Chapter 501: Stormy Coast

*Kong kong kong! *

The Sky Train, magnetically levitating on the tracks, didn't have any lag. The huge power directly drove the intercontinental train docked on the tracks to start. The carriage connection emitted bursts of pleasant, stable humming, and then the iron wheels sparked thousands of fires on the rusted tracks. This giant train finally started to drive out from the track station of Oahu, Hawaii!

"It's really interesting. Driving this thing on the tracks actually gives me a feeling of being more reliable than flying in the air." Qian Dele looked at the straight tracks extending forward, saying with a look of desolation.

There was constant dust on the tracks. All kinds of abandoned vehicles or debris blocking the tracks were washed to both sides of the road by the cutting beams and high-pressure jet airflow shot by the ship's bow clearing device. The Sky Train's intelligent system could efficiently detect the track conditions ahead, plus there were a large number of

"We don't need to worry about the tracks at all; we should be worried about that."

Lin Xian stood at the bow of the main bridge, his eyes taking in the seawater along the coastline receding at a speed visible to the naked eye, revealing vast stretches of damp sand and reef areas. At the same time, the dark sky in the distance seemed to be approaching the island rapidly, just as they had encountered when swallowed by the Star Abyss No. 5. In a short time, he could already see a large area of the sea in the distance covered by shadows.

"This is..." Shasha frowned as she watched the scene, saying nervously, "The sea is receding?"

"It's a tsunami."

Hearing Shu Qin said with a somber expression, "It's clearly already dawn, so why has the Star Abyss started expanding again?"

"God knows!"

Qian Dele shook his head: "It's not a good thing, in any case. Let's hope it doesn't drag us into some strange place again; this vast ocean is not easy to dock in."

"It doesn't look like the Star Abyss is expanding..." Lin Xian looked toward the northern side of the train, where a gloomy black curtain was also constantly expanding: "It looks more like something inside the Star Abyss is being released..."

"Hearing Shu Qin, Qian Dele, Mo Nika, go to the ship towers and keep watch. Miao Lu, Lv Chang, go to the armored train and assist Ning Jing. Huo, Long Zhijie, I don't need to say more, right?"

"Understood."

"Brother Lin, rest assured!"

"Hearing Shizhi." After saying this, he looked at Hearing Shizhi: "Go to the stasis pod. There is a violent dark energy surging beneath the sea surface. I'm worried that the dark energy synchronization device and the heterostructure cube might not be able to hold it off."

Inside the stasis pod, Kiki, Chen Laoshi, Xiao Qing, A Bai, and Luo Yang were expected to take at least another hour or two to complete their evolution. At this critical stage, Lin Xian worried that this situation might affect them, so he arranged for Hearing Shizhi to go there just in case.

Hearing Shizhi immediately understood Lin Xian's intention and nodded at once: "Okay, I'll go right away!"

On the Sky Bridge, Long Zhijie and Lu Xingchen stood suspended in the air, their gazes fixed coldly on the north and south directions. As the black curtain continued to expand, the clear sky above also rapidly turned gloomy.

Blue electric sparks flashed in Long Zhijie's eyes, and he spoke in a flat voice: "Something is coming this way."

"The heavens change color, a scarlet omen." Lu Xingchen crossed his arms, his body surging with firepower: "It seems our return journey is destined to be turbulent. Very well, it is the perfect time to test the results of our evolution."

Whoosh!

In a short time, the Sky Train had accelerated to over a hundred yards, rushing through a residential area and a cargo port section, speeding out into the turbulent Pacific Ocean.

The wind howled, the seawater kept turning pitch black, and waves piled up. The seawater along the coastline had receded dozens of meters, revealing a damp seabed filled with bones and trash. At the same time, large patches of white foam appeared on the sea surface, as if a tide were advancing.

Lin Xian frowned. He discovered that these waves were not heading toward the train, but rather seemed to be a large-scale expansion in all directions!

Sensing something unusual, the pale yellow mechanical light in Lin Xian's eyes brightened, and he urged the Sky Train to keep accelerating.

On the tracks ahead, a large number of paralyzed train carriages and various types of blocked vehicles formed a blockage area over two kilometers long. Here, besides trains, there were also defensive lines of dragon's teeth and barbed wire previously set up by the military. But now, only large numbers of corpses and zombies wandered about. The headlights of the Sky Train were like a dazzling sun, causing those zombies to turn their gazes toward the gradually enlarging giant train.

"Long Zhijie, clear the way!"

"Understood."

Lin Xian's voice reached Long Zhijie's ears. Wearing black power armor, Long Zhijie immediately opened the transparent porthole of the Sky Bridge. A wave of energy that made the air itself vibrate and distort surged from his body, and then he flew rapidly forward, raising a sword finger in the air!

Swish!

Just before the Sky Train was about to hit the blocked trains, a high-frequency whistling sound like a shockwave rang out. All the trains, cars, and blocked dragon's teeth and barbed wire in front of the train were instantly blown away by an invisible force. Then, Long Zhijie lightly swiped his sword finger forward, and the invisible air wave silently cut the steel trains and various obstacles in half!

It was called cutting, but there was no sound of metal being torn; it was more like sand being silently dissolved. The wall of death that had once blocked the residents of Oahu from escaping crumbled at this moment. And most strangely, the wreckage of vehicles and various fragments that flew toward the sides of the tracks did not fall into the sea, but were controlled by Long Zhijie's ability in the air, constantly rolling and tumbling. The main metal frames were kept, broken down, and reorganized, then temporarily constructed into humanoid metal creations about five or six meters tall, while other debris was filtered out and fell into the sea with a clatter.

Long Zhijie cut with one sword finger while his eyes flashed with violent ability light. This operation clearly utilized the power of the lattice, and the terrifying dissolving force created was more than ten times stronger than his previous simple shockwaves.

Moreover, he seemed to have found a more efficient way to fight. Although those humanoid creations constructed under his control looked like big iron lumps temporarily pieced together from sheet metal and scrap steel, they surged with a surging dark energy. They clanged and sparked with every movement, and they all flew flexibly in the air. Furthermore, Long Zhijie created four or five such giant steel puppets in one go without any effort.

Lin Xian, on the bridge, saw this and his eyes brightened. He thought to himself that this was truly an awesome ability. In a way, it was like a 'summoner version' of mechanical ability. Long Zhijie must have been influenced by him and Wangyue Zhenji, not only knowing how to use his ability efficiently but also finding this pioneering method that could attack and defend without having to charge to the front line. It could be said he was quite clever.

"Attention, there are living things in the black tide, both in the sky and in the sea."

Mo Nika and Qian Dele each arrived at the ship towers on both sides of the Sky Train. These were equipped with electromagnetic railguns and anti-aircraft weapon systems. As soon as they took their positions, they immediately sensed dense dark energy fluctuations surging.

Rumble!

The Sky Train, dragging the military intercontinental train like a steel beast breaking free from its cage, ground over the broken rails and rushed into the Pacific orbital network. Sparks sprayed wildly beneath the wheel hubs, and the roar of the engines tore through the dead silence of the air on the outskirts of Oahu. Mo Nika stood on the ship tower, her pupils reflecting the hellish scene behind them. Thousands of nautical miles of water were swallowed by the rolling black curtain, and the edges of the Star Abyss tide, thick as asphalt, rolled with nauseating scarlet waves, swallowing the last line of the horizon at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Watching this scene, Mo Nika's eyes flickered, and she said coldly: "The scarlet descent and the Star Abyss expansion seem to be two completely different things."

"It seems there will be no such thing as dawn from now on." On the other side, Qian Dele crossed his arms and said: "And there is no meaning to dawn either."

"Everyone, pay attention. I am going to accelerate again. According to observations, it shouldn't be able to catch up to us."

Lin Xian's voice rang out in the communicator. The Sky Train's levitation power and magnetic levitation propulsion began to accelerate again. Outside the porthole, the bright memories of Hawaii were completely shattered, and the seawater was receding at an unnatural speed, exposing vast stretches of craggy, filthy seabed, as if the entire ocean were being swallowed in one gulp by that dark curtain.