Chapter 65

Rushing all the way, the sound of the zombie tide was gone. In the night, the light of several flashlights swayed by the tracks. Lou Shasha's face was full of anxiety, carrying a flashlight and searching everywhere.

On the other side, Lin Xian and Gao Ta held blades, crazily hacking at the giant monster's flesh, searching for that kind of red bead.

At this moment, an exclamation came from Lou Shasha's side.

"Found it!!"

Hearing this, both of them stopped their movements and ran toward the other side.

Only to see Lou Shasha standing at the edge of a drainage ditch. The giant white monster's head had already rolled here, looking terrifying. Red blood and a kind of black plasma were mixed together, scaring Lou Shasha so much that she didn't dare to get too close.

Watching Lin Xian walk over, the little girl pointed from afar with the flashlight at the place where the monster's neck was broken.

"Look."

At this moment, a stream of black smoke was constantly seeping out from the monster's neck and drilling into the ground. At the same time, a red bead the size of a thumb appeared on the ground.

But strangely, this bead was actually quite a bit larger than the one Lin Xian had exchanged back!

Seeing this scene, Lin Xian's brows tightened, and he immediately felt somewhat familiar, so he immediately called out to Lou Shasha, "Don't move, I'll do it."

He said, slowly leaning over. Sure enough, when he approached the black smoke, a rustling sound began to appear in his ears. As he walked closer, the rustling sound began to turn into the sound of crying and shouting like a mountain-toppling sea, the sound gradually becoming deafening!

Lin Xian frowned, gritting his teeth as he approached. The crying and shouting almost made his ears ring.

Just as the sound was about to pierce his eardrums, he grabbed the red bead. But at this instant, the crying and shouting stopped abruptly!

"So that's how it is!"

Lin Xian breathed a long sigh of relief, his eyes cold.

It seemed that when he killed that red giant insect before, this kind of sound came from this. At that time, he didn't know this kind of thing existed at all. Now that he thought about it, there must have been a bizarre blood essence at that time too.

Lin Xian felt somewhat strange.

"This thing actually has sizes..."

Without thinking much, he immediately took this large bizarre blood essence onto the train and placed it at Kiki's nose and mouth again.

And this time, before the red crystal even touched her, it quickly shattered, and a thick red mist burst out, rushing into Kiki's nose and eyes.

"Wow, this..."

Lou Shasha watched in amazement. Not long after, Kiki's face clearly had some color, and her breathing became steady.

Lin Xian opened Kiki's eyes and saw the black ink in her eyes quickly receding.

Although he didn't know what had happened, it seemed to have worked. Seeing this scene, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why were there so many zombie tides and that monster?"

Chen Sixuan frowned at this moment. "Didn't we shake that thing off in Jiang City..."

"I can't figure it out for now."

Lin Xian looked up at the air conditioner. "It seems that the top also needs a layer of protection."

Just now, he and Gao Ta got off the train to check the battle situation and found that although Carriage No. 5 was messed up and there were some dents on the roof, the armor on both sides of the "Infinite" was intact. The zombie tide like a tsunami couldn't bite this armored battle train at all. Lin Xian was thinking, if the outside of the train was equipped with some kind of reaction device, the roof and wheel wings were fully protected, and a sharp ice-breaking shield was installed on the front of the train, then even if the zombie tide was more surging, they could calmly rush out.

"Chen Laoshi, what time will it be dawn tomorrow?" Lin Xian asked.

"I estimate it should be between 14:40 and 15:10."

"Good." Lin Xian looked at Kiki, who was sleeping. "Time is still relatively sufficient. We'll drive to Yuchi Station to stop, first reorganize the train, upgrade the protection, and then enter Yuchicheng to search for some supplies."

"Supplies aren't the main thing." Lin Xian took out a map and said, "Yuchicheng isn't big. Our main target this time is here..."

"The Electronics City and the city's power substation."

"Substation?" Lou Shasha looked surprised. "What are we going there for?"

"To get some transformers and capacitors. If there are suitable ones, I'll drive another car back."

Lin Xian said, "We got more than a thousand liters of gasoline from the outpost. We'll bring two barrels on the train. If there's a suitable car, we'll split into two groups and come back to load the car and goods directly onto the flatbed trailer, which will save time."

After completing the upgrade and reorganization, he wanted to have a big search. As long as it was electrical or mechanical, he would bring back as much as he could. First, it was to collect materials, and second, these scattered things would be more flexible for him to devour, so he wouldn't have to spend several hours at a time.

If he encountered problems halfway, he could stop at any time and treat them as fine grain for upgrading. However, after trying the benefits brought by that one locomotive, Lin Xian also became bolder. If he could encounter more later, as long as it was within the load-bearing pressure, he would drag them along, devouring while driving along the tracks, upgrading at a god-like speed!

And transformers and capacitors were not only because of the high-energy capacitors and arc devices of the GK03 electric blade, but more because he had gained some inspiration from this design, wanting to use it to make a set of external discharge defense systems for the train.

"Chen Laoshi, drive."

Chen Sixuan nodded. She told Lou Shasha, "Lou Shasha, go treat their injuries."

"Leave it to me!"

Lou Shasha was quick and nimble, taking Lin Xian's medicine box to help him treat the wound on his chest.

"Brother Lin, does it hurt?"

"It's okay." Lin Xian endured the pain and said with a calm expression.

"Oh." Then Lou Shasha poured iodine onto the wound on Lin Xian's chest.

Hiss!!!!

... Clang... Clang

!

The "Infinite" emitted a dull steel groan, and the iron wheels rolled again!

The night was not yet clear. Lin Xian opened the tailboard of Carriage No. 5. Although it was night, the scenery outside had already been covered by a large area of white snow.

The extreme low temperature and the white snow covering the mountains and plains added a sense of desolation after the apocalypse.

Looking at the flatbed trailers behind, the two military jeeps had both been damaged in battle, leaving only one off-road vehicle and the armored vehicle of the Black Jiao convoy before.

"Forget it, devouring the flatbed trailers probably won't be of any use; they're just a pile of iron lumps. It's better to use them to load more things, treating them as an open-air transport platform, which is also convenient for me to devour while running..."

Thinking this way, Lin Xian looked at those flatbed trailers and they suddenly became pleasing to the eye.

After the Heart of Machinery was upgraded to Level 2 and obtained the decomposition space, the room for his mechanical manufacturing to play had been greatly improved.

However, currently, he felt there were still two shortcomings.

The first was that he could only store materials obtained after devouring, similar to various steel, plastics, etc.

They were numerous and complex, and there was no targeting.

For example, he had now scanned the blueprint of the 1130 close-in weapon system. Although the materials required were relatively large and were all weapon-grade steel, it wasn't hard to get. But the most critical problem was ammunition.

Copper, tungsten, steel—these weren't lacking, but the basic materials for high-energy explosives like smokeless gunpowder required for bullets or TNT, CL-20, or all-nitrogen anion salts required for shells were nowhere to be found.

Having guns but no bullets was truly a bit awkward.

The second problem was the blueprint library, which lacked blueprints for powerful mechanical equipment.

Besides himself, he also wanted to arm the "Infinite" and his teammates. He had forged a steel-slashing greatsword for Gao Ta, which was truly a last resort. According to Gao Ta's physique, if nothing else, at least carrying a Vulcan Gatling gun would fit his aura.

After adding teammates, Lin Xian began to adjust the focus of his fighting alone.

Driving at night, the surroundings quieted down, and Lin Xian's heart also relaxed a little. He and Gao Ta leaned against the edge of the tailboard of Carriage No. 5, Lou Shasha took care of Kiki, and Chen Laoshi was checking the road conditions in the cockpit.

"Brother Xian."

Gao Ta handed the steel-slashing greatsword to Lin Xian, looking like he wanted to return it to Lin Xian.

Lin Xian smiled. "Who do you think I forged this size for?"

Gao Ta was stunned, his expression changed, and he took it back eagerly. "Thank you, Brother Xian."

He used this greatsword very smoothly. The material was hard, and it could even be used as a shield at critical moments. It was indeed good for daily self-defense.

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(End of chapter)