Chapter 335 Where are we? !
"Brother Lin, what... is going on?" asked Shi Diyuan with an embarrassed look on his face.
Not only him, but also Monica, Qian Dele and others were fighting side by side just now. They all knew that the strange python was definitely not dead. If it was not dead, how could the dark mark on its body disappear?
Lin Xian took a deep breath and told them about the situation where the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Cuos, a disaster plant, suddenly came down from heaven to help them change the world.
"I'm not sure about the current situation. If we haven't been attacked for a while, it means that those strange beings can't find us because of our silent state... We are temporarily invisible to those monsters."
"So weird?"
"Another disaster plant..." Qian Dele immediately became interested when he heard it: "It sounds even more magical than supernatural powers. It is said that disaster plants grow in the abyss of stars and the polar night. It makes me want to get two to study."
Monica's eyes lit up at this time, and she also said: "I have seen a caravan in Xilan City before. There is a kind of disaster plant that is very powerful. It can accelerate the division of biological cells in a range. This can greatly speed up the recovery of injuries and the improvement of superpower evolution."
"Because of this thing, this convoy was targeted by the Adventist organization and encountered a lot of trouble. Now it seems that the entire group has been taken over by the Phoenix Society..."
"The Phoenix Society also took away the disaster plant, right?" Ning Jing asked
Lin Xian frowned slightly when he heard this and looked at Monica.
Monica shrugged. "That's for sure. The Order of Phoenix is also paying great attention to the research on disaster plants. But they certainly won't take them away unconditionally. The entire convoy was taken to the Phoenix headquarters by Night Walker. At least before the end of the world, we don't have to travel around like we do."
Lin Xian said frankly: "This disaster plant was given to me by a friend's team. It didn't have much use along the way, but I didn't expect it to save my life at the critical moment."
Upon hearing this, Shi Diyuan looked at Lin Xian and said, "Brother Lin, if the authorities knew about the disaster plant that could remove the dark mark, they would definitely want to study it."
Shi Diyuan's words were not concealed, and Lin Xian naturally understood what he meant. He just said: "Oh, if someone from the government rescued us from here now, I would be more than happy. If we can find a way to solve the dark mark like my pot of hell black chrysanthemum, it will benefit all mankind."
In fact, when he was in Xilan City, he was also worried about this problem. For the Phoenix Society, the research on the Hell Black Chrysanthemum is of great significance. However, because it is related to the importance of the Dark Mark, and the person is his old friend Wei Kexue, Lin Xian did not keep it to himself.
According to Chen Sixuan, after the battle of Xilan City, Zhao Yu, Wen Zhuo and other members of the Phoenix Society did not mention this matter. Lin Xian guessed that from the perspective of the Phoenix Society's scientific research team, the characteristics of the Hell Black Chrysanthemum had been discovered and there was no need for research. If they knew that the Hell Black Chrysanthemum could also convert dark energy to help enhance and stimulate superpowers, perhaps Lin Xian would inevitably have some negotiations with the Phoenix Society officials.
But that's all in the past. From what Monica said, it can be seen that Lin Xian is not the only one who has disaster plants with strange properties. Other teams, including the Federation and the Phoenix, must also have them.
After such a long time, the Silver Dragon Hundred Thousand Cuosuo only produced one bud, and it is not even known whether there will be a chance to produce a second bud, so the true value of the Silver Dragon Hundred Thousand Cuosuo remains to be seen, but he was also surprised at this life-saving artifact. If he could master it, then combined with his own Heterogeneous Rubik's Cube, it would be equivalent to having a golden medal of immunity from death, which is definitely a great treasure.
"Captain Lin, are we trapped here now?"
Zhou Hongqiu of the Red Rose Team had a nervous look on her face. She understood that the entire team might be safe temporarily, but at the same time, so many people were trapped in this dark forest, with no tracks and seemingly no dawn. This situation would lead to death sooner or later.
"yes."
Lin Xian did not hide the fact that he was physically and mentally exhausted at this moment. The second time he tried to use the gravitational lens almost made him fall apart. Now he could still stand here and discuss with everyone, all thanks to his personal willpower.
"I don't know how long this situation can last. No matter what, let's quickly clean up the battlefield and wait and see what happens. We can take a few minutes to catch our breath. The big snake must be around and may attack us at any time..."
Lin Xian had no idea about the current situation. He was not sure how long this subtle silence would last, so he was nervous and couldn't relax.
Upon hearing this, Shi Diyuan said with a gloomy face: "Everyone go back to the convoy and rest first. We have suffered heavy casualties this time, and it is better to have a chance to catch our breath. In short...be ready to fight at any time!"
No one felt safe in the dark forest, so after a brief meeting, the captains of the joint convoy immediately returned to their trains, seizing this perfect opportunity to clean up the mess, and all communications were conducted through communicators.
As the large force began to move, Lin Xian looked around the entire train line. There were figures scattered under the light curtains of the carriages, and the air was filled with the smell of blood and burning.
There were many dead bodies lying outside the camp. The worst case was on a temporary track escape route from the Black Lake to the position. Hundreds of faces that were still vivid two hours ago had now lost their vitality. In the dark swamp, the dead people slowly sank into the mud. In the forest, strange black shadows kept dragging away the cold corpses.
No one dared to leave the camp to pick up weapons and supplies from their companions. Everyone gathered in the train camp to take a breather from the fear that had just occurred.
On the outer circle train, the survivors looked out the window at the dark dead woods outside the camp. They could faintly hear countless strange whispers. The mountains in the distance were still twisting and surging, and the sky was an eerie deep blue.
At this time, people from each convoy were quietly cleaning up the battlefield. The convoys with medical equipment were lining up to rescue the wounded. The backbones of the convoys were busy counting the number of people and ammunition. The engineering team responsible for maintenance was urgently repairing the trains. The combatants were quickly replenishing ammunition for various types of vehicle-mounted weapons. Some were whispering, some were sad and silent. The fate of more than 3,000 people in the entire convoy camp was linked together at this moment, and they hugged each other tightly in the dark forest.
At the beginning, the Infinity, which had the Heterogeneous Cube, was the team least affected by the darkness and also the first to react. Lin Xian didn't understand why the Heterogeneous Cube, which originally acted on the carriage, would expand such a large shielding range. However, with the help of this artifact, the Infinity did not mutate. Coupled with the Infinity's automated firepower, Lin Xian's team became the only convoy with no casualties.
Lin Xian returned to the Infinity. In carriage No. 2, the team members were reporting on the situation in each carriage. Lin Xian removed his power armor, sat in the corner of the carriage, opened the sunshade and looked at the dark forest outside with a grim expression.
"We have seven injured here, not serious."
"I have about ten people here too, all of them are injured. Old Li had one of his eyes damaged by the flying insect, but the others... are all fine."
Liang Lei and the building's two assault teams belong to the Infinity's core firepower. More than 100 people use the most sophisticated weapons made by Lin Xian, and they also have power armor for protection. Under such circumstances, they actually damaged 4 sets of armor, and at the same time, a large number of power armors are facing some malfunctions and repairs.
"1130's bullets are all gone, and even several arc pulse string vibrators are burned out. Fortunately, our armor is thick and can withstand it." Luo Yang, who is wearing a power armor, said at this time: "I have deployed monitoring sensors outside. Combined with our sentry system, we will know immediately if there is any movement."
"We can only watch. We can't open fire now." KIKI quickly operated on the keyboard, checking the condition of the train while saying: "Now only the rail electromagnetic cannon can be used, the others are basically empty..."
Shuqin, who had fought all night, saw that the atmosphere was a little depressed, so she said comfortingly: "We are very lucky to have held on until now. In the previous situation, we could still run away, but this time even the track has disappeared. If it weren't for Captain Lin's intervention, we would definitely not have survived these two hours."
"Yes, think about it brightly. Our current situation is equivalent to surviving the polar night. As long as people are still alive, there must be a way out!" Li Yi also responded positively at this time.
"Hey~ what are our plans next?" KIKI turned around from the swivel chair and looked at Lin Xian. At the same time, everyone's eyes fell on Lin Xian.
Lin Xian shook his head, took a deep breath and said, "I don't have any ideas yet, mainly because we don't even know where this place is."
He looked at the randomly spinning compass on his watch and said in a deep voice, "It's not just the direction, the communication pressure is also very high. If there is no train repeater, the communicator will lose contact after one kilometer, and all radio stations will be paralyzed..."
The current situation can be said to be the most unsolvable situation that Lin Xian's infinite train plan has encountered since it started from Jiang City. This is no longer a problem of broken tracks or derailment, but the entire train has inexplicably come to this deep mountain forest. In this situation, even if Lin Xian can build tracks, he has no way to start.
At this moment, the only thing he could think of was the plan Qian Deluo had proposed before. By using two all-terrain trains and other cars, Lin Xian would devour the trains and create some more vehicle vehicles, so perhaps he could carry more people away.
But this idea seemed to him to be a bad idea. Without 1130 and the electromagnetic gun, so many people running around in the deep mountains and forests would be tantamount to seeking death.
So Lin Xian was at a loss for a moment.
Shu Qin frowned when she heard Lin Xian's words: "Before, when we were in the polar night, we were still able to tell the direction, but here there are no road signs around, and no one has ever seen this lake or mountain. We don't even know where we are. In this case, are we really in the Star Abyss?"
"Wait!" KIKI turned around and said to Lin Xian, "Just now it was daybreak. Didn't we see the direction of the setting sun? At least we can tell east, west, south, and north."
"Then what direction?" Lin Xian looked at her and said, "If we don't know the exact location, how can we know which direction is away from the center of Xingyuan?"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone fell silent.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Chen Sixuan suddenly walked in and said to Lin Xian in a serious manner: "It's not difficult to know where this place is!"
She had just packed up the trunk with Miao Lu, Xiao Yuan and the others, and said directly to KIKI and Lin Xian: "KIKI, have you forgotten that our sentinel system has surveillance video? Check it out immediately, first determine the direction based on the sunset point and time, and then match the mountain terrain features scanned by radar with our global topographic map, then you can know our location, right?"
Chen Sixuan's words immediately attracted everyone's attention. Lin Xian was shocked and couldn't help but said, "Smart, Teacher Chen!"
"But this terrain looks very ordinary. It's not that easy to compare it globally, right?" Li Yi asked at this time.
“It’s not difficult!”
At this time, Ding Junyi followed him into Car No. 2 with her hands in her pockets, and said coldly, "There are many ways to assist in positioning. For example, due to the Coriolis force, erosion on the southern banks of rivers in the Northern Hemisphere will be more serious. Although the trees in this forest have withered, they can still be identified as red eucalyptus, a large tree of the Myrtaceae family and genus Eucalyptus. There are three areas in the world where this type of tree is most widely distributed: North America, Australia, and... the Hengduan Mountains."
"Hengduan Mountains? Luling Great Forest?!" Luo Yang's eyes lit up immediately when he heard it: "We are indeed in Star Abyss No. 5!"
"That's easy!" KIKI immediately understood the intentions of Chen Sixuan and Ding Junyi, and began to review the Sentinel system video and the regional topographic map scanned by the radar, and then compared them with the topographic map of the original map.
"Pay attention to the mountain range in the west." Lu Xingchen crossed his arms and said mysteriously, "I have noticed that there is nothing there at dawn."
"I saw it too." Chen Sixuan said at this time: "That is definitely not a mountain."
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the car suddenly became tense. Everyone understood what Chen Sixuan meant. Sasha quietly pushed open the visor a little and looked at the outline of the mountain in the distance to the west. Her face was full of worry: "It can't be a super monster..."
Lin Xian pressed her head and said, "It's covered."
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21:00
The night was like a pool of turbid liquid asphalt, pouring down from the gaps between the treetops and immersing the entire forest in sticky darkness. Only the sky solidified into a sickly dark blue. Fragments of the bay above the western sky floated in the dark and deep void. It seemed that the area over there no longer seemed like the real world.
After more than an hour of continuous comparison by KIKI and others, Lin Xian's team finally determined their current location.
Located in the southwest corner of the Hengduan Mountains, about 800 kilometers northeast of the center of Star Abyss No. 5, there is a swamp lake called Butuo Lake. After learning the name, Lin Xian immediately remembered that he had heard the name before. It was in an exploration program that specifically visited this primeval forest deep water lake known as the "Bottomless Lake".
Lin Xian didn't know how the combined train appeared in a primeval forest at least 4,600 kilometers away from the Aksai no-man's land, but it did confirm the strange encounter between Lao Mo and Hu Lushou before.
After determining the location, Chen Sixuan used the map to find the nearest place with railway tracks.
White City.
A mountain city about 85 kilometers away from the joint convoy's position, which was swallowed up and covered by the star abyss as early as the beginning of the Apocalypse.
There is a track from there directly to Haiqu, which is about a thousand kilometers away from Luling.
Lin Xian stood in front of the information center and looked at the map with a complicated expression. The good news was that 85 kilometers was not far, and it was still on the east side of Xingyuan. There was mainly a forest in the middle, and the terrain was not too rugged. By building a simple track, there was a chance to drive the joint train into Baicheng.
Now the Ocean and Parrot convoys have been broken up, and even the captains have been killed. Lin Xian asked Shi Diyuan to arrange for these people to be added to other convoys, and the original supplies were also taken away. Then Lin Xian prepared to receive these two trains for material consumption. If they could recycle while moving, the material problem could also be solved.
But the bad news is that they can't escape now. Lin Xian knows the shielding mechanism of the Heterogeneous Cube. It can block the invading force of darkness, but it can't resist the dark mark emitted by the strange body. So now they can live in peace because they are in a silent state and the Heterogeneous Cube isolates the invading force of darkness in this area, which keeps them safe temporarily.
But if you start building the track, you must take the initiative to enter the dark forest, which will make a lot of noise and you can't go fast. Once you are marked with the dark mark, even if it is only level one, it is equivalent to a death sentence in this star abyss.
The circular track line that was just created in a desperate effort for emergency response took two hours to complete the more than ten kilometers of train line with the track machine operating in both directions. Moreover, these tracks are very rough, and the tracks in most areas have begun to sink into the uncompacted humus soil. Their only function is to maintain the status quo and prevent the train from overturning.
So if Lin Xian wants to get the Infinity and the United Train out of this forest, the difficulty can be imagined.
In Carriage No. 2, Lin Xian turned on the intercom on the table and discussed with the backbones of other trains. When Shi Diyuan heard what Lin Xian said, he immediately said: "85 kilometers, and it's all deep mountains and old forests. It's impossible not to be attacked by strange bodies. This is too difficult. We are only more than 20 kilometers away from Yijin City, and that's still the hardened road surface in the city..."
"Captain Lin, with your mechanical abilities, can't you replace the iron wheels of the train with tracks?" Qian Dele said bluntly.
"No." Lin Xian responded immediately: "This is more difficult than building railroad tracks."
Lin Xian had thought about this idea before. Both Queen Mo and Longshan No. 1 had all-terrain drive modules, and he had scanned the blueprints a long time ago. But the problem was that manufacturing an all-terrain drive module was almost equivalent to manufacturing a new train.
Because the core of the train is the traction car and the track driving wheels, apart from that the car is nothing more than an iron box.
In other words, if Lin Xian wants to convert the Infinity into an all-terrain train set, then except for the iron carriages and nuclear power kits, everything must be replaced, including the Weilong class, Huanxing 10A, and even the Giant Whale 03E heavy gas turbine locomotive.
Not to mention the manufacturing difficulty and drawings, the materials alone are enough to make him suffer.
Therefore, Lin Xian's plan is to enter Jinhai, where there is the Longguo CRRC Group and a large number of train loading lines, which will give Lin Xian the opportunity to fully upgrade the train to the Yongheng-class all-terrain train standard.
Ning Jing also said at this time: "There is another problem. Baicheng was covered by Xingyuan on the day of the apocalypse. So even if we can get there, it is still a question whether the track there can be used."
"Yes, no one knows the situation in this Star Abyss. It is a miracle that we are still alive." The captain of the other convoy also said at this time.
"Are we really going to abandon the train and drive out by car?"
"There are too many of us and not enough cars. We can't even take away one-third of the people."
"Why are we here? Has anyone seen anything?"
At this time, someone found the root of the problem.
"It should be related to the statue in the Aksai No Man's Land." Shi Diyuan said at this time: "Didn't you say there was a taboo before? I guess that thing swallowed us in."
"Then can we find this thing and get us out?"
"Don't fantasize." On the Queen Mo, Monica also looked exhausted. She looked at the strange night outside and said, "It's too late to hide, and you still want to look for it?"
"So, we are trapped here and will die?" Shi Diyuan said in a serious voice.
On the Infinity side, the atmosphere in the carriage was also somewhat silent. Some of the key members were sitting and some were standing, and none of them could think of any solution at this moment.
"Everyone, don't worry."
Lin Xian picked up the communicator and whispered, "We have just encountered a worse situation than now. It can't be any worse, so there is no point in getting anxious. In Xingyuan, every minute you can live is a gain. As long as people are not all dead and bullets are not used up, there is always a way. So the most urgent thing is for each team to clean up the mess and organize ammunition and weapons. Since those monsters didn't come to provoke us, it is also a strategy to take a break and conserve energy for rest."
After hearing Lin Xian's words, the hurried arguments of the teams in the frequency band just now slowed down, and Shi Diyuan immediately responded
"Well, Brother Lin is right. It won't be worse than what happened just now. We have all died many times before. It's a blessing to be able to survive in this situation. Let's just take it as it comes. I want to see if people can survive in the Star Abyss!"
"Okay then, let's all brainstorm and speak out any ideas we have. It looks like we won't be able to get out for a while." Qian Dele was open-minded and said in a broad-minded tone.
Monica said, "In this case, do we need to turn off the lights and keep quiet?"
Lin Xian responded: "Try your best. Don't leave the train's range. The train's lights have been on since the beginning. If there was going to be a problem, it would have happened a long time ago."
Lin now doesn't need to use common sense to consider the logic of these creatures from the dark world. A flower can explode into a space bubble, and a heterogeneous Rubik's Cube can isolate the invasion of darkness. Compared with lights and sounds, dark marks are the most direct and deadly. Now the entire convoy has no marks, which is the most critical.
After he finished speaking, he stood up and Chen Sixuan stopped him and said, "Lin Xian, what should we do then?"
"All carriages should remain on alert and on standby."
After arranging each group to go back, Lin Xian came to carriage No. 3. Ding Junyi knew that Lin Xian would come to find him, and had already prepared all the observation changes of Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Cuosuo in advance.
"The growth accelerated after entering the polar night, and it also accelerated after we were swallowed by the Star Abyss. However, when you were fighting just now, the opening of the flower buds showed a strange growth curve. It seems that it may be affected by some kind of energy."
Ding Junyi introduced: "But the strange thing is that there was no such obvious change in Xilan City."
Lin Xian frowned: "When I used the gravitational lens?"
Ding Junyi looked at him and said, "Your guess is very constructive. Your ability can indeed trigger spatial changes in a certain sense. It has certain similarities to the spatial bubbles that burst out from the Silver Dragon's Ten Thousand Cuosuo."
Lin Xian looked at the plant with purple light in its rhizome and said with a gloomy face: "Swallowed by the tide, the whole train appeared in the Xingyuan area 4,600 kilometers away. Disaster plants, taboo objects, the things in this dark world are really going to kill us humans..."
He looked at Ding Junyi and said, "By the way, you have been in affinity with the disaster plant again. Did you gain power with similar characteristics?"
Ding Junyi's face turned pale, and she said, "It's not clear yet. This kind of synesthesia puts a great burden on my body. I can't call on the power of that ability now."
The small flower seedling on top of her head had curled up and hidden in her black hair. The last time she did this, she fainted. This time she was able to stand. It was unclear whether it was because her ability had improved or because of the problem with the disaster plant.
[Non-mechanical energy has been converted, and 1000 mechanical source points have been obtained. ]
At this moment, the transformation information from the Heterogeneous Rubik's Cube suddenly popped up in front of Lin Xian's eyes. After the battle, a large amount of black fog was absorbed by the Hell Black Chrysanthemum and then transformed into a mechanical source point through the Heterogeneous Rubik's Cube.
Lin Xian opened the Mechanical Heart panel at this time and found that from Axai to now, his Mechanical Heart, including devouring and construction, had improved a lot. However, after this anxious escape and battle, he had no time to check his panel.
[Current Mechanical Heart Level LV.5 (6340/20000)]
Mechanical phagocytosis: 4 (1960/2000) Improves phagocytosis efficiency
Mechanical Manufacturing: 5 (1210/3000) Improves construction efficiency
"The mechanical devourer is about to be upgraded... The manufacturing has also been improved so much, it was only 510 last time..."
"I have recovered some of my strength. Since I am trapped here, I will take this opportunity to devour those trains and nuclear-powered locomotives. I will first upgrade their materials and levels!"
In this difficult situation, Lin Xian forced himself to find a direction to act. After all, he needed a lot of materials to upgrade the train and manufacture ammunition!
(End of this chapter)
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