Chapter 254: Orbital Fortress in the Wind and Snow

"It looks like it was frozen to death, the car has already fallen into the heavy snow."

Chen Sixuan said with a complex expression: "Such heavy snow, if it is not a special vehicle, it is basically difficult to drive."

"Could it be the people from those convoys last night?" kiki said.

"Perhaps."

"If it is the crawler-type polar vehicle like the Eagle Convoy, it might be possible to clear obstacles and move forward, but another problem is energy." Lin Xian said in a deep voice: "Minus 50 degrees, ordinary car engines cannot be started once they stop, and they must maintain heating at all times. Without sufficient energy, even electric energy is difficult to maintain long-term endurance in this ice and snow low temperature."

Pfft!!!!

The heavy snow was constantly shoveled away by the ice-breaking shield. As the Infinite continued to drive, time reached 11:30. At this time, the sky was bright. There was no blizzard, and the world was suddenly white.

Except for the howling gale, the crystal white snow reflected dazzling white light, instantly making the entire Infinite bright.

Everyone couldn't help but cover their eyes.

"Wow, so bright."

"The entire grassland has become a snowfield." Chen Sixuan looked out, and for thousands of miles, it was a sea of white.

Lin Xian looked at the heavy accumulated snow outside, the silver-white snow sea was boundless, and could only sigh: "In this situation, there are still Snow Demons, and even the snow water has the poison of darkness invasion. How difficult is it to survive."

The Infinite was like an earthworm constantly moving forward in the snow layer, winding on the tracks and rushing through the snow to move forward.

Rushing from night to day, without seeing Snow Demons or encountering any anomalous entities, this situation is very abnormal.

With doubts and vigilance, the train did not stop moving forward. Soon, Lin Xian saw a small town platform ahead, and there were buildings covered by white snow in the distance. On the station sign frozen by frost, the words 【Dalat Station】 were written.

"Lin Xian, look!"

Chen Sixuan suddenly spoke. Lin Xian and kiki looked in the direction she pointed. They saw that in an open space in front of the platform, a large number of cars appeared one after another at this time. They were all survivor vehicles that had been modified. Some of these cars gathered on high ground, and some were on the side of the road leading to the small town that had been completely buried. On the high billboard by the road, there were also a large number of bullet holes and Snow Demon corpses that had already solidified.

This didn't seem to be a certain convoy, but composed of multiple convoys, among which dozens of cars were in a farther place.

Everyone saw that there were several large heavy trucks responsible for clearing the way and modified crawler-type snowplows ahead, but those cars responsible for clearing the way in the snow seemed to have encountered some terrifying attack. Two of the heavy trucks were even sunken, twisted and bent by a huge force.

And after these large trucks were wiped out, the dozens of ordinary wheel-type doomsday modified cars that fled to the distance quickly fell into the snow, crooked and tilted. After one night, all the vehicles were covered with thick white snow, and the bright red blood on the side of the car had been frozen by low temperature. It could be seen that the battle happened not long ago, but the entire hillside and highway could no longer find any signs of life, all were frozen by extreme cold.

"It looks like those 4 convoys last night. Looking at those snows, I'm afraid they died before the blizzard stopped." Chen Sixuan said.

"They have so many cars clearing the way, and their equipment is considered sophisticated. No wonder they can drive here." kiki frowned suspiciously: "Eh, why do I feel that what they encountered is not just Snow Demons? Lin Xian, look, those cars were directly flattened. Snow Demons don't have this ability, right?"

"Chen Laoshi." Lin Xian's eyes were sore from the white snow, he pointed to a strange place in the distance and asked Chen Sixuan: "Is there something there?"

Chen Sixuan immediately understood, and immediately took out Meteor No. 3, adjusted the sight to filter mode and looked in the direction Lin Xian pointed.

Soon, her brows began to wrinkle.

In the field of view of the sight, on a small town building sealed by heavy snow in the distance, a monster wing-like object was actually hanging, white-gray in color, terrifying and ferocious, already covered with snow frost and ice. That half wing hung upside down on one side of the building, looking like a huge wall billboard, actually covering a large part of the building for several floors, and the wing tip hung into the snow, unable to see the complete body shape at all.

Seeing this scene, Chen Sixuan's face was solemn, and she immediately told the three of them the description.

"Only half a wing, I don't know what the main body is, but this body shape must belong to a large anomalous entity."

Chen Sixuan put down the sight and said to Lin Xian and kiki: "It is very likely to be an A-level or S-level anomalous entity."

kiki's eyes widened when she heard this: "This convoy is so powerful, they actually managed to break the wing of a large anomalous entity. Is it possible that the anomalous entity was killed by them?"

"Didn't see anything else." Chen Sixuan shook her head and said to Lin Xian: "Only saw that one wing tissue."

Rumble~

Above the sky, the extreme cold vortex blotted out the sky and sun, and sunlight sprinkled some brilliance from the gaps in the clouds. Lin Xian's expression was solemn, and he said: "There must be many things running out of the Star Abyss in the blizzard. This heavy snow and vortex are like a natural shielding screen. We must leave as soon as possible, otherwise the things these guys encountered, we will encounter sooner or later."

Bang, bang, bang!

The Infinite rushed through the platform directly, knocking away a large number of brackets collapsed by the accumulated snow and vehicles parked on the tracks. For a time, sparks splashed, and the humming of metal vibrated in all directions.

Whoosh!

The train did not stop at all, rushing past all the way.

At this time, it entered the daytime, and those Snow Demons still did not come out again. Lin Xian felt strange and also relaxed a little.

No matter what the reason, now that we can run a little further, we are closer to Western Orchid City, and others are irrelevant.

The train rushed through the wind and snow at full speed, and the people on the train were able to relax a little.

Woo! ~

The train engine was running at full load, and the train head threw a large amount of white snow into the air. The sky full of snow crystals shone in the sun. People in the living carriage looked at the bright white scenery through the window, but everyone's eyes were full of extreme vigilance.

That pure and flawless white did not give people any beauty. On the contrary, the snow poison that seeped in, the Snow Demons nurtured in the snow, constantly gave people a terrifying feeling.

When the power of darkness invasion condensed into a solid body, the Infinite was driving on this white snowfield at this time, just like being surrounded by endless fear power, making people suffocated.

Lin Xian could not relax at all at this time. The Infinite was driving in a very dangerous environment. As the snow layer became thicker, he was even ready to drive the Mechanical Heart to increase the power of the whole train at any time to rush out.

The direction they were traveling was to the west of the Parma Grassland, which was also within the area covered by the extreme cold vortex. It was no surprise that all survivors in the entire range were moving toward Western Orchid City at this time.

Not only because the Phoenix Society was stationed there, but also because Western Orchid City itself was a western industrial heavy city. Its original main industries were steel and industrial manufacturing, and it was also a military industrial city of the Federation, with fortress-level defensive power.

The reason why the Phoenix Society chose Western Orchid City as the central support city for the 3/5/7 Star Abyss was precisely because of its powerful defensive power.

From the previous radio information, it is known that there are many survivors there now, and the Phoenix Society's evacuation is also a few days later. The next stage of direction is to cross the edge of the 5th Star Abyss and pursue the Dawn Center.

Lin Xian's strategy was in two directions, mainly determined through cooperation with the Phoenix Society. If the train drive upgrade problem could be solved in Xilan City, then he could have one more choice, following the Dawn Center across the Qionggu Strait on land. If not, he would have to go to Dawn City, and then take the ocean orbit, perhaps being able to keep up with the sea city Noah.

"Go and rest for a while."

In the cab, only Chen Sixuan and Lin Xian were left. Chen Sixuan saw that he was worried, so she let him rest for a while, because she knew that Lin Xian had not slept for another night.

"It's okay."

Lin Xian looked at the heavy snow blasted ahead and said solemnly: "This section of the road is very critical, I have to watch it."

Drip, drip, drip!

Just at this time, the alarm sound in the cab suddenly sounded, and kiki's voice from Carriage No. 2 came from the communicator: "Lin Xian, radar warning, an obstacle appeared on the track ahead!"

"What obstacle?"

"It's a... train!"

Hearing this, Lin Xian's face changed greatly. At this time, he hurriedly looked ahead, but only felt a dazzling snow color, and seemed to see a black object stopped in the middle.

"Lin Xian!"

Chen Sixuan exclaimed, she immediately pointed ahead: "There really is a train!"

Only at this moment did Lin Xian finally discover that in the vast expanse of white ahead, a train almost frozen by ice and snow was parked right there on the tracks. Because of the accumulated snow, the snow on the roof of the train had merged into a single entity with the snowfield. As the Infinite approached rapidly, the tall double-decker carriage body and the train itself were covered in icicles. Looking ahead, dozens of carriages stretched on, like a long dragon frozen and covered by ice and snow, lying quietly on the snowfield.

"This train??"

"Longshan No. 1!"

Squeak!!

Rumble!!

Lin Xian gritted his teeth and had to stop the galloping Infinite with all his might. The giant train in front blocked the tracks, and they couldn't move forward at all.

Snow dust flew, and this roaring behemoth stopped slowly in the snowfield under active braking. Steam was constant on the tracks. The sudden change prompted everyone on the train to look outside curiously, not knowing what the situation was.

And Lin Xian in the cab at this time and Chen Sixuan were both surprised and complex.

"How could Longshan No. 1 be parked here?" Lin Xian asked suspiciously.

At the airport, his impression of this train group and Shi Diyuan was still very deep, and Longshan No. 1 was also one of the main forces of the towing plan. At that time, it contributed a lot of strength and rushed onto the high-altitude corridor together.

But at this time, Lin Xian looked at the train parked on the tracks in front but his face was solemn.

Because from the situation that this train was covered with wind, snow, and ice icicles at this time, it seemed that it had been parked for a long time, definitely more than one day!

This situation is very strange. Lin Xian can only think of two possibilities, either something happened, or something happened.

"Chen Laoshi, call them."

Chen Sixuan immediately used the car-mounted call machine to contact, but there was no response.

"Is there no one?"

"No."

"Is there any other way to get over." Lin Xian thought of the worst situation at this time, first looking for the key problem.

Chen Sixuan looked worried. She immediately opened the route map and searched: "No, there is no two-way track on this section of the road."

Thump, thump, thump.

At this time, kiki, Shu Qin, and others noticed the abnormality and ran toward the train head.

"Team Leader Lin, what's wrong?"

"The road is blocked." "Longshan No. 1?" Dalou also saw the train in front at this time, and said with a strange face: "How could they be blocked here."

"Don't know."

Woo~

kiki had already held the mobile terminal, raised the drone and began to investigate.

On the monitoring screen, the drone swept across the train carriages covered with ice frost. Only then did it see that in the windows that could still be vaguely seen, there was no movement inside.

On the external armor, there were dense scratches, puncture holes, and battle traces from Snow Demon attacks.

This scene made everyone's face sink. You must know that there were more than a thousand people on Longshan No. 1, and its firepower and protection were not inferior to the Infinite. In terms of mobility, it was even stronger than the Infinite. How could it be stranded here?

"There must have been a very tragic battle." kiki said while adjusting the flight attitude: "But their overall armor was not destroyed, and the internal carriages seemed to be very intact, which is very strange..."

"So many people, it's impossible to disappear for no reason."

Lin Xian frowned and said: "Even if it is a corpse, there must be traces."

The convoy they saw after passing Dalat Town had a tragic situation. Longshan No. 1 had more than a thousand people. If it really encountered a devastating blow, the scene would definitely be more tragic than that. But the situation in front of them was very strange.

This giant doomsday fortress just parked silently in the snowfield like this, motionless, letting the wind and snow bury it, which was extremely strange.

!

"Eh."

kiki's drone patrolled once, and at this time found some doubts: "I remember Longshan No. 1 has two intercontinental-level driving cores, why is there only one left?"

"What?"

Lin Xian walked over, and at this time zoomed in on the drone perspective, and sure enough, he found that the original driving train head and power locomotive group of Longshan No. 1 were gone at this time, but the main train head was still there.

"They must have encountered some changes, Lin Xian?" Chen Sixuan asked Lin Xian.

"Let's go and see, Shu Qin, kiki, you come with me." Lin Xian didn't hesitate, and immediately began to put on the body temperature maintenance device and cold-proof suit.

"Good."

Lin Xian had no time to guess and estimate. He must immediately determine what happened to this orbital fortress. After all, they were comrades who had fought side by side before. If the other party had difficulties, Lin Xian would also help without hesitation. And this train is blocking the way now, and he has no way to drive in at this time.

Shh~

The cab cabin door opened, and the three of Lin Xian walked out of the carriage, stepping on the deep snow that could almost bury people.

"The snow is too deep, it's not convenient to walk." Shu Qin said: "If you want to act in this environment, unless you have special equipment, it's difficult to move an inch."

"kiki" Lin Xian shouted to kiki in the sky.

"OK." kiki understood, and immediately flicked her finger. An invisible psychic force surged, instantly blasting a path in the deep snow in front of Lin Xian and Shu Qin.

Immediately, she flew in the air, while Lin Xian and Shu Qin ran quickly toward the carriages of Longshan No. 1.

As the deep snow was cut open, a large number of Snow Demon corpses appeared under the snow layer, frozen in the deep snow layer at this time, like stacked fried dough strips, covered by the white snow on the upper layer.

This ferocious scene made people's scalp tingle. When the Infinite cleared the marker in Uliyasitai Mountain last night, it also hunted thousands of Snow Demons, but at this look, the density of Snow Demons around the Longshan No. 1 train seemed to be even better. The heavy armor plates of the double-decker carriages were full of various traces of being bitten and stabbed by monsters. Pieces of Snow Demon flesh and broken bones hung in a piece, and were frozen by ice crystals, which looked very terrifying.

kiki flew in the air, approached an upper carriage, flicked her finger, swept away the ice frost on the outer layer, and then approached the window to check inside.

The carriage seemed to be empty, and inside was a dense and crowded living carriage. Both the upper and lower floors were originally full of survivors of Longshan No. 1. Every compartment was full of all the belongings of each survivor family. They had seen it before. These people lived in the carriage, very much with the atmosphere of living in a mobile fortress after the doomsday. Although crowded, it was very safe.

It's just that at this time, there was no human figure in it, as if it had disappeared out of thin air.

Lin Xian reached out and put it on the train below, and just as he activated the Mechanical Heart, his face changed immediately.

"The heating equipment is working, there are people inside!"

Thump, thump, thump.

Just as kiki approached, a black shadow suddenly swept across the corridor of the carriage. kiki's face changed, and she immediately shouted: "Who is inside!?"

Lin Xian directly grabbed the steel armor plate of the train and moved quickly using the attachment mode of the power armor.

"The car door is in front!"

Shu Qin followed closely and climbed onto the roof of the train to follow.

Boom!

kiki flew past quickly, looking for the black shadow. She blasted out a psychic wave, instantly shattering all the ice hanging and ice shells on the outer walls of several carriages, so as to see the scene inside the car window clearly.

Thump, thump, thump~

At the same time, the movement in the carriage was getting bigger and bigger, as if many people were running.

Finally, Lin Xian saw a carriage with a large cabin door. Without saying a word, he directly activated the Mechanical Heart to cover the entire carriage and opened the large cabin door.

Shh!

Instantly, a burst of heat rushed out of the door, merged with the cold air outside, and formed a white air wave.

Click, click, click, click.

And behind that white air wave, there were several black gun muzzles pointing outward in unison.

"Who!"

Da-da-da!!

The people inside seemed not to expect that the car door was easily opened by someone, so they changed their expressions and fired directly.

For a time, the firepower swept across the snow layer outside, lifting a ground.

Shu Qin stood on the roof of the train. As soon as she heard the gunshot, the mecha system on her body suddenly issued a warning.

【Warning, there is an unknown target approaching quickly behind.】

Shu Qin's gaze tightened, her body reacted quickly, and with the help of the torque increase of the power armor, her feet sank heavily, directly denting the roof cover armor, and then the whole person jumped up in place, completed a 180-degree turn in the air, and pulled out the Remington M96 behind her with one hand. And the black shadow behind her was actually extremely fast. After being passed by Shu Qin, she suddenly turned around and kicked back, kicking Shu Qin's gun muzzle away.

Boom!

The gun fire exploded. Shu Qin missed a shot but her face did not change. She pulled out another shotgun from her leg side with her left hand and drew it forward horizontally. At the same time, she leaned back to avoid a strange firearm with a steel blade, and the tip of her nose brushed past the cold light.

In the blink of an eye, the two had already engaged in fire at close range.

On the other side, kiki pulled all the firearms in the carriage out along with the people and threw them into the snow pile.

Hum~

A scorching red light surged in the darkness in the carriage. kiki saw this and frowned immediately.

"What esper ability?"

Shoo!

The next moment, the red light turned into two terrifying laser rays and shot out!

Hum!! Who knew that the terrifying laser rays had just shot out of the carriage, they encountered some distorted space, and then the distorted space turned into a ball of red light, and the energy shook violently toward the surroundings!

Boom!

The huge heat instantly melted the snow layer within a few meters, turning it into a semi-spherical open space. Instantly, the sky full of steam rose on the scorched ground.

"Laser light?"

kiki was taken aback, and at this time was a bit negligent in defense. She looked at Lin Xian beside her. It turned out that Lin Xian saw that it was not right just now and immediately used the Gravity Lens.

Lin Xian used this move in a small range at this time, and it was actually handy, especially for dealing with this kind of light or energy-like attack, the Gravity Lens was still a good defensive means.

"Dare to sneak attack me!"

kiki was angry at this time, and immediately used her psychic power to grab the carriage with all her might. With a tremor of the carriage, she quickly grabbed a man out of it.

The two looked and found that this was a young man who looked only seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a pair of thick sunglasses. At this time, he was stopped by kiki's psychic power and immediately began to struggle crazily. He reached out to his sunglasses, and a dark red power gathered around his eyes. It seemed that he was ready to make trouble again.

"Still want to use this move, no way!" kiki directly used psychic power to completely restrain his hands.

The young man gritted his teeth and screamed, wanting to struggle, but he was thin and weak, and obviously did not have too strong strength and physical foundation. How could he break free from kiki's psychic suppression of tens of tons?

Lin Xian frowned when he saw this person, "I haven't seen this person, he doesn't look like someone from Longshan No. 1."

"Speak! Who are you, where did Shi Diyuan go?!"

When the young man heard Lin Xian's words, his face suddenly changed. At this time, Shu Qin on the roof of the train was also fighting with the black shadow. Lin Xian and kiki looked over and found that it was also a young girl who looked quite young, with long hair and tight clothes, holding a strange weapon in her hand, like some kind of gun blade modified from a large-caliber revolver, which could fight close and attack from a distance.

Shu Qin and the girl's movements were agile beyond ordinary people at this time. Both seemed to be gene evolvers. Since Shu Qin had power armor, in addition to agile movements, her strength and pressure had completely risen to a higher level. At this time, holding double guns, stepping on the accumulated snow on the roof of the train, the two fought openly and openly, which made Lin Xian feel very shocked at this time. His physical attributes had also been upgraded beyond ordinary people, and he had esper abilities, but he couldn't do Shu Qin's strong physical coordination ability at all.

It seems that the gene evolution of ordinary people after absorbing the power of darkness has huge potential. Such skills are definitely capable of wrestling with anomalous entities.

"kiki, catch her!"

Lin Xian decisively let kiki solve the battle quickly.

kiki heard the instruction and immediately raised her hand to prepare to take action.

"Stop!"

At this time, a group of people swarmed out of the carriage, and the woman at the head shouted at Lin Xian.

"Team Leader Lin, our own people!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 255 =====