Chapter 252: Endless Winter Night (120,000 words, wishing everyone a Happy New Year at the end of the month)

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

The black heavy-duty train smashed through the thick accumulated snow, emitting a heaven-shaking and earth-shattering roar amidst the blizzard.

Above the dome, a violent, extreme cold vortex blotted out the sky and sun, making the world between heaven and earth seem as if it had entered darkness ahead of schedule, with howling, vast white snow everywhere.

"Marker is about to exceed Level 4!"

"Prepare to fire!"

Squeak, urgh, ah!!!

The Snow Demons within the snow layer were like crucian carp crossing a river, stirring up boiling snow dust.

Thump, thump, thump.

The sound of them colliding with the train and the tracks became deafening.

Lin Xian stood in Carriage No. 2, looking at the various parts outside the train on the sentry system, his expression frigid.

"Lin Xian!" Chen Sixuan's voice rang out from the communicator: "Many monsters have appeared at the pass ahead."

Hearing this, kiki immediately switched to the photoelectric aiming system in front of the train. She saw that in the vast, vast white snowfield ahead, dense, long black and white tails began to surge like a tidal wave. Perhaps because night was approaching, or perhaps because the light was obscured by the blizzard, these Snow Demons began to be able to climb out from under the snow layer, rushing toward the train with the momentum of a wind sweeping away scattered clouds.

"It seems our Level 4 marker has attracted the attention of a wider range of anomalous entities," kiki said, frowning as she looked at the image on the monitor.

Lin Xian's gaze tightened, and he immediately pressed his earpiece.

"Accelerate, crush them!"

Woo!

He immediately activated the Mechanical Heart, increasing the driving force of the Infinite by several percent, and accelerated again!

Immediately after, Lin Xian checked the time. It was already 17:53. The people on the train had no experience with the incoming dark tide, so the time of darkness could only be estimated. At this moment, it seemed that nightfall should be in about half an hour!

"Little girl, you go to the front."

"Mm." kiki nodded with a serious expression.

Immediately, Lin Xian's gaze looked toward the carriage corridor behind, waiting for Ding Junyi's response.

"Level 4."

"Fire!"

Bang, bang, bang!

Woo-zee!

In Carriage No. 2, above Lin Xian's head, the roar of the G3-Electromagnetic Railgun exploded instantly, and the sound of ionized oscillation dissipated, making him feel a numbness in his face.

The next moment, Lin Xian looked at the Snow Demon tide rushing toward them on the monitor and shouted again:

"Everyone, prepare for impact!"

Rumble!!!

Snow dust flew, and the heavy rail train, carrying violent potential energy, crashed straight into the Snow Demons that were drilling through the snow and jumping toward them like a tidal wave.

Chen Sixuan and kiki both stood in the cab, their expressions sinking as they watched this scene.

"It's here!" Chen Sixuan shouted coldly, gripping the console tightly.

"Ha!"

kiki's eyes flashed with an even brighter white light, her hair moving without wind. She gave a light shout, directly raised her hand, held her palm vertically forward, and activated a violent psychic wave in a chopping posture.

Hum!!!!

A cone-shaped strong wave, as if splitting the air, blasted out from directly in front of the ice-breaking shield, directly splitting the snow layer in front over a large area as if dividing a river and overturning waves, revealing the tracks on the withered grass roadbed below. The huge shockwave flew past, instantly creating a hollow area over a hundred meters long. At the same time, hundreds of Snow Demons were directly shaken out of the snow layer like fish waves being shoveled out!

Those Snow Demons that were close were instantly torn to pieces, and those that were far away were also implicated and flew into the high sky. The surging impact momentum allowed kiki to blast out a large gap all at once.

This move allowed the Infinite to accelerate again, crashing into the snow layer ahead and the Snow Demons flying toward them with violent momentum.

Boom! Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

In an instant, the entire train shook violently due to the impact inertia. Everyone felt a huge forward-tilting force, and many sundries in each carriage fell to the ground, making a pitter-patter sound.

And in front of the train head, the large snow raised by the huge impact force instantly flew up dozens of meters high, like an exploding fountain in the snow. The porthole in front of Chen Sixuan was completely obscured in an instant. She only heard the sound of collisions like raindrops ringing densely on the ice-breaking shield and steel armor in front. At the same time, there were various monster howls and shrieks.

Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump~~~!

The Infinite crushed its way through the snow dust, like a series of explosions. Various broken bones and skulls were torn to pieces under the kinetic energy of this steel behemoth, and internal organs and blood plasma completely smeared the glass.

Chen Sixuan turned on the water flushing and wipers, but it was to no avail. Fortunately, kiki was by her side. She directly raised a psychic wave in front, gritting her teeth against the wind, snow, and colliding Snow Demons, moving forward all the way.

Woo! Zee!

The electromagnetic railgun operated at full load and full attack speed. The intelligent system automatically locked onto areas where monsters were dense or prioritized large-sized ones. Every time it fired, the lights of the entire train would dim slightly and then immediately recover.

Da-da-da! Bang, bang, bang!

In the rear carriages, the impact and firing were even more intense. This round of Snow Demons was bolder and crazier than before. The K23 electric rotary machine gun of the building's roarer could take away a large area with every round of metal storm. But the problem that followed was that more Snow Demons climbed onto the Infinite train, and at this time, they were clearly able to stay in the light for a longer time.

Countless tail stings bombarded the train's armor plate with a clanging sound. Because kiki went to the front, only Lu Xingchen, a large-area esper, was left to hold the line in the back.

He was standing on the roof of the high-speed train, wearing a cold-proof helmet. Because the wind and snow intensified, the frost on the surface of his windproof mask was thickening at a rapid speed.

"Ice and snow, it is the time for training."

Lu Xingchen was breathing rapidly, but at this moment, he had no thoughts of showing off. The huge fire from his hands almost never stopped. The huge fire waves burned almost against the carriage deck. The repeated pulling of low temperature and high temperature made the carriage constantly emit the groans of metal fatigue!

Rub, rub, rub.

The heat source in the hurricane seemed to make these Snow Demons feel a great threat. A large number of Snow Demons climbing onto the train no longer attacked the train's steel plates, but swarmed toward Lu Xingchen's direction.

These Snow Demons were constantly rotting all over, but they still couldn't stop the successive offensives, densely climbing onto the roof of the train.

Lu Xingchen looked at this scene, not worried but happy.

"Well come, well come!"

Originally, these monsters were scattered in various carriages to launch attacks. Because people in the carriages were limited by the shooting holes, many could not be dealt with. It was fine when kiki cooperated with him to clear monsters before, but now that kiki was not there, he alone guarding more than a dozen carriages was really powerless. At this time, a large number of monsters came toward him, which was simpler instead.

"Fire Cloud!"

Lu Xingchen crossed his hands in a sword finger, compressed the flames and sprayed them out from the middle, controlling the large area of firepower to burn evenly on the space on the roof of the train, not wanting to waste it at all.

Shh!

At this time, the train's electric blade armor system suddenly rose. Those crowded Snow Demons climbing up did not react in time and were instantly shredded into a piece, falling toward the side of the road with a clatter. The long blades flashed with the light of electric arcs, and even if the tails of their sharp sword blades hit them, they would be cut open immediately.

"Darkness Marker, Level 3!"

Boom, boom, boom, the train head collided violently, and kiki and Chen Sixuan gritted their teeth and rushed in the cab.

"Darkness Marker, Level 2!"

Da-da-da, bang, bang, bang!

The team members in each carriage, Shasha, Shu Qin, Dalou, Lv Chang, Miao Lu, fired with all their might!

"Darkness Marker, Level 1!"

Lu Xingchen's big fire was like a meteor flame tail galloping in the snowfield, the big fire filled the sky, burning the swarming Snow Demons.

Finally, Lin Xian looked at a mountain pass area with terrain deposition ahead and directly began to brake!

Squeak!

The Infinite began to decelerate crazily. The heavy snow on the roof of the train fell like a waterfall. The locked wheels melted the hard ice on the tracks, began to roll hot and red, and wanton steam rose!

Urgh, ah!! Squeak, squeak, squeak!

After the train stopped, everyone began to clear the incoming Snow Demons. After fighting for a full ten minutes, and after there were already mountains of Snow Demon corpses on both sides of the train, the offensives from all directions gradually subsided.

"Hiss! It's cold!!!"

Lu Xingchen was almost exhausted at this time. The intense low temperature made even him, a fire-type esper, unable to cope. Seeing that there were no more Snow Demons around, he immediately prepared to open the cover plate and return to the train.

Who knew that at this time, the gate for lifting the roof of the train had been frozen by the wind and snow and could not be opened at all. Helpless, he could only spray another ball of fire, roast the condensed hard ice, and then returned to Carriage No. 5.

Woo~ woo~~~~~

The howling blizzard became the only sound in this world. As the shooting holes of each carriage closed, the heating system inside the train began to operate crazily, providing heat.

Lin Xian, Shu Qin, Dalou, and several others put on tight cold-proof suits and body temperature maintenance devices, and also put on cold-proof helmets, and then opened the cabin door of Carriage No. 11 and jumped off the train.

Woo~~ hoo~~~~

Outside the train, the howling wind and snow had turned into lateral movement, completely obscuring the field of vision, and the visibility was only less than a few meters.

As soon as Lin Xian got off the train, he immediately stepped on the frozen corpses of several Snow Demons, making a click, click, click sound.

He thought to himself, "This thing is not afraid of snow when it's alive, but it's immediately frozen into an ice stick when it's dead..."

"Team Leader Lin."

Shu Qin's voice came from behind. Lin Xian looked back and immediately frowned.

The side armor of the Infinite was already a mess at this time, with large holes, and there were even signs of the armor plate breaking.

"Brother Xian, the temperature is too low, the armor plate is starting to become brittle," Dalou said.

"I know." Lin Xian took a deep breath, his mood a bit heavy.

In less than a day, the temperature had reached minus 30 degrees.

The huge temperature difference, let alone the train armor, even the carriage body was undergoing metal deformation.

Clang, clang, clang~ rub, rub, rub!

At this time, the Infinite was emitting low metal humming sounds at all times. The pulling of internal and external temperatures made the entire train's connections and welding positions constantly under metal fatigue. The pressure brought by this extremely low-temperature natural disaster was not as simple as night monsters.

"Quick, check everywhere, hurry back, it's going to be dark soon."

Lin Xian felt bad looking at the ice layer rapidly condensing in front of his windproof mask, and immediately took a few people to check around the train.

Urgh, ah!

Shoo!

【Mechanical Energy Cannon】

A Snow Demon that drilled out from under the train had its head directly blasted by Lin Xian. It struggled twice and began to stiffen. Just when Lin Xian was about to step forward, who knew that this monster suddenly moved, rolled up its thick tail needle, and pierced toward Lin Xian's face.

"Team Leader Lin!" Shu Qin looked at this scene and immediately prepared to rush up, but it was too late.

Rub.

Lin Xian stood in place, and the third mechanical arm behind him tightly grabbed this sharp tail sting.

Gurgle, urgh, ah...

The Snow Demon let out a low hum and finally died, its whole body turning white, wrapped in frost.

Crack.

The mechanical arm directly pinched off the tail. Lin Xian reached out and took it in his hand to look, and found that it was actually heavy. The weight of this monster's tail far exceeded his imagination.

"Such high density, no wonder..."

"This ghost thing can also sneak attack, it's really cunning." Shu Qin walked up at this time and said in a deep voice.

"Yeah, it's really hard to deal with without heavy armor." Lin Xian said.

He threw it away casually without wasting time. A few people checked along the train, and just when Lin Xian was about to return to the train, he vaguely saw a human figure in front of the train head.

"Activate collision volume sensing system, range radar activated!"

Drip!

The auxiliary system of the power armor was activated, locking onto the human figure in the snow wind ahead, but the system soon flashed yellow light.

"Drip, drip, no life reaction."

Lin Xian frowned, took out his black gun and walked over, only to find that the figure was a middle-aged woman who had been completely frozen into an ice sculpture, wearing a thick down jacket, and half of her body was buried in the snow at this time.

"Team Leader Lin, there are more ahead."

Shu Qin, who followed, also discovered the situation at this time.

A few people looked ahead and saw more survivors who had been frozen into ice sculptures. Lin Xian followed and found that many had been buried, holding guns or resistance weapons, and died on the spot.

Further ahead, a car camp appeared, but these cars were basically half buried by the wind and snow, and thick white snow was also pressed on the roof of the cars.

On the wilderness with undulating snow hills, a large number of cars were half buried in the accumulated snow. The black off-road vehicle at the very front was inserted obliquely on the snow slope. The rainproof cloth on the roof luggage rack bulged like a pale sail. The cab window was broken and the cold wind howled in. One could see the pair of hands deeply trapped in the ice shell on the steering wheel, and the man who had been frozen into an ice sculpture was lying on the steering wheel.

Not far away, a bus overturned at 45 degrees. The breach of the escape window was blocked into a funnel shape by the accumulated snow. A woman in a red down jacket climbed out from the broken armored window. The baby swaddle in her arms was frozen into an ice cocoon. When the hanging scarf was raised in the wind, the ice slag collided with a sound like wind chimes. The diesel heater pipe at the rear of the car burst, and the overflowing fuel condensed into stalactite-like ice cones on the surface of the car body, refracting the gray light like dead people's fingernails.

When the wind swept across the car formation, the snow particles played a dirge between the car door gaps. A white SUV had a peace charm hanging on the rearview mirror, and the red tassel had long been frozen into a straight ice needle.

"13, 14, 15..."

Shu Qin looked at it and counted in a low voice: "Team Leader Lin, there are 23 cars, the scale is not small. Looking at the parking situation, it should be a camp."

"They should have been attacked." Dalou grabbed a frozen monster tail from the snow layer on the ground, pulled it out with a clatter, and found that in the mouth of the Snow Demon, it was still biting half a human palm, and the bright red tissue had been sealed by ice and snow.

"It has been wiped out."

Lin Xian sighed lightly.

"Okay, let's go back to the train quickly."

"Mm."

A few people braved the violent blizzard and returned to the train again.

Shh.

As the automatic explosion-proof door closed, the howling wind was instantly isolated outside. Before Lin Xian had time to take off his windproof helmet, Chen Sixuan's voice came from the earpiece.

"Lin Xian, come to the cab, there is a situation."

Hearing this, Lin Xian immediately took off his helmet, then took off his cold-proof suit and let the PX05 robot handle the wind and snow on it, then quickly walked through the corridor and came to the cab in front.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Sixuan pointed to the transponder on the train: "Someone is calling us."

"Can you still receive messages?"

"The blizzard is very big, long-distance radio waves can no longer be received, so they should be nearby," kiki said from the side.

Lin Xian directly pressed the talk button.

"Who?!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a loud shout came intermittently from the other side, sounding very urgent.

"Hey, you... train drivers, hurry up... leave here, it's... dark, don't harm us...!!"

Hearing this, Lin Xian realized that it should be a survivor convoy also hiding from the wind, snow, and Snow Demons near this Uliyasitai Mountain pass.

He pondered for a moment and said directly:

"We have already cleared all the monsters, we are going to station here tonight, no malice."

Just after speaking, another voice that sounded very impolite came: "What clear or not clear, do you know that we have 4 convoys here, there are already enough people, do you understand the pack hunting effect? It's going to be dark soon and you are still attracting so many monsters, hurry up and get out, don't stay here!"

"Hey!" kiki was furious when she heard this and was about to start scolding, but was stopped by Lin Xian.

Lin Xian pressed the communicator and briefly explained the matter of the darkness marker: "So if you are not being attacked now, and we are not either, that means we will all be relatively safe at night. Even if there is trouble, it won't be too big. Just stay in place and wait for dawn."

The pack hunting effect and the darkness marker are very similar in some angles, but their essence is different. The former will make many survivor teams difficult to gather together, and even hold hostility toward the approach of other teams. In this case, these survivor teams, except for wanting to find official powerful organizations like the Phoenix Society to huddle together, will not easily consider huddling with others.

But Lin Xian knew that they completely misunderstood the current situation. Now the Snow Demons in the snowfield are dense. If these people are not attacked now, it means they should be safe. And Lin Xian's Infinite convoy just rushed in and basically killed all the pursuing Snow Demons. Even if the darkness marker is not completely cleared, there is very little left. In this case, huddling together to spend the long night is no problem at all.

Even if they don't want to deal with each other, staying separately is fine, but the other party seems to have a sentry observing Lin Xian's big train rushing into this mountain pass, and seems to be a bit unable to sit still.

"You say it's safe, so it's safe? Are you the father of those monsters?" The grumpy middle-aged man's voice heard Lin Xian's words and started scolding without any hesitation: "Do you know how much price we paid to kill the monsters during the day? Where can't you stop when you drive on the tracks? Why do you have to stop here? Hurry up and get out."

"Hey, hey, hey, we are the Speed Convoy, that train, you can completely drive into the Dalat Town ahead, there is a platform there, can you not be here." Another woman's voice said.

"That is, hurry up and leave, don't harm people..." The urgent voice at the beginning also responded.

In the cab, Lin Xian's face sank slightly, and Chen Sixuan was a little angry.

"Why are these people so stupid? Why do they only recognize that pack hunting effect and not listen to us? The pack hunting effect is not officially confirmed..."

"Forget it."

Lin Xian's expression turned cold, and he directly pressed the talk button: "We are camping here, everyone can stay or leave as they please."

If it weren't for the sake of being survivor convoys all the way to Western Orchid, he would have been very polite not to scold them directly.

"Asshole!" The grumpy middle-aged man immediately scolded: "Do you believe that I will blow you up with shells..."

Before he finished speaking, the voices of other team members came from beside him.

"Boss, their firepower is very fierce, and there is an electromagnetic gun on the train."

"Yes, just rushed in and killed at least thousands of Snow Demons..."

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

At this time, on the transponder side, there seemed to be a noisy and discussion sound.

Immediately after not long, the sound of engine roaring came from inside.

"Lin Xian, look."

Chen Sixuan had excellent vision. At this time, she saw that on the high place of the mountain col, there seemed to be many car lights vaguely transmitting little light through the blizzard.

"Are they really going to come up and find trouble?"

kiki narrowed her eyes and said: "No, I think they are preparing to leave."

"So late?" Chen Sixuan was surprised immediately: "Don't they want to live?"

The light of the car lights gradually went away, and in the wind and snow, several large car flows seemed to begin to merge and drive toward the distance.

Lin Xian looked at it and pressed the talk button again: "It's going to be dark soon, you can't drive to Dalat Town, take my advice, it's very safe to stay here tonight."

Click, click~

As the distance went away, the signal began to become extremely poor.

"Can't afford to provoke... we can afford to hide... bye-bye."

"Who believes your darkness marker, you've watched too many movies..."

"Hurry... hurry up, go... don't... respond"

"Hum, hum (engine roaring sound)"

"There are Snow Demons... bang, bang, bang (gunfire sound), everyone fight all the way..."

Inside the Infinite carriage.

"These idiots!" kiki heard the last dialogue on the transponder and said angrily: "It's going to be dark soon, do they want to die so much?! "It sounds like these convoys have at least hundreds of people, this will definitely be very dangerous..." Chen Sixuan frowned slightly, looked at Lin Xian and sighed slightly: "I finally understand what you said now. It's better to let them escape than to let them fight. Normal people find it very difficult to accept this kind of being hunted marker theory."

Lin Xian sighed and said: "Actually, it is fear."

He looked at the blizzard gradually darkening outside the porthole and said: "After escaping for so long, the survivors have already developed a physiological fear of anomalous entities and darkness. Choosing to stop and fight against the darkness is a hundred times harder than choosing to escape."

Hoo~ hoo~

The wind and snow roared, emitting bursts of airflow whistling sounds in the gaps of the Infinite's armored steel plates.

On the transponder, those convoys could no longer be contacted at all.

Drip, drip, drip, drip.

At this time, after Luo Yang's reminder, the watch that had been adjusted by him in advance issued a subtle reminder sound, almost covered by the violent blizzard.

"It's going to be dark soon, prepare to face the enemy."

In the blizzard night under the extreme cold vortex, although Lin Xian was very confident about the team's darkness marker situation at this time, in this extreme weather, it naturally made people feel a strong sense of unease.

Coupled with the endless Snow Demons in the snow layer, it deepened his worries.

So he immediately let the whole train start to be on alert.

!

"Bullets in the chamber, everyone pay attention, the snow water is poisonous, you must wear a gas mask. Even after closing the shooting hole, you need to wipe off all the snow water in the room. During this process, no one can drink water!"

The Isomorphic Rubik's Cube had not stopped warning throughout the day today.

Snow water infiltration, coupled with the train shell being pierced, the train was filled with the power of fear of darkness invasion. The nerves of everyone on the train were almost tense all day long.

Hearing Lin Xian's words, Shu Qin and others immediately took action.

Lin Xian took kiki and Chen Sixuan toward the back, and handed them each a gas mask: "Put it on, don't take it off until the crisis is resolved."

The change of night in the blizzard was very subtle. The sky was already dim. As night fell, everyone just felt that the light was a bit darker. Outside the carriage window, there was only darkness and the howling blizzard blowing horizontally.

Drip, drip, drip, drip~

Snow water dripped on the carriage floor. Personnel in each living carriage were holding weapons. Even Xiao Yuan was holding an automatic rifle and wearing a mask, protecting herself tightly.

Lin Xian sat in the storage room of Carriage No. 7. This was the center of the train, and it was convenient for him to use the Mechanical Heart to cover the whole train and then carry out repairs.

Woo, woo, woo~

The heater on the roof of the train was running at full power, supplying warmth to the carriage. On the roof of the train, the 1130 close-in defense gun and the G3-electromagnetic railgun were covered with wind and frost ice. Every time they rotated, they would shake off the ice condensed on the base, and then they would be covered with ice again in a few seconds.

The window was completely white with fog, and ice patterns were generated and melted quickly, repeating constantly.

Lin Xian prioritized repairing the damage and gaps in the inner train, and then the external armor, first protecting the interior from being invaded by wind and snow.

Click, click, click~

It seemed that the sound of freezing was ringing from all directions. Lin Xian was full of worries at this time. Under the sweep of this wind and snow, he was very worried that before dawn, the entire Infinite would be completely buried by accumulated snow. If this happened, even if he had more means, he would not be able to drive out.

Thinking of this, a feeling of powerlessness rose in his heart. Darkness, anomalous entities, natural disasters, this apocalypse, at all times, made people feel endless despair.

"Damn it! Damn it!"

Lin Xian gritted his teeth and cursed in his heart. His heart was already extremely anxious at this time.

Each carriage was extremely quiet, and everyone was waiting for the changes outside.

Time passed minute by minute, Lin Xian checked his watch, and the time had reached 19 o'clock.

The sky outside was still the same, darkness and blizzard.

"It's dark..."

"It's been dark for a long time."

Lin Xian stood up with a solemn expression and took a long breath. His expression was tense, feeling the outside of the entire train.

At this time, the entire Infinite had been covered with a layer of accumulated snow, and on the steel plate armor on the side of the train, a layer of ice shell had been condensed by the wind and snow.

Between heaven and earth, there was only the sound of the blizzard howling, and nothing else.

"Each carriage." Lin Xian decisively pressed the earpiece at this time.

"Team Leader Lin, no problem."

Shu Qin walked quickly from Carriage No. 12 to the front, reporting as she walked.

"No. 11 is no problem," Shasha said.

"Carriage No. 10 is no problem," Miao Lu reported.

"No. 9 is no problem," Lv Chang reported.

"No. 8 is also no problem," Xiao Yuan reported.

"No. 6 to No. 5 are no problem," Dalou and Lu Xingchen walked quickly along the corridor.

"No. 3 and No. 4 are no problem, the disaster plants have no other reactions," Ding Junyi looked at the faint energy light stream and said. Having killed so many Snow Demons along the way, it seemed they were all fed by the Hell Black Chrysanthemum.

"No. 2, No. 1 are no problem," Chen Sixuan and kiki responded.

Lin Xian stood in Carriage No. 7 and breathed a sigh of relief at this time.

"Everyone, put on your cold-proof suits, don't take them off yet. We will observe for a period of time. When there is no problem, we will enter rotation rest."

"Understood."

Until this time, everyone's heartstrings relaxed slightly. Chen Sixuan began to lead people to distribute food. Originally, she was prepared to process some hot food, but Lin Xian was worried that it was too cumbersome, and the heating in the train had reached its limit, so she kept it simple first.

Let everyone solve the problem of food and clothing first.

In Carriage No. 2, kiki constantly searched the frequencies of various radio stations and found that they were completely disconnected.

"It seems that the extreme cold vortex has completely covered this area, and even the global radio stations of Western Orchid City and the Phoenix Society cannot be received, and the survivor radio stations at close range are also not working."

Chen Sixuan looked up at the roof of the train. She knew that at this time, above the sky, the huge extreme cold vortex was rapidly degrading the world to the ice age. The blizzard hiding the power of darkness invasion had completely blocked even the frequency of the dark radio station.

At this time, the Infinite had become a lonely boat in the blizzard of this vast snowfield.

"According to today's speed, we still have to run for at least 10 more hours to reach Western Orchid," Chen Sixuan said.

Lin Xian shook his head: "Too optimistic. Tomorrow's snow will be at least twice as thick as today's. Being able to drive at 50 yards is already a miracle, unless this blizzard can stop for a while."

"Ah..."

kiki's face was worried. She rubbed her hands and said: "Then this snow will continue to increase, won't we be buried?"

"By then, we might have to modify a few snowmobiles or you take everyone to fly to Western Orchid together," Lin Xian said half-jokingly.

If this was really the case, except for abandoning the Infinite, he couldn't think of any other way.

As soon as these words came out, kiki's face was extremely ugly, and she said with a worried face: "Wow, what should we do about our train? I thought the most troublesome thing was the track problem, who knew it would be this blizzard."

"Lin Xian." Chen Sixuan looked at Lin Xian solemnly: "Is there no other way?"

Lin Xian took a deep breath, pondered for a while, and then said seriously: "We can only see the changes in this blizzard first. If the wind and snow decrease a little in the second half of the night, it will be fine. If it increases..."

Speaking of this, his gaze turned sharp: "Then we can only risk our lives to rush!"

Darkness is a desperate situation, but being buried by heavy snow is a dead end. By comparison, even if it is a desperate situation with nine deaths and one life, we have to gamble. At least rushing further forward is better than staying in place and directly abandoning the train to walk or relying on kiki to fly to Western Orchid.

Of course, the thickness of the accumulated snow has not reached that situation yet.

Chen Sixuan nodded when she heard this: "I understand what you mean, then I will keep watch at night."

Lin Xian shook his head: "No need, same as usual, I will do it at night."

The mental power of an esper is stronger than that of an ordinary person, and Lin Xian knows that the Hell Black Chrysanthemum will continue to release energy tonight. Letting Chen Sixuan and the others rest well can also quickly enhance their body evolution trend and improve their subsequent survival rate.

Chen Sixuan looked at him with some worry when she heard this, and then nodded.

The wind and snow gnawed at the external armor of the Infinite, and the rampant gale made bursts of "ghost crying" sounds.

In the living carriage, the team members huddled in their tightly protected small nests. Those on rotation rest took off their cold-proof suits and wrapped themselves in thick quilts.

The heating system of the carriage worked continuously, but as the wind and snow outside intensified, the temperature in the carriage could only be maintained at 12~13 degrees. Except for the higher temperature of the heater, the temperature in other areas was rapidly swallowed by the low temperature outside as the metal carriage was.

Fortunately, the Infinite had prepared cold-proof materials in advance, and Chen Sixuan distributed canned meat to everyone tonight. Everyone was hiding in their warm small nests, which was quite comfortable.

In a beautifully decorated and comfortable small living cabin, Xiao Yuan wrapped herself in a thick blanket and opened the blackout cover, looking at the blizzard raging in the dark screen outside. Her small face was full of worry. She reached out and touched the glass, and a biting cold made her frown immediately.

Immediately, she closed the blackout board and shrank back to the small bed. In the corner next to the pillow, two cans of snow pear were piled up, carefully protected by her.

The distribution of canned fruit is generally random. According to the material supply on the train, Chen Sixuan generally arranges 1 can of canned fruit for everyone every 1 day. Xiao Yuan couldn't bear to eat it, so she kept it all, and specifically asked other teammates to exchange it for canned snow pear, quietly protecting it on her bed.

Looking at the canned snow pear by the pillow, Xiao Yuan smiled sweetly, took a long breath, and closed her eyes to sleep quickly.

4 hours later, she must get up and take turns on duty with others.

Because of the blizzard night, Lin Xian arranged for everyone to take turns on duty in four shifts, in order to be able to react quickly in an emergency.

Hum, hum!

Lin Xian kept the motor engines of the Infinite's Giant Whale 03E heavy gas turbine locomotive and the Gemini 11R nuclear-powered electric locomotive running, so that they could be started at any time and not be frozen by ice and snow. The heating system of the carriage was running at full load at this time, crazily transporting warmth into the train.

This is the energy consumption for maintaining survival, but the Gemini nuclear-powered locomotive has a thermal power of 100,000 kilowatts, so this amount of electricity is not a big problem.

The only problem is that this kind of heating consumes a lot of water, whether it is human body water or the train's water tank. And now, snow water cannot be used to replenish the water tank. Although Chen Sixuan had filled the water tank before this and specifically arranged for a few large water buckets to be filled for backup, this problem is still very severe.

Time quickly reached 21 o'clock in the evening.

Extreme cold temperature, minus 40 degrees!

Lin Xian seized every second at this time, while manufacturing ammunition, while manufacturing TRP fourth-generation special industrial active exoskeleton power armor!

He wanted to take advantage of this time to build two more sets, and while improving his mechanical manufacturing, he would equip a few more people with this exoskeleton power armor. Moving in ice and snow is a big problem. Having this set of power armor will be a great help!

Lin Xian had gradually become proficient in multitasking, especially bullets, which he made very smoothly.

So he manufactured ammunition with his left hand, and began to manufacture power armor with his right hand.

The difficulty of manufacturing active exoskeleton power armor is the same as the PX-05 robot. The exoskeleton material is fine, mainly because it is equipped with a special intelligent combat system, power source, transmission shafts of various joints, and hydraulic power hubs. The total weight is 30 kg, equipped with 1 small high-energy electric drive power component and 13 hydraulic power units. These are relatively fine manufacturing processes. The first time it is manufactured, it is still from a chip to manufacture the master control.

However, after the mechanical manufacturing was upgraded to Level 4, the manufacturing speed and efficiency were greatly improved. In about 4 hours, a set of light gray painted power armor was manufactured by Lin Xian, completely brand new, revealing a breath of brand-new industrial materials.

Except for the arm position, the protection ability of this kind of power armor is basically 0 in other places, but the advantage is that it is light and dexterous.

Although it weighs 30 kg, because it is a full-body support structure, the weight will be transmitted to the ground. In addition, its power unit can provide more than 500kg-level potential explosive force, 100 meters/3.5 seconds of linear acceleration, and 270 degrees/second joint angular velocity.

And there are dynamic detection and small radar aiming systems. In addition to enhancing biomechanical magnification, there are also protection thresholds, such as forced intervention of knee joint shock absorbers, fuse protection of arm bone pressure sensors, myocardial load over-limit alarms, etc...

In general, for gene-evolved candidates like Shu Qin, Chen Sixuan, Lv Chang, and Miao Lu, such auxiliary power armor is like adding wings to a tiger.

"Give this set to Teacher Chen first."

Lin Xian took a deep breath and started to operate again without stopping.

【Drip! Reflection detection is being performed using non-mechanical power.】

【Detection successful, there is no fear risk in the train, and the invasion of dark side power has been shielded.】

【Non-mechanical energy has been converted, gaining 1000 mechanical source points.】

"Mm..."

Just as Lin Xian moved, the light screen of the Mechanical Heart suddenly popped up. He was immediately happy. It seems that large-scale killing of Snow Demons is still beneficial. The Hell Black Chrysanthemum can actually absorb so much dark side energy.

【Current Mechanical Heart Level LV. 4 (2690/7000)】

Mechanical Manufacturing: 4 (360/2000) Improve construction efficiency

"Building a power armor, the proficiency of mechanical manufacturing increased by at least 200, which is really good."

Feeling that his energy was constantly recovering under the infiltration of that faint fluorescent light, Lin Xian took a deep breath. With such support, he would seize every second tonight to manufacture.

In the dark night, Lin Xian was manufacturing while paying attention to the blizzard howling outside the train. He looked up at the temperature outside the train from time to time and found that it was already close to minus 50 degrees.

Time came to 5 o'clock in the morning. Lin Xian, who had built the second set of power armor, couldn't sit still. He got up and opened the blackout board, and found that the window was already covered with thick snow frost. I don't know if it was because the train was frozen too thick by the snow frost or what, the howling wind and snow sound outside seemed to be much smaller.

Lin Xian shivered. The temperature in the carriage, which was running the heater at full power, was only ten degrees, and even the carriage connection and the toilet were full of cold air and snow frost.

He directly put on the power armor, body temperature maintenance device, cold-proof suit, cold-proof helmet, and then came to the nuclear-powered carriage, preparing to open the cab door.

Clang~!

The gate motor hummed painfully, but the door remained motionless.

Lin Xian frowned, went up to do it manually, the power armor output torque shook violently, and the sound of ice breaking rang out outside the cabin door, sounding just like his ice wall.

Whoosh

As soon as the car door opened, a white cold air that almost condensed into a solid body rushed toward his face. Under the lights in the car, the snow outside had actually piled up outside the cabin door, and even almost overflowed into the car cabin.

Lin Xian's expression changed. You must know that the train cabin door is 1.3 meters high from the track ground, which means that the snow at this time is at least 1.4 meters or more, which is simply terrifying.

However, what made Lin Xian feel a bit fortunate at this time was that outside, except for the still violent cold wind, it seemed that the snow had stopped!

Thick snow piled up, Lin Xian braved the cold wind and took a step out, creak, his whole leg almost fell into the snow.

Lin Xian looked at this scene and sighed lightly: "Fortunately."

Fortunately, the snow is just thick, but not solid.

Lin Xian walked out of the snow layer with difficulty, then closed the car door and stepped on the gap of the train armor steel plate and climbed onto the roof of the train.

Except for the howling gale, everything around was pitch black. He turned on his flashlight and observed around, and found that everything around was vast and white. The entire Infinite seemed to have driven into a white platform, wrapped tightly.

Thick accumulated snow was also piled on the roof of the train, and both sides of the carriage were completely covered by a layer of transparent ice shell, making the entire train look like it had just been dug out of the polar ice layer.

The engine motor and heater were working with a low hum. Lin Xian walked toward the front car, checking the situation outside.

【Low temperature warning, low temperature warning】

The power armor sent out an alarm sound, and the heavy cold-proof suit was soon covered with a piece of ice slag.

Lin Xian walked quickly on the roof of the train, and seeing the condition of the train at this time, his heart felt a little cold.

"This situation should still be able to move, if it doesn't continue to snow..."

According to the time calculation, it might take seven or eight hours before it gets dark. If the blizzard continues, he will have to let the whole team take risks, start the train and rush through the wind and snow in the dark night.

But with such deep accumulated snow and the darkness marker, if they are attacked by hundreds or thousands of Snow Demons again, then they have almost no possibility of pressing the marker back. In this vast snowfield, ammunition is exhausted without supplies, and they can neither advance nor retreat, so they can only wait for death in place.

After patrolling a circle, Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was preparing to return, he suddenly thought of something and jumped off the train, stepped on the deep snow, and walked toward the convoy that had been wiped out before.

He needs mechanical devouring!

Although those cars currently cannot increase much mechanical source points for him, the materials in his decomposition center are not much left. In the past two days, they have been used in large quantities for weapon and ammunition production. After entering the snowfield, let alone mechanical objects, even telephone poles cannot be found. Now there is a car group here, Lin Xian does not want to waste it, otherwise he has no bottom line about what will happen tomorrow.

At this time, most of the many cars in the wiped-out convoy were buried by deep snow, leaving only protruding snow bags. Lin Xian walked over and scratched with his hands to see the car body buried inside.

He stepped on it, and the snow layer on the slope suddenly sank a section, and the off-road vehicle also tilted.

Thump~ clatter,

Along with the tilting of the off-road vehicle, the head of a man frozen into an ice sculpture in the car smashed the car glass and revealed half a head. Lin Xian's flashlight shone over, and he immediately saw a dead face covered with white frost and wide eyes looking at him motionless.

Lin Xian's expression did not change, he directly put his hand on the car in front of that "person" and began to devour. While devouring, he shone his flashlight on him and said: "Die early and be liberated early, don't come to this world in the next life."

"Brother, it's really hard to live." The frozen man sighed at him.

"I know." Lin Xian swept the flashlight light around: "You have done a good job, being able to bring so many people here."

"But none of them survived." The frozen man twisted his brittle neck and looked at the bus: "It's a pity, if it weren't for these monsters..."

Saying that, "he" looked at Lin Xian: "Your train can carry more people, but if they all die, it will also put more pressure on you."

Lin Xian shook his head: "I am not a savior, and I cannot guarantee that my team members can live until tomorrow, so I don't want to bring more people. At least, I don't want to before my ability reaches a certain level."

"You are afraid." The frozen man looked at him and said: "Otherwise you wouldn't be working around the clock like this. Sleeping is a luxury for you."

Lin Xian shrugged and denied: "I am an esper, full of energy, and there is Hell Black Chrysanthemum on the train to convert evolutionary power to replenish my physical strength, so my state is quite good."

"Good?"

The frozen man touched his broken neck and looked at him with mocking eyes: "Then why do you see me and talk to a dead person for no reason."

Lin Xian stared at him speechlessly: "I am just lonely in the middle of the night."

The frozen man sighed and looked at him seriously: "Seriously, with so much pressure, have you ever thought about just huddling with the Phoenix Society? This way you will be much more relaxed. If your ability cooperates with the Phoenix Society, you can also do many things. You don't need to carry the whole train on your own shoulders~"

"Makes sense..."

Lin Xian exhaled a cold breath. He swept his gaze over the convoy buried in the cold wind, as well as the man's corpse in front of him that couldn't speak and had died completely, and muttered to himself.

【Devouring successful, mechanical source points +20, mechanical devouring skill proficiency +10】

【Decomposition: Obtained high manganese steel*10, hot-rolled forged steel*10, cold-rolled dual-phase steel plate*5, ordinary carbon steel*20, non-metallic foam material, non-metallic composite material...】

As the devouring was completed, the off-road vehicle in front quickly rotted into a small pile of brown ashes. The sundries inside and the man's corpse fell into the snow cave. The surrounding deep snow lost its support and collapsed with a clatter, burying the man in the white snow in the blink of an eye.

"Good luck."

The frozen man said to Lin Xian before being buried by the accumulated snow.

Rumble.

At this time, the snowfield suddenly began to tremble slightly.

Lin Xian saw that the snow layer and the air in front of him seemed to be constantly vibrating. He immediately looked up. At this time, he seemed to hear a low-frequency roar coming from the distant snowfield. Above the sky, a vibrating ionosphere suddenly swept past from afar. Instantly, Lin Xian only felt a rustling boiling sound coming from outside the pass.

Just when he thought it was a Snow Demon riot, the boiling sound suddenly went away and soon disappeared.

Around Uliyasitai Mountain, it fell into a strange silence again.

Lin Xian looked at the dome above. In the center of the distant extreme cold vortex, there were bursts of wild thunder from time to time, reflecting the cobalt blue storm sky, like a cosmic behemoth, which was heart-palpitating.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 253 =====