Chapter 13: Ambushed

Because they were still within the main urban area, Lin Xian deliberately slowed down the train’s speed. The order in the city was chaotic, and he was worried that the tracks might not be clear. At the same time, he wanted to avoid making too much noise and causing too much commotion.

After merging from the light rail line into the Jiang-Yu main line, the roads on both sides gradually became wider. He directly ran over any occasional zombie livestock wandering on the tracks.

Soon, the number of track switches ahead began to increase, and a wide area appeared. All kinds of freight trains were parked on the branch tracks.

Among them were several container trains, but without exception, all the container doors were open, and all kinds of supplies had long been looted by survivors, leaving only a mess of cardboard boxes, packaging, and plastic bags.

Other than that, the rest were basically mixed trains, including less-than-carload, flatbed freight cars, and oil tanks mixed together. But it seemed they hadn’t been spared either, and even a few carriages had overturned on the tracks…

The branch line connected to a loading and unloading platform and a hoisting workshop in the distance. It was clearly the railway freight loading and unloading center of Jiang City. This kind of facility in the city was generally set up before the passenger station. Lin Xian stopped the Infinity at the entrance of the double-track railway, observed the route, then opened the car door and came to the side of the branch track switch. He placed his hand on it and drove the motor!

Screech!

He changed the track switch, then returned to the train, drove the “Infinity” onto the loading and unloading branch track, and stopped in front of a platform marked “No. 4 Loading and Unloading Platform.”

“Take the walkie-talkie. Even if it’s me, don’t open the car door, because I can open it myself.”

Lin Xian slung his backpack on, picked up his short knife, and instructed Chen Sixuan, “As long as you don’t open the door, no one can do anything to you.”

Chen Sixuan nodded. She now knew that Lin Xian’s ability could operate the train, so she obediently remembered his instructions.

“Then… be careful,” she also replied with concern.

Hiss~, the gate of the cockpit opened. Besides the gate of the locomotive’s cockpit and the tailboard of carriage 3, the doors of the other living carriages of the “Infinity” had been welded shut and reinforced with steel plates. As long as one stayed inside and didn’t encounter the strange white giant monster from last night, ordinary people or zombies posed no threat to their safety.

Lin Xian got out of the car and closed the cabin door. As soon as he landed on the tracks, a bone-chilling cold wind hit him in the face.

He looked at the bright sun in the sky and suddenly felt that this strange climate was really fucked up.

After his Speed attribute increased, Lin Xian’s movements became much more agile. He held his short knife and crossed several railway tracks in a row. Every time he passed a train, he would look towards the front and rear of the train, searching for a suitable locomotive.

His plan was to solve the problem of the electric locomotive while it was still light. If he couldn’t get one, he would look for some supplies here, and then drive to the Jiang City main station a few kilometers away to look again.

Lin Xian scanned the carriages one by one until he reached the front of the container train. He then saw that the traction vehicle was a silver Circum-Star 7F electric locomotive, and his eyes lit up.

The Circum-Star 7F electric locomotive was 60 meters long, with a silver base and blue lines. Its streamlined body looked very sci-fi. It was known as the “Circum-Star Hercules,” with a power of up to 58,800 kilowatts. It was a standard Circum-Star railway freight locomotive.

This big guy had to be connected to the railway power grid to move. With the arrival of the apocalypse, this industrial giant had no value at all and could only lie dormant on the tracks, gathering dust. After all, there was no oil or water on it. It looked huge, but the interior space was actually small. Not many people would have any ideas about this thing.

The Circum-Star 7F was twice as long as the Giant Whale 03E heavy-duty gas turbine. It was a true electric monster with a precise internal structure. In addition to the drive motor, it also had advanced kinetic energy recovery and energy storage equipment. It was an excellent choice as a temporary battery for the “Infinity.”

“It’s you.”

Lin Xian reached out and touched it. The Mechanical Heart began to scan and drive. He found that the overall condition of this electric locomotive was good, and it was still very new.

He had found a treasure.

Because of his special ability, things that survivors completely looked down on were great treasures in his eyes.

Just as Lin Xian was about to start this big guy and disconnect the carriages, a broken sound suddenly came from behind him.

He immediately turned around cautiously. The sound came from a warehouse on the platform.

So Lin Xian ducked and squeezed through the connecting gap of a freight car on the inner track, following the sound. He found that the sound came from a warehouse with the number 14 on the door.

Thump, thump, thump~ Thump, thump, thump~

A series of knocking sounds, very coherent, not like those made by zombies with no consciousness.

Lin Xian climbed onto the platform, then approached one by one along the inner side. At this time, the knocking sound became louder and louder, and he could vaguely hear someone shouting.

“Help! Is anyone there!!”

The voice was muffled, as if blocked by some kind of soundproof facility.

Lin Xian came to the door of warehouse 14 and slowly peeked through the half-open door. Only then did he discover that this warehouse was a cold chain warehouse. There were two large white cold storages inside. However, because Jiang City had been without power for a long time, the warehouse was filled with an indescribable rotten smell. Lin Xian took a sniff and almost threw up the canned meat he had just eaten.

When he walked in, he finally saw that inside the isolation window of one of the large cold storages, there were two women. One of them was frantically banging on the door.

The woman looked to be in her thirties, her face flushed red. The other was an old woman in her fifties or sixties, sitting on the ground, looking like she was breathing her last.

As soon as Lin Xian walked in, the woman immediately saw him and shouted in surprise, “Please, help me open the door. My mother is about to die!!”

Who knew that when Lin Xian heard this, his eyes sharpened, and he thought to himself, “Not good.” He immediately leaped forward.

In just a moment, a gunshot rang out behind him.

Bang!

An ambush!

He had seen through their scheme almost instantly. A woman trapped in a cold storage and shouting was too abrupt.

Her aimless shouting would only attract zombies. It was obviously to deliberately attract his attention.

Bang, bang, bang! One shot missed, and another volley of bullets came.

Lin Xian didn’t stop at all from beginning to end. He reacted extremely quickly, directly rushing into the other cold storage door, and then closing the door with a backhand.

Bang, bang. The bullets hit the cold storage door, sending sparks flying.

“Damn, this kid is fast!”

“Don’t let him run away.”

“This idiot ran into the cold storage, haha…”

At this time, two men quickly chased after him, each holding a weapon, one long and one short.

The leader looked to be in his early forties, with a gloomy face and a large tattoo on his neck. He rushed over and kicked the cold storage door, only to find that the cold storage door was actually locked.

“Hey, strange!”

The other, slightly thinner man looked at the wary Lin Xian inside through the window, and also went to the door and tried the bolt, finding that it didn’t move at all.

“Why won’t this damn door open!”

The doors of large cold storages were specially designed. To prevent the low temperature from extending to the outside along the metal handle, forming condensation and then freezing, making the door handle inoperable, the door handle could only be opened from the outside. But for safety, there was an alarm button inside.

But strangely, after Lin Xian went in, the door could not be opened from the outside.

“Damn it.”

The leading man immediately raised his gun and fired two shots at the cold storage window, which echoed loudly in the warehouse. But he didn’t know that the window was 200 millimeters thick. For insulation, the entire cold storage was no less than a thick fortress.

“Mom!”

At this time, the man shouted.

Then the door of the number one cold storage opened, and the woman and the old woman who had been pretending to be in distress walked out one after another. They surrounded Lin Xian, their faces unfriendly.

“This kid is quite clever…”