Chapter 494 The entire territory is out of contact!
It's freezing cold.
Silently.
Lin Xian looked through the porthole at the huge empty face outside with a shocked expression. It seemed as if even his breathing stopped for a moment. The dark hole was staring at him like the abyss of hell. Lin Xian even activated the AT force field shield at the first moment.
A cold sweat slid down his forehead, and Lin Xian just stood there motionless, staring at the strange creature outside. He gathered his strength in his right hand, ready to directly launch the supercritical diffraction sword, while also considering finding a space to use energy transition to avoid danger.
Countless thoughts exploded in my head in an instant, but the strange thing was that after a few seconds, the monster outside did not launch an attack, and still faced the porthole with its empty face.
Lin Xian frowned, and a thought suddenly came to his mind. Now that the entire room has changed the dark energy frequency, could it be that the monster can't "see" him at all?
Sound, smell, energy, frequency, Lin Xian thought of many possibilities. He resisted the urge to attack and told himself to calm down. He did not want to cause any disturbance in this 'scarlet night' unless it was absolutely necessary. The crashed Chengying warship and the corpses of war scattered all over the ground were enough to illustrate the horror in the scarlet night. It was difficult for him to face the horror in the abyss alone. What's more, he had no idea which direction to escape and could only fight like a trapped beast.
Looking at the dark hole, Lin Xian clenched his fists and remained motionless. At the same time, he quietly ordered all drones to silence.
He is gambling.
Bet your guess is correct.
After an unknown amount of time, the 'void' outside suddenly disappeared into the yellow sand along with a crimson blood mist. At the same time, the bone-chilling intimidation also disappeared immediately.
At this time, Lin Xian finally let out a long sigh, but couldn't help feeling a little scared.
"Thank goodness they didn't bother to install the whole room right from the start. It seems the monsters in the Scarlet are much more sensitive than those in the Midnight, and..."
He was a little confused. The monsters outside seemed to be erratic and could even "teleport". This was simply incomprehensible. If the monsters had such mobility, it would be difficult for ordinary people to react and survive.
Thinking of this, Lin Xian directly turned off the lights in the shelter, and then placed a cold light lamp in the room. He looked at the time, went to the corner and sat down to organize his thoughts.
Time soon came to around 10 o'clock in the morning of the next day. The scarlet color became not so dark. There was no sign, but it seemed that it should be 'dawn'.
Lin Xian stayed awake all night, thinking that although the night and day in the scarlet sky did not seem to be much different, he estimated that there must be some differences, otherwise he would not have seen so many monsters at once last night.
He did not have the opportunity to perform mechanical devouring that night. He just used the existing materials to add a dark energy frequency device to his power armor. However, due to the lack of blood essence, it could not be activated for the time being. The only blood essence had to be kept to preserve the food supplies.
Woo woo woo~
A large number of micro drones flew out. Lin Xian controlled the gate to open a small hole and released the drones again. This time he planned to connect directly to the main bridge to obtain some information.
As Lin Xian expected, the plan progressed much more smoothly after daytime. Not long after, several information drones flashed blue light and rushed into the shattered main bridge. The interior was full of various dried corpses. A female corpse in military uniform was sitting in the captain's seat, with a metal safety belt fastening her body. Including other personnel in the bridge, many of them were still in combat posture.
"The battle started suddenly. Could such a large starship have been hit first?"
With doubts, Lin Xian controlled the drone to access the system and tried to read the data. Soon, a large amount of communication log information was obtained and transmitted to Lin Xian.
【Task Log Summary】:
Mission Codename: Ark Shield
Fleet: Phoenix Interstellar Force's Third Intercontinental Force, "Chengying" (flagship), "Xuanniao" and escort formation.
Mission Objective: Escort the "Noah" mobile maritime city from the waters of the Republic Islands to the designated anchorage off the coast of Jaco, Costa Rica, establish a defense line, and receive and cover the convoy of survivors of the "Dawn Center" evacuating from Guatemala in North America to enter the Noah safe zone.
Log last updated: December 13, 2069, 5:28 PM
"54 days ago?"
It was almost the same as Lin Xian's guess. This fleet should have landed with Noah.
Lin Xian opened the battle log at this time, and immediately a voice message came from the captain's frequency band.
"Chengying! Chengying! The sonar array is abnormal! The index of seabed geological activity has skyrocketed! I repeat, the index of seabed geological activity has skyrocketed! Something is coming up! It's very big!"
"Entire fleet, level one combat configuration! Electrostatic field at maximum power! Anti-submarine weapons preheating! Xuanniao, you are responsible for commanding all transport units to cover the evacuation of the crowd to the south. Phoenix is expected to arrive in North Cocle in 3 hours and 12 minutes!"
Then there is the harsh metal distortion and low-frequency humming.
"Oh my god! What is that?! The seabed... the seabed is rising! It's not a mountain! It's alive!!"
"Damn it, it's the Earthquake Catfish from Star Abyss No. 13. It's haunting me and has chased me this far!"
"Captain, extremely high dark energy fluctuations have been detected in the airspace approximately 190 kilometers northeast. Intelligence estimates suggest an S-class scarlet creature!"
(boom--------!!)
The devastating sound was so devastating that even through the recording of the log, one could still feel it.
Then the communication was interrupted, and all that remained was a shrill busy tone.
Lin Xian's face darkened as he continued to open other contents. He soon found a piece of Fire Book intelligence information, which was sent by the Night Walker Courier flying across the Scarlet Zone. When Lin Xian saw the content of this information, his expression immediately changed!
The message stated that the Dawn Center encountered a major crisis during its transfer in North America. On the night of December 9, the spread of scarlet energy from the North American Star Abyss No. 12 and No. 9 suddenly accelerated in the darkness. The Dawn Center encountered the world-class disaster No. 05, "Chaos," in the Grand Canyon area of North America, resulting in the death toll exceeding 1 million. At the same time, a total of 219 train convoys on the land rail fleet lost contact across the country!
In addition to the survivor convoys, these convoys also include the 13th and 22nd Iron Guard Brigades of the Phoenix Order, 6 special forces of the Second Intercontinental Force, 3 air fleets, and massive amounts of combat readiness resources and human survival supplies transported through orbit!
His Infinite Alliance fleet, Silver Star, Longshan No. 1 and other fleets were also included. The total number of people in all rail fleets exceeded 3 million!
Buzz~
In Lin Xian's holographic vision, a breathtaking dynamic map unfolded.
The scarlet plague has completely submerged the entire Asia-Pacific continent like boiling pus and blood, and its border with the blue ocean has formed a hellish cutting line. In the dark rift between the 12th and 9th star abysses of the North American continent, scarlet magma like a broken dam is gushing and spreading wildly at an unprecedented speed, devouring the remaining areas. A glaring red arrow points from the location of the fission and expansion of the star abyss directly to the Grand Canyon area in the heart of North America.
The world's 13 polar night and scarlet regions almost occupy 70% of the planet's known surface!
This data was from 54 days ago. Based on previous growth data, he estimated that 90% of the area has been covered. Perhaps only a small amount of unexplored ocean waters and some areas near the South American poles have not been swallowed up. Then there are the last polar ice caps, humanity's last line of defense...
Lin Xian was dumbfounded at this moment
"Are you kidding me? The entire rail fleet has lost contact?!"
He immediately frantically searched for other information related to Infinity. After searching for a long time, he only found one piece of information, and this piece of information was related to himself.
[Year 2069, December 11th, ordered to escort the Swordbearer Lin Xian to Storm Coast before the 20th, to be received by Night Walker Headquarters]
Seeing this information, Lin Xian looked solemn.
"Colorado Canyon, a world-class disaster, both the Dawn Center and the Noah Center were severely damaged?!!"
He couldn't help but take a cold breath and couldn't sit still. In Lin Xian's imagination, the rail fleet had powerful firepower and a natural defense advantage against Scarlet. How could the entire fleet lose contact?
But at the moment, he could not get more information about the direction of the Dawn Center from the information of the Chengying ship. After all, this information was still delivered through the instructions of the postman who risked his life. It contained more content about the transfer of Noah, and the time was 54 days ago. Lin Xian did not know how many of the nearly 1.7 million survivors on Noah and these fleets successfully escaped south to the Storm Strait.
"what to do……"
Lin Xian stood up and paced back and forth anxiously. Now that he had this map, he could let the power armor cooperate with his drone as a ground anchor point. With the magnetic field orientation determined, he could plan the path in a low-precision form and use the city as a calibration point. This basically solved the problem of pathfinding and prevented him from getting lost in the scarlet.
Rationally speaking, Lin Xian's plan should be to use the map calibration to find the inland track line 160 kilometers from here, then take out his Infinity, solve the problems of survival and shelter first, and then follow the track all the way south through Panama and Colombia, cross the Amazon to the Storm Coast, and look for survivors and members of the Phoenix Order in the areas that have not been covered by scarlet, and then make plans.
This was the plan Lin Xian had made last night. He even calculated how many devices would be consumed by the wreckage, and then installed the Infinity's dark energy frequency isolation device in the Black Star Forge in advance...
But the problem now is that the rail convoy lost contact in the Colorado Canyon area. Based on his understanding of KIKI, Chen Sixuan and others, if nothing unexpected happened, they would either wait where they were after landing or go to North America to reunite with the Infinite Alliance. At this time, Lin Xian was not sure whether the convoy had escaped safely.
"Calm down, calm down."
Lin Xian's mind was working rapidly at this time. Suddenly, he thought of something and his consciousness immediately sank into the Black Star Forge.
He consciously entered the Infinity carriage and found Teacher Chen's travel book, which contained some records he had made when he was trapped in it. Soon, he found what he was looking for.
I saw on that page that it was written
[The intelligent computing power is disconnected. Either Viola is dead, or I am dead...]
This was a record Lin Xian made after he felt that his consciousness and computing power disappeared. Looking at it now, this situation would also happen after Viola and he were out of the signal coverage distance. He immediately deduced the time at that time.
"Sure enough, December 11th!"
Lin Xian was shocked. The time when he and Viola lost the signal was the same day when the Chengying received him. This very likely meant that the Chengying did not find him in the form of rescue, but the Tianqiong took the initiative to find him!
They changed their course and headed to the Republic Islands to seek help from the Phoenix Noah Center!
Realizing this, Lin Xian couldn't help but get excited. He immediately left the Black Star Forge and used the drone to search for the starship's stored information again. This time, what he wanted to find was the video footage of the starship's visitors on December 11th!
Finally, he saw a group of familiar faces again on the deck platform of the Chengying ship.
KIKI, Teacher Chen, Monica, Qian Dele, Brother Huo, Sasha and others. In the picture, there are many people standing on the deck, including the female captain of the Chengying ship, and many command officers, and their own hibernation capsules are being escorted and transported to the heavily protected hibernation capsule section.
The surveillance footage on the Chengying ship's deck platform shook slightly, and the sea breeze, carrying a salty and fishy smell, swept across the metal floor, blowing the corners of everyone's clothes.
Everyone looked solemn as they followed the escort team into the inner cabin. Lin Xian raised his voice and after observing the situation for a while, a middle-aged official from the Night Walker Organization seemed to be saying
"His vital signs are stable, but his brainwave activity is abnormally low... I've never seen such a long period of silence in a lattice evolution."
"After the scarlet blanketing, we've lost contact with Dawn Center and Phoenix City for over a week." The female captain's voice came through the video. "But before that, we received orders from Commander Ye. She synchronized the sea area you appeared in and ordered us to conduct a range search. She also said you might come to us on your own initiative and asked us to provide any assistance we could."
She looked at Chen Sixuan and KIKI, "Noah's biological laboratory is already the most advanced in existence, and they are helpless."
"Hasn't the Phoenix Society conducted extensive research on lattice evolution? Hasn't a similar situation occurred?" KIKI's voice came from the video.
Chen Sixuan also said at this time: "The crystal cultivation device on his body was completed a long time ago, but he has not woken up. We have tried many methods..."
"No such situation has ever occurred in Noah's laboratory."
The Night Walker leader stepped forward and tapped an energy model projection in the air. "The longest lattice cultivation time has been 121 hours. This is mainly related to the recipient's mental strength threshold, but it has never exceeded a month like this."
"What should we do?! You have no way to save Brother Lin?" Sasha's voice came.
It can be seen that everyone is extremely worried about Lin Xian.
The Night Walker leader was silent for a moment, then said, "At least he's still alive, and judging by the signs, there's no abnormality or other adverse conditions. Perhaps..."
He glanced at the worried people on the Sky Dome and softened his tone, "It's not the worst yet."
The female captain nodded. "The area is now covered in scarlet, and many unknown factors have emerged. Perhaps this is related. I suggest sending him to Phoenix City. Firstly, it hasn't been covered in scarlet yet. Secondly, across the Storm Strait is the Night Walker headquarters. Perhaps there will be a solution there!"
At this time, Lu Xingchen's voice came: "Brother Lin's Mechanical Heart is extremely rare in itself, and one with 'creation' as its core is even more unique. I have said that Brother Lin is in 'seclusion and cultivation'. When he wakes up again, he will surely enter the supreme realm. There is no need for you to worry."
"Don't worry, he has been lying in bed for more than a month, and we have only been here for less than 20 hours..." Sasha retorted with a worried look on her face.
Afterwards, Lin Xian heard what seemed to be a discussion among the people on the Sky Train. At the end, Chen Sixuan took a deep breath. She didn't look at the captain, but her eyes never left Lin Xian in the hibernation capsule. Her eyes were as deep as a frozen lake. A few seconds of silence seemed to freeze the air. Finally, she spoke, her voice not loud, but firm, every word like a nail hammering on the deck:
"Captain Li, your fleet will land in Jaco and head to the Storm Coast. You will escort him to the polar regions as planned! We also have two companions coming with us. One is Ding Junyi, the former chief biologist of the Federation's Underground City No. 9. She knows Lin Xian's situation best and has some data that can be shared with the Order of the Phoenix. The other is KIKI."
"Yes, I'll go with him." Kiki nodded and stood up, frowning at the hibernation capsule: "I have to keep an eye on this guy."
"That's no problem," the female captain replied immediately. She looked at everyone, "Then I'll send a team to assist you in reaching Colorado. We're also preparing to conduct advance exploration and rescue operations. According to the plan, we'll stay in Jaco for a few days after docking, awaiting the arrival of the Dawn Center. However, given the timeline, your orbital convoy won't be able to catch up. If you miss the main force..."
"It doesn't matter."
Chen Sixuan forced a smile and then returned her gaze to the hibernation capsule. "If it were him, he would definitely go and get the convoy out. I don't want him to hear this news after waking up. He's always been the one who saved us from danger..."
After saying this, he turned back to look at his companions on the Sky, and said in a firm tone: "This time, it's our turn..."
"Bring everyone out!"
The video freezes on Chen Sixuan's resolute profile, with the background being the scarlet sky and the huge and silent outline of the Noah, with the sound of the wind.
(End of this chapter)
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