Chapter 93: Isomerism (7th update, seeking monthly votes!)

Lin Xian walked out of Carriage No. 2, rubbing his nose, his face full of bewilderment.

"I got bitten. I wonder if I'll turn into a zombie..."

He walked past Carriages No. 3 and 4. These two carriages were captured from Tang Hai previously and were mainly used for storage. However, because there weren't many supplies, both carriages were somewhat empty.

In fact, Lin Xian had stored a certain amount of supplies in every carriage except Carriage No. 5, also to avoid some unexpected situations.

He arrived at Carriage No. 5. Dalou was sitting on a chair holding a gun, standing guard. Seeing Lin Xian come over, he stood up and asked,

"Brother Xian, are we leaving?"

Lin Xian shook his head, signaling, "No, you go rest for a while. I'll guard the back."

"Oh, okay."

Dalou knew that Lin Xian must have made arrangements, so he wasn't pretentious about his requests. As soon as he was told to rest, he immediately put down his gun and went to sleep.

Lin Xian opened the rear tailboard, preparing to devour the broken off-road vehicle and see if he could repair that armored vehicle while he was at it.

The armored vehicle was still very valuable to Lin Xian. He would need to get off the train to move around later, and having such a high-horsepower armored vehicle would be much more convenient.

The benefit of this open-air trailer platform was that it was convenient for loading and unloading vehicles, but the disadvantage was that it had no protection. If they encountered a thug convoy like last night's, it would be really hard to defend against someone climbing onto the vehicle and driving it away...

But it would be quite troublesome to prepare a separate carriage for one vehicle. Lin Xian thought for a moment and decided to drive the vehicle directly into Carriage No. 5. Anyway, Carriage No. 5 had a tailboard, which was convenient for getting on and off. It was just that when loading and unloading other supplies, he would have to unload the vehicle first; it wasn't as convenient as his motorcycle.

Lin Xian walked to the side of the armored vehicle, placed his hand on it, and operated the Mechanical Heart to investigate.

"Good... it's not broken. Having armor makes it a bit more durable..."

"Let's get it into Carriage No. 5 first..."

Looking at the thick snow on the flatbed trailer, Lin Xian thought that after they went to Underground City No. 9, he would get rid of these two burdens.

But not now. In case there was some large machinery that needed to be towed away tomorrow, he would still need this kind of large flatbed trailer.

So Lin Xian walked out, devoured the damaged off-road vehicle, tidied up the tool rack at the rear end of Carriage No. 5, pushed the armored vehicle into Carriage No. 5, and then closed the tailboard.

At this time, he took out the old radio, took a deep breath, and looked toward the tracks not far away.

There, the headless female ghost anomaly in a bikini was standing there. Only Lin Xian, who was holding the radio, could see it.

"A taboo item, is it? Since you're attached to a piece of machinery, then I'll see what exactly you are."

Lin Xian looked at the headless female ghost, his expression tightening, and he thought to himself,

"If you give me 1 point of mechanical source, I'll really strip you down..."

*Hum~*

A faint light flickered, and Lin Xian's Mechanical Heart began to rotate.

This strange power emerged. The red-clothed female ghost and the radio seemed to begin to resist violently at this moment, trembling in Lin Xian's hand in resistance.

【Devour progress 50%】

For this kind of small mechanical equipment, Lin Xian's devouring speed only needed a few minutes.

【Devour progress 99%】

Countless terrifying spectacles swarmed toward Lin Xian's eyes, and the red-clothed female ghost was also rapidly flashing, twisting, and screaming.

But in the next instant, just when Lin Xian thought the devouring was about to succeed, a strange prompt suddenly appeared on the light screen in front of him.

【Devouring failed. Non-mechanical energy detected. Please upgrade the Mechanical Heart to complete awakening before attempting.】

【Prompt: Non-mechanical energy detected. To protect the Mechanical Heart, automatic mechanical isomerism is enabled for energy sealing.】

*Click, click, click! *

At this time, Lin Xian's Mechanical Heart suddenly operated at high speed, and then the radio in his hand suddenly turned like a Rubik's cube, rapidly flipping. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a rectangular, misaligned radio, and that silver antenna was wrapped in the middle.

"Ah!!!"

With a shrill sound, the countless terrifying spectacles instantly shattered, and an invisible force was rapidly gathered and sucked into the strange cube in Lin Xian's hand.

"Damn, what's going on?"

For so long, this was the first time Lin Xian had encountered a failure in mechanical devouring.

"Non-mechanical energy, automatic mechanical isomerism enabled for energy sealing?"

Lin Xian was a bit dazed. He looked up at his surroundings and found that those terrifying scenes and the red-clothed female ghost had already disappeared, while the strange radio-like cube in his hand seemed to be gathering some kind of energy.

He immediately used the Mechanical Heart to scan, but there was no result.

This thing seemed to have turned into a stone block.

"Sealing..."

Lin Xian muttered this word. Thinking that this was an action taken by his own Mechanical Heart, he could only set his mind at ease for now. "Since that's the case, let's deal with this thing after the Mechanical Heart is upgraded to Level 3."

For some reason, Lin Xian always had a premonition that the power of this taboo item might really be able to be used by him with the help of his Mechanical Heart!

15:00 in the afternoon. The night passed without incident, and the Infinite team obtained a rare night of rest. Lin Xian prepared to set off early before dawn because after entering the southern line, there was still a distance of one or two hundred kilometers, and the daylight time had been greatly shortened, so he had to take a risk to save daylight time.

Chen Laoshi, who had slept for more than ten hours, saw her complexion recover a bit of ruddiness. This was probably the longest and most comfortable night she had slept since leaving Jiang City, and her whole person was much more spirited.

In the dark night, the goose-yellow lights inside the Infinite carriage lit up. Outside, the wind and snow continued, while inside the carriage, Chen Sixuan was already preparing food.

Now, besides being the train navigator, Chen Sixuan also took on the role of the chef.

Dalou and Shasha were already fully armed, tidying up guns and bullets on the side. Kiki had been busy all night, not working on that water-oxygen circulation system. After Lin Xian's reminder, she made some detection upgrades to the radar system, mainly using the photoelectric probe to monitor the track conditions in the vertical direction of the train head.

Lin Xian thought Kiki's idea was simply genius; it didn't need a complex identification module, yet it could directly cut into the fatal problem of the Infinite.

*Woo~*

The engines of the electric locomotive and the gas locomotive sounded at the same time, the headlights turned on, and after a night of rest, the "Infinite" slowly started.

Not long after, the train drove to the turnout of Mount Daluo. Lin Xian got off the train in the dark to check and found that it was indeed a relatively new road, and it was an engineering-grade track with very high specifications. He changed the turnout and merged the train into the branch line.

*Clang~ clang. *

Because it was still dark, for the sake of caution, Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan did not increase the train speed, maintaining a slow forward movement and paying attention to the road conditions at all times.

!

In the distance, the Mount Daluo mountain range presented a towering outline in the dark night, and the train headed toward the hinterland of the southern foothills.

"Lin Xian, look."

In the cockpit, Chen Sixuan pointed to the railroad ahead. "Six tracks. It must be a huge engineering project to need so many tracks."

*Boom! Boom! *

Suddenly, a discarded car appeared on the railroad ahead, lying across the tracks. It was directly shoveled away by the "Infinite's" ice-breaking shield, emitting a roar.

Chen Sixuan was startled. Lin Xian looked ahead of the headlights, his brows furrowing involuntarily.

As they continued to move forward, the sides of the tracks began to widen. Dense vehicles appeared within their line of sight, all blocked on the roads on both sides. Many cars had even rushed onto the railroad and were buried by the wind and snow.

"So many cars?"

"Lin Xian, there are more and more..."

*Clang~ boom... *

More and more abandoned vehicles and various debris began to appear on the railroad. Without any obstacles, the terrain began to become flat and wide. As far as the eye could see, it was all covered by vehicles buried in wind and snow, which was suffocating.

*Beep, beep, beep, beep... *

The driving alarm and the probe radar kept issuing reminders. Kiki also ran into the cockpit with a nervous face. "There are cars everywhere in front. The roads on both sides are blocked. There are at least ten thousand of them."

Lin Xian saw it all, his gaze burning, and he said in a deep voice,

"It seems they were all trying to flee to the underground city after the apocalypse. I don't know if these people were invited or if they were at the end of their rope and came to try their luck..."

Chen Sixuan said, "Although the underground city project was a targeted invitation and had a confidentiality agreement, such a large project definitely couldn't be hidden. Even if only one percent of the people took the rumors on the internet as a straw to clutch at, gathering together, there would be hundreds of thousands or millions of people, right?"

Kiki shook her head and sighed, "It's useless. The underground city definitely has extremely strong armed forces. Besides, resources are limited. How could those hateful guys let everyone in? Ordinary people's lives aren't worth anything to them."

16:45, it was dawn.

As if the tide had receded, the sky suddenly became clear. The reflection of sunlight and white snow became incomparably dazzling. *Thump, thump, thump~* Shasha and Dalou also walked into the cockpit at this time. Several people shielded their eyes from the glaring oblique sun, their vision gradually adapting, and then... everyone's expression began to become solemn.

On the vast wilderness under the mountain range, the roads on both sides of the railroad were filled with thousands of cars buried by wind and snow. Countless zombies wandered among them. The wide multi-line railroad was also full of broken-down abandoned cars and suitcases.

Under the snow, one could faintly see various stiff corpses of different shapes. Everyone had originally thought that it was rugged ground.

Actually, it wasn't the ground, and one couldn't see the ground anymore; it was all dead people...

The blocked road stretched for several kilometers. Looking into the distance, a huge square underground tunnel appeared a few kilometers away. Layers of iron nets and steel walls isolated the underground city, and countless large engineering machines were parked around it.

"Is that... Underground City No. 9?"

"My God..."

Shasha covered her small mouth. "They actually dug such a huge pit in the earth. How many people are going to live underground..."

Kiki looked solemn. "But it looks like not only is it unfinished, it seems to have come to a complete standstill."

"Something terrible must have happened here..." Chen Sixuan's face also looked ugly.

Above the snowfield tracks, the black armored train kept breaking through the obstacles on the tracks, moving forward slowly. The huge sound made the surrounding zombies swarm over like ants gathering.

The whole world seemed to be in dead silence, with only the howling blizzard in the sky.

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