Chapter 161: Dead City

This was the first time Lin Xian's mechanical heart completely swallowed his energy. That feeling was as if the mechanical heart had activated some kind of self-protection program and forcibly 【shut down】 itself.

When that mechanical ability operated again, Lin Xian began to feel a cold skin touch, and... weightlessness!

Infinite, is descending rapidly.

Swish swish!

The track is humming, the train is trembling slightly.

Lin Xian opened his eyes and found himself lying on the bed in Carriage 1. Chen Sixuan's light drink came from the cockpit: "Decelerating, no obstacles ahead."

"Everyone hold on, Shasha take good care of your Lin Ge!"

He turned his gaze and found that Lou Shasha was holding his shoulders nervously, afraid that he would roll off the bed due to inertia, while her little face looked at the window nervously.

"Sister Chen, temporarily did not receive any broadcast related to Jiazhou City." Kiki's voice came from Carriage 2.

Lin Xian felt his head was dizzy, and his subconscious told him that this descending slope must be the climbing channel.

Could it be that they have reached Jiazhou City?

Ding~

The mechanical heart sent a prompt. Lin Xian then discovered that the R&D center had completed the research progress of the M556 light machine gun a few hours ago, and a new blueprint prompt told him that he could obtain it.

With a flash of light, a brand-new blueprint appeared in the R&D center.

【Congratulations, you have obtained the Roarer K23 electric rotary machine gun (blueprint)】

Lin Xian raised his neck and glanced, his pupils trembled slightly, and then he fell back on the pillow.

"Did I see it wrong?"

"What kind of ghost thing is this, the firepower enhancement research directly came out with such a thing..."

Lin Xian pondered for a moment, convinced that this R&D center was not a simple blueprint upgrade, including the A1-class subcritical reverse osmosis water purifier, which was completely created out of thin air.

He even began to suspect that the end of the R&D center upgrade might no longer be something produced on this planet...

"Hoo!"

At the critical moment, Lin Xian had no time to think more, shook his dizzy head, and got up immediately.

Shasha saw Lin Xian wake up and exclaimed immediately: "Lin Ge, you are awake?!"

"Where is this?"

"Jiazhou No. 2 Airport descending track, we flew on the high-altitude corridor for seven or eight hours." Shasha said.

Lin Xian sat up from the bed. The entire carriage was in a descending tilted state at this moment. He immediately operated the mechanical heart and found that Chen Sixuan was controlling the descending speed using the horizon gateway. Currently, it seemed that everything was going smoothly.

The black armored train was constantly descending toward the ground. In the cockpit, Chen Sixuan saw Lin Xian walk in, and a look of surprise flashed in her eyes: "You are awake?"

"Is everything going smoothly?" Lin Xian saw that the train was still sprinting at high speed and dared not be careless, and began to control the train to adjust its posture.

"Temporarily no other problems. I have already increased the train speed to the fastest in the high-altitude corridor, but at our speed, we are several hours slower than others."

"It doesn't matter."

Lin Xian said in a low voice: "As long as we come over, it's fine. This is already the fastest speed for us to escape the night and the farthest distance we have crossed in a short time."

All car traction platforms have been electromagnetically accelerated to a speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour. Trains like the Silver Star and Longshan No. 1 are equipped with perfect configurations, and their speed is not something that the Infinite's current configuration can compare with. It is normal to be unable to keep up.

But for the team that has crossed the 4,500-kilometer Dazhu Plateau, it can be considered temporarily out of the threat of the polar night.

"I don't know if anyone stayed at Jiazhou Airport..."

"Others don't know, Shu Qin and the others should be waiting for us." Lin Xian said.

After the airport night, he decided to expand the train on a large scale like the Silver Star and Longshan No. 1, take more passengers, and completely unearth the potential of his mechanical heart. At the same time, he also needed to solve an important problem, which was the train's all-terrain mobility.

The circumstellar orbit would pass through many large cities, and there would also be many extreme areas, so he must also have a variety of route choices like the Phoenix Society's Dawn Center.

At this moment, the slope slowed down, the train rushed down the climbing track and began to decelerate, and a large track hall appeared in sight.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

The train's huge sound echoed in the track hall, appearing very empty. Looking at it, it was empty. Jiazhou City's No. 2 Airport was built on a mountain, and the track was connected to an underground tunnel. Following the tunnel all the way along the underground track, soon a beam of light was seen!

The Infinite did not stop at all, rushed out of the tunnel directly. In an instant, the dazzling sunlight shrouded the train, all carriages were illuminated, and at the same time, a sense of warmth followed.

"Is it dawn?"

"Such an early sun..."

Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan felt their eyes stinging. At this moment, Shasha, Kiki, and others also ran in.

Through the glass porthole, under the early sun, a quiet big city appeared in everyone's sight.

The time was 7 o'clock in the morning. The morning sun was still very cold, but for the team that flew from the blizzard low-temperature environment of Yubei City, this temperature could be considered warm.

"Wow, haven't seen such an early sun for a long time."

!

Kiki walked over and exclaimed.

Chen Sixuan's eyes were leisurely: "There is a feeling of rebirth."

"Our daytime time has suddenly increased a lot." Shasha's little face was full of excitement.

Swish swish...

The train passed quickly on the airport's high-speed elevated track. The scenery of the distant city fell into everyone's eyes, with a feeling of being both strange and familiar.

"4,500 kilometers, Jiazhou to Longjiang area is close to the middle zone of the 3rd Star Abyss and the 5th Star Abyss." Lin Xian said.

Shasha was very envious: "Then the people here are lucky, the daytime time is longer than other places..."

"That's what they say..." Kiki frowned and approached the car window to look at the distant city: "But why do I feel that this city is too quiet."

"Looks like a dead city."

"Logically speaking, shouldn't there be many survivors in the middle zone of the Star Abyss."

Lin Xian shook his head: "Thinking too simply. The 3rd, 5th, and 7th Star Abysses are too close. Even if there is temporary living space in the middle zone, it is just boiling a frog in warm water, and the dangers in the night are the same..."

Cities farther away from the Star Abyss can indeed have more living space and time, but the night infection is equally fatal, and because the distribution range and expansion speed of the Star Abyss are different, some areas will be covered by the polar night more slowly, and the chances of survival will be higher.

Although Jiazhou City is far away from the rapidly expanding 3rd Star Abyss, it is not far from the other 5th and 7th Star Abysses. If the other two Star Abysses also expand rapidly, this area will be like a siege, and will soon be covered and swallowed.

"Population, cities, are all influencing factors." Ding Junyi walked over at this moment and stood in the distance: "Lucheng Dingzhou, where the 3rd Star Abyss is located, is the most densely populated area of cities in the Tianhai Province. Like North America 1, Asia-Pacific 2, Europe 9, and Republic 11, it belongs to the area where the dark tide expands the fastest. It is precisely because of this that the Phoenix Society advocates finding living space in movement, such as the North Pole polar ice sheet, plus the influence of the polar day. From the calculations, it is very likely to be the area covered by the polar night last. Currently, the South Pole is also in the polar day, which is the same reason."

"That can also be called a safe zone?" Kiki was stunned: "That place is the polar region, there is nothing, how can people live there..."

Lin Xian turned around and glanced at her, saying meaningfully: "Believe me, when the global polar night is covered and monsters are everywhere, that kind of no-man's land full of sunshine will be the destination that everyone dreams of."

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As he spoke, he felt a strange sense that this was very much like a certain game from decades ago, where one even had to run from the poison...

"Can that even be called a safe zone?" kiki stared in disbelief. "That place is the polar region; there's nothing there. How can people survive once they get there..."

Lin Xian turned to look at her and said meaningfully, "Believe me, once the global polar night covers everything and monsters are running rampant, that uninhabited zone full of sunlight will be the destination everyone dreams of."

(End of chapter)