Chapter 167

"A dressing room?"

kiki frowned at him: "You're a grown man, what do you need a dressing room for?"

"Heh."

Lu Xingchen stood with his hands behind his back, looking at her sideways: "That's where you don't understand. As a god, one naturally has to pay attention to one's demeanor." He brushed his bangs and said with extreme confidence: "Even in troubled times, one must have a way of conducting oneself; one cannot be chaotic."

"Pfft." kiki looked at him with disgust: "Then you burn your top every day with fire. I think you should just stop wearing them; it's a waste of clothes."

Lin Xian, standing to the side, also felt this made some sense.

"Or I can prepare a full-coverage armor for you later. It can increase your firepower and keep you from being shirtless, avoiding stray bullets."

"Brother Lin has great insight!"

Lu Xingchen looked over eagerly upon hearing this: "It's best if it's cool... uh, no, the custom-made kind that won't hinder the exertion of my Fire God power. Brother Lin is the God of Machinery; I'm sure it's easy for you."

Lin Xian looked at him, wanting to say something but stopping: "You wait too."

Lin Xian did have plans for custom-made full-coverage combat armor.

The so-called full-coverage combat armor is different from combat mechs. The former is a fully enclosed exoskeleton device, similar to Iron Man's armor, while the latter is a war weapon, large in size and powerful in firepower.

His original plan was to scan the exoskeleton combat armor of the Iron Guard Brigade, then slightly improve and build it, or upgrade it through the R&D center.

He would use it himself once it was built, allowing him to unleash his combat talent for mechanical manufacturing. In current battles, his wind guns and ice walls were clearly not enough.

By then, he could even custom-make suitable armor for everyone. For example, although kiki's abilities were powerful, the little girl's abilities clearly didn't enhance her physical body; she was delicate. The red mark from him poking her forehead just now hadn't faded yet...

However, time was tight at the Yubei Airport, and he hadn't scanned any extremely complex exoskeleton devices, which was somewhat regrettable. He could only look for other plans.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~

The Infinite sped along the high-speed tracks. The sun shone in the sky, but the walkie-talkie in the car was somewhat silent.

Shu Qin's fleet followed closely behind the Infinite, not daring to be careless for a moment.

Driving out of Jiazhou City, the tracks entered a mountainous forest area. The road system was complex, and several highways gradually appeared parallel to the tracks.

Many abandoned cars and some wandering zombies also began to appear in their field of vision.

Perhaps because they had just experienced the crazy corpse crow swarm in the dead city of Jiazhou, everyone felt that the howling zombies were not scary at all, but rather strangely familiar.

"Zombies have appeared. It seems there are no corpse crows around here."

In the cockpit, Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan sat on either side.

"Lin Xian, do you have a direction for what's next?"

Lin Xian looked at the long orbital track ahead and shook his head: "Although I know the world will eventually be swallowed by the night, it wasn't until the Phoenix Society's countdown came out that I felt so desperate. 1 year and 96 days... If those people from the Iron Guard Brigade knew that the survivors they protected might not even live for a year, I wonder what they would think."

"Actually, that's not the case."

"Hmm?"

Chen Sixuan looked at him, her gaze gentle: "When they gave up retreating, they were no longer considering gains and losses. Even if it was just to let us live until tomorrow, it was a victory."

"Because courage is never a measure of distance; it can transcend time and dimensions."

"So why is it 1 year and 96 days until humanity's demise, and not 1 year and 96 days for humanity to prepare for a counterattack?"

Lin Xian's expression was slightly stunned, then he smiled: "You're right. 1 year and 96 days isn't left for us to run; there's still a lot we can do." The Infinite drove out of a mountain range, having already left Jiazhou City by more than 100 kilometers.

"Pukou Station should be coming up soon."

Chen Sixuan said, looking at the driving screen. Just as she looked up, her gaze changed: "Lin Xian, look quickly."

Lin Xian was taking a nap in the driver's seat, seizing the time to recover his energy. Hearing Chen Sixuan's words, he quickly looked up and immediately saw the main track ahead entering a small station. The station was located in a valley, and more than 30 survivor vehicles were parked neatly on a wide road next to it.

But looking from afar, many of those cars had their doors open, and the bodies and windows were covered in blood, yet they were empty.

Lin Xian's expression immediately became solemn because he was very familiar with these cars; they were the survivor fleet that had gone to the high-altitude corridor with them at the airport before.

Screech~

The train slowly pulled into the station. Shu Qin's fleet behind also drove up. Shu Qin got out of the car and said with surprise: "Isn't this the Fireline fleet?"

"You know them?" Lin Xian and the others also got off the train.

"I know them. We were resisting with them in Area C at the airport before." The young man named Lv Chang from Shu Qin's team frowned and said: "And it's not just the Fireline fleet..."

"Let's go take a look."

!

Lin Xian immediately led people to check and found that there were two modified heavy trucks in this fleet; the configuration of the entire fleet was quite high.

Woo, woo, woo~

A strong wind blew through the valley, whistling through the driver's cabins of the heavy trucks with their doors open, making a wooing sound. The entire fleet was neat and quiet. Everyone checked them one by one with caution and found that there was indeed not a single person.

Shu Qin took a scraper from her waist, used the tip of the blade to scrape a little of the blood from the window of an off-road vehicle to look at it, then frowned and said:

"They died last night, but there isn't a single corpse. Although there are some signs of corpse crow gnawing, it's not that serious; it shouldn't be death by corpse crows."

"That's strange." kiki walked over and looked around: "There must be at least a hundred people here. How could there be no resistance at all? It's as if..."

"Everyone had no reaction." Lu Xingchen had a detective face: "There must be something strange here."

Sasha hid behind Chen Sixuan, looking at the neatly parked cars, feeling creeped out: "Did they encounter some very scary monster?"

Chen Sixuan said nothing, her gaze looking at Lin Xian.

"I don't know either." Lin Xian looked at Shu Qin: "Are there any other fleets here?"

Shu Qin walked over and nodded: "These are three fleets merged together. They all came from the airport with us and should have escaped from the corpse crow swarm in Jiazhou City, but it wasn't as serious as ours, so they must have encountered something else."

Lin Xian's expression sank: "These cars are almost intact. Even if there was corruption and mutation inside, it wouldn't be this phenomenon. Someone would definitely resist or drive away, but not a single car here has been moved."

kiki said: "Then they were resting here at night, but something happened."

At this time, Lin Xian heard some whispering. He turned his head and saw it was a few men and women from Shu Qin's fleet, one of whom was the young man named Zhou Yixuan.

"What are you talking about?"

These people's expressions were not quite right, their faces were pale, and their eyes were filled with shock, as if they had been frightened by this scene.

"Qin... Sister Qin, isn't this what was rumored before..."

"Zhou Yixuan, don't talk nonsense!" Shu Qin seemed to know what he was going to say and shouted sharply to stop him.

(End of chapter)