Chapter 113: Underground

On the other end of the transponder, Lin Xian’s expression immediately grew grave when he heard the Infinity was under attack.

He promptly gave Chen Sixuan and the others a simple account of what he had seen and heard. When they learned that Lin Xian and Kiki had seen the massive subterranean creature, everyone’s face changed. Even Ding Junyi, who had been incredibly calm from start to finish, showed a tense expression.

She, Zhao Yan, and the others had previously thought that the unknown subterranean creature was definitely not just a human anomaly or anomaly-level being, but they hadn’t expected it to be even more terrifying.

Thinking about it this way, the earthquakes, the dark contagion, and the massive mutation of human anomalies all seemed to have found their source.

Hearing about such a dangerous situation while the train was under siege, Chen Sixuan was momentarily at a loss. She immediately asked Lin Xian, “Lin Xian, what’s your plan?”

“I’m preparing to come up immediately. You guys get ready too. If we don’t have time to connect, you start the Infinity first and head up out of the underground city. We’ll follow behind. Let’s just get out of here first!”

On the level 5 freight terminal platform of the 95th sub-level, Lin Xian communicated with Chen Sixuan while rapidly using his mechanical ability to inspect the various component systems of the Gemini 11R nuclear-powered electric locomotive.

Although the micro-nuclear DRX generator on this vehicle was in a cooled state, Lin Xian’s mechanical ability didn’t need to wait for the reactor to start it directly.

However, to drive this behemoth along with the Infinity up to the surface from underground, without the electromagnetic power drive of the underground city, relying solely on Lin Xian’s ability and the little bit of power from the Star-Ring 7F electric locomotive was indeed a bit of a struggle.

“Kid, you start separating the control rods. I’ll be done here in a moment.”

Starting the reactor required the system to begin separating the control rods, all of which took a certain amount of time for the reactor to reach its expected operating state.

Inside the cockpit, Kiki began operating the system on the control console.

[Core startup, control rods retracting, accelerating.]

[Current core temperature: 76°C]

[Startup progress: 3%]

Thrum~

As the first control rod was withdrawn, a low thrumming sound came from the small reactor in the center of the locomotive. Due to the Cherenkov effect, a faint blue light flickered, and an invisible wave of energy seemed to radiate outwards.

Kiki looked at the progress on the system screen and suddenly thought of something.

“Lin Xian, logically, shouldn’t the radiation be inside the building’s structure? How come those disgusting chunks of flesh have such strong radiation? And that terrifying thing outside has radiation too. Do you think… maybe that monster…”

“Ate the core?”

Kiki’s sudden sentence made Lin Xian, who was inspecting the locomotive’s components, freeze.

In that instant, a slight tremor sounded. Lin Xian and Kiki turned their heads and, through the cockpit window, saw a scalp-numbing scene.

Outside the hole in the wall, the huge black silhouette at the bottom of the underground city pit seemed to have moved.

It was as if the existence in the darkness had turned its head to look in their direction.

“Not good!”

Lin Xian’s expression changed. He subconsciously felt that Kiki must have guessed correctly. Perhaps that subterranean creature had appeared here precisely because of Underground City No. 9’s main core.

Thinking of this, Lin Xian no longer hesitated. “Hurry up, we’re leaving directly.”

In an instant, the Mechanical Heart operated at high speed, directly driving the entire train’s electric motors to start roaring.

Thrum.

The headlights lit up, the white light illuminating the flesh-covered platform and tunnel ahead.

Whirr~

The dust on the Gemini 11R nuclear-powered electric locomotive slowly slid off as it began to move on the tracks!

BOOM-RUMBLE!

At this moment, the entire tunnel suddenly began to tremble violently. Dust flew everywhere. Kiki, in the cockpit, was a little unsteady. Just as the electric locomotive had left the No. 5 freight terminal track platform, a huge explosion sounded from behind. The shockwave, along with the dust, blasted into the ascending tunnel, and the train began to shake violently.

“What was that?!”

“It’s that big monster!”

On the rear-view screen in the cockpit, dust and smoke billowed in. The entire platform seemed to disappear in an instant. On the screen, a grayish-white giant shadow instantly filled the entire view, making it impossible to see what it was.

Lin Xian’s eyes were about to pop. He urged his Mechanical Heart to make the electric train accelerate wildly!

“Quick, tell Teacher Chen and the others to leave!”

He shouted at Kiki.

At this high speed, he worried that there was no time to connect with the Infinity at the No. 4 freight terminal track platform. Besides, that side was also under attack. At this point, they could only let the Infinity leave first.

If the power in the Star-Ring 7F electric locomotive was insufficient, Lin Xian could push from behind. With both sides accelerating, they wouldn’t crash directly.

Beep, beep, beep.

On the other side, the transponder rang. Just as Chen Sixuan pressed the call button, Kiki’s urgent voice came through.

“Sister Chen, start the train and run upwards, quick!”

Hearing this, Chen Sixuan’s face changed drastically. She quickly ran to the electric locomotive’s position, released the limiters, and pushed the driving lever. She had already adjusted the driving direction in advance. At this moment, the engine of the Star-Ring 7F electric locomotive also began to roar. The Infinity’s headlights turned on, and it began to reverse!

Thump, thump, thump!

Argh!!!

Countless zombies and human anomalies continuously attacked the train’s armor, but Chen Sixuan paid them no mind.

As the electric locomotive’s motor drove, the people on the train suddenly felt a jolt as the vehicle began to move backward.

Meanwhile, Ding Junyi suddenly turned, took out her own computer from her bag, opened it, and entered the underground city’s subsystem control terminal. She then spoke to Chen Sixuan and Lin Xian on the transponder.

“To prevent any accidents, I’ll open the station entrance gate in advance and switch the platform track from GF2 to GF4. If you want to tow those two Cole-3 biological science research cars, this will save time.”

“Good, everyone hold on tight! I might crash into you later!”

Lin Xian’s voice shouted from the transponder.

Chen Sixuan turned and shouted to Dalou and Shasha, “There are too many zombies on the flatbed car behind, go and clear them out!”

Hearing this, Dalou immediately rushed towards Car 5, with Shasha following behind, holding her gun.

Rat-a-tat-tat!

In Car 5, Dalou opened the rear firing port and fired a burst outside, instantly blowing the heads off several zombies.

Ahhh!!

A human anomaly with a head full of tentacles lunged towards the firing port, but was quickly torn to shreds by the bullets.

Screech~

The flatbed car crushed several zombies and began to rush out of the station, accelerating up the tunnel.

In Car 1, Zhao Yan and Xu Wen were now huddled together, trembling and constantly praying to survive the night.

“Brother!”

Shasha shouted. The siblings cooperated tacitly. As soon as Dalou’s light machine gun ran out of bullets, Shasha immediately handed him an automatic rifle to supplement the firepower.

Because they were in a tunnel, she didn’t dare use the grenade launcher, worried that an accident might collapse the tunnel.

“We’re picking up speed!”