Chapter 49

At this moment, everyone looked at Lin Xian in unison.

Lin Xian took a deep breath. After thinking about it all night, he decided to use multiple abilities to explain his own power, "Indeed, my ability is not just one. Besides being able to make the train move, I can also repair machinery and manufacture machinery. Because of this, I had the confidence to start this Infinite Train project."

Lin Xian couldn't always sneakily consume and manufacture machinery. Since they were teammates, it was better to be honest.

"If there are materials and blueprints, I can directly manufacture weapons, equipment, and armor. As long as it is related to machinery, I can handle it."

The Lou siblings looked at each other in surprise. Lou Shasha gasped and said, "Wow, Lin Gege, you are so amazing. I knew I didn't save the wrong person!!"

Lin Xian looked at kiki with great interest at this time.

"Little girl, the manufacturing I just mentioned includes the radar system, sentry system, weapon system, defense system, drones, rail cars, medical, life support systems, and powered armor you envisioned... Now, do you still think my Infinite Train project is a fantasy?"

kiki's expression was slightly startled. She opened her mouth, then stubbornly met Lin Xian's smiling gaze and said stubbornly,

"So... so what? Can you design and control all these systems by yourself?"

"No."

Lin Xian smiled and looked at kiki, "So I need a genius girl like you to join. Without your information center, wouldn't these things be empty shells?"

Hearing this, a hint of secret joy flashed in kiki's eyes. She glanced at Lin Xian cunningly and smiled with satisfaction,

"Oh... these words sound so comfortable today. Fine, if you can get the heating done, then this young lady will consider it."

"Okay."

Lin Xian breathed a long sigh of relief and looked at Chen Sixuan and the others.

"At first, I just wanted to build a mobile safety fortress so I could survive in this shitty dark night and apocalypse. But since this train started, we have lived in various terrors and dangers every day. Everyone should be the same as me, living from hand to mouth, running around just to catch a breath and drink a sip of water. Many people died in the Polar Night, and those who are alive are almost driven crazy..."

"So I realized that in this apocalyptic dark winter, this train needs many friends. Only together can we live longer and run further."

"The 320,000-kilometer orbital ring—we may not be able to finish it, and we may not be able to escape the Polar Night. There may be countless troubles on the road, but as long as there is a chance to live one more day, I don't want to give up. As long as I have a trace of strength, I won't let this train stop. So I hope that everyone who gets on this train is family, facing life and death together in the future."

His words were very casual, plain, and like chatting.

But at this moment, the gazes of the other few were quietly changing.

kiki put away that cunning, her gaze fixed on Lin Xian, not knowing what she was thinking.

Lou Shasha bit her lip, her eyes seeming to have less timid tension and more hope.

Da Lou looked at his sister and then at Lin Xian, nodding. Although he didn't say anything, his gaze became much firmer.

Chen Sixuan's eyes were a bit red at this time. At first, she relied on Lin Xian just to save herself. Now, hearing Lin Xian reintroduce his plans and thoughts, she couldn't help but be very moved. For a moment, she even felt that perhaps from now on they would live a life of running and disaster, but one day, the sun would rise as usual!

"Okay, let's do a simple division of labor first."

Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief after speaking. The team was gradually growing, and he felt more grounded.

"Okay!" Shasha was the first to raise her hand, her face full of positivity, "Lin Gege, I can also keep watch. Don't treat me like a child!"

Lin Xian gave a wry smile, "You use that grenade gun so skillfully, where do you look like a child?"

"Hehe." Shasha was very proud.

"I support it!" Chen Laoshi smiled and raised her hand as well. Since the Polar Night, she hadn't felt so happy in a long time.

"Xian Ge, just arrange it," Da Lou said.

"Me too," kiki looked at him with a smile, her expression rarely serious for once.

"Alright!" Lin Xian nodded. In addition to counting the spoils, he began to simply divide the work among everyone.

Subsequently, Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan would be responsible for taking turns driving. After stopping, Da Lou would be responsible for duty. Because Da Lou also knew some aspects of mechanical maintenance, Lin Xian also asked him to help with inspections and maintenance.

After all, the train was getting bigger and bigger, and it was unrealistic for him to use his ability to repair everything, especially some small places.

As for kiki, Lin Xian planned to re-design the subsequent design of the whole train with her. Once the radar sentry system was online, they would have an extra layer of safety warning. This big harvest gave Lin Xian great confidence in the Infinite Train project, not only his expectations for future abilities but also the addition of the Lou siblings as two powerful arms.

Lou Ye had an honest and straightforward personality, was hardworking, and possessed a strengthening ability. Coupled with his tower-like physique, he gave people a strong sense of security.

With him on night guard, Lin Xian was also much more at ease.

Moreover, he also knew a lot of weapons and mechanical crafts, making him a very good teammate in terms of both force and skills.

Although Lou Shasha was young, her temperament was relatively mature and she was very loyal. Lin Xian let her follow Chen Sixuan and kiki to help. She now had her own small bed, and with the protection of the train fortress, she no longer had the nervous look she had before, happily helping to arrange the preparations inside the train.

According to the route, after leaving the mountains, they would enter Yubei. As a first-tier city far from the Star Abyss disaster area, it was a big city that entered the Polar Night relatively late. Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan both felt that the situation there must be extremely complicated.

But the train had to pass through the main hub there to enter the real orbital ring. Before that, the "Infinite" still had many preparations and systems that were not ready, so the situation was still very severe.

The gas turbine locomotive had a steam heating system, and the passenger cabin was also equipped with a warm air system. It stood to reason that either could be used. The fastest way was to connect the circuits and directly use the warm air system of the passenger cabin.

However, the No. 1 and No. 2 carriages and the No. 3, 4, and 5 carriages were different carriage models, and the era gap was also very far. Coupled with Lin Xian's consideration that he planned to make a whole-train water and air circulation system later, he simply wanted to design an electric-driven steam circulation filtration system connected to the No. 1 carriage with kiki. This could not only provide heat energy but also use the distillation system to circulate clean water resources, so that there would be clean water to drink in the carriage at any time, and even luxuriously take a bath...

As for that set of photoelectric observation and small phased array radar, kiki and Lin Xian planned to install it in front of the train for emergency warning. As for the whole-train monitoring and sentry system, it would be much more troublesome.

For one thing, it required a large amount of infrared dynamic monitoring, and also had to consider external armor, etc.

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The weapon system and defense system were even more troublesome. If a close-in weapon system was to be moved onto the train, in addition to electricity and maintenance, it also required ammunition supply levels at the level of a small arsenal.

However, this was limited to Lin Xian's vision. One cannot become fat in one bite. Including medical systems, green plant cultivation, and oxygen circulation, none of these could be done in a short while.

So currently, Lin Xian first helped kiki install the information system moved out of the air-raid shelter combat command center into the No. 2 carriage, and by the way, got that set of photoelectric observation and small phased array radar, as well as... heating.

There was also a potential biggest trouble, that is, if they encountered railway damage, how to carry out construction and repair was a big problem!

This problem had always been the most headache-inducing one in Lin Xian's heart.

No matter how powerful the train was, if there was no road... wouldn't it become a joke?

So for Lin Xian, there were too many things to do, but the troubles on the road were really too many.

In the No. 2 carriage, a simple information center with multiple screens had been built for kiki. After connecting the photoelectric observation system and radar system, the fan-shaped 3-kilometer range in front of the train would be detected in advance. However, a reaction module still needed to be designed so that the system could identify which situations were critical while driving, thereby issuing warnings and stopping in time.

In this regard, Lin Xian didn't understand at all and could only leave it to kiki.

"Zizi..."

"Zizi..."

"Strange, it stands to reason that we are already far away from the ionization influence of the Star Abyss zone, and it is daytime now. Why can't we receive any long-wave signals?" kiki tossed Lin Xian's radio for a long time, sighed, and had to give up helplessly.

"What about the internet?"

"Don't even think about this." kiki wore headphones, her fingers flying on the system, her tone faint, "I know the Federation government still has some communication satellites in orbit, but they have all been searched for one after another. Either they are damaged or they have been added with special shielding interference."

Lin Xian clicked his tongue secretly. He thought that he could still receive Chen Laoshi's call in Jiang City before. It hadn't been long, and the call function had already completely died.

And the long-wave radio he had high expectations for before could not be used either. This was what made Lin Xian feel the most headache.

On the radio, the train driving in the mountains could only receive short-wave radio frequencies within one or two hundred kilometers. But being in the mountains, except for villages and towns, there was basically no other information from survivors to receive.

Just like this, Lin Xian and his party spent the calmest and busiest day since departing from Jiang City. The train, combined with the stored energy of the electric locomotive, ran from dawn until dark. Lin Xian really felt a bit tired, so for the sake of safety, he stopped to rest on a plain with relatively flat terrain.

After nightfall, all the blackout curtains in the train were lowered, but from the outside, one could still see a giant train with a faint light quietly parked on the tracks. Even the No. 3 and No. 4 trains were covered with heavy armor outside at this time.

However, unlike the original carriages, the armor here used ordinary steel, plus a small amount of high-strength steel he had left over before, barely making do.

After Lin Xian divided the work, Chen Sixuan was like a warm parent at this time, taking the distributed food and water and distributing them to everyone along the carriage. Chen Sixuan came to the No. 5 carriage and found that Lin Xian was not in the carriage at this time, but was tinkering with that machine-like armor thing on the last flatbed carriage outside.

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