Xian was taken aback and quickly looked at Ding Junyi.

"This……"

“Solanaceae plants can produce scopolamine, which can cause stimulant hallucinations, mental confusion, and distorted perception of time and space. It was used to make anesthetics in the past, but an overdose can cause coma or even death.” Ding Junyi looked calmly at Lin Xian: “Recently, I have been studying the evolution of bizarre creatures. That bio-field doesn’t seem like some kind of superpower, but more like an evolutionary program coded into their DNA, as if… they possess it themselves. But we all know that those ordinary bizarre creatures are not living beings at all, but rather living tools that have been created.”

Lin Xian frowned slightly upon hearing this: "What is the connection between these two things?"

Ding Junyi continued, "Aren't you curious? When we were in Xilan City, only that S-class creature possessed such a bio-force field. How come in such a short time, even the most ordinary strange creatures now have bio-force fields? What caused them to possess such abilities?"

"Didn't they say monsters are evolving too?"

Ding Junyi shook her head: "We have indeed discovered that dark creatures can evolve and adapt, but there has always been a misconception. For example, those that can survive under the snow are snow demons and snow monsters, and those that can roam the sea rock island in broad daylight are people like the split-tailed man and the red bone. But we have not found any mist spiders that can roam in broad daylight, or centipedes that can roam in the snow. Do you understand what I mean?"

Lin Xian frowned. Hearing Ding Junyi's words, he fell into thought, so much so that he forgot the purpose of coming to find Ding Junyi.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Ding Junyi said directly, "My point is that this evolution occurs upstream rather than downstream. That is, the intelligent entity responsible for creating the strange entities, or the higher existence of the dark civilization, is constantly learning, evolving, and repairing itself. Then, through some kind of DNA compilation, it endows the newly created strange entities with this evolutionary power. Ordinary strange entities do not have such an evolutionary mechanism."

Lin Xian paused for a moment upon hearing this: "I understand, so this is related to what you were talking about..."

Scopolamine

"Correct."

"What I'm trying to say is that the Dark Civilization may be completely different from what we imagine. These bizarre entities we see may be like our mechs and drones, devices created by that civilization using carbon-based biological tissues from humans and Earth's creatures. They are flesh-and-blood equipment for war and colonization. If we look at it this way, A-class or S-class might be like this, because I believe that beings with such advanced civilization power should have the form of intelligent beings, rather than those Cthulhu monsters."

"Secondly, using this understanding, I combined my biological knowledge with an experiment to explore the genetic power of plants and animals in the Blue Star ecosystem. This will give me a lot of room to develop plant-based superpowers. Of course... the first point is the key point. The second point is just to tell you that I have become much more powerful. If we encounter a critical situation, I now have the ability to control the battlefield, which should be able to help you."

Lin Xian was shocked after hearing the previous part. He had thought of this idea before, and the Phoenix Society had also made such a concept long ago, but this was the first time someone had described the strange entity and the [mecha equipment] in this way, which made him feel a little shaken.

Ding Junyi's second point also surprised him. Could plant-based superpowers be used in this way?
"Unleash plant properties to stun and control enemies?"

“There’s much more. If you’d like to learn more, I can start by explaining the plant family classification to you.”

"No need." Lin Xian was sweating profusely. How long would this talk go on? But he understood what Ding Junyi meant. She was referring to the plant-based superpowers she had developed, which had many other characteristics.

Ding Junyi, with her hands in her pockets, calmly looked at Lin Xian: "What I really want is for you to acknowledge my work during this period."

"I completely agree!"

"Thank you." Ding Junyi smiled slightly.

Lin Xian was embarrassed: "Teacher Chen told me that you said the blood vine has changed, is that right?"

Ding Junyi nodded: "Through my supernatural abilities, I discovered that this disaster plant is very different from other disaster plants. Perhaps it is related to its characteristics. This blood vine has the characteristic of almost unlimited reproduction."

Lin Xian was completely confused: "Unlimited proliferation, what's the use of this characteristic?"

“Strictly speaking,” Ding Junyi said calmly, “it’s not very useful.”

Lin Xian: ...

Ding Junyi then led Lin Xian to carriage number 3. She opened the cultivation chamber containing the Blood Vine. This cultivation chamber was larger than the cultivation chambers of the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes and the Hell Black Chrysanthemum, and it was placed separately by Ding Junyi.

The blood vine was in the cultivation chamber. Its crimson thorns emitted a cold light that was different from that of plants, making it look like the cold edge of metal. Most strangely, after Ding Junyi opened the light shield, the blood vine suddenly began to twist slightly, as if it were a living thing.

This situation was completely different from when Lin Xian first brought it back from Baicheng. When Lin Xian saw this scene, he immediately understood what Chen Sixuan meant when she said that this thing was alive. It was exactly what she meant, and it made people's scalps tingle.

Seeing Lin Xian's expression, Ding Junyi walked over and touched the incubation chamber, saying...
"Unlimited proliferation means that this plant can break through the limits of plant cells and expand and grow indefinitely. I have tried to conduct multiple rounds of division experiments and found that this plant has no boundaries."

Before she finished speaking, as her finger touched the cultivation chamber, the blood vine suddenly began to rapidly extend to the side of the chamber wall. Then, under Ding Junyi's operation, it began to expand violently, gradually growing from the thickness of a finger to the thickness of a bowl. The spikes on it also began to become more numerous and deeper. As the blood vine expanded, Lin could even see some faint force field arcs appearing on it!
This left Lin Xian completely baffled: "You mean, this thing can grow bigger than a skyscraper?"

Ding Junyi nodded: "Yes."

"Then it's still not used?" Lin Xian immediately said, "If this stuff is edible, wouldn't we have an unlimited supply of starch to eat?"

Ding Junyi was taken aback for a moment upon hearing this, then said, "Alright, the characteristic I think is that it can change the course of the battle for you, just like the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes."

"That's easy." Lin Xian looked at Ding Junyi and said directly, "Just use this blood vine as your weapon, and study it while you're at it. Wouldn't that be incredibly useful?"

Upon hearing this, Ding Junyi raised her eyes slightly, looked at Lin Xian, thought for two seconds, then withdrew her fingers, put them in her pocket, and looked at Lin Xian seriously: "This is good, I will seriously consider it."

Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief; this was good news. He was about to tell Ding Junyi about his plan when Ding Junyi suddenly said...

"Actually, the unlimited proliferation of the Bloodvine led me to a new discovery: the unlimited proliferation of this calamity plant is not based on the plant itself or its genes, but on something else entirely. This has led me to hypothesize a completely new question: what is the origin of the inherent power of all calamity plants and forbidden objects..."

Lin Xian's head was throbbing: "Then tell me."

Ding Junyi didn't notice the anxiety in Lin Xian's tone, and continued calmly.

"Through some experiments, I discovered that the unlimited proliferation of the Blood Vine is likely occurring within some temporal or spatial dimension, which is not something we can directly interact with. If this conjecture is correct, then it means... this plant..."

"Not on a three-dimensional level!"

(End of this chapter)