Chapter 341: Close the Front Line!

Boom!

A roar of giant waves exploded in the direction of the black lake. Lin Xian and the crowd, who were building iron rails at high speed, immediately turned back to look. Under the black curtain, they could vaguely see the silhouette of a huge black shadow rising into the sky. At the same time, accompanied by it in the communication frequency were a large number of panicked calls.

"Big snake!!"

"Run!!"

"Definitely S-class!"

Hearing the countless shouts in the communicator, Lin Xian's heart tightened. Not only him, but others also saw the shadow of the behemoth. A huge sense of oppression was born, making people's breathing stagnate.

If it was really S-class, Lin Xian obviously didn't think he could kill it with just his Gravity Lens. In Xilan City, there were tens of thousands of people, city defense base firepower, and the Seventh Investigation Corps, as well as an Unit 01, to join forces to kill an S-class scout. And they only had hundreds of carriages and thousands of people now.

So they only had one path left: to quickly gather firepower and defensive lines. At the same time, as long as Lin Xian tested the dark mark of the survivors brought over by the tail carriages, he could determine what level the monster was.

The more critical the moment, the less chaos can be allowed.

"What a big guy, we might be in bad luck this time."

Shi Diyuan, standing on high ground, had a cold gaze and a low tone, rarely a bit pessimistic.

"Drink!"

Xiang Xiang Ningjing punched a twisted monster crawling up from under the train to death. The huge punching airflow washed down, and then she landed beside Shi Diyuan and said solemnly: "The front line must be shrunk immediately, otherwise we will be eaten all the way!"

Shi Diyuan nodded and immediately took a group of subordinates to rush onto a tall tree crown, and under the cover of several people, began to command the personnel of each fleet to retreat and defend.

And those fleets that were retreating and running began to have a clear direction after having command.

The temporary tracks of the traction fleet were repaired deeper and deeper. While Lin Xian was building the tracks, the drone above his head was also fighting automatically, and at the same time helping him observe the surrounding terrain. He adjusted the curve of the tracks directly along the large area of forest burned by Brother Huo. The Mechanical Heart turned to the extreme, and he dropped a track with his left hand and right hand. Beside him was the guard camp composed of Assault Groups 1 and 2 of the Infinite. Kiki and Brother Huo were fighting in the sky. The 1130 on the train had already emptied its fourth round of ammunition. Just as the tracks fell, Old Mo, who still had colors on his face, led a group of engineering teams to help drop piles and solidify the foundation, and then the iron wheels of the Infinite rolled forward.

The dark forest was filled with artillery fire, and raging fires were burning everywhere on all sides. From those flames and the depths of the darkness, various strange entities constantly crawled out. On the train of the Infinite, the light of the Hell Black Chrysanthemum flickered. With the suppression of the full group's firepower, the dark mark weakened bit by bit, but after more strange entities came out, the mark was hit and marked again. The pressure of the fierce battle expanded step by step.

Finally, the carriages of the Ocean and the Parrot that had sunk into the water all reached the shore. A large amount of black water constantly flowed out from the fallen carriages. Accompanied by it were various water monsters that had drilled into the train—big ones, small ones, alien insects, black leeches, strange centipedes, dense and dense. And the only remaining people of these two fleets had already followed the people of the Red Rose and other fleets to retreat to the carriages in the rear.

"Use flamethrowers, burn these things to death!!"

"Almost approaching the assistant protection circle, everyone hold on!!"

Hundreds of people huddled beside the train and constantly fired to retreat. Several ability users who rushed into the jungle to fight fiercely with strange entities didn't persist for a few rounds before they all died. The main combat power of these two fleets had basically been lost, leaving only a few dozen living forces, which could be considered dead in name only.

"Brother Huo, Kiki, the loss at the tail of the train is too great. The monster tide might rush over concentratedly, push out!"

"Understood!" Hearing Lin Xian's words, Kiki and Brother Huo began to suppress toward the rear. The trains at the rear of the united fleet constantly appeared to be defeated. This situation was very easy to lead to a chain reaction. Before forming a defensive line, this momentum must be stopped.

Shi Diyuan also realized this point and immediately let Xiang Xiang Ningjing take Xiaoqing and others to support. Abai had been standing on the roof of the Longshan No. 1, releasing laser beams under the protection of a group of guards.

Every time the dark red laser beam swept past, the pressure on that line of defense would decrease sharply, which could be called the big killer of the Longshan No. 1!

The two trains that were constantly shrinking in the rear were basically paralyzed with power off. The outside of the carriages was covered with all kinds of water grass and strange tentacles, which looked very terrifying.

Rumble—at this time, a sound of mud and water boiling and crushing explosions rang out in the swamp. Everyone only saw a giant shadow in the distance crushing trees and falling like a mountain range, rushing over. Cyan scales flashed with cold light. The huge writhing body brought people great fear and oppression. Under the gunfire of everyone in the dark night, they could only see a giant mouth full of countless sharp teeth rushing over.

"Careful!!"

"It's that snake!"

"Fire at full power!"

"Rocket launchers ready!"

Boom, boom, boom—for a time, all the firepower of several fleets in the rear was angrily fired at the black giant shadow rushing over. Countless explosion firelights exploded. In the interlacing of light and shadow, everyone saw the abyss snake mouth. Hundreds of scarlet eyes were arranged in combination from large to small on the snake head. Those eyes were cold. Everyone who saw it couldn't help but feel a chill in their spine. Many people's brains went blank in an instant, and even their spirits began to be disordered.

"Don't look at its eyes!!!"

"Fire Fist!"

The voices of Kiki and Brother Huo suddenly rang out in the sky at this time. In an instant, a crimson fire fell from the sky. At the same time, invisible mental waves directly carried Lu Xingchen's high-temperature flames to explode and rotate. In an instant, a monstrous hurricane was rolled up, and the burning fireball at this time turned into high-temperature wild flames and merged into the hurricane tornado, actually forming a red fire tornado with a diameter of over a hundred meters and a height of several hundred meters!

This combination move was not the first time for the two. It could raise Brother Huo's fire range and high temperature to a terrifying height. In an instant, above the dark forest, a huge fire tornado almost illuminated the entire sky. The intense high temperature swallowed all the trees in an area of several hundred meters, and countless strange entities inside were roaring and twisting.

The head of the cyan giant python rushing over was swallowed by this fire tornado. The scorching high temperature made it feel threatened. Suddenly, its body covered with cyan scales and strange coral thorns swept and swung, and a shock wave like an explosion carried countless black gas of dark invasion and poured out, forcibly rushing the fire tornado toward the train's direction.

Seeing this scene, Kiki immediately put down all the silver blades, pushed her mental power forward with both hands, and tried to hold up the fire tornado.

At this time, Xiang Xiang Ningjing and Xiaoqing rushed over from both sides of the fire tornado. Both of them were wearing power armor, one on the left and one on the right. The leg thrusters were working in a cycle, jumping and leaping while stepping on the forest trees, and actually rushed directly to the front of the big snake, attacking the top of the snake head head-on.

"Drink!"

Xiang Xiang Ningjing used all her strength, raised her right fist high, and smashed it directly on the scales under the chin of the cyan giant python. The huge force in an instant directly shattered the hand armor of her power armor. This punch hit the cyan giant python, and a dark red blood pit with a diameter of about two meters appeared instantly, and the scales burst inch by inch!

And on the other side, Xiaoqing's jet hook nail was nailed to a twisted coral thorn on the snake head. The whole person swung over quickly, holding the gun blade in reverse, and slashed straight down from the snake head with sparks and lightning. The alloy-made gun blade was shaken and buzzed inch by inch, opening a piece of scales and flesh on it.

But this giant python was really too big. The offensive of the two at the level of breaking iron and cutting steel didn't seem to bring much trouble to the giant snake. Instead, the black mist it constantly sprayed carried a large amount of invasive power, making the members of the Longshan team who came to support retreat one after another.

Clust!

At this time, Lu Xingchen rushed out of the fire tornado at high speed like a fire meteor, looked at the cyan giant snake that was already over a kilometer long with only a section of python body exposed below, and his gaze became sharp:

"Monster, take a blow of my heavenly fire!"

Hum, hum, hum—the Infinite Ring rotated at high speed, and blue sharp flames constantly rolled into his hand. Lu Xingchen grabbed his right hand with his left hand, and a high-temperature flame ball condensed in his right hand.

"God · Burning Flame Sword!"

Lu Xingchen's right hand presented a sword finger, accelerating the jet flame in a spiral shape. Within half a breath, he blasted out a high-temperature fire sword over ten meters long, with blue-white flame core, spraying countless Mach rings.

Only heard, boom!

A huge sonic boom exploded.

The fire sword instantly shot on the snake head, whoosh, and directly pierced the lower jaw of the giant snake, appearing a scorched hole. He immediately controlled the fire sword to move, but the huge reverse thrust pushed him into the high sky. At this time, Kiki grabbed him with her ability, and Lu Xingchen immediately stabilized his right wrist and sword finger, and the jet fire sword slashed fiercely toward the top of the snake head!

Who would have thought that the moment the cyan giant python was injured, dozens of eyes on both sides of it instantly erupted with crimson light, and then the coral thorns on the snake body erupted with a large amount of red dust. The dust was like a living thing, twisting into a thin shell covering the snake body. Lu Xingchen's fire sword cut on it and had no movement at all, and even the temperature disappeared at that moment.

"What is this? Defensive shield?" Kiki was also dumbfounded when she saw this scene. Everyone couldn't understand the strange situation. It didn't look like it was blocked, nor did it look like it was hit. The high-temperature flame disappeared instantly.

At this time, everyone saw a terrifying scene. I saw the cyan giant python wrapped in crimson thick fog, and its huge body wound in the dark forest, looking like a strange and fierce evil, making people's hair stand on end.

"Retreat!"

Seeing that the attack had no effect, Xiang Xiang Ningjing immediately called Xiaoqing to retreat. At the same time, Kiki also pulled Brother Huo to retreat rapidly.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~

At this time, the crimson giant smoke snake began to wind forward, bypassing the tracks the united train had traveled, and wandered toward the distance of the forest. Looking at it, it seemed to treat the entire united train as a prey that must die, circling on the side and preparing for a fatal blow.

Seeing this scene, Kiki knew it was bad and immediately said to Lin Xian:

"That giant snake wants to surround us."

"Saw it!"

Lin Xian's drone was observing in all directions at this time, and his brain and Mechanical Heart were running at high speed. With the shrinking of the defensive formation, the visibility of the black fog was enough for every situation on the battlefield to be within his line of sight.

"Watch it, the front line will close soon!"

At the same time, Chen Sixuan and Sun Yuzhen had already arrived at the subsequent train formation with the Hell Black Chrysanthemum.

"Lin Xian, they were all marked with level 4 marks, so that shouldn't be S-class!" Chen Sixuan shouted in the communicator.

Chen Sixuan's words at this time undoubtedly brought a slightly relieved message to Lin Xian, Shi Diyuan, and others. Human judgment might be wrong, but the concentration of dark marks would never lie. No matter how this level was defined, but for now, this cyan giant python in the lake definitely couldn't reach the level of the black thorn in the clouds. In this battle, maybe they really had a chance to survive!

At this time, Lin Xian, who was manufacturing tracks all the way, finally circled a circular rail position. But he didn't circle it into a full circle, but let the rail-laying machine of the Longshan No. 1 lay the inner circle in the opposite direction from the beginning. In this way, as long as the united train was disconnected from the middle and pulled by the Longshan No. 1 to drive into the inner circle, then this double-layer train position could be formed quickly, and it could also save half the time, while at the same time not making the entire ring position too large.

Sure enough, divided into two sections and moving in a staggered arc, a spiral train position was formed quickly. The fleets with weaker strength and greater losses in the rear were pulled to the inner ring, while the main force fleets and those with the greatest firepower in the front were in the outer ring. When a large number of people retreated to the center of the train formation, the two trains were like iron barriers, bringing a huge sense of security to the thousands of survivors in the rear. After closing, the area inside that had been burned by fire became a temporary resting camp in this terrifying dark night, and all threats and monster tides began to develop around the ring-shaped train position of several kilometers.

Because the Ocean and the Parrot had been completely broken up, and the carriages were filled with all kinds of strange entities, for the sake of safety, Lin Xian directly unhooked and abandoned all thirty-plus carriages of the Ocean and the Parrot, and then began to swallow those living carriages for material replenishment.

When those water-filled carriages were swallowed, countless water-soaked living materials and strange entities hiding inside jumped out, and were soon strangled by the survivors gathered around and waiting in full battle array. Immediately, those materials were picked up and distributed by the remaining personnel of the two fleets, and then moved onto other trains without hesitation.

In this situation, these fleet personnel no longer distinguished between each other and put their lives on the same front line. Lin Xian also obtained material replenishment at the same time.

With the formation of the temporary double-spiral position of the united train, hundreds of carriages bit each other head to tail like a mechanical giant dragon, and the advantage of the human cluster began to form!

"All fleets defend by area. Genetic evolvers and ability users with power armor should be at the front, and other combat personnel should be at the rear. Pay attention to clearing aerial targets!" Lin Xian commanded loudly.

"Internal personnel, rescue materials, hide in the camp. Each fleet should move ammunition to the front of the front line, and firearms should cross-load ammunition!"

"Luo Yang, take people to set up high-pressure arc walls!"

"Understood!"

Luo Yang immediately took a team to act.

"We'll come to help too." Technical personnel from other fleets responsible for manufacturing defensive traps also acted one after another.

Whoosh! Mo Nika's whistling sword directly cut a deep trench in front of a position and ordered her subordinates: "Ignite the fire trench!"

"Yes!" Her subordinates were also quite experienced.

The golden flash rushed on the periphery of the front line. Qian Dele had some unknown biological minced meat on his face and said coldly: "Xiaomeng, thermite grenades!"

Boom!

Napalm and thermite burned into a white-hot purgatory, scorching a dazzling brilliance in front of the defensive line. The violently burning fire trench greatly weakened the offensive of the monsters in the dark forest.

All train roof turrets, machine guns, and missiles were turned to face the periphery of the front line. In just over an hour, this group of survivors quickly gathered the front line from the fear of death in a panic. When hundreds of carriages circled into a circular front line with a diameter of about 7 kilometers and 2 kilometers, the survivors all had a backing for their backs.

The strong combat forces fought on the front line under the cover of the powerful firepower of the vehicle-mounted weapons, while other support teams climbed onto the train roof to operate machine guns and machine cannons to suppress the strange monsters coming from the dark forest. The firepower of anti-aircraft guns and various air-launched machine guns shot densely toward the sky. This circular defensive line began to stand firm on the defensive stronghold, using metal storms to suppress the strange monsters of all sizes rushing from the forest to within hundreds of meters!

"Damn it, no matter what your background is, as long as you are carbon-based, there is nothing that my 12.7 can't shatter!" After the morale was up, a strong man holding a Gatling gun stood on the train roof and shouted angrily.

"Brothers, hold on, they can't kill their way in!"

"Quick, carry the wounded in!"

"Use burning barrels to ignite the entire hillside to prevent them from climbing up!"

On the front line of the Infinite area, Shasha drove the Vulcan to stand at the very front, while the building and Liang Lei led the core strength of the assault team to protect all twenty-seven carriages of the Infinite neatly.

"Kill, kill, kill!!!" The Vulcan cannon roared, and explosions were constantly set off. Shasha was becoming more and more handy in operating the mecha now. Those big rough guys in the assault group looked at this little girl driving the mecha to stand at the very front and were also incomparably surprised.

"This girl is good!"

In the open space inside the front line, the internal personnel of dozens of fleets urgently set up camp transport lines. A large number of wounded and rescued materials were carried into each carriage for treatment. All fleets moved ammunition to the front line. No matter which direction, as long as someone shouted that there was no ammunition, someone from the rear would send it up. Many young boys and girls also ran around to help carry materials and pick up every bullet shell on the battlefield.

Boom, boom, boom.

Above this circular steel front line, anti-aircraft guns, vehicle-mounted grenade launchers, anti-aircraft guns, rail electromagnetic cannons, 1130s, rocket launchers, and missiles formed a dense cross-fire network, tearing the night sky into broken silk intertwined with crimson and ghost blue. On the periphery of the front line, there were all power armor wearing Yijin City power armor and various powerful ability users. They were either holding heavy machine guns and plasma flamethrowers, or holding high-energy cutting weapons and using abilities to resist the strange monsters rushing in head-on.

Beep!

On the Infinite, the roar of the 1130 blasted a large piece of bat-shaped strange monsters rushing from the sky into a rain of minced meat.

Lin Xian was constantly decomposing and swallowing the carriages of the Ocean and the Parrot at this time. His current purpose was mainly to solve the material problem, used to manufacture ammunition. The automatic bullet stamping machine was running crazily. The bullet shells picked back were gathered in large numbers and soon put into the manufacturing link again. His ears were filled with deafening gunfire and roaring sounds.

On the road of several kilometers from the lakeside to the front line, at least more than 500 people of the united train had died. This only happened in less than two hours, which showed how tragic this encounter battle was.

However, after the train front line was formed, the casualty figures began to stop, and powerful firepower suppressed those strange entities in the dark night to within a hundred meters of the train front line.

At this time, everyone gradually adapted from the fear of the violent dark invasion. The strange entities in this dark forest were not large in number. The main thing was that they were strange and unpredictable. A large number of unknown large strange entities and small monsters that were difficult to defend against caught the survivors of the united train off guard. Those strange poisons and toxic gases, and unpredictable attack methods—all the strange entities here were encountered for the first time by Lin Xian and others. This was not a problem of level at all.

Facing unknown attack methods, even if it was just a C-class strange entity, the threat was still huge.

Another reason why casualties did not intensify was the 1,000 sets of Lone Wolf S tactical power armor. The high-tech battlefield situation awareness system, radar system, and defense power allowed each fleet to have a batch of combat personnel who could block the first wave of offensives. Because of this, it did not lead to death like a mountain collapse.

Lin Xian's side, at this time, became the core 【production base】 of the entire defensive front line. He was like a mobile spring, supplying firepower output for thousands of people endlessly.

Countless bullets, materials, explosives, and electric nets were manufactured batch by batch. Li Yi and Old Mo led a group of internal personnel and children in the train to constantly transport them to the front line. The two children, Xiaotian and Xiaole, worked very hard, as if they were not scared at all by this world full of dark monsters.

Even five-year-old Duoduo was crawling on the ground with a group of children at this time, picking up the hot bullet shells that slipped from the train roof, and putting them into the small buckets in their hands skillfully.

Lin Xian's expression was a bit complicated when he saw this scene. These children were too young. In this environment, he really couldn't bear to let the children come out of the carriage to do this kind of thing. Just as Lin Xian was about to let Li Yi call these children back, he inexplicably frowned.

The dark invasion power here was so serious, but it seemed that no child had mutated. The most serious situation was fainting and vomiting.

Could it be that the mental power of children is stronger than that of adults?

This thought only flashed in Lin Xian's mind. At this time, Chen Sixuan's voice came from the earphone: "Lin Xian, that big snake is approaching!"

Lin Xian stood up with a swoosh. The reason he didn't directly commit to the battle was that he was manufacturing ammunition while waiting for this guy to appear. He immediately called several of the strongest ability users in the train fleet: "Kiki, Brother Huo, Qian Dele, Mo Nika, Brother Shi, Sister Ning, call Abai, let's take action together to block that big snake!"

Success or failure depends on this one move. Lin Xian didn't know whether the strange entities in this boundless dark forest could be killed. As long as the giant snake covered in crimson smoke circled around, none of them could escape the fate of being marked with a level 4 mark and annihilated.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 342 =====