Chapter 491 Scarlet World

In the silent deep space, the spherical mechanical celestial body silently ejected a silver-white beam of light, which slammed into the surface of the huge dark red planet with dense vibration rings.

In an instant, dust tens of thousands of meters high was ejected into space, and the terrifying magnetic field axis slowly spread along the surface of the planet, like a translucent tide.

Then, in that beam of light, the black metal ore was sucked up into the sky like a torrent and entered the transportation dome of the mechanical celestial body.

This magnificent scene seemed to be some kind of planetary transformation. Lin Xian felt that a huge amount of metal materials were captured and sucked in, forming a suspended dust cloud with a diameter of thousands of kilometers below the mechanical celestial body.

Buzz buzz buzz!

Behind Lin Xian, who was connected to the entire Black Star Forge, twelve superstring reactor phase rainbow rings suddenly lit up, and his eyes flashed with magnetic storm beams. For a moment, the entire forge was undergoing metal resonance!

At this moment, he didn't know how much energy he could release. He only knew that if he wanted to light up the Stardust Furnace, this might be the key!

But the problem is, Lin Xian is not yet at the stage where he plans to light up the Stardust Furnace...

Lin Xian retracted the resonance, suspended in the starry sky channel, looking at his hands in astonishment. This was not his active consciousness, but after his consciousness rushed into the Black Star Forge, the Black Star Forge was forcibly resonating with him, as if the core was connected. This was also why Lin Xian's consciousness began to sink into the inner core of the entire mechanical celestial body and was able to glimpse the entire picture!

But this resonance consumed his three months. At this time, Lin Xian was not excited at all because he controlled the black star celestial body. His mind was full of worry and confusion.

He couldn't help thinking:

"Although I solved a major problem by accident, with the Black Star celestial body automatically capturing this iron-nickel planet for me, I should have a source of basic materials, and I can start building this Stardust Furnace. But I wasted three months of my time, and I haven't made any preparations yet. I don't know what the situation is like out there. It's even possible that everyone thinks I'm dead..."

Lin Xian subconsciously began to release resonance with the Black Star celestial body, trying to regain his consciousness. At this time, he immediately felt a huge numbness spreading from his central spine to the surrounding area. He had physical sensation, but the numbness was like sleep paralysis, making him extremely uncomfortable. However, his consciousness was still trapped in the space of the Black Star Forge and he could not open his eyes at all.

"What's going on? Am I really dead? I can't wake up?"

He quickly calculated the possibilities, and then suddenly thought of something. He looked at the floating Infinity and raised his hand!

Buzz!

The Infinity engine roared with electricity, and the violent energy began to gather on the body that Lin Xian felt through his consciousness, and then concentrated a beam of electricity on his heart meridian, and released it suddenly without hesitation!

Woohoo!

The violent electromagnetic shock directly caused Lin Xian's consciousness to burst out with huge light, and even his own consciousness space was shaken violently.

He was using the air of consciousness to perform CPR on himself!

The numbness in the body began to turn into anxiety at this time, as if something was activated.

Lin Xian didn't care and after noticing the reaction, he discharged again!

…

February 5, 2070, Jaco Coast, Costa Rica.

Scarlet covered the sky and the earth, and the wind howled above the yellow sand of the ruins. The coastal city had long been frozen into a lonely shadow. Without the sun, moon, dawn and darkness, the world was dead silent.

In an area south of the coast, it seemed that an extremely brutal war had taken place here. Large aircraft were half-buried under the yellow sand. A huge starship from a distant star was broken into three sections, forming three large metal hills. The battlefield stretching for several kilometers was filled with the wreckage of destroyed vehicles, and the survivors' team flags and torn tents were swaying in the wind.

On a crashed small transport ship at the edge of the battlefield, yellow sand was continuously blown by the scarlet gale through the broken deck into the inner cabin buried underground. A strange multi-legged creature came in through the broken gap. There were three organs on its head that looked like eyes, but in fact they were like holes flowing through the abyss. As it twisted, it was impossible to tell whether it was protruding outwards or sinking inwards, giving people a strange sense of dimensional vision.

The multi-legged monster worm climbed quickly, crawling over several dried corpses of soldiers wearing power armor. Its sharp metal legs touched the power armor, and dark energy flowed, quickly activating something. Immediately, the core battery on the chest of one of the power armors slowly popped out. Then, the multi-legged monster worm spewed out glowing silk tentacles from the black hole in its head to wrap the core battery. After a few minutes, the core battery decayed into a piece of broken soil, falling to the ground with a clatter.

Sizzle~

Just when the multi-legged monster insect finished its hunt and was about to look for its next target, a blue light suddenly flashed in the deepest part of the cabin, as if it was coming from some kind of hibernation cabin.

The multi-legged monster immediately climbed over at an extremely fast speed and extended its luminous tentacles again on the transparent shell of the hibernation capsule, as if it sensed a stronger energy source. This time, it used its luminous tentacles to directly wrap the entire hibernation capsule. Soon, a strong power surged out, and electrical energy and dark energy were instantly converted, bursting out with a large amount of light.

All the limbs of the multi-legged monster insect began to tremble, as if conveying a wonderful feeling. However, the next moment, accompanied by the second flash of light, an extremely terrifying electromagnetic shock suddenly erupted in the hibernation capsule. Dozens of high-energy electric arcs instantly penetrated the entire hibernation capsule, directly piercing and melting the multi-legged monster insect and the entire transport ship. The resulting magnetic field exploded with high temperature, raising a huge ionization wave, which shook the entire battlefield!

boom!!!

Like a small bomb exploding, a shallow crater formed on the ground, with only a hibernation cabin platform in the center remaining, its main structure no longer visible.

At this moment, with a sudden breath, the person lying in the hibernation capsule suddenly sat up!

'hiss!!!'

As soon as Lin Xian opened his eyes, he felt like he was in hell.

Scarlet, yellow sand, high temperature heat waves, bone-eroding yellow sand, accompanied by severe tingling in the terminal nerves of the whole body and the feeling of powerlessness and withdrawal of the whole body's immune system, Lin Xian reacted in the first second.

This is a dead place!

Rub, rub, rub!

The nano-powered armor was quickly taken out of the Black Star Forge and covered the entire body. After the life support system was turned on, countless sharp alarms immediately rang in the ears.

[Alert: Dark erosion concentration exceeds 1360% of the daytime value, please escape immediately]

[Alert: Radioactive dust detected, radiation concentration 2183 mSv, probability of causing radiation sickness 86%!]

[Alarm: Excessive dark shock detected, dark energy isotropic system activated]

[Alarm: Abnormal mental fluctuations...]

【alarm……】

At this time, Lin Xian gradually came to his senses. The alarm sound in his ears was gradually blocked by the shock that surged at this moment and turned into a harsh tinnitus.

Lin Xian glanced over and saw only a strange scarlet disturbance in the sky and yellow sand and debris scattered all over the ground under his feet.

He couldn't believe his eyes. He turned around and saw the hibernation capsule behind him, the one on the Sky Train...

But there is no sky train around.

Lin Xian looked at the watch on his wrist, shattering his last shred of hope. Time hadn't deceived him. Three months and 17 days had passed since he lay in the hibernation chamber...

"Teacher Chen...KIKI..."

Pressing the communicator, Lin Xian tried to find the internal frequency of Infinity, but all he got in response was nothing.

Lin Xian's heart was pounding, and his mind felt blank at this moment.

Teacher Chen, KIKI, Huo Ge, Da Lou, Shu Qin, Sha Sha, Monica, Qian De Le, Ding Jun Yi...

Everyone is gone.

At this moment, I felt as if I had been abandoned by the world. Looking at the scarlet that filled my vision, a huge sense of loneliness and strangeness rushed to the top of my head.

Huh~Huh~

Inside the oxygen mask, Lin Xian was whistling rapidly and adjusting his condition. After regaining his sanity, he suppressed all the doubts in his mind and began to observe his surroundings with vigilance.

Woo~

The mechanical heart hummed again, and its scanning sight instantly spread out to the surrounding area within several kilometers.

Soon, Lin Xian caught a lot of clues. He did not start flying, but quietly moved forward along the shadow of the sand and dust ravine. He soon saw the huge broken starship and mechanically scanned the hull number on it.

"The Chengying ship belongs to the Phoenix Interstellar Army's Third Intercontinental Force. Phoenix is ​​on standby in the safe airspace of Corvado, South America. How did I end up on board this fleet?"

"Jaco? This is Costa Rica... the eastern coast of the central Pacific?!"

Looking at the current situation, Lin Xian could only think of two possibilities. Either the Sky Train had successfully reunited with the Phoenix Club, and for some reason, his teammates had sent him to Phoenix City, or this was an order issued by Ye Lan.

The second possibility is that the Sky Train was completely destroyed and he was rescued...

Whether it was emotion or reason, Lin Xian naturally preferred the first judgment, but no matter which one it was, the current situation seemed to be that the Third Intercontinental Force had fought a brutal battle here, with heavy losses, and at this moment the Jaco area was completely shrouded in scarlet and dead silent.

"What on earth just happened..."

Lin Xian calmed himself down. His power armor life support system was running at high pressure. Although the armor seemed to be able to resist the scarlet erosion, the strong radiation and darkness in the environment made this place like a dead place. Even if the life support system device could supply oxygen and maintain basic circulation, it did not mean that he could rest easy.

Because he had no food or water, was surrounded by scarlet, and had no idea what terrible threats existed.

Lin Xian looked at the huge wreckage of the Chengying ship in front of him and immediately had an idea. He could hide in this starship first and should be able to find some food and water, if it is not contaminated by scarlet...

In addition, he could also find some information logs through this starship, perhaps knowing what happened in the past three months, as well as the current situation of the Phoenix Order and the world.

Click

Lin Xian's boots, clad in armor, sank deeply into the scorching sand. Every time he lifted his boots, he brought up a cloud of sand mist wrapped in dark red dust. The nano-powered armor isolated the outside world from dark energy and deadly radiation that could corrode consciousness. Through the window, the scarlet halo dyed the entire world an ominous blood color.

He lowered his body and moved like a ghost in the shadow cast by the huge wreckage of war. Chu Yan once told him that there was no concept of dark mark in the scarlet, and he might be attacked at any time, so Lin Xian must be careful in this scarlet where it is difficult to distinguish between day and night. Once a chain reaction is triggered, he really doesn't know which direction to run.

Perhaps the whole world has turned crimson...

The "Chengying Ship" that was broken into three parts gradually enlarged in the field of vision. The closer the distance was, the more shocking the scene became, and the more magnificent it was, which was breathtaking.

The remains of the bow of the ship slanted into the yellow sand, like a broken giant sword sinking into the earth. The huge bridge structure was like a skull gnawed by a giant beast, the portholes were shattered, and the exposed frame was twisted and hideous. Under the feet, twisted and deformed metal fragments, half-buried power armor remnants, weathered bones and charred vehicle wreckage formed a carpet of death in this desert, giving people an oppressive feeling of civilization extinction at all times.

As he approached the bow of the ship, he scanned it again with the radar, then carefully looked at the platform on the top. With a thought, he used energy jump!

Swish!

Lin Xian's figure instantly appeared on a broken platform. Before he could stand firm, he immediately held his breath and cast his attention in all directions.

Because he was unsure whether activating his supernatural power would trigger anything, every move Lin Xian made at this moment was a test.

Huh~Huh~

Lin Xian's heartbeat accelerated in the dull cycling sound of the power armor. After a while, after making sure that there was no movement, he started scanning and tried to observe this Chengying ship.

The power armor's visual scan quickly swept across the fractured surface, and soon Lin Xian discovered a terrifying point: the edge of the Chengying ship's fracture surface showed a terrifying, huge, and complex tooth-like tearing structure! The alloy armor was not blown apart, but was torn and ripped apart by something with unimaginable, terrifying bite force!

"Bitten off? S-rank?"

Lin Xian's first reaction was that in order to bite off a distant starship in one bite, the size of this weapon must be S-level of the previous [Sky Touch]. Even with the strength of the Phoenix Order, if they wanted to destroy a main battleship in one bite, the previous [Sky Touch] including [Atmospheric Mica] might not be qualified in Lin Xian's opinion.

"Maybe it's something like the Abyss Demon..." Lin Xian recalled the image of the pale giant snake in the abyss of Planet No. 5 in his mind, and he couldn't help feeling a chill in his heart.

At the same time, he also discovered that there were a large number of corrupt dark energy fluctuations remaining here, which would only happen when humans mutated into monsters. The scan of the dilapidated condition inside also confirmed this, and a fierce battle had taken place inside.

"There should be no living people in there, and hopefully no other living things either."

Just as Lin Xian was about to enter the interior of the ship through a tear, he suddenly noticed something. His eyes passed over the flank outline of the huge starship wreckage under his feet and instinctively turned towards the direction of the Jaco coastline in the distance.

His vision was instantly occupied, and Lin Xian's expression was blank at first, then his pupils suddenly shrank, and a strong sense of shock emerged.

Under the scarlet sky, at the end of the broken coastline filled with the breath of death, an outline so huge that it exceeded the limits of imagination, like a nightmare mountain that had existed since ancient times, penetrated the bloody fog and suddenly crashed into his field of vision!

That is definitely not a naturally formed mountain.

That's a creation of steel!

A ship!

A huge ship as majestic as a mountain stranded on the coastline!

It's so big!

A contrasting concept flashed through Lin Xian's mind—Silent City! That massive mobile city-fortress he'd once admired, built by humans on the ruins! And the size of the stranded ship before him, roughly estimated, was at least three times the size of Silent City! Perhaps even more!

Lin Xian immediately realized what the outline before him was. It was a maritime kingdom, a civilization once only glimpsed in the news. It was humanity's ultimate ark, a way to continue the flame of fire and cross the ocean during the Dark Ages! It was a steel city floating on the ocean!

All the characteristics point to one name, the ultimate creation that symbolizes hope of sailing through the apocalyptic disaster.

“…Noah?!”

Lin Xian's voice was squeezed out dryly from the sealed helmet, trembling with disbelief.

(End of this chapter)