[{"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-408":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},2262172,4414,"Chapter 408: Spirit Overload (10,000)","apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-408",408,"\u003Cp>At 12:20 PM, long past sunrise, Dawn City seemed swallowed by polar night—the black tide still shrouded the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Still no contact with Dawn City?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the Dawn Center in the Tianji Qiong Sea Strait, the operations hub was in frantic motion—countless reconnaissance aircraft and Nightwalkers had been deployed, yet no word had come from Dawn City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the base command vehicle, Li Heping, clad in a trench coat and military uniform, wore a grim expression; the tea on his desk had grown cold since last night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sky Patrol drones can’t get close—the skies over Qingbo and Changuan are black too; no signal gets through,” said Chief of Staff Liu Yalou, his face heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Numerous convoys are parked nearby, but most are just small groups or remnants of support teams with elderly, weak, and supplies left behind. Most of the armed, nearby units stormed into Dawn City last night—along with the emergency squads from Pingcheng and Yingdu, the Nightwalker organizations—all who could go, went. The outer perimeter is already a bloodbath; we can’t break through the black zones.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Chonglou, Commander of the Dawn Center Project, was a tall, thin old man who, despite his glasses, radiated lethal energy: “The newly completed Model 02 and 03 Imperial Mechs have been deployed, along with Huo Jiang’s eight Interstellar Hunters—this level of firepower is the largest since the Day of Revelation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The dawn hasn’t come—this confirms the Moonstring Operation’s intelligence. This darkness is trying to devour Dawn City. If they fail, no other zone will ever see daylight again,” Li Heping said grimly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The darkness came without warning. All our preparations were still unready. This surprise attack has become the decisive battle.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Equally anxious were the European Storm Alliance in Reykjavik, Phoenix City in Ushuaia, South America, the North American United Front in Alaska, the Noah and Republic Refuge Islands in Oceania—every surviving human left on Earth watched the Phoenix Society’s global channel, countless souls praying, and as Dawn City fell silent, despair deepened by the second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dawn City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dawn did not come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This supermetropolis, capable of housing tens of millions, had become a battlefield of the apocalypse—a hell on earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of thousands of troops, millions of survivors, countless starships and aerial vessels, artillery, arcs of lightning, smoke, roars, screams—since 4 PM yesterday, the fighting had raged for nearly twenty hours. The city walls burned all night, yet still failed to light the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black tide above seemed an iron wall of despair, completely engulfing Dawn City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seen from three thousand meters up, the entire city resembled a shattered circuit board—broken highways were charred wires, burning buildings were melted chips, and across this ruin flowed millions of monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 138-story Tianhong Center Mall had been cut clean through at mid-height; a massive Specimen-class spider crawled across the rubble, its enormous legs embedded with the half-destroyed remains of an armored vehicle. Sky-attack fighters bombed overhead, while dozens of self-propelled artillery pieces on the streets fired in unison—155mm shells detonated into flesh vortices among the horde—only for a subterranean, centipede-like creature to instantly crush everything into scrap metal, screams erupting everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the Second City Wall, nearly half the Garrison Army, the Taitiewei Brigade, and the North American United Front fleets had crashed. The Tiann ship emitted thick smoke; an Invincible-class sky-ship’s plasma main cannon still fired its dying beams, piercing three winged monsters before the hull collided with a winged dragon beast, triggering a secondary explosion. The close-defense cannon’s bullet chains hung like glowing pearl necklaces across the sky, while more monsters descended through rifts in the clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Underground Shelter No. 21, Central Metro Station · B2 Level\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emergency generators hummed; dim corridor lights illuminated tens of thousands of ashen faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most here were women, children, the elderly, the wounded, pregnant women. Aboveground artillery had roared all night—every second here felt like a year. In the far corners, muffled sobs occasionally surfaced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mom, is it daylight outside? Why hasn’t Dad come back?” A girl tugged her mother Wu Li’s sleeve, clutching a gray, one-eyed doll.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Li remained silent, staring at the ceiling. Each explosion made the fluorescent tubes shake violently; chunks of concrete dust rained down. The crowd erupted in brief screams, quickly smothered by muffled sobs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another massive explosion rocked above, sending panic through the entire shelter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it!” Retired veteran Zhang Jianjun, missing a leg, tossed his cigarette and marched on his mechanical prosthesis toward the guards: “Give us guns—we’ll fight!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jianjun’s words ignited something—the crowd stirred, some surging forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We can’t stay here anymore!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The darkness isn’t attacking now—we can still fight!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Everyone, please return to the safe zone,” said the guard commander, his expression conflicted: “Our duty is…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If they all die, hiding here means nothing,” Wu Li pushed through the crowd, her face caked in dust, her gaze unwavering: “The apocalypse has come—men, women, old, children—we’re all the same…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Give us weapons—we can kill monsters!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We can’t just wait to die…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind the commander, hundreds of Garrison soldiers stood with heavy faces. The anomaly had cut them off; their comrades were dying outside. They could no longer bear listening to voices vanish one by one over the comms. Now, all rose without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Platoon leader.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the circular defense line of the commercial square, Seventh Division Commander Zhuang Yan’s eardrums had ruptured six hours ago—he could only hear through headphones turned to maximum volume.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Fifth Avenue is fully lost? Where’s the mech division?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the line, the armored division, originally over twelve thousand strong, now had fewer than four thousand left holding positions with heavy weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Commander, over there!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhuang Yan turned—three hundred meters away, a survivor convoy smashed through burning roadblocks, charging forward. All vehicles were heavily modified base trucks, rushing into the rear of the line; thousands of survivors joined to reinforce the defenses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’re the Steel Solaris Convoy—here to support!” Jian Zeyang led his team at the front, shouting over comms: “We’ve brought supplies!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Artillery, cover them!” Zhuang Yan bellowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, on the city’s defense line, there were no ranks, no units—only humans still able to pull triggers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifth Avenue Blocking Point\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A young Garrison soldier crouched behind a commercial building’s electronic screen, clutching a sniper rifle, trembling. He was sixteen, having joined the Garrison for sniper training less than two months ago after his perception evolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twenty minutes ago, his squad leader shoved him into this cover: “Count to two hundred before you move.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reached one hundred seventy-three—outside, only the sound of monsters chewing bones remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, through the crack, he saw his squad leader’s upper body pinned under a Humvee’s wheel, still gripping the detonator; his deputy squad leader’s severed limbs, clutching an anti-tank mine as he charged into the horde; and more unidentifiable corpses. One curly-haired head looked no older than him—he recognized him; during physical training, they always ranked last together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiaofeng realized he was smiling—absurdity born of terror. He raised his rifle, aiming at the nearest monster devouring a corpse below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One shot, head exploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Twenty-eighth,” Li Xiaofeng retracted his rifle, staring at his squad leader’s corpse, murmuring: “Squad leader, I’ve broken your record.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire Fifth Avenue was surrounded by the horde, howling everywhere—the shot instantly drew countless monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then a second shot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A third.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole street seemed reduced to this single rifle report. Li Xiaofeng’s smile turned to howls, yet his reloading motions remained practiced—until a spider monster’s chelicerae pierced his lung.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he fell, he saw a sliver of gray-white through the eastern clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t dawn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was more winged monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM BOOM BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the neon streets of western city, this area had become a vast ruin of explosion shockwaves—surrounding buildings had collapsed inward, forming a crater over a kilometer in diameter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along the cracked earth’s edge, Dawn City’s underground pipes and cables were exposed—water gushed, sparks flew—like the earth of the apocalypse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this massive crater, countless black, crawling aberrations tightly stitched together Tianchu’s tentacles and Wanderer’s limb-trunks—soon, a grotesque creature over two hundred meters tall, with long limbs and tendrils, rose from the ground, radiating a chilling aura of dread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As it stood, two massive eyes, like searchlights, ignited. Its limbs stomped the ground—shaking mountains and rivers!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>AHHHHHH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fused monster let out a shuddering roar; shockwaves tore through the air like a world-ending beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it, another S-class!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huo Jiang, leading the Taitiewei mech brigade in fierce combat through the central district, saw this and cursed: “These things regenerate even after death?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Artillery battery, aim and fire!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the fused monster raised its hand and stomped toward the nearest defense line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, a Taitiewei regiment and thousands of survivors were firing wildly—but their weapons were all deflected by the monster’s limb-generated force field; ordinary arms couldn’t penetrate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>THUD THUD THUD!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The street roared—then two colossal mech figures marched forward, their steps shaking the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This time, burn it to ash!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the Zhuque, Bai Ye and Su Rui shouted in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Maximum load!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Maximum load!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WHIR!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhuque raised its plasma diffraction sword; its chest-mounted nuclear fusion turbine spun at full speed. Crimson energy lines blazed across the mech’s frame. The plasma diffraction sword roared to life, its blade extending by a third.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then both stepped forward, leaping into the crater’s center, slashing down in one blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monstrous creature swung two tendrils upward; its black geometric force field became visibly dense—but Zhuque’s plasma diffraction sword cleaved through with a violent ionizing shockwave, slicing halfway into the shield. The superheated blade carved a meter-deep gash across its skull!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s working!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the cockpit, Bai Ye and Su Rui shouted in triumph.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, behind Zhuque, a colossal demonic shadow appeared—standing firm, four hollow eyes glowing crimson, locking onto Zhuque.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your opponent is here!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the Corpse Driver’s laser could fire, a thunderous stomp echoed beside Zhuque. The Ash Whisperer gripped his Oscillating Ship-Slicing Blade, three superstring reactor phase rings humming behind him, his core nuclear engine surging—over a thousand megawatts channeled into the blade’s oscillating arc generator. The horizontal slash screamed like a jumbo jet breaking the sound barrier; red-hot metal friction and blue plasma arcs merged into a single red-blue plasma arc across the sky!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This devastating slash struck the Corpse Driver’s throat. At impact, the kinetic force detonated its red mist and stance shield in a colossal explosion—fire arcs erupted, the crackling arc audible across half of Dawn City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Corpse Driver was blasted backward, his facial tentacles flying off. He toppled, crashing into several high-rises, then rose again amid collapsing buildings. Towering over the Ash Whisperer by half his height, his massive form blotted out even the streetlights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Again!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian and Chu Yan didn’t hesitate—while Zhuque dealt with the fused S-class, they charged again toward the Corpse Driver!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ash Whisperer dragged his blade, sprinting forward, raising one hand toward the Corpse Driver. Mechanical amplifiers activated on his armored fingers; energy systems shrieked—a colossal mech-energy cannon, over two meters in diameter, fired straight at the Corpse Driver!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shot struck—his red mist and force field fully blocked it. As Lin Xian prepared to follow up, the Corpse Driver’s four hollow eyes suddenly erupted with torrents of red mist, engulfing the Ash Whisperer. Then four laser beams shot out, igniting the mist in a cataclysmic explosion!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blast was omnidirectional. Even with Lin Xian’s fastest reaction, activating an AT force shield, his exosuit armor was shredded into fragments, hurling him into the rubble—his elbow hydraulic valves exposed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the Ash Whisperer could rise, a vast darkness blotted out the smoke above—and in the next instant, the Corpse Driver lifted his entire head, unleashing a storm of dangling tentacles, lunging straight at them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Watch out!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian and Chu Yanyan shared a mental link; at this moment, he raised his arms and crossed the force field shield to block—but the Corpse Driver smashed through it directly, shattering the wrist armor in layers, while the earth behind his Jiti  collapsed with a thunderous boom, dust rising everywhere!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【WARNING: Gray Mist neural inhibition rate declining, activity level rising to 81%, exosuit synchronization efficiency dropping to 93.2%】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Viola’s warning came again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next instant, the Corpse Driver’s four blood-red eyes flared once more—this time locking directly onto the Gray Mist Emissary’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Impossible to block!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dodge!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian gritted his teeth and roared as the reactor’s phase rainbow rings spun wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Apostle: Magnetic Storm Oscillation!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WOO!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wild energy coalesced; just as the Corpse Driver’s laser beam was about to fire, a massive magnetic storm over five hundred meters in diameter erupted violently, piercing through sky and ground with arcs of lightning, successfully interrupting the Corpse Driver’s laser.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately after, both of them raised their arms, charging their power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Rocket Jet Punch!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Rocket Jet Punch!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM! Twelve detonation engines mounted behind the Gray Mist Emissary’s arms ignited instantly, generating immense thrust; combined with the electric hammers on the knuckles, both fists slammed directly into the Corpse Driver’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the Corpse Driver was knocked back, the crimson cosmic demon suddenly opened its massive mouth and unleashed a superheated flame jet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A blinding white flash swept across—parts of the Gray Mist Emissary’s chest armor, head armor, nuclear fusion power core defense plates, and surrounding rubble instantly vaporized; a wave of heat exploded outward, and in an instant, the niobium-titanium superconducting rings of the Gray Mist exosuit’s fusion turbines went dark, followed by a total cutoff of all power and energy output—all engines shut down!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive thermal shock nearly knocked Lin Xian unconscious; inside the exosuit’s main control chamber, Lin Xian, lying in the survival pod, twitched violently, blood gushing from his nostrils and ear canals like open faucets, soaking his entire face and hair within seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【HEART RATE CRITICAL, HEART RATE CRITICAL】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Activate AED system?】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin Xian! Lin Xian!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the mental space, Chu Yanyan, sensing Lin Xian’s spiritual energy fading, trembled and turned translucent—her consciousness survived through the Gray Mist’s neural filaments embedded in his body, so she felt every ounce of his agony with perfect clarity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ugh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian had just walked through the gates of death; his consciousness nearly severed. Now it flickered wildly between his self, Chu Yanyan, and the Gray Mist, as if switching perspectives nonstop, his head spinning dizzily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Watch out—it’s coming again!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian had barely regained his senses when he and Chu Yanyan saw the Corpse Driver looming above, staring down at the Gray Mist Emissary with its four demonic eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could not see the gaze, could not comprehend its thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet in that instant, both Lin Xian and Chu Yanyan felt as if the monster had “seen” them through psychic infiltration—and its emotion, they could not tell if it was confusion or rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the laser beam that followed carried a crushing, deadly force!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>ZZZZ!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, from the sky, a Hyperion directional constraint cannon fired a blinding beam of destruction, striking the Corpse Driver’s face, exploding a vast cloud of red mist and blasting it backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, three Orbital Quake Star Cannons struck from three directions, hitting the Corpse Driver at once, accompanied by a torrent of psychic explosions!\u003C\u002Fp>",2538,"2026-06-19T18:20:07.351Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","92a6a8a8f81f5fbbef32470fdd0930ced7e0aba4b8c2b7696445b589b3594025","apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-409","apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-407",541,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fapocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-cover.jpg"]