Chapter 17: Connecting the Electric Locomotive

Beep, beep.

Lin Xian turned off the alarm on his watch. After two consecutive nights without rest, his mind was now a little dazed.

Listening to the various strange sounds coming from outside and smelling the foul stench in the cold storage, Lin Xian finally made it to 4:00 PM the next day.

It was light.

And at this time, it was already afternoon. There were only 2 hours and 45 minutes left until dark.

Lin Xian, who had not relaxed his vigilance for a moment, looked out from the window. At this time, the warehouse was brightly lit, and he could finally see the scene outside clearly.

A large hole had been torn in the door of the number one cold storage. The thick cold storage door, made of a special composite material of stainless steel, was bent in a strange way. The ground was covered in dark red bloodstains. On the door, on the ground, there were various pieces of flesh hanging everywhere. A few zombies were still wandering outside the cold storage, and some of them were still gnawing on a half-eaten corpse on the ground.

Lin Xian saw a familiar tattoo on the corpse. It seemed to be the middle-aged man’s. A sense of satisfaction immediately rose in his heart!

Good riddance!

Those who played fishing tricks in the apocalypse deserved to have their whole family wiped out.

Lin Xian’s eyes turned cold. He quickly took out the walkie-talkie and asked about the situation over there.

“Professor Chen, are you okay?”

On the other side, Chen Sixuan, who had been terrified all night, finally breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Lin Xian’s voice. She quickly replied, “I… I’m fine. What about you?”

“I’m fine too.” Hearing that there was no problem on Chen Sixuan’s side, Lin Xian’s heart also relaxed a little. He kept looking outside. After confirming that the terrifying insect was not there, he continued to say to Chen Sixuan, “I’ll be back soon. Everything will proceed as planned yesterday. There’s an electric locomotive on track 4. Remember to cooperate with me later.”

“Okay!”

After saying that, Lin Xian opened the door of the cold storage again. Through the gap, he directly blasted the iron chain with an Air Cannon!

The zombies outside heard the sound and immediately roared and pounced on him.

Lin Xian directly raised his knife and fell, and at the same time, with a few consecutive Air Cannons, he easily dealt with a few zombies.

Because of the commotion last night, too many zombies had been attracted. Lin Xian only realized when he walked out of the warehouse that there were at least dozens of zombies still wandering outside.

He thought for a moment, then quietly ran to warehouse 1 in the distance. It was an empty building materials warehouse. He immediately fired a few Air Cannons inside, making a noise, and soon attracted the dozens of zombies on the platform.

As long as there were no strange creatures from the night, with Lin Xian’s ability and attributes, it was relatively simple to deal with them.

Soon, he ran directly off the platform and came to the side of the Circum-Star 7F electric locomotive he had seen yesterday. The Mechanical Heart activated, and the automatic door of the cockpit opened.

Then, he disconnected the locomotive, canceled the carriage bridge connection, and the traction motor made a low roar, slowly driving this giant electric beast away from the platform.

On the other side, Lin Xian also disconnected carriage 1 from the Giant Whale 03E. After completing the sequence change, with Chen Sixuan’s cooperation, he finally accurately connected the Circum-Star 7F electric locomotive to the second position.

From then on, the “Infinity” had five carriages. The head was the armored and reinforced Giant Whale 03E heavy-duty gas turbine locomotive, which was also the cockpit. The Circum-Star 7F electric locomotive was placed in the second position as a kinetic energy recovery and power reserve. Further back were the living carriages 1, 2, and 3.

Because the Circum-Star 7F electric locomotive was twice as long as the Giant Whale 03E, it looked a bit sci-fi. And the design of these two locomotives both had a carriage bridge connection, so people could walk directly from the front of the train to the rear.

However, because it was a temporary addition, Lin Xian hadn’t had time to upgrade the armor of the electric locomotive part. But after completing the connection, there was no time for that. Before it got dark, Lin Xian directly started the brand new “Infinity” and began to drive east along the Jiang-Yu line.

Clang, clang.

The train moved forward at a steady pace.

Lin Xian increased the speed to about 80 km/h. At the same time, because of the increased load, his stamina consumption rate also greatly increased.

“There are no tunnels on this section of the road to Beiwan Station. The terrain is relatively flat, but we may need to pay attention to falling rocks blocking the road.”

Chen Sixuan reminded Lin Xian while recording the speed on the side.

Lin Xian nodded. “Okay, I’ll stop at any time if there’s a situation.”

“What happened to that group of people yesterday?”

“They’re dead.”

Lin Xian glanced at Chen Sixuan. “None of them were good people. They set up traps there to rob and kill people. Last night, they were all eaten by zombies.”

Chen Sixuan’s expression changed slightly. She knew that Lin Xian had some means, but hearing him say that the whole family was dead, she couldn’t help but turn pale. In a short period of time, a harmonious and safe world had suddenly turned into a hell of you die, I live.

For a rich and beautiful woman like Chen Sixuan, who had grown up in a honey pot environment in a highly educated family, it was still a bit difficult to accept for a while.

“Tzzz~ This is the [Oasis] convoy, final announcement, final announcement. As long as you have supplies, weapons, or you have some kind of ability, you can join our team and get the hope of survival. Only by sticking together can we keep warm. Don’t have any illusions…”

“Tzzz~ The 312 Avenue out of the city is completely paralyzed and blocked. You can only detour through Linye Road. There is a large zombie tide gathered in the East District. Everyone, don’t shoot easily, otherwise no one will be able to get out…”

“Tzzz~ [Jiang City Bunker] welcomes all ability users and beautiful women. We are based in the Jiang City military nuclear facility bunker, with over three hundred people and clear divisions of labor. We can withstand the polar night…”

“Tzzz~ Last day today, I’ll say it again. I’m in Prestige Community, Building A, apartment 1304. I have plenty of supplies, the safest doomsday survival house. I’m only taking in beautiful women between 16 and 30. There are still 2 spots left…”

“Tzzz~ Announcement from the Yubei City Patrol Camp. Yan City and Feng City have all entered the polar night. Along the Linshan mountain range from the east, from Jiang City, Luolin City to Hechi, and the Minjiang River, a large-scale strange body has erupted in an area of one hundred to three hundred kilometers. The radiation index is unknown…”

On the radio, Yan City and Feng City, which were not far from Jiang City, had also completely fallen. According to the data fed back by many survivors, if they could run out 200-300 kilometers in the east direction, they could gain back 1 hour of daylight.

From this, one could also roughly calculate the devouring speed of the Dark Tide of the number three “Star Abyss.”

It sounded like two or three hundred kilometers might not be far, but one had to know that in this apocalyptic environment, with traffic paralyzed and zombies everywhere, as soon as night fell, it was endless fear of death. It was not a simple matter to escape two or three hundred kilometers.

Chen Sixuan held the logbook and calculated, “If the survivors’ information is accurate, if we pass Yushan today and can enter Beiwan Station, we should be able to see daylight around 4:30 PM tomorrow.”

“We can’t run that far.”

Lin Xian, sitting in the driver’s seat, shook his head. “We can only stop as soon as it gets dark. I have no confidence in driving at night now, and the road conditions and visibility are also problems.”

Speaking of this, Lin Xian began to think that he might need to be equipped with radar or drones to help him detect the road conditions. Otherwise, if he drove blindly and encountered a place with a broken track or a huge rock blocking the road, it would be a minor derailment or a major car crash and death.