Chapter 271: Apocalypse Shift

"Lin Gege, giggle, giggle~ I'm telling the truth. Which woman doesn't like heroes, right?" As she spoke, Mo Nika winked at Lin Xian and said with great interest:

"By the way, Lin Dui, there was a small breakdown on my train. I heard that you are a mechanical technician. I don't know if you can help?"

"Small breakdown?" Lin Xian said upon hearing this: "Since it's a small breakdown, there is no one else who can repair it?"

Shi Diyuan just said that the other party was a weapon-grade train with a high degree of automation, so he didn't believe that people who drove such a train on the road didn't know how to deal with small breakdowns. Large guys like Longshan No. 1 and *Silver Star* had quite a few engineers on board, and now in Xilan City, there was no environmental predicament that Longshan No. 1 had encountered before. What kind of small breakdown couldn't be repaired?

Mo Nika put the wine glass on the table, then snapped her fingers. At this time, a younger brother standing behind her wearing thick-lensed glasses hurriedly handed over a mobile terminal.

Lin Xian took it and looked at it. Not long after, his eyebrows lifted slightly. On the mobile terminal was the situation blueprint of Mo Nika's train and the fault information of various systems. The first thing he was surprised by was this train of Mo Nika's, which suddenly gave him the feeling of seeing the *Silver Star* again.

But this train of Mo Nika's only had 8 carriages, and the whole train was highly intelligent, like a land mobile warship built in one piece.

Energy carriage, power carriage, comprehensive electric integration system of the whole train, 42 automatic machine guns, whole train situation sensing, multi-band radar, fire extinguishing system, de-icing system, air defense system, omnidirectional close-in defense denial electric field...

A train of over 200 meters only needed less than 5 people to control it in all directions, and the rest were Mo Nika's combat personnel and logistics maintenance personnel. The sturdy interior space of the carriage was simply an end-of-the-world shelter that countless people dreamed of, and there was even automated air circulation, etc.

Lin Xian's eyes lit up looking at it. He had thought about all these things, but Mo Nika's train was manufactured in one piece, which was fundamentally different from his *Infinity* which was modified on the original ordinary train carriages. It looked like it was built at a huge cost.

"This train looks like it was designed specifically for the apocalypse..."

Mo Nika seemed to see Lin Xian's doubt, smiled slightly, and said directly without covering up: "The end-of-the-world shift built by the Cole Group, a gimmick linked with the military, a limited version of 2 billion each, my 18th birthday gift."

A 2 billion birthday gift?

Others felt strange upon hearing this, but Qian Dele glanced at her lightly: "Oh~ who was it that said before that the thing she liked the least was this gift, but now it has become your treasure to save your life."

"Lin Gege, giggle, giggle~ No way, no way~"

Mo Nika showed a helpless smile: "At this time, of course, saving your life is the most important thing~"

Lin Xian heard it. It turned out that this Mo Nika was a top rich daughter before the apocalypse. He knew that the rich circle liked to engage in some end-of-the-world fortresses, survival capsules, etc., because rich people always had a strong sense of worry. In the eyes of the rich, nuclear war, great floods, and the end of the world were not impossible. Plus, with countless wealth, those technology companies saw this point and produced such end-of-the-world survival vehicles to circle money or hype gimmicks.

It's just that he didn't expect that this kind of thing actually played a practical use. In Xilan City at this moment, Mo Nika's "Queen Mo" was considered a fortress-level vehicle that everyone coveted, with powerful firepower and a full sense of security.

However, Lin Xian frowned upon seeing the fault information on the train.

The problems on Queen Mo were the same as those of Longshan No. 1 before. The most important thing was that there was more than one fault, and they were almost concentrated in the drive components, power components, and even the nuclear power energy core. These problems looked like irreversible faults caused by the lack of maintenance.

Simply put, many components inside belonged to the problem of only being able to be replaced and not repaired.

However, if it were Lin Xian's mechanical ability, although the materials of some components were relatively special, for him, it was nothing more than a matter of spending more effort. But for Mo Nika and her team, this was indeed a big trouble.

First of all, her train was a limited edition. That Cole Group, as a technology company, had already gone bankrupt before the Apocalypse Day. Because it was linked with the military, there was no need to worry about weapon accessories at all, most of which were standard. But in other aspects, whether it was the car body, drive, or various designs, they were all specially made by combining many industries. That is to say, there was no substitute at all. Plus, the people on Mo Nika's car seemed to lack professional maintenance capabilities, and this situation gradually became an irreversible loss.

So Mo Nika's train looked even more serious than imagined. And Mo Nika seemed to know this too. When Lin Xian was looking at the mobile terminal, the extremely subtle tension was revealed on her open and heroic face.

Everyone drank silently, while Mo Nika kept shaking the wine glass quietly waiting for Lin Xian's response, as if what was in her glass was actually red wine...

"Not a big problem."

Lin Xian's gaze swept over Mo Nika's movements, and then handed the mobile terminal over: "However..."

"What?" Mo Nika frowned. Lin Xian's words made her heart lift. "Don't worry about the reward, blood essence is enough."

"That's another matter," Lin Xian shook his head.

"The main thing is that I don't have time tonight. My own train hasn't been repaired yet. Perhaps after dawn tomorrow, I will have time to go and help you take a look."

Mo Nika's face relaxed upon hearing this, a smile appeared on her face, and she said loudly: "Oh~ so it's this. I was wondering what it was, handsome, you scared me~"

"It doesn't matter, there is plenty of time now. Wait until you finish your work and come to find me. By the way, I can also take you to get to know the city."

Shi Diyuan got into the spirit upon hearing this, and said to Qian Dele: "That's great, why don't we brothers go to that Michel Church to test abilities and see the world tomorrow, and let our people grow up, so that we can have more means when dealing with anomalous entities next time."

"Right, exactly, quite a few of my fleet are preparing to go."

"Ability users and genetic evolutionists should all go to test, even if it's just to see the world," Xiang Xiang Ningjing also nodded: "Including me, I don't know whether I belong to ability or genetic evolution, how to grow, and how to control it. Besides fleeing and fighting, I haven't thought about this at all before..."

Lin Xian looked at her: "Sister Jing, you don't know which one you belong to?"

"We don't know~" Shi Diyuan spread his hands: "Her strength is getting bigger and bigger, but many physical arts masters of genetic evolution will also be like this, so we can't distinguish it. Now most ability users are crossing the river by feeling the stones. If there is no guidance from the Phoenix Society, who knows what is going on."

Qian Dele crossed his ten fingers and said in a feminine way: "My speed-force is simple, but I don't know what the use of this level assessment is. Whether I can beat the anomalous entity or not, I will know after trying. It's not that if my tested level is more powerful than the anomalous entity, I will definitely not die. This is not a poker game. The ability users who died in the darkness are not a few."

"You're right."

Xiang Xiang Ningjing agreed: "However, I think this assessment level should be used by the Phoenix Society for observation. Relatively speaking, those who have survived until now will also have a higher degree of evolution. Of course, it is also a factor of weapon firepower. As an official organization, they might use it to assess survival rates, or look for the evolutionary limits of humanity. If we can understand this aspect better and more actively, and enhance our own strength, we can also improve our survival rate."

"For example, reaching what stage can one survive in the dark night for a longer time?" Mo Nika drank half a cup of wine and said: "There is some truth, but no one knows the logic of dark monsters appearing. Who knows whether what they encounter is a C-level anomalous entity or an S-level anomalous entity?"

"Don't care so much, just test it. Let's understand our own abilities first."

Shi Diyuan said in a deep voice with a serious face: "Now these ghost things dare to run out during the day. If the polar night really covers it, it will probably be a group of demons dancing. To study those monsters, we must live until that time."

Lin Xian nodded, drank the wine in the cup in one gulp, felt a surging heat rise, and then put down the wine glass and said:

"Then let's do it like this first. I still have to repair the car, tomorrow."

After the crowd roughly understood the situation in Xilan City, the tension of escaping from the death line relaxed a little with the strong liquor. However, Lin Xian didn't prepare to keep drinking and chatting. He had encountered sudden crises countless times. No matter how much he wanted to rest, he had to finish the train maintenance first, otherwise, he wouldn't feel at ease in his heart.

Shi Diyuan and Xiang Xiang Ningjing actually thought the same. Longshan No. 1 had a large number of people, plus many carriages. If the safety problem wasn't improved, no one could sleep peacefully. The opportunity to survive was left to those who were prepared. This was the consensus of almost all survivors in the apocalypse.

"Good, then let's withdraw first. The fleet is still a mess, and I won't feel at ease if I don't finish it." Other fleet captains also prepared to leave at this time.

"Handsome~"

Getting off the Longshan No. 1 car, Mo Nika behind him suddenly called Lin Xian.

In the wind and snow, the younger brother behind him put a coat on Mo Nika. She stepped forward and handed a small communicator to Lin Xian: "This is my exclusive frequency band. In this Xilan City, if you have any problems or needs, you can find me."

Lin Xian took it and looked at it, his gaze swept towards her: "I didn't say I could definitely repair it for you."

Mo Nika smiled lightly and said: "For a person like you, even if it's just a promise, it will bring hope and dawn to people. And I believe in Old Qian's judgment. Even if you can't repair it, I hope to obtain your friendship."

Lin Xian was slightly surprised. Mo Nika's tone of voice completely conformed to the taste of flattery in the rich circle, where she was very proud but didn't deliberately fawn over others.

However, he didn't take it too seriously. If he had to say he was interested, it was that he wanted to take the opportunity to understand and observe the design of that train and scan the blueprints, which might be of great use to his planning later.

As for the reward, that was another matter. The top priority was that he only cared about getting his own train done.

Lin Xian glanced at her lightly, didn't say much, just nodded lightly and said: "Good."

"See you tomorrow, hope everything goes well for you."

Mo Nika said, her gaze looked at the train behind Lin Xian again, and then turned and left by car.

Late at night, the maintenance work of Longshan No. 1 was still busy. Lin Xian also noticed at this time that the Longshan No. 1 side was not just ordinary repairs, but was planning to install some new equipment on some locally newly installed armor plates and weapon stations.

Many were lifted out of the carriages, and even many tools used for maintaining the carriages were prepared in advance.

"These are plans we purchased from the Silent City, which cost a lot of price."

In the wind and snow in the distance, Xiang Xiang Ningjing, who was directing the carriage maintenance overnight, saw Lin Xian manufacturing armor plates on the roof of the *Infinity* and looking at Longshan No. 1, and then walked over to chat with him.

After speaking, she looked at the giant armor plates in Lin Xian's hands, with envy in her eyes.

"These factory-standard castings can't be made without large equipment. Most survivors' external armor is just picking up ready-made materials and installing whatever they have. Lin Dui, your ability potential is comparable to an industrial chain cluster."

Lin Xian exhaled a cold breath, squatted down, and was very interested in the Silent City that Xiang Xiang Ningjing mentioned: "I heard that this Silent City has cooperation with the Phoenix Society, and now it is becoming more and more powerful by producing industrial products in the apocalypse?" Xiang Xiang Ningjing nodded upon hearing this: "Yes, when the Silent City passed the Weihe before, we had a transaction with them, and it was there that we obtained some information, learning that the Phoenix Society emergency team on the climbing elevator also encountered trouble there, so we temporarily changed our route and retreated to Hengshan Pass and turned to Xilan City."

Lin Xian frowned upon hearing this, thinking of the accident encountered by Team Leader Bai Shuang that Zhou Wuer mentioned, but at this time he had a question.

"Passing the Weihe? Does Silent City sound like a fleet?"

Xiang Xiang Ningjing looked at him: "No, it's a city, a mobile mechanical industrial city."

"What?!"

Lin Xian was greatly shocked. Didn't he hear before that Silent City was a ship...

Xiang Xiang Ningjing seemed to be able to predict Lin Xian's expression, and then said: "We were also very surprised when we first encountered it. It is said that the city has the ability to move on sea, land, and air. Now it mainly shuttles between areas not yet swallowed by the Star Abyss and cooperates and trades with various organizations and alliances. There is a complete industrial system on it, and it is a mechanical city that can accommodate tens of thousands of people. Our magnetized all-terrain drive module was modified by them. In addition, quite a few defensive weapons and carriage design plans were also purchased..."

"Mobile arms dealer?" Lin Xian was surprised: "Interesting."

Xiang Xiang Ningjing shrugged and said helplessly: "The whole world is already like this. All the manufacturing of wonders is just for survival. Even a floating city is not necessarily safe. However, industrial goods have indeed become scarce items and are also rigid survival needs. That's why I said your ability is comparable to an industrial chain cluster, with huge potential."

"Potential is only useful if you survive."

Lin Xian didn't commit himself, continued to manufacture armor plates and said: "Our current weapons are still difficult to save our lives, so it's not a question of quantity, but quality. For darkness, it is unknown, it is a generation gap, it is an indescribable, indescribable, incomprehensible, and unsolvable problem."

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Xiang Xiang Ningjing looked complex and took a breath: "... hope that before humanity disappears, we can find a way to break the situation."

Lin Xian calculated roughly. There were more than thirty armor plates on the entire train that needed to be dismantled. Except for the top ones that didn't need to be replaced for the time being, he prepared to replace all the two sides with new ones. In this way, the whole train belonged to integrated armor plates and was an all-sealed structure.

Windows and doors could be opened automatically. After the upgrade, the protection could be improved by several levels.

Besides that, Lin Xian also scanned the arc pulse string vibrator sent by Longshan No. 1. He prepared to copy it and then apply it to all carriages, so that it would have the effect of an omnidirectional close-in defense denial electric field similar to that on "Queen Mo." Plus the electric blade armor system, the external protection of the whole train had attack means, and it could have a breathing space when facing monster tides.

Then there were the equipment inside the carriages, which were also tested greatly under the extreme cold weather. Heating system, de-icing, circuits, sedan carriages, etc., the most important thing was the overall drive problem.

Lin Xian had a headache about the drive problem now. This modification was a particularly complex and huge project. Just listening to it being done by hand felt very desperate. Teammates on the *Infinity* including Dalou and others could help with welding, dismantling, and maintenance, but if they wanted to solve the modification of the whole train, it wouldn't work at all.

This kind of major modification was no less than rebuilding the train. Lin Xian felt that perhaps finding Silent City for an upgrade was a labor-saving plan. In addition, Mo Nika's integrated intelligent end-of-the-world train was also not bad.

Thinking of this, Lin Xian became more interested in that Mo Nika's Queen Mo.

"Go see it tomorrow..."

As for the ability user test conducted by the Nightwalker organization, Lin Xian agreed to Zhou Wuer to go there. He also felt it was necessary for others on the train to go and see. Lin Xian cared more about whether it could help team members gain growth. He found that after having the conversion of dark power by the Hell Black Chrysanthemum, the growth speed of team members on the train seemed to be much faster.

Especially genetic evolutionists like Shu Qin, Chen Sixuan, Lv Chang, and Miao Lu, the speed of their physical evolution was amazing. Take Miao Lu for example, this little girl could even crush the Feng Yu Ming he encountered in Beiwan County before with personal means alone.

That was an ability user with monster limb mimicry after evolution. In a short time, human evolution and growth speed were all climbing at a high speed.

This might also reflect humanity's own powerful adaptability in special dangerous environments.

*Clang, clang*~

In the special train maintenance workshop, new composite armor plates imitating the Prototype's arm armor were manufactured one by one by Lin Xian. This kind of armor plate had higher difficulty and consumed a lot of materials. Lin Xian's preparation center was fully converting tungsten-titanium alloy, and at the same time, the manufacturing in his hands never stopped for a moment.

However, the advantage was that his mechanical manufacturing proficiency was constantly improving.

【Mechanical Manufacturing Proficiency +10】

【Mechanical Manufacturing Proficiency +10】

Mechanical Manufacturing: 4 (766/2000) Improve construction efficiency

In one night, Lin Xian's mechanical manufacturing proficiency increased by nearly 300 points. He estimated that in the two days of rest in Xilan City, besides armor plates, as long as there was enough time, he could manufacture another 1130 and G3 rail electromagnetic gun to fill the firepower gap between the front and rear cars, and at the same time try to get that missile system out, which could be used as a big killer.

Then there was power armor manufacturing, which could manufacture two more sets for Miao Lu, Lv Chang, and others to use. In this way, it not only improved the fleet's strength, but his mechanical manufacturing proficiency could also be greatly improved.

Besides that, after figuring out the situation in the city, Lin Xian also calculated in his heart that he could completely do some "arms" business like in Hengshan Pass before. Besides selling arms and supplies, he could also manufacture some mechanical industrial products or help others repair them to exchange for many supplies and resources related to abilities. Now that there were cold dark reagents, the role of blood essence was also greatly improved, so he must hurry up and hoard a wave...

The things he calculated in his mind were getting more and more, and unknowingly, the time had reached 8 o'clock in the morning. At this time, the sky was still shrouded in darkness.

The wind and snow gradually stopped, and the artillery fire outside the city in the distance didn't know when it had stopped. The entire Xilan City fell into a kind of extreme tranquility. Everyone on the *Infinity* welcomed an extremely peaceful night. This security did not only come from weapons and city walls, but more from the cluster effect.

Seeing those tens of thousands of survivors gathered here, this place was like a safe gathering area encountered after fleeing for many days. Once humans gathered into a group, they naturally had a bit more sense of security, which was not available when fleeing alone in many darknesses.

Carriage No. 1, Chen Sixuan, who had rested for a night, woke up at this time. She had never felt so exhausted as last night, but at this time she was full of energy.

Since coming out of Jiang City, this was the first time she had personally participated in such a big battle, and life and death were on the line.

Opening her eyes, she immediately turned over from the bed. A feeling of soreness and tightness all over her body kept coming, her heart beat surging and powerful. Her gaze hurriedly looked around, and after not finding Lin Xian's figure, Chen Sixuan immediately picked up the communicator.

"Lin Xian."

"You're awake?"

Hearing Lin Xian's reply, Chen Sixuan took a long breath and said: "Where are you, I'll come over immediately."

Putting on her cold-proof clothing, Chen Sixuan opened the carriage door. Seeing the door handle outside the carriage, she didn't even think about it and stepped on it directly, then exerted force under her feet, and the whole person actually did a backflip in the air and jumped onto the roof of the train.

*Thud*!

Chen Sixuan, who had just stood firm, hadn't recovered from the amazing action made by the conditioned reflex, when she saw Lin Xian standing in front of her at this time, looking at her with horror.

"Chen Laoshi, how did you get up?"

Chen Sixuan opened her mouth slightly, frowned and turned back to look below the carriage, the whole person still hadn't recovered.

"I thought I was wearing power armor..."

Chen Sixuan said in surprise.

She had already started to get used to the movement mode of wearing power armor during yesterday's battle, so she made the action just now without thinking. But hearing Lin Xian speak in surprise, she realized that she was not wearing power armor at this time.

Lin Xian looked at "Chen Laoshi" who had just jumped three meters high, and couldn't help but twitch his eyes.

"Is Chen Laoshi's evolution speed too fast..." Lin Xian thought to himself, even he couldn't make such an action without power armor, "It seems that genetic evolution is not necessarily weaker than ability users."

Chen Sixuan shook her fist with a puzzled expression, and waved her arm again, saying to Lin Xian: "I feel that I am getting more and more strength now, and..."

She said and looked at Lin Xian, frowning and said: "I can even hear your heartbeat."

Lin Xian looked down in surprise. The two were still two or three meters apart at this time. He was wearing thick cold-proof clothing, and the cold wind was howling outside. In this situation, her hearing had been able to reach such a perverted degree...

"It seems that not only your athletic ability has been improved, but your senses are the same."

Lin Xian took a breath at this time and said.

Chen Sixuan was still not used to it, nodded and said: "Maybe it has something to do with yesterday's battle."

"Definitely," Lin Xian said.

Besides the battle, there was also the conversion of the Hell Black Chrysanthemum's power. Facing that monster tide in the tens of thousands, Lin Xian believed that this was not only for Chen Sixuan, but even for everyone in the joint fleet of the *Infinity* and Longshan No. 1, as long as they survived, it was of great benefit.

(End of chapter)