Chapter 503

Oahu, downtown Honolulu.

A rotting palm slapped against the huge neon billboard of "Sunny Hawaii," leaving a sticky stain. Under the billboard, a female zombie wearing a tattered bikini, with only half a chest cavity left, blankly turned her gray-white eyeballs. Her hollow gaze swept over the dead street, over the same kind squeezed together in a tilted tour bus. The sunny weather suddenly turned pitch black.

The wind howled and became more violent. The female zombie and other zombies wandering the street turned their heads to look in the direction of the Honolulu mountains. They saw that the sky there had been replaced by a "wall," a "wall" that reached from the sky to the sea and swallowed light. It was not pure darkness; the black color was like countless thick crude oils constantly churning, within which rolled and seeped a morbid scarlet light, slowly annihilating the mountains.

That touch of darkness swallowed the Diamond Head Lighthouse, swallowed the Hollywood-style sign where countless tourists once checked in, and then the tunnel running through the mountain. The black and red intertwined tide, like a tangible flood, roared into the tunnel entrance. The abandoned vehicles, skeletons, and billboards inside, along with a few zombies stumbling and trying to crawl out, were instantly submerged.

The scarlet spread over the white sandy shore of Waikiki Beach, and countless zombies were numbly swallowed. However, after being wrapped in the scarlet, those zombie figures inexplicably began to undergo strange changes. Their bodies suddenly arched, emitting inhuman, bone-dislocating "clack" sounds. Their eyeballs expanded rapidly like they were being inflated, first gray-white, then bursting, and began to twist like paste. Those shadows devoured and merged with each other, mutating into strange creatures that were hard to describe in words.

Argh!!

Strange screams rose one after another, accompanied by the black shadows mutating like a wild dance in the scarlet. The city seemed to turn into an inhuman, terrifying hell in an instant.

Those scarlet bodies constantly twisted, deformed, and were hard to describe. The surveillance equipment Lin Xian had installed lost its signal the moment it was swallowed by the scarlet, but through those remaining fragments of footage, he still felt an unusualness that exceeded his expectations.

On the Sky Train, Lin Xian saw the abnormalities all over the island in his mind, his expression slightly somber. This time, the intuitive feeling of that scarlet descent was much more terrifying than what he had felt in the consciousness link. Just from some sporadic images, Lin Xian understood the power of the scarlet. If one did not rely on vehicles or full-body power armor, it would be very difficult for any ability user to survive in it.

Although everyone on the Infinite now had interstellar-grade power armor made by Lin Xian, compared to all survivor groups, these were extremely rare. Even in the interstellar military, only elite troops were equipped with power armor above the Ghost Wolf level. Most ordinary soldiers only had half-body or auxiliary armor. Both the Phoenix Society and the military were like this, let alone other ordinary survivors.

Boom!

A sharp sonic boom swept over the main bridge, like an invisible air wave, instantly turning the sky full of strange fish into a continuous scarlet blood mist. The power was comparable to ten 1130s sweeping at the same time. Lin Xian looked toward the ship tower; Mo Nika stood with one hand on her hip, her expression calm and composed. The sonic sword in her mouth even passed through the bulletproof porthole and the electrostatic field without a trace, not needing to stand outside at all. Including Qian Dele on the other side, whose speed-force kicking technique originally belonged to the category of physical arts, could now shoot out high-energy golden light, showing that their abilities had undergone a qualitative change after activating the lattice!

Lin Xian looked at the dark energy flowing in the cold air. This power was full of mystery, and it was simply heaven-defying that it could allow Shu Qin's firearm to exert cannon-level power.

"Our dark marks have all lit up. Monsters within at least 5 kilometers of the sea area are all approaching us!"

Shasha sat in the information officer's seat, looking at the radar panel and saying: "There are some in the sky too."

At this moment, on the surging waves of the Pacific Ocean, the white bubble area was like a line stretching to the end of the north-south horizon, like a shockwave spreading from the center of the Star Abyss toward the sea, rushing forward in a violent posture.

The Sky Train was currently rushing along the tracks, synchronized with the white bubble area below. A glance revealed that the entire ocean seemed to have turned into boiling white foam, and countless strange creatures from the sea poured out, rushing toward the train in a black mass.

Lin Xian looked up at the sky. Now that everyone's lattice was released, the dark marks were all lit up, and black clouds loomed. More flying monsters kept pouring in. Just by looking, he immediately guessed that there must be terrifying atmospheric creatures in those black clouds.

"Calculating this speed, we have 30 seconds before we hit the tsunami!"

Shasha turned her head to look at Lin Xian, her small face asking nervously: "Brother Lin, are we preparing to ascend?"

Lin Xian was just about to respond when Xiang Xiang Ningjing's voice suddenly rang out in his headset.

"Team Lin."

Boom!

On the roof of the intercontinental train, a violent shockwave blasted through hundreds of meters of air, piercing a vacuum area with a diameter of seven or eight meters through the sky full of strange fish. Blood mist splashed. At the source of the shockwave, Xiang Xiang Ningjing, like a small giant, roared with lattice power, still maintaining the posture of a cold punch. At this moment, she frowned slightly. After operating the lattice power, she suddenly noticed something. Dark energy fluctuations flowed around her body, and her body size was actually shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Noticing this, Xiang Xiang Ningjing felt a slight relief in her heart, but she didn't think too much about it at the moment. Instead, she looked at the high sky and continued to speak into the communicator: "We can't fly too high. If we get hit by a level four mark from a Special-class, given the density of strange bodies in the current expansion area, the trouble will definitely be significant!"

"Yeah, there are already enough of them!!"

"Careful, careful!"

Beside Xiang Xiang Ningjing, Lv Chang and Miao Lu were already struggling greatly in the face of the overwhelming offensive under the cover of the train's automated firepower. Neither of them had undergone lattice evolution, and their combat power was only a little over four thousand. This was still under the condition that no more high-level strange bodies had appeared. Once A-level and Special-level ones erupted in the sky, they would only be able to hide back in the train and fight back with weapons.

"I know."

On the main bridge, Lin Xian naturally understood their current predicament. The Sky Train's firepower was very strong, and the monsters pouring in from the scarlet were relatively easy for the few people who had undergone lattice evolution to deal with. However, under such large-scale movement of the Star Abyss, it was best not to raise the concentration of the dark marks too high, otherwise, he worried it would snowball and get out of control. They were currently fleeing, and a large-scale battle was completely unnecessary.

"Prepare to take off. Everyone, pay attention. I will control the altitude. There may be other dangers beneath the wave crest. Mo Nika, Qian Dele, you watch the underwater. Long Zhijie, Lu Xingchen, you watch the sky!"

Just as Lin Xian finished speaking, Lu Xingchen's voice suddenly rang out on the channel.

"Lin Xian, wait!"

At the front of the train, on the high-altitude platform extending from the Sky Bridge, a figure was bathed in the strange red light cast by the Star Abyss storm behind him, appearing particularly dazzling. Lu Xingchen had somehow already unbuckled his power armor helmet, letting the strong wind blow his slightly messy black hair. He floated proudly in the air a few meters away from the train, facing the earth-shattering tsunami wall, with his hands behind his back, his clothes flapping in the wind.