[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train":3,"chapter-apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-362":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Apocalypse: I Built an Infinite Train",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2262126,4414,"Chapter 362: Star Abyss Transit (10k Burst, 2-in-1)","apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-362",362,"\u003Cp>Reason and fear waged war within him; Lin Xian forced himself to stay alert, struggling to calm down, while the eerie sounds in the darkness seemed distant yet right before his eyes—thunderclaps, roars, tremors like the end of the world—but all he could hear clearly now was his own heartbeat and the breathing inside his power armor’s helmet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the holographic panel, vital signs flickered; the situational awareness system blared alarms; the radar screen was a sea of crimson dots; the armor’s weapon systems now held only palm cannons and pulse beams—every other weapon and drone had been left behind; he was alone, hidden in the shadowed corner of the rooftop, clutching only that flickering electromagnetic rifle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to those eerie entities, Lin Xian—marked—was a blazing heat source in the darkness, drawing an endless tide of them surging from every direction, leaving him with no place to hide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Five kilometers to the objective!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hurry and treat Fire Brother’s wounds.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin Xian, can you hear me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Captain Lin!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin Brother, we’ve been waiting for you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The bunker convoy is almost here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Look! What’s that behind Silent City?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It has to be an S-class eerie entity—did every S-class in the 5th Star Abyss come here?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Familiar voices crackled over the comms; Lin Xian didn’t respond, instead fixing his gaze on the rendezvous progress while counting down the rotation of the Fish-Tailed Lion statue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Creak—creak—creak—the rooftop door was torn open by razor claws; something massive slowly climbed up the outer wall, revealing a grotesque, terrifying silhouette in the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Final minute: all three columns entered the designated plain; the convoy slowed, the United Train braked, and the towering Silent City, blotting out the sky, came to a thunderous halt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment has come!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian felt time itself slow around him; he held his breath, watching the slowly rotating Fish-Tailed Lion statue onscreen, rolled out from the shadows with his flickering electromagnetic rifle, then leapt straight up—every thruster in the Black Eagle power armor erupted with maximum thrust, launching him into the air at the last possible instant, clear of the grasping claws and jaws of countless eerie entities—and in that split second, he had already locked his aim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A row of azure arcs ignited along the electromagnetic pulse rifle; a high-energy sonic boom erupted—the silver bullet shot eastward, wrapped in immense kinetic force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same moment, Lin Xian twisted in midair, his eyes locking unflinchingly onto the now-facing-him Fish-Tailed Lion statue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, Lin Xian clearly saw the once-majestic lion face now radiating an utterly unnatural aura; the power armor’s system flickered once, then crashed again; the helmet’s emergency system activated automatically—he looked into the lion’s eyes…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had no eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where the eye sockets should have been, only two pitch-black vortices yawned, bottomless, like rifts to another world; his retinas reflected those black holes—and inside them… something stared back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【System reboot successful】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Detected pilot heart rate anomaly!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Heart rate: 160】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A screen of light flashed before his eyes; the system rebooted, progress bar loaded, and sub-systems—motion, defense, radar, situational awareness, life support—appeared one by one on the display.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lin Xian saw none of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes were instantly flooded with crimson veins; his vision began to unravel; the Fish-Tailed Lion’s outline twisted; its stony surface peeled away like rotting flesh, revealing writhing black veins beneath; its mouth slowly opened, as if emitting a silent scream beyond human comprehension—his eardrums didn’t vibrate, but the sound exploded directly inside his brain, like ten thousand rusted steel needles churning his nerves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Heart rate: 180】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Hypothermia alert! Hypothermia alert!】 The armor’s alarm system flashed incessantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, Lin Xian felt his flesh being unmade by another dimension; black viscous fluid surged into his throat; his vision was consumed by blood-red veins; the Fish-Tailed Lion’s form expanded infinitely in his sight—not a statue, but a living mountain of decaying flesh, each breath exhaling foul, stinking mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Heart rate: 200】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Coherence frequency about to disconnect】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian had intended to cling to his last shred of reason—but he’d underestimated the statue’s terror, and with his energy drained, his vision went black; he lost consciousness, the crimson in his eyes fading to gray-white.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Am I going to die?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt the cold breath of death approaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, a mechanical hum suddenly rang out in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wooooo!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound was unmistakable—it was…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mechanical Heart was active!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ziiii! As Lin Xian plummeted into the heart of the eerie horde, a faint electrical discharge rippled through his body; his Mechanical Heart, on the brink of death, activated automatically—this discharge, like an AED delivering a shock, jolted his mind awake, seizing that sliver of clarity!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ughhhhh!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the overwhelming claws and jaws of the eerie horde were about to swallow him—zip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, Lin Xian vanished from the center of the monster tide; dust erupted around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second, the roar of high-speed wind filled his ears; he opened his eyes—and before him loomed Silent City’s colossal prow, lit by hundreds of blinding searchlights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, the Fish-Tailed Lion statue, once hovering above the wastewater plant, had vanished—and reappeared right behind Lin Xian, its terrifying aura still locking him in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at this moment, Wang Yue Zhenji and Kiki aboard the transport ship saw it all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin Xian!” Kiki screamed, blasting forward at full speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the transport ship, Qian Su Xun and Long Zhijie also launched into the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Director Ding!” Lin Xian, still airborne, his Mechanical Heart roaring furiously, somehow suppressed the boundless terror within his reason—his emotions seemed to vanish; seeing the teleporting statue, he shouted through the comm: “Ding Junyi!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Got it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, Ding Junyi in Car 3 activated her ability, unleashing a surge of green energy into the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Errors!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Puff~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A white-purple bud, pulsing with strange power, exploded under Ding Junyi’s command; in an instant, a faint sound like a bursting bubble echoed in everyone’s ears—light as a bubble, heavy as a temple bell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came a brilliance like a supernova exploding across heaven and earth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t light. It wasn’t brightness—it was more like a ripple of another dimension tearing through darkness, sweeping away dust; in that moment, everyone felt the white radiance would blind their eyes, shred their retinas; all reflexively closed their eyes and covered their faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire Wangshan Kou Plain suddenly plunged into daylight: mountains, grasslands, airborne dust, the United Train, the bunker convoy, Silent City—all seemed enclosed within a crystal sphere of pure light; beyond this sphere, the distant horizon and sky teemed with monstrous shapes—terror had descended; even the partial serpentine body of the abyssal demon looming overhead was enough to crush the soul like an ant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Wang Yue Zhenji’s nanoscopic pupils contracted slightly; he murmured: “Dimensional bubble? As expected…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this critical moment, Kiki, flying in, used telekinesis to snatch Lin Xian away from the direct radiation zone of the Fish-Tailed Lion statue; simultaneously, Qian Su Xun, under Long Zhijie’s control, replaced Lin Xian and began direct observation of the statue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Qian Su Xun, hold on for three minutes!” As Lin Xian flew away, he shouted to the approaching Qian Su Xun and Long Zhijie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Piece of cake,” Qian Su Xun replied, calm as ever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian Su Xun stared at the earth-shattering scene before him, his gaze fixed on the eerie statue—no fear, only eager excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ye Yi, let me see the pain you once endured!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, Qian Su Xun’s pupils shrank; his eyes turned instantly crimson; behind him, Long Zhijie’s expression turned grim; his power armor continuously monitored Qian Su Xun’s vitals—if Qian Su Xun died, he would immediately step in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both he and Qian Su Xun were the strongest in mental power within Silent City’s core team—they had to lead from the front!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Kiki carried Lin Xian aboard the transport ship; Shi Zhi immediately used purification energy to purge the terror from his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dimensional bubble vanished; as Qian Su Xun resumed observation of the Fish-Tailed Lion statue, a thunderclap suddenly cracked across the vast Wangshan Kou Plain—no one knew if it came from sky or earth; even the air trembled!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the previously bright horizon of Wangshan Kou Plain began collapsing without warning; where light had been, darkness surged like a tidal wave after a vacuum bubble imploded—a dense wall of black, over a kilometer high, like liquid asphalt, rushing inward at speeds defying physics!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sight froze everyone’s breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Low tide had only three minutes left—they had to willingly be swallowed by this collapsing darkness before the tide rose, to complete the spatial transfer!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No escape. No struggle. Cars, trains, Silent City—all had halted at the rendezvous, waiting for the coming devouring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some closed their eyes; some hugged their heads; some gripped weapons, gritting their teeth; every heartbeat accelerated as they watched the colossal celestial tide rush closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Two minutes!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the black wall drew nearer, all chaotic noise vanished; dust and trees on the ground lost all shadows the moment darkness touched them; the mercury column in the cabin thermometer plummeted; frost bloomed on the stainless steel forks in the dining cart; temperature dropped violently!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Creak—creak—creak—creak\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All train comms channels erupted with bizarre static; every electronic device on the trains and cars—including power armor systems—now flickered with erratic surges, signals wildly unstable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space collapsed. Time expanded. Twisted visions tore at everything; aboard the Wuxian, Duo stared wide-eyed at the scene outside—the world seeming to be devoured—her face pale as death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She saw Silent City, swallowed by the dark tide, stretched infinitely; even light twisted and warped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“One minute!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Junyi watched the vanished flower sequence on the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Errors; her face calm, she waited for the tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Woom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The earth shuddered violently—a roar of fury from the Star Abyss’s sovereign, echoing through countless eerie entities; everyone was marked Level 5—then, as the tide swallowed all, the marks vanished instantly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the final second before the inner tide erupted, the United Train, the bunker convoy, and even the colossal Silent City vanished from Wangshan Kou Plain; space flickered with delay; in Bai Cheng, the Nest surged forth; even denser eerie entities crowded like traffic jams, boiling the city; countless newly stitched monsters scrambled in chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The towering, building-sized crimson centipede, now without a target, was suddenly struck by a shockwave; a mountain covered in spikes descended; several ridge-like legs slammed down—dozens of streets vanished instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the sky, the colossal coiling serpent that devoured heaven slowly glided its body; mountains around Bai Cheng trembled, landslides rumbled, waters churned; spatial chaos and violent disturbances erupted across the entire 5th Star Abyss!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, above Luling Forest, three Crimson World transport ships still carried out their “guidance” mission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Seventh Traction Plan, No. 1689, prepare for deployment!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hss~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another drone prepared to launch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But suddenly, alarms blared across all three transport ships; below, in the dark forest, countless eerie entities erupted into abnormal frenzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s going on?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’ve been marked by darkness!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Impossible—the radar detected…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without warning, without energy signature, a colossal aerial city over fifteen kilometers in diameter suddenly appeared, instantly occupying the low airspace of the forest; the three transport ships had no time to react—no one even had time to scream before they slammed into Silent City’s edge; their titanium alloy hulls shattered instantly; internal decks and power chambers were crushed and detonated in a millisecond, turning into silent fireballs; countless fragments slid and fell from Silent City’s prow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those three transport ships were like three flying dragonflies colliding with a hundred-ton truck speeding at 200 km\u002Fh—instantly melted onto the windshield…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What the hell just bumped into us?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the main bridge of Silent City, the helmsman responsible for steering and speed had just snapped back to awareness after witnessing that terrifying tidal surge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where are we?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did we just hit something?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Was it a speed bump?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This hellhole doesn’t even have speed bumps—it looked like some kind of aircraft!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How the hell should I know? It just suddenly appeared!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Initiate full central system self-check! Launch drones to inspect the outer hull—check for damage!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Drones detected hull fragments!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where? Fix it immediately!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can’t fix it—it’s under our tracks...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it, we’ve harmed the innocent...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Looks like they’re from the Deep Red World!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Increase engine power in the engine room!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the darkness of the Eternal Night, Silent City’s firepower barrage lit up the sky, tearing the Eternal Night apart with artillery fire!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silent City unleashed its full artillery array; the close-in defense cannons wove crimson firenets across the night sky as the entire city roared toward the edge of the Eternal Night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the edge of Luling’s Eternal Night, these ordinary eerie entities had caused little trouble for this mechanical fortress; the mobile steel stronghold was carving a path forward with absolute dominance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive moving city’s tracks flattened the ground and deployed temporary guide rails to direct the United Train and all polar bunker vehicles into the mechanical city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Less than twenty minutes later, Silent City burst through the edge of the Eternal Night and emerged into the northern canyon of Luling’s Great Forest, bathed in twilight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath the dim setting sun, the gray-white forest seemed misaligned with the world, as endless dark tides slowly consumed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just now we encountered the task team guiding Deep Red World’s Giant Colossus No. 2. Lucky for us—it looks like they only need a few more guidance cycles to trigger the Star Abyss upheaval.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the transport ship, Mochi Shinji said to Lin Xian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your dimensional bubble plague plant is even stronger than I imagined—it blocked both Level 5 markers and the Fish-Lion Colossus’s tracking.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We have an old saying: every thing has its master,” Lin Xian said, his gaze deep. At that moment, he unexpectedly recalled the words spoken to him by the [Hidden] program within Grace’s system on the night he activated Grace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【In... in the dimension beyond... no... do not try to understand it through your own dimension. The power of the Dark World must possess a resonant effect. Perhaps... perhaps communication can be achieved through identical matter!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless thoughts surged within Lin Xian. In the final second of the Inner Tidal Wave, all personnel successfully completed spatial transfer, creating an unprecedentedly perfect escape!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pity. Crushed it too thoroughly—can’t salvage anything,” Mochi Shinji said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian shook his head, his expression cold: “No matter. This was probably just a task team. Now I’ve got all the time in the world to play with the Deep Red World. They’re developing bio-enhancement tech and mechanical empowerment? Perfect. I don’t have many other talents—I’ll just help them ‘polish’ their tech a bit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akse’s Wurenqu  Star Abyss consumption, Baicheng’s cleansing, human experiments—though from that fat bastard Zhou Lei’s mouth, the Deep Red World wasn’t targeting him specifically, but grudges have heads and debts have owners. Lin Xian desperately needed mechanical upgrades anyway, including the Jinhai train modification plan, all of which might Libukai  the Deep Red World’s natural treasure trove of technology. Honestly, Lin Xian was quite intrigued by their flesh-bioenhancement tech. Now, with Silent City’s goals aligning, he might as well go find the Deep Red World some trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, swallowing up abandoned cars on the roadside is nothing compared to devouring the Deep Red World’s high-tech gear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We took the complete backup from their Baicheng research institute and acquired the Dark Corrosion Cells. Combined with my research in the Star Abyss, we may soon achieve a breakthrough in Dark Invasion technology.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mochi Shinji turned his head, gazing calmly at Lin Xian. He heard the anger in Lin Xian’s voice but still spoke gently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin, you’ve done me a huge favor. How can I thank you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian looked out the transport ship’s window at the colossal aerospace city beneath the sunset, raising an eyebrow: “Then you’ve got a lot of thanking to do.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands of survivors aboard the United Train were now in a frenzy. After enduring endless despair and near-death, everything now felt like a dream—every soul was ecstatic, burning with passion!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some knelt on the metal floor and kissed it; some hugged strangers they’d never met and wept uncontrollably; others shouted, others cheered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We... actually made it out alive?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, tentative whispers, then as clarity dawned, desperate screams—the despair suppressed through countless Star Abyss nights now erupted as boiling blood, even the emergency ceiling lights flickering under the sonic wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My god, I see sunlight!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Awesome!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’re so damn cool!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Haha, it’s Team Leader Lin and Silent City that are cool!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silent City was no mere “city”—it was a vertically layered supermassive mobile fortress, its overall structure modeled after modular interstellar warships, yet dwarfing nearly all industrial creations in human history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though the second city, Silent Metropolis, still hadn’t returned, Silent City’s scale was unimaginable: the main city had four primary structural levels totaling over eighty-six decks. The upper deck, the [Cloud District], housed the command center and main bridge, located at the very top—a hemispherical holographic command hub where a real-time holographic projection of the entire city floated, with hundreds of tactical officers, navigators, and energy regulators working inside, though the core control was operated solely by Mochi Shinji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came the research and academy district: Mochi Shinji’s “ivory tower” set in the apocalypse, featuring an independent ecological dome with genetically modified crops, a high-level research institute covering nearly every human scientific discipline and laboratory, housing all manner of eerie entities, dark research, forbidden artifacts, and plague plants. Mochi Shinji publicly advanced the Digital Life Project here; many senior scientists, core technicians, and other survivors who joined Silent City had begun regularly storing their consciousness memories—both a technological endorsement and a post-apocalyptic hope: that even if they couldn’t escape death, one day they might survive as mechanical consciousnesses like Mochi Shinji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least, that meant no more pain or darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mid-deck was the parking zone for Silent Metropolis No. 2. As the city’s core, it was built as a steel metropolis modeled after a high-civilization urban design—but originally, it wasn’t meant for the apocalypse. The Wang family had built the first and second cities with long-term strategy in mind: the main city was purely an aerial combat mothership, allowing the second city to avoid war’s reach. This Star Abyss disaster alone proved the design’s wisdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lower deck housed Silent City’s energy core: a Titan-class nuclear fusion reactor powering the entire city, combined with four floating cities and backup power cores, giving Silent City six cores total—unbelievably powerful!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath it also lay Silent City’s primary automated industrial zone, housing nearly 70% of all industrial manufacturing lines—weapon arsenals, military production lines, continuously assembling new ammunition and combat robots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The very bottom was the Basic Materials Zone, storing all of Silent City’s raw materials and survival supplies, and also serving as the main waste processing and recycling area: all city garbage, sewage, and damaged machinery were sent here, broken down, melted, and transformed back into resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The United Train pulled into the lower-deck berth, a dedicated vehicle parking area capable of accommodating hundreds of aircraft and tens of thousands of cars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mochi Shinji parked Silent City on a flat, fertile plain, preparing to bring Silent Metropolis No. 2 back into the main city so everyone could rest, and invited the United Train’s core members to the upper decks. But Lin Xian was utterly exhausted; having escaped the Star Abyss, he intended to sleep soundly, and if he met Chu Yan, he’d exchange information then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that the United Train was sheltered by Silent City’s colossal bulk, Lin Xian felt as if he’d shed a thousand-pound burden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He returned to No. 1 car of the Infinite Train, took a shower, and lay on his bed, staring at dozens of trains and hundreds of survivor vehicles parked on the mechanical city’s deck. He exhaled deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No track crises. No Star Abyss overlords. No S-rank eerie entities. No Dark Invasion. No Red Men. No mutations. No worries about ammo or travel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t even want to check the time. Since Jiang City, Lin Xian had never felt this relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Sixuan, Kiki, and others all knew Lin Xian was exhausted. No one disturbed him. Crew members in each car were elated; Lin Xian told them to freely mingle with Qian Xu and the others. As soon as he lay down, overwhelming fatigue drowned him, and he fell into deep sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A drop of cold rain landed on his forehead. He opened his eyes to see a tall, slender silhouette standing above him, arms crossed, looking down. Rain slid down her mechanical arm, past the high-frequency blade and jet nozzle at her elbow, then dripped down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Yan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She gazed at Lin Xian, slumped against the rooftop wall’s corner, with a peculiar expression, then spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, her words were unclear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lin Xian instantly guessed the three words from her lip movements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Again you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian stood up, scanning his surroundings, immediately realizing he was in some city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light rain fell from the sky; neon ruins floated in the eternal night’s rain. Holographic billboards flickered occasionally, projecting illusions of products long gone. He turned his head, gazing from the high-rise: a vast, ruined industrial metropolis. A few core zones in the city center still glowed—likely survival zones enclosed by survivors or the Federation. Elsewhere, in the darkness, streets teemed with zombies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, seeing those rotting faces and clawed, green-skinned zombies, Lin Xian felt oddly familiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian with a strange expression: “You escaped from the Star Abyss?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How do you know again?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You usually only sleep after a crisis ends.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s this called sleeping?” Lin Xian looked at her, exasperated. “I fall asleep only to get dragged into another mission with you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Yan glanced at him: “Your consciousness connected to mine—I didn’t ask you to. Your presence might compromise my mission’s secrecy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian opened his mouth, then closed it, unsure how to respond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Truthfully, Lin Xian couldn’t confirm Chu Yan’s organization or identity, nor could he fully trust her. But this subtle connection forced them to understand each other’s backgrounds—each exchange carried mutual probing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Lin Xian fall silent, Chu Yan spoke again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t interfere with me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian leaned back, trying to let his consciousness rest: “I don’t want to either.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Yan said nothing. She leapt into the air, her thrusters blasting a vortex as she sped rapidly across the city’s night sky. Meanwhile, teammate signals kept arriving from all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the moment she landed, Lin Xian appeared again in a nearby corner—like a stubborn sticker she couldn’t shake off. Chu Yan frowned slightly, her emotions now complicated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a psychic, Chu Yan could control all mental factors—including her own thoughts and emotions. But this connection with Lin Xian gave her headaches. Combined with the sensitivity of her mission, she had to find a way to resolve this lack of control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Yan switched her communicator to silent mode, then spoke to Lin Xian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aren’t you curious why we developed this connection?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian kept his eyes closed, speaking calmly: “Curious. Then what?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d long suspected the connection began after his Gravitational Lens ability activated. The vision of Chu Yan’s face during the Star Abyss, after using the Gravitational Lens to create a black hole, confirmed it further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But why this phenomenon? And why Chu Yan? He had no idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Yan checked the time, then said to Lin Xian: “Five minutes. We exchange information—see if we can figure this out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian opened his eyes and looked at Chu Yan: “Fine. First, tell me why you showed up at my house.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I was tracking World-Class Biological Entity No. 02, the Floating Corpse. You’ve been lying low in Jiang City for so long—you must’ve noticed something,” Chu Yan said directly. “Also, your shelter once showed high-density Oscillating Spirit Value fluctuations—that’s why I investigated.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian frowned. High Oscillating Spirit Value fluctuations—could she mean Kiki?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My turn,” Chu Yan said sharply. “What ability caused this consciousness crossover with you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s a... uh...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian didn’t know how to describe it, so he said plainly: “I call it... Gravitational Lens.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At those words, Chu Yan’s expression changed instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What did you say?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Chu Yan’s reaction, Lin Xian frowned, sensing he’d guessed something. He stood up and looked at her: “I said, my ability is called Gravitational Lens.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Impossible!” Chu Yan frowned, scrutinizing Lin Xian. “How could you use this weapon?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Weapon?” Lin Xian said, instinctively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Yan paused, her gaze fixed. She fell silent, staring at Lin Xian, her eyes now filled with complex emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mechanical psychic ability... your power is truly unusual.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thanks.” Lin Xian had heard this so often it annoyed him—but from her tone, he was startled: Chu Yan knew Gravitational Lens too. And it sounded like it wasn’t a psychic ability at all—but some kind of weapon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could all the skills I’ve gained from my Mechanical Heart essentially be mechanical weaponization?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Lin Xian drew a sharp breath. The R&D center, the manufacturing plant, the decomposition center—it all made sense now. But Lin Xian was also curious: what exactly was this Chu Yan’s organization doing? How had they acquired weapons like these?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, recalling his experiences in the Star Abyss—spatial shifts, time dilation, flickering bullets, dimensional bubbles—he now found it plausible. If the Crimson World had achieved a civilizational leap in research through the Star Abyss, then Chu Yan’s organization, including the Phoenix Society, must surely possess even more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Yan exhaled, chose not to press further, and regarded Lin Xian with caution before speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“According to protocol, we should bring you back for thorough investigation. But right now, I don’t seem to want to.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re afraid your organization will capture me for study?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Yan shook her head: “Maybe. But I’m also curious—you’ve made it this far through the Star Abyss, and given your past exploits, the Phoenix Society should have found you long ago. Yet…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes lowered. “Alright. Let’s keep this line of communication open. I hope you’re trustworthy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian smiled faintly: “Don’t worry. I’m on humanity’s side.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Yan gave him a long, meaningful look, then opened her comm device: “Operation begins.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, she moved—speeding through the city’s shadows, arriving fifteen minutes later at a military base on the city’s outskirts, surrounded by high walls and pulse netting, now lit by blinding searchlights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian’s consciousness, following Chu Yan, now appeared atop the guard tower. When he looked into the base, his gaze hardened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of massive white searchlights atop the base’s towers shone like surgical lamps, illuminating the center—where lay a grotesque corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A colossal torso, over five hundred meters long, stretched across the base’s square. Except for its general form, most of its tissue had been shredded. Its skull, chest, and abdomen were riddled with wounds from countless human thermal weapons—explosion holes dense and horrifying. Its knee-high black claws were caked with charred flesh and blood; fragments of missiles and aircraft littered its body. One glance told you humanity had paid a terrible price to kill this thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This monstrous entity, undoubtedly S-class, resembled a mummified corpse. Spikes jutted from its shoulders and back, sharp as mountain ridges. Its head had no eyes—only a gaping maw. Its chest was sunken with massive hollows, the surrounding muscle fibers curled like withered vines, revealing black cavities inside—as if something had been forcibly ripped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the square, armed transport planes and cranes were carefully placing the creature’s shattered limbs and fragments. The entire military complex reeked of overwhelming bloodlust. Countless workers in gas masks labored frantically under the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Lin Xian’s eyes widened in shock. Chu Yan, noticing his expression, spoke softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is the No. 14 S-class organism that attacked Dawn City last night—named the Ash Mist Colossus. Over thirty thousand died before we finally killed it. It’s the second S-class we’ve eliminated since the West Lan  City campaign.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dawn City had such firepower—and still lost thirty thousand?” Lin Xian exclaimed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dawn City and West Lan  City were incomparable. The latter was a ruined industrial city on the western frontier, barely a small settlement with fewer than eighty thousand people—nowhere near Dawn City’s firepower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Yan replied gravely: “First, Dawn City’s population is enormous. Over a million live beyond the outer wall of Dawn City One, over three million in the old district—not even counting the inner city or underground zones. Second, you’ve underestimated S-class destruction. According to battle reports, its entire body was shielded by a dark-dimensional defense field, rendering energy weapons nearly useless—even high-temperature plasma cannons couldn’t penetrate.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then how did you kill it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Yan’s gaze swept over him: “Wore it down. We still have no way to break that crimson defense field. Fortunately, it’s not infinite, nor is it a biological-physical surface. But even without that field, its hide is so tough that low-power kinetic weapons can’t pierce it—you need tungsten-titanium armor-piercing rounds just to scratch it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian’s expression turned grim. He was about to ask something when a massive transport plane roared overhead, hauling a giant claw bone. On the side of the transport: a glaring three-pronged pillar emblem!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He frowned instantly: “The Crimson World? What the hell are they doing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Yan shook her head, eyes fixed on the base below: “We want to know too. The Phoenix Society wants to know.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian turned his head—and suddenly, black mist erupted skyward. The colossal S-class entity rose grotesquely, its monstrous, fanged head tilting toward him like a collapsing mountain, growing larger in his vision, delivering a visceral shock. He gasped, every hair on his body standing on end, his pupils reflecting those Senran  bone fangs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hss!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the No. 1 car of the Infinite, Lin Xian jolted upright, eyes blank. After a long moment, he realized it had been a hallucination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside, the entire Silent City roared with thunderous noise, shaking the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian rose instantly, pulled open the blackout panel—and saw, with stark clarity, the upper deck’s docking port opening rapidly. Amidst the starry night, a magnificent, luminous floating city hovered above, preparing to dock with the main city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Silent City] No. 2!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",5054,"2026-06-19T18:20:06.633Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","a0096b5c03b13f11db879b0734a41ff9dd768a898d7c1602ce4706f878bc9590","apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-363","apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-361",541,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fapocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-cover.jpg"]