Chapter 1379: Chapter 535: Kunlun City
Lin Xian looked at the shelter he had once lived in. It was still the same as in his memory, and he couldn’t help feeling a little emotional.
"You know, when I was here, it was when I felt safest. Every night I could get a few hours of sleep, and all kinds of defenses were done pretty well."
"That’s because you never ran into an Abnormal Body."
"No shit." Lin Xian laughed. "If I had, you think I’d still be alive?"
Back when he was fleeing Jiang City, Lin Xian remembered that at the furniture mall he ran into his first Abnormal Body—a giant white monster that nearly scared his soul out of his body. At that time it was just a regular C-level Abnormal Body, yet it still chased Lin Xian and Teacher Chen into a panicked retreat. If not for the steel plates on the train protecting them, they might have died before even making it out of Jiang City.
After speaking, he looked at Chu Yan, his expression turning grave, and asked, "How much time do we have left?"
Chu Yan shook her head. "I don’t know."
Lin Xian felt something was off. "The High Tower Civilization’s dimensional ascension zone has already reached the Polar region. You’re saying we can’t know the timing?"
"Once you wake up, you’ll understand."
Chu Yan spoke at this moment. "The current situation... is not quite what we imagined."
Hearing this, Lin Xian’s face changed. His gaze swept across the shelter room from his memories, and he turned to ask Chu Yan,
"Did something happen?"
Chu Yan stayed silent. After a long while, she looked at Lin Xian and slowly said,
"Lin Xian, I’ll always believe in you."
The overlapping shadows and sunset light fell across her face, hazy yet clear.
...
Lin Xian woke up. He opened his eyes, and what first entered his sight was a spacious, bright room.
The room’s color tone was white. It looked like some kind of luxury cabin on a Starship. All kinds of decorations followed a sleek, tech-inspired minimalism, with clean lines and a floor so spotless it was like white jade.
Sunlight spilled through the window onto the floor, reflecting a warm glow.
He slowly sat up. His joints popped with a stiff cracking sound. Though he seemed to be the only person in the room, his Mechanical superpower immediately scanned 27 concealed surveillance devices, their lenses turning silently to follow his movements as he rose.
The air carried a faint plant-like fragrance, some kind of aromatherapy scent. Lin Xian looked around, then got up and walked to the bathroom.
In the mirror, part of the hair on both sides of the back of his head had been shaved off, as if he had undergone an emergency brain nerve repair surgery. Lin Xian raised a hand to touch it; the instant he did, a sharp sting flared, and then a brain-twisting, tearing pain made his vision spin, almost knocking him off his feet.
Huff, huff...
Bracing himself on the sink, he gasped for air, trying to steady his mind. Lin Xian looked at himself in the mirror as the scene of the sky’s dimension being torn open flickered again and again in his head.
"Looks like using a mass transfer that big was way beyond what I can handle. If I want to use that method to move the entire train in, I’d be betting my life... and even then, I’m not sure it would work..."
Rubbing his throbbing head, Lin Xian walked to the balcony. But as the automatic door slid open, the sight outside made him freeze for a second.
In his field of vision lay a gigantic ring-shaped world built atop the Polar ice cap. That colossal ring structure rose at least a thousand meters high, taller than ten Dawn City walls stacked together, like a massive hoop cast down by a Heavenly God to lock the continent in place.
The ring-like mega-wall was like a gigantic Creation on the planet, extending all the way to the horizon.
Below, dense automated facilities sprawled across the plains beside the ice mountains and Polar ice lakes, with countless Flying Devices weaving through them.
Lin Xian’s expression was one of shock. He immediately took out a drone and sent it up into the sky, then linked into its feed. What he saw next hit him like a tidal wave.
This thousand-meter mega-wall ran across the whole planet like a mechanical spine, and outside the wall was a vast, black mass of Monster Tide—endless Abnormal Bodies!
When Lin Xian looked northward, at the center of the Polar ice cap a massive Starship giant tower rose straight into the sky, and from its top hung an enormous space elevator stretching up into the Sky Veil, a sight of overwhelming grandeur!
"So this is... Polar Kunlun City?"
Staring at this miracle of the apocalypse that had thrust itself up from the earth, Lin Xian was once again shaken by human creativity. It was hard to imagine how, in such a short time, humanity had found the strength to build such a shelter on the Polar ice.
It seemed there was a good reason everyone had been trying to flee to the Polar region. The Phoenix Society really had turned this place into a safe harbor.
After all, this was built by gathering the last tens of millions of human elites and resources, the joint masterpiece of millions of interstellar army soldiers, Kehua Heavy Industry, and countless engineers.
Seeing all this, Lin Xian couldn’t help but sigh.
What a pity. If they hadn’t learned that the High Tower Civilization was planning to reshape the entire planet’s dimension, living in a place like this would have given a person an overwhelming sense of security.
"Thinking it’s a shame that a city this spectacular can’t end up as our final safe shelter?"
A booming voice sounded. Lin Xian turned his head to see an elderly man in a Zhongshan suit who had somehow entered the room without his notice, with two guards following behind.
The old man’s face was lined with faint wrinkles. His silver hair was bristling and vigorous, his hawk-like eyes sharp and bright, carrying a sword-like edge that made it impossible to see him as some harmless elder.
The old man waved his hand, and the two guards withdrew at once.
Lin Xian looked at the old man and asked in confusion, "You are?"
"Li Heping."
Elder Li regarded Lin Xian with a calm, faint smile in his eyes. "The closest I’ve been to you, aside from now, was probably when you were in Dawn City."
