Chapter 127: Night Invasion

PS: The speed of the sky corridor’s electromagnetic acceleration in the previous chapter was incorrect. It has been adjusted from 500KM to 1000KM and has been modified.

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Screech~

The Infinity slowly came to a stop. Lin Xian opened the door. The snowmobile drove over. Compared to a few days ago, Shu Qin seemed much more haggard, her skin dry and her hair messy. As soon as she saw Lin Xian stop the train, she immediately buckled her helmet onto the motorcycle, her expression somewhat urgent.

“I didn’t expect it to really be your train. Looks like I didn’t call the wrong person.”

Lin Xian looked curious. “Shu Qin? Where are the people from your convoy?”

“Over there!” Shu Qin pointed towards the distant freight terminus. “Right now, four of our convoys are gathered there, preparing to enter the city together. But a lot has happened. You guys need to be careful too.”

“What happened?” Lin Xian asked.

“It’s complicated. Are you stopping at the freight station ahead? If it’s convenient, our convoys can team up to charge into the airport. There are too many zombies over there, and there’s a fog. Some anomalies are appearing in the city regardless of day or night. Many convoys have suffered heavy losses.”

“Alright, let’s talk when we get to the station.”

Lin Xian agreed decisively. Looking at the gloomy, gray industrial city ahead, he also felt a faint sense of unease.

According to the radio, this place was already a completely dead city. All survivors and official organizations were basically gathered in the area of Airport No. 1. But Lin Xian didn’t want to charge straight in. If they had companions, they could at least look out for each other.

Clank, clank.

The train started moving forward, merging onto the double track. Shu Qin put her helmet back on and sped away on her snowmobile.

Soon, the train began to enter a large freight station. Many abandoned trains were parked all around. There were many zombie corpses lying on the tracks, which seemed to have been cleared once. The train rolled over them, and soon, in an open area, they saw dozens of survivor vehicles parked intermittently next to the tracks, including many heavy trucks.

From the armor and bloodstains on the vehicles, it was clear that these convoys had fought their way through brutal battles. To have survived, they were either extremely lucky or truly courageous and had evolved their strength considerably.

Seeing the train pull in, many of the guards raised their guns, but they lowered them again after seeing that Shu Qin was leading the way.

The train slowly pulled in. Shasha, Kiki, Chen Sixuan, and the others looked out the window at the convoys outside. The survivors in those convoys also turned their gazes to this fully armed heavy train.

“Another train…”

“Wow, the armor on this train is too exaggerated. It looks like it was specially made by an arsenal, not the same as our iron plates.”

“It looks like a doomsday train that came off a production line. Could it have been produced by the Federation?”

“Who knows, but it’s really cool!”

Many survivors began to whisper among themselves. After the train stopped, Lin Xian opened the door and got out. Not far away, several people who looked like leaders walked over.

Lin Xian recognized two of them. Besides Shu Qin, there was also the middle-aged man named Xu Jin from before. It was clear that these two convoys had teamed up to head towards Yubei City.

“Let me introduce you. Captain Lin, the leader of the Infinity convoy.” Shu Qin was all business. “You should know Old Xu.” She pointed to another older man with some gray in his hair and introduced him, “Mo Chengzhi, we all call him Old Mo. He’s the boss of the Tieli convoy and used to be a mechanical engineer at Kehua Heavy Industries.”

“Tsk, tsk, tsk!!”

The old man called Old Mo was lean. Although he was in his fifties or sixties, he was dressed in a punk Harley leather jacket and skinny pants, with a black and white checkered scarf and sunglasses, looking quite fashionable. He walked directly to the front of the Infinity’s Whale 03E heavy-duty gas turbine locomotive, lifted his sunglasses, his eyes shining. “Beautiful, truly beautiful. I never thought I’d see such a treasure after the apocalypse. Hey, young man, where did you find this? You can even drive this thing. It’s the first-generation power turbine, right? Impressive!”

Lin Xian could tell this old man was an expert and replied directly, “Yes, it took some effort…”

Mo Chengzhi nodded, patting the steel on the front of the train. “It’s wonderful, but the terrain restriction is a big problem. We’ve seen several trains pass by since yesterday. Besides the intercontinental-class ones from the Federal Phoenix Society and the Iron Guard Brigade, there was also an Eternal-class train called the Silver Star, a doomsday train built by the Finger Group family from Yangcheng. That was a real Eternal-class, my god, 118 cars, carrying more than three thousand people, two micro-core engines, four sets of railguns. There was also an intercontinental-class train from Longshan City, the Longshan One, which was modified with the entire city’s resources. That one was also impressive, with double-decker car construction, almost transformed into a mobile city, an absolute behemoth…”

“But the problem is still the terrain. Although these trains have plenty of manpower and track-laying equipment, they are ultimately restricted. Not as free as us modifying a heavy truck to run around.” His expression was a mixture of passion and conflict, clearly someone who had worked in mechanical engineering his whole life.

“Planes are even freer, but what’s the use?” Xu Jin sighed. “Just got the news, the sky city Qingluan completely crashed yesterday and sank into the Pacific Ocean. Who knows how many people died. Sigh… you can escape the Star Abyss, but you can’t escape the night…”

He continued, “Each has its own advantages. Driving a car is free, but with the blizzard now, without a heavy snowplow, you’re just waiting to die. Didn’t Glasses’ convoy get buried and die just like that?”

Hearing this, Lin Xian immediately asked, “Glasses? The one I traded the blood crystal with last time?” He remembered this person. At that time, his convoy had just experienced a major battle, and the man with glasses had a desolate expression. His convoy still had many people. He didn’t expect them to be gone so quickly.

“Yeah.”

“Did they encounter an anomaly attack?”

“No.” Shu Qin, at the side, said with a slightly grim expression, “They were trapped in the snowstorm. But because of the night invasion, someone in the team mutated, and things went wrong.”

Darkness invasion…

Lin Xian reacted. Could it be the dark contagion that Ding Junyi had mentioned?

“Night invasion… are there any defensive measures?” Lin Xian asked.

“None.” Old Mo walked past Lin Xian, waving his hand, his voice hoarse. “Anyone who is injured, whose willpower is low, or whose will was weak to begin with, can be devoured by this evil at any time, turning into something that is neither human nor ghost.”

Shu Qin nodded and looked at Lin Xian, also saying, “So now in our convoy, whenever someone is injured, they are isolated in a separate vehicle to avoid a chain reaction.”

Lin Xian was secretly surprised to hear this. He recalled the invisible degenerated demon when Kiki was seriously injured, and the time the train was invaded by the anomaly radio. It was indeed extremely dangerous.

But now that he had the isomeric cube, did that mean this situation would no longer happen on his train?

If so, then his Infinity had become a safe house above the code!!!

“Where’s Jiang Yun?” Lin Xian thought of the Wind Chaser convoy. In Lin Xian’s eyes, Jiang Yun was not a simple character. Now that he had met Shu Qin and Xu Jin again, he couldn’t help but ask.

“After that night, they went in the direction of Ping’a Lake. But I remember his convoy was also supposed to go to Yubei City.”

“You don’t know?” Xu Jin looked at Lin Xian in surprise. “There was a zombie tide riot that night. Weren’t you affected?”

Lin Xian’s heart sank upon hearing this, and he said, “You encountered it too?!”