Chapter 249: Upgrade Mechanical Energy Cannon!

Clatter, clatter, clatter~

Lin Xian was constantly manufacturing ammunition at this time, replenishing the convoy's combat power and logistics.

"The Hell Black Chrysanthemum should have absorbed quite a bit of black smoke this time. I estimate it can increase many mechanical source points again, and other team members can also gain many invisible benefits."

Lin Xian had never mentioned the evolution improvement brought by the Hell Black Chrysanthemum to the team. Everyone was changing silently. The most direct thing was the team's energy. After every battle and rest, the state of the Infinite convoy members became very good. And according to the 【Convoy Member Observation Record】 given to Lin Xian by Ding Junyi, people including Shu Qin, Chen Sixuan, Lv Chang, Miao Lu, and Sasha were all improving very significantly in basic strength.

And although ability users like Kiki, Lu Xingchen, and Dalou lacked observation of physical functions, it could also be seen from this battle that they were gradually becoming stronger in the control and development of their abilities.

"Snow water is toxic..."

Lin Xian, who was manufacturing bullets, suddenly thought of this problem, and a look of worry couldn't help but appear on his face. He looked up at the roof of the train. Although he had reinforced it in many ways, he hadn't considered the problem of water seepage and airtightness.

When Lin Xian was planning the train, he had actually considered problems like poison gas and oxygen deficiency. At that time, his plan was to use the carriage's water-oxygen circulation system to directly support the air of the entire train.

However, along the way, energy in all aspects had been spent on upgrading weapons and armor, and the priority of this problem had been pushed infinitely to the back. At this moment, this upcoming snow poison problem made him have to pay attention to it again.

While Lin Xian was manufacturing and thinking about the problem, he didn't notice a figure walking into the carriage at this time.

"Team Leader Lin?"

A somewhat timid female voice sounded. Lin Xian looked up and found it was Xiao Yuan, who lived in the living carriage.

At this time, Xiao Yuan seemed to have just taken a shower. Water droplets were still dripping from her wet hair. She held a large towel wrapped around her and was only wearing simple, thin clothing. Although it wasn't pajamas, it was clearly close-fitting clothing for sleeping.

Lin Xian saw her timid appearance and asked directly: "Are you looking for me?"

"Oh... no, um... yes." Xiao Yuan saw Lin Xian's gaze and couldn't help but feel nervous. She raised her flustered gaze to look at Lin Xian: "I saw Team Leader Lin... you were still busy so late, so I wanted to ask... would you like to drink some hot soup?"

"Hot soup?" Lin Xian frowned.

"No, no!" Who knew that as soon as Lin Xian asked, Xiao Yuan immediately realized something and waved her hands in a flustered explanation: "It's my personal allocation of canned fruit. I didn't take extra supplies from the convoy... If you want to drink, I can cook it for you."

Under the light, her face was burning. She dodged Lin Xian's gaze somewhat awkwardly, lowered her head, and said:

"The pear soup I cook tastes pretty good. Drinking it can warm your stomach..."

Xiao Yuan had a good figure, was slightly chubby and introverted, and belonged to the type of obedient girl who was very likable when she smiled. Usually, her relationship with others in the convoy was quite good. Although she couldn't provide much help in combat, because she was young, smart, knowledgeable, and could cook, she often handled internal affairs on the vehicle with Miao Lu and Chen Sixuan. Currently, she was clearly on the path to becoming the team's core.

"Hmm, okay."

Lin Xian saw her face was red and her posture was a bit unnatural, so he guessed something. Recently, he had noticed Xiao Yuan's ardent gaze cast toward him intentionally or unintentionally. However, he didn't say much and didn't directly refuse, then continued to manufacture bullets.

Xiao Yuan saw Lin Xian agreed, joy flashed in her eyes. She nodded hurriedly and said somewhat incoherently:

"Good... good, Team Leader Lin, you, you wait for me."

After saying this, she immediately turned around and ran toward the front carriage with a thud-thud-thud.

Not long after, Xiao Yuan carefully carried a basin of canned pear sweet soup with a food tray and sent it to him. Lin Xian reached out to take it, took a big gulp, and couldn't help but praise: "It really tastes pretty good. Did you add some spices?"

Hearing Lin Xian's praise, Xiao Yuan was a bit excited. She couldn't help but move a few steps closer and pointed to the few dried plant roots in the sweet soup:

"It's dried vanilla seeds and dried verbena..."

She bent down, and her chest, which was quite well-endowed, trembled before Lin Xian's eyes. Halfway through speaking, she felt she was too close and immediately took half a step back: "I found them when collecting supplies before, and I brought them on the vehicle."

"Oh~ really nice."

Lin Xian felt somewhat emotional. He knew everyone in the living area had some living preferences. Besides the main supplies, they all collected various items in their own safe houses. Human living habits are always restless; even in the apocalypse, they are still full of love for life.

Lin Xian drank half of it in big gulps, looked up, saw Xiao Yuan standing on the side, and couldn't help but say:

"It's a bit cold now. You should go back to sleep quickly. I'll take it to the dining car myself after I finish drinking."

Xiao Yuan heard this, a flash of disappointment crossed her eyes, and she nodded:

"Good... good, then Team Leader Lin, you, you get some rest early too."

……

The snow wind began to howl. At 3 AM, the convoy camp had already been covered with a thin layer of snow. There were still lights on the Infinite and other convoys; these were the team members responsible for rotation duty.

After entering the night, almost all survivor convoys had the habit of taking turns standing guard at night. The more it was night, the more they couldn't sleep soundly. For a long time, many people had become accustomed to such day-night reversal.

In Carriage No. 12, Lin Xian configured quite a bit of ammunition and looked at the time, preparing to rest for a while first.

Who knew that at this time, the light screen of the Mechanical Heart suddenly lit up.

【Non-mechanical energy converted, mechanical source points +1000】

Lin Xian's gaze sharpened. It seemed the energy converted by the Isomorphic Cube from the Hell Black Chrysanthemum was already full!

He then walked toward the carriage corridor, looking at the faint fluorescence flowing in the air, feeling his physical strength and energy constantly recovering and growing. He had just manufactured quite a few bullets continuously, but his spirit was better than before he manufactured them.

Lin Xian began to walk forward along the corridor of the living carriage. Along the way, the team members in each sleeping cabin were resting very peacefully. Shu Qin sat on a stool in the corridor, holding a gun and watching outside the carriage window. Seeing Lin Xian walk over, she stood up immediately.

"Team Leader Lin."

"You should also get some rest." Lin Xian often saw Shu Qin standing guard in the middle of the night and couldn't help but say: "There are plenty of people now, and you also need to save your energy."

Shu Qin shook her head and said: "I'm used to it. Now everyone feels very safe on the Infinite, but this sense of security is also very dangerous for us. So I'll stand guard a bit more at night. The carriage is very long, and I'll feel more at ease guarding the back."

Lin Xian nodded upon hearing this. Shu Qin's worry was not unreasonable. There still needed to be cadres on guard at night; handling problems would be more composed if they encountered them.

"Alright, do a good job of rotation. Next, we'll enter the blizzard area. The threat during the day is no less than at night."

"Hmm, I know." Shu Qin gave Lin Xian a reassuring smile.

In Carriage No. 5, Dalou was on guard at night. Lu Xingchen was already fast asleep, while Dalou was sitting on a stool, constantly wiping his steel-slashing greatsword.

"Dalou, ever since your ability evolved into blood energy, your physical fitness has actually become much better than before."

"Brother Xian." Dalou grinned: "Seems so. I don't even need to sleep."

"If you don't sleep, you'll die."

Lin Xian looked at that greatsword and felt a headache. Originally, he had positioned Dalou as a heavy-firepower warrior. As a result, after Dalou evolved, the blood energy ability seemed more suitable for close-range monster hacking. In this way, weaponized armor was of no use to him. It looked like he could only work hard in terms of weapons and mobility.

After a simple conversation with Dalou about his ability, Lin Xian came to Carriage No. 3, preparing to see that new Blood Calamity Plant.

Sure enough, after obtaining this new calamity plant, Ding Junyi broke her fixed routine without hesitation and worked overtime to conduct research on it.

"Judging from the leaves, stems, and inflorescence, it should be a plant of the Acanthaceae family, Asystasia genus. The anthers are purple. It should be Silver Dragon Asystasia, but it indeed belongs to a dark variant like the Hell Black Chrysanthemum, so it's confirmed to be a Blood Calamity Plant." Lin Xian's footsteps came, and Ding Junyi said without even raising her head.

"Asystasia? Are you sure this is the plant's name?" Hearing this name, Lin Xian couldn't help but frown.

"Yes, Acanthaceae family, Asystasia genus."

Ding Junyi raised her head to look at Lin Xian: "However, since this plant is a variant, I define it as the No. 2 calamity plant. If you want to give it a nice name, you can do as you please."

"Forget it, let's just call it Silver Dragon Asystasia." Lin Xian didn't have Lu Xingchen's chuunibyou personality, and this name sounded quite chuunibyou anyway, so he didn't need to change it.

Ding Junyi paused, then walked toward Lin Xian and pointed to the radiance flowing in the air:

"Theoretically speaking, this kind of energy is very likely to be Cold Dark Fundamental Particles, or it appears before our eyes in a special manifestation form under the characteristics of the No. 1 calamity plant. This kind of energy must also have some commonality with blood essence, the black smoke after strange entities die, and the dark encroachment in the polar night. I think if we can decrypt this kind of energy, we will soon be able to confirm the existence form of dark marks on the human body."

"... If the Phoenix Society confirms it and can develop detection methods, then the whole world will be able to observe the existence of dark marks." Lin Xian added: "For all survivors, this will completely change people's cognition and planning for the apocalypse and escape. The benefit is that rational judgment will reduce deaths; the disadvantage is that the survival pressure on all survivors will become even greater..."

"Yes, this is a breakthrough discovery for humanity." Ding Junyi adjusted her glasses: "Just like in virology, successfully isolating a strain at least lets us know what the true face of this energy that can change consciousness and physical form really is."

"You seem to be in a very good mood?"

"For science, yes." Ding Junyi said seriously: "Idealism and theistic theory are destructive to science, so I am very glad to find a solid scientific theoretical basis for this so-called 'miracle' evolution, even if it is really magical."

Lin Xian walked into the Silver Dragon Asystasia. He found that this plant was still very young at this time, preserved in a soil-less container. Looking closely, the purple lines in the roots and stems were like some kind of channels in the micro-world, which was fascinating. Ding Junyi looked at Team Leader Lin's expression and walked closer to him:

"The characteristics possessed by Blood Calamity Plants far exceed our original cognition. From the current look of things, this kind of special plant also belongs to a very rare existence. I suppose the Phoenix Society and other joint organizations are constantly increasing their exploration and acquisition of this kind of plant. We are very lucky to have actually obtained two."

Lin Xian nodded: "I hope this thing can give us some surprises."

Lin Xian hadn't finished speaking when he found that Ding Junyi had already disappeared from his line of sight. Looking down, he saw Ding Junyi had already squatted down and actively pulled down his pants.

"Wait, what are you doing?" Lin Xian said in surprise.

Ding Junyi's face was somewhat hot and surging. She gently pulled Lin Xian's pants and said: "Currently, the Hell Black Chrysanthemum is converting and releasing energy. Under this kind of energy, everyone on the train is experiencing evolution or some kind of change, so I want to conduct an experiment..."

She said this and slowly raised her head, her gaze looking at Lin Xian with intense hormonal desire: "The content of the experiment is: when the human body is excited, will this evolution become more scorching and intense..."

Lin Xian was startled, his cognition of Ding Junyi's way of expression refreshed again.

"No, tell me honestly, do you really want to experiment?" Lin Xian asked somewhat bewildered.

Ding Junyi grabbed Lin Xian's vital point, her eyes pondered for a moment, and even her voice lowered a bit:

"From the expression of primary and secondary focus, I want to be experimented on by you!"

Click~

The lights in Carriage No. 3 turned off. In the dark corner, Ding Junyi felt her whole body burning. The intense desire had been washed into her bone marrow during the great battle surrounded by the insect tide. She felt she was already somewhat unable to restrain herself. Originally, in her work, she was a serious, meticulous Director Ding who treated work with absolute precision. Because of her pursuit of the lofty scientific field, this matter, which she had originally thought belonged to the low-level and boring things in genes, had long been thrown behind her head by her disdain.

But now it's the end of the world. The rules and social logic of the whole world collapsed on the same day. Ever since the destruction of Underground City No. 9, it seemed there was no longer a Director Ding in the world, no research topics, no dull, wooden, corrupt, and oppressive laboratory, only this hero who suddenly appeared in Underground City No. 9 and saved her from fire and water at the moment of her death, as well as that masculine aura that made her feel hard to resist.

!

So, alright.

Just decide it's him. Throw away all the low-level and boring things, throw away the human survival logic of being a woman in the world, throw away the oppression in front of the desk from adolescence to graduate school and doctoral studies, throw away the lonely pain of not being able to make any off-color jokes in the laboratory!

It turns out there is such a way to live. Besides the sense of achievement gained in the scientific world, this low-level and boring thing is actually so happy.

In the rest room transformed from the disinfection room, Ding Junyi sat on the surfboard and galloped wantonly, like riding a horse, like sailing on the ocean. She wanted to transform into a heatwave to completely melt this savior, pain deposit, idealism master, soul king, and warm mixer she had identified as her lifelong partner!

"Hmm~!"

Ding Junyi suppressed the roar in her heart and transformed it into action power, accepting the signals transmitted from the various neural senses of the human body from a biological perspective.

But what followed was an even greater sensory surge, like an electric current passing through, which was shocking!

Lin Xian was even at the critical point of being driven and driving at this time. He was shocked in his heart and couldn't help but say: "Wait a minute..."

"No~"

Ding Junyi held him down and didn't stop riding, but instead accelerated the frequency!

She stuck to Lin Xian's face in the darkness, hot air spraying between her nostrils, and said with a scorching breath:

"This... is part of the experiment. I need you to cooperate with the standard steps of the experiment."

"I need~ to obtain perfect experimental data... hmm, mm~"

Huh?

Lin Xian was greatly shocked. The enthusiasm of the scientific masochistic woman was really too surging~

The first snow arrived. The convoy under the night, that kind of vibrant vitality, the realm of all things competing, was still before his eyes!

When Lin Xian woke up, it was because his Mechanical Heart popped out a light screen.

【Congratulations, mechanical amplification successful, Wind Cannon has been upgraded to Mechanical Energy Cannon!】

【Mechanical Energy Cannon: Fires a beam of mechanical energy from the fingertip, possessing strong destructive power.】

"Success?!"

Lin Xian saw this scene and just wanted to flip over and get up, but who would have thought he would find a warm woman still lying on him.

Ding Junyi seemed completely exhausted and was sleeping very soundly at this time. Lin Xian looked down and could even see a tiny green seedling on top of her head blooming a small pink flower facing Lin Xian, which seemed to emit a fresh fragrance.

"Alright..."

Lin Xian lay back down, and without saying a word, immediately started mechanical amplification on the ice wall first.

【Ice Wall—Mechanical Amplification】

【Mechanical Amplification Started: Ice Wall 1 day 19:59:59】

"Hmm... this ice wall and the wind gun are not the same level of skill, why did the mechanical amplification time almost double?"

Lin Xian was a bit depressed. At this time, after several hours of energy recovery, he felt his physical strength seemed to have recovered more than half. Then he reached out to pick up Ding Junyi and put her to the side, then got up to prepare to test the Mechanical Energy Cannon, and by the way, go to the Isomorphic Cube to see how many mechanical source points had been converted.

Coming out of Carriage No. 3, he immediately ran to Carriage No. 1 and lit up the Isomorphic Cube.

【Non-mechanical energy converted, obtained 550 mechanical source points.】

【Drip! Currently using non-mechanical power for reflection detection.】

【Detection successful, no fear risk inside the train, dark-side power encroachment has been shielded.】

"Actually got 550 points..." Lin Xian was a bit surprised. The mechanical source points obtained from this great battle were actually more than those obtained from the large parasite before. It looked like those insects also contributed quite a bit.

【Current Mechanical Heart Level Lv. 4 (1690/7000)】

Unknowingly, the Mechanical Heart had risen by nearly 20% in one day. This improvement could be said to be the most in a recent period.

Of course, the consumption was not small. The ammunition reserve of the Infinite, together with the three other convoys of considerable strength, exhausted their ammunition and suffered personnel losses.

Lin Xian opened a blackout panel and looked at the sleeping convoy outside, unable to help but say: "I hope these guys can also become better."

A night of wind and snow, under the reflection of the car lights, a layer of white began to cover the outside.

It was 6 AM at this time. Except for the rotation personnel, most of the other three convoys had begun to rest. It could be seen that this time the several convoys joined together and solved the large-scale insect tide, and the personnel of these convoys had gained a rare peaceful night.

"Team Leader Lin."

Lin Xian got off the vehicle and turned to see Lv Chang and two teammates wrapped in thick cold-proof clothes standing on the roof of the vehicle waving at him.

Lin Xian nodded. These young guys were very active in guarding at night, making the people on the vehicle feel a lot of peace of mind.

He was wearing power armor, crossed the pile of insect corpses, and walked into the darkness. The people in the several convoys were too vigilant, and any disturbance might cause a large chain reaction, so Lin Xian simply walked further away.

The cold wind howled, and the power armor's display screen marked his body temperature and ambient temperature. The flashlight's beam shone on a few blue stone blocks in front. Lin Xian looked back at the convoy in the distance and calculated that this distance should be enough.

So he raised his finger, aimed at one of the blue stones, and prepared to use the Mechanical Energy Cannon.

Hiss-woo!

At this time, Lin Xian's finger seemed to be wrapped by some kind of metal device, and he could vaguely hear the sound of some kind of motor energy storage rotating!

As the sound of energy storage became sharp, the next moment, a fluorescent blue energy body shot out from his fingertip!

Whoosh!

A slight whistling sound rang out, and the Mechanical Energy Cannon shot from Lin Xian's fingertip "Clust!" pierced through the blue stone in front!

That blue stone didn't even make any feedback sound. Lin Xian's gaze sharpened. He immediately walked over quickly and searched with his flashlight for a while, only to find a black hole the thickness of a finger in the center. He reached out to touch it, immediately retracted his hand, and the temperature on the hole actually still carried a scorching sensation. When the light shone on it, it was scorching and emitting fine white smoke.

"So strong?!"

Lin Xian was somewhat incredulous. He hurriedly walked to the back of the blue stone. Sure enough, he saw a small hole that had been completely pierced through by this shot!

Lin Xian frowned and hurriedly measured it. The thickness of the blue stone in front of him exceeded 80 centimeters. Such a heavy blue stone was actually pierced through by one shot from him. The power was many times greater than the previous wind gun!

"Damn..."

Lin Xian looked at his finger at this time. There was a mechanical finger similar to a holographic projection flickering on that finger, but when he reached out to touch it, it disappeared again.

"Mechanical Energy Cannon, interesting."

A strange light flashed in Lin Xian's eyes. At this time, he calmed down and thought:

"The power has increased quite a bit. The only problem seems to be the firing frequency. There's no way to fire continuously like the previous wind gun..."

It gave him the feeling of changing from a machine gun to a cannon. For clearing ordinary zombies, the efficiency was a bit lower.

However, this situation didn't need to be taken to heart at all. After all, ordinary zombies no longer posed too strong a threat to him and the Infinite.

After the test was completed, Lin Xian prepared to set off back. He prepared to take advantage of the time to upgrade the train connection with some materials and airtightness first. Now the heating system of the entire train had been turned on. Lin Xian scooped up a handful of white snow from the ground, his gaze somewhat solemn.

He didn't know to what extent the snow water was toxic. For the sake of safety, it was better not to let the snow water penetrate into the train.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 250 =====