Chapter 48: Counting the Spoils

Clang, clang.

A standard railway crossed the Congshan Mountains and stretched for thousands of miles to the east. Since leaving Jiang City, this was the first time the “Infinity” had traveled from night to dawn.

15:47, earlier than expected, dawn arrived.

Chen Sixuan had been guarding the train all night. Before she could rest, she took Lou Shasha and Lou Ye to count the supplies they had harvested last night while it was still light.

Lin Xian drank a large bottle of water in the cockpit and felt much more energetic. Fortunately, after a night of driving, apart from smashing some wandering zombies, it did not cause any trouble that affected the train’s travel.

“Fortunately, the Mechanical Heart has been upgraded. Otherwise, with so many carriages, my stamina really can’t handle it.”

The stored energy of the electric locomotive also became less efficient due to the increased traction. In addition, with Lin Xian’s ability and stamina, he had to stop and rest for a while after running for three or four hours.

“The energy problem must also be taken seriously…”

According to his plan, in addition to the electric locomotive recovering and storing energy through his ability, he also needed a set of backup equipment that could actively produce energy, such as a generator or an oil storage tank, so that the train could continue to run even when he was exhausted.

According to the law of conservation of energy, if the load increases, the consumption will also increase. Unless there is a small nuclear power device and his ability is upgraded to join this energy cycle, this law can be broken, and theoretically, infinite driving can be achieved.

“Brother Lin!”

Lou Shasha excitedly shouted to Lin Xian from a carriage in the distance. “Come quickly!”

The train had stopped, and Lin Xian was about to get off to get some fresh air. At this time, he heard the call and walked over. The rear tailboard of carriage 5 had been opened. On the grassy slope next to the railway outside, all kinds of supplies were laid out on the ground. Because they were in a hurry to search last night, many things were still stained with blood.

“Lin Xian, look, so much.”

Chen Sixuan wiped the sweat from her forehead with great joy. She took a few towels. There happened to be a small stream not far from the railway, so she washed them while counting.

KIKI jumped off the train, took Chen Sixuan’s statistics sheet, and her eyes immediately lit up.

“Three Colts, two Glock 17s, 12 automatic rifles of various models, and an A33K sniper rifle. There’s also so much ammunition…”

“And this!” Sha Sha found their M36 grenade launcher from the spoils and said loudly, “This is very powerful.”

Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the spoils on the ground, and smiled faintly. “Now I don’t have to use a knife to chop big insects.”

“By the way, bad guy, there’s one more thing you’d never expect.”

KIKI giggled. She climbed onto the carriage carrying the armored car, opened the driver’s door, and then took out a remote control from inside and pressed the switch.

Omm~

At this time, a drone cockpit on the top of the armored car opened, and two small rotor reconnaissance drones slowly flew up.

“With this thing, we can patrol the surrounding 10-kilometer range without getting out of the car.”

“This Qian Yu of the Black Jiao convoy is quite amazing,” Lin Xian said in surprise, unable to help himself. “His equipment is worth a lot of money.”

“But it’s a pity that his heavy truck and oil tanker were driven away…” Lou Shasha said with regret.

“In addition, there are more than 400 cans of various kinds of canned food collected from Tang Hai’s two supply carriages, 41 boxes of water, and even 6 boxes of Coke and 3 boxes of red wine. Other foods with shorter shelf lives are piled up in half a container, and there are thousands of liters of gasoline!” Chen Sixuan let out a long sigh of relief. “This is simply too exaggerated. The things we found in the other survivors’ vehicles are not even one-tenth of what’s in those two carriages.”

“Of course.”

Lin Xian’s expression became serious. “That old guy Tang Hai occupied an air-raid shelter and robbed who knows how many survivors. His family fortune is all here, so it’s definitely not a small amount.”

It was just that he didn’t expect that after all his calculations, Lin Xian would be the one to benefit.

With so many supplies, it was enough for 20 people to live for more than three months. And Lin Xian’s side only had 5 people in total, so it could be said that they were extremely rich.

At least for a short period of time, they had no pressure on food and water.

“There’s one more thing…”

Chen Sixuan pointed to the rear of the train with a strange expression. In addition to the four cars, Lin Xian had not noticed the last flatbed car. At this time, when Chen Sixuan mentioned it, he noticed that the more than three-meter-high ‘Iron Guard 3’ military assault armor and the heavy TFV600 twin-barreled tank had been loaded onto the car at some point and placed behind the last two flatbed trailers.

Lin Xian’s expression was shocked. “When did you get this on the car? With a crane?”

This was obviously impossible, because the small crane was electric and could not be used except by Lin Xian. And how could that small crane lift a tank and armor weighing dozens of tons?

“Hmph~”

At this time, a proud snort came. KIKI crossed her arms and jumped off the train, raising her face and saying, “Of course I got it for you. This thing is so heavy, it took a lot of effort.”

Lin Xian was overjoyed. He had been thinking about it. He thought that even if it couldn’t be repaired, it would be a good choice to devour it. Who knew that KIKI had already used her ability to load it onto the car for him.

It seemed that he was right to let this little girl rest in advance last night. It came in handy at a critical moment.

“You have good judgment. I’ll reward you with canned meat today.”

“Who cares about your canned meat?” KIKI said proudly. “You… you just have to help me get that radar system and those computers done today. Oh, and the heating. I was freezing last night…”

“Cold?”

Lin Xian’s gaze swept towards Chen Sixuan. Last night, he had enjoyed a warm nest and had not noticed the severe cold outside.

Chen Sixuan’s face turned red, and she quickly avoided his gaze, stammering, “Yes, it’s a few degrees below zero even during the day now.”

As if in response, as the few of them were talking, a desolate, dry, and cold wind blew past, making people shiver.

The weather was getting colder and colder. The wind and snow were coming, and the low temperature was also a severe test for the survivors.

KIKI and Chen Sixuan found a few suitable clothes from the collected luggage. As for Lin Xian and Lou Ye, perhaps because their bodies had been enhanced by their abilities, they were not so cold.

“By the way, where’s Da Lou?”

Because of Lou Ye’s size, everyone unanimously agreed to call him ‘Da Lou’.

“Brother Xian.” Just as he was speaking, Lou Ye stood up from the distance of the supply pile. In front of him was a motorcycle that he was repairing, which was Lin Xian’s.

“Hey, didn’t I tell you? He’s better at fixing things,” KIKI said to Da Lou with great interest.

Da Lou scratched his head with a simple and honest face, holding a wrench in his hand. “This… I know a little about it too.”

“Really?”

Hearing that Da Lou knew some mechanics, Lin Xian nodded and said with a smile, “Since we’re all on our own here, I’ll be frank.”

After speaking, he turned around and pulled out a thick steel plate from carriage 5 and threw it on the ground.

Then, with a wave of his hand, a mysterious light flashed. The steel plate rose into the air and was quickly rolled into a standard shield shape in the air before falling to the ground.

The other few people were immediately stunned.

Chen Sixuan covered her mouth in surprise. This was the first time Lin Xian had shown his Mechanical Heart ability in front of everyone, besides driving the train…

The Lou siblings’ eyes were surprised, and Lou Shasha even exclaimed, “Wow, Brother Lin, what kind of ability do you have?”

KIKI’s eyes widened and her cheeks puffed up as she watched this scene. It was clear that she was also a little surprised.

Originally, she thought that Lin Xian’s ability was to drive a train. Later, she found that he could create ice and even shoot with his bare hands. But now, seeing him fold a steel plate out of thin air, this ability seemed to be very similar to hers.

Even though she had read all the internal materials of the “Angel Project”, she felt that she couldn’t understand it at all at this time.