Chapter 340: Strange Python

"I know, let's pull the train up first!"

Woo, woo, woo—Lin Xian's drone was spinning non-stop above his head, and red pulse rays were flashing constantly. While watching the train move forward, he and Kiki hurried back toward the Infinite. That giant snake set off monstrous waves in the black lake. At the speed of the Longshan No. 1's rail-laying machine, the entire train was very likely to be dragged into the water, so he had to go back and continue manufacturing tracks for advancement!

In the current communication frequency, he could no longer contact the car fleets of Hu Lushou, Lu Zhao, and others. He didn't know how their situation was.

The situation of the various train fleets along the way was incomparably tragic. Lin Xian's heart was beating wildly. He was also worried about the situation of his own team members, and at the same time, he was calculating in his heart that in extreme situations, he must abandon some of the rear fleets. The traction hooks of all the train fleets here were manufactured by him. As long as he was willing, he could directly make any train disconnect. And the most likely ones here were the carriages that had not yet reached the shore and were still in the lake and swamp.

Lin Xian was making plans while watching the train move forward slowly. If that giant snake appeared, even if he risked exhaustion, he must use the Gravity Lens once to try to strangle it. But his primary goal now was to manufacture tracks for the train, otherwise, no one knew how many giant objects were still under that black lake!

"Where on earth is this ghost place?" Kiki flew over with Lin Xian all the way. The two of them helped the fleets along the way to kill a portion of the small monsters, which could be considered as relieving some of their pressure.

Lin Xian looked at the compass spinning rapidly on his watch and shook his head: "I don't know. This place is even stranger than Yijin City in the polar night. Those mountains don't look like mountains, and the water doesn't look like water. I don't even know if this is still Blue Star."

He had this feeling not without reason. Through the photoelectric system observation of the power armor, those swimming distant mountains, the bay fragments floating in the air, the strange deep blue sky, and the sky without stars or moon—if it weren't for the trees and mud in this forest, Lin Xian would definitely feel that he had come to a world of another dimension.

"Careful!"

Suddenly, a group of black shadows swept over from the black fog in the sky. While the alarm of Lin Xian's power armor sounded urgently, Kiki also acted at the first moment.

Clang, clang, clang—Kiki raised her hand and waved, and the Silver Blade Torrent surrounding her rushed straight up, crashing toward the black shadow.

Lin Xian looked up and was shocked to find that what was above his head was a monster tide composed of countless twisted flying monster insects. The speed was extremely fast, like the speed of a hummingbird, catching the defensive personnel of a fleet below off guard. Accompanied by a chaotic impact, several people were bitten away. The monster then used the sharp stinger on its abdomen to pierce into the survivor's abdomen, seemingly injecting some unknown substance.

Kiki's Silver Blade Storm directly shredded and split the group of monster insects flying toward the two. For a time, sparks splashed in the sky. It could be seen that the skin of the monster insects was incomparably hard.

Woo!

Lin Xian's twenty-two Thunder Falcon drones also flew into the sky at this time, and pulse rays shot rapidly, suppressing the momentum.

【High-speed object approaching on the left!】

The Black Hawk power armor reacted at the first moment. Lin Xian's heart tightened. Before he even saw what it was in the dark forest, he had already reflexively raised the AT field shield.

Clang, clang, clang!

In an instant, dozens of black spikes shot over rapidly and dinged on his field shield. A burst of black smoke sprayed. Kiki saw this at this time and immediately pushed her mental shield, shaking it away.

"Quick, go back!"

Strange attacks were becoming more and more frequent. Lin Xian's heart sank. Under such circumstances, he estimated that the casualties of the entire united train would not be small, but all he could do at this time was to speed up the train's forward speed.

Soon, Lin Xian returned to the head of the train again. The area of the Longshan No. 1, the Infinite, and the Queen Mo was already fighting with firelight soaring into the sky. Whether it was because the energy and firepower here were the greatest, or because it was located deep in the forest, all kinds of strange entities gathered in large numbers in this area, pressing so hard that even Shi Diyuan, Qian Dele, Mo Nika, Ning Jing, and others were a little out of breath.

The 1130 of the Infinite had already fired two bases and entered the loading interval. Three electromagnetic cannons and several Gatling guns were constantly strafing in all directions.

Enemies were everywhere, and defensive lines were everywhere.

Shasha's Sally, with a flamethrower in one hand and a Vulcan machine gun in the other, was firing at full power!

"Big spider again, I hate big spiders the most. Let you try this!"

Shasha saw the big spider moving quickly in the forest, pressed the button to activate a device on the chest of the Vulcan, boom!

In an instant, an improved plasma clusterer shot out a high-pressure guide cable that directly hit the abdomen of the big spider, and then the exploding ghost-blue plasma stream directly detonated the giant spider's abdominal cavity, and a large amount of internal organs and juice fell down.

"Oh yeah!!!" Seeing the secret weapon succeed, Shasha shouted excitedly.

On the other side, the assault teams of the building and Liang Lei were standing firm on both sides of the Infinite with fifty people each, holding heavy weapons, suppressing the dark monsters coming from the forest. The two were rushing at the very front, already cutting through a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

And the mobile team of Shu Qin, Lv Chang, and Li Guangwen, together with more than twenty agile physical arts masters wearing power armor such as Luoluo and Amin, were constantly shuttling in front of the formation to hunt some fast monsters.

Chen Sixuan was guarding the roof of the train with the reconnaissance team, using anti-aircraft guns and various sniper weapons, electromagnetic guns, etc., to defend against enemies coming from the sky.

Anti-aircraft guns and arc pulse guns constantly rushed into the sky, light shining, and the air was filled with the tragic feeling of fighting to the death!

Several large train groups in front were fighting around the Infinite and the traction locomotives.

"Brother Lin, we can't run at this speed!" Shi Diyuan, who had transformed into a tiger body, pounced on a worm monster from the sky, stepped on it hard, and then said in the communicator: "There is no direction in this ghost place, I don't know where to run at all."

Whoosh!

A sonic sword swept past, and large areas of trees and monsters in the forest were cut off neatly. Mo Nika responded coldly: "This is definitely not the polar night. Maybe we are already inside the Star Abyss. Look at the sky; even the physical laws here have been distorted."

"Why are the people from those car fleets all gone? Didn't that Boss Hu rush out? Can't we just rush in one direction?!" Qian Dele said at this time.

"Rush your head, we are a train, not a car!"

Shi Diyuan cursed: "Do you think you are still driving a car?"

"It's not like we don't have cars." Qian Dele responded: "We have two all-terrain trains and ten base vehicles, as well as a number of other vehicles. At the very least, we can carry three or four hundred people to run away, which is better than all dying here!"

And Shi Diyuan frowned upon hearing this and immediately shouted at him: "No, if other fleets hear this, our defensive line will collapse in an instant. Let's pull the train out first!"

Lin Xian and Kiki had already arrived quickly at this time. While accelerating the manufacturing of tracks in front of the two all-terrain traction vehicles, he said: "Well said. The situation has not yet reached the point where hundreds of people need to run away. These thousands of people must be twisted into a rope to reduce casualties."

Once people's hearts are scattered, maybe before the monsters kill them, these team members will be mutated by the dark invasion because of despair. By then, the troops will be defeated like a mountain, and it will be out of control.

Just being swallowed by the darkness had already caused many people to be lost due to dark mutation. The united train group was different from the situation of Old Mo and Hu Lushou before. The chance of survival after abandoning all train protection was extremely low, because those spare vehicles didn't have any weapons, and once it reached this point, each fleet would definitely have internal chaos. So Shi Diyuan immediately stated the crux of the matter and did not let Qian Dele say this in the communication channel.

Although he also knew that Qian Dele's words were not unreasonable, when things fall into a desperate situation, this might be the best way to keep some people alive. Living a few hundred people is better than total annihilation.

Lin Xian was manufacturing tracks rapidly at this time, his thoughts turning sharply.

No one expected that after entering the dark night, the first trouble encountered would be the suffocating situation where the train tracks disappeared, which restricted all train groups!

So unless they could really kill all the strange entities in this area as Ding Junyi said, otherwise, after killing one wave, the dark mark on their bodies would be marked by the strange entities behind again. In a cycle, the annihilation of the united train group was only a matter of time.

But compared to killing all the strange entities, Qian Dele's plan was obviously more practical. At least running was a way of life, and there were precedents of Old Mo and Boss Hu, so the feasibility was much higher than guarding to the death on the spot.

After all, who knew if these monsters could be killed? The firepower of the united train was also limited, and many people were lost due to dark mutation at the beginning. Now that everyone was firing at full power, at most, they would run out of ammunition and food in a few hours. If it really reached that point, the despair brought about by the spread of mutation would mean they wouldn't even have the capital to drive away.

At this time, as more traction trains drove onto the tracks, this moving front line also constantly moved toward the depths of the forest, and the speed also became faster. The head of the train was changed to the Infinite, while the original Longshan No. 1 stopped in place, relying on three kilometers of firepower to support the trains entering from the rear. Several fleets such as the Red Rose also successfully reached the shore from the muddy swamp. The rail wheels were covered with black mud, and the black soil on the ground was rolled out into deep gullies by the train. A large number of crushed trees became sleepers and were crushed by the train wheels.

Qian Dele ran quickly, killing all the way through the small monsters in front of the formation of several train fleets. His ability mobility was extremely strong, so he was very powerful in support, but the disadvantage was that his own defense and power were not enough to deal with large monsters, so he generally would not go deep into the monster tide forest.

At this time, he kicked a black monster crawling over to death and landed beside Mo Nika, who was constantly using her ability to cut and kill the fan-shaped monster tide, looking at this old friend with some surprise.

"At a time like this, your Queen Mo has more of a way out than we do. My plan just now, you have no thoughts?"

Mo Nika looked back at him: "Why, do you regret changing the car to a train?"

Qian Dele smiled dashingly: "Doesn't matter. I wouldn't be surprised to die anywhere in this terrible world. What's there to regret? It's you, if you don't say something, I don't feel like it's you."

Mo Nika snorted coldly and suddenly spat an invisible whistling sword at a piece of strange flying creatures in the sky. In an instant, the ripples in the sky shook, and a large piece of broken tissue fell down with a whoosh.

"In your eyes, am I so idealistic, selfish, and greedy for life?"

"Not really, just analyzing the situation from a rational point of view. And your teammates must have thoughts too." Qian Dele said in a deep voice.

Mo Nika said seriously upon hearing this: "Their thoughts are short-sighted, but I'm not stupid. Boss Hu and the others are lucky, which doesn't mean everyone is the same. In the current situation, following the main force still has a glimmer of hope. Running around with a dark mark and no direction is certain death. I'm not a gambler. Even if I am, I'd rather bet on that person."

"Hmm?"

Qian Dele followed Mo Nika's gaze to Lin Xian, who was manufacturing tracks in the distance, upon hearing this, raised his eyebrows, and said strangely: "Hey, heroism? Although I quite like that guy, you wouldn't really take him as a savior, would you? Or do you fancy him?"

Mo Nika turned back to continue dealing with the monster tide and said:

"No, this is my intuition..."

The critical moment in Xilan City, the thrilling escape in Yijin City—although they have fallen into another predicament now, it is undeniable that if it weren't for Lin Xian waking everyone up in the Akse star night to hurry on their way and keeping armed vigilance and preparation all the way, the situation might be even worse than it is now. No one expected the fierce change to happen in the daytime. If it were earlier, or if there hadn't been that sandstorm, perhaps the united train could really have escaped this Star Abyss mutation swallowing.

Mo Nika is emotional, but also rational. Besides that, she also has her own pride. If she takes the whole team away now, the entire united train group will definitely be in chaos. She doesn't want to be a sinner for that unrealistic fantasy.

A fleeing queen, is she still worthy of being called a queen?

But although Mo Nika thought so, other fleets were already in a panic, and the communicator was filled with the atmosphere of despair.

"What to do? The dark invasion here is so strong, the mutation can't be stopped!"

"Too many monsters?"

"Without tracks, we can't run away this time..."

"Fight it, don't be cowardly!"

"Team Leader Lin, Team Leader Shi, save us..."

"..."

Boom, boom, boom!

Around the traction train group, the tragic fighting became more and more intense. In that dark forest, endless various monsters were constantly refreshing everyone's sanity lower limit. Many people died under unknown attack methods and suddenly mutated teammates. Seeing this situation, Lin Xian knew that the top priority now was to stabilize people's hearts, so he said to Shi Diyuan.

"Brother Shi, how about we make the tracks detour around the forest and let the entire united train spiral into several circles to form a temporary defensive line?"

Shi Diyuan was sweating profusely at this time, and the death toll of his Longshan No. 1 was constantly increasing. Hearing Lin Xian's words at this time, he immediately said:

"What, guard to the death?"

Lin Xian shook his head: "I just found a cyan giant snake in the lake over there. I estimate that it might be the most powerful guy in this area. We are now in an unknown area. Building a good defensive line can not only reduce casualties but also take a breather and shrink the battle circle. If the giant snake makes a move, we will kill it. Maybe we can..."

The plan Lin Xian mentioned was a last resort, but the current one-line formation was being attacked from both sides, and the train could not disperse into a defensive formation like a car fleet to resist. So he looked at the temporary tracks being manufactured and thought that since they couldn't escape, it was better to directly manufacture the tracks into a spiral arc. This could greatly shrink the battlefield and increase firepower density to reduce casualties, especially by allowing those ability users and strong combat forces to concentrate.

This idea came from the experience of shrinking the battle circle in Xilan City before, and the train's defense layer was very high. If they resisted by circling two laps, the entire battle circle could be shrunk to less than two kilometers, so the heavy weapons and combat personnel on so many trains might be able to deal with it more easily.

And as for solving the cyan giant snake, Lin Xian had no confidence at all. Not only the confidence to solve it, but also whether he could let the team get out of the predicament after solving it, he also had no confidence.

But now, he had no better plan. He was the same as Shi Diyuan and did not support abandoning the train to run away. Almost everyone here relied on the train as a shelter for survival. And once abandoned, not to mention life and survival, it would cause huge trauma to morale and spirit. Since truly feeling the fear brought by the dark invasion, Lin Xian could very well understand those survivors who were painfully mutated. Strictly speaking, dark invasion was the main culprit for the collapse of the entire human society!

Shi Diyuan nodded solemnly upon hearing this: "It can be considered a strategy, better than now."

Seeing Shi Diyuan agree, Lin Xian immediately told Qian Dele and Mo Nika about the plan. Several people approved of this plan, so Lin Xian informed all fleets of the plan to circle the train to guard to the death and kill the giant snake to seek a way of life in the communication frequency.

And people from other fleets felt incomparably excited when they heard it. In the current situation, as long as someone took the lead, it meant that the backbone of the fleet was not panicked. And these two plans of Lin Xian appropriately solved two problems.

Everyone could approve and understand that circling the train to establish a defensive line could reduce casualties and increase firepower, and they could also feel the determination of these powerful fleets to unite everyone, which greatly improved the momentum of all survivors.

But increasing momentum could not completely solve the problem, so there was the plan to kill the giant snake. No matter if this plan worked or not, in the eyes of these thousands of people, it was a clear hope. And these people all came from Xilan City and escaped from the danger of killing the black thorn in the clouds. As long as Lin Xian said it, everyone would habitually approve of this train of thought.

With a plan and a way out, it gave people hope. And once people have hope, their fighting spirit will be high!

Sure enough, as these two plans were passed down, the originally gradually weakening defense of each fleet gradually began to become hot. Countless people seemed to have grasped the hope of life and began to burst out with powerful combat power. The leaders of those teams or the commanders of small teams also gritted their teeth and began to constantly adjust the formation and firepower configuration. Coupled with more and more trains escaping from the swamp and more and more carriages on the tracks, this desire for survival that was suppressed by the dark monster tide was ignited again.

"God · Brahma Fire!!!"

After entering the Star Abyss, Lu Xingchen seemed to have become a different person. He looked at the thick dark night and the endless monster tide. The fire-type ability on his body soared crazily, and the Infinite Ring on his hand rotated rapidly. In an instant, a giant scorching white fireball grew constantly above the dark forest, like a small sun, and the scorching light illuminated a huge area of several kilometers.

"Heaven does not give birth to me, Lu Xingchen, the polar night will be dark forever!"

Lu Xingchen flew into the sky, the wind blowing around him. He said the bold words he said when he first joined the Infinite again, waved his hands, and smashed the giant fireball down.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!

The searing white fireball burned intensely, with streams of molten fire even appearing upon it; the countless fleet members below watched this scene, their pupils constricting as they were stunned by such a magnificent display of power.

"Wow!!"

"So powerful!"

"Heavenly fire descends into the world!!"

"Handsome!"

Boom!

A heat wave came like a shock wave, instantly submerging an area of a full half kilometer. The scorching high-temperature fire sprayed crazily toward the surroundings, instantly throwing countless strange entities into this high-temperature fire, burning wantonly, and corpse oil gushing out!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

And on the traction train side, hundreds of silver blade torrents rotated at high speed beside Kiki, forming a blade storm. She wrapped herself in a mental shield, carried the hurricane, and rushed directly into the monster tide. In an instant, patches of monsters along with forest trees were all cut and lifted. The giant transparent worm rolled its body and sprayed a large amount of fluorescent green strange juice at her, all of which were blocked by Kiki's mental shield. And the rotating blade cut through its twisted worm body, instantly cutting it into three sections. The fluorescent green liquid inside the worm body suddenly exploded, forming a fluorescent fireball in the forest. The sprayed juice affected all the strange entities around, and for a time, all kinds of strange monster screams came, and the corrosion sound was scorching and ear-piercing!

Hum!

Abai's laser beam swept across a large fan surface like a windshield wiper, Xiaoqing's blade shuttled through the jungle to harvest the undead, Li Guangwen's blast punch blasted a gully area with one punch, Luo Yang's pulse eyes exploded in the insect swarm in the sky...

In a short time, the original panic of the entire united train quickly disappeared, replaced by order, counterattack, and the courage and belief of survival in a desperate situation. These thousands of survivors began to burst out their potential and twisted into a rope for survival!

And Lin Xian took this opportunity to accelerate the manufacturing of tracks. He directly abandoned the rail machine and took the tracks prepared by the original Longshan No. 1 and various fleets in Yijin City to splice and manufacture on the spot. At the same time, he also constantly manufactured new tracks through the Mechanical Heart. Fortunately, he had swallowed many carriages before, which allowed him to replenish materials. Coupled with the ease of manufacturing the rails themselves, Lin Xian's speed became faster and faster.

The Infinite on the tracks began to accelerate, the Queen Mo began to return to the rear of the Infinite, and the traction locomotives of the trains further back began to contribute traction power after returning to the tracks. With the rise and fall of each other, this train that had derailed and was in chaos returned to the tracks.

At this time, the last Parrot and Ocean also floated up from under the lake water. Except for those who drowned, a large number of team members had jumped into the water to seek survival. In the dark lake water, hundreds of people were swimming crazily, and the lake surface was filled with an atmosphere of terror and despair.

Because every moment, people were dragged into the water by strange creatures!

The lake surface was full of flashlight lights and gunfire flying everywhere. Countless people began to climb onto the shallows and return to the shore, shouting one after another:

"There is a snake under the water, a very big snake!!"

"It must be S-class!!"

"Run!!"

"Save people, there are still people who can't swim!!"

On the shore, people from the Sail and Red Rose fleets were covering them to retreat to the shore. And at this time, when the last few carriages of the Ocean train were dragged up, everyone on the shore saw a terrifying scene.

I saw a giant python tail with cyan scales winding past the carriage quickly. The giant snake was thicker than the train carriage, and its length was unknown. This scene immediately reminded people of the abyss worm seen in Xilan City before.

But creatures like snakes naturally touch the fear point of humans, not to mention the behemoth in the black deep water?

At this time, a fleet dragged a small white boat out of the carriage, and several people worked together to lift it into the water, started the engine, and quickly went to rescue seven or eight survivors who were about to drown. Just as they turned, an ability user flying in the sky shouted at them:

"Run!!! That big snake is coming!"

"Where?!" The people on the boat responded eagerly. They had already opened the engine to the maximum and drove toward the shore, looking behind them while running, but the lake surface behind the small boat was calm, and they couldn't see any movement at all.

But at this time, the ability user in the sky shouted a terrifying sentence at them.

"It... it's under you!!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 341 =====