Chapter 249 Endless Winter Night (120,000 Happy New Year to everyone and ask for monthly tickets at the end of the month)Chapter 249 Endless Winter Night (12,000 Happy New Year to everyone! Monthly votes required at the end of the month)
The
heavy black train broke through the thick snow, making an earth-shaking sound in the blizzard.
Above the dome, a violent vortex of extreme cold blocked out the sky, making the world seem to have entered darkness ahead of time, with white, howling snow everywhere.
"Mark is about to pass level 4!"
"Ready to fire!"
Squeaky!!!
The snow monster in the snow layer was like a swarm of carp crossing the river, stirring up boiling snow dust.
Boom boom boom.
The sound of the trains hitting the tracks began to be deafening.
Lin Xian stood in carriage No. 2, looking at various places outside the car in the sentry system with a stern expression.
"Lin Xian!" Chen Sixuan's voice rang out in the communicator: "Many monsters appeared at the pass ahead."
Upon hearing this, KIKI immediately switched to the optoelectronic sighting system in front of the train, and saw that in the large white snowfield in front, densely packed long black and white tails began to surge out like waves. Perhaps it was because the night was approaching, or the light was obscured by the blizzard, these snow monsters began to be able to climb out from under the snow layer, and rushed towards the train like a whirlwind.
"It seems that the level 4 mark on us has attracted the attention of a wider range of strange entities." KIKI frowned and looked at the images on the surveillance camera.
Lin Xian's eyes narrowed, and he immediately pressed the headset and said
, "Speed up, crush them!"
Woo!
He immediately activated the mechanical heart, increasing the driving force of the Infinity by several percent, speeding up again!
Lin Xian immediately looked at the time. It was already 17:53. No one in the team had experience with the oncoming dark tide, so they could only estimate the time before dark. At this time, it seemed that dark should be around half an hour away!
"Girl, go to the front."
"Yeah." KIKI nodded seriously.
Lin Xian immediately looked towards the corridor of the carriage at the rear, waiting for Ding Junyi's response.
"Level 4."
"Fire!"
Bang, bang, bang!
Woohoo!
In carriage No. 2, above Lin Xian's head, the roar of the G3-electromagnetic railgun exploded instantly, and the sound of ionization oscillation spread, making him feel numb on his face.
The next moment, Lin Xian looked at the oncoming tide of snow monsters on the monitor and shouted again
"Everyone, prepare for impact!"
Boom!
Snow dust flew up, and the heavy rail train rushed towards the snow monster that was jumping through the snow like a wave with violent potential energy.
Chen Sixuan and KIKI were both standing in the cab, their faces darkening as they watched this scene.
"Here it comes!" Chen Sixuan shouted coldly, holding the console tightly in his hand.
"ha!"
KIKI's eyes flashed with a brighter white light, her hair moved without wind, she shouted softly, raised her hand and pointed it forward, stimulating a violent mental wave with a chopping posture.
Buzz!!!!
A cone-shaped strong wave blasted out from the front of the ice-breaking shield like splitting the air, directly splitting the snow layer in front of it on a large scale like a river and waves, revealing the track on the dry grass roadbed below. The huge shock wave flew past, instantly creating a hollow area hundreds of meters long. At the same time, hundreds of snow monsters were directly shaken out of the snow layer like fish waves!
Those snow monsters that were close were torn into pieces immediately, and those that were far away were also dragged into the sky. The surging impact momentum immediately blasted a big hole in KIKI.
This caused the Infinity to speed up again, crashing into the snow layer in front and the oncoming snow monster with violent force.
Bang! Swoosh!
In an instant, the whole car was shaken by the inertia of the impact. Everyone felt a huge forward force, and a lot of debris in the compartments fell to the ground, making crackling sounds.
In front of the car, heavy snow was lifted up by the huge impact force and flew dozens of meters high in an instant, like a bursting fountain in the snow. The porthole in front of Chen Sixuan was completely blocked from view in an instant, and all she could hear was the rain-like collision sound that was densely ringing on the ice shield and steel armor in front, and at the same time, the howling and screaming of various monsters were heard.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom~~~!
The Infinity rolled through the snow and dust, exploding like a series of explosions. All kinds of broken bones and skulls were shattered under the kinetic energy of this steel behemoth, and the internal organs and blood plasma completely covered the glass.
Chen Sixuan turned on the flush and wipers, but it was of no use at this time. Fortunately, KIKI was beside her. She directly sent out a telekinesis wave in front of her, gritted her teeth, and moved forward against the wind and snow and the charging snow monster in front of her.
Woo! Ziz!
The electromagnetic railgun was running at full load and full attack speed. The intelligent system automatically locked onto areas with dense monsters or large monsters as a priority. Every time it fired, the lights of the entire train would dim slightly and then immediately recover.
Da da da! Bang bang bang!
The carriages behind were even more fierce in their attack and firing. This round of snow monsters was bolder and crazier than before. The roarer K23 electric rotary machine guns on the building could sweep away a large area with each round of metal storm. However, the problem that followed was that more snow monsters climbed onto the Infinity train, and at this time, they could obviously stay in the light for a little longer.
Countless tail spikes clanged and bombarded the armored plates of the train. Because KIKI went to the front, there was only Lu Xingchen and a large group of psychics holding on from behind.
He was standing on the top of a high-speed train, wearing a cold-proof helmet. As the wind and snow intensified, the frost on the surface of his windshield was thickening at a very fast rate.
"It's a good time to train yourself in the cold and snowy weather."
Lu Xingchen was breathing rapidly, but he no longer had any thoughts of showing off. The fire in his hands almost never stopped, and the huge waves of fire burned almost close to the deck of the carriage. The repeated pulling of low and high temperatures made the carriage constantly groan with metal fatigue
!
The heat source in the hurricane seemed to make these snow monsters feel extremely threatened. A large number of snow monsters that climbed onto the train no longer attacked the steel plates of the train, but rushed towards Lu Xingchen.
The bodies of these snow monsters were constantly rotting, but they still couldn't stop the continuous attacks and they climbed onto the roof of the car in dense groups.
Lu Xingchen looked at this scene and was not worried but happy
. "Well done, well done!"
Originally, these monsters were scattered in various carriages to launch attacks. Many people in the carriages could not be dealt with because of the limitation of shooting holes. It was OK before because KIKI cooperated with him to clear the monsters. Now that KIKI was not here, he was powerless to guard more than a dozen carriages alone. At this time, a large number of monsters were coming towards him, which made things easier.
"Fire clouds!"
Lu Xingchen crossed his hands and compressed the flames to spray them out, controlling the large amount of firepower to burn the space on the roof of the car, not wanting to waste any of it.
Chi!
At this moment, the train's electric blade armor system suddenly rose up, and the crowded snow monsters that climbed up were unable to react in time and were instantly cut into pieces, falling to the side of the road with a clatter. The long blades flashed with arcs of light, and even the tails of their sharp blades would be cut immediately if they hit them.
"Dark Sign, Level 3!"
Boom, boom, boom, the front of the car collided violently, and KIKI and Chen Sixuan gritted their teeth and rushed in the cockpit.
"Dark Sign, Level 2!"
Dadada, bang bang bang!
The players in each car, Shasha, Shuqin, Dalou, Lu Chang, Miao Lu, opened fire with all their might!
"Dark Sign, Level 1!"
Lu Xingchen's fire was like the flame tail of a meteor flying across the snowfield. The fire filled the sky, burning the snow monsters that swarmed over it.
Finally, Lin Xian looked at a mountain pass area with sedimentary terrain ahead and started to brake directly!
Squeak!
The Infinity began to decelerate madly, and the heavy snow on the roof fell like a waterfall. The locked wheels melted the ice on the track, and began to boil red, and wanton steam rose up!
Ugh! Squeak!
After the train stopped, everyone started to eliminate the attacking snow monsters. After fighting for more than ten minutes, there were piles of snow monster corpses on both sides of the train. The attacks from all directions gradually subsided.
"Hiss! It's cold!!!"
Lu Xingchen was almost exhausted at this time. The extreme low temperature made even a fire-type mutant unable to withstand it. Seeing that there were no snow monsters around, he immediately prepared to open the cover and return to the train.
Unexpectedly, the gate of the lift roof had been frozen by the wind and snow and could not be opened at all. In desperation, he could only spit out another ball of fire to melt the frozen ice before returning to car No. 5.
Woo~ Woo~~~~~
The howling snowstorm became the only sound in the world. As the firing holes in each carriage were closed, the heating system inside the car began to run frantically, providing heat.
Lin Xian, Shuqin and several others put on tight cold-proof clothing and body temperature maintenance devices, as well as cold-proof helmets, then opened the hatch of car No. 11 and jumped out of the car.
Woo~~Hoo~~~~
Outside the train, the howling wind and snow have turned into sideways movement, completely blocking the view, and the visibility is less than a few meters.
As soon as Lin Xian got out of the car, he stepped on the frozen bodies of several snow monsters, making crackling sounds.
He thought to himself, "This thing is not afraid of snow when it's alive, but it will be frozen into an ice stick immediately after it dies..."
"Captain Lin."
Shuqin's voice came from behind him. Lin Xian turned around and immediately frowned.
The side armor of the Infinity was already in a mess, with large holes and even signs of cracks in the armor plates.
"Brother Xian, the temperature is too low, and the armor plate is starting to become brittle." said the building
"I know." Lin Xian took a deep breath, feeling a little heavy.
In less than a day, the temperature had dropped to minus 30 degrees Celsius.
The huge temperature difference caused metal deformation in not only the train armor but also the carriage body.
Bang, bang, bang!
At this moment, the Infinity was constantly making low metallic humming sounds. The temperature inside and outside the vehicle was pulling, causing the connections and welding positions of the vehicle to suffer from metal fatigue all the time. The pressure brought by this extremely low temperature disaster was not just as simple as the monster of the night.
"Quick, check everywhere and go back quickly, it's going to be dark soon."
Lin Xian felt something was not right when he saw the ice forming rapidly in front of his windshield mask, so he immediately took a few people to check around the train.
Uh ah!
Whoosh!
[Mechanical Energy Cannon]
A snow monster that came out from under the car had its head blown up by Lin Xian. It struggled for a few times and began to stiffen. Just when Lin Xian was about to step forward, the monster suddenly moved, rolled up its thick tail needle and pierced Lin Xian's face.
"Captain Lin!" Shu Qin looked at this scene and immediately prepared to rush over, but it was too late.
rub.
Lin Xian stood in place, and the third mechanical arm behind him tightly grasped the sharp tail spike.
Guu ...
The snow demon let out a low roar and finally died. Its body turned white and was wrapped in frost.
Click.
The mechanical arm directly broke the tail. Lin Xian reached out and took it in his hand to take a look, and found that it was heavy. The weight of this monster's tail was far beyond his imagination.
"Such a high density, no wonder..."
"This ghost thing can also attack by surprise, it's really cunning." Shu Qin walked up and said in a deep voice.
"Yeah, it's really hard to deal with without thick armor." Lin Xian said
He threw it casually without wasting time. Several people checked along the car. Just when Lin Xian was about to get back into the car, he vaguely saw a figure in front of the car.
"Activate collision volume perception system, activate range radar!"
Ding!
The auxiliary system of the power armor was activated, locking onto the human figure in the snow and wind ahead, but the system soon flashed yellow.
"Ding Di, no life response."
Lin Xian frowned, took out his black gun and walked over, only to find that the figure was a middle-aged woman who had been completely frozen into an ice sculpture. She was wearing a thick down jacket and half of her body was buried in the snow.
"Captain Lin, there are more ahead."
Shuqin, who was following beside him, also noticed the situation at this time.
When they looked ahead, they saw more survivors who had been frozen into ice sculptures. Lin Xian walked over and found that many of them had been buried, dead on the spot with guns or resistance weapons in their hands.
Further ahead, there was a car camp, but the cars were basically half buried in the snow and wind, and there was thick white snow on the roofs.
In the wilderness with undulating snow hills, a large number of cars are half-buried in the snow. The black SUV in the front is slanted on the snow slope. The rainproof cloth of the roof rack is bulged into a pale sail. The window of the cab is broken and the cold wind is howling in. You can see the pair of hands on the steering wheel that are deeply sunken in the ice shell. The man who has been frozen into an ice sculpture is lying on the steering wheel.
A bus not far away overturned at 45 degrees. The gap in the escape window was blocked by snow into a funnel shape. A woman in a red down jacket climbed out of the broken armored window. The baby swaddling clothes in her arms were frozen into an ice cocoon. When the hanging scarf was blown by the wind, the ice chips collided and made a sound like wind chimes. The diesel heater pipe at the rear of the car burst, and the spilled fuel condensed into stalactite-like ice cones on the surface of the car, reflecting the gray light like dead people's fingernails.
As the wind swept through the car queue, snowflakes played a dirge between the car doors. A white SUV had a lucky charm hanging on its rearview mirror, and the red tassels had long since frozen into straight ice needles.
"13, 14, 15..."
Shuqin took a look and counted in a low voice: "Captain Lin, there are 23 vehicles. It's not a small scale. Judging from the parking situation, it should be a camp."
"They must have been attacked." The building grabbed a frozen monster tail from the snow on the ground and pulled it out. He found that there was half a human palm bitten in the mouth of the snow monster, and the bright red tissue had been sealed by ice and snow.
"The whole group has been wiped out."
Lin Xian sighed softly.
"Okay, let's get back to the car."
"Um."
Several people returned to the train again in the severe snowstorm.
Chi.
As the automatic explosion-proof door closed, the whistling wind was instantly isolated outside. Before Lin Xian had time to take off his windproof helmet, Chen Sixuan's voice came from his headphones.
"Lin Xian, come to the cab, something's going on."
Upon hearing this, Lin Xian immediately took off his helmet and winter clothes to let the PX05 robot deal with the wind and snow. He then quickly crossed the corridor and came to the cab in front.
"What's wrong?"
Chen Sixuan pointed to the transponder on the train: "Someone is calling us."
"Can you still receive messages?"
"The snowstorm is so severe that long-distance radio waves can no longer be received, so they should be nearby." said KIKI on the side.
Lin Xian directly pressed the call button
"who?!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of loud and intermittent shouting from the other end, which sounded very urgent.
"Hey, you... train drivers, hurry... get out of here, it's getting dark, don't hurt us...!!"
Upon hearing this, Lin Xian realized that it should be a convoy of survivors who were also hiding from the wind, snow and snow monsters near the Uliyastai Mountain Pass.
He hesitated for a moment and said directly,
"We have cleared all the monsters. We will stay here tonight. We have no ill intentions."
Just as he finished speaking, another voice that sounded very impolite came over: "What do you mean by clear out or not? Do you know that we have four convoys here? That's enough people. Do you understand the group hunting effect? It's almost dark and you've attracted so many monsters. Get out of here now. Don't stay here!"
"Hey!" KIKI got angry as soon as she heard it and was about to start cursing, but was stopped by Lin Xian.
Lin Xian pressed the communicator and briefly explained the matter of the Dark Mark: "So if you are not attacked now and neither are we, it means we will be relatively safe at night. Even if there is trouble, it will not be too big. We just need to stay where we are and wait for dawn."
The pack hunting effect and the Dark Mark are very similar in some ways, but their essences are different. The former will make it difficult for many survivor teams to get together, and may even be hostile to other teams approaching. In this case, these survivor teams will not easily consider gathering together with others except to seek out official and powerful organizations like the Phoenix Society.
But Lin Xian knew that they had completely misunderstood the current situation. There were many snow monsters in the snowfield now. If these people were not attacked now, it meant that they should be safe. Lin Xian's Infinity Team had just rushed in and basically killed all the pursuing snow monsters. Even if the Dark Marks were not completely destroyed, there were only a few left. In this case, there was no problem in sticking together to spend the long night.
Even if they didn't want to deal with each other, they could just stay separate, but the other side seemed to have sentries who observed Lin Xian, a big train, rushing into the pass of the mountain range, and they seemed to be a little restless.
"You said it's safe? Are you the father of those monsters?" The grumpy middle-aged man cursed without hesitation after hearing Lin Xian's words: "Do you know how much we spent to kill the monsters during the day? You can't stop anywhere else on the track, why do you stop here? Get out of here."
"Hello, hey, hey, we are from the Speed Team. You can drive that train into the town of Dalat ahead. There is a platform there. Can you please not do it here?" said another woman's voice.
"That's right, leave quickly and don't hurt anyone..." The urgent voice at the beginning also responded.
In the cab, Lin Xian's face darkened, while Chen Sixuan was slightly angry.
"How can these people be so stupid? Why do they accept the herd hunting effect and not listen to us? The herd hunting effect is not officially confirmed..."
"Whatever."
Lin Xian's expression turned cold, and he pressed the call button directly: "We will set up camp here, you can stay or not, please feel free to do so."
If it weren't for the fact that the convoy was full of survivors heading to Xilan, he would have been very polite not to curse directly.
"Asshole!" the hot-tempered middle-aged man cursed immediately: "Do you believe that I will kill you with a cannonball..."
Before he finished speaking, the voices of other team members came from beside him.
"Boss, they have strong firepower, and there are electromagnetic cannons on the vehicles."
"Yes, we just rushed in and killed at least a thousand snow monsters..."
Wow wow wow…
At this moment, there seemed to be a burst of noise and discussion coming from the answering machine.
Not long after, the sound of an engine roaring was heard from inside.
"Lin Xian, look."
Chen Sixuan had an excellent vision. At this moment, she saw that at the top of the valley, there seemed to be many car lights shining faintly through the snowstorm.
"Are they really going to come up here and cause trouble?"
KIKI narrowed her eyes and said, "No, I think they are preparing to leave."
"So late?" Chen Sixuan was immediately surprised: "Don't they want to live anymore?"
The light from the car lights gradually faded away, and it seemed that several large streams of vehicles began to merge in the wind and snow, heading off into the distance.
Lin Xian pressed the call button again. "It's getting dark soon. You can't drive to Dalat Town. Listen to my advice. It's safe to stay here tonight."
Click~
As the distance increases, the signal starts to become extremely poor.
"If you can't afford to offend us...we can afford to hide from you...bye bye."
"Who would believe your mark? You've watched too many movies..."
"Hurry... hurry up, go... don't... respond"
"Buzz (engine roar)"
"There's a snow demon... Bang, bang, bang (gunfire sounds), everyone is shooting along the way..."
…
Inside the Infinity carriage.
"These idiots!" KIKI heard the last conversation on the answering machine and said angrily: "It's going to be dark soon, do they want to die so much?!"
"It sounds like there are at least several hundred people in these convoys. It will definitely be dangerous if we continue like this..." Chen Sixuan frowned slightly, looked at Lin Xian and said with a deep breath: "I finally understand what you said now. It is better to let them escape than to let them fight. It is difficult for normal people to accept the idea of being hunted down."
Lin Xian sighed and said, "It's actually fear."
He looked out the porthole at the gradually darkening snowstorm and said, "After escaping for so long, the survivors have developed a physiological fear of strange entities and darkness. Choosing to stop and fight the darkness is a hundred times more difficult than choosing to run away."
Whoosh~ Whoosh~
The wind and snow roared, and the gaps in the Infinity's armored steel plates made gusts of air whistling sounds.
The transponder showed that those convoys could no longer be contacted.
Beep, beep.
At this moment, after Luo Yang's reminder, the watch that he had adjusted in advance made a slight reminder sound, which was almost covered by the severe snowstorm.
"It will be dark soon. Prepare to fight the enemy."
On the night of the blizzard under the extremely cold vortex, although Lin Xian was very confident about the situation of the team's dark mark at this time, such extreme weather naturally made people feel strongly uneasy.
Coupled with the endless snow monsters in the snow layer, his worries deepened.
So he immediately put everyone in the car on alert.
"Bullets loaded, everyone, please be careful, the snow water is poisonous, you must wear a gas mask, even after closing the shooting hole, you need to wipe out all the snow water in the room, and during this process, no one can drink water!"
Heterogeneous Cube never stopped issuing warnings throughout the day.
Snow water seeped in, and the vehicle's shell was punctured. The interior of the car was filled with the fear of the invading darkness, and the nerves of everyone in the car were tense almost all day long.
After hearing Lin Xian's words, Shuqin and others immediately took action.
Lin Xian took KIKI and Chen Sixuan to the back and threw a gas mask to each of them: "Put it on, and don't take it off until the crisis is resolved."
The changes in the night during the snowstorm were very subtle. The sky was already dark, and as night fell, everyone only felt that the light was a little dimmer. Outside the car window, there was only the darkness and the howling snowstorm.
Tick, tick~
The snow dripped onto the floor of the carriage. The people in each living carriage were all holding weapons. Even Xiaoyuan was holding an automatic rifle and wearing a mask for strict protection.
Lin Xian was sitting in the storage room of carriage No. 7, which was the center of the train. It was convenient for him to use the Mechanical Heart to cover the entire car and then repair it.
Woo woo woo~
The heater on the roof was running at full capacity, providing warmth to the interior of the car. On the roof, the 1130 close-in defense gun and the G3-electromagnetic railgun were covered with frost and icicles. Every time they rotated, the ice condensed on the base would be shattered, and then covered with ice again within a few seconds.
The windows were completely covered with white fog, and ice patterns formed and melted quickly, repeating over and over again.
Lin Xian prioritized repairing the damage and gaps inside the car, and then the external armor, first protecting the interior from invasion by wind and snow.
Crack, crack, crack~
The sound of ice seemed to be heard from all directions. Lin Xian was full of worries at this moment. Under the sweeping of this snowstorm, he was very worried that the entire Infinity would be completely buried in the snow before dawn. If this happened, even if he had other means, he would not be able to drive out.
Thinking of this, a feeling of powerlessness arose in my heart. Darkness, strange entities, natural disasters, and this doomsday made people feel endless despair all the time.
"Damn it! Damn it!"
Lin Xian gritted his teeth and cursed in his heart, he was extremely anxious at this moment.
The carriages were extremely quiet, and everyone was waiting for changes outside.
Time passed by minute by minute, Lin Xian looked at his watch, and it was already 19:00.
It was still just the same outside, dark and stormy.
"It's already dark..."
"It's been dark for a long time."
Lin Xian stood up with a serious expression and let out a long breath. His face was tense as he felt the entire outside of the train.
At this time, the entire Infinity train was covered with a layer of snow, and a layer of ice shell had condensed on the steel armor on the side of the vehicle due to the wind and snow.
Between heaven and earth, there was only the sound of the howling blizzard, nothing else.
"Each car." Lin Xian decisively pressed the headphones.
"Captain Lin, no problem."
Shuqin walked quickly from carriage No. 12, reporting as she walked.
"Number 11 is fine." said Sasha.
"There's no problem with car No. 10." Miao Lu reported.
"Number 9 is fine." Lu Chang reported.
"Number 8 is fine too," Xiaoyuan reported.
"No problem going from No. 6 to No. 5." The building and Lu Xingchen walked quickly along the corridor.
"No. 3 and No. 4 are fine, the disaster plants have no other reactions." Ding Junyi said as she looked at the faint stream of energy. She had killed so many snow monsters along the way, and it seemed that they had all been fed by the Hell Black Chrysanthemum.
"Number 2, Number 1 is no problem." Chen Sixuan and KIKI responded.
Lin Xian was standing in carriage No. 7 and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Everyone, put on your winter clothes. Don't take them off yet. We will observe for a while. When there are no problems, we will take turns to rest."
"clear."
Until this moment, everyone's hearts relaxed a little. Chen Sixuan began to lead people to distribute food. Originally, they were going to prepare some hot food, but Lin Xian was worried that it would be too complicated, and now the heating in the car has reached its limit, so he started with simplicity.
Let's solve the problem of food and clothing first.
In Car No. 2, KIKI kept searching for the frequencies of various radio stations and found that they had been completely disconnected.
"It seems that the extreme cold vortex has completely covered this area. Even the global radio stations of Xilan City and the Phoenix Order can't receive them, and the nearby survivor radio stations can't receive them either."
Chen Sixuan raised her head and looked at the roof of the car. She knew that at this moment, the huge vortex of extreme cold in the sky was rapidly degenerating the world into the Ice Age. The blizzard that concealed the power of darkness had completely blocked the frequency of the dark radio station.
At this time, the Infinity had become a lone boat in the blizzard of this vast snowfield.
"At today's speed, we still need to run for at least 10 hours to reach Xilan," said Chen Sixuan.
Lin Xian shook his head: "Too optimistic. The snow tomorrow will be at least twice as thick as today. It will be a miracle if we can drive 50 mph, unless this blizzard stops."
"ah..."
KIKI looked worried. She rubbed her hands and said, "If the snow keeps getting heavier, we will be buried."
"By then we may have to modify a few snowmobiles or you can take everyone to fly to Xilan." Lin Xian said half-jokingly.
If this is the case, he can't think of any other solution except giving up Infinity.
As soon as these words came out, KIKI's face immediately became extremely ugly, and she said with a worried look: "Wow, what about our train? I thought the most troublesome thing was the track problem, who knew it would be this blizzard."
"Lin Xian." Chen Sixuan looked at Lin Xian solemnly: "Is there no other way?"
Lin Xian took a deep breath, thought for a moment, and then said seriously: "We can only wait and see how the snowstorm develops. If the wind and snow decrease in the second half of the night, it will be fine. If it increases..."
At this point, his eyes became fierce and he said, "Then we can only risk our lives and give it a try!"
The darkness is a desperate situation, but being buried by a blizzard is a death situation. In comparison, even a desperate situation with a life-or-death situation is still a gamble. At least rushing forward is better than staying where you are and giving up the train to walk or rely on KIKI to fly to Xilan.
Of course, the current snow depth is not yet at that level.
Chen Sixuan nodded after hearing this: "I understand what you mean, then I will keep watch."
Lin Xian shook his head: "No, as usual, I'll come in the evening."
The mental power of a psychic is stronger than that of an ordinary person, and Lin Xian knows that Hell Black Chrysanthemum will continue to release energy tonight. Allowing Chen Sixuan and the others to have a good rest can also quickly enhance their physical evolution trend and increase their subsequent survival rate.
Chen Sixuan looked at him worriedly when she heard that, and then nodded.
The wind and snow gnawed at the Infinity's outer armor, and the raging wind made waves of "ghostly cries".
In the living compartment, the team members huddled in their own well-protected nests, and those on duty took off their winter clothes and wrapped themselves in thick quilts.
The car's heating system continues to work, but as the wind and snow outside intensify, the temperature inside the car can only be maintained at 12~13 degrees. Except for the higher temperature of the heater, the temperature of other areas is quickly swallowed up by the low temperature outside along with the metal car.
Fortunately, Infinity had prepared cold-proof supplies in advance, and Chen Sixuan distributed canned meat to everyone tonight. Everyone was hiding in their own warm little nest, which was quite comfortable.
In a beautifully decorated and comfortable small living cabin, Xiaoyuan wrapped in a thick blanket opened the sunshade and looked at the raging snowstorm in the darkness outside with a bit of worry on her little face. She reached out and touched the glass, and a bit of freezing cold immediately made her frown.
She immediately closed the blinds and retreated back into the small bed. In the corner next to the pillow were two cans of pears, which she carefully protected.
The distribution of canned fruit is usually random, according to the supply of materials on the car. Generally, Chen Sixuan will arrange a can of canned fruit for everyone every other day. Xiaoyuan was reluctant to eat it, so she kept it all. She also specially asked other teammates to exchange it for canned pears, which she quietly protected on her bed.
Looking at the can of pears beside the pillow, Xiaoyuan smiled sweetly, took a long breath, and quickly closed her eyes and went to sleep.
After 4 hours, she had to get up and take turns to keep watch with others.
Because of the snowstorm and the snowy night, Lin Xian arranged everyone to work in four shifts so that they could respond quickly in emergency situations.
Buzz, buzz!
The motor engines of the Infinity's Giant Whale 03E heavy-duty gas turbine locomotive and the Gemini 11R nuclear-powered electric locomotive were kept running so that they could be started at any time and not frozen by ice and snow. The heating system of the carriage was already running at full capacity, madly delivering warmth to the car.
This is the energy consumption for maintaining survival, but the Gemini nuclear-powered locomotive has a thermal power of 100,000 kilowatts, so this amount of electricity is not a big problem.
The only problem is that this kind of heating consumes a lot of water, both from the human body and from the train's water tanks. Snow water cannot be used to replenish the water tanks now. Although Chen Sixuan had already filled the water tanks before and specially arranged several large buckets to be filled as backup, this problem is still very serious.
The time soon came to 9 o'clock in the evening.
Extremely cold temperature, minus 40 degrees!
Lin Xian is working hard every minute and every second, making ammunition while making TRP fourth-generation special industrial active exoskeleton power armor!
He wants to take advantage of this time to make two more sets, improve his mechanical manufacturing, and equip more people with this exoskeleton power armor. Moving in ice and snow is a big problem, and this set of power armor will be a great help!
Lin Xian had gradually become proficient at multitasking, especially bullets, which he made very easily.
So he made ammunition with his left hand and started making power armor with his right hand.
The difficulty in manufacturing active exoskeleton power armor is the same as that of the PX-05 robot. The exoskeleton material is easy to deal with, but it is mainly equipped with a special intelligent combat system, power source, drive shafts of each joint and hydraulic power hub, with a total weight of 30 kilograms, equipped with 1 small high-energy electric drive force component and 13 hydraulic power units. These are relatively sophisticated manufacturing processes. The first manufacturing still starts with a chip to manufacture the master control.
However, after the mechanical manufacturing was upgraded to level 4, the manufacturing speed and efficiency were greatly improved. In about 4 hours, a set of light gray-painted power armor was produced by Lin Xian. It was completely brand new, revealing a breath of brand new industrial materials.
Except for the arms, the protective capability of this exoskeleton power armor is basically zero, but its advantage is that it is lightweight.
Although it weighs 30 kg, because it is a full-body supporting structure, the weight will be transferred to the ground. In addition, its power unit can provide more than 500 kg of explosive force, 100 meters/3.5 seconds of linear acceleration, and 270 degrees/second of joint angular velocity.
There are also dynamic detection and small radar sighting systems. In addition to enhancing the biomechanical multiples, there are also protection thresholds, such as forced intervention of knee joint shock absorbers, fuse protection of arm bone pressure sensors, myocardial load overload alarms, etc.
In general, for genetically evolved candidates like Shuqin, Chen Sixuan, Lu Chang, and Miao Lu, such auxiliary power armor will be of great help to them.
"Give this set to Teacher Chen first."
Lin Xian took a deep breath and started to operate again without stopping.
[Ding! Reflex detection is being performed using non-mechanical force. ]
[Detection successful, no risk of fear in the train, the invasion of dark forces has been blocked. ]
[Non-mechanical energy has been converted, and 1000 mechanical source points have been obtained. ]
"Um..."
As soon as Lin Xian moved, the light screen of the Mechanical Heart suddenly popped up in front of him. He was immediately delighted. It seems that killing the snow monsters on a large scale still has its benefits. The Hell Black Chrysanthemum can actually absorb so much dark energy.
[Current Mechanical Heart Level LV.4 (2690/7000)]
Mechanical Manufacturing: 4 (360/2000) Improve construction efficiency
"Building a power armor increases the proficiency of mechanical manufacturing by at least 200. It's really good."
Feeling his energy being continuously restored by the penetration of the faint fluorescent light, Lin Xian took a deep breath. With such a blessing, he had to seize every minute and every second to create tonight.
In the dark night, Lin Xian was making the car while paying attention to the howling snowstorm outside the car. He looked up at the temperature outside the car from time to time and found that it was close to minus 50 degrees Celsius.
It was 5 a.m., and Lin Xian, who had just built the second set of power armor, was getting restless. He stood up and opened the sunshade, only to find that the window was covered with thick frost. He didn't know if it was because the train was covered with too much frost or what, but the sound of the whistling wind and snow outside seemed to be much quieter.
Lin Xian shuddered. Even with the heater on at full power, the temperature in the car was only a dozen degrees. Even the joints between the cars and the toilet were filled with cold and frost.
He directly put on power armor, body temperature maintenance device, cold-proof clothing, and cold-proof helmet, then came to the nuclear-powered carriage and prepared to open the cockpit door.
Bang~!
The gate motor hummed in pain, but the gate didn't budge.
Lin Xian frowned and went over to operate it manually. The output torque of the power armor suddenly shook, and there was a loud sound of ice breaking outside the cabin, which sounded like his ice wall.
Wow~
As soon as the car door opened, a white cold air that was almost condensed into a solid body hit me in the face. Under the light inside the car, the snow outside had actually piled up outside the cabin door and was almost overflowing into the cabin.
Lin Xian's expression changed. You know, the train door is 1.3 meters above the track surface, which means that the snow is at least 1.4 meters high at this time, which is simply terrifying.
However, what made Lin Xian feel somewhat fortunate at this time was that, apart from the still fierce cold wind outside, the snow seemed to have stopped!
The thick snow piled up, and Lin Xian took a step forward against the cold wind, and with a creak, his entire leg almost sank into the snow.
Lin Xian looked at this scene and sighed softly: "Not bad."
Fortunately, the snow is just thick but not solid.
Lin Xian walked out of the snow with difficulty, then closed the door and climbed onto the roof through the gaps in the train's armored steel plates.
Apart from the howling wind, it was pitch black all around. He turned on the flashlight and looked around, and found that everything around him was white. The entire Infinity train seemed to have entered a white platform, tightly wrapped.
There was also thick snow piled on the roof, and the sides of the carriage were completely covered with a layer of transparent ice shell, making the entire train look like it had just been dug out of the polar ice layer.
The engine motor and heater were working with a low hum. Lin Xian walked towards the car in front and checked the situation outside.
[Low temperature warning, low temperature warning]
An alarm sounded from the power armor, and the heavy winter clothing was soon covered with ice.
Lin Xian walked quickly across the roof of the car. Seeing the current condition of the car, he was slightly shocked.
"It should still be possible to drive in this situation, if it doesn't continue to snow…"
According to the time calculation, it may be another seven or eight hours before dark. If the blizzard continues, he will have to let the whole team take the risk and start the train to break through the wind and snow in the dark.
But with such thick snow and the night mark, if they were attacked by hundreds of snow monsters, there would be almost no possibility for them to suppress the mark again. In this vast snowfield, with no ammunition and no supplies, they could not advance or retreat and could only wait to die on the spot.
After completing the inspection, Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief. When he was about to return, he suddenly thought of something. He jumped off the train and walked on the deep snow towards the destroyed convoy.
He needs mechanical devouring!
Although those cars can't add many mechanical source points to him at present, Lin Xian has few materials left in the decomposition center. In the past two days, they have been used to make weapons and ammunition. After entering the snowfield, let alone mechanical objects, even the electric poles can't be found. Now there is a car group here, Lin Xian doesn't want to waste it, otherwise he has no idea what he will encounter tomorrow.
At this time, most of the cars in the destroyed convoy were buried in the deep snow, leaving only raised snow mounds. Lin Xian walked over and pulled them apart with his hands to see the buried car bodies.
As soon as he stepped on the ground, the snow on the slope suddenly sank a bit, and the off-road vehicle fell over with it.
Boom~crash,
As the SUV tilted, a man who was frozen into an ice sculpture inside the car broke the glass and half of his head appeared. Lin Xian shone his flashlight over there and immediately saw a deathly face covered in white frost with wide-open eyes staring at him motionlessly.
Lin Xian's expression remained unchanged. He placed his hand on the car and began to devour the 'man' in front of him. While devouring, he shone a flashlight on him and said, "Die early and be free. Don't come to this world in your next life."
"Brother, life is so hard." The frozen man sighed to him.
"I know." Lin Xian swept the flashlight around and said, "You've done a great job, leading so many people here."
"But no one survived." The frozen man twisted his stiff neck and looked at the bus: "What a pity, if it weren't for these monsters..."
Then, he looked at Lin Xian and said, "Your train can hold more people, but if they all die, it will also make you more stressed."
Lin Xian shook his head: "I am not a savior, and I can't guarantee that all my team members will live until tomorrow, so I don't want to lead more people, at least, not before my ability reaches a certain level."
"You are afraid." The frozen man looked at him and said, "Otherwise you wouldn't be working so hard. Sleeping is a luxury for you."
Lin Xian shrugged and denied, "I am a superpower, I am full of energy, and there is also the Hell Black Chrysanthemum in the car to transform and evolve my strength, so I am in pretty good shape."
"good?"
The frozen man touched his broken neck and looked at him with mocking eyes: "Then how come you saw me and talked to a dead man for no reason?"
Lin Xian glared at him speechlessly: "I am just lonely in the middle of the night."
The frozen man sighed and looked at him seriously. "Honestly, you are under so much pressure, have you ever thought about just relying on the Phoenix Society? That way you will feel much more relaxed. If you cooperate with the Phoenix Society, you can do a lot of things. You don't need to carry the whole train on your own~"
"That makes sense…"
Lin Xian exhaled a breath of cold air, his eyes swept across the convoy buried in the cold wind, and the body of the man in front of him who was dead and didn't say a word, and he muttered to himself.
[Swallowed successfully, mechanical source points +20, mechanical swallowing skill proficiency +10]
[Decomposition: Obtain high manganese steel * 10, hot-rolled forged steel * 10, cold-rolled dual-phase steel plate * 5, ordinary carbon steel * 20, non-metallic foam material, non-metallic composite material...]
As the devouring was completed, the off-road vehicle in front of him quickly decayed into a small pile of brown ash, and the debris inside and the man's body fell into the snow cave. The deep snow around it lost its support and poured down, burying the man in the snow in the blink of an eye.
"Good luck."
The frozen man said to Lin Xian before he was buried by the snow.
Rumble.
At this moment, the snowfield suddenly began to tremble slightly.
Lin Xian saw that the snow and air in front of him seemed to be constantly vibrating, so he raised his head immediately. At this moment, he seemed to hear some extremely low-frequency roar coming from the distant snowfield. Above the sky, a vibrating ionosphere suddenly swept past from a distance. In an instant, Lin Xian only felt a rustling and boiling sound coming from outside the pass.
Just when he thought it was the snow demon rioting, the boiling sound suddenly faded away and soon disappeared.
The area around Mount Uliyastai fell into an eerie silence again.
Lin Xian looked up at the dome. In the center of the distant extremely cold vortex, thunder exploded from time to time, reflecting the cobalt blue storm sky, like a cosmic behemoth, which was frightening.