Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 446 Volcano
"Are we torpedoes?" Lin Xian asked, puzzled.

Ding Junyi adjusted her glasses: "For a professional organization like a foundation, the action plan is definitely not based on experience or on-the-spot reactions. If it is an evacuation plan, it must have accurate action parameters. Assuming we launch torpedoes, we won't rely entirely on improvisation, right?"

Lin Xian was stunned when he heard Ding Junyi's words. He subconsciously wanted to ask a question, but when he saw Ding Junyi standing in front of him looking at him calmly, he frowned and realized what she meant.

"clever."

Lin Xian's brows relaxed, and he immediately activated the Mechanical Heart to open the watertight door in front of him and hurried towards the torpedo compartment.

He had a strange idea at that moment, and couldn't wait to verify it.

Soon, Lin Xian arrived at the torpedo compartment. Looking at the dozens of large torpedo tubes, he used his mechanical ability to open the information access panel for all the torpedo tubes. Then he went to the nearest one and took out his mobile terminal to try to export the data.

drip.

After waiting for a while, Lin Xian finished analyzing the data. At this moment, he saw a piece of strange data on the screen and his eyes lit up.

"really!"

These strange data are none other than the fact that these decoy torpedoes were launched with preset parameters. The coordinates at which each torpedo was launched were set, indicating that the submarine's route should be a fixed or predetermined route, and it was definitely not just taking chances on the seabed.

This discovery immediately enlightened Lin Xian. He had been wondering before whether the people from the Holy City who went in and out of Haiyan Island were all suicide squads, daring to go deep into the center of the monster-hunting tide to carry out missions. Wouldn't that be a one-way ticket?

But it seems that's not the case right now. The people of the Holy City not only know how to get here, but also know how to leave the island. And all of this is based on experimental data obtained by the Foundation from monitoring Unija 1 at its base on the island.

"All the decoy torpedoes were pre-programmed with launch data, which means they are very familiar with the information on the various energy leak ports and the territory of the large monster. At the very least, they have knowledge of the hydrological information of this area, so they know how to leave. This may be an opportunity for us!"

Ding Junyi stood behind Lin Xian and said quietly, "Even if this is confirmed, there are still two questions."

"First, how do we determine this route? If we only deduce it based on these fixed coordinates, the result will be very inaccurate. The marine density in the waters around Haiyan Island is so high that the survival rate of going out to sea rashly is almost zero."

"Secondly, this is the submarine's movement path. We are the train regiment, while the Falcon Sea Regiment consists of surface ships. Obviously, our vehicles cannot achieve this."

Lin Xian summoned a batch of PX05 robots to help him export the preset data for each torpedo. At the same time, he turned to Ding Junyi and said, "It is illogical to have an evacuation route in this kind of area. The situation in deep water is strange and hard to find. There must be something special about the Foundation and the Holy City using a fixed route. Let's find it first and compare it with some conventional hydrological information in the nearby sea area. Maybe we will find something. If all else fails, there is still a former security director of the Foundation here."

"Furthermore," Lin Xian turned to Ding Junyi and said in a deep voice, "who said we can't go underwater?"

Upon hearing this, Ding Junyi paused slightly, her gaze towards Lin Xian filled with a mixture of surprise and eagerness. After a moment of silence, she said directly, "It's very exciting."

"deep sea?"

"you."

Lin Xian felt ashamed.

Ding Junyi stated frankly, "I can help."

Seeing Ding Junyi's expression, Lin Xian immediately cleared his throat: "In what way?"

“The Silver Dragon is a perfect example.” Ding Junyi’s glasses gleamed under the lights of the torpedo room. “Give me some time, and I should be able to get it to bloom.”

Lin Xian's eyes lit up upon hearing this: "Okay, then..."

Rumble!
Just as Lin Xian was about to finish speaking, a violent tremor suddenly resounded, the black water in the underground deep-water port surged wildly, and the nuclear-powered submarine docked at the shore was constantly bobbing up and down, with the ground shaking violently inside.

Inside the torpedo compartment, Lin Xian grabbed the unsteady Ding Junyi and then used four spider-like stabilizers to anchor him in the passageway, securing his position. Feeling the unprecedented tremors outside, Lin Xian's expression darkened, and he immediately said...

"So fast?"

Lin Xian felt a sense of foreboding. There were still several hours until nightfall, but the situation seemed to have spiraled out of control. He had originally planned to monitor the changes at the energy vent and try to stabilize the geothermal device using his mechanical abilities, including preparing for the approaching darkness.

But the tremor gave Lin Xian an ominous premonition that the underwater volcano might have reached a critical point.

19:32:45
Looking at the countdown in front of him, Lin Xian's mind raced. What did this mean? Could the current disaster be completely unrelated to this countdown?
"If it erupts, the crustal movement will release energy at all the outlets," Ding Junyi hurriedly said to Lin Xian.

"Including our geothermal wells here!"

Rumble!
At 15:06 PM, lava erupted along the mid-ocean ridge fissures beneath the southeastern continental shelf of Haiyan Island, tearing the seabed into a spiderweb of dark red cracks. Large amounts of boiling, sulfide-rich water collided with the lava, emitting towering, brownish-yellow plumes of smoke that blotted out the sky. Bubbles surged and rolled upwards like boiling liquid glass, instantly carbonizing countless strange sea monsters and water insects into black mist wherever they passed.

The entire eastern coast of Haiyan Island seemed to be being cooked by a giant god. Numerous steam domes, hundreds of meters in diameter, broke through the waves. High-temperature water vapor clashed with cold air to form a wall of thunderstorm clouds. In the sky, purplish-red lightning snaked and exploded in the murky clouds. A storm curtain of rain, carrying volcanic ash, began to cover the sky and the sun.

The sea was turbulent, like the end of the world, with terrifying underwater shadows appearing from time to time amidst the towering waves. The air above the sea was frozen by the salty smell. At this moment, the submarine base was shaking violently, the lights were flickering, the condenser pipes were bursting due to the vibrations, and the salty seawater mixed with rust debris poured into the corridor.

The members of the Infinite and the Falcon crew, who were gathered in the hall, all changed their expressions drastically, as if facing a formidable enemy.

"How could this be? Mount Garan has already started erupting?!"

"Isn't there still more than ten hours left?"

"Are you kidding me? That's just the stability threshold of that device; it has nothing to do with volcanic eruptions!"

"Quickly!" Chen Sixuan, now fully armed, led the group into the hall and shouted to the Falcon Sea Group, "Seal off all the upper passages to prevent any strange entities from infiltrating the flood discharge channels!"

"How are we supposed to get out if everything's sealed off?" Upon hearing this, Azir from the Falcon Fleet looked puzzled and replied solemnly, "Our fleet is all at the ports outside!"

"Azir!"

Ryan immediately interrupted him: "Do as we say. We're in the same boat as the Infinity now. Let's focus on how to survive tonight first, and ignore everything else."

Azir opened his mouth, then immediately gritted his teeth, turned around, and led his people to the upper level with Chen Sixuan's group.

“Let’s go help too.” Qian Dele looked at the flashing lights above his head, his face darkening. He called on Shu Qin, Lü Chang, Luo Yang, and the others to join him.

"no!!"

Debris and dust continued to fall from the ceiling. Meanwhile, in the monitoring room, red alarm lights flashed incessantly. KIKI's expression immediately changed drastically as she looked at the numbers on the monitor screen.
"The geothermal well has been submerged beyond the safety line; we need to find a way to stop it."

"Where is Lin Xian?" Monica asked.

"Let's go first!" KIKI stood up immediately. "Ryunosuke, let's go together." At the moment, there was no better way, so KIKI could only ask Ryunosuke to try to use physical means to prevent the upper device from being burned by the lava.

boom!
Just then, a huge explosion came from the ground. KIKI looked up, her brows furrowing immediately, and she said...
"Oh no, Viola must have been attacked."

With a hiss, a wave of scorching steam erupted from the geothermal well's passage in the distance, and instantly everyone in the hall activated their power armor's protective systems.

"careful!"

"Get away!!"

Seeing this, KIKI stepped forward and raised her hand to create a psychic barrier that blocked the entire monitoring hall. The white steam filled in and quickly obscured everyone's vision.

Drop drop drop drop.

At this moment, many people's power armors began to sound high temperature warnings. The surging heat wave instantly covered the hall floor and walls with a layer of scalding water droplets. With a rumble, huge seismic waves surged up from underground, almost tearing and deforming the entire submarine base. In an instant, a large number of corridors began to collapse and tear apart, the metal walls wailed and screamed, and the lights shattered layer by layer.

Just as the Falcon Squad members hiding in the lower base were in a state of panic, the massive tremor suddenly stopped again. The entire base was now reduced to ruins and devastation.

Just when KIKI, Ryan, Monica, and the others in the monitoring hall thought they could breathe a sigh of relief, a violent explosion resounded from above.

“This should be the first eruption, but it’s not the most intense yet. However, judging from the situation, we don’t have much time left.” Monica waved away the smoke and dust in front of her eyes. Looking at the monitoring screen left by the geothermal device, she saw that the magma layer there had almost spread to the entrance of the base’s passageway. It wasn’t far from the Infinity’s docking at the platform. So she said, “Next time, the magma in that geothermal well might overflow into the base.”

"Oh no? What do we do?!"

Upon hearing this, some members of the Falcon Fleet immediately panicked.

"Then if we hide here, aren't we just waiting to die?"

"Yeah, it's better to stay on the boat; maybe we can even escape there."

Some of the male and female team members started talking amongst themselves in the chaos.

Vanessa's face beneath her power armor was also furrowed. Although the submarine base was located off the island and seemed to be a relatively safe haven, the geothermal well was right next to it. They had originally thought that after completing the energy release plan and stabilizing the induction device, they might not have to worry about the volcanic eruption for the time being.

But it seems like we've taken a terrible gamble. Now everyone is trapped here, and if the geothermal well explodes, everyone will be wiped out.

“What are we going to do?” Vanessa asked Ryan.

Ryan shook his head, first calming everyone down, then said to Vanessa, "The prison upstairs is already in a fight, and there might be an intrusion by a strange entity. We all need to work together to support them. We must stabilize the most pressing issue first before discussing anything else."

Vanessa nodded upon hearing this and immediately set off with Ryan.

At this moment, everyone felt the air become extremely oppressive. On the Infinite side, Chen Sixuan, Qian Dele, and Monica's team rushed to the upper level, while KIKI led her people into the geothermal well's passage.

As you emerge from the passage, a wave of heat and the pungent smell of sulfur rise into the air, making your head throb.

Looking at the geothermal device, which was one-third submerged, KIKI's expression turned grave. At this moment, she had no other choice but to use her telekinesis to temporarily seal off the channels from which steam was escaping.

"Lin Xian, the implantation device can't hold up anymore, where are you?" KIKI asked in his ear.

"wait for me!"

Boom, boom!
A fierce battle seemed to be taking place on the upper level. KIKI saw on the monitoring screen that the external spirit-dispelling value detector had detected a large number of creatures approaching!
"There's definitely been a leak here. None of us have marked it, but a lot of monsters have been attracted here!"

"Let's ignore that device for now."

Just then, Lin Xian arrived on horseback with Ding Junyi and said to KIKI, "Seal off the passage, and we'll all move to the lowest level!"

After Lin Xian finished speaking, he saw KIKI standing there, staring in shock at the monitoring terminal in her hand.

"Lin...Lin Xian."

"what happened?"

"look."

KIKI's eyes widened, and she gestured for him to look at the screen with a complicated expression.

Lin Xianke looked up and his steps came to an abrupt halt.

On the screen, the direction of the previously arranged energy release vent was visible. The magma gushing from the vent overwhelmed the seawater, and the crimson magma covered the seabed. Violent air currents surged and churned, and amidst the splashing heat, the crimson light illuminated the seabed.

Therefore, Lin Xian immediately noticed something unusual.

There, in front of the vent with its varying elevation, magma poured down like a celestial river being opened, and it was undoubtedly a long, crimson river.

But this lava river splits up not far ahead.

The magma split into two streams, like reefs blocking the river's flow. In the center, the seawater was completely swept away, leaving only boiling and surging hot air. In the vacuum distorted by the heat waves, a black dot remained motionless.

The black dot was so small that it was easy to miss at a glance.

However, it appears exceptionally clear on the enlarged screen on the other side.

That looks like a person!

A humanoid creature with a triangular head.

Floating in the sea, its entire body enveloped in a silvery bubble, it looked like a sculpture.

"That's not that..."

"It's that monster again!" Lin Xian frowned, recognizing it at a glance. It was the same monster that had mysteriously appeared in Taku Deepwater Port, and the one that had flashed past Lin Xian and KIKI after the appearance of the Ocean God!
"Look!"

KIKI pointed behind the creature, into the abyss, where a red pupil, as large as a giant wheel, was slowly opening.

(End of this chapter)