Chapter 48

Clang, clang.

A standard railway line stretched eastward for over a thousand miles through the mountain ranges. Since departing from Jiang City, the "Infinite" had traveled from night until dawn for the first time.

15:47, earlier than actually expected, dawn arrived.

Chen Sixuan had guarded the train all night and, without resting, took Lou Shasha and Lou Ye to take advantage of the daylight to count the supplies harvested last night.

Lin Xian drank a large bottle of water in the cockpit, feeling much more energetic. Fortunately, the night's travel hadn't caused any trouble affecting the train's operation, other than crushing some wandering zombies.

"Fortunately, the Heart of Machinery upgraded; otherwise, dragging so many carriages, my physical strength really couldn't have held up."

The stored energy of the electric locomotive also became less efficient due to the increased traction, and coupled with Lin Xian's ability-related physical exertion, he had to stop and rest after running for three or four hours.

"The energy problem also has to be taken seriously..."

According to his vision, in addition to the electric locomotive recovering energy through his ability, he also needed a set of backup equipment that could actively produce energy, such as a generator or fuel tank, so that he could ensure the train continued to run even when his physical strength was exhausted.

According to the law of conservation of energy, increasing the load would also increase consumption. Unless there was a small nuclear power device and his ability upgraded to join this energy cycle, this rule could not be broken to theoretically achieve infinite travel.

"Lin Gege!"

Lou Shasha shouted excitedly to Lin Xian from a distant carriage, "Come quickly!"

The train had already stopped, and Lin Xian was just about to get off to get some air. Hearing the call, he walked over. The tailboard of the No. 5 carriage had already been opened, and on the grassy slope by the railway outside, all kinds of supplies were spread out. Because they had searched in a hurry last night, many things were still stained with blood.

"Lin Xian, look, so many."

Chen Sixuan wiped the sweat from her forehead with great joy. She took a few towels, and since there was a small stream not far from the railway, she washed and counted them at the same time.

kiki jumped off the train, took Chen Sixuan's tally sheet, and her eyes lit up instantly.

"Three Colts, two Glocks 17, 12 automatic rifles of various models, and an A33K sniper rifle. There's also so much ammunition..."

"And this!" Shasha found their M36 grenade launcher from the spoils and said loudly, "This has great power."

Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the spoils all over the ground, and smiled faintly, "Now we don't have to use knives to hack at big bugs."

"By the way, bad guy, there is one more thing you absolutely wouldn't expect."

kiki giggled. She climbed into the carriage carrying the armored vehicle, opened the driver's door, took out a remote control from inside, and pressed the switch.

Woo~

At this moment, a drone cockpit on the top of the armored vehicle opened, and two small rotor reconnaissance drones slowly flew up.

"With this thing, we can patrol the situation within a 10-kilometer radius without getting off the train."

"This Qian Yu of the Black Jiao fleet is quite capable," Lin Xian said, surprised again and again, unable to help but say, "His equipment is worth a lot of money."

"But it's a pity that his heavy truck and fuel tanker were driven away..." Lou Shasha said with regret.

"In addition, the various canned goods collected from Tang Hai's two supply carriages add up to more than four hundred cans, 41 boxes of water, and even 6 boxes of cola and 3 boxes of red wine. Other foods with shorter shelf lives are piled up in half a container, and there are thousands of liters of gasoline!" Chen Sixuan breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "This is simply too exaggerated. The things we found in other survivors' vehicles aren't even one-tenth of what's in those two carriages."

"That's for sure."

Lin Xian's expression became solemn, "That old bastard Tang Hai occupied an air-raid shelter and I don't know how many survivors he looted. His family fortune is all here; it certainly couldn't be little."

It's just that he didn't expect that after calculating for so long, he ended up picking up a bargain for Lin Xian.

So many supplies were enough for 20 people to live for more than three months, and Lin Xian's side only had 5 people in total. It could be said that they were filthy rich.

At least it relieved them of the pressure of food and water for a short time.

"There is one more..."

Chen Sixuan pointed to the tail of the train with a peculiar expression. Except for those four cars, Lin Xian hadn't paid attention to the last flatbed carriage. It was only when Chen Sixuan mentioned it that he noticed that the three-meter-high 'Iron Guard 3' military assault armor and that heavy TFV600 twin-barreled tank had also been loaded onto the train at some point, placed behind the last two flatbed trailers. Lin Xian's expression shook, "When did you get this onto the train? Using a crane?"

This was obviously unlikely, because the small crane was electric and could not be used by anyone except Lin Xian, and how could that small crane lift a tank and armor weighing tens of tons?

"Hmph~"

At this moment, a proud hum came. kiki crossed her arms, jumped off the train, raised her small face, and said,

"That was naturally gotten on by this young lady for you. This thing was incredibly heavy, and it took a lot of effort."

Lin Xian felt a joy in his heart. He had originally been worried about it, thinking that even if it couldn't be repaired, using it for consumption would be a good choice. Who knew that kiki had already used her ability to load it onto the train for him.

It seemed that his letting this little girl rest in advance last night was indeed correct; it came in handy at a critical moment.

"You've got a good eye. I'll reward you with canned meat today."

"Who cares about your canned meat," kiki said triumphantly, "You... you just need to get that radar system and those computers done for me today. Oh, by the way, and the heating. It was freezing cold last night..."

"Cold?"

Lin Xian's gaze swept toward Chen Sixuan. Last night he was enjoying the warm nest and didn't notice the severe cold outside.

!

Chen Sixuan's face turned red, and she hurriedly avoided his gaze, stammering, "Yeah, it's already several degrees below zero during the day now."

As if in response, while the few were talking, a desolate, dry, cold wind blew, making people shiver uncontrollably.

The weather was getting colder and colder, and snow was coming. Low temperature was also a severe test for survivors.

kiki and Chen Sixuan found some fitting clothes from the collected luggage, while Lin Xian and Lou Ye, perhaps because their bodies had been enhanced by abilities, were not that cold.

"By the way, where is Da Lou?"

Because of Lou Ye's physique, everyone unanimously agreed to call him 'Da Lou'.

"Xian Ge." As they were speaking, Lou Ye stood up far away from the supply pile. In front of him was a motorcycle being repaired; it was exactly Lin Xian's.

"Hey, didn't I tell you? He is better at repairing things," kiki said to Da Lou with great interest.

Da Lou scratched his head honestly, holding a wrench in his hand, "This... I also know a little."

"Really?"

Hearing that Da Lou knew some mechanics, Lin Xian nodded and said with a smile, "Since we are all our own people here, I'll speak openly."

After speaking, he turned and pulled a heavy steel plate from the No. 5 carriage and threw it on the ground.

Immediately, he waved one hand, and a mysterious light flashed. The steel plate rose out of thin air, quickly rolled into a standard shield shape in the air, and then fell to the ground.

The other few were stunned.

Chen Sixuan covered her mouth in surprise. This was the first time Lin Xian had shown his Heart of Machinery ability in front of everyone, besides driving the train...

The Lou siblings looked surprised, and Lou Shasha exclaimed, "Wow, Lin Gege, what kind of ability do you actually have?"

kiki widened her eyes and puffed out her cheeks as she watched this scene. It could be seen that she hadn't reacted either.

Originally, she thought Lin Xian's ability was to drive the train, and later she discovered he could make ice cubes and even shoot guns with his bare hands. But now seeing him fold a steel plate out of thin air, this ability seemed very similar to hers.

Even though she had read through the internal materials of the "Angel Project," she felt she couldn't understand it at all at this moment.

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(End of chapter)