Chapter 171

"Hee hee, that's more like it."

Seeming to enjoy the feeling of being able to control the overall situation, Kiki giggled and continued: "What about the remaining carriages? How do you plan to arrange them?"

Lin Xian looked at the train corridor: "My idea is this: Carriage No. 1 and No. 2 remain unchanged. I promised Director Ding Carriage No. 3 as a research carriage, so that remains unchanged. I plan to refit Carriage No. 4 slightly as a planting carriage. No. 5 is where Gao Ta and Lu Xingchen live; since it's a defense carriage, if we're going to equip it with light and heavy firepower, I plan to store some of the weapons from the train there, and I'll add an explosion-proof automatic door for the convenience of armed personnel."

"Then there's Carriage No. 11, which will serve as a tool and miscellaneous storage carriage. We can keep our armored vehicle and two high-configuration cars from Shu Qin's side. I'll design a large lifting door for easy unloading. Sometimes we need these cars and motorcycles for mobile exploration."

Lin Xian looked at Chen Sixuan: "The remaining carriages are mainly for living. Chen Laoshi, do you have any suggestions?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Sixuan's expression lifted slightly. Feeling Lin Xian's importance placed on her, she was happy and didn't act coy, starting to speak seriously: "Carriages No. 6 through No. 10 can all be used as living carriages. However, my suggestion is to refit Carriage No. 6 into a dining car, and Carriage No. 7 as a supply storage carriage. There are a few women on Shu Qin's side who know how to cook and can be responsible for logistics. Now that there are so many of us, we can arrange to supply the entire train's diet. The food supplies for the whole train can be concentrated in the No. 6 dining car and Carriage No. 7. This centralized management allows us to accurately know our food supply situation and avoid hygiene issues."

"Then we can directly refit Carriages No. 8, No. 9, and No. 10 using the sleeper carriages from the passenger train. Each of those carriages has 12 rooms, and each room can accommodate at least 4 people. Based on our current number of people, having a separate room for each person is enough."

Chen Sixuan continued: "Also, there's the rotation. Although you said you'd set up a sentry system, I think we also need to arrange for people to take turns on duty every day. There are too many unpredictable dangers in the dark night, and sometimes people are more sensitive than machines."

Lin Xian and Kiki listened with surprise.

"Wow, Chen Jiejie, you're so thoughtful."

Lin Xian also nodded: "Not bad, I agree with this arrangement. Every carriage has a gate system, and combined with the information calling system inside the carriages, it will be more convenient for us to dispatch. If there's a dining car, we won't have to look everywhere for a place to eat, and it will be easier to manage food."

"There's one more thing." Chen Sixuan looked at Lin Xian: "You haven't arranged for Director Ding yet. Are you just going to let her live in the lab?"

"I'll go ask her later." Lin Xian thought for a moment and said.

"By the way." Kiki also said at this time: "I have a suggestion: shooting holes. We have many people and many guns now, but we can't design lifting shooting cabins for every carriage. So, for the living carriages in the back, we can design some closable shooting holes for defense. Speaking of which, Chen Laoshi can use a sniper rifle now, so it's best to have one in Carriage No. 1 too."

Upon hearing this, Chen Sixuan waved her hands hurriedly: "Carriage No. 2 has a bulletproof shooting cabin on the roof; I'll just use that, it's more convenient. Besides, I'm not particularly... skilled yet, so you don't need to specifically give me..."

"Not skilled?"

Kiki was shocked: "Chen Jiejie, you beat that ability user into a phone stand, and you're still not skilled?" Phone stand...

Lin Xian was stunned for half a second upon hearing this, then reacted. It did seem a bit like that.

After some discussion, Lin Xian preliminarily confirmed the train's upgrade and refit plan. Although there were still many problems, one couldn't become a fatty in one bite. Refitting twelve carriages wasn't a simple task. Fortunately, there was sufficient manpower and time, and all kinds of tools, making it very suitable for refitting work.

The final plan was: excluding the power units at the head and tail, Carriage No. 1 would be Lin Xian's living cabin. However, the current space was relatively empty, so Lin Xian decided to refit it properly. He abandoned the original carriage and prepared to take a new luxury cabin to refit. Inside, there would be an independent, enclosed first-class living area with good privacy, and a clean, bright, large bathroom for the women to bathe. Besides that, there would be many available storage areas to store some relatively important supplies.

Carriage No. 2 had already been built into an information center, so it remained unchanged. Since there were many things to integrate, the empty spaces could be designed and utilized. The bunk beds for Kiki and Shasha were refitted into the more enclosed cabin spaces like those for crew members. Because a bulletproof shooting cabin had to be designed on the roof and space had to be reserved for the electromagnetic railgun, it was the most complex carriage to refit this time.

Carriages No. 3 and No. 4 were originally Kerr Type 3 biological science research carriages with a high level of technology. Lin Xian only needed to manufacture a series of plant cultivation cabins or some soilless cultivation racks to refit Carriage No. 4. At the same time, he had to integrate the water purification system and the carriage's air circulation system here, making it the second most troublesome carriage.

Carriage No. 5 was mainly for refitting the automatic explosion-proof door and the lifting firepower platform, making it convenient for Gao Ta to carry out suppressive fire. Then there was the design of some gun racks to store the fleet's weapons.

Although Carriages No. 6 and No. 7 were to be refitted into a dining car and a storage carriage, it was much simpler for Lin Xian. He had obtained many kitchen appliances in Yuchi before, and Shu Qin's original fleet had some as well. Lin Xian only needed to build some simple dining tables, chairs, and food storage cabinets. At the same time, he had the blueprint for the Ice-er TG-56 commercial freezer obtained in Jiang City, and building a few would allow storing some food with shorter shelf lives.

For Carriages No. 8, No. 9, and No. 10, Lin Xian directly used the sleeper carriages from the passenger train for simple refitting. Adding armor to the outside basically finished the job. By then, everyone from Shu Qin's fleet could live there, and there would still be plenty of space left, so it wouldn't be crowded for the time being.

Carriage No. 11 was Lin Xian's original Carriage No. 5 tool carriage, used to place tools, motorcycles, and three refitted armored vehicles. Adding an automatic door and a large lifting side panel would make it flexible for people and vehicles to get on and off.

Finally, there was Carriage No. 12. Lin Xian prepared to build an 1130 close-in weapon system here. Currently, his materials were still somewhat insufficient, but they had dragged two intercity transport train heads and carriages out of Jiazhou, plus the 30-plus cars parked outside and the vehicles from Shu Qin's side. If all of these were devoured and converted through the preparation center, it would be almost enough.

!

If he could handle this massive weapon, the Infinity should be much more composed when encountering zombie tides or C-level or B-level eerie entities in the dark night.

In addition, there was the equipment of this batch of survivor convoys. Currently, Shu Qin was still leading people to collect and organize it, and there should be quite a harvest.

Besides these, Lin Xian also prepared to install explosion-proof surveillance outside the train and use the active phased array radar at the head to form a sentry system for 24-hour monitoring outside the entire train. At the same time, he would design the blade module of the previous GK03 electric knife onto the train, installing it near the flap armor to provide extremely strong protection against zombies and thugs attempting to climb the train.

In this way, with the outer armor, sentry system, outer armored electric blade device, plus the internal protective artifact, the Isomorphic Rubik's Cube, and the Soul-Returning Value Detector, the Infinity's defensiveness and safety would reach a brand-new height.

(End of chapter)