Chapter 372 It's Alive

"Savior, me?" Lin Xian was caught off guard.

"Don't get me wrong." Jian Xuwei said with a sigh of relief: "This is just a psychological preparation, you don't need to..."

"I know." Lin Xian interrupted her and said with a smile: "I agree with your request. In fact, even if you didn't propose it, I would have had this idea."

Lin Xian said to Jian Xuwei: "We have worked together before, you should know me. I am not a savior, and I don't have any desire for power or commanding people. In essence, I established the alliance for survival, and everyone has the same goal, so logically speaking, I am not interested in being a leader or being above others."

"but."

Lin Xian's eyes narrowed, and he looked at Jian Xuwei with a serious expression: "From a rational point of view, I must take this Sky-class train, and only I can build it. Silent City will stop at Yongcheng Port. If I want to complete the subsequent construction of this train, I can only rely on my mechanical ability. There is no other way."

Jian Xuwei frowned slightly: "Are you able to build a starship now?"

"For me, having a blueprint is enough, it's just a matter of construction efficiency." Lin Xian answered directly.

"Well, I don't mean to confront you, it's just..."

Jian Xuwei has the aura of a strong woman. Lin Xian knows that this woman is very ambitious, so after expressing his intentions, he immediately changed the subject.

"It doesn't matter. You are still Chairman Jian. I won't be able to manage tens of thousands of people in the future. What I care most about is the construction of our Doomsday Starship Fortress and ensuring our survival. You are definitely more capable and experienced than me in management."

Lin Xian smiled and said, "But we don't need to use the board of directors model. We can just do regional division of labor. In the apocalypse, there is no need to make it so complicated."

Jian Xuwei was slightly startled when she heard this, then she raised the corner of her lips and looked at Lin Xian with relief: "Okay, then from today on, you are my captain."

She stretched out her hand towards Lin Xian and said, "Happy cooperation."

“It’s been a pleasure working with you.”

After the estrangement was resolved, Lin Xian asked Jian Xuwei, "What is the current situation over at Jiang Yun?"

"Originally, he was going to bring people to Silent City to negotiate with you and Mochizuki Shinji and synchronize intelligence. However, something unexpected happened in Dawn City. His last message was three hours ago. The city was blocked and he could not get out before dawn."

Lin Xian nodded: "With so many people fleeing Dawn City, the Federation will probably be furious."

"Definitely."

Jian Xuwei said, "Your trick is just a fuse. Originally, Shuguang City had long-standing grievances with the convoys and survivors due to population and resource issues. There is a saying that goes, 'People underground, ghosts above ground, hard labor inside the wall, weird things outside the wall.' This is exactly what it means. Many people have long been dissatisfied with Zhou Mingyuan as a politician. In addition, everyone is in danger when the red man is in danger. Now that this kind of thing has broken out, coupled with the changes in Xingyuan, it is normal for many large convoys to prepare to flee. It is fortunate that no one rebelled and opened fire."

"So Shuguang City is now facing internal and external troubles, but why is there no news of Chu Zhaonan?" Lin Xian asked.

Jian Xuwei said in a deep voice: "Chu Zhaonan rarely shows up. Many people in the city even think that Zhou Mingyuan is the chairman of the Federation and the Lord of Shuguang City. After all, he is in charge of all aspects of the city. From what I understand, there should be factional opposition between Chu Zhaonan and Zhou Mingyuan."

"Except for the garrison."

"Yes, the garrison has 130,000 troops, which has been expanded from the initial 40,000-plus. There are many Evolvers and Abilities, they are well-equipped, and their combat effectiveness is not bad."

"What about the others?"

Jian Xuwei said, "There are several thousand guards in the city, and an armed night patrol group with more than 20,000 people, all of which were established by Zhou Mingyuan. The other population control bureaus, finance bureaus, and construction bureaus are nothing. According to my intelligence, Zhou Mingyuan has always wanted to win over and recruit Lu Tianye, but Lu Tianye has a strange temper. Before the collapse of the Federation, he was the deputy commander of the Marine Corps and was very good at fighting. He personally commanded the battle against the gray fog monster. Moreover, this person is not very bureaucratic. He only likes to kill zombies and monsters on the front line. Many people have a good reputation for him. He is considered a pure soldier."

"So the people in charge of Shuguang City are actually Chu Zhaonan and Lu Tianye?" Lin Xian asked.

Jian Xuwei nodded: "Yes."

Lin Xian frowned slightly when he heard this: "So, Jinhai's withdrawal and full-line retreat were all arranged by Chu Zhaonan, and have nothing to do with Zhou Mingyuan?"

"That's right."

"That's clear." Lin Xian sneered: "Chu Zhaonan is also cooperating with the Crimson World. Now I just don't know what else they are going to do besides taking action against Star Abyss No. 5?"

"No matter what we do, the changes in Star Abyss No. 5 have affected the survival of survivors around the world. The Phoenix Society has already intervened, and the matter of the Crimson World has just been brought up again. So, both Dawn City and the Phoenix Society will definitely take corresponding actions." Lin Xian's eyes were burning: "I think we have to hurry up. If a conflict occurs, with the Crimson World as an unstable factor, it is very likely that the situation in this area will become extremely complicated."

"I thought so too. Those convoys that left also sensed the crisis. Dawn City has seven million people and is being watched covetously by Star Abysses 5, 7, and 8. If they can't enter the underground city, the high walls alone can't change anything. Now they are colluding with the Adventists, so evacuating in advance is the best option."

Lin Xian nodded: "Then let's hurry up and build standard ship hull carriages, repair trains, and prepare ammunition. I think the fire in Shuguang City may be bigger after dawn. If we have no choice, we may have to choose to bypass Zen Pass."

"Okay." Jian Xuwei looked at Lin Xian: "Then, Captain, are you going to transfer the Infinity's people up first?"

"No hurry." Lin Xian looked up at the surrounding cabins and said, "I will first connect the entire interstellar train to my mechanical ability for control, and then I will make arrangements."

Jian Xuwei responded softly with "OK" and then turned and left.

Lin Xian walked out of the passage and looked at the wide cabin passage with an eager expression. Although the "Sky Interstellar Train" appeared to be more slender in width, it was used for Earth-Moon orbital transportation after all, and the overall look was like a train that was several times larger.

But apart from its peculiar appearance, its interior is completely in line with the standards of a starship. It is even much more powerful in defense and power than ordinary starships. As a space vehicle used for "transportation", it has extremely high durability requirements and needs to frequently enter and exit the atmosphere. The outer shell is made of armor made of super carbon yne alloy and composite thermal insulation layer, which can withstand continuous ablation at 2000°C. There is even an intermediate layer and a self-repairing gel sealing layer for space airtightness protection, and then various structural inner city layers.

However, there is a problem. This interstellar train is very strong, but not strong enough. The composite insulation layer does not take into account the situation of dealing with the bombardment of strange bodies, so Shinji Mochizuki gave Lin Xian a suggestion, which is to install high-strength armor plates in a purely defensive form on the outside. This should be a major project, but Lin Xian now has dozens of manufacturing drones, and the Silent City is still here. He plans to prioritize solving the armor problem, otherwise if the interstellar train is damaged, it will be more troublesome to repair it.

Passing through the passage, Lin Xian entered the main bridge. According to the management standards of the Federation starship, this is the core command center of the entire ship, including the captain, the first officer, the helmsman, the tactical officer who controls the weapon system, the security director who manages the shield and security defense, as well as the engineering team, the information officer, the communications officer, etc. These people manage the operation, attack and defense of the interstellar train.

In addition, there are other personnel responsible for the management of living areas, such as scientific officers, chief engineers, medical officers, internal security, etc.

Looking at the large bridge that could accommodate more than a dozen people, Lin Xian let out a long sigh and immediately sat down to conduct mechanical exploration. After completing the exploration, his mechanical heart could connect to the entire "Sky Train". Every corner, every pipeline, and every weapon was under his control. He could repair it remotely and directly control the flight.

The size of the interstellar train is at least 3-5 times larger than the Infinity, and the length of the four main ships alone is more than two kilometers. According to data from Jian Xuwei's engineers, the unfinished Sky Train is already more than 820,000 tons and is equipped with an ionized air sheath, which can ionize the air in front into plasma through the microwave transmitter in the bow array, forming a low-density plasma sheath with a thickness of about 0.5 meters, which is mainly used to reduce air friction when cruising at high speed in the atmosphere and passing through the atmosphere.

Combined with the Sky Train's eight space thrusters, this behemoth can cruise at a speed of more than Mach 4.2 in the atmosphere, which is faster than the Silent City. After entering space, there is also an electrostatic force field generator that can resist charged particle flows or high-energy heavy ions and secondary radiation.

The Mechanical Heart seemed to expand like a domain, quickly embracing the entire main bridge. For a moment, all the information equipment and the main frame continued to extend in Lin Xian's consciousness. The dense integrated circuit system quickly unfolded like a spider web, from the working channel all the way to the second ship. The huge starry sky navigation system gradually appeared, and then all the way forward, he saw the low-temperature hibernation cabin area.

Then, his consciousness entered the core power layer. The 5,000-megawatt "StarDriver" nuclear power center exploded like a blue supernova in the heart of the machine. The helium-3 fusion storm was tamed by the beryllium alloy confinement ring. A five-gigawatt energy torrent rushed along the superconducting channel. Then he saw the precisely manufactured magnetic levitation track bow, which was similar in shape to the horizon gateway. This was the "landing gear" used by interstellar trains to run on track.

As he went further, Lin Xian's Mechanical Heart came to the living area. A large number of honeycomb grid living cabins quickly passed by. The living cabins were designed to be standard for spacecrafts. Some were large, some were small, but without exception they were all in brand new condition, giving people a full sense of security.

Finally, Lin Xian felt his consciousness entering the engine power compartment. In an instant, the magnificent starry sky thruster slowly unfolded a deep blueprint like a nebula. Wherever Lin Xian touched, a huge mechanical picture appeared in his sight.

"It's such a big guy. I almost used up all my energy just to detect it. Fortunately, Jian Xuwei has the complete blueprint, so I don't need to scan it again..."

Lin Xian closed his eyes, and suddenly, he had an idea, the starry sky thruster started up with a bang, and a powerful energy vibrated out. The superstring reactor phase rainbow ring behind Lin Xian seemed to have a mysterious connection with the "Star Drive" nuclear power center. For a moment, Lin Xian inexplicably felt that the energy of the entire "Sky Interstellar Train" was gathered in his hands. As long as he had a thought, this super starship weighing more than 800,000 tons would explode and start, and soar into the sky!

At this moment, everyone in Factory No. 1 felt the vibration and cast their eyes towards this huge machine.

"What happened? The interstellar train started!?"

"It must be Captain Lin who is manipulating this."

"Now we have to call Captain Lin!"

"Isn't he the leader?"

"What leader? You must have read too many novels."

"I'm talking about the alliance..."

In the main bridge of the "Sky Train", Lin Xian was filled with emotion and had already made a new division of labor.

Apart from himself as the supreme leader who is responsible for decision-making and emergency decisions, Lin Xian has handed over the management of so many people on the starship to Jian Xuwei. He is also happy to have some peace and quiet. The original core members of the Infinity, as well as Monica, Qian Dele, Shi Diyuan, Ning Jing and others, still work with him in the mode of a strategic elite team. There is no complicated management system because, except for a few of them, none of them have the ability of a professional starship crew member, and there is no point in forcing an arrangement.

For example, the helmsman is actually the train operator. No one in the current team knows how to do it. If they are trained, perhaps Luo Yang and others will be able to get started quickly. However, Lin Xian still has Grace in his hands, and the entire ship will be completely controlled by Lin Xian + Grace's intelligent brain in the future.

On the chief engineer's side, Lao Mo and Jian Xuwei have many mechanical engineers who are fully capable of doing the job, and on the logistics side, Lin can rest assured with people like Li Yi, Xiao Yuan, and Miao Lu.

After all, strictly speaking, Shi Diyuan, Qian Dele, Monica, Shuqin, Dalou, Liang Lei, Huo Ge, KIKI, Xiaoqing Abai, Hu Lushou and Sun Chang are all combat elites in the doomsday survival.

What they will face in the future is a survival crisis. In comparison, these internal problems are minor issues, and Lin Xian does not want to over-complicate them.

"Hey, why does this place look a bit like Silent City?"

Thinking of this, Lin Xian suddenly realized that Silent City as a whole did not have too many management personnel. Sensu Shun and Amano Ran were just simple divisions of labor. The entire Silent City was almost entirely operated and maintained by drones, including the operation of Silent City, or to put it bluntly, it was all controlled by the intelligent computer Mochizuki Shinji. Therefore, Silent City did not have various management departments like Dawn City, and Lin Xian had the same abilities as Mochizuki Shinji, so even if there were more people following up, he only needed to communicate with the core team, and the entire Sky Train was under his absolute control.

Wow.

The Mechanical Heart retracted its detection, and Lin Xian let out a long breath. He opened the light curtain and looked at the current information.

[Current Mechanical Heart Level LV.5 (17640/20000)]

Mechanical phagocytosis: 5 (2065/3000) Increases phagocytosis efficiency

"An entire Dragon transport ship actually gained so many mechanical source points. Now we are really rich."

Lin Xian looked at the panel. Now he was only two thousand mechanical source points away from completing the second mechanical awakening. Now that he had the "Sky Train", he would redeploy the weapon system on it. This also meant that he could completely devour the joint train, including his own Infinity, and quickly upgrade it!

"By the way, this train has not yet been equipped with a weapon system. After the fourth standard hull and the second layer of armor are built, let Shinji Mochizuki help me build an orbital star cannon and a Hyperion directional restraint cannon. I will build the others on the way, which can save me a lot of time."

At this time, under the command of Jian Xuwei and the original captains of each team, a large amount of supplies were moved to the material storage compartment of the Sky Train. Other team members, including the children from the original carriage No. 10 and other trains, were also moved to the standard hull compartment under the arrangement of Li Yi and Sun Yuzhen. For a while, excited voices rang out one after another in the docking area of ​​the maglev berth.

"Wow, a spaceship!!" Mo Xiaole's eyes were sparkling.

“Are we going into space?”

“How amazing!”

"It's so huge, will there be an amusement park on it?"

"Don't talk, be quiet."

…

At the same time, all the core backbone groups were also moved onto the main ship No. 3. The transfer of thousands of people was a huge project. Although the four standard living hulls could accommodate 4,000 people, Lin Xian felt that there was no need to rush now, because there was no weapon system on the Sky-class, and if they were all moved up at once, all the weapons on the joint train would be wasted.

So Lin Xian left Shuqin, Dalou, Li Yi and others on the Infinity. On the Longshan No. 1, Shi Diyuan also continued to be in charge for the time being. In order to facilitate the deployment, Ning Jing, Xiaoqing and Abai boarded the Sky Train first, while Qian Dele took the lead. He directly gave the train to Lin Xian, and then took more than 100 people from his fleet to stay in the standard carriage. He and Xiao Meng were on the main ship No. 3.

Monica was even more carefree. She left all her male subordinates on the Queen Mo, waiting for Lin Xian and Jian Xuwei's follow-up arrangements, and then handed the trained female team members to Lin Xian for deployment, while she moved into the main ship alone. In her words, she finally didn't have to worry too much...

"Swallowing Qian Dele and Monica's train should be enough..."

Lin Xian looked at the situation of each compartment in the holographic light screen and thought about it in his mind. At this time, Chen Sixuan walked into the main bridge and said to him: "Lin Xian, the construction progress in Silent City is very fast now. Qian Suxun said that the unfinished compartment should be completed within 24 hours."

"So fast?" Lin Xian asked in surprise

"We've already completed 60% of the work. Mochizuki Shinji has sent 6,000 robots to work. This speed is okay, right?"

KIKI came from behind. The two looked at Lin Xian with different expressions. Chen Sixuan said with some emotion: "After coming out of Xingyuan, our progress was too fast. Now we should no longer worry about the track problem, right?"

"Yeah." Lin Xian nodded. "I was originally thinking about how to modify it, but since Lao Mo told me, I know that the Infinity can only be modified to an all-terrain drive. If it wants to fly, it can only be rebuilt from scratch. This big guy is a godsend, giving thousands of us a chance to survive."

"And just like Silent City, it can be driven on the ground." KIKI said with some pride, "It's much safer than a starship. We can definitely go out into space if we want to."

Chen Sixuan smiled and looked at the two of them: "I remember when we just came out of Jiang City, KIKI talked about a lot of ideas. Most of them have been realized now, right, Lin Xian?"

"Not yet." Lin Xian shook his head and took a deep breath. "Now we just have a bigger vehicle that can fly, but the armor and weapons need to be reconfigured. And with more people, the internal living area, scientific research area, and planting and breeding have not been built on a large scale. I want to make this a fortress where we can live safely and escape when we encounter danger. Our survival rate will be greatly improved."

"But we can't just be optimistic. We have to think pessimistically. Even if we have a starship, we are not safe. The 30,000-ton Dreadnought-class spaceship fell, and the 400,000-person Qingluan floating city sank into the Pacific Ocean. Since the Apocalypse Day, the Federation has had a large number of starships trying to escape from Blue Planet but have not succeeded. So we are still vulnerable to darkness." Lin Xian had a worried expression: "I have to fully arm this big guy, and make the weapons as large as the Silent City. The primary goal is to face the S-class. Even if we can't defeat them head-on, we at least have the ability to retreat unscathed."

KIKI looked at Lin Xian with a smile: "Hey, I'm telling you that you've been nagging for so long. We've been through all kinds of hardships all the way here. It's useless for you to worry about going so far. Why don't you go and see your captain's living cabin? It's right across from me~"

"You all moved?"

Chen Sixuan nodded. "It's very wide here, with four decks. I followed the original layout of the Infinity, and a group of people lived on the first floor, not very far apart. There aren't many people that can live on this main ship, so as you said, most of the core members are here, and the others are in the standard living compartment."

Lin Xian became interested and followed Chen Sixuan and KIKI to the core living area. There were dozens of living cabins here, all of which were extremely luxurious. When he pushed open the door, he saw that not only was the space huge, but it also had a clean feeling of interstellar travel.

"See? What a big bed~" said KIKI.

"Come to think of it, your family also had a share of this thing." Lin Xian looked at KIKI and said

KIKI rolled her eyes at him: "I don't care, these are all yours and mine~ It's great, such a big bathroom~"

Chen Sixuan looked at Lin Xian: "Each room in the core residential area has an independent bathroom. There is not only a dedicated kitchen, but also a restaurant and even a fitness cabin where you can swim..."

"I didn't expect that we could live a good life even in the doomsday." Lin Xian said with a smile.

"In fact, you have always brought us good times."

Chen Sixuan said: "Before Shuqin and the others came to Infinity, they still lived on rat meat. Our Infinity has protected us very well, and the living space is also very large."

Lin Xian nodded, and said reluctantly: "Yes, if it weren't for the track problem, I really wouldn't want to give it up."

"Don't be reluctant, this biggest room is yours."

KIKI walked in front and stretched out her hand to open an automatic door. In an instant, a spacious captain's living cabin appeared in front of Lin Xian. This room was the closest to the main bridge. There were only four rooms on the entire floor. In addition to Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan, the other three rooms were occupied by KIKI and Shasha, one by Jian Xuwei, and the other by Monica...

Except for Lin Xian, all of them are women...

KIKI and Sasha He could understand why Jian Xuwei and Monica also lived here.

KIKI looked at the big room with a look of comfort and enjoyment: "Outside, zombies are roaring and monsters are everywhere. We live in a luxurious room on the starship. It's really comfortable. I hope there will be more peaceful days like this."

"By the way, where is Director Ding?"

"She is still doing research on Infinity. She seems to have made some discoveries and has not slept at this time." Chen Sixuan said at this time.

"Okay, I'll go check it out right away." Lin Xian looked at the time. He had been busy all night and had originally planned to take a nap, but now it seemed that after he had found Ding Junyi, he was also going to find Mochizuki Shinji to check out the condition of the giant colonial suit. It seemed that he had no time at all.

On several aerial transfer passages of the interstellar train, the people of the joint train were busy carrying things. Lin Xian quickly got down from it and returned to the Infinity. As soon as he entered the No. 3 carriage, he saw Ding Junyi wearing goggles and dripping some chemical solution into a glass container, and inside was a piece of black biological tissue.

"Are you done?"

"Not yet. Teacher Chen, what did you find here?"

"Remember the dark erosion cell tissue we brought out from Xingyuan?" Ding Junyi said

Ding Junyi took off her goggles and said to Lin Xian:

“It’s alive.”

(End of this chapter)