Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 461 Jump
"Your uncle's!!!"

Looking at the rapidly increasing countdown in his line of sight, Lin Xian immediately realized that he must have guessed correctly. The countdown was indeed related to the black gear. However, he didn't understand why he hadn't had this reaction when he had studied it for a while after obtaining it from Chen Yanxiu.

48, 47, 46...

The countdown was like a bomb, rushing backwards in front of Lin Xian's eyes, and Lin Xian's heart rate and blood pressure were soaring at the same time!
What should we do? It's almost over.

What happens when the countdown ends?
This is definitely not a good sign. If this countdown is related to the black gear, then it means that this countdown is very likely something that Chen Yanxiu put on him, which is definitely not a good thing!
Lin's mind was racing, and even his breathing became rapid.

44, 43, 42...

"Why would time speed up? This doesn't make sense. If it could be sped up, why didn't Chen Yanxiu use it from the beginning?"

Did I run into something?

Lin's mouth was dry. He picked up the black gear and brought it close to his eyes, forcing himself to remain calm. He then examined the black gear very carefully.

The black gear isn't pure black; it looks more like the color left by long-term quenching in a car or device. With 68 teeth, the black color has a special flowing quality when viewed, giving people a strange feeling.

Lin Xian knew that this phenomenon was caused by the dark energy fluctuations above, but after continuing to observe, he could not find any further clues.

39, 38, 37...

As time ticked by, Lin Xian's anxiety grew.

"What exactly is it? What did I do?"

"Calm down, there must be something you haven't noticed."

Lin Xian took a deep breath, raised his hand to make a stool for himself, sat down, and then stared into thought at the black gear in his hand.

"If it was Chen Yanxiu who did it, what was his purpose? He said at the time that killing me was the master's task, but that order was withdrawn, so his purpose was not to kill me?"

"The leader of Divine Revelation should have a considerable understanding of forbidden objects, but how did he know about my blink bullet? Or does he have something else on him? Logically, the blink bullet isn't on me, so the Divine Revelation's forbidden object detector shouldn't be able to find it..."

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Lin Xian closed his eyes, pinched the bridge of his nose, and quickly organized his thoughts.
"Forbidden object, the Lord's power, related to the Ocean God? No."

"The flashing bullets, I placed them with Grace using a brain-computer interface, are they related to Grace?"

"and many more……"

Lin Xian looked up, his gaze sweeping back and forth in thought: "Gamma-ray burst!"

"Grace said she encountered a gamma-ray burst. Is it related to forbidden substances, or to other energies?"

"Why did I suddenly lose contact with Chu Yan...?"

"Disconnected..."

Lin Xian muttered a few words to himself, his brows furrowing slowly. Suddenly, he realized something and remembered something Chen Yanxiu had said.

It seems... you're also quite obsessed with the power of forbidden objects. You should know, these are all... gifts from the Lord.

We will meet again, Swordholder.

Boom!

A thunderbolt seemed to strike Lin Xian's mind, and a terrifying thought suddenly occurred to him.

Chen Yanxiu's goal was not to kill him, but rather that he had a higher objective than Lin Xian.

Nantianmen!
"Grace!"

no respond.

Nantianmen has lost contact!
Lin Xian felt a jolt in his heart, and his aura began to turn cold.

20, 19, 18...

With Nantianmen out of contact, and himself and Chu Yan also out of contact, the Phoenix Society has also severed its ties with Nantianmen.

"Oops……"

Lin Xian had such doubts. After all, the reason he became the Swordholder by restraining the power of darkness was that he relied on the forbidden object, the Flashing Bullet from the darkness, to break through the Heavenly Curtain and contact the Southern Heavenly Gate. If this power were discovered, this card would likely lose its deterrent power completely, because Lin Xian knew that the power of the forbidden object did not belong to humans.

He hadn't had time to contact Grace since last night, and unexpectedly, he had completely lost contact with her after just one night.

"No, we can't sit still and wait for death."

Lin Xian gritted his teeth and immediately focused his spiritual energy between his eyebrows, trying to sense the flashing bullets.

Nothingness.

15, 14, 13...

Lin Xian continued to sense, and gradually, he finally regained a slight connection with the flashing bullets. The feeling was very subtle, as if he were separated by a veil, but Lin Xian knew that he was still containing the flashing bullets.

"found it!"

The next moment, Lin Xian was filled with mixed emotions. He knew that once he was teleported to the South Heavenly Gate, his situation would be extremely dangerous. First of all, he was not sure if the South Heavenly Gate still existed at this moment, or what space the blink bullet was in. Even if everything was normal, he would still be facing an impenetrable celestial curtain. If he could not return to the ground, he could only hope that there were supplies in the South Heavenly Gate that would keep him from starving to death in near-Earth orbit.

But with the countdown about to end, perhaps moving myself to another location is also a way to protect my teammates?

With this in mind, Lin Xian took a deep breath, closed his eyes, focused his brow, and prepared to complete a near-Earth orbit traverse.

But just two seconds after he closed his eyes, Lin Xian slowly opened them again, stood still, and his eyes kept flashing.

"Strange, I'm clearly still containing the flash bullets, so why can't I contact Grace?"

Lin Xian looked down at the black gear in his hand and frowned slightly.

"Grace, can you hear me?"

no respond.

10, 9, 8...

There are 10 seconds left on the clock.

Lin Xian did not give up and continued to focus his consciousness on calling out.

"Grace."

This time, he raised his voice.

【I am here. 】

A faint voice, as if wrapped in ten layers of cotton cloth, rang out deep in Lin Xian's mind. It wasn't a problem with Grace's tone, but rather that the voice, or this connection, was obscured by a thick fog.

Lin Xian's heart skipped a beat when he heard Grace's voice, but he felt no joy at the moment. Instead, he asked directly...
"Can you contact Chu Yan?"

[Ms. Chu Yan sent me a signal through a consciousness link 13 minutes ago in an attempt to contact you. Phoenix has an important message for you.]

"what's the message?"

[The Phoenix Society's Starry Sky Center has recently suffered multiple infiltration attacks. The Nightwalker organization and the North American United Front have dispatched reconnaissance teams and discovered that the Adventists are targeting Chu Yan in an attempt to prevent the Phoenix Society from taking control of the Southern Heavenly Gate. However, the Phoenix Society's security is tight, and it has not been greatly affected. Miss Chu Yan has asked me to quickly convey a message to you about Ye Lan, the commander of the Phoenix Society. The Southern Heavenly Gate's deterrent power is significant, not only in terms of ground firepower, but also because of some factor that poses a greater threat to the Dark Civilization.]

"I guessed that, but now I'm also facing trouble, and I might not have much time..."

[Another piece of information: Phoenix has infiltrated the Advent Faction and passed on some kind of instruction to eliminate you and Miss Chu Yan. The latest news is that this instruction has been secretly withdrawn, but it seems that different factions within the Advent Faction have not carried out this new instruction, so attacks against you may still exist.]

Upon hearing this, Lin Xian's gaze sharpened, and he immediately looked at the black gear in his hand, asking a question that seemed to be puzzling him.

"Did I really seize this forbidden item?"

……

On a large island in the Pacific Ocean, a massive metal base complex stands amidst the semi-bedrock mountains, as if it were some kind of device embedded in the entire island.

Outside this metal complex, countless drones hovered like a sunken swarm of bees. The barrels of automatic machine guns gleamed with a cold metallic light as they hung low, coexisting with the holographic light screen on the wall displaying a gene chain model. Inside and outside the base, a large number of guards in power armor formed a strict formation, both men and women, all patrolling in an orderly manner.

A patrol team entered one of the metal-walled buildings, only to find the interior scene abruptly changed. Unlike the steel and rock walls outside, the interior resembled a vast natural forest, with moss sprouting from the metal seams and covering the moss bonsai maintained by an automatic irrigation system. The abundant landscaping vegetation and trees complemented each other, making the place seem like a paradise.

The bright, round room had no desks or windows; it was completely covered with honeycomb-shaped soundproofing material. In such an environment, there was no ambient noise, and you could clearly hear your own heartbeat and the flow of your blood.

The door opened silently, and Chen Yanxiu, dressed in a casual jacket, slowly walked in. After the door closed behind him, even the sound of his footsteps disappeared. He looked at the woman standing in the center of the room in the light, stopped at a distance, and waited for the woman to slowly open her eyes from her listening state before speaking.

"The time is almost up."

His voice carried a hint of urging, but his words echoed in the room, sounding extremely short and eerie.

The woman turned around, short hair and a trench coat, her face stern, her eyes carrying a calm yet unfathomable quality.

Hua Xiaoling.

“I told you, what you’ve done goes against the Lord’s will; it’s a completely foolish act and brings no benefit.” “Hmph, don’t give me that.”

Chen Yanxiu's gaze darkened: "Only we humans truly understand the cunning of humanity. The best way to deal with a threat to the Lord is to eliminate it directly. You will soon understand how loyal I am to the Lord's arrival."

Hua Xiaoling smiled slightly upon hearing this and said calmly, "Only humans know the cunning of humans, but only the Lord knows the will of the Lord. The threat you perceive may not exist for the Lord, but your folly is real. Do you think you can use a black gear to cut off all of Lin Xian's taboos and solve the problem? Or do you think that the South Heaven Gate is the real threat?"

Chen Yanxiu's eyes flashed, and he said coldly, "I understand the Lord's will better than you do, and I have my own understanding. The disappearance of any one of the three words, Lin Xian, the Swordholder, and the Southern Heavenly Gate, will have a positive effect on the Lord's descent. I don't care about the experiments you've conducted or your philosophical ideas. We, the Divine Revelation, only focus on the realm of power."

Upon hearing this, Hua Xiaoling turned around and said nonchalantly, "You underestimate Lin Xian, or rather, you underestimate the Phoenix Society. Chen Yanxiu, the silver pocket watch and the black gear are your two trump cards for survival, and also the foundation for your construction of the Sacred Revelation. Giving them to Lin Xian like this, aren't you afraid that you'll never come back?"

"rest assured."

Chen Yanxiu snorted: "The black gear travels through the Star Abyss dimension, but it has one major side effect. Without my silver pocket watch, it's certain to die. I just need to recalibrate the location and contain it. Wait a few more minutes, and I'll send someone to help you retrieve the body of this swordsman... Oh, or maybe we won't even be able to find it."

"is it?"

Hua Xiaoling glanced sideways, a hint of a smile in her eyes: "Then I'll wait patiently for good news."

Seeing Hua Xiaoling's reaction, Chen Yanxiu's eyes flashed with anger. He immediately turned around and left quickly. After leaving the house, he took out a strange device. His own supernatural power then flickered, and the device began to mark a direction. He then pressed the communicator.

"Team 3, Team 4, depart immediately after dawn!"

After giving his instructions, Chen Yanxiu glanced back at the direction of the room, his gaze growing cold.

"A lack of decisiveness in the face of threats is a foolish act that will ultimately lead to the destruction of any civilization, whether human or otherwise!"

……

This is an unknown sea area, with calm and tranquil waves, shrouded in thick sea fog. The Infinite floats halfway on the water, and the front and rear carriages are not visible to each other due to the sea fog. The visibility is extremely low, and the only sound is the rushing of the water. It is quiet and eerie.

On the Infinity, many people began to wake up due to the vibrations caused by the change in water pressure as they ascended. Under the baptism of the surging dark energy transformed by the regional black chrysanthemum, the group, who had experienced a night of danger, ushered in an unprecedented evolution. The intense mental impact was so strong that even evolved beings with extremely strong willpower like Ning Jing, Shu Qin, and Xiao Qing could not resist it and fell into a deep sleep.

Those who awoke at this moment all felt the sudden surge of evolutionary power. Some were shocked, some hesitated, and some were not used to it.

"Team Lin."

Ning Jing walked out of her rest room, looking wary. She immediately contacted Lin Xian but received no response. Just then, she ran into Qian Dele, Shu Qi, and others who were walking towards the next carriage.

"Was no one on duty last night?" Ning Jing asked immediately.

Qian Dele stopped in his tracks, looking like he had just woken up from a hangover, and said, "That force was too strong, we really couldn't resist it, but it seems we're lucky." He checked the time and said, "It's almost dawn, everything is normal."

"Me too, I tried to hold on, but it was no use." Shu Qin looked guilty and then said to Qian Dele, "I feel like my Spirit Dispelling Value has definitely increased a lot now."

"My eyes have changed; I feel like I can gather even greater energy," Luo Yang said, feigning surprise.
"What exactly happened? Did we absorb a lot of black energy? It seems we didn't kill any monsters."

“It’s related to the hunt for the Oceanus.” At that moment, Monica and Vanessa walked in from behind.
"I just asked, and the situation on the Falcon Fleet is similar to ours."

She looked at Vanessa: "It seems you've made quite a few dark energy copper spheres this time."

Vanessa shrugged, took out a Spirit Value Detector, and said with a half-smile, "However, it seems that you have something more powerful than our Dark Energy Copper Sphere on your train. Thanks to you, I now have a peak value of nearly 8000. However, the crystal lattice still needs some time to adapt. At least it will be able to reach a fluctuation of more than 15000 points."

"Adapt?" Qian Dele looked puzzled. "That sounds weird."

Monica then said, "It's easy to understand. As the energy level increases, the crystal density within the body also needs to evolve, just like the expansion of electrical energy, right?"

She looked at Vanessa as she finished speaking, and Vanessa immediately nodded and looked at her, saying, "That's right, it seems you already have some preparations and plans for the lattice?"

Monica smiled slightly, raised her index finger, and after a burst of energy, a kind of almost tangible ripple appeared at her fingertip, which seemed to have a low humming sound when listened to closely.

Vanessa's gaze sharpened slightly, and she exclaimed in surprise, "The materialization of superpowers has already reached the realm of transcendence."

"Would Phoenix set its standards like this?" Shuqin asked.

"It's not hard to guess."

Vanessa stated frankly, "The Nightcrawler organization doesn't simply categorize by numbers. It's definitely based on reaching this level. There will be some substantial changes in the ability or ability user. This standard was set up to facilitate differentiation and grading. Anyway, we discovered that the ability trend was in this direction when the peak of the crystal evolution was close to 2. Phoenix uses 3 as the watershed. There should be such an assessment in it."

"You are clearly a genetically evolved being, yet you can use dark energy slashes to cause area-of-effect destruction. Are you referring to this kind of materialization?" Ning Jing asked.

After saying this, Xiaoqing, who was in the room behind, also came out, seemingly very interested in the topic.

Vanessa nodded: "More or less, you should be able to sense something."

Upon hearing this, Shu Qin lowered her head and clenched her fist. As she concentrated her mental energy, a trembling power rippled outwards from her fist, visibly dissipating. She immediately frowned slightly, feeling an incredibly surging power. She had no doubt that her punch was now as powerful as a cannonball.

Xiaoqing was already aware of this, while Vanessa bluntly stated, "You still need to break through a bit more. Generally, around 12,000 or 13,000, your control over dark energy will become very clear. Of course, this varies from person to person."

"Where's Captain Lin?" Lü Chang asked, somewhat annoyed. "I had so many dreams last night, I don't know what happened. It seems like dawn is approaching, should we...?"

"Team Leader Lin." Ning Jing immediately pressed the communicator.

After a while, receiving no response, Shu Qin frowned and contacted Chen Sixuan: "Captain Chen?"

The group exchanged glances, then immediately set off towards the front carriage.

In carriage number 5, Lou and Ryunosuke had just woken up and immediately sensed something was wrong when they saw a group of people hurrying towards them.

"what happened?"

"Has Captain Lin exited the cabin?"

“I don’t know,” the building responded.

Ning Jing immediately said, "Wake up Brother Huo and the others. It's almost dawn, so let's get ready to disperse."

"it is good!"

The group immediately took action. When they arrived at the Tianxing 5C nuclear-powered vehicle in front of the cockpit, they found KIKI standing at the cockpit door with a strange expression.

“KIKI”.

"Wait, don't come any closer!" KIKI shouted, raising her hand to stop the approaching crowd.

At this moment, Lin Xian was sitting in the driver's seat of the Infinity, his eyes open, his whole body motionless as if he had fallen into some kind of time freeze. His hair, skin, and even the dust around him were frozen. Vio, who was next to him, stretched out her mechanical fingers to try to touch Lin Xian, but she had already frozen in place. The scene was extremely bizarre.

"What happened?!" Ning Jing asked immediately.

KIKI looked at the scene with extreme anxiety and said without turning her head, "I don't know, there might be danger, everyone be careful."

After saying that, she remembered something, turned around and called out.

"Shiori."

“Wasn’t she taking care of Captain Lin here last night?” Monica asked.

"She's here."

Click, the door to carriage number 1 at the back opened, and Chen Sixuan and Shizhi walked out of the bedroom one after the other. Both of them had just woken up and, disregarding the changes in their bodies, rushed out immediately after hearing the commotion outside.

"Shiori!" KIKI immediately called out to Shiori, "Quick, help Lin Xian, see what happened to him?"

Shiori looked flustered at that moment. Upon hearing this, she walked up without hesitation, but Kiki grabbed her shoulder.
"Don't come any closer, stay right here."

Shiori nodded and immediately used her special ability in a panic. However, the pale green healing energy was instantly diluted and disappeared within half a meter of Lin Xian, as if it had been rapidly swallowed up by something.

"ah!"

Shiori was startled: "It doesn't seem to be working."

"What happened to Captain Lin?" Shu Qin asked anxiously.

KIKI shook her head: "I don't know, he might be locked onto by some kind of force."

She glanced at the time as she spoke. More than 50 minutes had passed since Lin Xian entered this state. Judging from Lin Xian's talkativeness, the countdown should be almost over.

At this moment, KIKI was extremely anxious and could only watch helplessly, without being able to do anything about it.

Just as everyone was feeling confused and strange, a faint burst of energy erupted, and Lin Xian suddenly recovered from his stagnation.

"Lin Xian!" Kiki suddenly turned around.

Lin Xian stood up, his whole body shrouded in urgency and gloom. He turned around and looked at the group of people from Infinite in the corridor, and everyone's eyes were now fixed on him.

"Team Lin."

"Lin Xian!"

Lin Xian didn't speak, but his lips moved slightly as the numbers in front of him showed only a few seconds left.

He immediately took out the black gear, then looked at the black sea outside the porthole. The next moment, accompanied by a surge of energy and a flash of air, he disappeared from the cockpit!

(End of this chapter)