Chapter 88: Atmospheric Cloud Mother (2nd Update, Asking for Monthly Tickets)

“Ah!”

The immense dragging force caused the entire train to slide forward violently. Terrifying sounds came from the roof and sides, and Chen Sixuan lost her footing, falling to her knees.

She looked at the dark shadows outside the window, her mind instantly going blank with fear.

But the flashing lights overhead quickly pulled her back to her senses.

Lin Xian! Lin Xian!

Save Lin Xian!

Chen Sixuan bit her lip hard and sat up from the floor.

She stared intently at the lights, constantly repeating under her breath.

“One short, one long, A.”

“Two long, M.”

“Two long, three short, 7.”

“AM7… AM7? What does that mean?” Chen Sixuan’s lips were dry, and her heart was pounding violently. She suddenly looked at the radio on the sofa, and her eyes widened.

“AM07, it’s a frequency! I get it!!”

Just as she stood up, boom!

A giant tentacle slid past the side of the train with a heavy thud, nearly flipping the entire train over. Chen Sixuan lost her balance again and fell to the floor.

She ignored the pain and stubbornly climbed back up, turned on the radio, and adjusted the frequency to AM07.

…

On the other side, Lin Xian looked at the radio with a grave expression.

He had already adjusted the frequency to AM07 in advance and had been waiting for Teacher Chen’s action.

But he waited for a long time, and there was still no response.

“What’s going on? Did I guess wrong?”

“That shouldn’t be right…”

Lin Xian looked at the radio in his hand, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

His Mechanical Heart could sense the entire train shaking violently, but where he was, nothing was happening.

“The 1542 anomaly radio. Why did we encounter it?”

“But… you have to be careful. Using this thing, you won’t just receive signals from people…”

He suddenly remembered what Jiang Yun had said.

“Right, the Anomaly Blood Essence. This is the thing that can open the dark radio.”

Lin Xian’s heart sank. He had triggered this terrifying frequency only after he had installed that Anomaly Blood Essence on the radio.

He suddenly remembered, hadn’t he taken that Anomaly Blood Essence off?

Lin Xian took a deep breath and immediately began to search everywhere.

“I clearly remember holding it in my hand at the time. This thing must be on me.”

But he couldn’t remember at all. From the moment he entered this strange frequency, he had completely forgotten that he had an Anomaly Blood Essence in his hand.

“On the sofa… no.”

“On the floor?”

Lin Xian was very anxious. He turned on the light and began to search on his hands and knees.

That blood-red bead shouldn’t be hard to find.

“Where is it?”

He was hunched over, his face grave, searching inch by inch.

As Lin Xian searched all over the floor, a pair of pale white feet suddenly appeared in his line of sight. He looked up and saw it was the headless female ghost in the three-point bikini.

“Get out of the way!”

Lin Xian pushed her aside, and the female ghost moved a step to the side.

“Hey, wait.”

Lin Xian shot up, his gaze falling on the red clothes on the floor, then the three-point bikini on the female ghost. Then he looked at the head in the corner, their eyes meeting.

After a long moment, Lin Xian frowned and slowly spoke.

“Why are you dressed all in red?”

As soon as he said this, the expression on the female ghost’s face suddenly changed. The entire head flew up, opened its fangs, and lunged at Lin Xian to bite him.

Smack!

Lin Xian raised his hand and caught her head in mid-air.

“Oh, I get it. No wonder I heard the sound of glass marbles…”

“So it was you…”

The female ghost’s expression turned to terror. The lights in the entire train began to flicker violently. Lin Xian’s eyes narrowed. He held the female ghost’s head with both hands and then squeezed hard!

Crack crack!

The head was quickly crushed by his grip. A cloud of red mist was released and then gathered again. Lin Xian felt a brief hallucination flash before his eyes.

When he blinked again, there was a red bead in his hand.

The Anomaly Blood Essence!

“Trapping me with my own train, trying to kill me with my own blade, and even taking my things to turn into a ghost to scare me. What mental torture…”

Lin Xian’s expression changed slightly. He directly picked up the radio and installed the Anomaly Blood Essence on it.

Click!

In an instant, the surrounding scenery rapidly contracted. Lin Xian only felt a flash before his eyes.

Then.

Boom!

A huge impact made him stagger, his eardrums ringing.

“Lin Xian!”

Before he could react, Teacher Chen threw herself into his arms. At the same time, the entire train nearly tipped over.

“Teacher Chen, be careful!”

Lin Xian reflexively pushed Chen Sixuan down, shielding her with his body.

The Infinity felt as if it had been swallowed by some monster. Intense scraping sounds came from all directions.

Boom boom boom!!

Thump thump thump thump!

The tremendous noise tormented everyone’s eardrums. After an unknown amount of time, the terrifying sound finally disappeared.

“What on earth was that thing…”

Chen Sixuan got up, her face filled with lingering fear. She was completely limp now, leaning against Lin Xian with no strength left.

Lin Xian supported her as they walked into the cockpit. They saw that the sides of the entire track had been completely flattened, leaving behind countless long, trench-like gouges!

And the track for several hundred meters ahead was almost completely destroyed.

The devastating scene was incredibly heart-stopping!

“Lin Xian, look!”

Chen Sixuan raised her gaze and saw a sight that made her suck in a cold breath.

In the sky ahead of the train, a giant, island-sized jellyfish was slowly swimming above the valley. It looked like a spectacle from a fantasy, making one’s scalp tingle.

Lin Xian was completely shocked. The awe this thing inspired in him was almost comparable to the floating giant corpse he had seen in the black fog!

Just how many unknown horrors did this night hold?

Shasha, Dalou, and Kiki only just got up and ran to Car 1.

“Brother Lin… Ah!?” Shasha hadn’t even recovered from the surprise of seeing Lin Xian when she saw the giant anomaly and immediately cried out in alarm.

Even the usually taciturn Lou Ye’s face changed drastically at the sight of this spectacular giant monster.

Kiki walked up at this moment, her eyes wide with surprise. “Atmospheric… Cloud Mother?”

This kind of spectacular creature was very much like something out of old interstellar horror literature.

“This thing… how are we supposed to shoot it with a gun?” Shasha’s face was full of disbelief.

Lin Xian looked at the surrounding scene, his face dark.

“We’re already lucky we weren’t swallowed by it.”

Everyone watched with lingering fear as the giant, strange shadow slowly disappeared into the dark night. After a while, they finally breathed a sigh of relief from the immense pressure.

“It’s gone…”

“My god, that was terrifying…” Chen Sixuan said.

Shasha came to her senses and looked at Lin Xian and Kiki. “Brother Lin, you’re finally back! Where on earth did you go? And Sister Kiki, one of you was in a coma and the other was missing. You really scared us to death.”

Lin Xian glanced at Kiki, who just grinned at him.

“It’s a long story. Wait a minute, let’s first assess our current situation.”

“Dalou, come with me to check the damage to the train and see if we can repair the track. Chick…” Lin Xian looked at Kiki. “Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere else?”

Kiki shook her head, her hands on her hips. “Reporting to the Train Master, this chick is full of energy right now.”

Lin Xian looked at her, feeling that the chick’s attitude toward him seemed to have changed a lot.

He gave Kiki a meaningful look and said to her, “Alright, you use the drone to check the surrounding situation.”

“Shasha, you stand guard.”

“What about me?” Chen Sixuan also spoke up.

Lin Xian saw her exhausted face. “You rest for a bit first. If we confirm we’re out of danger, once I fix the track, we’ll enter the Great Luo Mountain southern line. We’re still waiting for you to drive.”

Chen Sixuan shook her head and said, “It’s snowing heavily outside. I’ll make something to eat. Kiki just woke up, her body probably hasn’t recovered yet.”

“That’s right,” Kiki said at this moment. “Aren’t you worried that thing is still in the sky up ahead?”

Lin Xian thought that made sense and nodded. “That’s true. Let’s rest for a while longer and set off at dawn.”