Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train-Chapter 179 - 174 Triple Tide (Requesting Monthly Votes)

Swoosh.

The hundreds of meters long black train begins to accelerate under the sunset.

18:40

The railway extends into the valleys and old forests, and the horizon seems to be sinking into a tide of darkness.

Chen Sixuan looks at the route map and says, "It’s going to get dark soon. For some reason, I’ve been feeling a chilly sensation ever since we left Jiazhou City."

Lin Xian, upon hearing this, shifts his gaze toward the distant sunset at the horizon and his expression changes slightly.

In fact, he had the same feeling, and he becomes somewhat astonished to hear Chen Sixuan articulate it.

Swoosh~ Swoosh~

Suddenly, the train’s speed slows down a bit, as if it has run over something. Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan, due to inertia, lean forward, and both frown.

"What’s that?"

Chen Sixuan frowns and shakes her head: "I didn’t see anything."

Lin Xian feels that something is not quite right. At this moment on the train rails, there are neither zombies nor visible obstacles, and it’s unclear what the train might have run over.

"Does anyone feel that something is off?" For caution, Lin Xian picks up the communicator to directly contact the core team members in various compartments.

"I feel a bit cold," replies Sha Sha, the first one to respond.

"Did we run over something just now?" KIKI’s voice comes through as well.

"I also have a sense that something is not quite right." In compartment 10, Shu Qin looks somewhat grave, pacing back and forth in the compartment with the Remington M96 in her hand, "I might be overthinking it, but a few times before when I had this feeling, we encountered trouble."

In compartment 5, Lu Xingchen is fixing his hair, looking at the Building: "Big guy, is Brother Lin calling for us?"

Lou Ye gestures to the communicator with his hand: "Brother Xian says something feels off, have you noticed anything?"

Lu Xingchen furrows his brows, raises his hand, and a flame ignites in his palm.

Swoosh~

All of a sudden, the flame flares up violently, shaking intensely, and then it stabilizes again.

Swoosh swoosh swoosh!

Flames ignite directly in both his hands, lighting the carriage in a crimson glow; he then looks grave, a rare solemnity appearing on his face: "This coldness is not from the temperature. It seems that something malicious is at work."

In compartment 2, KIKI is sitting in front of the control center, frowning deeply, continuously checking the entire train’s parameters and operating the monitoring of the Sentinel System, yet she finds nothing.

"Lin Xian, there’s nothing here, but I also have a bad feeling. Should we stop the train and check?" KIKI picks up the communicator and says.

Swoosh~

At this moment, the train’s speed slows down again. This time, it not only feels like it’s run over something but also seems to have become much heavier.

In the control cabin, Lin Xian hears the feedback from the others, his gaze sharpens as he thinks of something, then he turns back to compartment 1 and opens the Heterogeneous Rubik’s Cube mounted on the carriage.

[Beep! Using non-mechanical power for reflection detection.]

[Detection successful, no fear risk inside the train, dark forces’ infiltration has been blocked.]

"There’s nothing inside, could it be that I’m overthinking?"

Lin Xian’s heart beats violently, and he quickly picks up the Soul Swinging Value Detector, clicks, presses the button on the detector, and sees a faint red energy emanating from the Mysterious Blood Essence, then rapidly contracting. Soon, the needle on the detector begins to slowly turn.

-100

-200

-300!

-500!!

-1000!!!

Watching the negative Spirit Swinging Values drop continuously, Lin Xian’s expression gradually becomes more grave.

-1000 isn’t the actual reading but the numerical limit of this simple Spirit Swinging Value Detector crafted by Lin Xian!

Seeing this, Lin Xian, with a grave expression, picks up the communicator and speaks slowly, "Everyone, be alert. The Soul Swinging Value Detector has detected an extremely high level of dark forces. We may have been targeted by some Abnormal Body."

Upon hearing this, people in each carriage became tense.

Lin Xian went to Carriage 2, where KIKI was frowning, "No, I haven’t found anything here."

"Are there those crows in the sky?"

"None either."

"Lin Xian."

"Hmm?" Just as he was about to check the other carriages, Lin Xian was suddenly called by KIKI.

KIKI looked at him and said: "It’s about to get dark."

Lin Xian’s expression changed, and he stopped in his tracks and turned to run towards the cockpit.

"Teacher Chen, are there any bridges or tunnels along the way? We might need to accelerate and see."

Chen Sixuan immediately responded: "Many. This area is still mountainous; it’s only plains after we get through Hengshan Pass, and there are marshlands if we enter the forest."

Beep beep, beep beep.

The second alert from the watch went off.

18:45.

"It’s getting dark!"

Lin Xian looked forward; the sun had not yet set, but there was already a mysterious light flickering on the horizon.

But the next moment, Lin Xian’s face dramatically changed.

"Lin Xian, look, there are three flashes coming at the same time!!!" Chen Sixuan exclaimed in surprise.

Lin Xian, of course, saw it too. Whenever it was getting dark before, the mysterious lights of the Dark Tide would flash across the sky like a canopy and then the world would instantly plunge into darkness. But this time, there were three rays from different directions simultaneously crossing, like ripples on the water spreading across the sky.

"This is... the Tide coming from three Star Abyss directions!"

Before Lin Xian could finish speaking, the whole world plunged into darkness instantly.

Whooosh~

The train once again encountered a lag, and, at that moment, all the windows of the Infinity, including the monitoring of the Sentinel System, went black at once.

"What’s going on?"

KIKI jumped down from her chair and went to open the window blinds, only to find something covering the window, making it impossible to see outside.

Inside the cockpit, as darkness fell, the portholes of the moving Infinity were suddenly completely blocked by a black object. Chen Sixuan’s gaze sharpened, she realized that the object covering the front porthole seemed to be slowly wriggling.

Like... the underside of some kind of insect!

Screeech!

In an instant, Lin Xian had the Infinity slow down, and screams erupted within the carriage.

"Lin Xian!"

KIKI’s urgent voice came through the communicator: "Our carriage is crawling with Abnormal Bodies!"

As soon as the words were out, everyone was alarmed.

At this moment, outside the slowly decelerating Infinity that was making its way into the depths of the forests and mountains, countless horrifying Abnormal Bodies had unwittingly attached themselves. These Abnormal Bodies were frighteningly large and had wound themselves tightly around the entire train. A series of hollow sounds of the metal plates being compressed came from inside the carriage, startling everyone with the suddenness of it all.

Click click click~

Suddenly, the entire Unlimited Train was surrounded, and the sounds of climbing and wriggling were heard from all directions. Outside the carriage windows, various strange limbs and insect legs kept passing by, causing people not to even dare to take a breath.

"Where did these things come from?!!"

Watching the huge black insect abdomen moving across the porthole, Chen Sixuan’s face turned pale. Suppressing the fear in her heart, she cautiously said to Lin Xian.

Lin Xian didn’t speak; the Mechanical Heart connected to the entire train, feeling countless external forces transmitted through every carriage, his heart sinking immediately.

Why had these things suddenly appeared outside the Infinity? It was downright baffling.

Even though he had been very cautious and careful, these suddenly appearing things still managed to give Lin Xian a real scare.

Thump thump thump~

Just as the dark giant insect had crawled past the front of the train, a slowly crawling entity on the roof took heavy steps and slowly arrived at the front of the locomotive. Suddenly, an Abnormal Creature hanging upside down, with countless limbs resembling human arms, revealed a giant spider face with six eyes, two large and four small. However, the two large eyes were two pale and distorted human faces, with their mouths wide open, bringing a horrifying aura of fear.