Chapter 314: Xidi Gobi

The wind howled, and the gravel rubbed.

On the vast Gobi land under the dark night, the steel train moved slowly, leaving only the sound of iron wheels grinding.

Before completely leaving the polar night, the entire train did not slow down at all and had been rushing under the dark curtain.

"According to our current speed, we should be able to get out of the Star Abyss polar night range in about 5 hours, but the problem is, even if we go out, according to the time calculation, it is in the night and the dark tide. We can only wait until tomorrow when the tide passes. The dawn time should be around 9 o'clock."

In the cockpit of the Infinite, Chen Sixuan calculated the track trajectory map and the map, and then said to Lin Xian: "This is calculated according to the expansion speed of Star Abyss No. 5 estimated by the Phoenix Society. The actual situation may be slightly different."

Lin Xian nodded upon hearing this: "As long as the road is smooth, we are in a silent state now, so we don't have to worry so much."

Chen Sixuan closed the train logbook and said to Lin Xian: "I know your worry about the track problem, but this can't be rushed. In fact, the situation is much better than we expected when we set out from Jiang City."

"Because there is more than one convoy fleeing by train." Lin Xian said: "Bizarre entities and zombies will not destroy the railway for no reason. At present, we have encountered three track crises, two of which were man-made. Coupled with the fact that it has been less than a hundred days since the Apocalypse Day, the track condition is not so damaged, but it is not certain after a long time."

Three track crises, one was Tang Hai, one was Yijin City, and the other was the time when it was destroyed by the tentacles of the atmospheric mica before going to Underground City No. 9.

According to past experience, zombies and bizarre entities launch massacres on humans in the tide through dark marks. Even if they destroy buildings, the purpose is humans. Coupled with the fact that the laying standards of the orbital and high-speed rail tracks of this era are very high, so most of the time it is very smooth, and there is more than one train that has opened on this road. Other convoys must also have the means to repair the tracks.

"Now our train team also needs to expand, and this problem will have to be solved sooner or later." Lin Xian leaned back with his hands on his head. Now the leading train is Longshan No. 1. They have a driving team specializing in inspecting road conditions and a radar system, as well as Shi Diyuan and Ning Jing in command. Lin Xian's side and subsequent trains can save a lot of trouble.

Chen Sixuan nodded: "So we are going to transfer from Quancheng to the South Line to Luling to Jinhai, and then go to Dawn City, right?"

"Look at the situation." Lin Xian said: "Jinhai has the Longguo CRRC Group, which has a lot of train loading lines. Many doomsday train groups will go there. I heard that there are many organizations doing doomsday train modification business there. It is a big interest chain. It is estimated that there is that Linglong Group."

"And the Fenge Group." Chen Sixuan said: "Didn't Shen Yao of the North Wind Alliance mention it last time? Jian Xuwei of the Silver Star is looking for us. After they came down from the high-altitude corridor, they should have walked along the orbital track toward Dawn City."

"No matter what, let's go and see."

"Then we and other convoys should part ways in Quancheng." Chen Sixuan said: "Those convoys are all going to take the North Line to catch up with the Dawn Center."

Lin Xian closed his eyes slightly, his face tired: "I know, after Quancheng, we should usher in the longest period of daylight."

All the way to escape, he was exhausted physically and mentally. As long as he can pass Quancheng, only Star Abyss No. 6 and No. 8 have extremely fast expansion speeds, but they are far away from Jinhai and Dawn City. As the central area of Longguo, there are a large number of displaced survivors gathering there, and various convoys and organizations will be a scene of fleeing with people everywhere.

But such daylight is also the last and longest period of time for mankind. By the time Star Abyss No. 6 and No. 8 begin to close, it means that the 13 star abysses of the entire Blue Star have almost covered the world.

Until the polar doomsday center is covered, only the last 400 days remain!

Chen Sixuan took a wet towel to wipe the dried blood stains from the shock and vibration on Lin Xian's mouth and nose with heartache. Looking at his tired face, the firmness in her eyes gradually turned into tenderness. Then she lifted the hair by her ear, bowed, and handed over a fragrant kiss.

"You should, take a rest."

After finishing, her ears turned red, she got up and pressed the door closing key of the cockpit passage. After closing the gate, she tied her hair back with a hair tie, then leaned down and gave all her tenderness to Lin Xian.

Lin Xian didn't expect that this former university teacher would become so active at this time. His heart moved, his whole person relaxed, feeling the warmth wrapped around him, and his fatigue suddenly faded by more than half.

Chen Laoshi's movements were a bit raw, but she was not slow or fast, fully devoted. Between the murmurs and breathing, she kept making Lin Xian feel numb in his ears, and the fire in his chest and lower abdomen rose. Just when he was about to get up, Chen Sixuan held him down, then raised her head, looking at him with watery eyes full of eagerness and tenderness: "Don't move, leave it to me."

After finishing, she stood up, took off everything, bit her lower lip, and greeted him.

"Don't carry all the pressure alone in the future. Add me. We will go through life and death together."

Chen Sixuan held Lin Xian's face with both hands, her body undulating, and said in a gentle tone.

Lin Xian felt warm in his heart, only feeling that the tight string had loosened a lot, and couldn't help but hug Chen Laoshi's waist, burying his head and deeply inhaling the breath of freedom.

In the cockpit of the Infinite, it was the surging waves of rushing and sprinting, the tenderness of the mountain breeze, it was excitement, it was publicity, it was the doomsday light madness that exceeded the mycelium network by 10 times dopamine...

After the passion, Lin Xian felt refreshed.

Since seeing that Corpse Driver, at this time in the dark night, he didn't even worry too much about any ordinary bizarre entities, and his mentality was much stronger.

In the sleeping cabin of Carriage No. 1, Lin Xian took a bath, and Chen Laoshi had already fallen asleep quietly. Lin Xian prepared to guard the train himself during this journey in the polar night. After leaving the polar night, he would take a good rest, and Chen Sixuan would take command.

Closing the sleeping cabin door, Lin Xian operated the 20 Lei Sun 2000 attack robots. Being trapped in Yijin City this time was one of his big gains.

Originally, Lin Xian intended to manufacture attack-type drones, but he suffered from not having the ability to remotely control machinery. Even if he could mass-produce small drones to mount some explosives, he still needed to use a control terminal for remote control. If it was in a non-combat state, it would be fine, but like the dangers he encountered before, such behavior sounded completely like a clown.

Now he not only gained the ability to directly control machinery remotely, but these Lei Sun robots were much more powerful than the previous rotor drones. They were equipped with Hall propulsion engines, extremely fast, agile, and had their own armor. Most importantly, each one carried an arc pulse cannon, which was quite powerful.

Lin Xian waved his hand, and with a woo, 20 spherical attack robots took off instantly, floating in front of Lin Xian into a ring, with red light flashing like a mechanical dharma image, which was spectacular!

Then he waved his finger, and under his precise control, they lined up in an S-shape, then in a B-shape, very neatly, which made Lin Xian look eager and extremely excited in his heart.

"If I build 200, 2,000, wouldn't I become the mother body of the mechanical swarm?!!"

"Damn! This is called mechanical descent!"

Imagine the sky full of swarm drones firing thousands of guns at the same time; just thinking about it makes my scalp numb.

"By the way, I use a few robots together to modify and install them on my power armor. Wouldn't I be able to fly?!!"

"Genius!"

Lin Xian was more and more excited as he thought about it. He planned to take off the Lone Wolf S power armor on his body and build another Black Hawk Silent Hunter. The strength of this Ghost Wolf level had been reflected in Chen Sixuan and Ding Junyi. It was powerful and full-coverage. Even if it didn't have flight function, it had a small propulsion system. Low-altitude short-distance flight, easily climbing to high-rise buildings of hundreds of meters, and sweeping across the sky was not a matter. After Lin Xian's slight modification, it would definitely greatly improve his mobility. At that time, he wouldn't need Kiki to take him to fly, and his mobility would be greatly enhanced!

At this time, Lin Xian opened his R&D center again.

【G3-Electromagnetic Railgun (Blueprint) under development: 16 hours 29 minutes】

"New blueprint is also coming out..."

Although Lin Xian was looking forward to the new electromagnetic gun upgrade blueprint, he still built a G3-railgun in Carriage No. 5 first. The newer it was, the more difficult it was to manufacture. Lin Xian was actually starting from reality. Just like he could build a Black Hawk-Silent Hunter now, he didn't have the energy to equip everyone on the train with a set. Being able to equip tactical-level Lone Wolf S was already a big improvement compared to before, and it was much better than the TRP that Lin Xian was preparing to build. There was no need to be too aggressive.

Lin Xian was also preparing to continue building 1130 and G3-electromagnetic railguns, but he was preparing to manufacture them according to the carriage layout after reorganizing the Sun convoy, so he put the fully automatic bullet stamping machine aside first, preparing to repair the damage of the entire train after the huge shock first, and by the way, see how Grace's system overwrite was going. When the train's planning and design, including some blueprint modifications, were done, he could hand them over to Grace to help carry out.

Another thing was his surge skill. He must swallow a 300-megawatt nuclear power device to carry out mechanical amplification of this skill. But now, in the entire joint train convoy, only Longshan No. 1 and Queen Mo were quasi-continental-level nuclear power locomotives exceeding 300 megawatts. Lin Xian couldn't possibly swallow other people's survival foundation. This kind of device was worth a lot of money. Even if Lin Xian had it, he would feel extremely distressed if he used it to swallow.

Except for surge, only the flash-back skill had not reached full level. He hadn't used this skill for a long time and it was still at: Flash-back (Rare) (Level 2 50%)

"After merging the Sun convoy, manufacture a missile carriage, and build the MK-66 roll-on cantilever missile launcher scanned before for it."

Lin Xian pondered while walking toward the rear carriage, and by the way, used the Heart of Machinery to scan the structure of the carriage to repair some damaged details. However, he was overthinking. The newly modified composite armor had amazing defensive power, and the carriage body basically had no faults, which saved Lin Xian a lot of trouble.

He walked into Carriage No. 2. In the dark carriage, only Kiki's information center was emitting blue light. Shasha was already sleeping in the rest cabin, while Kiki was sitting on her swivel chair, busy in front of the computer with a lollipop in her mouth.

"How is it?"

Lin Xian asked in a low voice after approaching.

"Not that fast." Kiki's ten fingers operated on the computer at high speed, and she said with a lollipop in her mouth: "The computing power of these computers of mine is too low. It will take a lot of time to parse Grace's data. It's useless to be anxious."

"I know." Lin Xian nodded: "Then take your time. When there is a chance, I will update the configuration for you."

"You think beautifully. Do you know what the concept of an 8192 computing power quantum computer is?" Kiki kicked her legs, turned around on the swivel chair, looked at Lin Xian, took the lollipop out of her mouth and pointed at Lin Xian: "The computing power of this level can be directly applied to the operation unit processing of the entire ocean orbit. It is even an order of magnitude higher than the climbing elevator system of the Yubei Airport before. Do you think you can get it so easily?"

Lin Xian smiled: "Don't we have one ready-made."

Kiki rolled her eyes at him, and then her tone changed: "Speaking of which, this Deep Red World really has a big background. For such a hibernation center, it actually placed a smart brain robot of this level, and it looks like it should be an offline simplified version... tsk tsk."

What she meant was that the Deep Red World must have more than one robot like Grace, and there must be a version with stronger computing power.

Lin Xian understood in his heart upon hearing this, took a breath and said: "If it is just a center to fool people, it seems that it is really unnecessary. But didn't Director Ding say that the mycelium might really be able to upload human consciousness and use the human brain as a computing unit, infiltrating the brain consciousness? Looking at it this way, the mycelium in this polar night is not simple, and the research of the Deep Red World is not just to fool some rich people."

Kiki nodded: "Makes sense. But you can only wait until I finish here. Don't turn on that Grace. Otherwise, if there is no system overwrite, it will definitely cause us trouble."

"You can rest assured about this." Lin Xian smiled: "I will just hand it over to you, put her here."

Grace's current program instruction is to protect the Zero Element Center. Now the Zero Element Center has been destroyed. Who knows if this Grace will trigger some attack instruction after turning on? Although Lin Xian and Kiki can restrain her, who knows if she will start some information transmission function and then bring trouble to the convoy? So without Kiki completely finishing the overwrite, Lin Xian will absolutely not turn her on, and the energy transmission components inside have also been quietly cut off by his mechanical ability. Unless it is disassembled and repaired, no one can start it.

Who would have thought that Kiki would wave her hands repeatedly upon hearing Lin Xian's words: "Don't, I don't want to put it here."

"Why, are you afraid too?"

"Not at all." Kiki glanced at the sleeping Shasha not far away: "If it is placed here, that little girl won't be able to sleep."

"Uh... okay."

Lin Xian nodded. He guessed that it was because Grace hadn't been handled yet. After all, it was obtained from the Advent Sect, and it had extremely high intelligence and perfect human similarity. It was normal for people on the train to have worries about this humanoid robot.

After finishing, he was ready to leave. Who would have thought that Kiki would suddenly block his way with her legs, looking at Lin Xian: "Wait, there is something... I want."

Lin Xian smiled upon hearing this. Before she finished speaking, he immediately held up the little girl's small face and kissed her on her fresh and moist little mouth.

Warm, sweet, with a strawberry lollipop taste.

"Good, reward for you."

Kiki was flushed red by this unexpected move. She immediately kicked Lin Xian away and scolded angrily and anxiously: "That's not what I meant, you stinky hooligan!!!"

Lin Xian was a little embarrassed and laughed: "Ah, then what is the matter?"

Kiki's chest heaved rapidly, she glanced at him irritably, her expression changed, and then she turned around, and her fingers tapped on the keyboard with a slap. An image popped up on the screen at this time.

"Here, this, manufacture it for me."

Lin Xian took a look. The blueprint looked like a cold weapon blade, like a phoenix wing, but strangely, this blade had no handle, and both ends were sharpened, with no area to hold. It looked like a sharp blade.

"What is this?" Lin Xian frowned: "A knife?"

Kiki said: "This is what I found in the original federal database according to my own ideas. It is a pop-up rotating blade for some kind of mecha weapon, but it should be a discarded plan."

Lin Xian looked at Kiki in confusion, not knowing what medicine she was selling in her gourd.

Kiki seemed to guess that Lin Xian would have such a look, so she explained patiently:

"When we participated in the Phoenix Society's esper evaluation before, didn't Wen Zhuo talk about the development of esper abilities? Regarding this matter, I actually thought about it carefully. My esper ability, most of the time, is more functional than offensive. A usage I developed before was that large-scale shock wave, but it also consumes a lot of my physical strength. So I thought and thought, since thermal weapons are not very suitable for me, but cold weapons are! If you can help me manufacture this configuration of blades, and then I use telekinesis to control them, it will have lethality, can be recycled, and the consumption of my telekinesis is relatively small. Isn't this killing four birds with one stone? How is it, is it genius?!"

Lin Xian understood immediately upon hearing this, but couldn't help frowning: "Four birds? What else?"

Kiki smiled, turned around and clamped Lin Xian with her two smooth little legs, looking at him with a smile: "I want you to help me manufacture one hundred sets!"

She said with spirit, her eyes sharp, like a martial arts master gesturing left and right: "This young lady controls one hundred sets of such blades at the same time. When moving, it is like a blade storm, sweeping the monster tide. When guarding, it is like dragon scales protecting the body, indestructible. Hehe, it can also defend. Isn't this killing four birds with one stone?"

Lin Xian's eyes lit up. It was thanks to this little girl who could think of such a plan. Her current telekinesis evolution level was not low, and her control proficiency was also rising. If she used this method, the lethality would indeed be much stronger, and the blades could be recycled. Even if they were broken, Lin Xian could remanufacture them for her. This was indeed more efficient than just using shock waves to bomb zombies before.

The only problem was that the defense of high-level bizarre entities was not bad. Some of them couldn't even be cut by his electric knife. When necessary, he still needed Kiki's concentrated telekinetic slash and shock waves to suppress them.

Thinking of this, Lin Xian nodded and praised: "Good method, ok, I will build one hundred sets for you according to this design drawing, and then make a separate automatic storage cabin to place on the top of the train carriage. You can take it out directly when you need it. Is that ok?"

Kiki nodded immediately upon hearing this: "Mm, mm, mm~ right, that's what I want... uh."

Her happy words hadn't finished, Lin Xian suddenly attacked again, held her face and kissed her on her fresh and moist little mouth, and then slipped away.

"Ouch... you you..."

Kiki scolded the stinky hooligan who attacked, gritted her teeth fiercely, looked at Lin Xian's departing back, but there was a little joy in the bottom of her eyes, and she muttered in her mouth: "Really a bad guy..."

Lin Xian felt that Kiki, this little girl, was really likable. Although she was arrogant and willful on the surface, because of her childhood experience, she was actually a girl with a quite serious and tenacious personality. Not only was she extremely beautiful, but she was also a genius girl. Of course, the only shortcoming was... flat chest, but this didn't affect Lin Xian's love for this little girl. The two now had more and more tacit understanding, which was gradually cultivated in life-and-death battles.

Now his relationship with Kiki could basically be considered to have broken through that layer of window paper. Although the little girl was arrogant and unwilling to admit it on the surface, and liked to find excuses like dark corners or lipstick, the two were actually well aware of it.

In Carriage No. 3, according to the requirements, the lights of all carriages must be turned off now, and this was no exception. But Ding Junyi still had a small desk lamp on, and then observed the mycelium living body she brought out from the Zero Element Center with experimental instruments.

When Lin Xian walked into Carriage No. 3 and saw Ding Junyi, she just got up, looking at Lin Xian.

"You look very tired, you should rest."

"Let's talk after going out of the polar night area." Lin Xian was a little surprised. This didn't sound like what Ding Junyi would say on weekdays.

Ding Junyi put down the equipment in her hand and said seriously to Lin Xian: "The fact that the mycelium network can upload consciousness has a certain warning effect on my cognitive judgment, but this explains a problem, that is, the degree of understanding of dark creatures to humans may be higher than we expected. We are studying darkness, and darkness is also studying us."

Lin Xian's gaze gathered upon hearing this, and he muttered: "When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss is also gazing at you."

Ding Junyi raised her eyebrows: "There is another point. The mycelium network and the Mushroom Tower, as a special life form, have the characteristic of analyzing human thinking. Logically speaking, the weakness of being easily triggered by fire to cause chain explosions shows a great difference from its value and protection. This is very unreasonable."

"You mean, this thing shouldn't be so easily destroyed?"

"Yes."

Lin Xian frowned slightly: "Perhaps because this is already a polar night area, which itself belongs to the territory of dark creatures, so it..."

"If you want to explain it this way, the Corpse Driver you saw can perhaps be regarded as a kind of their protection mechanism, and we belong to accidental destruction." Ding Junyi said: "Of course, it is also possible that humans themselves have explored too little content in the polar night, and there is information asymmetry. After all, in front of dark creatures, we humans are still too small. Being able to ignite and detonate the Mushroom Tower in 'their' territory must also be a rare thing."

"I understand what you mean."

"There is another problem you might be interested in." Ding Junyi walked to the side of an experimental cabin at this time. There were two cultivation cabins placed there, one was the Hell Black Chrysanthemum, and the other was the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes. But strangely, the Hell Black Chrysanthemum seemed to be larger than its previous state, and that Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes had grown much taller from the original small silver-white seedling, and in its middle section, a white flower bud had grown.

Looking closely, it was also slightly emitting strange white light.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 315 =====