Chapter 319: Global Target

Hiss, hiss~

After familiarizing himself with the Black Hawk battle armor system, Lin Xian opened the armor with excitement and stepped out, admiring the masterpiece he had manufactured from the outside, filled with a sense of accomplishment.

Ever since he first saw the "Iron Guard 3" military assaulter at the Beiwan Town outpost, he had been determined to build an Iron Man-like battle armor himself, and now he had finally achieved it.

Lin Xian's ability was different from others. His physical fitness growth progress was relatively slow compared to genetic evolutionists like Shu Qin, and before having the gravitational lens and mechanical amplification skills, his combat ability was far lower than his support ability.

Many times, he had to rely on the Mechanical Heart to drive the Infinity to run away frantically. With his body, it was too fragile in the face of those strange entities, and the steel plates he manufactured, including ice walls, couldn't stop them at all.

But with full-coverage battle armor, his mechanical ability had a perfect platform for adaptation.

First of all, when he wore the battle armor, he could have infinite energy and could perform mechanical repairs himself during battle. At the same time, he could also perform many modifications on this battle armor, manufacturing on the spot, even if facing a monster tide, he could be more at ease.

Thinking of this, Lin Xian sat down without stopping and prepared to start manufacturing the PX-05 robot to prepare for the assembly of the next new train.

Since coming out of Jiang City, except for running away and sleeping, Lin Xian had almost not wasted any time. He was either manufacturing, devouring, or repairing. It was truly tiring, but the Infinity was becoming safer and safer, and the mortality rate was low. These were all one of the driving forces that kept him working tirelessly.

Click, click, click~

Mechanical light flickered, and the PX-05 robot began to be manufactured. Compared to the time when it took about three or four hours to manufacture a PX-05 robot in Jiazhou City, his mechanical manufacturing level was level 3 then, and now it was level 5. It only took less than an hour to manufacture one.

Lin Xian checked the time. It was 19:00. He planned to manufacture 4 PX-05 robots for backup first, and then manufacture a batch of Roarer K23 electric Gatling machine guns and Meteor No. 3 powerful thermal weapons to give to Luo Yang and Li Yi's people. Although the arc pulse guns in the individual sets were powerful, the disadvantage was that the rate of fire was too slow and the shooting range was not far. Therefore, kinetic weapons were also indispensable for the current train fleet, especially when encountering monster tides. Only high-rate-of-fire weapons like the 1130 and Gatling could withstand the tsunami-like impact; others were not quite enough.

While manufacturing, Lin Xian heard footsteps. Looking back, he found it was Xiao Yuan coming over with a bowl of pear soup.

"Lin Dui."

"It's Xiao Yuan."

Xiao Yuan walked over, carefully placed the bowl of pear soup that had just been warmed next to Lin Xian, looked up at Lin Xian timidly, bit her lower lip, and said: "I saw you were tired all night, so I cooked you a bowl of pear soup. You... you drink it."

"Great, I'm just incredibly thirsty." Lin Xian showed joy upon hearing this and accepted it generously.

Seeing Xiao Yuan, Lin Xian felt a warmth in his heart. It had to be said that it was hard for anyone to refuse the feeling of being liked and cared for. He recalled that time in Xilan City, this girl actually had the courage to take the Hell Black Chrysanthemum to help him lure away the Abyss Worm. It was hard not to be moved at such a life-and-death moment. For this, she was also seriously injured. According to Chen Laoshi, her internal organs were severely squeezed, and she had large-area fractures. If it weren't for the Infinity's full-effect medical cabin rescuing her for more than 4 hours, this little girl would have already lost her life.

Even though she had recovered now, she still looked very weak. Lin Xian estimated that her physical evolution might also be affected by this.

But this girl had no look of worry on her face at this time. Her slightly chubby little face was filled with a smile, and she just looked at Lin Xian with watery eyes. Seeing Lin Xian accept it enthusiastically, her eyes lit up, and joy spread in her heart.

Lin Xian picked it up and took a big gulp. He immediately felt a cool sweetness go all the way down his throat. It was so refreshing and clear that he felt the stiff muscles on his back relax, and he couldn't help but sigh:

"Tsk, it tastes so good. Xiao Yuan, your skills are improving."

It had to be said that being able to drink this kind of beverage in the apocalypse was definitely an unusual enjoyment, giving Lin Xian a feeling of satisfaction that he would have no regrets even if he chopped down a few more Snow Demons.

"I... I just cooked it casually. Lin Dui, if you like it, can I cook it for you often in the future?" Xiao Yuan said nervously, looking at him with eager eyes. This sentence didn't sound like a simple question.

"Okay, if you cook it, I'll drink it."

Lin Xian smiled and agreed without thinking. Then he ate heartily, eating both the soup and the pear meat. The dry, stuffy air of the Western Gobi seemed to be swept away in an instant.

"Hmm!"

Hearing this, Xiao Yuan's face turned slightly red. She nodded quickly, took the bowl and spoon from Lin Xian's hand like a sensible little wife, and left with pink bubbles all over her body.

Lin Xian looked at Xiao Yuan's back and sighed softly, thinking she was truly a nice girl.

Being cared for like this, it seemed he had more motivation to work. Lin Xian smiled at the corner of his mouth, and the manufacturing in his hand continued.

Time passed minute by minute. By the early morning, Lin Xian had manufactured a total of 4 PX-05 robots, 10 Roarer K23 electric Gatling machine guns, and Meteor No. 3 anti-material sniper rifles, plus a large amount of 1130 ammunition. Then he took out the mobile terminal and, according to Kiki's concept, designed that kind of flying blade for her.

The design drawing Kiki found belonged to a certain type of ejection flying blade for military mecha. The practicality of this type of weapon in the interstellar military was not great, not as good as a chain sword, so it was already a very early eliminated version. I don't know how she found it.

However, Lin Xian understood Kiki's intention. This kind of flying blade didn't need a precise ultra-high-pressure electric blade design; it was purely used by her as a weapon for telekinetic control. So he only needed to consider the material and size according to this shape to fit Kiki's use.

After thinking about it, Lin Xian decided to use tungsten-titanium alloy. This metal was the material for making electric knives. Its hardness was not low, and its weight was not light. The kinetic energy damage caused by telekinetic strangulation would also be relatively large.

He raised his hand and quickly manufactured three size configurations: small 60cm, medium 100cm, and large 150cm. The large one weighed more than 20kg in his hand. The cold edge was sharp, and one was as high as Kiki's shoulder, looking incredibly lethal.

"With the little girl's current ability control, a few hundred tons is nothing to her. Making 1000 of them is only twenty tons, which is completely easy."

Lin Xian looked at his decomposition center and preparation center. Tungsten-titanium alloy Type I was considered a level 3 advanced material. He didn't seem to be able to manufacture so many in one go.

If all the materials were used up, Lin Xian was worried that it would be difficult to find materials to devour in this Western Gobi. It would be embarrassing when the fleet needed large-scale manufacturing later and there were no materials.

"Forget it, let her test the water first. Make 100 of them, and then install a hidden flying blade box on the roof of Carriage No. 2, and use it later."

Creak, creak, creak. Brand new sharp blades with cold light were manufactured by Lin Xian. It wasn't until after 2 o'clock in the morning that he finally couldn't hold on anymore.

In Carriage No. 12, Lin Xian looked at the masterpieces all over the floor, feeling a sense of relief in his heart. He checked the time and sighed:

"Sleep for 4 hours before building the weapon station..."

There weren't many places left to install weapon stations in the 12 carriages of the current Infinity. Carriage No. 2 had electromagnetic railguns, servers, and information centers. Carriages No. 3 and 4 were research stations. Lin Xian couldn't take the specially made Cole Type 3 biological science research carriage to modify weapons. Carriage No. 5 also had electromagnetic railguns, YJ03 anti-aircraft guns, and machine gun turrets. Carriages No. 6 and 7 were dining carriages and supply warehouses. Carriages No. 8, 9, and 10 were all living carriages. Carriage No. 11 was the mecha hangar and robotic arm carriage. Carriage No. 12 was also equipped with 1130.

That left Carriage No. 10 where Shu Qin lived, and his own Carriage No. 1, which were slightly empty.

In fact, Lin Xian was prepared to plan the integrated power system well after the trains were merged, and then rearrange the weapon stations. The tactical functions of the 1130 and the electromagnetic railgun were different, as well as the YJ-03 anti-aircraft gun, including the missile system he was preparing to build. He didn't want to make decisions on the fly, and it would be difficult to change them after they were done. If the configuration was unreasonable, the dispatch of nearly 200 people and the defense line of the Infinity would be chaotic.

After thinking about it, Lin Xian felt it was better not to be too hasty, so he returned to Carriage No. 1, took a good shower, and then went to sleep.

When Lin Xian returned, Chen Sixuan had already woken up. She immediately took over the responsibility of rotating shifts, staring at the situation of the whole train, so that Lin Xian could sleep with peace of mind.

Lin Xian's idea was to sleep for about 4 hours and make some preparations before dawn arrived. But he didn't expect that the big explosion in Yijin had a great impact on him, so much so that he, Kiki, and Brother Huo, the three of them, felt weak and heavy all over as soon as they fell asleep, and a cold feeling rushed in.

At that moment, Lin Xian realized that his body had definitely been polluted by a large amount of dark encroachment power. But when he reacted, it was too late, and a strong negative emotion flooded into his mind.

Sadness, pain, despair, fear, his ears were full of hellish howls. At this moment, he seemed to be connected to the painful screams of billions of zombies around the world, like an endless nightmare, swallowing him completely the moment he closed his eyes!

This was the first time Lin Xian had so clearly felt the infection power of dark encroachment. His whole body was sweating, and he lay on the bed like a ghost blocking the way, unable to move!

"Die, die, you'll be free once you're dead..."

"I will eventually be gnawed, I will eventually rot!"

In the vision before his eyes, there was an endless dark abyss, filled with countless indescribable terrifying creatures. There were strange whispers in his ears like magic sounds piercing his ears. Lin Xian felt at this time that he was suffering the most severe torture in the world. His fingers were breaking inch by inch, his face was being peeled off alive, his bones were being gnawed, and he was in extreme despair.

At this moment, Lin Xian wanted to scream frantically, wanted to call Chen Laoshi, call everyone, wanted to activate the Mechanical Heart, wanted to use the AT field, but he couldn't do it at all.

Those fears were like billions of ants constantly crawling toward the top of his head, drilling into his seven orifices, and gnawing at his brain.

Suddenly, the dark energy automatically transformed by the Hell Black Chrysanthemum slowly entered Lin Xian's body through the Heterogeneous Rubik's Cube, and his Mechanical Heart automatically began to operate at this time.

In an instant, Lin Xian felt that all his senses and control systems seemed to be activated, and his mental power occupied the dominant position again.

Not long after, the erosion pollution gradually subsided, and the pain all over his body was also suppressed. Lin Xian was drenched in sweat, feeling weak all over, and finally fell into a deep sleep.

Since then, Lin Xian finally understood why the power of dark encroachment could kill and mutate billions of people around the world overnight on Apocalypse Day, and survivors would also face such pressure once their willpower was low or they were injured.

Fortunately, the Infinity had the artifact of the Heterogeneous Rubik's Cube. Otherwise, with so many people on the train, it would be impossible to control the internal mutations.

The approach of Longshan No. 1 to avoid this situation was to arrange a carriage captain and a deputy carriage captain for each carriage. These people were selected by Shi Diyuan and Ning Jing from team members with powerful abilities and combat power. The two were not only responsible for the daily management and combat sequence of the carriage, but also supervised each other. Once there was a problem, they would seal the carriage!

In the distant Jiazhou City, this place had long been covered by the No. 3 Star Abyss. The dark city rooftops were full of corpse crows. They were dense, and their gray-white eyeballs were covered with parasitic nematodes.

The city abandoned after the apocalypse was desolate, cramped, foul-smelling, and hidden with strange shadows. All the roads out of the city, track lines, and highways were dead and rotting, and even the corpses of the survivors were gnawed away by darkness.

Caw, caw.

At this time, the corpse crows suddenly began to become restless, gradually manic, forming a chain reaction. Countless crow sounds rang out in Jiazhou City, and countless corpse crows flew around frantically, like clusters of black clouds.

And the reason why the corpse crows were so manic was because above the airport horizon of the high-altitude corridor far away in Jiazhou City, a floating giant shadow slowly pressed down, blocking all the starlight. The entire Jiazhou City ushered in absolute darkness, and even the outline of the city disappeared.

That floating giant shadow caused a series of cooing vibration sound waves to come from the earth's air, smoke and dust rose in the streets, like a sandstorm burying the city!

Federal Star City, this was originally the first technology city in the Long Kingdom, known as Star Capital, but now it was the location of the old Federal Government, renamed Dawn City, meaning the last dawn of human civilization.

The dark city buildings radiated out like a dense steel jungle with the Twin Star Towers as the horizon center point. Above the inner ring of the city, there was a huge and magnificent City Ring, which was originally the city's aerial rapid maglev track channel in Star City, and also a landmark spectacular view of Star City. Even in low-earth orbit, one could see this azure City Ring.

But after Apocalypse Day, the Star City Ring had completely gone out, 1/3 of the channels collapsed, leaving only a broken city giant structure, telling the afterglow of human technology that once existed.

In sharp contrast to this were the non-high-level areas, where countless electronic neon lights flickered, and the streets and alleys were filled with various apocalyptic vehicles pouring into Dawn City.

The Federal Parliament issued a ban, prohibiting light from appearing in areas above 100 meters.

Because the height of the Dawn No. 1 defensive city wall was 100 meters!

At the edge of Dawn City, a huge wall rose from the ground, surrounding the entire Dawn City urban area, towering and standing tall. Construction was still in an unfinished state. Countless automated cranes, transport robots, and tens of thousands of construction workers working in dangerous operations were building 24 hours a day. On the 196-kilometer-long No. 1 city wall, countless signal lights flickered like beacon fires. That was the steel defensive front line under the apocalypse!

In addition, in the 【Xinggang】 area where the inner city Twin Star Towers were located, there was also a completed Xinggang No. 2 city wall. This was the last barrier of the Dawn No. 1 underground city and the Federal Starship Port, and also the place that isolated the dense population of the outer city area.

So outside this 18-kilometer No. 2 city wall, all Dawn City areas were collectively referred to as

Old City Area!

The original technology capital was now like a cyberpunk black market under the wasteland, crowded with at least 3 million people, cramped, dirty, crowded, dark, and suppressed under the heavy tidal sky curtain.

The sky was filled with rain, and a strange smell permeated the old alleys. Neon signs of various vulgar advertisements were crooked, and broken lamp tubes sizzled and flickered.

The alley was quiet, with only the sound of rainwater condensed on the wires dripping onto the iron trash can, making a tick-tock sound.

Snap~

The lighter flame flickered. A young man in a black leather jacket and hood stood in the shadow of the corner. The moment the fire flickered, it illuminated a slightly young face.

Not long after, footsteps came from not far away. The young man stepped out the cigarette butt and lowered his head to pull the front of his hood.

As the footsteps approached, a tall man with a gloomy face walked over. The man was wearing an alternative rivet jacket, plus an exaggerated Mohawk hairstyle, and his gang style was obvious.

The man walked to the corner and didn't forget to look back to see if anyone was following. Only then did he say to the young man in the corner in a hoarse voice.

"Where is the thing I want?"

The young man's eyes flickered, and then he took something out of his leather jacket. It was a well-structured mechanical prosthetic limb, but it looked a bit old from the degree of wear. A purple-red cat head graffiti was also sprayed on the forearm, which seemed to be the logo of some mechanical modification alliance.

The man's eyes lit up when he saw it. He immediately took the prosthetic limb, removed the original artificial limb on his left arm, and then skillfully connected it to the gate interface of his left arm joint.

Click~

The servo system started, and the man slowly clenched his fist. The gear transmission of his wrist knuckles made a slight hissing sound. He clenched his fist, and azure electric light flickered on his knuckles.

Looking at the surging electromagnetic light, the man was a bit excited.

"Not bad."

After speaking, he looked coldly at the young man and threw a micro-storage device from his pocket to the young man: "People in the city are panicking now. Not only the patrol team, but even the garrison army and the people from the Angel Project have been dispatched. I can't help with this kind of thing in the future."

The young man took it, looked at it in his hand, then raised his hand, and the skin on his left wrist opened automatically, revealing a data access port. After he connected the storage device, he took a deep breath, then didn't say anything and turned to leave.

The rain didn't stop. This black rain was full of toxins of dark encroachment, and it was in the middle of the night, plus the 【Outer City Curfew Suppression Order】 issued by the Federation, there were few people on the street.

The young man walked with wind, walked through the streets and alleys, turned into an inconspicuous building passage, and walked for a while in the pitch black. Deafening sounds began to come from inside. The young man pushed the door open, and a noisy underground bar appeared in his sight.

All the customers drinking were wearing various weapons, and even the waitresses wearing hot pants and black silk stockings had large-caliber explosive revolvers hanging from their waists, and a small red bead was tattooed on their slender lower backs.

That was the shape of the strange blood essence, revealing an enchanting beauty, but this kind of tattoo also represented another meaning in Dawn City.

You only need to spend one blood essence to have a romantic experience for the night.

The young man in the hat walked through the noisy crowd and came to a corner of a booth. A man and a woman were sitting in the booth. Standing next to their booth were several people with extremely high fluctuations in soul-swinging values.

The woman was wearing a black trench coat, with an outstanding and elegant temperament. In this dilapidated and old underground bar, her existence seemed out of place with the surrounding environment. The other man was wearing a windbreaker, looking capable and dashing. He sat in the shadows with great interest, observing the various people in the bar.

"Brother Jiang."

The young man walked over quickly and handed the storage device to the man.

The man sitting here was none other than Jiang Yun, who had rushed up the climbing channel with Lin Xian before!

And the woman opposite him was the head of the Fenge Group, the current leader of the Silver Star apocalyptic train, Jian Xuwei.

Jiang Yun reached out and took the thing in the young man's hand, took out one of his small terminals, and opened the storage device.

Inside, it was a surveillance video.

A day ago, a human-strange attack case occurred in the Oakland block of the Old City Area. This was originally a matter for the city defense patrol team. Under the dark night, incidents of mutated human-stranges in Dawn City were everywhere. Generally, incidents that did not cause 50 casualties were not considered major events.

But the difference in this incident was that a fleet called Freedom Wind was attacked. Although there were not many people in this fleet, all dozen or so people were ability users, and there were 4 Berserker-level ones.

The strange thing was that all the ability users in the entire fleet disappeared overnight. This was a very bizarre situation in the city area with strict surveillance and jurisdiction by the patrol team and the garrison army.

The Freedom Wind fleet had a good reputation in the station area, and they had been seen charging and fighting in several night attack incidents. This sudden annihilation incident made all the survivors in the Oakland block panic.

And this surveillance was a surveillance video of that block. All surveillance networks in Dawn City were uniformly supervised by the upper levels, so the acquisition of this information could be said to be top secret.

The picture was only a mere 3 seconds. Under the dark night, a man whose figure was slightly taller than ordinary people walked quickly past the street corner. When he was about to approach, the picture suddenly went black. Obviously, the surveillance was affected by some kind of electromagnetic interference.

Jiang Yun frowned, adjusted the speed to slow, and played it back. He found that the man was wearing a strange bowler hat, and his whole outfit looked like a style from another century. Because the picture was far apart, even with a night vision system, he couldn't see any appearance at all.

Snap.

A slender finger suddenly pointed at Jiang Yun's mobile terminal, pulled slowly, and then clicked pause.

"Look here."

Jian Xuwei pointed to the eye area of the black shadow. In the picture, there seemed to be a faint red light appearing.

Jiang Yun exhaled and said solemnly: "Sure enough, it's this kind of red human-strange again, mechanical and human-strange creation. I really don't know what disgusting things that Deep Red World is studying all day long."

Jian Xuwei looked at the noisy crowd in the distance and said with a serious look:

"Our people observed that the Silent City is paralyzed in the Luling Forest after coming out of the No. 5 Star Abyss. The Federation has already sent people there. There are corpse groups everywhere outside the city, and there are mutations and red human-stranges in the city. Plus the material problem, Dawn City is already in internal and external trouble. I estimate that after that group of people finishes repairing the No. 1 city wall and collects the 'city defense' tax, they will completely abandon the outer city."

"I think it's enough to finish repairing." Jiang Yun smiled: "Hiding in the underground city is not safe either. The most serious water resource problem is not solved. The so-called 【Century Reserve】 is just a joke. Now the starship manufacturing berths in the Xinggang are all full. People outside are not fools. Will they not guess the Federation's little thoughts?"

Jian Xuwei frowned slightly: "This problem is a trouble for both the Federation and the Phoenix Society. No matter how much water purifier technology improves, it is meaningless if it cannot block the toxins of dark encroachment."

"Miss Jian." Jiang Yun looked at her with narrowed eyes, playing with the wine glass in his hand and said: "I have been waiting for your plan for a long time."

Jian Xuwei's face was very calm, and she said slowly:

"What's the rush? The dark night is coming, and this Dawn City is about to become the eye of the storm. You and I can't go anywhere. Instead, that person has finally come."

"Lin Xian?" Jiang Yun showed an expectant look upon hearing this.

"From the fire book intelligence of the Phoenix Order global radio station, he did a big thing in Xilan! Now, whether it is the Phoenix Society, the Federation, or the organization of the Advent Sect, this mechanical ability user friend is already..."

Speaking of this, he narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice:

"Global target!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 320 =====