Chapter 160 The Dead City

Chapter 160 The Dead City

Chapter 160 The Dead City
This was the first time that Lin Xian's mechanical heart completely devoured his energy. It felt as if the mechanical heart had activated some kind of self-protection program and forced itself to [shut down].

When the mechanical power started to work again, Lin Xian began to feel a cold touch on his skin, and... a feeling of weightlessness!

Infinity, is falling rapidly.

Wow!

The tracks are buzzing and the train is trembling slightly.

Lin Xian opened his eyes and found himself lying on the bed in carriage No. 1. Chen Sixuan's voice in the cockpit came to his ears: "Slowing down, no obstacles ahead."

"Everyone hold on tight, Shasha, take good care of your brother Lin!"

He turned his head and found that Lou Shasha was holding his shoulders with a nervous look on her face, afraid that he would roll off the bed due to inertia, and her little face was looking out the window nervously.

"Sister Chen, we haven't received any broadcasts related to Jiazhou City yet." KIKI's voice came from carriage No. 2.

Lin Xian felt his head was fuzzy, and his subconscious told him that this descending slope must be an ascending passage.

Have we arrived at Jiazhou City?
Hey~
The Mechanical Heart sent a prompt, and Lin Xian realized that the R&D center had completed the research progress of the M556 light machine gun a few hours ago, and a new blueprint package prompted him to obtain it.

With a flash of light, a new blueprint appeared in the R&D center.

[Congratulations, you have obtained the Growler K23 Electric Minigun (Blueprint)]

Lin Xian raised his neck to take a look, his pupils trembled slightly, and then he fell back on the pillow.

"Am I blinded?"

"What the hell is this? The research and development of firepower enhancement directly resulted in something like this..."

Lin Xian pondered for a moment and was convinced that this R&D center was not a simple upgrade of blueprints, including the A1-level subcritical reverse osmosis water purifier, which was completely created out of thin air.

He even began to suspect that the end of the R&D center's upgrade might not be something produced on this planet...

"call!"

At the critical moment, Lin Xian had no time to think about it. He shook his dizzy head and stood up immediately.

When Shasha saw Lin Xian wake up, she immediately exclaimed: "Brother Lin, you're awake?!"

"Where is this?"

"We flew in the high-altitude corridor for seven or eight hours on the descending track of Jiazhou Airport No. 2," said Shasha.

Lin Xian sat up from the bed. The whole carriage was now in a downward tilt. He immediately activated the Mechanical Heart and found that Chen Sixuan was using the Horizon Gateway to control the descent speed. At the moment, everything seemed to be going well.

The black armored train continued to descend towards the ground. In the cockpit, Chen Sixuan saw Lin Xian coming in, and a look of surprise flashed in her eyes: "Are you awake?"

"Is everything going well?" Seeing that the train was still rushing at high speed, Lin Xian did not dare to be careless and began to control the train and adjust its posture.

"There are no other problems for now. I have already increased the train speed to the fastest in the high-altitude corridor. However, at our speed, we are several hours slower than others."

"It's ok."

Lin Xian said in a deep voice: "As long as we get through, it will be fine. This is already the fastest speed we can escape from the darkness and the farthest distance we can cross in a short period of time."

All vehicle traction units have been electromagnetically accelerated to reach a speed of 1000 kilometers per hour. Trains like the Silver Star and Longshan No. are well-equipped, and their speed is far beyond the Infinity that Lin Xian is currently equipped with, so it is normal that they cannot keep up with the speed.

But for the team that has crossed the 4500-kilometer Dazhu Plateau, they have temporarily escaped the threat of the polar night.

"I wonder if anyone is staying at Jiazhou Airport..."

"I don't know about others, but Shuqin and the others should be waiting for us." Lin Xian said.

After a night at the airport, he decided to expand the train on a large scale, like the Silver Star and Longshan No. 1, to take more passengers and fully explore the potential of his mechanical heart. At the same time, an important problem needed to be solved, that is, the train's all-terrain mobility.

The circumstellar orbit will pass through large cities and many extreme areas, so it must also have multiple route options like the Dawn Center of the Phoenix.

At this time, the slope slowed down, the train rushed down the climbing track and began to slow down, and a large track hall appeared in sight.

Wow! Wow! Wow!
The huge noise of the train echoed in the track hall, which seemed very empty. There was no one in sight. Jiazhou City's No. 2 Airport was built on a mountain. The track and the underground tunnel went along the underground track along the tunnel. Soon a beam of light was seen!
The Infinity train rushed out of the tunnel without any stopping. In an instant, the dazzling sunlight enveloped the train, and all the carriages were illuminated. At the same time, a feeling of warmth also came with it.

"Its daybreak?"

"The sun is rising so early..."

Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan felt a stinging pain in their eyes. At this time, Sasha, KIKI and others also ran in.

Through the glass porthole, under the early sun, a quiet big city appeared in everyone's sight.

It was 7 o'clock in the morning, and the morning sun was still very cold, but for the team that had just rushed from Yubei City, which was hit by a blizzard and had a low temperature, this temperature was already considered warm.

"Wow, I haven't seen the sun so early in a long time."

KIKI came over and exclaimed.

Chen Sixuan looked at him leisurely, "It feels like I have come back from the dead."

"We suddenly have a lot more time during the day," Sasha said excitedly.

Hua Hua...

The train passed quickly on the airport's high-speed elevated road, and the scenery of the city in the distance came into everyone's sight, giving people a feeling that was both strange and familiar.

"4500 kilometers, the area from Jiazhou to Longjiang is approaching the middle zone between Star Abyss No. 3 and Star Abyss No. 5." Lin Xian said.

Shasha was very envious. “The people here are so lucky. They have more daytime hours than other places…”

"That being said..." KIKI frowned and leaned closer to the car window to look at the city in the distance: "But why do I feel that this city seems too quiet."

“It looks like a dead city.”

"Logically speaking, shouldn't there be a lot of survivors in the middle zone of Xingyuan?"

Lin Xian shook his head. "You're thinking too simply. Xingyuan No. 3, No. 5, and No. 7 are too close. Even if there is a temporary living space in between, it's just like boiling a frog in warm water. Moreover, the dangers in the dark are the same..."

Cities that are farther away from the Star Abyss do have more living space and time, but the infection of the night is also deadly. Moreover, because the distribution range and expansion speed of the Star Abyss are different, some areas will be covered by the polar night more slowly and the chance of survival will be higher.

Although Jiazhou City is far away from the rapidly expanding Star Abyss No. 3, it is not far from the other Star Abysses No. 5 and No. 7. If the other two star abysses also expand rapidly, this area will be surrounded and quickly covered and swallowed up.

"Population and cities are both influencing factors." Ding Junyi walked over and said from a distance, "Lucheng Dingzhou, where Star Abyss No. 3 is located, is the most densely populated urban area in Tianhai Province. Like North America No. 1, Asia-Pacific No. 2, Europe No. 9, and Republic No. 11, they are all Star Abysses with the fastest expansion of dark tides. It is precisely because of this that the Phoenix Society advocates finding living space while moving, such as the polar ice cap in the Arctic. Coupled with the influence of the polar day, it is very likely that it will be the last area covered by the polar night."

"There is no star abyss there, but it is still in the polar night now." Chen Sixuan responded.

"Four months later, there will be six months of polar daylight there, and without the influence of dark tides, it will be the most suitable area for refuge. Currently, the South Pole is also in polar daylight, the same principle applies."

Lin Xian nodded. "Not bad. For us humans, it is equivalent to a shrinking safety zone."

As he spoke, he inexplicably felt that this was very similar to a game from decades ago, where one had to run away from poison...

"Can that be called a safe zone?" KIKI was dumbfounded. "That place is the polar region. There is nothing there. How can people survive there..."

Lin Xian turned around and looked at her, then said meaningfully, "Believe me, when the world is covered in polar night and monsters are running all over the place, that no-man's land filled with sunshine will be the place everyone dreams of belonging to."

(End of this chapter)