Chapter 540: Appetizer

Under the scarlet night, the boiling war roared on the temporarily established north bank defensive line. The joint train continued to rush into the defensive zone in a charging posture, crossing the rail bridge and driving toward the depths of the south bank.

At this moment, all the survivors on the trains knew that even though they were in the dangerous scarlet night, as long as they crossed that natural chasm, it meant they had already passed the first gate of hell.

And the facts were indeed so. On the entire wilderness, countless anomalies seemed to have been teleported by the scarlet fog to this Shura field. On the contrary, the Silver Star, which was moving forward courageously, only encountered some sieges by scarlet zombies. Because of its strong firepower and the protection of three main combat regiments along the way, it did not face much pressure.

"The tracks are completely clear. This is incredible. Could it be that Captain Lin has maintained them all?"

The engineering team was full of emotion.

"He is a mechanical ability user; for him, tracks are the simplest problem." Jian Xuwei looked at the driving record light screen, her expression cold: "We can't accelerate anymore. At this speed, the temporary tracks we built before can't support it for long. If the defensive line has any problems, it will trigger a chain derailment."

"But if we don't speed up, I'm afraid the people behind won't be able to hold on!" Someone said anxiously.

Jian Xuwei took a deep breath: "Our responsibility now is to maintain stability; we can't just seek speed."

She turned around and looked through the window at the Century Train line winding like a dragon on the earth, her expression solemn: "The rest can only depend on them."

Boom, boom, boom!

The iron torrent surged and rolled on the burning wilderness. The six-kilometer-long north bank defensive line was like a dam cast from flesh, blood, and steel, emitting deafening wails under the pounding of the endless scarlet tide.

Thousands of tfv-600 double-barreled tank groups connected into a steel defensive fortress. The area in front of the muzzles was piled with scorched corpses and shattered metal. Every roar spat out destructive fireballs, blasting the swarming multi-legged corpse insect swarm into a sky full of filthy blood and meat rain.

Eight planetary predator mechas, each sixty meters tall, stepped into the mortal battlefield like Titans from mythology. Every time their heavy alloy giant feet landed, they caused the earth to shake. The heavy orbital star-shaking cannon turrets on their heads rotated slowly, and blinding blue light gathered at the muzzles. Every roar after charging was completed meant that an area ahead, along with the A-class tumor giant beasts or agile hunters struggling and roaring within it, was completely erased, leaving only terrifying craters hundreds of meters in diameter where magma flowed.

The sky had long been obscured by smoke and scarlet, but at this moment, it tore open even more violent light and fire.

The hundreds of floating warships, gunboats, and fighter jets of the Dragon-Kun and Thunderbolt Fleets formed an aerial battle formation that blotted out the sky. The shrieking of ten thousand guns drowned out all other sounds on the ground battlefield.

The gunboats hovered at relatively low altitudes. The metal storm composed of 1130 close-in weapon systems along the deck and the scorching light net woven by anode high-energy particle rays, plus various anti-aircraft missiles dragging long tails of fire, wove a domain of absolute death around the fleet, shredding the diving aerial monster tide and more indescribable flying anomalies into burning, falling fireballs.

In the center of this boiling purgatory, the huge figure of the Sky Dome Train tore through the battlefield with a resolute posture.

Its main body had been split into four. The three basic living carriage sections in the rear, which lacked heavy firepower, were accelerating to fly over the canyon, driving toward the relatively safe depths of the south bank.

And at this moment, charging into the core of the north bank monster tide were the four main arsenal ship bodies commanded by Chen Sixuan! The triple-mounted orbital star-shaking cannons, dense array missile launch silos, g-6t electromagnetic railgun groups, and plasma cannon arrays were all firing at full power, like four moving volcanoes of destruction, forcibly plowing four burning channels through the dense monster torrent.

"These areas are all A-class or higher anomalies; they must have been teleported through the scarlet fog!"

"Power armor regiment, left flank gap, get up there!"

"Watch out for the hunters!"

The army composed of the Iron Guard Brigade's power armor special forces and the power armor armed personnel of major convoys fought crazily on the front line, flying and diving, just like an interstellar war!

The hum of energy weapons, the tearing sound of chainswords, the roar of flamethrowers, and the muffled thuds of power fists shattering shells wove into a cruel metal symphony in the scarlet fog.

On the edge of this chaotic slaughterhouse, a wave of destruction composed of pure metal was surging forward with unstoppable momentum.

That was the legion of six thousand high-energy combat robots released by Lin Xian, fighting crazily on the front line.

Lu Xingchen, Long Zhijie, Mo Nika, Qian Dele, Xiang Xiang Ningjing, and other main ability users were also fighting on the north bank battlefield.

Lu Xingchen was surrounded by raging flames, like a god of fire descending to the human world. He hovered above the most critical part of the battle line, his hands held in the void, condensing a scorching white flame sword spanning hundreds of meters. Every swing brought a heat wave that incinerated everything, evaporating large swaths of the monster tide along with those huge, peculiar bodies into blue smoke.

"You petty thieves dare to be presumptuous in front of me!"

Long Zhijie stood on the shoulder of a planetary predator mecha, expressionless, his ten fingers moving as if playing an instrument, controlling twelve giant metal puppets to stir up a metal storm in the monster tide.

These puppets either wielded giant alloy hammers weighing tons, smashing tumor giant beasts until their bones broke and tendons snapped; or their arms turned into high-speed rotating cutting circular saws, plowing through the corpse insect sea like a meat grinder.

Mo Nika's sound-shriek sword turned into an invisible high-frequency shockwave, precisely cutting those elite monsters with hard shells or regenerative abilities, shattering them from the inside.

Qian Dele turned into a golden flash that was hard to capture, shuttling at high speed on the battlefield. Every pause was accompanied by the cores of several hunters being pierced or important joints being instantly destroyed.

Xiang Xiang Ningjing transformed into a strength-type evolutionist several meters tall, her fist wind like heavy artillery, blasting the monsters blocking the way into meat paste, covering the comrades beside her.

Shi Diyuan roared and transformed into a beast form like a giant bear, his sharp claws tearing the air, fighting crazily with an A-class giant scorpion anomaly that was pouncing on the armored convoy.

Every move they made bought precious breathing room for the crumbling defensive line.

Right in the core of this meat-grinder battlefield, the four-person squad of Lin Xian, Kiki, Jiang Yun, and Seeing Chu Yan was moving against the current at an astonishing speed, speeding toward the area behind the train line where it was more chaotic and the scarlet fog was thicker.

The goal was to repair the train tracks along the way to ensure that the accelerating trains in the rear would not fall behind.

Jiang Yun charged at the very front, surrounded by a violent tornado! He thrust his hands forward violently, and the invisible wind pressure, like the breath of a giant god, forcibly blew open a huge hole a hundred meters in diameter in the thick scarlet fog that blotted out the sky, revealing the twisted and cracked earth below and the crazily wriggling monster shadows within, briefly buying precious vision and breathing space for the subsequent troops, greatly relieving the sensory pressure on the local battle line.

Kiki followed closely behind, her eyes shining like stars. Her powerful telekinesis turned into an invisible giant palm, sometimes squeezing dozens of monsters in an area into blood mist in mid-air, and sometimes picking up burning tank wrecks or broken track steel beams, smashing them like a catapult into the core of the monster swarm gathered in the distance. Every surge of mental power was accompanied by large-scale clearing.

With these two sitting in command, Lin Xian and Seeing Chu Yan could fly at low altitude close to the joint train, using mechanical abilities to repair the tracks below while flying. Seeing Chu Yan's role was to use a powerful mental power domain to suppress, because the insect tide seemed to have actively locked onto Lin Xian's side at this moment, surging like a tsunami.

"Grace!" Lin Xian called out to Grace while repairing a severely deformed track gap.

【Chaos coordinates have been located, but I need to remind you—】

"What?"

Above the deep space, the 12-kilometer-diameter ring-shaped energy storage array suddenly lit up with blinding ghostly blue arc light. The 24 "Candle Dragon"-class constrained particle beam arrays, like unfolded wings of judgment, turned their muzzles silently in the vacuum, turning the high-energy particle cannon muzzles that should have been aimed at the deep space to destroy asteroids toward the north bank battlefield.

Grace stood in front of the control panel and said to Lin Xian:

【According to dynamic scanning, that is not the main body of the creature.】

"What do you mean?"

"What you see is not the main body of Chaos." Seeing Chu Yan looked at the planetary giant eye on the horizon and said to Lin Xian: "Its main body is underground."

"Damn it?!"

Lin Xian's face was shocked upon hearing this: "The eye is in the sky, the main body is underground. What kind of monster is this?"

Seeing Chu Yan shook her head: "I don't know. The battle at the Dawn Center in Colorado didn't fully observe its full appearance either. We only know that its main body must be underground. It's a guy capable of destroying terrain over 10 kilometers."

Lin Xian's gaze narrowed slightly.

"They are all things that are ridiculously large. I'm afraid that if you look down from space, you could see them with the naked eye." ===== CHAPTER 541 =====