Chapter 247 Into the Snowstorm

Chapter 247 Into the Snowstorm

Chapter 247 Into the Snowstorm

Lin Xian's plan is that if there is still time after completing the train inspection and maintenance, he will try to make a set of TRP fourth-generation special industrial active exoskeleton power armor for himself. His first plan is to give it to Shu Qin or Chen Sixuan. Both of them are genetically evolved types and need to enhance their mobility, which will be greatly improved when used.

Originally, Lin Xian wanted to ask the Zhui Ri convoy to scan a copy of Amin and Luo Luo's military power armor, but after comparing them, he found that the military power armor only had good performance in weapon expansion and application system, but his special industrial type could provide good support in strength and protection. In comparison, he could completely install weapon expansion by himself, so he gave up.

Moreover, Lin's current R&D center is currently upgrading this set of power armor. Given the nature of the R&D center, the result will probably not disappoint him too much.

Just as Lin Xian was about to return to the camp, he inexplicably felt that something in the darkness behind him seemed to be watching him.

Lin Xian, who was always cautious, turned around immediately and quickly swept the flashlight beam over, but found nothing unusual.

"Activate collision volume perception system, activate range radar!"

Lin Xian turned on the power armor's early warning system without hesitation. At this time, the system started running quickly, constantly searching in the darkness.

But after searching for a while, nothing was found. Lin Xian concentrated and held his breath, turned around and took a few steps. What made his back chill was that the feeling of being watched still existed.

So Lin Xian turned back again, but still found nothing.

Just when he looked solemn and puzzled, his sight seemed to catch something, and he slowly raised his head and looked up into the sky.

There are sparse stars in the dark sky, and the starlight is dim, as if the night is covered by an even darker night.

Lin Xian looked towards the black dome, his eyes kept fixed on it. In his sight, the vast sky seemed to become more and more vivid and concrete under the construction of some kind of brain image. The black curtain and the starlight in the sky seemed to be outlined...

Like a giant eyeball!

Lin Xian frowned deeply and shook his head, feeling like he was possessed. He looked again and saw an extremely cold vortex approaching above the sky. It seemed that the atmospheric ionization had triggered an atmospheric optical phenomenon similar to the "Aurora Ghost" (charged snow dust aggregate), which looked like a huge circular nebula. The illusion of being watched just now seemed to come from the eye-like atmospheric cloud.

"It seems that staying up late often does cause hallucinations."

Lin Xian let out a long breath, turned around, walked through the pile of smelly insect corpses, and returned to the Infinity.

As the extremely cold vortex gets closer, the temperature is dropping rapidly.

Entering the train compartment from the howling cold wind outside, the heavy armor and warm space suddenly make people feel like they are two completely different worlds. A strong sense of security and comfort comes, which seems extremely precious in this doomsday.

There are also some heating facilities in the living vehicles of other teams. At this time, the logistics personnel have already got up and started to manage the daily work of the team.

Prepare food, check the safety environment, and check the health of personnel.

The small vehicle spaces on those big trucks, buses, and RVs have been transformed into shelter cabins that are not spacious but give people a sense of security. They are fully equipped with warm and thick beds, toilets, storage cabinets, wire mesh and steel grille armor hanging outside the windows, and anti-collision steel frames added to the sides of the explosion-proof tires. The power systems of many cars have been upgraded for protection. It seems that enough work has been done for doomsday survival in the wild.

Lin Xian noticed that the all-terrain polar vehicle of the Big Eagle Team was driven by tracks. It was obviously a very high-value vehicle. He didn't know where Uncle Wu got it from.

Lin Xian looked at the track and had a headache for a moment. If the Infinity was replaced with this, it would be almost equivalent to a complete rebuild. The chassis of the train and the car's frame, power shaft, etc. are not on the same platform at all. The difficulty of the transformation can be imagined.

In every team, people who are good at vehicle technology and mechanics are valuable talents. A team often needs such talents to use the materials, tools, and accessories collected by the team to transform and upgrade the vehicles so that the team can improve its protection.

In fact, Lin Xian really likes the feeling of creating a living area in a safe space. He returned to the car, looking at the wind and snow outside and the unknown horror in the darkness, but the warm yellow light in the Infinity carriage gave people a comfortable and thrilling feeling.

Since ancient times when humans lived in caves, the need to live in a space that can shelter from wind and rain has been engraved in their genes.

It’s just that now in the end times the demand for this kind of living house has turned into the interior carriage of a steel train fortress.

When Lin Xian has nothing to do, he likes to walk around in some living carriages. Seeing how the team members have made the interior of the train warm and full of life, he feels that the hard and cold steel armor on the outside has meaning.

hum!
Lin now sat down in carriage No. 1 and started operating the mechanical heart, covering the nearest few carriages for inspection and fault repair. If some armor was broken, he would directly use the materials from the decomposition center to upgrade it.

"Fuck, so much damage..."

Lin Xian closed his eyes, and as the Mechanical Heart scanned him, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

The last time the whole train was maintained was when the train was upgraded in Jiazhou City. After that, it experienced many wars, but the main purpose was to install defensive weapons such as 1130 and electromagnetic railguns. Unexpectedly, many parts of the Infinity's armored shield had been damaged, and some parts had even been penetrated by the monster's claws into the roof air conditioning box...

"Fortunately, I am cautious."

Lin Xian's heart sank, and he quickly began to repair the entire car. A snowstorm was about to come, and these problems might become hidden dangers in the future.

rub rub~
In the dark night, the carriages of the quietly parked Infinity train were silently repairing themselves, just like an organic life form healing. If the people in other convoys knew that the mechanical creations had such abnormal functional extensions under Lin Xian's supernatural powers, I wonder if they would doubt their lives.

As time passed, more people in the other three teams began to wake up from their rest and started preparing for the journey after dawn.

On the Infinity side, Chen Sixuan also woke up early and took care of the internal affairs of the carriage with others.

Kaka~
It was 9 o'clock in the morning and the sky was still dark. The engines of several convoys began to start one after another. At this time, the voices of Wu Zhenhai and others were heard over the walkie-talkie.

"Brother Lin, it's almost time. We are ready to set off. We will experience a life-and-death battle together. I will not say polite words. I hope you can reach Xilan safely."

"Captain Lin, thank you." Liao Ming said.

"Brother Lin, we're leaving first. I wish you all the best!" Luo Yang's voice also came.

"Captain Lin, I wish you all the best!" Li Yi also said.

Lin Xian picked up the intercom and said directly: "Everyone, please be safe. You'd better keep the signs I reminded you of in mind. The snowball is getting bigger and bigger, and sooner or later it will be unstoppable. The three teams of you are quite strong, and there will be no problem rushing to Xilan. See you at dawn!"

"Got it, see you at dawn!"

"See you at dawn."

"See you at dawn!"

hum!
The headlights of hundreds of vehicles lit up, and with the all-terrain polar vehicle taking the lead, the traffic began to turn towards the distant highway and leave the track area. Soon, the mighty steel traffic flow disappeared into the night with a deafening roar, heading towards the north.

"They've set off, so it's time for us to leave too."

Lin Xian had just finished repairing the train and walked into the cockpit. Chen Sixuan and KIKI were already detecting the route.

Woo~
The motors of the Gemini 11R nuclear-powered electric locomotive and the engines of the Giant Whale 03E heavy-duty gas turbine locomotive roared at the same time, the iron wheels crushed the thin ice on the track, the white snow on the roof kept sliding down from both sides, and the Infinity began to move slowly towards the north line track.

The headlights of the train pierced through the darkness, and the tracks could be clearly seen ahead. However, Lin Xian knew that as the snow grew thicker, they would soon be completely unable to see the tracks, just like when they entered the snowfield on the southern foot of Mt. Daluo before. They could only judge that they were still traveling on the tracks from the track guardrails on both sides and the movement of the train.

In this situation, the speed cannot be increased, so while the snow layer is not thick now, Lin Xian directly speeds up the train, trying to quickly enter the Yunzhou Mountains from Yuankou after daybreak.

Infinity broke through the snow and started to move forward. Inside the carriage, KIKI was paying attention to the changes in the electromagnetic frequency and said to Lin Xian

"There is indeed something wrong with this snow. After the extreme cold vortex began to cover it, even the dark radio station using blood essence seemed to have its signal severely interfered with."

Lin Xian looked out the window at the world that was gradually turning white, and said sternly, "That means many people will become information islands in this snowstorm."

"Be careful."

After giving a few instructions, now that the train started running, Lin Xian prepared to take a nap to recover some energy.

The carriage was extremely warm. It was still dark, and under the care of his teammates, Lin Xian returned to carriage No. 1. He packed up briefly and fell asleep immediately.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he closed his eyes, he saw a huge eye like a black hole in the sky in the darkness. It looked like some kind of natural phenomenon or a change in the atmospheric halo, but in Lin Xian's dream, that "eye" seemed to have some kind of life, hanging in the outer space of the universe, staring at the earth.

The feeling of the earth being stared at made people feel a little creepy. Lin Xian did not sleep well at all. Weird and bizarre emotions kept popping up in his mind, as if they could not be shaken off.

"hiss."

Lin Xian sat up from the bed and took a long breath. He opened the sunshade and found that it was already bright outside. The pure white snow layer became even more radiant under the diffuse reflection of the sunlight, which was dazzling to the eyes.

The Infinity was moving steadily at a high speed, the ice-breaking shield on the front of the car cutting through the snow like a hot knife through butter and rushing forward.

Looking into the distance, the mountains are far away in the sky, and the trees covered with snow nearby are gradually becoming sparse and lonely. The vast snowfield is the Parma grassland, but at this time the lush green grassland is no longer visible, only the white snow between the sky and the earth.

"you're awake?"

In the cockpit, Chen Sixuan looked at the driving radar intently, with an expression that showed no signs of relaxation: "The road is no longer visible, and the radar can basically detect nothing. I slowed down a little..."

Although she said that, there was still some nervousness in Chen Sixuan's tone.

In the view in front of the car window, only the occasional telephone poles and wire walls on both sides of the track can vaguely distinguish the path of the track, but as the track goes deeper into the snowfield, both sides have become completely open, and the Infinity is like entering a completely white ocean. It is magnificent as far as the eye can see, but Chen Sixuan, who is in charge of driving, knows that such deep snow is very dangerous for driving.

Wow! !
The ice-breaking shield made of forged inner armor steel and tungsten-titanium alloy shoveled away the snow. This steel behemoth weighing thousands of tons rushed at high speed in the snowfield. Lin Xian looked at the thermometer and found that the temperature outside the car had dropped to -12 degrees, and the number was still decreasing.

The temperature inside the car was set at a constant 26 degrees, and everyone was still wearing casual clothes.

In the whistling cold wind, the armored plates outside the train made a slight freezing tremor. Lin Xian frowned slightly. He and Chen Sixuan were worried about the same problem, but there was no better way at the moment. They could only bite the bullet and drive forward.

The current snowstorm has not yet grown to such a level that if we wait until there is one or two meters of deep snow coupled with a level 12 blizzard, we will be truly hopeless.

"Drive forward, be bold. We have a way to deal with it if it gets off track."

Lin Xian's eyes narrowed and he said to Chen Sixuan.

Fortunately, it is a grassland, and the changes in the terrain can be seen at a glance. If there is damage to the track or roadblocks, the worst that can happen is a collision or derailment. Lin Xian feels that this level is still acceptable. As long as there are no cliffs or caves, it will be fine.

At this time, the snow outside was already 20 to 30 centimeters high. From a distance, the track looked like a shallow high stalk rising above the flat surface.

The team members in the living compartment opened the sunshades and looked at the white outside. The sunlight in the sky was gradually obscured by the vortex of dark clouds from the blizzard, and the light began to grow dim.

[Detected the dark and fearful force invading the carriage! 】

[Detected the dark and fearful force invading the carriage! 】

The Heterogeneous Cube issued a reminder at this time. Lin Xian's face changed and he quickly picked up the communicator and asked everyone to start checking all the carriages.

"Check each carriage to see if there is anything unusual!"

Dong, dong, dong. With the command, all the carriages began to get busy.

"There are no abnormalities in carriages 2, 3, and 4." Sasha reported.

"567 is fine." The building also said.

"8, 9, 10, 11, 12 have all been checked, and no abnormalities were found." Shuqin's voice also came: "However, a water leak was found at the connection of car 11."

"Oh, there is also one at the connection between carriages 2 and 3!" Sasha said quickly after hearing this.

“Frozen water leaks were also found at connections 5 and 4.”

Lin Xian frowned when he heard this, and immediately hurried towards the nearest carriage No. 2. As expected, he found that the melted snow had invaded the connection between the carriages, and water was constantly dripping from the connection between the carriages.

Could it be because of this?

Lin Xian was shocked. The snow water carried the power of dark invasion. This was too scary!
He soon found the reason. Carriages No. 3 and No. 4 were originally advanced Cole 3 type biological science research cabins. The cabin connection standards were different from those of other carriages. When Lin Xian dragged the two carriages away from Underground City No. 9, he only made a simple connection and then performed some sealing operations. He also strengthened it last night, but the differences caused by different carriage standards were far greater than Lin Xian had imagined. Now, with the temperature difference between the inside and outside of the car, the melted snow on the roof began to enter the car through the gaps, and the dark invasion fear it carried directly caused the Heterogeneous Rubik's Cube to start the alarm.

"Everyone, don't touch this snow water."

When Lin Xian saw Shasha and the building coming over, he stopped them. He thought for a moment, turned back and shouted to KIKI, "Let the PX-05 robot handle it. I'll go and add a temporary roof!"

"Okay!" KIKI nodded immediately and started to do as he asked.

Lin Xian put on power armor and cold-proof clothing, took protective measures, and came to the roof from the lift platform of car No. 5.

Huh~! ! !

As soon as he stepped out of the roof, the biting cold wind mixed with white snow blew in his face. The train was moving forward rapidly. Lin Xian went directly to the connection between the carriages and began to make a large car cover. Because the purpose of the installation was only to prevent the snow from accumulating and melting, he did not use heavy armor plates, but only used aluminum alloy with better ductility. Considering the shear force caused by the turning of the carriage, Lin Xian now added some flexible materials to the middle connection.

Soon, he had welded the covers at the connection between the two carriages, and Lin Xian came to carriage No. 11. This carriage was the tool carriage he brought out from Jiang City at the beginning. The main reason for the water leakage was the aging of the carriage, and the temperature in the living carriage in front was relatively high, so a lot of snow water flowed.

Lin Xian also followed suit and installed a cover. For safety reasons, after finishing car No. 11, he simply went to the last nuclear-powered car to prepare for a rainy day.

Just as Lin Xian came to the roof of the last driving locomotive of the train, he suddenly discovered that there seemed to be some living creatures swimming in the snow on both sides of the track where the Infinity was passing.

He immediately stopped what he was doing, turned on the auxiliary combat system of the power armor, and began to observe.

The Infinity was like a lone black boat, sailing in the endless white ocean. The huge vibration sound of the track caused many "surging" marks to gradually appear in the snow layer behind it, as if there were some "fish" or sub-sand creatures burrowing under the snow layer.

Gradually, there were more and more of them. Lin Xian squatted down and looked back, and found that the shallow convex roads under the snow made a very slight rustling sound.

"Everyone, pay attention. There is movement in the snow on both sides. It might be the snow monster mentioned by other survivors!"

Lin Xian directly warned everyone through the communicator.

After saying that, he gave up the action of making the cover and returned to the carriage No. 11 from the lift platform.

woo~~~
The PX-05 robot used a vacuum cleaner to quickly suck away the snow on Lin Xian's body. Shu Qin, holding a gun, and Lu Chang and Miao Lu walked quickly from the corridor with anxious eyes.

"Captain Lin, something is wrong. It seems like we are being targeted by a group of creatures."

"Guard the rear car!"

Lin Xian took off his winter clothes and walked towards carriage No. 3.

"Director Ding..."

"Yes." Ding Junyi had already answered Lin Xian's question. She pointed at the Hell Black Chrysanthemum while carefully recording the data on her mobile terminal. "Although the change is small, the Dark Mark has been produced and is gradually developing towards Level 1."

"Trouble..."

He immediately realized the seriousness of the matter. It was still daytime, but he had been marked with darkness by a large number of unknown creatures, and the number of them was increasing. Once it got dark, wouldn't he be doomed to suffer a devastating disaster?
Lin Xian frowned when he heard this, he remembered what he had heard on the radio before about the convoy that was destroyed while trying to escape.

"Everyone, get ready to fire at moving objects under the snow!" Lin Xian acted decisively and immediately issued an attack order to the entire team.

"Received, fire!"

Da da da! Bang bang bang!!

In the snowy field where the cold wind was howling, violent gunfire suddenly rang out, and the shooting holes on both sides of the Infinity carriage began to launch a fierce attack on the unknown creatures moving under the snow outside!

The metal jet instantly raised a large cloud of snow dust in the snow, and soon some monsters with spikes all over their bodies and whose shapes could not be seen were hit by the bullet stream. They screamed miserably, and green blood splattered on the white snow.

At the same time, Lu Xingchen climbed directly onto the roof of the car and began to indiscriminately spray fire at the snow on both sides!
"You cowardly beast, what's the point of hiding? If you have the guts, come out and fight me!"

"God, the flames of war spread all over the land!"

boom!
Lu Xingchen's moves were wide open and closed, and two pillars of fire like fire dragons shot out from the ground, instantly evaporating a large amount of snow. His clearing of a large area actually completely exposed many snow monsters under the snow layer.

In an instant, countless strange monsters that looked like white hyenas but with long spiked tails appeared in everyone's sight.

It seemed that under the suppression of the sunlight and the fire, these ugly monsters that could move quickly in the snow began to struggle frantically and actually jumped directly towards Lu Xingchen.

"Well done!"

Seeing these snow monsters rushing forward desperately, a flash of arrogance and coldness appeared in Lu Xingchen's eyes. He crossed his hands and pushed forward suddenly.

Boom boom!

A huge net made of flames suddenly appeared and pressed down all the snow monsters that tried to climb onto the train. It kept falling down with a hissing smell of burning.

In the carriage, as the Infinity opened fire, the red light on the Hell Black Chrysanthemum was also changing.

Just as Lin Xian guessed, these seemingly small strange creatures appeared in groups, and could move in the darkness of the snow during the day, marking the prey along the way with darkness. Only after dark would they enter their true hunting moment!

"Too many." Ding Junyi said at this time: "We may not have as many bullets as they do, and we can't keep firing from morning to night."

Lin Xian's face became solemn when he heard this. Ding Junyi was right, they couldn't possibly fight from day to night. Not to mention whether they had enough energy, ammunition was also a big problem. Even if Lin Xian used all his strength to produce ammunition, he couldn't keep up with the firing speed of the entire team.

"It seems there is only one way."

Lin Xian immediately called all the key members to carriage No. 3.

"Captain Lin, there seem to be more and more monsters, and we can't kill them all!" Shu Qin walked over and said anxiously.

The building also nodded: "Just like the fish in the sea."

"The snow is getting thicker and thicker, and many bullets are wasted." said Sasha.

"I understand the situation." Lin Xian simply shared the marked questions with everyone.

"There is only one strategy at the moment, which is to stop the attack first, and then kill before dark!"

(End of this chapter)