Chapter 221: The Dragon-Class Transport Ship

On the Infinity, Chen Sixuan locked all the car doors, activated the Sentinel system’s warning mechanism, and began to organize the supplies and carriages with the remaining people.

Under the warning system, the 1130 could attack any unknown threatening unit at any time with Chen Sixuan’s authorization, making it very intelligent.

The PX05-Engineering Robot was given a maintenance command by KIKI. As soon as the 1130 started, it would quickly follow up to replenish the ammunition chain.

“Everyone, with the Infinity as the origin point, communication should be interrupted beyond a certain distance. Please pay attention to the time and return to the train before 18:00.”

In the walkie-talkie, Lin Xian’s voice reached everyone.

“Received,” Shu Qin’s voice came through.

“Received, received,” Shasha also picked up the walkie-talkie to respond, then shook it at Lu Xingchen. “Did you hear that? If you get lost, I won’t come looking for you, so you’d better stick close to me~”

Lu Xingchen smiled helplessly. “Alright~”

“Okay, you all be careful,” Chen Sixuan’s voice also came from the Infinity.

Hearing the responses from all sides, Lin Xian gave KIKI a look, then increased the throttle and sped away.

Seeing Lin Xian riding faster than her, KIKI’s competitive spirit was aroused. She twisted the throttle, and the motorcycle engine roared wildly. With a gust of wind, she instantly overtook Lin Xian, leaving him with the back view of a sexy female rider.

“Are you trying to race?” Lin Xian said in the communicator.

“If you can’t keep up, just eat my dust, hehe~” KIKI’s voice was mixed with the sound of the wind.

Lin Xian shook his head helplessly, nimbly dodged a zombie lunging from the side of the road, and also accelerated to catch up.

The originally wide city streets were littered with abandoned and rusted cars. The two motorcycles weaved flexibly through the numerous obstacles, speeding south.

He was wearing power armor, carrying the magnetically controlled black spear and electric knife on his back, and had also brought an extra fully loaded automatic rifle. He was well-prepared.

In terms of distance, the direction he was scouting was the farthest, as he had to travel several dozen kilometers out of the city. According to the map, Qingshui Town was near Shijiu Lake. Even at the fastest motorcycle speed, it would take at least an hour. In order to get back before dark, he and KIKI didn’t bother to investigate the streets along the way and just charged ahead.

*Ugh, ah~!*

The low roars of zombies sounded all around Lin Xian. He dodged them on his motorcycle, occasionally using his wind lance to take care of a few zombies blocking the way, and the vehicle snaked through the open ground.

*Hum!*

KIKI was even more brutal. Whether it was zombies or abandoned cars blocking the road, she would just use an invisible shockwave to blast a path open. The obstacles that were originally blocking the road seemed to have heard a command and cleared a path for her.

After passing through countless city blocks, the two finally drove out to the suburbs. The highway out of the city was blocked with abandoned cars. Fortunately, they were riding motorcycles and could weave through various road ridges and mountain slopes, quickly heading towards Qingshui Town.

After Lin Xian had driven for several dozen kilometers, a vast expanse of deep blue water appeared in the distance, connecting the sky and the earth. It was a huge lake. Before they even got close, they could feel a large amount of warm and moist lake-land breeze blowing in their faces. This was a climate change brought about by the lake effect, indicating that this body of water was astonishingly large. At a glance, one might even think they were looking at the sea.

Lin Xian had studied this lake before setting out. It was the largest freshwater lake in the Yunjiang Plain, with a water area of 120,000 square kilometers. The deepest part was even over 1,900 meters deep. It was an important freshwater reserve lake for the Dragon Country.

The deep blue water also looked very deep. Because he had almost drowned while swimming in a deep reservoir as a child, Lin Xian had a natural fear of deep water.

At this moment, he thought about having to enter the ocean track section later, driving a train on the ocean tracks built on the thousand-meter-deep mid-ocean ridge. The thought alone was incredibly thrilling and exciting.

“Wow, what a big lake! I wonder if there are any water monsters in it!”

In the communicator, KIKI’s voice came through. Now that they were out of the city, they had basically lost contact with the other teams.

“What are you afraid of? We’re not going into the water.”

Having experienced Underground City No. 9 and Rain Town, Lin Xian knew that even during the day, Aberrations could exist in dark buildings, and water, especially deep water, could naturally block sunlight.

Many survivors had already gained a lot of experience with the habits of these dark creatures.

KIKI, however, replied directly, “That’s not for sure. What if that Foundation organization is hiding under the lake?”

Lin Xian chuckled lightly. “If they have such powerful means, then it wouldn’t be a loss to cooperate with them.”

The motorcycle sped along. Lin Xian looked at the road signs and began to adjust his direction, turning from the highway to a regular national road.

Qingshui Town was a small town with a small population. Few people fled to such places in the apocalypse. The number of abandoned cars on the road began to decrease, and their speed gradually increased.

After passing through a few patches of woods by the lake, Lin Xian looked up and saw a small town in his line of sight. It looked like a tourist town. A crooked and rusted sign by the road still read, “Welcome to Qingshui Town”~

As the two motorcycles approached, the number of dilapidated cars along the road gradually increased, and a few zombies roamed sparsely on the highway.

The cars had all been pushed to the sides of the road, forming a passable path.

Lin Xian and KIKI stopped their bikes on an open hillside.

“It looks like a lot of people have been here.”

KIKI stopped her bike and looked at the small town with her hand shielding her eyes. “What a pity. This town is quite beautiful. It’s a good place for tourism.”

“Hey, look! Is that the crashed transport ship?”

At this moment, KIKI’s eyes immediately spotted something.

Lin Xian’s gaze narrowed as he looked at the small town not far away. He also saw the huge silhouette of an airship lying across the streets deep in the town. It looked quite spectacular. The ten-thousand-ton large transport ship was tilted between several collapsed tall buildings. There were scorch marks in many places on the top of the transport ship, and the main structure of the bow was broken. Many birds were flying over the Yunshu ship. From a distance, the huge man-made ship looked extremely out of place and sci-fi among the town’s buildings.

“Such a large transport ship suddenly crashing here is a bit strange. Could it have encountered some large Aberration?”

Lin Xian observed the town with his binoculars. He could see many zombies roaming the streets, but he didn’t see any other survivor teams.

“That’s possible.” KIKI looked at Shijiu Lake in the distance. “I told you there must be some big monster in this lake. Those Federation aircraft are so unlucky, getting hit everywhere.”

Lin Xian frowned upon hearing this, instinctively feeling a bit repulsed by the lake’s black water. 1900 meters deep, in the abyss where sunlight couldn’t reach, who knew what existed there.

He thought of the underground creatures in Underground City No. 9 and couldn’t help but feel a chill down his spine.

“Let’s go into the town and have a look first. Be careful.”

The southern railway line was not far from here. If the Infinity really had to switch to the southern line, it would also pass through here, but there was no station to stop at.

The two got back on their motorcycles. The buildings on the side of the road gradually became denser. After approaching the town’s streets, the two motorcycles began to slow down, and they looked around with wary expressions.

What appeared before them was a desolate and depressed tourist town. The roadside was full of shops with signs like “Shijiu Lake Aquatic Products” and “Boat Rental.” The streets were filthy, with old clothes, rotting corpses, and the fishy smell of the lake water blowing in their faces.

It was unknown if it was due to the rising lake water, but several streets were even submerged in the lake water, which was a dark green color. From the level of submersion, it looked to be about half a person’s height.

Lin Xian directly bypassed these flooded streets and headed towards the crashed transport ship in the center of the town.

*Swish, swish, swish!*

A few wind lances shot out, and several zombies fell to the ground. After passing through a few streets, a large number of collapsed and shattered buildings began to block the streets. The ten-thousand-ton aircraft lay diagonally on top of a pile of buildings. Hundreds of meters of the street had completely collapsed, creating a huge crash trench from west to east, almost splitting the entire town in two.

The bow of the Dragon-class transport ship was bent and deformed. The multi-layered internal decks above were exposed to the sun. Lin Xian took a look. Just climbing up the side of the ship along the slope was at least a dozen stories high.

“Wow, such a big transport ship. This is something,” KIKI said with amazement.

“We’ll go straight to the top later. There are more and more zombies around. Try to avoid remote places.” Lin Xian’s expression was always focused on the surroundings. He knew that they might not be the only group here, so it was better to be careful.

“You got it.”

As the two drove into the quiet town, more and more zombies were attracted to them. Lin Xian glanced at them, then raised his hand and created a few steel ramps. He then rode his bike over a broken area of reinforced concrete, up the outer facade of a diagonally collapsed staircase, and stopped at a slightly hidden high point of rubble.

“Move the bikes up,” Lin Xian stopped his bike and rushed down the collapsed staircase, speaking to KIKI at the same time.

He directly activated the mobility unit of his power armor, leaped up, and jumped to the floor below. He quickly created a slanted steel wall, blocking the zombies’ upward climb. Many zombies began to fall from the side of the floor.

Although these zombies didn’t pose much of a threat at the moment, Lin Xian had to clear them out. KIKI, on the other hand, grabbed the two motorcycles and flew up, heading towards the transport ship. She soon landed on the top deck of the transport ship.

*Bang, bang!*

On Lin Xian’s side, after setting up the roadblock, he used his wind lance to aim directly at a teetering advertising lightbox on the opposite street. With the sound of air hitting the metal frame and sparks flying, the large restaurant lightbox collapsed, sending iron frames and lightbox fragments flying, knocking down a group of zombies and blocking part of the climbing path.

“Alright, done.”

After building the wall, Lin Xian turned and rushed to the high ground. The mobility unit of his power armor began to output torque, and he moved as if flying. Soon, the huge Dragon-class transport ship came into view.

The side wing was deeply embedded in the ground, even turning up the street’s sewer. Lin Xian climbed up the side wing towards the top of the transport ship. The path was covered in muddy footprints and a lot of bloodstains. There were also many dead survivors’ bodies everywhere. Some were already decomposed, while others seemed to have died less than a week ago. It was unknown whether they were bitten by zombies or killed by others in the fight for supplies.

But at this moment, the transport ship was extremely quiet. Lin Xian didn’t know if there was anyone inside, nor did he know if there were other survivors in the town watching. Halfway up, Lin Xian looked at KIKI, who was already flying in the air observing the surroundings, and then looked behind him. He was already a dozen stories high.

“Little girl, you keep an eye on the outside for me. I’m going in to have a look.”

“Then you be careful~” KIKI landed on the deck and said to Lin Xian.

Lin Xian threw her a pair of binoculars. “I’ll just take a quick look. You pay attention to the surroundings. There might be other people watching this place. Be careful.”

“Alright, I know. You go in first. Just call me if anything happens,” KIKI said.

Lin Xian walked forward along the top of the ship and came to the huge gap where the bow of the transport ship was broken. He glanced inside and jumped in.

*Thud!*

The moment he landed, the cabin deck let out a low hum. Lin Xian waved his right hand by his ear, and a head-mounted photoelectric device was created, casting a beam of light into the cabin.

“Lin Xian?”

“I don’t see anyone,” Lin Xian replied. The upper level of this transport ship was the rest cabins for officers and personnel. Looking down the corridor, there were rows of rest cabins, but all the cabin doors had been opened. Lin Xian stood on the slightly tilted corridor, looking at the empty interior of the ship with a stern expression.

“You keep a good watch outside. I’ll take a look around inside.”

“Alright.”

Lin Xian didn’t have high hopes for supplies. This place had clearly been visited by who knows how many waves of survivors. And if what Liao Ming said was true, that it was first targeted by Hu Lushou’s group, it must have been looted inside and out. Even a second wave of searchers would probably have a hard time finding any usable supplies.

However, Lin Xian was here to find blueprints and devour engines. It was unlikely that survivors would have dismantled these things. For Lin Xian, these were the real treasures.

“It’s pitch black in here. I hope no Aberrations pop out…”

Lin Xian’s face darkened, he thought to himself, but he didn’t hesitate. He quickly passed through the upper deck and ran towards the engine engineering room at the rear. The inside of the transport ship was pitch black, filled with the smell of rotting corpses. He saw many bodies in Federation Reserve Army uniforms lying scattered along the way.

From the degree of decomposition, they had probably died when the ship crashed.

However, when he jumped in from the broken bow just now, he had noticed something strange. What he found most strange was that there was an upward impact area at the front of the bow, but after landing, the break had occurred from above. This looked very strange.

Simply put, it seemed that the transport ship had impact marks on both its forehead and chin, and the impact on the forehead was even more severe than on the chin. It was as if the transport ship had directly hit something while flying at high altitude, and then during the forced landing, the bow hit the ground and was torn apart by stress, causing the upper deck structure to break.

Because the tallest building in this small town was only a dozen stories high, and there were no building impact marks in the impact area at the front of the bow, it was hard for Lin Xian not to think in the direction of a mid-air collision.

“This unlucky transport ship, could it have hit an atmospheric mica in the air?”

Lin Xian pondered to himself.

“But for something that big, the radar should have reacted…”

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