Chapter 24: The Aurora Project

Lin Xian firmly pressed the girl to the ground, not letting her escape easily.

“Since you’re awake, why pretend to be asleep? What’s your purpose!?”

The girl had a stubborn personality and struggled violently. “I… I…”

Lin Xian’s eyes turned cold, and he directly held the knife in front of her. “Do you think I’ll be soft on you because you’re a girl?”

Seeing the cold glint of the steel knife, the girl’s eyes widened, and she quickly begged for mercy, “I was wrong, don’t kill me. Let me go, I can’t breathe.”

The girl was subdued by him at this time, her face a little red.

Lin Xian frowned, thinking to himself, wasn’t this girl able to send his door flying before? How come she had no power to resist now?

Just as he was thinking, the girl suddenly started crying.

“Wuwuwu, don’t kill me. As long as you don’t kill me, I’ll agree to anything.”

As soon as she finished speaking, who knew that this girl would suddenly turn her head and bite Lin Xian’s ankle.

Hiss!

A sharp pain shot through him. Lin Xian frowned. Damn it, this woman was really cunning. She actually took advantage of his unpreparedness to sneak attack him!

In pain, Lin Xian directly slapped the girl on the forehead with the flat of his knife.

Bang!

A crisp sound, and the girl immediately cried out “Ouch” and fainted.

“Still pretending?!”

Lin Xian’s face was angry. At this time, he had no thoughts of being soft on her. He directly found a bundle of nylon zip ties from the toolbox in carriage 3 and tied the girl’s hands and feet firmly. Only then did he relax a little.

He sat down by the side of the carriage and looked at his ankle. A bite mark was a bit shocking.

“Holy shit, I’m not going to turn into a zombie, am I?”

Who knew that upon hearing this, the girl suddenly lowered her head and cursed under her breath, “You’re the zombie, your whole family are zombies.”

Lin Xian’s eyes turned cold. “What, not pretending to be unconscious anymore?”

“Speak, what’s your name, what’s your purpose, or you can say nothing, and I’ll throw you out of the car now.”

Lin Xian drew his short knife, his words cold, making people not doubt that he could do it.

Clang, clang.

The train moved forward slowly. The walkie-talkie was quiet. Professor Chen had not sent a message, which meant that the road ahead was clear.

“My name is KIKI.”

The girl’s tone changed, from the innocent and soft voice just now to a somewhat cold one.

Good heavens, she was really pretending.

“How did you find me, what’s your purpose, why did you pretend to be asleep all the way? Don’t make me keep asking you questions. You should be clear about your situation.”

KIKI buried her head in the ground and suddenly let out a sigh. Because her hands and feet were tied, she struggled to sit up from the ground and looked at Lin Xian with hatred. Although her little face was covered in tears and her eyes were still red, there was no trace of grievance. This freely retractable crying act was amazing.

“What else could it be? Weren’t you the one waving the flag on the roof that day?”

Waving the flag?

Lin Xian frowned. “Are you trying to tell me you were on that helicopter?”

“What else.” KIKI looked at him blankly.

“Continue.”

“Didn’t you see that the plane crashed?”

“So?”

“I have nowhere to go.”

“And then.”

“You peeked at my underwear.”

“…”

“What do you mean?” Lin Xian frowned.

KIKI bit her silver teeth and said in a low voice, “Yes, I did wake up the next day, but I didn’t know who you were or where I was. As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw you…”

Lin Xian’s face changed.

“So?”

“So I naturally thought of you as…”

“A pervert?” Lin Xian blurted out.

“So your purpose in pretending to be unconscious was to steal food and sneak attack me?”

“Not really, I just wanted to escape, but I never had a chance.” The girl named KIKI said with a wronged look.

Lin Xian’s expression was uncertain. Then he blurted out, “Fine, you think I’m a pervert who has imprisoned you, right? Then you can go.”

Lin Xian looked at the gradually setting sun outside and said bluntly, “Since you’re so smart, I think you must have a way to survive outside. I see that your family background is not bad. Why don’t you just let your dad come and save you?”

Lin Xian’s eyes were cold, and his words carried a hint of probing.

“My dad is dead.”

Her tone was flat, as if there was no trace of sadness.

The carriage was silent for a moment.

“That has nothing to do with me.” Lin Xian stood up directly.

“Don’t, I did want to escape at first, but now I realize that I misunderstood you. Don’t kick me out of the car, okay?” KIKI said quickly.

Lin Xian sneered.

“It’s not that you found out you misunderstood me, it’s that you know you can’t survive after getting out of the car.”

The girl was very smart, but Lin Xian still looked at her calmly. “Sorry, you have no value to me.”

Hearing this, KIKI was anxious and immediately said, “Wait, you… you send me to Jinhai. My dad is the chairman of the Linglong Group, a second-level investor in the Aurora Project, and has the qualification for saturated rescue of the Aurora Project. After he died, this qualification was automatically inherited by me. As long as you send me to Jinhai, someone will come to pick me up. At that time, I can give you all the supplies you want, or arrange for you to have a third-class citizen status in the Aurora Project and let you move into the underground city.”

In carriage 3, the afterglow of the orange sunset through the grille armor kept retreating on the two of them. After hearing what she said, Lin Xian couldn’t help but frown.

He had indeed heard of this Aurora Project. In the initial stage of the apocalypse, various versions of this project appeared on the Internet. It was said that this was the official underground city project to avoid the apocalypse. Some people also said that this was the Wandering Starship Project to preserve the fire of human civilization.

There were many different opinions, and at the same time, there were various conspiracy theories, making it difficult to see the truth.

“Sorry.” To KIKI’s surprise, her words did not receive the expected reaction from the other party. On the contrary, Lin Xian’s face was as calm as water, and he directly refused, “I’m not interested.”

“You don’t believe me?”

“Even if I believe you, I’m not interested.”

Lin Xian said bluntly in a deep voice, his eyes sharp as he looked at her.

“Not only am I not interested, but I also think it’s very boring. Why don’t you just jump down yourself, so I don’t have to do it.”

Regardless of whether what KIKI said was true or false, he was indeed not interested at all. Compared to that so-called third-class citizen of the underground city, Lin Xian believed more in his own ability. As long as he used his ability well, the probability of survival was very high. It was much better than being buried in the ground, right? Besides, in that kind of place, he might lose his autonomy.

Looking at Lin Xian’s indifferent gaze, a trace of panic finally flashed in KIKI’s eyes, but she quickly concealed that emotion and said to Lin Xian with disdain, “Why aren’t you interested in the Aurora Project? Do you just want to rely on this train?”

“With all due respect, your plan is really too naive. Have you ever thought that the outside world has already collapsed in the apocalypse? The Star Ring Railway has no maintenance engineers to maintain it regularly. One-fifth of the 320,000-kilometer journey is on the ocean. What if the track breaks? What if the train is damaged? What if there are not enough supplies? What if you encounter a storm, tsunami, or earthquake?”