Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 465 Through the Storm
"Superconducting Thunder Sword?"

"what?"

Inside the main bridge, the air pressure was extremely low. Chen Sixuan and Qian Dele both turned to look at Lin Xian, as if it was the first time anyone had heard this name.

Meanwhile, Lin Xian, sitting in the captain's seat, frowned deeply. After thinking for a few seconds, he opened his eyes and shouted to Ning Jing and Shu Qin, "Magnetic anchor array, prepare contingency plan number 3!"

At this moment, Ning Jing and the others in charge of the arsenal ship looked at each other in surprise. Without much hesitation, they immediately found the counterattack plan in the weapon system.

At the same time, Lin Xianchao Viola ordered: "Plan the flight path of the array attack formation."

Okay, guide it towards the sea?

"No, towards that!" Lin Xian pointed to the giant ghostly shadow in the clouds to the left.

【clear! 】

After making the arrangements, Lin Xian called out to everyone, "Everyone, put on your power armor, just in case!"

"Director Ding!"

Upon hearing Lin Xian's words, Ding Junyi, Xiao Yuan, and the others on the research module immediately began to put on their power armor.

Lin Xian then donned his Starry Sky Nanopowered Armor and sat fully armed in the captain's seat, explaining to Chen Sixuan and the others: "The Sky Train is equipped with the Silent City's superconducting levitation magnetic anchor array device. Shinji Mochizuki previously shared many disaster contingency plans with me, all of which were solutions they had encountered and dealt with. One of them was to use the magnetic anchor array to form a flying array and use the superconducting potential difference to controllably guide the lightning when encountering extreme thunderstorms or strong arc-type strange objects. This should be a solution."

"Is this what you call a superconducting lightning sword?" Qian Dele picked up a small fan to fan himself, looked back at the sky full of ball lightning about to fall, and muttered, "It's really contagious to have chuunibyou (middle school syndrome). There was already one on the bus."

Buzz!
The sky was suddenly torn apart! A storm of lightning cascaded down like a blue waterfall, instantly ripping and ionizing the air, emitting a ghostly shriek. The pungent smell of ozone surged into everyone's nostrils. Countless ball lightning tumbled and intertwined, each collision exploding a scarlet electric grid within a hundred meters radius. The temperature index soared wildly, and the anti-glare coating on the portholes hissed under the licking of plasma, as if it would melt through at any moment. The entire main bridge was illuminated by leaping blue-purple arcs of electricity.

"Launch the array!" Lin Xian's voice was almost drowned out by the fury of lightning from inside the main bridge.

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle—!
Twenty-four cold, eerie blue light trails suddenly illuminated the sides of the Sky Train. Twenty-four pyramidal magnetic anchor arrays, like arrows released from a bow, pierced through the rolling rain and scorching ion streams, precisely striking the raging plasma inferno. There was no explosion, only an even more piercing shriek of electric current. The 24 sword-like arrays arranged themselves in the air into a superconducting sword, the superconducting filaments instantly taut and linked! A layer of eerie blue, liquid-glass-like light rapidly extended and shaped between these arrays!
In the blink of an eye, a streamlined "giant sword" hundreds of meters long, constructed purely from an energy field, shot into the high sky above the sea! It pierced directly through the raging lightning storms from all directions, frantically attracting and colliding with the sword's blade. The lightning was then tamed, stretched, and twisted into dazzling arcs of electricity, crackling and popping, tightly coiling around the spine of the azure giant sword! The immense thunder was forcibly restrained and tamed at this moment, condensing into crimson electric pythons swirling endlessly around the sword! The energy of the entire world seemed to freeze and converge at this point, and a planetary-level sense of destruction, enough to make all things tremble, descended with a deafening roar!
"Full power electrostatic field!" Lin Xian's gaze narrowed slightly as he saw the superconducting missile array pierce through the lightning storm, and he immediately gave the order.

Woo!
At that moment, a blue light film flashed briefly above the Sky Train and then disappeared. However, when the torrential rain poured down on the ship, it was evaporated by a weak arc of electricity, creating a thin film of mist.

At that moment, the superconducting lightning-guided giant sword, forged from the entire thunderstorm, instantly pierced through the dense rain clouds! Its tip pointed directly at the eerie, tentacle-like creature faintly visible in the distant clouds! The next instant—

A flash of light, bright enough to temporarily blind someone, made everything go white, followed by a tremendous roar that resounded through the sky!

boom! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
It was as if the sky itself had been shattered!

The superconducting array sword tip, acting like a lightning rod's guide wire, instantly guided and released the lightning storm composed of ball lightning in the sky the moment it pierced the strange entity. Everyone only saw the waterfall of electric light in the sky disappear in the blink of an eye, as if space itself was being violently pulled inward by an invisible, enormous force! The millions of crimson electric pythons coiled and condensed on the giant sword, carrying the storm of lightning across the sky, expanded and devoured like a bursting dam of galaxy, their red and white intertwined destructive light instantly expanding! A ring-shaped lightning umbrella, with an immeasurable diameter, composed of pure energy and with sharp, serrated edges, violently opened up, brutally tearing a horrific hole covering half the sky from the dark sea of ​​clouds!

The light was so intense that even the low-lying clouds instantly vaporized! The unknown and eerie creature, whose true form had not yet been revealed, did not even utter a wail before its massive main body disintegrated, crumbled, and evaporated inch by inch under the impact of the lightning that pierced through everything, turning into countless tiny, charred powders dancing wildly in the sky!

Only a few broken, enormous, translucent tentacles remained, entwined with scattered arcs of electricity, like limbs discarded by the gods. With scorching red cuts and wisps of black smoke, they tumbled helplessly from the edge of that huge energy void into the roaring, dark sea below!

The Sky Train, which was maintaining subsonic speed, suddenly shuddered!
The electrostatic field generator on the ship's surface overloaded instantly, emitting a piercing screech as it approached its limit. A violent electromagnetic shockwave swept across the area, causing all the lights in the cabin to go out instantly. The emergency dim red light source, which had just been activated, was then interfered with by the residual current and began to flicker wildly, like a candle flame swaying in a haunted house. The tingling sensation caused by the ionization of air molecules crept onto everyone's scalp, making their hair stand on end!

"careful!"

"Don't move."

The system is not damaged and is restarting.

In that moment of darkness, Lin Xian, Chen Sixuan, and the others looked through the shadowy scene at the high sky above where they had flown past. There, a massive atmospheric mica swept across the sky, carrying countless luminous wisps of mist, before passing them without a direct collision.

"Woo——"

It felt like only a breath had passed when, accompanied by a muffled sound of energy receding, all the lights and instruments on the bridge were turned on again, and everyone held their breath in a tense atmosphere.

"Is everyone alright?"

“No problem.” Monica responded from Sky Bridge, “That thing blocking the way has been taken care of. It was a good move to use the 'disaster east' strategy.”

“We’re fine,” KIKI replied from below.

"Thank goodness the Sky Train is well-equipped, otherwise we would have had to tough it out with the lightning storm."

"Will that giant jellyfish catch up?" Sasha, now in the midst of her excitement at piloting the Sky Train, asked hastily after taking over the helm.
"That thing doesn't seem fast enough to keep up. We should be more worried about what's ahead!" Luo Yang said with a serious expression.

Lin Xian's expression changed slightly. At this moment, the wind howled and roared incessantly, and outside the porthole, his brief respite was extinguished by an even more terrifying sight.

Ahead, a colossal, suffocatingly vast cyclone-like sea appeared on the horizon! Towering gray-black walls of wind, like the arms of an ancient demon god, spun and churned violently, completely swirling up the inky seawater, creating towering, sun-obscuring water curtains between the sky and the sea. Gray and black intertwined wildly, hurricanes and raging waves merged into one, forming a chaotic, demonic eye that devoured heaven and earth! It was impossible to distinguish where the sea ended and the sky began; only a swirling, crushing, and destructive gray-black abyss remained, closing in on the tiny celestial train with the force of collapsing heaven and earth!
"The wind speed is very high, our radar is severely limited. KIKI, Monica, be careful to avoid the multiple waterspouts, and watch out for enemies in the clouds!" Chen Sixuan's face was filled with disbelief; the terrifying celestial phenomenon before her was as horrifying as a planetary impact. *Clatter*
Qian Dele's small fan fell to the ground with a "thud," his mouth slightly agape: "Good heavens, what kind of super storm is this? It's practically an apocalyptic storm! Is this a celestial phenomenon that can occur on Earth?"

"Does it matter? Let's just rush over there!" Sasha's little face was extremely serious at this moment.

Deep inside the living quarters, Mo Xiaotian was held tightly in Sun Yuzhen's arms, huddled in a corner with Xiaoyuan. The cabin walls trembled violently, and the outside world was a chaotic mess, with only the constantly exploding, pale white lightning illuminating the terrified and tense faces of Sun Yuzhen and Xiaoyuan.

Mo Xiaotian peered curiously through the gap in the adult's arm at the trail of lightning tearing through the darkness outside the porthole, and couldn't resist stretching out his little index finger, trying to reach for the light. "Crack!" A closer bolt of lightning cleaved through the clouds, the fierce arc of electricity seeming to pierce the porthole! The little guy was so frightened that he quickly withdrew his hand, buried himself in Sun Yuzhen's arms, and dared not move again.

"Boom--!"

The violent jolt abruptly pulled her gaze back to the Sky Bridge! The wind and rain cut like knives, and Shiori abruptly looked up, her delicate face showing disbelief and astonishment: "Above... there are things, a lot of them, prepare for battle!" Her voice was as thin as a whisper in the storm, yet unusually sharp.

Huo Ge and Monica instantly turned their gaze to the terrifying wall of clouds churning with lightning and rain! What was originally a chaotic gray-black expanse now, as the Sky Train approached, began to reveal countless dense black dots deep within the surging storm clouds! They were as small as mosquitoes, yet maintained an eerie stability amidst the turbulent currents, and rapidly magnified in their field of vision!
"Strange swarm or raindrops?" Brother Huo asked hesitantly.

“Have you ever seen raindrops that can turn?” Monica’s face was grave. Through the storm’s curtain of rain, she gradually made out the approaching ’raindrops.’ These black dots had hideous membranous wings covered with bone spikes, several times wider than those of ordinary winged demons! Even more terrifying was their sheer number, like a giant beehive being stirred up, swooping down and surrounding the Sky Train!
"It really is a demon tide! Prepare to die!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Lu Xingchen's eyes flashed with sternness, and the Infinite Ring in his hand exploded at high speed, sending him soaring into the sky like a flaming cannonball!

"God·Great Flame Sea!"

Lu Xingchen unleashed a torrent of flames from his hands, then with a flick of his wrists, the raging, blazing flames swept across like a giant whip, instantly engulfing the fastest-swooping swarm of winged demons into a sea of ​​fire!

The high temperature caused the rain to vaporize, and a crimson flame rolled rapidly between heaven and earth.

At the same time, Monica exhaled a tangible sound wave from her red lips. Then, her eyes flashed, and with her powerful supernatural energy, a piercing sonic whistle, exceeding the limits of human hearing, condensed into a nearly visible, air-distorting fan-shaped shockwave that sliced ​​through the winged demons diving to the other side at high speed! Countless winged demons crashed into an invisible meat grinder, their wings shattering instantly as they fell with mournful cries!

"The sky is full of mutant winged demons! Their numbers are enormous! We need to speed up..." Monica's cold voice rang out in the communication channel, instantly drowned out by the even more terrifying sound of the waves.

Boom! Crash!
A muffled, deafening roar came from the lower deck of the ship! Ah Bai's voice, as if being choked, was torn out in the next second: "They're here! Underwater! A huge swarm, so fast! Too many!" Before he finished speaking, his eyes lit up with high-energy laser beams, like two scarlet swords, stabbing fiercely down at the churning, boiling black oil-like sea surface below! Wherever the beams swept, the seawater instantly vaporized into a large cloud of scorching white steam, and more than a dozen strange sea creatures that had just broken through the water, shaped like spears, with huge fish eyes and wide, transparent membrane wings, were directly pierced and vaporized!
"Psychic Field! Hold on!!" KIKI's cold, arrogant voice rang out in the gale. Her and Ryunosuke's figures were faintly visible on the edge of the ship's belly. Both of them stretched out their arms, their faces as pale as paper, and veins bulging on their foreheads! Two invisible yet incredibly resilient psychic fields were forcibly opened, like huge invisible nets, to meet the swarm of flying spikefish that were sprayed out like high-pressure water guns! The transparent flying spikefish crashed into the force field, making dense, muffled "plop plop plop" sounds, their speed decreasing sharply, and their hard bone spears and membrane wings creating huge shock ripples! The dense impacts made KIKI and Ryunosuke frown involuntarily.

The numbers are increasing, like precise bullets emerging from the seabed, bursting forth in dense bursts.

“Our markings are becoming more and more obvious. These are all strange entities that can track us at high speed. We need to speed up. Something even bigger might be coming.” KIKI said over the communication channel while using her telekinesis to control the field.

"Sasa, accelerate! Don't worry about anything else, break the sound barrier!" On the bridge of the main ship, Lin Xian made a decisive decision.

This storm is fraught with danger; a single misstep could lead to utter ruin. In such a situation, there is no chance to seek stability; the sooner one leaves the eye of the storm, the further away from danger one can be.

Sasha nodded, pushed the control lever, adjusted the parameters, and the Sky Train accelerated through the air once again!
"Firepower coverage!!" Ning Jing's roar exploded in the bridge's artillery channel!
boom! boom! boom! boom!
The triple-mounted orbital seismic cannon roared like thunder, its massive projectiles, accompanied by shockwaves that shattered the air, pierced through the storm and the schools of fish, exploding into a stench of flesh and blood! The scorching plasma cannons, like molten lava spears, relentlessly swept through the approaching winged demons, each burst scorching a grotesque shadow! Dense plasma beams wove a net of destruction, precisely targeting any that tried to slip through the psychic field! Even more intense, ear-piercing explosions emanated from the upper decks—the 1130 close-in weapon system had reached its maximum rate of fire! A devastating storm of metal tore apart anything living near the ship, spent shell casings raining down into the churning sea below!

The entire world was reduced to a symphony of destruction—cannon fire raged, lasers pierced the sky, winged demons howled, flying fish stabbed, the psychic barrier groaned and trembled under the immense pressure, and the hurricane roared like a demon god! The Sky Train transformed into a blood-soaked metal behemoth charging into battle, all its weapons spewing furious flames, desperately tearing at the double curtain of death from the sky and the sea!

The communication channel fell silent at this point.

Each impact, each explosion, caused the massive ship to tremble violently. The groans of twisting metal mingled with the deafening noise of battle, like the final roar of a dying beast! Everyone gritted their teeth.

After an unknown amount of time, it felt as if they were sinking into an endless dark swamp, and the raging wind gradually subsided amidst the hissing of the shields rubbing together.

The gunfire grew sparse, eventually fading into a few muffled, reluctant thuds. Outside the porthole, the churning, inky black wall of water was gradually tinged with a murky, dark yellow, then slowly transitioned to a reassuring, still somber, but faintly illuminated leaden gray. The colossal cyclone wall of wind that had ground the heavens and earth into chaos was now far behind the Sky Train at the stern.

Inside the ship, the blaring alarms had ceased, and the acrid smell of burning and the scorching heat of ions in the air had not yet dissipated, but the oppressive feeling of destruction had receded. The hissing sound of overheating gun barrels and the occasional crackling of electrical current from the lamps became the only noises in this sudden and immense silence.

Everyone remained tense and under high pressure, as if they had just struggled to the surface from the deep sea, greedily breathing in the air that was not fresh but no longer burning their throats.

"We've left the cyclone."

"It's currently still a level 2 marker!"

"It's alright." Lin Xian removed his power armor visor, his forehead covered in cold sweat. He immediately ordered Viola, "Disperse and release decoy munitions, coordinate with weapon warfare for mobile annihilation. Now that we're out of the storm zone, we shouldn't encounter any big guys."

Viola understood that a 'fishing' scheme was being planned.

"Whoo~"

Sasha breathed a sigh of relief and leaned back in her chair, saying sullenly, "That was so exciting! I saw so many monster shadows in that storm, thankfully I didn't run into them head-on."

The Sky Bridge, the heat subsided, and Monica turned to look at the receding black sea. The sky was gradually clearing, and only the deep hum of the huge engine maintained steady cruising, like a heart beating powerfully and gently in the great silence after the catastrophe.

The storm was finally left behind.

(End of this chapter)