Chapter 9: Devouring a Car at Night

The Aosi Furniture Store was located on the outer ring of Jiang City. It was usually sparsely populated, and since no other survivors were idle enough to hide in a furniture store, this gave Lin Xian the perfect opportunity to let loose.

Lin Xian checked the time: 4:30 PM. There were still more than two hours until dark.

So, he didn’t hold back. First, he chose an expensive but not overly extravagant sectional leather sofa and transported it to the truck with a forklift. Then he found a foldable steel bed frame.

Although the door of carriage 3 was quite large, it was obviously not practical to stuff a wooden bed in. So Lin Xian planned to weld the steel bed frame into the carriage. As long as he laid a foldable Simmons mattress and a latex mattress on it, it would be very comfortable.

Oh, and pillows and quilts were a must.

The more Lin Xian moved, the happier he became. Then he saw a 60-inch light-screen TV hanging on the wall of a brand store and his eyes lit up.

“Hmm, it would be nice to have an entertainment area to play games and watch movies.”

“Take it!”

Without another word, Lin Xian dismantled what he could. Soon, the flatbed truck was packed to the brim.

If it weren’t for the limited space in the bathroom of carriage 1, he would have even wanted to move a set of toilets and bathtubs from the bathroom section.

Bzz~

On the small truck, Lin Xian’s eyes glowed. The Mechanical Heart activated, and the engine roared to life again. He drove with his full load of harvest, circling the parking lot road to the green belt next to the tracks. He stepped on the gas and directly knocked down the isolating track wire mesh wall, and the truck stumbled onto the gravel slope of the tracks.

Chen Sixuan, who had been waiting on the train for over an hour, was stunned when she saw Lin Xian charging over in a truck.

When she looked again and saw that the truck was filled with either sofas or mattresses, and even a TV, she was even more confused.

Is this also considered supplies?

In the apocalypse, isn’t the most important thing to find water or food? Or maybe weapons? Chen Sixuan was a little bewildered, but seeing Lin Xian drive the truck behind carriage 3, she quickly ran over to help.

Clang~ Whoosh~

The lifting tailboard of carriage 3 slowly lowered. Lin Xian, with his short knife on his back, jumped on, moved the motorcycle and crane inside, and then the two of them began to move the sofa, bed frame, mattress, pillows, quilts, carpet, and TV into carriage 1.

By the time everything was done, the sun was setting.

Both of them were sweating profusely.

Beep, beep~

The alarm on his watch began to ring. Lin Xian’s expression turned serious, and he said to Chen Sixuan, “You go over there, eat something and tidy up first. I have to deal with this truck.”

He had a bold idea at this moment. Since it was already right in front of him, why not take this opportunity to devour this truck?

Even if he encountered danger, he could raise the protective tailboard of the carriage at the first moment.

It sounded a bit risky. After all, the dangers in the night were not those ordinary zombies. But Lin Xian didn’t want to waste this rare opportunity to upgrade, so he decided to take a gamble.

“Oh, okay.”

Chen Sixuan was like an obedient wife at this moment. She immediately did as Lin Xian told her.

After Chen Sixuan left carriage 3, Lin Xian took off the special tow hook he had behind the door and put it on his waist. Before night fell, he got off the train, placed his hand on the small truck, and without hesitation, activated the [Mechanical Devour] ability.

[Devour progress 1%]

The familiar feeling of devouring a car came back again. Lin Xian felt the energy in his body draining at an accelerated rate. At the same time, the devouring progress on the light screen in front of him was extremely slow compared to the small appliances before.

He pressed one hand on the small truck and tightly gripped the metal tow hook with the other.

The reason Lin Xian used the tow hook steel cable was mainly to be able to control the “Infinity” at any time. His ability could only control machinery he touched. A connection like this with a metal wire would fail if the distance was slightly too far.

[Devour progress 2%]

[Devour progress 3%]

Time passed minute by minute. It was silent all around. Because there were no lights, as the sun set, the field of vision became darker and darker, and Lin Xian’s expression also became grave.

In a daze, he even inexplicably felt that the earth was breathing…

Is this the Dark Tide?

6:45 PM

The sky suddenly turned black. This darkness seemed to have no transition at all, appearing extremely strange.

For more than two months, the survivors seemed to have gotten used to this change.

They could only pray for the night to pass quickly. Only when it was light would some survivors dare to come out of their shelters to search for supplies that could help them survive.

But in fact, everyone knew that after the polar night, food and water would one day run out, but whether the dawn would come again, no one knew.

Hiding in a shelter was no different from a slow death, but migrating and fleeing was an even bigger gamble. Reinforced concrete and iron doors might not be able to stop those strange things in the night. Going out into the wild, hiding in a car, what were the chances of survival?

No matter which choice, there was no absolute safety.

Therefore, ability users became the leaders of various survivor teams. They had superhuman abilities and could bring a sense of security that surpassed reinforced concrete.

Before the polar night, when the internet had not completely collapsed, Lin Xian had seen many ability users with strange abilities on the internet. They quickly became internet sensations, the doomsday leaders that people flocked to, and at the same time, they became key research and cooperation targets for the government.

When Lin Xian first posted the Infinity Train recruitment plan on the forum, he had also thought about whether to announce his ability to recruit a large number of followers.

But he quickly dismissed the idea.

He felt that he didn’t have the ability to manage hundreds or thousands of survivors in an apocalyptic environment. Because although his ability was magical, it was currently difficult for him to even protect himself. If he became a leader, the most value he could provide would be to drive the train and repair machinery. If he didn’t succeed as a leader and was instead used as a human battery by others, that would be a terrible fate…

Facts proved that his worries were completely correct. It had only been two months since the apocalypse, and human tragedies over supplies and thugs killing each other were already common. And those ability users were incomprehensibly powerful. In contrast, Lin Xian’s ability seemed really mediocre in the early stages.

[Devour progress 63%]

An hour into the night, the devouring progress was finally more than half done. Lin Xian was maintaining absolute concentration at this moment, always on guard against the pitch-black surroundings.

He had turned off all the lights on the train, and his whole person seemed to have merged with the night. Even his breathing slowed down. He just placed his hand on the small truck and quietly devoured it.

To prevent the faint mystic light in his eyes from being exposed, Lin Xian even closed his eyes and carefully listened to his surroundings with his ears. There were wire fences on both sides of the railway. If there was any movement, he should be able to hear it. And if something approached on the tracks, it should also make a sound.

[Devour progress 77%]

Almost there, almost successful…

Crack~

Just then, a faint sound of gravel crunching suddenly sounded.