Chapter 306: Western Gobi
The wind whistled and the sand rustled.
On the vast Gobi Desert in the dark night, the steel train moves slowly forward, leaving only the sound of the iron wheels rolling.
Before completely leaving the polar night, the entire train did not slow down at all and continued to rush under the darkness.
"According to our current speed, we should be able to get out of the Xingyuan Polar Night in about 5 hours. But the problem is that even if we get out, according to the time calculation, we will still be in the darkness and dark tides. We can only wait until the tide passes tomorrow, and the dawn time should be around 9 o'clock."
In the Infinity cockpit, Chen Sixuan calculated the driving trajectory and the map, and then said to Lin Xian: "This is calculated according to the expansion speed of Star Abyss No. 5 calculated by the Phoenix Society. The actual situation may be slightly different."
Lin Xian nodded when he heard this: "As long as the road is clear, we are in a silent state now, so we are not that worried."
Chen Sixuan closed the driving logbook and said to Lin Xian: "I know you are worried about the track problem, but there is no rush. In fact, the situation is much better than we expected when we set out from Jiang City."
"Because we are not the only ones escaping the train." Lin Xian said, "The strange entities and zombies will not destroy the railway without reason. We have encountered three track crises so far, two of which were man-made. In addition, it has been less than a hundred days since the Apocalypse Day, so the track condition is not that bad, but it may not be the case over time."
There were three orbital crises, one was in Tanghai, one was in Yijin City, and the other was the time when it was destroyed by the tentacles of atmospheric mica before going to underground city No. 9.
According to past experience, zombies and monsters launched massacres on humans in the tides through the Dark Mark. Even if they destroyed buildings, their target was humans. In addition, the laying standards of the circumplanetary orbits and high-speed rail tracks in this era were very high, so most of the time the driving was very smooth. Moreover, there were more than one train running on this road, and other convoys must have the means to repair the tracks.
"Now we also need to expand our train team. This problem will have to be solved sooner or later." Lin Xian leaned back with his hands on the pillow. The leading train now is Longshan No. 1. They have a driving team that specializes in inspecting road conditions and a radar system, as well as Shi Diyuan and Ning Jing in charge. Lin Xian's side and the subsequent trains can save a lot of trouble.
Chen Sixuan nodded: "So we are going to take the southern route from Quancheng to Luling to Jinhai, and then go to Shuguang City, right?"
"It depends." Lin Xian said, "Jinhai Youlong Guozhongche Group has many train loading lines. Many doomsday train groups will go there. I heard that many organizations are doing the doomsday train modification business there. It is a huge profit chain. I guess Linglong Group is one of them."
"There is also the Finger Group." Chen Sixuan said, "Didn't Chen Yao from the North Wind Alliance mention it last time? Jian Xuwei from the Silver Star is looking for us. After they came down from the high-altitude corridor, they should have taken the ring star orbit all the way to the direction of Dawn City."
"Anyway, let's go and talk about it first."
"Then we and the other teams should part ways in Quancheng." Chen Sixuan said, "Those teams are going to take the northern route to catch up with the Liming Center."
Lin Xian closed his eyes slightly, and said with a tired face: "I know that after passing Quancheng, we should have the longest daytime."
After fighting all the way, he was exhausted both physically and mentally. As long as he could pass Quancheng, only Star Abyss No. 6 and No. 8 had extremely fast expansion speeds. However, they were far away from Jinhai and Shuguang City. As the central area of Dragon Country, a large number of migrating survivors gathered there, and various convoys and organizations would be a huge fleeing scene.
But this kind of daytime is also the last and longest period of time for human beings. When the star abysses No. 6 and No. 8 begin to close, it means that the 13 star abysses of the entire Blue Planet are about to cover the entire world.
Until the polar doomsday center is covered, there are only the last 400 days left!
Chen Sixuan used a wet towel to wipe the dried blood stains from Lin Xian's mouth and nose caused by the impact. Looking at his tired face, the determination in her eyes gradually turned into tenderness. She then lifted the hair beside her ear, bent over and gave him a kiss.
"You should take a break."
After she finished speaking, her ears blushed, and she stood up and pressed the door closing button of the cockpit passage. After closing the door, she tied her hair back with a hair tie, then leaned down and gave all her tenderness to Lin Xian.
Lin Xian didn't expect that his former university teacher would become so proactive at this moment. With a thought in his mind, he relaxed and felt wrapped in warmth. All his fatigue disappeared at once.
Teacher Chen's movements were a little awkward, but she was neither hurried nor slow, and she devoted herself to it wholeheartedly. Her whispers made Lin Xian feel numb in his ears and a burning fire in his chest and abdomen. Just when he was about to get up, Chen Sixuan held him down, then raised her head, looked at him with eager and gentle eyes, and said, "Don't move, leave it to me."
After saying that, she stood up, took off everything, bit her lower lip, and came forward.
"Don't bear all the pressure alone from now on. Take me with you. We will go through life and death together."
Chen Sixuan held Lin Xian's face with both hands, her body rising and falling, and spoke in a gentle tone.
Lin Xian felt warm in his heart, and he felt that the taut string had loosened a lot. He couldn't help but put his arms around Teacher Chen's waist and deeply breathed in the breath of freedom.
In the cockpit of the Infinity, there are surging waves, the tenderness of the mountain breeze, excitement, publicity, and the doomsday frivolity that exceeds the dopamine of the mycelium network by 10 times...
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After the passion passed, Lin Xian felt refreshed.
Ever since he met the corpse driver, he was not even too worried about the appearance of any ordinary strange creatures in the dark night, and his mentality became much stronger.
In the sleeping cabin of carriage No. 1, Lin Xian took a shower and Teacher Chen had fallen asleep peacefully. Lin Xian was ready to guard this section of the polar night journey by himself. After the polar night was over, he would have a good rest and Chen Sixuan would take charge.
After closing the cabin door, Lin Xian controlled the 20 Thunder Falcon 2000 attack robots. This was one of his biggest gains during being trapped in Yijin City.
Originally, Lin Xian was planning to manufacture attack drones, but he was troubled by the fact that he did not have the ability to remotely control machinery. Even if he could mass-produce small drones and mount some explosives, he would still need to use a control terminal to remotely control them. This would be okay if it was not a combat state, but with the dangers he had encountered before, such behavior sounded completely like a clown.
Now he not only has the ability to directly control machinery remotely, but these Thunder Falcon robots are much more powerful than the previous rotor drones. They are equipped with Hall propulsion engines, are extremely fast, agile, have their own armor, and most importantly, each one carries an arc pulse cannon with considerable power.
Lin Xian raised his hand and waved. With a whoosh, 20 spherical attack robots took off instantly and floated in a circle in front of Lin Xian. The red light flashed like mechanical Dharma images, which was extremely spectacular!
Immediately, he waved his fingers, and under his precise manipulation, they were arranged into an S shape, and then into a B shape, very neatly, which made Lin Xian watch eagerly and feel extremely excited.
"If I build 200 or 2,000 of them, wouldn't I become the mother of a mechanical swarm?!"
"Fuck! This is called deus ex machina!"
Imagine a sky full of swarms of drones firing at the same time. It makes my scalp tingle just thinking about it.
"Oh yeah, if I combine a few robots and install them on my power armor, then I can fly, right?!"
"genius!"
The more Lin Xian thought about it, the more excited he became. He planned to replace his Lone Wolf S power armor and build a Black Hawk Silent Hunter. This kind of Phantom Wolf-level strength has been demonstrated in Chen Sixuan and Ding Junyi. It is powerful and fully covered. Even if it does not have the flight function, it has a small propulsion system. It can fly short distances at low altitudes and easily climb buildings hundreds of meters high. It is no problem to fly across the sky. After a little modification by Lin Xian, it will definitely greatly improve its mobility. By then, he will not need KIKI to carry him to fly, and his mobility will be greatly enhanced!
At this time, Lin Xian opened his own research and development center.
[G3-Electromagnetic Railgun (Blueprint) Under development: 16 hours and 29 minutes]
"A new blueprint is coming soon..."
Although Lin Xian was looking forward to the new electromagnetic gun upgrade blueprint, he still built a G3-rail gun in carriage No. 5 first. The newer it is, the more difficult it is to manufacture. Lin Xian was actually starting from the reality. Just like although he can now build Black Hawk-Silent Hunter, he does not have the energy to provide a set for everyone on the train. Being able to be equipped with a tactical-grade Lone Wolf S is already a big improvement over before, and much better than the TRP that Lin Xian is going to build. There is no need to be too aggressive.
Lin Xian was still planning to continue making 1130 and G3-electromagnetic railguns, but he was going to reorganize the Sun and then manufacture them according to the carriage layout, so he put the automatic bullet punching machine aside for the time being, and planned to repair the damage to the entire train after the huge earthquake, and by the way, see how Grace's system rewrite was going. By then, he could hand over the planning and design of the train, including some blueprint modifications, to Grace to help.
Another thing is his own surge skill. He must devour a 300-megawatt nuclear power device to perform the mechanical amplification of this skill. However, in the entire joint train fleet, only Longshan No. 1 and Queen Mo are quasi-intercontinental nuclear-powered locomotives with a power of more than 300 megawatts. It is impossible for Lin Xian to devour other people's survival. This device is very valuable. Even if Lin Xian has it, he will feel very distressed to devour it.
In addition to the surge, the only skill that has not reached the maximum level is Flashback. He has not used this skill for a long time and it is currently at Flashback (rare) (level 2 50%).
"After we unite the Sun Team, we will build a missile carriage and use the MK-66 roll-on cantilever missile launcher that we scanned earlier."
Lin Xian walked towards the rear carriage while thinking about it, and used his Mechanical Heart to scan the structure of the carriage and repair some damaged details. However, he was too worried. The newly modified composite armor had amazing defense, and there was basically no fault with the carriage body, which saved Lin Xian a lot of trouble.
He walked into carriage No. 2. In the dark carriage, only KIKI's information center was emitting blue light. Sasha had fallen asleep in the rest cabin, while KIKI was sitting in her swivel chair, busy in front of the computer with a lollipop in her mouth.
"How about it?"
Lin Xian asked in a low voice as he approached.
"Not so fast." KIKI's ten fingers were working on the computer quickly, and she was holding a lollipop in her mouth and said, "The computing power of my computers is too low. It will take a long time to analyze Grace's data. There is no point in being anxious."
"I know." Lin Xian nodded: "Then take your time. I'll update the configuration for you when I have the chance."
"You're dreaming. Do you know what a quantum computer with 8192 computing power is?" KIKI kicked his calf, turned around in his swivel chair, looked at Lin Xian, took out the lollipop in his mouth, pointed at Lin Xian and said, "This level of computing power can be directly applied to the operation and maintenance unit of the entire ocean track. It is even an order of magnitude higher than the climbing elevator system of Yubei Airport. Do you think you can get it so easily?"
Lin Xian smiled and said, "We already have one."
KIKI rolled her eyes at him, then changed her tone and said, "Speaking of which, this Crimson World is indeed quite impressive. They actually placed an intelligent robot of this level in a hibernation center, and it looks like it should be a simplified offline version... Tsk tsk."
What she meant was that there must be more than one robot like Grace in the Crimson World, and there must be versions with more powerful computing power.
Lin Xian understood what he said and said with a deep breath, "If it is just a center to fool people, it seems unnecessary. But Director Ding said that the mycelium may really be able to upload human consciousness and use the human brain as a computing unit to infiltrate the brain consciousness. From this point of view, the mycelium in the polar night is not simple, and the research of the Crimson World is not just to fool some rich people."
KIKI nodded: "That makes sense, but you have to wait until I'm done here. Don't turn on the Grace, otherwise it will definitely cause us trouble if there is no system overwrite."
"Don't worry about that." Lin Xian smiled: "Why don't I just hand her over to you and leave her with you."
Grace's current program instruction is to protect the Zero Element Center. Now that the Zero Element Center has been destroyed, it is possible that Grace will trigger some kind of attack instruction after turning it on. Although Lin Xian and KIKI can control her, who knows if she will activate some information transmission function and cause trouble for the team. Therefore, Lin Xian will never turn it on without completely overwriting KIKI, and the energy transmission components inside are also quietly cut off by his mechanical supernatural powers. Unless it is disassembled and repaired, no one can start it.
Unexpectedly, when KIKI heard Lin Xian's words, she waved her hands repeatedly: "No, I don't want to put it here."
"Why, are you scared too?"
"No." KIKI glanced at Shasha who was sleeping not far away: "If it's left here, that little girl won't be able to sleep."
"Uh... okay."
Lin Xian nodded. He guessed that Grace had not been dealt with yet. After all, she was obtained from the Adventists, and she possessed extremely high intelligence and perfect similarity to the human body. It was normal for the people in the car to have concerns about this humanoid robot.
He was about to leave when KIKI suddenly blocked his way with her calves and looked at Lin Xian: "Wait, there's something I want to know."
Lin Xian smiled when he heard that, and before she could finish, he immediately held up the girl's face and kissed her fresh little lips.
It's warm and sweet, with the flavor of a strawberry lollipop.
"Okay, here's your reward."
KIKI's cheeks turned red from this sudden attack. She immediately kicked Lin Xian away and said angrily, "That's not what I'm talking about, you bastard!!!"
Lin Xian was a little embarrassed and laughed: "Ah, what are you talking about?"
KIKI's chest heaved rapidly. She glanced at him unhappily, her face changed, and then she turned around. Her fingers tapped on the keyboard, and a picture popped up on the screen.
"Here, help me make this."
Lin Xian took a look and found that the drawing looked like a cold weapon blade, like a phoenix wing, but the strange thing was that the blade had no handle, both ends were sharp, and there was no grip area. It looked like a sharp blade.
"What is this?" Lin Xian frowned: "Knife?"
KIKI said, "I found this in the federal database I collected originally according to my own ideas. It is a pop-up rotating blade of some mecha weapon, but it should be an obsolete solution."
Lin Xian looked at KIKI in confusion, not knowing what she was up to.
KIKI seemed to have guessed that Lin Xian would have such a look, so she patiently explained:
"When we participated in the Phoenix Society's ability assessment before, didn't Wen Zhuo talk about the development of abilities? I have actually thought about this carefully. Most of the time, my abilities are more functional than offensive. One of the uses I developed before was a large-scale shock wave, but it also consumed a lot of my physical strength. So I thought about it. Since hot weapons are not suitable for me, but cold weapons are okay, if you can help me make a blade of this configuration, and then I can control it with telekinesis, it will not only have lethality, but can also be recycled, and it will consume less of my telekinesis. Isn't this killing four birds with one stone? What do you think, is it a genius?!"
Lin Xian understood immediately after hearing this, but couldn't help but frowned: "Si De? What else?"
KIKI giggled, turned around and clamped Lin Xian with her two smooth legs, looking at him with a smile: "I want you to make a hundred sets for me!"
As she spoke, she became more energetic, her eyes became fierce, and she gestured left and right like a martial arts master, "I can control a hundred sets of these blades at the same time. When they move, they are like a storm of swords, sweeping away the monster tide. When they guard, they are like dragon scales protecting the body, indestructible. Hehe, they can also defend. Isn't this killing four birds with one stone?"
Lin Xian's eyes lit up. It was a good thing that this girl could come up with such a plan. Her current level of telekinesis evolution was not low, and her control proficiency was also increasing. If she used this method, the lethality would indeed be much stronger. The blade could also be recycled, and even if it was broken, Lin Xian could make a new one for her. This was indeed more efficient than simply using shock waves to bombard zombies as before.
The only problem is that the high-level strange bodies have good defense, and some of them may not be able to be cut even with his electric knife. When necessary, KIKI still needs to use his concentrated telekinesis and shock waves to suppress them.
Thinking of this, Lin Xian nodded and praised: "Good idea, OK, I will build you a hundred sets according to this design, and then make a separate automatic storage cabin and place it on the top of the train compartment. You can take it out and use it when you need it. Is that okay?"
KIKI nodded immediately after hearing this: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, I just want... um."
Before she could finish her words with a smile on her face, Lin Xian suddenly attacked her again, picked up her face, kissed her hard on her fresh little mouth, and then ran away.
“Ouch…you you…”
KIKI angrily scolded the scoundrel who attacked her. She gritted her teeth and looked at Lin Xian's departing back. There was a little joy in her eyes. She murmured, "What a bad guy..."
Lin Xian thinks that KIKI is a really likable girl. Although she seems willful and capricious on the surface, due to her childhood experiences, she is actually a girl with a serious and tenacious temperament. Not only is she extremely beautiful, she is also a genius girl. Of course, her only shortcoming is... she is against A. However, this does not affect Lin Xian's love for this girl. The two of them are now getting more and more tacit understanding, which is gradually developed through repeated life-and-death battles.
Now his relationship with KIKI has basically been broken. Although that girl is too proud to admit it and likes to find excuses such as dark corners or putting on lipstick, both of them actually know the truth.
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In carriage No. 3, as required, all the lights in the train carriages must be turned off, and this one is no exception, but Ding Junyi still turned on a small desk lamp, and then used experimental instruments to observe the living mycelium she brought out from the Zero Element Center.
When Lin Xian walked into carriage No. 3 and saw Ding Junyi, she just stood up and looked at Lin Xian.
"You look tired. You should rest."
"Let's talk about it after we get out of the polar night area." Lin Xian was a little surprised. This was not something Ding Junyi would say normally.
Ding Junyi put down the equipment in her hand and said to Lin Xian seriously: "The fact that the mycelium network can upload consciousness has a certain warning effect on my cognitive judgment, but it also shows a problem, that is, the degree of understanding of dark creatures to humans may be higher than we expected. We are studying darkness, and darkness is also studying us."
Lin Xian's eyes narrowed when he heard this, and he murmured, "When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you."
Ding Junyi raised her eyebrows slightly: "There is another point. The mycelium network and the mushroom tower are a special life form that has the ability to analyze human thinking. Logically speaking, the weakness of being easily triggered by fire and causing chain explosions is much different than its value and protection. This is very unreasonable."
"You mean, this thing shouldn't be destroyed so easily?"
"Yes."
Lin Xian frowned slightly: "Perhaps it's because this is already the polar night area, which is already the territory of dark creatures, so..."
"If you want to explain it this way, the corpse chaser you saw might be considered a kind of protection mechanism for them, and we were just accidental sabotage." Ding Junyi said, "Of course, it could also be that humans have explored too little in the polar night, and there is information asymmetry. After all, we humans are still too small in front of the dark creatures. It must be a rare thing to be able to ignite and detonate the mushroom tower on 'their' territory."
"I see what you mean."
"There is another question that may interest you." Ding Junyi walked to the side of the experimental cabin, where there were two cultivation cabins, one for the Hell Black Chrysanthemum and the other for the Silver Dragon Hundred Thousand Cucumbers. But the strange thing was that the Hell Black Chrysanthemum seemed to be a little bigger than before, and the Silver Dragon Hundred Thousand Cucumbers had grown a lot taller from its original silver-white seedling, and a white flower bud had grown in the middle of it.
If you look closely, you can see that it is emitting a strange white light.
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