Chapter 66

"Gao Ta, have there been any changes to your ability?"

"It seems..." Gao Ta scratched his head and said honestly, "I feel my strength is a bit stronger, and my spirit is a bit higher."

Lin Xian's gaze was suspicious.

"When? Was it when you were on the roof of the train?"

"No, when I was hacking at the monster's corpse to search for the bead, I felt I absorbed a stream of very foul-smelling blood aura..."

Hearing this, Lin Xian frowned.

Blood aura?

Before, whether it was Kiki or Jiang Yun, they had both said that ability users with that kind of monster-form proliferation could directly absorb the flesh and blood of ability users or bizarre bodies to gain improvement.

And after that white monster and the red insect died, black smoke emerged from both, forming bizarre blood essence.

It seemed that whether it was himself or ability users like Gao Ta, they could all gain a certain improvement by absorbing this kind of black gas.

Even...

He thought that when that giant white monster swallowed Tang Hai at that time, it was also undergoing some kind of change rapidly.

If Lin Xian hadn't guessed wrong, Tang Hai already belonged to an evolved ability user. Although he had hardly shown any combat power in the early stages, after evolving, he was clearly more than one level stronger.

"Bizarre things eat people and become stronger; people eat bizarre things... and can also become stronger."

Lin Xian's gaze was scorching.

"It sounds very fucked up, but it also seems very fair."

The most troublesome problem at present was still the path to obtain evolution. He reckoned that Tang Hai, an ability user of the source seed level, although he had hardly shown any combat power in the early stages, after evolving, he was clearly more than one level stronger.

However, looking at his neither-human-nor-ghost appearance, he always felt that it was very likely the appearance of a failed evolution that Kiki had mentioned.

"Gao Ta, were you and your sister fleeing after the first polar night?" His brain was a bit messy, so Lin Xian took a deep breath and simply didn't bother to think, chatting with Gao Ta.

Gao Ta shook his head.

"After the polar night came, our parents both died, so we... ran out."

A pickup truck started to make the world their home. Gao Ta was an ability user, and his sister Lou Shasha, although young, was mature and courageous. The two siblings worked together tacitly, actually escaping from several living-dead cities.

About an hour later, the "Infinite" slowly drove into Yuchi Station. This was a small station with only a small waiting hall.

On the branch line inside the platform, there was also a freight train parked.

Lin Xian looked at it. "Gao Ta and I will go down to check first. You and Lou Shasha stay on the train."

Lin Xian had already manufactured a spirit-swing value detector according to the blueprint scanned by Jiang Yun. However, there was a lack of bizarre blood essence, so for things like detecting danger, he could only rely on manual labor and radar.

The cockpit door opened, and Lin Xian and Gao Ta, one after the other, took their guns and got off the train directly.

The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, held flashlights and searched forward along the freight train that was blocking the way, discovering that it was just a mine car and had no locomotive.

The old carriage was empty, and there was nothing useful.

"Just in time." Lin Xian looked at this big lump of twenty-something carriages, thinking that he was worried about the lack of steel for upgrading the roof armor.

It turned out there was ready-made stuff here.

"Gao Ta." Lin Xian pointed to the few zombies wandering around the platform. "Clean them up."

"Okay."

Gao Ta nodded. It was night, so to reduce trouble, he didn't take a gun but held the steel-slashing greatsword and jumped directly onto the platform. Ten minutes later, the entire Yuchi platform quieted down.

"The commotion will definitely get bigger and bigger."

Lin Xian walked onto Carriage No. 5, dragged the welding machine and crane down, completed the repairs, and then began to use high-manganese steel to pre-cast the armored train roof according to the size of the roof. Unlike the grille armor forged from high-hardened tungsten steel used on the sides, he prepared to make a fully sealed roof for the roof, except for the default exhaust ventilation ducts at the back, so he used high-manganese steel material.

This kind of steel plate possessed good toughness and impact absorption ability. Even in extremely harsh environments, such as high impact loads and severe wear conditions, it could maintain good integrity and performance.

He didn't draw the blueprint for the armored roof randomly but drew on the heteromorphic streamlined shield structure of the roof of that TFV600 twin-tube heavy tank.

This kind of shield had double-layer cushioning, and both sides were connected to the side shields. Under heavy pressure, it could directly transmit kinetic energy downward to the train body while releasing it onto the tracks.

This could greatly avoid being stepped on by the giant white monster like that, causing the roof to cave in and destroying the air conditioning system.

The only difference was that Lin Xian enlarged the design of this kind of shield. According to the size of the "Infinite" carriage, he made a large top component of 3 meters * 6 meters. Each piece weighed at least more than two tons. Fortunately, he didn't use rolled tungsten steel, otherwise, it would be even heavier.

With Lin Xian's materials in the decomposition space at this time, it was far from enough to cover all 7 carriages of the "Infinite". Each passenger cabin needed at least 4 sides, the electric locomotive needed 10 sides, and the gas locomotive needed 6 sides.

This required manufacturing 36 giant armored train roofs.

Now that Lin Xian's mechanical manufacturing level had been upgraded, although the speed of manufacturing this kind of simple structure was extremely fast, it would still consume a lot of physical strength. He needed at least 10 minutes for each side.

At the same time, when materials were insufficient, he also needed to stop manufacturing and go devour the freight carriages over there to obtain materials.

!

Because the armored train roof was too heavy, Lin Xian and Gao Ta directly forged it on the roof of the train, with Lin Xian covering the top and Gao Ta responsible for helping with welding and assembly.

Woo~

On this side, Lin Xian used the mechanical repair ability to complete the repairs of the air conditioning systems destroyed on Carriage No. 5 and Carriage No. 2, and then manufactured the armored train roofs one by one.

And Chen Sixuan and Lou Shasha used the spray device of the water tank to pull out water pipes and began to clean the flesh and zombie pieces on the sides and front of the "Infinite"!

Rushing out from thousands of zombie tides, the front and both sides of the entire train were almost covered in blood plasma. Opening the flashlight, one could see a terrifying hellish aura.

The two women wore gas masks, one on the left and one on the right, and began to spray.

The water in the water tank was unpurified rain and snow water. Because it was used for the engine circulation cooling of the locomotive, the water in the water tank did not freeze.

Lin Xian planned to fix the armor and then have a few people go to Yuchi City to search. He needed a large amount of basic materials like plastic, glass, fiber, etc., to facilitate the manufacturing of water purifiers. At the same time, Carriage No. 5 and Carriage No. 2 were still lacking quite a few daily necessities.

"Brother Lin."

On the tracks, Lou Shasha, wearing a gas mask and holding a spray water pipe, said to Lin Xian in a muffled voice while washing the train wheels.

"There are quite a few bones and stones stuck inside the train wheels."

"Clean them off first."

Lin Xian's face was sweating. Manufacturing the armored train roof was constantly consuming his physical strength. He said, "Let's fix the roof first. After dawn later, when we come back from the city, I'll add wheel wing shields to the side of the train."

"Lin Xian," Chen Laoshi on the other side said at this moment,

"For situations like derailment, we can use the horizon gateway. If you add wheel wing shields, it's best to leave a certain distance from the ground."

"I know."

Lin Xian nodded.

Wheel wing shields were relatively thinner and lighter, mainly used to protect the wheels, while the horizon gateway was used to adsorb to the tracks when sprinting at high speed. Only the locomotive had this set of systems. Carriages 1-5 were too old and didn't possess it, so there was still a risk of derailment.

Actually, derailment was a small problem for the team at present. The main trouble was broken tracks. If it wasn't an emergency, Lin Xian could manufacture track repairs. What he feared was the state of sprinting at full speed like last night.

Seeking follow-up reads and monthly tickets for the new book!

(End of chapter)