Chapter 330 Devour
"Don't look, run!"
Lin Xian's words rang out like a loud bell in Shi Diyuan and Ning Jing's headphones, and everyone in the Longshan No. 1 cockpit felt as if the temperature in the cabin had dropped by 10 degrees in an instant. After realizing what was happening, Shi Diyuan broke out in a cold sweat and immediately pressed the window closing button on the console to close all the cockpit windows.
"Speed up, rely on the drone and car navigation, and don't look over there!"
The moment he saw the statue, Lin Xian recognized it. It was the Merlion of Lion City coordinates that was swallowed by Star Abyss No. 5 on the Day of Apocalypse. So it was impossible for that thing to appear in the uninhabited area of the Western Gobi Desert, and in such a strange way.
The floating colossus, the distorted light, the lion's eyes staring at blood and tears. When the human brain tries to understand this picture for the first time, it seems as if billions of redundant information bombard the neurons of the brain in an instant, making the brain begin to waver in its actual existence, and the spirit seems to be corroded by the vision.
This feeling was completely different from the scene when Lin Xian saw the silver bullet. It really seemed like an object from another dimension.
Boom!
In an instant, a loud thunder exploded inexplicably above the vast uninhabited wilderness. No one knew whether it came from the sky or the ground, which made everyone in the already extremely anxious joint convoy feel nervous.
[The system is detecting the driver's vital signs]
[Physical status is good, heart rate...body temperature...]
【Common system activated】
A light screen flashed in front of my eyes, the system completed the restart, the progress bar was imported, and various subsystems such as movement, defense, radar, situational awareness, life support, etc. appeared one by one in the light screen interface.
Lin Xian immediately closed all the sunshades of the train, his heart pounding. At this moment, the giant seemed to change direction and "look at" the joint train. It was infinitely moving away and at the same time infinitely enlarged, as if the surrounding space was collapsing in its direction!
Lin Xian reacted and rushed to Car No. 2, pressing the communicator and shouting
"Everyone, don't look to the left side of the train!"
Hearing Lin Xian's words, the leaders of each team on the joint train were startled and hurriedly passed the message to their teams.
"No way~"
In the Fu Lu Shou RV, Hu Lushou, who had been worried all the time, turned pale and hurriedly pulled down the curtain next to the window. But after thinking about it, he realized that this was the right side, so he quickly pulled it up again. At this time, he looked towards the south of the no-man's land and immediately took a breath of cold air.
"Lin Xian, look!"
In the information center of Carriage No. 2, KIKI stared at the screen in front of her with wide eyes. The picture inside made her open her mouth in surprise and she was speechless.
Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan rushed out of the car one after another, only to see a horrifying scene on the surveillance screen.
On the left side of the train is the vast rusty red desert Gobi under the setting sun, while the skyline on the right side of the south collapsed without any warning. The vast horizon of the Gobi Desert was still immersed in dazzling gold a second ago, but at this moment, a dark tide stretching for thousands of miles appeared, like an overturned ink pool. The thick darkness surged up from below the horizon, like a giant wall of liquid asphalt more than a thousand meters high, pushing towards the entire Gobi Desert at a speed beyond the laws of physics!
The darkness was not pure black. The depths of the darkness and the tides seemed to be filled with the iridescence of an oil spill. The air suddenly became sticky like gelatin. All the light on the horizon was dyed by the darkness into a sickly emerald green, sweeping across the sky and the ground madly.
"What...what is that?" Chen Sixuan covered her mouth and asked in an incredulous tone.
"That's fucking Xingyuan No. 5!!!"
Lin Xian immediately felt a sudden explosion in his brain, and without even thinking, he started to operate his mechanical heart frantically, accelerating the power of the four traction locomotives, including the Giant Whale 03E heavy gas turbine locomotive, the Dragon-class locomotive, and the Huanxing 10A locomotive, to the extreme. In an instant, all the engine motors of the Infinity roared, and the huge torque made all the driving iron wheels of the train tear out flashing orange sparks. Instantly, a huge impact force pushed Longshan No. 1, pulling the train behind and began to accelerate violently!
"Everyone speed up, run!"
Empty, empty, empty!
The carriages of Longshan No. 1 being pushed in the front all emitted huge metallic clanging sounds from their cabins, and at this time all the people in the convoy also discovered the terrifying black tide in the south. There were continuous inhalations, shouts, and exclamations in the communication band, and for a moment, the power of all the trains was accelerated to the extreme, and at this time, it did not matter whether the northern line track had been maintained for a long time or was damaged, all of them began to run at the highest power.
250KM, 300KM, 350KM, 400KM! !
The sound of breaking wind is whistling. This long steel dragon in the wilderness is accelerating violently. The yellow sand on the Gobi Desert is swirling. The 15-kilometer-long combined train is carrying the ultimate power of the industrial behemoth and rushing at high speed!
At this time, the Fu Lu Shou convoy, the Dawn convoy, the Aksai Brotherhood and other convoys were cursing in and out of the cars.
“Run, run!!”
“Speed up!”
"Throw away the unwanted weights and charge!"
"It's over, it's over..."
"Shut the fuck up, drive carefully and watch the road!!"
At this time, the leader Lu Zhao shouted in the communication band: "Keep the formation, don't get confused, don't drive out and follow the car in front!"
The Gobi Desert looks flat but is actually full of rugged rocks. Only the road surface that has been compacted artificially next to the track is the smoothest. In addition, there is a tow truck leading the way, which allows the convoy of hundreds of vehicles to maintain the highest speed. If they lose their composure at this time, there will definitely be chaos and many cars will be destroyed and people will die.
Lu Zhao's words immediately discouraged those who wanted to drive out of the traffic jam and overtake. Everyone watched the train speed away and could only hold their breath and chase along the track.
On the train convoy side, all 22 convoys were on edge at this moment. The power of the trains had been increased to the maximum. Even the concrete sleepers on the tracks on the Gobi Desert were shaking, and the darkness in the south was like a tsunami, which had gradually grown from a black line at the beginning to a wider and taller one.
The originally clear sky was also swallowed up by the darkness, like a huge dark wall covering the sky and the earth, constantly advancing towards the train.
On the Longshan No. 1 side, Shi Diyuan broke out in a rare sweat. He clenched his fists as he looked at the dark sky on the monitor and the driving radar.
"So this is the terrifying sight of the Star Abyss pressing down on us!" Ning Jing's face was also extremely solemn. At this moment, including her, everyone in Longshan No. 1 felt a huge crisis.
"Damn, it's still more than an hour before dark." Shi Diyuan frowned.
"That's not the way to calculate it. We are very close to the No. 5 Star Abyss. We escaped from Yijin City along the edge of the polar night." Ning Jing said
"Then how come Xingyuan runs faster than Polar Night? Isn't this..." Shi Diyuan was about to say something strange.
But what is left to be considered normal for them right now?
At this time, Qian Dele's voice came from the communication channel: "The darkness is spreading very fast. It will probably be dark in no more than an hour."
"Is it also called dark in Xingyuan?" Monica said in a cold voice: "Give up all your fantasies. It is impossible for us to advance to Quancheng before dark. We haven't even seen the edge of the tide yet."
In Car No. 2 of the Infinity, KIKI is calculating with Luo Yang and others in Car No. 12. On the computer screen is a picture of the horizon that is captured and recognized using optical information.
"How is it?!" Lin Xian asked anxiously.
"Still calculating!" KIKI's fingers kept operating. At the same time, Luo Yang over there also sent a message.
"Using optical calculations, the expansion speed should be around 220 kilometers. It only takes half an hour to reach us, but the edges on both sides are too blurry..."
Lin Xian remembered that no matter what Chu Yan said, the situation of the Wei River was an irregular expansion of the No. 5 Star Abyss, that is to say, it was not the advancement of the entire Star Abyss with a diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers, but the advancement of a part of the irregular area. So although the tide looked like it was continuous to the end of the sky, it was not actually the case. If it was advancing in a quasi-circular shape, then the arrival of the tide would not be a vertical wall. So if they are escaping along the tangent direction now, as long as they can determine the speed and edge of the dark giant wall, they can calculate whether they can escape.
Papapapa, KIKI said urgently: "According to our speed and direction of travel, we can only avoid it if the expanded part of the abyss does not exceed 1,000 kilometers in diameter and the depth does not exceed 350 kilometers."
Lin Xian's face darkened when he heard this. He synchronized this information to everyone, but it still sounded too optimistic.
"Monica is right. Give up your fantasies. In the worst case scenario, we will be swallowed by the Star Abyss in half an hour. So we can only fight and flee at the same time like we did when we entered the sandstorm this morning."
"Half an hour is barely good news. At least there is time to prepare." Qian Dele said.
"Compared to what happened to Lao Mo and Boss Hu before, it's good news that we're on track." Monica also said at this time: "At least we won't get lost."
"What about Boss Hu and the others? Have they caught up?"
"The communicator still has a signal, so it shouldn't be too far away."
Just as he finished speaking, Hu Lushou's intermittent signal came through the communicator: "Boss, if you can't rush out, why don't you slow down and wait for us? If we encounter a monster tide, everyone should concentrate their firepower so that we won't get separated."
"Who knows what we'll run into? If we run a little further, we might be able to get out as soon as possible. Why slow down?" Shi Diyuan said immediately, "Just keep driving. At the current speed, we won't fall much even if we drive for another half an hour!"
When Hu Lushou heard this, his face turned bitter and he slapped his thigh, ready to curse.
"This is terrible, we are going to become cannon fodder..."
Sun Chang at the side calmly advised him: "They can't slow down for us, but they are right. Now we can only run as fast as we can to follow the track. As long as we don't get lost, we were able to break out last time, and we will definitely be able to do so this time."
After hearing Sun Chang's words, Hu Lushou's resentful face was filled with righteousness. He looked at the dark giant wall on the skyline outside the car window, gnashing his teeth and saying:
"Damn it! If I were driving a Dragon transport, I could just boost my power and charge out. I wouldn't have to endure this."
Sun Chang glanced at him coldly.
"Have you forgotten how your transport ship crashed?"
When Hu Lushou heard this, he shuddered immediately and swallowed back what he wanted to say. He could only sit there and pray with a sullen look on his face.
On the Infinity side, all the crew members who could wear power armor had already put it on. Shuqin, Dalou, and the PX-05 robots were carrying boxes of ammunition to each carriage. Even Lu Xingchen had a stern look on his face and was ready for battle. He stood beside the carriage in power armor, watching the darkness approaching, with fire in his eyes.
"KIKI."
In Carriage No. 2, Lin Xian asked KIKI to put on a set of power armor at this time: "You may encounter anything in Xingyuan. Your telekinetic shield may not be able to withstand everything."
KIKI nodded, and obediently put on a set of Lone Wolf S power armor, and said optimistically: "Actually, I have wanted to wear it for a long time, but sometimes I find it troublesome."
"The motion unit can't be used, but at least the radar system and defensive armor will be useful to you." Lin Xian said.
“That’s true.”
Chen Sixuan walked over and said, "Raise the weapons and turn on the fire control radar in advance. The system reacts faster than humans."
"Okay." KIKI immediately took action and raised all the electromagnetic guns, 1130, anti-aircraft guns and automatic Gatling gun turrets from the roof. At the same time, the arc pulse string vibrator and the electric blade armor on both sides of the train were also turned on. The entire Infinity entered a full-unlimited combat mode.
"Each car reports the situation." Lin Xian looked at the dark giant wall that was getting closer and blocking the sky, and pressed the communicator.
"Car No. 21, Liang Lei, Da Zhou, we're ready, Captain Lin, don't worry." Liang Lei held a weapon in his hand, his skin turned metallic, and he was ready for battle.
"Car No. 17, everyone is ready." Li Yi's voice came.
"Car No. 15, our people are ready." Li Guangwen, wearing power armor, took a deep breath.
"Car No. 14, Luo Luo and Amin are all here!"
"Car No. 12, Luo Yang and Xiao Bai are both OK, and the weapon fire control radar is online!"
"Car No. 9, Shuqin, Miao Lu, and Lu Chang, stand by!"
"Car No. 6, Brother Huo and I are here, don't worry, Brother Xian."
"Car No. 3, I'm Xiaoyuan, and I'm with Director Ding!"
"Car No. 20, Sally is also ready." At this time in Car No. 20, Sasha had already sat in the fully armed Sally. The six-axis robotic arm behind her was mounted on the mecha, and could be launched out of the car for combat at any time.
In carriage No. 2, Lin Xian, Chen Sixuan, and KIKI were all wearing armor and looked at each other tacitly.
"Let's go to the cockpit."
"Um!"
Lin Xian called Chen Sixuan, and the two of them continued to work together towards the cockpit of Infinity.
"There are still about 50 kilometers to go!"
Shi Diyuan's voice came from the communicator, and everyone's expression tensed!
At 17:29, in the south of the vast Gobi Desert, a huge black wall that penetrated the horizon was rapidly approaching with a raging dark storm. At this distance, it seemed that all kinds of strange dark distortions could be seen inside. It was not pure black, but more like a tide of annihilation from another planetary body, completely occupying the space between heaven and earth. At this time, the high-speed United train had the orange-red sunset on the left and a huge dark wave like a cosmic beast on the right. The black and sticky storm sky twisted crazily, silently swallowing the sand dunes, rusty signal towers and wind-eroded rocks passing by.
“20 kilometers!”
Ding ding ding ding!
The ground, the dust, the tracks, were all shaking, the entire sky was becoming dim, and in front of Longshan No. 1, the Gobi desert was no longer visible. Instead, there was only a black curtain of thousands of meters high that looked like a fault line in the world!
“10 kilometers!”
The wind was howling, the iron wheels of the train rolled and collided, creating countless sparks, and the sky and the earth changed color.
When the huge wall of darkness was only three kilometers away from the train, all the frantic sounds suddenly disappeared. The gravel beside the track lost all shadows the moment the darkness touched it, as if the coordinates of the three-dimensional world had been sucked away and flattened into two-dimensional ghost shadows like paper-cuts. The mercury column of the thermometer in the carriage dropped sharply, frost condensed on the surface of the stainless steel forks in the dining car, and the temperature dropped sharply!
Click, click, click
The frequency bands of the trains that had been in communication were now emitting strange noises. The voices of Lin Xian, Shi Diyuan, Monica, Qian Dele and others had become mixed together, making it impossible to hear anything clearly. It was as if hundreds of millions of people were crying and howling in the dark. At the same time, all the electronic equipment on the trains, including the power armor systems, were constantly experiencing strange power surges, and the signals were shaking extremely unstably.
Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan stood in the cockpit, looking out the window at the terrifying black curtain that covered the sky and the sun and was swallowing them, their pupils were frozen!
"Xingyuan..."
“Here it comes!”
When the black sky, like a world fault, swallowed up the entire earth, everything seemed silent. Everyone noticed at the first moment that their senses seemed to have lost connection, vision, hearing, touch... everything was directly shattered by a tumbling force, as if it was self-disintegrating, and nothing existed.
Lin Xian tried to open his eyes, but he felt that he had no eyelids and no eyes.
He wanted to shout, but he couldn't seem to feel his mouth.
He wanted to reach out and find Chen Sixuan, but he forgot where his hand was.
So, Lin Xian tried to operate the mechanical heart.
Buzz~
A mechanical roar gradually became deafening in the void, and he heard it. This was the first time he heard the roar of his own mechanical heart.
Is it true?
As vision gradually took shape, Lin Xian felt that the perspective in front of him became extremely wide, as if his eyes had protruded from his face and turned into fish eyes, and his vision became extremely strange.
At this moment, he was still standing in the cockpit of Infinity. The darkness had climbed up the window. Outside the glass was no longer the Gobi Desert, but a boiling void. He tried to look into the void, but found that Longshan No. 1 in front of the porthole seemed to have disappeared. The carriage was driving into the center of the iris of a giant eye. The pupil was a wormhole that kept collapsing and expanding. The iris texture was actually countless inverted Towers of Babylon, and the spires were pierced with war debris from different historical periods: medieval ironclad ships, atomic bomb mushroom clouds, and the remains of cyborg prostheses... and the train was still rushing forward under the action of inertia, like a photon sucked into a black hole, carrying the last stubbornness of the steel civilization, rushing towards the end of the unknown dimension.
Phew~
Phew~
The second sound he heard was his own breathing. He heard the sound of his nasal cavity panting inside the mask cabin of the power armor, like an astronaut drifting towards the endless abyss of the universe, full of despair and loneliness, but he could not see his own body at all, nor could he see any information about the power armor.
This was the first time that such a strange and detached scene appeared in Lin Xian's mind. At this time, Chu Yan told him that if you see it, then don't look at it. If you try to understand it, it must be against common sense. Don't describe it...
He felt a chill all over his body and quickly closed his eyes to feel his own senses so as not to let himself fall into the loss of falling into the abyss of the universe.
At this moment, he finally felt a surge of strength in his limbs and body. At the same time, all kinds of noisy sounds seemed to come from the depths of the darkness, getting closer and closer.
Didi, didi~
[Hypothermia warning, hypothermia warning...]
Woo~
For a moment, the beeping sound of the watch, the alarm of the power armor, and the roar of the Giant Whale 03E heavy gas turbine locomotive brought Lin Xian back to reality.
Boom boom boom!
The next moment, a strong feeling of weightlessness suddenly came from my brain, followed by falling to the ground!
null!
After a loud bang, Lin Xian felt that the train had completely derailed and seemed to have fallen somewhere. But it was not right. The road was flat and the Gobi Desert was vast. How could he feel weightless?
But the reality left him no room for doubt. When his senses returned, Lin Xian discovered that the entire Infinity cockpit had tilted. The metal connection structure in front of it and between it and Longshan No. 1 made a harsh sound of twisting and breaking, and the interior of the car roared as if a plane crash had occurred.
As the lights of the Jujing 03E heavy-duty gas turbine locomotive flickered, Lin Xian saw the Longshan No. 1 carriage in front of him raised high, and deafening screams and shouts began to come from the headphones.
"ah!!!"
"What's going on!"
"The carriage is broken apart!"
"ah!……"
Bang! At this moment, someone suddenly grabbed Lin Xian from behind. He turned around and saw that it was Chen Sixuan who was holding onto the guardrail. She shouted, "Lin Xian!"
Lin Xian grabbed her with his backhand and immediately activated the Mechanical Heart to start the train engine. Immediately, the roar of the motor was heard, but only then did Lin Xian realize that all the driving wheels were idling and the train was not on the track at all!
Empty empty empty!!
There was a constant metallic roaring sound coming from the rear compartment. Lin Xian immediately put his hands on the porthole and directly created a small drone outside the car, which took off quickly. Finally, as the drone's perspective rose, Lin Xian saw an extremely horrifying scene.
The entire combined train was derailed at this point. The Longshan No. 1 in front, including the Infinity, and the Queen Mo and Joker convoys in the back were all crookedly lying on the black ground. None of the trains overturned, but many of them were twisted and deformed. The lights in the trains kept flickering and disconnected. Like the Infinity, all the trains had power surges in their circuit systems.
What's weird is that the united train is surrounded by dark forests and trees. Many trees are even broken by the train. Torn branches stick out from the windows, looking ferocious in the thick black night!
Lin Xian took a deep breath and immediately controlled the drone to rise vertically. However, as the viewing angle rose, the drone's camera became dim and turbid. He only saw the train behind him lying crookedly in a dark forest, with lights flickering on and off for several kilometers until the end of the darkness.
Looking at the picture in the drone, Lin Xian's expression became serious and he immediately said:
"This...is not the Western Gobi Desert!"
In the forest under the darkness, there seemed to be strange noises other than the train coming from the depths of the woods. The shrill roars echoed in the darkness. Terror was coming and weirdness was coming!
(End of this chapter)
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