Chapter 223: Swallowing Missiles (Revised)

Lin Xian came all the way from the upper deck to the engine room cabin. At this time, the cabin door was completely damaged, leaving only a small opening less than one person high.

He walked over directly, reached out and pressed on the control panel, the Mechanical Heart operated, and a current urged the automatic door to emit a whimpering sound of motor rotation, forcibly opening half of it. Lin Xian then drilled in.

Click~

Lin Xian adjusted the flashlight light segment, and the entire pitch-black engine engineering room was illuminated by him. In the middle was a nuclear-powered turbine processor cabin. He took out a Geiger counter to check it. Fortunately, there was no leak. Lin Xian stood above the engine cabin, and on both sides below were two huge floating power engines, like two industrial giants, quietly dormant.

"I don't know if it will work."

Looking at this scene, Lin Xian's eyes were burning. Scanning a ten-thousand-ton Dragon-class transport ship was impossible for him, and the ship's body was damaged, so he couldn't obtain a complete blueprint. He just didn't know if the flight engine was damaged.

Without hesitation, Lin Xian came down from the upper layer along the hanging ladder to the engine, put one hand on it, and began to operate the Mechanical Heart.

Hiss~

In an instant, he felt a huge amount of energy being crazily extracted. The coverage of the Mechanical Heart continued to extend. Lin Xian tried to perceive the structure of the entire floating power engine, but as the perception extended, Lin Xian realized that he had thought too much.

There were more and more systems connected in series with the floating power engine, and the subsystems were so numerous that his scalp felt numb, and a large part of them were in a damaged state.

【Scanning progress 21%】

20 minutes passed, and it hadn't scanned even half of it. Lin Xian was already sweating profusely.

"Damn!"

Lin Xian directly let go of his hand and gave up the scanning progress.

"Greed is not enough to swallow an elephant. It seems I still overestimated myself..."

"Scanning won't work, unless the entire engine is dismantled and then slowly swallowed."

Lin Xian sighed. It was easy to say, but wanting to dismantle the engine of a ten-thousand-ton aircraft, even if it was sent to the ship manufacturing workshop of Kehua Heavy Industry, it would take quite a bit of time under the premise of professional engineers and various mechanical equipment operations. Relying on Lin Xian alone was completely impossible.

Then, Lin Xian turned his gaze to the nuclear-powered turbine processor cabin. This kind of shipborne nuclear power device was not large in volume, but it was also several circles larger than the one on the Twin Star 11R nuclear-powered electric locomotive.

"Forget it, let's try this."

Just when Lin Xian was prepared for a wasted trip, he climbed onto the nuclear-powered turbine processor cabin to scan, and surprisingly found that this thing not only didn't leak but was also intact.

30 minutes later.

【Successfully scanned "Night Star No. 2" Nuclear-Powered Turbine Processor (Blueprint)】

"Phew~"

Seeing the harvest in the Mechanical Heart light screen, Lin Xian finally took a long breath. Although this thing couldn't be used for the time being, it was at least a harvest.

He looked at the time. It was already 15:16 in the afternoon, less than 4 hours before dark. And if this big guy were to be swallowed, he estimated it would take 4-6 hours. If the swallowing was successful, then he might be able to obtain more than 500 mechanical source points and more than 200 swallowing proficiency points. In that case, his 【Mechanical Swallowing】 could break through to Level 4.

But even if the swallowing was completed, it would definitely be dark by then. Rushing back in the dark would inevitably lead to more trouble.

"Let's look at the weapon system."

Lin Xian didn't stick to it either. Anyway, being in Hengshanguan, besides the train locomotive, there were a large number of cars that could be used for swallowing. As long as there was enough time, he could completely slow down the pace of escape and focus on upgrading.

The Dragon-class transport ship once had the title of "Aerial Hercules" and had extremely strong carrying capacity. The defense system certainly wasn't as powerful as gunboats and fighter jets, but it was also equipped with shipborne close-in defense guns and short-range air-to-air missile counter-systems. Lin Xian was looking forward to this aspect even more.

Just as he passed through the middle deck to the shipborne weapon station above the center of the ship, Lin Xian suddenly saw a somewhat familiar face on the transport ship officer list in a conference hall.

He stopped, nodded, walked over to take a look, and was happy.

"Cloud-xiang ship deputy captain, Hu Lushou..."

"Damn, it turns out this guy was flying a plane. No wonder he said he got supplies from the transport ship. It turns out he was close to the water."

Liao Ming's rumors were not groundless. It seemed that Hu Lushou should be a survivor after the transport ship crashed. Thinking about it this way, it was understandable that he would have so many Federation standard supplies.

Lin Xian didn't care. He stayed for a while and continued upward, soon arriving outside the shipborne weapon station. The door here was severely deformed due to the fall. Lin Xian shone his light through the gap, and immediately gasped coldly.

Inside that weapon station were two empty missile launch devices, and two of the launch units were still loaded with missiles!

"Damn, one Storm Eye F12 supersonic air-to-ship missile, two Guardian 86 anti-aircraft missiles..."

As a former military fan, he had quite a bit of knowledge about these Federation weapons. What surprised him at this moment was that these missiles, which he had once seen on the internet and in pictures, were clearly small, but when they were close to his eyes, they felt surprisingly large!

"Also, the Storm Eye F12 missile is 6.86m long, 0.36m in diameter, weighs 850kg, with a 200kg warhead. The Guardian 86 missile is 2.5m long, 0.18m in diameter, weighs 100kg, with a 30kg warhead..."

"Any one of them is much taller than a person, so they aren't small at all."

Lin Xian's eyes were burning. He pressed the communicator and said to Kiki: "Little girl, I found some good things here, the transport ship's empty missiles, it might take some time."

Kiki heard this and immediately replied: "Missiles? Weren't they moved away by those survivors?"

Hearing this, Lin Xian sneered directly: "How is that possible? This is a missile, not a rocket launcher. Lifting a missile requires professional equipment. How could those survivors move it away with their bare hands? Even if you move it away, how do you use it without a launch device? Carrying it on your shoulder and hitting a strange entity?"

The missile system is not individual equipment, let alone something that can be blown up by many people. For this kind of thing, the missile body, launch device, search radar, and fire control system are indispensable, and it must be maintained regularly.

Lin Xian looked at the weapon station, where even one Guardian 86 anti-aircraft missile loading rack was broken and rolled to the ground. He estimated that those survivors would be scared to death if they saw this scene. It was a blessing that this weapon station didn't explode; how could they carry missiles back to the convoy?

On the transport ship, each cabin was basically searched very cleanly, but any useful individual equipment, supplies, and tools were all taken away without exception. The missiles in the weapon station were basically shot empty. Fortunately, there were these three missiles left, and Lin Xian could exert the role of his mechanical ability.

"That's true..." Kiki smiled hee hee, couldn't help but get excited: "That's great, bring these things to our train. When there are monsters again, we will blow them up from a distance!"

"Moving them is forget it."

Lin Xian took a breath and stood outside the weapon station cabin door: "We only have two motorcycles, and this must be brought away together with the radar system, launch device, and missiles."

Even with Kiki's ability, it wouldn't work, and it also involved cabin dismantling, and letting Kiki use her ability to grab a pile of missiles and run outside, just thinking about it made him feel that the scene was very terrible.

Dismantling was unlikely, but scanning blueprints + swallowing was feasible.

Lin Xian let Kiki continue to keep watch for him outside, while he prepared to study these missiles well.

"Swallowing missiles... sounds very exciting."

Lin Xian swallowed his saliva. At this moment, he was also very nervous in his heart. He was also afraid that the things inside would really explode if he was not careful. Then, no matter how fast he reacted, it would be impossible to escape.

Ensuring there were no other living people in the transport ship, Lin Xian reached out to manufacture a simple hydraulic press and slowly propped open the deformed cabin door.

With applicable small tools at hand, Lin Xian's ability could be said to be very convenient for exploration.

Squeak~ Click click click.

A burst of metal squeezing sound rang out, the deformed cabin door was propped open, Lin Xian made a bracket to support the big door, then walked in, and his gaze first fell on the white Guardian 86 anti-aircraft missile that rolled to the ground with even the missile body somewhat deformed.

"Brother, listen to me, I'll only touch it once, don't explode."

Lin Xian hesitated for a moment, then walked over directly, squatted down, and reached out to touch the cold missile.

【Scanning, progress 15%】 【Scanning progress 50%】

After about 20 minutes, Lin Xian finally completed the entire scan.

【Scanning complete, obtained Guardian 86 anti-aircraft missile blueprint】

There was no expected fault prompt. Lin Xian felt a little relieved in his heart. It seems that the missile is still very resistant to creation.

At this moment, he was also somewhat excited in his heart. If he could install the entire missile launch device and radar system on the Infinite, that would be too awesome.

You know, the Storm Eye F12 supersonic air-to-ship missile has a range of at least 500 kilometers and uses a scramjet engine. Even the cruise speed can reach 6 Mach.

The only problem is that long-distance signals and radar are blocked by the dark tide. In this case, only inertial guidance can be used for long-distance targets, and the speed cannot come up in close-range situations.

"Forget it..."

Lin Xian clicked his tongue, secretly thinking that he had thought too much.

"Fighting strange entities doesn't need to break the air defense system, so why consider cruise speed? Just smash it directly on the face!"

!

Lin Xian had plenty of time at this moment, and he could scan away all these missiles and launch racks, so he acted decisively and walked toward the large Storm Eye F12 supersonic air-to-ship missile...

【Scanning complete, obtained Storm Eye F12 supersonic air-to-ship missile blueprint】

【Scanning complete, obtained MK-66 roll-loading cantilever missile launch rack】

【Scanning complete, obtained T1 fire control radar blueprint】

【Scanning complete, obtained T1-2 detection search radar blueprint】

【Swallowing successful, mechanical source points +100, swallowing proficiency +40, speed +5】

【Swallowing successful, mechanical source points +120, swallowing proficiency +50, strength +6】

"Damn!"

Lin Xian looked at the prompt on the Mechanical Heart light screen, his face showing a bit of surprise.

He spent less than an hour on the two missiles, but he gained a full 220 mechanical source points. He didn't expect the return rate of missiles to be so high, much higher than the train locomotive!

"It seems this trip was right. It's just that there are few missiles. If there were more..."

Lin Xian looked at the remaining Guardian 86 anti-aircraft missile that was somewhat deformed, didn't think much, and began to continue swallowing.

Just when the swallowing progress light screen in front of Lin Xian lit up, Kiki's voice came from the communicator.

"Lin Xian, come out quickly."

Hearing this, Lin Xian frowned, stopped the action in his hand immediately, rushed toward the outside without hesitation, soon rushed out of the upper deck, jumped and ejected with a vertical leap, and jumped directly onto the top.

"What's wrong?"

Lin Xian swept his gaze around and saw Kiki flying toward him quickly from the air in the distance, then landed on the deck, holding the mobile terminal and widening her eyes, saying to him: "Look, the device distance I set sent a signal. The communicator you installed on that armored vehicle earlier is in our northeast direction!!"

Lin Xian walked over and looked toward the outside of the town. In that direction, he could only see a dense forest by the lake.

"Strange, logically speaking, the communicator is affected by the dark tide power, and at most it is effective within a range of five or six kilometers. But there seems to be nothing in that direction?"

"Could it really be under the lake?" Kiki exclaimed: "Then this is hidden too deep."

Lin Xian looked at the mobile terminal in Kiki's hand and said directly: "Go, let's see what kind of monster this Foundation is."

Kiki frowned and looked at the transport ship behind her: "Are you done?"

"Almost." Lin Xian clapped his hands: "I've already got the useful things."

"Wow, you even got the missiles, so powerful?!" Kiki looked at him with admiration: "Then hurry up and build one for me to play with~"

Lin Xian was ashamed: "What's not good to play with, playing with missiles."

"Cut~"

Kiki gave him a look, then said: "Then let's go, let's go see that research institute, maybe there's something fun inside."

Lin Xian looked at the time, so he set off decisively. He and Kiki got off the transport ship, rode their motorcycles, rushed out of the zombie group, and drove toward the outside of the town.

Hum~

The two drove out of Qingshui Town, drove for a while along the road out of the city in the northeast direction, and the signal capture on Kiki's mobile terminal became stronger and stronger, indicating that Lin Xian's tracking direction was correct.

"Strange, there is only a forest in front, where is any research institute?"

"Be careful." Lin Xian was also somewhat puzzled at this moment. His first reaction was that his communicator might have been discovered by others and thrown away on the side of the road. Thinking deeper, there was only one possibility that the research institute was hidden in the forest.

The two slowed down, and at this moment drove into the forest.

This was a quite primitive old forest, with dense trees and branches blocking the sky and the sun. As soon as they drove in, they felt their vision blocked.

As soon as the motorcycles rushed into the forest, there were instantly a large number of branches hitting the front of the car, making a clanging sound. The road was rugged and undulating. Lin Xian raised his hand to manufacture a protective iron frame to block the branches, while Kiki directly used her ability and was not affected at all.

Not long after, the terrain became flat.

Squeak~

Lin Xian rode his motorcycle and rushed out of the forest first, but at this moment, his motorcycle suddenly stopped with a horizontal sweep.

Because at this moment, Lin Xian discovered that the sky had actually turned dark!

Hum, Kiki followed closely behind and rushed out. Seeing this scene, she exclaimed immediately.

"Wow, what's going on, why is it dark in here?"

Lin Xian didn't speak, and looked back at the forest he had just passed through, only to find that it was pitch black inside.

"Lin Xian, look."

At this time, Kiki suddenly pointed forward.

Lin Xian's gaze immediately followed the direction she pointed, only to see that under the night, the outline of a small town appeared in front.

And that small town looked very familiar to Lin Xian.

"This... isn't this Qingshui Town?" Lin Xian was shocked.

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(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 224 =====