Chapter 175: Triple Tide

Whoosh.

The several-hundred-meter-long black train began to accelerate under the setting sun.

18:40

The track extended into the deep mountain forests, and the skyline seemed to be sinking into a black tide.

Chen Sixuan looked at the driving map and said, “It’s getting dark soon. I don’t know why, but I’ve had a cold feeling ever since we left Jiazhou City.”

Lin Xian’s gaze swept toward the setting sun on the distant skyline, and his expression changed slightly.

He actually had the same feeling. Hearing Chen Sixuan say it, he was suddenly a little surprised.

Thump-thump~ Thump-thump~

The train’s speed suddenly slowed down, as if it had run over something. Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan both leaned forward due to inertia, and both of them frowned.

“What was that?”

Chen Sixuan shook her head with a frown. “I didn’t see anything.”

Lin Xian felt that something was wrong. At this moment, there were no zombies or obstacles on the train tracks. He didn’t know what the train had run over.

“Does anyone feel anything wrong?” To be cautious, Lin Xian picked up the communicator and directly contacted the core personnel in each car.

“It feels a little cold,” Shasha was the first to reply.

“Did we just run over something?” KIKI’s voice also came through.

“I also feel that something is not right.” In car number 10, Shu Qin’s expression was a little solemn. She was pacing back and forth in the car with her Remington M96. “Maybe I’m overthinking it, but we’ve run into trouble several times before when I had this feeling.”

In car number 5, Lu Xingchen was fixing his hair and looked at Da Lou. “Big guy, is Brother Lin calling us?”

Lou Ye pointed to the communicator. “Brother Xian said he feels something is wrong. Did you notice anything?”

Lu Xingchen frowned and raised his palm. A ball of fire ignited in his palm.

Swoosh~

Suddenly, the flame flared up and began to tremble violently, then quickly returned to normal.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

Flames ignited in both of his hands, illuminating the car in red. His expression then darkened, and a rare solemnity appeared on his face. “This cold is not the temperature. It seems there is some evil at work.”

In car number 2, KIKI sat in front of the information center, her brows tightly furrowed. She was constantly checking the parameters of the entire train and mobilizing the surveillance of the sentinel system, but she found nothing.

“Lin Xian, there’s nothing, but I also feel that something is wrong. Should we stop and check?” KIKI said into the communicator.

Thump-thump~

At this moment, the train’s speed slowed down again. This time, it not only felt like it had run over something, but the train also seemed to have become much heavier.

In the cockpit, Lin Xian’s eyes narrowed when he heard the feedback from the others. He thought of something, turned around and went back to car number one, and opened the Isomorphic Cube installed on the car body.

[Beep! Using non-mechanical force for reflection detection.]

[Detection successful. No fear risk inside the train. The invasion of dark-side power has been blocked.]

“There’s nothing inside. Am I overthinking it?”

Lin Xian’s heart pounded. He then picked up the Spirit Fluctuation Value detector. Click. He pressed the button on the detector, and a faint red energy radiated from the Aberration blood essence, then quickly retracted. Soon, the pointer on the detector began to slowly turn.

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100-

200-

300!

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500!!-

1000!!!

Looking at the constantly decreasing negative Spirit Fluctuation Value, Lin Xian’s expression gradually became solemn.

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1000 was not the actual data, but the limit of Lin Xian’s simple Spirit Fluctuation Value detector!

Watching this scene, Lin Xian picked up the communicator with a solemn expression and said slowly, “Everyone, be careful. The Spirit Fluctuation Value detector has detected an extremely high level of dark-side power. We might be targeted by some Aberration.”

As soon as he said this, the personnel in each car became nervous.

Lin Xian walked to car number 2. KIKI was frowning at this moment. “Nothing. I didn’t find anything here.”

“Are there those crows in the sky?”

“No.”

“Lin Xian.”

“Hmm?” Lin Xian, who was about to go to the other cars, was suddenly stopped by KIKI.

KIKI looked at him and said, “It’s getting dark soon.”

Lin Xian’s expression changed. He stopped and turned around, running back to the cockpit.

“Teacher Chen, are there any bridges or tunnels on the road ahead? We might need to speed up for a while and see.”

Chen Sixuan replied directly, “A lot. This area is still mountainous. We’ll only reach the great plains after passing Hengshan Pass. And if we enter the forest area, there will also be swamps and wetlands.”

Beep, beep.

The watch’s second notification sounded.

18:45.

“It’s getting dark!”

Lin Xian looked up ahead. The sun had not yet set, but the skyline was already flashing with a mysterious light.

But in the next moment, Lin Xian’s face changed drastically.

Chen Sixuan, who was beside him, cried out in surprise, “Lin Xian, look, there are three flashes coming at the same time!!!”

Lin Xian certainly saw it too. Every time it got dark before, the mysterious light of the dark tide would flash across the skyline like a curtain, and then the world would immediately plunge into darkness. But at this moment, there were three mysterious lights from different directions flashing at the same time, like ripples on the surface of water spreading across the sky.

“This is… the tide from the direction of the three Starry Abysses!”

Before Lin Xian could finish his sentence, the entire world was instantly plunged into darkness.

Thump-thump~

The train encountered another delay. At this moment, all the windows of the Infinity, including the surveillance of the sentinel system, instantly went black.

“What’s going on?”

KIKI jumped down from her chair and went to the window, opening the blackout curtain, only to find that the window seemed to be covered by something, and she couldn’t see outside at all.

In the cockpit, as darkness fell, a black object suddenly completely blocked the porthole of the moving Infinity. Chen Sixuan’s eyes narrowed, and she was horrified to find that the object that completely covered the front porthole seemed to be slowly moving.

It was like… the abdomen of some kind of insect!

Screech!

In an instant, Lin Xian immediately slowed down the Infinity. A series of screams erupted in the cars.

“Lin Xian!”

KIKI’s urgent voice came through the communicator. “Our train is covered in Aberrations!!”

As soon as he said this, everyone was shocked.

At this moment, as the Infinity slowly decelerated into the deep mountain forests, countless terrifying Aberrations had somehow attached themselves to the outside. These Aberrations were all frighteningly large, crisscrossing and tightly wrapping the entire train. The sound of steel plates being squeezed came from inside the cars, and everyone was startled by this sudden situation.

Crack, crack, crack~

Suddenly, the entire Infinity was surrounded. The sounds of various climbing and moving creatures came from all directions. Outside the car windows, various strange limbs and insect feet constantly flashed by, making people hold their breath.

“Where did these things come from?!!”

Watching the huge black insect abdomen move across the porthole, Chen Sixuan’s face was pale. She suppressed the fear in her heart and said to Lin Xian in a low voice.

Lin Xian didn’t say anything. His Mechanical Heart connected to the entire train, and he felt countless external forces being transmitted from each car. His heart sank.

Why did these things suddenly appear on the outside of the Infinity? It was simply unbelievable.

He had been extremely cautious, but these things that suddenly appeared in front of him still gave Lin Xian a real scare.

Thump, thump, thump~

The black giant insect had just crawled past the front of the train. A slowly crawling existence on the roof of the train slowly came to the front of the train with heavy steps. In an instant, a strange creature with countless human-like arms hung down, revealing a huge spider face. It had two large and four small eyes, but the two large eyes were two pale, twisted human faces, with their mouths wide open, bringing a terrifying aura of fear.