Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train-Chapter 1060 - 404: Stars and the Sea (Part 2)

"What does this mean, is it directed at us?" Luo Yang looked troubled, while Lv Chang shrugged, indicating he didn’t understand at all.

Monica’s gaze was calm as she spoke, "A civilization capable of annihilating Blue Star doesn’t need to provoke, this sounds more like an order."

Chen Sixuan looked at Lin Xian, finding that Lin Xian’s expression was somewhat bewildered.

"Lin Xian."

"Hmm?"

"What do you think?"

Lin Xian took a deep breath and looked at Ding Junyi, "I don’t quite understand, need to ask Director Ding."

With that, everyone’s eyes turned uniformly to Ding Junyi.

Ding Junyi, hands in pockets, said calmly, "Do you have some misconceptions about scientists? I’m in the field of biology, not proficient in astrophysics, quantum mechanics is only conversational for me."

Lin Xian chuckled, "Aliens are also biological, strictly speaking, within your research scope."

Ding Junyi helplessly adjusted her glasses, "Right now, Phoenix Society’s Star Gazing group should already be discussing urgently, but from the information you provided, the quantum superposition state under time loops, involving space-time distortion or black hole energy extraction, like Penrose process, achieving quantum entanglement communication, this kind of power has reached Kardashev Type Ⅱ civilization or even Type Ⅲ, approaching or already possessing higher dimensional technology, so now for us, the key question to consider, is ’who’ sent this information, ’to whom’ it was sent."

"What if it was sent to us?" Shu Qin asked.

Ding Junyi shrugged, "Then we can only pray, humans in Dark Star Abyss are uncertain if they can prevail, and with this power, even given a thousand years, we stand no chance."

After saying this, she turned to go back to continue researching, Lin Xian called after her, "Director Ding, do you think this message wasn’t transmitted by the Dark Civilization?"

"Uncertain, it’s very contradictory." Ding Junyi turned back to him, "Currently, information is limited, we can’t make many guesses, and for us, it’s not of much significance."

Lin Xian smirked and nodded, "Alright, you’re right."

He then turned to Viola, "Viola, if the civilization power Director Ding mentioned exists, can you calculate humanity’s odds?"

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Viola maintained her dignified posture, everyone knew she completed calculations in the trillion levels, yet she said this without any hesitation.

"Hoho, that’s awesome." Qian Deli laughed, "Thankfully, there’s no 1% hope requiring generations of struggle, now I can actually sleep well."

He yawned, turned and patted Lv Chang and Luo Yang’s shoulders, "Let’s go, sleep some more, have to take shifts later."

South Heavenly Gate’s information observation ended, those strange four words were buzzing persistently around Lin Xian’s ear, troubling his mind.

Thus, Lin Xian abandoned the late-night devouring, returned to his vehicle to catch some sleep, waiting for daylight to depart.

The seaside night, aside from zombie howls, was rather tranquil, now Lin Xian had grown accustomed to the clawing sounds of zombies outside his window as he fell asleep, the Infinity with robust armor still provided him with substantial safety.

Many times Lin Xian even missed the days of sleeping on the train, though constantly fleeing crises day and night, having grown accustomed to living with peril, these days of creating sturdy forts with his mechanical superpower, in retrospect, seemed to tickle the heart.

After South Heavenly Gate’s four-word signal, Lin Xian wondered if the world might change because of it, the original Blue Star and displaced human civilization also had an uncertain future.

Before falling asleep, Lin Xian gazed out at the pitch-black night sky, suddenly recalling Natural Selection and Deep Blue, wondering where these two starships carrying the human mission had sailed to now, maybe able to conquer 1500 years of solitude, perhaps only belief remained.

Beep beep, beep beep.

The long-missed watch alarm sounded, Lin Xian felt warmth spread across his face, he slowly opened his eyes, sunlight streamed through the cracks of the blackout panels he had opened last night, outside was already a clear sky, yet hundreds of zombies with decayed faces still gathered outside the vehicle window.

"Good morning."

Lin Xian scanned the faces of the zombies, then glanced at the time.

10:20

Pretty early, the black tide of the 8th Star Abyss, carrying a salty ocean breeze from the Pacific Ocean, swept through the world, Lin Xian got up, finding everyone except Qian Deli, who kept watch last night, had already awake.

With few personnel, Infinity’s food resource reserves were quite abundant, coupled with dark energy homogeneous filtering technology, onboard water resources were no longer scarce, Lin Xian’s installed A1-level subcritical reverse osmosis water purifier purified water to potable level, for the entire vehicle’s use.

In Car No. 2, Sasha KIKI was already eating bread, Car No. 3, Ding Junyi was researching plants, and Little Yuan Miao Lu had gotten up early to assist, now Ding Junyi’s primary work focus gathered on cultivating disaster plants and plants in the green plant car, aiding her superpower’s evolution and exploration.

In Car No. 5, early in the morning, Mo Xiaotian was practicing lightning arc control under Brother Huo’s request, his fingers crackling constantly, while Brother Huo and Ryuji were playing chess on the side, Da Lou was studying his Black Dragon Battle Armor.

"Captain Lin, weapons and vehicles are checked and ready to go anytime."

Ning Jing conveyed the message, now Ning Jing and Shu Qin mainly handled the train’s safety inspections, originally this aspect was Ning Jing’s responsibility in Dragon Mountain No.1, and Ah Bai and Xiao Qing were mostly idle, while Luo Yang, Lv Chang together with Sha Sha were recently researching some underwater mechanical device, even having Viola help design blueprints, eventually Lin Xian manufactured it.

The remaining Qian Deli and Monica were in their rooms, communication devices connected, Lin Xian could find them anytime if something came up.

"Alright, prepare to depart, we’ll first head to Taku Deep Water Floating Port and should dock at Sea Rock Island tonight." Lin Xian arrived at the cockpit, began to start Infinity together with Chen Sixuan.

Whoo!

A humming sound, the magnetic levitation array below Infinity began to activate, the whole train slowly rose into the air, then proceeded forward.

"Yay~" came a cheer from KIKI via the communication device 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

"After Apocalypse Day, many islands became popular refuges, Sea Rock Island’s beach is nice, hopefully won’t encounter any monsters~"

"Why, after the end of the world do you still want to sunbathe on the beach?" Chen Sixuan laughed responding.

At this time, the voice of Lu Xingchen came, "That’s a wonderful idea, I agree, I agree!"

Listening, Chen Sixuan smiled looking at Lin Xian, Lin Xian smiled wryly, took a deep breath, "Let’s go, we cross into the ocean!"

By now, Infinity began accelerating, merged into the ring-star main track from the dock lane, all blackout panels opened, then headed into the ring-star ocean section eastward, countless zombies were knocked aside, this massive black heavy train progressed into the already paralyzed traction hall, and after passing a brief darkness, it surged out of a huge exit!

Wow!

In an instant, the sea breeze howled, outside the porthole turned azure blue, between heaven and earth, only this giant straight man-made sea track remained, an unbounded vastness struck everyone’s heart directly.

Sasha, KIKI, Xiao Yuan, everyone, even Director Ding couldn’t help but halt their work, looking at the blue filling the sky outside.

In Car No. 9, Monica in an elegant long dress and sunglasses, leaned against the window, gazing at the boundless sea, a smile tugged at her lips.

Qian Deli had already awakened, also opening the window looking outside, with a meaningful smile

"Alien civilization, apocalypse, it’s all irrelevant, we should take a good look while still alive, while this planet hasn’t yet been obliterated."

In the cockpit, Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan gazed upon the vast scenery outside the porthole, unable to resist meeting each other’s gaze.

"Teacher Chen." Lin Xian noticed Chen Sixuan appeared slightly tense, reaching out to hold her hand, "Are you scared?"

Chen Sixuan shook her head

"Used to be scared, not as much anymore?"

"Why?"

Looking at him earnestly, Chen Sixuan said, "My power armor can soar to the sky and dive underwater, Infinity has a deep-sea propulsion cabin, and Sky Dome Train can rush to the clouds, also... there’s you, so seems less scary now."

"Crossing the Pacific Ocean is just the first step."

Lin Xian smiled, then looked forward to the vast ocean, resolutely said

"In the future, we still have to journey to the stars and seas together!"