Apocalypse: I Built the Infinite Train-Chapter 431: Numbers

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Lin Xian thought he misheard. His power armor activated its recording function. It was clear that what Chen Yanxiu expressed likely meant he truly had communication with the dark civilization. At least, this concept did not sound like something humans could conceive.

From Chu Yan’s words, Lin Xian knew that the Crimson World was originally dominated by digital life and mechanical revolution. After developing mycelium technology, their concepts of life forms, abilities, and consciousness had become extremely distorted.

But what Chen Yanxiu said was clearly not about what they were pursuing, but rather what they were waiting for.

“It sounds like you and the dark civilization already have very direct communication?” Lin Xian looked at Chen Yanxiu and asked his question.

Chen Yanxiu smiled slightly, raised both hands, and instead of answering directly, he said, “Eradicate all suffering and tyranny. The world belongs to the superior civilization. You can choose to accept it or be evolutionarily eliminated. Captain Lin, please believe me, this is not a slogan, nor does it involve any interests, hostility, morals, or value orientations. It has nothing to do with race or... nation.”

“Lin Xian, this guy seems to have been completely brainwashed.” KIKI spoke up at this moment.

Lin Xian looked at the refined middle-aged man in front of him. Hearing his words, he suddenly felt a vague sensation, as if the person standing before him was not human but another strange species.

How could he have such a feeling?

Lin Xian raised his eyes and suddenly found his consciousness somewhat hazy. The figure in front of him overlapped strangely. His first reaction was that the other party might be using some method or that he felt a very peculiar energy surging from him.

So Lin Xian immediately used the Mechanical Heart to envelop him. He wanted to pinpoint what forbidden artifact the other person was activating and find any weaknesses to restrain him.

But strangely, his brain suddenly felt like it was hit by a chaotic flicker. His vision began to distort. He saw Chen Yanxiu smiling, opening his mouth, and speaking in a voice that fluctuated between near and far...

“Looks like... you are also obsessed with the power of forbidden artifacts. You must know, these are the Master’s... blessings.”

“Lin Xian!”

“Captain Lin!”

Seeing Lin Xian’s pale face and staggering posture, everyone immediately sensed something was wrong. KIKI directly supported Lin Xian, and Shiori, sensing a huge fluctuation in Lin Xian’s spiritual power, panicked and immediately used her ability on him. But this time, when her ability entered Lin Xian’s spirit, a bottomless black hole suddenly appeared before her and sucked her in. In the next moment, an endless bloody aura from the darkness surged toward her, directly shocking Shiori.

“Ah...”

The sudden anomaly occurred. Xiao Qing and Fire Bro looked at Chen Yanxiu, both instantly launching attacks!

“Fire Fist!”

“Shadow Slash!”

The two shouted softly, and violent power arrived instantly. In a mere instant, sharp blades were at his throat, and the Fire Fist was already at his face.

At this moment, Chen Yanxiu suddenly opened his pocket watch. To his eyes, all attacks seemed frozen and distorted at this moment. Then he looked at Lin Xian and said in a low voice,

“You will meet again, Sword Bearer.”

After saying this, he took out another strange gear and immediately vanished from the spot.

At this moment, Ke Ming’s consciousness was rapidly rising. He felt an astonishing speed pulling him away from Blue Star. The space became increasingly pale and dark. When his light froze, he suddenly saw a giant artificial spatial device slowly appearing behind him—Southern Celestial Gate!

At the same time, Chu Yan’s consciousness directly penetrated the outer shell of the Southern Celestial Gate, passing through the channel and through Chen Yanxiu’s flickering bullet communication device.

At that moment, I could clearly feel myself being forcibly pulled by the power of a forbidden artifact. Then I broke through the Southern Celestial Gate, heading toward the deep universe’s Hundred Dark Nebula.

After an unknown time, Lin Xian completely lost his sense of location. Before him was only vast darkness as deep as an abyss. He tried hard to look, and it seemed something was staring at him, but he could see nothing.

At this time, star lights began to converge in Lin Xian’s vision. At first, he thought the universe was changing, but as time passed, he realized those star lights seemed to appear on his retina because when he moved his head, the star lights moved synchronously. Then those points of starlight gathered into certain lines, finally forming a string of numbers...

34:32:11

In the next second, the numbers changed to

34:32:10

“This is... a countdown?!” Lin Xian was horrified. He shouted into the dark void,

“Who are you? What is your purpose on Blue Star?!”

No response.

The universe seemed silent and extinguished.

Lin Xian tried to erase the numbers from his vision but found it useless. He could only watch the countdown flow.

Then, his consciousness suddenly began to fall backward. In an instant, he returned to the steel platform of the island submarine base.

“Phew!”

Lin Xian took a deep breath. Coming back to his senses, he saw Xiao Qing and Fire Bro attacking simultaneously, while Chen Yanxiu left behind a strange fluctuation on the spot, gradually fading away.

He didn’t know what had just happened, but seeing this scene, he didn’t hesitate and immediately raised his hand!

Gravitational Lens!

After hearing about the silver pocket watch’s characteristics from Chen Yanxiu, he had already thought that using gravity might stop the opponent’s spacetime field. Lin Xian wanted to keep this guy as the leader of the Sacred Revelation faction, as he must hold many secrets. He and Ye Lan’s plan was to trace the Sanctum’s true core, so Lin Xian launched his full power, not wanting this guy to escape!

Buzz!

In an instant, a distorted space appeared out of thin air where Chen Yanxiu disappeared and began tearing the spacetime field apart. This move worked. Under the gravitational field’s effect, the spacetime field that made Chen Yanxiu vanish began to change. Within the transparent spatial ripples, a figure rapidly being extracted appeared beside Xiao Qing. Lin Xian’s Gravitational Lens caught one of his arms!

Chen Yanxiu’s originally calm expression suddenly changed sharply. He looked fiercely at Lin Xian, then at his left hand. The black gear in his hand, along with the entire arm, was being frantically sucked into the gravitational field.

At this moment, everyone around remained frozen, only Lin Xian broke Chen Yanxiu’s spacetime field. The two stared across the gap. The confusion in Chen Yanxiu’s eyes gradually turned into coldness. He then glared angrily at Lin Xian, gritted his teeth, released his left hand, and before the skin was peeled off and his spacetime field’s acceleration was canceled, he broke free and vanished again.

Lin Xian’s expression darkened. How many forbidden artifacts did this guy have on him? He could no longer expand the Gravitational Lens;otherwise, Xiao Qing and Fire Bro would be affected immediately. So he retracted the Gravitational Lens with a flick of his finger.

Beautiful!

In the next moment, Fire Fist and Shadow Slash pierced through, raising a gust of wind that flattened the steel platform’s guardrail ahead.

Only then did Xiao Qing and Fire Bro realize Chen Yanxiu, who was dangerously close, had vanished under their attack, both stunned and confused.

“Strange?!”

“Disappeared?”

“No need to chase.” Lin Xian stood firmly and glanced away. The assistant beside Chen Yanxiu had already collapsed and died without a trace, and below, more than a dozen Sanctum members simultaneously died violently.

“Lin Xian, what’s wrong?” KIKI supported Lin Xian and asked anxiously.

“Nothing.”

34:14:59!