Chapter 519 Please keep speeding up!
At the bow of the arsenal ship, Lu Xingchen, Jiang Yun, and several other superhumans with wide-range attacks gathered together. Their mission was to clear the track so that the train could run smoothly.
If the train can accelerate to a certain speed, it will actually reduce the pressure on the following motor vehicle units and Iron Guard brigades. After all, it is impossible to kill all the monsters. Once it stops, this battle line, which has been stretched for hundreds of kilometers, will be breached in no time. The battle line is too long. Even if two more Iron Guard brigades come, they will not be able to protect this train of the century.
The night wind howled. Monica walked over to Lu Xingchen and Jiang Yun, looked at the fog in front of her and sighed softly: "The same plot again, the same betrayal again. The strategic intentions of the human group are completely transparent to the Tower people."
"Actually, we can't change anything in these few minutes; the balance of power is off."
Jiang Yun crossed his arms and turned to look at the planetary eye hanging in the night sky, muttering, "In front of that thing, we are like ants. All our chances of breathing actually come from the enemy, not from ourselves. If the strange tides hadn't stopped, we would never have survived this long."
"Hearing you say that, we do seem quite pitiful."
Qian Dele smiled helplessly: "We have no initiative at all. We're just barely surviving because those monsters are playing a game."
"Otherwise, where else can we escape to?"
“There’s no need for you all to be so downcast.” Lu Xingchen was full of pride at this moment, and there was not a trace of negativity in him. He gathered fire in his hands and slowly rose into the air, gazing at the scarlet earth below, and said: “We fight against heaven and earth, we gamble with fate. Even ants do not give up on a glimmer of hope. Even if those higher-dimensional civilizations put us in their hands and play us for a fool, it is not a reason for us to give up.”
He turned to look at the group and said, "All beings suffer; hardship is the norm in life."
"Brother Huo is right, we're not dead yet, we'll definitely get out of here," Chen Sixuan said confidently into the communicator.
"rest assured!"
At this moment, the voice of He Yifeng, commander of the 3rd Regiment of the 22nd Brigade, came through the communication frequency: "Our regiment will clear the way for you. All you have to do is make sure the train doesn't stop!"
"Hey, Lao He, it seems like our 7th Regiment is the main force, right? You guys are in charge of the left flank, how come you're the ones clearing the way?" Wang Yong, the commander of the 7th Regiment, rang out with a loud and boisterous voice.
"That's right, it's like our 5th Regiment doesn't exist. Besides, Commander Wu's Thunder Fleet is still overhead. Don't try to take all the credit for yourself!" Li Chongyun, the commander of the 5th Regiment, said defiantly.
"Hey, I didn't mean that." He Yifeng smiled. "Then let's put it this way, leave the left wing to us. Don't worry, my four Raiders here are no pushovers."
On the bridge of the Zhenhai warship, Wu Xiangqun stared intently at the radar screen and spoke.
"20 seconds to engage the enemy, 5 seconds to enter the energy weapon's range, everyone, stay alert!"
Upon hearing the voice of the Iron Guard Brigade, the members of the Infinite Alliance felt their spirits lifted considerably. Although a great battle was imminent, the presence of so many warriors protecting them sent their adrenaline soaring.
Trip! Trip! Trip! Trip!
At this moment, in the sky, the Zhenhai Ship, the Sky Train, and all the base weapons on the fleet decks all raised their cannons in rows, the blue energy beams of the electromagnetic railguns began to charge, the missile array hatches opened, and the search radars were operating at full power.
Chen Sixuan, Wu Xiangqun, Jiang Yun, and Jian Xuwei on the Silver Star below looked at the surging red tide on the radar screen.
They said in unison
"They're here!"
...
Amidst the crimson glow, the sky had darkened. A black train, propelled by dozens of thrusters and some kind of telekinetic force, was flying at high speed hundreds of meters above the ground. The powerful wind pressure swirled the crimson mist ahead into a vortex, creating a deafening roar in the air.
KIKI's eyes flashed with purple lightning as she hovered in the cockpit. Under her control, the thousands-ton Infinity was like an ordinary block of iron, flying at high speed like a cannonball.
Behind the Infinity, a dense swarm of bizarre aerial creatures followed, and the enormous commotion alerted all the monsters on the ground that could be disturbed.
But at this moment, the three people on the Infinity were completely disregarding everything else. After determining their direction and target, they activated their supernatural powers at their highest level and headed towards the main force.
Lin Xian's consciousness returned from the Black Star Forge. All seven construction sequences had been running for over 48 hours, but it still seemed insufficient.
"We're already in North America now. At this speed, won't we miss the main force?"
"Won't."
Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian: "That's a massive migration of over three million people. Even with the crimson fog, you can hear the firepower of the Iron Guard Brigade of over 100,000 from hundreds of kilometers away. Besides, have you forgotten my capabilities?"
Lin Xian raised an eyebrow slightly: "Oh right, I almost forgot, and you also know their exact location."
Chu Yan looked ahead at the train, arms crossed: "The Foundation has already made its move. That world-class creature won't let so much energy and food escape. Our time is running out."
"Wait, you said... energy food?" Lin Xian felt a little strange when he heard this term.
"Don't you know?" Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian: "Those energy-devouring insects devour all organic energy and electricity, all of which serve the high-level strange entities."
Lin Xian frowned upon hearing this: "Then high-level anomalies serve S-level and world-class entities?"
"That's right."
"So this is not a biological species, but a devouring system..."
"Didn't you already see it in the preview sphere of the Tower Civilization?" Chu Yan asked.
Lin Xian opened his mouth, and at that moment a certain thought flashed through his mind, as if he had captured something, but it quickly disappeared.
"In short, they eat the smaller ones, then devour each other, and eventually become [angels]?" Lin Xian frowned. "So, does that mean that in the end, the Tower Civilization only had one organism?"
"Yes and no."
Chu Yan sighed: "It seems to be a single organism, but it is actually a collection of the thoughts of billions of organisms. This kind of unified life even shares the same thoughts, so their social structure... well, so their civilization develops very quickly, largely because of this. Do you remember the mycelium network in Yijin City? The consciousness of all life is a collection of computing power."
Upon hearing this, Lin Xian suddenly realized, and his expression immediately turned serious: "Damn, that's the computing power of an entire civilization, or rather, the [Angels] are actually the carriers of a civilization... So, do they even need planets?"
“How would I know? That part of my consciousness has been devoured. I don’t even know what that part of my consciousness said to you or did,” Chu Yan said.
"You've said quite a lot, and you even protected me. Also, that part of your consciousness doesn't have a prosthetic limb, so it must be a manifestation of your complete body."
Chu Yan's expression darkened slightly: "Whether or not you have a complete body is not important, but a complete personality is very important."
After saying that, she looked at Lin Xian: "The Foundation will definitely not let you escape back to the polar regions. And now that the world-class beings are in action, they can't control the mind of the Tower Civilization. So we are very likely to all die here. The threat that Nantianmen can pose to world-class beings is not as great as it used to be. Do you have any plans?"
“What kind of plan can I have?” Lin Xian stared intently ahead. “Do whatever we can. In this situation, we just need to run as fast as we can. As long as the tracks aren’t broken, I can make a train run, whether it’s going 100 kilometers or 1,000 kilometers per hour. As long as we can get going, we have a chance. Right now, we can only pray that the train hasn’t been broken. Otherwise, facing the Crimson Tide, we might not have time to contact our rear…”
"So, I hope they can hold on."
...
Rumble!!!
The crimson sky was torn into a bloody rag by thousands of cannon fire. The moment the searchlight of the Silver Star train pierced the thick fog, the entire Colorado wilderness trembled like a giant drum. It was the roar of billions of strange waves from all directions and the roar of more than six thousand steel trains rushing by.
The Thunder Fleet and the Sky Train hovered low in the air, the orbital stroboscopic cannons on the bow of the ships were burning red, and one-fifth of the anode pulse cannon array of the Zhenhai Ship had been burned. Each salvo was like a thunderbolt thrown by the gods, blasting a vacuum hole with a diameter of a kilometer into the thick fog.
Amidst the deafening roar of cannons, a silhouette of the tide, resembling hell, emerged from the thick fog beneath the Iron Guard Brigade's assault troops and the searchlights of the Silver Star. A chilling, monstrous tide surged forth from almost every direction, like a tsunami, shaking the very earth!
Amidst the strange tide, enormous A-grade special-grade bizarre entities appeared one after another. Bone spur forests grew on the backs of giant, worm-like, writhing fleshy beasts, and tidal waves of multi-legged corpse worms swarmed among them. The winged demons circling in the sky obscured the remaining starlight.
"The Breaking Formation Regiment must maintain its formation! He Yifeng, Wang Yong, and Li Chongyun, you three regiments must hold the engine of the vehicle! The lives of millions of people are tied to your belts. I don't care about your casualty figures. Even if there are monster corpses lying in front of you, you have to blast them open with cannons and clear the way!"
"Don't worry, sir!"
An epic battle scene erupted from a steel line stretching for hundreds of kilometers. Drone swarms laid tracks across the desolate plains, and trains sped across hundreds of kilometers of desolate plains. The land of Colorado was shaking, the sky was burning, and the line of fire stretched from the Rocky Mountains all the way to the Black Rock Plains!
This is a life-or-death escape for a human migration force!
Billions of monsters are ramming into this train of the century. Behind them, on a continuous line of armed trains, millions of people are retreating. Firepower is fiercely directed at the monster hordes on both sides. Various battle situations are transmitted on different frequencies from the various trains. Some are shouting, some are calling for help, and some are burning.
The 13th Iron Guard Brigade's thousands of TFV-600 twin-barreled tanks plowed through the wasteland, creating a wall of fire, while the metal storm from the 1130 close-in weapon systems on the armored vehicles shredded the diving Winged Demons into a rain of blood.
The Silver Star's triple-mounted electromagnetic cannons fired incessantly into the thick fog, blasting scorch marks into the crimson earth. The Republican Alliance convoy's modified trucks, welded with machine guns, rampaged wildly. Lei Zhen's large truck charged at the edge of the right flank of the strange tide. The combined firepower and the metal storm on the train illuminated both sides of the train almost as if it were daytime.
Twelve giant, python-like tentacles suddenly emerged from the depths of the dense fog, each over three meters in diameter, covered with compound eyes and suckers. Wherever the tentacles swept, more than a dozen armored trucks of the Iron Shield convoy were lifted into the air like toys. On the roof of a heavy truck, a welder ignited the fuel tank with a blowtorch, turning himself into a human-shaped incendiary bomb and crashing into the swarm of insects. Captain Liang Hao shouted angrily into the communication channel: "Accelerate! Accelerate! The Dragon Kun fleet's firepower is about to land! Stomp the accelerator!"
Boom!!!
In the Blackstone Plains area, a strange tide surging from the valley was almost like a jet of water, rushing directly towards the train line located between T45 and T47. A convoy of cars on this side kept returning fire, but before half a minute had passed, all of the hundreds of cars in the convoy were annihilated.
"The Crimson Serpent Excitement Team is finished..." He Linqiu of the Burning Phoenix Caravan watched helplessly as the caravan was destroyed, his face turning ashen. He immediately ordered the caravan to slow down: "Let's hold them off and provide backup. There's an opening over there!"
Empty!
Before the words were even finished, the monstrous tidal wave crashed head-on into the speeding train. Countless beams of explosive energy from the strange creatures rained down from the sky, instantly engulfing more than twenty carriages in flames. Hundreds of people were charred and burned, and the train derailed and bent under the impact of the monstrous tidal wave.
The train ahead dragged the dozens of burning carriages forward, while the train behind pushed forward again. Sparks flew and metal exploded on the tracks. People inside the broken trains screamed as they were burned. Seeing that it was about to cause the trains behind to derail one after another, the survivors with superpowers and soldiers in mechs used explosives to destroy all the carriages and abandon them. The trains behind accelerated over the flames and continued to connect with the carriages in front.
At the forefront of the steel dragon, Lu Xingchen and Jiang Yun, along with several other powerful superhumans, unleashed a blazing storm cloud of flames under the cover of aerial artillery fire. Like a giant, rolling whirlwind, it roared across the land, leaving scorched earth in its wake, and burning and carbonizing tens of thousands of monsters in its wake.
Ryunosuke's twelve metal giants were of great help. These indestructible and unkillable giants even charged ahead of the 22nd Iron Guard Brigade's battle group, directly resisting countless torrents of monsters and greatly relieving the pressure on the rear battle group.
Meanwhile, the main battalions of the 13th Iron Guard Brigade, which were responsible for protecting the rear, suffered heavy losses in a short period of time. In order to cover the rear, the battalion commander of the 6th Battalion of the 13th Iron Guard Brigade led the entire battalion to turn around while marching at high speed and hold the pass of Black Stone Forest, blocking a large number of pursuing monsters and buying a lot of time for the convoys and trains that had fallen behind to transfer.
This elite mech battalion of over 900 men was swallowed up by the tsunami-like monster tide after holding off the enemy for 23 minutes. They all perished heroically. The sheer number of monsters was so great that even with their full firepower, they couldn't withstand it. They were swallowed up by the monster tide even though they still had most of their ammunition left.
"The 6th Battalion has lost contact, and the 7th and 8th Battalions are already overwhelmed. There are just too many of them, ten times the number of the previous ones!"
General Li Sheng, commander of the 13th Iron Guard Brigade, had a grim expression as he watched the massive crashes of the Firestone Air Fleet's ships on the high-definition surveillance screen. It was as if even his breath could freeze.
"Notify Qian Long that before the Longyu ship crashes, it must launch all its nuclear missiles, concentrating them in these three directions!"
"yes!"
Inside the command center of the Second Intercontinental Force, General Luo stood ramrod straight in front of the large screen. His gaze swept across the battle reports from the entire front. The casualty figures were not in units of individuals, but rather in units of entire squads, battalions, or even entire wagon regiments that had been wiped out. And at this time, the retreat had only been underway for less than three hours, yet the number of dead had already reached a point where it was impossible to count.
However, the orbit was about to run out, and the endless, enormous, and extraordinary tide of monsters showed no signs of abating. Even looking up, the giant eye in the sky, like a planet, still hung above everyone's heads, as if they had not moved forward at all, or as if the destructive, world-destroying evil god was constantly following behind them like an ant looking down on them.
"How much orbit is left?" Old Luo asked the Utopia and Silver Star at this moment.
"Less than 30 kilometers. At the current speed, it will take at most 20 minutes." Sean's voice was mixed with the gunfire. Upon hearing this news, Old Luo's expression also turned solemn.
If this continues, we will have no choice but to activate Contingency Plan 3, which will require all air units and ground forces capable of breaking out to disperse and break out with convoys of vehicles and all-terrain vehicles. At this point, a large number of trains will be abandoned and disconnected, and then swallowed up by the crimson.
This will be a horrific massacre, with at least a million people dying in a very short time. Even the teams that manage to break through will be questionable whether they will survive past midnight.
On the Sky Train, Chen Sixuan and the others also turned grim upon hearing the news.
"It seems we need to prepare to dismantle the structure and then disperse for an aerial rescue," Chen Sixuan said.
"It's not that simple!!!"
At that moment, a voice rang out from the communication frequency. High in the sky, Xiaoqing and Sasha led their high-speed aerial reconnaissance team back to safe airspace. As soon as they reconnected, Sasha, piloting the Flying Peach, immediately spoke in an extremely tense tone.
"There's a huge rift valley 5 kilometers ahead, it's not on the map at all, it's at least 100 kilometers long, and we can't get around it!"
"What?!" Upon hearing this, everyone on the communication frequency was immediately shocked.
"It must have been that 'Chaos' who did it!"
"It was the same in the Colorado Canyon..."
"This guy has already blocked our way!"
"what to do?!"
"If we keep rushing like this, there won't even be a road left!"
“General Luo!” Chen Sixuan called out immediately.
In the command post, Old Luo's pupils dilated in shock. This news was like a bolt from the blue, bringing the migrating troops, already on the edge of a cliff, to the brink of hell.
“In this situation, our only chance of saving some people is to disperse, break up, and flee!” General Zeng Weiguo said at this moment.
“Our Utopia can tow at least 400 train cars, and the 13th Iron Guard Brigade can move closer to us!” Sean immediately made plans as well.
"Old Commander, give the order," General Li Sheng's voice rang out. "If we don't disperse them now, they'll all be blocked by that rift valley!"
Old Luo took a deep breath, his eyes filled with sorrow and determination. However, just as he was about to issue the order to collapse under War Plan No. 3, a sharp radio voice rang out directly in the command frequency!
Sizzle!
Sizzle!
The disruptive radio waves subsided after a few seconds, and then came the urgent voice of an unfamiliar man.
"I am Lin Xian. The Kunlun Council has appointed me as the Supreme Commander of the rescue force to lead the support troops to assist your evacuation. Now, everyone, listen to my orders: the train units must not stop, and all motor vehicle units must maintain a distance of 15 meters from both sides of the train. Silver Star, Jian Xuwei!"
Upon hearing that familiar voice, everyone on the Sky Train was startled, their eyes lighting up. They knew that voice all too well. Chen Sixuan's eyes were bloodshot, and a thin mist rose from them.
It's him, it really is him!
At the most critical moment for the Infinite Alliance and even humanity, he descended from the sky like a miracle!
Standing in the main control room of the Silver Star, Jian Xuwei heard Lin Xian's voice and, suppressing her excitement, immediately responded calmly.
"I am here."
"Silver Star, your direction remains unchanged, please continue to accelerate!"
(End of this chapter)
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