[{"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-409":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},2262173,4414,"Chapter 409","apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-409",409,"\u003Cp>Boom boom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky was thick with rain and thunder roared; beneath the dark ruins of Central City, violent earthquakes began to ripple, searchlights swept over, and before the stunned eyes of countless onlookers, a colossal S-class entity—its body covered in gray-white bone spines, its entire frame stripped bare except for fragments of suppression armor on its head—slowly rose, steam of blood and flesh billowing around it, its twenty-four EVA restraint locks completely shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What stood up was not the Mist Messenger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was… the Mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kiki, high in the sky, watched this scene, her face filled with horror, and she whispered softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin Xian…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she immediately charged toward the ruins without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Large fragments of bio-armor still littered the area, the ground soaked in a mist of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this carnage, Kiki immediately used her psychic force to clear the dust and frantically searched for Lin Xian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin Xian! Lin Xian!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the towering S-class Mist entity let out a deep, guttural growl; Kiki snapped back to awareness and prepared to use her psychic force in resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, suddenly, Lin Xian’s voice came through her headset.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kiki, get out of here!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin Xian?” Kiki exclaimed. “Where are you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where I’m supposed to be…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the remaining suppression unit’s main cabin of the Mist Messenger’s head, Lin Xian lay still within the survival pod; before severing his neural connection, he sent it one final command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Go berserk!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mist now steamed with searing heat; its suppressed motor cortex now held only violent aggression, and its gaze slowly turned toward the… Corpse Driver, who was attacking survivors and soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ughhh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, the colossal S-class entity shed all mechanical restraints and charged forward with thunderous steps toward the Corpse Driver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Corpse Driver, which had just been firing laser beams at the Huojiang Iron Guard Brigade, sensed an anomalous presence, turned around, and prepared to activate Dark Mark detection—but was met by a bone-spine fist as devastating as a mountain collapsing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The punch carried immense force; the collision of the two titans erupted in a deafening roar, and a visible white shockwave rippled outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strangely, the Mist’s punch did not trigger any defensive field or red mist from the Corpse Driver—it simply shattered half its face, spraying tissue and blood in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mist did not pause after the punch; it followed with a direct Yang Kick, sending the Corpse Driver stumbling backward into several high-rises, then lunged forward with a third strike—a knee thrust that drove sharp bone spines straight through the Corpse Driver’s sternum, knocking it flat on its back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Corpse Driver, hundreds of meters tall, crashed backward with a thunderous crash, triggering violent tremors and a storm of dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, every soldier and survivor in the city stood frozen; the bizarre scene wasn’t just an S-class anomaly attacking its own ally—the key shock was that this bone-spined, alien-like Mist was fighting with… a military fist technique!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the Twin Stars Tower, the Phoenix Society’s senior leadership stared in disbelief; just as Huo Jiang and Lu Tianye prepared to direct all artillery fire at the two titans, Ye Lan suddenly spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Redirect firepower to other monster waves—this Mist is definitely being controlled by Lin Xian!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>High in the sky, in the Silent City, Kishiki Shinji immediately noticed this; he contacted Lin Xian via communicator—but Lin Xian’s voice had weakened to near silence, replaced mostly by… the sound of thundering fists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On a stretch of ruins, a bizarre scene unfolded: the berserk Mist entity was furiously punching the even larger Corpse Driver, each blow shaking the earth and exploding dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the Corpse Driver, whose torso was nearly destroyed, finally prepared to retaliate—hum!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, four laser beams pierced the Mist’s sternum, carving four massive blood holes—but the Mist showed no sign of pain, no psychic feedback, only bloodlust and unrelenting berserk rage; each punch shattered the Corpse Driver’s face, while the Corpse Driver’s torso continuously regenerated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The earth-shattering battle unleashed violent energy; flesh and tissue flew everywhere. The Corpse Driver unleashed a white shockwave, peeling away layer after layer of the Mist’s tissue. The bio-armor suppression unit’s main control cabin, Viola, sensed the crisis and immediately severed all connections; just before she could fully obliterate the Mist’s torso, the suppression device on its head suddenly opened, and a dancer robot equipped with thrusters shot out two survival pods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the Mist froze in place, holding its punching stance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hum! Hum!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One shockwave after another annihilated the Mist’s skin, burned its tissue to ash, and blasted its organs into the air—until finally, the Corpse Driver’s shockwave reduced the Mist to nothing but a skeleton, which collapsed with a crash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On a ruined high-rise, Viola retrieved the two survival pods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hiss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the pods, caked in blood, opened; Lin Xian struggled out, collapsing onto the ground, gasping for breath, trembling violently—his severe psychic overload had triggered hallucinations, his vision blurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Viola…” Lin Xian whispered weakly. “Is she alive…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【No life response.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Initiating second AED protocol.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zzzt!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flash of brilliance illuminated the other cryo-pod; Chu Yan lay inside, her face deathly pale, blood continuously seeping from her nose and mouth—still no reaction. At the last moment, he had pulled her cryo-pod from the Black Star Forge, attempting to revive her consciousness—but the outcome had not followed his hopes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian sighed softly, tried to stand, but his body refused to obey; his head throbbed with unbearable pain. He could only let Viola drag him up and lean him against Chu Yan’s cryo-pod, his gaze fixed on the ruined city of Dawn City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is the 7th Garrison Division’s West Street position. Our air defense array’s power has been cut. Ammunition exhausted. Repeat: ammunition exhausted!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chen Weiguo, Zhao Gang—move your 4th and 11th Divisions immediately to the riverfront line in front of Wall Two!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All special operations teams—concentrate at Xinggang and Central Tower. Protect the City Ring!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Central Street urgently needs medical teams—hurry, casualties are severe here!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Dawn Watch Alliance and Iron Bastion convoys have been scattered in Upper South District—everyone, retreat eastward!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t give up—the City Ring of Dawn City is still shining!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin Xian, Lin Xian, can you hear us? Our train is surrounded—we need…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where are you, Lin Xian?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Captain Lin!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his headset, voices from every channel buzzed chaotically—commands, shouts, roars, sobs, pleas—human voices converging on the radio frequencies like a symphony of despair, etched onto a phonograph stone from a dying civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>16:45. The sky remained dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark tide, like an endless gloom, smothered Dawn City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once a thriving metropolis of wisdom, Night City, had become a living hell. The brilliant holographic skies had gone dark, replaced by churning smoke like boiling asphalt—thick, suffocating, obscuring the entire heavens. Rain had fallen for two days and nights, and when wind occasionally tore through the smoke, it revealed no blue sky—only blood-red thunderclouds, glowing from distant, still-burning fires reflected in the ash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>High above, the wreckage of several crashed hovercraft still hung between skyscrapers, cables snapped, hulls tilted—like giant beasts nailed to crosses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Toward Wall Two, the inner district still blazed with fire; artillery lit the sky. The entire Dawn City front had been split in two, and the human line continued to shrink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath the ruins lay the bodies of the young; in the flames burned the immortal ashes of the fallen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the storm clouds, lightning flashed, fire blazed across the heavens; a terrifying serpent-shaped silhouette loomed within the thunder, its scale surpassing even the Silent City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All anomalies grew more frenzied; in the darkness, endless creatures seemed to crawl endlessly from the three Star Abysses, devouring humanity, devouring Dawn City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far away, the Corpse Driver, whose upper torso had been shattered by the berserk Mist, now pulsed with black mist; before the eyes of countless despairing onlookers, it restored itself fully—and this time, it did not head toward Wall Two, but marched through artillery fire straight toward the ruins where Lin Xian lay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom. Boom. Each step shook the earth, radiating an aura of annihilation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t let the large anomalies enter the city—the Corpse Driver will regenerate from it!” Inside the Phoenix’s cockpit, locked in battle with a fused S-class anomaly, Bai Ye and Su Rui saw the Corpse Driver approaching Lin Xian’s position, and shouted as they swung their plasma diffraction swords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the western city wall, the deep-blue Black Tortoise slashed open a chasm worm burrowing from the ground; then Qin Yue and Qin Chuan raised their heads, staring at the tide of anomalies pouring through the wall breach and the towering silhouettes of larger anomalies behind them—the brothers’ bloodshot eyes met.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom! With the Qin brothers’ furious roar, the Black Tortoise’s nuclear core erupted in a piercing hum; plasma beams blasted wildly, then both raised their right arms, stepped forward several paces, and stood like an unbreakable wall across the breach in the city wall, blocking the flood of anomalies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Teacher Ye.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Twin Stars Tower command center, Ye Lan, standing for a full day and night, heard a weak voice in his headset.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin Xian, where are you?” Ye Lan’s voice remained calm, and from that aged, unwavering tone, everyone could feel an indomitable strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Teacher Ye… does darkness truly fear?” In the ruins, Lin Xian felt the chaotic S-class energy after his berserk state, watched the approaching Corpse Driver, and knew his psychic penetration might have drawn the attention of this dark entity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Lan replied: “We cannot comprehend a civilization through human thought. From a cosmic perspective, whether it’s ants or humans at the top of the food chain, all face survival crises—this applies equally to advanced and primitive civilizations.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But our resistance seems meaningless before such a civilization—does that mean we have no power to resist?” Lin Xian, watching the towering shadow draw near, felt no great fear of death in his weakness—only frustration and rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Lan replied patiently: “The suspicion chain between civilizations cannot be broken—it’s a fundamental axiom of cosmic sociology. Like hunters moving through a dark forest, every civilization must treat others as threats—because survival is the first need of any civilization, and the total mass of matter in the universe remains constant. The difference between advanced and primitive civilizations is merely the range of their rifles. Ants cannot understand why humans destroy their nests; we cannot understand why dark entities destroy human civilization. But one thing is certain.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?” Lin Xian asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They cannot effectively and completely destroy us—at least not in the short term. Perhaps they harbor some purpose. But all this proves one thing: they lack the godlike understanding of us.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian listened to Ye Lan’s words, watched the approaching Corpse Driver, and, weakly leaning against Chu Yan’s cryo-pod, replied.\u003C\u002Fp>",1810,"2026-06-19T18:20:07.351Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","1718c6493da5a2c033fb6b08bfbff43929bcce291db4aecdf709a24dcd0677bb","apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-410","apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-408",541,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fapocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-cover.jpg"]