Chapter 504 Psychic Domain
The screams abruptly ceased, and silence returned outside the armored porthole. Lin Xian, his face covered in cold sweat and breathing heavily, looked at the crimson void outside with lingering fear. If it weren't for KIKI's reminder, he would have already activated his energy leap to give chase in that instant. Only now did he realize that he had been tricked!
"The perspective of the predators is completely different from ours. They can see through fragments of our thoughts from different dimensions, so they can detect fear and simulate fragments to lure enemies. We must be careful."
KIKI used her telekinesis to disperse the thick crimson fog outside the train, flew to Lin Xian's side and landed, saying, "This thing's abilities aren't just on the physical level, so it's more dangerous than the supernatural entity."
"Huff... huff"
"We're definitely locked on now, let's find a way to take them down."
Lin Xian's Mechanical Heart surged and began to operate, suppressing the surging adrenaline. A sense of clarity took over his reason, and he directly manipulated the drone area to move closer, while at the same time quickly repairing the armored area that had just been attacked.
As the mechanical repairs were being performed, the dented armor creaked and hummed, visibly restoring its shape.
KIKI maintained her psychic shield and said, "There's no other way but to wait for it to show itself before we make a move."
Lin Xian nodded and looked at KIKI: "Since it is using Operation Scarlet, let's address the root cause."
Upon hearing this, KIKI understood. The two stood in the carriage with their backs to each other, on guard. Facing this elusive predator for the first time, Lin Xian and KIKI dared not be careless at all.
The Infinite was quietly parked on the tracks amidst ruins. The Crimson World was as silent as hell. Lin Xian and KIKI were on guard in the train, their hearts in sync. Lin Xian observed the outside world through his drone and the onboard sentry system, while KIKI used her psychic field to detect any unusual activity outside.
It was eerily quiet outside.
In the darkness, Lin Xian held his breath, his holographic screen displaying dozens of monitoring feeds from the Sentinel System and drones. The radar was running at full power. Just then, a strange, tall figure appeared without warning in the drone's monitoring view. The dark figure stood abruptly amidst the ruins, its towering form exuding a twisted and eerie aura. Through the drone's perspective, Lin Xian couldn't see the figure, yet he immediately felt a chilling sense of being pierced and stared at, as if that black hole-like face was now less than a centimeter away from him!
"Nine o'clock direction."
Lin Xian's voice was lower than his breathing.
“It’s watching us,” KIKI whispered back.
Lin Xian felt a chill run down his spine and immediately suppressed his emotions. At this moment, he deliberately turned all the drones on the side of the car to focus, and countless perspectives fell on that figure. More images began to appear in Lin Xian's field of vision. He began to look directly at that figure, and at the same time, his defenses gradually weakened. He stared into the abyss and began to let fear invade his reason!
Sure enough, just as Lin Xian felt another chill run through his body, the giant crimson figure in the distance mysteriously disappeared. Accompanying it was a loud bang from the carriage behind him, the static field was instantly torn apart, and a thick crimson fog surged forth!
This happened to fall into KIKI's psychic field. KIKI was already prepared. When the monster appeared in her psychic field, the girl's eyes flashed with purple lightning. The powerful field force instantly locked onto and subdued the monster. The monster tried to flash out of the crimson mist, but KIKI had cleared a huge vacuum area from the crimson mist in the entire area.
Ugh!
In just a second, the 1130 close-in weapon system mounts on the roofs of carriages 5 and 12 immediately turned precisely, aiming at the dark figure in the crimson, and the motor turned on, unleashing a torrent of metal!
beep!!!
The metal jet hurtled towards them at a speed of 2,000 meters per second. The bio-force field on the scarlet predator's body flickered violently with red ripples, but it was completely torn apart in less than two seconds by the terrifying kinetic energy of the jet. The high-temperature flames burned through the predator's flesh, skull, and brain in 0.1 seconds. The blood mist, accompanied by a golden flash, bloomed into a dazzling, jet-shaped firework in the pitch-black ruins!
The predator had no chance to escape; it was swept into a bloody mist in the blink of an eye, and the black blood shrank into the ground like a living thing.
At that moment, Lin Xian immediately felt the chilling sensation of being locked on disappear, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Killed them?"
"Hmm." KIKI raised her hand and used her telekinesis to clear away the thick blood mist outside, and said to Lin Xian, "But we can't let our guard down yet. Firing just now might have attracted some strange entities."
Lin Xian went to the window, opened several sunshades to observe the outside, and said warily, "Should we use decoys to divert the risk?"
"no."
KIKI immediately stopped Lin Xian's idea: "Apart from the Crimson Tide eruption, the hunting creatures generally do not act in groups. Casually causing turmoil in the dark will only put us at a disadvantage. It is better to remain still in this Crimson Tide than to move. If we are not careful, we will trigger an avalanche."
Lin Xian's expression turned serious upon hearing this: "That's really troublesome, even more terrifying than the polar night."
“Yes, we could catch our breath in the polar night by resolving the marking issue, but not in the crimson, because theoretically…”
"Is there not much difference between day and night?"
“Yes, once the monster tide is triggered, it’s hard to catch your breath. You can only keep running.” KIKI crossed her arms, turned around and removed her power armor mask. “The homing device can largely prevent being marked with a dark mark from a distance, so as long as the noise is not too loud, theoretically, it will be safe to hide in the car. Moreover, with our armor, ordinary zombies and monsters cannot destroy it.”
Lin Xian nodded: "It seems we need to be more careful."
Outside the train, amidst the crimson light, rustling sounds began to emerge, like walking or climbing. Some crimson zombies, drawn by the sound of machine guns, began to hunch over and approach from the blood mist. There seemed to be at least twenty or thirty of them, gathering from all directions of the train.
Seeing this scene, Lin Xian subconsciously shut down the fire control systems of 1130 and the electromagnetic railgun, preparing to send out dozens of Thunder Falcon drones to silently eliminate them using laser pulse weapons. However, he discovered that the pulse beams of the Thunder Falcon drones were all blocked by the bio-force fields on these zombies, causing no damage whatsoever. Instead, it made these scarlet zombies go berserk!
Suddenly, several crimson zombies covered in strange tentacles extended their tentacles from dozens of meters away. However, those tentacles strangely pierced through a cloud of crimson blood mist and shot out into the air, instantly blasting several Thunder Falcon 2000 drones to pieces.
"This can also refract space?!"
Seeing this, Lin Xian frowned in surprise and subconsciously prepared to send out his "Iron Man and Dragon Girl" again to deal with the situation. At this moment, KIKI interrupted his actions.
"Let me handle this; you're making too much noise."
KIKI immediately stepped forward, her eyes flashing with purple lightning. The psychic field that surrounded and covered the entire Infinity was instantly drawn away, becoming a vacuum. In the next instant, the scarlet zombies outside the carriage were instantly turned into dust by some kind of enormous crushing force, without making a sound, as if the world had been muted.
Lin Xian looked at KIKI in surprise: "Your telekinesis has become so powerful?"
In Lin Xian's view, KIKI's operation was completely different from her previous methods of creating shockwaves or suppression through telekinesis. Including the fact that she had just invisibly controlled the hunting body, it was as if all the dust particles in the entire space had been completely controlled by KIKI's telekinesis. She annihilated those zombies into ashes with a flick of her hand, without causing any disturbance. Not even the sand and rubble on the ground were blown away. She had achieved a level of subtlety that was almost imperceptible.
Did you use lattice power?
“Of course not.” KIKI smiled slightly: “Activating the crystal lattice in this situation would be suicide. It’s just that my control over telekinesis has reached a deeper level now, so dealing with these scarlet zombies is a piece of cake.”
Lin Xian nodded, sensing that the unusual atmosphere outside had calmed down, so he closed all the sunshades again and turned on the cold light.
"It's all thanks to you, otherwise these zombies would have become a real problem."
The trouble Lin Xian was referring to was the avalanche-like crimson tide. Although these crimson zombies were completely vulnerable to his mecha legion, including the hunter-killer, Lin Xian's mechanical creations and strength meant he wasn't afraid of being ambushed from behind. What he was worried about was causing even bigger trouble.
After all, he and KIKI are the only two people on the mission, and their goal is to venture deep into the Scarlet Heart of North America to find someone. Even if the two of them are very strong, they cannot face endless threats, so remaining silent is the best strategy.
In carriage number 6, after resolving the sudden crisis, Lin Xian brewed himself a cup of hot tea using Huo Ge's tea leaves, and then began to study the Phoenix Society's dark energy frequency-synchronous device.
The fact that the Thunderhawk drones were completely unable to harm the zombies made Lin Xian feel a deeper sense of crisis. Although he now had a 6,000-strong mech army, the role that these small drones could play was naturally much smaller. But in Lin Xian's view, this was not a good sign.
Back at the submarine base, his drone swarm was still able to put up a fight against the black snakes with their bio-force fields, but now they've become mobile surveillance cameras. This means that the bio-force fields of the monsters in Scarlet have been greatly enhanced. In addition, given the uncertainty of the dimensional space in Scarlet, even drones flying in the air no longer have much of a flight advantage.
These are the same problems his mech legion will encounter. Although his mech legion cut through the Harco coast like butter, it doesn't mean it's invincible. Besides the high cost of the mech legion, which is made of top-grade materials and armed to the teeth, there is also the advantage of sheer numbers. So after experiencing the horror of Crimson tonight, Lin Xian felt that he had to make some improvements to his mech legion as a whole. Otherwise, he would feel a great pang of heartache if he lost even one of these "Iron Men and Dragon Women".
"What are you researching now?"
After redeploying the defense and monitoring array for the Infinite, KIKI arrived at carriage number 6 and saw Lin Xian using the Mechanical Heart to create a strange device. She flew over, sat down opposite him on the sofa, and asked him a question.
"The frequency device developed by the Phoenix Society is based on the previous Dawn City Synchro device. It has been improved by absorbing the dark energy frequency of Crimson. I'm thinking that this device can shield the spread of Crimson. If it is improved and combined with an electrostatic field generator for use as a protective force field on the outside of powered armor or mechs, it might be useful."
"Oh?" KIKI's eyes lit up upon hearing this: "Like your AT field?"
Lin Xian curled his lips: "Not really. I still haven't figured out the principle behind my AT field. It can provide dual protection on both the physical and energy levels, which is several civilization levels higher than our electrostatic field. Mine can only be considered as something prepared to deal with the troubles of the Crimson."
KIKI nodded: "That's true. Your skills and abilities all come from a higher civilization. If humans could learn them, we might not have to be forced to flee all over the world by the Star Abyss."
Upon hearing this, Lin Xian's levitating mechanical component, controlled by the light of his mechanical manufacturing, suddenly stopped in mid-air. KIKI's words suddenly made him think of something...
My own skills?
If someone has mastered their own mechanical superpowers, then there truly is one person in this world.
Chu Yan!
"Gravitational lensing..."
Lin Xian had always had questions about this, but Chu Yan had never revealed anything to him. The strangest thing was that when the two of them were undergoing a mental fusion in Dawn City because of the Gray Mist Messenger, Lin Xian couldn't find any relevant information in Chu Yan's memories. There was even a blank about Chu Yan's experiences and many of the missions she had undertaken as the psychic power ace of the North American United Front.
Lin Xian initially speculated that both the Crimson World and the Foundation were hunting her down. As a psychic, she must have a way to seal away her top-secret information, and the fact that she protected him in the Civilization Preview Sphere was also due to this ability.
Now that KIKI has brought this up, Lin Xian is thinking about this issue again.
Should we contact the Starry Sky Laboratory through Grace, and then ask Professor Ye or General Xu Zhenyue?
Having made up his mind, Grace's information packet would take about 6 hours to return, and perhaps he could obtain a lot of information about Scarlet and Chu Yan from the Phoenix Society.
"What are you thinking about again?" KIKI asked softly, breaking the silence as Lin Xian was lost in thought, hugging his knees and curling up on the sofa.
Lin Xian came to his senses and breathed a sigh of relief: "You reminded me. My ability is different from other ability users. The skills I gained from the Mechanical Heart can perhaps be further developed through technological research. Even if I can't completely replicate them, it can still significantly improve the combat effectiveness of the resistance legion's weapons."
KIKI nodded in agreement: "Smart. If that's the case, then you really have a deus ex machina."
Lin Xian smiled and pointed his finger. A small, hastily made dark energy frequency synchrotron fell onto the table. The thing was rather crudely made. Without Viola's system computing power and Grace's inability to connect to the computing power, Lin Xian was back to the awkward situation of drawing blueprints by hand.
“I always had a feeling, KIKI, that my three-month hibernation in the hibernation pod wasn’t a coincidence, nor was it due to lattice evolution…”
"Why is that?" KIKI asked.
"I don't know." Lin Xian looked up at KIKI and said slowly, "Perhaps my mechanical heart accidentally triggered something, or perhaps..."
"Someone triggered something for me."
(End of this chapter)
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