Chapter 734: Chapter 734

Chen Sixuan’s words immediately caught everyone’s attention. Lin Xian’s expression shifted, and he couldn’t help but exclaim, "Smart, Teacher Chen!"

"But this terrain looks very ordinary, comparing it globally won’t be that easy, right?" Li Yi raised a question at this moment.

At this time, Ding Junyi, with hands in pockets, followed into Car No. 2, speaking with a cold expression, "There are many ways to assist in location determination, such as the effect of the Coriolis force, with rivers in the Northern Hemisphere eroding more on the southern bank. Although the trees in this forest are withered, you can still identify them as eucalyptus, plants of the Myrtaceae family, and tall trees. The area with these trees most widely distributed globally are three: North America, Blue Ocean Continent, and... the Hengduan Mountain Range."

"The Hengduan Mountain Range? Luling Grand Forest?!!" Luo Yang’s eyes immediately lit up at the mention: "We are indeed inside Star Abyss No. 5!"

"Then it’s simple!" KIKI immediately understood Chen Sixuan and Ding Junyi’s intention, beginning to backtrack through Sentinel System footage and radar-scanned terrain maps to compare them with the original maps.

"Pay attention to that western mountain range," Lu Xingchen said mysteriously at this moment, arms crossed, "I’ve already noticed that at the break of dawn, there was nothing there."

"I saw it too," Chen Sixuan said at this time, "That definitely isn’t a mountain."

As soon as these words were uttered, the atmosphere inside the car suddenly tightened. Everyone understood the meaning of Chen Sixuan’s words, and Sha Sha quietly pushed open a bit of the light blocker, looking towards the silhouette of the mountain range in the west with a worried face: "That couldn’t be some super monster..."

Lin Xian pressed her head down, saying, "Handled."

The night fell like a pool of stirred liquid asphalt, pouring through the gaps in the tree canopy, soaking the entire forest in sticky darkness, while the sky solidified into an abnormal deep blue. The bay fragments in the sky to the west drifted in the dark hollow, seeming not to resemble the real world anymore.

After more than an hour of comparison by KIKI and others, Lin Xian’s team finally determined their current position. Orıginal content can be found at 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭•𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚•𝕟𝕖𝕥

They were located about 800 kilometers northeast of Star Abyss No. 5 center, at the southwestern corner of the Hengduan Mountain Range, by a swamp lake called Butuo Lake. Upon hearing this name, Lin Xian immediately recalled hearing it in an exploration program which visited this deep-water lake in the primal forest known as ’Bottomless Lake.’

Lin Xian had no idea how the Joint Train appeared in a primal forest at least 4600 kilometers away from Akse Desert, but it confirmed Lao Mo and Hu Lushou’s strange encounter before.

After determining the position, Chen Sixuan located on the map the nearest place with railway tracks.

A mountain city about 85 kilometers from the Joint Fleet position, already engulfed by the Star Abyss since Apocalypse Day.

From there, a track leads directly to Haiqu, about over a thousand kilometers away from Luling.

Standing in front of the information center, Lin Xian looked at the map, his expression somewhat complex. The good news was that 85 kilometers isn’t far, and it’s to the east of Star Abyss, mainly through a forest with terrain not overly rugged, making it possible to build simple tracks to drive the Joint Train into White City.

Now, the Ocean and Parrot teams have already been scattered, with even the captains fallen. Lin Xian instructed Shi Deyuan to allocate these people to other teams and take the original materials, then preparing to absorb these two trains for material consumption. If they can recover materials while moving, it can be resolved materially.

But the bad news is, they cannot break free now. Lin Xian knows about the Heterogeneous Rubik’s Cube’s shielding mechanism, able to block the dark invasive forces but unable to resist the Dark Mark from the Abnormal Body. So they’re safe now due to being in a silent state along with the Heterogeneous Rubik’s Cube isolating the dark invasive forces here, maintaining temporary safety.

But if they start building the tracks, they must actively enter the Dark Forest, creating significant movement, with the speed unable to pick up. Once they’re marked by the Dark Mark, even level one, it’s equivalent to a death sentence within Star Abyss.

Earlier, they frantically assembled a circular track route for emergencies, taking two hours under the premise of dual-direction operation by track machines to set up a dozen kilometers of train routing, and these tracks are very crude, with a substantial portion of the track sinking into un-compacted humus soil, only serving to keep the train from overturning.

So if Lin Xian wants to bring the Infinity and Joint Train out of this forest, one can imagine the difficulty.

In Car No. 2, Lin Xian opened the communicator on the table to discuss with the leaders of other trains. Upon hearing Lin Xian’s words, Shi Deyuan immediately said, "85 kilometers, all deep forest, there’s no way to avoid attacks by the Abnormal Body. This is too difficult; we’d only covered about twenty kilometers in Yijin City with urban hardened surfaces..."

"Captain Lin, can’t your mechanical superpower replace the train’s iron wheels with tracks?" Qian Deli blurted out.

"No, I can’t." Lin Xian responded immediately, "This is more difficult than building tracks."

This notion Lin Xian had thought of, as Queen Mo and Dragon Mountain No.1 both have all-terrain drive modules, he had scanned the blueprints long ago, but the problem is, manufacturing the all-terrain drive modules is almost equivalent to rebuilding the train.