Chapter 178 - 173: Carriage Remodeling Complete (Request for Monthly Pass)

Chapter 178: Chapter 173: Carriage Remodeling Complete (Request for Monthly Pass)Outer Armor Electric Blade Device was originated by Lin Xian himself without any blueprint, purely utilizing the principle of the GK03 electric knife. However, with the electrical supply from the nuclear-powered locomotive, he could crudely implement this high-voltage blade device on the armor of the train.

When he had just finished reinstalling the full vehicle armor, Lin Xian had already reserved a grove inlaid with metal and ceramic between the steel plate’s flaps and side panels in advance. Now he just needed to make the body armor blade, embed it, and then connect the discharge module.

It seemed simple, but Lin Xian thought the effect and power shouldn’t be far off. If the electric knife could sever the defensive skin of the types akin to Tang Hai, an Evolution Level human ghost, it should definitely tear off a layer of skin when an Abnormal Body crashes into it.

Screech! Screech! Screech!

Silver electric blades, measuring ten centimeters wide and several meters long, were crafted by Lin Xian section by section. After being embedded and fixed, with the help of a few companions, it took him more than an hour, sweating profusely, to finally complete the installation.

Hiss~

The automatic doors opened, and KIKI emerged excitedly. Seeing Lin Xian still busy, she couldn’t help but say,

"Wow, tough work for our busy bee."

"I was the only one resting in the high-altitude corridor while none of you slept, of course, I’m more energized than you."

Lin Xian said to KIKI after finishing the installation.



KIKI looked at the long blades that Lin Xian had installed and nodded happily: "Is this the electric blade device you mentioned yesterday? You really managed to pull it off."

Lin Xian advised, "Just test the retraction, don’t electrify it."

"Got it~"

KIKI returned to Carriage 2, operated the system, and in an instant, a hidden motor sound rang. On the side wing panels of ’Infinity’, a circle of silver blades slowly extended out, emitting a chilling glow that made one’s spine tingle.

Lin Xian, seeing this, was quite satisfied: "Not bad, although simple, cold weapons could potentially have extraordinary effects at critical moments."

[Congratulations, Mechanical Manufacturing has successfully upgraded to level 3.]

The light screen flashed. Lin Xian took a deep breath, checked the time, and it was already 4 PM. He lifted his eyes to see the thirty or so vehicles of the Fireline Fleet neatly parked by the roadside, their goods having already been emptied by Shu Qin’s team.

"Let’s handle these cars first."

If they encounter trouble after nightfall and none of these dozens of cars can be moved, it will all be a complete waste. Since the train mainly consists of passenger carriages and doesn’t have the type of flatbed trailers as before, and it wouldn’t be of much use to take so many cars, it might be better to decompose them into materials.

Thus, Lin Xian took a bottle of water from inside the car, gulped down a few mouthfuls, and without stopping, started devouring the cars.

Apart from a heavy truck that was driven away, there was one left; Lin Xian walked to its side and directly started from the largest heavy truck to devour it.

[Devouring Progress: 1%]

The screen appeared, Lin Xian estimated the time and realized it would take less than 20 minutes to complete the devouring of this heavy truck. Actually, his Mechanical Devouring had already reached level 3 back at Yuchi, and from running from Daluo Mountain No. 9 Underground City to Yu Bei, he only devoured his own orbit-star 7F electric-powered locomotive once, so there wasn’t much progress in devouring levels.

[Devouring Success, Mechanical Source Point +20, Mechanical Devouring Skill Proficiency +10, Additional Reward: Strength 2]

[Decomposition: Obtained High Manganese Steel*10, Hot Rolled Forging Steel*10, Cold Rolled Duplex Steel Plate*5, ordinary carbon steel*20, Non-metallic foam material, Non-metallic composite materials...]

"Phew~"

"One modified heavy truck only added 20 Mechanical Source Points, it looks similar to the previous dump trucks, except the engine doesn’t have too advanced mechanical structures."

Without hesitation, except for keeping two well-conditioned armored SUVs, all the other vehicles were devoured by Lin Xian one by one, each taking about 5 minutes, some even faster.

As the sun was about to set, Lin Xian had completely devoured all thirty vehicles, leaving the highway empty, with only bloodstains and tire tracks remaining.

At this moment, Lin Xian opened his Mechanical Heart panel.

[Current Mechanical Heart Level LV.3 (565/5000)]

Strength Level: 3[30%](Burst 300kg)

Speed Level: 2[40%](Limit 13m/s)

Defense Level: 2[26%](Iron Bone)

[Mechanical Awakening]: Mechanic

[Awakening Skills]: Re


"Speaking of which, devouring cars seems to have never yielded any skills?"

Lin Xian looked at his panel with a slight frown: "The Wind Cannon is already maxed out. I’m running out of tactics. It looks like I need to speed up the progression in mechanical combat."

At this moment, with night approaching, the external assembly work of the train was nearly finished. Many hands make light work, and his Mechanical superpower made the retrofitting extraordinarily efficient.

Currently, armor panels and Sentinel Monitoring systems for the 12 carriages, electric blade armor, automatic explosion-proof doors of the No. 11 and No. 5 carriages, and the rooftop lifting platforms for the No. 5 and No. 2 carriages have all been installed. Only the internal water and oxygen circulation pipelines were still in progress, and many team members in the living carriages were still busy organizing their little havens.

Besides that, the remaining tasks were the machine gun turrets on the roof, the Close-in Weapon System of No. 12 carriage, the PX-05 robots, and a couple of intercity train locomotives and several material carriages that were being towed by Infinity.

However, Lin Xian planned to conduct all these tasks on the train, prioritizing safety.

Beep beep, beep beep.

The alert sound from the watch rang out. Lin Xian sighed heavily and wiped the sweat from his face, then promptly gathered everyone to board the train.

Nightfall is imminent!

Shhh~

The heavy cabin doors, along with the automatic explosion-proof doors of No. 5 and No. 11, slowly closed as people inside the train bustled about, all waiting for the night to descend.

"Good work."

Inside the driving cabin, Chen Sixuan saw Lin Xian entering and immediately said, "This should be our first night entering Yunjiang Plain."

Whoo~

Lin Xian started the train and nodded: "It will get light earlier, I just hope we encounter fewer troubles tonight."



"Do you plan to reach Hengshan Pass tonight?"

"Yes, that’s a major transfer station with many branches. We don’t need to change routes. If the situation is clear, we can rest there. The armory hasn’t been set up yet, I’m still a bit uneasy." Lin Xian looked at Chen Sixuan, "Transfer stations like this should have plenty of trains, supplies, and machinery. We have enough people now; we should collect what we should, since it’s hard to find food in the wild."

Chen Sixuan nodded. As the train gradually picked up speed, she spoke, "What do you think about the group hunting effect that Zhou Yixuan mentioned during the day?"

"It’s possible; I had similar guesses before." Lin Xian sighed heavily and sat in the driver’s seat, looking at the increasingly dark sky and said, "Before we went into Daluo Mountain, I never had such thoughts. I just felt that the appearance of the Abnormal Bodies in the night is too abrupt, as if the night is some kind of overlap of spaces. The moment it turns night, they suddenly appear. Even more, they might be observing us from a higher dimension during the day, but we can’t see them..."

Lin Xian couldn’t stop thinking about this after he unexpectedly saw that Fallen Demon at frequency 1542.

These Abnormal Bodies didn’t seem to emerge from some nests. If one must speak of nests, the Star Abyss conducting the Dark Tide might be it.

Chen Sixuan was surprised by his ideas and frowned, "If that’s the case, it’s terrifying."

"Could it be simply because Yu Bei City gathered a lot of people, so it triggered many attacks from Abnormal Bodies, or could it be that these Abnormal Bodies were hunters who had been chasing those Survivor Caravans, just that they all came out during the night after entering Yu Bei City?"

Lin Xian shrugged, "After entering Yu Bei Airport, I thought I was wrong. After all, so many survivors gathered together after nightfall, yet those Abnormal Bodies didn’t directly appear at the airport. However, now that they mention this group hunting effect, I’m starting to think it might explain it."

"If that’s the case..." Chen Sixuan took a deep breath, her eyes fixed on the time on the train screen, only a few minutes until darkness.

She then looked down the long corridor behind the train and said, "Now that we’ve expanded the team, the danger..."

"Will also soon escalate."