Chapter 126: Star-Ring Orbit

“There’s a valley ahead. After we pass through it, we should be able to see Yubei City. This section of the track should merge into the main line before the Yubei freight station.”

The Infinity charged through the snow, picking up speed on the snowy plains.

“Hope everything goes smoothly.”

Lin Xian’s expression was grave. Although he said that, the team members all knew that the situation in Yubei City was incredibly complex. Many survivors were heading to this airport port to get on the sky corridor. There were also people from the former Federal organization, the Iron Guard Brigade, the airport guard regiment, and local survivors from Yubei City. Moreover, according to the radio news, that atmospheric jellyfish was also drifting towards Yubei City…

“With such thick snow, ordinary convoys would probably have trouble even moving without a snowplow,” Chen Sixuan said.

Lin Xian responded, “In this situation, survivors either head to large urban gathering points to wait for the official organization’s mass migration, or they join large convoys or doomsday trains like ours. Small convoys would have a hard time surviving, unless they have very strong metahumans.”

From the initial great escape during the chaos of the Star Abyss until now, as time passed and with the calls from the government and various survivor groups, the survivors who made it would gradually find a clear direction for survival. Various parties would band together for warmth, and humanity’s organizational power would begin to take effect, gradually moving from disorderly chaos to order.

“If we get past the sky corridor, we should be able to get a lot of breathing room. But from Xingcheng eastward, we’ll enter the coverage edge of Star Abyss No. 4. By then, the faster we run, the faster the sky might darken. Passing through the edge of the polar night region will bring many unknown risks.”

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

White snow splashed from the front of the train. The Infinity sped steadily on the tracks. Soon, the train entered a valley from the snowy plains, and many cars buried under the white snow began to appear around them.

“Brother Lin, Brother Lin, those two are awake.”

Shasha’s voice came through the intercom. Lin Xian replied, “Give them some bread and water. You don’t need to worry about anything else.”

“Okay.”

Clang!

The front of the train seemed to hit a car or something, making a dull thud.

“Lin Xian, look!”

Teacher Chen pointed ahead and shouted loudly at Lin Xian.

Lin Xian looked up. On the slope of the valley ahead, a large gunship had crashed, gouging a huge trench in the ground. The wreckage was scattered everywhere, and many places were still burning with flames. A thin layer of snow had already covered many of the internal components. It looked like it had crashed last night.

The others on the train also saw this scene. Zhao Yan and Xu Wen were wolfing down the bread Shasha had given them. Xu Wen suddenly said in surprise, “Teacher Zhao, look, it’s a military aircraft!”

The two looked on in astonishment. The scene of the aircraft crash was extremely tragic. As far as the eye could see, only a few soldiers’ bodies could be seen sporadically. Most were just bloodstains.

Ding Junyi in Car 3 also came to the window at this time. Looking at this scene, she whispered, “Iron Guard Brigade.”

In the direction of the cockpit, Kiki also ran over. In the large open area ahead, more and more weapon wreckage began to appear: tanks, helicopters, aircraft, gunships. It was all scorched black everywhere, with fire and sparks. More and more soldiers’ bodies appeared, all telling them what a tragic battle had taken place here.

“Iron Guard 3, Destroyer… Heavens, Warhawk-class gunship, heavy TFV600 twin-barreled tank, Lightning-2 aerospace fighter… What on earth did they encounter? Could it be that big jellyfish?” Kiki exclaimed.

“It’s very possible.” Lin Xian’s expression darkened slightly. The equipment before them could be said to be the main battle gear of the Star Guard’s Iron Guard Brigade. For them to have fought so tragically was truly horrifying.

“Were they… completely wiped out?”

“No, the radio seemed to report that the 52nd Brigade retreated towards Yubei City. The situation over there now… must be very complicated,” Chen Sixuan said with some worry.

“If there are aerial anomalies, then the sky corridor is indeed no longer safe. But we have no other choice,” Lin Xian said.

The Dazhu Mountain tunnel was already blocked, and it was too late to switch to the west line. Now they only had one path left, and that was to charge up the climbing channel.

Buzz! Buzz!

A huge sound of something breaking the air came from above. Everyone looked up at the sky and saw a small aircraft flying rapidly at high altitude. It seemed to be heading towards Underground City No. 9.

“Is that a plane from the former Federal Government or the Phoenix Society?”

“I don’t know.” Lin Xian glanced at it without paying much attention.

An abyssal behemoth was still buried under the ruins of Underground City No. 9. No one knew if that thing would climb to the surface. Even if someone told Lin Xian there was treasure there now, he wouldn’t turn back.

At this moment, as the train slowly moved forward, the view ahead gradually widened. A huge, irregularly shaped trench appeared on the ground and slopes, extending intermittently into the distance.

Within this trench were all kinds of damaged vehicles, shattered fragments, vehicle structures, and even an overturned, burning military transport train.

On the outer edge of a deep pit in the trench, a huge, gray tentacle-like tissue was severed in the middle. The surroundings were covered in indescribable fluids and human blood plasma.

Lin Xian remembered the shape of this trench and this tentacle. He said with a grave expression, “It really is that atmospheric jellyfish!”

“These convoys couldn’t resist at all…” Chen Sixuan swallowed, a little belatedly realizing the danger.

The peril that night had come too strangely and bizarrely. If Lin Xian and Dalou hadn’t covered the roof with armor in advance, their train might have been torn apart and derailed just like this military transport train.

The Infinity descended from Daluo Mountain along the outside of the valley. In the distance, a huge industrial city cluster gradually appeared. They had arrived at the outskirts of Yubei City. Looking into the distance, giant sky corridor pillars loomed in the cold, gloomy mist, extending into the snowy mountains of the Dazhu Mountain range.

To cross the 4,500-kilometer-long plateau and snowy mountain range, the Federal Government had spent over 30 years building the aerial freight railway. All cars, trains, and freight carriers were like taking a high-speed airport elevator, using electromagnetic acceleration devices to be rapidly transported to the next port at speeds exceeding 1,000 kilometers per hour. Yubei City’s No. 1 Airport was an important transportation hub connecting the western and central city clusters of the Dragon Country. There was not just one such sky corridor. Worldwide, the 320,000-kilometer-long Star-Ring Orbit not only included sky corridors but also ocean tracks and ground main lines connecting the entire Blue Star. It was an unprecedented super project!

Spanning tens of thousands of kilometers of land, the Star-Ring Orbit went eastward, crossing the nine continents of Asia-Pacific, Blue Oceania, North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Arctica, Eastland, and the Republic Continent, as well as the four oceans: the Pacific, the Black Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, and the Atlantic. It could be said to be the most important transportation hub in human history.

The huge high-altitude building complex blotted out the sky. Looking into the distant city, it was silent. The Infinity began to merge into the Y3365 main track, heading towards the Yubei freight rail terminus.

Several major city roads and highways also came into view. The roads leading into the city were almost completely blocked by an endless line of cars. Blood plasma, severed limbs, burning car frames, and scattered luggage and clothes were all buried under the heavy snow.

Whirr~

Just as the train was slowly heading towards Yubei City, a buzzing drone rapidly approached from high in the distance. It seemed to observe for a while before turning back.

Lin Xian sensed something was amiss. At that moment, a snowmobile drove over from the snowy plains, heading in the direction of the train, towards the cockpit.

Everyone on the train was on alert, but they saw the woman driving the snowmobile take off her helmet, revealing a somewhat familiar face.

“Captain Lin, stop for a moment!”

Lin Xian recognized this woman. It was Shu Qin, the leader of the monster truck convoy who had asked him to repair her water purifier at the bonfire mutual aid meeting.