Chapter 166: The Annihilated Convoy

“A dressing room?”

KIKI frowned at him. “What does a big man like you need a dressing room for?”

“Hmph.”

Lu Xingchen put his hands behind his back and turned to her sideways. “You wouldn’t understand. As a god, one must naturally pay attention to one’s appearance.” He flicked his bangs and said with immense confidence, “Even in chaotic times, one must have a way of conducting oneself. One cannot be disorderly.”

“Tch.” KIKI looked at him with disdain. “Then you set your shirt on fire all day. I think you should just not wear one. It’s a waste of clothes.”

Lin Xian, standing to the side, also thought there was some truth to that.

“Or I could prepare a full-body armor for you later. It can both increase your firepower and prevent you from going shirtless, avoiding stray bullets.”

“Brother Lin has a great idea!”

Lu Xingchen looked over with an eager expression. “It would be best if it’s handsome… uh, no, I mean custom-made, so it won’t hinder the display of my Fire God’s power. Brother Lin is the God of Machinery, so it must be a piece of cake for you.”

Lin Xian looked at his eager yet hesitant expression. “You can wait too.”

Custom-made full-body battle armor was indeed something Lin Xian had planned.

The so-called full-body battle armor was different from a combat mech. The former was a fully enclosed exoskeleton device, similar to Iron Man’s armor, while the latter was a weapon of war, large in size and with powerful firepower.

His original plan was to first scan the Iron Guard Brigade’s exoskeleton combat armor, then slightly improve and manufacture it, or upgrade it through the research center.

When it was manufactured, he would use it himself first, allowing him to unleash his combat talent in mechanical manufacturing. In the current battles, his wind gun and ice wall were clearly not enough.

At that time, he could even custom-make suitable battle armor for everyone. For example, although KIKI’s Esper ability was powerful, it clearly didn’t enhance her physical body. She was delicate. The red mark on KIKI’s forehead from his poke just now hadn’t faded yet…

However, time was tight at Yubei Spaceport, and he hadn’t been able to scan the extremely complex exoskeleton device, which was a bit of a regret. He could only find another plan.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~

The Infinity sped along the high-speed track. The sun shone brightly, but the walkie-talkie inside the car was somewhat silent.

Shu Qin’s convoy followed closely behind the Infinity, not daring to be careless for a moment.

After leaving Jiazhou City, the track entered a mountainous old forest with a complex road system. Several highways gradually appeared parallel to the track.

Many abandoned cars and some wandering zombies also began to appear in their field of vision.

Perhaps because they had just experienced the crazy flock of corpse crows in the dead city of Jiazhou, when they saw the howling zombies now, they didn’t feel scared at all. Instead, they felt a strange sense of familiarity.

“Zombies have appeared. It seems there are no more of those corpse crows around here.”

In the cockpit, Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan sat on either side.

“Lin Xian, do you have a direction from here?”

Lin Xian looked at the long Circinus Line ahead and shook his head. “Although I know the world will eventually be swallowed by the night, it wasn’t until the Phoenix Society’s countdown came out that I felt so desperate. 1 year and 96 days… If those people from the Iron Guard Brigade knew that the survivors they protected might not even live for a year, I wonder what they would think.”

“Actually, it’s not like that.”

“Hmm?”

Chen Sixuan looked at him, her gaze gentle. “When they gave up retreating, they were no longer considering gains and losses. Even if it was just to let us live until tomorrow, it was a victory.”

“Because courage is never measured by distance. It can cross time and dimensions.”

“So why is it 1 year and 96 days until humanity’s demise, and not 1 year and 96 days for humanity to prepare for a counterattack?”

Lin Xian was slightly stunned, then smiled. “You’re right. 1 year and 96 days isn’t for us to run. There are still many things we can do.”

The Infinity drove out of a large mountain and was now more than a hundred kilometers away from Jiazhou City.

“Pukou station should be coming up soon.”

Chen Sixuan said as she looked at the driving screen. Just as she looked up, her expression changed. “Lin Xian, look quickly.”

Lin Xian was taking a nap in the driver’s seat, trying to recover his energy. Hearing Chen Sixuan’s words, he quickly looked up and saw that the main track ahead entered a small station. The station was located in a valley, and on a wide road next to it, more than thirty survivor vehicles were neatly parked.

But from a distance, many of the cars had their doors open, and their bodies and windows were covered in blood, yet they were empty.

Lin Xian’s face immediately became grave, because he was very familiar with these cars. They were the survivor convoys that had gone up the Sky-Corridor with them at the spaceport.

Screech~

The train slowly stopped and entered the station. Shu Qin’s convoy behind also drove up. Shu Qin got out of her car and said with a surprised face, “Isn’t this the Fireline convoy?”

“You know them?” Lin Xian and the others also got off the train.

“Yes, we fought alongside them in Area C at the spaceport,” the young man named Lü Chang from Shu Qin’s team said with a frown. “And it’s not just the Fireline convoy…”

“Let’s go take a look.”

Lin Xian immediately led people to investigate and found that there were also two modified heavy trucks in this convoy. The overall configuration of the convoy was quite high.

Whoo, whoo, whoo~

A strong wind blew through the valley, whistling through the open doors of the heavy trucks’ cabs, making a whooshing sound. The entire convoy was neat and quiet. Everyone cautiously checked the vehicles one by one and found that there was indeed no one there.

Shu Qin took out a scraper from her waist, scraped a bit of blood from the window of an off-road vehicle with the tip of the blade, and looked at it. Then she frowned.

“They died last night, but there are no bodies. Although there are some signs of corpse crow pecking, it’s not that serious. They probably didn’t die from corpse crows.”

“That’s strange,” KIKI walked over at this moment and looked around. “There should be at least a hundred people here. How could there be no resistance at all? It’s as if…”

“Everyone didn’t react,” Lu Xingchen said with a detective’s face. “There must be something strange here.”

Shasha hid behind Chen Sixuan, feeling creeped out as she looked at the neatly parked cars. “Did they encounter some kind of terrifying monster?”

Chen Sixuan said nothing, her gaze turning to Lin Xian.

“I don’t know either,” Lin Xian looked at Shu Qin. “Are there other convoys here?”

Shu Qin walked over and nodded. “This is a merger of three convoys, all of whom came with us from the spaceport. They should have also escaped from the corpse crow flock in Jiazhou City, but not as seriously as we did. So they must have encountered something else.”

Lin Xian’s expression darkened. “These cars are almost all intact. Even if there was a corruption mutation internally, it wouldn’t be like this. Someone would definitely resist or drive away, but not a single car here has moved.”

KIKI said, “That means they were resting here at night, but something happened.”

At this moment, Lin Xian heard some whispers. He turned his head and saw several men and women from Shu Qin’s convoy, one of whom was the young man named Zhou Yixuan.

“What are you talking about?”

These people’s faces were not right. They were pale, and their eyes were full of shock, as if they were frightened by the scene.

“Sister… Sister Qin, isn’t this what the rumors were about…”

“Zhou Yixuan, don’t talk nonsense!” Shu Qin seemed to know what he was about to say and shouted sharply to stop him.