Chapter 308: Fleet Upgrade!

*Woo woo~*

In the huge honeycomb center, countless life-support robots flew slowly. Above, a white-painted high-tech mechanical arm, driven by an automatic program, constantly rotated and paused to operate along the partitions of each floor.

In the circular monitoring hall, by the cabin elevator, a woman trembling like someone suffering from drug withdrawal was shivering on the ground. Some broken mycelium was shaken off onto the ground by her, and upon being bumped by her head, they turned into fragments, seemingly no longer possessing activity.

Kiki's words made several people, including Luo Yang, look surprised. Lin Xian looked at her: "You know her?"

Kiki nodded, her brows furrowed tightly: "If I'm not mistaken, this woman should be called Tang Yun." She said, looking at Lin Xian, her expression somewhat displeased: "She is... the wife of my father's brother."

Lin Xian said upon hearing this: "Own brother?"

"Mm."

"Then that would be your aunt?" Lin Xian said.

Kiki shrugged upon hearing this: "I suppose so. I don't have much of an impression of these people, but this person... is okay, I guess."

Because of her life experience, Kiki had no feelings for the Wen family and didn't like to interact with them. And the people of the Wen family also spoke coldly to her, this illegitimate daughter. Because this second aunt had a relatively kind attitude, Kiki had a slight impression of her and didn't find her annoying.

Lin Xian understood upon hearing this. He knew Kiki's background. Her biological father was the chairman of the Linglong Group, the head of the largest financial group in Jinhai. Before the Apocalypse Day, this Linglong Group was one of the largest real estate companies in Longguo and also one of the world's top ten shipping groups. Strictly speaking, although she was an illegitimate daughter, if there hadn't been the Apocalypse Day, Kiki would definitely be considered a top-tier daughter in Longguo now.

And if this woman named Tang Yun was Kiki's aunt, then she should be a core figure of the Wen family. And the fact that such a figure would appear here had to make one suspicious.

The woman was constantly twitching and shivering on the ground. She was wearing a white garment—calling it a garment was more like two pieces of cloth like experimental gowns, front and back, covering nothing. Almost her entire body was twitching naked on the ground.

At this time, Kiki beside him suddenly poked Lin Xian with her elbow and glared at him: "What are you staring at?"

Lin Xian looked serious and signaled to Kiki: "She still has some mycelium on her head, so it's possible she's already a human-fungus."

"Then... finish her off?" Kiki said directly.

Lin Xian observed for a while and found that although the woman was twitching, she had normal vital signs. Added to the fact that a "relative" in the doomsday suddenly appeared here, Lin Xian kept a few thoughts in mind and then said to everyone:

"Stay away from her first."

Lin Xian then raised his hand and waved it. Mechanical light flickered in his hand, and he quickly manufactured a mechanical transparent isolation cabin, saying to Kiki: "Put her inside."

Kiki understood his meaning and directly used her telekinesis to put Tang Yun inside. Then Lin Xian pressed the communicator and called Ding Junyi over.

After finishing everything, Lin Xian said to Kiki: "Your father joined the Dawn Plan, yet your second aunt became a member of the Deep Red World of the Advent Sect and ran here wanting to become an eternal life. Don't you find it strange?"

"It is a bit strange, but I'm not interested in them." Kiki turned to look at Lin Xian, her eyes revealing cunning: "But I know what you mean."

Lin Xian nodded slightly. He, Chen Sixuan, and Kiki had already discussed that if they successfully escaped from the 5th Star Abyss of Yijin City, his next plan would be to separate from the joint train and turn to Jinhai. Because he had to make multiple preparations before entering the ocean orbit, and the train's propulsion was a very important part of it. Upgrading the all-terrain propulsion, although it would increase energy consumption and reduce speed, could allow the *Infinite* to break away from track restrictions and make its actions somewhat freer.

And if they wanted to enter the ocean orbit, he might also have to consider water surface, underwater, or even flight. Because going to the polar region was nothing more than two paths. The Dawn Center walked along the land through the Qionggu Strait, passing through several major continents in North America, and then to the polar region from the Black Ocean. This required crossing a strait and an ocean. Lin Xian estimated that if the orbit was damaged, they would definitely use a giant ferry for transport.

Another path was to walk the ocean orbit directly across the Pacific. The range of crossing the ocean was wider, and relatively speaking, the risk was also greater. After all, no one knew the situation of the ocean orbit that lacked maintenance now.

Jinhai was one of the world's largest ring-train production bases and also the area of the Longguo Nuclear Atomic Physics Research Institute. It was also Kiki's hometown, and the headquarters of her father's Linglong Group was also located here.

Whether it was upgrading the train's propulsion or completing the "Robbing Couple" plan with Kiki, he had to make a trip here.

Soon, Ding Junyi followed. For the sake of safety, Da Lou and Shu Qin, who had rested, also appeared in the monitoring hall.

"Just in time, I went back and studied the data of this monitoring center and found some problems." Ding Junyi was decisive and walked over quickly. Hearing Lin Xian talk about this mysterious woman who came out of the cabin, she immediately brought a mobile terminal and a brain nerve ripple detector from the full-effect medical cabin, while Da Lou behind her held the Hell Black Chrysanthemum.

"I brought this too, just in case."

"What problem?" Lin Xian asked immediately.

Ding Junyi walked directly to the isolation cabin manufactured by Lin Xian, picked up a multi-frequency biological ray lamp in her hand and swept it over the woman's head, then put away the equipment, opened the isolation cabin, signaled Shu Qin to hold her down, and then began to install the brain nerve ripple detector on the head of the woman named Tang Yun.

"It was Shasha's words that gave me inspiration. When I observed the brainwave data of these surviving people, I found that when their brains generated an excited and stressed state of y-gamma brainwaves exceeding 200hz and 70mv, a very co-frequency interference phenomenon appeared. This is somewhat different from autonomous fantasy."

"I don't understand." Kiki pouted and blurted out.

"If this person can produce a bit of clear thinking, she could know why." Ding Junyi said.

"Alright." Lin Xian nodded: "Then you watch her, I'll go busy with other things."

After speaking, Lin Xian called Luo Yang and the three of them to walk to the side, not to disturb Ding Junyi's work, and prepared to tell Luo Yang his thoughts directly.

"Really, Lin Ge, can we really join your fleet?"

Lin Xian got straight to the point. Luo Yang looked pleasantly surprised upon hearing this, and said excitedly and eagerly: "I've been wanting to find an opportunity to tell you about this, I didn't expect... Oh my, that's great, we are all willing to follow Lin Ge's fleet!"

Not only him, but Luoluo and A-Min behind him were also incredibly happy at this time.

"Lin Dui, we've been discussing it for a long time."

"Right, right."

"Originally, our three fleets proposed uniting together when we passed through Xilin." Luo Yang said, and suddenly remembered the Big Eagle fleet, a flash of sadness in his eyes.

Lin Xian sighed and patted Luo Yang on the shoulder: "I know. Everyone survived the disaster, and uniting together will make our strength stronger. After we escape from the polar night here, we will combine the trains. By then, I will reorganize them."

The *Infinite* now had 16 carriages. If the *Sun*'s 11 carriages were added, there would be a total of over 27. By then, the *Infinite*'s length would exceed 800 meters, and the number of people it could accommodate would also increase greatly.

"Alright, alright!" Hearing Lin Xian's words, Luo Yang was full of excitement, adjusted his glasses, and immediately said: "Lin Ge, I'll tell them this good news now!"

But as soon as he lifted his foot, he stopped again, looking at Lin Xian with flickering eyes: "By the way, Lin Ge, also..."

Before he could finish speaking, Lin Xian interrupted him: "It also includes Li Yi and the others. I'll tell her directly."

Lin Xian's words made Luo Yang's eyes light up, and he breathed a sigh of relief immediately: "Alright! I understand."

Although they were temporarily combined with Luo Yang's fleet, Li Yi's fleet was after all an independent fleet and had a large number of people. Lin Xian felt that no matter what the other party's thoughts were, it was better to speak clearly face-to-face, so as not to harbor grudges among partners.

The *Sun* was a yellow-black armored train, huge in size, using a Ring Star 10a electric locomotive, which was more advanced than the Ring Star 7f, plus a Linglong small nuclear-powered electric train as the main power doomsday train. Excluding two power carriages, one supply carriage, one weapons carriage, and one dining car, the remaining 6 were all living carriages. Compared to the *Infinite*'s excessive functional carriages, the living area here was larger.

As soon as Lin Xian got on the train, he felt a strong atmosphere of life. Many supplies that had just been moved from the fleet to the train hadn't been fully put away yet, and members of each carriage were still organizing their safe little nests, just like the Big Foot fleet when they first got on the train.

The first two living carriages were where the young people from Luo Yang's side lived, with men and women separated in one carriage each. The style of organizing and summarizing was very distinct, full of lively atmosphere. Many people in the men's carriage were wearing the newly obtained power armor, one by one excitedly studying and gesturing, while on the women's carriage side, more were helping to organize and summarize supplies, cleaning up, and some girls were learning to study firearms, giving people a feeling full of positive vibes.

Passing through these two carriages, the following 4 were all where the original Running Far Camp team lived. The corridor of the first carriage was very open, all living cabins were blocked and sealed, facilitating rapid passage for personnel, and also allowing many supplies to be placed.

Just as Lin Xian was wondering why this living carriage compressed the living area so small, a small head suddenly popped out from the upper partition of the living cabin in front of him. In the faint cold light, a pair of watery big eyes looked at him, blinked, and then asked him in a tiny whisper.

"Bi, bi, brother, who, who, are, you, looking, for?"

Lin Xian was stunned. The little girl in front of him looked to be only four or five years old, with short bobbed hair. Her little face looked dirty, but it couldn't hide the agility and cuteness on her face.

At this age, she should have been enjoying a happy childhood, but her little face was covered with traces of fleeing and rushing along the way. Lin Xian sighed in his heart, smiled at her: "I'm looking for..."

"Shh~"

Before he could finish speaking, one of the little girl's fingers suddenly pressed gently on his mouth, and then she continued to ask him in a whisper: "Li, Yi, mom, mom, said, to, speak, quietly~"

"Alright~" Lin Xian smiled and learned her tone.

"Lin Dui!"

At this time, Li Yi's voice suddenly came. Lin Xian looked up and saw Li Yi holding a repair box in her hand, which contained various wrenches, screwdrivers, and other tools, and she also had a big gun on her back. Seeing Lin Xian arrive, she couldn't help but look surprised: "Lin Dui, you... are you looking for me?"

"Li Yi mom~"

Li Yi's voice attracted a lot of attention in the carriage. Instantly, one after another, little heads popped out from the rows of living cabins, looking over curiously.

Lin Xian nodded. He looked at the children in this carriage and signaled to Li Yi.

Li Yi nodded, hurriedly put down the repair box, wiped the oil stains on her hands while shouting to the little girl on Lin Xian's head:

"Duoduo, go to sleep."

"Alright~" The little girl named Duoduo smiled, shrank her neck, glanced at Lin Xian quietly, and then hurriedly drilled back obediently.

Lin Xian came under the train, and Li Yi behind him hurriedly said: "We arranged the children in a separate carriage, placed in the middle section, to facilitate care. But this train is much more spacious than the bus, so the empty space was used to place a lot of sundries, and it hasn't been tidied up yet. I've made you laugh, Lin Dui."

"How is Liang Lei's injury?" Lin Xian asked.

"Better." Li Yi looked at Lin Xian with gratitude: "At the beginning, Captain Chen took people to send Lei Zi to your medical cabin for a re-examination. Everything... is recovering. He has thick skin and flesh, and that ability also recovers relatively quickly."

Lin Xian nodded, so he got straight to the point and told her about the invitation for Luo Yang's fleet to join just now.

"Luo Yang and the others have already agreed. I came to find you, hoping that your fleet can also join our *Infinite* together."

Li Yi's expression froze upon hearing this. She looked at Lin Xian in shock, opened her mouth, and said somewhat incredulously:

"Captain... Lin Dui, are you telling the truth?"

"Are you not very willing?" Lin Xian asked.

"No... no." Li Yi was both surprised and happy. For some reason, tears welled up in her eyes: "Lei Zi, Luo Yang, and the others and I had discussed this matter long ago, it's just..."

She said, looking back at the carriage, and then looked at her big belly somewhat helplessly: "I'm just worried that I'll hold you back, Lin Dui..."

Lin Xian's expression turned stern, and he said seriously: "I heard that you rescued dozens of stranded survivors along the way?"

Li Yi smiled bitterly upon hearing this: "It's not easy. Everyone helping each other can be considered finding one more way to live..."

Lin Xian took a deep breath and blurted out: "It's my luck to meet a fleet like yours. If I were a survivor struggling to survive in the doomsday, I would dream of meeting you. How could I think you're holding me back?"

At the very beginning, Lin Xian's purpose for the number of people to increase on his train was very clear.

Loyalty, having utility value.

He believed that this was what one must have to survive in the doomsday.

That is, an absolute egoist, anyone can be utilized.

But following the Dawn Journey, Lin Xian discovered that only those teams that truly unite together, those people who haven't extinguished their humanity in the doomsday, who extend a helping hand to their compatriots, and who resist disasters together, are qualified to cross higher mountains and can pass on the fire and rush out of the dawn.

That carriage of children might not have combat power, might not be able to provide much help in the doomsday, but aren't those tender hearts exactly what humanity needs to protect in the end?

"Lin Dui, I..." Li Yi didn't know what to say for a moment upon hearing Lin Xian's words.

Lin Xian said directly to her: "From now on, you join us. We will protect this big family together."

Li Yi subconsciously bit her lip tightly upon hearing Lin Xian's words, then immediately covered her mouth, her eyes somewhat moist. She looked at Lin Xian and nodded: "Alright, thank you, Lin Dui."

"You take good care of Lei Zi and the children. Let the other guys adapt to the new equipment more. We'll have trouble rushing out of the polar night next."

"Understood."

Lin Xian finished communicating with Luo Yang and Li Yi, and the stone in his heart was finally put down.

If there were no problems, his *Infinite* would undergo a major upgrade next, not only in terms of weapons but also intelligence and propulsion upgrades.

Looking at the time, it was already past 5 o'clock in the morning. Lin Xian immediately returned to the Zero Element Center and began to seize the time to continue devouring items.

【Devour successful, mechanical source point +10, mechanical devour skill proficiency +5】

【Devour successful, mechanical source point +15, mechanical devour skill proficiency +6】

【Devour successful, mechanical source point +20, mechanical devour skill proficiency +8】

In the monitoring hall, Lin Xian picked and chose. As long as he saw something usable, he didn't let it go, turning it all into his own materials and mechanical source points.

After settling the monitoring hall, Lin Xian directly manipulated that mechanical arm and began to transfer the survival cabins that had already died over. Then he completed the devouring directly through the glass curtain wall.

【Devour successful, mechanical source point +3, mechanical devour skill proficiency +1】

After a survival cabin was devoured, it turned into brown ash. In an instant, the people inside, together with a few strands of broken mycelium, fell directly toward the bottom of the honeycomb center.

Among them were both men and women, almost all of whom were over 40 years old. And the bodies of these people had almost all presented plant-like deformation. If one was careless, the internal organs would slide out from the brittle chest, but there wasn't a single drop of blood, looking incredibly strange.

This kind of survival cabin couldn't obtain many source points, but it won in its massive quantity. Lin Xian spent about six or seven hours settling several hundred survival cabins, and his mechanical source points increased by nearly 2000 points—absolutely massive and satisfying!

【Current Mechanical Heart Level lv. 5 (4340/20000)】

Mechanical Devour: 4 (1760/2000) Improve devouring efficiency

"Sure enough, coming to a large base with sufficient time, it really rises fast. Devouring is also fast, almost Level 5. By then, devouring an ordinary car will probably only take a few minutes."

A busy time, Lin Xian felt fully loaded. This was also the first time he experienced the sense of security of staying underground.

"If it weren't for the fact that the problems of dark invasion and dark marks are hard to solve, otherwise the underground city really seems to be a way..."

Thinking and thinking, Lin Xian clicked his tongue again, remembering the unknown underground creature in Underground City No. 9, and hurriedly shook his head again: "Damn it, almost forgot that thing. Underground cities are really stupid."

Just at this time, Kiki's voice suddenly rang from the communicator.

"Lin Xian, come over quickly, this woman is awake!"

Lin Xian stopped his movements upon hearing this and ran to the other side of the monitoring hall.

At this time, Kiki, Luo Yang, Ding Junyi, and others were all surrounding the isolation cabin manufactured by Lin Xian.

The woman seemed to have recovered a bit of consciousness at this time, slowly crawled out of the isolation cabin and crawled to the ground, raised her head, her gaze constantly sweeping over the faces of Lin Xian and the others, and then began to panic, shouting nervously:

"Don't kill me, don't kill me...!!"

As she spoke, her face turned pale, she trembled in pain, her eyeballs kept turning, and then she suddenly crawled up from the ground like a madman, knelt on the ground, used her back to face the crowd, high and pouting as if to please them, constantly shouting in her mouth:

"Don't kill me, come quickly, I'm willing to do anything, I can't take it anymore, come quickly, come quickly!!"

The woman's sudden strange behavior immediately made the faces of Lin Xian and the others change. Because the hibernation suit she was wearing was actually two pieces of white cloth like surgical gowns, front and back, covering nothing. Inside, she was completely naked and empty. At this moment, she suddenly made this action, and all her private parts were facing the crowd directly. The scene was as absurd as it could be!

This made Luo Yang, Luoluo, and Xiao Min look at each other in dismay. Da Lou and Shu Qin also had strange expressions. Kiki on this side also frowned, hurriedly covered Lin Xian's eyes with one hand, and immediately used her telekinesis to wrap her with the hibernation suit on her body, and then grabbed her out of thin air.

"Ah!!"

The woman named Tang Yun screamed, struggling constantly in the air. Lin Xian noticed that the woman's skin was pale, only her eyes were full of bloodshot red, looking very sickly.

Ding Junyi looked at this scene with a calm expression, hands in her pockets: "It should be a stress response formed in the mycelium hallucination for a long time, similar to drug addiction. But it has been confirmed that she is still a living person, not parasitized by mycelium. She should have used some kind of blocking technology."

"Tang Yun!" Kiki opened her mouth suddenly after controlling her. The woman seemed to tremble when she heard her name. Her rapid breathing began to slow down, and the chaos in her gaze gradually became clear.

She looked at Kiki, her face changing from panic to gradually becoming blank, and then her pupils shrank, and she began to be surprised.

"You you you you... are... are are are that Wen... Wen Qi!?"

Kiki was indifferent: "It's me. How did you get here?"

Tang Yun stared at Kiki, her face changing constantly, as if she had thought for a long time, and as if she had finally found a bit of reason. She looked at Lin Xian and the others, and then said in a nervous tone:

"Now... is is is... what time is it? Is the world... safe yet?!"

Kiki said unhappily: "You've caught up with a good time. It's polar night outside now, and monsters are having a party on your head."

"What!?" Tang Yun exclaimed, seemingly incredulous. She looked around fiercely, then looked at the honeycomb center, muttering: "That can't be... that can't be. They said, we would only wake up after everything passed. That was just a blink of an eye. Even if we died, we would die in a beautiful dream. Why... why..."

She looked while speaking, and suddenly turned back to look at the survival cabin she came out of, struggling excitedly: "No, I shouldn't have woken up, no!"

Lin Xian and Kiki looked at each other. Kiki understood Lin Xian's meaning and said directly to Tang Yun:

"Hey, answer my question. Why are you here?"

Tang Yun came back to her senses. Only then did she realize that she was being grabbed in the air by a strange force, and the people around her were all wearing armor and armed with live ammunition, looking like they were not easy to mess with.

She finally reacted, shouting nervously to Kiki: "Wen Qi, Wen Qi, I'm your aunt, save me, save me, don't let them kill me!"

Kiki let go, and Tang Yun fell directly to the ground, but couldn't stand steady, *plop*, sitting on the ground.

"Wen Qi... Wen Qi, save me, I'm your aunt, have you forgotten?"

At this moment, she was completely dominated by fear and panic, having no time to care about the exposure on her body, crawling toward Kiki's side.

*Hum! *

Lin Xian raised his hand, and the black gun flew from afar and was grabbed by him. He then aimed the tip of the gun at Tang Yun's face, blocking her advance.

"If you make us ask a third time, then I won't ask anymore." Lin Xian said coldly.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 309 =====