Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 447 The Whirlpool of the Serenity
With just one scene, Lin Xian and KIKI immediately felt a sense of oppression from a colossal monster. From the depths of the abyss, that giant eye covered the entire scene.

Seeing this, KIKI couldn't help but hold her breath. Her huge pupils seemed to be facing the monitoring of the energy release port, or perhaps 'staring' at the figure of the triangular-headed monster.

However, the image lasted only half a second before the monitor screen froze completely and lost signal.

At this moment, on the screen of the mobile terminal in Kiki's hand, there was still a pupil like a dim yellow sea lamp, and just one image exuded a chilling and oppressive aura.

Lin Xian and KIKI exchanged a glance, and the tremors around them and the sounds of battle from the upper levels of the passage in the distance also quieted down.

"Lin Xian, the passageways between the upper laboratory and the living area have largely collapsed. We've dealt with one monster and temporarily suppressed the marker, but... we probably can't get out of here." Chen Sixuan's voice came through the earpiece.

On the upper level of the base, entire buildings were reduced to ruins, and smoke and dust filled the passageways. Half-finished lights flickered with electrical sparks. The main passage leading to the lower level of the base was blocked by a mass of eerie corpses shrouded in black smoke. Chen Sixuan, Qian Dele, and the other members who came to block the passage were now staring intently at the now-blocked passage, and no one dared to breathe loudly.

"That black bug has retreated again. Should we chase it?" Shu Qin asked, looking worried. "I think this thing is very unusual, and it has been hiding in the flood discharge channel. It is definitely a threat to us."

“We can’t catch them.” Qian Dele shook his head and looked at the battlefield with a serious expression. “It’s already difficult enough that we don’t get discovered. We can’t go out of our way to provoke those monsters. If we get marked, we won’t be able to hold out at all.”

"Feel sorry."

At this moment, Ryan from the Falcon Sea Group stepped forward, kicked away the remains of a strange creature in front of him, and then turned to Chen Sixuan and the others, saying, "We cannot activate the crystal lattice power, which will result in a significant loss in our combat strength."

“Activating them is pointless,” Monica said calmly. “Our problem right now isn’t immediate combat capability, but how to evade.”

"That's right." Chen Sixuan nodded, and now, preparing to clean up the mess, she asked Lin Xian again on the communication channel.
"Lin Xian, how are things on your end?"

“No problem for now.” Lin Xian’s voice came from that moment: “Teacher Chen, call everyone to seal off the upper passage, and then everyone move to the lower level.”

"it is good."

After speaking with Chen Sixuan, Lin Xian immediately contacted Viola again.

[A reconnaissance drone detected a large number of strange creatures entering the radar range of the outlying island.]

The sea rock prison above was now filled with many indescribable and bizarre creatures searching for survivors. The numerous floating drones had ceased their attacks under Viola's control. Viola was hiding behind a ruined wall, maneuvering the high-altitude drones to scan the island from all sides.

Before nightfall, the entire island already looked like it was approaching its end. Heavy, murky storm clouds hung over the island, completely blocking out the sunlight. The lifeless seawater was as black as a churning pool of ink, viscous and heavy, stirring up huge waves.

The torrential rain poured down, and amidst the swirling rain, countless dark shadows emerged from the sea, tearing through the surface. These were enormous arthropods covered in slippery slime, with swollen, pupil-less eyeballs constantly opening and closing in the joints; they were also massive, writhing tentacles covered in suckers and fangs, like the aggregates of viscera from a deep-sea graveyard.

These bizarre creatures are beyond human imagination, yet they seem to combine, stitch together, mutate, and fission some biological characteristics of deep-sea creatures.

At this moment, the entire island was trembling. The beach was crushed and churned by the giant object, covered with a thick layer of foul-smelling silt. The forests, trees and mountains on the island were overturned and torn apart. In the monitoring footage of the drone, one could only vaguely see countless huge black shadows slowly approaching from all directions in the rain.

"Viola."

【I am here. 】

"Withdraw all troops underground and abandon resistance."

Viola understands.

In the passage, Lin Xian saw the current scene at the energy outlet and the prison, as well as the battle situation on Chen Sixuan's side, and judged that the giant ocean god had already appeared in the southeast sea area. At this time, the monsters in the surrounding sea areas were all moving abnormally in the storm, which further indicated that the situation had reached an extremely critical moment.

Perhaps, the hunt is about to begin!

In this situation, all resistance is futile. All they can do is grit their teeth and lie in wait in this underground submarine shelter.

At this moment, in the middle level of the underground base, more than 600 members of the Falcon Sea Group and the Infinity were gathered, most of whom were from the Falcon Sea Group.

The various offices and the original rest areas were packed with people. A large amount of supplies and equipment were unloaded by a mechanical team led by Azir of the Falcon Sea Group, and almost filled all the laboratories.

The basement was now filled with the sounds of panting. These members of the Sea Group were more organized than ordinary survivor groups. Armed, logistics, medical, engineering, and even information reconnaissance teams had clear divisions of labor. Although there were many people, the order was clear, and there was no chaos after Ryan gave the order.

In the monitoring hall, the crew of the Infinite and key members of the Falcon Fleet, including Ryan, Vanessa, Gedi, and Erica, were discussing countermeasures. With all plans collapsing, the current situation seemed to have left everyone with no other way out.

"The good news is that, regardless of whether it's due to the release of energy from the Chasan Island vent, that evil god has reappeared."

Lin Xian stood behind KIKI, who was operating the computer, and looked at Ryan with his arms crossed: "Ryan, during your time at the Foundation, how many 'hunts' did you experience?"

“Three times.” Ryan adjusted his sunglasses. “The time and process are not within our control. I only know that the time interval between these times is about 20 to 40 days. Also, when the hunt begins, the base will be silent for 12 hours for safety reasons.”

"12 hours?" Monica asked. "Don't you know what was being monitored during that time?"

Ryan shook his head: "There's no way to monitor it. Just like now, all the monitoring equipment has crashed, and most of it will be destroyed. Every time, the engineering department is arranged to carry out supplementary repairs after the hunt."

"So, the bad news is, we don't know what will happen next," Lin Xian said.

After saying that, he turned his gaze to Viola and asked, "Viola, have you figured it out yet?"

[Calculations have been completed. Based on the available conditions, the preliminary estimated success rate is 13.67%]

"What success rate?" Vanessa asked curiously.

"Escape from Sea Rock Island".

Lin Xian took a deep breath, looked at everyone, and immediately spoke his mind.

"Using the Phoenix Society's nautical information in this area, I found a passage on the submarine in Holy City that the Foundation used for emergency evacuation from the besieged islands. I think we might be able to use this passage to leave here." "A passage?" Gedi looked puzzled. "This...this is the Pacific Ocean. The passage you're talking about is...a road?"

"It's an underwater passage, right?" Ryan looked at Lin Xian. "To be precise, it's the underwater path of the Foundation's submarine?"

"Yes."

Upon hearing this, everyone's expression changed. Chen Sixuan frowned: "We're going to go underwater?"

"Use that submarine?" Erica from the Falcon Fleet asked doubtfully, "How is that possible? The surrounding seas are teeming with strange creatures. How could there be a safe underwater passage for us to leave?"

“Yes, logically speaking, shouldn’t the underwater world be more dangerous than ocean tracks and the sky?” Ning Jing said with a serious expression.

"Not always."

Kiki's fingers tapped rapidly on the keyboard, quickly displaying a blue holographic sea chart before everyone's eyes. The chart clearly outlined the seabed topography and underwater markings of Haiyan Island and several affiliated islands.

Then, KIKI pointed to a continuous ridge in the southeast and said, "This is the launch depth and center path that Viola deduced by combining all the preset launch paths of those decoy torpedoes. Coincidentally, this path is right on the main fault zone of the Garan volcano."

"What?!" Qian Dele frowned upon hearing this, her voice sharp as she said, "You mean, this evacuation route is not only underwater, teeming with sea monsters, but also has to pass through the area of ​​the already erupting underwater volcano?"

Lin Xian nodded with a complicated expression: "That's right."

Everyone had strange expressions at this moment, and many people were looking at Lin Xian, wondering why he had this idea.

Lin Xian's eyes flickered, and he directly called out to Viola: "Viola, please synchronize the analysis process as well."

【OK. 】

Upon hearing Lin Xian's command, Viola stepped forward with her hands behind her back. With a flick of her mechanical finger, a holographic beam shone directly onto the Haven hologram, and she began to speak along its path.

Based on the federal 2035-2065 Pacific Ocean rock hydrological data, I found that this path highly coincides with the direction of a 'quiet deep-sea vortex channel' discovered by UNESCO in 2029. This type of strong deep-sea current flowing along the continental slope can reach speeds of 30-40 cm/s, far exceeding ordinary deep-sea currents. The reason for the occurrence of this strong deep-sea circulation is the presence of huge geothermal anomalies in the subduction zone activity areas such as the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, where hydrothermal vents release extremely high amounts of heat. At the same time, the surface cooling of the North Pacific subpolar basins (such as the Bering Sea/Sea of ​​Okhotsk) has formed…

"Viola, just get to the conclusion. There's no need for the geography and oceanography explanations," Lin Xian coughed, interrupting Viola's explanation.

"Okay," Viola continued, "Garan Volcano is located on the Pacific Mid-Sea Ridge fault zone, with cliff depths reaching 6000-8000 meters. The nearest cliff area is only 96 nautical miles from the island. Beneath this area, there may exist a giant array of vortices driven by intense heat flux and water pressure differences. This vortex, with a diameter of tens of kilometers, is not an ordinary eddy, but a resonant, stable super vortex formed by continuous geothermal energy injection and the constraints of special topography."

If the submersible can enter this giant vortex array, and provided the pressure hull material can withstand the high-pressure tearing, it can reach extremely high speeds of 50-100 knots through the vortex channels. At this speed, we would only need two to three hours to escape the dangerous area being hunted by the strange creature on Sea Rock Island.

After Viola finished speaking, the monitoring room fell into a brief silence.

Sasha's face was grim. Seeing that no one spoke, she couldn't help but speak first: "Brother Lin, is this plan really feasible? How come those underwater cliffs, super vortexes, and silent abyss vortexes all sound more and more terrifying than the last..."

"Well, now besides the sea monster and the volcano, there's another super vortex." Qian Dele rubbed his temples, looking like he had a headache.

"Viola just mentioned a success rate of 13.67%, could she be referring to this plan?" Luo Yang nervously swallowed.

Upon hearing this, everyone's eyes fell on Lin Xian.

"Yes," Lin Xian said in a stern voice, "the success rate is extremely high, far exceeding my expectations!"

Upon hearing this, Vanessa, Gaddy, and the others behind Ryan were immediately shocked. They knew that their leader, Ryan, usually liked to come up with crazy plans, but who knew that the Swordholder in front of them was even more monstrous.

It's hard to imagine anyone associating a 13.67% success rate with adjectives like 'very high' and 'beyond expectations,' and it's also hard to imagine what Lin Xian's mental state was when he said those words.

“Hey, Savior, 13% isn’t 30%. How can you think that success rate is so high?” Vanessa couldn’t help but ask.

"Isn't that high enough?" KIKI turned around in her swivel chair, floated up with her telekinesis, and crossed her arms over her chest, saying, "The survival rate is over 1/10, which is much better than a nine-out-of-ten chance of death, right?"

Falcon Fleet members: ...

“Madman…” Erica stared wide-eyed at Lin Xian as if she were looking at a monster.

Ryan, on the other hand, was relatively calm. He stared intently at Lin Xian and the underwater hologram, then looked at the people on the Infinite and found that, apart from a few people, most of them seemed to... not have much of a reaction.

Chen Sixuan remained calm, Ding Junyi had her hands in her pockets, Lu Xingchen was asleep in her chair, the building stood quietly, Monica had a smile on her face, Shu Qin, Lü Chang and the others looked a little tense, Ryunosuke's face was covered by a mask, and Shiori was a little nervous...

“That sounds like a good idea. Although I haven’t been exposed to this plan before, the Foundation does have a safe evacuation plan in place.” Ryan finally spoke up. “This high-speed circulation is like an underwater tunnel. Given the depth, we can leave at high speed. If I’m not mistaken, there will be fewer anomalies in such a high-speed circulation?”

"It's not that there are relatively few, it's that there are none," Lin Xian said.

"No?"

"How is that possible?" everyone asked in disbelief.

Lin Xian then said with a serious expression, "It's not that there isn't one; strictly speaking, there is one."

He looked at Ryan and said, "Ryan, have you forgotten how Mount Garland went from being an extinct volcano to an active one?"

Upon hearing this, Ryan frowned sharply, and the others immediately realized what he meant.

"Lin Xian, you mean..." Chen Sixuan asked immediately.

"That's right," Lin Xian said in a stern voice.
"This fault abyss must be the territory of that giant ocean god!"

(End of this chapter)