Chapter 338 Silent City (12,000 hits, monthly ticket requested)
On the Infinity, after making their beds and treating their injuries, Lao Mo's family got a place to live. For convenience, Lao Mo moved directly into the carriage of Liang Lei's engineering team, and let Sun Yuzhen and her two children live in Li Yi's living carriage.
Due to the large number of things to do, Lin Xian had not yet asked Lao Mo and others nor had he arranged any work for them. However, Lao Mo himself was an old man with a strong personality. He was straightforward in what he said and did and did not like softies. In addition, he was originally a senior engineer of Xinghua Heavy Industry, and his mechanical level was more advanced than that of Liang Lei, Luo Yang and others. Therefore, before Lin Xian had made any arrangements, he had taken the initiative to join in helping to repair the train.
In the living carriage, Sun Yuzhen looked at the safe compartment that Chen Sixuan had arranged for her family. Even though she was in the dark forest, her eyes were filled with tears. Survival was more important than anything else, and she knew this best.
Whether she was at the hands of the bandits or in the dark, she faced disaster. No matter whether her life or death was unpredictable in the next moment, at this moment, she firmly believed that she could survive.
Therefore, she was very grateful to Lin Xian for taking her in. She had just experienced a big battle and now she was following Shu Qin and Li Yi non-stop to help with arms and clerical work.
But Shuqin told her that Captain Lin had already allocated the tasks, with the ordnance and clerical work being divided into groups, so Sun Yuzhen immediately found Lin Xian, hoping that he could assign her a task.
Lin Xian was making a relay communicator for Grace at this time. Looking at Sun Yuzhen, he remembered that she had just taken Chen Sixuan and Ding Junyi to the sky for reconnaissance, so he said
"You can join the reconnaissance team with Teacher Chen later. Your flying ability will be very useful to us."
"Oh! Okay!" Sun Yuzhen's eyes sparkled and she nodded repeatedly, then immediately ran to find Chen Sixuan.
Lin Xian looked at her back and knew that Sun Yuzhen urgently needed his recognition, so he did not hesitate to point out the importance of her special abilities. Since she had two children, she would feel bad if she did not make a contribution, so Lin Xian did not say much.
On the other side, in carriage No. 13, Mo Xiaotian, his sister Mo Xiaole and a group of children from carriage No. 10 helped to bring back the picked up bullet casings, which were sorted by Shuqin's group. The usable ones would be used directly to reload the primer ammunition, while the unusable ones would be kept aside for Team Lin to use for devouring and conversion materials.
Mo Xiaotian moved quickly and worked very hard. Despite his young age, he was able to carry a 50-60 kilogram iron box of ammunition without any effort. Due to the huge demand for ammunition, carriage No. 13 was packed with people.
Suddenly, a slight sound of bullet explosion was heard, scaring everyone and they immediately stopped what they were doing.
Da Lou and Shu Qin rushed over and found that Mo Xiaotian, who was picking bullets, had blood on his hands. He looked at Shu Qin and Da Lou with one trembling hand and said nervously: "Aunt Shu Qin, this... this bullet exploded."
He protected his sister behind him, and his face did not show the pain of his bleeding fingers, but the regret and tension of doing something wrong.
“Don’t be afraid”
Shuqin held Mo Xiaotian's hand and quickly shouted to Miao Lu: "Miao Lu, put on a hemostatic bandage."
"Okay!" Miao Lu acted quickly.
The man in the building next to him was afraid that he would be nervous, so he whispered to him, "Boy, how did the bullet explode?"
"It suddenly exploded." Mo Xiaole, who was standing behind him, spoke for his brother. As if he was afraid that his brother would be punished, he carefully explained, "My brother picked them up one by one, very carefully."
"Yes, that's me..."
In order to explain, Mo Xiaotian hurriedly and nervously picked up a 7.62 automatic rifle bullet. However, as soon as he picked it up, an extremely imperceptible static arc suddenly burst out from his fingertips, instantly piercing the bullet, and then with a bang, another explosion occurred!
At this moment, the people around were frightened and retreated violently. Shu Qin, who saw this scene clearly, immediately grabbed Mo Xiaotian's bleeding hands and said in a stern voice: "Don't touch these bullets, hurry, go to the medical cabin!"
After saying that, Shuqin immediately asked Miao Lu to take Mo Xiaotian away. Then she looked at the equally shocked building and said
"That seems to be a supernatural power!"
"Notify Captain Lin immediately!"
On Lin Xian's side, 100 sets of small signal repeaters have been produced, using the technology of the Phoenix Society that was scanned in Xilan City. They carry high-energy lithium batteries and have a very long battery life.
He made a metal box, which was lifted by four PX-05 robots. After KIKI edited the mission module, he prepared to let Grace start to "explore the way".
Chen Sixuan and KIKI followed with a group of people. Everyone looked at the robot that was about to carry out the exploration plan with complicated expressions. At the same time, everyone was ready for the battle. If the strange body was disturbed, the battle would start again.
Grace walked down the carriage gracefully and said to Lin Xian: I will survey the road conditions according to the lowest track standard you can make, and follow up your orders in real time through the signal repeater.
"If you disturb the strange entity, you will find a shelter and wait for orders."
【clear.】
Grace responded in a clear female voice: "I will not bring the threat back to the camp, but I still hope that those ugly things are not interested in my plutonium-238 isotope nuclear battery array and motor neuron device."
Lin Xian was surprised when he heard this, but Grace responded
[A robot joke, I hope it can relieve some of your emotional anxiety. ]
"Okay, thank you." Lin Xian smiled bitterly when he heard that.
[You're welcome. Given that I have learned patterns from humans known to the Union Train, you can set me to imitate a specific personality pattern or voice to communicate with you, which may make you feel more comfortable.]
"Wow, can it be men or women?" KIKI became interested when she heard this.
"No need, let's just leave it at that." Lin Xian said directly. He was in no mood to do DIY right now. As soon as this intelligent robot was put to use, he had to use it to carry out a reconnaissance mission that might very well end in failure.
This was somewhat painful for Lin Xian, as he had originally wanted to use it to solve many planning problems on the trains.
But in the current situation, nothing is more important than escaping to Xingyuan. This plan is also the safest plan he can think of at the moment, so he has to try it.
[Received. The upcoming mission is to explore the White City orbital path. The current time is 23:15. While maintaining signal transmission, Grace will transmit an information node to you every 5 minutes.]
"good."
After saying that, Grace turned around and slowly walked out of the position.
At this time, all weapons on the Infinity have activated the fire control program, and will open fire immediately if any abnormality occurs.
As Grace gradually walked into the depths of darkness until she disappeared, Lin Xian's heart couldn't help but rise.
Drop~
Five minutes later, information from the first information node began to arrive on Lin Xian's mobile terminal. When he saw the first red light flashing with the train position as the reference point on the foggy and dark map, Lin Xian finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Got it!" KIKI also held a mobile terminal: "Although it cannot be observed, the signal is indeed unobstructed."
"All repeaters are fixed at 1 kilometer, which should be a relatively safe distance," said Lin Xian.
Chen Sixuan, who was standing by, kept observing the depths of the forest with the Meteorite 3 and said, "No unusual noises were found."
"Don't be too happy yet." Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief: "Finding the direction is one thing, whether the road can be passed is another. In this deep forest, if we encounter a big gully, the track laying machine cannot handle it. We must do it ourselves."
Although Lin Xian has the manufacturing capabilities, even a simple bridge can be solved through the efforts of him, KIKI and a group of engineering teams.
But the problem is the same. If a large number of people need to be deployed, then Grace's exploration will be of little significance.
"I just think that if Grace has reached White City, it at least means... we are still on the Blue Planet." Chen Sixuan looked up at the deep blue night sky and the bay fragments floating on the dome, and said in a comforting tone.
"Captain Lin!"
At this time, Shuqin's voice sounded in the intercom.
In the medical cabin of carriage No. 4, Lin Xian, Chen Sixuan and others were surrounding Mo Xiaotian. Old Mo Sun Yuzhen also rushed over anxiously. Mo Xiaole lay on the transparent hatch of the medical cabin, looking at Mo Xiaotian lying inside with a nervous look on his face and waved.
"My brother...is he sick?"
"No, don't worry, Xiaole." Sun Yuzhen pulled her daughter over.
At this time, Shuqin picked up a broken shell and handed it to Lin Xian and said
"It might be a supernatural power, and Xiaotian is not very good at controlling it yet."
"Wow, what kind of superpower is that? Making the bullet explode?" KIKI looked surprised.
"Xiaotian?" Lao Mo also looked at the bullet in astonishment and then at his grandson: "No, Xiaotian is just like other children. His genes are evolving. His strength has increased a lot, but no one has discovered that he has any special abilities?"
Sun Yuzhen also nodded: "Could it be a mistake?"
"Probably not." The usually taciturn Dasha said, "I saw with my own eyes that when he was pinching the bullet, arcs of electricity emanated from his fingers."
He looked at Lin Xian and said, "It's very similar to the arc power that Brother Xian used before."
Lin Xian's eyes flickered when he heard this: "Electrical ability?"
When Shasha in the crowd heard this, her eyes widened with envy: "No way, such a powerful ability can discharge electricity?!"
"We'll know if it is true or not if we test it."
At this time, Mo Xiaotian's finger injury had been repaired by the school's medical cabin, but it was still a little red. Lin Xian opened the medical cabin, stretched out his hand to Mo Xiaotian to pull him up, and said
"Xiaotian, follow the feeling you had just now and give me some electric shocks. Don't be nervous."
"I'm not nervous, but I'm afraid of hurting...hurting you."
Sun Yuzhen, who was standing by, looked at Lin Xian and said quickly, "Captain Lin, how about letting me give it a try?"
"Electric arc?" Lin Xian smiled slightly: "Don't worry, I also have electrical abilities."
For Lin Xian, releasing electric surges and controlling mechanical current are completely within his grasp.
Mo Xiaotian looked at Lin Xian with some fear, then slowly raised his hand and grabbed Lin Xian's fingers.
Lin Xian encouraged, "Give it a try. Ordinary electric shocks shouldn't hurt me...right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a bright arc of electricity suddenly exploded at Lin Xian's fingertips. The power was so amazing that Lin Xian felt his fingertips suddenly numb. Even the AT force field shield almost responded spontaneously. In an instant, Lin Xian felt pain in his fingers and couldn't help frowning.
"Your supernatural power is quite strong."
Under everyone's gaze, Lin Xian took his hand back and blew on his fingertips, then said to Sun Yuzhen: "It seems to be some kind of electrical ability, but its specific nature remains to be seen."
After saying that, he turned around and looked around, as if he was looking for something.
"Where's Brother Huo?"
"Oh, he's..." Dalou scratched his head and before he finished speaking, Lin Xian said
"Leave him to Brother Huo. When you have time, learn from him and develop this ability. Maybe he will be very powerful."
"Really?!" Mo Xiaotian's eyes widened upon hearing this and he said with an incredible expression.
At this point, Lao Mo and Sun Yuzhen were both a little confused. How come it was such a long time after the Apocalypse Day that the superpowers only appeared?
However, in Lin Xian's opinion, this is a good thing. After the war, under the influence of the regional black chrysanthemum and dark forces, everyone in the car has benefited from the evolution. It is not surprising that some people have mutated into superpowers. For example, Ding Junyi is a perfect example.
"Wow, that's great, my brother has super powers." Mo Xiaole said in surprise.
For a time, the news that Mo Xiaotian had developed powerful superpowers spread to all the carriages of the Infinity, and soon even spread to other teams of the joint train. Only then did Lin Xian discover that five or six people in the entire joint team had awakened new superpowers. Not only that, many superpower people and genetic evolutionists had undergone tremendous changes. His original expectations were too conservative. This was even more obvious than after the battle of Xilan City. Many people noticed that this must be related to the fact that they were now in the Star Abyss.
The strength of everyone here, including Dalou, Shuqin, Chen Sixuan, Lu Chang, Miao Lu, etc., has evolved rapidly. Shuqin even discovered after accidentally crushing the handle of a rifle that her skin and bones were already strong enough to break steel. This was simply unbelievable.
As a result, the joy and novelty of evolution and strength improvement dispelled some of the suppressed fear in the dark night, and the people in the various train teams began to relax a lot in the camp. Especially after the camp had remained safe for such a long time, many people's hanging hearts were reduced by half, and the captains of each team also began to arrange personnel in batches to rest in order to cope with possible changes in the situation.
However, Lin Xian has no intention of taking a break, because the heterogeneous Rubik's Cube is still transforming!
[Non-mechanical energy has been converted, and 1000 mechanical source points have been obtained. ]
After replenishing his energy to a certain extent, Lin Xian prepared to continue devouring the remaining train cars. There were still two nuclear-powered cars waiting for him to deal with. How could he have the mood to sleep? In this environment, once he fell asleep, the camp might have exploded when he woke up.
Grace was right. Lin Xian was very anxious and cautious. He had hardly slept well in the past period of time. He was either devouring, creating, or fighting.
He is always craving for the improvement of strength and the guarantee of safety.
Although there are many people in the team now, fortunately, he has Chen Sixuan, Dalou, Shuqin, Luo Yang, Li Yi and others to help him. Now the engineering team also has a senior engineer Lao Mo who can directly help him solve many train problems. Together with [Grace], Lin Xian can free up a lot of energy.
Of course, the prerequisite is to survive from the Star Abyss.
KIKI knew that Lin Xian was not going to rest, so she also ran to carriage No. 21, holding her mobile terminal to help him observe Grace's progress and movements, and take a rest at the same time.
However, Lin Xian knew that the little girl said this because she actually wanted to stay by his side and rest.
Because at this time KIKI was already curled up in his lap and almost fell asleep.
It was dark in carriage No. 21. Lin was planning to start manufacturing the MK-66 roll-on cantilever missile launcher, the Guardian 86 anti-aircraft missile and the large Storm Eye F12 supersonic air-to-ship missile while devouring. This was a bold attempt. With these things, the Infinity would have large-scale air-to-ground explosive weapons like the Warhawk-class aerial gunboat or the Dreadnought-class aerospace carrier. Especially when facing some tricky strange bodies, this thing might be able to help KIKI Brother Huo solve the problem of fire suppression.
KIKI now likes to stick with Lin Xian, especially in such an empty corner, listening to his heartbeat as he creates and consumes objects, which makes her feel at peace.
So when Lin Xian asked her to sleep, she simply slept on him...
[Swallowed successfully, mechanical source points +30, mechanical swallowing skill proficiency +5]
Inside the carriage, Lin Xian leaned against the corner and finished devouring another empty carriage of the Ocean. When he saw the materials entering the decomposition center, he felt more confident for some reason.
"Lin Xian~" KIKI, who was half asleep and half awake, murmured.
"Um."
"You said, if you can devour through the air from the beginning, then when those thugs' convoys attack us, can we make all their cars disappear in an instant..."
Lin Xian replied without hesitation: "It can be done."
Phew~
Unexpectedly, KIKI, who was nestling on Lin Xian's lap like a cat, suddenly chuckled. Lin Xian asked her what she was laughing at, and she said, "I just thought about those bad guys who drove away and a group of people rolled to the ground. It's so funny just thinking about it..."
Lin Xian smiled and said, "I really want to do this if I have the chance."
"Lin Xian~" KIKI took a breath in his arms and continued, "We will definitely survive, don't worry~"
Somehow, after hearing KIKI's words, Lin Xian's originally troubled emotions calmed down a little. He took a deep breath and said, "Okay."
After saying that, he was ready to continue devouring the carriage, but suddenly remembered that Luo Yang told him that several arc pulse string vibrators on the carriage had burned out, so Lin Xian simply swallowed them up and then made new ones for Luo Yang to install.
Unexpectedly, just after he devoured one of the arc pulse string vibrators, the light curtain of the Mechanical Heart lit up after a long time.
A flash of purple light!
[Swallowed successfully, Mechanical Origin +10, Mechanical Swallowing Skill Proficiency +3, Congratulations on obtaining the Magnetic Storm Shock skill! ]
[Magnetic storm oscillation, releasing a megavolt magnetic storm discharge field with a diameter of 6 meters from itself. The skill level and the energy level of the mechanical heart directly affect the discharge field range and instantaneous voltage. ]
"Fuck the grass!"
Looking at the light screen, Lin Xian cursed silently. He didn't expect that after such a long time and after swallowing so many machines, he finally gained new skills again.
Although it is not a golden super-characteristic skill like the gravitational lens, this purple skill is also very powerful. If it is mechanically amplified in the later stage, the power is simply unimaginable.
"Magnetic Storm... Looks like there's finally a large-scale skill."
Lin Xian's heart was filled with emotions. Apart from the gravitational lens, his most powerful skill was the mechanical energy cannon. Although it was powerful, the monsters he encountered along the way were either large-scale monster waves or S-level or special-level monsters. This move was hardly useful. He had originally planned to focus on developing his drone swarm combat capability, but he didn't expect that because of an arc pulse string vibrator, he would activate a new skill.
"Skill level affects the range. What does the Mechanical Heart energy level mean? My output power?"
At this moment, Lin Xian couldn't help but think of his AT force field shield. As long as the power was sufficient, the force field could be amplified. This sounded like the same idea.
"Hey...if my superstring reactor phase rainbow ring is successfully upgraded, then wouldn't it be..."
Thinking of this, Lin Xian realized that the development of his Mechanical Heart was becoming more and more large-scale and high-powered. It was much better than the beginning when it could only fire wind cannons and drive engines to run away.
Lin Xian wanted to test this skill, but after thinking about it, he decided not to make such a big noise now.
So he suppressed his inner excitement and continued to devour the Ocean's train cars, while at the same time starting to build a missile launcher in car No. 21.
[Swallowed successfully, mechanical source points +30, mechanical swallowing skill proficiency +5]
An empty carriage was completely devoured by Lin Xian.
[Swallowed successfully, mechanical source points +200, mechanical swallowing skill proficiency +50]
An hour later, the Ocean's traction locomotive was completely swallowed by Lin Xian.
At 1 a.m., all the empty carriages and traction locomotives of the Ocean and Parrot had been consumed, leaving only the last two nuclear-powered locomotive sets.
At this time, Grace's path point appeared in the predetermined area on the mobile terminal. In the strange and gloomy dark forest, a small signal repeater would appear on the ground or trees every one kilometer. The signal flickered and stretched for more than 80 kilometers. Grace also entered an unknown area while everyone was waiting.
drop.
At this time, the signal base point sent back by Grace flashed again, but Lin Xian took a look and immediately realized that something was wrong.
Because starting from the 6th base point, which is 30 minutes later, the time of the signal base points transmitted back to Grace has become slower.
At first, it was only a few seconds, and Lin Xian thought that Grace might have encountered some kind of situation, but the problem was that as a highly intelligent computer, Grace would not make such a mistake. Until now, after nearly two hours, the time for Grace to return the signal base point has changed from 5 minutes to 5 minutes and 11 seconds.
"Grace, reconfirm the synchronization time and send back the signal base point every 5 minutes."
At this time, Grace's voice came from the headset, but Grace's voice was obviously accompanied by a lot of signal noise: [Zizi... My timer shows that it sends you a confirmation signal through the signal repeater every 5 minutes. This is not wrong. 】
"But the signal you just sent back was 5 minutes and 11 seconds from the last time?"
[Zizizi... Judging from my mobile radar, my current distance from you is 21,665 meters. In principle, the theoretical delay in information transmission between my moving speed and your distance is 0.067 microseconds.]
"Then how could this happen?"
【Zizizi... Two possibilities. One is that the signal is interfered by some strange entity. Judging from the universality of the dark invasion affecting global radio waves, this possibility is greater. The second possibility is redshift, that is, the phenomenon of gravitational redshift. When the gravitational potential energy of my location is higher than your location, my current time flow will slow down. So when I send a signal "every 5 minutes" according to my own clock, because the time flow in your area is faster, the reception time will be extended.】
Lin Xian was stunned when he heard this.
Gravitational redshift occurs at a distance of 20 kilometers?
Wouldn't the gravitational time dilation formula of general relativity explode directly?
So he immediately issued an instruction to Grace: "Don't add this kind of analysis that is obviously contrary to the logic of reality to the answer sequence. The gravitational redshift phenomenon occurs at a distance of only 20 kilometers. Is there a small black hole in your direction?"
Grace replied, "Based on the limited information I have, there has not been any short-distance high latency phenomenon in the dark influence information infection. Excluding the consideration of weird bodies or "superpowers", the results I obtained through information science and physics analysis can be used as a reference. I suggest that you can also choose to observe this phenomenon next time."
Lin Xian took a deep breath and said, "Keep going. As long as the signal can be connected, I will calibrate the time with you."
"Hmm~ What's wrong?"
Hearing the voice in the communicator, KIKI woke up drowsily from Lin Xian's legs after a nap. When she opened her eyes, she saw that Lin Xian's expression was strange and a little nervous.
After disconnecting the communicator, Lin Xian looked at KIKI and told her what had just happened.
"The dark invasion affecting the signal band is an old problem, but this kind of short-distance delay is a little confusing for me."
After saying that, he looked at KIKI with an inexplicable bitter smile on his face and said, "Am I too sensitive?"
"I think..." KIKI sat up, crossed her arms and said carelessly, "We can't use our original logic to look at anything in this Star Abyss. In fact, there is nothing wrong with your caution. Many times we escape danger because of your judgment. So maybe there really is a black hole in this Star Abyss?"
Lin Xian was stunned when he heard this, and then his eyes darkened: "You are right, the bay has flown to the sky, how can we use common sense to see it."
"Sister Ding also said that experimental data without a certain base number is meaningless. Since Grace has not been attacked and the signal is still connected, why don't we just wait until it reaches White City to verify it?"
Lin Xian nodded upon hearing this: "But if Grace's analysis is correct, then Xingyuan... is already a natural disaster that far exceeds human imagination."
KIKI looked at Lin Xian with complicated eyes, then took a deep breath, raised her hands to hold Lin Xian's neck, and said to him with a bright face.
"Think of it this way. Time is slow here and fast outside. And the global polar night year predicted by the Phoenix Society means that time is longer for us, right?"
"You are stupid."
Lin Xian poked a finger on KIKI's smooth forehead and said, "We have been swallowed by Xingyuan. What's the use of time? Even one night will put a lot of pressure on us now. Water, food and supplies are limited."
"That's right~" KIKI wrinkled her nose in embarrassment, and then snorted and said, "Hey~ If the problem of dark invasion can be solved, we can upgrade the train to fly into the sky when we get out, transform the starship body, and install space thrusters. Having tracks is too troublesome!"
"That's a good idea." Lin Xian nodded.
This is the biggest drawback of the Infinite Train Plan, so Lin Xian is always thinking about improving his mechanical abilities and transforming the vehicle so that the train can soar into the sky as soon as possible!
So, he no longer hesitated and began to devour the Parrot's 140-megawatt nuclear-powered generator set. At the same time, he and KIKI kept paying attention to Grace's information.
Grace's speed was not slow, she was running fast, and she could travel about 20 kilometers in an hour on average. However, as the distance increased, the information noise and signal frequency were also changing.
At 50 kilometers, the time Lin Xian received Grace's information had changed from 5 minutes 11 seconds to 5 minutes 29 seconds.
3 AM
The situation gradually took the direction that Lin Xian and KIKI least wanted to see.
[Zizizi... I have arrived in the northwest of Baicheng, and I can see a cluster of buildings through visual observation.]
Grace's voice came from the communicator.
At this time, several people including Ding Junyi, Chen Sixuan, Shu Qin, Luo Yang and others gathered in carriage No. 21.
Everyone looked at the counter on their mobile terminals with complicated and solemn expressions.
5 minutes and 50 seconds.
[5 minutes and 50 seconds. Assuming that there is a time dilation effect and redshift phenomenon in the Xingyuan environment, by calculating the distance attenuation year-on-year, the time flow rate difference between the position of the front line and the outside of the Xingyuan is 14.02 times, that is, 1 day outside the Xingyuan is equal to 14.02 days at your location and 12 days at my location.]
Grace's words came out of the communicator, and everyone's faces changed drastically.
"The flow of time is speeding up? How could this happen?" Chen Sixuan said.
Shuqin asked: "Could it be that the signal delay is caused by the special environment here?"
"Impossible!" Luo Yang scratched his head. "Even if a super-large and dense celestial body like a black hole caused time distortion, the direction is wrong. How come time is slower the closer to Xingyuan? Shouldn't it be faster?"
Hearing this, everyone turned their eyes to Ding Junyi, the most knowledgeable person in the car.
At this time, Ding Junyi just shrugged and said, "He is right. From the perspective of the gravitational time dilation effect of general relativity, it is difficult to explain this phenomenon unless there is a black hole outside the Xingyuan."
After hearing Ding Junyi's words, Lin Xian opened the sunshade and looked toward the deep blue sky in the west in the direction of the center of the Star Abyss and the bay floating on the sky, and felt a chill on his back.
At this moment, the only feeling left in everyone's heart was weird.
"Oh, no wonder Lao Mo and Boss Hu thought they crossed the Xingyuan overnight, but it wasn't just one night at all!?"
KIKI said in shock: "Based on this calculation, they may have been running for several days!"
"Moreover, the vehicles in Lao Mo and Hu Lushou's fleet are powered by high-energy batteries, which means that the other oil vehicles cannot run at all because there is not enough energy..." Luo Yang said.
Ding Junyi shook her head, took a deep breath and said, "Not completely. If this expansion effect is increasing exponentially, then the closer you are to the center of the Xingyuan, the slower the flow of time will be, and the farther you are to the outside, the smaller the impact will be."
“But this is too unbelievable.”
"No matter what, we have to get out of here."
Lin Xian frowned and immediately ordered Grace
[Grace, quickly conduct a reconnaissance of the White City station tracks, and then return.]
[Grace received, now preparing to enter the White City area]
"Are you still planning on laying tracks?" KIKI asked Lin Xian at this time.
"There is no other plan." Lin Xian said sternly: "The topographic map returned by Grace's reconnaissance is basically consistent with the topographic map of the original area. Now the location of White City has been confirmed, so the direction and positioning must be correct."
He took out his mobile terminal and opened the topographic map of the forest and mountain range and said, "It seems that we need to reorganize the entire front and take a two-pronged approach. We should abandon some carriages and gather the people together. Then some people can use cars and be covered by the train's firepower. This will greatly shorten the length of the train and reduce the pressure on the track problem."
Chen Sixuan said immediately. "But this can only solve the length problem. Those mountain valleys must build bridges over water and open roads over mountains. In addition to us, all the engineers and construction machinery of the fleet must be dispatched."
Lin Xian nodded solemnly: "So we can only fight, and we have to wait for Grace's investigation. If the track in Baicheng doesn't work, then we can only drag the box."
The so-called dragging boxes is the simplest plan that Lin Xian had discussed with other teams before, that is, to use the Queen Mo and Longshan No. 1 all-terrain train sets, and then Lin Xian temporarily made some tracked truck carriages to carry people and use them to tow the train. All other trains were abandoned, and it was a completely desperate way of escape.
"No matter what, prepare the firepower configuration first."
Just as Lin Xian was swallowing and communicating with everyone, Grace's voice came from the communicator.
[I have entered the White City area. My sensors have detected a strong magnetic field effect here. I am approaching for investigation.]
[Zizizi... No life forms were detected near the central block.]
[Zizizi... I found a special wonder in the sky above an old sewage treatment plant. The object is a man-made statue, about 13 meters high. The appearance search determined that it was the original landmark of Lion City, the 'Merlion'. However, there is extremely strong electromagnetic interference and light distortion around it, which may be similar to the Aksai taboo you mentioned. Due to information transmission restrictions, I have sent back the real-time picture. ]
Everyone heard the message Grace sent back at this time. After a few minutes, a blurry picture that had been compressed several times finally appeared slowly on the mobile terminal.
It was a picture taken in infrared night vision mode. In the dark night, above a factory in a dilapidated abandoned city, a giant Merlion was floating strangely. The space around the picture was full of white distorted noise. Although it was not clear, Lin Xian recognized this strange giant at the first sight. It was the thing they encountered during the raid in the Aksai No Man's Land.
"Isn't this thing in the no-man's land of Aksai? How did it appear here again?"
Lin Xian remembered that Chu Yan said that the Crimson World spent a huge price just to get this thing out of the Star Abyss. Could it be that this thing was teleported along with them?
[Zizizi... Dangerous target spotted, about 700 meters away.]
Soon, the second blurry photo was sent back, and Lin Xian and KIKI were immediately surprised to see that in the night vision mode, a human-shaped black shadow appeared at the abandoned gate of the sewage treatment plant!
KIKI immediately enlarged the picture, and saw that under the dense noise, the black shadow was wearing a strange windbreaker robe and a strange bowler hat. With such attire, it was obviously not a zombie or a monster, but it did not look like a fully armed survivor. It looked like the whole body was covered deliberately, which was extremely weird.
"Is this... a person?" KIKI murmured.
It was hard to imagine that in such an abandoned city covered by stars, and even under the giant statue of the indescribable forbidden object, a person actually appeared.
This strange scene immediately gave people a creepy feeling.
White City, 3:35 AM.
Since the Day of Apocalypse, the Star Abyss has been devouring this city for a full hundred days.
There is no sunrise, no sunset, only eternal night. The leaden clouds and the deep blue sky hang like a rotten shroud, pressing down on the remains of the original mountain city’s buildings. The once bustling streets and buildings are now only left with empty frames, like a skull with its eyeballs gouged out, staring silently at the street.
The wind passed through the ruins, blowing up dust and shredded paper, making a low whimper. The street lights had long since rusted and gone out, and the thick darkness was constantly producing some kind of unstable distortion due to the abnormal changes in space, like the gasp of some dying creature.
On the streets, abandoned vehicles have rusted into iron coffins with their doors wide open, as if the people inside had suddenly evaporated one day. In the shops with broken windows, shelves have collapsed, merchandise is scattered all over the floor, and plastic packaging has become brittle over time, crumbling to dust with the slightest touch.
Boom.
A tilted apartment building was crumbling, and the clothes drying on the balcony had long been weathered. Grace landed lightly from a height. Her athletic performance completely surpassed that of most genetic evolvers, and she was not affected by the invasion of the night in this strange dark world.
The optoelectronic vision module and radar system continued to lock onto the dark shadow passing through the sewage treatment plant ahead.
[The heat source detector cannot capture it, and the action characteristics are observed and evaluated, it is likely to be human. 】
Grace sent a signal to the train camp by the bottomless lake through the signal relay, but the signal sent at this time had a significant delay in time calibration.
At this time, Grace discovered that the mysterious black shadow had disappeared.
At the same time, Lin Xian's instructions came
"After completing the terrain reconnaissance of Baicheng Railway Station, return immediately."
【clear】
After setting up the new base point repeater on the roof, Grace began to head towards Baicheng Train Station according to the positioning direction. Her tasks included terrain and obstacle identification, as well as checking the integrity of the tracks.
She compressed all the moving images and continuously transmitted them back to Lin Xian.
After seeing the pictures sent back one by one, a gloomy, dark, abandoned and dilapidated strange mountain city gradually appeared in front of Lin Xian.
Unlike the cities I passed by before, the White City in the picture does not look like the dilapidated appearance of the 100 Days of Apocalypse. It seems to have been abandoned for thirty years. All traces of human activities have decayed and melted away, as if the entire planet has been forgotten. There is no sign of life. The dark shadows of the lonely buildings are obscured by thick black fog. On the walls of the streets, whether it is signs, posters, or any colored objects, they have all peeled and faded, like a city in an old black-and-white silent film without any characters.
Grace sprinted across the sky above the buildings and streets. Her three million motor nerve tentacles gave her super flexibility and explosive power. Although her entire body weighed almost half a ton, she moved swiftly and lightly in the black fog city like a dark night warrior dancing on her toes.
All of Grace's detection radars and senses were performing trillions of calculations every second. The next second, she suddenly stopped on the roof of a building next to the central square of White City Station, standing behind a clock tower where time stopped on the Day of Apocalypse. At this time, her detection radar discovered an abandoned car defense position in the square.
More than two dozen damaged and abandoned vehicles were scattered across the square, many of which were high-level all-terrain tracked vehicles and heavy trucks. From the formation, it could be seen that a defensive line had once been formed here, and the area around the position was covered with dried dark red bloodstains.
The cars were parked in silence in the huge square in front of the station. The surrounding buildings and streets were full of scenes of a tragic war, with tunnels of explosives and scattered weapons. But the strange thing was that apart from that, there was no one, not even a corpse...
Grace did not find any living people here through visual scanning and dynamic radar monitoring, so she jumped directly from the tall building and landed on the ground crisply, then scanned these vehicles for effective information and sent it back to Lin Xian.
[After identifying some of the features of the items and the graffiti on the vehicles, the convoys here include the Fu Lu Shou Convoy, the Dawn Convoy, the Axe Brotherhood, the Wind Walker Convoy... and the others are unknown.]
[Number of survivors 0, corpse search 0]
[The battle time was 13-15 hours ago. Calculating the time expansion ratio, it should have been around 17:35 yesterday, which coincides with the time when Xingyuan swallowed it.]
Lin Xian didn't expect that Hu Lushou and his convoy would appear in Baicheng. Looking at the pictures and information sent back, they also encountered a big battle, but the strange thing was that there were only twenty or so cars in the entire convoy, at least hundreds of cars, parked in the square at this time, and there was not even a corpse to be seen. It was really strange.
At this time, Grace, who was at the White City Train Station Square, began to sprint at high speed and directly entered the track station behind.
The rail line of Baicheng passed through the edge of the city and meandered along the mountain road to the distant mountains. Grace jumped onto the rails and scanned them, only to find that large areas of the steel structure building of the rail station and the tracks had rusted and collapsed, and part of the roadbed had cracked directly. The situation was much worse than expected.
[The track condition is not ideal, at least more than 30% needs further repair, otherwise it will bring great safety hazards to the operation of heavy trains. ]
Bad news came one after another. Carriage No. 21 of the Infinity train was eerily quiet. Everyone was waiting for news from Grace with bated breath. Judging from the current situation, the track problem has exceeded 100 kilometers. And it is not just a track problem. The strange floating fish-lion statue makes people's backs cold.
[According to Grace's measurement, from the track laying project, there are at least more than 195 problem sections that cannot be solved by the track laying machine. It is recommended to change to other feasible solutions. ]
Everyone looked at Lin Xian. At this moment, everyone felt a pressure as heavy as a mountain.
Just when Lin Xian felt a little helpless, Grace's voice sounded again.
[Zizizi... My radar detected the presence of a super-large man-made mechanical object at an azimuth of 043° at the Baicheng Orbital Station coordinate point, more than 15 kilometers away.]
Grace started quickly and rushed along the track towards a valley area outside the White City. As the distance got closer, Grace's radar system gradually showed a larger echo response, and in the night vision observation system, an oversized mechanical creation like a city in the sky appeared in the observation field of view.
The darkness was like thick ink, flooding the entire valley.
At first, it looked like just a shadow on the horizon, its huge outline vaguely like an extension of the mountains, until Grace kept getting closer, and the rectangular behemoth revealed its true appearance.
A moving city that looks dead and fallen!
The huge body that looks like an aerospace city stretches for several kilometers. The two rows of engine arrays as big as skyscrapers look like deep black holes in the dark night. On both sides of the aerospace city, there are four circular floating cities that look like giant space stations. The entire mobile city stretches across the valleys, blocking out the sky and the sun. If it weren't for the angular outline of man-made objects, one would even think it was a peak integrated with the mountain range.
Although it has an array of flight engines, there are two rows of giant wheel-like tracks at the bottom that are deeply sunken into the entire mountain stream. Each track plate is as big as a house, presenting the majestic power of human industrial manufacturing.
But at this moment, the mobile city was completely hidden in darkness. There was no humming of engines, no scanning of searchlights, and even no groaning of metal expansion and contraction. The ship's hulls and buildings on the upper decks, which should have been brightly lit, were completely dark. At the edge of the city deck, there were three huge characters covered by shadows.
[Silent City]
(End of this chapter)
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