Chapter 178

*Rat-tat-tat!! *

The sound of gunfire from the carriages behind was earth-shaking, and the roars of monsters and attacks on the train's armor plates never stopped.

Lin Xian was anxious. At this time, the train's forward field of vision gradually opened up. A platform with many tank carriages parked and the outline of an industrial town in the distance appeared in his field of vision.

"Rain Town Station?"

Chen Sixuan nervously checked the driving computer: "This branch line is connected to the Circumstellar main track. Going forward, we should be able to return to the track."

"No!"

Lin Xian stared ahead. On that track, an oil tank carriage was blocking the front of the Infinity.

He immediately felt bad and immediately controlled the entire train to emergency brake.

*Squeak! *

All the iron wheels stopped turning, sparks flew on the tracks, the rails turned red, and everyone in the carriage was thrown off balance by inertia. Bursts of screams came.

With the braking, a pile of filth fell from the roof of the train, and the scorching iron smell of the wheels mixed with the fishy smell began to permeate.

"What to do?"

"Retreat! Rush out!" Lin Xian gritted his teeth. In desperation, he was just about to start moving backward.

But at this time, a strange scene appeared. The attack sound behind the carriage suddenly stopped abruptly, and the sound of gunfire gradually ceased. Just when everyone hadn't reacted, Kiki discovered the clue through the surveillance system.

"Lin Xian, those monsters don't seem to have followed."

"What's going on?"

"Hearing Shu Qin."

"Team Leader Lin, those eerie entities are gone." Hearing Shu Qin's voice came from the communicator: "I checked, the carriage body behind is intact, no damage."

"The middle section is also fine." Gao Ta also said in the communicator.

In Carriage No. 2, Kiki checked through the sentry system. Although the armor outside the carriage and the roof were a mess, the overall integrity of the armor hadn't been destroyed; it was just that many insect corpses and meat chunks were stuffed in the gaps.

Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan looked at each other. He immediately got up and ran to Carriage No. 2. Sure enough, in the sentry system, there were no monsters outside the Infinity.

*Ssh~*

Coming to Carriage No. 5 again, Lin Xian opened the carriage door. A strong fishy smell came. There were still some monster remains hanging on the roof of the carriage, but there was indeed no movement outside at this time, so he closed the door again and said to Kiki:

"Little girl, use the drone to take a look."

"I was just about to."

Kiki knew Lin Xian was very cautious, so she immediately raised two drones to start checking the entire train in the dark night.

In the drone's perspective, the scene outside the Infinity at this time was filled with a tragic sight. Fortunately, the inside hadn't been breached.

And when Kiki pulled the camera perspective higher, Lin Xian immediately saw a large number of black shadows quickly disappearing into the old forest by the side of the road in the distance of the switch.

"What's going on!?" Shasha stood by at this time, her face surprised: "Brother Lin, those monsters don't seem to be able to get in."

Can't get in?

Lin Xian was a bit confused when he heard this.

Kiki looked at this scene, her brows furrowed slightly, pointing to the screen and saying:

"Oh, Lin Xian, how come there's some kind of... barrier here?"

"Rain Town isn't a famous place. There are many chemical plants here." Chen Sixuan said at this time: "Could it be that some chemical plant leaked, causing those monsters not to dare to approach?"

Lin Xian shook his head, stood up, opened the blackout board, and looked at the empty, deserted freight platform outside the window, his expression somewhat solemn:

"Anything abnormal must have a demon. Little girl, you first use the drone to scout the road ahead, see how long the cars blocking the track are, and let's not get off the train for now. Observe the situation here."

"Hearing Shu Qin, is anyone injured behind?"

"Team Leader Lin, everyone is safe, no problems." Hearing Shu Qin's voice came. Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief. Encountering a series of situations just after nightfall made Lin Xian tense up.

He was still having a headache about how to escape the suffocating eerie entity insect tide, but suddenly entered this ghostly town, and the strangest thing was that coming to this place was safe instead.

This situation was something Lin Xian had never encountered before.

Because it wasn't some steel city wall, Lin Xian thought, could there be something that could invisibly block those monsters?

Lin Xian walked from Carriage No. 1 to Carriage No. 12 to check once. Although the inside of the carriages was filled with a smell of gunpowder smoke and anxiety, fortunately, everyone was fine. Many people in the living area were confused at this time, and some were rejoicing that they had escaped a disaster.

"Wow, if we had stayed on the train tonight, we would definitely be finished, so many monsters."

"Exactly, scared to death..."

"Team Leader Lin, are you okay?" In the living area, the little girl Miao Lu saw Lin Xian walk over and asked very enthusiastically.

Lin Xian said: "I'm fine. When we entered the station just now, did those monsters run away suddenly?"

Miao Lu shook her head: "Didn't pay much attention. It just seemed that suddenly, the monsters retreated, and there was no movement all at once."

"Yes." Hearing Shu Qin also walked over at this time: "Very strange. Never encountered such a situation before."

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Lin Xian nodded: "Fine, everyone perk up. The situation with so many monsters just now might happen again, so be mentally prepared in advance."

The entire train covered in eerie entities—not just Lin Xian, but Hearing Shu Qin and the others were also caught off guard. If it weren't for the heavy armor, these dozens of people on the train would have been monster food.

Lin Xian used the Mechanical Heart to check the integrity of each carriage along the way and repaired some fasteners by the way.

When he came to Carriage No. 3, he was stopped by Ding Junyi.

Seeing Ding Junyi looking serious at this time, pointing to the Hell Black Chrysanthemum, she took a deep breath and said: "I have been continuously paying attention. Just now, the Hell Black Chrysanthemum changed."

Lin Xian's heart jumped. He hurriedly walked over, frowned, and looked at the black chrysanthemum, immediately saying: "The red light... is it dimmer?"

"That's right."

Ding Junyi nodded: "Not only that, in the battle just now, I saw a wisp of black smoke being absorbed by it, and then its red light weakened a lot."

"Black smoke..." Lin Xian frowned: "When we killed eerie entities before, this kind of smoke would appear."

"So we should have killed some eerie entities in the process just now." Ding Junyi said.

"Does this represent anything?" Lin Xian asked.

Ding Junyi crossed her arms: "The appearance of Eerie Blood Essence is also accompanied by that kind of black smoke. According to this logic, the disaster plant should have the ability to absorb the power of this black smoke."

"Makes sense." Lin Xian nodded with a solemn face: "But we don't know what effect this has, or what it represents."

"We couldn't monitor this change in the laboratory." Ding Junyi said: "So now we at least know some of its characteristics. If you have time, please kill a few more, or catch a few eerie entities, so it's convenient for me to test the degree of change of the disaster plant to the black smoke produced after the eerie entity dies, or the distance factor it can absorb, etc. The more experiments, the sooner we can know the experimental results."

Lin Xian was stunned: "Ah?"

He thought he had misheard and pointed to his own face.

"Catch a few eerie entities, you're talking about me?"

Ding Junyi tilted her head slightly, her gaze under the black-framed glasses looking very serious: "Yes. From a scientific point of view, more experimental controls will lead to relatively accurate conclusions."

Is this sister speaking human language?

"Forget about catching them. If monsters die near the train later, you can observe them again." Lin Xian walked away speechlessly. Although he knew what Ding Junyi meant, he really wasn't in the mood to argue about the experiment at this time.

Catch eerie entities? Who could do such a stupid thing? Impossible, impossible in this life.

Lin Xian thought so bitterly in his heart.

(End of chapter)