Chapter 749: Chapter 749
[Grace received, now preparing to enter the White City area]
"Are you still preparing the plan for laying tracks?" KIKI asked Lin Xian at this moment.
"There’s no other plan." Lin Xian said sternly, "The terrain map from Grace’s reconnaissance is basically consistent with the original region’s terrain map, and now White City’s location is confirmed, so the direction and positioning are definitely correct."
He took out a mobile terminal and opened the terrain map of this forested mountain range, saying, "Looking at it this way, we need to do a full-front restructuring, using a dual approach, abandoning some carriages to gather people together, and then having some people use automotive vehicles, covered by the train’s firepower. This way, we can greatly reduce the train’s length, and thus reduce the pressure on the track issues somewhat."
Chen Sixuan immediately said, "But this can only solve the length issue. We still have to build bridges when encountering water and roads through mountains. Besides us Superpower Users, all convoy engineer groups and construction machinery need to be dispatched."
Lin Xian gravely nodded, "So we can only give it our all, and we must wait for Grace’s reconnaissance. If the White City’s tracks don’t work, then we can only drag the boxes."
The so-called dragging the boxes was the simplest plan Lin Xian discussed with other convoys before, which involves using the Queen Mo and Dragon Mountain No.1 all-terrain train set, and then Lin Xian would temporarily manufacture some tracked truck carriages to carry people to drag and move forward, abandoning all other trains, a completely desperate escape method.
"No matter what, prepare the fire configuration first."
Just as Lin Xian was communicating with others while devouring, Grace’s voice came through the communicator.
[I have entered the White City area. My sensors detected a strong magnetic field effect here, approaching to investigate.]
[Sizzling... approaching the vicinity of the Central District, no lifeforms detected.]
[Sizzling... I am above the site of a former sewage treatment plant, discovering a peculiar spectacle, the object is a certain artificial statue, about 13 meters high, exterior appearance judged to be the original Lion City landmark giant statue ’Merlion’, but there are strong electromagnetic interference and light distortion around it, possibly similar to the Akse Taboo Item you mentioned, due to information transmission limitations, I have transmitted the instant image back.]
When everyone heard the information transmitted back by Grace, after a few minutes, a blurry image compressed several times finally slowly appeared on the mobile terminal.
It was an image taken in infrared night vision mode, a factory over the night of the decayed ruinous city, an eerie floating Merlion Statue, the surrounding space on the image was full of white twisted noise, though it was unclear, Lin Xian still recognized this bizarre giant statue at first glance, it was that thing they encountered in the Akse Desert.
"Wasn’t this thing in the Akse Desert, how could it appear here again?"
Lin Xian recalled that Chu Yan had said Deep Red World had paid a great price just to get this thing out of Star Abyss, could it be that this thing was transmitted together with them?
[Sizzling... detected dangerous target, approximately 700 meters away.] ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵·𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮·𝓷𝓮𝓽
Soon, a second blurry photo was transmitted back, and Lin Xian and KIKI were immediately surprised to see that in night vision mode, at the abandoned gate of that sewage treatment plant, a humanoid shadow unexpectedly appeared!
KIKI immediately zoomed in on the image, seeing that under the dense noise, the black shadow wore a bizarre trench coat robe, with a strange bowler hat on its head. Such attire clearly was not a zombie or Abnormal Body, yet it didn’t look like a fully armed survivor, appearing to deliberately cover the entire body, extremely eerie.
"Is this... a person?" KIKI murmured.
It’s hard to imagine in such a Star Abyss-covered ruinous city, even under that indescribable Taboo Item giant statue, a person could appear.
This eerie scene immediately evoked a spine-chilling feeling.
White City, 3:35 a.m.
Since Apocalypse Day, Star Abyss had been devouring this city for a whole hundred days.
There was no sunrise, no dusk, only perpetual night. The lead-gray clouds and deep blue firmament like a rotting shroud hung low over the ruins of the former mountain city buildings, the once bustling streets and architectural clusters now only hollow skeletons, like headless skulls staring silently at the streets.
The wind swept through the ruins, lifting dust and scraps of paper in a low moan, the street lights long rusted and extinguished, the thick darkness as space mutations constantly produced unstable distortions, like the breathing of a dying organism.
On the streets, abandoned vehicles rusted into iron coffins, doors ajar, as if people inside suddenly evaporated one day; in storefronts with shattered windows, shelves collapsed, goods scattered everywhere, plastic packaging brittle with time crumbled into dust at a touch.
A tilted apartment building teetered on the edge of collapse, clothes on the balcony long weathered, Grace lightly landed at a high point, her motion capabilities completely surpassing most Genetic Evolvers, in this eerie Dark World, unaffected by any darkness assault.
The optical vision module and radar system continuously locked onto the fleeting shadow in the sewage treatment plant ahead.
[Heat Source Detector unable to capture, action characteristic observation assessment, possibly human.]
Grace sent a signal through a relay to the train camp beside Bottomless Lake, yet the signal now showed significant delays in time calibration.