Chapter 1373: Chapter 532: Rope Ladder
The train sped along at high speed, and Chen Sixuan stood in the aisle of the carriage, clearly feeling the ground undulating!
It wasn’t the kind of earthquake-like undulation, but each vibration carried an eerie delay, as if the train was traveling on some kind of softened surface.
Next, the Joint Train raced at over a hundred kilometers per hour on the aging, frozen tracks for more than ten hours. Everyone thought the situation would improve, but the chaotic magnetic field and gravity only worsened.
In the main bridges of the air fleets, the alarms on the instruments blared non-stop, and the fleets quickly ascended in altitude to prevent the erratic gravitational field from causing them to suddenly drop and crash into the ground.
Meanwhile, as the mist thinned, more and more Abnormal Bodies began attacking the train units, and the trail was filled with sounds of gunfire that lasted for a day and night.
In front of the Infinity, Lin Xian’s drone array moved like a formidable mechanical army, operating at full power to inspect and repair the tracks.
After speeding through the night, he noticed that the number of floating objects around him increased significantly.
Fragmented city debris, earth stones, rotting corpses, and withered plants filled the sky with increasing obstructions, while the mist on the ground kicked up a water curtain, making the train seem to be charging through an inverted rainstorm.
"If this continues, the train will start floating!"
"How much further?!"
"At least another day! We’re currently inside the Amazon Plain!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Fist-sized stones pelted down like hail on the armored front of the Infinity, as Sha Sha clung tightly to a handrail and shouted nervously,
"Why does it feel like we’re rushing into a storm?!"
"It’s not a storm!" Shu Qin ran quickly through the passageway: "The ground is floating!"
Sha Sha looked out the window to see the distorted Amazon outside!
The once-sky-enveloping rainforest now had only skeletal branches, gray snow entwined with dust swirling into vortices in the chaotic gravitational currents, and the fractured tracks hung in the air like dying giant pythons, lifted segment by segment, only to be violently forced back to the ground by Lin Xian’s drones and the two-hundred-ton Giant Whale 03E gas turbine locomotive.
"The canyon ahead is collapsing!"
In the cockpit, KIKI’s voice was drowned out by the sound of metal being struck.
Blue light from the Mechanical Heart flashed brilliantly in Lin Xian’s eyes, as the drone swarm ejected from the top of the carriage, temporarily laying out new rail sections and then changing direction.
"The Electromagnetic Guns have failed, retract them all."
Luo Yang rushed into car No. 2, and all firepower defenses had become ineffective due to the overwhelming sand and chaotic magnetic fields. As per the command center’s instructions, all train defensive weapons were retracted to avoid being damaged by the high-speed incoming boulders or debris.
Countless types of zombies floated in the air; many crawled along with the drifting dust and deadwood toward the train, and various types of zombies clung to the outsides of many train carriages.
"Ignore them, they’re not much of a threat!"
On Dragon Mountain No.1, all windows of the double-deck carriage were lowered with internal grilles, and the train now solely relied on armor defense.
Just as Ning Jing finished speaking, a screeching sound of nails scraping steel plates echoed from above the carriage.
Hundreds of zombies hung upside down from the bottoms of airborne boulders, their rotting leg bones wedged in stone cracks, their upper bodies lunging madly forward, with claws constantly scratching the car rooftops.
"Everyone, hold on tight!"
Lin Xian’s voice flickered through the communication channels.
On the Silver Star, Jian Xuwei suddenly saw the Infinity ahead begin to tilt, not because the train was tipping over, but because the entire ground, along with the tracks, rippled like waves. The once-sturdy frozen ground sank like quicksand, and the rails stretched like noodles.
"Ah!!!"
Screams echoed through the rear living quarters, as the entire Joint Train shook like a roller coaster.
A strong sense of weightlessness surged wave after wave.
Rumbling, at this moment in the sky, the Sky Dome Train and Silent City roared as their thrusters accelerated upwards, while the trains on the ground seemed to ride atop massive waves.
Magnetic and gravitational changes intensified, and large amounts of deadwood floated in the air while low-altitude regions were filled with splintered wood and stone debris, blocking the sky like a "dense fog" made of timber and earth stones, which obstructed and shielded the train’s weapons. Various stones clinked against the armor, as the train sped through this dusty scene, with tracks floating up only to be pressed down again by the train.
"Damn it, we’ve completely lost contact with the Air Fleet!"
At this, Chu Yan spoke up: "They should be accelerating towards Ushuaia as per our previous discussion."
"What do we do, Lin Xian?" KIKI urgently asked Lin Xian while continuously using Telekinesis Waves to clear the various obstacles ahead of the train.
Lin Xian observed the inversion of earth and dust ahead, his expression growing sterner: "For now, we can only rely on ourselves; this isn’t something firepower can solve."
With the chaos in gravity and magnetic fields, threats in the air posed even greater danger to them, as they faced potential crashes without accelerating quickly.
But things weren’t any easier for the Joint Train group; only the near-supernatural abilities of Lin Xian and KIKI, coupled with their drone army, allowed them to maintain their progress, preventing a derailment.
"At least three thousand kilometers remain; at this speed, we’ll never make it in time!"
Chu Yan stated at this moment.
"Even if we can’t make it, we’ll fly there!"
Lin Xian handed over control to Chu Yan and KIKI, and then urgently said to Viola: "Viola, calculate the feasibility of all trains using the Starry Sky Propeller to take off; how many units do we need to manufacture?!"
