Chapter 70 - 66: Preparing to Enter the Station

Chapter 70: Chapter 66: Preparing to Enter the Station"Building, has your superpower changed in any way?"

"It seems..." Building scratched his head, speaking in a simple and honest manner, "It feels like my strength has increased, and my spirit is higher too."

Lin Xian’s expression turned suspicious.

"When did it happen, while we were on the car roof?"

"No, it was when I was chopping up that monster’s corpse looking for beads, I felt I absorbed a very fishy blood energy..."

Lin Xian frowned upon hearing this.

Blood energy?

Both KIKI and Jiang Yun had mentioned before that the superpower users who perform Monster Shape Multiplication could directly absorb the flesh and blood of other superpower users or Abnormal Bodies to enhance themselves.

And after that White Giant Monster and Red Worm died, they both emitted black smoke, which then formed Mysterious Blood Essence.

It seems that superpower users like himself and Building could also gain some enhancement by absorbing this kind of black energy.



Even...

He thought about how the White Giant Monster had devoured Tang Hai, and was undergoing rapid changes afterward.

If Lin Xian wasn’t wrong, Tang Hai had already reached the Evolution Level of superpower users.

"Abnormal eating humans, becomes stronger; humans eating Abnormal... can also become stronger."

Lin Xian’s eyes blazed.

"It sounds crappy, but also somewhat fair."

The most troubling issue at the moment is still how to achieve evolution. He guessed that Tang Hai, being a source-level superpower user, despite hardly showing any combat power initially, could dramatically increase in strength after evolving.

However, seeing his neither-human-nor-ghost appearance, he always felt that this might very well be what KIKI described as the appearance of a failed evolution.

"Building, did you and your sister start fleeing after the first extreme night?" With his mind somewhat scrambled, Lin Xian took a deep breath, deciding to stop pondering and started chatting idly with Building.

Building shook his head.

"After the extreme night arrived, our parents died, and we just... ran out."

The siblings started venturing everywhere in a pickup truck. Building, being a superpower user and his sister Sha Sha, though young, was mature and extraordinarily brave and the siblings managed to coordinate well, ultimately escaping from several zombie-infested cities.

About an hour later, the "Infinity" slowly entered Yuchi Station, which was a small station with a not-so-large waiting hall.

On a siding inside the platform, there was also a freight train parked.

Lin Xian said, "I’ll go down with Building first to explore, you and Sha Sha stay on the train."

Lin Xian had already made a Soul Swinging Value Detector following Jiang Yun’s blueprint, but currently lacking Mysterious Blood Essence, he could only rely on manual efforts and radar for scouting danger.

The cockpit door opened, and Lin Xian, followed by Building, got off the train with their guns.

The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, used flashlights to examine the freight train blocking their path, only to find that it was just a minecart without a locomotive.

The old compartment was empty, devoid of useful items.

"Perfect timing." Lin Xian looked at this bunch of around twenty segments, thinking that he was just concerned about not having enough steel material for upgrading the armor on the car roof.


It turned out there was ready-to-use material right here.



"Building," Lin Xian pointed at a few zombies wandering around the platform, "clean them up."

"Okay."

The building nodded, it was now night, and to avoid trouble, he didn’t carry a gun but leapt onto the platform with his Steel-cutting Greatsword. Within fifteen minutes, the entire Yuchi Platform had quieted down.

"The noise is sure to grow larger."

Lin Xian boarded car number 5, brought down the welding and hoisting machines, completed the repairs, and then began using High Manganese Steel to pre-cast the armor for the roof of the car according to its dimensions.

Unlike the grille armor forged from High Hardening Tungsten Steel on the sides, he planned to make the roof fully enclosed, except for the pre-designed exhaust ventilation ducts at the back, hence the use of High Manganese Steel.

This type of steel plate has good toughness and shock absorption abilities, capable of maintaining excellent integrity and performance even under extreme conditions such as high-impact loads and severe wear.

The armored roof was not a carelessly drawn blueprint but was inspired by the surface alien streamline guard panel structure of the heavy-duty TFV600 dual-pipe tank.

This type of guard plate has a double-layer buffer, its sides, and side panels connected together, allowing kinetic energy to be directly transmitted downward to the body while releasing it on the tracks.

It greatly avoids situations where a White Giant Monster might step on the roof, causing it to dent inwards, damaging the air conditioning system.

The only difference is that Lin Xian enlarged the design of these panels to create large 3-meter by 6-meter top structures according to the dimensions of the Infinity carriages, each weighing at least over two tons. Luckily, he didn’t use rolled Tungsten Steel, which would have been even heavier.

With the materials available in Lin Xian’s decomposition space at this time, it was far from enough to cover all 7 carriages of the Infinity, each passenger cabin required at least 4 panels, the electric locomotive needed 10, and the gas locomotive needed 6.

Here, he had to produce 36 giant armored rooftops.

Now Lin Xian’s Mechanical Manufacturing skill had improved, and although producing these simple-structured armor plates was very fast, it still drained his physical strength considerably; each plate took him about 10 minutes to make.

At the same time, when he ran out of materials, he had to stop manufacturing and scavenge for materials from the nearby cargo carriages.

Due to the heavy weight of the armored roofs, Lin Xian and the building had to forge directly on the roof, with Lin Xian covering the top and the building helping with the welding assembly.

Wuu~

Meanwhile, Lin Xian utilized his Mechanical Repair capabilities to repair the damaged air conditioning systems on carriages 5 and 2, and then manufacturing the armored rooftops one by one.

Chen Sixuan and Sha Sha, on the other hand, were using the spray system from the water tank to pull out the hose and start cleaning blood and flesh chunks off the sides and front of Infinity!

Emerging from tens of thousands of zombies, the locomotive and sides of the entire train were almost covered in plasma, flashing a flashlight would reveal a terrifying aura of hell.

Both women wore anti-toxic masks, each spraying one side.

The water in the tank, which was unfiltered rain and snow water, wasn’t connected to the train’s internal recycling system because it was used for the locomotive engine cooling cycle, the water in the tank hadn’t frozen.



Lin Xian planned to scavenge in Yuchi City once the armor was in place, needing a large amount of basic materials like plastic, glass, and fiber to make a water purifier, and carriages 5 and 2 still lacked many living supplies.

"Brother Lin."

On the tracks, Sha Sha, wearing an anti-toxic mask and holding the spray hose, was washing the wheels while breathily saying to Lin Xian,

"There are quite a few bones and stones stuck inside the wheel."

"Clear them out first."

Lin Xian’s face glistened with sweat; manufacturing the armored rooftops continuously drained his energy, he said, "Let’s fix the roof first, and after it gets light when we return from the city, I will add wheel fin protectors to the sides of the car."

"Lin Xian," Teacher Chen on the other side said at this moment,

"In cases like derailment, we can use the Horizon Gate. If you add wheel fin protectors, it’s best to leave some space from the ground."

"I know."

Lin Xian nodded.

Relative to the actual train, wheel fin protectors would be thinner, mainly used to protect the wheels, whereas the Horizon Gate is used to adhere to tracks during high-speed sprints, only the locomotive has this system, carriages 1-5 are too old and do not have it, still risking derailment.

Actually, derailment is a minor issue for the team at the moment compared to broken rails; Lin Xian can manufacture track repairs in non-emergency situations, but what is feared is the full-speed sprint state like last night.