Chapter 406 God's Creation
After crossing the waves, the Infinity drove into the deep sea along the ocean section of the circumstellar orbit. The weather was clear today, and the ocean at this moment was like a liquid blue plain. The sunlight was like melted gold foil splashing on the water. Tiny spots of light floated on both sides of the giant sea-based track, as if the train was running over a galaxy dotted with diamonds. Occasionally, a flying fish leaped up, its silver body drawing a parabola in the air, and then suddenly plunged into the unfathomable blue.
Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan were sitting in the cockpit. Because there was no traction device, the train could only move on the track by itself, and it needed to rely on radar and driving systems to detect the status of the track.
After sailing from the continental shelf into the deep sea, the color of the sea surface turned dark blue. Lin Xian looked to the far right side of the track. The sea level and the skyline were obscured by a black curtain like a storm. He knew that was the edge of Star Abyss No. 8, and there was also a fault zone of the deep ocean ridge.
After taking a deep breath, Lin Xian was still a little nervous. He was afraid that this giant track would suddenly break, and then the thousands-ton steel train would fall directly from the air into the deep sea.
Although he had upgraded the Infinity's carriages with deep-sea compartments and underwater propulsion systems, he did not want to drive a submarine in the deep sea unless it was absolutely necessary.
Wow~
The Infinity was like a long steel dragon, speeding across the ocean track. Everything was calm. After a few hours, there was only the sky and the deep blue below, as if there was no end in sight.
Brother Huo, who was called to take a walk, set up a lounge chair on the roof of the Infinity car, wearing sunglasses and looking at the sea leisurely, while Ryunosuke sat cross-legged in the front with a focused look.
Both of them have the ability to fly and can make quick maneuvers immediately if they encounter an emergency, so Lin Xian called them out for some fresh air.
Not long after, Chen Sixuan in the cockpit discovered that a layer of sea fog was gradually rising on the sea surface and the weather began to become gloomy. At first she thought it was a storm coming, but the Infinity's weather detection system did not detect the storm, as if the sea fog was only spreading regionally.
Soon, the sea fog became thicker and the light around became darker. Lu Xingchen on the top of the train slowly sat up, took off his sunglasses, and his expression began to become serious.
"Brother Lin, the weather is changing strangely. This kind of fog covering the sky may cause evil spirits to appear in broad daylight."
"I've slowed down." Lin Xian responded using the communicator.
Sitting cross-legged on the roof, Ryunosuke used his supernatural power to spread out countless tiny grains of sand, which circled within a few hundred meters around the Infinity. These grains of sand were like his perception radar, and he would immediately be alerted as long as they lightly touched anything approaching.
"This fog appears a little strange." In the cockpit, Chen Sixuan said to Lin Xian, "It reminds me of the fog spider in Beiwan Town."
Lin Xian nodded: "Me too."
Viola controlled hundreds of flying drones to conduct detection in front in a circular information chain. At this time, Lin Xian received a response.
[No abnormalities on the track ahead, approaching Taku Deepwater Port, no living organisms detected at this time]
[Metal detection shows serious signs of corrosion in many structures of the deep-water port]
"We've arrived at the deepwater port..."
Lin Xian said in a deep voice after hearing this, and soon, in front of his eyes, the sea fog was like a shroud, slowly peeling off from the sea surface, revealing a huge steel outline.
Four drilling platforms stand in the lead-gray sea water, and in the middle is a steel deep-water port with an area of more than two square kilometers. It was originally a cargo transit port in the planetary orbit, but now it is like a steel cemetery. When the Infinity slowly slows down and drives in, it seems that one can hear the whimpering sound of rusted steel under the microwaves of the sea water in the distance.
A large number of suspended corridors are like the backbone of this section, with spider-web-like cables hanging down. Various large cranes are hanging crookedly in the air, as if they will fall into the abyss in the next second.
Before entering the port, Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan discovered that there were a large number of burnt mechas, fighter planes, abandoned trains and countless dead bodies on the platform. Those bodies had been completely dried and rotten, with only dry faces left in the power armor masks. In addition, the drilling platform and the port were scattered with various strange and rotten corpse tissues, which had also been dry for a long time. It seemed that this place had experienced some kind of tragic war, and now there was deathly silence everywhere.
[The track through the port ahead was found to be blocked, and there was no large-scale damage to the track]
At this time, Viola's voice came, and Lin Xian immediately arranged: "Viola, call the drone to clear the obstacles, inspect the track, and inspect the entire deep-water platform."
【Viola understands.】
Woo~
In an instant, thousands of drones flew out, attack drones flew to various locations of the drilling platform and cargo port for inspection, while engineering drones began to clear the debris accumulated on the track.
"Lin Xian."
At this time, KIKI's voice came: "The sonar system detected something under the port."
"Abai and Shiori also sensed it." Ning Jing's voice also came.
"Check it out and pay attention to the dark marks." Lin Xian arranged.
"good!"
Ning Jing immediately started searching with Shu Qin, Lu Chang and others.
The sea was filled with fog, and the entire deep-water port looked like a lone steel boat floating in the ocean, quiet and eerie. The sea water flowed slowly between the platforms, with an oily iridescence. From time to time, waves would hit the rusty piles, making a hollow echo.
Lin Xian opened the cockpit, and he and Chen Sixuan, wearing power armor, stepped onto the deep-water port. In the fog, the vision was greatly affected, with visibility of less than ten meters.
The radar and optoelectronic scanning of the power armor revealed the outlines of various objects in the fog. The entire port platform was desolate, and all kinds of dried and rotten corpses could be seen everywhere.
What caught Lin Xian's attention was that the guns all over the ground had not been touched by anyone, including the trains and aircraft that were transporting supplies. Large amounts of remaining supplies could be seen in the overturned carriages.
"No one has been to the port before? It looks like it's been at least two months." Lin Xian frowned.
"I asked Jiang Yun. Ever since the Xingyuan anomaly began, many doomsday trains have stopped entering the ocean track. After the battle of Dawn City, most of them ran towards the Dawn Center. It may be because the Phoenix Society no longer uses this track, and the ocean section has not been maintained, so those convoys dare not run to the sea." Chen Sixuan said.
Lin Xian nodded. Indeed, ordinary Doomsday Train teams would generally choose the safer land route. If Lin Xian did not have the Sky Train in his hands, he would not easily step into the Pacific Ocean.
After observing the surroundings, Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan walked towards the material warehouse of the freight platform. KIKI's voice came from the headphones.
"Lin Xian, I looked from above. This place is completely covered by sea fog. It seems to have been abandoned for a long time. And judging from the situation, there must have been strange creatures here before."
"Be careful." Lin Xian glanced at the corpse of a huge flying winged creature that had crushed half of the supply warehouse not far ahead, and said cautiously: "Protect Shiori and pay attention to the situation in the sky."
"I know."
In carriage No. 3 of the Infinity, Ding Junyi, who was concentrating on her research, saw the blood vine slightly twisting its roots, and each blood thorn seemed to be glowing with red blood. She immediately walked over, activated her supernatural powers, and felt the changes.
Ding Junyi frowned and called Xiaoyuan
"Madoka, look."
Xiao Yuan walked up at this time and found that the blood vine was flipping its curled buds in a certain direction at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon reached the edge of the culture chamber.
"Director Ding, this disaster plant seems to be exploring in some direction."
"I noticed that too." Ding Junyi immediately picked up the blood vine's culture chamber, came to the window and rotated it. Sure enough, when she rotated it a circle, the blood vine began to slowly move the direction of the tender shoots, still clinging to the edge of the transparent chamber. Then the tender shoots began to grow rapidly, making a squeaking sound.
"In the southeast direction, there may be..."
"ah!"
Before Ding Junyi finished her words, Xiaoyuan screamed. Ding Junyi turned around and found that Xiaoyuan had covered her mouth and was pointing in horror towards the platform outside the window. Both of them were shocked when they looked over.
Just at the port platform where the Infinity was docked, under the thick fog, a figure appeared and stood there quietly. The figure was similar to a human but extremely tall, at least three meters tall, with feet arched like sheep's hooves, and slender hands hanging down. The strangest thing was that its head was a triangular opening, as if it were some kind of flowering plant, with a bright red color in the middle. The triangular head was now looking motionlessly in the direction of Ding Junyi, which was chilling.
rub!
In an instant, a golden flash appeared, and the door of car number 5 opened. The building and Luo Yang and others rushed out one after another. When Xiaoyuan's voice came, Qian Dele had already used his super speed to rush over. He caught sight of this strange humanoid creature at a glance, and without saying a word, he kicked it with a powerful kick.
But when he swept it with a sharp kick, the monster seemed to twist in the air for a moment, shrank away instantly, and drilled into the depths of the thick fog with a strange winding afterimage.
"Where are you running!?" Qian Dele saw that the thing was obviously not fast, but he kicked it and missed it completely. He suddenly felt that it was strange and difficult to find. When he saw the afterimage escaping, he flashed and caught up.
"Building Luo Yang, you guys guard the car, we'll go over and take a look!"
Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan had already arrived at this time. They were moving very fast, with the power armor's maneuvering mode activated, and they quickly moved through the ruins of the port. At the same time, KIKI also flew over with Shiori in the sky.
"Lin Xian, Shizhi said she didn't sense any fluctuations in the soul value of that thing!"
"Let's see if we can figure out what that is." Lin Xian quickened his pace. He had gained experience from fighting against strange entities for a long time. Any unusual movement could not be ignored. If it was not dealt with promptly, it would likely cause big trouble later.
A golden flash passed quickly in front, and in an instant Qian Dele appeared on the cantilever of the deepwater port of the drilling platform and stopped, with a look of confusion on his face.
Lin Xian arrived with a few others at this time, looked at Qian Dele and asked, "What's wrong?"
"It's strange. I'm obviously not going fast, but I can't catch up..." Qian Dele bent down and said with a slightly gloomy expression.
"Viola!"
【I am here】
"Have you locked onto the target location?"
Viola jumped down from a height and landed lightly beside Lin Xian. She quickly scanned the entire deep water mouth area with her scanner and quickly responded, "Unable to lock, no signs of life found."
"How could it be? So many of us saw it." Chen Sixuan frowned slightly and looked around. At this time, everyone had lost their target.
KIKI fell from the sky with Shiori. She took out the spirit value detector and said
"No dark mark was placed on it, and no fluctuations were detected around it. We also encountered this situation in Baicheng. Lin Xian, do you remember?"
Lin Xian nodded. He knew that KIKI was talking about the white figure they met in the tunnel in Baicheng. It quickly retreated without leaving any mark on the team. This behavior seemed completely different from that of the strange entity.
"Lin Xian."
At this time, from high in the sky, Ryunosuke came with Ding Junyi and Xiaoyuan. Ding Junyi was holding the blood vine cultivation chamber in her hand and said to Lin Xian:
"Underwater!"
"I'll go and take a look."
"Wait!" Lin Xian stopped Ryunosuke, looked at the dark sea water below the deep water mouth, and said, "The fog is too thick. It's not safe underwater. Viola, send 10 underwater submersibles to search."
【OK】
Woo!
In an instant, ten small yellow underwater submersibles were summoned by Lin Xian and quickly dropped from the deep water mouth. Under Viola's control, they turned on the lights and began searching.
KIKI watched the submersibles sinking into the deep sea and said
"That thing didn't attack us, but it ran away when we chased it. Could it be a scout of a strange entity?" She looked at Lin Xian and said, "Wasn't the black thorn in the cloud in Xilan City a scout of the No. 5 Star Abyss Overlord?"
"That's possible." Qian Dele nodded: "It's normal for monsters to have division of labor. This means we are being targeted."
Chen Sixuan said cautiously, "But the purpose of the Black Thorns in the Clouds of Xilan City is to mark the entire city with a Level 5 mark. Since the dark creatures use marks to determine their targets, why haven't we been marked, even at Level 1?"
"Anyway, this thing definitely can't be from the Blue Planet." Lin Xian looked at Shiori at this time: "Shiori, have you encountered this kind of situation before in Silent City?"
Shiori shook her head, paused, then immediately nodded and whispered, "The situation is a little different, but we have encountered it before, but we didn't chase it because the monster seemed to run away when it was seen..."
【Target found.】
At this moment, Viola suddenly responded, "The submersible has detected a large number of strange creatures 121 meters underwater. Please be careful."
Viola's words immediately made everyone's heart tighten, and Lin Xian hurriedly asked: "Is it the monster just now?"
[No, the submersible scanned a large number of alien deep-sea creatures over 50 meters in size, but it seems that there is no movement at the moment.]
"What do you mean it didn't cause any noise? It wasn't coming towards us?"
Viola turned around and used the information relay to display the underwater scene in front of Lin Xian through holographic projection, and said.
【No, it seems that these creatures have not discovered us yet. 】
Lin Xian and everyone else looked over and his face changed immediately. A chill ran down his spine.
Under the dark ocean, countless strange shapes with large numbers of squid-like legs but with torsos similar to those of the human body are floating upright in the deep water. Their heads are like some kind of transparent snake fish, and their skirts are slowly rolling. Hundreds and thousands of them are drifting with the ocean current, motionless, like a forest hanging upside down in the deep sea.
Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but gasp. This horrifying scene made people's scalps tingle, and for a moment, the feeling of fear of deep water spread.
"So many strange entities..."
"Are they sleeping, or..."
"It's probably because the black tide hasn't arrived yet and hasn't entered its activity cycle." Ding Junyi said, "Or maybe they can't detect our presence because we don't have the dark mark."
"Director Ding." At this time, Xiao Yuan beside her pointed at the culture chamber in her hand and said, "The blood vine seems to be motionless."
Ding Junyi looked over and found that the blood vine that had been growing and extending just now had curled up again, and the vines that had originally grown out were also retracted. She immediately looked at Lin Xian.
“It’s gone.”
"Let's leave quickly." Lin Xian immediately said to everyone: "The obstacle clearance has been completed. We will leave the deep-water port and head for Haiyan Island immediately. I always feel uneasy about this place. It will be more reassuring to drive to the island."
Everyone understood and left.
Lin Xian called Ning Jing and Brother Huo who were on patrol and quickly returned to the Infinity to prepare for the start. On the way back, he conveniently transferred a crashed but undestroyed aerospace fighter into the Black Star Forge to devour it.
Just as he finally entered the freight station platform and prepared to get on the train, Lin Xian's mechanical heart suddenly roared violently, and the violent circulation of energy gave him a startle.
"What's going on..."
Lin Xian stopped and pressed his chest. The Mechanical Heart had returned to calm, but he clearly felt the Mechanical Heart running uncontrollably and overloaded just now.
At this time, Lin Xian turned around and suddenly found that among the pile of dry-rotted corpses on the freight unloading platform made of special metal plates, there was inexplicably a palm-sized crack, as if it was pierced by some sharp claws, but there were no signs of impact from a large strange object around.
And this location is exactly where the strange humanoid creature was just now.
Lin Xian walked over subconsciously, and his eyes became more and more uneasy, because the metal plate at the edge of the crack was in a state of high-intensity stretching. In the detection sensor of his power armor, the edge of the metal plate showed a higher temperature than the surrounding area. So Lin Xian squatted down, turned on the light and looked towards the palm-sized crack. After seeing what was inside, he couldn't help but shrink his pupils and showed an incredible expression on his face.
The depth of the crack was more than 10 centimeters, and a dice-shaped metal object appeared at the bottom of the crack, covered with a lot of rust and iron filings.
The reason why Lin Xian was surprised was that he found that the crack seemed to be caused by the thumb-sized metal block. Not only that, after getting closer, his power armor monitor found that the metal dice had a higher temperature than the surrounding area, and it seemed that there was still slight friction.
"What is this?"
Lin Xian raised his hand to create a metal clamp, ready to pick up the thing. After all, to be able to smash such a deep hole in the metal ground of the freight platform, it is not just a matter of kinetic energy, but also requires extremely high hardness. One must know that the freight platforms in the circumstellar orbit are used to carry tens of thousands of tons of cargo transportation and lifting, and are definitely not ordinary metal plate materials. Even if this material can be used with an armor-piercing bullet to make a hole, Lin Xian does not know whether it can be drilled so deep. However, the bullet head will never be able to maintain this shape like this cubic metal dice.
But when Lin Xian stretched out his hand to grab it, he found that he couldn't pick it up at all, so he directly made dozens of metal wires to wrap it and then tried to lift it up, but no matter how hard Lin Xian tried, the metal dice didn't move at all.
At this time, Lin Xian finally realized something was wrong.
"Lin Xian, why don't you get in the car?"
KIKI called him at the car door. Lin Xian turned around and waved to KIKI: "Come here, girl."
KIKI flew over with a weird look on her face
"What's wrong"
Lin Xian immediately pointed to the metal dice in the sinkhole and said, "Use your telekinesis to take it out."
"what……"
KIKI took a look after hearing that, and her mental power surged immediately. However, the next moment the air suddenly shook slightly, and KIKI missed the first try. She was slightly surprised, and looked at Lin Xian and then at the dice. She immediately became serious, and her eyes flashed with supernatural power and completely covered the metal dice.
Rub, rub, rub!
The ground made a sharp tearing sound at this moment, and then the metal dice finally floated up slowly under KIKI's powerful ability.
"Lin Xian." KIKI looked very serious at this moment. Her eyes flashed white light as she said to Lin Xian, "Do you know how heavy this thing is?"
"At least a thousand tons!"
Lin Xian's eyes were shocked when he heard this, and he immediately looked at the metal dice floating in the air in surprise, and suddenly took a breath of cold air.
This metal dice has a volume of only 1 cubic centimeter, but has a mass of one thousand tons, which is almost 1% of the density of a neutron star. If there were no extreme gravity, how could metal of this mass appear on the blue planet?
Moreover, it maintains an absolutely smooth cube shape.
The weirdest thing is that the number of dice points is engraved on it in circles, as if it was created by gods, playing an absurd and strange joke on humans...
(End of this chapter)
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