Chapter 130: The Alliance

“We’re considered a group now, but the current situation doesn’t allow us to take on so many of you. Everyone has so much stuff in their vehicles. If we can make it across the Dazhu Plateau alive and find some survival cars in Jiazhou City, maybe we can really form a mobile fortress train together and all survive.”

Currently, the Infinity didn’t have enough survival cars. Moreover, the immediate priority was to get to the sky corridor. It was about to get dark, and the city was shrouded in a heavy fog. Solving the current predicament was the top priority. In this situation, where would Lin Xian find the time to prepare the train and look for suitable cars?

The entire freight station was filled with either container cars or flatbed trailers. Ideas were one thing, but reality was not so idealistic.

Shu Qin was originally just saying it, but she didn’t expect Lin Xian’s words to move her quite a bit. She smiled and said, “Thank you. We’ll all strive to survive and keep up with your train’s pace.”

“That’s great!”

Old Mo was clearly not so sentimental. He grinned, looking very dashing. “But I suggest that if you have the chance, you should go to Xingcheng or Jinhai to modify your train with a wheeled-tracked system. The technology for interactive transformation is called amphibious conversion drive wheels. If you can get that done, you can drive wherever you want, no tracks needed at all.”

Xu Jin also took a breath and said sheepishly, “You guys have either tracks or caterpillar treads, which gives you a much wider path than our trucks and off-road vehicles. Let’s stop wasting time. Before it gets dark, let’s charge into the city first. Although the airport said the climbing channel will be completely shut down tomorrow, with that big thing in the sky now, there’s no guarantee the airport can hold. If we can’t get up, everything we’ve said will be for nothing, and we’ll all die here in Yubei City.”

Lin Xian nodded, his expression also becoming grave. “Alright, then let’s set off together. Everyone, stay sharp and don’t fall behind.”

“Safe journey.”

“Safe journey…”

“Thanks for your hard work, young man.”

The few of them exchanged greetings, and this temporary alliance was formed. Xu Jin returned to his convoy and began to make arrangements. Soon, the vehicles parked on the side of the road ahead moved to clear a path.

In the distance, the leisurely Lu Xingchen under his RV saw this scene, pushed down his sunglasses, stretched, and began to put away his sun umbrella and deck chair.

He returned to his vehicle.

“What’s with that guy? Why does he seem so full of himself?”

In the cockpit of the Infinity, Kiki and Shasha were looking at Lu Xingchen through binoculars, pouting. “Sunbathing in this cold weather, is he hot?”

Lin Xian walked into the cockpit, shared the information he had just gathered with the others, and then slowly started the train, driving towards the exit of the freight station.

Because it was an industrial city built at the foot of a plateau and snowy mountains, looking out from the freight station, they could see the outer area of the city in a mountain hollow, but not the main urban area yet.

But through the distant view of the mountain pass, they could see the pillars of the massive sky corridor.

Majestic and towering!

“Zzzzt…”

“Captain Lin, can you hear me?”

The alliance team confirmed the communication frequency on their walkie-talkies. Lin Xian, Old Mo, Shu Qin, Xu Jin, and the mysterious Lu Xingchen all joined the channel and began to communicate.

On a heavy truck with anti-skid chains on its tires, Shu Qin held a walkie-talkie and said, “The time is now 18:15. It will be dark in about half an hour. I estimate it will take us about 40 minutes to get to the airport from here, if there are no accidents…”

“It doesn’t make much difference whether it’s dark or not. There’s fog inside. The anomalies that the Phoenix Society said can appear during the day should be referring to these kinds of areas. So we don’t know how many monsters there are. It’s probably about the same as at night,” Xu Jin’s voice came through. In his view, the situation in Yubei City had already deteriorated severely. This trip was a life-or-death struggle for everyone. It was the same whether it was day or night. And the climbing channel was about to stop. For these nearly two hundred people, this was their last chance.

“Yes, the fog is the same as the night.”

Lin Xian said into the walkie-talkie. He had experienced the foggy escape from Beiwān and naturally knew that the fog was almost the same as the night.

Thinking back now, it had indeed started snowing when they entered Beiwān. It seemed the situation was exactly as the Phoenix Society had reported.

“Let’s go. Everyone be careful.”

Lin Xian’s expression was slightly grim. He began to drive the train slowly out of the station. There was no snow on the main track; it must have been cleared by other trains.

On the Infinity, everyone also began to be on alert.

Dalou and Shasha were armed to the teeth. Thanks to Lin Xian’s Fabrication Plant, Shasha was now carrying an ammunition backpack filled with many grenade rounds.

And Dalou had two loops of bullet chains wrapped around his shoulders, looking very well-stocked.

“We’re going to see that big jellyfish again.” Kiki rubbed her hands, looking troubled. “I really hate things with tentacles.”

Click, click, click, click~

Using the blueprint for the detector he had scanned from Xu Jin, Lin Xian quickly manufactured an identical water quality detector and handed it to Chen Sixuan. “Teacher Chen, get a cup of water, test it. If it’s a green light, it’s level 1 water quality. Then test it again in an hour and see if the water quality has changed.”

Chen Sixuan understood Lin Xian’s intention and immediately went to get water.

Kiki asked Lin Xian, “Do you also think that the dark contagion can directly affect the water in the bottle?”

“I don’t need to think, it definitely can.” Lin Xian turned back to look at Kiki. “But what I need to test now is the protection on our train.”

Lin Xian wanted to explain the isomeric cube to her, but then he realized he probably couldn’t explain it clearly himself. Concepts like dark invasion, night contagion, fear intrusion… even he was confused about this series of concepts. Saying it would be like saying nothing.

He’d better leave this kind of thing for people like the Phoenix Society and Ding Junyi to study. Only when there were clear results would he know the principle behind the isomeric cube’s shielding power.

For now, as long as he could confirm that the water on the train didn’t change quality over time, he could basically confirm that the isomeric cube was indeed a divine artifact. He just needed to use it. This kind of thing was definitely something the Federation would be very eager to study. But since even his Mechanical Heart couldn’t detect it and could only contain it through isomerization, he wouldn’t delve into it.

Clank, clank~

The Infinity began to pull out of the station, heading towards the city along the mountainside.

Behind the train, countless trucks and cars began to follow in an orderly manner, while Old Mo’s two exaggerated-looking fortress trucks brought up the rear.

Among the moving vehicles, an exquisitely designed RV moved within the convoy. The driver, Lu Xingchen, wore sunglasses, had handsome features, and was whistling, looking very relaxed. Inside the car, a string of Buddhist prayer beads hung from the rearview mirror. The dashboard was covered with a soft cushion on which various exquisite collectibles were placed. The RV was clean and tidy, a style completely different from the survivors who were fleeing all day.

Listening to the urgent communication between the convoy leaders on the walkie-talkie, he just curled his lips slightly and murmured softly, “So nervous, every one of them. Sigh…” He said, lifting his sunglasses with a finger.

Hiss~

A small flame ignited at his fingertip, and then he gently blew it out.

“It doesn’t matter. I will act.”

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