Chapter 313: Star Abyss No. 5 Corpse Driver

Lin Xian first heard the term "Corpse Driver" when he was at Qu Guan participating in the bonfire trade fair organized by Jiang Yun. After going up to the high-altitude orbit, Lin Xian had never seen a Corpse Driver from beginning to end.

But now, more and more information describes that the Corpse Driver seems to be different from other dark creatures, but is truly similar to a human image.

However, the difference is that it is a giant!

Accompanying it were the massive amount of bizarre entities it drove, those indescribable unknown creatures, bringing infinite terror!

Seeing this scene, Lin Xian remembered that when he was in Yubei City, the corpse tide and bizarre entities all over the city were very likely the arrival of the Corpse Driver.

At this moment, over the mountain ridge outside the eastern suburbs of Yijin City, Lin Xian, Kiki, and Lu Xingchen watched the huge humanoid black shadow coming toward their direction in the posture of a land wonder, and all of them were shocked!

"What... is this thing?!" Kiki's eyes widened. This scene reminded her of the terror she had seen over Jiang City, and her small face turned pale.

"Looking at this appearance, it is likely the Corpse Driver that Grace warned about!"

Lin Xian's expression was solemn. There was no need to guess; this thing was at least an unknown existence above S-level!

Lu Xingchen looked at the black shadow and said hurriedly: "Not good, its direction is toward us, and below is the track line out of the city!"

Lin Xian immediately used the power armor's search mode to zoom in upon hearing this, and sure enough, he saw the direction of the elevated track line going northeast along the mountain range!

It's over!

If the joint train rushes out at this time, wouldn't it collide head-on?!

"Brother Shi, Chen Laoshi!!"

In an instant, Lin Xian only felt his scalp go numb. He immediately pressed the communicator, but at this time the joint train was still traveling in the underground track, coupled with the obstruction of the night distance, it was impossible to connect the signal at all.

"What to do?!" Kiki was shocked at this time.

Lin Xian gritted his teeth fiercely, his eyes ruthless: "Go, we can only go to divert its attention!"

At this time, he had no other choice but to take the highest risk to gamble, trying to attract the towering giant shadow away, and then use the aerial advantage to escape the polar night.

Lin Xian knew that this might be a nine-death-one-life situation, but if the track broke and the joint train derailed and hit the feet of the Corpse Driver, that would be a real disaster!

The three people's eyes met, and they all nodded heavily.

Must take the risk!

"Okay!"

Lu Xingchen took a deep breath: "Good, a man should stand upright between heaven and earth. With my fire, burn the..."

Boom!!

Just as Lu Xingchen's passionate and heroic words were not finished, a huge explosion suddenly sounded in Yijin City behind them. The three looked back and saw a huge crimson pillar of fire rising into the sky, triggering a strange scarlet energy to begin to turn into a scorching white ball of light. Then the ball of light began to expand continuously, illuminating the two-kilometer-diameter Sky-Covering fungal cap. Then the flame ball of light expanded layer by layer, finally detonating the huge fungal cap!

"Run!"

Lin Xian saw this scene and immediately shouted to Kiki. Kiki immediately supported the telekinetic shield, and the three flew frantically in the other direction away from the Corpse Driver!

Boom!

The second explosion sounded immediately. The huge Sky-Covering fungal cap suddenly collapsed inward and began to burn into a sky full of flame clouds. In an instant, a giant mushroom cloud with a diameter of five kilometers rose into the sky, and the white light of the moment seemed to turn the world into daylight!

After the light radiation, a giant shock wave tore open the earth, and even the clouds in the sky were swept away in an instant!

The mushroom cloud fireworks came in a shock radiation shape. The fungal mats ignited throughout the city were like living magma, spraying hundreds of meters high pillars of fire from the ground cracks. When the fire reached its peak, this net suddenly tightened, emptying the oxygen of the entire city!

Rumble!

Lin Xian and the other two, who were flying rapidly, were directly hit by this huge shock wave and were immediately blown away several kilometers like a bubble in the air. Kiki screamed in pain, gritting her teeth to control the three to stabilize their figures.

At this moment, all three felt their internal organs hit fiercely, and they were almost blacked out and vomited blood and died on the spot.

The flame tide continued to spread. With Puzhong Square as the center, Yijin City generated a huge annihilation void of several kilometers, and then the street buildings within a range of more than ten kilometers on the periphery all tilted and burned in the direction of the shock wave. The whole city was on fire, and explosions continued!

Those bizarre entities under the dark night were turned into ashes in an instant. The entire Yijin City was already a sea of fire, and even the sky was illuminated.

And at this time, the joint train that was rushing at high speed underground only felt a huge shock hit, and then the ground in the tunnel began to surge like a winding waterway, and a large amount of smoke and gravel poured down!

On the Infinite, more than thirty team members were shocked to the ground and hit the wall by the huge explosion, and there were screams and shouts on other trains.

"Ah!!!"

"The tunnel is going to collapse!"

"It's over!"

"Don't brake, rush!"

"Did a meteorite explode??"

"Run!"

Just when more than 4,000 people thought the sky was falling and the earth was sinking, the train led by Longshan No. 1 had already rushed out of the surface and merged into the sightseeing track, rushing out of the city with the roar of the sea of fire. Fortunately, a large number of people wore equipment, so they did not cause greater injuries.

The trains in the rear were buried by a large amount of mud as the ground collapsed, but because the speed of the joint train had fully risen, those trains were actually pulled out of the tunnel that was about to collapse at the last moment!

On the other side, Lin Xian and the other two, who were shocked and almost vomited blood on the spot, just stabilized their figures. Standing in the air at this time, looking at the huge mushroom cloud that had not dispersed for a long time, all of them had their expressions changed greatly.

Lin Xian never thought that the power of the Mushroom Tower explosion would be so great. You know, they had already left the urban area and were at least 40 or 50 kilometers apart. If it weren't for the protection of the telekinetic shield, a shock wave would have almost directly shocked the three violent-level espers to death. This power was more terrifying than a nuclear bomb.

In astonishment, Lin Xian immediately worried about the situation of the joint train and immediately looked for a direction under the sky full of flame clouds.

"Brother Lin, look!"

Brother Huo, who was naked on his upper body, suddenly exclaimed.

Lin Xian and Kiki immediately looked in the direction of the sound. Under the huge flame cloud, the Corpse Driver finally revealed its terrifying true face in the light. It was a tall creature like a humanoid, with tentacles like a deep-sea octopus on its head, which looked extremely bizarre and ferocious in the night.

It stood between the mountain valleys, its giant tentacles slowly rolling, and its whole body had skin like a dry corpse, looking like an evil god from another world!

With the huge explosion in Yijin City, this giant with an octopus head seemed to perceive a strange signal. Then, it began to turn toward the direction of the explosion core. The tentacles on its body began to roll frantically, emitting a sky-shaking hum!

And the next moment, it lifted its hundreds-of-meters-long legs and stepped down.

Boom!

The Corpse Driver began to turn and left the track direction of the joint train. Every step carried a sky-shaking and earth-shaking loud noise, but a more bizarre place came. With its movement, this huge dark existence actually began to gradually become transparent, as if walking into some strange space, and disappeared while walking!

"How... disappeared?" Lu Xingchen was a little unbelievable about the scene he saw. He was just happy that the monster turned its direction, which might have given the joint train a chance to escape. He didn't expect that after it walked a few steps, it actually disappeared out of thin air.

Lin Xian and Kiki also looked at this scene in a daze. No one could explain all this.

Lin Xian swallowed his saliva fiercely. He felt that all the hair on his body stood up at this time. At this time, he used the spreading firelight to see a steel dragon rushing rapidly on the elevated track line in the distance.

"They rushed out, quick!! Let's catch up!"

Unclear and unspeakable, this bizarre Corpse Driver made Lin Xian feel an extremely heavy pressure, and this strange disappearance made people feel creepy.

Lin Xian thought of the white giant monster that appeared bizarrely when he was in Jiang City, and now he had this feeling again.

But clearly he already knew that these monsters came with darkness and dark marks, so how to explain this Corpse Driver? Such a huge body, could it be invisible?

Dare not think too much, Lin Xian only wanted to rush back to the train at this time, and then everyone would whip the horse to rush out of the polar night.

With their current cognition, they simply couldn't understand the situation they saw, and simply couldn't deal with this unknown existence. There was only one way to run!

Clang, clang!

Clang, clang!

Under the dark night and flames, the 15-kilometer-long joint train rushed at high speed, colliding with sparks all the way, carrying an indomitable momentum, and rushed out of the exploded and collapsed Yijin City.

Inside the more than 500 carriages, countless people were injured, all of which were caused by the shock wave of the explosion and the earthquake just now. Some people even had large-area eardrum perforation and bleeding, pneumothorax, and various serious external injuries caused by various collisions due to the underground cavitation effect. For a time, there was wailing in all carriages. The uninjured teammates rushed to rescue the wounded and clean up the various debris that fell and shattered on the train.

On the Infinite side, all the personnel on the train wore protective power armor and built-in shock-absorbing devices, which were barely better, but they were all thrown into a mess. The living area was in a mess. The other Sun convoy, Joker convoy, Queen Mo, and Longshan No. 1 were about the same. The sky-shaking explosion just now almost destroyed a big city in an instant, and it seemed that even the sky was blown into a hole!

Starting from the middle section, the subsequent trains were covered with dust and rubble, almost as if they were dug out of the soil. Fortunately, these collapsed stones did not cause much damage to the heavily armed steel train, and the expected derailment did not occur, which was the luckiest of the lucky.

The joint train traveled along the mountain valleys in the suburbs and began to accelerate continuously. Kiki took Lin Xian and Brother Huo to fly rapidly from the air and finally caught up before the train merged into the North Line main track.

And it was precisely because of the explosion of the Mushroom Tower that the Corpse Driver and the bizarre entities disappeared rapidly toward the direction of Yijin City. The joint train just happened to avoid the tsunami-like bizarre entity monster tide and rushed directly into the quiet darkness.

Lin Xian looked back. At this time, he could still see Yijin City with fire in the sky. The sound of explosions and humming was endless, but after moving away, these sounds began to disappear gradually.

He breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably. It was really dangerous just now. Looking at Brother Huo at this time, he didn't expect that Brother Huo's idea of detonating the Mushroom Tower actually miraculously bought a chance for the joint train to survive in a desperate situation. He didn't dare to think that if there was no such explosion, the joint train would face the Corpse Driver and the monster tide head-on, what a tragic situation it would be.

At the same time, Lin Xian was also pondering, if Tang Yun didn't die, causing the Mushroom Tower to mutate, would the Corpse Driver come to Yijin City and discover the joint convoy hiding underground?

"Chen Laoshi, Director Ding, we are in the sky, ready to check the dark marks on our bodies."

Lin Xian's voice appeared in Chen Sixuan's communicator at this time. Her expression relaxed, and she hurriedly responded: "Good, Carriage No. 2, open the roof immediately!"

Ding Junyi also rushed over with the Hell Black Chrysanthemum, and Kiki, who was flying at high speed, took Lin Xian and Brother Huo and flew directly back into the carriage. After the detection of the Hell Black Chrysanthemum and the detection of Lin Xian's Heterostructure Rubik's Cube, none of the three were marked with the Dark Mark, and Lu Xingchen was indeed not infected with mycelium.

Speaking of which, Lin Xian had never mentioned the Heterostructure Rubik's Cube to the team, but coincidentally, Brother Huo's farce and Tang Yun's death found almost the only way to survive for the entire joint train in a desperate situation!

"It was really dangerous just now. What happened? Why did you evacuate from the air?" Chen Sixuan asked with a worried face at this time.

Other core personnel of the Infinite also gathered around. Everyone saw that Lu Xingchen was naked on his upper body, with broken cloth strips hanging on his neck, looking quite embarrassed, and there were a large amount of dark green and black mycelium-like dye marks on his body.

Lin Xian's expression sank, and he was already in a cold sweat.

"It's all because of him." Kiki let out a long breath.

Lu Xingchen's face turned pale upon hearing this, and he swallowed his saliva nervously.

Kiki glanced at him irritably, then helplessly helped him cover up: "Brother Huo, in order for us to retreat smoothly, thought of a way to blow up that Mushroom Tower and divert the attention of those monsters."

"Really?" Shasha asked in surprise.

"Yes." Lin Xian found it funny in his heart, but also echoed earnestly: "So we discussed and acted together. It was indeed quite dangerous. Brother Huo almost lost his life."

Hearing this, Lu Xingchen's almost pale face suddenly became rosy again. The look he looked at the two seemed to carry infinite gratitude, and the reverence seemed to burst out of his eyes.

"Wow!!!" Shasha, who was on the side, widened her eyes upon hearing this and looked at Lu Xingchen with worship: "Brother Huo, you are so amazing. It turns out that the big explosion just now was done by you!"

"Thank you for your hard work. You saved all of us this time." Chen Sixuan said with gratitude.

"Awesome!" The building directly gave a thumbs up and exclaimed: "Brother, you blew up the whole city. This is an eye-opener for us."

"Really amazing!" Shu Qin also followed.

"Brother Huo, you actually went to blow up the Mushroom Tower for us alone. My mother." Miao Lu was full of reverence and was moved to tears.

Lu Xingchen heard everyone's compliments, and infinite light seemed to rise in his eyes, but he immediately put on a humble appearance on the surface.

"No harm, no harm, I just made a slight move, and it has already turned danger into safety."

Lin Xian and Kiki looked at each other. Although the matter was not done by him alone, it was indeed because of his strategy that everyone was lucky enough to reach this step. So the two knew it well, so let him show off, and simply didn't expose him.

"Okay, the shock wave just now was too destructive. Is anyone injured? Let's check the train condition quickly. We must rush out of the range of the polar night tide at full speed."

Lin Xian arranged immediately at this time, and also contacted other convoys with the communicator, and by the way, synchronized the situation just now.

"What, you blew up the Mushroom Tower? Good guy, I thought a nuclear bomb exploded." In the communicator, Shi Diyuan cursed, but hearing the danger of the Corpse Driver just now, he also breathed a sigh of relief with lingering fear: "Holy shit! We almost fed the Corpse Driver?!"

"Corpse Driver?" Ning Jing also said with a solemn tone: "It seems that the previous information is correct. Corpse Drivers are generally active on the edge of the Star Abyss dark tide."

"Team Leader Lin, we are all fine. Everyone is wearing power armor. It's just that the carriage is a mess. Several armors were smashed and deformed, and many train windows were shattered." Luo Yang said with an urgent voice at this time.

Lin Xian asked Li Yi upon hearing this. She was a pregnant woman, and there were many children there.

Sure enough, as soon as the communicator rang, there was a burst of noise on Li Yi's side, and there were sounds of many children sobbing.

In the carriage of the Sun, in the rear carriages, many workers of the original running camp were busy carrying the wounded and repairing the damage. The women in logistics were busy collecting debris. Li Yi was taking care of the children in the first carriage.

These children were frightened by the huge shock just now. Many children had broken heads and bleeding, but as long as they were slightly older, even if they were in great pain, everyone was holding back tears and didn't shout out. Only some younger ones couldn't help it and sobbed in a low voice.

Long-term doomsday fleeing had taught them to be quiet, patient, and not to cry out wantonly.

"Be good, it doesn't hurt, everyone be quiet, otherwise the monsters outside will hear."

"Mm, mm~"

Li Yi held her belly while wiping the wound of a little girl with a broken head with alcohol. The severe pain made the little girl shrink her neck, and bean-sized tears kept falling, but she gritted her small teeth and didn't shout out.

"Team Leader Lin, it's just a little frightened. There are no very serious injuries at present. Don't worry." Hearing Lin Xian's concern, Li Yi immediately reported the situation in the train.

"Everything is ok on my side. Some partners have minor injuries, but there is nothing to worry about." After learning the situation, Qian Dele of the Joker convoy took a deep breath. From his tone, he didn't feel too nervous. He had a feeling of being a child of destiny, if he was going to die, he would have died long ago, why be afraid.

"I knew it, following you, Team Leader Lin, will never be wrong. Thank you again for saving my life this time. I should invite you for a drink." Mo Mo Nika in the No. 1 carriage of the Queen Mo heard the conversation in the communicator and understood the thrilling moment just now. At this time, she was more and more curious and interested in Lin Xian.

In the doomsday, especially for a woman, there is often a fantasy of waiting for a savior to appear. In Mo Mo Nika's eyes, Lin Xian is more and more like such an existence. He entered Xilan City on the eve of the blizzard, stood up at the moment of the war, and his figure appeared in many desperate moments. Such a person will definitely attract the attention of countless people.

Leader, savior, hero, such words became invisible labels unknowingly, engraved on Lin Xian, and Mo Mo Nika was not surprised. She shook the red wine glass in her hand, looked at the Infinite in front, and smiled with a bit of style.

After all the convoys reported, Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief. Shock injuries, bumps, eardrum perforation, most of them were this kind of injuries, and some were internal organ damage caused by the huge shock. Some people vomited and had diarrhea, and many people were in a coma, but there were no reports of death cases at present. Being able to maintain such a situation under such a huge disaster was simply a huge miracle!

Because there were many injured people, Lin Xian immediately reminded all convoys to pay attention to the situation of dark invasion. At present, the joint train has successfully escaped from Yijin City, which can be regarded as good news and must be passed on to everyone. They must maintain confidence in rushing out of the dawn!

Clang~ clang.

The black joint train, like a steel dragon, traveled between the hills and mountains under the dark night. At this time, the location of the train was already east and north of Yijin City, gradually entering the Xidi Gobi. The moonlight under the polar night dark curtain was cold, like a thin layer of silver sprinkled on the wilderness. The train rolled over the wrinkled area on the hill track. The undulating mountain shadows were like the spine of a sleeping giant beast. The low slope tops were etched into serrated silhouettes by the wind. These hills did not grow trees, only covered with sparse and dry camel thorns and reed grass. Tumbleweeds rolled rustling in the night wind, and dead branches rubbed against the stone surface, making a fine rustling sound, full of loneliness and desolation.

The wind blew from the depths of the Gobi, wrapped in fine sand and swept across the carriages, rubbing a faint whimper on the metal surface. It was just that after the doomsday, there was no insect chirping, no water sound, only the collision of gravel and wheels, and the whisper of wind and rock walls. In this eternal desolation, a quiet nocturne was woven.

The joint train rushed for two hours like this. These two hours were spent in the busyness, tension, vigilance, and helplessness of each carriage. And as the train gradually entered the Gobi wilderness, the horizon became wider and wider, and a feeling of being isolated from the world without anyone for thousands of miles continued to strike. There were no bizarre entities, no zombies, only the howling of the night wind and gravel.

Everyone became more and more convinced that they had escaped!

The tension of more than 4,000 people in the train finally gradually relaxed a little, and everyone recovered from the huge explosion in Yijin City at the beginning.

"Checked, there are no dark marks. We are all in a silent state now."

In Carriage No. 2, Kiki just took the Hell Black Chrysanthemum and Abai of Longshan No. 1 to patrol the entire joint train from the air. After double confirmation, Lin Xian finally breathed a sigh of relief and said to Kiki: "Good, you rest first. The shock wave of the explosion at the beginning should have a great impact on you."

Kiki stretched and said: "It's ok, it's ok. We were far enough away, plus my telekinetic shield, so I didn't get hurt much."

In fact, it was not just her. After encountering the huge shock underground, so many people were injured and dizzy, but they were not directly shocked to death. One reason was because the defense of the doomsday train was strong, the second was because the distance was far enough and isolated from the ground, and the third point was that more than 4,000 people on the entire joint train were evolving because of the power of the dark night. Even the worst physical fitness was far stronger than humans before the Apocalypse Day, and the adaptability and recovery ability were greatly enhanced. Even this little girl Shasha could already pick up the Roaring Gatling machine gun with one hand, which was evident.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 314 =====