Chapter 22: The Annihilated Convoy

Beep, beep.

In carriage 1, Lin Xian lay on the comfortable Simmons mattress, feeling the warm and soft jade in his arms. After two consecutive nights without sleep, he finally had a good night’s sleep.

He looked at the time, 2:00 PM. Fortunately, the night was peaceful.

It was still dark outside. Lin Xian had set the time in advance to observe the exact time of sunrise.

The night was too long, and they had slept for too long.

Chen Sixuan, who was on top of him, had already woken up and was silent. Seeing Lin Xian turn over and get up, she also quickly put on her clothes with a red face, pulled up her pants, and then said to Lin Xian in a low voice, “They seem to have blocked the railway with stones.”

Lin Xian pulled Chen Sixuan over, lowered his head, and gently pecked her fragrant lips. He said, “I know, I took care of it before I got on the train.”

Chen Sixuan shyly dodged from his arms, picked up the logbook, and said to herself, “Counting the distance from Yushan Station, we ran 54 kilometers yesterday. According to the news spread by the survivors, the sunrise today should be before 17:00.”

After a night of indulgence, she avoided Lin Xian’s gaze as she spoke.

“Let’s see first.” Lin Xian looked at his watch. “This distance may not show any change at all.”

“Mm.”

Because it was still dark outside, the two of them lowered their voices, took out some food and water, and ate a little.

Lin Xian leaned against the aisle, one hand on the floor to check the situation outside the car, and also checked his injuries. As he had imagined, he was recovering particularly quickly.

The bodies of ability users were qualitatively different from those of ordinary people. At the same time, after yesterday’s life-and-death battle with Liu Wei, Lin Xian’s Air Cannon skill had been greatly improved.

[Air Cannon LV.1 25/100]

[Ice Shield LV.1 6/100]

In yesterday’s battle, Lin Xian felt that he had really fought for his life. It was the first time he knew that he could be so ruthless and decisive, and could maintain absolute calmness at critical moments. He also admired himself for having such a state of mind.

Time passed minute by minute.

Lin Xian watched the time on his watch tick by.

3:00 PM, it was not yet light.

4:00 PM, it was still not light.

The later it was, the faster they needed to escape.

But what Lin Xian was most worried about at this time was that the time of sunrise would not change at all. That would be the most desperate thing.

The temperature had already dropped to around 0 degrees. Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan both put on long-sleeved clothes to keep warm. Fortunately, he had gotten a lot of new quilts and Simmons mattresses from the furniture store in advance. Otherwise, they would have to sleep on hard boards in such cold weather.

Just as the time ticked to 16:48, a flash of light appeared in the sky, the dark curtain suddenly receded, and the slanting sun hung high!

“It’s light,” Chen Sixuan exclaimed, a look of joy on her face.

According to the scheduled time, it should have been light at 17:00 today, but at this time, the time of sunrise was a full 12 minutes earlier!

Lin Xian opened the door of the passage and entered the cockpit with Chen Sixuan. The two of them looked at the sunlight outside, their eyes filled with both surprise and worry.

The good news was that the time of sunrise was 12 minutes earlier than expected. Although it was not much, it was enough to show that they were escaping the polar night!

The worry was that this amount of time was just a drop in the bucket.

Chen Sixuan was the first to react. She picked up the logbook and began to calculate, “The sunrise is 12 minutes earlier. If we only count yesterday’s 54 kilometers, it means that if we want to catch up to the 17:00 sunrise tomorrow, we have to drive at least 270 kilometers!”

“About that.” Lin Xian nodded. “It’s not much different from what I heard on the radio, but don’t be too optimistic. We’re not walking in a straight line, and to run 270 kilometers, we’ll need at least three hours, unless we speed up.”

Hearing this, Chen Sixuan’s eyes dimmed again. “Yeah, we can’t be too fast either. Who knows if someone will put cars and stones on the road to block it…”

In just two days, there were problems almost every day, and each time it was a life-and-death situation. Thinking of this, Chen Sixuan began to worry.

Omm~

The ten-cylinder heavy-duty gas turbine of the Infinity began to roar. Lin Xian sat in the driver’s seat and turned to Chen Sixuan.

“Professor Chen, sit tight.”

Chen Sixuan opened her mouth. She heard Lin Xian still calling her ‘teacher’, and her heart was suddenly flustered and awkward. They had already…

Could it be that he had some kind of fetish and liked that forbidden feeling?

Lin Xian didn’t know what Chen Sixuan was thinking at this time. He drove the train and began to reverse!

Seeing the train reversing, Chen Sixuan was surprised.

“Are we going backward?”

“Yes.” Lin Xian said in a deep voice, “Let’s go back to Yushan Station and have a look.”

Liu Wei was killed by him. As night approached, his convoy would inevitably be in chaos without a leader. Moreover, without Liu Wei, the ability user, as long as Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan were on the train, the remaining small fry with guns would be helpless against them.

He had even dealt with the other party’s boss. If he didn’t get anything out of it, Lin Xian felt that he had fought that battle for nothing.

And at this time, he was a little more confident. As long as he hurried, he could escape the polar night. For Lin Xian, who had survived for several months, this was undoubtedly a positive signal.

Clang, clang~

Not long after, the heavy locomotive slowly backed into the Yushan station platform. And the scene that came into view at this time made both Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan’s faces change.

The platform was a mess. The ‘Oasis’ convoy had been completely wiped out. At this time, the parked off-road vehicles and jeeps were covered in ferocious bloodstains. The ground of the platform was almost dyed red. Several convoy members had turned black and become walking dead, whimpering and standing in place.

Chen Sixuan saw one of the men who had become a zombie. It was the well-mannered middle-aged man with glasses who had pretended to be the ‘father’ of a family of three yesterday.

She didn’t expect that after one night, everyone would be dead.

“Ah~”

“Lin Xian, look!”

Chen Sixuan exclaimed and pointed to the direction of the Yushan Station waiting hall. The small waiting hall was almost completely occupied, but what surprised the two of them the most was that on the ground at the entrance of the waiting hall, there were several legs scattered around that looked like some kind of insect!

Chen Sixuan’s face was ugly. “Oh my god, what kind of monster is this…”

Lin Xian frowned. He thought of the insect shadow in warehouse 14, and he had some lingering fears.

He had clearly driven more than 50 kilometers yesterday. Could it be that that thing had caught up?

Regarding that strange insect and the white giant monster, Lin Xian had no clue at all. They seemed to appear out of thin air in the night and then suddenly disappear after sunrise. If it weren’t for seeing the huge legs at this time, who would believe that these terrifying monsters had appeared in this world for no reason?

Lin Xian stopped the car, leaned against the car window, and observed carefully for a while before saying, “Don’t be afraid. It’s daytime now. This thing probably won’t come out.”

He really wanted to curse in his heart at this moment. He had just had the idea of moving at night, but reality immediately gave him a resounding slap in the face.

This thing was following him. How could he move around?

“Are we still going down?” Chen Sixuan asked.

“Yes.”

Lin Xian gritted his teeth. Since he was already here, and the “Oasis” convoy had been wiped out, he would take this opportunity to scavenge their remaining supplies.

“Okay, I’ll go too.” Chen Sixuan clenched her fists, but Lin Xian raised his hand to stop her. “Don’t be in a hurry. I’ll go down and take a look first. I’ll deal with those few zombies first.”

“Mm.” Chen Sixuan nodded obediently.

Lin Xian held his short knife, drove the train’s cockpit gate to open, and then jumped out. As soon as he landed, he immediately used a few Air Cannons to headshot the few zombies on the platform.

Although it consumed some energy, Lin Xian didn’t want to alert the enemy. The Air Cannon was very quiet and very suitable for sneak attacks.

Thump, thump, thump~

A few zombies fell one after another. Lin Xian only then noticed a strong smell of blood rushing towards him, and he couldn’t help but frown.

The entire platform was full of bullet marks and all kinds of limbs. It was clear that a cruel battle had taken place here last night.

Lin Xian had seen how strange that monster was. Ordinary firearms should not be able to cause much damage.