Chapter 1376: Chapter 533: World Disintegration_2
As soon as she finished speaking, dozens of Power Armor warriors on the holographic map were smashed and sent flying by the wall of an entire floating Da Lou.
Dragon Mountain No.1 was in the worst situation; because it was a double-deck train, many people had fallen down, countless pieces of debris were flying around inside the cars, and Ning Jing shot through the carriage and hung in midair, catching a falling teenager with her bare hands.
"Hold on tight!"
Then she opened the hatch and stepped onto the roof. At this moment, more than half of Dragon Mountain No.1’s combat personnel had all moved outside the train, and some Power Armor users without propulsion had steel cables directly tied to their bodies as they fought in the open.
On Utopia’s side, the defense was even denser; people were constantly being knocked away by boulders, there were casualties, and everyone was putting everything into protecting the train.
There was still half an hour left!
Rumble—!
Heaven and earth quaked, the atmosphere was escaping, surface air pressure kept plummeting, and the water vapor in the air was shooting upward at high speed.
Countless survivors now saw auroras flashing across the sky, the earth cracking open, high-pressure gas jetting toward the heavens, and blazing red magma starting to burst through the surface!
Inside the cars, oxygen deprivation began as the heart’s pumping pressure became insufficient; surface oxygen content started to drop sharply, and the crust was heaving upward like a tsunami.
"Sean!"
On Utopia, Marcus, who was fighting outside the car, suddenly stopped what he was doing, staring in horror toward the west.
Sean and the core members all turned to look as well.
"What is that?"
As the atmosphere escaped and the air thinned, visibility now reached the stars above, and at this moment, far away to the east and west of the train, everyone could see a grayish-white curtain of sky blasting straight into the firmament, blotting out the sun.
The scale of it was like a boiling ten‑kilometer storm, forming some kind of gigantic floating ring-shaped belt.
Marcus’s expression froze in terror, his voice trembling as he said,
"It’s... it’s the ocean..."
"The seas have broken free of gravity and are floating into the sky, forming a gigantic ring of water droplets encircling Blue Star!!" Jian Xuwei’s voice exploded through the comms.
Tens of thousands of survivors fighting outside the cars all stared in horror at this inverted world; the comm channel was filled with panicked breathing.
"Is the planet going to break apart?!"
"The ocean... is in the sky!!"
Lin Xian looked outside; the world was disintegrating!
The hundred‑kilometer‑long Joint Train was like an insignificant line of iron boiling atop the rupturing earth, swaying in the storm.
The next moment, Lin Xian, Chu Yan, Chen Sixuan, and KIKI all saw the ground ahead heaving rapidly upward, a gigantic "mountain peak" rising straight out of the earth for thousands of meters.
And the fragile rails ahead were completely torn off, twisting crookedly toward the sky.
"We’re out of time!" Lin Xian clenched his teeth hard. "We do it now!"
"I’ll stabilize the train for takeoff!" KIKI suddenly flung open the door and flew straight out. Whoosh—a powerful Telekinesis Wave roared forth, blasting open a straight vacuum corridor ahead.
Chu Yan’s eyes flashed with surges of spiritual power, a fierce impact slamming into Lin Xian’s mind.
"Go!"
Lin Xian turned back to Chen Sixuan. "Accelerate!"
"Accelerate!"
"Accelerate!" On Silver Star, Jian Xuwei answered without hesitation.
"Accelerate!!" Shi Deyuan shoved all power valves to maximum.
"Accelerate!" Sean barked the order.
In an instant, as the Mechanical Heart responded, all 60 power units at the rear of the Joint Train erupted; whether electric locomotives or gas‑powered locomotives, every engine roared to the limit in that moment!
Woooo!!
Dozens of Nuclear Power Cores dumped their Energy, all the power units howling wildly, spinning the train’s wheels at insane speed.
Sparks shredded metal; the Joint Train surged with its last reserves of power!
On Infinity, Lin Xian raised a hand and pointed; a massive Mechanical Space Gate snapped open, and in a heartbeat, dense mechanical arms rippled along the edge of the portal as a silver, interlocking double‑track rail shot out, locking directly onto the broken rails atop the canyon ahead.
Bang!
Infinity, racing at high speed, began frenzied acceleration along the ever‑steepening "ground" as the heaving earth tilted upward.
The next second, Lin Xian triggered Energy Transition, blinking several kilometers away, dragging the Mechanical Space Gate straight up into the sky!
Seeing this, Chen Sixuan’s face changed instantly.
"Lin Xian!"
"He’s going to pull the track himself?!" Chu Yan had never imagined this. She’d thought Lin Xian would deploy the Drone Swarm as a tow, but he was actually using the Black Star Forge’s Mechanical Gate as the towline!
"Ah!!"
Lin Xian roared within the raging shockwaves, the glow of the Mechanical Heart flashing before his eyes.
Just two hours ago, his Mechanical Heart had broken through to Level 8 thanks to the Heterogeneous Rubik’s Cube’s Energy conversion.
And this time, he hadn’t gained a Skill, but instead taken control of the Black Star’s Mechanical Gate!
So the first thing Lin Xian thought of was to fully open the Mechanical Gate and perform high-altitude towing.
In other words, he was using the Black Star Body to drag the entire track!
Scrreee—scrreee—scrreee—scrreee—scrreee—scrreee!
Infinity, hauling the iron dragon, climbed all the way up, spewing sparks and Lightning as it blasted through a thousand layers of superheated air currents onto the crest of the rising canyon, then, with a ringing clang of metal, shot straight into the sky!
Whooosh!!
Time seemed to freeze in that instant.
The heavy rail train, relying only on two suspended tracks, soared into the heavens like a leaping dragon!
In this moment, millions of people were weightless; on Infinity, Da Lou, Brother Huo, Shu Qin, Miao Lu, Lv Chang, Sun Yuzhen, Xiao Yuan, Sha Sha, KIKI, and the others all turned their heads to look forward.
The train was rising!
The ground was sinking!
Screeech!!!
A violent metallic tugging shriek rippled through every car in turn, bursting into sharp detonations.
In just a few seconds, the Silver Star at the rear, under Jian Xuwei’s tense gaze, followed like a silver blade, thrusting straight into the sky!
Then came Dragon Mountain No.1...
However, before the train could punch through the floating belt of sand and rock in the sky, the locomotive section of the entire rail convoy was already screaming with ear‑splitting metal‑tearing sounds, sparks detonating nonstop.
"No, it can’t take this, the train’s going to snap!" Shu Qin clutched the edge of a car, staring at the severely warped coupler, and shouted on the spot.
"We made the jump too early, gravity is still too strong right now!"
Ning Jing smashed a flying boulder with a single punch and shouted,
"What do we do?!"
"Hold it!" KIKI dove from the sky, using all her strength to grab the rear cars one by one.
"Your savior is here!"
Brother Huo rushed in to help as well, but in a situation like this his abilities were hardly useful; he could only help clear the drifting debris.
In the sky, large numbers of drones flew in; under Viola’s precise control, they began latching onto the rear cars, trying to stabilize them.
But as the train shot higher and higher, more and more of it hung suspended, the load growing heavier; this kind of relief barely made a dent in the problem.
According to Viola’s calculations, they still needed about twenty more minutes; even though Lin Xian had reinforced the cars at the front, if the ordinary cars in the back broke off, everything would be for nothing!
Five hundred cars, six hundred, seven hundred!
In a little over ten minutes, the train soaring into the sky became a straight beam of light above the boiling, collapsing earth, climbing without pause.
At the same time, the metal’s strength had reached its limit; let alone the couplers, even some of the cars themselves were being torn and warped, cracks opening up!
Shi Deyuan took on a tiger’s form, clamping one key car on each side; even his metal Armor was being pulled out of shape, yet against such a colossal climbing force, his effort was a drop in the bucket.
"It’s going to break!!"
Back on the ground, Utopia thundered forward, watching the train line in the sky already sagging under gravity’s pull, and their faces darkened:
"It’s still too forced, this plan just won’t—"
At that moment, a shrill burst of electromagnetic noise ripped through the public comms channel shared by millions, followed by Lin Xian’s near‑frenzied roar!
"All of you, hold on for dear life!!"
"What?!" Sean and the others jolted; before anyone could react, they suddenly felt a violent shockwave crashing down from the sky above!
BOOM!!!!
"What is that?!"
