Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 464 Superconducting Thunder Sword

Woo!
Above a certain sea area in the Pacific Ocean, the low roar of a star-space thruster resounded, causing the air above the sea to tremble. The eight main engine nozzles at the hull and stern of the Sky Dome Infinite power ship surged with indigo ion streams. In subsonic cruise mode, the energy contrail evaporated into a kilometer-long atomized channel in the rainstorm, as if a god had cleaved the sea curtain with a blade of light.

"Viola, lower the altitude again."

On the main bridge, all the crew members were on high alert. Although it was daytime, after entering the hurricane belt, it started to rain heavily. The sun was blocked, and low-lying rain clouds were detected above. Lin Xian had to ask Viola to lower the flight altitude again and again to avoid being targeted by monsters that might appear in the clouds.

The Sky Dome Infinite skimmed the sea at low altitude, roaring as its hull created a vacuum shockwave ring. The high-pressure airflow forced the seawater downwards, creating a depression with a diameter of 100 meters, and the wave walls rolled outwards and burst in a razor-like shape.

The current Sky Dome's lead ship has an additional main weapon compartment at the front, and Lin Xian has added three layers of bow defense for flight impact protection. In addition to the hull itself being made of supercarbide alloy, there are also electrostatic field generators for resisting energy weapons and fine particle streams, high-energy plasma pulse arrays for active defense, and explosion-proof high-temperature composite armor for frontal impact and response to explosion restart.

With this module, the Sky Dome train was upgraded from a 'space orbital transport ship' to a 'distant colony' weapon with an autonomous defense system.

At this time, Ning Jing, Shu Qin, Xiao Qing and others were responsible for reconnaissance and firing on the arsenal ship. The triple-mounted orbital seismic turret and plasma cannon were ready to respond to the enemy at any time. Chen Sixuan, Lü Chang, Luo Yang and others were responsible for the information system. Sasha acted as the helmsman. The others were on standby on the bridge and functional hull. Only Sun Yuzhen, Mo Xiaotian, Ding Junyi, Xiao Yuan and a few others did not need to participate in the battle and handled logistics in the living quarters.

Huo Ge stood alone at the porthole at the very front of the main bridge, his eyes gleaming like sparks, a wild smile playing on his lips, as he laughed loudly at the rolling rain and the cleaving waves outside the porthole:
"Hahaha! This is our battlefield! Sky Infinity, tear through this chaotic rain curtain, shatter the raging waves, my steel behemoth reigns supreme between heaven and earth! Mere hurricanes and torrential rains are but dust on our faces—look! This exhilarating thrill of cutting through the waves makes the sea god tremble and the cloud demons retreat! This is worthy of the heroic destiny of a true man! World, witness this journey of breaking through everything, it is the first step of my conquest of the universe! Come, let the storm rage, my Weaver of Flames will cleanse the world, hahaha!"

Bang!
However, before he could finish expressing his pride, a plasma cannon on the weapon ship ahead suddenly fired. The flashing plasma shot a bolt of lightning into the sky diagonally above, crashing into a cloud and exploding. Under the azure flash, a strange black shadow shot out from the dark cloud. As the clouds dispersed, a winged monster was seen tumbling through the air and falling into the distant waves.

"Team Leader Lin, the radar has detected a low-altitude life form. I've already activated the shipborne weapons to automatically search for and counterattack!"

Ning Jing's voice rang out on the main bridge communication frequency.

"Okay, don't be shy!"

Lin Xian looked at Huo Ge with a gloomy face: "Huo Ge, Monica, Shiori, you go to the Sky Bridge. Ah Bai, KIKI, Ryunosuke, you go to the bottom floor to scout and deal with threats in the air and at sea. At our speed and low altitude, the coverage and reaction of our defensive weapons may not be able to keep up."

“Okay.” Monica immediately stood up from her chair and walked directly out of the bridge. Shiori followed behind her. Huo Ge, who had been entrusted with an important task, also became serious and followed along eagerly.

"KIKI." Lin Xian called out to KIKI: "Besides protecting Abai, you and Ryunosuke also need to be careful not to let anything crash into us."

"Understood~" KIKI snapped her fingers and waved her electric blade ball flying device with one hand. Ryunosuke nodded expressionlessly to Hayashi and then quickly followed.

Starship flight and train raids are completely different things. Trains have tracks, but what they are doing now is a vast ocean with a bottomless abyss below, where they may encounter gigantic and bizarre creatures. Moreover, at such high speeds, being hit is extremely dangerous, and they may even disintegrate in the air. This is why air units are more dangerous.

"Lin Xian!"

Chen Sixuan, who was temporarily acting as the technology officer, turned around from her seat with a serious expression: "The super tropical storm area is less than 100 nautical miles away from us!"

"What bad luck, it was sunny just a moment ago," Qian Dele complained.

“It’s not just the weather that’s a problem in places like this; we also need to be wary of dark, eerie creatures,” Chen Sixuan said, recalling the storm she had experienced on the Parma snowfield.

"I know."

Lin Xian looked at Viola: "How long do you expect it to take to reach Hawaii?"

"At the current speed, the estimated time is 7 hours. However, considering positioning errors and the impact of the darkness on the visual interface, there might be an error of about 1 hour. We suggest you be prepared for this," Viola said calmly. "Normally, encountering a storm zone is managed according to the starship flight manual, and supersonic passage is entirely possible. However, considering the threat of the strange objects in the storm zone, I can only suggest reducing the cruising speed to avoid a collision."

“Slow down…” Lin Xian frowned. “At this speed, we can’t even guarantee we’ll arrive before dark. If we slow down, it will be completely impossible.”

"Besides, the situation on that island, whether it's safe or not, is another matter. If it's like Haiyan Island, a place teeming with ghosts, we won't be able to land." Qian Dele then asked Luo Yang, "Hey, can we bypass this storm zone?"

Luo Yang immediately shook his head, took off his earphone and said, "Impossible. Strictly speaking, we are already within the storm zone. If we want to detour and arrive before dark, we need to accelerate to at least Mach 4. At that speed, there is no room for maneuver or fire defense, and it may even be more dangerous."

Lin Xian shook his head: "Supersonic flight might not kill us fast enough. There's no other way but to risk flying through the tropical storm!"

After saying that, he immediately said into the communicator: "No matter what happens, the first priority is to protect the Sky Dome Infinite and get it away from here. Don't worry about anything else. Once we're marked and on the island, we'll figure out what to do!"

"Ok."

"understand!"

"Ning Jing, Shu Qin, prepare the decoy munitions. We will deploy them remotely in batches within the storm zone as a preventative measure!"

dong dong dong dong!

Beneath the black sky, the Sky Dome Infinite, spewing blue flames, roared through the rain. Rows of missile silos opened, and eight small missiles launched simultaneously, hurtling towards the left and right front at high speed before exploding in the clouds dozens of nautical miles away. Boom!
Thunder roared and the tide surged. A strange howling sound seemed to come from between the clouds and the sky. It was easy to guess that the monsters hidden in the sea and clouds had been attracted by the decoy missiles.

The sky bridge atop Ship No. 3, an open area for stargazing, was enclosed by a massive transparent fairing. Fire, Monica, and Shiori, all clad in power armor, arrived there. The fairing slowly opened, instantly unleashing a torrential downpour of high-speed airflow and rain. Fire, with a flick of his wrist, created an infinite loop, propelling himself into the air and maintaining relative speed with the Sky Dome, gazing at the sky and sea with an expression of pure exhilaration.
Monica glanced at him and couldn't help but say, "Everyone says you have claustrophobia, and now it seems to be true. Don't let your guard down; there's more to the sky than just thunder."

Lu Xingchen's eyes sharpened slightly as he gazed arrogantly at the sky and said in a chilling voice.
"Rest assured, with me here, I will not allow any demons or monsters to approach!"

Monica then looked at Shiori beside her: "I might not be able to hear accurately in this environment, so we'll have to rely on you. Just give us a direction as long as it's getting closer to us."

Shiori nodded: "Okay."

On the other side, at the bottom of the ship, where there was no place to stand, KIKI and Ryunosuke immediately used their superpowers to fly alongside the ship after coming out of the hatch. Thousands of VK electric swords were manipulated by KIKI to fly along the waves, like a sword-wielding girl from another world. Only Abai's power armor was equipped with an alloy mechanical arm, which made it easier for him to search for targets and fire laser beams.

“There are strange creatures in the sea, but… we’re fast enough that even if we alert them, they won’t be able to keep up.” Ah Bai’s eyes kept scanning the turbulent sea.

"I'm afraid of those guys that suddenly pop out of the sea."

KIKI, with her arms crossed and hovering upside down below the starship, calmly said, "Once we enter the storm zone, my psychic shield will be continuously released. Tokyo Monk will take over with me, otherwise the area is too large and we won't be able to hold out for long."

Because Ryunosuke rarely speaks, KIKI nicknamed him "Tokyo Monk." Upon hearing KIKI's words, Ryunosuke flew directly to the front weapons bay, and the two maintained a distance, ready to release their psychic shields at any time.

Lin Xian sat in the captain's seat of the Sky Train, feeling a sense of unease. This was his first time piloting a starship, and he had absolutely no experience.

Without Viola, the dozen or so people on the Infinite would not have been able to operate the entire system. Even so, many positions were still vacant. The weapon system, information system, and even the engine room and power room were completely empty. If any maintenance problems were encountered, Viola would have to lead the maintenance robots to perform basic maintenance, which even Lin Xian himself could not handle.

Because it's impossible for him to scan and control the entire Sky Train and then repair it at this time; with his current abilities, he's not capable of doing so.

From 10 a.m. until 13:30 p.m., the rain intensified and the wind and waves grew stronger. During their three-hour flight, they had encountered dozens of attacks from strange creatures, most of which were flying monsters like winged demons hidden in the dark clouds. They also encountered a sky jellyfish head-on and dodged a tentacle attack from a ghost ray. However, Lin Xian did not linger in the fight and fled with all his might after dodging the attacks.

Bang bang bang!
The plasma cannons ahead fired another salvo, as if some monster had been shot down from the sky. The sky grew darker and darker, and fiery clouds and sonic booms exploded from time to time on the top of the train. Below, on the sea, telekinetic thunder roared, and an invisible air wall blocked and isolated the strange tentacles that flew out of the seawater. Thousands of electric blades danced in the air, shimmering silver.

"The level has dropped to level 3!" Chen Sixuan, the IT officer, looked at the information on the screen and said nervously, "The wind barrier is getting stronger; we're about to enter the eye of the storm!"

"Cheer up, everyone."

Lin Xian glanced at his watch, then looked ahead. The churning sea was like ink, with giant waves whipped up by the gale. The low-lying, rolling storm clouds in the sky shimmered with light amidst the roaring thunder, resembling a giant vortex that would devour a planet. The real-time air pressure curve displayed on the bridge's main screen plummeted straight down, the value dropping from 1020 hPa to the abyss at a speed that prevented the alarm from sounding in time. A seemingly tilted sea surface appeared eerily in everyone's sight.

It's like a landslide on the continental shelf beneath the sea, or like an ancient sea god using his back to lift up the entire ocean. Hundreds of meters of water walls rise one after another, and the seawater changes color as it rises, from dark green to turbid muddy yellow, and then rapidly dyed with the pitch black of asphalt.

The storm seemed to be tilting over the sea, and as the thunderclouds pressed down, the light between heaven and earth was devoured alive!

Rumble!
The 500-meter-high cloud wall had sharp edges like knives, with a deathly bluish-gray upper end and an ink-like brownish-red lower end. The moment the Sky Train crashed into the clouds, all the portholes were automatically coated with an anti-glare layer, but it still couldn't stop the purple and white lightning bolts from piercing through the clouds. Three forked lightning bolts struck the electrostatic field on the main ship at the same time, and the burnt smell of superconducting capacitor overload instantly filled the air.

At this moment, but what is truly suffocating is the prisoner in the clouds briefly illuminated by the lightning!

In the instant a tortoise-shell-shaped cloud was cleaved open by lightning, translucent tentacles covered with suckers dangled from the crack. The structure expanded and contracted within a tenth of a second, but the residual visual impression was enough to tell that the exposed tip alone was twice the length of a train, definitely a monster of extraordinary size. Immediately afterward, a lightning bolt as thick as a bucket pierced through the adjacent cloud layer, and the intense light instantly revealed an even more terrifying outline—a giant jellyfish-like umbrella structure that blotted out the sky was suspended high in the sky, and the filamentous things floating under the umbrella were capturing a large number of ball lightning bolts, like a deep-sea anglerfish devouring a school of glowing fish.

Atmospheric mica, Class S!
"Brother Lin, it's the same celestial monster we saw in Yubei City!!!"

Braving the howling wind, Lu Xingchen looked at the enormous atmospheric creature in the sky and shouted coldly.

"Don't worry about it, just charge! That thing isn't fast!"

Lin Xian's heart was racing. He didn't care whether the huge shadow on the radar was the same atmospheric mica he had encountered before or a new one. He didn't want to fight it at all. He only wanted to break out of the storm cyclone!

Buzz! !
The atmospheric mica clearly noticed the human-made aircraft flying at high speed in the air. Although its cloud touch was too far away, at this moment, a large number of huge ball lightning bolts with diameters of several meters or even tens of meters descended from the canopy, falling densely like hail. The violent static electricity triggered a chain reaction in the air, and countless high-voltage arcs flickered and linked with each other. When Lin Xian looked up, he couldn't help but shrink his pupils slightly. Those dazzling ball lightning bolts connected with arcs fell directly down like the sky collapsing. Before even touching them, Lin Xian could already feel a strong ionization on his skin, making him feel numb.

If it were to fall, the electrostatic field in front of the Sky Train's hull would be completely ineffective in protecting it. Moreover, Lin Xian could not possibly release an AT field shield for the entire Sky Train. The dense ball lightning combined to form a lightning storm, and the high temperature alone would be enough to burn through the surface of the hull!
"What should we do?" Chen Sixuan asked immediately upon seeing this scene.

Lin Xian's pupils contracted slightly, his mind racing.

At that moment, the voice of Ryunosuke, who rarely spoke, suddenly came through the earphones.

"Use the superconducting lightning sword!"

(End of this chapter)