[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train":3,"chapter-apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-66":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Apocalypse: I Built an Infinite Train",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2261830,4414,"Chapter 66: Entering the Station for Preparation","apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-66",66,"\u003Cp>“Da Lou, has your ability changed at all?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It seems…” Da Lou scratched his head, his expression earnest. “I feel stronger, and my energy’s higher.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian’s gaze sharpened with surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When? Right on the roof?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, when I was cutting up that monster’s corpse looking for the beads, I felt I absorbed some foul, stinking blood qi…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian frowned at this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood qi?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both Kiki and Jiang Yun had previously said that those mutated aberrant cultivators could directly absorb the flesh of other aberrants or strange bodies to grow stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the white monster and the red worms died, black smoke emerged from them, forming strange blood essences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seems both I and Da Lou, as aberrants, can gain some enhancement by absorbing this black mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He recalled how the white giant had rapidly changed after devouring Tang Hai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Lin Xian wasn’t mistaken, Tang Hai had already been an Evolution-grade aberrant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aberrants eat people and grow stronger. People eat aberrants… and grow stronger too.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian’s eyes burned with intensity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sounds like bullshit—but somehow, it feels fair.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most pressing issue right now remained how to obtain evolution. Tang Hai, a Source Seed-grade aberrant, had shown almost no combat power early on, yet after evolving, his strength had clearly jumped by more than a tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the way he looked—neither human nor monster—Lin Xian had a strong feeling that was exactly what Kiki meant by failed evolution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Da Lou, were you and your sister fleeing only after the Eternal Night began?” His mind was tangled; Lin Xian took a deep breath and gave up thinking, instead striking up casual conversation with Da Lou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Da Lou shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After Eternal Night came, Mom and Dad died. We just… ran away.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d turned a pickup truck into a nomadic home. Da Lou was an aberrant; his little sister Sha Sha, though young, was mature and fearless, and the two siblings worked in perfect sync, somehow escaping from several cities overrun by the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About an hour later, the “Infinite” slowly pulled into Yuchicheng Station—a small station with only a modest waiting hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On a side track within the station, a freight train sat idle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian glanced at the others. “I’ll go down with Da Lou first to scout. You two stay on the train.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian had already built a Spirit-Detecting Device based on Jiang Yun’s scanned blueprint, but without any strange blood essence on hand, detecting danger still relied on manual checks and Lei Da.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cab door opened. Lin Xian and Da Lou stepped out one after the other, guns in hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They moved left and right along the blocked freight train, wielding flashlights, and discovered it was merely a mining car—without a locomotive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old carriages were empty, offering nothing useful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Perfect timing.” Lin Xian stared at the twenty-odd-carriage hulking mass. He’d been worried about not having enough steel to upgrade the roof armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And here it was, ready-made.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Da Lou.” Lin Xian pointed at the few zombies wandering around the platform. “Clear them out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Got it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Da Lou nodded. It was night; to avoid unnecessary noise, he didn’t take his gun but instead leapt onto the platform with his steel-slicing greatsword. Within minutes, the entire Yuchicheng platform was silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The noise will only keep growing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian walked to Car 5, dragged out the welder and crane, repaired the damaged air conditioning system, then began fabricating the high-manganese steel pre-cast roof armor according to the roof’s dimensions. Unlike the side armor, made of high-hardness tungsten steel grating, the roof would be fully sealed—except for the rear exhaust vents—so he chose high-manganese steel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This steel offered excellent toughness and impact absorption, maintaining structural integrity and performance even under extreme conditions like heavy impact and severe abrasion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t sketched the roof armor randomly—he’d modeled it after the irregular streamlined armor plates of the heavy TFV600 twin-barrel tank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These plates featured dual-layer cushioning, connected to the side armor. Under heavy pressure, they channeled kinetic energy downward into the chassis and dissipated it along the rails.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This would greatly prevent the roof from being crushed inward by a white giant, damaging the air conditioning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only difference was Lin Xian had scaled up the design. Based on the “Infinite”’s carriage dimensions, he made each roof panel 3 meters by 6 meters—each weighing at least two tons. Fortunately, he hadn’t used rolled tungsten steel, or they’d have been even heavier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his current material-decomposition capacity, covering all seven carriages of the “Infinite” was far from enough. Each passenger carriage needed at least four panels, the electric locomotive needed ten, and the gas locomotive needed six.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d need to fabricate thirty-six massive roof panels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that his mechanical fabrication rank had improved, constructing these simple armor plates was fast—but still drained his strength severely. Each panel took him at least ten minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when materials ran low, he’d have to pause fabrication and go devour the freight carriages for more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the roof armor was so heavy, Lin Xian and Da Lou forged it directly on the roof—Lin Xian installed the panels, while Da Lou assisted with welding and assembly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Uuuu~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On this side, Lin Xian used his mechanical repair ability to fix the air conditioning systems in Car 5 and Car 2, then began fabricating the roof armor panel by panel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Chen Sixuan and Sha Sha used the water tank’s spray system to pull out hoses and began scrubbing the blood-soaked flesh and corpses off the sides and front of the “Infinite.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having burst through tens of thousands of corpses, the train’s front and both sides were nearly coated in blood pulp. Flashlights revealed a horrifying, hellish scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two girls, wearing gas masks, stood on either side, spraying water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The water in the tank was untreated rain and snowwater, not connected to the internal recycling system—it was used for engine cooling, so it hadn’t frozen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian planned to scour Yuchicheng after finishing the armor. He needed large quantities of plastic, glass, and fiber for making water purifiers, and Car 5 and Car 2 still lacked many household supplies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin Gege.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the tracks, Sha Sha, wearing her gas mask and holding the spray hose, washed the wheels as she spoke in a muffled voice to Lin Xian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There are lots of bones and stones stuck inside the wheels.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Clear them out first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian’s brow glistened with sweat—fabricating the roof armor was draining him. “Let’s finish the roof first. When it’s light, we’ll return from the city. I’ll install wheel wing armor on the sides.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin Xian,” Chen Laoshi said from the other side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For derailment, we can use the Horizon Rail Clamp. If you add wheel wing armor, leave some clearance from the ground.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wheel wing armor is relatively thin and light, meant only to protect the wheels. The Horizon Rail Clamp, however, is for high-speed traction—only the locomotive has it. Cars 1 through 5 are too old and lack the system, so derailment risk remains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, derailment isn’t the biggest problem for the team—the real danger is broken rails. Lin Xian could fabricate rail repairs if time allowed, but he feared what might happen if they charged at full speed again, like last night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>New book, please follow and vote for monthly tickets!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1231,"2026-06-19T18:20:04.953Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","4bdc3175f6c79a11c631465a081881bf7cd4f1160ad1b05d849f1a3b2ee23706","apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-67","apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-65",541,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fapocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-cover.jpg"]