Chapter 17: Connecting the Electric Locomotive

Beep, beep.

Lin Xian cut off the watch's prompt. Having not rested for two consecutive nights, his mind was somewhat hazy.

Listening to the various eerie sounds outside and smelling the stench in the cold storage, Lin Xian finally made it to 16:00 the next day.

It was dawn.

It was already afternoon, and there were only 2 hours and 45 minutes left until dark.

Lin Xian, who hadn't relaxed his vigilance for a moment, peered out from the viewing window. The warehouse was brightly lit, and he finally saw the scene outside clearly.

The door of the first cold storage had been ripped open, leaving a huge hole. The heavy cold storage door, specially made of stainless steel combined with composite materials, was twisted in an eerie way. The ground was covered in crimson blood, and flesh and gore hung everywhere on the door and the ground. A few zombies were still wandering outside the cold storage, and some were gnawing on a severed corpse on the ground.

Lin Xian saw a familiar tattoo on the corpse; it looked like it belonged to that middle-aged man. A sense of satisfaction immediately rose in his heart!

Good riddance!

Those who play fishing tricks in the apocalypse deserve to have their whole family wiped out.

Lin Xian's gaze turned cold, and he hurriedly took out the walkie-talkie to ask about the situation on the other side.

"Chen Laoshi, are you alright?"

On the other side, Chen Sixuan, who had gone through a night of terror, finally breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing Lin Xian's voice and hurriedly responded.

"I... I'm fine. How about you?"

"I'm fine too." Hearing that there were no issues on Chen Sixuan's side, Lin Xian felt a bit more at ease. He kept scanning the outside, and only after confirming there was no sign of that terrifying insect did he continue to say to Chen Sixuan,

"I'll be back soon. Everything will proceed according to yesterday's plan. There is an electric locomotive on Track 4. Remember to coordinate with me later."

"Okay!"

After speaking, Lin Xian opened the cold storage door again. Through the crack, he fired a wind gun and shattered the iron chain!

The zombies outside heard the sound and immediately rushed toward him, howling.

Lin Xian struck with his knife, and with a few consecutive wind guns, he easily dealt with several zombies.

Because of the commotion last night, too many zombies had been drawn in. Only after walking out of the warehouse door did Lin Xian realize there were at least dozens of zombies still wandering outside.

He thought for a moment, then quietly ran to Warehouse 1, which was an empty building materials warehouse. He fired a few wind guns inside to create a disturbance, and soon, he had attracted the dozens of zombies on the platform over there.

As long as there were no eerie creatures of the night, with Lin Xian's ability attributes, dealing with them was relatively simple.

Soon, he ran down the platform and came to the Huanxing-7f electric locomotive he had seen yesterday. With the Mechanical Heart activated, he opened the automatic door of the driver's cabin.

Afterward, he uncoupled the locomotive, canceled the carriage bridge connection, and the traction motor emitted a low roar, slowly driving this giant electric beast away from the platform.

On the other side, Lin Xian disconnected Carriage 1 from the Whale-03e. After completing the sequence swap, with Chen Sixuan's coordination, he finally precisely connected the Huanxing-7f electric locomotive to the second position.

From then on, the "Infinite" had five carriages. At the head was the armored Whale-03e heavy gas turbine locomotive, which served as the driver's cabin, while the Huanxing-7f electric locomotive served as kinetic energy recovery and power storage in the second position. Behind them were the three living carriages.

Because the Huanxing-7f electric locomotive was overall twice as long as the Whale-03e, it looked somewhat sci-fi. Moreover, both locomotives were designed with carriage bridges, allowing personnel to walk directly from the front to the back.

However, because it was a temporary addition, Lin Xian hadn't had time to upgrade the armor for the electric locomotive part. But after completing the connection, there was no time left. Taking advantage of the fact that it wasn't dark yet, Lin Xian started the brand-new "Infinite" and began driving eastward along the Jiang Yu line.

Clang, clang. The train sped along slowly.

Lin Xian increased the speed to about 80 km/h. At the same time, because of the increased load, his physical energy consumption was also increasing significantly.

"There are no tunnels on this road to Beiwan Station, and the terrain is relatively flat. Just be careful of falling rocks blocking the road."

Chen Sixuan, who was recording the train speed on the side, reminded Lin Xian.

Lin Xian nodded. "Okay, if I encounter any situation, I will stop the train at any time."

"What happened to that group of people yesterday?"

"They're dead."

Lin Xian glanced at Chen Sixuan. "Not a single one of them was a good person. They set traps there to plot for money and lives. Last night, they were all eaten clean by zombies."

Chen Sixuan's expression changed slightly. She knew Lin Xian had some methods, but hearing him say that the whole family was dead, she couldn't help but look pale. In such a short time, a harmonious and safe world had suddenly turned into a hell where you kill or be killed.

For a pampered white-rich-beauty like Chen Sixuan, who grew up in a highly educated family, it was still somewhat difficult to accept for a while.

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"Static~ This is the 【Oasis】 fleet. Final announcement, final announcement. As long as you have supplies, weapons, or possess some kind of ability, you can join our team to gain hope for survival. Only by huddling together can we keep warm. Do not harbor illusions..."

"Static~ The 312 Avenue toward the city is completely paralyzed and blocked. You can only detour from Forestry Road. There is a large zombie tide gathering in the East City District. Everyone, do not fire easily, otherwise, no one will be able to rush out..."

"Static~ 【Jiangcheng Bunker】 welcomes all ability users and beauties. We are rooted in the Jiangcheng military nuclear facility bunker, with over three hundred people and clear division of labor. We can withstand the polar night..."

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"Static~ The Yubei City Patrol Battalion reports that Yancheng and Fengcheng have all entered the polar night. Along the Linshan mountain range from the east, the area of 100-300 kilometers from Jiang City and Luolin City to Hechi and Minjiang has seen a large-scale outbreak of eerie bodies. Radiation index unknown..."

On the radio, Yancheng and Fengcheng, not far from Jiang City, had also completely fallen. According to data fed back by many survivors, if one could run 200-300 kilometers eastward, one could regain 1 hour of daylight.

From this, one could roughly calculate the devouring speed of the third "Star Abyss" dark tide.

It sounded like two or three hundred kilometers might not be far, but one had to know that in such a doomsday environment, traffic was paralyzed and zombies were everywhere. As long as night fell, it was endless fear of death. Escaping two or three hundred kilometers was simply not an easy task.

Chen Sixuan held the logbook and calculated.

"If the survivors' intelligence is accurate, if we pass Yushan today and can enter Beiwan Station, we should be able to see daylight tomorrow at around 16:30."

"We can't run that far."

Lin Xian, sitting in the driver's seat, shook his head. "We have to stop as soon as it gets dark. I have no confidence in driving at night right now. Moreover, road conditions, visibility, and these are all problems."

Speaking of this, Lin Xian began to think that he might need to be equipped with radar or drones to help him detect road conditions. Otherwise, driving blindly all the way, if he encountered broken tracks or giant rocks blocking the road, it would be a derailment at best, and a destroyed train and death at worst.

New book, please follow!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 18 =====