Chapter 428 Under the Prison (Seeking monthly tickets at the end of the month~)
Darkness engulfed the entire city like a tide, with waves surging and undercurrents surging along the coastline.
The Infinity train was quietly parked in the maintenance section of the civil air defense facility, the engine was turned off, all lights were off, and everyone on the train was deliberately lowering their breathing. Inside the carriage, only the faint red light on the dashboard flashed occasionally, reflecting the tense faces of everyone in each carriage. Even Ding Junyi cooperated and stopped what he was doing, standing there with his hands in his pockets, waiting for the response of the darkness.
This is often the most dangerous time.
Chen Sixuan stood in front of the observation window of the cockpit, staring at the depths of the tunnel through the night vision goggles. Over there was the passage to the main track.
"Something is coming." Monica activated her sonic ability and keenly captured the strange sounds coming from deep in the track. Chen Sixuan's eyes fixed. The evolution of her senses has greatly improved her sensitivity to sound. Although it is not as abnormal as Monica's ability, she can also hear a lot of rustling sounds coming from far away.
"Everyone, prepare to fight the enemy." At this time, Chen Sixuan looked tense and whispered in the communicator.
There were rustling sounds in the tunnel, like some multi-legged creature crawling on the rails, occasionally interspersed with low roars, as if the throat was filled with rotten meat. As the sounds became more and more, the fists of the Infinity people clenched. Shu Qin and others placed their fingers lightly on the trigger, waiting to fire.
At this moment, Chen Sixuan and Monica looked at the night vision goggles and saw several strange figures quickly passing by, rushing towards the distance with roars, and they seemed not to notice the existence of Infinity.
"They are heading towards the attractant!" The images sent back by Luo Yang's drone showed that a group of red bones were running wildly along the main track. Their bones were glowing with a strange phosphorescence in the dark, as if they were driven by some force, rushing madly into the depths of the city.
"It's not just the one we released, there's also the big guy released by the people from the Holy City Organization before. The darkness should have focused its attention in that direction!" Qian Dele analyzed at this time.
"How strange, these monsters, are they running away..." Sasha stared at the screen, her voice very low.
"No, I'm not running away." Ryūnosuke's telekinesis fluctuated slightly, sensing the flow of energy in the distance: "I'm being driven by something."
Boom! At this moment, a series of slight earthquake sounds were heard in the tunnel, and dust kept falling, causing the Infinity hidden in the maintenance section to feel a roar. Everyone felt the movement, and their faces changed slightly.
"A large creature is coming..."
Chen Sixuan's expression was solemn: "Everyone, keep calm and act accordingly!"
Luo Yang was operating the drone with extreme caution. Cold sweat broke out on his face as he began to carefully retract the drone. He said, "It should be what Captain Lin and Ning Jing saw on the coast and in the sea, and what Ryan and the others said. Those giant creatures approaching Haiyan Island are at least A-level or special-level, and there's a high possibility of S-level."
"S-level? That's too exaggerated, right?" Lu Chang said nervously.
Shuqin said calmly, "Even the giant ocean god has appeared, so it's not surprising that he's S-rank or something."
In the cockpit, Monica and Chen Sixuan were quietly watching the dark passage. At this time, Monica asked Chen Sixuan:
"If we are discovered, do we have any other options?"
Chen Sixuan took a deep breath, looked ahead, and said, "If we are discovered, we will be attacked when it gets dark, so..."
"I mean if." Monica's eyes were sharp.
Chen Sixuan was stunned for a moment, then responded calmly, "Then kill them. We have experienced bloody battles all night long before."
Monica said softly, "It's good to be indifferent to life and death."
Chen Sixuan looked at her and seemed to hear something different: "What do you think?"
"It's not that I have any ideas." Monica folded her arms across her chest and let out a long breath. The corners of her lips curved up as she spoke, "It's just that after meeting Lin Xian, he always gave me the illusion that there is still hope in despair."
“Isn’t that good?”
"In my opinion, he's not the kind of leader capable of leading a large fleet, but he always gives people a sense of security? No, it's more like an irrational brilliance, which makes people downplay or reduce their rational fear of dark civilization and the apocalypse. In fact, objectively speaking, everything we encounter, including the future of survival, seems extremely hopeless." Monica turned to look at Chen Sixuan and said calmly, "This despair is actually more terrifying than the invasion of darkness, isn't it?"
Chen Sixuan was silent for a moment, then continued, "Lin Xian and Professor Ye Lan believe that another civilization exists amidst this disaster, a possibility that this could give humanity a chance to survive. That's why Lin Xian is trying to use his mechanical abilities and his identity as the Swordsman to explore. I understand his perspective. The information from the photovoltaic wing of Nantianmen, the retreat of Xingyuan in Dawn City, as long as the deterrence concept proposed by the Phoenix Society still holds, as long as these anomalies haven't been definitively proven, and the dark civilization hasn't destroyed the world before the next dawn, then for Lin Xian and Professor Ye, both are correct."
She looked at Monica. "This is what Lin insists on now. Although it's all speculation and there's no clue, it's precisely because of this insistence that he puts himself in this seemingly irrational state."
"Actually, from this perspective, he's very rational." Monica nodded. "It seems I don't know him well enough."
Chen Sixuan's eyes were indifferent: "Isn't it deep enough..."
Boom! The ground was shaking, interrupting the conversation between the two. The entire underground tunnel seemed to be shaking violently. A large amount of sand and wall fragments fell down and hit the body of the Infinity, making a clanging sound.
At this moment, the night was as dark as ink, the sea water was surging on the coastline, and a huge shadow emerged from the deep sea.
First came the tentacles, black tentacles as thick as buildings slapping against the reefs, creating waves tens of meters high, followed by the torso, a mountain-like tumor slowly emerging from the water, its surface covered with wriggling holes, and a rotten human head poking out of each hole, their eyes glowing with a faint blue light, silently scanning the city.
A giant starfish emerged from the water, a giant, curled-up skeleton floated above the water, and a strange floating island drifted in from afar along with the storm...
In the ruins of the city, Split-Tailed People, Red Bones, and even deformed creatures that had never been seen before crawled out from sewers, subway entrances, and collapsed buildings. As if summoned by some invisible signal, they slowly gathered towards the abandoned urban area and the collapsed West Track Station. Chaotic howling echoed in the streets. The residential buildings in the vacant space on the coastline collapsed after being driven and hit by giant starfish. The terrifying black shadow floated over the city like a cosmic ghost.
"I wonder what's going on with Lin Xian..." Chen Sixuan listened to the terrifying noises outside and said with concern, "Given the current situation, they probably won't be able to get close to us tonight."
…
Haiyan Island, an outlying island, was as dark as ink, engulfing the entire Haiyan Prison.
The situation was completely beyond Lin Xian's expectations. At this moment, he, KIKI, Ning Jing and others all retreated to the huge stone tower of the prison to take shelter from the darkness. They did not rashly enter the underground tunnel. The night wind, carrying the salty and fishy smell of sea water and a faint stench, rushed in from all directions, creating vortices in the empty areas of the prison and making strange sounds like crying.
"What is that broken leg? How can it have such a high dark invasion power?"
Ning Jing lowered her voice and watched Shizhi using her special powers to heal Abai. At this time, the blood and tears in Abai's eyes under the armor had dried up. If he had not sounded the alarm at the critical moment to let everyone retreat, the power of darkness invading at that moment would have been enough to seriously injure everyone present.
"How strange! Those are a pair of human legs. Although they are broken, they can still walk freely. They don't look like a strange body or a human ghost, and they exude a murderous aura..." Brother Huo said solemnly at this time.
"I wonder if that thing is targeting us?" Ning Jing said.
"I can still feel that aura..." Shiori whispered, "It's right down there."
Shh~
KIKI slowly flew down from the watchtower, made a gesture to keep quiet, and pointed outside: "Some terrible things came out of the sea, they are definitely big ones."
Lin Xian controlled the drone, enlarged the observation screen, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
It seemed as if a whirlpool had appeared on the sea. With each wave, he found that the coastline was shrinking, which meant that the sea water was beginning to submerge the island.
A huge shadow slowly emerged from the sea. At first, it was just a vague outline, and then it gradually became clearer - it was a deformed and strange creature. Its body was like a rotten whale, but it had dozens of twisted tentacles. At the end of each tentacle was a mouth full of fangs. Its skin was covered with pus and flowed with black and red mucus. As it swam, the mucus spread in the sea water, like some kind of pollution.
"A-level... no, it's definitely special-level." KIKI's voice was tense.
On the distant horizon, more dark shadows emerged from the water, like giant starfish with a huge abyss-like mouth in the center. Some were shaped like rotten octopuses, but their tentacles were covered with human eyes. There was even a floating "island" with its surface covered with wriggling tumors, and every breath spewed out black mist.
"They are moving towards the main island..." Ning Jing's voice was cold.
"They must have been attracted by the attractant made by the Holy City, but we don't have time to care about that now." At this time, many corners of the prison were equipped with signal and monitoring devices by Lin Xian's drones. Hundreds of drones began to search and take over the entire dark network. At the same time, he began to operate the drone into the underground tunnel, ready to spy on what the severed legs were.
"Lin Xian." Kiki came over and said seriously, "Could it be a parasitic creature like the one we encountered in Pseudo-Human Town?"
"I thought so too, but this is too weird. Fortunately, I didn't go down directly." Lin Xian said.
Ning Jing stood by the tower window, and she and Xiaoqing were observing the situation outside and keeping watch for the team. In the tower, only the signal light of Lin Xian's drone was flashing. Apart from that, everything was shrouded in darkness.
Lin Xian now turned his attention to the drone, and operated a reconnaissance drone to enter the underground warehouse again. Under the night vision screen, the pit was like a black abyss. Lin Xian looked at the terrain, and the scene in Gu Zheng's consciousness flashed in his eyes. He caught the picture of many people from the Holy City Organization constantly crawling out of this tunnel. He was suddenly puzzled as to how these people came out from here.
He immediately ordered the drone to deploy a small signal device next to the pit, and then it slowly descended from the pit. The drone was silent. Lin Xian held his breath as he looked at the outline of the dark tunnel. A deep and large drainage pipe appeared in the picture full of night vision noise, and the end of it was as far as the eye could see.
Woo~
A slight sound of flight control was heard, and the drone slowly turned. There was also a dark passage on the other side. As the drone descended, Lin Xian did not find any other abnormalities, but before dark, they did see a pair of broken legs walking strangely under the tunnel. If Abai had not reminded them quickly, who knows what they would have encountered. On the broken legs, Lin Xian seemed to sense a fluctuation similar to a taboo. Thinking of this, he immediately activated a search module on the Scout.
That was a special device used to detect forbidden objects that Lin Xian had seized from the Holy Revelation member named Lao Gui in Silent City. Later, Lin Xian modified it and put it on this drone used for special reconnaissance, specifically for the purpose of searching for forbidden objects.
At this time, strange noises suddenly appeared on the screen of the Scout in Lin Xian's observation window, accompanied by signal freezes and flickers. Lin Xian immediately noticed something wrong. The picture in front was still dark and empty. He frowned and began to rotate the drone again. Perhaps affected by the abnormal signal, the drone rotated in a freeze, and the broken picture began to switch to the back. At this time, a black shadow appeared in the picture without any warning!
It was a group of black worms entangled together like a long snake. It was huge and almost occupied the entire pit. It appeared strangely in the drone's picture. Lin Xian's eyes suddenly shrank, and he looked down, and he was shocked to find that the pair of human broken legs appeared on the ground in front of him again, completely torn from the knees, and those densely packed black worms grew out of the pale and rotten tissue of the broken legs, covering the entire tunnel!
Lin Xian frowned and gasped, realizing that what they had seen wasn't just a pair of severed legs, but a giant tunnel creature. Strangely, aside from the human-like legs, the main body of this creature was actually invisible?!
It was a close call. If Abai hadn't noticed it, no one on Lin Xian's side would have discovered it even with the power armor observation system and radar system. If they had gone down rashly, they would have gotten bitten without knowing what bit them. It was horrifying!
Wow~
At this time, the collective creatures composed of countless black worms in the tunnel rushed towards the drone, as if to swallow it up. Lin Xian only saw countless long snakes crawling past the camera in the stuck picture. The next moment, an even more terrifying picture appeared. Among those black worms, a large number of undigested human corpses began to appear. Some had jagged bones, some had broken limbs, and some were still wearing the power armor of the Holy City Organization. It seemed that they had not been dead for too long.
At this moment, the picture suddenly stopped. Lin Xian didn't know whether the drone was damaged or the signal was completely lost.
"How is it?" KIKI asked at this time.
"That tunnel should lead to somewhere. People from the Holy City Organization have appeared here, but there is an invisible monster blocking the flood discharge pipe." Lin Xian responded.
"Invisible monster?" Kiki frowned. "How big is it?"
Lin Xian shook his head: "I can't see the whole picture, but the invasion of darkness with that concentration is definitely not simple."
At this moment, Lin Xian thought of something and said to KIKI, "KIKI, use the information you got from the Federation and check this prison. If this kind of passage is related to the military, then you should know what the Quds Organization is doing down there."
"That's right!" KIKI immediately operated the power armor intelligent computer. The data of her information center had been imported into it long ago. Soon, she retrieved a piece of information related to the offshore Haiyan Prison, and then searched for a while.
Not long after, KIKI heard a surprised voice from a light curtain.
"How about it?"
"Lin Xian, you guessed right." KIKI simultaneously brought out a holographic screen and magnified a secret blueprint. Ning Jing and Huo Ge, who were standing by, missed it. Ning Jing couldn't help but exclaimed when she saw it.
"G085-Nuclear Submarine Underwater Secret Port!?"
(End of this chapter)
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