Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 496 Lin Xian!

Rumble~
The moment the words left his mouth, the entire sand dune instantly "boiled"! Thousands upon thousands of crimson worms, awakened by the explosion, surged forth from beneath the sand like a dark red tide! Simultaneously, the distant crimson storm intensified abruptly, and within the twisted columns of wind, several figures, identical to those from before, flickered in and out of existence! Even more terrifying, the thick crimson clouds that had enveloped the Noah were torn apart in the sky, and several enormous, dark red tentacles, each over ten meters in diameter and covered in suckers and crimson eyeballs, like giant pythons from the abyss, slammed down upon the team's location with a devastating pressure!
Lister immediately put away his sniper rifle and ran towards the motorcycle with Song Wei. KIKI grabbed Aaron's severed right arm from the ground, and then an invisible psychic field exploded around her, instantly turning the swarm of insects within a hundred-meter radius into a blood mist.

But it was no use. The crimson blood mist only brought more terror, and she did it only to create a smokescreen so that the attackers in the distance would temporarily lose their target.

"Don't linger in the fight, it'll definitely alert the S-ranks. Let's retreat!"

Like an arrow released from a bow, the squad fled for their lives amidst the swarm of scarlet worms and the giant shadow in the sky.

KIKI flew in the lead, her telekinesis transforming into an invisible ram, smashing and pushing aside the swarm of insects blocking their path. The other four rode flying motorcycles at breakneck speed. Raymond's magnetic vibrations continuously created quicksand traps and shockwaves behind them. Song Wei skillfully weaved through the sand dunes, using life resonance to avoid energy gathering points. Lister rode his motorcycle while using a sniper rifle to accurately fire at the nearest large crimson creature. Coolant and blood continued to flow from Aaron's severed arm. To cover the smell, he simply covered it with a handful of yellow sand. He gritted his teeth and roared as his left-hand shotgun blasted away the monsters blocking his way.

After one hour.

Beneath the rusty, mountain-like hull of the Noah, in a cave eroded by the waves, the team activated the frequency oscillator. A pale purple energy barrier blocked the raging sandstorms and the spying of the scarlet worms outside the cave. Lying on the ground were three corpses clad in black power armor, the very members of the Holy City organization that had attacked them.

"It's those guys again."

"It seems they have the same goal as us."

"The commander-in-chief has emphasized the importance of the swordsman, even if..." Raymond paused halfway through his sentence, not continuing.

Whether for research into mechanical abilities or for psychological warfare against human survivors, the corpse of the Swordholder, who rose to fame in the Battle of Dawn City, would be a disaster if it fell into the hands of the Adventists.

This is also why Nightcrawler has deployed a large number of reconnaissance teams to relentlessly search this dangerous Crimson Abyss region.

Lister kicked aside the corpse of a Holy City member, squatted down to look at the claw marks that were corroded by scarlet blood, and said with a cold look in his eyes, "I thought the people of the Descent Faction were not afraid of monsters. How come they are being devoured even after defecting to the enemy?"

"Who knows? Could it be that the Dark Civilization could issue some kind of order to prevent those insect monsters from attacking them?" Song Wei crossed her arms and said coldly, "It's nothing but the self-imagination of a bunch of cowards."

"All right!"

Raymond finished bandaging Aaron's right arm, then looked at KIKI and said, "This area has been alerted. We don't have much time left, KIKI. What do you think we should do next? Should we move to other areas to search, or should we retreat to the safe house to be on the safe side?"

"No, this area hasn't been completely searched yet; we can't miss any corner."

KIKI stared at the still churning crimson light outside the cave, her purple eyes filled with anxiety. "We have to find him quickly!"

“Actually, before you woke up, more than a dozen teams from our department had already searched the area many times.” Raymond’s tone was calm, and his gaze was slightly thoughtful. “In this situation, if the Adventists had taken him away, it would be good news in a way, but these guys are still here…”

After he finished speaking, the group fell silent. They all understood the meaning behind Raymond's words. In short, he hoped that KIKI wouldn't have too high expectations that Lin Xian was still alive. Their current task was probably just to find the body of the Swordholder.

After all, a hibernation pod that crashed in the Crimson Battlefield had no protection, no shielding against the Crimson's power, and the ground was full of Crimson Worms. It's hard to imagine how a hibernating living person could have survived until now.

Upon hearing this, KIKI trembled slightly, almost imperceptibly, and stood there for a long time without saying a word.

Song Wei and the other team members exchanged glances in silence, just about to offer some words of comfort, when they heard KIKI's voice ring out in the air.

"He won't die."

The voice was soft, yet carried an unusual firmness.

"He survived in Yubei City, Xilan City, and Shuguang City. His goal was to take us on the Infinite Train to the clouds and head towards distant stars. How could he have died inexplicably in a hibernation pod because of crystal lattice evolution...?"

With a seemingly casual mockery in her words, KIKI then turned to the crowd and said, "Believe me, he's still alive!"

Raymond paused, even he, who was used to seeing life and death, couldn't help but be moved. He then took a deep breath and looked at the team members.
"Our mission is to find the Swordholder at all costs. This is our duty, and we will do it even if it costs us our lives!"

After saying that, he checked the time: "The giant celestial serpent should be coming in less than an hour. Let's hurry up and plow this area!"

"Received!" Lister and Song Wei both responded.

"No problem!" Aaron, whose arm had already been bandaged, stood up and patted his chest.

“Then we need to change our strategy.” Raymond said immediately. “Time is running out. Since we can’t be quiet, we’ll have to finish this quickly. There are no scapegoats this time. We can only pray that we don’t encounter any special-class hunters.”

"It's fortunate that the S-class ships weren't marked earlier." Song Wei nodded and said, "KIKI and I will search for all the warships along the way, while the three of you will provide cover. This will speed things up!"

"it is good!"

"That's it."

Bang bang bang!
A sea of ​​crimson blood, like solidified blood, hung overhead. Yellow sand was propelled into the air by the power of thought and the explosion, then fell back down mixed with thick, dark red dust.

The entire southern shore of Hako was like a boiling cauldron, with fireballs exploding one after another. Accompanied by the muffled roar of the Gauss sniper rifle and the sharp hiss of the pulse weapon, Raymond, Lister, and Aaron formed a triangular formation and kept killing the monsters that emerged from the yellow sand.

Besides the scarlet worms, there were also bizarre creatures that spewed out shimmering silk threads. These creatures did not rely on the dark markers, but were attracted by the sounds and the scent of blood mist, and kept approaching. Without the large-scale dark energy fluctuations created by the Holy City before, the scale of the attack had not yet expanded, but the pressure was gradually increasing for the small team to deal with it.

"Hurry up!"

KIKI hovered in the low sky, her long purple hair dancing wildly in the crimson storm, her eyes flowing with a dark purple light like a galaxy. Her psychic power transformed into an invisible giant hand, forcefully "pulling" another transport ship half-buried in the yellow sand out of the ground!

The sound of twisting metal was deafening, and the sandfall crashed down, revealing the corroded skeleton inside and the scattered, shriveled remains.

Song Wei followed closely behind, her life resonance ripples acting like precise probes, rapidly sweeping through the smoke and wreckage. At the same time, her agile figure moved nimbly between the tilted deck and broken bulkheads, her power armor's detectors operating at full power as she and KIKI searched for their target.

"No! The next one!" Song Wei's voice carried a hint of anxiety over the communication channel.

"Red Demon, three o'clock, watch out!"

"Boss, this is bad, the visibility is getting worse!" Lister blasted a rapidly approaching, eerie spider to pieces with a single shot, the burst of blood mist turning the entire area even more crimson. Aaron's voice was icy: "Watch out for the Hunted Beasts, those are the most troublesome!"

"7 o'clock! 'Flying Fish' class wreckage, 15 meters deep!" Captain Raymond's roar was drowned out by a violent explosion. He slammed his fists together, and the azure magnetic storm shockwave spread out, shattering the three sand monsters with metal claws that pounced at him into a shower of flesh and dark red slurry.

Behind him, Aaron operated a pulse shotgun with one arm, each shot blasting away any monsters that tried to approach, the broken mechanical arm interface flashing with dangerous electrical sparks.

"There are more and more bugs! Captain, something's not right!" Lister's voice came from a twisted starship keel high above. He was holding an exaggeratedly large sniper rifle, and each shot of blue and white light from the muzzle accurately tore apart a scarlet bug or repelled a giant claw covered in dark red carapace that emerged from behind a sand dune. "We're making more and more noise!"

As if to confirm his words, further away, the crimson blood mist surged violently like a living thing, emitting a teeth-grinding "crackling" sound, as if countless bones were rubbing together.

"what is that?"

KIKI raised her hand and put down a piece of ship wreckage. Her gaze fixed on the blood mist in the distance. A twisted figure emerged from the blood mist. It looked like a human, or a zombie, but it was more than just a zombie. It vaguely retained the outline of a human, but its limbs were stretched and twisted, its joints were bent in the opposite direction, and its skin was in a bizarre state of dark red keratin and festering flesh. Its head was either split open into a mouth full of sharp teeth or replaced by a wriggling scarlet tumor, which made people's scalp tingle.

There were no roars, only chilling, sandpaper-like gasps that seemed to rub against glass, gathering into a tide that swept across the yellow sand, ignoring the terrain, and converging from all directions at a speed far exceeding that of ordinary zombies! It was the Crimson Mutant! A true zombie horde!
"Damn it, the Crimson Man!"

Raymond's eyes widened in fury as he unleashed his full magnetic energy, carving a deep trench in the sand. The five members of the team instantly shrank back to back, forming a small circle. KIKI descended from the sky, and a psychic barrier, like a giant purple crystal dome, instantly enveloped them, deflecting several attacking mutants and spraying acid.

"These people could possess all sorts of supernatural abilities, so we must not let our guard down!"

As soon as she finished speaking, a scarlet humanoid creature with strange pointed wings on its back suddenly emerged from underground and crashed directly into KIKI's psychic barrier in a bizarre manner. KIKI immediately frowned. The humanoid creature's impact actually carried a dark energy power, with a force comparable to a cannonball, and even raised a shock wave that caused a large amount of yellow sand to explode and fly up!
Without hesitation, KIKI grabbed the crimson monster with her five fingers and crushed it. It exploded into a high-pressure energy body, and a chaotic amount of dark energy and crimson blood mist sprayed out violently, no less than the explosion of a small aerial bomb!
boom!
"Be careful, these humanoids are tough to deal with. The more you kill them, the more there are. The things they unleash can even devour each other, growing into bizarre shapes. They're completely different from the humanoids we've encountered before!" Raymond shouted to KIKI through the smoke and dust. "We can only retreat now. If we're completely surrounded, the more you kill, the more come, and we'll definitely attract the predatory creatures!"

"Okay!" KIKI understood the current situation and reluctantly prepared to use her telekinesis to blast away the crimson tide before retreating with the team members.

However, an even greater fear suddenly descended.

"Damn it! Boss, look!" Aaron roared, his voice trembling with despair as he pointed sharply to the direction behind the group where the crimson was most intense.

The blood mist there, as if stirred by an invisible giant hand, suddenly parted to the sides and thinned out a bit!
A colossal wall stretching to the sky and connecting the earth has revealed its outline!

It wasn't a solid wall, but a row of huge cylindrical objects that swept across in a semi-transparent state, like the tentacles of some giant creature, swinging directly from the sky to the ground, sweeping all the way!
It moved silently, yet carried a terrifying, all-consuming pressure, ignoring sand dunes, wreckage, and broken walls. Like a cosmic-scale ocean wave, it rolled silently toward the team's location at a constant, irresistible speed! Wherever it passed, even the pervasive crimson mist was briefly "pushed aside" or "absorbed," leaving behind a brief, even more deathly vacuum. It was enormous, so enormous that it filled the entire horizon; so fast that the moment it was caught in sight, it was already inches away! Escape? There was simply no time!
"A giant cloak in the sky?! It's earlier than the observation time!?" Raymond said, then looked at KIKI: "Looks like you were right, it must be some kind of living thing!"

"What do we do? It seems like we can't escape!" Song Wei's voice fluctuated violently at this moment. They might still be able to escape from the crimson human monster tide, but this crimson giant wall swept over like a tsunami. At such close range, there was no way to escape. Once swept over, everyone would immediately lose most of their fighting power. At that time, facing these monsters would be tantamount to suicide!

"Hold on! We have to hold on to this wave!" Raymond roared, his magnetic vibrations creating a violent turbulence around him, tearing several mutants apart. Song Wei's face was deathly pale; she unleashed her life resonance at full power, attempting to stabilize KIKI's psychic barrier while simultaneously providing Hawkeye with a more precise lock-on. Aaron gritted his teeth, his single-arm shotgun spewing out its last burst of fury. KIKI's pupils blazed with a purple light as intense as stars, her psychic barrier radiating an even brighter glow, but against the boundless, crimson wall imbued with the power of heaven and earth, her individual strength seemed so insignificant.

Ahead lies the relentless onslaught of crimson worms and the frenzied attacks of twisted mutants, while behind, a colossal crimson wall silently approaches, capable of extinguishing all life! Once the barrier is breached by the horde of zombies, or if the wall sweeps through them, causing them to instantly bleed, in this desolate place, any crimson creature can slaughter them all, and utter annihilation awaits them!

Despair, like a cold, venomous snake, coils around everyone's heart.

At that critical moment, when life was about to be cut off!
Om-! ! !
A strange, metallic hum, as if the entire space was resonating, drowned out all the noise on the battlefield!
Click! Clang! Bang!
The group looked down at the ground, and suddenly, a square cabin with sharp angles and a cold metallic luster rose from the ground in less than half a second! The cabin walls were incredibly thick, and the surface was covered with azure light patterns of high-frequency energy barriers. It was like a precisely designed metal honeycomb module, which tightly enveloped the five members of the team, including KIKI!

hum!
The hatch closed at the last moment, and the high-frequency energy barrier instantly boosted to its maximum power!
The next moment, the towering, crimson wall silently swept across the area.

A deathly silence fell over the cabin. Everyone instinctively held their breath, awaiting the terrifying blood-draining effect… But nothing happened! Only the muffled, terrifying pressure waves emanating from outside the cabin walls, as if the entire world were groaning, and the low hum of the energy barrier continuously operating. The life-extinguishing crimson energy was perfectly kept out by this sturdy metal cage and energy barrier!

"What is this thing?!" Lister was still in shock when he saw it. Inside the small cabin, Raymond, Lister, Song Wei, and Aaron were all stunned, their eyes fixed on the tightly closed hatch that was filled with energy patterns, their minds blank.

KIKI stared in shock at the mechanical protective pod that had appeared out of nowhere, her face turning pale as a familiar feeling welled up inside her.

The next moment, the scarlet sky was torn apart!

It wasn't an energy beam, nor a meteorite impact, but rather—

Steel Rainstorm!

Countless silver-gray meteors tore through the viscous crimson sky, crashing down like divine punishment with piercing shrieks and terrifying kinetic energy! They rained down in dense clusters, striking precisely the crimson swarm and mutant cluster surrounding the squad!

boom! boom! boom! boom! boom!
The earth trembled violently with a deafening crash! Turbid waves of yellow sand rose tens of meters high! Accompanying the impact was a breathtaking surge of metal that erupted instantly!

Before the dust from the falling steel had even settled, the ferocious figure had already trampled through the dust, revealing its fangs!
As the dust settled, countless heavily armored mechs, like moving iron towers, emerged from the shadows! Their bodies were covered in gleaming, ultra-carbon alloy blast-resistant composite armor. Magnetic storm coils coiled around their thick arms, and azure arcs of electricity danced and leaped across their surfaces. Upon landing, their heavy alloy feet sank deep into the sand, and the magnetic storm generators on their shoulders, backs, and arms simultaneously emitted blinding blue light! Boom! A violent magnetic storm shockwave, like a tangible shockwave, spread outwards in a ring from the point of impact! The crimson worms and mutants within its range were instantly smashed into a cloud of foul-smelling blood mist and fragments, as if struck by an invisible giant hammer!

The heavily armored mechs raised their thickly armored arms, the armor sliding open to reveal massive cannon muzzles. Without precise aiming, they unleashed a devastating barrage! Blinding beams of blue pulsed energy intertwined, forming a deathly net that slashed across the battlefield, vaporizing everything in their path, whether insects or mutants! Like silent war fortresses, they relentlessly advanced, each step accompanied by the roar of magnetic storms and the howl of pulse cannons, crushing and pushing aside the surging horde of zombies!

Then, from within the heavily armored mechs, countless ghostly, lightning-like figures shot out. Like assassins whose movements were perfectly synchronized through uniform training, they transformed into deadly silver streaks the moment they landed. Their slender yet powerful mechanical bodies leaped between the sand and wreckage, leaving behind afterimages. Their feet were no longer ballet shoes, but two VK alloy blades that gleamed with a deadly cold light. Each touch of the ground brought a sharp whistling sound as they cut through the air. The VK electric blades at their elbows popped out silently, and the high-frequency vibrations of the blades cut through the air with a low hum.

Like death dancers on the battlefield, their figures flashed and darted among the monsters, their VK twin blades tracing endless trails of azure lightning. Each flash of the blade was accompanied by a crisp metallic tearing sound and a frenzied spray of dark red liquid.

Whether it was the tough insect armor or the twisted, keratinous limbs of the mutants, they were as fragile as butter before the VK Electric Blades. They precisely sliced ​​through the monsters' joints, nerve nodes, and energy cores, their movements swift, elegant, and deadly! The swarm of insects was dismembered and torn apart before them, falling in droves, their dark red fluids splattering like a torrential rain, leaving large patches of filth on the yellow sand.

Thousands of Iron Men and Dragon Women, forming an iron torrent, swept across the entire battlefield like two giant combs! The crimson worm swarm and mutated zombie horde, which had just surged like a raging storm, were like fragile sandcastles before this overwhelming numerical superiority, firepower, and power disparity. In a few breaths, they were utterly crushed, flattened, and wiped out! As far as the eye could see, there were only scorched craters emitting blue smoke, shattered limbs torn apart by the magnetic storm, clean cuts from sharp blades, and a deathly silent battlefield!

This devastating and overwhelming entrance left Raymond's team in a state of utter shock and disbelief, so much so that they forgot to breathe.

KIKI's eyes widened, revealing a galaxy of purple light. The light of her psychic barrier flickered slightly. Her body trembled violently, and she rushed through the protective cabin, frantically looking around at the crimson landscape, searching in the yellow sand battlefield still shrouded in blood mist.

Soon, she looked into the distance, where a blurry figure was walking slowly and steadily towards the cabin, treading on the yellow sand.

Soft, steady white lights silently lit up above, around, and behind the figures, dozens, hundreds... like stars suddenly illuminating in the night sky, or like fireflies quietly gathering to guide them.

The drones hovered steadily, arranged in a row, scattering a dazzling and mysterious starlight against the thick, oppressive crimson background, clearly outlining the path the person was taking.

The points of light were serene, yet possessed a penetrating power that tore through all darkness.

Starlight flowed, like a galaxy leading to life unfolding in a scarlet hell.

In the center of that artificial galaxy, the figure of the mechanical superhuman became clearer and clearer!
(End of this chapter)