Chapter 387: Infinite Recruitment Plan

"Very simple?"

Lin Xian looked at the dark, hollow tunnel ahead, the subway train speeding along the tracks, and said: "Did you imagine my mechanical ability to be too magical?"

Jian Xuwei said: "Dawn City's main control core is iterated from the earliest AI intelligent control 【Heart of the Galaxy】. Its computing power is second only to Phoenix City and Mochizuki Shinji. This kind of core, without guessing, must be strictly protected in the Star City Underground City, with a huge subsystem and cooling collection. Wanting to control it means facing the Federation's most elite armed forces."

"Then you still say it's simple."

"Relatively speaking," Jian Xuwei said blandly: "At least for you, many mechanical protection problems can be ignored."

"Then we can't just kill our way in, right?" Kiki walked over at this moment, then looked at Lin Xian: "There's one more point I've always had a question about, which is that the Phoenix Society hopes you control the main control hub. Specifically, to what extent do you need to do it?"

"Analyzing by the situation, it definitely won't be short-term control."

Qian Dele said: "The Phoenix Society wants to lift Dawn City's defensive power, which needs a process. I'm also puzzled. Even if you control the main control, what next? The Federation isn't stupid. As long as the alarm sounds, you'll become a prisoner in 5 minutes."

Lin Xian stared: "There will be people meeting us inside the city. This kind of action is not our unilateral advance. If I'm not mistaken, now the Silent City, Changuan, Qingbo, Tianwei, and Yongcheng Port are all taking action. What the Phoenix Society wants to do is actually to prevent some people in Dawn City from jumping over the wall in a hurry and acting against their own people."

"Zhou Mingyuan?"

"Not just him," Kiki said: "Isn't it said that the Deep Red World might be hiding in Dawn City?"

"Right."

Jian Xuwei nodded: "So we must act carefully."

"Then what about your Silver Star?" Lin Xian looked at her at this moment: "Moving the Silver Star at this time, the Federation people will definitely know it's you acting."

"Don't worry, the Silver Star is just a vehicle. As long as my people are safe, this problem won't affect our main purpose of entering the city," Jian Xuwei said with a calm face.

Lin Xian opened his mouth, thinking that this woman is really open-minded. The Eternal-class Silver Star can be said to be the most sci-fi train vehicle Lin Xian has ever seen besides the Sky Dome Train. It seems she is really a rich person. However, Jian Xuwei has already cooperated with Lin Xian and joined the Sky Dome Interstellar Train, so there is indeed a guarantee for doomsday vehicles.

*Whoosh, whoosh. *

The shuttle subway traveled at high speed. Ten minutes later, this small rail train turned out from a secret section and then slowly stopped in a spare maintenance section.

"We're here. Ahead is the main line track. Now underground traffic is not allowed to run in Dawn City. That side has been completely blocked, but we dug a hole, so we can go out from the platform." The person driving in front was a shrewd-looking young man named Ke Zai, who was the guide sent by Jian Zeyang. At this moment, he stopped the train engine and opened the carriage door: "Team Jian, Lin Dui, I'll take you."

"Alright."

Immediately, the group got off the platform in the cold and dark tunnel, walking forward along the roadside maintenance passage. The flashlight beam illuminated the tunnel walls, gradually changing from narrow to wide, and a dull, moldy smell filled their nasal cavities.

After walking for a while, overturned subway cars began to appear in the huge tunnel, rusted cars were stacked layer upon layer, coupled with a large amount of metal debris, gradually blocking the tunnel tightly.

Lin Xian jumped onto the roof of an oil tanker at this moment, holding a flashlight and shining it into the distance. He saw that the front had been completely sealed by metal piles like a mountain, and the innermost part seemed to have been completely welded shut by steel bars, concrete, and steel frames, sealing the underground tunnel completely.

"Dawn City's underground traffic is very developed, but strange entities easily appear in dark places, so the Federation sealed all underground tunnel systems a long time ago. They are all high-strength concrete several meters thick plus prefabricated armor plates, sealed very tightly." Ke Zai walked to a secret corner at this moment and moved a metal billboard aside. The passage emitted a *chi chi chi* echo, deafening. At this time, under the billboard was an abandoned refrigerator. He opened the refrigerator door, and inside was actually a passage that people could pass through!

Seeing the passage behind the refrigerator, Kiki's eyes lit up: "Wow, it's secret enough."

Ke Zai smiled: "This wasn't built by us at the beginning, but now it's an exclusive passage for several of our alliances."

He said this and nimbly drilled in. Lin Xian and the others followed and walked in, discovering that this was a lower passage opened from various metal debris, winding all the way, passing through carriages and cabinet doors, turning and turning, until a gray cement wall appeared in front, and Lin Xian knew they had come through that pile of debris.

And a small hole had been opened in that cement wall, which was pitch black inside, enough to accommodate one person to drill through.

"How was a hole drilled in such a thick defensive wall?" Qian Dele frowned after taking a look.

"Low-level strange entities and zombies are difficult, but for humans, it's not troublesome," Xiang Xiang Ningjing said at this moment: "Abilities, robots, all can do it. Even if it's just ordinary automated tools, as long as you spend time, you can solve it."

"That's true," Lin Xian said: "So if strange entities knew about human behavior, it would be even more troublesome for us."

While speaking, Ke Zai had already led the group out of the low tunnel. As soon as they came out, the internal tunnel was covered by large areas of wire mesh. He signaled for the group not to move, then picked up a communicator.

"Oil Sparrow, Oil Sparrow, please answer if received."

"What's wrong?"

"There are biological sensors and infrared nets here," Lin Xian said. He had just prepared to act a few seconds ago, only to find that Ke Zai was already contacting something, thinking that there should be people meeting them inside.

But after waiting for more than ten seconds, there was still no response.

"What's going on, the communication shows normal..." Ke Zai was alert at this moment. Just as he was preparing to try to contact his companions again, two violent pulse rays suddenly lit up from the far end, the sound shrill.

"Careful!"

In an instant, Lin Xian had already raised his hand to use the AT force field shield. Only a *pfft* sound was heard, firelight exploded in front, and Ke Zai next to him was pierced in the shoulder, screaming "Ah~" and flying backward.

*Whoosh whoosh whoosh*, the next moment, more intensive shooting rang out in the darkness, and the group changed color immediately.

"Retreat!"

Electric light surged on Lin Xian's hand, the AT force field shield expanded several times instantly. At the same time, Kiki had already made a move, her psychic wave lifting all the wire mesh and roadblocks into the air, pressing the line of fire toward the darkness. *Bang bang bang*, in an instant, the countless pulse rays blasted the wire mesh and roadblocks in the air, sparks flying everywhere.

At this time, the gunfire stopped suddenly, and an amplifier sound rang out in the darkness in the distance.

"Intruders, this is the Dawn City Night Patrol. Please give up resistance and accept investigation. If you do not cooperate, we will shoot you dead according to Federation law!"

Hearing this, Lin Xian frowned immediately, thinking this was too unlucky. Just entered and was caught, how could it be such a coincidence?

"The Night Patrol's armed configuration is very high, be careful to deal with it," Jian Xuwei said with a defensive voice, her power armor face cover already covered.

"Should we do it?" Xiang Xiang Ningjing clenched her fists and stood out, a powerful sense of strength lingering around her.

"Lin Xian, what should we do?" Kiki asked at this moment.

Lu Xingchen on the side was alert with fire gathered in his hands. If it were strange entities, he would have already sent a fire fist over, but they were now facing Federation personnel, and they were on a sneaking mission, so he didn't act directly without Lin Xian's word.

"Two ways, either retreat or kill them all," Lin Xian's face sank.

"Please disarm and cooperate with the investigation," the shouting voice came again.

"Don't do it yet," Lin Xian whispered to Kiki at this moment: "Wait for my action, see how many people there are."

"Hmm," Kiki nodded.

Immediately, Lin Xian pretended to raise his hands, but did not cancel the AT force field, letting the group huddle toward him. At this moment, he had already silently devoured and controlled all monitoring and detection equipment within a range of several hundred meters in this tunnel.

He looked sideways at Ke Zai who had fallen to the ground. Shizhi was treating him. Fortunately, his reaction was fast just now, otherwise that frontal shot would have definitely made this young man pay the price here.

At this time, blinding light lit up in the tunnel ahead. Several attack drones flew over with bright lights, surrounding Lin Xian's group. Accompanied by a burst of footsteps, a group of people walked out of the darkness, all holding guns aimed at Lin Xian's side alertly.

These people were all wearing high-end power armor and holding arc pulse guns. Seeing this scene, Lin Xian and the others all put on power armor masks.

The leader didn't wear a helmet. His face was fierce, and the bandit-like scar on his face and that police power armor configuration labeling official justice looked a bit out of place. The leader scanned Lin Xian's group and said coldly:

"Hey hey hey, which gods are these? All high-end power armor. Looks like you guys have good luck tonight. Why are you still walking the smuggling channel when you're so rich?"

Lin Xian listened to the other party's words and said immediately: "Is it a fine?"

"Fine?" The leader laughed strangely upon hearing this and nodded: "Right, of course there's a fine."

He said this and immediately aimed his gun at Lin Xian's face, saying sternly: "Everyone disarm your power armor for me, and tell me where your transport vehicle is parked?"

Jian Xuwei, Mo Nika, and the others behind Lin Xian changed their expressions slightly upon hearing this. Their gazes met, and they instantly noticed some abnormalities.

"Don't you understand what I'm saying!" Seeing Lin Xian and the others unmoved, the leader's face sank, his voice carrying a hint of anger.

Lin Xian said at this moment: "How many people do you have?"

"What?"

"Oh, don't misunderstand, we have a lot of things," Lin Xian said seriously: "Afraid you won't have enough to share."

"..." The scarred face was stunned for a moment, then his expression gradually turned cold.

"Playing with me, huh? I..."

Before he finished speaking, Kiki next to Lin Xian pinched her two fingers, and an invisible giant force instantly squeezed all dozen people together. Their power armor emitted a *creak* of metal distortion, and sparks flew everywhere for a time.

"Ability user?!"

The scarred face reacted extremely quickly. At the moment of being controlled, his eyes turned red, and his whole body erupted with powerful blood energy fluctuations. Coupled with the power feedback of the power armor, he immediately prepared to break free from the restraint.

And at this time, all the drones surrounding Lin Xian lost control and fell to the ground simultaneously. At the same time, a white drone flew quickly to the top of this group of people!

"Thunder Prison" drone!

*Woo! Zzz! *

In an instant, a dazzling electromagnetic explosion erupted, immediately stunning everyone.

"I thought you were going to kill them all," Mo Nika said curiously, seeing Lin Xian and Kiki act swiftly to solve the dozen people. "You think they are Night Patrol people and are afraid of causing trouble?" Jian Xuwei noticed Lin Xian's thoughts and said.

Lin Xian sighed: "But this group doesn't look like law enforcement, they look more like they're here to rob."

"They should have information synchronization devices on them. Whether you kill them or not, they've probably already been discovered," Qian Dele stood out at this moment and said.

Sure enough, just as Lin Xian and the others solved this group, intensive shooting suddenly rang out in the tunnel in the distance, but it wasn't toward Lin Xian's side. Accompanied by it were various powerful air explosions and the screams of a group of people.

The group reacted immediately. A battle was happening ahead, and this battle didn't last long. In less than half a minute, the sound completely subsided.

Not long after, before anyone was seen, a familiar, clear, and bright voice rang out first.

"Better early than late. A few minutes ago, I was still thinking if this group of Night Patrol soldiers would be thinking of hitting the Konggu platform, didn't expect it to be true."

Jiang Yun walked with wind, followed by Ren Huiyan and a group of people who looked fully armed and not weak, walking out of the shadows, looking at Lin Xian and saying:

"Long time no see, Lin Dui."

The people beside him saw the group of unconscious people in front of Lin Xian at this moment, suddenly all raised their guns and fired, killing them all directly.

"Guessed it was you," Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief at this moment, looking behind Jiang Yun: "You killed the Night Patrol people directly, won't there be trouble?"

"The Night Patrol is already in chaos," Jiang Yun said: "You think this group of people is here in the middle of the night to patrol diligently?"

"The Night Patrol responsible for this area has all taken our benefits," Ren Huiyan beside Jiang Yun said at this moment: "Now there is some chaos in the city, some people want to fish in troubled waters and get some benefits. There are Night Patrol people here, and also thugs wearing Federation skins killing and robbing everywhere."

"Now in the City of Night, people are dying every day. Except for the inner city and some core areas that have the territory of large fleets, other places are not very safe." Jiang Yun walked to the side of the scarred face while speaking, using his foot to turn his head away, revealing a ferocious wolf head tattoo behind his ear.

"It's the Blood Wolf Gang again. This group of people originally mixed into Dawn City by robbing along the way. The Night Patrol power armor on their bodies should also have been robbed. But running into you guys this time, they kicked an iron plate."

Lin Xian frowned: "Is it so chaotic in the city? Heh, if I had known, I wouldn't have been so polite to them."

"Exactly," Kiki looked at the Blood Wolf Gang people on the ground with dissatisfaction: "Pity I didn't dare to use too much force, afraid of killing them all."

Ren Huiyan looked at the group of people whose power armor had been distorted and then looked at Kiki, her face slightly surprised.

"It's okay, the monitoring in this area is offline. We have already..." Jiang Yun looked up at the surroundings of the tunnel, wanting to talk about the monitor, but found that the wall was empty, not even a wire head left. Immediately, he was speechless, his gaze looking at Lin Xian: "This..."

"Just in case," Lin Xian said.

"Lin Dui is cautious," Jiang Yun said approvingly.

After speaking, he looked at Ke Zai behind Lin Xian and immediately said to his subordinates: "Xiao Mo, arrange treatment."

"Alright!"

Several people came out from the crowd immediately, taking Ke Zai away. Jiang Yun also said to Lin Xian: "This is not the place to talk, come with me first."

Subsequently, the group left from the secret passage of the platform. 1:00 AM, rainy night, a strange smell permeated the old alley. Except for one or two pink bar lights flickering, telling passersby that there were still a few wind-and-moon dance halls singing and dancing.

Raindrops condensed on the wires fell on the tin lid of the trash can, making an annoying rhythm.

Stench, tranquility, weirdness.

The roadside was full of rain shelters built by survivors. Except for the garrison camp personnel patrolling, after Vice Chairman Zhou Mingyuan announced the city-wide curfew, the streets at 1:00 AM were empty.

Old City District, a cramped residential tube building had low-brightness cold lights on each floor, appearing very crowded. A large number of armed vehicles occupied several blocks. This entire building was Jiang Yun's fleet station. There was a special modified room on the rooftop. Jiang Yun brought Lin Xian's group here and introduced:

"It's safe here for now, but I know you didn't come here to visit the night market. Well, there's nothing left to visit in Dawn City. There is one more month until the dawn will never be seen here again. In the future, it will be a City of Night in name and reality."

After speaking, he looked at Lin Xian and smiled, reaching out to Lin Xian: "Almost forgot, happy cooperation."

Lin Xian shook hands with him: "I thought you had already withdrawn from the city ahead of time."

"Had that thought, but I guessed you might enter the city, so I stayed behind for the time being, thinking I could meet you. Isn't this just right?"

"Jiang Yun, how is the situation now?" Jian Xuwei asked at this moment.

"Not bad, at least it's stable on the surface."

Jiang Yun's expression was cold, and he said directly: "But now the Night Patrol and the City Defense Garrison are in a high-pressure state. Curfew is the simplest. Once mutation populations or Red Man Ghost attacks occur, it is often large-scale death, but most of those who die are caught in the crossfire."

"Indiscriminate cleaning?" Lin Xian frowned.

"Pretty much," Jiang Yun said: "The Federation is very tight, and the residents in the city are also like birds startled by the bow. Although the Deep Red World matter was temporarily suppressed by Zhou Mingyuan, now many people feel that something might happen..."

"Why?"

Jiang Yun pointed to the north.

"Phoenix Society?"

"Yes."

"The Zhen Tian ship stationed there is absolute pressure for Dawn City. No matter if the Phoenix Society came to clean up the Advent Sect or for some other purpose, this gave a signal to the people in the city that Dawn City is going to have a big event. And now the water resource pressure caused by the dark invasion is getting greater and greater, so unless Dawn City is completely sealed, it can't block the people who want to evacuate."

"This is just the first day, tomorrow will probably be even livelier," Jiang Yun said: "Now it's night, so it's all quieted down."

"Do you know where the Daili You Society is?" Lin Xian asked at this moment.

"I know."

Lin Xian checked the time: "How far is it from here?"

"I have already received the news from Chairman Jian ahead of time, but if you want to act at night with so many people, it's not easy."

Jiang Yun looked at Lin Xian and then walked to the window, pointing to the cybernetic urban jungle layered in the rainy night. In the sky, various police and monitoring-type floating robots patrolled past at any time.

"There are three million monitors in this city, and there are more than four thousand patrol airships alone, not to mention countless types of police drones and attack drones, so..."

"If it's not an emergency, it's recommended that you act during the day."

Lin Xian looked at the huge city forest silhouette outside and sighed: "Alright, accepting suggestions is a good quality."

"So, is our mission tonight finished?" Mo Nika leaned on the sofa, legs crossed, and sighed: "I thought there would be other activities after entering the city."

"Jiang Yun, tell Lin Dui about the team situation," Jian Xuwei said at this moment: "The subsequent dispatch of the alliance will be arranged by him."

"Don't be so polite."

Lin Xian waved his hand directly: "Arranging dispatch is still up to you. Now the situation is a bit unclear, we don't know what the Federation and the Phoenix Society will do next, so it's good to keep a low profile now."

Jiang Yun smiled and said: "Actually, it's about the same as when we were at the Yubei Airport, all people united in the face of danger. There are 26 fleets here, large and small, with eight or nine thousand people at most, and a hundred or so at least. Those that can merge have merged together, but major fleets are self-managed. You don't need to worry about the food, clothing, housing, and transportation of these tens of thousands of people, or resource allocation. It's just that in the apocalypse, everyone needs a general direction. Because many people recognize the Phoenix Society, the Red Phoenix Order fleets are generally very appealing. Jiang Yun and Chairman Jian are both, and your appeal, Lin Dui, goes without saying. These people are allied together, actually all wanting to hold onto the Phoenix Society through you."

"That's right."

Qian Dele sat back: "Blame this dark invasion for causing information blockage, coupled with dark marks, large-scale organizations are difficult to develop. Eight or nine thousand people are already very huge, and the management cost is not small. This way of alliance marching is reasonable."

He said this and looked at Lin Xian: "But if Lin Xian wants me to merge into your fleet and work for you, I'm willing, it saves me trouble."

"I agree too," Mo Nika said.

"Jiang Yun, we killed so many people in the tunnel, will it cause problems?" Xiang Xiang Ningjing, who was always cautious, said at this moment.

"No, I've already called people to clean it up. Besides, the Night Patrol has no energy to pay attention to that piece," Ren Huiyan said: "So don't worry about this."

"Right."

At this time, Jiang Yun took his mobile phone and walked over from the window with great interest, handing it to Lin Xian and Jian Xuwei.

"You might be very interested in this news."

Lin Xian and the others all leaned in to look. Instantly, their expressions changed slightly. Jian Xuwei frowned in surprise, and Kiki's eyes widened directly.

I saw on the screen a post from the Dawn City intranet forum, and the title of the post was:

"Infinite Train Recruitment Plan—Mechanical Ability User Qin Feng recruits doomsday powerhouses to join the Eternal-class armed train Silver Star, rushing along the 320,000-kilometer ring star orbit!"

Lin Xian was stunned, then cursed lightly:

"Damn..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 388 =====